skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a very predictable consequence of criticizing your employer via a public letter.

The first thing that comes to mind when reading this is "So what?"

Yes, it's predictable. I don't believe people who wrote the letter haven't thought of this potential consequence and haven't felt any trepidation whatsoever.

So what if it's "predictable"? So what if it's legal? The point is not whether it's currently legal and whether it's predictable. The point is whether it's right.

How does stating that "it's predictable" address the very real and ugly problems in this whole situation?
I have just used this trick to package Node.js as a Python package [0], so you can just do:

pip install nodejs-bin

to install it.

This works particularly well in combination with Python virtual environments (or docker), it will allow you to have a specific version of Node for a particular project without additional tooling. Just add "nodejs-bin" to your requirements.txt.

You can also add it as an optional dependency on another Python package. That's my plan with the full stack Python/Django/Apline.js framework I'm building (Tetra[1]), that way users will be able to optional do this to setup the full project including Node.js:

pip install tetraframework[full]

The framework uses esbuild, and will use PostCSS. It was either package them with the framework (including Node.js), or create a way to easily install Node.js for Python developers using the tools they are most used to.

It's brand new, I have only packed Node.js v16 so far. Once I'm happy there are no show stopping issues the plan is to release wheels for current+LTS Node.js versions as they come out.

Developer UX is my number one priority and removing the need for two toolchains is an important part of that.

[0]: https://pypi.org/project/nodejs-bin/

[1]: http://tetraframework.com
The idea that you cannot criticize your CEO is ridiculous. How is the board supposed to know how employees feel if they keep quiet out of fear?
Cost aside, I believe super black coating would work.

https://youtu.be/9v0_fID_jvA
DoorDash costs have always been absurd, they just hide a lot of it by pricing the food higher than it normally is.

I've noticed our grocery delivery services doing that, too, giving us prices on items that are higher than they are if you go to the store yourself. We'll stop using them soon. It's bullshit. Delivery costs ought to be transparent.

[EDIT] Oh, and places like pizza joints that already had delivery service are starting to get a lot more aggressive about differentiating delivery vs. pick-up pricing. They've long had a deal or two at a time that's carry-out only, but now it's all the decent deals, and even some deals specify that they'll be less-good if you order delivery. Delivery can easily be 40% more expensive than carry-out, as a result, because they also still charge the delivery fees they all started tacking on a decade or so ago (which are also higher, now) and you still, despite already potentially paying $10+ more than you would have for carry-out, have to tip, because most of that money's not making it to the delivery driver.
If there is mass production of synfuels, that means mass production of hydrogen (which is either used directly as the synfuel, or used to make the synfuel). And as soon as there's mass hydrogen production, it's an ENORMOUS amount of dispatchable demand, which solves the intermittency problem of renewables (even if the hydrogen is never turned back into electricity.)
Magit improved my workflow and my Git knowledge
As far as I can tell, having a billion dollars thins your skin pretty appreciably. Takes a few years for some people, but it seems to get them all in the end.
Now that comes across as some perfect utopia. Maybe certain people don't want to stick their neck out in fear of losing job, which is not possible since they have to support a family. Etc. You live in a hypothetical dream world.
Same. Amazon has been relentless in recruiter spam, more so than any other company I've ever seen.
I was hoping for a ... sketch
Seems pretty consistent. He's big into pretending to be for freedom of speech and never being for it if it ever actually matters. I see a lot of people here saying any billionaire boss would do the same, well, yes, that's the point, but the thing is that he very consistently and incessantly lies about not being like those "other" people and being for principles that he has never once stood for in reality. I don't recall Steve Jobs blathering about "free speech" on podcats and Twitter.

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p.s. Did anyone read the comments here before posting? It's just the same comments over and over and over and over again, wtf is this shit. Can't we do better?
Maybe it’s more that they hold leadership to a higher standard than the playground bullies in elementary school?
The GP post specifically suggested that. I agree that nobody at archive.org seems to have such a strategy in mind.
I'll try to balance out the negative comments here.

The reason I keep coming back to Lex is that his podcast is doing something no other does, which is just having a good faith conversation with interesting and highly intelligent people. No grift. No narrative. No ulterior motive (as far as i can tell?). Hell he doesnt even have ads in his videos. I cannot stress what a turnoff it is when an podcast pauses for 5 minutes to tell me about "athletic greens". Its not too bro-y (joe rogan) its not too edgy and psuedo intellectual (sam harris). It's just pure interesting conversation for 3 hours.

As an interviewer he's good at 2 things. One is getting at the "essence" of what makes his guests interesting, what is the beauty in their work. He does his research and he asks good questions. He also doesnt monologue too much, which is rare among podcasters. Second is that he draws out the human element of his guests. As a host he is humble and curious. He asks about love and death, suffering, and the meaning of life. No other podcast I know does that.

I think his shtick of a "robot looking for meaning and love" is novel and amusing. Especially given there's so much fear and dystopic thinking over the future of technology, I think it's the right way to think about AI. I'm sure a lot of what we see on screen is performative, and he's much more "flesh and blood" off camera, but that doesn't take away from the quality of the interviews.

Lastly, I'm a mere programmer. I'm not a scientist or in machine learning, which I think is where most of his critics come from. I've seen similar threads on reddit /r/MachineLearning that outright denigrate lex as "not a true scientist, didn't really go to MIT, blah blah". It just comes across as jealousy. But then I guess if you're already a science genius, you're not going to get much out of his podcast.

I think lex worked hard and deserves his success. He used his brand to build a platform, get high profile guests, improve his brand further, and so on. The conversations and guests are always interesting and unique, so overall his project is a net positive for me.
This issue should be resolved now and redbean-2.0.2+ includes a fix for it.
>Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks.

What happened in recent weeks?

The letter is condemnation by innuendo. They don't say exactly why they want Musk removed and only hint at it and make general statements.

An advantage of that approach is that it is difficult for the accused to defend themselves. The disadvantage is that if the accused has power they can squash this and the accusers are exposed because vague accusations are difficult to justify as they are to defend against.

I suspect they don't say why they want Musk removed because their reasons stated clearly and directly would be unpalatable. I think the reason they want him removed is because he expressed support for the Republican party. In the USA, in many circles, it is still unacceptable to condemn people based on political affiliation.

It is however, more acceptable to use innuendo about racial and sexual rights as a weapon for indirect political persecution.
Would you apply the same logic to your leaders drowning the company stock and killing the public image ?

What should the appropriate response be ?
> Tehter has lent money to almost all these firms

Do you have a source for this?
No. That's the first amendment.

Free speech and the first amendment are not the same thing.
Oh wow, didn’t know this was a thing. Reminds me of growing up in Christian school where they gave us all these crazy reasons why evolution was impossible and the world was 6000 years old
Same here, wanna see some production usage testimonials. Plus has someone compared it to CockroachDB? I understand they are two different technologies with broader strokes of same idea of scaling Postgres horizontally but still would love to see some sort of comparison and differences.
Because it’s a lot of work.
SCG 004S supercar passes side impact crash test at 32mph without airbags
You know conditions are bad when desperate people say no
> Biggest problem was if there were packages that wanted different versions of the same dependency.

How often and in what contexts would you encounter this version dependency issue? Was there a good solution or would you work around the issue by finding compatible versions?
But the point is his behavior causes problems and you're implying it's okay for him to act that way but anyone else to call him out is a problem. That doesn't foster good workplace values.
> Did you know that he used to sleep in a bathroom stall at the Tesla plant because he couldn't afford a studio apartment? A true hero

I dont believe his current account balance went below 7 figures at any point while Tesla has existed, so no I didnt know that.
The authors aren't mocking Musk at all. The tone of the letter is professional yet direct and constructive. As far as questioning "management decisions", the closest example of this that I can find is the mention of the company's selective application of things like the "No Assholes" policy, which seems like a completely valid problem to surface. For the most part, they're questioning his tweets and their effect on employee morale.

As for the 2nd example- which of those 5 points are the letter's authors guilty of? The only one of those 5 that looks even remotely relevant is #4, but even that's a stretch since there's a difference between "criticizing" and "disrespecting".

Musk might believe those two things are one and the same, but they are, in fact, quite different.
I'd argue that it was, right up until his goal evidently shifted from things like "making humanity a multiplanetary species" to "owning the libs"
Jay-Z’s Bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project
Culturelle Digestive Daily Probiotic. It's dosage says 40 mg and "10 Billion CFUs". It also has Inulin in it, whatever that is.

I take one every other day.
Or don't use AWS as other providers provide multiple terabytes of bandwidth for a couple of dollars per month.
> The rest of us who live in the real world understand that hierarchy doesn't exist arbitrarily and we're not entitled to have someone pay us while we're spitting in their face.

And someone isn't entitled to spit in your face just because they pay you. Respect for people should go both ways, and the view that just because someone is rich, above you in the ladder, you should just shut up and take it, isn't a good one too.

Workers have very little power to fight back, yes there might be consequences but they wouldn't have written this letter if they didn't feel they weren't already living under the consequences of bad leadership.
I’m kinda confused by a lot of what this blog says.

Fast living is pretty straight forward. Jet setting is fast living, going out to eat is fast living, owning multiple vehicles or homes, replacing perfectly good things with the latest model and most forms of conspicuous consumption are fast living.

> Today it's quite hard to even find clothes that can be fixed. Polyester and stretch materials aren't really meant to be patched.

This is just flat out not true, sorry, but if you are saying that your heart isn’t in it. Clothes were never really “made” to be mended, at least not in recent times, people did it because they had more important thing to spend money on.

I mend my clothes frequently. Often with stretch fabrics you can just stitch a hole shut, no patch needed. Can they not find blue jeans? those mend well. I won’t speak to the winter coat because wearing one daily is outside my wheelhouse. I pay a lot of attention to the specific fabrics that I buy and avoid any garment that doesn’t seem to be made from something durable, I’m hard on clothes and the only thing I find myself replacing frequently is teeshirts because they tend to attract holes around my hips and its _really_ noticeable when you mend them.

Sure, mended clothes don't look like new, but I personally don’t care much at all(I think so much of society's fixation on clothing is insane/immoral(discriminatory), don’t get me started on suits).

The thing is, mending clothes takes time, and the result isn’t usually as nice as just replacing it, which is much easier to do. Ultimately this line of thinking about climate change is untenable. Society isn’t going back.
I agree with the interpretation that you can just leave it in the cart forever.

Mechanically if you add something into a physical shopping cart it will remain there forever until you take it out. But legally the pdf has the claim "a merchant could set the cookie either to persist past the end of the browser session or for a couple of hours" [1] and to me that means indefinitely or a few hours.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
Give me an example of someone doing this in another organization. Would you be willing to share your organization and any criticism you have of leadership?
Computation and access to information are sources of power within our civilization -- ensuring easy access to both should be a goal of our society, lest one group conclude that another group is unworthy.

With that power comes responsibility. It is on us to promulgate cultural norms to exist in this new world, where we choose to do unto others as we would have done unto us.

Humanity is so new to grappling with these changes -- we are only beginning to understand the impacts and implications inherent to our newly-constructed tools. The world was a simpler and less-connected place when I was a child -- my earliest computer memories include an 8086 and one of the first few 1200 bps modems in our entire town of 30,000 people. Uploading a single image from my smartphone at those rates would, in the best case, take more than five hours.

None of us earned the internet ourselves. It emerged through the uncoordinated efforts of billions of people. We limit access to it at our collective peril.
20th century history my friend.
I was getting daily recruiting emails on my personal emails, and recently they started sending recruiting emails to my work address. I obviously never signed up for anything with that one, so they must be sourcing them from very shady people somewhere.

The recruiter refused to tell me where they sourced my work email from, but she said she'll remove it from their database.
Isn't this a problem with open source in general?

It's hard to coordinate and improve software effectively among people with different ideas of what something should look like.

This is why Windows and Mac will always remain dominant desktop operating systems, I think. It only takes a few issues like this for a user to give up and go back to the big two players.

I'm not sure what the proper term is but having thousands of MS developers working and being led by managers, defined organizational processes and sense of direction vs hundreds of thousands open source developers led by their own ideas, what good and should look like, and different motiviation, a lack of coordination and a organisational process as big as a paragraph inside an obscure README.md

Too many cooks in the kitchen sour the soup.
One of the demands from the letter:

> Define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior. Clearly define what exactly is intended by SpaceX’s “no-asshole” and “zero tolerance” policies and enforce them consistently.

That's exactly the problem with companies that like to brag about their "we-don't-allow-jerks-here" culture: It's arbitrary. If you focus on creating a culture of objectivity, facts and honesty, you'll solve most of your jerk problems without having to figure out what "jerk" means.

Given as much, if this is really about Mr Musk's political endorsements, folks need to get over it. But inasmuch as he embraces dishonesty (one example: the "pedo" incident from way back) then I'd agree that the company should discipline him.
>" You could argue the reason is that they weren’t good enough. "

This is a valid possibility. However, companies that enforce churn through up-or-out and stack ranking tend to end up treating employees ruthlessly in order to satisfy the system. There are no shortage of stories where managers and individuals backstab and sabotage each other so that they aren't automatically fired as part of the culling process. There are plenty of 'just fine' employees out there, yet companies like Amazon act like everyone needs to be above average.
I enjoy the foul language “no cheap shit.” Not quiet the level of the pit viper sunglasses site but close!
ctrl-f Nazi?
The left in the US is to the left of Europe now in many ways. By second tier I wasn’t referring to politics, but referring to our collapse into a weak economic and cultural power.
It looks super helpful. Thanks for sharing.
> At your place of work, circulate a document criticizing leadership and how they're all wrong. Make sure to publicize this loudly to people outside the organization. See what happens.

Ha! We do that all time at the university and nobody cares. At all. Nothing happens. Ever. It is somewhat infuriating, to be honest!

Are you saying that academia is "not the real world" ?
This is what I think, too. We're SO damn curious! Imagine a scenario in which we were to discover something like this in the present. Assuming we didn't have the technology to detect radiation, I would absolutely bet there would be expeditions to discover this "dangerous" "emanation of energy" that was so important it warranted the construction of a specific landscape.

The warnings of curses on the pyramids didn't stop us!
Everyone else is focusing on news articles as well, so that's not a problem; however without comparison to other approaches it's impossible to tell if the solution is 'powerful' or even any good at all.

This here - http://nlpprogress.com/english/summarization.html - would be an overview of what algorithms are currently considered 'good' and what results they achieve on some datasets commonly used for evaluation and comparison, it would be interesting to run your solution on that data and see what you get.
To be fair, I don't think most people would go to the police for sexual harassment. It's handled as a civil offense unless it rises to the level of sexual assault and becomes criminal.
But also kind of yes. If you've got a fixed power budget, and you replace your old cpus with new ones, running at the same performance, now you're using 23-30% less power use (ignoring non-cpu power budget), and you can bring that many more cpus online at the old performance target.
Are developers particularly superstitious?
this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QozGSS7QY_U | "Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis" by VICE says much the same in the last 10 minutes wrap-up.
I think the claim here that: “The "radical" US left equals the conservative right in many European countries” is a bit of an exaggeration. A more accurate statement (and probably what OP meant; albeit less inflammatory) would be something like: “Moderate and conservative (i.e. mainstream) Democrats in America closely resemble the conservative right wing parties in Europe”. And I think this is largely true. Biden is in many ways to the right of Macron even though Macron is in the center-right of the political spectrum. While Bernie Sanders (the most left wing the US could possibly hope for) really only approaches the center-left Olaf Scholz.
Daily reminder that the FDA also approved Therano's herpes test
https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-gets-fda-approval-2...
Those were the 'I/O operators' where I worked... the 'system operators' (computer operators) were the guys that got the big bucks to alter jcl and drink coffee :-P

I also worked at places with dedicated 'print pool' operators, that basically fed paper into printers/bursters/collators/binders.
He doesnt pay from his pocket. He may be founder & CEO. But he is an employee as much as those five.
Barring some sort of Carl Icahn "activist investor" forcing themselves on to the board, I don't see SpaceX changing anything. Bad PR doesn't affect a company which makes its money mostly through long-term government contracts, and common sentiment is that Tesla/SpaceX long had the boards purged of dissenters and populated with "loyal soliders" to Musk's cause.
An alternative way of connecting the same dots (I'd argue the truth is somewhere in the middle):

Musk's comments are moving us closer to a civil war because people are putting too much weight in them. If general society viewed musk as someone who wasn't a "terrible human being" but rather just someone they disagreed with, there would be no justification in their minds to consider a civil war as the response. Someone (even someone with less influence then musk) who says the "bad things" on twitter will likely get more media coverage and outrage then someone doing objectively evil things on a smaller scale.
Could you elaborate on your last paragraph? Proof of concepts that can not solve "useful" problems seem like an incredibly important milestones to me? Or is your frustration that they are occasionally presented by overly enthusiastic engineers as more than "useless" technology demonstrators (with this frustration I would agree).

The second half of the article I shared covers the parametrization question you raised.
> And someone isn't entitled to spit in your face just because they pay you. Respect for people should go both ways, and the view that just because someone is rich, above you in the ladder, you should just shut up and take it, isn't a good one too.

How is Musk spitting in their face? By shitposting on twitter? By voting for the wrong candidate? These people need to get over themselves. Not everything is about them. They're free to leave.
> You can replace you CPU from Intel by another from AMD.

Not unless you also replace the motherboard. AMD and Intel CPUs have different sockets and incompatible firmware.
Using Web Streams on Node.js
Last year Tesla sold about one million vehicles while Toyota sold about ten million. Are you sure people don't want Toyotas?
This case reminds me more the classic boycott handbooks. A tiny group of people sparking the flames of revolution for no reason, maybe desperately trying to get the attention of Musk, maybe for profit.

This people can sink a startup really fast. The kind of people drawing caricatures of the CEO where they should be doing calculus on critical parts of the system. Letting they go is the correct move. They are 100% free to fund a better, more moral and more ethic Space-Z with their own money and promote a CEO that they like more.
Go for it, give it your finest five seconds.
Same here, unfortunately I've no chance yet to try
How did you make contact with crows? They gather on some trees near my building and throw the occasional loud party. I've tried leaving food for them a couple of times, and they swoop around a bit, but I don't know if they recognize me.