skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can speak in the context of SW eng teams, but not other kinds of teams within tech companies.

I've had to layoff direct reports during multiple layoff waves at a couple different companies. (Moreover, I myself have been laid off when a small company went out of business or when a business unit was eliminated.) I don't think it's difficult to avoid cruelty during a layoff, you just have to be very honest and make it clear that it is not personal. The announcement should be company-wide, but then talk to each person individually or in small teams if possible, and afterward go together offsite to a bar/restaurant and hang out with everyone who can join.

Honestly in many cases it's better for them to move on rather than go down with a sinking ship. In tech over the past couple decades there's always been jobs elsewhere for engineers, even after the dotcom bust. I have tried to help place people elsewhere using my network and told them I'd give them a good reference if they needed one. HR tends to discourage you from making an extra effort like this -- e.g. "you should only acknowledge that they worked at the company, don't give a recommendation" -- because a recommendation can become a liability, but I feel it's my recommendation as their direct manager and I am taking personal liability for it.

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There's something else I'd add -- not about layoffs but related to firing people. Even if you're firing someone for performance reasons, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE CRUEL. I've seen so many people get fired in such a cruel manner, and it's totally unnecessary. There's absolutely no need for the manager to have any sense of anger or betrayal over a person's poor performance in a role.

Someone's performance in a particular role in a particular company has nothing to do with that person's worth as an employee. It was always just a bad fit, or a bad situation -- it doesn't mean that this is a bad person or even a bad worker, and should not reflect upon their self-worth. In my career, I've had to fire two people for performance reasons, and both times I made this difference clear, and thankfully we were able to actually maintain a friendship afterwards.
> If you read free code yourself it’s fine, but if a machine does it for you it’s not? We overvalue humans.

No, it's not fine. Apparently, you missed SCO & Oracle vs. Google cases. Both of these cases argued that somebody looked to the code, and copied it. In SCO case it was not true, but the argument stretched the timeline rather successfully. In Oracle vs. Google, copying function signatures opened a big can of worms.

So, just by copying the function signature without filling it the very same code with the original, even for interoperability, you're getting into a huge gray area in a legal sense.

Similarly, no sane Wine developer will read leaked Microsoft source code, yet alone copy it. Again, no sane emulator developer will read leaked Nintendo code.

Reading the code "colors" your creativity, and if you're tried at court and enough similarity is found in your code with the leaked code, it's game over.

So, reading code and copying is not guaranteed to be legal, depending on its license. When this is done by a robot, it's still illegal (you're breaching licenses during the code generation process), and immoral and unethical on top of it.

So, we don't overvalue humans, but overvalue AI, which is just informed search, BTW.
As you can probably tell, I don’t know much about particle physics and am not looking to get into a debate about that specific hypothetical, was just saying wires (or small tubes) might be useful for future stuff and it’d be nice if they were easy to put on/take off of buildings.
Overview of copyright transfer.[1]

Full copyright transfer and licensing are not the same thing. The BAYC terms seem to be a sale of an instance of the Art, with a limited nonexclusive license to the intellectual property. An exclusive license is considered a transfer, but this isn't one. If you got an exclusive license, nobody else, including BAYC or OpenSea, could display the Art without your permission until the copyright runs out. BAYC didn't give up that much.

It's not clear that BAYC images are copyrightable in the US, because they are procedurally generated from templates. That will probably be litigated at some point.

There's an interesting trade dress question. Suppose you fed a supply of BAYC images into a machine learning system and had it crank out similar images. Does Yuga Labs have any claim against you?

[1] https://www.intellectualpropertylawfirms.com/resources/intel...
That's a very nice app. Thanks for that. Seems like the sun is already getting up when the constellation happens from where I live, sadly. Not sure if I'll be able to see Mercury.
Love that analogy at the end, very well said
I'm not one of the "pro-life folk" (I think it's more a question of where the lines should be drawn), but I'm not seeing a lot of empathy here on this site for the fetus, which if left alone (barring medical problems) will one day become a fully-fledged person with all the rights we now currently possess.

Exactly when it stops being a bundle of cells that can be removed without thought or empathy and becomes a "baby about to be born" where it should not be treated so negligently is in my mind the real question here. And don't ask me to tell you where that line is, because I have no idea.

I just hate that there is no room for nuance on this topic, no matter which "side" you talk to.
Everything you open source has been top notch - I can't wait to see what your 'ambitious' project becomes. (In quotes for your ambitious is not a mere mortal's ;)
GitHub Copilot Settings
> We need people to learn to process information not protect them from it.

Flagging misinformation is attempting to educate people.
Read the decision. Kavanaugh and Roberts were very specific that the reasoning doesn't affect other issues.
I know this forum is about curious conversation, but in this case, fuck Google and the system it uses. It’s overreaching and again the classic “you don’t talk to humans Google, unless you are a rich or famous company/person.”
I picked up a couple phones off Kijijji, $30 cash at seller's house.

If you're handy, you can put in a new main board with obviously different IMEI.

I'm not current with getting a prepaid sim;so can't comment knowledgeably.

Initialise phone at public library, then power off.

Leave phone powered off until at site when you need to record.

Leave sim out of phone except when needed to communicate over cellular network.
Don't forget them making a decision to force Maine to pay for religious indoctrination "schools".
I use Hazel to move the file to an archive folder after a month. The idea is if I haven’t deleted it by then I want to keep it but don’t have anywhere specific to store it. I clean out the archive less than I should.
author here. Happy to answer any questions.
Wrong. Read the decision. They specificaly rule it out.
AFAIK security experts swear by MW and don't like Croc as much, because of the wonky protocol, but don't quote me on this.
> It is because blockchains cannot actually be used to do any of those cool tech things in any meaningful way.

today we have both of the things which GP mentions as being under development 9 years ago, so this part is seemingly false.
Dialogue?! As in the debate if women should have rights?

Maybe I'm missing the point, but what "progress" do we need to be making? Women had access to reproductive care for the past 50 years, and now they won't. Doesn't sound like progress to me
Doesn't say how much of their own money they'll risk.
You are wrong about the Second Amendment. It clearly states the rights for both militias AND individuals, it's not hard to suss out if you know anything about the period in which it was written.
"Covid cases are rising again. In the UK, they have broken through the 200,000 infections-a-day threshold for the first time since April. " -> where are they getting this data?
All data online is showing about 18K cases per day.
“In many states” is doing a lot of work there, and is basically a bad faith argument.
Shouldn't that somewhat be the point, though? Shouldn't we have control over the look & feel, layout, design of the websites we visit?

I'm feeling like you did exactly what you should have done. You chose to read the site in a style (Reader Mode) that benefits you. Maybe someone else chooses a style, set of fonts, or overrides the margins manually.

I think we've gone too far with HTML styling. I'd much prefer unstyled semantic markup and then let my theme choices display the content. Early HTML was quite a bit more like this. Gopher protocol and Project Gemini might be other examples of content without "design."
There are problems that can be solved with a clever, elegant, minimal algorithm.

And there are problems that are tedious because there's a huge amount of not very well organised data, and you have to go through it case by case.

Especially true if you're trying to fully internationalise something.

Examples: verifying international addresses, dealing with sales taxes in various countries and jurisdictions, dealing with import/export codes. Etc.

There's nothing conceptually hard about these problems. But a complete solution is just a very long list of nested ifs, and there's nothing much anyone can do about that. (Except buy/hire an existing solution - if someone else has done the work.)
The change is that western countries could put a halt on transferring incredibly dangerous technology to mainland China, since they have developed a track record of carelessness and coverups.

(Wish I didn't have to say this, but this is not a racial comment-- BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs in the US are filled with ethnically Chinese people and have much stronger safety records.)
Don't forget dragging the app onto the terminal window completes the path
There's something about seeing a dot in the sky turn into a real picture that just hits you somewhere very primal, I know exactly the feeling although it's hard to explain. It's exactly what you expected to see except blurrier, but it's still like a punch to the gut. Jupiter and its moons are similar, easily seen with a little magnification.

I find that if I sit with it a little bit, I can actually feel the reality of the situation, that I'm in fact looking at an object in front of me that's very very far away but bigger than my entire planet. If that perspective sinks in it really just blows your mind. Maybe similar (though surely lesser) to what astronauts feel when they see the earth as a sphere.
The planets will all still be fairly well aligned, but the moon will be a bit off (since it's the closest, it moves through the sky the fastest).

I used Stellarium to find this out, great program, very easy to use, and free and open source.

http://stellarium.org/

Also worth noting that the planets are in order; first Mercury, then Venus, etc etc
No, what you're leaving out is that they work just fine without blockchains. The addition of blockchains just makes them worse.
> Your GitHub Copilot setup is incomplete. Select your preferences blow to start using GitHub Copilot. [sic - typo 'blow']

It seems that Github has added some new settings for Copilot. You can now block suggestions matching public code and opt-out of "allow[ing] GitHub and its affiliates to use my code snippets to research and improve Copilot suggestions, related models and product features"

I haven't seen this before till today. Is this new?
Coincidentally, NIST published the SP 800-219, Automated Secure Configuration Guidance from the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP)[1], a few days ago.
NIST hosts all you need to verify as well as enforce several compliance requirements in their official GitHub repo [2]. The following baselines are supported for macOS Monterey:

- NIST SP 800-53r5 Low, Moderate, and High
- DISA-STIG
- NIST 800-171
- CNSSI-1253
- CIS macOS Benchmarks Level 1 and 2
- CIS Critical Security Controls Version 8

If you've been following the project closely you'll notice that rules that were originally written as shell scripts are going away in favor of config profiles.

[1] https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-219/final
[2] https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security
It’s used in the Ford EV line: https://youtu.be/agpDIZmGRTw
the URL is broken, it should be https://github.com/settings/copilot
> I'm pretty sure there are already pretty strong laws against violence in schools, let alone murder.

That's why I said laws that prevent, not just words on a book.

> they have the responsibility to protect those children

They most certainly don't. Teachers have responsibility to teach and mentor children and they're fairly overworked on those roles already. Pretending they'll moonlight in SWAT school is hardly realistic on any level.

The question was how come nobody who believes in the sanctity of a child's life before birth actually believes in any protection to that child's life post-birth?
Govs are here to support population growth? Hope you like living in a world covered by tall apartment blocks eating algae. More than enough people already, quality of life is not improved by more.
There is no real retail demand for crypto. Happens every bullrun. Retail comes in, gets a heady rush as their $5,000 becomes $20,000 (on paper) practically overnight. So they fomo in more and keep holding through the top before cashing out for less than their initial. 90% swear off crypto and never come back.

You can't have retail demand for something that's only meant to go up and do nothing else. There are no "normal" users buying NFTs because they love the art, or buying ETH because they want to use it to get overcollateralized loans on AAVE (when they can get undercollateralized loans for cheaper).

I can't understand how VCs wouldn't get something every crypto degen instinctively knows after a single bullrun.
I'm pro choice but that point is ridiculous. If you have a dying kid and a blood transfusion or transplant saves them you are beyond saving if you run away from your responsibility.
> no, an ad hominem need not be literal

What on earth do you mean by "literal" here? Ad hominem refers to a specific fallacious style of argumentation. Being ignorant of the definition and then too stubborn to admit it is not pushing back against "overliteralism".

Especially because the rest of your comment (dismissing the rest of the argument due to "ad hominem") only makes sense if one assumes the correct definition!
I'm thinking of applescript in particular, but voice assistants in abstract.

Applescript is sold as a natural english like language, but it's really not. At least it's well documented.

Voice assistants are more like your product. Ask it a question, get something. But you have to ask them to do things in very particular ways or you don't get what you want. And there's usually zero documentation.

As an interface to SQL, your product is going to have to let me specify pretty specific relations, and that's going to take pretty specific words, IMHO. Think about how a user would ask for an inner join vs a left join vs a cross join.

Some ORMs have a pretty similar issue, where you learn an entirely different way to formulate queries, that ultimately get turned into SQL, but I'd rather work to understand SQL than to understand an abstraction over SQL (unless it gives a singificant benefit).
The bigger problem there is the response to 9/11, not the response to Covid.
The system YouTube uses backs up onto the DMCA. If you submit a copyright counter notice, the claimant needs to engage in legal action within a certain amount of time or YT will reinstate the video.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2807684
> Who cares about your friend's dead dad, I was at the gym and misread/misremembered.

Your ability to incorrectly read what I wrote so many times is impressive. My friend's dad isn't dead.

You have demonstrated more than once a complete inability to fact check the most basic things, and yet you pontificate as if you are an expert. Have you ever considered you may have accidentally gotten many of your other assumptions wrong? If your worldview is anything like this conversation, it's built on incorrect assumptions and you being confident about something objectively false. You are demonstrating that you have the reading comprehension of a 3rd grader and expect me to take you seriously.

You've already discredited yourself multiple times. I don't respect you enough to read your sources, the same way you can't even correctly read the sentences I write. If you are so sure you are right, why do you care what I think? I never claimed to be struggling with my health, and yet you keep offering advice on how to improve it. You are having an argument with yourself and you don't even recognize it. It's obvious you don't listen, but you need therapy.

I hope you get the help that you need, but something tells me you'd refuse it even if it were available.
Hello there, thanks for the offer, very much appreciated and characteristic of the Zulip community as a whole.

I actually did open and/or add to issues on GH, and actively participated in the development Zulip instance on the issues that came up for us as a team. I found the community to be very receptive.

I just want to reiterate, for anyone coming across this thread now or later, that Zulip really is a fantastic product and open source project. The main uphill battle for us was getting non-technical people to buy in to a paradigm of effectively “filing” their messages up front. That’s not some kind of problem with, or criticism of, Zulip as a product. For messages to be in correct context, the sender needs to _put_ them there. To want to do that, it helps if they buy in to the paradigm in the first place.

“Why do I have to do this?”

“Because it makes it possible for anyone to come along later and get the whole picture.”

“Okay, that’s worth a bit of friction up-front.”

It’s really a people thing - not a Zulip thing.

Just 2c from our little team.

Best of luck and thanks for all your great work. We’ll definitely be checking it out again soon.
I should have compared to progress in the Roman empire just so that I can say that I do not condone aristocracy, only making a point about progress itself.

I refuted the points here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867958
I think this article is bullshit. Just because something is meaningless to the people performing the experiment doesn't mean it's meaningless to the people who heard it. Maybe these "gullible" people have a different kind of creativity that only appeals to people like them?

... Or maybe I'm one of those people and I feel attacked
related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31870345
> The tech even then seemingly worked for you then

Only because they trusted each other! I mean, any currency or barter mechanism anywhere in the world or throughout history works if you trust the person to pay you tomorrow.

BTC was supposed to be able to move beyond that, somehow. And it turns out that the world still runs on trust.
That, or a straight faced knowing continuation of the gag, to hilarious effect.
There are many that would say Heller was an activist court making up law and completely overlooked precedent in Miller, in the same way the current court is overturning decades of precedent in another issue.
It's the job of the court to interpret the consequences of the existing laws.

At one point, the court determined that access to abortion was a right, according to the 14th amendment. Meaning, that the 14th amendment was, among other things, a law that granted the right to access abortion services.

Later, the court decided to override their precedent, and declare that the 14th amendment did not grant the right to access abortion services.

I think you need to define what a "real law" is, and how the 14th amendment doesn't qualify in this context.
It's also worth noting that the planets were all in order as well.... Mercury, Venus, etc etc
This is all true -- as a parent at a big high-tech company, we get excellent benefits for our kids. There's health insurance, dental insurance, paid parental leave for both parents, subsidized day care, and more.
* Handy push notification early reminders
* paper calendars have no security/privacy
* app would always be available, not just at home
* ability to mark start/stop wherever/whenever and not just when the paper is nearby
* app can track trends, make suggestions and predictions
* can make historical data available to medical professionals

need any more?
You can remove unwanted tumors and organs. Is your body sovereign or not?
Citizens United does not say that corporations are people, it just says people are not restricted on their rights if they create a corporation to exercise them together.
What I will tell you is a thing that I have read, and I hold close:

Forgive one another, and you will be forgiven.

In order to forgive, we must have the truth. Without it, we are in a fog of blind judgement and accusation.

Clarity of the source of this misfortune allows us to forgive.

I cannot say that I hold the full pantheon of the origin of these words to be true, but the four books that imparted this teaching to me have left an indelible imprint, and I cannot escape their mercy, justice, and hope.

I have read many other books, of course, and I believe in compassion. Though great calamity has befallen us, we might find any who have acted wrongly to be worthy of forgiveness.

When we grow beyond apprehension of recrimination, blind to fear of punishment for a cataclysm caused by ourselves and others, and only seek to salve our unwilling harm, perhaps then we will be able to say "move!" to a mountain, and it will move.

Yes, I have loved these books. Sometimes, they are my only solace.
None of the FCS in that paper are the same: RRAR, RTAR, RSVR, RVRR, RSGR, RRSRR, RRSR, RAKR, RAHR, RRKRR. There's clearly an awful lot of functional sequences that we know of that produce an FCS and uniqueness there isn't special.

You're right that I wrote sarbecoviruses when I meant beta-coronaviruses. We still don't know of any sarbecoviruses with an FCS, but MERS has an FCS and the bat beta-coronaviruses HKU4 and HKU5 have an FCS.
Regardless of the size of the offender, if you're not respecting the terms of a license, you'll get pushback. It's natural.

If you're a company which executes Embrace Extend Extinguish on any technology you like yet don't own, you'll get quadruple amounts of pushback. That's normal too.

Microsoft isn't saint, and copilot is breaking a lot of legal, ethical and moral rules. It's doubly-natural to give reaction to this.
The file is encrypted before upload. The decryption key is supplied in an anchor tag. This is the case even if there's no password.
Not sure how “extreme” a position is when 50% of the population hold it including women.
Pretty reckless of her to be born into that family, don't you think? Also pretty reckless to miscarry in the wrong way, elsewhere in the news.
Wow this thread is surprisingly helpful for understanding just what is so taxing about a current project. It's never difficult. It's never repetitive. It's an endless series of poorly specified requirements that only get clarified after implementation, and I don't have access to the right stakeholders to do anything about it.
In European democracies - typically not dominated by bible thumping Republicans - these things have been decided democratically, like any other law.

As a result abortion is a very minor political issue. Some people want more or less restrictions, and occasionally rules get adjusted.

If the Supreme Court hadn't suddenly decided to commandeer this issue in 1973, I think the US could also have been like that, and hopefully after a few dramatic years
we can get there.
Alfred let’s me delete entries from its clipboard history feature.
I like iClip [1] for this purpose, for one substantial reason: You can use the "left-arrow" icon on each history box to past the unstyled (that is, plain text with no fonts, colors, sizes, etc.) version of whatever text is in that box.

1: http://iclipapp.com