skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have.

I had most of this done already, but about a year ago a friend of mine -- very healthy! younger than me! -- literally dropped dead. It was a bolt from the blue, for sure, and the trouble that followed for his widow was a wake-up call.

For some reason, he and his wife weren't on a "family" plan with Apple, which meant, from Apple's POV, they were just two customers, and lawyer letters and whatnot would be required to get her access to even his pictures on the phone.

Apple NOW has a feature that allows you to nominate a "digital legacy contact" for your Apple data. If you're on iOS, I RECOMMEND IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS THAT YOU CONFIGURE THIS IMMEDIATELY.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208510

As for the rest of my digital life, everything is in a password manager, and my wife understands that the master password for said vault is in the safe.
We should blame it on return to the office.
> As long as Twitter compensates them for this in some form however, I think this conflict is eliminated.

Who negotiates that payment? Elon Musk?
While this applies to public advertisements, once you are employed then I don't see why you or the company can't renegotiate based on changed responsibilities.
how do you keep up with developments like this? I suddenly see how interested I am in what stacks companies are using and more so what are they going to be using in the near to mid term future.
Wouldn't "confidence" be a better word than "arrogance"?
Happy Birthday to Me
The "good faith" clause of the law.
Here's a rough summary:

1. There is no point in making human understandable layer between perception and planning. Mapping your surrounding with AI and then feeding it to handwritten planner isn't going to achieve real selfdriving.

2. To make AI you need big data, which means big fleet. Therefore you can only succeed if you have customers that are wiling to pay for you current version, because this way you gain money for each extra car in your fleet, instead of losing it.

3. Robotaxis are bad business. From a customer standpoint taxi with a driver is a selfdriving car, replacing driver with AI will make drive longer and more expensive. The path for self-driving company is to make driver assist and go from there to L5.

4. Vision only, AI powerful enough to be level 5 is powerful enough to retrieve depth from image.
x86 is the way to go and will be the best at least for the 10 next years… intel needs some time but I dont worry
> It seem perfectly sensible to say that we apparently have a big problem due to people literally shooting up pizza parlors over disinformation

This is a perfect example of why this is a bad idea. Thank you for being the example. No one shot up a pizza parlor due to disinformation. A single concerned citizen brought a gun to a pizza shot to ascertain if there was a pedo ring being operated in it, after confirming there was not, he handed over his gun and not a single shot was fired.

But you honestly believe that to be the case, either because it benefits your argument or because someone lied to you or because you misinterpreted something you read. But you now believe this is the truth and everyone who disagrees with that "truth" should be censored.
That plot in the article showing “percent change in labor output” looks like pure noise to me. Are they sure that’s measuring what they think it is?
It's a NeXT legacy, and it's a mighty fine and nice sounding one, so why not?
I see no one has followed up on my implicit argument that the definition of "success" in the original article is itself a problem.
Even California still has at-will employment. He doesn’t need cause, or anyone else to agree on what that cause is.
Perhaps, but let me throw in an additional consideration. Per-passenger-mile statistics treat a mile driven within a city (which involves complex interactions with pedestrians/cyclists/other drivers) the same as a mile driven on a freeway (relatively uncomplicated).

If you happen to be in a position right now to be able to walk to work at all, most of your driving is probably intra-city, because you probably both live and work in the same city. However, I suspect per-passenger-mile stats weigh freeway driving more heavily than city driving: on a typical car commute into a city from the suburbs, most of your mileage is not within the city proper, but on the freeways surrounding it.
If we are going by total harm, mass media is ahead by a mile. How many people died because of false claims of weapons of mass destruction not properly vetted by mainstream media? Over half-a-million. What's the most deadly situation social media caused?
She was controversial and openly admitted to collusion. I think this was the right move by Musk.

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1587114424925442049
The realization that what I manifest is a function of attention * time. It’s really as simple as that.

Focusing attention on one thing and not on another is difficult but once aware of the “game” it becomes possible.
> Do Stories and Reels not get in your way? Don't you miss content from school pagse, kids clubs, activities, and team pages because the algorithm decides that it would rather show you yet-another-meme-post?

Oh Christ yes, but if I stayed away from everything where dark algorithms decide what BS to show me I'd end up a digital hermit ( except for HN of course )

Still on my list of 'sites with infuriating un-asked-for content", I don't think FB makes my top 5. Amazon is first, of course, with its "sponsored" products. youtube, reddit, apple TV on content I have _paid_ for. FB pales in comparison
That is an interesting point. But maybe we don't even need to preemptively define harmful speech. You could just say people are responsible for what they say and if somebody then harms someone based on what you said (and it was untrue), you have responsibility.

It would certainly reduce the chance people would say unsubstantiated and harmful things if it was enforced.
> So, what if you apply for a role that turns out to be wrong for you based on my assessment of you then I should reject you so you can re-apply for the other role? That's ridiculous.

No of course not. You simply offer the better role at the higher salary. Or if they turn out to not be good, you tell them that you are going to deny them this role because they are not qualified, but you'd be happy to offer the lower role if they are interested. In fact, I'll bet this will happen a lot as a workaround for this law.
Between pinkeye, RSV, influenza, hand foot and mouth, it's just one more thing your kids can get at daycare.
There is no share price: all of twitter is private.
Maybe if the company is taxated?
> employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone

They know, they know. They just don't want to be the first one to putting numbers out there, because they want to low ball as much as they can.

I clearly remember, in one of my latest interview, the recruiter mentioning an internal system of theirs that would come up with "numbers", and my numbers were way off, so they
couldn't make it work.

Knowing, at least a ball park range, it would have saved me time and stress.

They must have a range in mind:

- average candidate $x
- good candidate $y
- awesome candidate $z

Therefore they could just ads for $x-$z signaling they won't be able to go above $z. So a candidate can at least decide if it is worth interviewing or not.
Not really. Like Karpathy mentioned in the latest lex episode, keeping an updated exact map of any area isn’t a scalable way to achieve this (which is what these geofenced services do) and isn’t how humans are able to drive.
"which they are now no longer eligible to receive" I would 100% assume that they will sue
This isn’t unusual in a change of control transaction. The old board was elected by Twitter shareholders who are no longer the share holders.
I feel like we're going to see a never-ending stream of speculation and actuality over the next year. We already have with the whole deal going down too.

It's exhausting how much attention this gets and how everyone has an opinion about it.

Journalism continues to fall in the "bullshit" camp that Frankfurt warned us about:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on...

It's up to us to fine-tune our bullshit detectors in the current climate.
Extension points have existed for much longer than Android has. The Mac has had them since at least system 6 (1988). Photoshop has had them since version 2.0 (1991). This isn't even new on iOS, since its been supported since 2015 in the form of AudioUnit plugins.
On Sublime Text Chelevra[1] has been my favorite for a long time. Lately I've also been using a couple of Alabaster[2] variations. To me the most important thing is to have just enough color. I find too much color distracting.

[1] https://github.com/jhermsmeier/chelevra.tmtheme

[2] https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster
Seems an artefact of doctors not being employees.

If their employment status was the same as everyone else’s, there wouldn’t be any effort to replace admin staff with someone getting paid 10x as much unless there was actually a 90% reduction in work (doubtful).
> I know the market rate for a candidate that is just over-the-bar for my role, and I know that market rate for a super-star

Great, then you know the good faith range and you're good to go.

> then I should reject you so you can re-apply for the other role

In my experience this happens all the time at big corps and the government. Except it's not a rejection, just an "oh actually we have this other open job on the books that would be a better fit - let's transfer you over to that"
OP used "suggesting" which i take as speech and you used "engage in behavior" which i take as action
for me, the difference between speech and action is at the crux of the issue
Agree.

One perspective that I'm amazed hasn't become obvious to mainstream yet is that there are a growing number of private companies where are functionally extensions of the US government. Everyone knows about the US military-industrial complex, but they haven't clued in that the complex has grown and companies like Intel fall under that umbrella now. The CHIPS Act should have been a huge clue to anyone paying attention.

As long as the US government stands, regardless of who is in office and what letter is next to their name, Intel will not ever fail.
If you go back to the civil war in the US, you'd also be going back to violent opposition to its rule in what's now the Republic of Ireland, its genocide in Kenya, the collapse of the British Empire in general. It's true that (as in America) the metropole has been relatively peaceful in the UK, but outside of that it's pretty grim.
> they cut the human time needed low enough that full-time workers weren't needed

No, that's not it at all. What GP is saying is that they cut the human expertise low enough that full-time workers weren't needed. The manpower savings never materialized because an app built for experts is faster than one built for casual users, and also because those experts, even with the high training cost, were ultimately cheaper per hour than the highly compensated people who now have to do the job because we 'made it easy'. First you devalue those experts by making their job harder, then you get rid of the job and make it someone else's, split between entry level staff and your most expensive employees.

> AFAI can tell, the effect of tech overall is to cut some jobs while making the remaining ones harder and more stressful, while increasing so-called context switching.

You still got there in the end.
I hadn't heard news on s&box for a long time. When I saw the poker video, I audibly laughed out loud. If s&box can be a less exploitative, and more adult-oriented version of Roblox, I think they're onto something wonderful.

Given that >50% of the Roblox userbase wasn't alive when Garry's Mod first released on Steam[1], I'd love to see a proper essayist (video or written) do a proper retrospective on the influence that the game had on the industry. Was it the first commercially successful "The Game Engine Is The Game"? It came out around the same time as Falling Sand(2005). Falling Sand was similar in that it had no objectives, but I doubt many would call them the same, as GMod truly encouraged players to create their own game types within the sandbox. Personally, I have yet to experience a variant on Prop Hunt or Trouble in Terrorist Town that truly felt like it "elevated" those genres beyond the modes I played as a kid on different GMod servers. But perhaps I haven't given the newer games a fair chance.

1: https://backlinko.com/roblox-users#age-distribution-of-roblo...
My family isn't that technically savvy and would probably require help with the decryption, but I'd be dead.
Twitter has been taken private so this is not corporate raid.

Corporate raid is aimed at making changes to the company specifically to increase share price. The idea is that the resulting share price increase covers at least significant part of the cost of getting majority stake. This makes the buyout relatively cheap or even free.

Which of course makes little sense if you are also taking the company private.

I would also like to point out that the whole point of buying a controlling stake in the company usually is to exert some control. And to buy it out completely and take it private is to exert complete control without having to explain yourself (too much).

There is, of course, possibility of the investor buying shares because they are content with current management and do not plan to interfere even after they have acquired majority stake. But this, in my experience, is quite rare.
> there will be people studying it.

"people studying something" == "nerds" ?

[edit: i was probably too offhand about that, but what I meant is that the fact that people are engaged in something like this misses at least the conventional usage of "nerd", if wasn't obvious]
I'm no longer in a management position and wouldn't post what is currently private company info on HN, but I'll tell you how it worked at literally every company I've worked at that is not a very small startup:

There is an internal document that specifies each level and the exact comp bands for each role (like all companies there is a range of salaries but it is specified, and again this is the practice a multiple companies I've worked at). There is a lower and upper bound of salary for level, target bonuses are fixed at a percent for ranges of levels and the same goes for equity grants.

The details of what defines each level of seniority is clearly spelled out in terms of typical ranges of previous experience, responsibilities of the role, reporting structure, assumed level of autonomy etc. These are also calibrated across teams at each review cycles and continually kept up to date.

During interviews there are set guidelines for how well a candidate performs given the target level of the role they are applying for an assess which level is appropriate.

This is not the same as saying

"don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone."

and

"it depends on a range of factors"

At every company that is not sub 100 employees that "range of factors" is clearly defined. I honestly have a hard time believing you've worked recruiting for any major tech company and haven't come across similarly detailed documentation regarding levels, comp bands, and evaluation of candidates.
I wonder which one that the DHS CISA are pursuing: truth or fact?

If you think that the two are one and the same, you might be part of the problem.
Step one, get rid of the money in politics.
Step two, solve people's problems.
Maybe they should go all in on RISC-V or another open-source instruction set and get ahead of what's going to be the future of chips in the long run.
A solution is to discourage media consumption. Modern media may be full of disinformation or malinformation, but those types of information reside on a mound of overinformation intended to overhelm the average person's ability to parse out reality and form their own conclusions. Making available streams of nooze, cat videos, fictional killers, social media dares, and jiggling butts is totally unnatural to the human mind that did not develop under these conditions. If we can't get enough of the public to consider these things harmful in the way we do things like alcohol, then we're kind of screwed because large amounts of disinformation aren't even necessary. As long as the mind is retarded by too much information, it has been set up to accept the single most absurd disinformation.
A Dyson swarm emits approximately same energy as its host star, just in infrared. Dark Matter could, I guess, be Matryoshka brains organised carefully to not hit each other by their keepers, so long as they are also actively "gardening" what we can see so they never ever get Dyson-d.
Your second paragraph is an amusing self reflection on the first.

You're "becoming increasingly" one of the people you criticise.

Which is absolutely fine.

The question then is why would you seek government help to censor your own thoughts.
Twitter had massive layoffs planned anyway that they put on hold when Musk started the buyout.
The law doesn't say you can't offer someone a different job than they applied for.
Why are there two sides to a fight? If you investigate something from a scientific point of view, you may look at many different variables. You may come up with a pareto distribution based on your observations.

There's nothing particularly natural about having two sides.

I think there are two sides because of the fight itself. There may be many points of view, but people choose the side closest to their point of view.

After the fighting starts, all the nuance about those points of view disappears.

After the fighting starts, it is disloyal to acknowledge any weakness in the arguments or proposals of your own side.

After the fighting starts, the two main camps will subsume any smaller groups.

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I think it's interesting to think about times when there were more than two sides: China during and shortly after WWII - think about Japan vs China and KMT vs Communists.

During the Japanese invasion and occupation, the Chinese forces mainly cooperated, or at least tried to appear cooperative. Once the pressure of that fight ended, the Chinese groups were free to fight each other

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Another: US vs Communism until the end of the Cold War and then Red vs Blue.

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Do you have any examples?
Exactly, came here to say exactly this. BTW, I don't think this in inherently evil, it's just a conflict of interests. Employer. Employee. Recruiter.

Different incentives for all three parties.
I am 99% sure I agree with you. However I’m a bit out of the loop on Calacanis overall to know why specifically you’re saying this. I’m up for you giving me some keywords to look up on him too and doing my own research then.
An old idea that internet access should require certification like a car.
Maybe we could send them some kind of 'camp' where they 're-educated' on what they're allowed to say in public.
Over the 2+ decades I've been working in this industry, the list of things that are expected out of an interview process just keeps growing. Intense panel interviews, coding on whiteboards, "show me your github", "do this example project", etc. Tell me your life story. What makes you passionate?

They often drag on for weeks, sometimes months, before an actual offer letter is in hand. And at the same time we're told that there's a shortage of us software engineers.

I can tell you it wasn't like this in the 90s. For better or for worse.

So don't be surprised that many of us are becoming incredulous that in addition to all of this, we can't get an upfront answer in advance about how much you will eventually pay me.

(I've also been confronted, very late in the process, with "your requested range is unreasonable because look at this compensation survey we bought from a third party" -- and that survey was full of complete lies because it listed total comp for Google L4 in my region as literally 1/2 of what I was making as an L4 at Google.)

So, I dunno, unless the job market really goes tits up and we're all suddenly begging for work, seems like your side of the industry -- the recruitment side -- needs to get its act together. I'm seeing growing dissatisfaction with the whole process and people are getting sick of the song and dance.
I can only imagine its akin to the reaction a British person has when they see an American pluralise Lego

Whilst is a perfectly cromulent word in British english
That's one advantage of molten salt reactors. The troublesome parts of a nuclear breach are fission product gases with medium half-lives: isotopes of strontium, cesium, and iodine. With an MSR, all those are chemically bound in the salt. Instead of radioactive clouds you just have molten salt that cools into hot rocks at the reactor site.
You could tell me the answer which isn't all that complicated and you seem unable or unwilling to do.

When you post a project somewhere, or generally start a discussion with people, it's generally wise to establish a minimum context about what you are talking about and not require the participant to read a 40 year old paper, or lecture, or so on, just to understand the basis of your premise.

Even more so online when the work is multiplied by the number of people who will read your post and a two-sentences description can solve it.
To play devil's advocate without the stick of Medicare funding being at stake, doctor's offices and hospitals will defer EHR upgrades until the heat death of the universe. HIPAA was passed in the 90s with a safe harbor for faxing and that's still the standard method to transfer a medical record.
They inherited "AppKit" and "Foundation" from Next and they have been running with that naming convention ever since.
> People hear "the bible is foundational" and I think they're hearing "the magical stories in the bible are literally true. God sat on a cloud and poofed western civilization into existence!"

That's not what I hear. What I hear is more along the lines of "What's in the Bible is somehow original/more profound than what came before and so THAT is the book to take note of", which just isn't true.

> People need to find more internet people to hate. Christopher Hitchens was saying the same thing to impressionable teenagers in the early 2000s, and so was Richard Dawkins.

Yes, they all pander to similar audiences be it back when Hitchens and Dawkins are more akin to Sam Harris imo.
The article mentions that the Wii U had gamecube compatibility. I wonder how that was achieved? And I'm guessing it can't take the small optical disks of the gamecube.
> Of course, the manual itself is really very good!

I actually don't agree with this. It's really good as a "user guide", but it's not the best as a "reference manual". It does not always clearly define terms, it freely mixes technical terms and hand-waving language, the writing style tends toward an "expository prose" that makes it hard to find specific pieces of information. In general, it could do with some reorganization using the Diátaxis principles: https://diataxis.fr/

It does have pretty good indices, and the quick reference is very helpful. However the HTML version (can't speak for the others) needs a lot more anchors, to make it easy to cross-link to individual elements, rather than just to chapter headings.
I agree, reddit is my most destructive addiction. I like some communities but I always end up on the front page doom-scrolling. I'm just surprised it always get a pass when it comes to the negative impacts of social media.
There are plenty of people who have the skills to provide value to an organization, and just want a safe/reliable payment to provide for their families in return.

Its still a sad occasion to see them fired for no/little reason.
"So we're to argue with your imagination?"

To be clear, not my imagination as i'm not the original poster. Nor anyone's imagination since the act of violence did, in fact, occur. A poor choice of words, on my part.