skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But asking employees to resume doing something that they were willing to do when they first joined the company (assuming they joined pre-pandemic) would be difficult to characterize as constructive dismissal.

They encouraged people to move far away from the office, where ever they wanted, and then are doing this explicitly for the attrition side-effect, not because they need the people in the office.
As the old joke goes, we have freedom of speech in the USSR. We too can go to the middle of the Red Square, and denounce the American president there, with no negative consequences.

It's not very interesting to see an alleged champion of free speech allow speech he likes. It's far more telling to see what he does about speech he dislikes.
Forks aren't great at scooping.

My Asian family members require only chopsticks and a spoon (large) to eat anything, and spoons are much better for scooping.
Plus Manhattan is schist that never moves, so you can build as high as you want without worrying about your building falling over.
I'm just simple boy from the Midwest who learned to eat his steak and potatoes with a fork and knife, as $DEITY intended, and even I learned to use chopsticks well enough that I don't see what the pictured tool buys me. I understand that some have hand mobility issues, but the pictured solution reminds me of the chopsticks with a rubber band that my Asian immigrant neighbors used for their kids.

Take my titanium chopsticks from my cold, dead hands!
What about modern C++?
One factual reason: trains don't sway and jostle as crudely as motor vehicles, so sleep is infinitely better. Also drinks do not spill.
Death threats are not “making fun of”.
maybe it would be even easier with an adjustable crescent wrench and pliers?
Alameda has taken loans from Voyager and BlockFi, those are in hard currencies, USD or bluechip crypto such as BTC/ETH.

From Voyager's bankruptcy filing we know Alameda owes them $650m in USD, and hasn't repaid them yet, instead SBF is trying to push forward a shady deal that would allow FTX to take over Voyager's asset.

Deal to which state regulators have filed and objection in bankruptcy court by the way.
The documentation describes the configuration as a context free grammar using EBNF notation. This is impressive, but maybe a little more complicated than I want to get with a basic security tool. I suspect most people who don't have to modify it very often are going to secondary sources, like tutorials or stack overflow, and copying examples from there.
Some way of grouping things by canonical links would be neat.

Like if HN and lobste.rs (or other link aggregators) both point to a recent news story, then the fact that you've read the url they link to, should be a seperate concept from whether you've 'read' the discussion that points to the link.

And if you seperately have a feed of the originating news site, reading it there would mark it in both places.
> All I want it to do is: ensure authorization, raise privileges, call exec.

A lot of people do want to do more, especially in some corporate contexts people run very complex sudo setups.

Consider something like Linode; maybe you want some of the more experienced support people to issue some commands on some machines, without having full control. And you've got a gazillion machines so you don't want to setup each one individually (as well as revoke access once they leave). Things can get fairly complex pretty quickly once you move out of simple settings.

For my desktop machine, doas is perfect. For our servers it's fine too because we have just a few people with access. But I'm not everyone of course.

doas was explicitly written to NOT cover all use cases, and that makes it better for the (simpler) use cases it was intended to solve, at the price of not covering other use cases of course.
I will take my anecdote over this data. I am undoubtedly much safer surrounded by moral gun carriers, than when I am around only unarmed people.

My state doesn't even require permits to do so. Can't recall the last mass shooting that happened in this state.

My boss is chill with me carrying at work. A couple coworkers know that I carry at work. The police are chill when I'm pulled over, and I announce that I am carrying.

There's a culture issue. Guns aren't leaving. Banning them leaves us more vulnerable. Citizens commonly carried firearms around the world until the rise of fascism. Now the norm is disarming the populous. I'm more scared of my government knowing that the citizenry they govern have no means of retaliation, than I am of the very very miniscule chance that I'll have to stop a mass shooter.
Good analysis IMHO. Hmmm. Maybe the plan is to flip the company before the chickens come home to roost?
Is Stripe/Lyft exempted from this?
> Was Willy Wonka the good guy?

That's an interesting question. Here is my amateur psychoanalyst take on Wonka. This is based on the Gene Wilder version of Wonka. It is the one with which I am most familiar.

Wonka was a shut in with sociopath tendencies. He hates other people because they're infinitely less intelligent than him. They see him as magical because of the things he creates, but to him the inventions are obvious. Other fictional characters with this trait: Rick Sanchez, Elwood Ralson.

He is a creative who wants to quit his job (maybe he got bored, or just got more interested in his Great Glass Elevator). But he doesn't want to close his business, because if he does that then the chocolate world will be taken over by the uncreative people that he hates. He doesn't care about his customers, he just cares about the creative process of chocolate-craft. Also, he loves his employees because they share his love of hard work, and he probably feels like a parent to them since he saved them from the horrors of their homeland.

He wants to find someone to take over his business. Someone who he knows will be capable of the creativity that he is. He hates children a little bit less than adults, so he concocts an elaborate factory tour/job interview because it was the only possible way for him to interview children.

So my answer the question, is Wonka the good guy, is yes. Because he worked hard to ensure that his creative process for chocolate-craft would continue to exist in the world after he was gone. He is an inventor that loved his invention.

Plus any harm that could have possibly be done to his factory guests, could easily be undone by his "magic". Just like Rick Sanchez.

This was fun. Thanks for asking.
Huh. I would have guessed that Alabama would be one of the last places to lose print newspapers, while the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area would be among the first. [Alabama being less technologically advanced and more traditional while San Francisco/Silicon Valley more technologically advanced and less traditional.]
What about updates? Not so trivial to keep the app up to date without an app store.
https://scroll.pub/ has made RSS irrelevant.

https://github.com/breck7/scroll/commit/0ca22e118e1cc9a79eb9...
I mean in France, "at will" employment is illegal at first place.
It's so funny to see this like it's actually serious. There's a reason why whenever you see big layoffs you see that everyone impacted by it is granted severance of a few months pay, etc.

People act like Twitter is the first company to do layoffs. This is super common and has happened to numerous tech companies in the last month. But of course, Space Man Bad.
Meta Now Testing the Ability to Mint and Sell NFTs on Instagram
According to this:

https://www.zippia.com/twitter-careers-11916/revenue/

It seems like Growth was actually lowest during Trump's presidency.
Tell me you're bad at using chopsticks by praising training chopsticks.
The more active you are the healthier you will be.
Here's some actual data on hiring rate from LinkedIn:

https://economicgraph.linkedin.com/en-us/resources/linkedin-...

Looks like the hiring rate is down some since May but still quite positive. It's always been above 1% for the last two years, and reached a max of about 1.35% in June of last year. It is down 10.6% this October, compared to October of last year, but the actual variation in hiring rate is not huge. They break it down by industry, some industries have increased hiring, some have decreased it.
It's a human right to have privacy. If you want to opt in to sharing everything about yourself to Big Tech and everyone else they sell data to then be my guest, but don't try to make it out to be a "fetish" to avoid this totally unnecessary data collection.
Our smartphones should be as free as our desktops. I'd love to replace Android with a Linux distro but they don't seem to be there yet on ease of installation.
Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video
As I said on Twitter, this was a great article, but needs to mention Jekyll, which was one of the OG static site generators. There are others such as eleventy as well.

I was kinda shocked that asciidoc came up as the recommended documentation solution; we use it and were looking to possibly make a move because of some of the warts (includes are great, but then make updating doc more complex, no one line ifdef check, feels a bit aged).

Anyone have any other suggestions we should look at?
Here in the US, our recession is apparent in every day life. Various issues are causing disruptions in our supply-demand balance, which in turn has caused many essential industries and businesses to remain under staffed. Many of the skilled people I know have been unemployed or under-employed for the better part of a year. This imbalance has also caused the prices of goods and services to be inflated, making it difficult for everyone, including the properly employed, to enjoy life without worrying about finances.
It might be worth looking into peptide therapy. It's pretty expensive and doesn't have a guarantee of working, but it is an option that most doctors aren't aware of so if the medical establishment has let you down it may be worth considering.

BPC-157 and TB-4 injections will boost your body's normal healing, and CJC-1295 and ipamorelin will increase the amount of human growth hormone in your body and use that to build up and repair your musculoskeletal system.

If you decide to do this, find a reputable company as there are many fly by night companies that will sell you baking soda (or worse) for whatever they can get from you and disappear.
wouldn't that damage his reputation as a credible CEO? Not sure if a billionaire would care, but still, he holds the office of the CEO in a few companies.
The principle that the first amendment is based on goes beyond government censorship. If large numbers of people are afraid to express their opinions because they fear being cut off from essential services, that's troublesome to anyone who believes in the principle of free speech, regardless of whether the source of the censorship is the government, private entities, or some murky conjunction of both.

It's quite akin to opposing systematic racism from private businesses. You could argue that a private business should have the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, and it shouldn't concern any outside parties. But when these actions begin to interfere with the ability of large segments of the population to go grocery shopping, use the toilet, get a job, or get an education, it becomes a larger social issue that is deeply concerning to anyone who believes in the principles that underly a free society.
Slightly different, as this seems to hook in to your existing water pipes for moving the heat out from a central location - but an interesting find. Another I'm watching from a distance is microwave-based heating, essentially replacing the gas burner in a combi boiler with a flow-through microwave heater.
Perhaps one can have two sliding shelves of size (N-1)/2 for even greater flexibility.
Android apps need to opt in before they load user-installed certificates. Browsers commonly do that, but almost all other apps don't bother. If you, as a smartphone owner, install your own certificate and set up a proxy to watch what your phone is doing, everything breaks and even Google will report that there is no internet connection at all (killing all kinds of apps using Google Play Services in the process). You need root access to remount the system partition or overlay an image on top of it containing your certificate.

This assumes apps don't use cert pinning. Many chat apps, social media, some games, and all kinds of external libraries employ certificate pinning so that even when a malicious CA generates a certificate for their domain, their clients will not send secrets to that server. In this scenario that means that Facebook won't work even if you manage to get Symantec's private CA keys loaded onto your VPN because Facebook trusts specific Facebook certificates and nothing else.

For unencrypted connections the MitM risk is there and SNI sniffing can be used to log tons of sensitive information in all other cases. However, I wouldn't portray it as risky as this solution may sound on the desktop where there is a proper firewall API.

That's also the core issue, there is no firewall API on Android. The VPN system is the only API that can filter packets (though Google's and the manufacturer's apps can choose to bypass it) so most ad blocking VPNs are actually just user mode firewalls that need to appear as a VPN to work. Alternative solutions include changing your DNS server (to localhost or their cloud servers, depending on if DoH/DoT needs to be enforced) which works less reliably and has very similar risks.

The risk is definitely there, but in practice the risk is lower.
A stopwatch on the brain's perception of time (2013)
For wildcards;

Allowing a user to use systemctl with specific daemons, so ```systemctl * unit-name```, without a password. But anything outside of that I need a password.
254?

https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/254/

I was at a TfL hackathon once, at QMW along this route, but that is irrelevant.

Strangely TfL seemed to be beholden to Ordnance Survey for some copyright issue, it couldn't have been for the Natrional Grid reference could it?

Converting between lat/long to OSgrid was a bit tricky when you have to take the curvature of the Earth into account to get that last bit of accuracy.

https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-os-gridref.ht...

PS For some reason I almost wrote Couverture of the Earth, just trying to reduce chocolate intake.
The analogy is about an aggregation error when using statistics. While the statistic is true it is not accounting for the environment one is in (it has aggregated all environments). Of course there's a big difference asking a girl on a first date on a hike in the woods vs meeting at Starbucks. (A lot of statistical paradoxes are because of aggregation errors. Conditional estimation matters a lot)
Is this a real statement? At least in SV the last few years, ex-tesla and ex-spacex in terms of getting funding for projects was a big win. Some went to apple et al as well for pretty good money.

I know of a few folks from what I would call older line engineering (thinking boeing / SLS type places) actively looking to get onto a musk company (younger folks generally pretty eager to do work).

It's pretty visable when you see NASA administrators doing presentations and then SpaceX folks (who all seem like they are in their 20's to me). Pretty clear you are getting a lot more experience at SpaceX then in the big SLS subcontractor stack for example. I'm adjacent to this space a bit and I think most of the senior folks leaving tesla / spacex (plenty of them) have all landed pretty well despite your claims.
What's even worse for an economy is when "work" results in negative productivity.

Government bureaucrats are often an example of this. The "work" they do too often involves impeding productive private sector workers/organizations in some way.

Not only are these impeded private sector workers/organizations not doing their real work, but they're expending resources dealing with something that's usually quite irrelevant. That's on top of the tax burden they already face, which is being used to fund the bureaucrats that make these tax-payers less productive.

In the end, thanks to the "work" of government bureaucrats, less real wealth has been generated than otherwise would have been.
I think the point of privacy is, it isn't anyone else's business why someone would care about it.
But it doesn't hurt the pubic good if my house gets repossessed. When companies are run into the ground, it results in massive layoffs and less consumer choice. Or in this case the loss of an important and unique disseminator of information.

Similar stuff is happening with most of the local papers in the country. Although in that case the whole business model is dying. But vulture capitalists are hastening the demise by squeezing every the lifeblood out of the business and destroying what's left of the public goodwill.
The Info Op
I did not say based or built on ubuntu. I said that it builds on Ubuntu, which it does and has for many people.
Imagine you're running a factory that consumes Aluminum and produces Aluminum cans. If the half of the sources that supply your raw material inputs go offline, then you'll either pay more for the supply from marginal producers or reduce your output. In either case, you'll be forced with a decision to raise the price of your product to maintain your margin or reduce your output.

A downstream consumer of your cans will either see their prices rise for their inputs (your cans) and call it inflation, or they will have to source additional cans from additional marginal suppliers at additional costs because your volume dropped. The average cost of cans will have increased and that's inflation too.
I suppose a leak would be serious, but presumably these sorts of large-scale batteries would be buried in a containment unit.

Flywheel batteries are usually placed in small bunkers, because the failure mode of a giant rapidly-spinning concrete wheel jumping its bearings is not exactly pretty. Dams are usually designed with diversion channels and mechanisms to limit the damage if they burst. Etc.

Really, it's strange that we are so cavalier about lithium battery failures compared to the other sorts.
Without sounding dumb, this is saying that a company has to tell you 60 days ahead of time that in 60 days they will fire you?

edit: Thank you for the clarification, appreciate the added insights.
I am pretty sure law firms were on full alert and actively competing for possible plaintiffs from the moment Musk first time walked through door.
Such cynical views of mankind should not be tolerated in the tech industry.
well, you can scoop green peas with fork with no trouble, for example. I'm sure there're asian people who can do it efficiently with chopsticks, of course, but I just can't imagine, how.
That doesn't support it either.
I find eating western-style salads to be easier with chopsticks than with a fork.
It's not all ideas, but an ideas guy is a necessary but insufficient condition for the ultra talented "do-ers" to do their amazing things. Elon could have bought a big chunk of Google or apple if he wanted to with all his wealth and just generated nice returns, but t we probably wouldn't have boosters that return to land and can be reused if he did.
You can shovel with chopsticks a little by pushing the pad of your thumb between them. The tension keeps the points a little apart and works like a two pronged fork.
LOL. You're completely delusional. How exactly do you suppose multi-billion dollar companies selling to Americans while hiring Indians, like Freshdesk, operate? The average IIT grad is going to smack you - as cute as it is you think you're worth 6 figures because you can "collect requirements in English"

This arrogance is why you'll be out of a job in ten years. The rest of the world is here to eat your lunch, yet American egos refuse to see the signs.
> You need to display all of that information, take a user's input, store it in an auditable format.

These are machines that read paper ballots and compute totals. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33469882
In the procedure list, someone included the line "Try to get a discount".

When it works, it works.

When it fails, it didn't work, but the next step is not "Quit" but "Continue".
Sure. I don't think Twitter has such an "look up as of effective date" enterprise feature though. Have you been able to access that data that way either through the UI or API?
I've seen this statement a lot, and I think it's missing something.

Public companies typically have growth as a goal. Twitter was not making a lot of money. Some of these people were working on building a future Twitter that would grow bigger and richer. I'm not saying they were on the path to success, just that I expect a lot of the activity there could be described that way.

Five years ago you could say of Uber 'You don't need 5000 people to run a freelance taxi app', when they had hundreds (thousands?) of people working on autonomous driving. Amazon didn't seem to need scores of backend engineers to run a web store, but now AWS is a huge business. Google employs vast numbers of people but has a relatively small number of impactful products, only some of which make money.

Again, not claiming they were doing it well, just that they were trying stuff beyond maintaining what we see.
Correct. Still, it's how this industry works. PS3 has been sold at a loss for around 4 years.
Brazilian here, we've been using voting machines for quite some time now. We are currently facing nation wide protests at least partly due to suspicion of election fraud. People aren't accepting the election's results.

Questioning the legitimacy of the voting machines has also become illegal ("fake news").
What is a developer experience team?
Can only load privacy.com with a bank account last I checked, I prefer to use a credit card.
Same thing with outsourcing and inhousing projects.
Exercise manages ZERO ADHD symptoms. I can tell you between times of almost zero exercise and anything from once to five times a week the ADHD was not affected.

Telling me to stop coming to HN is like telling a drug addict to just not take drugs.

Even if I block HN, I will just be distracted by something else.
You forget the key-retainers. This subset of the org, were set aside first, informed of their condition and promised something so they stay 1 or 2 years and plow through the upheaval.
Why do you need credibility when you own the company? This isn't a public trading company where share holders can vote you out.
Encode in dna and do roaches with random pages on their back.
Are you even familiar with what Nansen did?

He pretty much left his ship in the middle of the Arctic Ocean with a friend and a canoe, waiting for the ice to break. And wintered in a hut made of stones and walrus carcasses.

Much further away from any civilization than Andrée, who landed in the Svalbard archipelago.

I probably wouldn't survive either, but there are plenty of examples of explorers who can.

If you care to educate yourself you can read about Nansen's journey here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition
If you're very clever, watercooling is also the fire suppression system!

Possibly too clever.
Ask HN: Is an automated support chatbot powered by GPT-3 a bad idea?
I'm exploring the possibility of creating a support chatbot with GPT-3. With the powerful capacity of GPT-3 to perform well if finetuned with a lot of data, I thought that it could be possible to create a support chatbot powered by it.

That's because support chatbots need to be able to handle a wide range of topics, and GPT-3's ability to generalize from a small amount of data could make it well-suited for the task.

To train the chatbot, I would need a dataset of customer support conversations. Then, fine-tune the chatbot on this dataset.

One challenge with this approach would be that the chatbot might not be able to handle unusual or unexpected customer queries. But this shouldn't be a problem if the dataset is large enough.

I'm not sure if any business would ever use it.

Can you find any reasons why creating a business around this would be a bad idea?