skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there's stress associated with possible layoffs, but buyout packages and knowing it's not going to happen for, say 6 months, means there's loads of time to make the necessary adjustments. I think a big part of the stress is the suddenness of it all. Something like 50% of people are living paycheque to paycheque, so of course a sudden round of layoffs would be crazy stressful because there's a chance that your life is about to implode. Knowing you have 6 months to figure something out would not be nearly so bad.

So what I'm suggesting is that you announce ahead of time and let people who were considering a change go ahead.

Then when that deadline is reached, you offer those buyout packages to the low performers or others you don't want, until you reach your target.
The different rates are all highly correlated, though, so it hardly even makes a difference when you are looking at a trend over time.
Your argument is that propaganda & brainwashing can only win over people who are already extremely crazy?
TeX and Literate Programming (and Lisp) are my fundamental, day-to-day tools.

Code it, explain it, generate a Literate PDF containing the code.

The programming cycle is simple. Write the code in a latex block. Run make.
The makefile extracts the code from the latex, compiles it, runs the test cases (also in the latex), and regenerates the PDF. Code and explanations are always up to date and in sync.

I have found no better toolset.
If we follow the logic of Yishan's thread, HN frowns upon and largely doesn't allow discussion that would fall into group 3 which removes most of the grounds for accusations of political and other biases in the moderation. As Yishan says, no one really cares about banning groups 1 and 2, so no one objects to when that is done here.

Plus scale is a huge factor. Automated moderation can have its problems. Human moderation is expensive and hard to keep consistent if there are large teams of individuals that can't coordinate on everything. HN's size and its lack of desire for profit allow for a very small human moderation team that leads to consistency because it is always the same people making the decisions.
> Every economist will tell you that these Fed-moves take over a year (!!!) to kick into effect

That is just not true.
Beware: the S3 tiered options also have additional fees, like minimum object sizes and minimum object lifetimes. For example, in a situation where a file is getting frequently overwritten, it will cost more to store it in one of the "lower priced" tiers than in regular S3.
that is… a small number
Using analogies is always dangerous because they're never going to be a perfect fit. But the difference between your engine analogy and the federal reserve's actions is that anemic economic growth and high unemployment is not a side effect. In your engine analogy, adding more gas and air into the engine increases the amount combustion. It's the combustion that increases speed, so in a sense increase combustion is a goal. Released heat is just a by product of the reaction. In the economy, the amount of economic activity and the amount of available labor are what drive prices, so these things are the combustion in the piston, not a byproduct.
HN downweights posts automatically based on the rate of commenting. High commenting rates makes the post less visible because it tends to be controversial and therefore not great reading for HN
>> it's pretentious bullshit

Skimming through this gave me flashbacks to the weekly newsletters sent out by my children's previous school.
Signal isn’t saying no one can use the word signal. The problem arises when you use all of their branding together in such a way that could plausibly fool someone into thinking it’s their software, which very much appears to have happened here (see this entire thread full of people who installed this trademark violating build thinking it was legit)
> Wait, what? How are Tesla engineers being publicly funded?

Tesla is a public company. Every year, they go back to their shareholders for another secondary offering, asking for more money. In exchange for this money, Tesla (the company) gives these tokens (aka: Stocks) out.

These stocks represent the public's interest in TSLA. Every TSLA shareholder is the true and legitimate owner of the company. TSLA shareholders likely shouldn't be happy with Elon Musk using their money to fund his private Twitter shenanigans.

Its definitely embezzlement as it is. The question is if TSLA shareholders care enough to sue. They probably don't care. So I don't expect anything to happen.

As long as there are stocks out there (IE: As long as there are public stocks in existence), the CEO + Board has a fiduciary duty to do what is best for the company. We're witnessing a clear and evidence destruction of that relationship, as TSLA engineers seemingly work for Twitter.

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Legally, and more importantly _morally_ speaking, if Elon Musk really wants to do this, he should take TSLA private so that his public shareholders don't get defrauded / embezzled throughout the venture.

Not that I think the typical political environment has enough people caring. But if TSLA starts to have money issues, people will ask questions a few months from now (IE: No one cares about embezzlement as long as times are good. People only really care about such theft when the money seemingly disappears. Its just human nature unfortunately)
Qualcomm is also trying too hard to encourage cellular in laptops. It makes no sense to pay extra upfront and $20/month for 5G on a laptop.
I've replaced my iPhone SE (2016)'s battery three times since I originally bought it.

Every time, I waited until the phone started to shut off or rapidly drain below 20% battery. Replacing the battery fixed that and brought my battery life back to original (impressive!) longevity each time. As in, I can reliably use my phone for 2 days without charging, as opposed to barely making it to midnight of the first day.

You do have to "recalibrate" the battery by fully charging it, sitting on the charger for a few hours, then fully discharging it, letting it sit dead for a few hours, and finally recharging to 100% uninterrupted afterward. Maybe if you leave that out it takes a lot longer to see the impact?
The 9gager project is at the top of his site (https://www.c2kb.com/). It's definitely on display.

> Trying to give the benefit of the doubt

Why? Even if he's actually a really good programmer like he claims, it's a massive display of hubris. We should encourage humbleness.
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On the other hand, if machine-readable format is adopted, it will be used for many years or even decades. So instead of making a quick hack that everybody will regret later it might be better to spend some time comparing different options.
N+1 created a book-recommending algorithm called Bookmatch
The quiz is irreverent and—as it's n+1 magazine people—intellectual, but worth taking for a good list of personalized book recs.
Seems like it gets popular about once a year.
Actually they were all young like me but it is fair to say that I was unable to recognize the benefit of a free meal because I was an entitled prick as well as a former New Yorker who knew from bagels.
It's a problem of scale.

Usenet and IRC used to be self-moderated. The mods in each group or channel would moderate their own userbase, ban people who were causing problems, step in if things were getting too heated. At a broader level net admins dealt with the spam problem system wide, coordinating in groups in the news.admin hierarchy or similar channels in IRC.

This worked fine for many years, but then the internet got big. Those volunteer moderators and administrators could no longer keep up with the flood of content. Usenet died (yes, it's still around, but it's dead as any kind of discussion forum) and IRC is a shell of its former self.
That’s why “Prop 15” which would have overturned prop 13 protection for business but not homeowners was so obscene: it would only adversely affect small Mom & Pop businesses. Big mega corporations could negotiate.
> Biden administration continuing former President Donald Trump's opposition and refusing to return to the Obama administration’s 2016 abstention

One of the most interesting news I came across recently is that when Russia invaded Crimea, Biden had plans to arm Ukraine and requested them to fight Russians. https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/30/what-will-ukraine-do-wi...

Obama personally intervened and refused to arm Ukraine or launch an offensive.

Shows how morally different Obama and Biden are even though they are politically close.
Turns out that when you overheat the economy by printing money and giving it to people for free, people buy so much stuff that most producers are running at capacity and can sell at high margins.
It being up to them and them being stupid and lazy are not mutually exclusive. Your points stand, and my points stand.
That's not a centralized registry. In fact, it's usually a distributed ledger, normally a blockchain but any distributed database of public keys and IDs will do.

Also, the ID in the VC is not something that can easily be used to identify you. It may be in basic implementations, but it shouldn't. The W3C spec recommends using DID[1]... A DID is a random ID, basically, which is stored in the "distributed ledger" where others can find your current keys and other metadata (none of which containing personal data)... you can have as many DIDs as you want, e.g. one for each usage you make of your VCs, making it impossible to track you around... you should look at the W3C spec if you really want to understand how DIDs and VCs are supposed to work, the Auth0 website is a much lighter , pre-digested and somewhat more centralized version of things that make it much easier to get started (Which is a great thing, but hopefully you shouldn't judge VCs from only what they're pushing).

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/#dfn-decentralized-ident...
Is there any way to do this (safely) in small batch?
He frames this as a behavior problem, not content problem. The claim is that your objective as a moderator should to get rid of users or behaviors that are bad for your platform, in the sense that they may drive users away or make them less happy. And that if you do that, you supposedly end up with a fundamentally robust and apolitical approach to moderation. He then proceeds to blame others for misunderstanding this model when the outcomes appear politicized.

I think there is a gaping flaw in this reasoning. Sometimes, what drives your users away or makes them less happy is challenging the cultural dogma of a particular community, and at that point, the utilitarian argument breaks down. If you're on Reddit, go to /r/communism and post a good-faith critique of communism... or go to /r/gunsarecool and ask a pro-gun-tinged question about self-defense. You will get banned without any warning. But that ban passes the test outlined by the OP: the community does not want to talk about it precisely because it would anger and frustrate people, and they have no way of telling you apart from dozens of concern trolls who show up every week. So they proactively suppress dissent because they can predict the ultimate outcome. They're not wrong.

And that happens everywhere; Twitter has scientifically-sounding and seemingly objective moderation criteria, but they don't lead to uniform political outcomes.

Once you move past the basics - getting rid of patently malicious / inauthentic engagement - moderation becomes politics. There's no point in pretending otherwise. And if you run a platform like Twitter, you will be asked to do that kind of moderation - by your advertisers, by your users, by your employees.
> Worse: Money is an illusion. We mistake a unit of measurement (like grams, or gallons) for wealth. In a recession, workers come to a construction site - material is still there, so is electricity and power tools ... but work can't continue and they will be fired because the boss has run out of inches.

This is because the boss imagined getting more inches in future and made a leveraged bet. A downturn is a great opportunity for someone enterprising to become a boss and take everything in the construction site, hire people and build it themselves.
Sorry about that. I had Google Adsense auto ads on. Not sure if they turn up the number of ads based on traffic. Turned them right down now.
The issue isn't with convention or player expectation for Final Fantasy XII. It automated a large part of the game. It made the game less fun. RPGs revolve around combat -- that's the only reason to grind for gear or stat bonuses.

By automating combat Final Fantasy XII basically made a big hole in the very heart of the game.

Contrast that with something like Minecraft where ComputerCraft is very popular. CompterCraft allows you to program robots to do boring, tedious tasks using Lua. It frees up the player to do more exploration or building, which is the heart of Minecraft.
I suspect we'll see more of these in the coming weeks as companies go through planning for next year.
If I had to guess, they are not adverse to "Docker" the company but actually to immutable container images that are shipped from the developer and often assume that they can run as root.
The company offers semiconductor building blocks for robots and consulting services specialized in the Robot Operating System (ROS). Will grow its business in the semiconductors and autonomous mobility fields through hardware acceleration.
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> Most folks at Harvard law are going to go to corporate law firms, where most of the clients are rich white people. Are you suggesting that as a Bangladeshi I'm less helpful to my clients because I'm not from a similar community? Is a lawyer from a less affluent part of Appalachia less helpful?

Yes. Somebody from the same background as you will have a better chance of connecting, having you understand their priors, having you understand their idoms of speech. Many more things.

It does not make you useless to other people, nor make me useless to Bangladeshi. Also when applied in individual cases it can be misleading and confusing. It is a community effect.

For a very confidant client, or a lawyer who is on the autistic spectrum, it matters much less. But for the Bangladeshi just dropped in from Sirajganj whit some money to invest but few contacts it could be a life saver.
You're confusing bad actors with bad behavior. Bad behavior is something good people do from time to time because they get really worked up about a specific topic or two. Bad actors are people who act bad all the time. There may be some of those but they're not the majority by far (and yes, sometimes normal people turn into bad actors because they get upset about a given thing that they can't talk about anything else anymore).

OP's argument is that you can moderate content based on behavior, in order to bring the heat down, and the signal to noise ratio up. I think it's an interesting point: it's neither the tools that need moderating, nor the people, but conversations (one by one).
Great, by I would prefer to avoid YAML because it is very complicated and difficult to parse.
The majority of humanity is soul-crushingly poor and abused. That doesn't mean I should be able to punch you in the face without complaint or punishment.
And yet said species is notoriously known for its inability to make long term plans, is easily controlled by its own libido and dopamine circuits.

Actually, if we are being honest with ourselves, that ape is constantly falling prey to its own capacity to adjust its goals. Take for example the issues that come with porn addiction; the issues are a consequence of dopamine seeking behaviour where the person keeps seeking more and more extreme ways to satisfy their urges; ie hedonistic adaptation.

Even what you mentioned, dreaming of visiting mars is to some degree a goal motivated and mediated by dopaminergic circuits; novelty, exploration - like sex - feed dopamine circuits.

I can recommend the book "The molecule of more".

Introspection is very limited and can be even motivated by the circuits themselves; the person can only achieve an outline of their actions to change their software, but can't inspect and manipulate individual synapses. In the same vein, a software can not inspect itself and predict its own outputs and modify them at runtime etc etc.
no, you'll be worse off if you do that because then you won't get severance. especially if you're not able to quickly land another job.
Meta wants your data, of course they wouldn't do anything that could stop that.
Yes, that's what I said, making it ridiculous to claim that the government doesn't count them. Why wouldn't they count them? It doesn't require all that much additional effort.
Right, and that's a good thing, because lower postprandial glycemia correlates with better health outcomes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20234031/
>Backups work fine on my Android phone. They consistently go to a folder and Syncthing backs them up from there.

I never said backups don't work, I said they're not easy to do and restore compared to other apps where it's much more seamless and hands-off. No average user knows what Syncthing is and how to set it up. People expect the messaging app to have its own backup-restore system compatible with the cloud storage provider setup in the phone's OS.

>Also no problems with it not ringing, Signal is actually the primary way that my family calls each other now and no one has experienced it not ringing when expected.

Can't concur, I've personally seen this issue across 3 different android phones form 3 different brands and there are countless people online complaining about the same issue. You were lucky.

>Especially when you are comparing it to apps that dont have the same security goals or standards.

Which security goals and standards exactly? Signal's sales pitch is that it's end-to-end encrypted, but so does WhatsApp, and until we have an independent security audit of all of Signal's code and infrastructure, the claim for "better" security goals is as valid as "trust me bro". The only thing going for it is that it's not owned by Zuck's advertising empire or owned by Russian/CCP tech magnates, and that's it, but that's a very low bar to clear.

And also, how does having "better" security goals impact the issues with picture quality the app takes or the app failing to ring when someone calls you? "Security" is not an excuse for major bugs and lack of basic features. If security is done right then it should work transparently for the bytes going down the internet pipe and not have an impact on any other features.
Daily mean in January in Halifax is -4C (25F). In Bordeaux, same latitude, it's 7C (45F)

In Sweden Umeå is 20F in January. In fairbanks it's -20F.
Money isn't an illusion. It is a useful abstraction of human effort/potential.

The workers will be fired because the boss has run out of societal-effort credits.

The only "illusion" is the collective understanding that these "made-up" credits can be redeemed with other counterparties for human effort in the future. So long as we all approximately believe that idea, it works.
Is "fat" harmful? Could we say a company overspending is fat or bloated without offending? What about "impotent" or "bald," are they harmful? Can we use them abstractly without offending? What about "anemic?"

Lots of conditions of being are generally disfavored as a condition of our biology. Referencing that disfavor abstractly doesn't bring it in to being. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away.
This propaganda and brainwashing that is so prevalent and so effective, as demonstrated by the daily threats on politicians lives we need to shred the Constitution to prevent it?

I believe my prior comment stands perfectly fine on its own without your attempts to clarify it.
Class and race are both social constructs (class is not an economic construct, as the Economist probably would prefer) so they are mixed up and confounded. Highly correlated here.
And some states allow kids to start working as young as 14, so you can have part time jobs that just entirely disappear if the kid gets laid off / fired / quits, because they don't appear in the employable column.
The high rates are not being driven by firms competing for capital, they are being driven by the Fed reducing the money supply and associated expectations of money supply reduction because of high inflation.

Your entire story is backwards.
How terrible of them, packaging open source software for their distribution like so many package managers do.
There is a proprietary piece of software that is released on Snap Store only. They used to release a .deb file. When they did that, it was as easy as extracting the files from the .deb file and run the executable. With Snap, however, it is much more of a hassle to do the same thing. It is possible (at least for the one I have in mind), but yeah, no.
I’ve just realized I’ve stopped buying stuff at Amazon that I can find at other, more reliable, stores. Recently I bought a new laptop at BestBuy, even though it was a $100 cheaper at Amazon. Legos, headphones, stuff for the kitchen… all bought either locally or at other online retailers. I’m buying less and less stuff at Amazon, usually books (Kindle, mostly) and stuff I can’t find anywhere else.
I would love to do this. I'd be super curious to re-experience life with an offline device in a very online world. I loved every Palm I had up through the Pre, but there was a magic about trying to play Zork on a Palm, or syncing a day's worth of light reading for the (school) bus. I really miss this app Four Point Oh that tracked homework and stuff.
Swarm – Low cost, global satellite connectivity for IoT
Even if he was only giving away money for views (something I disagree with along the same lines as others) - why is that a bad thing exactly? How is it malicious to actually help people?
Or kids whose parents could afford a prep course or private tutoring.
To point 3), it's not that difficult. Even in this space, you don't necessarily have to reinvent the wheel: there are quite a few embeddable languages to choose from. Lua, microPython, GNU Guile, Janet, and plenty of others. It is fairly trivial to implement one of these, and it is up to the one implementing what capabilities should be exposed to the scripting language. It's not hard to do this in a safe way, i.e. to only allow the scripting language to control game logic, and not allow it to talk to the operating system.
As long as you have a phone that's reasonably well designed, it's usually not too much trouble to replace the internal battery every 2-3 years.

I think our culture is really wasteful with batteries. I can't believe that my iphone doesn't have a built-in setting to cap charging at 80%. Studies show that you can decrease battery wear to negligible levels by doing this. Yet my Android e-ink tablet, my iphone, my smartwatch, and my laptop all do not support a hard battery cap.

At least I can install al dente on my laptop, and root my tablet. Everything else I just have to manually take off the charger before 80%!