skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. Elon is so worshipped that just him doing this has already emboldened the financial analysts and wannabe founder types to more ruthlessly question total comp numbers and hiring. Everyone who works in technology should be worried. Whether it’s correct or not, what looks like waste and excess to the business class who are used to the “hard facts” of balance sheets could look to someone else like one of the few labor sectors on the planet where workers are paid something near what they are worth. Silicon Valley is the land of fat peasants. This is the beginning of the lords and ladies tightening the peasant’s belts.
Why are you booing him? He’s right.
> Inefficient? Underperforming sure but they're probably among the best in terms of "efficiency"

TFA extensively demonstrates that they’re a far, far behind Apple’s 2 year old M1 silicon in efficiency.
Doesn't really matter, you can still use TOR or IPFS or i2p. Like with KiwiFarms.
You assume Musk had anything to do with it. It’s likely he would have been fired from nearly any companies for this series of actions.

At best, someone was afraid Musk would get wind of this guy and wanted to take care of the problem before that happened.
Righty channels would probably be filled with racist, incel, misogynistic, conspiracy-nut jerks, just look at 8chan.
I had a pebble, now I have a Garmin Forerunner.

These are marketed as fitness devices first, which they are, but the smart watch features are comparable to the Pebbles. The lack of a touchscreen, the long battery life, and the epaper-like display are all there.
this is game is why i figured out how to use xdotool to make an autoclicker
It could also be a useful proxy for density/interestingness of the material (when adjusted for your typical reading speed). Fed into a recommender system it might produce better outputs and more purchases.

It could also be sold to publishers as part of a tool to determine the above prior to publishing; what if books were optimized for your attention?

Pleasant or not, there are plenty of uses for the data.
OK. Cheers for that information. Tor it is then, and I'll self-host the DB.
I see you are unfamiliar with who Manu is :P
Ooh; that's not good, not good at all.

The biggest reason for Windows' dominance for the better part of almost two decades was its insane backwards compatibility. Of course, this also created a myriad of problems for bloat and security, but it was pretty much one of their biggest selling points.

It's gotta be just as good as Apple's, or nobody's going to care, point-blank. They'll just buy a Mac and put Windows in a VM. You might even get better performance.
It can also be mapped to a "shortcut" script, though I don't know what all can be shortcutted on the watch: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213335
Kobo doesn’t force books to use DRM, for example: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-way-of-kings-1

Tor Publishing Group
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Imprint: Tor Books
ISBN: 9781429992800
Language: English
Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free)

But if you’re only browsing the books that choose not to use it, it’s certainly a smaller selection
I've always heard these types of stories, and someone showed me a clip from a show once with some nerds on the roof. I can't help but wonder if that's real life for some people. I get nervous sometimes if I'm taking too long taking walks during my break, not that I'm going to get caught or scolded for going a few minutes over, but that mentally I'm harming my integrity by not honoring the commitment I made.

I can imagine the type of person that embodies this type of developer is someone who clicks 'I agree' without reading the terms of service, or shows up late to personal engagements.
> Warez means specifically software piracy. So pirating ebooks is not warez

Warez sites often link to more than just software. Software may or may not be the primary focus. Terminology evolves.
Yes, isn't that all proof that he's clearly not just a mere average joe? Everyone fails, he fails less than most all of us, and he does really daring things.

We can dislike him all we want for all his flaws, he's going to be in history books. If he wasn't so ruthless about achieving his goals, the moonshots he did achieve would have been failures as well.

We can dislike someone and still recognize their impact, people aren't black or white. Nuanced opinions are possible.
Agree with all except the XML schema in 2022, jesus christ.
Conditions for Movement of Privately Owned Railroad Cars on Amtrak:

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
Some people can evaluate others individually instead of relatively.
You and I have different definitions of funny.
On piracy, HN users defend Sci-Hub to protest against the academic publishing industry, which involves large corporations such as Elsevier charging publishing and subscription fees that are much more than the value that these corporations bring to the actual research, review, and publication. Academics need to publish in order to survive, and they individually do not have enough power to subvert the existing academic publishing system. Since academics do not receive royalties, Sci-Hub enables academics to pay less into the same system that exploits them for profit. By supporting Sci-Hub, HN users take a populist stance by supporting individuals against the system.

The situation with Microsoft and Copilot is the exact opposite. Here, Microsoft is misusing its acquisition of GitHub to repackage the work of individual free and open source contributors into a proprietary product in violation of the authors' software licenses. These licenses do not even require Microsoft to pay. They only require attribution and redistribution under a compatible license. Supporting Microsoft's misuse of GitHub is an anti-populist stance that puts the interests of the corporation over the interests of the individuals.
It's only $8 and you get more likes, shares, and mentions with blue checks.
> Electric doesn't really allow that because solar won't allow for fast enough charging to compete with petrol.

I'm not sure this is much of an issue for the target market. As the song goes: slow ride, take it easy...
Do the guidelines not also say something about ignoring such immaterial swipes and focusing on the matter at hand?
Musk’s SpaceX Dismantles Hyperloop Prototype, Puts Up a Parking Lot
> This is a very simplistic and very narrow perspective about gifting when looked from this side.

I agree with you re: thoughtful gifts given to (or received from} people you have a relationship with. But I dont cosider employer gifts in this category. I view employee-employee gifts EXACTLY how the parent does. They tend to be impersonal (especially when given to the whole office) junk that gets forgotten, passed on or resold.
I can’t talk about some stuff unfortunately, we’re partnered with them, but they’re not using any of that yet as far as we have been told.

We’re eagerly waiting for them to, as it should increase what we can do with their product!
Definitely, it’s on the roadmap I believe, but today they haven’t. We use Swarm in production for some of our remote industrial IoT deployments
I'm pretty far from your situation (no dependents, mid-career) but did leave my job 9 months ago to take a sabbatical for similar reasons.

I sympathize with your post-LOA feelings; going right back into the same environment is hard.

"Giving myself that gift … is a level of generosity that almost feels unimaginable." Well said and agreed; it can be emotionally challenging to name and act on doing good things for ourselves, particularly if supporting others is part of our life and identity.

The pros list is pretty significant in my opinion; it's a great strength to enter a sabbatical with a clear idea of how you want to use that time.

Not wanting to go back ever seems like a positive outcome :P

Could you get a more specific measure on how far back a break would set retirement? Are you in a position where you could retire now - sub chunky - and still survive?

When I got to the point where my barriers to leaving were mostly psychological, I ran through the following exercises to build the self-confidence I needed to put in my notice.

1. Writing down all the things that I was unhappy with in my current position, just to get them down on paper and make them more tangible.

2. Writing down all the things I was excited for, so that I could change my mindset from "I hate my job and should have quit a year ago" to "I'm excited to have the time and space to do the things I want to".

3. Writing down all the things I had achieved at work in a way that made it feel like a complete project that I could feel good leaving.

4. Reviewed the non-monetary needs my job fulfilled (social network, work impact, etc.) and sketched out how I would meet those needs during my break.

5. Gave myself a semi-artificial deadline of leaving around my 10 year anniversary, for no reason other than it was a nice round number.

Let me know if this is helpful!
AI research companies can't be bothered to ethically source data so everyone else should just shut up and take it? It's not like the lawsuit can stop independent researchers from using whatever data they like, but putting the fear of the judge into big AI corps is a good thing.
It would be pretty cool in a "fantasy" way but seems like it would be cool if you could "live" on a train that's always moving (besides at the stops).

You would be comfortable in your own train car and wake up in a new place every day... terribly impractical but still seems cool, haha.
Schwab is great. One thing I like is you need to call their team on the phone and answer a few questions before you can even trade the most basic option types (i.e. secured short put, covered call). Robinhood instead grants margins and advanced option strategies to 18 years old willy nilly. And as others have mentioned, they have great customer service. I can contact them with live chat during trading hours very quickly.
Dollar-Cost Averaging is the way to go. It doesn't matter whether the stock market is up or down.
Yes they do but it's extremely hard to find drm free books.
"Steven King doesn't care. Journalist who wants to believe they're a member of the same club as Steven King definitely cares."

Really? You think journalists want to be in the same club as Stephen King? Because they both happen to write?
Bump this.

EDIT - don't bump this. Why would you need an account to download pirated shit? LOL absolutely pathetic.
So what, they reinvented OKCupid profiles circa 2010, but self-published?
> I once interviewed a candidate who came from Pebble. He had the most impressive interview performance of any candidate I've ever interviewed.

Can you tell more about this?
Probably amazon

They can also see the things that you highlight, the things that you reread. This could be used to profile the reader and personalize ads

not only this, but being forced to buy an ebook through their portal, they'll know everything you're reading. Whereas you could read pdfs anonymously if you wanted
Thanks for responding and clarifying!
Roblox is a thing. I got into programming back in 09 cause I wanted to make a Roblox game.
Pretty much everyone here lives in dense areas like the rest of the world. Limited entry points probably helped though, and being small more to do with faster, more regional decisions rather than the China way of there is COVID? Lock everything down.
The Kindle app tracks how fast you're reading. If nothing else it uses it to improve it's estimate of how long until you finish reading the chapter, which it tells you.
Everything published by Tor I believe, plus, of course, everything on Gutenberg

[Edit: tor books, not the other tor. Although presumably everything is there regardless of legal status]
So, this won't work anymore with GoDaddy domains?
Does anyone actually do this, or is it just wired being wired?
> Musk made a bad call for sure. There's no obvious path to recouping that investment.

You people really miss the bigger picture from the business side of things - Musk now owns the most impactful social network on the planet. Having an additional $44 billion in wealth does not bring you anything that is actionable. Its just inert wealth. Only when its used, wealth actually becomes something meaningful.

And Musk bought the biggest social network on the planet with that money. At this moment, he can do anything from boosting his own projects and businesses through Twitter to creating entirely new paradigm like making Twitter into a Western Wechat.

(Im obviously not counting Facebook as a top social network at this point)

> Facebook/meta are at least trying new things

Meta is banking on something that may or may not materialize. Its a gamble. Musk is going to copy what's already successful elsewhere.
I wonder if 1Password wasn't able to get their native extensions to handle passkey integration well, hence this acquisition?
Hmm. Maybe there’s a learning element or a bug with custom domains? I’ve used iCloud for years and rarely see spam in my inbox.
Sure. If there wasn't already a sprawl from this, I'd have kept quiet. But like, the "summer child" thing really is super annoying, and the parent commenter is mostly right, if off-topic.
Just like you could have skipped over his comment instead of replying to it
And many libraries have an ebook lending service too
1Auth maybe.
Damore was (with a lot of benefit of the doubt) totally clueless. Sure, he'll talk about how he thinks that discrimination is bad, and how he doesn't approve of sexism. He turns around and says that women are just neurotic and "more people focused", based on suspect evidence.

Of course you will point out that he was juts talking about the population, and reducing people top that is very bad mkay. He is totally not talking about the fine gals at Google!
I could believe that he believes this, but the end result is that the 20% of Blind that is just misogynist assholes get more brazen.

Manu (lightly!) criticized his company with lighthearted cartoons. Demore in practice called 30% of his coworkers neurotic weaklings.
How is VW not growing?
I wouldn't mind so much if the books that do use their DRM were able to work with other ereaders, but they aren't because this technology is garbage.
Yea, that really sucks, sorry to hear that :/

You never have a job until you're in the chair, sitting down coding... or at least that's my bar lol.
Textbook prices are outrageous, I am not paying for a £60 textbook that I will only use for the question banks
That's correct and that's actually how it works right now (Germany has different speech laws and Twitter attempts to comply with them[1]). However, it is an American company and it's not unreasonable to follow the American law in America. I would also think it's quite possible to use the network effect of the service to bully places like Germany into allowing greater expression, or simply providing it on the sly by making it easy for Germans to access what they want. Although, I do see the EU is trying to do the same in reverse, probably to (as is its wont) to create a tech customs union that allows its own tech unicorns to appear (something it has failed miserably at, in part because of its restrictive laws).

If I had a tool that could (at least attempt to) filter out anti-semitism or Holocaust denial, then Germany could have that set to "on" to comply with the law. I'm all for democracies deciding what laws they want.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hatecrime-idUSKBN...
That is likely only a brief example of the general principle underlying the lawsuit.
> vulture capitalists

Capitalism mandates vultures. Those who are not the vulture variety eventually get eaten by the vultures and in the end, only vultures remain.
Came to the same conclusion. Will probably do this so that we eventually migrate to R2, without the need to backfill.
Fortunately someone had the foresight to make a backup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923

Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits.

Hopefully this will encourage more people to go back to the original libgen. I suspect Z-library's popularity was because of a better interface and larger collection, but I think lots of people didn't realize libgen offers all its books/papers for free without limits.
Subject to numerous senseless restrictions!
Yes I am against corruption regardless of which party engages in it. Trump is as corrupt as they come, the only way he knows how to run anything is like a mob boss who expects loyalty above all.

But we're commenting on a story about moderation of online forums, not corruption of politicians. I don't find the emails especially incriminating, and I honestly find Joe Biden to be a pretty admirable person, not especially corrupt as politicians go. But I will never forget the way that the media and platforms like Twitter used their power to bury a story that turned out to be true. I believe they did so because it was inconvenient to their own personal biases and their investment in seeing Biden elected. I was invested in seeing Biden elected too! But our highest commitment must be to the truth. I have a deep distrust of people who would suppress true facts, especially when so many false or misleading narratives are circulated all the time.

As a great example of this, my comment that you replied to is currently rated at -1. It directly answers your question, it is not rude or impolite, and it is unquestionably true. And yet at least two people disliked it enough that they wanted to bury it. I don't know why those two people had that reaction, but that is exactly the behavior that I feel so distrustful of.

Contrast the Biden Laptop story with the Steele Dossier. That story was repeated endlessly in the media, with far more numerous and salacious accusations, which turned out to be almost totally discredited. Now I find Trump to be a repugnant figure, but the double standard here is infuriating to me. The truth should matter above all.
95% of everything I ever did failed
I'm speculating, but certain FCC licenses require you to transmit without significant gaps on your licensed frequencies or be fined. (The theory being that others could be making better use of your frequency since you aren't using it.) If your transmission gear goes down for whatever reason, you want to notify the FCC before others do. E.g.,

https://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc-slaps-birach-broadcasti...
I haven't taken this route specifically, but a lot of Amtrak routes don't follow roads and don't have great cell service.
Not very surprising that you can do it, just never thought about it... how much is it?
Minus the tone, I agree with the substance of your comment. In my experience, people who don't care about this don't really understand it either.
> state has a motive for stating certain things that mispresent the truth.

If you want to cast doubt on some reporting you should provide some evidence not just say you think state has a motive for "stating certain things". Else people will reasonably wonder whether you have a motive for "stating certain things".
Would NextJS's Apple-style marketing pitch at their events be more convincing to you?
Nobody wants to completely ban AI or training. You can have progress in this area and still respect people's intellectual property. Framing this as destroying progress is silly.

Why can't they train on the code they own, such as Windows sources for example?

Or even better, why can't they release CoPilot itself under an open source license that is compatible with the licenses of code they would like to train on?

Also, I don't think anyone cares about the monetary aspects. The idea behind the GPL style license is to make sure that code remains free, regardless of what or who uses it. Freedom in this context refers to the ability study the code, modify the code, and distribute any modifications. Without the GPL the code can be used in a proprietary product which strips those rights away from users of the product.

Copeleft uses copyright laws to attempt to guarantee freedom for users. This is the inverse of what normal copyright does, which is allow a single entity to sit on the ideas and not allow other's to benefit from them.

If we can just strip copyleft licenses from projects, we are giving up those guarantees that GPL code will remain free for all users.

The GPL is trying to do it's job here, not slow down progress. Progress would be everyone benefiting from the technology behind CoPilot, rather than just MicroSoft sitting on the project and selling it as a service.
Am I the only one who believes the high textbook pricing are reasonable given the small consumer base?
it can be cash neutral
That's pretty cool. Any names we might know?
You can use it with a closure to get the best of both worlds
I thought about doing it, but never really got to it. Similar to what many in the articles have claimed, online dating is really really HARD. So I came to the same idea on my own. Not surprised at all.
Inmarsat is surprisingly more competitive to Swarm than we expected, but man it is difficult to get passed all the bullshit resellers, which is where Swarm is way easier. But for our use cases Inmarsat has been a better fit right now, though we use both on our board depending on the deployment: if we don’t need as much bandwidth and are okay with the black out times where we’re not covered by Swarm, it’s great
are you joking? is that most day-in-a-lifes for high paid senior workers there? damn I'm working at the wrong place
The "stub" would be in this case a (striped down) Linux kernel and an initrd… (Because that's needed for proper storage support)

Than this "init Linux" would boot the bootloader, which in turn would load another kernel and initrd?

This looks way to complicated.

How does secure boot work in this setup?

It's much simpler to just "glue together" a kernel and initrd, put it on the EFI partition, and boot that UKI directly by the built in EFI boot-manager.

The EFI partition needs in this setup also be only mounted when updating / adding a UKI. Otherwise it never needs to show up in the running system as it's only used by the EFI boot-manager. Preparing a UKI can be done on the root FS (in its local /boot dir).
I also love Allulose for ice cream. It costs around $25 for 2lbs bag from Amazon, that lasts us 2-3 months. It doesn't have that "fake sugar" taste, or the weirdness you get with some of the alcohol sugars (my wife once made cookies that were "cold" when you ate them because of the sugar alcohol, it was a really weird sensation.

We got a Ninja Creami, it's not a traditional ice cream maker, you freeze these pint cups, then run them through the machine and it shaves it then blends it. My preferred recipe is: a quarter cup 0% yogurt, 2-4tbs allulose, pinch of xantham gum, the remainder fruit (strawberry, blueberry, canned low sugar pears or mandarin oranges or pineapple or peaches). This is delicious, low calorie (140-240cal per pint), and low sugar. It hits all the "ice cream" centers in my brain.

My wife takes it much fancier, she will make a vanilla base, and then often make low sugar mix ins (fudge, choc chips, caramel (with allulose), peanut butter cups (with PB2), marshmallows).

The Creami is noisy as hell for 3 minutes, and I wasn't sure how much we'd actually use it, but we've used it a lot. We got it on sale, about half price, which made it easier. Woot sometimes has them about this price (more like $100 than $200). One down side is that you basically have to re-blend it every time you want some, the remains largely freeze back into solid, though if you hit it with the microwave for 20 seconds you can kind of chunk it up and eat the flakes. Not really ice cream at that point.
No, really?!?