skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it boils down to how serious is the mistake of the CEO from the point of view of society, Facebook owners and other stakeholders.

I could imagine Facebook doing things that would indeed merit the sacking of CEO. For instance, doing something that leads to the death of 11k people would warrant severe consequences. I have no idea how Facebook could do that, but on the same par. They have all the data to do tons of nasty things.

I would view accidentally hiring 11k people from the point of view of the above interested parties indeed on the level of an engineer wiping db via accident (not negligence).

I imagine the mistake would be something like, you look at the market, you see it skyrocketing, you feed the numbers to your trusty excel sheet that has served you years and say, hey, we need more people. Only when market conditions normalize you realize the mistake.

Honestly, I really can't see the harm done here. People lose their jobs all the time. Corporation hire and fire. Why would this be any worse than standard practice in corporate america? (Of course it sucks to be laid off)
"Combine with" as in "throw some forestry and DIY tech into the mix". I focused on OPs "I'm done" sentiment, and imagined something completely different, for someone ready to drop out of tech altogether.

Something I could imagine doing myself at some point. Of course, for people not wanting to drop out completely this setup might be combined with some small part remote tech work on the side too.
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I'd first recommend that you not put the word 'algorithm' on a pedestal. Every time we write code, we write a new algorithm.

I suspect what you really mean is to ask how we create an algorithm so effective and useful that it gets re-used across the industry and taught in schools? In that case, it tends to happen organically - a need arises due to something new in our world/industry, many people devise their own solutions, but eventually someone devises a novel solution that makes everyone say, "Yeah, that is better.", and it gets shared around.
This is misleading. There are all sorts of "idiots" on a bell curve already and making something easier simply widens the stripe of effectiveness. It is a good thing because you now have more "idiots" who could do the job just fine.
I think you're misunderstanding my point here so I'll be clear:

I think you and those truckloads of people you're referencing may be overestimating your technical prowess. If you were truly capable of the feats you claimed, someone would find an operator and CEO to handle all the messy parts for you and wait for their 10000x returns in 5 years.

> It's also not specific to me -- there are trainloads of people who could build trillion-dollar companies if magically freed from human issues, such as trust.

... ah yes, if only they trust everyone who claimed this and gave them the money. Truckloads of trillion dollar companies.

Edit:

> When I was young, I thought technical problems were hard, and made comments just like yours when more experienced people told me technical problems were easy and human problems were hard. I ignored them too.

There are hard technical problems. Autonomous self-driving cars, for example. Waymo would love to hire you to deliver this in 5 years with a handful of friends.

VR headsets that are lightweight, wireless, and can drive high fidelity experiences is another example. Meta would love to get in touch.

Drones that can safely deliver packages at scale while following US regulations is interesting. Amazon would love to hire you or buy your startup.

I don't discount how hard operating is. I know though the long leash you have if you're truly exceptional.
> the further away government was from the people, the less impact it would have on their lives

the corollary being the further away government is from the people, the less accountable it is

Exhibit A: Brasilia
If he has shares in company A he can sell them and buy shares in company B.
Every time I try to understand what category theory is, I hit an impassable wall, I don't understand it. Alexander Grothendieck is much too intelligent for me. But I don't despair of getting there one day...
+1. The B-17 design flaw analogy is one of the best I’ve seen. The title is great as well, very catchy.
Why use risky rebase while you can just squash all into one commit and push it via intermediate branch (something that Github does as an option)? I prefer to be worry free than always be ready for someone screwing up a branch.
The difference is that California allows direct democracy. The props don’t have to have funding attached not long term thinking.
I have a question...

If we assume that during the last 20 to 30 years that there has been no gain in actual real production efficiency increases(real reason for inequality is non-investments in actual production efficiencies by VCs and hedge funds); where is
the call to re-align in VCs and hedge funds to investing in production efficiencies directly (I say directly as investing in climate green energy is an indirect production efficiency play)?
Excess death from around the world due to Covid
> Once you understand the basic operations everything weird is a Google away.

Yes that's true, but what you've probably forgotten is that understanding the basic operations is way way harder than it should be thanks to Git's terrible CLI, nomenclature and general UX.

I would also argue that the lack of an obviously good GUI makes it quite a lot harder for beginners, and the attitude that a lot of HN commenters have that you shouldn't use a GUI, despite Git being an obviously visual thing.

Btw any beginners reading this, I would recommend Git Extensions. Terrible name which led to me not trying it for ages, but it's actually one of the best. In particular it lets you browse the repo at every commit which is something that makes it way clearer what Git is doing.
Title 47 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Section 10.500(h) requires the alert to be preserved "in a consumer-accessible format and location for at least 24 hours or until deleted by the subscriber."
If one could sell software there in such a way that only people in that market could buy it at that price, the answer is obvious... software has effectively zero marginal cost per copy.

So if you could practically limit your market at a specified price in such a way that that offer doesn't spread to other markets, then every copy you sell in such places is still beneficial to you.

There are less cynical answers to the question, but you asked cynically.
I learned to touch type at a young age, using a book my grandmother used to teach herself:

https://www.etsy.com/market/gregg_typing_manual

Put your hands on asdf and jkl; and just start typing random combinations of those letters without looking until you know what letters/fingers to use. Then you gradually expand, first to g and h, then to nearby letters in the row above and below, then to numbers and symbols.

Some other tips:

- don't smash the keys; practice using as little force as necessary, because the impact at the bottom of the key travel is going to cause finger strain

- use right ring finger for the backspace by twisting your wrist slightly. Don't use pinky because you either have to stretch it or move your arm. I use left ring finger for tab for the same reason, although it's closer and pinky is not horrible

- don't worry about keeping all your fingers on the home row when reaching for numbers. It's better to move your hand a bit, for example, to press 1, rather than stretch your fingers. Or you can curl your fingers and move your hand up. If you feel your fingers stretching/straining, it will cause fatigue and/or carpal tunnel.

- you just have to commit to spending time to learn to touch type. You can start by using your thumb for the spacebar, not your right index finger!
Because as always, the problem isn't the jumping part, it's the landing part. If you can hit something at terminal velocity and be fine, jumping is a truly excellent idea. If you can't, let's just say that evolution stops with you.
Trading what?
People would have to use alternative modes of transport, and eschew individual cars, like people in Hong Kong. I do not understand “roads turning to dust” though.
Wow, can't believe it's almost been a decade since that was a thing. Back when HTC was still around making some of the best phones at the time too, I miss my HTC One.

Also, same thing happened when Amazon tried releasing the Fire Phone. I think a combination of being carrier exclusive and using sub-optimal hardware was a big contributing factor to both their demise.
Yeah, in 2008 I saw the writing on the wall. Told my team we'd all be laid off soon. I finished the project I was on first and was the first laid off due to no more work.
Actually, (comparing an M1 vs an M2 Bradley), IFVs are often equal or larger than tanks. Israeli IFVs are often built from Merkava chassis (into Namer). And in this day and age of surveillance, both vehicles are easily spotted by UAVs etc.

Most experts actually believe that tanks are still valuable and that Russia's army is using them like idiots.
FTX customers have likely fled (those that can / could withdraw) to Binance already.
TBH Chinese are still very hands on helicopter parents, even when they work ass off. The issue is you can be strict and controlling and still lose to corporations who spend billions to engineer addictive products. Which at minimum takes disproportionate resources / attention to mitigate. Hypothetically this is where parents complain to state to regulation since ostensibly corporations are suppose to cede control to state. Plus don't have to be the badcop trying to enforce screentime when state takes that choice away. Also plenty of parents who cede control to corporations and allow products to baby sit their kids by giving kids access to adult ID to circuvent restrictions. I feel like US voters are pessimistic their gov can shape corporations in some realms. Like loot box regulations for youth feels like it shouldn't be that difficult to pass.
I detest the Meta metaverse as much as the next Hacker News user. But there is one use case where I could see it luring me in. Virtual meetings. Really virtual social events or happy hours. Professional ones mainly with my remote distributed team. This would be the killer app in my view.

The key to me it seems would be in the audio. Like if I turn to face someone, the audio adjusts so everything else in virtual room get quieter (but still audible). I can have a conversation with the person I'm facing. Multiple conversations can go on at once. Just like in a real room!

Anybody know if this is something that current state of the metaverse supports? Is this something being actively researched and developed?
I hope Rosetta is here to stay and continues developement. And I hope what is learned from it can be used to make a RISC-V version of it. translating native ARM to RISC-V should be much easier than x86 to ARM as I understand it, so one could conceivably do x86 -> ARM -> RISC-V.
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> almost never ... actually lost code

That seems like one of the absolute basics. "Almost" never...?

> I just make a backup copy of the directory in case I screw up irrevocably

If you really felt you could trust your source control system, that shouldn't be needed, and...

> the cases where I've need to use my backup copy

...should be nonexistent.
My boring Hondas just keep racking up miles with few problems. And the few recalls they’ve had, including ones they told me about, the problem has always been fixed same day.

How does that user experience compare to Tesla repairs?
The rectangular Lenovo charge connector will always be my favorite. Excellent retention and you don't squash it flat if you happen to step on it.
You are grossly underestimating how many business rely on Google and Facebook.

A small example: a ton of delivery companies depend on Google maps API for localization and route planning - think Doordash, Uber, etc. Not just that, lots of transit agencies and freight companies use Google API for planning and optimization. Half of the work force probably can't reach their destination without Google maps.

I'm pretty sure many critical components of Exxon-Mobil depend on some tools provided by Google.
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> And some people really may need that "my code is compiling, it'll take a while and there's nothing I can do" break to mock-sword fight or whatever, almost like a pomodoro break between periods of intense focus.

Yes, but working in a low latency feedback environment, you can still schedule breaks. But in a high latency feedback environment, it's impossible to avoid those breaks when you want to work quickly.
What is the composition of roles that are getting fired?
I naturally tend to think about programmers but Meta
(and the other big tech companies that have had big firings)
have roles all over the place

Are they mostly getting rid of programmers?
Perhaps if you’re comparing against Intel processors, but even on an Apple Silicon Mac, Rosetta 2 vs native versions of apps are no slouch.

20% overhead for a non-native executable is very commendable.
I found Stroustrop's book A Tour of C++ very useful for catching up with C++14/17. It's relatively short and it's easy to skim through parts you already know well.

It was just updated for C++20 (with some coverage of C++23).

There's always a bunch of CppCon talks for this too. Just pop on over to their YouTube channel.
That sounds like a server setup issue. Nothing about LE prevents you from getting a cert with the old server and moving it to the new server before switchover.
It's increasingly common for conventional cars to have electric power steering, because it definitely has advantages over mechanically-pumped systems—both maintenance and efficiency. GM tried this several years ago with poor results, but the systems providers (Bosch etc.) have made great strides; I expect almost all new models will have it soon.

Same failure mode, though.
In poker you might even make the right move, but still lose. It's all probabilities.

Business shares something with that.
Don't rebase main.

Don't rebase shared branches.

It's amazingly powerful at making clear annotated changes. And removing small fixup commits for work in progress.

When someone says "never do x" there's probably a missing understanding of nuance.
if you think stock up means zuck made money for this (good) decision, then you've got to admit stock being down 50% during the last year was zuck loosing money based on his previous (bad) decisions..
So much of Windows 11 is great, but then they keep doing things like this. I don't understand it. Why are people pushing things like this still employed? Do they not see the negative press every single time? It's not like Windows is on the position it was 20 years ago.
Crime has spiked up quite a bit in the past few years in New York City and if you follow the narrative being pushed in the New York Post and other conservative organs, you'd think that crime level has nearly returned to the "bad old days" of the 90s. But your own stats show that even with the current boomlet, crime's still down 80% from the peak in 1990.

Of particular note, your data shows that all of the city's current crime numbers are still lower than 2001's, which was Giuliani's final and best year in office.
Obviously you design them for expected snow and wind loads, but they're also angled and since they're black as soon as sun gets through to them it'll start melting off.
Why do you feel rebase is risky?
I've had my airpods pro die while in my ears but I've never heard them to be loud. It's like a dot sound right?
>But if VISA disappeared, there'd be hell to pay.

Would it, though?

I'll just get a mastercard. 5$, a trip to the bank, ezpz.
Or pay for stuff via Revolut. Or cash.

There'd be a bit of chaos, for like 2 weeks. Invoices will still get paid, ATMs would still work.
The one who does the merge is always the one responsible... even if your code is amazing if it doesn't work with the (working) body of code that's on you, not the people who came before.

Of course Steve can just commit terrible code to main-line, and Mark (or yourself) are always stuck fixing their code, but that's what review/testing are supposed to be for - maybe blame the reviewers and testers in that case instead.
It is still there: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/um
Why is it so hard to believe that a giant software project was mismanaged? Not like anyone has ever seen that before.
Yes, as at a hobby level this is true. The problem is that fewer will embark on journey if low effort and a click of a button would compete with their years of hard work. Yes, they can use AI too but that's not what they signed up for in arts, there was a benefit of being able to be in a completely different space, away from the computers and engineering. Anyway, the cat's out of the bag, we shall see how it goes and I hope I am wrong.
Employees can resign, users and customers can go elsewhere.
Disagree.

No one maintains change logs in their repos most times, so a linear git history where you rebase existing branches on top of their base branches allows for a clean commit history on new features to be merged in which can then be squashed down for a linear commit history on the trunk branches.

Then you can use things like bisect, and just... ya know, read through your change log when you need to.

Shoot, you can even add a few details in the notes while you're at it. How about a link to the ticket and PR at the very least with some notes on implementation.

That's my approach, it really doesn't take much time.

But hey, if civil engineers had the level of rigor software engineers do we'd all be dead.

So you live with what you've got, do what you can on your own branches, and just accept that no one cares about having a clean git history cause we can't be bothered as a profession to spend a couple hours learning how one of the most important tools we use every day works.
> it really doesn't matter what tech you can cobble together.

We need to be careful with that - it's one thing to make tools that help circumvent harmful behaviors, such as censorship and privacy violations, but rendering authorities unable to enforce laws (or forcing them to partially enforce them, based on who has and who hasn't technology protecting them) is not a desirable outcome.
Is it known why this response comes out now, 2-3 years after the “DOOM Eternal OST Open Letter” to which it responds? Waiting until any related NDAs time out?
The servers hosting the data haven't been seized. Within a week there will be a dozen new domains for this information hosted out of Mozambique and Luxemburg or something. What a stupid waste of taxpayers money.
I understand IP laws, rewarding the authors, incentivizing future research, etc. etc.

But intuitively and conceptually, there is a hypothetical scenario in which all of humanity's knowledge is ~free for anyone to access instantaneously and from anywhere.

The current scenario in which every meaningful piece of academic output is heavily paywalled makes for a disheartening comparison.
...but it still put it before the hand moved, so it's still sequential, even if the gap was filled in with something that didn't happen (the hand standing still) rather than my brain guessing that the hand moved once before the one I saw, isn't it?
Your perspective is one I've only recently come to understand after migrating a team to git and being the "source control guy."

The lesson I learned was: Prescribe everything about the workflow because nobody is going to learn git.

All the nice flexibility of git just becomes risk. By the time you have enough structure in place, you're back where you started: rigid source control, and you're using git locally on the sly.

The only person who bothered learning git well was a summer intern. And he mastered it, so I remain frustrated.
Transfers of cryptocurrency from FTX have been frozen since yesterday.
Pre-OST it sounds like he kept interacting in hopes that they would pay him on time. For the OST, I suppose a combination of professional decency and the fact that his name was already attached to the release kept him going.

Mick Gordon's been a household name thanks to his legendary DOOM(2016) soundtrack, so I'm not surprised he was trying to keep it up. A musician can really live or die by their name recognition and that open letter did a helluva number to his reputation.
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> Should I be taxed for improving land for personal ways that didn’t remove housing

I’ve never done this so don’t know the answer, but when you build a house don’t you then also start to get government services in support of that house?
https://www.gannett.com

> We are Gannett

> We seek to build trusted local communities where people thrive.

That is not some printing company. It is a newspaper empire that claims to be trustworthy but produces this kind of vile, untrustworthy content.

They should be denounced for this. They should cease and print an apology at the very least.
But the mortgage payment is in the process of skyrocketing. Even if home values drop, the majority of people are going to have less ability to buy a house as more of that money will go to the bank.
"G4 lineup clown"

I assume this was a PDF copy/paste snafu where it should have said "down" not "clown". But it definitely made me do a double-take. (or triple)
I mean there’s goodwill but there’s also the terrible-and-getting-worse crypto industry trend. He might need to keep that cash on hand.
The driver here is if they can get low interest to zero interest loans. If we remove that then problem blows up.

We could do that by changing how banks come up with the interest rate on corporate loans versus individuals who want loans.
> Actually they going full coal and oil and gas since they need electricity and hydro suffer from drought and wind does not produce much AND in general without massive storage no grid can work on renewables...

I very much doubt that much of that is true, at least for Germany. Could you share the source for that claim?
It was petty, but I worked with a dude who got fired for doing that.

When he volunteered to get laid off (with the intention of getting a severance), the person he said that to fired him on the spot for "not being a team player."

Eventually, every last one of us were laid off. But it took six months and I used the time to find a new role and I also received a four month severance.
Distribute that A-hole's Damn Book Yourself for Fun & Invent the World Again Amendment
PR

They are the biggest exchange now, they gotta look like they care and tried to help so they can attract all the ones who need a new home

You still dont get crypto dinamics, is not about the tech, is about how much money you can extract from people trusting you
> And, usually, doing a mass layoff will do exactly that.

That tells you that companies have far too few mass layoffs.
My wife and I just bought.

The problem for us is the inventory has completely dried up. Our market has a lot of second homes. People who wanted to cash out already have. The people who weren't ready to sell, seem to be willing to "wait it out".

In the long run, it doesn't _really_ matter. We're well within our budget and plan to be in this home for a very, very long time.
I've had them on a flight while flying over Ohio. Really terrifying when there's suddenly 100 phones screaching in the cabin and it takes a few seconds to realize that distributed alarms like that must be an amber alert.

Didn't even realize you could get them on a flight. Must be because of the in-flight wifi.
Why is this being downvoted, shorting the book of an entity you are supposed to be bailing out / in talks with has multiple historical precedents. Amaranth and JPM off the top of my head for the last time it happened.