skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
specially under the following conditions:

"Everyone will get an email soon letting you know what this layoff means for you. After that, every affected employee will have the opportunity to speak with someone to get their questions answered and join information sessions.

Some of the details in the US include:

Severance. We will pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service, with no cap.

PTO. We’ll pay for all remaining PTO time.

RSU vesting. Everyone impacted will receive their November 15, 2022 vesting.

Health insurance. We’ll cover the cost of healthcare for people and their families for six months.

Career services. We’ll provide three months of career support with an external vendor, including early access to unpublished job leads.

Immigration support. I know this is especially difficult if you’re here on a visa. There’s a notice period before termination and some visa grace periods, which means everyone will have time to make plans and work through their immigration status. We have dedicated immigration specialists to help guide you based on what you and your family need.

Outside the US, support will be similar, and we’ll follow up soon with separate processes that take into account local employment laws."

https://facebook.relayto.com/e/mark-zuckerberg-s-message-to-...
I think you might have meant amoral not immoral or you stand by your phrasing?
> corporations are implicitly immoral

i think the word you are looking for is amoral?
Well marriage bed death is a thing for straight men, and surprisingly lesbians experience it too.

So there might be some truth to the trope.
As far as we know the universe isn't deterministic.
Gogoprotobuf: How NOT to run an open source project – Walter Schulze
> brain and physics are very deterministic

Not to get too much into the 'quantum woo' territory, but my naive understanding is that the physics is only somewhat deterministic, b/c non-deterministic quantum events can have macroscopic effects?

Say you decide for whether you'll eat a dinner, if a particle with half-time of 1 second will split within the next second.

This you wouldn't be able to predict, even if you knew momenta of all particles within your local light-cone (of 1 light-second), no?

(a variation of the Schroedinger's cat)
I have heard that some troll gifted him a drum set, and his elderly parents were very aggravated from the noise and that was one of the tipping points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism

(But personally I don’t think that your argument holds)

Also http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/10/you-dont-have-free-...
Exploit: Pay them (much) less than their work is worth. Because some of that money that comes from their work goes to other people that don't work (previously called slave owners, then feudal landlords, now called shareholders).
> If you have 1 xray taken in a hospital, that's as much radiation exposure as living next to a nuclear plant for 100 years.

Now do living near Serpent river, or Church Hill, or Kadapa, or Ranger or Mailuu-Suu or the cumulative worldwide effect if we got 15% of our power from a reprpcessing facility like La Hague. Make sure to include the effects of heavy metal poisoning, not just radiation. Also would you like to replace your drinking water with aquifer water from Inkai?

> the potential benefits of cheap nuclear power would be massive

Here's a riddle. What fraction of world energy can 40,000t of fissile material provide and for how long? Where do you propose to get more?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed
Speaking of drinking Kool-Aid ... bitcoinmagazine.com? I genuinely wonder what their take on the subject of virtual currencies is?

We already have a few dominant imaginary, virtual currencies and they're issued by the central banks of the world.
Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
> Maintained by a non-profit so immune from the "We need to make money so we're going proprietary" trend

In principle you are right, but there are regulatory capture scenarios that can undermine that so it is still important to keep paying attention. Speaking as someone who is still baffled by how Mozilla fired I-don't-know-how-many people while still paying the top board members millions a year.

Non-profits are still better than any other currently existing legal construction I can think of though
Anticipatory Gardening for Technology
> Crypto has attracted almost every type of criminal under the sun

This is actually quite a profound statement.

Is there actually anything in human history that can come close to rivalling this ?

We have everyone from teens promoting shitcoins on TikTok, to household celebrities like Matt Damon, to white collar criminals, to arguably VCs, all the way to nation states like Iran and North Korea.
@vladsanchez, @sevazhidkov, @Aeolun

I agree, the website is terrible at explaining what it is, I only got it by seeing it fully implemented in a business. It's too broad to describe here but this might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-GSj-Exms
Meanwhile, BTC price has gone up today. I guess this makes sense when it's only possible to deposit.
I did my undergrad 10 years ago, and am essentially a hobbyist, myself currently working through Strang DE since I found Boyce uninstructive. The brief dialog on centered difference certainly raised my eyebrow, since Strang in an effort to more explicitly relate difference and differentials calls those out early, whereas the first time through the material I hadn't seen that interpretation until taking signals.
It’s just another wave of some people getting older and decrying all change as bad. Comedy is thriving. The world is fine.

Also, are you complaining that you cannot be mugged as easily?
Have you been to India? I genuinely love the place but if you want to live and work somewhere then (in general) you're not going to choose a country with poor infrastructure over places like the US or most of Europe unless you're feeling adventurous or have some specific reason to. So it's not a case of not being willing to work remotely but preferring to move.
2024 Porsche Macan EV to bring 603bhp and 100kWh battery
I sympathize but also people need to get a clue. This layoff didn't come out of nowhere like people are implying, it was strongly telegraphed in advance. On June 30 Zuckerberg said at an all hands "there are a lot of you that probably shouldn't be here". There were hiring freezes in place. The share price is down like 75% from peak. Stop being dumb sheep and learn to read the signs.
Okay, replace USA with Canada.

Same issue.
> Can you explain why they are hiring for these HFT/systematic trading roles?

To front run customer orders and make a profit?

Crypto is unregulated. Why not?
There is rational people who disapprove or criticize Trump or Elon, but people who fall into the "hate" camp seem to have fallen for the loudest voices lacking reason or logic.

As a Canadian, I am not on either side, so I don't actually like or support Trump. Sometimes he is funny, sometimes his antics expose the folly of others, and sometimes he is a stupid brute.

As an outside observer, it is easy to see that Trump is not treated the same as others, and my observation is that pattern is being repeated with Elon.
He's currently on the AI train. Humans are made of matter, neural networks, etc.

Many of his recent essays are pushing a company or a group of companies. The original essays were much better.
It happened to me to think about this (but from another perspective). It seems to me that the sentences "I want [A]", where A is an object outside me, and "I want [to want A]" are essentially different. But the sentences "I want [to want A]" and "I want [to want to want A]" are not really different since both have as object my own will. Or said in another way: wanting to want something is already wanting something.

Moreover an essential differentiation that is not addressed is the difference between desire and will (not easy).
The western United States was pretty wild for a while until it was "tamed"
The carbon project for c++ defines some fixed ABI types in the standard library to enable things like this. I hope that c++ can learn from that - I tried to propose fixed ABI types in the standard a few years back but didn't get very far
Do we know it is non-deterministic, or do we not have any proof it's one way or the other?
Deno 1.28: Featuring 1.3M New Modules
What you say does not contradict what PG said. That is how limits are defined, technically.
Corporations often engage in a sort of 'responsibility laundering'

Andrew in HR just does what the policy says, it's unfortunate but rules are rules, and the policy doesn't say this is any exception.

Barbra the CEO who set the policy would have made an exception if it had been brought to her attention, but it wasn't. The policy was set serving the interests of the shareholders.

Charles the shareholder is just an average member of the public and isn't party to any internal firing plans. And in any case, he owns 0.0000002% of facebook - far from a controlling interest.

And like magic, the responsibility has disappeared - vanished into the gap between Andrew and Barbra.
Show HN: SysInfo – Attempt at showing sysinfo in the browser
A fun little project to try to show useful system information with clientside js, and without needing to ask for user permission. Note that any info that was attempted but not found is hidden.

If you know any other tricks to get more info please let me know and I'll try add it (or make a PR https://github.com/TheDen/sysinfo).
And the Nazis do the same, they'll just, like you, say "I don't consider that a human", and then act like you.

It's a problem when you're different from the Nazis only by virtue of "but I'm a good guy".
Donation link to the organisation that uncovered this abuse: https://viva.org.uk/join/
Unless you are a professional daily trader, keeping any large amount of funds in a 3rd party exchange is reckless behavior.. before and after ftx.

Since the caveman days, not your keys, not your coins.
Looks neat!

So many of our support cases end up with a Slack thread to discuss, triage, get subject matter experts to chime in.

Syncing this discussion back up with the case and the customer is a real chore.

How do you integrate with ticket systems? We still need a Salesforce Case as the source of truth for a customer interaction.

With Salesforce owning Slack, you’d think they’d have some deeper integrations by now but alas they still feel totally separate.
> I found the concept of free will at odds with my opinion that the brain and physics are very deterministic.

Physics don't have to be deterministic in order to be at odds with free will. Whether neurons fire due to a predefined pattern, or they fire with some probabilities do not change the equation for "how can a biological machine have free will?" Choice is at odds with both predefined rules and drawing from a random variable.

> You are destined to do what your brain is wired to do, but doing anything rewires your brain. Some say even thought is able to rewire your brain. The number of possible brain states at T+n increases exponentially. So our constant reconfiguration of the brain is our way out of determinism. That is, free will does exist in a completely deterministic universe.

I completely fail to see how you ended up at that conclusion from that argument. A recursive function, that mutates itself is still bound by it's rules for mutation and recursiveness. Choice doesn't grow out of an exponentially growing number of possible states.
Just tried it on desktop. Way more noisy artifacts inside the faces with bigger resolution. At the scale shown on mobile they are barely noticeable (for me).
Few years back for an accelerator I implemented something similar (Whatsapp as customer frontend, dialogflow for CX flow, Slack for conversation archive, back-office and HITL). Looking back I should've used discord instead. Are you planning on integrating with slack for smaller companies?
Yeah, tons of noise. Congratulations on getting to where you are, and good luck going forward!
Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after over two years in space
pricing for the cloud version?
I've seen a lot of people say this (and I'm sure you're all correct!) but I never understod the link between BTC and Tether. Multiple attempts to explain it have gone over my head. Am I just stupid?
Although interestingly, Kingsford charcoal is related to the Ford motor company.
> our retirement model (young people pay for old people) is unsustainable

All retirement models are like that. Doesn't matter how many millions of dollars the old people have, if you are on an island with 10 workers and 50 old people, the old people are screwed.
> That's just the way it is.

You're making an empirical claim to argue against something normative.
Eyes and backgrounds. Easy peasy, 10/10.

Backgrounds should be generated by a different model and face should be pasted in, now that would be a real challenge! Models that fix eyes already exist.
I have been following Sharan Hedge for a long time, however i feel there is a gap that exists in reels and how it can be applied.

I always prefer articles/ books over any form content for learning, and this newsletter kinda seemed interesting. Looking forward to it.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you're finding it useful :)

A documentation PR for Windows would be welcome. I've been meaning to reorganize and improve the documentation for months now, but it keeps getting line-jumped by other priorities.
So far it struggles with ears, neck, and hair
Animal abuse has never been so tasty!
Really cool i also made and CAPI for using WebSocket in C, https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets/tree/master/capi

I will take a deep look on your project thanks for sharing!
I like the idea of job security vs career security.

Job security is your boss likes you and you did do most of that new project by yourself, nobody else even really knows how it works. Seems unlikely you would get fired.

Career Security is you keep up with the most effective approaches in industry, you learn new languages on the weekend, bias for transparency and training your replacement, going to conferences, expanding your network, interviewing once a month for fun and practice. Usually this approach leads to more job security too but the arena you're playing in is the total market for tech workers rather than one company.

It's a slider scale too, you can do more or less stuff but thats kind of the way I think about it.

Having an emergency fund is nice too.
Yeah, I think I get it now, thank you.

I just wish the article would point out that bank deposits aren't the same as currency and are more like IOUs or post-dated checks.

I understand how it can be useful to call both currency and bank deposits money, but they're still different in some very important ways. If I give my friend a trillion dollar IOU, that's very different from (1) the government printing a trillion dollars in currency and writing people checks with it, (2) the central bank crediting a commercial bank with a trillion dollar deposit.

Actually I'm a little unsure what to think about the second one. Illuminating that one could help us get to the heart of the matter.
If the trick were that both were generated, shouldn’t we occasionally get cases where both are clearly fake?
There are some small farms doing things right, their meat is 3-4x the price of normal meat, but worth it.
I wonder what the world would be like if we assumed best intent and genuinely asked what we could do to prevent things like this in the future. I'm not talking about toxic optimism, but also maybe not using hindsight to call people out. Sure there's an important message here, but is this really about better journalism, or about improving the reputation of the person doing the calling out.

Maybe we'd just provide more space the scammers and charlatans, I don't know. But lots of people messed up in this thing.
That sounds amazing! Congratulations

Do you still want to be a data engineer? I wouldn’t let HR “requirements” stop me. There must be a way. 5+ year DEs once had 0 experience
It's a long-standing tradition in the hacker community to delve into stuff one only has a cursory understanding of.

At times it's productive, as it helps uncover intellectual impostures. At times it's just embarrassing.
AFAIK hidden variable models have been ruled out in many quantum scenarios. It really does appear that the universe is not deterministic.
Hey, Guardian. That massive blocking begging bowl which obscures half the page every time I open your site is really, really not annoying at all

/sarcasm

Even Jimmy Wales is more subtle than that.
The problem with that approach is that short sellers are explicitly trying to manipulate the market because they have a vested interest. It is not uncommon for short sellers to oversell a weakness due to this.

Sorting out the “good” short sellers from the “bad” is a tough job. One that good financial journalists do as a matter of course.
Yes.

We (http://publicdomaincompany.com/) are going to do it if someone doesn't beat us to it first. Will be a 2023 project for us (https://github.com/breck7/copypastetaxes).

I've been a supporter of https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes and they are doing amazing grunt work that will be a big part of the solution.

Also, here's a great image of the first income tax return:
https://www.archives.gov/global-pages/larger-image.html?i=/h...

It used to be 1 page. IIRC my own tax return last year was well over 100 pages. 100x increase in complexity by that simple measure, and I'm not an expert but I don't think human brains have grown by that much.
In the context of startups maybe he's referring to those that want to want something which I take to mean as a poser. It would be like someone starting a club for a favorite color and someone wants to want that favorite color to be their favorite color but the reality is you can't want to want a favorite color, you either want or don't.

Or it could be any number of things being referred to. People wanting to want to work in tech. People want to want control of a social media company.
It's incredible that SBF was being touted by Sequoia, WEF, Fortune, chumming it up with Clinton and Blair in the Bahamas, getting meetings and kid glove treatment with the SEC, relatively glowing profile as a "do-gooder" by the NYT.

All while FTX had a Chief Regulatory Officer who was basically a career white-collar criminal. It beggars belief that anyone who dug half an inch into this story wouldn't have seen 90,000 watt flashing red warning signs.

Crypto turned into a haven for replaying every form of financial fraud ever invented on an epic speedrun against retail "investors", and a whole lot of powerful people and institutions have dirty hands. The idea all of this could be adequately explained by stupidity rather than malice strains credulity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/business/sam-bankman-frie...
Sorry, why is this comment relevant to the parent?

Because he donated money to Democrats it makes people still want to invest in cryptos, is that the message?
Essilor 1.7 aspheric lenses cost me 235 euros each. An alternative is Japanese Seiko and German Zeiss. Essilor is probably the cheapest of them. Good lenses cost much more than a nice Luxottica frame and are covered by insurance in France. A frame is covered by up to 100 euros.

Good lenses are not a piece of glass (very dangerous for eyes) or just a piece of plastic, they have multiple anti-reflection and protection layers and must be very precisely done. High refractive index is also very important for a reasonable thickness at edges. So I would not go for some no-name cheap lenses. Given the math, the price of a frame becomes less important.
I think Amazon do.
> Those weren't build from the goodness of somebodies heart, but because the CIA realised that they can't win a war against combatants which they themselves created a constant supply of by blowing up their loved ones.

Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is still doing the right thing, anything that reduces collateral damage is good.
What advanced features would be supported by a 3 year old Safari, a 4 year old Chrome, but not by Firefox?

It's a kind of laziness that does the open web great harm by putting unnecessary barriers in front of Firefox users when they shouldn't be there.

Feature detection for any newer APIs is far better. If you know you rely on a particular API set then you can test for precisely that.

Otherwise let browsers be instead of putting banners up recommending "best in IE". It just harms the web.
Crypto.com is a known bad actor, gliding on the dwindling benefit of the doubt. They'be had years to demonstrate a reputation for innocence.
People like to generalize the past. Sometimes in the future, they'll say we were obsessed with sex but not having it.
Pigs.. in there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BkKeMZboYY
I was dumb 20 years ago where I thought exactly like you. Also, this kind of thinking is generally coming from people with lack of self-confidence.

I've been on both sides of this, and I saw in the last 20 years and continue to see how this works. Now, I'm on the hiring side for the last 7 years, and there is no way this push down wages, in fact it is exactly the opposite, this pushes wages up. I prefer pay more to bring someone very good, than pay half to have someone semi competent. If I restrict my hiring locally, I'll mostly get low quality workers, the market is satured of low quality which will push wages down, the very good ones are very difficult to hire.
This seems to be a rawer form of Mochary's book "The Great CEO Within"
It's an interesting discussion. I of course agree with the sentiment and am convinced of the need for an open-source "operating systems" for enterprise and that's where we draw our inspiration from. However there is a big risk of both bloat and doing everything but not very well.

Foundry relies on Spark to do the actual ETL so they can focus on doing the products on top, the most interesting one is the integration with data lineage imho. But in practice, many business did not actually need big data since most of their ETL could run on top of a few non sharded sql queries on postgres. On the other hand, if you care about ETL there are a few amazing competing tools, dbt, airbyte, snowflake, the databricks platform and so on. And last, not being open-source is in my opinion a big risk for a large enterprises to bet and implement all their internal processes and golden tables on (or "ontologies" as palantir love saying). Even though Palantir would love to be product-led growth, their moat is strongly in their forward deployed engineer, half-consultant, half-software engineers that can push Foundry in big old-school companies and governments.

There is space for a new wave of less bloated, open-source tools and I for one am pretty excited about the new players in the field.
We have a Zapier integration that handles syncing with external systems. But yeah we want to keep the conversation in Slack rather than splintering it to some external ticketing platform
3rd party exchanges and banks.. basically like it always has. Crytpo, aka your keys, are still fine.
Thanks for sharing this. I remember back on IRC when folks were buying and selling mtgox debt accounts.

I never even logged in or filed a claim or took a screenshot or anything- just wrote it off