skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without defining welfare, you aren't really making a point.

I'd argue the following:

Imagine that tomorrow a new species pops out, they are technologically superior to humans in every way - they are generally more capable, and they completely dominate any attempt at rebellion we put up.

Afterwards - they offer us a choice between two options:

Option 1: They eliminate us entirely. We compete with resources with them, and they don't like it. They will hunt us down with not with malice - but something much worse: complete apathy. They will kill us on sight, destroy our environment, mindlessly slaughter us as they form the planet in the shape of their liking.

Option 2: They happen to find us quite tasty. They will still do the above, but they will also set aside preserves where they keep a large number of us fit and fed and generally allow us to do as we please. We can have children, hold ceremonies and holidays, continue to exist and live. The downside? Every now and then they will harvest a fair number of us to eat - because they find us quite tasty.

Which option would you take?

Because frankly - I might well choose options number 2.

Further - I'd suggest quite strongly that this is the set of options humans have currently given to basically every large animal that our habitat overlaps with (and that's most of them). We are rapidly exterminating basically every species that competes for resources with us.

If we stop eating cows - there aren't going to be many cows left. Full stop. Ex: Between the 1500s and the late 1800s, we dropped the total number of wild bison in the US from >30million to ~400. 4 fucking hundred. Today we're "preserving" them, so the number is back to around 500,000. Of those 500,000 - only about 11,000 are "wild" in any sense of the word, and most exist in national parks.
And you knew the CEO personally at those companies?
Interesting. Does it scale to zero like neon.tech supposedly can? Or does it always run a small daily fee of a few cents like Aurora? It wasn't immediately clear from the product page.
Love the "no bullshit" articles that explain things quickly and clearly. A+ Work on this blog post.
And you are?

And who am I?

What an empty thing to say.
Even grammatically correct text leaves tons and tons of room for misunderstanding. English is not my first language either, and I make tons of mistakes... but because of my experience with more than one language I really do see the importance of grammar.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the way we interface with each other (the API of language) is purely stylistic and of little consequence. Every little aspect of language shapes our thoughts and impacts our ability to think clearly... Let alone our ability to transmit thoughts to each other through speech or text (conversion to and from which is very lossy).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tik...

> A China-based team at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the TikTok app to monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens, according to materials reviewed by Forbes.
>b/c /pol/ developed a reputation for aggregating breaking news (often untrue but thrilling)

On New Year's Eve 2015 I saw mention of the Cologne mass attacks on women by refugees *as they were occurring* on, yes, 4chan/pol/, and checked /r/worldnews and /r/europe to find out more. I didn't see anything and—naively, I soon realized—assumed that it was another /pol/ "it's happening" dank maymayism.

(Cue "/pol/ was right" couplet)
Rather detail a car sometimes than deal with Jira.
CRDT = Conflict-free replicated data type, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
I say Yes. This represents an attractive opportunity to get in on an artificial ground floor of a large business who’s demise is (very) likely overhyped.
Carvana is destined for acquisition or bankruptcy. They have WAY too much inventory that they overpaid for. Consumer demand has plummeted and new car supply is bouncing back (up 78% year over year). They have too much debt on their books to make the model work. Good thing the CEOs dad cashed out when he did.
> expected to work "long hours at high intensity".

> One Twitter employee speaking on the condition of anonymity said: "I have no clue what this means for non-technical roles."

You know what Elon might be on to something.
I don't get it what the 37.3 kWh are supposed to mean in this context.
This is for sure not the energy required to keep a person 'alive', but all energy (manufacturing, transportation, ...) assigned to per person.

The energy consumption for a physical working person is approx 4000 cal per day (4.6 kWh).
According to [1] it takes about 150 BTU (0.043 kWh) per hour / ft^2 to melt snow.
To clear/melt an area of 5*15 meter this requires about 35 kWh.

(I have rough calculation of the energy required to melt 20 cm of -5°C cold snow and get a four times higher energy requirement, probably i have missed something.)

[1] https://www.pmengineer.com/articles/87603-radiant-snowmelt-s...
Mmm...true, some programmers even have problems with gettimeofday().

The point still stands though - common problems have tested code, uncommon/rare problems rarely have battle-hardened solutions.
no no a thousand times no
if i got paid a bunch, sure. sounds fun. and if it doesn't work out, it's not the end of the world. people are making this into more than what it is.

EDIT: I just remembered twitter is HQed in san francisco; unless elon also becomes mayor, there isn't enough money in the world you could pay me to work there nonremote. but i would vote yes for any other city where theft is still illegal and there isn't human shit on the pavements.
I'm unsure by your wording, but I am a vegetarian in case that's what you mean by "either" - over a decade and still ongoing. Not very important, but I just wanted to clarify.

Your breakfast sounds tasty. I don't blame you for having it often. :+1:
Wonderful, workers will have more power
I'm not talking about zombies. These are profitable, growing companies. Just not venture scale.

Often you can work something out with founders, but the fact that the SAFE doesn't have anything to say about these situations is a bug.
> If you're not running them at full depth of discharge then you're cutting down your usable storage capacity. If you're running 1 GWh of batteries but you're only going to 50% depth of discharge to extend longevity then you've really only provisioned 500 MWh of storage.

But they're sold and advertised based on the emount of energy they can dispense when full. Once you use that much energy you can never store that much again. And everyone is fine with this. Snowy 2 is less limited than this.

> And for the fourth time, this water is from precipitation. You can't supply electricity to it and pump more water. It's not storage in the sense that you can supply it with a GWh of electricity and later tap the energy you put into it. You're literally saying every single dam is a "pumped storage" facility even if there's no way to pump water into the upper reservoir. Do try to comprehend the difference between pumped storage and a dam.

Every single dam is storage. It's why so many were built in the nuclear boom. The 40GWh can be cycled any time, the 240GW can be cycled at any point it is needed in any real scenario (ie. When water levels are not at max and tumut 3 is also using its storage in the same direction). The rest is recharged by curtailing normal hydroelectric flow later (by putting renewable energy into the grid) on seasonal timescales. The system needs to dispense a certain amount of water anyway so the full 350 is available cosistently on a seasonal basis. You may have a point if you were asserting calling it 350 rather than 240 was a bit misleading without further context and caveats (ie. Only once or twice a year and only for that 'week long renewable drought' so beloved of stans of generation technologies that go offline for weeks unexpectedly like coal), but you weren't. Instead you were yelling that it was 40.

Ergo bad faith.
It's crazy to me that the patent for insulin was sold for $1 so it would be accessible, and now it's one of the most expensive liquids on the planet. A month's supply is around $500 for two little bottles, required for someone with Type I (juvenile) diabetes to stay alive.
Do you think the experience of using desktop Chromium on a phone would be good?
I guess there are different types of questions. If i needed someone's permission to do x and they didnt answer yes/no, thar would indeed be annoying.

I think what i was reacting to was more the types of questions like "can the site scale to 50,000 users? Yes or no" where the real answer is, well it depends on how active they are, what they do on the site, are they are logging in at 9am monday, or a million different factors and there is no reasonable yes or no answer.
Maybe both should be taken into consideration? A father of a young child being sent to prison seems like a big deal to me.

Societal expectations of motherhood and fatherhood exist, and before the prison thing can be fixed, those expectations must be fixed first. In my opinion.
Oh thank goodness. Enthusiastic agreement.
Yes, with the caveat that I don't have to move to do so.
A negative leap second means that 23:59:59 is skipped, you go from 23:59:58 to 00:00:00, which is monotonically increasing, in both UTC and unixtime.

Positive leap seconds are monotonically increasing in UTC, where you get 23:59:60 between 23:59:59 and 00:00:00, but not in typical implementations of unix time where 23:59:59 repeats, and with milliseconds you go (breifly) 58.999 -> 59.0 -> 59.999 -> 59.0 -> 59.999 -> 0.0

If you're only counting seconds, then both UTC and unixtime are always monotonically increasing.
It's hard to say what his actual issue is. A lot of the reason performing has a physiological reaction is because you are afraid of failing, or afraid of looking dumb. If you get more comfortable with failing and looking dumb than your stress will go down.

I used to be deathly afraid of public speaking. But I assume I'll bomb (though I usually don't) and I'm okay with that. It's fine, people make mistakes. Now I don't have an issue with it. You still have some adrenaline so you can perform well but you don't have the dread.
Yes, the experience on mobile browsers is horrible.
For $800,000k/year, why not?
We have Rust embedded programs at work that are in the hundreds or thousands of bytes.
In my experience there are three sources of complexity in contracts:

(1) inherent complexity in the subject of the contract

(2) a complex form being applied to a simple subject

(3) bad drafting

The first is sometimes unavoidable. For example, if you're drafting a loan document that has an interest rate based on a benchmark, it's probably not enough to reference that benchmark. You also want to include some provisions that will specify what happens if the benchmark ceases to be published. This kind of fulsome treatment makes contracts longer and more complex.

The second is a a result of the way most lawyers work. It's far quicker (and therefore cheaper for the client, at least in the short term) to take an existing form and make changes to adapt it to a new situation than it is to create a bespoke contract. This reuse of forms propagates archaic language, needless "boilerplate" clauses, and the like. Many commonly encountered provisions are akin to junk DNA. They're included when the template is replicated but long ago ceased to have any function. Example: counterparts clauses or clauses "allowing" electronic signatures. [1]

To me, the solution to this issue is to build contracts differently. Instead of starting with a recent precedent document and choosing "save as," we need to assemble them by carefully choosing well-drafted clauses from a library--think of a recipe for a convertible note that has "#include preemptive-rights" or something like that.

Finally, drafting contracts well is a very specific skill. It's not a case of using the right "magic words." Rather, it's being able to describe the parties' bargain clearly and precisely. This isn't taught in most law schools, and most lawyers never bother to learn it systematically. Again, they're rushing to adapt existing forms that a colleague has blessed, and very shy about creating something new.

I think most practitioners are aware of these factors but feel they can't really change them due to being caught in an hourly billing treadmill. In the article, Carolyn Levy says she couldn't' really tackle this problem until she went in house. That has been true for me as well.

[1] https://www.adamsdrafting.com/counterparts-an-example-of-cat...
did not know qemu has its own firecraker machine now, thanks for the info! going to test how fast it boots.
Not the poster you were replying to, but I've looked at your firecracker init lab (cool stuff!) and just wondering how that fits together with a control plane. Would be cool to see how the orchestration happens in terms of messaging between host/guest and how I/O is provisioned on the host dynamically.
Absolutely yes. I'm behind the bedrock American principal of Freedom of Speech.
Depends. If he wanted to pay me like $1m a year sure.
I have a friend that works there and elected to stay. His reasoning was that he has been there 9 years, so if they did fire him soon, he would get more than 3 months severance (he thinks it would be 1 month for every year, so 9 months).

I don't know if that is true (written into a contract?), but I also didn't have the heart to tell him that if a company goes bankrupt, they probably don't pay out severance.
It's relatively easy to learn a new language (for example) when you think, "this is like x, this is like Y, etc."

I guess my key point is that you always need to keep learning, and don't box yourself in too much. Ideas from elsewhere will show up... being aware of them makes it easier to use them and be ready for them.
He seems to want only sycophants, so it's a "no" from me.
Leaning no. But very much depends on what the salary would be. Though seeing as the risk of the company collapsing is super high it would have to be a high salary to compensate.
Libraries are already available. See https://cr.yp.to/time.html and the pages linked from there.
Let it burn. I'm not bringing kids into this mess.

Climate change, war, pollution. An endless list of problems due to humanity's greed. There is no changing the trajectory at this point. Human's are in denial about our future but we've already laid our beds.
Could you explain a bit more? I can't quite catch what you might mean.
There are plenty of reason some may choose to stay, refusing to hire someone because they wanted to keep a good job seems silly.
You have an extra "k" in there...
For Peterson and the Bee, the situation wasn't that they were given indefinite suspensions outright, but that they were given short-duration suspensions where the timer only started once they deleted the tweets that were found to be rule-breaking. They chose not to delete the tweets, and so they stayed suspended.

I the suspended user having to press a button to delete the tweet that broke a rule is a fascinating moderation feature. Its impact is almost purely psychological. On top of the incovenience of not being able to post for a while, it adds the emotional cost of having to swallow their own pride when a rule violation is found in order to regain access. And occasionally an account which has violated a rule will just decide to voluntarily permaban itself.
One of the things that always amazed me was how present he always was. Any lecture he attended, regardless of the speaker or topic (which were very far-ranging) he always asked questions. Good, tough, insightful questions. His mind was never passive, and he set a great example for everyone decades younger than him.
Using the carcass 100% or 0% after death will not affect by a jot the fact the animal was killed, nor erase in the slightest any suffering it went through. If an animal died in agony then how the carcass was used does not erase any of that suffering. That's my point you seem unable to grasp.

FYI I do not necessarily see killing an animal as wrong, though you want me to as that would fit me into a neat cliche of vegan or hippy or whatever you can file me away under (or so ISTM). People aren't necessarily that simple.
Fair point (thought experiment: what would have happened if MS had acquired Google for a million or two in the early days?).
Surely Twitter engineers weren't making $800k and more like $350k - 400k at the top end?
Why would the first non-c language allowed in the kernel be a language that doesn’t even have a standard? Also we’re bringing NPM style supply chain problems to the kernel now? And this is done in the name of security? It’s not the language itself I don’t like, I would like rust a lot more if it had a standard and didn’t have a supply chain (aptly named cargo) problem. It’s pretty obvious to me that software took a nosedive when finding a package became considered a good way write high quality software.
Fintech covers the entire payments space too
No but only because I don't like the product. Nothing to do with current events.

Edit: I hadn't seen this yet (https://www.businessinsider.com/read-musks-midnight-email-te...). Another commenter posted that. I still don't have any opinions of current events, don't really care about Twitter, wouldn't work there because I don't like the product - but I won't work for any company that expects employees to work overtime regularly as part of the company culture.
Nice to see a tokenadult comment after I don't want to check how long!
Do you have a stimulus reaction to anything mentioning whiteness?
No, it is called dignity.
In truth I'm not really looking for a solution. I was snarking really. I was a consistent user (and paid for Google One) until they removed the Google Photos integration, which killed much of the point of it for me.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
you know damned well what he meant
I wonder if they used gears to move the hand clock, if it just needs to be rotating at a constant speed... I think so, 330 degrees counter clockwise per hour? Since, as the minute hand does a full rotation, the hour hand needs to travel 30 degrees..
Tesla comps are a good indication, he drives them pretty hard too. They aren't really that high.
Keeping h1b sponsorship is likely one big one. I hope the government entity that watches over compliance with that status makes sure the Musk doesn't abuse their situation :(
I'm sad that both hands aren't magnetic. It'd be much more cool if the whole hand assembly floated. I suppose the two sets of magnets might interfere with each other as they pass by. I wonder how far you'd need to separate them to make it work.
Security is always valuable. OSCP training would be great. If not that then perhaps a GIAC training in a relevant course?
oh, you're too late to claim the instigatory troll award. That already came and went. better luck next time.
No matter how big it is it's an order of magnitude less difficult than Cars or Spaceships, don't kid yourself on that. That can be evidenced with how fast they rolled out new features to twitter blue. They made some bad product decisions but the tech side went very fast.

I like that you also came up with the idea that elon will sell for pennies when in reality he's basically succeeded at nearly everything he's done. And he's had massive win after massive win. But you think he's gonna fail here.
When I was a teen, my next door neighbor raised sheep and I helped with various tasks for pocket money and sheep are indeed sheep. The large gate could be wide open, but they wouldn't go through until you got one past the line, then the rest would follow.
There are infinitely better ways to spend my time than improving the personal megaphone of a billionaire.
Most of the most consequential changes to the reddit feeds a few years ago I was involved in or directly came up with. The most visible was probably the one that started putting discussion-heavy posts on the front page (things like legaladvice, amitheasshole, askreddit, unpopularopinion, etc). It’s weird to think about the resulting butterfly effects that are completely beyond my knowledge and comprehension.
Are we supposed to believe your real name is 1024core?
Do they, or did you misread the requirement?
So, no? Elon has been pretty clear that he hates remote work
You need someone to be famous in order to listen to their story?
I don’t know if this company will go under. Give me a massive signing bonus and I’ll consider it.
oh yes the how and whether its actually a product people want or not are huge open questions that haven't been answered, at least not externally and seemingly not internally as well.
Are we actually compensating for continental drift of the area around London already?
I mean, I read it more as, it isn't a yes or no, it's "everyone has a price". I'll do your dirty, high-stress work for a price.

For $800k? Yeah, we probably have a deal. For the parent poster's price, absolutely we have a deal. But that offer will never exist, and I rather doubt the lower $800k offer would ever happen.
Sure, but now the company's been taken over by a madman, you'd need to pay me (and many others) a significant risk premium to even consider it.
Jeff Dean would be dismissed. Sanjay types in the code.
It can make things faster is not the same as simply running it in the kernel will make it faster. There are definitely certain situations that making use of fewer context switches helps with, and where page mapping isn't sufficient, but if you just write an entire user-space web server, then just compile it as a kernel module, expecting it to see a notable performance improvement, you're going to be disappointed.

edit to clarify: the reason it won't help (much) is because most of the things it would help with have already been optimized via features like CoW pages, the VDSO, sendfile, etc.
This situation is very attractive to say yes to. However everything I see from Musk makes me think he doesn’t value the engineering that goes into Twitter. He thinks it’s easy and doesn’t require the best minds unlike his space company. That makes it impossible to win or please the boss. Not a lot pace for anyone to work if what I said is true.
Bro, are you kidding me? How the cars get to the dealers? How is the inventory managed? Delivered? Purchased? Service Centers? Customer Service? Legal? Etc etc etc.... Its not "Just a website" and your incredible oversimplification is atrocious.
Not until they start paying 5x the market rate for my salary.
You seem to have strongly worded opinions, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly you're asking for.

Petroleum is ~ 8% of the US GDP, and produces about $1.7 trillion dollars a year in direct economic activity, employing about 10 million folks.

Near as I can tell, the US doesn't give away any of our oil at all. It sells it, at market rate, often after doing a lot of value add refining.

Some of it goes to domestic use, some of it gets exported internationally, depending on the specific mix of market demands at the moment.

Are you proposing the US... ban exports of Oil or oil products? Or ban imports or Oil or oil products? Or invest a lot of money in alternative energy/renewable energy? Or take over enough oil producing countries no one can manipulate prices except us?

Or something else?
There is considerably more risk now. I would want to be paid daily too.
It is my business morally speaking when women are forced to wear a hijab. Men who enforce that odious practice are discussing human beings.
Interesting. I still firmly wouldn't work there, but you have a point