skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The consultant was fired after refusing to take part in activities he called ‘humiliating and intrusive,’ according to court filing

France’s highest court has ruled that a man fired by a Paris-based consulting firm for allegedly failing to be “fun” enough at work was wrongfully dismissed.

The man, referred to in court documents as Mr. T, was fired from Cubik Partners in 2015 after refusing to take part in seminars and weekend social events that his lawyers argued, according to court documents, included “excessive alcoholism” and “promiscuity.”

Mr. T had argued that the “fun” culture in the company involved “humiliating and intrusive practices” including mock sexual acts, crude nicknames and obliging him to share his bed with another employee during work functions.

In its judgment this month, the Court of Cassation ruled that the man was entitled to “freedom of expression” and that refusing to participate in social activities was a “fundamental freedom” under labor and human rights laws, and not grounds for his dismissal.

According to the court documents, the man was hired by Cubik Partners as a senior consultant in February 2011 and promoted to director in February 2014. He was fired for “professional incompetence” in March 2015 for allegedly failing to adhere to the firm’s convivial values.

The company also criticized his sometimes “brittle and demotivating tone” toward subordinates, and alleged inability to accept feedback and differing points of view.

Cubik Partners did not immediately respond to a request from The Washington Post for comment.

It is not the first time a company’s drinking culture has come under the microscope in court proceedings. A number of recent incidents have highlighted the entrenchment of alcohol in white-collar professional culture, even after the #MeToo movement shone a spotlight on workplace misconduct globally. Some firms have introduced “booze chaperones” at company events in hopes of avoiding such issues.

An auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in England sued the company over severe injuries he sustained at a work event that “made a competitive virtue” of “excessive” drinking, in a lawsuit filed in London’s High Court this year. Michael Brockie went into a coma and had part of his skull removed after participating in the company event, The Post reported.

In March, insurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London fined member firm Atrium Underwriters a record 1 million pounds (about $1.2 million) for “serious failures,” including a “boys’ night out” where employees, including two senior executives, “took part in inappropriate initiation games and heavy drinking, and made sexual comments about female colleagues,” the Guardian reported at the time.

France is among the world’s most liberal countries in terms of alcohol consumption. The legal minimum age for consuming alcohol in public is 18, but there is no regulation of alcohol consumption in private.

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There are two groups I am a part of - a web development one (free), and a workout program's private group that you gain access to as part of membership, that I access frequently. And occasionally (rarely), Marketplace.
No, i've not seen such issues in other languages. Because in other languages, there's always better way to do things !
Fine tuning Stable Diffusion v2.0 with DreamBooth
I have used twitter since October 2007. And it has always (except for a time a couple years ago. Then i switched to https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/) showed only tweets/retweets by people i follow.
Do people ask you to make an exception and attend meetings when you have a Friday booked off from your holiday allowance? What would be different if you have it booked off for working pattern?
Safety Tests Reveal Tesla FSD Will Hit a Child Mannequin in a Stroller
"Tech" here being codeword for: Global Warming and Elon Musk
I'm getting tired of the Muskshaming too
Yeah but, gas is more power-dense. Burning hydrogen made from fossil fuels, be it with microbes (more emissions) or SMR (less emissions) in any case produces more emissions than just burning natural gas.

Only "green" hydrogen works. I live in the north, the very north, like constantly above the hudson bay north. Insufficient electrical infrastructure where gas infra exists isn't really a big niche anyway.
probably not except for crime which seems to be the only place where currencies like that have tangible benefits. Everywhere else you can replace a blockchain with a database and your system is probably 50x faster and simpler. A trustless system where you can lose your entire live savings because of one bad line of code with nobody to roll the transaction back is useless
Very awesome to learn about a new language in the Node.js ecosystem

Some feedback:

- I don’t know what Imba is, and likely a lot of other devs don’t either. Your front page should sell me on both Imba and your framework

- When I’m personally considering a new framework. I love example projects so I can see how common usecases might look in code. Consider having a few example projects easily discoverable from the home page for folks to sift through

Good luck!
Disgruntled Brit? I read most of it in the tone of David Mitchell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2-49q6DOI
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed the today's three puzzles. The puzzles themselves are pretty diverse day-to-day, so feel free to check back if you fancy something a bit different.

I agree that this is a very different type of game than Wordle, and I probably shouldn't have invited comparison by comparing them myself in my above comment. You make great points, and I have struggled a bit with the best way to "score" the game. Time seemed easiest, but I thought a bit about number of clicks as well.

LINKR does have a hint button, in the top right like a plus symbol. It will show you connections that you have correct. But using the hint button won't increment your score in your stats page.

There is also the "compare" button on the stats screen to show you the daily averages for each puzzle - I'd be interested in your feedback on that? Especially if you didn't interact with it, maybe its too subtle and I should make it larger.
Fuji has had the film simulations since the original first-gen X100. Every generation gets faster, has better AF and an added film sim or two. The first and second generation are slow by today's standards and AF is not fast or reliable, but generation three ("X100T") and four ("X100F") are quite good and available used. Generation five ("X100V") did get a new lens that's somewhat sharper as well, but it's probably not why you buy an X100.
> It does emulate the OS (it’s the point of running stuff in qemu)

The point of running stuff in qemu is to virtualize / emulate the hardware. You still need a “normal” OS inside qemu.
I wouldn't worry. Over the years programmers have learnt to operate at a higher level of abstraction than the previous generation.

How many people still code in assembly vs (say) Javascript?
Lashing out when your self-image is damaged isn't unusual. Individual acts of narcissistic behavior isn't unusual.

For example, a relatively normal person might lash out after being dumped, but then after one regrettable night yelling at his friends, or one regrettable text message, realize that he did some dumb things and self adjust.

In general, the difference between what usually gets diagnosed a personality disorder, and the spectrum of normal is how systemic a behavior is, and how resistant a person is to changing their behavior.
It's in the article the thread starts with.

https://github.com/udayvir-singh/tangerine.nvim
> Generated text looks like the person crafting it is having a constant stream of micro-strokes while writing in their third language.

NVIDIA seems to have solved that problem: https://the-decoder.com/nvidias-ediffi-is-an-impressive-alte...

The tech is improving extremely rapidly, which makes sense considering how much excitement and interest there is.
Just on Friday I had a friend message me because his phone was run over and he lost his contacts. Also I assume there's tons of tech industry back-channel private groups - I'm in one small one and it's useful.
"Mob program" made me giggle. It must be the logical extension to pair programming.
You have about 150 years of history to catch up on. Sure, human rights was founded in western culture, but has been adopted across the world since.
I'd never heard of processor sets (probably because I've never used HPUX in anger), but they sound like a great feature, especially in the days where one CPU had only one execution engine on it. Modern Linux has quite a lot of options for hard real time on SMP systems, some of them Free and some of them not. Of all places, Xilinx has quite a good overview: https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/188424...
Instead of this:

do {
c = getNextChar()
} while c != ‘\0’ {
processChar(c)
}

I'd prefer:

loop {
c = getNextChar()
break if c == ‘\0’
processChar(c)
}

The eyesight rationale for curly braces (screen readers) is something I had never considered. But it would be nice if they were optional. I've been writing Python for 14 years and have never had a problem with mis-indenting.

Edit: I had to correct my post because Tabs were used in the original, so alignment was all wrong.
It works with all three. Jupyter is supported as an "engine". Although I haven't tried, it sounds like any Jupyter kernel will work. https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#what-programming-languages-are-...
All this plumbing talk got me remembering the time I redid a bunch of the copper in a fixer-upper. Reading up on solder joints, I got into the underlying metallurgy, and discovered solder isn’t “glue”. You have to abrade it to remove the oxide, quickly cover the raw copper with flux, and then let the boiling flux draw the molten solder into the joint. It doesn’t take much, and you end up with a metal-metal-metal bond. Once I understood the point, the joints were a breeze. Later, I had a pro plumber in to deal with some iron pipe, noticed my copper work and was impressed. Very satisfying.
No need to build a road to hell if you want to just give things over to the hooligans. We can be there right now!
Pretty sure they were referring to Trump and Ye, but GP left it open so you have yourself to thank for assuming it is Musk.
Sure, but there might be Wireguard vulnerabilities as well. Why not layer SSH over Wireguard over IPSec over OpenVPN just to be safe?

I think that layering may be useful given a certain threat model, but you shouldn’t just layer protocols without actually considering the probability of vulnerability and considering the other tradeoffs you are making. Otherwise the only correct answer would be to layer SSH over every independent VPN protocol.

Considering the security track record of SSH, I don’t see the value to layering, when on the other side, you now need to manage multiple keys and an entirely separate protocol that isn’t as ubiquitous (yet). The time spent doing this might be better spent building robust and testable auto-update infrastructure or architecting the applications on the server to reduce the risk of contagion given an RCE vulnerability.
It was just the drain pipe system that was built that way (at least in the house I helped out with). All of the supply lines were galvanized steel, replaced with PEX.
I do wonder if all these AI generating content software will be the end to artists, animators, media creators etc. I guess for a lot of things it will, but I wonder if people will want an AI or organic created content. Akin to how hand-made crafts are still desirable as opposed to mass produced textiles etc. eventhough the mass produced stuff is cheaper.
I guess there is room for both. But likely much less organic v AI created. Maybe we will see labels placed on content with " natural made " or something a long those lines as a selling point in the future.
I’m a little skeptical - at least of the view that we’re a few years away from all animation jobs being dead and ML models producing entire movies or TV episodes e2e from text prompts.

What’s likelier is that ML-based tooling becomes a key part of the animation workflow. Used to generate assets, animations, backdrops, characters, etc, which are then combined by an animator/editor. The examples he cites in the article all fit this mold - the anime character generator he cites in the article uses separate models to generate the character then rig it from facial data.

After working in the self-driving car industry, I’m really skeptical of any claim that rapid advances in one modality or task mean we’re “just 3 years away” from all related tasks being done via ML models. Alexnet et al completely revolutionized perception in self driving cars - between 2014-2017 it was really common to hear predictions that we’d have end to end models driving our cars perfectly in “less than 5 years”. That reality never arrived because ML just wasn’t capable of handling more complex tasks the way it could with object detection. Lots of articles similar to this one talking about what we were going to do with all of the out of work truckers and Uber drivers.

And yeah obviously generative art is a different beast than autonomous driving. And I’ve seen examples from WIP text2video models. But I just want to caution that tons of progress in image and text doesn’t necessarily mean we’re just a year or two away from all related tasks being conquered.
You know a lot of rich, famous people, eh? Interesting. Are you a Hollywood agent? An estate lawyer? Bodyguard?

I know exactly 3 rich people. None famous.
> You don't get to assume that people are incompetent until they've presented incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.

Leaving aside the setting of ridiculously high bars for the moment, that level of evidence would be different depending on who is observing. A car mechanic is going to be able to spot clear evidence of incompetence in another car mechanic long before it’s apparent to a layperson observer.
Close, but not fully. Volatile enforces using an assembly read instruction (does not use a register cached value), but no memory barriers. In ye (really) olden days that seemed enough, but then you know, backwards compatibility...
The UK wages are laughably low, so these corporations are doing no favours. The still enjoy record profits and their board members probably laugh that serfs even think that these corporations are being so "generous".
What’s wrong with Bush v. Gore?
Don't even think about carbon capture. Affording it any thought as a production process in the current world is "conservation of energy forbids it" level of impossible. Technology doesn't make it better either, it's just not feasible with the current energy output of the human race, not with (the very impressive) biogas pyrolysis nor with literal "air plastic".

Existing processes are the best use of hydrogen, and for those I'm fine with anything. It just makes little sense for energy applications.
The twitter account mentioned here appears to be based in New York and is from western media. Her bias seems to be obvious? How can she have a legit read on what Chinese locals are seeing on television, social media, and media?
Read this for the other half of the story: https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-mis...
"You need about 1.5 wraps of PTFE tape to seal a fitting. Any more is wasteful and asking for leaks"

I would have thought this obvious and it's essentially my experience (and I'm definitely not a plumber). However, I've found that more PTFE tape is needed on old or worn fittings or on ones that have damaged or badly cut threads—or when mating
same sized pipes/fittings but each with different threads (yes, that's a desperate brute-force move in an emergency but I've had to force such matings on more than one occasion). In these circumstances, I'll use two or three turns or more often by trial and error—and this changes somewhat depending on whether I'm using thinner white PTFE tape or the thicker pink one.

Of course—not being plumber—it often happens that when I urgently need PTFE tape I cannot find it (it having been filed in some obscure place that I've forgotten about—even though I keep a reasonable stock of it), it's then I fall back to the good old combination of Hessian/burlap jute-type rope (of which there is always some lying around in my workshop) and linseed oil based paint. It's messy and much less convenient combination than PTFE tape but it still works wonderfully well. Moreover, it's more tolerant of the amount applied as the linseed oil actually binds to the pipe surface as opposed to the more 'mechanical' bond of the PTFE.
Why don't you just state your theory without being unnecessarily coy?
I've never seen that myself but it's probably pretty common for companies to often effectively require a four-year degree from a school they've heard of--which probably boils down to more or less the same thing.
DouYin’s algo is heavily monitored and manipulated by the state.
I love these “AI *will* replace [x] job in [y] years” genre of posts because it’s a fun thought experiment. Taken to its extreme in writing, visual art, coding, conversation bots etc.

It’s like the future will be everybody living in NvidiaBlackrockDominoes housing, eating TysonIntelJ&J gruel, and the only employer left will be TSMCOnlyFans — which will be a staffing agency for test subjects in GarnierRevlon’s automated anti-aging research facilities.
Probably. Like most psychological disorders, NPD is diagnosed by getting a high score on a specialized evaluation, so you could easily describe someone who gets a score that’s not quite beyond the threshold as being on the narcissism spectrum. But it doesn’t seem practical to say that an otherwise normal person who is “showing arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes” has a medical condition.
This Rust example seems like it misses the point? Rune detects that you're working with data that is marked as secret, and gives you a compiler guarantee that it's defending against some set of known attacks.

The Rust code above depends on the programmer to consistently remember to enforce safety, and to do so correctly every time.

Sure, you could probably implement that as a library. But, "We don't see much value in compiler help with this, a combination of libraries and being careful gets the job done," would be a peculiar position for a rustacean to defend.
I think it isn’t inherently “bad” (until you begin to fight for “resources” i.e. academic careers - which in my mind is what this now long-standing “controversy” really boils down to) that physics/cosmology at the frontier bleeds into regions of (yet) untestable hypothesis.

It is kind of a natural progression of abstraction by defining physical objects, in the end you arrive at some endpoint like the “universe”. So, you wonder: “Hmm, in order to study it properly I need more than one. Let me see if there is some viable way to propose it. Which new predictions am I getting? Does it a better job than … ” etc

The same holds true for other frontiers like exobiology, consciousness etc. where one can easily wind up in woo-woo territory.

Hossenfelder mentions Penrose. Another prominent figure who pops up frequently is Stephen Wolfram with the means of financing himself. They are making bold claims which are most likely - surprise, surprise - false. But because the chances are astronomically or cosmologically low it is seen as somehow this high-stake game in reputation. Since there is only a tiny fractions of scientists with a lot of chips (say Noble Prize), when they get on the table the crowd cheers on.

So, unfortunately most play safe in the long term.
One such strategy was/is to hide the “trouble” behind ever more sophisticated mathematical abstractions which at least undoubtedly require extraordinary and disciplined mind to be even able to grasp.
Ever since Lee Smolin called bs on that I feel that string theorists, now, appear more humble, careful in their presentation and acknowledge the pitfalls. As an popular example Sean Carrol comes to my mind.

To put it constructively: level the playing field and measure your position with the same standard as you evaluate others. The more powerful, diverse and precise shots in the dark in terms of viable theories we get to test the better the chances.
'Annoying', personally.

Seriously though, sort of a monologue? Or I'd describe it (not a single word) as spoken English taken to paper, in an oral style, or something.
Aside: if you scroll to past issues, the author has all sorts of other articles like how to get into p0rn. Wonder if the author picked up AI recently, in which case, that's impressive.
I thought they were talking about Donald Trump, but go off I guess.
They had lots of babies. Some of them even got to become adults!
Heller was also the product of a decade of scholarship by liberals like Larry Tribe and Akhil Amar. The dudes who had just overthrown their government with muskets they had lying around the farm really intended for firearms ownership to be a private right. Least surprising thing ever.
I did not want to imply that. Rather that it was a tool for a small number of people with a certain mindset, that was never adapted as adoption grew.
Genuine question though - isn't there some tradeoff for this like labor benefits (vacation, healthcare, etc)?
The competence is assumed. The disappointment comes from people who are competent not doing the due diligence that some think should be par for the course when naming a project.
Zero Intelligence Traders
That's only for black and white though, I believe?
By that logic, should we limit free speech rights because the framers didn’t contemplate the web?
Not really? It's not different from SMR. Hydrogen is tiny and non-polar, so it's easy to filter only for such small molecules, making storing it a pretty big issue. SMR produces a mixture of methane, water, hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which is just as easily filtered into plain dihydrogen. Nevertheless, it's still just storing it somewhere in a cave, not really worth the effort most of the time, and since CO / CO₂ is a lot smaller than methane, it'll find its way out by other means way easier.
That simply isn’t true. With B&W the only aspect of film development that poses environmental worries is the silver suspended in exhausted fixer. You’d have to be doing much more exotic work to require more precautions. Things like Selenium toning, perchlorate (ugh, nasty stuff) activators, potassium ferricyanide, etc. need more care but the processes that use those things are really rare these days. Developer compounds break down rapidly and stop bath is just a mild acidic solution, usually the equivalent of vinegar. With the exception of the fixer, home darkroom work is of no environmental consequence. Kodak, Fuji, and Agfa had gotten chemical safety figured out by the 90s. The last thing I remember being a problem was the stabilizers made from formulin (related to formaldehyde) but that was stopped in the late 90s. Think VPS was the last film that required it for the best archival performance.

Large quantities of developer/stop/bleach were also able to be disposed of once the ph had been neutralized. The only disposal service I remember with the labs I worked in was the silver recovery for the fixer.

As far as manufacturing films and papers goes I’m less certain. I do know that Kodak had been trimming some materials from their catalog that used dangerous materials through the 90s. They discontinued a warm tone paper that was loved by many in the early 2000s. It used cadmium as part of the emulsion chemistry. And while it didn’t pose any risk to people using the paper, manufacturing it certainly did. I’m sure that the big three film manufacturers had managed to minimize the use of dangerous materials as awareness and regulations spread. Can’t be as sure about the eastern European manufacturers though.
i think it may be a little while.

it's relatively easy to label images with text, yet much more complicated to do the same for complicated software systems.

a bigger threat to swe is probably off-shoring, which will probably pick up as a result of remote work popularity and economic belt tightening.