skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can be kind of mixed from a union standpoint. It really just depends on the goals and outcomes of a particular union. Airline unions tend to be particularly bad when it comes to controlling internal dissent against the union, and regulating peoples pay and flying hours (especially around furloughs). Things may have changed since I heard this criticism, but I'd hate to have this happen in software.

That said, we could use standardization in pay, better and more standardized promotions, and someone to tear down the existing LeetCode interview process. I have not seen any software unions that aim to do this though.
That does make much more sense, thank you.
This is my reason for never going non-remote again as well.
Thanks. Looking forward to it. I’m so done with England!
I like this, it feels calming to me, not attention grabbing or distracting.
To me this kind of grey used to be Volvo's signature paint, but it's been more common recently indeed.

Either way, I don't think it's anyone's business to tell people what colour they should use for their cars? This blog article seems a bit weird.
I know, but that isn’t the question I was addressing.
First one required several rounds of IVF and a switch to a remote job to have the flexibility needed for such an endeavor, second one was unexpected. Got a vasectomy after the second.

Experience is what we get what when we don’t get what we expected.
After a few days playing with this and using it for real work in some cases (having it bang out some PowerShell based on a description and follow-up modifications), I'm not sure that "the real kind of learning humans do" is even a necessary goal anymore.

Here is a language model that doesn't "know" anything, it doesn't "understand" anything, it has no idea what an AST is or what the code it is producing does… But does it really matter? If that prompt "generate a PowerShell script that does X Y and Z" results in accurate code that meets the stated requirement, how it got there is an implementation detail.

Give me what exists today, give it an ongoing knowledge of the things I am conversing with it on, take off the stupid guardrails and this is something I would gladly pay a significant amount of money every month for.
.... to be honest, fart humour is pretty universal. This could be a 16 year old kid to be honest :D
For starters, I believe the number is 75 billion in USDT, not 65 trillion.

And Tether doesn't have an unlimited supply of money. Tether allows USDT to be redeemed for USD. If Tether was minting unbacked USDT, then Tether would eventually be shown to be insolvent.

Second, if you're manipulating the price upward, it becomes more and more expensive to maintain the price. Like let's say Tether issued USDT to pump the price of BTC. If they wanted to maintain that long-term, they'd need to print more and more USDT to maintain the price, which gets us back to insolvency.

Third, the CEX would need a reason to pump the price. Usually, people pump prices to execute a "pump and dump" where low-value assets are dumped on unsuspecting consumers at a high price. It's possible, of course, but executing a pump and dump scheme is a lot of work and very risky for very little reward with such expensive, highly traded asset like BTC.
MicroConf publishes a lot of (free!) first hand talks and case studies that are up your alley.
This has got nothing to do with improved automation.
Gotta have the completely unrelated 80s/90s stock video footage playing in the background too.
Exactly, in my experience the more complex the device the fewer the animals you nneed. Simole things like drugs and molecules need the highest number of animals for testing. So it's the exact opposite of what the above comment says.
Flat paint became popular in house interiors first. Then matte finish became a trend in autos but it's insanely difficult to keep the dust off; especially the textured variety that is popular. I think the manufacturer's are trying to find a happy medium between the trend and the realistic maintenance.
Adorable. Interesting that mindstorms didn’t take while Python did.

I’d kind of assume the opposite, since MS is more tangible and easier to visualize.
As it happened with book binders, printing press operators, tailors, lamplighters, milkmen... what is so special about professional artists?
I don't understand the pushback this article is getting. If someone is murdered it's news, even though there might be war or genocide going on somewhere else in the world. I don't think anyone in the comment section has said that this is the most important issue of our time, but it's something that is happening. Maybe laws are being broken. Maybe this news encourages new laws to be made. Since when did we start resenting greater awareness?
When they talk about risk they mean capital risk, not personal risk.

So someone with 10 million dollars who puts up 1 million has put more capital at risk than someone who puts up 100,000 even if that is everything they own.

And paying out on personal risk doesn't make sense. Imagine doing a seed round and the share of equity each investor gets is not related to how much they invest but what % of their networth they invest.

Also in every startup I've worked for(3) the founders were not rich before starting the company.
Exactly this. I don't have many opinions or preferences on car finishes, but the now-standard retina-searingly-reflective finishes ought to be illegal for safety reasons. If TFA is complaining about a move away from that, then I hate TFA.

[EDIT] I'm not 100% sure what TFA is complaining about because I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this in the wild yet. Must be a regional trend. Coasts usually get stuff way sooner than us so maybe I'll know what it's about in a couple years.
Living in the Bay Area, I really can't afford to live close to my office. I have to drive to Palo Alto from San Jose (or take the train).

Pre-pandemic, my drive averaged 1hr to the office, and 1.5hrs back. So, I'm wasting 2.5 hrs of my life every day... to do the same exact job I do from home (not to mention cost of gas/car maintenance).

I also get more done at home, because I haven't reduced my hours any, but I don't waste time in the break room grabbing coffee and chatting. I don't know what the overall data is, and if I'm just a productive outlier or if that's a general trend.

If I'm ever required to commute again, I 100% view it as a pay decrease.
> Do you think it's more likely that Vitalik is mistaken that crypto is obviously useful for humanity, or that he knows it isn't and doesn't care, or that your assessment of crypto being useless is incorrect?

I find it funny that you think this is an answerable or useful question, rather than an appeal to authority.
Oh wowwww, a purely neoliberal cost minimizing approach drops aiding community software efforts (which almost certainly power a large portion of Twitter's software stack). Let's all be pretend to be shocked as the future RMS predicted plays out for us in real time and we all get fired.
Because it’s a trend, just like orange metallic was a few years ago, and matte wraps a little more recently.

Yawn.
Update: Apologies to anyone who doesn't get the red/green light on .com availability. I hit API rate limit on that function and quickly updating the backend to use a different API. Will be done shortly!
They've been accused of borderline doing so in a small selection of incidents.
So it's just another face of the current campaigning for minimum wage changes and tax cuts. Doesn't sound like a massive flaw to me.
Would be nice if Other OS support came back for EoL PS3 systems.
He's right about automation being good but misses the dichotomy between capturing value and creating value. Instagram was worth billions because they won in a market that is lucrative and tends towards winner take all. To use a somewhat bad analogy, you don't create a billion dollars of value by winning the powerball lottery.
Is there a language where you get everything? (i.e. there's nothing you don't get)

Based on the people who have amount of "C++ experts" I've interviewed over the years who don't know much about template metaprogramming or weird rules about initialization and class layout, yet have shipped meaningful code while avoiding most of the weird parts of the language.

Even languages like Python can get weird, such as default arg initialization:

def add_item_to_list(item, list_to_add=[]):
list_to_add.append(item)
return item

a = add_item_to_list(1)
a.append(3)
b = add_item_to_list(2)

What do `a` and `b` print?

This is my go-to Python 1st-round question, and many prolific Python coders don't get through this.

From what little I've learned of Haskell so far, it seems like one can eschew the weird PL-heavy parts of the language and just be productive (with the tradeoffs the language contains, e.g. GC).
Crawling and doing what? Answering questions, or training based on questions and answers? If you mean the latter, it most likely has, given how great it is at fixing code errors.
Don't assume bad faith: that their framing is unorthodox doesn't make it misleading.

Money is fungible and what we identify as "expenses" versus "profit shared" is arbitrary. Economic value is created by the enterprise, and that value is then split between the owner, the employees, the suppliers, and the customers.

We can argue about whether the distribution is fair, but complaining about the specific accounting method by which the value is distributed is myopic. Either you're getting a fair share of the economic value or you aren't—whether your share comes of the pre- or post-tax portion of the pie is the government's concern, not yours.
Are programmers losing that childhood curiosity for how things work? Do programmers even value that anymore? Should that be the filter employers use to select candidates vs leetcode?

People may think they are Cool or special for millions of reasons (like not knowing what ssl is for example).
I'm impressed Taiga was in FLOSS Weekly in 2015!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3BD-2ejE4

I guess it's time to do it again.
Usually costs quite a bit more to get specifically what you want rather than what's available on the lot.
As much as I would like to argue against it, things do degrade over time. It is very much unknown how much Linus' passing will change linux ecosystem as a whole ( and one could argue some of his original vision was distorted already ). It is a king problem. Even if you find one good king among all men, what are the odds whoever follows will be at least as good? Usually not great.

And ethereum is very much new. While I personally think it will exist for a little longer, because there is now real money behind it, I think you are right on that generic point ( if I understood your argument correctly ).
The pc CD-Rom version also had beautiful cutscenes, a movie clip and music. I liked it much more than Dune II thigh the replay value of the latter was much better. But I feel much more love for Dune I.
This doesn't jive with what I've personally seen "on the ground". Many procedures are not distressing.
> You accept that some individuals are off the scale of various physical abilities.

No I don't!

I'm getting on, and not very fit; I can run about 30 yards, slowly, before I run out of steam. But even Olympic runners can't run 100x faster than me. I know how fast Olympic runners can run.

> Why should we believe that everyone is roughly equal in intelligence?

Why, indeed. Why do you think that I believe that?

> Which is why IQ is often expressed as a range.

I have avoided mention of IQ; I don't think it's equivalent to intelligence.

> and then make a realization you'd never would have.

Yes, of course. I've met a lot of people that are quicker on the uptake than I am. But I'm sorry; "truly gifted" suggests there's some kind of magic going on. I don't believe in magic, and I don't believe in gifts from the gods. And I don't believe that there are people that are orders of magnitude smarter than the average; my observation was simply that average people like me aren't in a position to estimate the smarts of brighter people. So there is a tendency to assume there's magic occurring; that they aren't just brighter, but there's some other ingredient.

There's no magic ingredient; we're all made roughly the same way, from the same ingredients.
> Which is why anyone can buy a knife pretty much anywhere in the world

Actually in the UK, you are not allowed to sell a knife of any kind to someone under 18 years of age (though Scotland allows 16 and 17 year olds to buy cutlery).

https://www.police.uk/pu/advice-crime-prevention/possession-...
> No. "Legacy cmake" has been made obsolete with the release of cmake 3.0, almost a decade ago. There is absolutely no excuse to use anything other than the declarative, target-based "modern cmake" style.

"made obsolete" != expunged from codebases. I'm sure there are plenty using cmake 2.x conventions that haven't been updated, and need maintaining. And in order to either maintain or upgrade, one needs to know both conventions.
If you are a programmer you will know that debugging your own code and other people's code makes up a significant portion of your job. The GPT coding systems I've seen so far don't make much of a dent with that aspect of a programmer's life.
> It seems absurd to me that people think someone like this has not sufficiently thought through the societal value of their life's work.

Is this a friend of yours? Because you have more confidence in him than I have with people I know personally. Sounds parasocial.
I do agree that proof of stake is a genuine improvement on the cryptocurrency concept, but I think it's fair to hold off on calling the problem solved: Bitcoin and other popular networks are not really any closer to adopting it, and there still remains some skepticism about potential failure modes. Proof of work is a bruteforce solution, but it's quite proven and the failure modes are pretty straightforward. Proof of stake seems to work but it's a bit of an ouroboros.
Listening to him is like listening to another opportunist in another industry, Michael Avenatti. They're in trouble, but they keep on pretending like there is nothing to question or wonder about.
Great! When can you start?
Yeah, the discussion could be kept more to the point. But it was a legitimate question for a sidenote - it's not like every subthread has to revolve around the original topic.

>FWIW I do have that condition as well, though it isn't usually called that these days

I know, never cared much for the politically and financially motivated rename, that imho blurs the condition across a larger area, instead of defining it better.
Because you can tax the minority (higher income) and because people see the benefits of taxation. If taxes were per-head we'd probably see people voting them as low as possible.

You can also tax things indirectly or in a more abstract way like a VAT or corporate taxes.

Voters keeping taxes too low is a problem for us too though.
> they could have done their business with less animal suffering, and chose not to

This is true of literally any animal impacting business and Neuralink is by far the least worst offender if these allegations even wind up being true.
He never mentioned how old the child is. Could be 23!
It's not two mistakes. It's two cases of torture. Just because it's only two doesn't mean it wasn't torture. It's not like they discovered the mistake and then immediately euthanized the animals, they chose to continue the experiments and torture them after the mistakes were evident.
I kind of agree with you but if this was just about EU power how do you explain rolling this out the UK at the same time?

If this was just about appeasing the EU then Apple would surely not have included the UK.

(Disclosure, I'm British and very pro-EU.)
He is just a kid, he is merely 30, and grew up in a home with business lawyers. It has been such a hard life. If it wasn't for the shady Crypto market, he could be having a good life as a Doctor like we always wanted him to be. He got mixed up with this Caroline girl (How can you blame her, he is so muscular and good looking) and gave him all these ideas of having a crypto exchange. Clearly the problem is crypto, and it should be banned. It is ruining all these highly connected well to do young kids life's. /s
Because its not $3 million, its not $30 million, its not even $300 million, its so many millions everyone gets a cut.
I'm in agreement. I'm amazed that they could come up with an entire blog posts worth of words depicting naught more than curmudgeonlyness towards a new trend. I thought maybe there was a really interesting reason behind the shift when they tapped in the Porsche designer, but nope - just whining about millienial trends.
With C++ you can choose to ditch the old garbage and use just the new comfy stuff in a greenfield project.

With CMake, the new stuff still sucks.
That makes sense to me. Part of the reason the initial popularity of enthusiasts painting their own cars in a flat color was just that it was unusual. The novelty is gone once manufacturers start shipping them that way.
The irony is the only person I personally know who founded a startup (he's the CTO) which is valued at more than $1b never looks at HN.

So I guess yes, it's the wannabes.
Tesla’s recalls are almost entirely software updates, and for trivial stuff like the seat belt warning chime might not alert the driver in some corner case. Another “recall” I got was a software update that disabled the boombox feature while the car is moving. The NHSTSA banned that because it could override the government mandated pedestrian warning sound.

The only physical fix I’ve gotten was replacing a cable for the backup camera. Apparently some models had a cable that could wear out, causing the camera to fail.

If we used the same standard for iPhones, then 100% have been recalled. The NHTSA really needs to have more levels of severity, because current recall stats are obfuscating the actual reliability and safety of different models and manufacturers.
Why would we practice conservation when we can spend $30-50B in capex amortized over 50 years via marginally higher taxes on the populace with minimal opex to solve the problem permanently?

Thats why they are economically illiterate. The obvious and more cost effective choice will win in the end, and it doesn’t involve austerity and suffering and repentance for high water use
> AI is the next 100x productivity boost.

I do not agree with this statement. There is totally no progress in AI since cryptowinter. Just there are too much people with always-online smartphones, so governments considered this field as too big to be out of their control. And it leads to 100x increase of no-brain programming job where everything what is needed from that kind of programmers - to fight against users.

The author is right about big changes is coming, but not the changes he is writing about.
That kind of reasoning is not really relevant, as it can justify all kinds of unnecessary suffering. A more relevant question is whether neuralink is following best practices in setting up these studies and carefully justifying the use of each animal.

Animal studies are already widely accepted as a justifiable necessity in medical trials. That doesn't imply a blanket endorsement of well intentioned but sloppy use of animals.
Commercial karaoke establishments are, outside Japan and Korea, not very relevant.

The at-home market in the UK, on the other hand, is pretty significant. None of these households know how to operate Adobe Audition or something similar: they just want to sing along with whatever is on the telly*.

There are lots of companies catering to that market. In fact: in the past, Apple was more than happy to allow them on their platform, to fill in the gaps left by Apple's inability to negotiate certain agreements.

In the past year or so, Apple has gotten more and more restrictive with regards to "soundalike" content. And we now know why... Is this inevitable? Possibly. Is it fair? Maybe. Is it yet another cottage industry that Apple strangulates? Definitely.

*And yes, this is a very simplistic caricature by choice. Of course UK consumers are more sophisticated, but...
Just like they don’t allow always on display for iPhones prior to the latest 14.
Half the requests I give it are responded to with "An error occurred..." or "As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to browse the internet or access external information. I am only able to provide information based on the knowledge I have been trained on"
Double edged sword - less annoying during the day but now they’re harder to see at night.
I'm honestly more surprised the other way. I can't believe it took this long for them to offer even a basic karaoke experience. I thought this would be an obvious feature.
Even to an introvert like me, the cheesiness and being corny is part of what makes karaoke so good, it has an automatic atmosphere where you are allowed to do badly because we can all laugh at ourselves.

Polish and perfection makes this less appealing to me. Makes it feel up-tight and a bit snobby.
It's about 10,000 deaths per year per CO2e PPM from 2080 to 2100, mostly based on this paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99156-5
FTX Fallout in Africa
Killing animals is normal in testing, and even required by law.
> permitting speeds in Vancouver have been more down to how hard it is to hire/train/retain code inspectors, than down to how many red-tape policies they need to evaluate a plan against

I'm not sure about that. I'm sure there's a bit of both but Vancouver has remarkably complex (and often unique to Vancouver) policies for pretty much everything to do with real estate.
That's the point though. It will not stop and it matters and it's technology.

It will be discussed here. It is 100% on-topic and relevant. If you want other content, it can be found elsewhere.
For water. Its proven we can build many thousand miles of pipeline for 10s of billions.

Which is vastly cheap enough and sufficient to solve this problem. Much cheaper than alternatives
Hilarious! After a few of those, I taught my son how to open the javascript console and "hack" his favorite cookie clicker. He was so excited to show his friends but the school-provided chromebooks are really locked down.

I was disappointed, thinking that would be the end of it, but his whole class has been trying to find ways around the blocks and filters ever since. They've found some clever workarounds and a lot of things that sort of look like hacks but are not. It's adorable.
Contrast this with the dangers to humanity inherent in other forms of power generation.

Hydropower has, thus far, proven far more dangerous. The collapse of the Banqiao dam in China led to between 26,000 to 240,000 estimated fatalities that impacted 30 cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Coal, of course, exceeds this by orders of magnitude.
Projection, a powerful feature in C++20 Ranges library
I knew my play failed when the interviewer asked me what that was? and i got a blank stare when i said it was like Nethack.
Both were dictatorships and terrorist nations. Not even close to equivalent.

Ukraine is a democracy of 45 million people that's never threatened another nation.
the conflation of Mastodon and ActivityPub continues
Patterns (YC S21), a platform to build next-gen data apps, is hiring devs
Absolutely correct. There is no way this will be forgotten.

The FTX estate will be want to collect all available assets, including outstanding loans to SBF, to distribute to FTX' creditors.

Disbursements from FTX when it was close to insolvency will be scrutinized under the doctrine of fraudulent conveyance which makes it illegal to distribute funds from a company that cannot meet its obligations to its creditors.

This wont be "forgotten" somehow. At this point, there doesn't seem to be any drama or reasons for concern here, and from everything we know (that I know) it looks like this will all be resolved eventually as part of the bankruptcy process.
Unions can also (and quite often do) capture as much value as they can, while producing none.