skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is your take, you're not being honest about the downsides of unions.

Here is a list of reasons for not wanting a union[1]:

- I want my underperforming colleagues to be fired quickly. It's unfair and annoying that laggards are protected and free riding off their colleagues' (my) effort, and it leads to ineffective orgs.

- I don't want seniority or rank to be rewarded. It's unfair to young people (me) who are more competent and ambitious, and it leads to ineffective orgs.

- I want to negotiate individually because I believe I will make more money as an outperformer. I don't want a centralized handicapper to blunt my compensation.

- I don't like that unions are rent seeking in nature.

- I don't like that unions often are exploited by organized crime.

- I don't like that unions interfere in the broader political process and democracy via activism and political pressure (e.g look at the fact that the new EV subsidies will be going to everyone except Tesla, it's a perversion).

- I think people should be free to organize, but I don't like that the state grants special asymmetric powers to unions.

- I don't like especially public sector unions that I believe are doing significant damage to society broadly. For example police unions that shielded Chauvin after a large number of complaints.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28958674
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I think this shows my main problems with ChatGPT. It is always wrong about something. It did not really explain the first punchline. Second, it is biased and it answers in line with the question. You can for instance easily get it to advocate for both cloud solutions and on-premises solutions. It helps with your confirmation bias.
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And companies are pro-exploitation-of-immigrants… and not very pro-immigrants.
I'm always amazed about how well naive Unix solutions measure up compared to contemporary solutions. For instance, the non-indexed python solution here takes a little more time than the Unix look command (Pi 4):

time pwned.sh password
5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8:9545824
0.053u 0.035s 0:00.40 20.0% 83+22k 35+0io 21pf+0w

time python3.10 02-binary-search.py pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v8.txt password
looking for 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8
pwned! seen 9,545,824 times before
in 0.090021 seconds
0.105u 0.013s 0:00.44 25.0% 0+3k 32+0io 4pf+0w

Obviously, if you're doing millions of lookups you'll want indexing, but otherwise using built-in tools that have been optimized and refined for decades does very well.
Ah wow, I did not catch that the parameters go inside the quoted issue string. My brain misread the examples as `issue "example.org"; validationmethods=dns-01`.

Thanks for the clarification!
The brand damage to Tesla is incalculable and the longer this shite continues the bigger it will be.
> Is that a problem with income inequality, or a problem with political campaign financing rules?

In the US those are intertwined:

> The court held 5-4 that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

More speech for the rich.
Great explanation - Tyler Cowen is a good interviewer for sure. For some reason have never been able to get into Lex Fridman by contrast.
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> life long remainer lib dems

This describes me. Luckily I was able to meaningfully vote LibDem, because I really could not see myself voting for BoJo or Corbyn in the last election. Neither Starmer nor Sunak would be my first choice, but in contrast I could hold my nose and vote for either of them if I had to.
The government in power from 2010-2015 was very different than the one today. For starters it was a coalition with the Lib Dems, but even comparing today's rump with Cameron's second ministry shows massive divergence in competence as well as policy.
Again, what is connection? So if I go to Bocconi then I am Italian? And if someone in my family has a holiday house in France then I am French?

The craziest part is that I believe this actually makes sense to you. How sad.
Mass extinction by 2100 – one-quarter of Earth’s species will die
Google Glass was not arbitrarily good technology. And, while the glasshole thing may have been a factor in its demise, if you look around privacy factors don't much deter the use of anything people actually find useful.
Was he mean to his cat?
Bulletproof armor made of human cells
an audit like that doesn't even matter when the client is hosted remotely
> When it comes to intelligence and cognition no one even knows where to begin

Is it true, though? There is quite nice literature out there, surely John has read these papers during his bootstrap period:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27683554/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556v1
Musk is about as out of control as it gets and he has enough money to be able evade all of the normal checks and balances that society places on an individual.
An Intel analyst tried to prevent the Jan. 6 attack – but DHS failed to act
Maybe the insurance companies could sue the government if this was indeed the case. I would really like to see the bad policy makers go to jail or get hit with huge fines.
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I'm equally interested to see what lengths people like yourself will go to when given the option!

Where is it you draw the line?

Do you bother with Spectre mitigations since Amazon policy is to deny service to those who would attack you?

Do you bother requiring authentication on your database since policy is to use a closed VPC?

Hell, we haven't seen any man in the middle attacks lately, let's just drop SSL because you know your customers are wired and trust the endpoint networks.

SSL is the best example subject to the same common failures (including expiration, key loss, downtime to initially deploy) as you describe disk encryption migrations.

Encrypting disks is mandatory and there is zero justification otherwise.
> I’d say Corbyn did superbly

Poe's law never fails
Any analysis that does not cover the role of Rupert Murdoch in all this seems woefully incomplete.
We have millions of electric cars, 10M cars, 40kWh approximately 400GWh. Existing cars should be retrofitted, this is not difficult.

Batteries degrade when they are pushed to their limits, they last when used properly. The ESA has multiple reports on their testing, if you use the battery in the flat part of its discharge curve and don't cook it, they basically last forever.

The reasons they don't is because manufacturers build their devices with less than the bare minimum. 20% better performance for a device that fails and needs 100% replacement, good scam. Battery degradation should be barely noticeable.

The market has failed catastrophically.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...
Yeah, good point. IMHO the lack of a canonical serialization for hash tables is a much more serious omission than not having a separate boolean false value.
Do you have any current data on that? I think it was true of the "Reagan Democrat" variety of union worker in the 1980s, but I suspect it's an outdated stereotype now. For example, SEIU, one of America's largest unions, represents a lot of immigrants and is strongly pro-immigrant: https://www.seiu.org/justice-for-immigrants/
It's about characters, technology trends and plot details that are a thousand times more specific. The execution of it is bad, and it's only through extremely lazy equivocation that those two things can be said to be the same.
We might have even averted Brexit
Black houses are so hot right now. But are they hotter?
If the European standards are so good, where are all of the influential European tech companies?

To properly weigh all of the tradeoffs, you might consider asking if those Twitter jobs would even emerge in the European system and if there's a link between European labor standards and the lack of influential European tech companies. Europe is a large market that is filled with many capable and educated technology workers, yet almost always all of the tech companies we're ever talking about are American. Why is this?
Interesting. My first thought upon reading that one was that "he says he quit drinking but is obviously currently drinking" is the first thing I'd explain about the punchline (then moving on to explain how that connects to the tradition).
Honestly, if this thing keeps progressing like it does now then all bets are off, simple as that. Cognitive jobs will plummet in salary and then simply disappear.
There may be jobs for the top 1% of IQ for 10-15 more years but then that's probably gone too as A.I simply becomes better than us in everything.

What's left? stuff like kindergarten workers, nurses and police officers aren't likely to be replaced so soon..(does it bring you joy though doing that?).

You can also try catching some of the A.I boom and starting your own business, there's a lot of opportunity to be had in the coming 5-10 years probably.
Presumably they can use cold water in the jets which itself chills the space. Nice fringe benefit If It Scales.
Title is a bit misleading. This is about the API, which is used by various third parties like ride-sharing apps, and which are probably annoyed at how expensive Google made the Maps API.
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‘Made My Blood Run Cold’: Unmasking a TikTok Creator Who Doesn’t Exist
I don't think that there is any journalist out there that has not clearly seen the writing on the wall. You can no longer write about Musk, Tesla, Twitter or SpaceX without the threat of a ban hanging over you. Given that this is their work they will collectively move off Twitter and take their audience with them, it is mostly a matter of time now and finding a consensus about what the next best thing is.
I got into BeOS on the exact same system in 1998. I miss that little machine dearly.
>Since when was paying for access to the inside of a person’s body for one-sided sexual gratification a ‘natural desire’?

If by natural you mean "not artificially induced", and occuring in human populations, then since there has been a society, "the oldest profession" and all that. You might argue it's not an "ethical" desire based on your ethical code, but not that it's not natural.

If you set the metaphysics about sex as sin aside, it's also not much different from paying people to do anything else with their bodies, from a personal trainer to McJobs, to working for 8-10 hours per day in a cubicle, and from working in construction to killing their lungs working in a mine...
> whose government is not allowed to do anything at all without our approval

Really? I thought you were restricted to voting for your representatives?
I've never wrote that I "like JSON that much".

What I "like that much" is the pragmatism (which, again, I didn't write) of the choice to break the JSON standard and introduce features that are significant for configuration files (comments, essentially, and to a very minor extend, trailing newlines in arrays).

I've never seen Deco, but it's not an established standard. Based on the repository, it has no grammar and it even leaves details to the implementations (e.g. multi-line strings). The simplicity comes at a cost, for example, to represent leading whitespaces.

If one asks 10 developers which format they'd use, they'd choose 10 different ones, therefore a certain level of standardization is required.
One of the reasons I love Valve.
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Agree. I’ve been on both sides of this. Forced to learn things as a student as well as rushing through self curated material for a particular purpose. There is definitely some value in simply being a student. Spending 8 years studying to get a phd in math doesn’t guarantee that you will be an outlier (like Carmack) but you will have a solid foundation. I think both types of people are needed to make progress realistically.
What's with the influx of conspiracy driven accounts to HN as of late?
Direct link to the interview where this was said: https://www.theverge.com/23499215/valve-steam-deck-interview...
Isn't that just the PG-13 interpretation of the song, because ChatGPT is censored?
> > we should focus on increasing everyone's standard of living overall

The most important quality of life metric is mental health.

There is no way around the fact that mental health is heavily impacted by the fact that citizens feel worthless when they assess their social status vis-a-vis the top 1%

And no amount of stuff will solve this problem because social status is a zero-sum game.

It's one of those problems that simply cannot be solved.
A useful metaverse is already here and it’s called Google Maps.
If these crypto firms (especially Binance) collapse I can’t imagine surreptitiously deleting their audit reports in middle of the night will allow them to escape unscathed.
In my city in Romania, Apple Maps is missing a lot of locations.
I bought Steam games and a Steam Deck just to support Valve... and I'm not really a gamer. However, the Deck has turned out to be a pretty good computing device.
This is nice for protecting against compelled legal disclosure in the US, but Google could just serve js in the future (targeted to specific users only, if they want) to capture password/key. This is the problem with repeatedly downloading a client which isn't inherently trusted/from the same party holding the ciphertext. Same thing happened LONG ago with hushmail, which used a java applet to do encrypted email -- at some point they chose to serve a "special" applet to some users.
Interestingly, a model of a boat is, in itself, a small boat.
That's not news. We have known that for years.
I know you're right, but I never could figure out why they'd sell singles for less than wholesale. what's the point?
Under that logic I'd still be using my Macintosh Classic.

I see this the other way around: Microsoft released enhancements and security patches for $0, and my computer can run the software.

What could possibly be the point of not changing my software where a new version that does more things is available for free?

Imagine a car manufacturer offering to give you a new car and take you old one with no significant catch and saying no. Why would I do that?

Resistance of change for resistance of change's sake alone is something that is a major pet peeve for me. It represents a negative personality trait in my mind. In my opinion, the day I refuse to use something solely because it's new, different, or scary is the day I've turned into an old grump.
Just because Wray was appointed by Trump does not mean the FBI operated at the whims of Trump. For one, these positions are merely nominated by the president. They still have to be confirmed by the senate. The president is effectively given a list of people from whom he can nominate. There is also strong institutional inertia here.

A lot of people get strong armed by the FBI. They hold a lot of power. This is not conspiracy territory either. There are congressional oversight committees, but their ability to use classified information gives them a lot of leverage.
So hard giving advice nowadays.
Pursuing a PHD will take him around 10 years ...who the hell knows what's coming in 10 years. If he wants to maximize his earnings its very well possible working for the government in whatever is a much better route.
I saw Linux, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, and I thought: one of these is not like the others. It's almost the opposite. What mutual interest can they possibly have?
Re. unions: especially in the Eastern Europe I don't think unions deserve to be called like that "unions". They were just facades for the "communist" political power to reach into every corner of worker's lives. Unions real meaning is negotiation power against the employers, and you must agree there was exactly zero of this in the EE. Might have been something before communism took over, but after WW2 there was no union left worth their name behind the iron curtain.
So essentially they've built an average 10th grade highscool student.
This is shocking news to me. How many extra votes does Rupert Murdoch get? What is the exchange rate from dollars to votes, precisely?
It's worth noting that that this is the same accounting firm which earlier this year retracted 9 years of "statements of financial condition" that they had prepared for The Trump Organization.[1]. The Trump Organization was found guilty of financial fraud earlier this month.[2]. These same Mazar statements are also at the center of another ongoing fraud case being brought by an Attorney General.[3]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyregion/mazars-trump-org...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/06/nyregion/trump-organ...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/nyregion/trump-fraud-laws...
If you are not using Tree Notation for your forms yet, you are doing it wrong: https://github.com/breck7/copypaster
Many reasons:

I know people who work there. I've read the infrastructure designs. I know Amazon audits themselves. I know AWS has third party audits. I know AWS has government and enterprise users who require their partners be legally liable for improper implementation. I do not subscribe to conspiracy.
I was thinking of doing this - how do you like it? How's coding on it?
I never thought about it. Users do indeed hate them. I've never participated in a modern micropayment and intuitively _do_ hate them. He's also right that it doesn't matter why, but I really want to know -- lol. Maybe it's just the added friction between me and content I might have some blanket subscription for?
And as a result they have an amazing cross platform product
It may be a cause-and-effect thing. Possibly when you get into that kind of money you start to behave, think and act more like a king.
> I don't recall the last time that the Murdoch press has had any influence on any policy in either the EU or the United States.

Are you discounting Fox News as being part of the Murdoch Press? Because they definitely have an outsized influence on US policy, at least on the GOP side.
I don't know these numbers, but I bet someone on Murdoch's staff does, at a statistical level.
Because we're interested in the underlying properties of a physical system, eg., people, and this systems happens to be able to provide extremely poor models of itself (Q&A).

We're not interested in people's extremely poor self-modelling which is pragmatically useful for managing their lives, we're interested in what they are trying to model: their properties.

The same is esp. true of a machine's immitation of "self-reports". We're now two steps removed: at least with people they are actually engaged in self-modelling over time. ChatGPT here isnt updating its self-model in response to its behaviour, it has no self-model nor self-modelling system.

To take the output of a text generation alg. as evidence of anything about its own internal state is so profoundly pseudoscientific it's kinda shocking. The whole of the history of science is an attack on this very superstition: that the properties of the world are simply "to be read from" the language we use about it.

Every advancement in human knowledge is preconditioned on opposing this falsehood; why jump back into pre-scientific religion as soon as a machine is the thing generating the text?

Experiments, measures, validity, reliability, testing, falasification, hypotheses, properties and their degrees....

This is required, it is non-negotiable. And what we have with people who'd print-off ChatGPT and believe it is the worst form of anti-science
I don't want to defend the full suite of metrics obsession, but there are substantial downsides to only looking at revenue. The most straightforward examples of this are in the data space - if you have some idea for a clever data skipping optimization that will make your users' workloads much more efficient, but your team's performance is evaluated on revenue, you end up with very strong incentives to not ship it. Most products are going to face some scenarios where long-term success conflicts with a monotonically increasing revenue graph.
I think it in part comes from being trained generation after generation that if I work harder than you, I deserve more than you. So if people want to make things more equal, I will have worked so hard for nothing and that makes me unhappy.

* Note: I used "I", but I don't personally feel this way. If I found out a fast food worker made more than me as an engineer, I wouldn't care. In some ways they work harder.
Also, I don't think CEOs bring as much worth to a company as engineers do and they make way more, so...
Snapping photos of what? Creating maps out of photos? That would be expensive.
> I am utterly confused what is happening with UI development on Windows ecosystem.

As you said MS is all in with React based development for UI nowadays. I read somewhere that new versions of Office 365 applications would be in React.
Everything is a service now, ownership of software doesn't exist outside of forced arbitration through terms of service.
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Then plenty of humans would fail this Turing Test
Both involve manual labor acquiring, packing, and shipping valuable good for use by others; in enclosed areas, surrounded by large, dangerous equipment; where workers are paid below the perceived value of the position, and with top management who grow richer daily while ignoring the plight of the "little man"...

I'd rather work in the warehouse, personally, but I can certainly see how the positions are analogous to the level we could compare expected results of a union.
Never heard of Avalonia before but Win development is a solved problem in the form of Electron. No, seriously. Microsoft's own frameworks are in various states of limbo and increasingly confusing to get started with.
Somewhat on-topic: an excellent book where a philosopher, psychologist, and technologist attempt to provide a cohesive theory of humor and jokes. I love the book:

Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Daniel Dennett, Matthew Hurley, & Reginald Adams

The rough summary is that humor is "the joy of debugging" - an evolutionarily-installed mechanism to provide delight (incentive) to humans for finding (recognizing the absurdity and then removal) of incorrect beliefs.

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Jokes-Using-Humor-Reverse-Engi...
Does PMC stand for "Professional Managerial Class"?
Here for the most part is semi-rural Minnnesota. Within 45 minutes of MSP airport.

I've also checked out (at a very surface level) areas surrounding Nashville and some places in Idaho.

By "plant" I'm talking mostly about non-rooftop solar. I would ideally like to put up about 200-500kw of panels and various mechanical outbuildings (including batteries) to service said install.

I expected the electric company interconnect problems. I did not expect the political pushback for things no one can see. Ideally I'd like to toss up a small wind turbine or two as well, but that's even more controversial these days.

It's not just legal - it's also I need to live in the area as well.

Edit: I also have a very low tolerance for "administrative bullshit" so take this all with a giant grain of salt. My family is rural and on the local town city council so I am especially exposed to current politics.
Let's say we have 2 people in two different walks of life. Jim and Alice.

Both of them are entrepreneurs and like doing startups. Both of their goals are to take a startup from idea to $1 Billion+ IPO in 2 years and exit and then start the next start-up. If they don't reach 1 Billion IPO they just exit.

After 20 years. Jim and Alice have both attempted 10 startups.

Jim has reached the goal 2 out of 10 times. While Alice has reached the goal 8 out of 10 times.

Would it be a fallacy to bet on Alice if you had to invest in either Jim or Alice's startup?