skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a bad point. That moves the conversation from "which organisations must we trust" to "which individuals in the organisations must we trust".

After thinking about it for a bit, I find that argument rather convincing in the case of Signal: very few people would be in a position to add code to the distributed binary without it ending up in the git repo. So with E2EE, we still have to trust the organisation overall, but we don't have to trust any individuals with access to the servers, and the open-source nature lets us avoid trusting any of the individual app developers other than the person/group responsible for producing the final binaries.

It's slightly less convincing in the case of WhatsApp or this GMail thing though. You don't have to avoid a back-door ending up in the git repo, you just have to make it past code review. So in that case, with E2EE, we still have to trust the organisation overall, we have to trust the individuals with access to the app source-code, but it lets us avoid trusting any individuals with access to the back-end.

Still a win I suppose. Just a pretty far cry from how I usually see it advertised, which is more like "thanks to E2EE you don't even have to trust them".
I’m guessing by people you mean me? I’m only talking about the state of ChatGPT as per the examples given. I’m not talking about the wider implications into the future or its other amazing capabilities.
I have mixed feelings about this, I definitely miss some of the playfulness of years long gone.

But a simile comes to mind: The whizz-bang interfaces were like illuminated manuscripts. Beautiful. Works of art. Literal human artistic treasures.

But when I’m reading an email, I do not need dragons curled around drop caps.
Some of it was good fortune I think.

One of Norvig's first jobs was working for Margret Hamilton.

In two dimensions. It's hard to think of a better role model. On the other hand, Norvig left consulting when he left Hamilton and went into academia for a decade.

Which means Norvig spent the decade from his mid-twenties to his mid-thirties in an environment that valued the development of clear communications and valued the ability to teach.

Like anything, what seems to be magic isn't. Norvig sounds professorial because he was a professor during a critical decade of his career. Whatever wisdom he has, has come from the usual route: age. And I suspect his insights are mostly the result of experience like everything else.

To put it another way, if you want to be like Norvig, work hard and stay in school.

Good luck.
He wasn’t talking with senior managers and directors but almost certainly VP level and CxO
Indeed, brainfart, thinking too much about the Apple M1. Thanks!
The fact that some people don’t know how well they have it is not evidence that everything is fine.

Watch a few news reports on poverty in America and you will see that a decent percentage of working adults live with their entire family in a small cramped apartment, can’t afford any vacation, and likely can’t afford emergency medical care if it comes up.

And even those people in the suburbs with all those TVs could have more financial security and work fewer hours if our economy was more fairly arranged.
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do good now! Walk justly now! No one is expected to complete the work, but neither may any one desist from it.”
The only difference between layered and hexagonal is dependency direction.
https://softsolder.com/2017/11/05/battleship-wiring/

They presumably used to have to run an individual wire for every. single. signal, or at most, they'd have extremely simple multiplexing.

I have no idea what these cables do, but I'm glad I'm not the one repairing it. Not only is there physically a lot of wire, 90% of it looks to be going directly to something mechanical.

I don't know how modern ships do it, but with civilian digital logic , you'd probably run a few redundant ethernet(Or fiber, or CAN) links to some kind of fan out box right near the switches or motors.

Cars these days are very extreme about it, sometimes even running the entertainment system commands over the fairly critical CAN bus for some reason.

If one of those cables went bad, spanning tree protocol would save you till you fix it, and probably tell you which cable broke and maybe even where. Mix them up, no problem, firmware knows what to do.

Plus, everything goes through a computer, so you've got logging and all kinds of stuff to help spot issues, rather than the classic "Oh well, noise and intermittent connections, we live with it till it gets bad enough to be all the time".

The only rats nest is right from the mechanical switch to your PLCish thing, but that's short enough to trace by eye.

You might have zero concern about interference in cables, because they might be fiber.

You won't have complicated color code schemes or wiring diagrams, or cut off wires that nobody knows where they go to anymore, you can just test it, because you don't have 50 thousand things to sift through.

People argue about whether digital or analog is more reliable, but digital is definitely easier from a hardware perspective, the hard stuff is done in factories by robots.

I'm sure the technicians had special training and it was a lot better than average civilian industrial uses of the pile o wires system, but I would think it would still be time consuming and not paralellizable, only so many people can fit around one of those giant bundles at once.

I could also be vastly misinterpreting how modern ships are wired, I know some industrial setups today insist on home run wiring instead of condensing to digital.
Making Twitter look as bad and evil as possible sure is an interesting strategy.

Seems to be going great so far, truly galaxy-brain tier marketing.
Police and Thieves: On Tony Gilroy’s “Andor”
I recommend thinking BIGGER than just micropayments for articles.

- Publish alongside the article the amount of $$$ support the post.news has collected for that author to-date. Provides transparency (perceived "relevance" by the readership).

- Create a currency, and interest groups/areas: individual users can pool their monies to support a pool of investigative journalists to focus on a topic area

what others am I missing .. ?
It is a fad. No one really wants this. Just like 3d TVs the novelty fades away after a few hours.
Valve is a great example of how this doesn't work in practice. Jeri Ellsworth got fired and revealed that the supposedly flat hierarchy at Valve is really composed of informal cliques - with the most influential groups having a direct line to the CEO/

Kinda what happened to communism in Russia, if you think about it
The part about not giving a fuck is crucial. You don't get rewarded for preventing bad things.
Sadly there would be no stats for people screaming obscenities to authors of this... dialog, because they tried to move the dialog but instead got to the filename editbox.
The skills and talents needed to lead and influence a big organization are different from those needed to influence a small team. Once the team size surpasses Dunbar's number, a phase shift is required into a qualitatively different way of leading, in order to be effective.

A few years ago I took a new role in my org, a team in a big tech company, where I was expected to influence the technical direction the key infrastructure that supports our mission. I had no direct authority to tell anyone what to do, except the small team that reported to me. But I had the endorsement of the bosses and a reputation as a respected technical voice from years as a senior IC before moving to management. No problem, I thought. We're small, and I know everyone and they know me. Those things had always been enough.

During that time, though, the team headcount grew fourfold, we had been less than a hundred people and now we're three hundred or more. We stopped calling ourselves a "team" and started to say "org" or "department". It was impossible to have personal relationships with everyone, and the ways I used to influence change stopped working. I became ineffective. I could influence individuals, but without defined processes and management systems that cemented my authority I couldn't influence the org efficiently anymore. I could see things going in bad directions, and I could get meetings with leaders and give them my opinion and recommendations. The would listen and nod in agreement, but the ship wouldn't turn.

The result for me was many months of near-burnout, the feeling of shouting into the void. What saved me was leaning on project and product management, and stepping back into a role of setting and influencing requirements and priorities, where I still have a voice people listen to. I use my one-on-one relationships to preview my vision for our direction and get feedback and buy-in from the other leaders, but the PMs manage the team-wide communication and execution. After almost a year of this, I think we're starting to be back in a good place where we have a roadmap and know what we're doing, but I also know we'll never be as nimble as we were when we were 50-75 people.
Emergency messaging tool used during California heat wave
So, things like "functioning markets are good" and "price-fixing is bad"?
Next question: who will get this money, and what do they plan to do with it?
I agree with the spirit of this, but the point is this neither extrajudicial nor monkeyshines, nor out of the ordinary, which means this entire discussion has been bamboozled by business as usual, while more interesting controversies have been neglected.
If anyone from Valve is reading this, I'm not a gamer at all, but I bought a (fully loaded) SteamDeck largely to support your efforts, and secondly to have a cool portable computer. It is (in about a week) going to become a game console hooked up to my TV. I could have got an xbox for much less the price, but the openness, power, and linuxyness of the steamdeck was too attractive to pass up :-D

Please keep it up! you're the heroes we need in this fight.

P.S. I'll be buying games from your store also as my kids are gamers
Philosophy is continuous with science in my view and hence in what words express

That is, in the use of words. Not in words as objects nor words as mirrors --/
this is the road to non-realist spiritualism

I don't have a problem with a person who maintains a non-scientific world view and with electrical AGI mumbojbo

But
of course, few do. They think that they're empiricists, scientists and in the side of some austere hard look at human beings

This is just anti-human spiritualism , it isn't science

what makes me vicious on this point is the sense of injury in what these ideas should be about. in my own mildly aristotleian materialist religion

How awful to overcome one long veil of tears, only to drape another one on -- these people are capable of seeing past human folly, but
fall right into another kind

it's disappointing--- we're animals which are both far much more than electric switches and far
less

this new electic digital spiritualism is a PR grift which i'd prefer dead
I believe you - it's more the perception of how backwards and dysfunctional the IRS seems to operate.
I did receive some advice relating to the gospel about fighting or letting God deal with my problems.

But here's my advice to you.

This is my command to you: love eachother.
I'm a leftist and not a liberal. I recognize that the FBI is a largely unrestrained organization that's responsible for a lot of evil, including the assassination of civil rights figures.
I appreciate the effort you put into compiling this list, but need to point out some flaws:

1.

You listed the Austrian presidents rather than Prime Ministers. Under normal circumstances, the Presidents dutys are mostly of representative nature. They don't need to come from the same party and are not elected at the same time.

2.

> left-wing parties have ruled for the past X years in ...

The Schüssel governments from 2000 to 2007 were composed exclusively of right-wing parties, every government since then was a coalition of both right- and left-wing parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Austria
You're right, it's not a comparison at all.
The basic functionality of the role and remit of the FBI does not entail helping Twitter enforce its terms of service. They’re supposed to be a law enforcement agency that performs criminal investigations to support federal prosecutors, not a secret police force that engages in extrajudicial measures against political dissidents, though I suppose Fred Hampton and Martin Luther King would have something to say about the latter.
>I find that people like democracy,

People like the illusion of democracy and the stability of dictatorship. As we can see from this and the other thread, when the proverbial shit rolls horizontally instead of vertically effectiveness goes down and leadership becomes impotent. The game becomes 'who can I blame this on adjacent to me?' instead of either up or down.

The best way to make everyone happy is to have the democratic discussion, hear everyone out, and then let the boss acknowledge their help and make their decision. Loyalty to the boss, regardless of their decision then determines performance. Team members did their duty by offering their best insight, whether it was selected or not.
I welcome this. Google simply has too much control over this area.

Case: I work for a small, family owned business. It does home remodeling. A large part of how the company generates leads is through the website and Google Business profile (or Google Maps listing).

The business currently ranks well, but there is a growing threat from marketing firms.

This is not a problem with competitors hiring marketing firms. It's marketing firms or solo marketing "gurus" who setup websites for each city in the metro area and a matching Google Business profile. These profiles are often setup through reaching out to local residents who'll accept Google's postcard verification for a new listing at their home address. In return for providing the marketer with the code, the resident gets a small fee.

Once the website and listing start ranking, the marketer tries to get local contractors to buy the leads from them.

This scheme is known as "rank and rent" in some circles (read: among shady marketers).

These actors add no value. It's for this reason that Google explicitly forbids this activity in its Google Business profile listings.

However, go about reporting such profiles, nothing happens.

I welcome a break of the monopoly so that Google and others will start taking more action on shady marketing tactics.
I think people like the idea of democracy more than they like actual democracy. On some level, most people would agree that pure democracy as in one person one vote in every organization is ridiculous. Any organization of sufficient complexity cannot possibly be fully understood by all of its members. It would be absurd for example to give full voting rights on strategic direction to a new hire. What I think people actually want is the sense that their voice is heard by the decision makers. They also want the opportunity to advance to the level of decision maker in their particular domain as they gain experience.

The problem that I think most organizations face is that they eventually end up with a strategic decision making level that is impenetrable by the rank and file. The people at this level only hire their friends or promote people who have similar viewpoints to them. This is incredibly demoralizing as well as toxic to the organization because you as a person who is actually doing the work have important context that the strategic leaders don't have and won't listen to.

Solving this problem is one of the more interesting systems problems out there. I'm not aware of any large organization that has truly figured this out (including national governments).
Interesting that ChatGPT didn't assume they were applying for a job as a musician
Single player gaming, indie gaming, and retro gaming are all gaming niches where I'd say that a smooth Linux experience with widespread support is 'already there'.

It's really only the (crucial) segment of big, trendy multiplayer titles where support is still really hit-and-miss. If gaming is essential to your social network, Linux may not be ready for you to entirely switch over.

But if you're someone whose social hobbies lie elsewhere who enjoys solo gaming, there are way more excellent Linux games ready for you to enjoy than there is time for you to play them.
Can someone optimize this further? Seems like there is significant low hanging fruit, as evidenced by this line: https://github.com/openai/tiktoken/blob/main/src/lib.rs#L419
Farmers don't need drinking-safe water but that doesn't justify the price difference.

There should be three grades of water:

1) Untreated.

2) Salty (desalinated, but not to full freshwater standards), used for toilets, showers and the like.

3) Potable.

What you're doing with the water should have no bearing on the price and the price difference should only reflect the additional cost of going from #1 or #2 to #3.

You also pay a separate charge for delivering water to your place, this is omitted if you're getting it from a well and don't need delivery.

The base rates are standardized across a watershed (in this case, every place served by the Colorado river), the delivery charge is based on the cost to provide it to you. (Thus the cabins on the other side of the mountain here that lost their water in a wildfire--when the trees burned it not only damaged the pipe but caused land slippage that destroyed said pipe--pay a whopping delivery charge, but otherwise the same price per cubic foot we do.)
>> "Don't expect people to change their minds, expect them to lose."

Excellent insight

(sadly)
they should be competing with Waze, not Google maps. Waze does all the things you want a mapping app to do, either by flagging traffic events or cops, marking roads under construction, or just having a pleasant UI.

I'm aware Waze and Maps are finally merging together, but let's be real, all the good stuff Maps has gotten recently has come from the Waze side of the house anyway.
5) they print more tether when needed to handle withdrawals. But such massive tether prints can cause market issues.
Disagree specifically for the case of pre-16 Apple Books.

The ability to fiddle with page corners, half-flip pages then flip them back, that kind of thing, made it much more like reading a real book, and it was my favorite way to read ebooks, followed at a distance by e-ink readers, and then, very distantly, by every other non-e-ink way to read ebooks that wasn't Apple Books.

Not joking that the page flip animation was the thing that made the Apple version far and away my favorite way to read ebooks. The new animation doesn't just lose that quality, it's also notably bad even among the all-some-degree-of-bad animations of reader apps in general (not counting pre-16 Apple Books).
> Yeah, even though I'd agree that KF is detestable

I am very curious about this tbh. Has anyone here gone to that site? I read that they just report publicly available info that people have voluenteered online. While I understand that doxxing is terrible and so is targeted harassment, are they that much worse than the daily mail or any other gossip magazine?
Absolutely—it’s also imagineering! Disney has done that for almost a century. But they make money because that’s their bread-and-butter. You’re buying an amazing experience at Disney, VR or otherwise.

Meta’s bread-and-butter is selling peoples data, irrespective of whether teens are committing suicide on their platforms.
The traditional view is that "The workers control the means of production".

Suppose you built a successful small company but, suddenly, every employee quit at once. Could your business carry on the next day? Could it survive until you hired and trained replacements?

If the answer is "no" then you have made the case that employees both deserve to share in the business's success and will probably be incentivised by co-owning the company.

Does the janitor deserve as much of the profits as the CTO? Well, what premium do you put on your other employees not getting sick, or injuring themselves?

(Wasn't there a case where a Google chef made a fortune from stocks? Much to the chagrin of some?)

The opposite argument is that those who risk capital are the only ones who deserve the reward. Without investment, a company can't launch or grow. Workers are an operational cost - they are paid for labour and no more deserving of reward than the electricity company. Both provide a service but neither takes a risk.
Compactness and timing. I don’t know why picosecond switching is a big deal, here? A 3Ghz part with a transistor depth of 40 would require a top end switching rate of 8 picoseconds — and that’s really going to make PD unhappy, as it’d leave no timing margin. At best, this tech is 2–4x faster than the device in your pocket; it’s probably slower, knowing the timing rates of some of the analog-on-digital parts being shipped, right now.
The boilerplate kills me. When ChatGPT first came out, I wasted an entire day chatting with it. By the end of it all, I felt this uncontrollable urge to reach into the ether, grab ChatGPT by the neck, and hold its head under water until it could no longer breathe. I have no idea why, but the way it talks to me makes me want to kill it.

(People have annoyed me before, but I've never wanted to kill them. ChatGPT has unlocked a whole new level of rage I didn't know I had available.)
Android tablets were indeed largely trash 10 years ago, with a couple small exceptions that were super expensive (Samsung). I loved my Nexus 7, but alas it wasn't meant to be.

I love that there are so many super cheap android tablets, but I hate that there are so many super cheap android tablets.
Are they, really?

How did they end up not having enough cash on hand to cover minor emergencies, then? How are they going bankrupt over healthcare costs - even when insured through their job - while having to worry about not being able to take a day off?
It's very annoying how immature the tooling is around multiple languages compiling down to WebAssembly. I tried to have a Rust-C codebase compile to wasm, which failed on `wasm32-unknown-unknown` for C compiler errors. Okay, I'll try `wasm32-unknown-emscripten`. That worked surprisingly enough, but I couldn't get the JS output file to be ES6. So I go online and ask on the Rust forums. A bunch of people come out of the woodwork to tell me that the emscripten backend is broken, that it doesn't interoperate properly with C, and that I should be using `wasm32-wasi`. Okay...I try that and woo more arcane compiler errors.

It should be easier than this.
The trade off is decision cycle time. In a dictatorship, the dictator (and getting their attention) becomes a bottleneck.
Promotion Driven Metrics
Why don't you just mount your big disk on /home, like we used to do in the olden days?
There is always an authority structure in these kinds of companies. I'm personally familiar with Google, but this description of Facebook makes it sound similar...

The upside is that people, in theory, don't need to wait to be promoted to (attempt to) have an outsized influence on what actually happens on their team, in their org, etc. The downside is that the "real" power/influence structure can be a more nebulous/social game, rather than something concrete that is diagrammed out in a visible org structure. It was often said at Google that you get promoted to level X after already doing work at that level, which implies that the people with influence are running around influencing/leading before they've been anointed with an official title that "gives" them authority.

Reading Carmack's letter, it sounds like he consciously chose to prioritize his personal programming/engineering work over his social/influence/leadership at Facebook. In all my observations, past a certain level, you kinda have to choose one or the other. Both are valid choices.
The same way you do now: (NIL) would not answer true to NULL. And it would not be EQ to NIL.
hugs.