skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense as to why an employer would want a non-compete.

Is there some way that this translates into why "we the people" would want to allow companies to enforce non-competes?

From my perspective, if a company's sauce is personal relationships, the non-compete is not particularly effective in engendering loyalty and extracting the greatest value from that relationship.

A disaffected salesperson is not going to be enthusiastic about leveraging their relationships for an employer they're unhappy with -- whether they're under a non-compete, or not. This means they'll extract the minimal value to keep their salary, but not the maximal value out of the potential they have access to.

In fact, a non-compete prevents that salesperson from bringing that relationship to a different company, where that relationship might produce greater dividends for "we the people" (as measured by the new company's ability to attract salespeople and engender their loyalty).
I agree that ethics are a luxury good, but for developers they're a pretty easily affordable one. As I said, people can have good reasons for working for bad people. But many don't.

Back when email spam was relatively new, sometimes I would track down a spammer, call them up, and ask them what they were doing. Some were apologetic! They didn't know why it was bad, or had gotten talked into something by a sleazy sales guy. But I still remember one conversation with a guy who clearly felt bad about it but wasn't going to stop because he had a family to feed.

What I hope he eventually figured out is that everybody has a family to feed, but that doesn't justify harming other people and their families. I get that in the short term people end up stuck in things where the didn't realize what was going on. for example, that's how I ended up working in financial trading for a while. But I got out. It may take them a while, but others can too.

And for those that can't figure it out or don't care? I don't want to work with them until they do. They get to make their choices, but I get to make mine.
I'm planning to write a future post on "common compiler generated code" to recognize those patterns. The intention of this post was to encourage folks who think asm is scary to give it a try because it's not as bad as they think. You really need to spend a bunch of time with godbolt or a debugger with a side-by-side source and asm view to really build an intuition for these things. I want to try to give folks the tools they need to start building that intuition, because you can read dozens of articles about asm and still have no idea what you're doing.
> As far as i remember Pentium at 100 MHz was slower than a 486 DX/4 at 100 MHz

No... the Pentium had advantages in both IPC (two pipes vs one) and bus speed (66MHz/64 bit vs at most 50MHz/32 bit).

I'd be interested to see a more info on this this, but I suspect you'd be hard pressed to write anything at all on the DX4 that ran faster than on the Pentium.

(The jump from Pentium to Pentium Pro would've been different, due to the way the Pentium Pro deliberately sacrificed 16-bit performance for gains on the 32-bit workloads Intel thought would dominate by then.)
When are webhooks going to be released?
Webhooks inside a spreadsheet would be :fire: (looks like emojis don't work on HN, SMH).
The electric bike people really need to shut up with the activism.

Electric bikes are more unsafe than motorcycles ! This is irregardless of infrastructure (eg. I checked stats in Netherlands which is cyclist utopia according to HN).

I used to ride a motorcycle but I would never actively encourage someone to start it - it's just irresponsibly risky. If you chose to do it regardless (like I did) that's your choice - but me advocating it is like promoting smoking or alcoholism/drug abuse.
I want to ask a really base level question. And maybe it doesn't relate to this article in particular. Why do I get the vibe that people talk about HR as if it's some sort of clandestine political power center in our society? Or is this is just a recent right wing talking point?

I could maybe see a power struggle between "engineering" and "design" in a company like Apple. Is HR not just a basic managerial function the the CEO can adjust as necessary if something goes wrong?
It does not make any sense to suffer through 5+ years of unsatisfying job with (relatively) low pay, just to have a very small (<5%) chance to make enough money to retire. This chance is actually much smaller if you own less than 5% of the company (i.e. not a founder or C-level).

Source: worked for 7 startups in the last 20 years.
> but manage them better on something more profitable.

Well, yeah. I mean the entire endeavor of operating a for-profit business is to find the combination of resources/effort/ideas that creates value. The problem space is enormous though and more often leads to failure than success. If you see a successful combination though, stop posting here and start your own business!
I assume they either make money or plan to make money from it. And as long as it’s optional I guess it’s fine BUT why not give a little cut to those who provide images in the form of a reduced fee?
Preliminary results are results from a previous experiment that already had to be funded. And yeah, you don't want to throw funding at researchers who are only getting weird results because they are bad at conducting research.
My understanding was that this was one of the big competitive advantages for California. I could be totally off, but wasn’t a reason to work in California that you’re not getting stuck with hostile noncompetes?
Some explanation of the context, and some more solutions, can be found at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/3766, including a 176 byte solution in Python.
> People like to say it's just a few bad apples, but it's far more prevalent than that.

Not discounting your point at all, but the best response when someone says this is to point out that the saying is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch". It's very literal- an apple that's going bad releases fumes that cause other apples nearby to spoil. So it's very important to find them and get rid of them before that happens.

Completing the analogy is an exercise left to the reader.
> Tire pollution is a far more serious problem than tailpipe emissions.

What an extraordinary claim.
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This appears to be quite nice assuming it works, but I wonder: how does this work?

I thought ChatGPT could only process a very limited context (a few thousand words or so) and this claims to work for repositories <100 MB, which is gigantic in comparison.

The site says: "we will download [the repo] to the server and create embeddings against the code". What kind of embeddings are these?
Crypto is as much a part of the "real world" as anything else. Like everything else in the real world, we need to decide at a societal level how we want to use it then regulate that use with "regulatory control".
.. and yet, internet memes get currency because they express something people feel and hadn't seen articulated, or at least so succinctly.

So why don't you address the underlying issue instead of denigrating the meme? If you have something to say about it, that is.
What is Medium?
After an initial small investment, I was able to take notes.

Then it was keeping my todos on projects at work, getting a list, etc. Then I could add source blocks and execute them.

Now it’s a literate and repl driven engine that is nearly a daily driver. I love the workflow because I build up the code and tests as I’m playing and tweaking it. The feedback loop is very strong. Plenty of maintenance cost though.
These are not the same at all. Actual studies on vaccines have showed that people didn't have the various conditions (eg autism) above the baseline level. On the other hand, studies of covid that include control groups have shown that some proportion of people have longer-lasting symptoms that do not appear in the control group. It's also my understanding that other viruses have been known to cause longer-lived effects as well, so this is not limited to SARS-CoV-2.

It's totally true that you can't just go by an individual person's account of what happened to them, but I think the evidence for the existence of long COVID goes beyond that.
I agree that on highways motorcycles' horrible drag (easily 2x of cars) results in terrible fuel economy considering their size.

Around town at low speeds (therefore drag is negligible), size becomes an asset, and a small motorcycle or scooter can get very good fuel economy, assuming it doesn't have an insanely overpowered engine.

An electric motorcycle or scooter around town is extremely efficient.

For example, the Arcimoto (https://www.arcimoto.com/) gets 5.5 miles/kWh.

The Aptera (which blurs the line between motorcycle and car) gets 10 miles/kWh! By comparison the Model 3 (the most efficient current mass market EV) gets 4 miles/kWh.
I don't even get the AI/ML wipers. Like you say, IR (and I believe some, though a definite minority, even use electrical conductivity/resistance) auto wipers have been reliable[1] for nearly three decades now. Why do we need ML for wipers? Are we anticipating new types of rain that existing auto wipers won't recognize?

[1] To those about to say "they're not reliable", I'm yet to find one that can't be tweaked with the sensitivity controller. If anything the only flaw I have had is when my wiper _blades_ are near the end of their life and they leave a 'streak' of water droplets over the sensor, and increase the false positive.
If I recall, the current plans for the Artemis base is a small nuclear reactor.
As more RISC and CISC architectures add more sets and extensions the more similar they become as they end up targeting each other's design challenges.

Which makes architecture moot.
city downtowns are filled with criminals, homeless, and drug addicts. not very kid friendly env
That's actually something I want to tackle in the next post I'm writing. I need good examples though of stuff like that, so I think I need to spend some time with godbolt...
> The most baffling part of all of this is that he has never attempted to escape.

SBF is either a criminal genius, or so self-deluded he might be borderline psychotic.

A criminal genius, knowing what they're doing is a crime, would have an exit strategy.

The fact there wasn't an exit strategy tells me that SBF really believed in what he was doing. That he really was the genius everyone has been telling him he was. So the conclusion I'm drawing is this just self-delusion on a grand scale.

I mean, there's really no other explanation for him running his mouth against his lawyers advice, talking about how everyone doesn't understand this will all work out he was about to close another $8B etc. He really believes he's the smartest guy in the room. If only we regular folk could understand him. He's not living in reality.

Usually the worst guys like this do is con their friends/family out of a $100k to start some wild ass venture that "can't go wrong". This guy talked his way into how many billions? I suppose the difference is attributable to how well connected he was.

If so, what a damning indictment on the rich, well connected, cultural elite in and around SBFs world. The right has been pointing out for a while that the cultural elite seem disconnected from reality. We'll, here's some hard evidence that supposition may in fact be correct. Call it an "elite" bubble, where they're so disconnected from reality that whatever they seem to believe works out, so they must all be geniuses. The people setting cultural policy in this country are untethered from any sort of day-to-day reality.

I mean, SBFs mother wrote that piece about not assigning blame when things go wrong. [1] Parents with this kind of thinking raise deluded kids like SBF. And his well connectedness got him the $Bs needed to create this disaster.

If my hypothesis is correct, then this guy is heading towards a huge mental breakdown. He's never been challenged by reality, and frankly won't know what to do with himself once the prosecution gets running and the blows start landing fast and furious. It was only two days ago the judge told him to stop accessing Alameda funds, at which point SBF became "animated". [2] This rich kid is in for a collosal wake up call.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-frieds-mom-wrote...

[2] https://twitter.com/molcranenewman/status/161036343874802073...

edit: edited to point out this is an indictment of the trusted people in and around SBFs world, not "wokes" or "elites" in general.
I've used both Tesla and Honda's Carplay for ~2 years now. I really enjoy Carplay (and the phone integration is a huge plus), but a few things:

- re: waze - huh? Google Maps is just fine. The differences are such a personal preference that they are moot.

- The touch controls on Carplay are not great. Try pinching and zooming on Google Maps in Carplay and its awful. (note - I do think Tesla misses the boat on having more physical controls as they almost rely entirely on touch...which is unsafe and not great)

> But here's how the current Mercedes navigation looks

Looks awesome, but that appears to be on a €185k ICE car.
Do not forget Czechoslovakia and Tesla:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(Czechoslovak_company)

Here in Brno they also made world class electron microscopes & some of the leading electron microscopy companies still come from Brno or at least operate there (Delong Instruments, FEI, Thermo Fisher, etc.).
there is no wind on the moon.
How would that work with software, or other collaboratively developed corporate owned works? If a windows kernel developer dies do those lines of source code become public domain?
> You seem to be completely ignoring the rest of the iceberg that this glorified screen rests on.

Yeah the stuff it rests on such as the frame, the suspension, the wheels... That's the vast majority of the cost of a car. What sensors are you thinking about that add supposedly many many thousands of dollars to the cost of a car? Backup sensors aftermarket, at retail, can be had for $20. Mobileye sells aftermarket ADAS kits for <$1k installed, at retail. What do you think an automaker moving a million of those a year pays per unit?

Tear out a all of those computers and sensors from a $35k car and....now you're at a $33k with a lot of the comfort options removed.

Which part of the iceberg do you imagine makes up the majority of this cost? Which seems to be the most expensive part: the Android tablet, the $200 worth of sensors, or the couple thousand pounds of metal called the frame?

Could you ship a car without many computers on it? Sure, maybe. You'd have a hard time meeting emissions requirements without some kind of EFI though, so instantly there's a computer there. Same goes with needing to have some kind of EGR system to once again meet emissions and fuel economy standards. Then, you're going to have a hard time having a purely mechanical ABS, which without you'll get incredibly poor safety scores. These days a backup camera is required in the US, so you'll need some kind of display and a camera.

Like, sure, one could make a car without many computers in it. It wouldn't be radically cheaper than cars with computers in it, it will probably perform worse and have fewer comfort features. The only real selling point would be "hey, its a basic car!"

You probably wouldn't sell nearly as many units as the big auto makers, as I really doubt it would be as popular (for example, why isn't the Mirage the most popular car in the US?). This means your per unit manufacturing costs would be higher. In the end I imagine such a vehicle would actually cost more in the market than less as some of the big costs like safety testing would amortize over a much smaller fleet of vehicles.

Even the Aptera, an incredibly stripped down car, is estimating ~$25k base.

Lets take the Mirage for an example. ~$16kUSD for the extreme base tier. Tear out the computers, the motor, the transmission, we're probably at like $11k. Now add in a 45kWh battery pack at ~$151/kWh so ~$7k, and we're at ~$18k. Add a drive unit/charging system for another few grand, and we're at ~21k. Starting price for the Bolt, $27k, and that comes with all those fancy "make the car a smartphone" features. And if we price it with the Bolt's battery size (60kWh) it gets even closer.
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I don’t disagree with anything here.

Some people look at them as ‘impartial judges’. They are not. They have to take the side of the company which will result in more success for the company (not necessarily the manager, or upper manager, but rather the company itself).
I've been having a ton of success using sqlite to analyze structured textfiles. CSV data, etc.

Beforehand, I would have either used some hacked up unix tools (grep, cut, awk, uniq, sort), or if things are super complex loaded them into something like postgres - which requires a lot more overhead. Sqlite seems to be in the sweet spot where seeing tabular data within a db takes almost no work at all.
The giveaway was all the cars they make.
Ugh. This is matching so many stereotypes I had about the AI art community.

This has been bugging me for a while. The AI community is morally and ethically bankrupt. Whether it be OpenAI scraping the shit out of FOSS code so they could sell it back to us, Clearview AI scraping people's Facebook photos to train law enforcement tools, or whatever. It's all a "someone else's data" play. At least Stability AI released their model weights to the public that they scraped data from.

The whole field is being coopted by grifters, too: you see plenty of videos on how to make "passive income" by reselling low-effort AI art on print-on-demand sites. Yes, it is possible to make actual art with AI, but you need to actually spend time with inpainting and prompt engineering to make it work. This grift is not that. It is literally just "type prompt, spam result, receive bacon". Think like how Amazon marketplace sellers turned Amazon into a shittier flea market.

The underlying technology is hilariously exclusionary, too. No we don't have training code for our "open" AI, and if you had it you couldn't use it because you need a rack full of A100s. Let us also not forget that neural networks are basically proprietary software's final form: perfectly functional piles of weights with no extant source code, no way to explain what they're calculating, and basically no reverse-engineering tools. Even in the Actually Libre AI case where we have model weights and reproducible training code, we still can't verify that an AI is doing what we told it to do[1].

I'm not exactly a believer that technology is cursed with the values of the people who created it. You can definitely wrestle good technology out of the hands of bad people. But the converse is definitely true: people who have terribly shit values will curse the technology that they use. Or, more specifically, they will gravitate to whatever they can bend to fit what they want. And it definitely feels like AI art is attracting exactly the kinds of people who don't create, only consume.

[1] AI safety experts call this the inner alignment problem.
> this comment doesn't show up (probably because it's a descendant of a flagged comment)

Correct - this how HN's software works these days. We didn't do anything specific to the thread; it's just that users flagged the root comment.

Btw I wasn't part of any internal YC discussions about banning anybody but I know and like breck from our time in W09 together, I have a lot of experience with this on the HN side, and you're unlikely to be able to extract the real story from material on the internet.

Speaking generally, there's an asymmetry with stories like this: one side can take to the open internet and say anything, while the other side can't or won't—and sometimes one of the reasons, ironically, is to protect that very person.
> Do we really want GitHub to enforce its terms of service?

No we don't. That's why people are upset.
I've been following Dave's progress since the very start, so it's odd to see it here at HN! The project is incredible. He's building a whole new computational stack, from bottom-to-top. It's robust-first, indefinitely-scalable, and a huge inspiration to me. I wouldn't be working in tech right now if it wasn't for the T2 Tile project!
The CEO does it. Or the board if they won’t. There’s also someone higher up the tree.
Piracy takes too much work. I have limited time outside of work,study and self-care stuff, for that netflix and prime are more than adequate.

LOTR and Peripheral on prime were top-notch, just watched cowboy bebop (sad they are not making more) on netflix. I simply am never in a situation where I can't find watchable content. There is nothing I can pirate where the quality improvement is worth finding a torrent/magnet, waiting for it to download (and hope it has subs, I like subs) transfer it to TV or connect my laptop or run a plesk server or something like that.
EV lifecycle carbon footprints are much lower than a gasoline car's.
Agree. Every few months I check back in to see if anything at all has been proven and still nada. It certainly doesn't help that completely subjective things like sense of smell and how tired you are are key components.
Any stories after that conversation?
Lots like this
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also subscription via websockets! it’s an interesting new trend.
Some studies, including one that followed The Biggest Loser contestants [1] showed that your basal metabolic rate goes down as much as 23% as a result of significant caloric restriction and remains lower for at least the 6 years of the study - even if the weight is regained. For these contestants the restriction was very significant, though I'm not sure if it's quantified in the study.

Here's another interesting one. Check out the Energy Expenditure section of [2].

> The gross BMR decreased in all the subjects during semistarvation, the average decline being 17.1% after 19 days (54) and 21.4% after 13 days (55). [3]

Based on this data, I would expect your BMR to go down by 20% over a period of three weeks, and remain there for the rest of your life were you to continue this for a while. So you'd have to, as an 'average' person, reduce intake by 500kcal to account for metabolic adaptation, then another 500kcal to lose 1lb per week.

That aligns with your suggestion that 750kcal-1000kcal reduction should show results for most people.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27136388/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673773/

[3] https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1958.1...
That's very Emacs of Vim.
Like many others here, I never stopped. It's not about money, but availability and overall experience.

An experience that has stuck in my mind: as a poor Eastern European who pirated everything as a student, after emigrating to the West, earning "western money" and getting a visa card and all that, I thought: "now I'll buy legally, cool, I'll be an upstanding citizen".

However,
when I wanted to buy from itunes or whatever it was (10+ years ago), I was told "The content is not available in your location".
Um, yes, it is available, for free, even: if you don't want my money, your loss!

Since then, I have had enough similar experiences that my default is the seven seas.

I have bought games on steam and gog, that was ok. Ebooks, however, are, even in 2023, mostly a drm-filled usability nightmare.
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