skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any interpretation where he is not going down for all of the crypto ills? That the fraud was so straightforward, I expect the book to be thrown at him to make an example. What more could he say at this point to make the situation any worse? His lawyers were surely telling him to stop shut up for the past two months and he didn’t listen then.
>>> I can't avoid to find funny the thought of telling management, as an engineer, what they should do.

Think of it this way - it's fine to "tell your elected representative what to do" - perhaps we should look at executives as an elected function
> Why do you need a car because of family?

Logistics. With a car the schedule is much more flexible and that is a major advantage when you have small children.

Also with four or more people on board it's not really that terrible in terms of space efficiency.

If you want to lower traffic/car ownership single-occupant vehicles are your low-hanging fruit, not families.
It's an extremely hard problem that lots of people are working on.

The trick is that we have "pretty good" results for TTS as-is, but it has significant shortcomings that are more visible in certain use cases. The operative word is "prosody" - the cadence, rhythm, and pauses that are natural when speaking that are heavily dependent on context and content.

Prosody is incredibly important to making natural utterances - TTS models that do not model prosody end up sounding very "flat", which is mostly all of the heavily used TTS engines out there right now. This is less glaring for short responses like what you would get from a voice assistant, but becomes a huge grating problem when you try to do long-form text reading.

The trick with prosody is that it often requires information and context not contained in the text to be read. You would apply a different rhythm and stresses to a horror story than you would to a conference keynote speech, for example. It also requires a more sophisticated understanding of the content of text rather than simply its constituent words, in order to figure out proper stresses and pauses.

All of this is eminently solvable (as demonstrated here with the book voices) but is... rather difficult. I suspect we're not terribly close to a product where you can just feed it raw text (with annotating or otherwise providing additional data as context) and get a great result.
No doubt.

But "the rats scurry into the dark" has never been sufficient justification to stop shining light.

As a recent concrete (though anecdotal) example, there is rumor going around that folks on Mastodon are finding it much harder to do Twitter-style brigading and harassment, because the threat of node-level defederation provides incentive to keep clean houses. Admins who don't want to be defederated police their borders, and people who don't want to play by common rules of decency find themselves on a network-island quickly, as they run out of playmates.

It's old social custom encoded into protocol.
That is nice, but I wonder what the ratio of driving to riding bicycles is in Bentonville. I assume the residents still own cars.
Historical Source Code
The problem is that the threat of litigation is enough to make them essentially enforced. Sure you could go to a lawyer that says this isn't worth the paper its printed on, but either you, or maybe your employer, is now going to have to fight this out in court.

This is not theoretical. A few years back, my wife, who is in ad sales, had very deep relationships with certain companies. These people had become her friends, we vacationed with them. She took a job at AOL, which at the time held many properties like Engadget, Joystiq- there was a whole host of sites that no one had realized on the surface were owned by them, but they had a decent sized media empire at the time. She had to sign a non-compete saying that she couldn't call on anyone she called on at AOL for a period of 2 years. She joins, and smashes her goal. However, about 3 months in, there was a re-org, she was let go, probably for making too much, and got some paltry severance.

She asked to be released from the non-compete. They said no. We lawyered up. He said straight out that he had represented AOL employees before, and they fight these things tooth and nail. He said we would probably win, but it would cost tens of thousands of dollars, and be a cloud over our head for at least the next year or two. He was just being brutally honest with us. We ended up not going that route.

It took her several years to recover. She had to take some jobs at kind of shitty companies because no one wanted to touch her with a non-compete like that, and most of her value was in the relationships she brought to the table. AOL essentially got a book of new business for the cost of a few months salary and commission. Its absurd.

My last company also tried to put an onerous non-compete on me- they only wanted to pay me my base salary which was a fraction of my total comp. They wouldn't even define who their competitors were. I fought against it hard. I was then labeled "difficult" by HR and what had been a bit of a rocket ship of a ride up there all of a sudden came to a stop- I stayed for another 2 years there, but it became clear there was a glass ceiling above me.

Non-competes in any form need to go away. This is restraining the US economy from achieving its potential by reducing labor mobility.
Who even are the big science communicators in for current research in bio? Nobody comes to mind, not even a non-professor.
Detailed financial analysis of the Twitter buyout
> I'm not going to call you naive - just cynical

OnlineGladiator said that you would call them cynical and they would call you naive, not the other way around.
We cannot afford to ransack places like Chile to extract lithium for 'electric vehicles', which plumb new depths of pollution and third world degredation.
The extraction of rare earth minerals for our electronically surveilled and controlled future comes at a terrible cost, as Siddharth Kara's new book "Cobalt Red: How The Blood of The Congo Powers Our Lives" outlines in excruciating detail.

https://read.macmillan.com/lp/cobalt-red/

No one wins in this race to the bottom. If you are contemplating a BEV I would urge you to read up on just how ecologically appalling the batteries are for our planet and people.
You should read the instruction manual to the over $30k machinery you purchased. There's likely many features you didn't realize were there.
> There is a disconnect here with you replying to someone who was talking about the ideal, with your reality.

Their ideal is my reality, because I've never owned a vehicle with more than two wheels and live in a country whose rail density and usage is arguably exceeded only by Japan. So I think I'm pretty well placed to comment on the impracticality of most people forgoing the use of cars altogether in favour of ebikes and rail.

If you don't have any answers to points like trains being unsuited to carrying luggage, rail schedules being suboptimal for individual journeys outside peak use zones and times and most places not being close to a station even with a rail network as dense as the UK's, please don't resort to strawmanning it as "trains are bad" and insisting that everything I said about rail logistics boils down to British Rail[1] management...

I'm all in favour of people walking and cycling more and getting trains when that makes sense, but that isn't going to result in many of them not needing cars (and associated batteries) for other journeys.

[1]an organization with this name was wound up in 1997 and replaced with a succession of franchises - many with exprience running rail networks overseas - awarded by competitive tender. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, changing the management wasn't a panacea...
d) The FTC is not a monolith: it's a large group composed of a great many people, who have varying levels of loyalty to the organisation's purported raison d'être.
Tesla's poor fit and finish has become legendary, certainly not up to snuff compared to other automakers at their price point. They're not even up to snuff compared to automakers making cars costing half as much.

Another aspect of being an automaker for which Tesla is woefully behind on is service and repair. They've gotten away with it during their first few years because their sales were low and were to enthusiasts. Now things are going to be different because they're selling into the general market at a price point where the customers expectations have been set by the likes of Lexus, Audi, Mercedes, etc. They're going to have an interesting time should they get into an accident and need repairs. It's not uncommon for Tesla customers to have to wait weeks or even months for repairs.

While 1.3 million cars is a decent amount, it pales to Toyota's 8 million cars - which they've been doing now for decades. That's a lot of experience Tesla doesn't have under their belt.
I’ve heard this too about number theory. Perhaps in that field, the paradigm shift lies in reducing incidental complexity? Or even managing it in a way that is better for humans?

> it takes a PhD before people can even understand the frontier of most scientific fields

It’s interesting that we have this implicit view that hyper-specialization is the only way to advance. I always thought so too, but why really? If you think about it, specialization is very close to incrementalism. Groundbreaking paradigm-shift stuff can often be written down on a napkin, and rarely does it require a PhD.

That said, to find treasure you have to go down a LOT of wrong paths before you (or someone else) ends up in the right one.
Scott Aaronson is more than willing to praise research whenever there has been actual progress made. There is just a lot of bullshit in his field (or maybe there is a normal amount of bullshit but it is amplified more by the media).
CoinDeal’s Bentleys Weren’t Real
"People & Culture" is the new hot term.
"her plan for after software is to be a cashier at trader Joe's"

Is it that she needs the money/benefits or just wants to keep working at something?
WhatsApp Proxy to Bypass Internet Blocks or Shutdowns
This comment always stuck with me - does anyone know more of the history ombudsmen, who must've existed prior to the rise of modern HR departments?

> octokatt on Feb 19, 2020 | parent | context | un‑favorite | on: Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Ube...

> why must it be this way
Companies used to have Ombudsman; literally a board member who did nothing but listen to employee complaints and help them e heard. This tended to lead to unions, which reduced company profitability, and was replaced with the current HR model, which is now giving way to out-sourced HR models.
Keep your friends close?
I never used stitch fix, but remember looking at them several years ago. Agree that it’s a very tough problem to solve, especially for men’s wear.

I think it’s a great idea for a company and can work very well, but I don’t think it has the capability for never-ending growth.

With women’s wear, I could definitely see a huge number of clients buying monthly-to-quarterly. For men’s wear, I can’t see many doing this on a consistent basis. Seems like most would be up for new clothes 1-2x/year, unless you’re looking to revamp your whole wardrobe. Even then after a year you’ve got a new wardrobe and wouldn’t need them again for a long while.

Looking at their website, the brands they tout are essentially mall staples too, nothing special. So the main value-add would be the stylist.

Most men would be better served hiring a stylist for a major sale weekend (post Christmas, Black Friday, Memorial Day) and having them take you to the mall to get all of those things at a steep discount.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/49415.stm
Are You a Primate?
Let us know if you also disagree with the nhtsa studies, and how your anecdotal evidence overrules them.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...

They list 18 fatalities involving FSD, but i'm sure their inaccurate per your understanding?

I'd say a FSD, like we see in the youtube video, or that kills people as the NHTSA shows isnt a benefit to road users.

IN the youtube video, can the car go over 15 seconds without attempting to run into the curb?
Also commonly-held positions that are false, or not applicable in a certain jurisdiction. Google can be misleading.

This is one of the big advantages of having a good network of friends and family with a wide variety of expertise. I wouldn't necessarily ask my lawyer friends to review a contract for me ... but I won't hesitate to ask if I should ask a lawyer, or about a general principle or clause that seems weird and help inform if I need more specific paid advice.
The place where Teslas form the largest fraction of the car population is Norway. They don't seem to have more problems with winter than any other car brand. I have driven my 2015 Mode S 70D at 1000 m altitude, -20°C, on numerous occasions with no problems at all.

My Model S is certainly better at handling the winter than a Nissan Leaf of the same vintage.
>Yes there is, AtSpi, the accessibility protocol.

Right, "protocol" in that sentence meant "Wayland protocol". I'd forgotten about AT-SPI, and it's true that it solves that problem, though it seems that it also includes API for synthesizing input which would require the compositor to implement something.

>I'm wondering if there is a way to somehow get active window position, move windows around etc. using root privileges

Root doesn't matter, because the compositor isn't running as root either. ie being root won't give you any more privileges over it that just being the same user doesn't.

Things like "active window position", "move windows around", and even the entire concept of "windows" are internal to the compositor. Wayland only talks about surfaces; what the compositor does with those surfaces is up to the compositor. It might display them as windows, or as sides of a 3-D rotating cube, or print them through a printer. So you're not going to get that information from anywhere other than the compositor.
I mean on your incest example specifically there's an episode of New Amsterdam, a very Liberal show on what I assume is a Liberal channel, which deals with exactly the situation you raise and ends with a fairly "hands off" conclusion, live and let live effectively. As a majority position holder on the topic I find it unsettling but thought provoking.

It's very hard not to assume bad faith on the internet nowadays and the subtext of your post seems to align with the Free Speech position of "I should be able to say whatever I want, wherever and whenever I want, and publishers must platform me and any pushback or negative reaction is dictatorship".

Usually "whatever I want" is some combination of trans, race, class, AGW, right wing moral panic.

I don't know, maybe try sticking to platforms that are open to your 'bold' ideas and don't try and force everyone else to read them without reacting.

Edit: Hackernews is one of those platforms in my opinion. As much as I disagree with many of the moderation decisions I see here (since it requires an almost laughably naive interpretation of people's actions to respond in good faith sometimes and one wonders who benefits) I think this is an appropriate platform for many discussions and the good policy on throwaway accounts means I can express my true views on e.g. abolishing copyright which would be personally and professionally toxic if expressed on e.g. LinkedIn.
I guess being a poor kid who went to college in the 90s and chose his major before he had the internet had its perks.

I never considered studying the things that actually interested me because I knew they were going to end up in dead end careers, and I didn't want to be broke my entire life. It's the same reason I didn't go to the top schools that accepted me. Hell, I didn't even go to the top schools that offered me scholarships because I was afraid of the cost. It's also why I ignore the pleas of people who came from substantially better backgrounds during the internet era and claim that they couldn't have known better and deserve debt forgiveness.

They SHOULD have known better. They had every resource to know better.
That TLDR is really hard to follow...

I think nothing here is new. Malicious adverts are taking users to fake download pages for software loaded with malware.

People have been doing that since online advertising was invented. This post is just using, and inventing (masquerAd??), buzzwords to try and imply they have uncovered something new.
Mercedes Tries to Outdo Tesla with Its Own EV Charging Network
Having worked salary jobs in tech in both countries, I can tell you that hierarchies are a much bigger thing in Germany than in the U.S. In tech companies as well as in academia, FWIW. Her Professor, Herr Direktor, these are actually still a thing in Germany.
That's a fair criticism, it might be me gatekeeping.

To explain myself, these are specifically my pain points with Auto's repo:

1) No stable releases or versioning. This makes it difficult to use, as any given pull of the repo could be in a broken state. A better alternative is to, at the very least, tag known working commits.

2) Lack of testing; this is related to above. Even basic tests that would stop things like LDSR from randomly breaking would be a huge boost in usability.

3) Easier to use UI. This isn't a huge thing; Auto's UI is fine, though some better guides and documentation would be nice. But InvokeAI's UI and default settings are much better, in my opinion.

4) Lack of an official Dockerfile. It's nicer to have things in one place, especially to keep them in lockstep with code changes.

5) Association with racism.

When I said "professionally maintained" I didn't mean to imply maintained by a business or some other sort of gatekeeping. Though I can see how it read that way, and I appreciate your comment on it.

Instead I just mean things like the above, which other projects are getting right. They just don't yet have the feature set of Auto's project.
> For example, if you're being harassed, it's very often in the company's interest to stop that happening. It will cause you and perhaps more people to quit if they don't, and there might be legal risk.

Depends. You going to sacrifice a secretary or a engineering manager?

You basically need to try and determine what your value is to the org before going to HR.
That's been my experience too -- after all, HR people are also just trying to do their jobs as well as they can, and if you need something they perceive as their job to provide, they're usually helpful.

But it's important to remember that "representing the company" absolutely can include unethical behavior like stonewalling employees, lying on management's behalf, and slow-walking your requests until they finally time out (by design).

Having experienced that in a big-company context, I would suggest people be very careful and have a Plan B for any HR interaction, especially in time of layoffs. While you're getting hired and set up then HR is probably on your side, to a reasonable approximation, and when they're not your manager will help. After that, never assume they're on your side, or on your manager's side -- HR will absolutely go behind the back of a manager too on behalf of "the Company" (i.e. higher managers).
Yeah, but the even temporary loss of backup/export is a significant adoption blocker.
> If someone's going to drive company culture, why shouldn't it be HR?

Because HR people are natives of HR culture and only have second hand knowledge of what “engineering culture” or “finance culture” or $WHATEVER culture is, much less what makes a good/healthy/productive engineering or finance or $WHATEVER culture.

I will also add that, while there are a few very talented HR people (and the good ones are freakishly good), most folks in the HR field ended up there rather than sought it out. They are not collectively the most talented or ambitious group of people, and the field often attracts ideologues who sometimes have dysfunctional perceptions of the world we live in.
https://wingolog.org : lispy/ecmascripty/WASMy implementation details
The whole `if` portion is for if the second character of the argument (after the initial `-`) is a second `-` [0].

In that case, the switch jumped to `case '-':` hidden within the macro, and the if statement is about processing long arguments (like `--help`). arguments only available as a short flag should never get executed as part of a short flag, so putting them inside the if(0) case is an easy option.

An alternative without if(0) of any variety would be:

ARG_BEGIN {
if (ARG_LONG("reverse")) case 'r': {
reverse = 1;
ARG_FLAG();
} else if (ARG_LONG("input")) case 'i': {
input = ARG_VAL();
} else if (ARG_LONG("output")) case 'o': {
output = ARG_VAL();
} else if (ARG_LONG("help")) case 'h': case '?': {
printf("Usage: %s [OPTION...] [STRING...]\n", argv0);
puts("Example usage of arg.h\n");
puts("Options:");
puts(" -a, set a to true");
puts(" -b, set a to true");
puts(" -c, set a to true");
puts(" -r, --reverse set reverse to true");
puts(" -i, --input=STR set input string to STR");
puts(" -o, --output=STR set output string to STR");
puts(" -h, --help display this help and exit");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
} else { default:
fprintf(stderr,
"%s: invalid option '%s'\n"
"Try '%s --help' for more information.\n",
argv0, *argv, argv0);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
break;
case 'a': a = 1; ARG_FLAG(); break;
case 'b': b = 1; ARG_FLAG(); break;
case 'c': c = 1; ARG_FLAG(); break;
case '\0': readstdin = 1; break;
} ARG_END;

The downside is that those few short flag only arguments no longer line up nicely with the others, and they come after the default, which could be a little bit confusing.

Footnote:
[0] Except if that second dash is the last character of the argument, in which case -- is the end of flags marker, meaning any further arguments that begin with `-` are just funky positional paramaters
GitHub has chosen to appeal to the centroid of its perceived potential userbase. That includes a certain amount of common-decency policing of content others choose to host on its service.

They'd rather lose a few Automatic1111's than have schoolteachers telling students "Don't go on GitHub, it's not safe" (or having school administrations ban its use).
I think every gen gets to learn this lesson. Not just 2015-16. I have seen it many times in my 30yrs. Newbie gets in a twist over something (usually very justified). HR is then a role of the dice if they will help or just come down on everyone or just the two involved, etc... They usually are the arbiters of policy, that they made, rightly or wrongly.
I realized that I essentially never use a "switch" statement. It seems like a control-flow construct that made sense in the 1970s to help the compiler generate jump tables, but doesn't seem particularly useful now. Moreover, it seems error-prone with accidental fall-through. And doing "fancy" things with it makes code very hard to read. Does anyone else find "switch" kind of redundant?
Irrespective of this blog post, that is probably a good take away.
Non-competes do not protect an organization against IP theft or trade sceret dismenination. Those are portected by NDAs, confidentiality agreements, copyrights, patents, etc.

Non-competes limit where your staff can go to. Without proper compensation for the time period in which they apply for, they're a very one sided (and in some cases illegal [NCs are legal in IL unless they assert an economic hardship]) way to prevent employees leaving. The claims for them is "training cost is expensive and it's to limit staff from training at one company and leaving" (which as we know.. companies generally don't do training in house)