skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One more thing you should consider in your argumentation is, that in non-whitespace-sensitive languages the programmer can make fewer mistakes when pasting code:

It could be pasted at a completely wrong position of course, before some other expression or after some other expression, where it should not be. Aside from that however, the programmer cannot make a mistake by pasting it in a place, that is between 2 expressions, because that is one potentially huge correct position to paste that code. It stretches from the end of one expression to the beginning of the other expression. Anywhere in between the programmer can paste code.

In contrast to that in Python and other whitespace-sensitive language, one has to be very careful about where to paste. Only in the case of pasting at the semantically correct indentation level (basically one tiny position in the code) can the editor/IDE/tool know how to indent things. Of course humans make mistakes and paste maybe 1 space to the left or right or even a whole indentation left or right of the correct position and then the tool cannot help you make your code do the right thing. It could be valid code, accepted by the compiler or interpreter, but still semantically wrong, doing something you did not want it to do.

The tool cannot fix the pasting at wrong position mistakes made by humans in all generality, because it does not know the actual intention and it can be ambiguous what the result should be.

I hope this makes a long discussion a bit clearer.
Maybe it's wrong. At least in the chart, they are missing the Bitcoin invention in 2009 (technology). There was the last "disruptive" science in the area.
"Or Disney employees who want to pack themselves on the back for being progressive enough"

I think this is the main driver of much of the fault in current society. Not Disney employees but people on the extreme of both political spectrums who are relatively few in number but very loud. They take over the conversation and speak so loudly that everyone else is afraid of objecting for fear of being cancelled or made fun of. Social media has made the issue 100x worse. The majority center who for the most part just want everyone to get along have lost power. Everyone wants to tell everyone else how to live and force their opinions on the public. I just want everyone to be able to live happy quiet lives. This is not a comment hearkening for the return to the "good ol days" as I know that being gay or black was a hundred times harder a few decades ago. Today its no longer ok to be not racist, we have to be radically anti-racist. Its not ok to be pro gay people having equal rights, we have to be be for openly advocating for transexuality in schools. Its all exhausting.
> But, on a good, sunny, warm day, their range claims are correct.

Just like FSD works, vaguely, on a good clear day (not too sunny, though, in case you blind the vision sensors!) on good roads.

Totally ready "this year".
> it might be a bad area or a bad employer.

Outside of big cities, there may not be enough demand, esp. consistent demand, to justify good pay and bennies.

My uncle is a welder, has a lot of specializations including some underwater stuff. No shortage of offers... for 6 weeks of work in nowhere-ville, often requiring you to supply your own transport and housing. 3 months in FL, 6 months in NC, 8 weeks in GA. And they all pay crap.
Related to the other comment about HR having their own goals...

HR may want to get rid of that engineering manager anyway, so they can be replaced with someone that improves their demographics quotas, I mean targets.

I have actually seen such targets in some OKRs for one or more HR teams, somewhere.
The only reason stirner didn't explicitly defend liberalism is that germany circa the 1840s was really, really garbage. This is why people think he was an "anarchist"

It's in my self interest to not see icky things.
I went to CES in 2020 and there were almost no electric cars. This year, there a ton (from what I can gather from news and video coverage). Additionally, there are companies like Nvidia who are building out all the tech needed as off-the-shelf parts for the tech that Tesla has had to build itself. Cars are becoming like PCs.

Tesla had its decade head start, and it did amazingly. In my opinion, however, there is no way it can compete with the entire ecosystem of high-tech plus the manufacturing knowledge of the major car companies.
This isn’t Reddit. I ended by saying I don’t think Elon is really all that rich and that his major holding is a bubble. I think there’s a reasonable chance Tesla blows up and lots of financial schenanigans will be revealed.

I however, do not think his private jet expenses are crazy given his nominal position as richest or almost richest person in the world.
I'll be benchmarking the WONNX GEMM in the near future - would be curious to see how far a GEMM on WebGPU can be taken.

Bram wrote some interesting exploration here: https://jott.live/markdown/webgpu_safari
I wasn't a huge believer in this project when I was at Caltech, but I'm glad they stuck to it and are getting something off the ground. It's an interesting tradeoff of RF losses vs losses to solar power non-ideality. The theory looks great, but I do wonder if the theory can be met in practice.
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> Which is a work of fiction.

Anyone who's spent time browsing r/HermanCainAward, or knows nurses who've been on the COVID front lines, can assure you that it's not. People die horrible deaths, often clawing harder than ever to the conspiracy theories they've been fed.
Or just regular old recession
I'm impressed you got it to do anything. Did it work first time or did you keep clicking 'Submit' until you got a response?
> If the Robinhood shares are fair game, why aren't the donations?

Because SBF allegedly owns the shares. He doesn't own the donation. Unless you want the government to seize whatever goodwill the donation got him.

That would be a fun sheriff's sale. "One lunch with selected congressman, to discuss voting in up to two bills."
> Personally, I'm so sick of the cynicism in general. Can we make points and articles about protecting yourself, as an employee, without resorting to such things?

I don't think this will happen anytime soon for two reasons.

The first is that cynicism always sounds smart. "Don't take the vaccine, big pharma doesn't care at all about your health and just wants to make money." If you assume bad intentions, regardless of if you have any evidence of bad intentions, you sound smart and people will listen to you.

The second is that cynicism is generally negative in tone, and as a result is much more likely to go viral on the internet. No one clicks on or shares articles that say "HR people are paid to protect the company, but they are good people like the rest of us".
A very astute and true point -- however, their unique position and role make HR employees fall into a category I'd argue should be held to a higher standard, precisely because of their outsized potential for impact on the organization.
So, what are some things I should be doing (documenting?) now, as a happy and well-performing at-will US-based employee, so that I can have legal standing for a better "redundancy package" than what is offered, if I'm terminated, later?

This article kind of stops short and seems to just be saying, "get a lawyer before you sign anything," which I've heard before. How would I know if a lawyer would be able to help improve the offer?
If you're still interested, give graphic audio a try. They're full-cast (usually a different reader for each character) high production quality audiobooks. They cost accordingly too though.

https://www.graphicaudio.net/
I am impressed that it even supports pasting with "*p
> For what it’s worth, all of the recent AI art deplatforming has me a bit jumpy.

Same. It's been a thrill for me as a programmer to finally have an augmentation that allows me to do art and express myself creatively. And equally scary that people are trying to take that away. That's perhaps why I'm so adamant on calling out the racist associations of Auto's repo. The last thing AI art needs is more bad press. But it's also why I was careful to point out that I wasn't criticizing Auto's work, as I'm not for removing code except under extreme circumstances. I use the project every day. I just want something better.

I also don't particularly have strong feelings about Automatic1111 as a person, since they're quite young from what I understand and I was also edgy when I was younger.
Most Norwegians in my experience are a lot happier wearing a woollen jumper or layers to cope with their weather, whereas many Americans are not happy unless their car is cranking to keep the interior at 72 while it's in single digits outside.
> their investment in teaching you their IP -- that's the theory

In your example, they cannot claim the skills and basic education that gets you up to the point of "how they mill iphones within a context" (i.e. the milling, operating the machinery, physical properties of the metal, etc)

They are not legally able to include a huge educational backbone of knowledge (that they may have taught you) as their prioptary IP. Again, NCs don't prevent that disemination. That disemination can happen without employment.
There is something to be said for honesty.
You Americans brought us the term "Human Resources" which used to be "Personnel" after all. :-) OK I'm joking!!! I don't really know whose fault it is that we are considered "human things" now instead of "people" but it does beautifully demonstrate the attitude that we are like the office printer or the factory machinery but more finickety.

I think it's being public that screws things up the most - there is no loyalty but to the share price and there's nothing legal that management wouldn't do to make it go up apart from arranging their own golden parachutes. So all your efforts to work extra hard or go to the mattresses or whatever are totally pointless until they result in a raise or a promotion.

A private company might be able to weather some storms and take a longer term view. Loyalty might exist there up to a point.

Anyhow it is just silly to flay yourself, which I did in my youth, for some company which can never be grateful or loyal. If you're going to burn the candle at both ends you need to do it in a place where it's going to count. That might be better to do in a startup or smaller company or private company than in some corporation with a stock price.

......in my humble temporary opinion which I will probably change in the next 20 minutes....
Has anyone tried asking open.ai for spreadsheet formulas?
They definitely should've had an option for a "once each quarter" subscription. Like as summer approaches, you get a box that has some new shorts and polos or t-shirts...and then when fall comes around, a flannel and jeans or something.

I'm surprised more subscription services don't try to offer reduced frequency options. Lots of people like the idea of subscriptions but don't need yours every few weeks.
Dude is staring down the barrel of the rest of his youthful years in jail, meanwhile he lives close enough to a coastline where he could board a yacht and be well into international waters god knows where in an anonymous fishing boat with hundreds of millions in crypto before sunrise.

The most baffling part of all of this is that he has never attempted to escape. Surely a Liberian or Somalian warlord or something will protect him in exchange for $1MM / annum and probably provide him a harem and a nice plot of desert.
I tried launching an ad campaign on Twitter on their self-serve ads platform.

On the very first screen, I'm asked to select my country and time zone.

Except the time zone selector only has +1 hour increments. You can choose UTC+5 or UTC+6, but you can't choose UTC+5:30 (which is my time zone).

So I had to choose UTC+5.

This multibillion dollar corporation was running a multibillion ad platform where customers couldn't even choose their correct time zone.

No wonder they couldn't make any money, even during the pandemic.
Funny that github is the bottleneck rather than the OpenAI for once.
My fear around banning is that if an employer were willing to buy you out but non competes are banned the only real option they have would be to not hire you, no?
You don't have to watch internet porn, it isn't an essential activity. Many people never watch it.

It's nothing at all like using a bathroom stall, an activity that everyone does, because we all need to defecate as part of our bodily functions, and spaces to do this in. In the hypothetical situation of installing cameras in stalls, the privacy impact affects essentially everyone.

Conversely, if the cost of electing to watch online pornography is that you have to share your personal data with the pornographers, then that is a choice you have made, and it's your responsibility to deal with any privacy consequences. If you don't like it, don't do it.

Instead of arguing for your right to view pornography anonymously, you may want to examine the harms it causes, and decide whether this is something you're comfortable being complicit in: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2022/08/13/pornography-as-crime-s...
Yes, a lawsuit aimed at a big corporation will be surely at the fingertips of everyone who is forced by circumstances to sign such clauses.

Let's be real, most people will sign whatever is presented to them on day 1 of their new employment because they need money now. They could refuse to sign, in which case they will be shown the door and encouraged to seek opportunities elsewhere.

That in 4 years time they might've won a legal battle they can't afford is little consolation when they won't be able to make rent now.

Nevermind that once they are in a legal battle, they'll have great difficulty being hired again.

Please don't take offense, but the level of disconnect shown on HN from the prospects and struggles of an average person is sometimes staggering.
Every time I read one of these editorials on the topic of lack of available research, I just look at the huge list of significant problems that still exist for life on earth and wonder: “what are they thinking?”
Are we to believe that the intent of the Twitter nothingburger isn't meant to be a left-wing vs right-wing issue? I see it as nothing than a political ploy by Musk to cater towards Republicans ignoring their own misdeeds, and trying to set aim on Democrats.
One of the biggest problems I see with non competes is that "competition" can be subjective, especially in a world of large employers with extremely diversified business interests.

Eg. If you move from one big tech co to another, you may be technically moving to a competitor, but the subject matter of your work could be unrelated.

This is probably true of other industries too.
I don't think it's that simple. GitHub themselves say [1]:

> You're under no obligation to choose a license. However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work.

Yes, it does note immediately below that "if you publish your source code in a public repository on GitHub, according to the Terms of Service, other users of GitHub.com have the right to view and fork your repository". But that doesn't mean it's open source. You probably can't/shouldn't create derivative works with your forks. And you definitely wouldn't be allowed to just use this code in a commercial product, for example.

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...
> [If] you're being harassed, it's very often in the company's interest to stop that happening.

You’d think so, but (as you go on to mention) all too often that interest is mediated through some proxy metric such as legal or publicity risk, which can entail a reaction contrary to your interest: e.g. legal risk might reasonably be thought proportional to your legal budget, which is related to your position in the company, so low-level employees get ignored; or if it’s easy for everybody to get publicity, maybe suspects get fired no matter how slim the evidence (the company is free not to do business, including employment, with whomever they want!), making real claims look less legitimate because a few fake ones are widely known; or legal and publicity risks get mitigated by paying everyone involved to shut up rather than solving the problem; etc.

So far it doesn’t look like proxy metrics imposed by government or popular opinion work all that well.
Ruby does not have first-class functions. Why do you insist on sounding so sure about something you are so wrong about?

https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/09/04/ruby-magic-closures-in...
If people could be trusted to be perfectly fair and honest, then I would agree. In reality, having met plenty of privately-educated individuals, I am confident their outcomes are achievable without private schooling; none of them were great minds who had been unlocked by access to better teaching. What they did have - in abundance - was an unreasonable and unfair advantage when it comes to networking with rich people. The problem with private education has nothing to do with the difference in teaching quality and everything to do with social mobility and nepotism.
I remember having some advanced math class where there were maybe 15 of us, of whom three were Mike and three were girls.

(IIRC, there are more CEOs of large companies named John than women.)
Ah I was wondering how something like this could go ahead when it's pretty obviously a terrible idea to engineers.

> SSPP got its start in 2011 after philanthropist Donald Bren, chairman of Irvine Company and a lifetime member of the Caltech Board of Trustees, learned about the potential for space-based solar energy manufacturing in an article in the magazine Popular Science. Intrigued by the potential for space solar power, Bren approached Caltech's then-president Jean-Lou Chameau to discuss the creation of a space-based solar power research project. In 2013, Bren and his wife, Brigitte Bren, a Caltech trustee, agreed to make the donation to fund the project. The first of the donations to Caltech (which will eventually exceed $100 million in support for the project and endowed professorships) was made that year through the Donald Bren Foundation, and the research began.

"Ok nobody tell him it's a bad idea and we get like 50 PhDs and 5 professors!"
Nice to see the Biden admin continuing the fight for upper middle-class professionals.
They're trying to outdo Electrify America, which is VW. Really necessary, as EA is terribly unreliable right now. Check frequent updates on the Out of Spec Youtube channel for reports on how broken the non-Tesla charging experience is right now.
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I think you (and sibling mfer) are commenting on "any degree" instead of my point that "maybe people don't go into the trades because they spend ~18 emotionally formative years of their lives being told to go to college" vs the idea "maybe people don't go into the trades due to wages offered" (which, mind you, I don't mean to discount).
Those seem like reasonable predictions.
Going to a cabin in the mountains is a luxury few of us can afford. Even fewer of us can afford to buy such a cabin more likely you would rent it for a weekend or week. So if you're going to the mountains say twice a year we could assume that you also rent a car to get there, and back.
> You don't even need to engage in that debate at all. Github doesn't allow porn on its platform.

The parent is referring to URLs, not the content itself. e.g., Popular network-filtering blocklists hosted on GitHub do include URLs to porn. That seems sensible.
"We're not made of sugar" - seems it is a popular proverb around the world.
Right, it’s a fundamental disconnect between how an autoregressive statistical language model generates text and how people think about talking and writing. We have known this for a long time. It is the essence of the civil war between symbolic NLP folks and statistical language modeling folks. Now that ChatGPT is quasi-mainstream, the strengths and weaknesses of the latter are on display for all to see.

My only point is that if we’re approaching a local maxima with purely statistical approaches, it raises the stakes for symbolic approaches to come through.
Thanks, dad!
> HR aren’t evil, they’re just doing a job

Managers on the other hand may or may not work in your best interests, just like any friend. Meanwhile, HR is literally tasked with protecting the company from me. So I would not lump the two into the same basket.

I've been lucky enough to have experienced managers who see my current position as inherently temporary, and would consider it a personal failure to not help me develop my overall career as best I can. I know not all managers think like this, probably not even most managers, but the point is they are allowed to. HR is not.
_Some_ of their books are DRM-free.

“But please note that eBooks.com uses Adobe DRM to protect most ebook files, so the device, or the software running on the device must be compatible with Adobe DRM. If you'd prefer to obtain your books without DRM, you can browse our DRM-free section.”

https://support.ebooks.com/hc/en-gb/articles/214119286-Guide...
This will never work. Components in cars are engineered to be organized as efficiently as possible. The overhead from having replaceable batteries will kill the amount of storage you can have.
There is no way you can have generic attendants swap out batteries in 5 minutes. Working with EVs is a dangerous job that you can't just pay an uneducated minimum wage worker to change. The batteries are extremely heavy and are placed in locations that you need a car lift to get to. Plus theres all sort of liability and safety issues from potentially messing up a battery swap or getting a bad battery and blowing up your car.
Does kinda work

Perfect :

* Using :left and V , set ts=4 sts=4 sw=4

* Recording macros with q

* Main vim combos - it's definitely vim

Fails :

* Typing { or } on a MacBook Air under Firefox - don't know which of this settings cause the bug. Reproducibly, { does not work

* Replaying a macro containing { or any error

Kudos for the compilation (emscripten ?) and Brace for impact (the incoming bugs) :)
This isn't even that weird an edge case: ~1.5B people are in UTC+5:30.
There's a simple misconception in the article that might help re-frame this:

> The best defense against this is to start opposing these trends now, not when it’s too late.

It is, ostensibly, too late. We had a chance to protest this, back when the roadmaps were leaking and government collaboration wasn't fully instated yet. But it wasn't just progressives who didn't care, conservatives also rolled over and let this happen. It's both a failure of the Free Market and our democratic process that this happens in the first place.

The point is, now is a hell of a time to start getting mad at government intervention. We've proven that Twitter is a private platform that can be owned and traded like a deck of Pokemon cards. We've proven that every major social media company is in collusion with the government's surveillance agencies. Now, that people discover shadowbanning is a real thing, everyone is expecting riots in the street on behalf of Twitter's users. Really though, if you're lazy enough to stay on Twitter after the acquisition, you're probably not motivated enough to protest it's leadership.

Here are three potential solutions to the problem you perceive:

- Allow courts to compel private platforms to host free speech

- Use the free market to develop a compelling alternative

- Accept Twitter's corruption as a natural process of the free market