skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just saw a headline yesterday based on a new study which said the average U.S. CEO's compensation is 399 times the average employee. So there's your number. A CEO taking zero would cover less than 400 employees. Also, keep in mind the vast majority of Satya's compensation is in long-term vesting stock options which can become worthless if the stock is lower in four years than it is this year. Also, due to how capital gains taxes work, Satya is going to hold his vested options for at least another year after they vest.

Plus, every sale of the company's stock by a key executive is immediately reported to the SEC and publicly available on the SEC and company's websites. Wall street watches this like a hawk. If any key exec unloads more than a few percent of their entire holdings at any one time, it will hurt the stock price pretty substantially. Effectively, it makes it so the CEO can't sell a lot their stock at once while they are CEO.

The big numbers you see for CEO compensation for this year are largely stock options that were granted years prior which vested this year. Almost all of Satya's compensation is performance-based instead of guaranteed. The company he leads must deliver sustained profitable growth over the long-term for his comp to be worth a lot. The fact it's worth a lot this year is almost entirely due to him already delivering on his commitments to shareholders in the past. Keep in mind that the average public company CEO is in the CEO job less than five years. Satya is in the minority that is succeeding. Due to the high visibility of the CEO role, the majority who don't succeed have a high likelihood of never earning significant compensation again.
I work for Google now on an open source project, and have worked on open source language projects for them before.

This is just not how things happen. At all.

There's a lot of fear in our post about things that _could_ happen, but haven't actually happened in Google's history, or aren't unique to corporate sponsorship.

> 1. I wouldn't be able to refuse if they told me to add tracking, analytics, AI "learning", or lock-in mechanisms.

Google just doesn't do this with OSS projects. I've never seen on mine, or heard about it in others, or heard news of problems. I did work near a CLI that sent some usage analytics back (so they could see crash reports, etc) and some people complained, and it was removed. It was never nefarious and the idea that Google is trying to make better ad profiles or somesuch via OSS projects is frankly ludicrous.

> 2. If at any point they thought that Vale competed with Golang, they would shut it down. It doesn't matter that they're completely different (Vale doesn't even have a GC); if any person in the chain of command even had the _perception_ that it did, Vale would die.
> 3. If at any point they wanted the headcount for other things, they would shut it down.

How is Google stopping funding a OSS project any worse than Google never funding it in the first place? They can't "shut down" the project any more after paying you to work on it than before paying you to work on it. If you want to work on it for free, just do so.

Yes, you _might_ have to fork the official repo if it got moved to under Google's GitHub orgs, but contrary to your fears, Google has a good track record of handing off OSS projects they don't want to maintain. There's a whole OSS office to help with this and an official process for transferring ownership and copyrights.

You're also allowed to work on non-Google OSS projects for 20% if it fits in the spirit and goals of 20% time, so if Vale is even vaguely in-line with Google work and goals, you could have just... worked on it. Did you actually talk to anyone at Google about this?
That is a fascinating story; thanks for sharing. I can only imagine the ever-increasing disbelief as you went along with this.
https://humanloop.com/

Find the prompts users love and fine-tune custom models for higher performance at lower cost
Improving medical students' lives with code
Interesting, That wasn't my take on the second "lazy" part of the article at all.

For me the lazy part was a counter-statement to first part. It claims that YES, there are individual issues, and individual action matters tremendously.
This. Jassy's skills in building AWS does not extend to managing other divisions. I've watched interviews with him and video of the events he's forced to attend, and he projects discomfort and worry.

Bezos surely is concerned, not just for the org and lost growth but his own personal fortune.
You can absolutely include links to media (images, audio, video) in a Gemini document if you want. You just have to download them to view them. Some clients will render them inline when you click on them.

> Why couldn’t one simply build on top of existing HTTP infrastructure, throw away all the baggage and instead implement a new Content-Type, which existing browsers then could parse?

- So Google/Microsoft doesn't ruin it.

- So you don't need to rely on huge applications basically emulating operating system functionality at this point with millions of LOC and opportunities for vulnerabilities just to publish some text or links.

- So you don't need to really rely on any application at all. `openssl s_connect` will get Gemini pages in a text file just fine if/as needed.

- Gemini's line format is easy to parse for scripts.
An existing implementation of this idea is screenotate:

https://screenotate.com/

> Screenotate is an app for macOS and Windows that might help you with your screenshots. Every time you take a screenshot, Screenotate steps in to recognize and save the text inside (using Optical Character Recognition), along with the URL and the title of the place where you took the screenshot (where possible).
https://scale.com/spellbook

Build, compare, and deploy large language model apps with Scale Spellbook.
Correct, lobbying had no effect on the immediate employment status of an individual.

But we were given an outlet, and through that an explanation of why we lost an essential engineer and friend. I'd like to believe that it had an effect on the management team. If not for them to bear some of the emotional load, then to inform them XYZ project is going to take a major hit and this week or so is a write off for the rest of us.
Have you ever been really, terribly thirsty, and just thought, "I could use some salt?"

No analogy is a perfect match, that's what makes it an analogy. The water here is the precious resource.
Do the benefits you receive from Democrats holding power outweigh the increase in disposable income?

I think if you ask different people you'll receive different answers because it ultimately comes down to how you value those benefits. If not, why would any intelligent person ever vote for a Republican?
> carries prestige on your resume

I don't necessarily agree with this. Myself (and others) in the Seattle area are vocally biased against hiring Amazon alumni (especially for leadership positions) as we've found they're a significant risk to our company culture.
https://www.everyprompt.com/

Everyprompt is a pretty good playground for large language models like GPT-3
We are not payed what we are worth.

We are payed what the company can get away with.

It’s about power, not value. Value is much less of a factor than people like to think.

Same goes for people who are payed a lot (like CEOs). Sure they have impact on the organization, but they also have power.
Very good; your insight in your second observation in particular is excellent. But you can push the first observation much further. I will let other people think about it too before giving my own thoughts.
what a strange alternate reality paulg exists in.
It's not a conspiracy, simply advertisers don't want to be associated with nipples and female nudity because according to their data and experience those ads don't convert (and generate negative press, but mostly don't convert)

And it's true, I mean would you ever remember a logo or an ad you saw on PornHub or YouPorn?

The PlayBoy magazine wasn't free, you had to subscribe to it because little money flowed into the business via ads.

To put it lightly, focus of the consumer in those moments is elsewhere, not the ad. Advertisers love space which is placed in-between 2 slices of engaging (but not sexually engaging content), possibly where the viewer doesn't know when the advertisement will end and their favorite content is coming back on.

That's the reason why SuperBowl ads and generally ads airing during live events such as NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL games are a favorite among brands
That is a particularly niche situation...
Ask HN: How do you share technical things with your non-technical spouse?
I'm mostly thinking about "where the bodies are buried" things you would want your spouse to be able to easily find and access in the event of a sudden departure from this world: banking passwords, life insurance, 401k, stock options, etc.

My wife is one to quickly stop any conversation along the lines of "if I were to die..." and go into full ostrich mode. We currently use a family 1password account where all the important items are in a shared vault, but this is only the tip of the iceberg.

I'm curious what others do? Do you just have a typed up page w/ a set of instructions somewhere or do you just have a will + lawyer that has it all at-the-ready and a phone # for your spouse to call?
I know it keeps me more on windows, when I do not have to switch to the linux partition to do something particular and I see new devs not making the switch to linux at all, when they can get the job done on windows.
https://www.valyrai.com/

Simplify GPT-3 monitoring with one line of code
Check out win-vind! It also comes with a tiling window manager but I've never used that.

https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind
Pixel pushers: How the metaverse became real estate's new frontier
VictoriaMetrics: Optimized, scalable dependency-free time series database
I normally only get tweets leaning towards one side of the political spectrum. I read an article and liked a tweet, and suddenly found myself in a mirror-image alternative universe.

The echo chamber is real. For all its potential, Twitter is no way to learn about the world. But the same goes for any web site with algorithmically served content.
https://github.com/TikkunCreation/awesome-llm

Curated list of tools and products for building with LLMs.
Just looked this up: that's fantastic.
I'm not im software, but I graduated in 2007. During my studies, Germany was still kind of Europe's sick man. Upon graduation, I hit lucky timing, and everyone who graduated around the same time knew it. Then came 2008. And since 2013/14, well, it was all roses. There is a whole generation out there thay has no idea what economic down turns feel and look like, and they might be in for a very rude awakening.
“Black Hole” Optical Illusion
Im saddened to hear that my community garden and local library dont provide any value to society, must be why I like spending time there so much.
Yes and instead build on languages and frameworks with no guiding principals or cohesive strategy like the clusterfuck of the front end ecosystem and Node.
If so, that's a big change from my time. Perhaps some generals need to be reallocated to Antarctica for an extended tour of duty. Congress ultimately controls purse strings, but Generals can make a phone call and put a stop to anything.
I really don't understand what has happened in the last few years in this space. At my company we went from stable but boring Jenkins to this Github/K8S hell. Everything is broke all the time. Literally every single day. It blows my mind. We are at the point that people have forgotten that things used to just work. It's like back in the day Windows98 users know you have to reboot the PC once in awhile. Because they know of nothing else. They don't know the past and they can't imagine a better, more stable future.
Have people gotten in trouble for breaking the fiduciary obligation by being nicer to workers? Has any one been in a serious chance for getting in trouble for being nicer to workers? I have always assumed this stuff is basically made up. It might be written somewhere, but no one is enforcing it. It appears to be greed and keeping the status quo.
At this point there is no way any software company could justify, legally, hiring someone on an H1B. There are some 40k layoffs in last few months and certainly a large number of those are US citizens. Any company claiming that they can’t find a US citizen with the right skills is lying.
I made it.

I packed unique technology into it to play desktop warfare in a fun way.
(For example, home-made infrared protocol to measure shooting distance, torque limiter for servo protection, sound, light, and vibration effects, etc.)

There is not yet the ability to track while saying "exterminaaate!"
Depends on the amplitudes of the possible parallel realities. Yes many worlds predict each possible world to exist but amplitudes matter as well.
Crypto Exchange Bitzlato Charged by U.S. Authorities with Money Laundering
I am against the CCP meddling in the affairs on the other side of the Strait. If they were to commit this horrible atrocity, it is the unfortunate role of Team America: World Police to support the poor, innocent, independent, free people of Taiwan.

I'd prefer no Americans die in the course of this, similar to Ukraine. But certainly the number of Americans worth dying to heroically save a country of nearly 25 Million from genocide and slavery isn't 0.
Also mothers have always been substantially more likely to die during childbirth than fathers, which reduces the number of older potential mothers.

I know a popsci article isn’t going to mention every possible contributory factor, but come on.
I wonder what the protocol is there? Do you continue the meeting and finish it up or do you just stop it? Was his access to all corporate systems just turned off so the meeting just cut out?

I knew a guy who was in the middle of a consulting engagement when he got an email that he was part of a layoff. He finished the day with the customer since he had a relationship with the people there and figured he was being paid for that day anyways.

But yeah, that's a really nasty way to be let go.
I'm not suggesting any solutions for all poor fat people. In fact what I'm advocating against is the idea that generic advice for all people of a very broad category is not as generally applicable and, in fact, runs into the rhetoric I said earlier that it both provides inapplicable and blaming advice. There are a great many, many problems with generic advice for a very broad set of society of millions of people.

If no hypothetical advice can pass a "No True Sctosman" test, stop giving hypothetical advice to the simplest example of a complex problem.
This is a silly way to look at it.

A large number of the million+ headcount is warehouse.

This layoff impacts corporate workers only, so it's a much higher percentage of total corporate workers.
>Which is quite bizarre, when you think about it. In a country as systemically racist and white-supremacist as the US*, one would think such a following would be a boon, not a liability.

Yeah, it is to about half the country. Are you daft or what? Look at Trump Jr's instagram... It's just memes about culture war nonsense, including this kind of jewish crap. It is a boon to those folks. Trump won his 2016 campaign on it and came pretty close in 2020 as well.
Just because something can be used in an evil way does not make it untrue and it doesnt make it it inherently wrong to talk about.

In fact, I hear anti white propoganda all the time, part of which is the fact that whites are overrepresented in finance.

The hypocrisy is insane.
> I'm not going to preemptively switch ecosystems and banish technically good options from my tool belt because I have fears about what could happen.

This is exactly where I am at. I use Windows/C#/.NET without any shame for absolutely everything.

The more developers who give me grief on some principled basis that "<megacorp> bad, so everything related is bad", the more I double-down on my position. These non-technical arguments are read as desperation and incompetence from my perspective in 2023.
Yeah, I tend to take the position that the only appropriate way to request code style adjustments is via automation.
Which would you rather trust?

1. A safe that's been sitting on a public square for ten years, which the best safe-crackers in the world have tried – and failed – to break.

2. A safe hidden in a secret room that no one is allowed to access, but the manufacturer claims it's safe without real evidence beyond "trust me".
It says it wasn't "commissioned, written or altered" by the employer, not that it wasn't approved.
The majority of those million+ workers are working jobs as an option against fast food. Productive is 'pick thing out of bin, place in box', not creativity/etc.

Don't confuse the relatively tiny tech company wrapped inside the worlds largest logistics and fulfillment organization.
Thanks I honestly didn't know. Spending a few hundred isn't a problem thankfully.
THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
No, it's just that growth necessary to satisfy VC investment is unobtainable so solid products eat themselves attempting to achieve that growth.
Nice! Would be great to learn more about your experience. Was Wine not enough? Due to drivers or other features that ReactOS has?
> Hedge funds tracking parking lots with low orbit satellites have more insider information than any official channel.

That's not an example of an insider abusing their inside position for their benefit, it's an example of a hedge fund deciding that investing in low-orbit satellite photography gives them an edge in estimating market movement.
What does AIX have to do with this? It wasn't exactly at the forefront of UX research even before Red Hat existed at all.
> devoted my life to for years

This is the problem (not the actual problem, but the one you can control). Your job isn't your life. I used to think/act this way. Then I was eliminated in a rather soulless manner myself. I realized it was an abusive relationship. I had actual PTSD for a couple of years. I no longer define myself by anything that is so transactional. Business relationships are just that. I am happier, I make more money at job, and I've got several things prioritized over work that fulfill me.
Thanks. I didn't know. Clearly don't know anything about hardware heh.
I've had good luck with using them as an alternative to the Google Translate API, but they're entering a pretty crowded space, e.g. Sudowrite, Jasper, Grammarly.

I've even used ChatGPT's zero shot to do some editorial clean-ups with the prompt:

I am going to provide paragraphs of text in quotation marks that may contain spelling errors, grammatical issues, continuity errors, structural problems, etc. I would like you to produce a revised version with all of the above issues fixed. Do not begin until I provide text enclosed in quotation marks.
Couldn't you still have duck typing?

If a method expects to be passed an argument that it can call "quack" on, can't you define a type that has "quack"? The actual argument could be a Duck or a Goose but as long as it has a "quack" method the type will be OK

I haven't used types in Ruby (or much at all other than dabbling in Typescript), so I might be missing something
As someone who uses committee/consortium developed languages, I would like to remind the author how insane such languages can be
Reading a control label is very different from reading a paper or onscreen memo.
Missed opportunity to transition into National Park Typeface!
I should build a VS Code theme around this...
https://nationalparktypeface.com/
So he's a millionaire. Right?
> The company’s dire finances — it made a loss of $221mn in 2021 before the acquisition

GAH. You'd expect the FT to be better than this - they actually made $579mn but had to pay an $800mn lawsuit settlement (caused by people playing fast and loose with the FTC consent decree - something the current management seems to be doing too!)

(Now admittedly $579mn isn't that much for $5bn revenue but it's distinctly positive and more importantly, was moving in the right direction compared to the previous years.)
May I Suggest "cluster fuck".
Laughing at the idea that a geometric center between differing ideas is somehow the least biased place. This kind of thought is incredibly troubling because it seems to be widespread. People don't analyze underlying issues on their own anymore, they just see two different political "extremes" with two different positions and assume the answer must be somewhere in the middle. Its an outright rhetorical fallacy.
The same goes for huge open source projects like Kubernetes. The amount of money to run the infrastructure for CI/CD and CDN is in the millions per year. Someone has to pay for that and the big companies are the ones that fit the bill. Google mostly pays for it but others have started contributing also. For example, Amazon recently announced that they are funding part of the infrastructure also.
I'll admit I have not used the Steam link streaming to an iOS/Android device wirelessly - I'm sure it's not great. I will also say that I cannot play FPS games with Steam Link+Keyboard+Mouse (even wired). Rocket League? Great. Broforce? Good. Skyforce? Awesome. Nintendo emulator? Surprisingly decent as most of those games are highly dependent on instant response..
I mean, not _that_ big a risk. Most people layed off are probably still going to manage to get another job making more than other occupations that never made the "big reward" salaries in the first place.
That's a very misleading summary of the link you posted.

The link describes a charity that wants to help out Orthodox Jews. I think everyone would agree that a charity has the right to choose who they want to help.
How many tech companies have never turned a profit? Uber didn’t until 2021. Investors sure didn’t care about fiduciary obligations built on profit when interest rates were low.
While PNG is definitely not as simple as TGA, I'd say it's "simple" in that it's spec is mostly unambiguous and implementing it is straight forward. For its relative simplicity it's very capable and works in a variety of situations.

One nice aspect of PNG is it gives a reader a bunch of data to validate the file before it even starts decoding image data. For instance a decoder can check for the magic bytes, the IHDR, and then the IEND chunk and reasonably guess the file is trying to be a PNG. The chunks also give you some metadata about the chunk to validate those before you even start decoding. There's a lot of chances to bail early on a corrupt file and avoid decode errors or exploits.

A format like TGA with a simplistic header and a blob of bytes is hard to try validating before you start decoding. A file extension or a MIME header don't tell you what the bytes actually are, only what some external system thinks they are.
Unfortunately, HTTP challenge only. I.e. you have to open port 80 to your Synology, which is handled by the same nginx instance, as all the other services on the device.
HR staff at the warehouse are the same 'corporate' employees as the box lifters at the warehouse...
It is to be expected. I didn't mean that a leak is unusual, but rather that learning about it this way _feels_ strange.
What should the banks do to prevent scams?
If you think you have so much control over the unconscious as you are claiming, try asking your unconscious to internally swap the conscious perception of red and green colours. If you can't even do this basic task, forget about aligning external world.
praise that brave reddit moderator for rushing in there to lock down the thread and remove any content that might hurt BoA's feelings.
ChatGPT recreated with GPT-3.5?
We all love chat.openai.com, but...

It's TERRIBLY laggy, has daily limits, and is only accessible through an archaic web interface.

This repo is ChatGPT re-created with GPT-3.5 LLM as Telegram Bot. And it works great.

In addition it supports special modes like "Code Assistant" and "Movie Expert".