skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to use Parallels Desktop for some debugging for an extra couple weeks on the trial plan, so I wrote a script to set my host machine's clock back a year, spawn Parallels, watch for it to end, then reset my clock.

Worked like a charm.
Aren’t you familiar with their business culture?
I'd be more optimistic about the Microsoft deal than anything. There's a potential that they could treat Blizzard's IP as a loss leader into the MS ecosystem, and lighten up on that stuff.
To send a message, seems like. "Senior engineering lead fired for challenging corporate directive" might deter others who thought of taking a similar stance.

"Senior engineering lead resigns in protest of corporate directive", on the other hand, seems like a call to arms for the conscience-driven; a thorn in corporate's side. Better to squash it and deal with the one-off "firing". Especially if it's for "cause"—then they can give nothing as severance, and quote a violation of the "employee agreement" as the reason.
I don't really get it, but I'm also someone that hasn't used or missed mass social media in years.

Anyone can say they are "truly open", but also I feel like the massive amount of people needed to make a social media site work... don't care about that.

I don't really get Mastodon either fwiw, sounds like people want it to be twitter but it just isn't and never will be that. I think I'm just burnt out on social media in general.

I wish you good luck and prosperity! Hopefully others are more optimistic and helpful lol
Radio signal detected from 8B light-years away
I don't really understand how stack ranking is supposed to work. If 5% of employees must be ranked low, and they improve, they'll either be ranked low again or someone who wasn't ranked low will be ranked low- even if that person's performance hasn't changed. This just seems designed to ensure there's always some group of fall guys and also to create teams that are competitive with themselves to a toxic degree.
There are two sorts of MBAs, as I understand it:

One kind ticks a box at big organizations where promotion above a certain level strictly requires it.

The other kind is for high-level networking, study, and development.

If you want the latter, you have a pretty small pool of schools that you're interested in.
You should believe he got one without ever attending...
I managed a small team in a company that then used stack ranking. I hated the process and as others here mentioned pointed out many times applying a bell curve to a small population is bad math. While we still used the process I saw everything from voting blocs, managers intentionally submitting all of their employees ranked up one notch from where they should be, managers collecting "dirt" on employees managed by others so they could shoot down those employees during the ranking process and more.

The process itself was flawed because people had a tendency to stay in the rank where they were submitted because frankly managers didn't have the time, energy or interest in really talking through every employee. It was just easier to rubber-stamp the whole process and move on. Also it was nearly impossible to get rid of the process because of course people who had succeeded in it didn't want change. I couldn't in good conscience continue like that, so I took over rankings for my location. It went from one day to a week-long process and I made people vote anonymously and incorporated a ranked choice system and then aggregated the results. It was a far more time consuming process but IMHO fairer. I still hate forced ranking despite succeeding in it. It becomes part of your job - managing to the metric.

Vestiges of it remain because people still don't know how to distribute compensation without ranking people, particularly for employees that have the same review rating.
* ChatGPT wins the Nobel Peace Prize

* ChatGPT wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

* ChatGPT wins a Ford Foundation grant for the arts
Not at the moment. But this is currently on our roadmap. See here [1]

[1] https://github.com/orgs/frain-dev/projects/3
For mine, the thing with group tours (aside from Other People) is that they are often the Disney World version of the place you’re visiting.
Today, for KYC requirements.
It make a a bit more sense when you think about it - Risk isn’t really the main thing incentivized here, making interest payments is haha. Risky lenders don’t make payments, but neither do people who never take on debt
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There are a bunch of other types of reporting agencies too, not just for credit:

https://www.consumerlawfirm.com/credit-reporting-agencies.ht...

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/credit-report...
> In the specific case of Windows the kernel interface is pretty fiddly (the syscall ids vary between Windows releases)

Interesting - I wouldn't have expected that. Anyone know why that's the case?
That reminds me of a church in San Francisco:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7851929,-122.4257436,3a,75y,...

It's officially known as Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, but its shape reminds many people, me included, of a washing machine agitator. So it's commonly known as Our Lady of Agitation, or St Mary of Maytag.
domain names can get pretty weird. Case in point, I got excited when I realized I could purchase this one:

https://xn--lcal-5qa.host/

(Hacker News renders it as described in the article, but once you navigate to it your browser will show it)
To be fair, the peace price has a pretty low bar.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-tencent-mmo-tarisland-...

"Chinese gaming giant Tencent recently unveiled its new MMORPG Tarisland, and it wasn't long before fans noticed it bears more than a passing resemblance to Blizzard's own World of Warcraft. Like WoW, Tarisland looks to be a fantasy MMO with an exaggerated, more cartoonish art style. There are paladins, mages, dragons, elves with an affinity for the color purple that live in a giant tree, and more. That, of course, wouldn't be enough to justify the clone label, but taking a closer look reveals that many of the game's characters and environments look to have borrowed liberally from WoW. The designs of the game's elementals, dragons, airships, and even some of the game's playable classes and races, in particular, all appear to be heavily inspired by Blizzard's signature style. The game's announcement trailer even features a dragon that looks incredibly similar to WoW's Deathwing landing atop the ramparts of a city, in a scene that is extremely reminiscent of the WoW: Cataclysm cinematic."
Who says they didn't meet expectations? As long as you define these expectations as "no other employee performs better than you".
> Should my gamer heart flutter at the idea that this might be long good-term for Blizzard?

No.

WOW and it's planetary popularity killed Blizzard not some deal with CCP backed company.
Related joke: Any program has a least one bug and can be made shorter by at least one line. So any program can be reduced to a single line that doesn't work.

Stack ranking seems to bring in the assumption that any company can be reduced to a single employee on a performance improvement plan ;-)
If you wish to pomodoro simultaneously with other remote workers (starting at the top of every hour) check out https://remoteyo.com , chatting is only allowed between pomodoros

Also a good way to find other remote workers
> To execute a Windows .exe then you just load it into memory (which requires unpacking the .exe file format) and tell the processor to jump to the first instruction.

Obviously a simplification, worth mentioning maybe at a slightly deeper level https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-language/thread-loca...

I think a PE32 (.exe) can have multiple sections like this that are implicitly started before main()/entrypoint basically
Is $50k enough to attempt anything? Serious question.
The way it was done at amzn was to get all managers for the department together in a room and provide information about each of their team members and why they were ranked the way they were. If an employee was doing a small number of hard tasks and providing a lot of mentorship it was quite the opposite, they were much more likely to get a "highly valued" ranking than be marked as a low performer. Obviously if you use stupid metrics like lines of code or story points closed you will get stupid results.
I have a facination with disaster movies. 2012 and The Day after tomorrow are other faves of mine. The holy grail of those movies for me though is Children of Men.
> But people with a mental disorder have the same mental architecture for motivation as the rest of us

You may want to read up on that actually.
I've only been on HN for a few years, so I get to think it's an awesome community.
If I’ve already done that, do I earn the right to complain about stack ranking?

As a business owner, who doesn’t have to worry about being stack ranked, I’ll say: continuous annual stack ranking to ensure a specific percentage of employees are put onto a pip or terminated is a terrible idea, and the people who institute it are bad at their jobs.
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I heard Detroit has made a huge comeback? Any truth to that?
Pedantically, no they didn't. They said they'd comply with the law, and another way to do that would be to remove the charging port entirely. (To be clear, I do think they'll add USB-C. I am just frustrated by the press's ongoing willingness to take an ambiguous statement and turn it into an absolute certain outcome in a headline.)
The structure of scientific revolutions (kuhns seminal contribution) has influenced and helped my thinking more than any other prose by a large margin.

The desperation which fully-subscribed adherents of a paradigm cling to said paradigm in spite of shortcomings of its explanatory power is the most powerful signal for detecting big shifts within a domain.

Kuhn only applies it to scientific paradigms, but the exact same patterns emerge within microcosms
correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure they don't target ads based on private messages.
> Should my gamer heart flutter at the idea that this might be long good-term for Blizzard?

Why would you want that?

Companies don't make games. People make games. All the people at Blizzard who made the games that you remember fondly have moved on. There's nothing left but an empty shell of a brand running on the fumes of inertia.
* ChatGPT creates 50 new Startups who fill all seats for the new YC 2023 batch...
Nice that they’ve found an even worse method of longform writing than twitter posts tied together.

I remember a time when “blog about it” was a pejorative dismissal applied to weird ranting. Now, I think of that phrase except I’m pleading for people to just put the sentences… into paragraphs!
The Twitter thread of the person in question is probably a better source:

https://twitter.com/BrianBirming/status/1617688536983175168
When I google and every time I google on basic search I instantly get several pages of adspam, blogspam and phishingspam and rarely anything high quality or relevant to my search string. Unless append something like "reddit" to my query and then mine the reddit post useful info and links. Even google scholar, which used to be brilliant, has recently switched to an vector search embeddings approach more similar to base search. Happy to wait a few seconds for an LLM based google killer to generate ideally accurately cited relevant information.
That is called Diaconescu's theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaconescu%27s_theorem
Neither did ChatGPT.
Moral questions aside, police have a lot more indemnity when chasing criminals than 2 brothers in a car hoping to make a citizen's arrest.
I inherited from my dad an ashtray made from the end if a three inch artillery shell. As an ensign in the US Navy in 1960, he had a machinists mate make one for him by cutting the end of the shell down and then welding bent pennies onto it for the cigarette holder portion.

My favorite detail was that it was stamped 1944 on the bottom.

“But dad, you were in the Navy in the 1960’s?”

“They made a LOT of shells in 1944”
These companies also have a general policy of 5-10% 'natural' attrition a year, i.e. they expect a large percent of people to leave. The bottom 5% of stack ranked folks are almost always targeted for this attrition. They're put on 'performance improvement plans' that demand daily monitoring and check-in, and other onerous rules designed to make them quit. With stack ranking the bottom bucket is basically assumed and designed to be ejected from the company every year.
Meh, I’m not concerned.
Tipping in Canada is extra absurd. The minimum wage for servers and bartenders is the same as for regular workers (eg. $15.50 per hour in Ontario). But thanks to cultural osmosis from the US, 15-25% tips are also expected on top of that.
I feel you on the talking part. Especially maddening to me is where it talks over an in-progress conversation to tell us things we already know.

I now generally turn the audio part off except for alerts. I like that better, not only is it more soothing, but it forces me to engage my brain a little more.
Managers who have a solid team will deliberately hire a drone to sacrifice annually, and you can blame the hiring process for a long time.
[...] Apple provide a centralized UI where I can revoke payment authorization for subscriptions [...]

That's only a thing for Apple in-app subscribtions though, not for Apple Pay, right?

Supposedly there is a new management UI for recurring payments at supported merchants/PSPs, but I haven't encountered it in the wild yet:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213041

https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/merchant-tokens/
Unicode math input works out if the box in Context and (I believe) also in lualatex + unicodmath package.
Still questions that I would assume are semantically similar to the questions you can find in exam prep material all over the internet. My point is that exams are a crutch we use to determine how well a person studied a subject. A crutch we use because we seem to lack better measuring devices. It's very much possible to ace an exam while at the same time being horrible at actually applying/working on a subject. I'd argue therefore that measuring how well LLMs perform on exams designed for humans is simply a more complicated Turing test, with all its shortcomings.
> [...] part of the tradeoff in working for someone else [...] is accepting that you work by their rules.

i think a healthy working relationship involves employer & employee collaborating according to a set of mutually beneficial rules, which prevents either party from taking advantage of the other.

this is (at least idealistically) what employment contracts are for, even if they have a natural tendency to favor the employer in most situations.

besides that, i think there are plenty of examples from recent history which demonstrate that it's not healthy for the rules under which an employee operates to be solely outlined by the owner of the business (e.g. because that owner may attempt to take advantage of the employee).
Chess.com is more polished than Lichess. Particularly the puzzles and learning features.
What does this even mean? If you complain about a company's policy, you must think it's easy to run or start a company?

"Don't like it? Let's see you do better!" is almost always just a distraction or non-answer.
It’s the same today, probably better. A Latino immigrant kid who grows up at the 25th percentile income level will reach the 43rd percentile income level on average: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353. In the steady state, they’ll reach the 48th percentile. Meanwhile an Asian kid raised in the bottom 20% has a 27% chance of ending up in the top 20% (Table I, Panel A).

There’s no evidence immigrant mobility is slowing down. Italian Americans reached parity with British Americans around 1980, 70-80 years after the main immigration wave began: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.2050-411X..... Vietnamese Americans by contrast reached parity Briths Americans within a 40-50 year span.

South Asians, of course, nearly all immigrated into “the America of today.” We didn’t have to deal with half the shit the Italians did. We are not only at the top of the income distribution, but overrepresented in everything from elite schools to corporate boardrooms. Moreover, it’s not just the highly educated immigrants that have upward mobility. My mom could not use her Bangladeshi degree here, but still made a six figure income selling furniture. Our family had zero social connections to law or finance (and didn’t even know anyone in those fields growing up) and my brother ended up as a trader on Wall Street and I ended up as a partner at a corporate law firm. My uncle came here less than a decade ago with his wife and two adult kids. They moved to a tiny two bedroom apartment in a run down part of Queens. My cousin is now getting her PhD in biochemistry. The upward mobility available to immigrants in America is insane.
GE gained a lot of share price but the company long term value was crushed, now it's splitting into three companies.

If you want a lot of short term goal people to make money pumping stock, this is a great way to go.

If you want to build long term value for shareholders it's absolutely one of the dumbest things you can possibly do.
ChargerLAB[0] does a lot of tear downs but I can’t vouch for their value.

0: https://youtube.com/@ChargerLAB
> He can't control himself

I think the thing that would shock many people is that abusers have often adopted methods of harm and subjugation that they internalized and came to consider normal, justified, and correct. They're executing from a place of intent and necessity, not chaos. They witness themselves doing it from a wildly different perspective than those around them would, and they may think the worst thing they do is get "a little heavy handed" or something. They might say that perhaps they got too loud or angry, but whatever they did was close enough to in line with what was necessitated by their target's bad behaviour.

It could range from keeping a partner "in line" with passive aggressive ridicule, physical violence, abject control (denying access to car keys, no going out past 7pm, can't eat x amount of food, etc), to being so relentlessly discouraging and belittling that the partner feels helpless and trapped. No matter what it is they're doing, they whole-heartedly believe it's deserved and they're operating with as much control as anyone typically has.

When we witness their behaviour we see a monster. And yet they're going about their work as though they are the one being inconvenienced by their incompetent/immoral/stupid/whatever partner.

Many of these people would never dream of kicking their dog or something but they've completely normalized verbally and/or physically abusing people they have intimate relationships with. What would leave you absolutely mortified with yourself is simply necessary to these people.

This is often why it's best to end these relationships. Someone who has normalized abuse could change, but there is a very good chance that you shouldn't wait to find out.
How arrogant do you have to be to tell somene what they should be worried about. Especially when they literally alrady siad they dont buy your boogeyman.
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One reason would be because they screeched their tires out of a parking lot in a rush to capture him, possibly to beat and murder him... from his perspective.

If they caused a guy to flee for his life (whatever the guy's crime) and in the process he hit and killed somebody, then you can bet a judge would be interested in the details.
Various people react in various fashion. Sometimes it's a struggle to find meds that you will respond well to, and sometimes you may just end up disappointed.

Nevertheless, they do help a lot of people, so it's definitely worth giving a try.
Not really. There was a post a while back that ChatGPT passed the radiology exams.

It’s not that impressive of a feat. It’s no different than just googling answers to an exam.

Of course you’d do great.
Can't you use rewards credit cards at practically all PayPal-accepting merchants?
This has empirically not been true for a while, as shown by open market zero-day costs. (Though I believe iOS has been catching up recently.)
Let me check the math here...

20% of the 4% rehired is 1/5th%, leaving 3 and 4/5ths of a percent of to come from the better performers.
When you're initially charged with a crime, you have to plead guilty or not guilty. Typically, the prosecuting attorney will offer you some sort of deal if you plead guilty right off the bat. Otherwise, you plead not guilty and the legal machinery begins to turn (subpeonas, fact finding, depositions, etc.), with the end result being a trial. This takes a while, and the prosecuting attorney will sometimes attempt to sweeten the deal somehow to avoid a trial if they don't think they have an air-tight case against you.

At least, that's how it works in the United States. Since Scotland is also a common law jurisdiction with something of a shared legal history (the union of Scotland and England predates the revolt by the American colonies by nearly a century) I imagine it probably works similarly there as well.
Wharton being among that small pool, as far as I understand it.
goes great with a Magpul sling
Agree but it had typical movie tropes; a bank heist, the anti-hero, a prison break, etc.
Thank you, I can't edit it, but if I could I would edit my post to say "synthetic polyners"
GPT-assisted test-taking versus adversarial GPT-assisted test-making would be an interesting project.
What kind of info are you looking for? Glad to try to help
In a world where every single person except a heterosexual, healthy Caucasian male under 40 has a potential lawsuit against their former employer when they are terminated, be it age / sex / race / disability / and on and on, stack ranking can make rational sense when trying to improve efficiency across the board at scale while dodging lawsuits. This is, IMO, the reason it was originally instituted. I agree with you it isn't the best way and I think stack ranking is inefficient. But there is a logic to it.
Dunno if I'd have the guts to say "pay me more because I'm all you have left". I do have no problem asking my manager if I'm on track for advancement, which is basically asking "will I get more money soon?" and who knows, maybe asking that will prompt them to address the freed up salaries instead of you. Everyone is going to have a different answer to this question so just do whatever feels right. If you weren't selected for layoffs you were selected to NOT be let go, so you probably won't lose your job. Or you will. Good luck hahaa
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