skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't really get handgun culture (I'm in the UK, everyone has rifles and shotguns, handguns aren't a thing any more since we had a school shooting in the 90ss) until I read an exchange on Reddit which was full of comments like "Ah yeah but what you do is you unscrew that top part, drill and tap it a size larger, and then you can bolt on <some part off a different gun> which allows you to mount <some sort of otherwise incompatible accessory> and by taking a bit off the grips it'll actually be lighter and better balanced and easier to get the sights dialled in and then..."

Wait a bloody minute, I get it now - you guys are geeks! Just like the synth geeks and Landrover geeks I know, it's the same conversations with some different nouns in it.
They aren't fools, they just have their own agendas.

Sundar and other Google execs don't actually own that much Google stock, so they have relatively little lose by gambling with company money by over hiring.

From Brian Armstrong's perspective, Coinbase didn't overhire at all. They captured all the crypto revenue they could during the boom, which inflated their stock price while Armstrong was cashing out as much as he could.
In some places, a company can't just fire people because they feel like it. In Germany, where this is called a "Betriebsbedingte Kündigung"[1] you have to make a socially adequate choice based on how long someone has been at the company, whether they have kids, etc. and you also have to prove that there isn't an open position elsewhere in the company.

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betriebsbedingte_K%C3%BCndigun...
As a stop gap, we could mechanically link all the "autonomous" cars, together and just out one human in charge until the AGI tech is ready!
I got excited about this but then neither the car I currently own nor the car I'm considering buying are listed.
100% this. I've interviewed a great many candidates over the years, and the coding exercise has always been an incredibly valuable litmus test. It gives the interviewer a chance to see whether or not the potential employee has the knowledge of the language and skills needed to do the job. If a developer can't even figure out how to do a basic function on demand, how are they going to be able to contribute to the team? If a developer won't do a basic function on demand, then that's an instant disqualification. Anyone can say anything on a resume, and there needs to be a way to validate that it's not just a fabrication.

To be clear, I am making the distinction between "coding exercise" and "brain-teaser". Brain-teasers are not useful in an interview context, and only result in adding stress to an already stressful situation. Simple tasks like "Write a function that rolls two dice and calculates the position of a game piece as it moves around the edge of a game board" are much better. I am not looking for the candidate to give me their masters thesis in a piece of code on demand, I am looking to weed out candidates that clearly don't have the skills to fill the position.
What I suspect, and we’re starting to see a bit, is that they need to massively cut budgets. Hundred million dollar budgets per movie don’t seem like they make sense. Instead, I think we’ll see more movies made on a shoestring budget. Some good, some bad.

Disney has started to go this direction by building expensive technology they can reuse, like the set of Mandalorian. I just saw a trailer that the set has now been used in a new movie (but I don’t recall which). If you haven’t seen the set, go find it on YouTube. Pretty interesting tech. It’s expensive but will probably reduce budgets long term.

Anyway, I think cheaper productions is the only thing that will work with so many options today. Cheaper movies like The Blair Witch Project are what I expect to see more of.

I, personally, prefer paying for all the independent services I care to watch. I can pay for one or I can pay for 10 and have a cable like bill. But, I get to choose.
Fully agree. Will say that although the third type may be great at delivering value, they may have a negative effect on the team and either drive away talent from the team, bring down morale, or cause the only people to stay with the team to be less ideal (since some great team members may see the toxicity, and understandably avoid that job)

That is to say, some at this type surely can be managed, but it may take a really good manager (and even that may not be enough), along with team mates who are not only good, but also able to deal with such a team member.

Which in the end may negate the 10x productivity, or at the very least reduce it.

I guess one alternative is having them in their own “team” basically reporting to a director but having no immediate team members
Thanks, that explains a lot.

I still wonder why the law is that way though. As drugs go, marijuana is probably the least worrying when it comes to gun possession. As it makes people docile and relaxed, it will help de-escalate conflicts.

As opposed to coke which makes people pumped up or even the fully legal alcohol...

It sounds like federal law should catch up to reality. Though as a European I am not in favor of widespread gun use anyway but that's another discussion.
If anything, it's actually a faulty generalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
The framing here annoys me on a lot of levels:

1) There is a frame that wages are decided by the government. There is a lot of evidence that this isn't how wages work - that isn't how the price of most other things a business expenses is decided.

2) There is a frame that a "living wage" is some magic number. I remember "fight for $15" being a slogan somewhere. Which, given how long the fight takes, has probably become a Fight for $10 after inflation by now.

The best thing that cooks, waiters and bartenders could have happen is some political leadership that stops picking stupid battles and takes a bit of time to articulate what the actual problems are and put some effort towards fixing them.

Greater government control over wages and prices is not going to help low status workers people. There is a very real chance that the more of those battles they win, the worse the outcome will be. Market inefficiencies usually make life worse for people with no money.
I just need to get one more patchbay until it's perfect. Maybe a different mixer, or maybe just a new ADAT converter for the one I already have.

But then that's it, no more.

Same time next week, then?
That's true. Though the exact same thing is true of most westerners too.

The story of the global warming catastrophe is everyone wanting someone else to fix it. The third world blames the first, people now blame people in the past, everyone is very willing to cut emissions just not here or now or me.

Actually fixing it would have required everyone to act.

At this point I actually think the most interesting thing is the collective delusion that we will fix it (that time is long gone) or that someone somewhere IS acting (they're not). Everyone thinks that are on the right side when basically no one actually is. It's fascinating.
> I'll have some questions about the moral compass of anyone who shows up with Google on the resume.

What about former Microsoft employees? Amazon employees?

Is big tech an ethical issue for you? Or is it just Google?
I don't think that meets the definition. Where is the collection - there isn’t one. Without showing your work, why should I believe a "fact" you present? You need to prove a fact. That's where statistics is helpful. Maybe you did tutor people from a pure math perspective. You might need to learn how to actually apply statistics in real life.

None of the stuff you mention actually means anything when you try to apply it to policy if you don't know how the result was achieved, what it's actually measuring, and what the baseline is. Any good statistical analysis will cover this as well as things like biases, corrections, and confidence. Otherwise I could give you a fact of my opinion is more liked than your opinion...
What does that have to do with authoritarianism?

Here's a quick test I just derived to assess how authoritarian the country you currently live in really is: you go to a main square in your country's capital on a busy day and start declaring in a loud voice that, in your opinion, the country's current leader has no idea what they're doing, that all her/his political ideas are idiotic, and that the people of the country would be better off with almost anybody else in his/her position.

Keep doing this for a little while.

The level of authoritarianism of your country can then be measured by the reaction of government officials.
There are lots of dials that can be tweaked; e.g. timeouts, number of tests, etc.

For example, I've used Hypothesis to test some browser-automation, which uses the ChromeController package to launch a Chrom(ium) browser to take screenshots and print-to-PDF. The tests do things like:

- Generate random HTML

- Write it to a temp file

- Launch Chromium, set its window width+height, and navigate to that file:// address

- Take a PNG screenshot

- Use a PNG library to assert we've got a valid PNG, of the given width + height

There are similar tests for print-to-PDF (checking that it's a valid PDF with at least one page), etc.

The only fiddling I had to do was put `deadline=1000` in the `@settings` decorators. This prevents Hypothesis giving up on a test run too early; it automatically runs the tests fewer times, so it stays within a reasonable time frame.

These sorts of tests are good for sanity-checking that we're plugging things together in the right way; but I wouldn't rely on them checking enough times to e.g. catch arithmetic edge-cases, etc.
It also has A.I.s that concoct their own language so that they can conspire on the Q.T.

When does that happen ?
Jeff needs more money for his rockets and yachts
I'd like to run this experiment :) but yeah, I get your point.
Doxing Should Be Illegal. Reporting Extremists Should Not
Manipulated numbers are keeping the illusion of healthy economy going.

SPR reserve draining was key to manipulating gas prices to have taking points for US midterms and inflation calculations, for starters.

Manufacturing numbers are also down

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/ism-manufacturing-contra...
Iain Woodhouse is a Professor of Applied Earth Observation at the University of Edinburgh, the author of multiple books & course on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and one of the best people to explain radar remote sensing with decades of experience teaching but also working in the industry.
In a similar vein, I would like to know what the "and I take full responsibility for this" line that CEOs always say in these emails actually looks like besides just saying it in the email.
Means is the essence of a thing.

Ends can be fake, aspirational, but means are what they are.
You can't see a photon, but you can taste a proton.
Thank you. One of my (granted, OCD driven) peeves is the recent ubiquity of framing that sort of comparison as "3 times smaller!". Ohmygod, no.
The secret is the luck & skill of making sure your efforts go towards the options in front of you (or in the curation/creation of options) that have the best balance of size & odds of reward.
Sounds more like you’ve got ADHD than 10Xism.
Why would you use an integer primary key and a public facing UUID? That seems like it's the worst of both worlds: ugly externally visible identifiers, record bloat, a database that you can't easily merge in the event of backups or DR, and having to roundtrip to the DB before you know the ID of a record.

I personally stick to UUIDs in pretty much all cases, with the exception of where there are justified and benchmarked performance reasons not to.
Ask Fred Hampton about that. Ask Darren Seals. Ask Gary Webb. Ask Julian Assange. Ask Edward Snowden.
Also makes me think of the still-existent Hukou system.

I've read even international passports date only to WW1.
That sounds a lot like public transit... I am pretty sure that would never work!
I wish we had a culture that expected every new C/C++ build system to handle a non-trivial project like Boost or Qt (and their dependencies, like ICU and OpenSSL) before it being pitched as the new best thing. It's trivial to make a build system that elegantly handles your own toy projects that follow your preferred style and structure. But the real world of C/C++ is a harsh place with a lot of variability.
There has been a huge mistake getting made in the past few months almost everywhere I've seen AI being discussed, which is to conflate ChatGPT with all of AI.

Let me say again, huge mistake.

It is true that language models don't have intentions or motivations in the conventional sense. It is true that at this particular moment, that technology looks the most impressive to our human minds.

But it is not even remotely true that it is the only AI technology that exists or ever will exist. Plenty of AI technologies do have things that look like "goals", they still exist, and they will continue to develop and become better at following them.

Many of these AIs are already affecting our lives quite deeply, especially through the financial system and its active trading bots, for instance.

The need to discuss AIs and how they will continue to get better and better at following whatever goals they are given as rigidly as only computers can has not gone anywhere just because ChatGPT isn't particularly threatening from that point of view. It doesn't matter that this one AI doesn't have motives... it is sufficient that some will, and some do, right now.
Good point! And probably toss boxes several floors down and catch them with 99% reliability. A real time-saver. Shame though 'bout the family crystal.
This right here is "worse is better" in practice!

A thing in the world may well be the worst possible example of that thing that can exist. Yet it exists, so has a couple of key properties:

1) it does something (albeit poorly), not nothing

2) it can be improved upon.
Having one system handle all of it for you is far easier than having to build out all the integrations to host parts of it yourself. A cohesive experience is often better than a custom one.
Right, because they didn’t know it wouldn’t last hence taking the risk. The message is being written after the fact, and the message isn’t a lie per-se, rather, it’s a human framing of the situation with the subtext of we are a company and a company is not a job factory but a shareholder value factory.

Every message every company ever writes that leans on any amount of humanity is, in your characterisation, a lie… and while, sure, that’s technically true, we all take part in this big theatre production where we expect companies to pretend to have humanity — your problem is with all of us participating in this system pretending a company gives a single solitary fuck about any of us.

These performative messages are just one small part of the performance, writing an “honest” message where they say “you’re all fired and we don’t care” wouldn’t change anything. They’d still be doing a million other pieces of performative humanity.
Here's a 142bits entropy password: CorrectHorseBatteryStaple

Also see: https://xkcd.com/936/
This is a good point. If people used 10x to just mean: 'this person has a different magnitude of skill in a game changing way' then the term makes sense.

It clarifies that it doesn't mean that its 10x faster at tasks, like the original 10x study was about, but more just a shorthand for being of a different class of skill level.
I agree a lot with this - but I also think many underestimate their ability to recognize when they are in the right place at the right time and take an action, as little as it might be, in the right direction. Of course, the action being taken ending up being the right one may entail plenty of luck in and of itself.
In the general case no because the final metric we care about (eg, accuracy or AUC) is not differentiable (ie, we cannot compute its gradient) with respect to the hyperparameters, especially the discrete ones.

However a recent work at this year's NeurIPS [1] did indeed use an outer gradient descent to tune an inner gradient descent so in some cases yours is indeed a good idea that works.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13371
If you're using something like FastAPI that generates OpenAPI specifications, you can use "schemathesis" for automagical end-to-end testing.
I don't know any context where "the zero page" means "the page with all zeros in it". It's a rather commonly used term.
I think he’s saying that people often go to movies to escape the problems of the world temporarily. It’s annoying to go to a movie and there’s obvious and cynical culture war artifacts all over it. People want to watch a fantasy film, not feel like they’re on Twitter or w/e.
You don't, you carry them in a trailer.

How do you carry them in pickup?
In my experience no amount of talking down will deescalate a difficult customer who escalates to the point of abuse or disrespect.

The only effective method for dealing with them (based on working in retail and PC repair for 5 years) is to gray rock them, be as unhelpful as possible and disengage the situation, and hope the next time you deal with them that they're more reasonable.
Depends what you're developing.

I'd go for a lightweight desktop env like XFCE.
> you cannot be helped

I'm not the one who needs help. Your software is.

I linked to several detailed bug reports and told you very clearly that I had the "exact same" problem. It is not encouraging that you won't even read the bug reports, and certainly doesn't encourage anyone to further help you.
ADHD hyperfocus can definitely be a factor also.
> And no, because it depends on how users setup and use their AppleID and its passwords/security/devices.

Can you elaborate what the issue would be? I see that the AppleID password could be a weak link, but that's mostly mitigated by 2FA.

> if 1Passwords decides to share the private key

I'm not aware that they could do that. Their servers have no knowledge of either the password or secret key. Authentication happens via a zero-knowledge proof.
It depends. If you only develop native command line programs it will more than be enough. But every Slack, Discord, Teams, webmail client, ... you got to have open will cut more into your RAM than you think.
If the documentation you work with is not js ridden websites but man pages, txts or pdfs, your workflow allows you to occasionally close all tabs, and you do need to run software with big ram use on an ongoing basis you should be fine. However if those circumstances change you might need to upgrade:
- by putting more RAM in the machine
- moving parts of your workflow to a different machine and use laptop as "thin-client"
- switch machines

At the moment my memory use with 16 GB looks like this:

total used free shared buff/cache available

Mem: 16167816 13526588 1017224 805552 1624004 1420060

Swap: 24838136 10326200 14511936

and i have not found a good way to account for where my memory goes.
He takes full responsibility for the decisions.

And the workers will face the consequences of these decisions.
The fact is just no matter how easy it is to create most people decide to rather just consume.
Dodge Ram is about the same as a small or mid-size Ford Transit, so you could pick one of those.
First, I only wrote "if you think...", so I did not attribute any opinion onto the OP.

Second, however, there is good reason to believe that OP might hold that opinion, since OP wrote about how the purpose of some actions of the American state, via the American Justice Department, were to "enforce rigid authoritarianism". Whose rigid authoritarianism could that refer to in this context, other than an alleged US-American one?
> "In 1919, Ford’s Model T cost £170—around $12,000 in 2022 dollars."

Amazing. In real terms, entry-level cars have doubled in price. We could use a new Henry Ford.
> Furthermore, if you’ve started a company, I don’t see why the people you’ve hired should take the company away from the original owner.

Did you read up on worker cooperatives at all? The concept is it is worker managed at its inception. I used the word democracy to convey that concept simply but it can be structured however the people that form it want it structured. It could be electing people onto committees that determine roadmaps, comp structure, etc. and they rotate out to other roles in the company per some rules the workers set up. It could be rules like total comp for highest paid must never exceed 8x of lowest paid and profits are shared, etc.

The ego centric "I started the company so I say what goes (and I get richest)" pyramid/triangle structure will eventually (if successful) lead to a giant megacorp that does layoffs of 12k people. Or gets bought out by a billionaire that layoffs 75% of staff. People on HN complain about these layoffs but then come in hot about total comp comparisons, RSU's, or complain about these large companies doing business with countries with rap sheets of human rights violations. You can't have it both ways.
I think they need to be in the App Store for this and I’m not sure why they aren’t.
Q: How do you keep a turkey in suspense?

A: ...
macOS has memory compression active, does Linux by default?
It seemed serious, but at this point, who knows any more?
Have you worked at a technology company in Kenya?

Because you're speaking in absolutes-- as though you're an authority on the topic.

Let's use basic logic

No one in this thread knows a damn thing
Super interesting seeing companies grow like wildfire and overspend as returns for investors skyrocket, and then as the market swings downward, they buoy their stock prices a bit by just as quickly cutting heads.

The inverted accountability scheme for leaders doing this is another perverse enabling factor; I've complained about this before, but that tends to lead to flames about why founders etc. can't have ownership of headcount and the fate of their companies etc.

I'm not seeing a clear solution for this culture of toying with thousands of peoples' lives for a quick buck... well, aside from the (sadly) politically loaded move to unionize more white collar work and thus provide actual accountability. Why unions are a political matter is beyond me; IATSE uses their strength to ensure excellent benefits for their members in media/entertainment.
As others have said, your best bet is to use some lightweight desktop environment. You may also want to switch Chrome for Firefox.

Also: can't you buy the 8 GB model and buy the extra RAM separately?
> That means you will never believe in the consciousness of an intelligence that doesn't try to be human, no matter if a god, animal, machine, or alien. Until you expand your definition, that is.

As a human, I cannot understand conscious lifeforms other than humans. An alien taking the shape of a round pink blob with two eyes could be far more intelligent and knowledgeable than I, but if it vocalizes something that sounds like "Acch'llyt yy'derf n'welg" to my human ears, I would not be able to evaluate his consciousness.

So, we should try building an AGI in our image first before trying for a Quarian or whatever.
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Yeah but only being about to login to something if you’re on a certain ecosystem is horrible lock in. It’s why I always choose email sign in over Apple.
Yes, but: a programmer who has made it to age 25 without learning how to ssh into a server where their code will end up running is to me demonstrating that they are remarkably incurious about the larger ecosystem within which they’re working. One sign of a better developer is that their horizons are broader.
Yes there's clearly a discrepancy regarding punishments but the point I was making was about the initial crimes. I'm also not saying I agree either; certainly a lot of the punishments for crimes in America seem disproportionate to the offences commited.