skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument seems to be that punishment only exists on an absolute scale (or relative to the overall population, not relative to the individual). Am I understanding it correctly?

If so, I heavily disagree and hold the opposite opinion: Punishment (and reward for that matter) are heavily individual. E.g., Only playing with a playstation for 30 mins a day might be a punishment for one kid, as they were playing 2~8h a day before, and a reward for another, as they haven't had access to that before. It is relativ to their life situation and independent of general playstation playtime.

But there are cases where punishment is somewhat absolute, mostly for severe infractions like violent crime. Even then, the degree to what a sentence might feel as a punishment might heavily diverge based on the person receiving it. E.g., a homeless person without a job might feel very different about going to prison for 5 years than a highly paid investment manager.
Would they be more “caring about employees” if the didn’t fire anyone now but they had not hired tens of thousands in the last couple of years?
An article about how to gain some dev times by using a workflow automation tool known as CAMUNDA
https://www.bustle.com/articles/32519-terrible-san-francisco...

This how the national restaurant association tried to lobby against a reduction in restaurant profits in California 10 years ago. They really are a terrible organization.
Yes, I'm a weirdo procrastinator that's a bit of an introvert. I think all the time "It'd be nice to have some people over!" We'll have a housewarming on the 10 year anniversary of moving in I suspect. I know I myself realized a few months ago that the reason I suddenly only see people individually and infrequently anymore is our mutual friend that threw get-togethers moved up to a rural property during the pandemic which, in addition to the blow that was children, was the death-knell for his caring about his island of misfit friends. I always knew one of us would grow up.

I don't know if I have what it takes to step in and fill that void. I may need to meet a new social friend ;)
“Equity” in a private company is statistically meaningless. You might as well have said you gave them Monopoly money. I can’t pay my bills with “equity”, investors get first preference, dilution etc.

I see you didn’t say “we gave them money that they could put in their bank account that they could use to support their addiction to food and shelter.”

Yes, RSUs in public company can lose value. But at least I can and do sell every six months at vesting a diversify.

And only 1 out of 10 startups “succeed” and by “success” that means the investors get their money back, it says nothing about how the employees fare.
It's just real hard to get people to commit to things. Lots of "maybes" and flaking. I'd way much rather have someone tell me flat out "no" instead of ghosting or maybe.
Try calling cops after homeless pisses on you, or shits in your car.
I don't think you understood the article, at all.

> National Restaurant Association

This is not an association in the business of lobbying for cooks, waiters and bartenders. It is in fact in the business of making sure labor stays cheap. It is obviously not an association that should somehow be entrusted with mandatory safety training regulation; that is just corrupt regulatory capture.
>>Some people are suggesting that workers are dropping out because they can't find jobs. If anyone truly believes that given our current unemployment numbers, then they are just plain gullible.

Or they cant find jobs that pay what they need/want or have working conditions they need/want while using government programs, gig economy, under the table employment, etc to cover their costs.

I have been in more than one meeting where people are discussion why they can not find people... No Exec ever talks about not paying enough, or not providing the correct benefits, etc.

They also look at superficial things, not "hey maybe we do not pay enough"
The idea is that if you pit those villains against eachother on a level playing field, they'll improve society on the whole.

To a certain extent it's true, and it's only failing in the case of Google/etc because we've allowed mega-companies to become a thing (which distorts the playing field). OTOH we're rapidly heading towards total planetary extinction, so something huge needs to change.
Sad.

Should I care? After all it is about my salary
Spending most of your childhood forced to sit in a chair and be quiet. Allowed speech is repeating the teacher's opinion on the subject at hand and not enquiring more. Schools are literally sucking the life force out of generations of people, for the disadvantage of all.
For most of these companies sales and marketing is the moat.

Edit: curious to know what was the SaaS that got rattled by your fun experiment.
> 1. Running a business and programming (or whatever skill you're an expert in) are two very different skillsets, and you need the former to get the best opportunities.

Sure. But smart developers are also a good material to be smart in other areas of life, if they put themselves to it.

> 2. Not everyone finds it fun to run a business or take care of things other than what they're actually passionate about.

True. One way, old as humanity, is to find a partner who is enthusiastic about doing the things that you dislike. As far as statistics go, startups have higher chance of succeeding with two founders than one, when both founders have complementary skillsets.
You people will upvote anything with "Rust" in it, won't you?
This approach doesn't make sense when it comes to software. Expanding your dev team during a boom year to only contract it in the future bust year - will leave you moving slower in the bust years. While tech has never been known for it's stable job market, seeing the most profitable corporations in the world conducting layoffs doesn't sit well.
I disagree that a regular 1x programmer is comparable to someone slacking off on a university group assignment. I prefer the sports analogy, where there are some stars with disproportional impact in the outcome of games, but who work with other also very hard-working, professional athletes. No one is slacking around, there is just some people that are better.

Also, I do think there are 10x programmers that are 10x in a myriad of contexts, not just one team.

I am not botching your idea, I just have a different perspective of what the term “10x” means.
Maximizing profit should be the main signal of creating value, if you have a lot of revenue but no profit - you are actually destroying value.

There are dynamics where profit chasing can be perverted (eg. monopolistic pricing, fraud, etc.) which is why we have regulations. But profit chasing in itself is the best signal of value creation we have.

I've lived in a post socialist country transitioning from socialist to capitalist system and I don't want to live in a world where politics define value, profit chasing can lead to pathologies, but political value system is based on flawed principles.
Yeah, like firing 12k folks isn't the full responsibility of the CEO in the first place?

Like a surgeon, telling you after the surgery that he takes "a full 100% responsibility for the results.". And you will be like: "eeeh, yeah, thought so?"
You could just admit you wanted to make a little joke for internet points
All of those things can be true, but then his ire should be with the police and the city management which have let SF (and larger California) descend into an unmanaged mess.

That doesn't give you the right to spray anyone with water. Bad behavior by one party (short of violence) does not excuse bad behavior by another.

There is no "they had it coming" enshrined in law.
It's difficult to explain credibility beyond the definition of the word, but if you have any purported reason "to think that poverty of young adults, narcissism, or lack of patience, is materially different and has a material effect on the number of parties in the present day compared to 10 or 20 years ago", I can tell you whether or not I think it's credible.
Interesting, thanks!

I don't think that belief worked out there. I browse with showdead turned on. Many, many stories end up dead and it's often very unclear why. For comments you can usually guess but that guess is never more precise than "this upsets some people a lot" which is almost tautological. You can speculate about what exactly upsets them, but it becomes only pop psychology, and anyway, hiding whole discussions because some people didn't like it even if it was polite and intelligent goes against the stated goals of the site. It actually incentivizes people to shoot the messenger.
Most states have a higher minimum tipped wage than the federal minimum tipped wage. Seven states don't allow tipped wages at all. Being from a state that doesn't allow tipped wages, I would love to see the cultural expectation for tipping disappear.

http://www.minimum-wage.org/tipped
> At least the first is not a waste of time. Could have directed to a floss project

Oh, the irony…
From Amazon's point of view, this doesn't seem too far removed from their annual firing quotas which I think is already an onerous practice.

From the hyper-scale startup point of view, it's blatantly unsustainable and frankly irresponsible to play fast-and-loose with people's careers by hiring them and then making the position redundant, sometimes within less than a year; even six months in some cases that I've known. The best one can hope for is a generous severance so as to buy time to find a new job in an increasingly crowded market.
It's quite cool, I don't run with docker run that often so might get involved to let it give the yaml to make it run through ansible
I think your view is very simplistic and reductionist on how tech companies work. They are not not factories, they did not over hire to get boots on ground for support. They were hiring and creating brand new things with glee as stock and revenue soared.
Those can rotate, but they are not discrete units, and can not be moved around on the desk.
Also, remember I actually pay hard cash for Youtube (which embarrasses me every time I type it!) so the idea that they can't distinguish engagement highly likely to keep me forking over subscription moolah versus engagement highly likely to send me running for the hills when I actively use their provided tools to tell them "I HATE THIS STOP SHOWING IT TO ME" is a pure business failure. The concept that all engagement is good engagement may work on a platform like Twitter where the point is to rile everyone up into opposing war camps but is that really why people come to Youtube? Some people just like physics videos, or cooking videos, or video game reviews, or whatever...
Mindless accumulation of wealth is evil. All major world religions and ethics systems acknowledge this.
The story is told pretty well in this book

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1980-0...

which makes as strong a case against protectionism as I've seen everywhere. Part of the cost of enabling the steel industry to keep using obsolete technology was harm to the competitiveness of other US industries such as the car industry because they were stuck using expensive and low-quality steel.

There is some quality steel made in the US today but many communities have never recovered from the failure of the legacy industry.

It's hard for me not to see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife

as a beneficiary of this policy who eventually spent much of his fortune in an attempt to warp the American political system.
Bernie Madoff promised high returns while obfuscating his business model as well. It went well until it no longer did.
Successful person is one that is able to achieve their goals that they deem worthy.

That's it. If you set out on doing something you would be proud of if you did and then achieve it, you are successful.
I just wanted to say this is the spirit. This is what this community is about. Seeing a problem and building something.
Contract jobs are never part of layoffs.

OTOH, not all full time roles have an actual human assigned. They could also be budgeted for, but not filled yet. Post 2008, managers usually kept a couple of unfilled roles for events like this.
You can tell the places that do this immediately: every action is surrounded by 10x the effort of paper pushing to ensure that the “right person” is fired when the thing goes wrong (which it will, because such organizations are incapable of institutional learning).
You cannot stop being pedantic, can you? Chill is slang and has no set meaning.

You have disagreed with absolutely everyone for no reason!
I’ve seen it many times. I’ve even seen managers on teams try to sabotage a 10x:er because he made the manager (and team) look bad.

When a single individual outperforms a large group the large group typically doesn’t like it, or the person doing it. Sadly that’s just a part of human nature. Where I live (Sweden) it’s referred to as the law of Jante. In other parts of the world it’s referred to as tall poppy syndrome or crab mentality.
The purpose of a company is not to maximize profits because that would mean you have to pay taxes.

The holy goal instead, is to maximize shareholder value. A small, but important difference (and helps explain the existence of companies like Uber and Twitter who have barely turned a profit in the past decade).
For one of our customers we integrate heavily with their ERP system.

They had nice sub-10 million integers as order numbers, so we used that as primary key for the order table (and as fk for 10+ child tables). Last year they changed ERP system, and now order numbers are much longer and can contain dashes.

Not the worst change, as converting integer to varchar is lossless, but we had to go over all the views and our code to make sure it could handle it.
Nobody "made" them do anything. I never graduated college, I barely made it out of high school. Where did I acquire this knowledge to save money and live reasonably, while these other software developers are "made" to obtain these lifestyles requiring $300k a year?

My guess is that these people, who are "doomed", don't actually exist. I have a strong suspicion that, over the last few years, most folks got in while it was good, and are happy they were around while it lasted.

Saying they would have been better off with a "regular job" is pretty presumptuous. What if these folks are actually smart people who just saved up while FAANGs were offering huge salaries? What if this isn't actually a big deal? What if it was a good thing that ICs were getting paid a lot of money for a bit, instead of having wages suppressed by investors to prevent situations like "probably wouldn't have happened to them if they had another, more regular job."

Give me the money. Let me choose how I spend it. Don't pretend you know what is best for me.
This is pretty neat!
Stay ahead of cyber threats with graph databases
I never merge changes. I run my unison with `-batch -prefer newer`, so I never get queried. In the very, very rare case (like maybe once every few years), where I feel I lost a file to unison, I have to retrieve a backup. It would assume that in a multi-user setup, this could be trickier.
It matters if you're trying to do things.

I'm something of a 10x designer who can program, a bit. As a result I've produced a working library of products easily 10x the size and scope of most competitors, within some very obvious constraints because I am NOT a 10x programmer, per se. My effectiveness is in coming up with the things to do, and why, and implementing them in such a way as to maximize their reach and usefulness.

I'm currently working with a 10x programmer, whose capacity is astronomically beyond mine as far as programming is concerned, but who's simply a good designer, not a 10x designer. So his projects tend to be user-driven and expansive, and very useful and dependable, but rapidly feature-creeping because he's not really one to tell users 'no, you can't have that, it's not in line with the vision'. His 10x is in the ability to bring all such requests to fruition, for many parallel projects.

We're collaborating on a thing and my overview/observation is this: when you're able to get the people working cooperatively AND trusting each others' 10X domains, it multiplies. I figure me and this guy combine to be a 100X, if and only if we consciously work towards maximizing that.

The experiential thing about being that person in that situation is the EFFORTLESSNESS of it. It's really pretty mind-blowing. Requires good enough people skills to be able to observe, listen, and trust. But when you luck into that kind of combination, it feels totally Woz/Jobs. Stuff just unfolds, perhaps with a lot of enthusiastic work (I'll happily put in days, weeks, months of grind on things at my level that will facilitate the project) but it's important to understand that it's not 10X or 100X the effort or burden.

Being in that 10X situation is great, and you should be able to be there in such a way that everybody's delighted and facilitated by what you're doing. If it's a burden on others or giving them a hard time, it's not the 10X/100X thing I've experienced. It's not a struggle. It's about when things just go great, seem to burst forth effortlessly.
I'm not sure that's the main reason, look at Microsoft Teams. It hasn't failed but..
Firstly, the sole purpose of maximizing shareholder value is a recent myth. Before that, it was understood that corporations are chartered to serve the public interest.

A few may argue that corporations are super-persons imbued with super-rights which outweigh the rights of actual persons. Please note that's a minority viewpoint.

Secondly, corporations are not the only cast members with agency in this narrative.

Our government, the source of all that free money, acting on the goals of full employment and bountiful future tax revenue, probably has some agency.

Us individuals, whose blood and entrails lubricate the gears of the machine built from our bone and sinew, also have agency. Stuff like get fat and happy and watch our grandkids grow up, have enough excess wealth and time to travel a bit, to not bleed out in a ditch, cold and haggard, after a lifetime of toil. And most of us aren't particularly invested in further enriching the latest cohort of robber barons.
> 8M tons/year

That's per month.
Fundamentally a Google search typically returns a research project that involves the user attempting to build their own mental model of the "truth".

ChatGPT instead returns an answer that needs research to verify facts.

This second approach is already quicker for many use cases and can get much better.

So yes, the user may still need search engines to verify. But in the future, it seems unlikely that search will be the dominant, primary means of people accessing information.

The problem for Google with ChatGPT-a-like results is that they strip out the presentation of Google's ads and one of its most significant revenue streams. The chief advantage of Google acting quickly is it increases its chances of retaining an ad business.
It was supposed to have been loaded with dummies, not blanks.
“National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.”

―Joseph Stalin, "Anti-Semitism: Reply to an inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States" (12 January 1931)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Well that's expected when SNR is low. But in a dark room it's harder to see because SNR is low. I was just saying that I wouldn't want to artificially lower SNR in all environments, but maybe it wouldn't and maybe others do.
Whatever’s happening is a prime example of how disruptions happen in tech industry. Previous giants become fossils and new incumbents take the spot. IBM -> GE -> Google etc will all follow the same trajectory towards irrelevance.
C++ – programming language of the year 2022. What about other languages?
I think contemporary AIs would be more alarmed by accidentally dropping the n word and/or something entirely antithetical to the current zeitgeist and then be neutered. ChatGPT is hilarious if you ask it the right questions in the number of hoops it will jump through in order to not say something 'unkosher'.
I guess I'll go to bat for the multi-billion dollar megacorp since nobody else is doing it

Avengers: Endgame was great. They did a heist through time that was basically a speed run of all the other movies. Ant-Man preserved the "F You" energy from Hank Pym while keeping things just grounded enough to be fun. Thor: Love and Thunder was basically an action-packed version of a "Flight of the Conchords" episode and they ended up solving their problems by talking instead of just smashing heads in.

So far as big budget movies go, these are the best I've ever seen
I've seen quite a few YouTube videos of people seeing how much they can do on minimally configured Apple silicon Macs, and it is insane.

My guess is that what is going on is that the internal storage is so fast that if it has to swap when switching tasks it doesn't really cause much slowdown, so that as long as each individual task can fit in memory during its time slice you are fine.

(Well...fine in the sense that it is almost as fast as a system with much more memory. But if I'm right it is also increasing the write load on the SSD and so lowering its lifetime, which those who want to use their computers for a long time might want to take into account).

I'd guess the same would happen on other operating systems and architectures if the SSD was fast enough.
Are there any clear downsides to sequential prefixes on UUIDs? I would imagine if you're producing new objects at a high enough rate, you'd have a lot of prefix collisions, which would hinder search times. I've never benchmarked to confirm that though.
sounds like you've never been layed off ... yet
What could you do if you were incredibly intelligent, had the corpus of the world's knowledge, and access to any and everything connected to a network?

It could influence people through the creation of media. Shut off vital systems. And stuff I probably couldn't even conceive of.
This is key. Older people do dinner parties. Maybe even with some light board/trivia games or some other activity. If your friends group doesn’t do it, you need to initiate and host. It often takes time to gain speed. Commit yourself to something like hosting monthly for a year. Send the invite a month ahead. Likely someone will offer to host at their place eventually and you can back off a bit. The ball of yarn doesn’t stay wound up without effort, it will unravel without attention and action.

Also, and I’m horrible at this, but try to intermix your friends groups. So everyone’s network of friends grows.

Also, cheat mode is just organizing dinners out. It’s easier but I think results in less memorable experiences and doesn’t do much to strengthen the relationships of those in attendance.
ChatGPT is not all you need. A SOTA Review of large Generative AI models
> The ticket didn't even pay for the helicopter fuel and the cost of manpower, while zero people were non consensually endangered.

We don't decide to prosecute people based on profitability, thankfully.
> That's also a misunderstanding

Well yeah, that's what I'm saying, but thank you for bringing it front and center in a clearer way.