skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is controversial of course, but I followed Kris Nova pretty closely and after some time I saw her trying to funnel her audience into a slack instance (or something like slack, might have been discord).

When I reviewed the rules, which I tend to take seriously I noticed that it said "We promote neurodiversity" and in the next line it says "don't be an asshole".

I understand that some people can see a distinction here. The problem I have with those two rules is that if you are a person who is autistic, your behaviour is seen by neurotypicals as "being an asshole", especially on text based mediums where communication is much more limited in context and less rich meta-communication like body language or tone.

When I pointed this out, I was blocked.

I can only gather that people want to be seen as inclusive, so they use things that are easily seen. That which is _not_ easily seen is ignored, like autism- though people will say they support people with it, I think they're not actually interested in understanding that autism isn't just being a bit anti-social, it's a mental illness and it can be difficult to live with! Another minor example of people not caring what cannot be seen: I don't see many people making a stink about economic background, but that is a massive differentiator in mental diversity.
Copying this as you said the same thing as another user:

Try to do anything to another adult with consent and you'll have criminal charges.

You can't ground another adult, or take away their stuff. You can with your child.

Also teammates slap each other on the bum all the time.
> I wotked with an older african american many years ago who in his own words grew up in the ghetto. He told me once that, "If we don't beat our kids at home the cops will do it in the street."

I suspect a thorough investigation of the African Americans beaten in the streets by cops would find that being beaten by their parents as a child is not substantial protection against being beaten in the streets by cops.

Its a convenient rationalization, though.
Posts without a link are always penalized automatically in the rankings. Some overdiscussed topics are as well I believe so they may be at work. Nobody from HN would have touched it.
The New Layoff Era of Big Tech
It’s truly heartbreaking. The guy was one of my closest friends because we had a ton of hobbies in common. I loved when he would target fixate on some problem and his basement would turn into a mad scientist workshop. I remember him as “the person who would see through a ridiculous idea.”

But the abusive parts got worse and worse and became intolerable. I’m not sure what could have been done differently. Though as a teenager that was probably not my role to play.
There was a guy, Kryptochef, roaming german tech forums. Hard to tell if this was an extremely committed comedic troll or an insane guy. This was his website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140504165057/http://kryptochef...

It went down in 2014 and the guy vanished never to be heard of again.
There is a vast amount of talent that has created all the powerful open source numerical platforms we have today but if it could somehow coordinate we'd significantly accelerate these projects to maturity.

Octave is playing in a crowded orchestra, with the python scipy stack, the R and julia ecosystems, not to mention libraries in c++ like armadillo and eigen or even new projects in rust.

The funny thing is that in individual projects we like to apply DRY but we thinking more broadly, when solving numerical / computational problems there seem to be (too) many open source alternatives with significant overlap and duplication

No doubt all them have their pros and cons and optimal niches or historically strong points.

Ultimately though it might be an idea to somehow consolidate and coalesce around fewer and more mature stacks that have large use and development communities and which dont compete against each other for attention
You're asking the wrong question. It's not why Sam Altman "failed upward", which I have no opinion on.

The bigger question is why so many still believe in the myth of meritocracy [1]. Altman, if he failed upward, is not an isolated incident. It is not.

The common traits of "success" here are more closely aligned to sociopathy and narcissism [2]. Look no further than Elon Musk, the once richest man in the world.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/19/the-myth-of-mer...

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-p...
Google Earth/Maps imagery is mostly aerial, so that makes sense.
Well in America a 6 year old kid can just bring a firearm from home and shoot his teacher.
Those laws allow the state to ignore the consent of children. We can, and should, find those laws federally unconstitutional.
If you take it as read that YC is not run by complete idiots then you may also realize that they probably made some effort to ensure that their decision was the right one. That you aren't privilege to that information is perfectly fine, they are under no obligation to open the books on their selection process and/or on any assistance provided to Sam afterwards. The main giveaway is that you think that a successful YC alumn by your standard would automatically be more qualified to run YC, which is not at all like any one of the companies that YC has invested in. Besides that unless a company exists a typical YC alumn will be running their company, which is typically a >> full time job for those companies that are successful.
I'm not very familiar with hardware architecture.

Could you explain why you disagree?
>When I reviewed the rules, which I tend to take seriously I noticed that it said "We promote neurodiversity" and in the next line it says "don't be an asshole".

The only commonly tolerated, perhaps even celebrated, form of neurodiversity is asymptomatic depression.
The jurisdiction question is an interesting one.
This comment from a similar thread over 10 years ago pretty much sums it up:

I just saw Sam Altman speak at YCNYC and I was impressed. I have never actually met him or heard him speak before Monday, but one of his stories really stuck out and went something like this:

"We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.

We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.

We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract."

I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.

Companies can “fail”, for all kinds of reasons, even with perfect execution by the founders. I don’t really know why Loopt failed, but based on sama’s track record since, he is definitely a person who makes a huge impact with whatever he does (even if you think OpenAI hype is overblown, as I do).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048944
There are a lot of other benefits to the attitude of: "I'm not the first one to ever go through this, and I won't be the last."

It's a great way to put things into perspective. It also helps relieve some psychological presure. It also doesn't require buying into any supernatural belief systems. This is a big plus if you're not inclined towards supernatural explanations.

I think that the biggest benefit is that this attitude helps make people more compassionate towards others. And it naturally becomes more general if you work at it a bit... If you're not to only one to go through whatever difficult situation in particular, maybe others have gone through the same thing. Maybe other people have gone through similar stuff, too. After a while it becomes easier to extend that out to seeing that people suffer in ways that I can't quite understand right now. And it starts from the understanding that I'm not alone going through this, whatever it is. I becomes easier to see that people deserve understanding, or compassion, or even some actual help.

Helping others in need can become a deeply rewarding aspect of your life. It might not fix things, it won't cure a serious depression or whetever. But it can make thing a lot better for you and others.

Also, I thr to keep in mind that no one is in prison, no one has cancer, no one is dead. The situation might have some real negative potential, and is worth addressing, and it's also, in some sense, workable. There are real problems that can be addressed, and fixed in real life. Start small and work towards a solution, for youself and others.
Actually, yes, he did mention packaging headaches as well. MATLAB manages to sidestep the issue by not having a package manager, and basically forcing you to include the literal source code of any non-mathworks dependencies in your repo.

We do need a better story with dependencies in Python, and I'm happy to see there have been several posts over the last week talking about this issue.

That said I think that for academic projects it can be fairly straightforward to handle after an initial learning curve. A lot of projects can be accomplished with just numpy/scipy/matplotlib and maybe a couple other specialty libraries.
How about if a teacher spanks my child without my consent (which I'd never give) I get to flog them?
Consider that the veterinarian market has had ultrasound machines you carry on your neck with screens, and now have smart phone add-ons.

Convenience is no longer a significant differentiator.
If you really push this through that’s a valid point.

What makes it so that Asians are underrepresented, and would the games be more interesting if these causes were addressed ?
> Money cannot give you back the opportunity to raise your children

It can give them a better life. Also, this article cited a star second grader beaten against her parents’ wishes, and where the doctor felt barred from filing a compliant because it was the state that beat her. The state beating kids simply doesn’t make sense.
It's sad that game publishers don't do it anymore since I don't know when. Everything goes online nowadays. Boring.
A number of jurisdictions have legally codified definitions specifically for online harassment and this behaviour certainly counts in some of them.

I suspect that in most jurisdictions this behaviour could be of legal concern.

The other word they used, which I note you don't question, is stalking. This sort of behaviour is even more likely to infringed on laws (which may not exist, or are well enforced, in all jurisdictions but certainly do and are in some) intended to manage that more specific form of harassment.
Strongly agree! That's why it's necessary to find the places where it does matter, and apply effort to changing that.
"I left my bag over they're" is simply wrong. Bury your [you're??] head in the sand if you want, it's still wrong.
> I guess we should allow it in the workplace

Violence is the second most effective form of persuasion known to man, following shame.

We do use violence in limited fashion, around the world, today. In some societies, unmitigated violence was acceptable for a time. Why is it always curtailed? Unequivocally, murder is more effective at achieving settlement in many disputes. Expediency is not the only concern. Society is built on maintained relationships and mutual agreements, not wanton acts of passion to form networks that are more effective and stable than the individual.

Children are not considered fully informed or stable. Shame is difficult to instill, when there is no preconceived notion of social acceptance. Violence is the natural fallback. Is picking up a child and moving them out of the way of a vehicle, when they don't want to be moved, violence? No. Violence isn't simply an action, but the act and intention and efficacy. Modern societies have balanced these concerns for adults and children. Self-defense and purposeful administrative allowances for violence (police, army) are the norm.

The question of what the limits of perceived violence for children is optimal, is still debated.
Agreed.

My friend was stabbed by a schizophrenic who lived in the flat opposite and believed that my friend was stalking him. Ten years later and my friend still has virtually no feeling in his hand as the nerves did not grow back correctly and he had to give up being a professional musician.

I know the guy didn't choose to be the way he was and I'm sure what was going through his mind was hell. But that doesn't mean that the rest of us should just live with the consequences of harmful actions.
What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina?
You're describing a theoretical situation.

While that can definitely occur, I strongly doubt that's what has happened to Canva.
Two longstanding projects, two different weirdos I've had to deal with. At this point I've gotten unfortunately good at spotting a certain type of crazy.
DEI isn't measurable by counting the number of marginalized people in the room. It's totally possible and also extremely likely that demographics in any particular organization won't match proportions of the general population regardless of how the business operates.
The article digging into Sedaris was especially silly since it's clear that he's a comic (and a great one at that) and the fact that he may have taken NPR for a ride just makes him funnier.
The best answer is to realize that you probably don't have access to that data even if it exists. This is a nonsense question.
I think people are quite happy to accept ADHD on public social media, as sufferers of ADHD are more likely to engage with an online community sporadically while being unable to concentrate on other things.

Especially if they start getting a dopamine reward for engaging.
> just overall seems like a genuine person.

Yet he admitted to deceiving a customer in that same anecdote
The bitflip would also have to cause an error in logic that would result in a system lockup. That's unlikely, given that most information flowing through ram is probably data, not logic.
These days I don’t think I’m being too brash in saying that anyone dealing with Python 2 to Python 3 transition stuff is so deep in the realm of enterprise abandonware that it’s not worth paying it much attention. Not necessarily including you here!

But as someone that went through the transition, I’m certainly not going to deny how much of a shit show it was. And I get a feeling that the two situations were/are caused by the same political / organisational / philosophical factors.

I’d be miffed if the Python / PyPA mob got so distracted with their internal politics, certain terse personalities, or the hands-off competition-is-good ideology, that the packaging story makes Python an increasingly unappealing choice. Even worse, we could end up with a packaging ecosystem run by effing Microsoft like the JS people do, because “competition”.

And yes I’m totally conflating aspects of packaging here. At least we all settled on PyPi, except for all those that haven’t… :)
Sure? Contact your congressman.
Small shops have a benefit of freedom of choice that large corps often don't give to workers. Sometimes it's accidental, sometimes deliberate, but large corporations have a tendency to want a single defined process. Variation (or as they'd call it "deviation") from that process is bad (it's not, but from the corporate management perspective it is). It has to be justified, you have to prove the thing you want to do will work before you can even try it to demonstrate that it does or does not work.

This hinders freedom to experiment with new techniques and methods within development teams, but it doesn't stop it. A "trick" is to provide all the artifacts that they want as if you followed their process to the letter, but still do things the way you want so long as it gets the job done. The problem with that is that you have no evidence you did things differently than the defined process and so they'll continue to believe the defined process is perfectly fine, if not excellent. Then some exec will decide to write a book about it and become a consultant selling the (broken) defined process (I assume this is how SAFe came to be, an ironically very rigid "agile" process).
Right. They make the hardware (including CPU), the OS (and firmware), and there is a decent chance they make the app you’re using like Preview.

Apple is the keys to the kingdom. They have full access to your decrypted data because they encrypt/decrypt it for you.

If you don’t trust them to not go behind your back this is the least of your concerns.
Pulling such a stunt is a hustler move, as well as deceptive, manipulative, and dishonest.

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Edit: Sure, dang. I didn't realize UTF-8 magic was frowned upon. Could be a helpful addition to the guidelines if this is the case.
We occasionally get US HR people come over here, talking to a team of 4-10 people, point out there's no black people in it and use that as an example of the lack of diversity.

The problem is that black people are ~1% of local population, so a team without black people is much less surprising than in the US or London.
I was surprised by this one. I didn't expect something so short to produce a meaningful result.
>For all the industry’s talk of representation, the tech sector has always been one of the least diverse. Black workers accounted for just 7% of the workforce in 2021. With recent cutbacks, that number has undoubtedly diminished.

begging the question
I still love the wheel and manuals of SSI Gold Box games. Apparently there wasn't enough space for all those texts so the games guide you to read say Page 31 for a certain long dialog.

I actually think it gives a lot of immersion than modern day AAA games.
> like a genuine person

> we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were

?
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But aren’t South Asians people of color? And overrepresented in tech companies.

I’m not sure that brown people are underrepresented in tech or that these layoffs hit them harder.

In fact, the article doesn’t share any data that the layoffs hit black people more than any other so if they are underrepresented in tech companies at only 7%, doesn’t that mean they would also be underrepresented in layoffs? So there are actually fewer impacted by these layoffs than non-black.

In the US, black is a race so I think I understand the usage. But not sure what brown means unless it’s some offensive term for Latino. I don’t really think that people who have brown skin share many socioeconomic characteristics as they are many different races and ethnicities and cultures.
The simple fact of the matter is that money can neither retroactively unimprison a man, nor can it retroactively unbeat him. If you think it can do one, there's no rational reason it can't do the other. But in truth, it can't do either.

Pretending that imprisonment is reversible is just a cowardly way of coping with the possibility of harming an innocent man.
From the other side of the story:

https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-01-20/gbi-invest...

>UPDATE
>
> Atlanta, GA (January 20, 2023) – We are releasing a photo of the handgun that was in Manuel Esteban Paez Teran’s possession when a Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot on January 18 at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The handgun is described as a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm. Forensic ballistic analysis has confirmed that the projectile recovered from the trooper’s wound matches Teran’s handgun. Other preliminary information released in this case is consistent with the investigation so far.
Heroes of Bronze. A short CGI film set in ancient Greece by one person
For those that don't believe doxxing is a problem, it is superficially easy for a troll to fake an identity online, slowly spilling fake personal data, and then be "doxxed" to the Fake persona.

I may have done this 15 years ago to someone that I felt deserved it at the time, on a forum I enjoyed trolling and to a coworkers identity that eventually came through.

I'm not this insane anymore.
This is written authoritatively but, to say the least, doesn't track developmental psychology science.
You'd think those magnets would go rusty in the bay...
I'm certainly willing to accept the argument, however I cannot find the evidence of what they linked.

"Recent research shows Black and Brown employees were disproportionately impacted in those layoffs." Links to

https://www.zippia.com/advice/diversity-in-high-tech-statist...

Which doesn't even include the word layoff, is from 2022, and doesn't seem to address the issue at all.

As I go through, this is consistent in the article. Make an argument, link to evidence, which doesn't include anything about your argument.

I'd really like to read a better put together article on the topic. I think it's a very reasonable discussion, but I'm dissuaded to try and sort out it when they cite details that have no evidence i can see.
how many will have to die?
Sure! My requirements are very simple, so my setup isn’t very complicated. The process isn’t precisely repeatable because each self-hosted app has different requirements, some require multiple containers, and so on.

I start with a template docker-compose yaml that contains the barebones: network settings, labels for Traefik (eg. Let’s Encrypt config), placeholders for the image/container name, volumes, env variables, etc. I fill this in based on the container I want to setup. Many self-hosted apps provide example docker-compose configurations - I often just merge them with my template by hand. It’s usually just a couple of lines.

I edit the files in vscode (but directly over ssh). Not a huge fan of editing YAML in the terminal.

Then, I execute an aliased command that goes something like this:

docker-compose down ; docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f

to see if the container stands up, and tweak if necessary.
And AMD, and Nvidia.
It wouldn’t be reasonable for a teenager or even an adult to martyr themselves over that. I wouldn’t blame anyone really, though I guess we all have to overcome the cards we are dealt somehow?
I thought this would be obvious. Look at the representation of Asians in STEM programs versus athletic programs. There’s the stereotype that Asian parents are hyper-focused on their kids’ academics (tiger mom) and not on athletics but just because it’s a stereotype doesn’t mean it’s false.
Remember, running a business is a much different skill set. I think most AI developers and researchers wouldn't be interested in budgets, timelines, investor calls, etc. CEO is on the management/business track, not the technical track.
Why? Because "emotional mistreatment" is a catch-all term.

For example, it's easy to make the argument that time-out, a common negative reinforcement strategy among parents, constitutes emotional mistreatment. After all it is just a form of solitary confident, and solitary is known for how it emotionally wrecks adults.
Not just the NBA, they're underrepresented in every major U.S. sports league.
no, this is not acceptable. If you have an issue with someone online, ban their email, ban their IP and move on. It is not appropriate to go hunting this person in real life. you yourself have then become the creep, the person acting inappropriately. you've become the very person you have issue with.

to anyone reading this, DO NOT listen to the person I am replying to. Even if this extreme case seems "justified", its all too easy to fall down a slippery slope, where you start doxxing anyone that slights you. I have been the victim of this, its NOT OK.