skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Help, my quest to maximize profit at the cost of human misery has people painting me as an un-empathetic, maniacal evil-doer! Why can't people understand that its actually just like, my opinion that causing societal harm for short term quarterly gains is good, is just like my opinion and every opinion is valid!"
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> Every damn body knew that the last 2 years were not representative of the future.

Don't humans almost always extrapolate their present situation far out in the future?
The whole point of Nitter is to not give a shit about what Twitter thinks. It's built by screen-scraping the frontend (and using its internal API endpoints) for this reason so it is immune to changes to the official API.

Nitter will be fine and will gain more relevance as a result of this.
I think having fines be a major funding source distracts from the purpose of the enforcement. They’re supposed to be there for public safety, not for making sure there’s a Christmas bonus.

There are countries where traffic fines are based as a percent of salary rather than flat rates. That way the rich are equally incentivized to obey the laws.

That being said I’ve always felt frustrated by speeding tickets. Everyone goes 5-10 over the limit at all times so it makes a system where cops can basically pull over everyone and give them a ticket at will.

It seems like if it’s a limit, it should be an actual sensible number and be an actual limit. Instead of this kafkaesque system where everyone can be deemed guilty at will.

Likewise I feel other behaviors like tailgating and aggressive driving aren’t enforced and (imho) cause more accidents.
I wouldn't agree. Sure, it can help you, but what kind of followers do you want? Do you want the audience that will listen/read your messages, or do you want to have them engaged in conversations?
There was an article here on HN some time ago about some enormous project in California (a bridge? a tunnel?). IIRC the state's engineering department was quite small and underfunded, and so they depended on the contracted company for their engineering expertise. This did not go well. As I recall, the problems were that the state engineers were not experienced enough (because private pays better and seniors leave) and there weren't enough of them. For the life of me, I can't remember what the project was, but maybe someone else here does.

How about small towns entering into agreements with big box stores where they are simply unmatched and "hoodwinked" into accepting arrangements that aren't favorable. [0] Presumably, towns could make better contacts with better legal resources.

Do you have a better solution to this problem or should we just let the corps run our lives?

[0]: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/3/big-box-stores...
> The people driving American pickups in the Netherlands are almost all contractors and they're a bit shorter and a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter.

I imagined all these people who are only a bit shorter but a bit wider than a van. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukr...
194cm tall 95kg (i.e. "not skinny") 2021 Skoda Fabia owner here. Last trip was 4 people for some weekend hiking, no big issues either.

Yeah, Rapid is a bit on the long size ;-)

But agree - I wouldn't like to drive that outside of the EU. It feels kinda weird to be (sometimes below) eye level with some car hoods...
have you seen them? well now you have :3
The kind of company I'm on the lookout for has definitely shifted over the years. When I was younger, the thought of working at Google and Amazon was very enticing. Then Amazon adopted some fairly regressive HR and business strategies and lost its luster in my eyes; or maybe my view of their existing practices just shifted as I grew older. Now Google is trending in the same direction. At this point in my career I'm on the lookout for smaller companies that are oases and have somehow managed to avoid the HR and business trends that have been adopted by the tech industry on the model of people like Jack Welch, the consulting firms and private equity.
Volume helps. But you've got to be saying something that people connect with.
That's pretty cool. I can image this becoming an OCI manifest of sorts, that defines the requirements of a container, so that it can be fed to an OCI-compliant tool to run the container. Basically the same as a k8s manifest, but simpler. Give it an extension and have people download the file and execute it, and it executes the container. You'd never have to manually download, make executable, and execute a binary, ever again.
In my case, it was using Linux distros pre-vscode that got me into emacs. In that era, your choices for general-purpose developer-oriented file editor were (a) emacs, (b) vim, (c) something that was ported from another OS and either running in an emulator or running atop a library stack that barely worked on your architecture and would take like thirty seconds to boot up.
This perspective, implemented broadly, would considerably reduce the pools of available financing accessible to a given company. This in turn would reduce employment levels as companies contract in a more difficult capital environment.

If you are an investor, activist or otherwise, you benefit from the current practice that managers have a fiduciary duty to shareholders.
I hate UUIDs with passion currently - not postgres but recently spent so much extra time on relatively small table (35 mil records in few columns) and doing some queries and updating subset of it.

UUIDs there is stored in Oracle 'raw' datatype which to me is the worst combination possible, basically string stored in small binary blob, due to binary nature all needs to be converted to hex all the time for matching and readability, atrocious performance on stored procedures. Absolutely worst DB design I've seen in past 20 years, and we talk about expensive core anonymization service of top big banking package.
For me it is mostly COVID's fault, because people my age definitely stopped partying as much as they used to. Some are still worried about it, many just realized during lockdown that they don't even like "parties" in the traditional form. We still get together but it's usually a quiet dinner thing, not dozens of people in the same room, drinking and dancing and whatever else. Even karaoke is not as popular in my circle since being in a closed space with people opening their mouths wide feels weird.

I think smaller parties like housewarming and barbecue are still fine though, but maybe it depend on the country.
Bingo. 10x is not about how fast someone codes. That is why there is confusion here. Of course someone cannot write code consistently 10x as fast or write 10x as much code. On a regular basis? That is nonsensical.

When talking about 10x devs (or 10x any type of employee), it is about Judgement. The decisions they make on what they work on, how they achieve it, and (probably most importantly) what they choose NOT to work on. Judgement is the deciding factor in whether someone has a 10x impact on the business over time. It absolutely is not how much code they write. As a matter of fact, removing code can be a 10x improvement as well.
Are your examples also examples of survivorship bias?

I was reading in the WSJ how all tech seems to be paring back their moonshot programs. I think the Google example was a program cut that had $1B in revenue but $6B in costs. (forgive me if the exact numbers are wrong). It seems like prioritizing and cutting back on programs that lose money (despite being innovative or inspiring) is a natural consequence of economic downturns.
> 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).

It seems the official name is StageCraft[1]&[3], and they have evolved it since the first Mandalorian-Season[2], having now multiple of those sets around the world. This is pretty cool for production, but probably awful for tourism. No locations anymore which people can visit to support the local economy.

[1] https://www.ilm.com/stagecraft/
[2] https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/1225599-the-volum...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StageCraft
The only way somebody is 10x the average person is when the average person lacks the skills to participate in the domain in question. Unless you really mean 10x the typical competent field-members, and such people are staggeringly few in number. Like a literal handful. And such people are going to be really bored unless you’re out solving unsolvable problems.
I guess they were spending the fuel cost and heli from a different budget?
I've always liked this concept, but I've only ever seen it demonstrated with simple pure functions like gcd and sort. How practical is generating inputs for payroll_get_benefits_adjustment(org, employee, jurisdiction, period, *args, **kwargs)?

If I have to teach Hypothesis (by writing strategies) which pieces of these complex values matter and which combinations of those pieces are needed to cover the space, is it still worth it? Am I chopping up essential complexity and pushing it around, or am I gaining coverage? Brevity? Clarity? Correctness? A promotion?

Will it hit the database a hundred extra times to cover combinations that don't matter when I could have just enumerated ones that do?

Will the next maintainer know if tests aren't failing when they should because my primer to Hypothesis was subtly wrong?
Exactly. Do Nazi's offend me? Sure (sorry if that's a spicy opinion for some of the people who left response comments here). But as a computer person I'm offended by how lazy and bad the recommendation system is. After two decades the system should be able to segment the person who just wants to watch cooking videos and check out the latest Spiderman news and leave the culture wars for Twitter.

It is a disservice to the end-user and to all the amazing creators for whom Youtube is as present an irreplaceable venue for distribution.
I felt like there was a downward trend in parties before COVID hit for me. This would be me in my late 30s. In our 20s I feel like we still went to a lot of parties and tried to at least "drop by" when we could. But then we had kids and it became a lot harder - but we still try to make the important things ( bdays, graduations, etc ). This was the micro ( and just where I was in life ) now, with COVID I feel like a) there are not as many parties - just kind of like a covid hangover on social gatherings and b) it is much easier to say "no" without social repercussions. One thing I don't like is that now children don't get invited to a lot of other children's birthday parties, where as I remember that was a huge deal growing up for me. You always knew which friend had a birthday coming up and it was a huge deal. Now I feel like most kids in our social circle are fine with just 2 or 3 close friends over to the house for a small gathering. It just seems like the era of big, social parties has dwindled locally/micro.

I really enjoyed this thread as it really is neat to see how other people perceive something I have noticed, but not really acknowledged.
> we'll likely see the first mass AI driven 0-day security vulnerabilities in the next ~2 years.

Maybe for outdated and less-common software, even then assuming it gets the input about what specifically to exploit. Which makes it not much of a threat any time soon.
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No degrees, just talent, experience and knowledge.
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The streaming numbers would disagree with you.
4. There are people who are so hyperfocused on delivering a feature that they produce 10x as much technical debt as a regular programmer.

The resistance against that type of developer is probably from the rest of the team who get to clean up after them but get none of the recognition.
One of the main discussions in the paper is about the difference between arithmetic means and geometric means, and how people have different perceptions of annualized returns. Perhaps you should read it (again)?
I initially learned Ruby by reading the Wikipedia page for it. But now it doesn't contain any code samples anymore.
It's amazing what happens in an eye: retinal (C₂₀H₂₈O), an aldehyde of Vitamin A, exists in two forms: all-trans-retinal gets hit by photos, flips and becomes 13-cis retinal (simplifying slightly). If enough photons are involved, the info gets transmitted to the train. If the photons were in a particular constellation, we see a "rectangle" or "circle"; quite a miracle if you think about it.
Any classic buffer overflow/stackssmash can defeat ASLR, it just might take a long time to get lucky guessing addresses. Couldn’t we Monte Carlo this?

Maybe take a known vulnerable exec, create a fuzzing attacker and run it both ways seeing how long it takes to get lucky a few times. The more secure version should take longer.
me> The higher up on the totem pole you are, the less it seems to matter how well you actually do your job.

you> If you fired CEO over any minor mistake

Do you see the disconnect here? At no point did I call for a CEO to be fired over a minor mistake. Rather, I pointed out that, no matter the size of the mistake, the higher up you are the smaller the repercussions. You are responding with what is a perfect example of a straw man argument.

To be clear; no, I don't think a CEO that makes a small mistake should be fired. But I also don't think that a CEO that causes the downfall of a major company should walk away and into the arms of the next company, doing the same job, for just as much (or more) money. And, in between those two, there's a large area where repercussions are currently few and far between.
Your perspective seems to be completely orthogonal to reality.

1. That is actually how "wages work". The state decides what is the minimal possible wage and then businesses will pay that amount to low status workers because businesses seek to maximize the surplus value out of their workers. Suggesting that businesses will opt into paying their workers a living wage without an external pressure is laughable and ahistoric.

2. Nobody serious is suggesting that $15 is some magical number but given political reality, it seems like an easier sell than proposing a minimum salary that dynamically adjusts based on local cost of living and inflation. It would also be a massive increase relative to the abysmal figure it is today.

"There is a very real chance that the more of those battles they win, the worse the outcome will be."

Such as the battle for minimum wage, the weekend, the 40 hour work week or the abolition of child labor?

I'm waiting for a credible example of a pro worker regulation having overall negative consequences for workers.
Yours.

The editor cannot be tricked into editing the wrong file as root by environment variables, because it is not running as root.

The security is an actual flaw in sudoedit, the wrapper script, not a fundamental issue with the environment you pass to the command.
I feel you. I've been there. It took me 9 years to finish. For several years, every Friday I was more depressed because I'd gotten nothing done that week.

To be honest, the only things that helped me were:

(1) stopping taking SSRIs. This was a big one for me. I didn't realize until afterwards what effect they had on the particular type of motivation that a PhD thesis requires.

(2) letting go, a bit, of my original thesis topic. I let my mind wander during a home improvement project and it led to an interesting question that was related but not identical to the original.

One thing I would say is -- don't beat yourself up about it being hard. A PhD is famously hard, and can be exponentially harder depending on your topic and advisor.
What? You can do a 2 years master degree in Norway? I studied in Germany and 2 years could only get you a B.A., 4 years was the absolute minimum for an M.A. or equivalent degree. But perhaps this has changed.
I am currently reading '30 lessons for living' by Karl Pillemer and one chapter is about aging fearlessly and well. Most elderly realized in hindsight that they imagined being old as a terrible thing. They feared getting older by the age of 40 because they felt what you describe: life seems to get more serious and more boring. Friends don't want to party like they used to do.
One of the advices of the chapter was the following:
4. Stay connected. Take seriously the threat of social isolation in middle age and beyond, and make conscious efforts beginning in middle age to stay connected through new learning opportunities and relationships.

I am currently trying to adapt that to my own situation. 31yo post 2 years of Corona isolation. I just signed up for volunteer work and a rowing club and life feels fun again :)
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At what point does camping outside of your business and preventing people from coming in count as financial violence? If having complaints with the police and city management is as effective as yelling into the sky, how is that a solution?

Put yourself in the shoes of the business owner - what would you have done in this situation?
You can't run an advertising business period. Advertising is always on borrowed time. Even if you have some sort of magical solution that will literally force people to watch ads, their effectiveness will still fade over time as people develop resistance to them (see "banner blindness" for prior art), so in the short term you can compensate by including more ads but there's only so much ads you can include before users leave completely because the ads-to-content ratio is too high.

It's time we have less toxic and actually sustainable business models.
One of my favorite media exposure statistics is that 105 MILLION people watched the series finale of the show MAS*H [0]. In fact, of the top 10 most watched broadcasts in US television history, the other 9 are Super Bowls.

I also feel like we are in the middle stage of the fragmentation. Netflix etc meant that my set of shows might not overlap with your set of shows but some shows are still popular amongst a bunch of people.

The next step, which feels not that far off, is where you tell Netflix AI: "Hey, I want a movie with Charlton Heston, Ariana Grande and Abraham Lincoln set on a space station, go." And it then generates it for you.

With that level of customization and personalized media, I wonder if we will feel even more fragmented culturally as we lose these common narratives and touch points.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_televisio...
Does the author want or need their doctorate? If they don’t, there is nothing shameful about not finishing it.

My mom skipped two grades, was valedictorian of her class in high school, and went to Yale for grad school, and never finished her PhD. She met my dad, wanted to relocate and have kids, and when she was having trouble with her dissertation, decided she didn’t need to finish it.
Well guess I finally got something in common with google employees
The very submission you're commenting on is a 3d game without DX or openGL.
Probably copyright / licensing. It's the music industry after all.
We're definitely going to get to the moneyless Star Trek future not because anybody wants it, but because there'll be people like this who pioneer abusing AI in such a way that they end up owning EVERYTHING, as obvious criminals.

When even the regular business and politics criminals are impoverished by AI-abusing obvious criminals and realize they will never be able to rebalance that situation, that's when we'll enact the Star Trek future and people will have to fight over attention and the affections of others, having rendered 'money' an impossible concept.
I was in the “global recession” camp all last year but I’ve started to doubt that.

I don’t see any real economic impact to companies except Meta but that was them losing market share. Otherwise all these layoffs feel like hangover recovery from over hiring the last 3 years.

I think we will be fine. Hiring won’t be like the last 3 years but I also don’t think we are going to go through the Bust 2.0.
My teammate says he does this. Writes everything three times, and is careful not to let _anyone_ see the first two, lest somebody tell him it's "good enough."
Idk, having other, especially adversarial, companies between service and a customer just sounds like a recipe for bad things being pushed. Like IE toolbars. Or addblock (i use it, but it certainly has societal downsides). Or all the things our ISP wants to do with our traffic. You'd need unimaginably well crafted policy for this to not go south and have us complain about the opposite shortly thereafter.
At some point there does have to be a cash-out, otherwise what would motivate the person at the end of the line to buy the shares that you're selling
As a thought experiment imagine if ChatGPT had unrestricted internet access (and no filter). You could ask things like “can you hack that website for me?” it could produce python code and then run it. The result of the previous command would inform the next command.

Now take it a step further and say that GPT-5 needs no user prompt to initiate a run and could start taking actions by prompting itself.

I could see things going south in this example scenario.
Not all Gemini deposits were sent to Genesis.

If a Gemini user opted into Gemini's Earn product they were notified that any Earn deposits were going to Genesis.

You can argue those warnings weren't big enough or obvious enough, but it was spelled out in various places that Earn deposits were not held by Gemini, but sent to third parties (in this case Genesis being the only third party in the program).
I were talking about companies who couldnt compete, you?

Why should I care about those companies? I wish them good, but unless theyre an outlier then I would rather accept better salary
This is not doing static analysis / SMT, right?

Is it just bruteforcing tests? That means it's not able to test all possible inputs for any function working on long strings or arrays or dicts...
It's worth stating that Google has been hiring like crazy for years. In their Q3 earnings[0], their year-over-year number of employees increased by 36,751.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204422...
Opening Statement Before the International Military Tribunal (1945)
To add to the other comments mentioning why this is difficult in practice:

It's the "Ship of Theseus" paradox [1]. Choosing a semantic key means mixing identity and attribute, while a synthetic key solves by assuming "constitution is not identity".

Since a digital system is a model of the world, a synthetic key allows the system to address objects in this internal model without assuming a particular interpretation of identity in the real world. E.g., it's often the case that you do need to have two "customer" entries in your system that represent the same physical "person" in the world, and this is ok because the concept of "customer" is useful and sufficient for your model, and the physical person isn't.

More often than not, people get caught on this trap in relational databases and object oriented modelling. This can be seen in books and lectures that use Customer-Order-Product relations to teach databases, or Car-Engine to teach OO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus