skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an extensive user and a fan of these Python type checking tools, I do not remember this happening for some years now. Do you have a particular example where it should be improved?
Your lack of empathy for men and your objectification of men as mere walking dicks is truly disgusting. You are definitely part of why men do not trust women: you are part of the problem. If being afraid of the, quite frequent, false accusations is misogyny then I am a misogynist.
This blog seems pretty biased. It's all afraid that... the FCC says ISPs have to have a consistent report to users on what their services are? There's a lot of scare-mongering fear of the government, a definite streak of bias to me throughout.

The pretense that Public Access TV is "the best analogy to the internet we can think about with modern technology" seems absurd. Broadcast television has programming, must select what to show during the air, an enormous constraint, and Public Access TV makes use this limited spectrum and scheduling. Trying to use it to model what we should compel of random private service providers seems absurd beyond measure to me, & wholly unapplicable.

I present some arguments in my own reply to this parent, talking about what essential internet services are. So far, we have seen no instances of people who have been denied access to internet transit carriers, to my knowledge. AWS might kick you off, but that's a very high level service. If you literally can't get your couple of hosts connected, that becomes more an issue, but that doesn't seem to be an real issue so far.
They probably all got laid off.
This falls into the category of “cheap and dumb criminals.”

Similar to the first World Trade Center bombers that tried to get their deposit back on the rental truck they blew up.
Or just take any hydro electric dam. The Swedish hydro power currently stores 17.7 TWh.

It is not a battery in how it can fluctuate due to natural flow concerns, but some fluctuations are fine.
In the beginning of the modern era, electric light was fantastically expensive. People used just enough light to get by.

LEDs put out 7x as much light as an incandescent bulb, so people can use 3x as much light as they need and still save money on their power bill. I have a neighbor that has a string of bulbs along their driveway. These are left on all night every night. City code requires "fully shielded" lighting, but the city ignores its own code.

What Is a Fully Shielded Light Fixture? http://we-watch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/FullyShielded...

The tragedy of the increased amount of blue light in our nighttime environment is that there's a bunch of old research about the physiological mechanism behind high-energy blue photons causing inflammation in the eyes. This gradually results in people having reduced low-light visual acuity. Whoops.

I think people need to be told that artificial light is most useful to humans when it bounces off of things. This is why streetlights are mounted high on poles, and are designed so all the light is directed down.

Bulbs that can be seen are mostly emitting wasted light. A friend recently bought some light fixtures on the basis of looking nice when the lights are off. I think they're gradually realizing that staring directly into LEDs is not a pleasant experience.

In the old days, people bought light fixtures to hide the bulbs, and to direct the light where it's needed.
> billionaire startup alumni

Only Stoica, Ghodsi, and Zaharia are listed on https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires and I don't think any of them were billionaires before Databricks? Exec at a $300M company or CEO overseeing a $1.3B exit means rich, yes, but not billionaire rich.
Some models I've seen (I'm sure there are some other ones):

Pure people manager - HR admin (compensation evaluation etc), professional development, project management, team resourcing, etc. Tend to see this less in very small companies.

TLM (Tech Lead / Manager) - Does all of the above, plus also acts as a tech lead for the project - technical design, mentoring, and possibly some coding. Tend to see this less in very big companies. TLM are typically first-line managers, I've not seen a TLM that manages managers (i.e. Director level).

Rarely, hybrid engineer/manager - Does all the above, plus expected to contribute significantly to coding. Honestly it's a red flag for me to see a team hiring for this archetype, in my opinion it's a pragmatic stopgap you might find yourself with as a small company, until you can hire an engineer or manager to split the role; it's not something you should explicitly hire for.

Sometimes, product lead as "mini-CEO" - manages the team/org and owns product direction. Typically will have a tech lead on the team to own that side of things. This can grow into a Director position, managing the team managers and still owning the product function.

Some archetyes for dedicated Staff engineers (typically the equivalent IC-track level to a team manager): https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes
please get rid of essentially ALL of the UI designers!

death to Obnox OS 2.0 (android os)
Next please analyze the saying "Anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger" ;)
“Lazy” is the wrong word. People work for 8 hours a day and then are expected to cook, clean, exercise, and maintain some sort of social life. Adding in Leetcode on top of that is going to cause something to give. There’s only so many hours in the day.
>This is 100% a control move. He wants full control over how everyone experiences Twitter (not sure why).

The only thing I can think of is Musk was concerned the two largest 3rd parties would create their own network seeded with something like 66% of the most influential users.
That makes sense. For me, what happened was I was scheduled to fly to a destination city but wound up flying there from a different departure city, earlier, due to a funeral. I was shocked to find out that they would have cancelled my return trip as well if I didn't call in to grovel.
I think your example explains why the article is a potentially gray area of exploitation.

I think it's clear exploitation when you offer someone employment that adversely impacts their rights. So artisan cobalt-mining is exploitative, because of it's health effects, would go against the UN's definition of "the right to work in just and favourable conditions"[1]. However, I'm not sure what, if any, rights are being compromised by the topic in the article. Maybe there's a case that it's unjust because of the asymmetry in the value created and payment. If there are some rights abuses, then it becomes a clearly exploitative endeavor.

[1] https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights
Queen Elizabeth II left a ‘secret’ letter that will stay unopened until 2085
Ad revenue can be down 40% if your overall paid workforce was reduced by ~85%. It wasn't working out for Twitter either way, if they wanted to be profitable then something had to change.

As an impartial non-Twitter user, I think it's safe to say that neither version of Twitter was healthy for it's platform or users.
Marketing promises should never be taken at face value.

I recall a company that once attempted to bake a marketing promise in their stated policy. It said, "Don't be evil." That was removed after a few years. The statement tied their hands too much for their liking.
Yes, for companies with over 2000 employees, although the chairman of the board (who must not be an employee representative) gets the right to cast tie-breaking votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
I don’t think that analogy is accurate. Python and Ruby capture the essence of programming- they still require one to think logically and structure problems in precise computational language.

Yes, they do operate further from the underlying hardware- but as a beginner, this isn’t really important. Once you’ve grasped the basics, languages like C become a lot more accessible and you can better appreciate what the higher level languages do for you.

I guess it’s personal preference at the end of the day.
I swear I saw a heart emoji a few months ago in a comment at the bottom of a long thread. Not sure if it was a bug, an easter egg, or maybe a figment of my imagination.

Also I wonder if you have a secret dashboard full of buttons to control this website, and now there's a "Enable emojis for 10 seconds" button, next to "Subtract 1 karma to anyone with a custom topcolor" and "Promote a random Lisp post to the front page"
Lot more interactions but also less biting wit that makes me laugh. But no Elon so net win.
The author has two points that continually distract from each other. They have a specific critique of worker conditions within tech companies, but also a broad skepticism that AI can really be all that effective or innovative, rather than an abstraction over the workers who "really" do the work. Their first point is solid and is accompanied by immediate calls to action, their second is vague, wrong, and potentially dangerously naive.

They use AI, "so-called AI", or "AI" (with scare quotes) interchangeably. Besides being unnecessarily confusing with their own terminology, they are bringing in a pointless philosophical debate about what "intelligence" or "learning" really is. The "40% of AI startups that don't actually use any AI" is mentioned not because they're misleading investors or users, but because they point out that the "AI" label makes workers less visible, and then they can tie that to Amazon's "artificial artificial intelligence" and go on from there to show or at least imply that pretty much all AI is a big smokescreen to justify the marginalization of workers.

However... isn't that begging the question? Do we actually care whether these systems learn and think the same way humans do, do their own original work, or whether they're just a worker pretending to be a chatbot? Does that make it okay to underpay gig workers, give them PTSD, or subject them to poor conditions?

Maybe "real AI" never materializes, but also maybe it just keeps improving until it doesn't matter. If so it's dangerous to deny that these systems can ever meaningfully replace or augment humans. We can't pretend that we live in a universe where something will forever be inferior to good old-fashioned human labor just because of the disturbing social implications.
For context, it's important to remember that Tesla was an accomplished experimental scientist, but he was prone to wild claims and flights of fancy which weren't based in scientific reasoning, even by the standards of the day. Not everything he said or wrote was literally true.

> Helmholtz has shown that the fundi of the eyes are themselves luminous...

This is erroneous -- no part of the eye emits light. Some animals, like cats and dogs, have retroreflective surfaces within the eye, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what got Helmholtz (or possibly Tesla in quoting him?) tripped up.

> ... and he was able to see, in total darkness, the movement of his arm by the light of his own eyes ...

If this experiment occurred, it's far more likely that there were low levels of light present in the room, and/or that the experimenter was imagining the position of his arm as sensed through proprioception.

> ... it is very likely that the luminosity of the eyes is associated with uncommon activity of the brain and great imaginative power

And this is one of the flights of fancy I was talking about. :) There's no basis for this claim.
Computers learned to be Covid-19 outbreak forecasters
The average leisure traveler typically isn’t taking a two-day international trip. Airlines see an opportunity to extract more profit from business travelers who may not know their return date.
A significant example is Lufthansa (and co) — multiple thousands of dollars to book a one way to Europe, under 800 for round trip.
But that's not skipping the _first_ leg.
None of that has stopped actors, for example, from unionising.
A woman, all women, absolutely ought to have the right to choose when and if they become pregnant. Even women who are charged with crimes.

But if you’re her child 12 or so years from now, what is it going to look like that you were conceived under such circumstances?
it's communist nonsense that's used to justify the idea that walking dogs for ~25 hours a week is just too much.
> Was I an opiate user?

Given that they were prescribed to you, "yes" would be a reasonable assumption, barring you able to provide evidence introducing reasonable doubt (e.g. "I still have every pill I was ever prescribed").

In any case, "was" is the key word. You were given a prescription for a finite number of doses, whereas usually a medical marijuana card is more indefinite.
> It's not "on me"; I joined long after all of this was set up.

Except it is. It's bad form to go down the "everyone else sucks and I'm flawless" path that plagues software development circles. You work on the project, and it's on you to get it in working order. Setting up a basic local software dev environment is step #0. Just because your predecessors failed to set one up that does not mean you're not to blame for failing exactly like your predecessors failed, except your predecessors didn't tried to throw you under the bus.

Also, it is a collosal red herring to talk about dozens of services. You can and should fake services you consume to isolate the services you actually work on. It's also bullshit to pretend that nowadays there is no way to launch and shutdown dozen of services in one go. It's trivial to launch them locally with multiple technologies to choose from and trivial to setup cloud environments for development purposes. These are all lame excuses, and one that illustrates problems caused by the developer's inability to go through the very basics.
Is that 24 weeks plus two weeks per year of service? That sounds like an absolute dream. Now I regret not working at Google. That's a vacation of a lifetime plus lots of time to relax, practice and then interview.
>how long it took you to get healthcare for all

Still no healthcare for all.

>It's almost like your country hates its own people

Not even almost, it is. It’s a page out of the republican party’s playbook to disseminate blame or criminality towards anyone who is different.
Do you have any recommendations as to any resources on this?
According to this page, drug offenses are by far the highest category.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
I think it's the chat interface combined with memory. The second not many people had seen used in practise. The chat bot also generates much longer prompts, most other chat models seem to be trained for short prompts, and purely conversational.
I think a recent court decision in CA determined that unless the website is a front for a brick & mortar real world place, they're not subject to the CA version of those laws (Unruh). How that would play with the ADA rules, I don't know, but this article mentions both. I'm not sure this issue is at all settled nationwide, but my take is bringing that lawsuit in CA won't get you very far.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/california-court-appeal...

Kind of a shame, because it was my first thought too--losing the accessibility team and then removing all the accessible clients definitely won't make Musk many friends among disability advocates.
My primary point is that renewables are working the way that they say they will work. Certain people refuse to admit that fossil fuel plants struggle in adverse conditions, but then rant about renewables being somehow unreliable.

Renewable integration into the grid is heavily dependent on forecasting. You may think it is biased, but I see that statistic as things going better than forecasted. With proper forecasting, you can overbuild and make up for lower production. With proper forecasting, you can employ demand response.

When the fossil fuel plants turn off completely and unexpectedly, there’s nothing you can do, because no one planned for that. The grid was relying on the power plants, and they weren’t there. If the grid had planned for the unreliability of those plants, the grid might’ve had more renewables to make up for it, who knows.

People building renewables plan for the variability. As I’ve mentioned, energy storage is essential for the long term.
I do believe it was meant to be taken as a joke.
The most reliable output of the nuke industry is shown, again, to be dishonesty. Never trust a figure delivered by the nuke industry, or by someone who believes the nuke industry.
How much do you think ML trainers previously getting paid $1.46/hr would get paid if the company distributed 100% of their profits to their employees?
This is highly geographically dependent, but water displacement “batteries” that pump water to an elevated basin when power is on and then let it run through turbines back down to a lowered basin seem like a really simple, effective solution that can work at scale.
> Enterprise AI is already a trillion-dollar market...

It is? Source? Evidence?

> ... and it’s certain to grow much larger.

Same questions, with at least as much skepticism.
(Or other things like UUIDs, which I would not use, are still way better than semantic keys.)
When one light among many is out, that area becomes a target. When no lights are on, nothing sticks out. And your evolved night vision will actually work for the places between where lights used to be.
The particulars don't matter. That was just an example.

If a company sees an opportunity that it thinks it can profit on above its costs it will do so, if it has the resources.
For anyone wondering, this is basically a young millennial / gen z meme. The emoji is usually pronounced "pwease", as in a childlike pronunciation of "please"

Therefore the command is basically just asking very nicely, hoping to get one's way

edit. source: dude just trust me
It depends on where you live
I didn’t say they were uneducated but an audio hardware engineer does not imply a good working knowledge of industry trends in ML applications.

Regardless, my point still stands, they completely ignore (willingly or ignorantly) that human labeled data is not intrinsic to ML or even the algorithms themselves and in all likelihood is a small minority of datasets used by modern ML applications. To then apply that critique generally to ML shows ignorance and a misunderstanding of the ecosystem.
There is one thing nuclear never runs out of: excuses why it gets more expensive and takes longer.
Twitter retroactively changes developer agreement to ban third-party clients
well, shit happens, at least mommy's rich
This part made me laugh
"Late in 2023, we’ll run a few hours-long and then day-long brownouts to help flush out any remaining use of the feature."

I'd prefer just spam emails saying the system is shutting down
I mean, I'm selfish.

SBF didn't cause me to lose money. He isn't even remotely on my radar. You know who did? The fucker who broke into my car last year and stole $5000 worth of stuff. What's that guy doing? Roaming the streets breaking and smashing more cars, probably, considering the police dropped the case.
yeah we're using the SAMD21J18 for our controller board for an experiment in Greenland and... had a huge pain on porting a LoRAWAN stack to it due to clock domains affecting timing too much. It didn't matter too much (since the message rate is so low it doesn't really matter for power consumption) so I just made the tolerances really big.
They had Subversion support?
Even with bikes there's still a lot of use cases for cars. With EVs, autonomous driving and current trends in urban mobility chances are high that automotive companies will become fleet management companies in 20-30 years (Uber has no chance to survive in the long term).
Ah that explains everything. When you introduce counter-economical mechanisms then you need Orwellian actions to keep them in place.
Yup, everything interacts with everything close by all the time.

The important thing is by how much, and what sort of interference patterns can this produce.

As it turns out, interference is quite hard to produce randomly because two fields only produce wavering patterns when their frequency and other parameters are almost equal.

So yes, the ball you just threw to your friend is actually spread out over a whole region, that spread is about 10^-34 m so it impact is not visible at all.
I am an enormous advocate for nuclear as a transition energy source and I know energy geeks love decentralization, but I don't think nuclear and decentralization is a good mix.

The basic rationale is that you are risking a few dead spots on the planet (Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc.) in exchange for the entire planet being destroyed, but that only makes sense if the number of places you are risking is quite small.

Ideally, it would be places that are already in use for radiological purposes.
So all off shoring is labor abuse? TIL
Holmes' explanation:

> [T]his was a reservation that was made before the verdict. The hope was that the verdict would be different and Ms. Holmes would be able to make this trip to attend the wedding of close friends in Mexico. Given the verdict, she does not plan to take the trip — and therefore did not provide notice, seek permission, or request access to her passport (which the government has) for the trip. But she also had not yet cancelled the trip, amidst everything that has been going on. We will have her do so promptly and will provide you confirmation of that tomorrow.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.32...
As someone who does not live in the USA Iam very glad H Clinton did not become president

Impossible to know but I expect she would not have stayed out of the Syrian war.

It was she who was largely responsible for the debacle in Lybia

So Karen on using all that power and such a short term thinker

Trump was a catastrophe for you in the USA but not really for us.

Please elect an isolationist....
I thought I hated sodium yellow until LEDs became ubiquitous. They feel much harder to subconsciously tune out and draw my attention away from the road when driving much more than the old style. Maybe that effect will fade with time, but it hasn't happened yet.
> Pro tip: Always buy a round-trip ticket when you plan to flee fraud. It looks better in court

Another pro tip: round-trip tickets are often cheaper than one-way tickets, even if you don't plan to return!

The "return" can be a long, long way in the future, too.
I've also been in cases where I've changed my itinerary and it was cheaper to just be a no-show--and rebook a one-way on possibly a different airline.
I personally prefer take home problems (I also have a bad track record on "speedrun this Leetcode problem" interviews). However I think it'd be great if applicants could choose one or the other, without any bias in either direction.
For one-way markets what you have is true. For round-trip markets, typically internationally, what you have is not.

E.g. LAX-NRT on 3/2 on UA 32 is $966 right now. Add a return flight on 3/9 and the flight _drops_ to $893.

I'd be surprised any airline gave you flak for telling them you were missing a segment. They might try to charge you more (!).
Wouldn't it be cool if our modern computers, with their couple dozen smaller computers pretending they aren't there, could do these things in a supported and portable way?

Imagine I want to select data from a Parquet file and I could load a program into the storage device to only return me the entities I want instead of reading data into main memory and have my CPU do that?
While I'm deeply thankful that I don't have to use it, the most famous one I know if is Oracle's VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox and /svn/kstuff-mirror and /svn/kbuild-mirror
Or do both and just get an older flagship model secondhand, both cheap(ish) and high mem... Especially now that full hd laptops (maybe I'm getting old but I don't really like higher-than-fhd resolutions on small screens, not on macs but especially not on linux)

I like to do machine learning, which means no battery life, and even an bad old laptop nvidia gets you performance close to an M1.