skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the goal is actually to avoid the queen while visiting every space. Eventually I clicked "Help" and learned that.
from e7?
Those kinds of references/cliches in titles always bug me too. Always feels lazy. I chalk this one up there with:

Dr. Strangelove Titles - "<product>: or how I learned to stop <doing something> and love <idea>"

Dairy Farmers of America reference - "Got <Product>?"

Breakin' 2 reference - "<Product> 2, Electric Boogaloo"

Honorable Mention, titles that end in phrases like "And That's a Good Thing!", "Here's What That Means", "This is Why That Matters"
Betting you're not the smartest guy in the room is not routinely wrong--especially if the action of all other other "smartest guys in the room" affects the outcome.
> Scaling has worked for plenty of other commodities.

Besides transistors and other electronics, which commodities have seen consistent exponential growth relative to cost?
you are alone
I love the amount of chess nerds on Hacker News. If anyone is in the East Bay of SF and likes chess, I run a chess club in Walnut Creek, hit me up!
Yeah, many are just too small to distinguish clearly. I actually thought it was "rolling eyes". That's kind of how it renders for me in Firefox anyway, but if I zoom in a lot I see it's not.
Has anyone gone through the thought exercise of what criminals could do with such a thing if it existed?
Oh.. I'm not a native speaker and obviously used that wrong. Will change that, thank you!
Business is about trade. Trade has an amazing property where when we trade, we can create value out of nothing. Excess apples aren’t worth much to an apple farmer. If an apple farmer gives some apples to a plumber in exchange for fixing the pipes in her bathroom, both people are better off. Value for both parties has been created out of nowhere. It’s magic. And to this day, I can pay a plumber to fix my leaky tap and we both walk away from the trade feeling like we got a good deal.

Businesses are organisations designed to systematically “exploit” trade to generate profit - which ends up in the hands of their customers (my tap got fixed), and the employees and owners in the form of money.

Healthy businesses have created all the wealth that exists. Let that sink in! Trade (usually through businesses) is the mechanism that has given us the bounty of modern life.

I also agree that capitalism is a demon we have summoned from beyond the veil that doesn’t truly care about us. Unbridled capitalism will overfish, send children into cobalt mines, and encourage bankers to commit fraud. As the economist says, we need healthy regulation to curb capitalism’s excesses.

But classifying it as entirely evil, or entirely exploitative is too much. If you really feel that way, try living without trading if you like. Sounds like a sure fire way to end up homeless. I wouldn’t last a day.
Hmm, a weird version of a Knight's Tour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour

It seems like in this version / webpage, you're allowed to revisit squares however. It'd be nice if it highlighted what squares "Counted", because the words are quite ambiguous. A graphical representation of what is being counted / not counted would be very helpful.

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EDIT: Ah, I got it. The location on the left is the next spot you're supposed to go to. The puzzle is quite easy once I understood the interface.

The interface needs a "Next square: h5" or something. I really didn't get it for the longest time.
Twitter still runs due to fear in others of losing their job in these tough times. If the market was as great as before, no Twitter employee would agree to work 10+ hours or weekends, or sleep in office.
I don't know if he was selling a product. Git is a FOSS utility, after all.

GitHub and others came much later, and have no affiliation with the Git project or Torvalds (some might not know this).

Torvalds created Git for the Linux Kernel folks, and didn't really care if it was used anywhere else.

Torvalds only went about creating Git because BitKeeper and the Kernel folks had a very public falling-out (much to BitKeeper's ultimate misfortune - who even knows about BitKeeper these days). He, and the Kernel folks, were very happy with BitKeeper up until then - and a lot of the BitKeeper features that were unique at the time ended up landing in Git.

This tech talk was because people outside of the Kernel became interested in a similar workflow - namely distributed and "free" branching.

Also, I can't help but marvel... this one person created not only the most prolific Kernel in existence - but also the more prolific VCS. I have a hard time just getting out of bed in the morning...
> because members are doing the bargaining and (in the CWA at least) have to ratify the contract by a majority vote

What if you feel you should be paid more but your peers don't? Are you able to negotiate your individual contract?
Some people probably hate it, but I really enjoy the conversational format of these posts. Very novel and interesting way to bounce around a topic
Feeling yellow and looking down?

No idea what that's supposed to mean
I do.

I sometimes check out a single directory from a huge repository with enormous history. Since subversion only cares about the latest commit and the directory I'm checking out, it's instantaneous.
I worked on custom EEGs and all I have to say is, "so long and thanks for all the fish!"

Seriously though, is this really what this beautiful tech will end up being!? Come on people - have some humanity - think beyond these neanderthal brain use cases. These examples show little imagination, almost as if they are already shepherded by an AI.

This tech could create true equality like nothing we've ever seen. No matter where you are on earth, even with the poorest of educational systems, we could know what you naturally 'master' with this tech. That means knowing what subjects and concepts you can commit to memory with a gifted efficiency!! Imagine the sorting hat coming to you and picking you out to join the guild of X or Y!

But instead we want to talk about "productivity" and "throughput" - as if everyone should be treated as an input / output device for yet another interface.

"That's only one bit of information" - too many times I heard that... but guess what, sometimes that's all it takes between contributing to the whole or selecting out.

Sad, sad, sad.
The main problem with SSH keys is that they are good at small scales, but at larger scales the abstractions start to be really leaky. Distributing SSH keys across hundreds of machines is a nontrivial task. Not to mention the lack of audit logging in opensshd and the lack of session recording (these requirements suck but acronym compliance means you need them anyways).

It's also kind of the wrong tool for the job anyways. I'd love to see tools that are more built to purpose for what you are _actually doing with the servers_ instead of giving people a REPL and telling them to go nuts.
I think the best way to interview is to just have an experienced, respected worker or two ask some questions, which hopefully leads into a normal conversation about work. Talk about specific problems, nerd out about tech.
I started replying to this then realized you are completely sarcastic :D
Counting eggs before they hatch are we?
They have been sued for not paying rent, for going back on severance package, just sold office equipment to make for the losses.
Meaning well versed and with 5 years experience in some fresh 2 years old technology stack?
The expectation on this varies very widely across cultures, and sometimes even between classes or other social strata within a culture.

And then if someone is on the spectrum, and they already know that they have trouble reading those wink-wink-nudge-nudge clues properly, they might stick with the rules as written simply because that's something objective that they can be sure they're interpreting correctly.
Just because HN is where some journalists found a link doesn't make it a news source it just shows that everyone reading HN could replace them.
They would be violating LGPL if they didn't provide the code upon request.

> That depends on how hard it is to replace the library despite it being statically linked.

The requirements for providing a way to replace the library are for dynamic linking. Static linking means your program is now fully LGPL, not just the library you linked with.
Are you an engineer? How often have you worked on something that would be noticeable immediately if you left?

I’ve never in my career worked for an extended period on something that was just maintenance. Software systems are extremely stable so long as no one is adding features or increasing usage. I have made (as part of a very small engineering team) a company close to a billion dollar profit on one project, but in the whole 5 years we built that thing, no one in the world would have noticed if we got fired. Because it was R&D.

Engineers are R&D investments. If you decide “no more R&D”, then that’s fine, that’s a strategic business decision. But it doesn’t mean the people previously doing R&D were doing nothing.

Where do people get these ideas?
Yep. It's the Rene Girard Peter Thiel mimetic desire. The first outside investor in Facebook. Stanford professor. Critic of the critics of Western Culture. Jesus Christ is the one true role model. These layoffs are the apocalypse. The laid off employees are now Gods. Zero to One by Blake Masters. National Conservatism. One cut on this I always have is, these things are always over-determined.
I just always login as root. No sudo or other programs needed, no security vulnerabilities, no complexity. Clearly the most secure solution as it's widely known that using the setuid bit is a security problem.
It has text now? "Move the knight to every square, right to left, top to bottom. Don’t land anywhere the queen can take you, and don’t take the queen."
Twitter isn't running well now, though. It's extremely error prone, recently protected tweets were showing on other folks timelines, the service was down in Australia for an extended period of time recently, auth services busted, APIs for third parties failed (and subsequently messaged to be no longer supported, unclear if this is because they can no longer maintain it or an actual decision was made to stop). One of Elon's largest proponents, popular twitter user catturd, is complaining incessantly about how the algorithm for feeds is worse now than ever before.

It's been a failure.
But majority of high tech raised equity capital and not debt.
This is a good point. There’s definitely a different baseline ROI for different people.

But still, I was surprised how much of “how to make people like me” was pretty explicitly learnable.

But your point does still stand. If you’re happy where you are - you have “other, better options” - def doesn’t make sense to invest in something where you’re not gonna get the return you want.
Propranolol can work equally or better without the reduction in mental performance benzos and benzolike drugs bring.
> First clause of first sentence falsely posits that the "public" has a single mind

Seems hard to say this on one hand and allow for useful generalizations on the other.

> Another point: They also continually conflate "AI", deep learning, and mechanical-turk style crowdsourcing

Off the bailey and into your motte
Ahh, that is because that isn't a valid URI - it is an IRI.

The space of IRI implementations is quite sparse, mostly limited to browsers (and often rather spotty within the browsers as well). So a page hyperlink or paste into a browser bar will turn it into a URI behind the scenes, but it is unlikely another program or script will handle them.

In fact, I believe WHATWG defines that hyperlinks are URI, not IRI - so the generated HTML in this case by HN is not valid.

IRI are of dubious value - they exist in a space where users are expected to understand and evaluate the legitimacy of an identifier by sight. That said, this is about the best we have for web domains, so (for example) I think all major browsers do render internationalized domain names in their address bar.
There’s even a standard (of sorts): https://gitmoji.dev
Show HN: Quartermaster – Search and download torrents from the terminal
If you don't already know, you can usually copy/paste to your favorite search engine and one of the first results is often the page explaining the unicode character, including those all-caps formal names of them.
pre-internet
I mean, if you explore scenarios in https://www.tldroptions.io/ even your scenario of $1M per employee is super rare. Actual stock option agreements I've seen and heard about recently for Series A early stage startups were small fractions of a percentage point of outstanding shares, and subject to potentially many more rounds of dilution.

The only time in my 20+ career I've gotten anything real out of an employer being acquired was when Google bought my employer (for just under $400m) in 2011. In that case, though, the stock conversion of my options was only part of the generous compensation package from Google. And in that case it certainly wasn't "I'm gonna go retire now" money, either.
While I don't expect a lot of feed is exported to Sweden, the same rule applies. Don't buy products which use imports from Brazil if those imports are created from burning down the Amazon. It would be the same as buying a locally produced shirt created from cotton that child labor picked (which was a scandal with a major Swedish clothing company).
I agree, but I wonder if it's on purpose.

I found the repo[1] and it's very small readme says it's a "Chess visualization exercise"

So I'm wondering if it's an extreme exercise in memorization to help you visualize games better.

(I'm just talking out my butt here, I know nothing about chess puzzles)

[1]: https://github.com/jairtrejo/knight-moves
You absolutely can prepare for system interviews it’s just some of the best content for doing so is behind paywalls. I opted to buy a course on leetcode covering this topic and my performance before was like night and day. Going through about 20 worked examples each of which has a 45 minute explanation means learning about 60 patterns you can slot into various problems. Once you’ve seen the patterns it’s a lot easier to apply them in different contexts to piece together the system you want.
What don't I understand? Ultimately price is determined by supply and demand. Gold's supply relative to its demand sets its price. If some massive load of goal was dumped on the market, we'd expect a downswing with increased supply and no commensurate increase in demand (although gold being bought by speculators might distort this).

We're seeing a big upswing in lithium demand, mostly for EVs. And supply isn't catching up leading to higher costs, which will in turn lead to higher prices and consequently lower demand. Unless greater supply is secured or demand is reduced, this increase in price is going to persist.
You seem to be arguing from abstract principles instead of considering the actual facts. What tristor has understood and you have not is:

"People" are not all the same. I just explained why US workers are preferred or even required for a lot of ML tasks. Did you read that?

As for exploitation, I'll limit myself to noting that certain people are always finding it whenever a rich person hires a poor person, despite the fact that nearly all jobs arise this way.
as in gay bottom? first i've heard of that (as a gay internet person)
Besides the immediate thoughts about how one could extract more from their Human Resources — which is completely gross and feels like property rather than a meaningful trade, the example she gives is pure solution in search of a problem.

She uses the example of a truck that while driving dangerously — and illegally — fatigued kills somebody that could be stopped by brain reading devices, because they’re better than existing driver impairment detection devices.

Maybe so, but losing mental sovereignty mighty high price to pay for the mere employee.

You know what also would prevent employees from dangerously pushing themselves too hard? Tighter regulation and enforcement against the employers’ / clients’ policies that encourage this behavior, including making them liable for the accident.

No one chooses to drive 20 hours straight (to use her example) just for the hell of it. They do it because they’re afraid they’re going to lose their job.
Study claiming as such: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...

Shareholders really want them as a copycat maneuver.
I'm in the East Bay, but just a little bit too far West for that to work out for me. :(
Is Twitter a gatekeeper in context of the new EU digital markets act? Perhaps this is an illegal move.
Imagine you have a money printing machine. And the more people you have to turn the cranks on that money printing machine, the more money you'll make.

Then imagine the Federal Reserve comes along and says, "How would you like a bunch of almost free money?"

The logical thing to do would be to get a bunch of that almost free money and then hire people to crank the heck out of that money printing machine. So that's what they did.

And then the Federal Reserve says, "Party's Over!" and stops giving out the almost-free money. You lay off the bottom performing x% of your entire workforce.

Almost Free Money Party Starts

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/the-fed-is-buying-some-of-th...

Almost Free Money Party Ends

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-09/fed-s-big...
I was very skeptical of them early on, I do think they are a drop shipper of sorts.

But I have several desks and a shed and even an AC unit that were the best price, higher than ikea quality, and good support. They have good return policy too.

Maybe it depends on what you buy?
A) To optimize the company’s stock price, earnings, and/or C-suite bonuses.

B) To liberate the workers from wage slavery.

C) It feels good to do this in your soul.

D) There’s no such thing as bad publicity.

I’m leaning towards A?
I am not saying that everything should be free but once this has a price tag I can't see why I would pay for this when I can use Toggl for free. Toggl is more mature thus more feature rich and stable, it would be a hard switch.
A bit unrelated, but I misread the business name repeatedly. I read it as "Time Train" and it took concerted effort to see it as "Time Retain."

Just some food for thought. Good luck with the launch :)
I’m not saying this IS happening, but there’s a potential tin-foil hat angle here too. There was quite a bit of job hopping and increased wages going on before 2022. A little RIF by everyone has a chilling effect on people looking to leave. People prefer stability when times are tough. And cutting total number of available positions across the industry can have the effect of suppressing wages.

Again, I have no reason to believe this is happening, but it IS a potential motive.
But leetcode is so fun!

I've applied to interview a few places I never plan to work at, just so I could do their leetcode interviews. It's like a brain teaser book but you also get a live human evaluating.
Wow that was a fascinating read! Thank you.

It doesn't explain why the model only refers to the documentation though.
Basically what they are doing is giving GPT-3 a prompt that includes the (semantically relevant) pieces of the documentation.

But I don't see why a User can't ask about something that is tangentially relevant ("Who is Bill Gates?") and get an answer that really comes from GPT-3 pre-existing knowledge.

And very clever way for these guys to go from "hey we found this cool problem" to "well, did you notice that it ends up super complex and slow? Well well well, we could make it so much better with... wait for it... a data pipeline!"

("...and don't we just happen to sell data pipeline software! What a coincidence!")

lol.
Great read, thank you for the recommendation.
Science Fiction author Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, etc) left his voluminous files to UC Santa Cruz -- with a stipulation that certain sections were to remain private and unexamined until 50 years after his death.

Sometimes I think people do that sort of thing to wait to unveil evidence of (let's say) animosity with other public figures until the person in question will be safely dead, but it's always fun to speculate on other possiblities.

For instance, maybe the queen always hated her job, but didn't want to say so. :)
The play on the Seger lyrics "night moves" with a chess knight was done earlier in an old ytmnd I remember
The title isn't great, I think it reads like she wrote it recently, on her death bed so it might imply something more sinister or secretive; However, she left the letter to the residents of Sydney, in 1986 when she visited Sydney.
The actual talk

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-m...
oh pwease!

(actually, i thoroughly approve of quibbling.)
True, but valuations are based on future earnings potential. If the market looks down, then there is the idea that there is less revenue coming in the future, and the company has less capability to sustain a workforce.

It really is interest rates.
IDNA has been a standard for 20 years. You can already do this.

However, they are IRI, not URI, and IRI support is sparse because of its dubious broader value.
There's comfort in the crowd. There's little to no reputation hit for a company to do layoffs now.
I wear a 32-wire neural tap, courtesy of Johns Hopkins.

as long as you control the input, you have little to fear.

Besides, it is a simple set of probes, no bio-embedded processing.

Think Cochlear implant.
He's a charlatan.
Sorry for the late reply, but yep! It's the "if all else fails" instruction from their FAQ:

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#can...
Think “sexually submissive,” who you’re attracted to is an orthogonal thing.
How do you visit the squares that the queen is covering?
That’s an irrelevant question. I hate that I’m still bothering to respond when you don’t seem interested in changing your position.

There is a fixed cost to extract a kilogram of lithium using a given method. When demand spikes, lithium suppliers will charge more and reinvest those profits into increasing mining capacity. If they had their way, they’d keep prices high, but anyone can open a lithium mine. Lithium is not hard to find. Those people will undercut the previous miner in order to attract buyers, which will force all miners to lower prices back to reality.

As long as prices are high, more and more mines will open as it is suddenly an attractive resource to mine. This will happen until prices start to drop to some percentage-over-cost where things stop being attractive, and the market reaches equilibrium again.

If lithium was profitable to mine for $X/kg for many years, then that is the price it will naturally return to. It is a commodity. There is no special value for getting your lithium from Corporation X or Corporation Y. The only value is the material.

That’s how commodities work. The price is determined by how hard it is to extract, and whether demand has recently spiked (or subsided). Gold is expensive because it

If this were some rare substance, extraction difficulty would increase noticeably with time, but we’re a long way from a shortage of ways to mine lithium. Some ways might be more expensive, so those mines will only open if the prices stay high, but the prices won’t rise indefinitely this century. That is such an illogical assumption. Perhaps the natural price of high volume lithium production is higher than we have today because those more expensive methods are convenient, but it won’t be enough of a price increase to matter in the grand scheme of things, and this assumption of a higher price is a pretty flimsy one to base predictions on even then.

Eventually, as batteries age, they will be recycled, and the need for lithium mining will likely drop sharply, bankrupting some of these mines until production and (profitable) demand are matched again.