skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now it’s MBAs and generalist managers. It doesn’t work, all it does is increase overhead

It's kind of interesting being in a small to mid-size organisation and leading a team where the need to introduce this kind of middle management is asserting itself. I'm instinctively resisting it but the downsides are clear. I have way too many direct reports. I am constantly bogged down in generic meetings - everything from desk arrangements, COVID safety, leave management, etc. Meanwhile most of my staff spend large amounts of their time blocked from their top priority task because they lack input or direction. My unique technical skills are being completely wasted. Yet it kills me that we might decide we have to blow $150k/year which could employ another coal-face engineer simply because we can't figure out how to organise ourselves better.

So should I put in place a generic middle manager to deal with all this stuff? Or not? It may seem like it's obvious in happens to large megacorps that the end result of this is bad. But you can see completely how you end up there. Certainly the people who are doing that are getting way more cred in the organisation and arguably actually getting more done in real terms.
Nonetheless, they don't let them on the board out of any self interest aside from following the law.
I hate that chip. I had a client pick it for a project that they wanted low power. You can't put the chip fully to sleep. There is errata on the NVM controller that it doesn't always wake from sleep so when the chip wakes it executes garbage. You have to keep the NVM controller powered during sleep to recover from sleep.
Children working in coltan mines and on cocoa plantations are part of the same issue, so I don't understand why you take issue with that issue being brought to the forefront using 'some cool tech bandwagon'. It's a cool tech bandwagon because people's eyes are on it, if you agree these issues are issues wouldn't you want them seen by those eyes?

I don't quite understand your final point. Yes, changing the labour relations globally would require global changes.

> Who's gonna pay to make that happen?

It's a misunderstanding to frame it like this, because the answer is that the exploited people are already paying for the current reality with their labour. Why is it assumed that they can continue to shoulder the majority of the work for the minority of the benefits, but the idea that the work and benefits should be spread more evenly is abhorrent?
My second indie site: Hire JavaScript Devs
My first indie site attempt was a B2C that helped consumers find sales on groceries. Without a great way to monetize it and being dependent on groceries for data, I pivoted to a job site. Take a look.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. If you have a main branch which is always merged into then `--first-parent` will only list merge commits and regular commits on that branch. I have never seen it fail on our main branch.

In `git merge feature`, `feature` will become the second parent while the commit that you are on will become the first. The linear mainline history falls out of that.
Why you don’t post your questions directly, rather than asking if you can ask?
We used SVN in an application to grab a single folder and its contents from a repo on GitHub. It was the quickest and easiest approach at the time (that I knew of) and worked well.

We switched a year or so ago to use git sparse checkout that was released in 2.25.
Holly: The economic downturn has been difficult recently, forcing the closures of both Camden and Yonkers, to be followed soon by what other branch? For five-hundred thousand dollars, is it A.) Scranton, B.) Buffalo, C.) Utica, or D.) toothbrush!

Michael Scott: I will say B, Buffalo! Final answer!

Holly: That is correct!
I'd sign up and I'm just over 30.
Tell HN: Windows Defender considers W10Privacy to be malware
I tried installing W10Privacy earlier this week from https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/ and I found Windows Defender coming up with a notification saying that it is malware and it then immediately deleting the executable.
> The problem with justifying excessive speed on an empty road

The problem is that automated enforcement catches everyone regardless if it's 5 km/h over or 100.

I'm not ok getting fines for going 5 over so you can prevent one guy a year going 100 over.
At this point does it matter that we are left with the assumption that the 'I'm not worried I'm too pretty go to jail' (paraphrasing) dude also tried to flee conviction
I can very much relate to this! Whole 20's were a blur with lots of bad habits. Life definitely began ~30-32, and also met someone very supportive.

The 30's are very young!
No, people used to do this a lot deliberately because of airline pricing oddities.

You'd book from your home airport --> your destination --> Tiny Airport X, then skip the second flight, because the price would often be much cheaper that way.

Called "skiplagging": https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190226-the-travel-tri...
But they do pay for the return journey they didn't make, right? So where's the gain?
Pythonista for iOS: Python 3.10 support in beta
As a long-time customer I'm happy to pay for the new app. Mastodon has its own API, and own features and conventions, so it's not just a name change.
As has been pointed out many times, Twitter Blue will never be able to replace Twitter ad revenue, which was at > 1B per quarter at the time of the acquisition. I think this move is a reflection of someone at Twitter realizing that.
Right. It’s an issue when you buy a ticket from A to C with an A-B and B-C leg, and you get off in B. The ticket might be cheaper (than A-B) because the airline is competing with a direct A-C flight.

But if it’s just A-B and B-A and you don’t take the return flight, no one cares. (I’ve even gotten flack for notifying the airline as a courtesy…)
Apparently those trainings are REALLY expensive. I've heard Ibram X. Kendi gets something like 10k an hour?
Naturally. They're trying to keep a deflating tire inflated.

It's one of the worst con sales pitches you can ever see as an investor.
Yes, that’s actually the thing about branching in SVN. Everyone remembers how awful it was 10+ years ago under SVN 1.4 and earlier but has improved immensely since then. Combined with modern client tooling, i.e. TortoiseSVN, problems with merging are almost non-existent for a long time.

I certainly wouldn’t call SVN modern but it’s very well maintained and has never lost code on me. Many git-like features also exist now such as being able to stash some changes in order to pivot to something else for a bit. Except for the central server being a problem for some use-cases, SVN just works.
You could be right. Time will tell I suppose. I will keep a close eye on these and submit articles here as they are created and add comments from the locals that end up working there.
Clearly there aren't huge consequences for breaking that rule, considering this school...
Flask is a great small web server and I encourage you to check out their documentation. Adding socketio makes it pretty powerful.
I lost my sense of smell to COVID about five days ago.

All alcoholic drinks except maybe a strong chocolate stout simply taste awful. My $50 bottle of whisky tastes like original Listerine with a hint of toothpaste.
> Have you personally overcome imposter syndrome through this advice?

Yes, this is personally what I do.

> I think this could easily be read as meaning that aspiration is a precondition of self love.

I suppose I could have been more clear. Aspirations need not be professional, they could be moral, relationship based, experiential, etc. You're right that if we say "I can only love myself when I'm better" means you never will be happy with yourself, and that's not what I'm trying to say. But one of my favorite definitions of the word "love" is to will and act for the good of someone - and if you aren't doing something to make yourself or your life better in some way, then you are not acting with love to yourself. On the flip side, saying "Yeah, everything is great" is not actually making things better (and at the same time, neither is saying "everything is horrible").
Let's say we restructure global labour relations such that people arent getting paid a fraction of their worth because of where they were born or choose to live.

You know, since we're dealing in hypotheticals.
They say that claims the temperature record was changed to exaggerate warming are false, whilst admitting that the record was changed and that increased the warming trend. Nice fact check.

The justifications they give don't change the outcomes: nothing claimed about temperatures or what they are doing can be trusted because they change every historical observation every month, in ways that create warming where previously none existed. No "science" that does this is worthy of the name because no claims it makes can be trusted to last.
This is because sometimes the airliner sell a flight connecting through your departure airport for less than a flight departing from it.

Let's say you want to fly from Vegas to New york, it might be cheaper to buy SFO to new york, and hop on the Vegas->Mew York leg. They essentially make this option less viable, and can price each market differently.
This has same roots as why far manager (norton commander clone) does not popular on MacOs.

- For fast search need to use indexes, which tend to be few times larger than data.
Far on MacOs show 4-5 versions of same file ("timemachine" version system).

I think this is just psychology question, people don't like when appear those strange files.
Crime is complex, but we know with certainty that one of its causes is crime. If you grow up in a high-crime neighborhood, crime is a normal part of your daily life, and you are much more likely to engage in crime yourself (thus perpetuating the cycle) than someone from a low-crime community. As such, incarceration is addressing a root cause.

Further, virtually no one in American politics is arguing that incarceration is sufficient, but rather the debate is about whether or not it is necessary or if we can (for example) replace police with social workers and call it a day.
Lol imagine having a labor market where the base wage is so low you have to rely on tips for people to survive. Ontop of that, imagine having a labor market where humans were such a neglected resource your boss thinks it's ok to hire an individual for an entire day but not pay them enough to survive or price his sales enough to be able to do so. It's absurd. Truly an astounding way to to setup your economy. Couple it w the backlash/how long it took you to get healthcare for all. It's almost like your country hates its own people. Why make things so cruel and difficult for zero benefit?
> Mass incarceration doesn’t seem to be working well so far.

No, they're not incarcerating the right people.

They're incarcerating some financial idiots like SBF and Holmes and some weed users who don't threaten my physical safety at all and I frankly don't give a damn about, while the people running around punching Asian grandmothers in SF and smashing local Asian businesses are running free.
If I had known this before just now this would’ve saved me hours of my life
Twitter writers are sharper in their wit. Funnier or at least more pointed. There is more verbose sincerity on Mastodon. Maybe that is good but even now, where I only check twitter surreptitiously, I laugh more on twitter.
Not when you're abusing a pricing quirk to drastically reduce your flight's price.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190226-the-travel-tri...
Twitter is not just a tech company; it’s a social network.
Use https://www.movetodon.org/ before they block their API key too.
Isn't this true of any human institution?

I'd be curious to hear what your concerns are about specific unions with software workers (e.g. CWA, OPEIU). If you object to the work we're doing, you could always form a fully independent union for your workplace alone. The system was designed for workers to form unions with minimal assistance from a lawyer.
> EVs have less range in winter because more of the energy is being used to heat the cabin, and that was done with resisitive heating until recently (more vehicles are starting to use heat pumps).

I thought it was this PLUS the fact that lithium batteries degrade quicker in freezing temps?

https://www.livescience.com/61334-batteries-die-cold-weather...
That wikipedia page links to a great note by Jef on his vision, which is what I remember him describing on a couple of occasions. He was working on it pretty much to the end of his life as far as I know.

https://www.apple-history.com/gui_raskin2
Have you spoken to some people who do a bullshit job and asked, if they are happy?

I have met quite some and zero who were happy with it.
In the Home Assistant world, the thing that is inaccessible here would likely be a proprietary box controlling a bunch of relays and LED dimmers, that stopped responding to its network API.
I remember when they added Subversion support; I thought it was hilarious. And it worked!

This quote from the linked blog post made me raise my eyebrows though:

> In 2010…it was not yet clear that distributed version control would eventually take over, and even less clear that Git would be the dominant system.

I think it was actually extremely clear that Git would win. It had a guaranteed audience by virtue of hosting the Linux kernel. And forget even about its distributed nature; Git was already better at the centralized model than "centralized-only" version control systems ever were.

When Subversion came out I was overjoyed; finally someone had fixed most of the broken things about CVS. I jumped on it with gusto. But when Git came out it was so much better than SVN that I was blown away. And it wasn't long before there were great tools to translate between SVN and Git. By the time Github released its SVN bridge feature I think the place I was working at had already used those freely-available tools to move our old SVN repos to Git with full history. It was so easy to do! The only hard part was organizing all the developers to stop using the SVN server and switch to pushing to the Git server at the same time.

Sometimes a new technology comes out and it's immediately obvious that it's the future. The ones that come to mind for me are Git, the iPhone, and node.js.
62 and no. It's statistics and nothing remotely like AGI. It's brilliant at making a parse tree in a given style of wrong facts.

It's Mark V Shaney good. It's a blast. But it's really only narrowly impressive, not generally impressive.
> the renewables actually generated more power than originally forecasted.

They were forecasted to produce 6% and actually made 8%, vs 41% from the prior week. You can’t blame renewables in this case, but you aren’t presenting facts in an unbiased way.
> I don't understand why you take issue with that issue being brought to the forefront using 'some cool tech bandwagon'.

It just feels cheap and even less effective than other approaches. It promotes a whack-a-mole mindset.

> It's a misunderstanding to frame it like this, because the answer is that the exploited people are already paying for the current reality with their labour.

Ah, I see your misunderstanding. I didn't mean that somebody will bear the cost of a change. I meant that for any change to happen somebody must pay out of their ears for political influence to force that change.

The only maeningful laws that come into power are laws that somebody bought. Who's gonna buy 'non-exploitation' law if everybody with any money (billionaires, but also you and me) benefits from this exploitation?

Want to solve the problem? Figure a way how someone can earn big money on preventing exploitation of people.
tbh he's not wrong that the article says more about the partisan slant of the authors than it does about British industrial history. The article touches upon self sufficiency with the argument that that peasants could have made their own shoes from their own leather in a matter of hours so buying them proved they were poorer (a particular load of er... old cobblers) and I'm not sure various quotes about peasants being lazy proves anything more than the fact snobbery existed.

There's plenty of actually problematic stuff (the Enclosure Act) that happened to the British peasantry mostly before the Industrial Revolution without taking the view that peasantry was a particularly pleasant lifestyle that nobody would volunteer to change.
"verification is impossible without setting up your own server"

I don't think that's right. You don't need to run your own server in order to add verified links to your profile - but you do need to have pages you can link to on trusted domains which can rel=me back to your Mastodon page.
Dead Sea effect

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
My Teenage Quest for the Law of Prime Numbers
When I was 14 years old, I was stupid enough to think I could prove the Riemann hypothesis and uncover the law of prime numbers.

I failed, obviously. But I also discovered something in the process...

#Riemann #PrimeNumbers
> I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Why would you be inclined to give a convicted fraudster the benefit of the doubt?
Square, et al. take 3% for CC processing.
Ray Tracing on Arm GPUs
It's not that it's unreal to remove tipping. It's that there is no big incentive to do so. If anything, there is pretty big incentive to keep it. Restaurants like it as it allows them to appear cheaper by offloading the visible cost into the tip. Many servers like it as cash tips are frequently used as untaxed income.
> On the other hand, traffic rules protect public safety

The stats show that society is the safest it's ever been.

At some point we are going to realize that allowing more and more surveillance and automated enforcement into our lives in the interest of public safety is really giving diminishing returns on actual safety, but tons of returns on authoritarianism.

Yes, I'm aware that car crashes are still one of the leading causes of death, and therefore one of the least safe activities you can do.

Personally I think the solution is better public transit and such. Fewer cars on the road means fewer low skilled or wildly reckless drivers too.
> The relative absence of policing and prosecution since 2020 have resulted in a sharp increase in crime.

This has been going on since ~2014, and you're absolutely spot-on that it absolutely correlates with reductions in the amount of policing. Roland Fryer (famed Harvard economist) and Tanaya Devi wrote a paper about this a couple years ago (but many other papers have similar findings): https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27324/w273...
To me, the "Twitter Files" releases have been nothing-burgers in extreme. Nothing remotely begins to give me the feeling that the government ordered these companies around.

These platforms have been working for themselves to figure out what to do, what speech is too toxic to associate with. Examples like Bob Iger walking away from a potential Twitter acquisition because so much unhinged activity happened there is a pretty unsurprising example of how fraught these things are. That they have some communications with people who have a political background is not, contrary to what the Musk-Stream Media would say, at all scary or intimidating or bad. It's still seemed to be totally Twitters ball on what to allow.

Society as a whole was resistant to many noise messages. It's hard to have tolerance for those with reasonable complaints, when so many of loudest & most vocal anti-mainstream voices seem like trolls & monsters & crazies. Trying to navigate what anti-vaccine stuff to allow or not is a hard job I don't envy. And I think a huge part of the public finds many controversial things to be ridiculously unappealing & doesn't want to deal with it at all, and it helps the networks & conforms to desires & expectations, makes us feel like we don't necessarily have to wade through shit, every time we log-on.
If you're good enough at prompting ChatGPT to get a working leetcode hard solution in the time allowed, you're good enough at writing complete and correct code for the job.
We used to call it Visual Source Shredder because of how easy it was to corrupt the database.
I was certainly picking at a very, very tiny nit.
I like that this implies it's on women to improve working conditions.
sure, but once you're in mexico it's just a quick courtesy call to the airline to let them know you're an international fugitive from justice and won't be able to catch your return flight.
Depends on the airline, not all overbook.
I'm thankful for all the Western companies that exploited my labor from age 21 to 25 where I was paid a measly $100 per month or $5 / day.

Thanks to that experience, I now make 100x more.

If it were progressive liberals, sitting in their comfort home, trying to protect me, I would have been totally not exposed to the amazing opportunity this 'exploitative capitalistic company' gave me and literally changed my life and people around me forever.

Woke Mind Virus is real and a cancer to real progress
Awesome! Can your models write code?
I've put it back for you.

HN is plain-text-obsessive by design but occasional exceptions make life interesting.
I think it’s assuming without evidence that makes you a conspiracy theorist.
> If we have to enslave the whole world for 1 year to build an AI that elevates all for eternity.

I think this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the issues in the article.

Using your analogy, the article is asking the question: "if we have to continually enslave entire nations to build an AI that a single private corporations benefits directly from, and individuals in first world countries benefits indirectly from. Would you do it?"

The reason it's unethical is because of the system of exploitation we live in. So to answer your question yes, if we remove that system of exploitation and everyone benefits equally after suffering equally for a year I would "press that button" so to speak. The problem is that's not the reality for AI and those who work to support it.
Why link to a news article about it when the actual site is just https://skiplagged.com/ ?
Back in reality, people miss flights all the time. Not only are you not banned from flying the airline, you often get a credit that you can apply for your next flight.
With these features I can have a local clone with just a subfolder, and without downloading all the history. But it still comes with git - which I'll then have to remove for my use case.

I really think that grabbing some files from a certain commit should be a completely trivial oneliner.
Jamie Dimon Says Work from Home ‘Doesn’t Work’ for Young Staff, Management
Internationally it is common for a roundtrip to be cheaper than a one-way. No, not cheaper than two one-ways. Cheaper than one one-way.
Fedora Project at FOSDEM 2023 – Fedora Magazine
You're effectively a business owner of a 1-person business -- you can get involved with a local Chamber of Commerce or similar, and ask questions of other business owners as to how to hire etc.

For social needs, you can take classes at a local college or at a language school.
This is idiotic. No airline has ever permanently banned a passenger for missing a flight. The most that can happen is if you miss the first leg they will automatically cancel the second one.
She could have bought the next day round trip ticket (which would still be stupid, but at least not as much). She could have flown to San Diego and drove over (and flew local airlines to some rural spot, preferably in a country with no extradition treaty). This is pretty ridiculous.
The new frontier in the US war on TikTok: university campuses
Upvote for the metaphor. Because how do you keep a deflating tire inflated? Pump, and pump, and pump some more.

(Apologies if I'm overstating what might be obvious to everyone else.)
Because sometimes the automatic captions brutally butcher the text and can change the presenters meaning.
There are like 46k Xooglers or something.. +12k Xooglers now. That is like
startup gold. So much opportunity if these folks self-organize.