skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not even so much concerned with services like yours doing something malicious behind the scenes - I'm much more concerned about them being hacked/compromised in such a way that saved tokens could be used by an attacker. Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect that there are services that get granted calendar, email, file access that could be considered much 'squishier' targets than the underlying services they connect to.

So, if you're getting the minimum viable amount of access to someone's calendar, what's the worst that could be done by an attacker with persistent access to your backend systems, and how does it vary between different services you connect to (e.g. Google, M365, Outlook.com, Zoom, etc.)? This isn't even really about your software, more about "how restricted do the underlying services allow my access to be?"
I used to work for a company that paid loads of money to an Oracle consultancy group to do things like optimize queries. Sometimes they'd even do a better job than the Oracle query optimizer :-)
For a blackout situation your car won't be of much help: any inverter that is grid tied will refuse to come on as long as there isn't a low impedance functioning grid connection present. Typically they'll measure the conditions for a minute or two, then make the connection (you'll hear a relay trip) and then bit by bit the inverter starts pushing power by advancing its on phase relative to the grid. If that doesn't stay within very precise parameters it will switch off, wait for a bit and try again.

So you can forget about your car (or even most solar inverters) to work during blackouts unless a couple of things are present:

- a automatic grid disconnection switch (aka a transfer switch)

- special firmware to allow the inverter to operate in 'off grid' mode

Both Xantrex and Victron have inverters that can do this but they are not normally deployed for such installations and they wouldn't know what to do with your car battery (voltage much higher than the ones that they require, typically 48V max).

Growatt has some off-grid units too, but those still won't satisfy the impedance requirements of your cars inverter (the grid is 'too small' so it will fluctuate too much due to high impedance).
> In the original research, using 2014 diversity data, we found that companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 15 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the fourth quartile. In our expanded 2017 data set this number rose to 21 percent and continued to be statistically significant. For ethnic and cultural diversity, the 2014 finding was a 35 percent likelihood of outperformance, comparable to the 2017 finding of a 33 percent likelihood of outperformance on EBIT margin; both were also statistically significant (Exhibit 1).

Correlation does not imply causality, as you know. Possibly the more successful companies face more social pressure to improve their DEI numbers, whereas no social justice advocates push on the ones who are struggling. Sampling matters.

McKinsey is merely picking some data that supports their case. If you actually want to show something, do a longitudinal study: first of all, pick cohorts that match up in most other respects, then compare their relative performance within the cohort after increasing their DEI numbers. Or not doing so.
I kinda like overstuffed better than overstaffed, but mistype.
It reminds me of that episode in the IT Crowd where Jen gets the employee of the month award, lets it go to her head, but its revealed that the CEO literally pulled her name out of a large box
> Challenge any DEI tenet and your are immediately met with threats of excommunication. Get in line or you're out.

The one that continually upsets me (as someone who grew up in a predominantly Hispanic community, is married to a Hispanic person, has Hispanic children, and speaks Spanish as a fluent second language and in the home) is the use of the term "LatinX" which has spread through the DEI community and now general HR. I, a white man, despite my involvement in Latin culture cannot push back against this offensive term, which is quite literally colonialistic with white people from other countries (mostly Americans) telling Latin PoC globally what the appropriate term is to self-identify with. I've attempted to do so, and it's gotten me in trouble, despite the truth and cultural basis of my arguments.

DEI would be questionable but not objectionable if it only pushed actual factual truth, but because it's mostly subjective ideological zealotry, it's incredibly objectionable, and actually racist, more racist than those who are in opposition to it, but seems to have been granted a monopoly on determining what is and isn't racist or unacceptable by the Western elites.
I can only imagine your lifestyle in India with $18,036 / month , that's probably the equivalent of making 60k a month in the US? Wish you the best, I'm inspired.
There is a brewery in my town that does the same thing. They do accept cash and any "tips" (which is any amount over the total) goes to their charity of the month. On their cc entry system, its never shown to the customer so there is never that awkward tipping part you see on a lot of POS systems now. If the customer asks, they say that they don't take tips and if they'd like to leave one in cash, it will all go towards their charity that month.

By doing this, they appease the customer who wants to leave one and don't get in a back and forth with them over tips.
It's not about Apple or technical feasibility, it's about someone at the telco having an arbitrary list.
tl;dr: getting laid off stinks, and getting laid off in a remote environment stinks even more.

However, I found it a bit ironic that the last layoff anecdote in this article took place in person.
Until they’re part of the layoffs too.
A small team can curate institutional memory and make roadmaps ? (Like, if the cut were not 16% but 84%.)
This. Companies just like to make candidates go that extra mile to finally not even look at their resume. Job listings where they already are interviewing candidates or have hired one are still up. Imagine how much time is wasted with frivolous optional questions.
You can see for yourself the things that they're measuring: https://archive.is/TADr1#bryan-johnsons-blueprint
Thanks. We're Berlin based software engineers :)

We hesitated to use non-english word but so far people liked it.
Why would it not be any of our business? Corporations only exist because they received the explicit blessing of the government. This gives them and their owners extra rights (limited liability for example) and tax benefits.

Originally corporate charters were hard to get because they were only issued by the Crown. Nowadays you can get one for a few dollars. We need to ask ourselves if they are still serving the public purpose we intend, and if not how we need to adjust things.
If there is no evidence of discrimination - how do you even know that it occurred? Are you saying that we should have people who decide what is and isn't discrimination without evidence? (since those, in your example, are not there).
> If fake contributions to a private repo will tick a box somewhere, so be it.

In what scenario does it? I am suggesting that such a scenario does not exist.

There are three types of people who might read your resume:

* people who are technical and will look at your code. (Likely, the author is in this camp)

* people who are technical and don’t have the time to click on your GitHub link

* people who don’t know what a commit is
There are lots of things people sit on that we would not categorize as chairs. For example if someone sits on the ground, Earth has not become a chair. Even if something's intended purpose is sitting, calling a car seat or a barstool a chair would be very unnatural. If someone were sitting on a desk, I would not say that it has ceased to be a desk nor that it is now a chair. At most I'd say a desk can be used in the same manner as a chair. Certainly I would not in general want an AI tasked with object recognition to label a desk as a chair. If your goal was to train an AI to identify places a human could sit, you'd presumably feed it different training data.
It's also why the modern rule of thumb is "don't optimize by writing your own assembly."

The rule is a boiled-down version of the larger notion "Don't optimize by writing your own assembly, because even with domain knowledge of the problem you're trying to solve, you're probably not more clever than the engineer-decades that went into building your compiler toolchain and processor architecture, unless you're an expert in both fields, in which case good luck and shoulder that maintenance burden."

The rule of thumb drops a lot of detail on the ground but is a good first approximation.
How about WFH drone robot operators? You could automate and macro some things and wouldn't need people onsite.
Supporting hardware is pretty much what operating systems are supposed to do. Computation always supports some human end. Humans are doing a lot more with their hardware these days.
Where are they going to put the button to turn it off when they need to convince a stubborn citizen?
Crypto companies were starving for talent, eager to pull people in from the "Web 2.0" world with lavish salaries. He recognized their desperation and negotiated a gigantic executive comp package. Also accurately sized-up Brian Armstrong as a lightweight who will eagerly sign-on anyone who strokes his ego.

His major accomplishment was the Coinbase NFT marketplace and then checked out. He spent all of 2022 doing god-tier quiet-quitting.

He's not the only one whose done this: Balaji Srinivasan got hired on and did something similar with Coinbase's learning platform. Massive comp packages for executives doing C- work and still collecting atta-boys from the CEO. That guy used shareholder money to shitpost on twitter and build his personal brand.
Lol, I'm like 90% sure you're joking, but sometimes the stuff that shows up in HN comments is this depressing
Some of the error handling examples in Go are unnecessary as Go allows you to access variable defined in your if-statement in other branches. For instance:

if result, err := something(); err == nil {
if result.RowsAffected() == 0 {
return nil
}
} else if err != nil {
return err
}
So you want to force outcomes according to whichever moral rubric is fashionable at the moment? How well has 'equity' worked for Asian Americans with regards to Ivy League admissions?
Right, and what factors modulate the actual metabolic energy?
I mean honestly, you can't possibly think that just adding people of other gender / skin colors just magically improves profitability. There's clearly some lurking variables here that McKinsey purposefully ignored in order to draw this specific conclusion.
I imagined this was local. I think it would be very difficult to trust it otherwise.
with some significant exceptions, such as NaNs.
This guy was a part of creating that negative sum game in the first place. He shouldn’t be celebrated.
Grey area: Product managers/owners prioritize the backlog. Engineering has final say on what stories/issues they pull from that backlog based on their deeper knowledge of technical dependencies and similar phenomena.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. A GUI where the original text material is loaded, then you highlight it and write the annotations. Bonus of each annotation could be tweeted/tooted/whatevered and include open graph screenshots of the annotation.

Also, I'm sure you didn't mean to trivialize the project, but it's more than "just a front end". The design is what's really great about it.
my opinion: probably will work for harder queries, because GPT is a form of general intelligence.

(At least ChatGPT is. It is a much more advanced form of intelligence than davinci-003, which the poster used.)
> correlation

Not off to a great start, so a few questions:

1. What's the timeline look like for most companies? Were they successful before, after, or all during diversity efforts? At some point it became the socially desired thing to do, so timing matters.

2. Which countries were surveyed? What are the current diversity/cultural influences there?

3. This seems specific to executive teams - is there any more data on regular staff?

4. The data seems a little old, is there newer data?

5. Were the diversity efforts intentional or organic? Meaning: did the company realize it needed more diversity or just by nature of hiring did the successful companies become diverse?

It's important to understand the nuance in studies like this, and the linked article doesn't seem to provide that.
Yes, I have one roof for all my projects. mvpstack.io
The same link says:

The Section 48 commercial credit can be applied to both customer-sited commercial solar systems and large-scale utility solar farms. The rate is effectively at 30% until Treasury issues guidance on new wage and apprenticeship standards. Two months later, the rate will be at 6%, with an additional 24% (for a total of 30%) available for meeting these new labor standards.

So utility-scale solar farms can get the same 30% credit as rooftop solar. They're both tax-advantaged compared to (e.g.) building a new gas plant, but the rooftop credit isn't any higher, at least not on the federal level. Self-consumption from rooftop solar may avoid other taxes, like sales tax, but in many states there is no sales tax on residential electricity to begin with.
I honestly don't like the tone of how our industry treat us. They are trying to find skilled workers to help companies or finding beggars who please them the most?
It’s not pervasive. Pound yourself in the face with sand everyday and you’ll think there’s sand everywhere.

There are 100s of millions of people in the US.
>The only reason I can see for restaurants to do this is that the minimum wage here is $15/hour, and if tips alone don't make that rate, the restaurant pays out of pocket because it is illegal for them to pay below minimum wage.

There is no exception to minimum wage in California for tipped employees, and many cities in Alameda county have a higher minimum wage than the state minimum (Oakland for example, is $15.97/hr this year and Berkeley is $16.99/hr).
You fire them?
Fermat's Library offers something that comes relatively close
https://fermatslibrary.com/margins
The base elements of human nature do not care about national borders. I think you'll find such people, in similar proportion, in most places around the world.
$6M seems rather small for Google's CEO compensation. Did Sundar take a huge paycut?
So not just large muscles relaxing, also little ones ?
> but in my experience having been close to the decision making process on some of these it has a lot more to do with luck of the draw than anyone would care to admit.

I'm sure this happens, but it's not been my experience working for healthy companies.

Been through a few attrition rounds myself. The process has always been, every single time: identify low performers, find reasons to fight for them to stay (do they have gifts the company isn't properly utilizing, etc.). Those at the bottom of the list need to be let go, essentially pruning unhealthy/unproductive branches from the tree trunk to keep the rest of the tree healthy.
The idea that companies get special liability rules disgusts me. I think you should be able to hire whoever you want, but you get to carry the entirety of responsibility for your actions. Either the buck stops with you, or you accept conditions.
Yes! That's the boundary I was looking for. I can see how it might need a different name. I have seen "shared source", but that feels weird too.
You are telling the truth, half the truth, and nothing but half the truth.

“A massively profitable company putting thousands of people out of work so that they can boost their stock price which millions of people own (directly or indirectly).”

A dumber variant: the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. You thousand gotta go so us millions can get richer.

My comment should not imply that I endorse this “fuller” point of view.
Do these studies ever determine causation or do they purely study correlation? I could imagine e.g. that a company with more female executives absent mandates would have a culture of better work-life balance.

In a situation like that, would mandating more female executives push the culture towards more worklife balance or preferentially promote women who care less than average about worklife balance? Absent hard data my money would be on the latter.
Curious..is DEI purely a western phenomenon? Are there many examples of DEI policies being implemented in non-Western countries?
The HN guidelines are silent on the topic of AI-induced chuckles, yet are pretty explicit about comparisons to Reddit.
Unfortunately the people who can make these decisions (HR) are fully members of the DEI cult, and would never fire their allies.
I'd literally rather just get two jobs at mid series B startups or one Faang job. I completely don't understand why grinding out 5yrs for $18k a month is even close to worth it.
https://archive.ph/oYXeF
I agree with you. I thought GP was sarcasm... but these days who can even tell. Including the people writing/saying... I don't know if this is a USA thing or a more global thing, but I think a lot of people literally don't know if they are being sarcastic or not, sarcasm is so pervasive.
XRoar[1]?

[1]: http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/
For contentment, your actions need to reflect your values.
I'm starting to worry that we're going to run pretty short of activities humans find fulfilling to do, that have any notable amount of extrinsic reward or value.

What happens when the computer does tell better stories to your kids than you do? When you turn the computer loose on them for a week and, well, god damn, by the end of the week they seem to have taken exactly the lessons they needed and are bringing them up in real-life situations and are even getting better at reading themselves, and raving about how good the stories are, and you can't deny that if you'd done it, the results wouldn't have been as good?

Now repeat for all the ways that humans find it satisfying to serve others using their creativity.

I very much doubt it's healthy for all the things we find fulfilling and enjoyable to have only intrinsic motivation to drive them.

It's hard to turn down better outcomes, but what if a side-effect is that as a species we become psychologically (even spiritually, if you will) lost? So kids are raised more effectively—but for what? So that all the things they enjoy doing are valuable to, and needed or wanted by, exactly no-one?

So we get more efficient at producing goods and entertainment—for what? So the brushes and paints we buy for our paintings that nobody cares to see and that your talentless cousin can outdo—in every way, including sublimity and mood and all that—with a lazy prompt on some future image generator, are somewhat cheaper? What's the point?
I'm not saying that they can't be used. They can. People often take new(ish) tech as a cure-all.

There are still challenges though.

For bacteria with high resistance (which is what we have the biggest issue with), we've typically done a workup of the bacterium to target. In the worst case, these are what land people in the hospital. Hospital settings would be the best administration point for these therapies. The problem would still be the creation of the specific phages in a reasonable fashion. This would only really be available at major hospitals in major cities. And so... limited in usage.

I could see major hospitals keeping a large amount of gonococcal phages on hand though.

Edit::

One more thing. As far as antibiotic allergies (you mentioned beta lactams) we typically have antibiotic alternatives. Doxycycline is pretty much well tolerated by everyone. And it's available in pill form.
i'm pretty sure the comment, to which you responded, is a joke. i mean, the second sentence is overtly sarcastic.

if not intended as sarcastic, it works as sarcasm quite well!
You are missing out the OG #1 venture fund / studio: Sutter Hill Ventures
- https://kwokchain.com/2020/09/22/the-mike-speiser-incubation...

Success rate is a helpful metric, but it depends on which player/party is interacting with the Studio. Studios lend themselves well to Consumer fields which traditionally have lower exit multiples than B2B/Infra/Software.

- Are you an LP? You can have great paper returns, but poor DPI over time. How do you feel being an LP not seeing that GP's are double dipping on equity grants at company formation for them to only secondary as fast as possible after a quick markup (easier done in the last few years in zero interest rate environment) arguably breaching fiduciary responsibility?

- Are you a "Founder" getting hosed on equity? You do receive a ton of support and resources, but you're paying with the most expensive cost of capital (equity). Do you have full control of the company? What are the voting rights of your stock grants? Where does the buck truly stop?

- Are you an early stage employee getting a sliver of the already somewhat upside down cap-table?
It’s based on FreeBSD so maybe the driver support isn’t too bad (?)
I agree with the premise that content will get more polluted, but there is an element of human vote every time we choose a prompt output and say “this is good enough for me to post/use/turn into a book”.

This is just a very convoluted way of manually labeling data as good and bad.
> GPT is a form of general intelligence.

Is it really? I hadn't heard that
On Christianity
I know no one will read the study but if they do they will find that this is entirely backwards looking--companies that did well in the prior years have more People of Diversity. Which makes sense, if you've done well recently you have more money to blow on affirmative action sinecures that provide political cover and give everyone a warm and tingly feeling.

If it actually increased profitability then we wouldn't need these programs and social coercion, shaming, etc. Companies would be scrambling to hire the magic People of Diversity that bring in the profits.
Yeah, it doesn't. A friend of mine played around with this and on trickier questions you got confidently incorrect answers.
EEOC and the DoJ litigate even covert attempts at discriminatory employment - that's kinda their job. The bigger issue is they (and the rest of the Federal Litigation infra) are chronically underfunded due to partisan bickering from both parties.
All the NoCode and LLM stuff feels like this though - it works well for simple demos, but is useless for the complexity of the real world especially if errors are costly.
I think the Chromecast has "won" its market, right?
That’s some wicked humor :)
> FTX International and Alameda were both legitimately and independently profitable businesses in 2021, each making billions.

From the article. What are your thoughts given this?

> Again, FTX's and Alameda's 2021 tax returns suggest they were massively unprofitable.7

Ah. I missed this point right next to it.
Slightly tangential: is there software that converts multi-LaTeX PDFs into responsive HTML in a reasonable way? I'd read more of these papers if they were more viewable on a phone-size viewport.
Why don't you have 100m? Or do you already have 100m?
Wonder what the costs are for this per question? I imagine supplying so many tokens for context makes the querying a lot more expensive. Though still no doubt cheaper than hiring another analyst.
You didn't replace a SQL Analyst, you just gave them a query generator. End data consumers don't understand the data model, assumptions, quirks, etc. If they fire the analyst, they are going to wind up drawing a lot of bad conclusions on anything more complicated than simple aggregations.
If it's in a private repo, there's no point. Your GitHub stats exclude private repos when viewed by anyone besides you.