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> This is HN, I can be cynical, right?

Your comment isn't cynical, it is more akin to a lucid perspective of a set of threats.

The economy and threats to democratic process are more worrisome -- and yet at the same time, much more within our capability to fix than an asteroid strike.

For a lucid fictional presentation of an asteroid strike, I recommend "Lucifer's Hammer" by Niven and Pournelle.^1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Hammer
Ooo, this sounds like a nice recipe for company collapse. You hate to see giants who advanced computing get taken over by MBAs who play that "cost center" and "revenue center" bullshit. I'm sure all their enterprise customers will be understanding of the unfixed bugs when the service agent explains how they made Watson 0.03% more effective at capturing pet names this fiscal year
> Maybe the answer is that companies should be posting one job req for each level that they're willing to hire at?

From the perspective of an employee and applicant, I think this is completely reasonable. It also gives me a sense of the seniority and pay structure, which helps me make a slightly more informed decision about whether I will ever get a raise or if I'll have to quit and get a new job to get a raise.
It's also not a person.
I don't need to argue with them because flag burning is already protected speech and the justices are all dead by now.
I doubt there would be that much extra cancer. The estimates I saw were merely a 25% reduction in field strength. The predictions I saw were more concerned about technology failures. A slight increase in solar radiation seems like small potatoes compared to all the other potential carcinogens we live with, but it does seem like it could be significant for our electronics.
Let’s not mince words, though; the accountability for this decision rests with me. The consequences, on the other hand, rest with you, but so does a pretty generous COBRA package.[1]

/s

[1]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-ha...
Like all these standup comedians on YouTube.
Because "normal" writing (prose) isn't code.

The medium dictates the delivery.
I can’t comment on whether this is blind following or not. But it’s a real fact that the market will punish you less for layoffs when others are doing it too. It’s like how the best time to reveal a scandal is after someone else has revealed a bigger scandal.
Hi this is Dave Winer. I write all my project code in an outliner
Prompt: So my dog started meowing like a cat last night

Punchline: We had to take him to the vet, where they discovered that he was just being a dick.
I don't think an amendment would be necessary. Congress has the power to do so without it.
If it's a priori known that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission then it means that the penalties for breaking the law are too lenient.

How about the "move fast and break things" SV type bros go to jail for a bit and, after they serve their sentence, all's forgiven? Except the criminal record, of course. That stays.
The stuff on personal finance does not apply to anyone with weird life circumstances or too much money - past a certain point, you need to do weird forms of diversification. Also, if you are saving part of your money for a short-term goal like a house, rather than retirement, you have to adjust the mix accordingly.
I think those are Bloomberg's words, or their paraphrasing of the grapevine. The high level people that I knew there weren't petty, and everyone was of the opinion that it didn't matter who clicked the button: we were all in the same boat.
5 fingers have 14 segments. Using segments on both sides of both hands = 2 sides of 2 hands = 56 finger segment slots. Counting the palms and backs of both hands = 4 hand sides = 60 segment slots and hand sides. Along with the 14 joints on 4 sides = 56 joint nodes = 116 joint nodes, segment slots and hand sides. Including the 10 finger (tips) gets a total of 126 and two arms is 128. Palms, backs of hands, arms, etc. could be further subdivided. Exercise: determine count of combinations.
Sure, but when you look at the history of comments around this theme (CEO, layoffs), it seems pretty clear that people want a CEO to take responsibility in some other way that laying off staff.
Honestly how do you think movies get made? Every movie with a firearm in it breaks your firearm safety rule during filming currently.
> I always wondered if pharmacists had any specific training in the terrible handwriting doctors put on prescriptions

One day my local pharmacist was in a chatty mood whilst filling my request and one topic that came up was doctor's handwriting.

The answer is yes, they do (did ?) receive training in handwriting recognition.

Basically it involves learning to recognise common abbreviations and mostly being very familiar with drug names and dosing.

As the pharmacist said, when he received his training it was "easy" because the formulary was "somewhat shorter" than it is today. As a result he said his junior trainees struggle and frequently come to him guidance until they've had sufficient exposure.

However with things moving to electronic prescriptions the days of deciphering will be relic of the past for many pharmacists.
I've launched a Windows app on the Microsoft Store a bit over a month ago. Didn't get any traction here (as windows closed source apps rarely do) but feel free to check it out at https://lumotray.com

I have already got a few downloads from the MS store though. "Advertising" was basically just a post here, a couple of posts on reddit and some links sent to friends.
I suppose it just mimics style rather than substance. And the substance of jokes is mostly implicit.
Needs work...(not too bad though, well done)

Three priests walk into a gay bar. I don’t know what happened next, but it was a three for one special.

What did the blonde woman say to the taxi driver at the airport? Thanks for the lift, asshole!

Why don't assembly language programmers say "please"? They do. But only with their index register.

What happens after it rains cats and dogs? You spend the rest of your day looking for a lost wiener.
It must be fascinating to find the people who are still watching the Tide Pod challenge today.
> If your comment ("CEO takes full responsibility") is suggesting s/he should be fired or compensation reduced because of their misread of the future, that would be quite silly.

If he suffers no negative consequences then in what way is he taking responsibility? This is just meaningless psychobabble. He could not say it and it would be no different.
If a company has your livelihood, bank balance, etc by the balls - they should at least be required to offer a minimum level of human support with a path for escalating things or a way to reasonably handle disputes with a neutral adjudicator. The stakes are too high to simply leave decisions up to algorithms.
I think this demonstrates that all the persiflage about branding is just hot air. Nobody even remembers what logo a company has, much less which company provides some product.
"Reducing comp as punishment would also not make sense, for obvious reasons."

If leadership is financially incentivized for positive outcomes, why shouldn't they carry downside financial risk as well?
Once again, the death of Tesla has been greatly exaggerated.

Tesla Inc. and their cars are fine, except for them pushing the FSD scam.
> that it's a high risk for untrained individuals jumping into high intensity training

This statement erases all nuance in the real world data and experience of anyone involved in training.

You need to differentiate between one HIIT session and repeated HIIT sessions without recovery. The former doesn't cause injury in the vast majority of individuals. The latter is known to cause injuries in everyone trained or untrained.

You also need to control for what the HIIT session is. If it's spinning on a stationary bike for 2 minutes, an untrained individual generates nowhere near enough force to then injure themselves. If you're putting a set weight on a bar and asking them to shoulder press it, that's self-evidently completely different.

Yet, in your argument, they're exactly the same.
It's a reference to the Google CEO's statement about their layoffs and I think the point is that it's an empty platitude.
AI will take a while to wash over the masses while Byung Chul Han sees no improvement from an aphorism assistant since he already thinks in aphorisms organically.

I've benefitted since I started using GPT in my own idiosyncratic process last summer since it identified and fixed my problem of writing sideways, i.e. breadth first.

I could get this from a good, old fashioned human education but my professor friends in the humanities have already resigned tenured positions.

I worry that similar to HR becoming human robots the long term impact is that we trade anthropomorphism for robotomorphism.
> how does math work on them?

For almost all operations, if any input is a NaN, the result is a NaN. It's pretty well-specified by IEEE 754, the only thing that isn't is what the payload is, but there's no general expectation that the payload is preserved through computation.

> how do we tell what type of nan we have?

`getpayload()`

> what should these bajillion values represent?

Diagnostic information that tells you which operation caused the NaN in the first place. (This is Kahan's standard argument for why having many NaNs can be useful.)

> the fact that they didn't just make there be a single NaN

What's the alternative? You'd either have to have lots of illegal floating point values, or you'd have to make the number of finite floating-point numbers with the highest exponent value slightly smaller than for all other exponent values, which complicates a good deal of numerical analysis.

> make it equal to itself

Yeah, this is the big, nasty mistake of IEEE 754.

> and while you're at it make it so the real numbers have a total ordering

There is a totalOrder predicate specified by IEEE 754. Representing floating-point comparisons as a partial order is arguably better than giving it a total order, but the lack of reflexivity of equals makes the existing predicates not a partial order.
As noted by several lawyers when some of the details of this experiment were revealed: The AI already committed a cardinal sin of traffic court in that it subpoenaed the ticketing officer.

Rule 1 of traffic court: If the state's witness (the ticketing officer) doesn't show, defendant gets off. You do not subpoena that witness, thereby ensuring they show up.

If the AI or its handlers cannot be trusted to pregame the court appearance even remotely well then no way in hell should it be trusted with the actual trial.

You want to run this experiment? Great, lets setup a mock court with a real judge and observing lawyers and run through it. But don't waste a real court's time or some poor bastard's money by trying it in the real world first.

A reminder that "Move fast and break things" should never apply where user's life or liberty is at stake.
Yes! I think the legal system would and should look differently at a tool like this in the ear of a licensed lawyer, and AI tools will be invaluable for legal research. I just don't think the output of an AI should be fed directly into a non-lawyer's ear, any more than I think a non-programmer should try to build a startup with ChatGPT as technical co-founder.
Some of these companies had so many employees - it's staggering. Kafka management is a useful tool but man, 2000 employees is a LOT for something my SRE team does as a standard part of the job.
Why? If the dependencies are dynamically loaded libraries it shouldn't matter?
You have a pretty one-dimensional view of a company's goal. Well, many have, especially the higher-ups in the US, of course, making those vision statements more of a joke than they ever were. But for some, companies have a responsibility towards their employees, customers and environment as well.

In your hyper-financialized viewpoint, the CEO's job should be to make as much money for him/herself as possible.
Open pdf in the Word open document dialog window. It converts the document very very nicely. Better than adobe!
Why can't a company do offense on the IR front with literally any action other than cutting workforce?

"Our products are better than ever"
"Our revenue per employee is better than ever"

Why does cutting costs have to be the only way to please investors?
This post agrees that it’s essentially copycat behavior.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...
"What did the Arab"

1. say the moment he left the White House? "No wonder they hate us."

2. man say to the Arab woman at the bus stop? 'Your dad's the bomb!'

3. guy say when he saw a woman driving a car? "Finally, a woman who knows how to use a clutch."

hmmm
Consistently spend less than you make is the most important part. Then always factor the risk in an investment according to your ability to handle risk.
I completely disagree with your opinion but I do appreciate how consistent and fully aware of the outcomes consequences you are being with it.
I think its time to stop printing stuff out this would prevent lots of the risk and if your position is overran like an embassy or base powering down devices would keep them safe
Hacker news comments would not be a good replacement, though.
I thought it was because we haven't developed warp travel.
> And every alternative user friendly solution requires uploading your documents to servers (which could spark privacy concerns)

If the customer base is less technically adept, wouldn't most of them not care and just upload it to a cloud service? I ask sincerely - recently I've realized I don't have as firm of a grip on the 'average consumer' as I thought.
Well, I tried with the intro to the Aristocrats:

"A family walks into a talent agency and asks to speak to an agent. After waiting for a few minutes, they're shown into his office. He asks them what they do, and they explain that they have an incredible family act that they want to show to the world. He asks them to show it to him..."

Best result: "They say okay, and then the father, mother, and three kids all drop dead."

Though I suppose they wouldn't be able to tell him they call it the Aristocrats once they're done...
Want to see if I could get it to do a cliche doctor's handwriting. It turned out pretty funny.

Input: 500mg of Amoxicillin, 3 times a day for 7 days.
Lowest Speed, Lowest Legibility, Lowest Stroke Width, Style 6

https://i.imgur.com/lH0bPBs.png
We are absolutely nowhere close to running out of empty space for people to live. Population growth has slowed greatly and we most likely never will.

We are running out of space that has a sufficient population density to sustain a viable economy for people who aren't farmers and where you are still legally allowed to build housing. The solution to that is simple, you just need to allow housing to be built.
Yeah, this CEO technology is interesting but ultimately going nowhere, it's only remixing existing decisions and not having any original innovations. Plus, as CEO decisions get fed back into the models, it's going to get even worse, like a photocopy of a photocopy.
> In your hyper-financialized viewpoint, the CEO's job should be to make as much money for him/herself as possible.

No, the CEO is meant to optimize not for themselves, but for the owners of the company. If the CEO didn't do that, the board should fire them.
The FAQ has a list of reasons on why a post can be flagged[0][1], and I don't think it will affect your account unless you frequently post flagged content.

My guess would be the title, or the way the article was written.

IMO, the article makes valid points from both technical and privacy perspective, but it was written less like a critic and more like an attack.

People in Free software community will agree with the article as most knows about how bad a centralized proprietary program can be.

But the wordings could have been better so that it would trigger fewer people.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Flashlight guy is the sun blinding you so you can't see anything.
One should never assume anything about his employment status other than that it can end at any moment. Companies’ management might have empathy, but as a rule they absolutely don’t care about employees.
eh - I think Hacker News is qualitatively different. There's a lot of shared values here, and low-effort comments are actively discouraged. It's a lot more pleasant to read the comments here than on a place like Reddit, even in some of the higher-functioning subs.

Maybe it's the way comments are weighted here, or the fact that post scores aren't shared, but it's definitely the best place on the web for me.
I came very close to buying one of those large car-sized print systems. I thought about it because a graphics shop was upgrading and the printer's brains were very close to a Dandelion or Daybreak Xerox workstation (same UI elements, similar boot sequence, same keyboard and mouse), but, after a closer look, it seemed to be impossible to extricate the brain from the rest of the body and, so, the whole machine went to someone who'd love it, cherish it, and print with it (instead of me, who'd kill it, sell the organs and keep the brain alive in a jar).
Whatever you know best and can set up quickly and easily. It's very easy as an engineer to focus too much on the tech and not enough on the product. Don't agonize over postgres or Dyanamo DB, Django or Spring, just use what you know to get it set up and focus on product, market, customers, sales, etc. Those will be the hard part.
I actually mostly agree with this, and Netflix does seem to be a bit of an outlier because they pay all cash (whereas companies that have large stock components would end up listing a much narrower range since the law only requires disclosing base salary).

OTOH, I still think the 90K on the low end still seems disingenuous, is anyone at Netflix making that low of a salary in a senior engineering position? According to levels.fyi, an L3 (entry-level) Netflix SW engineer makes an average of $205K base, and these job postings specifically say either L4 or L5.
I guess this is important so we can compensate the heirs or successors-in-interest of the inventor of paper, right?
Yet another point of absurdity. Only if I live in California do I have the right to demand a company clear all my personal data. Meanwhile we have multiple large organizations that have hemorrhaged data to the world and caused irreparable harm to individuals, with little or no consequences. We're all held hostage by tech.
Yrs: High-performance CRDT implementation based on the idea of shared types
Someone could have an entirely transactional understanding of their job but assume that - alongside many implicit elements of that transaction - there's a component of through-line longevity.
We're well into the cargo cult layoffs. CEOs need to look good to their bosses and your job is a sacrafice they are willing to make. I'm sure there are some who will make their decisions based on real data and analysis - but they'll make thier decisions independently of other firms actions. Seeing all this clustered behavior suggests little analysis is really being done here.
should be able to save enough to weather a brief storm is a huge assumption. What do you do if you have dependents or complex medical needs personally? What happens if you have a personal emergency during your job search? What do you do if you have existing debt from a previous emergency, medical crisis, etc?
>>> one turk, one russian and one american met in a bar.

1. All three ordered a double vodka and then sat in silence for 15 minutes.

2. They all got drunk, went to a strip club and forgot to tip the stripper.

3. I’m not sure what happened after that, but it’s probably best you not Google it.

:D haha
I absolutely love the minimalist design of the website.
> One wonders why we have not developed something explicit like mathematical notations for legal stuff.

1. Laws are written or at least voted on by representatives, and they don't vote for things that they don't think they understand. Also, they're pretty regularly swapped out and often totally bonkers. Especially at the state level.

2. Things change. Look at how the right of search and seizure is applied to digital data and metadata.

3. Most importantly, the imprecision is intentional. "Beyond all reasonable doubt" has no definition because it is up to the person rendering judgement. The courts decide the bounds of the law, and within those bounds people decide how to apply them.
>There is going to be a lot of this happening. With lawyers, doctors, journalists, all kinds of expensive experts and consultants are going to face some competition from tools like this used by their customers to reduce their dependence on expensive experts or at least to get a second opinion; or even a first opinion.

What are you on about? This has been ongoing for decades.

You're talking down to hypothetical doctors as if doctors don't already deal with the phenomenon of people self-diagnosing from the internet. We as humanity already know the benefits and drawbacks of Dr. Google.

The only thing AI does that search engines don't, is it takes the pile of links a search engine would find and synthesizes it into a tailored piece of text designed to sound topical and authoritative. And delivers it to people who already believe too much of the shit they read on the internet.
I tried everything from supabase to rails. These days if I need a quick mvp it's built with Imba on the front-end and Pocketbase on the backend. The installation and deployment story of Pocketbase is the easiest.
Well, I guess having different phylosophies and different flows/features is what makes some products more palatable.

On the other hand, I really would not mind notifications for replies to my posts, and I don't think they would negatively impact my HN experience. What I like about HN is mostly the community, the content, reading the comments, the UX/UI comes quite behind.
And the most robust power grid.
This blog has clear information on how to be deliberate with money, and retire early on a fixed income. I also find his writing funny and enjoyable to read.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
I can't speak for everyone else but a lot of what I've seen is mockery of a meaningless statement that would have been better left unsaid.
A British man and a Polish man enter a bar.
The Polish guy says, "Do you know what they call a beer in Poland?"
"No," says the Brit.
"They call it a fucking beer."
Make Your Own Model of the Webb Space Telescope
Too bad full doesn't include financial.
Yeah it was earlier than 2008. Corporate blogging, at least in many tech circles, was pretty big and companies were coming out with social media guidelines by the mid-2000s. Journalists and analysts often had personal brand blogs on their company sites. And, yes, there were personal blogs on sites like Blogger (or self-hosted). I'd actually say the 2003 date was fairly early on for truly mainstream blogging; I started in 2003 and I won't say I was on the leading edge but I was probably an early adopter.
They are not scared that it will fail. They are scared that it will succeed. And there's a great reason to allow a company to sell a stand-in for a lawyer. Cost. This isn't targeted at people who can afford lawyers, it's targeted at people who can't, for now at least.