skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The alternative is a fundamentally different IC performance review process (and interview process) above a certain level, and HR and others are unwilling to take that step for obvious reasons.

Having different review processes adapted to different job roles that exist at different levels is the easiest thing to defend. Heck, given disparate impact considerations and the fact most systems will have incidental unequal impacts, failing to do so could have you fall out of the business necessity criteria into unlawful discrimination at the levels the process isn't adapted to.

Are the “obvious reasons” that, despite the practical and legal benefits, someone would have to expend effort designing the appropriate system?
The Four Loves ('Philia' or 'Friendship') by C.S. Lewis
If only it was funny
It's simple; scenes are expensive. You need space to have a scene, you need a business for that scene/space, and that business needs to be profitable enough to pay for rent and fair wages while also supporting the scene/community.

One of the biggest things I saw in my work travels was how low vs high COL affects availability of scenes and community. Where in low cost cities like Pittsburgh and Rochester you have budding communities and scenes, but in places like Boston and NYC, those same type of scenes can't compete. So they shrink or disappear entirely, to be replaced by name brand chains/companies.
At this point, I'm way past hoping to see any polish.

I'd be happy if they improved the responsiveness. Say to the level of MSN Messenger 20 years ago, even though I'm running 2022 hardware.
The point about systemic risks is they don’t go away just because they haven’t happened yet.

For example, Bitcoin is up, as are most investments. It’s unfortunately also correlated in the other direction with the stock market so if the market tanks next month so does Bitcoin. But the link doesn’t go away if the stock market is fine, so Bitcoin could also crash in 2 months when the market tanks, or in X months… aka the risk is from the correlation not the short term outcome.

As to predictions, the best evidence we have is the universe isn’t deterministic. Quantium mechanics has everything rolling dice. So saying X didn’t happen therefore X couldn’t have happened appears to be inconsistent with how reality actually operates.
Just goes to show that the “do no evil” corporation is just that. Another corporation that is a slave to greedy boards and shareholders that only care about the price of the stock.

Cut 5% of the workforce and see immediate gains in stock.

Google peaked at Google Search and Google Ads. Everything else is subpar or average (Android), with the exception of the open source contributions like Go, Kubernetes, and app containerization.

One of these days FAANG will become relics and shadows of their former selves. Just like the railroad companies in the early 1900s.
I'm quite sure I encountered this in VB.NET like 15 years ago or so.
I, personally, don't believe this easter egg provides any valuable joy.
Ah I think that's by design when groups are enabled. Try clearing out the 3 groups (third icon from the left on the toolbar) and then trying again :)
Yeah, it's definitely confidently wrong at times. I got in the habbit of asking it "are you sure?" after some iffy responses and often it would correct itself.

I stumbled into a few programming questions where it be confidently wrong and refuse to correct itself and it took me as long to verify it as it would have taken to research it myself.

I think people are still surprised that it's right more often than not.
Disney uses all this data to "optimize" the park-- for profitability. They're not interested in you, exactly. They've gamified the park, which is what sucks about it now. I was very blessed to have the means to live near Disneyland and be able to afford yearly passes for a decade. I've been to Disneyland at least a thousand times-- and if you think surveillance is a new idea there, you are mistaken.

True story-- I worked as a sysadmin for a number of years, and as such found it useful to carry a knife with me to open boxes-- as receiving equipment was a daily duty for me. My weapon of choice was a CRKT "snap lock" mini knife with a blade no larger than an inch. It was completely inoffensive, but it could open a package quite well and due to the design it was quite safe to keep in your pocket. They don't seem to make this knife anymore-- but be aware it was not the quite large "snap lock" knife CRKT still makes-- this guy about the size of a key.

So, I arrive at Disneyland like any other day. Park in the mega-structure and when I arrive at the security gate, a very respectful gentleman in touristy clothes says to me, "Excuse me sir, can you come over here for a moment?"

He pulls me aside-- he says, "The knife in your pocket. You can't bring that into the park."

I am floored. How could he possibly know about a knife I literally keep on my key ring that doesn't even look like a knife? This is the day I learned that Disney employs security staff to pretend to be park guests.

I said, "Yes, I do have a knife, but I think if I was allowed to show it to you, you might agree that it's not a weapon. If you disagree, then I'll give it to you, so it doesn't enter the park, but don't throw it away because it's a great knife, so consider it a gift."

To his credit, I showed him the knife-- and he said something to the effect of, "That's fine. Have a great day at the park."

To me, this was security done correctly. The guy identified a possible problem (my knife), and was allowed to exercise his own judgement about the situation.
So Google Feed, Chat, Hangouts, social networks are out because they're highly likely to get killed.
ChatGPT is not a product, at least not for the purpose of answering arbitrary questions with a high degree of correctness. Nobody is claiming that ChatGPT is, or is supposed to be, the ultimate answer generating machine. If you are relying on the current generation of language models for that purpose you are making a huge mistake. They are a technology demonstration for what future AI products suitable for the mass market might look like, nothing less and nothing more.
FDA has limits to how many maggots, say, can be in food.

Orange Juice, Fruits, Etc.

https://www.cbsnews.com/gooddaysacramento/news/bugs-rodent-h...

Though I have to say it's pretty awesome(terrible?) that they mix SI units with english units. (milligrams per pound)
"Pay the billion dollar companies for solving problems that they created!"

"Consoom more tech hardware made in China!"

"Don't think too hard about your monthly expenditures!"

"Trust the science!!!1!"

Well you've convinced me, buddy.
I am guessing it wouldn’t be hard for an AI voice generator to impersonate the actor’s voices given the possible sample data available. I’m sure it’s not long before we have completely new AI generated deep faked episodes of beloved TV shows.
After reading endless books from the 70s/80s spreading the fear of entering a new ice age, going through acid rain and a hole in the ozone layer you would be surprised by how quickly important things change.
Zooming in isn't even necessary because you can use the flight playback scrollbar to see the little plane move along the route.
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OP here: For context, the cash is to stop corporate databases from knowing I have children. It's not for obfuscating everything.
https://www.optoutproject.net/how-to-keep-your-pregnancy-pri...
They’re both sitcoms but with very different styles. Seinfeld is a “smart” comedy and makes social commentary through the life of the Manhattanite characters. Married with Children is more of a base comedy, lampooning the old cliche of the perfect 50s household. At least that’s my take. I haven’t watched either in probably 20 years.
single user == root only. While linux has a single user mode, it is rarely used. Certainly not everywhere "excluding some exotic and super fragile setups you might see in .edu networks"
Location: U.S. remote
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Email: rviragh+tao@gmail.com

I am a primarily Python coder (also know JavaScript) interested in AI and have already published an AI application using voice recognition. I worked for Google in the past on human judgment for AI. Interested in any AI-related opportunity using Python. (Examples: RPA/chatbots, image generation, home automation, voice recognition, text to speech, text generation, robotics.) I've contributed to deep learning textbooks and at home I run offline models. I am creative, independent, and highly analytical. I want to change the world or improve people's lives using AI.
Decent YouTube video on the wasps that pollinate the figs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBiY65N2gk
I am not confident at all, because I don't see any law of nature or society that dictates that we shall always come up with new meaningful jobs whenever we render some of the old ones obsolete. It's true that we've done so before, but that was also when our economic development seemed exponential; surely we know better now? In any case, without a clear understanding of the mechanism, who's to say it's not just luck and/or survivor bias?

Alternatively, we can come up with meaningless jobs. Which is, of course, just UBI in disguise and with more incidental waste.
Everything they have specified is a negative - a negative in privacy, a negative in encryption, a negative in software design. The problem wasn't lack of obfuscation in their web portal - it was that the web portal, despite having plenty of options for secure transit, chose to punch an unencrypted hole and make it available to anyone who asked. The problem is not that you could find a camera's private url, but that there was no token exchange to verify your access, and that once you connected to that URL the video coming across was unencrypted.

It is possible to have sufficiently secure URL schemes that you could still pop into VLC, possibly ignoring some security warnings about unverified peers, and that you could still be confident that no-one was evesdropping on. They've mentioned adding tools to prevent you from finding those URLs, but not to secure your connection to them.

What a backwards, misunderstood apology. The problem was not that they were using standard and interoperable software. It's that they didn't bother to add the security features they promised, and as such, probably haven't still - They've just made it harder to check if they have.
> Only you and a few others in this thread do the "blame" thing. I have expressed my opinion, salted with some negative emotions due to frustration and misalignment of expectations.

I had no problem with your opinions, until this passage:

"Emacs seems to be carried by nostalgia from folks that love to tinker with their tools more than they like to actually get any job done."

That was a quite disingenuous statement. A lot of people who made breakthroughs in the industry used Emacs in the past, and some even use it today. I'm sure you didn't mean to say that Donald Knuth, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Guy Stele, Simon Peyton Jones, Rich Hickey, Joe Armstrong, and many, many others "don't care about getting job done", right?

And let me re-iterate once again, your negative emotions are yours only. They are wholly subjective on this matter. Thousands of Emacs users never had the experience you described. And your generalizing statement exacerbated it further. I would've maybe even accepted that there might be just a bit of truth in your opinions, but that angle pushed them all into the corner where they don't reflect true, undeniable facts about Emacs.

I'm not sure what you expected. Coming to a thread on a specific topic, brandishing a faulty generalization about people and asking to be more constructive? Don't you think that's somewhat narcissistic? Well, whatever makes you happy. I should've known better and instead of wasting time with you, I could've done some Emacs tinkering. But unlike you, I wouldn't blame someone else for that. Mea culpa. I own it.
Psychedelics open your brain. You might not like what falls in
The question isn't really if $20 is worth it, the question is can you get 90% of the way there for much less? It sounds like he found a way, and of course he's going to do that.
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If it isn't offensive to mainstream sensibilities, it's a sub-culture not a counter-culture. You're describing sub-cultures of the mainstream.

For example, in the current year vegetarianism is a sub-culture of mainstream lifestyle dieting while carnivorism is a counter-culture.
Titles are meaningless in my opinion. Just look at how many “directors” were laid off. Work at a company long enough and at some point you peak.

Between an L9 and an L8, can you really tell the difference besides pay grade?

Who knows, maybe that person pissed their boss off or have bad vibes to some other team director and silently raised an issue with their superior.

It could all just be random. A few “bad” performance reviews at this level and compared to the other “L9s” you are disposable.

Corporations don’t care about you. They only care about their board and shareholders and share price.

If a RIF will pump the stock 5-8% in a recession, you bet your ass they will do it. Doesn’t matter if you are a 10 year veteran.
Problems that are affecting South Carolina will be spoken about in English. Californians will hear about it here and there. They can be seen as national problems.

Something like that doesn't happen in the EU. Every language is like an entirely different political sphere.

US presidential elections (and the party system) add another reason for politicians to care about what the voters in another state think. If Democrats look bad when handling an issue in South Carolina then it can end up costing them votes in other states too.
Do whatever you want but count me out of this mess.

I prefer being a tech mercenary than joining a union.
I'm pretty sure you don't even know what it is. Example question: is carnivore high protein or high fat?
This is just a recipe for chiefs that are good are juking stats or playing PR. You can't just fire the person at the top, the institution needs to change.
So no-one uses 7.62mm chambered guns as their standard infantry weapon now because...?

Hint:

1) Weight of ammunition

2) Recoil during sustained fire

In other words, thanks for confirming my point. After all there's a reason that purchasing an L1A1 is a nostalgia buy.
Also, San Francisco is just…small. Not that many people live there for a major city.
I think my attitude to this stuff evolved after seeing that even with all the work we did with HTML, virtually nobody actually benefits from it.

In theory, HTML is device independent. In practice, we can't even get web apps to work on desktop and mobile, to the point where even sites like Wikipedia, the simplest and most obvious place where HTML should Just Work across devices, has a whole fricking separate subdomain for mobile.

In theory, HTML gives users ultimate control over presentation. In practice, after _years_ of trying to make alternate style sheets a reality, not a single browser in common use even has a UI for them. Nobody cares. A few people with extensions might occasionally make some minor tweak, but that's about it.

In theory, HTML is accessible. In practice, despite decades of advocacy, basic sites fail utterly to be accessible even for basic things because people ignore all of HTML's semantics, they just bolt things together to work for the common sighted able-bodied user and then, _if they are paid enough_, they _might_ just slap on some ARIA attributes to make it vaguely work for people with accessibility tools.

If HTML was all the things we wanted it to be, we designed it to be, if reality actually matched the fantasies we tell ourselves in working group meetings, then mobile apps wouldn't be written once for iOS and once for Android and then once again for desktop web, they'd be written once, in HTML, and that's what everyone would use. You wouldn't have an app store, you'd have the web. You wouldn't follow a link on your phone only to have it redirect to a locally-installed non-web application, it would just stay in your browser. Developers are scrambling to get out of the web and into the mobile app stores.

The reality is that for all of the work that we've put into HTML, and CSS, and the DOM, it has fundamentally utterly failed to deliver on its promise.

It's even worse than that, actually, because all of the things we've built aren't just not doing what we want, they're holding developers back. People build their applications on frameworks that _abstract out_ all the APIs we build for browsers, and _even with those frameworks_ developers are hamstrung by weird limitations of the web.

The parts of the web that have actually delivered are the ephemerality and the security model, the indexability (but only for content, not apps), deep linkability, and the platform-independence. We can keep all those, and throw out the decades of legacy that's holding us back, and we will lose nothing, we will only gain as we unleash the kinds of amazing interfaces that developers can build when you give them the raw bedrock APIs that other platforms already give their developers.
Have you been able to find uses for chatGPT where it’s better than the top result in Google?

I’ve consistently found that Google returns similar results. The only difference is that if it’s a longer snippet I need to click into the website, but even then, it’s usually faster than chatGPT.
"Despite the huge number of questions I asked, and despite the lawyers that they undoubtedly employed along with the detectives and psychiatrists, somehow someone missed that I never sent back the signed contract. I promised nothing."

A fun eye opening read.

p.s.

This is actually a fascinating look at the hierarchy of enchantment that mass media affords. As spectators, we've sat enchanted in front of first Radio, then TV, and now the Net, initially as a huddling family, and now mostly individual pair of glued eyes. Also as spectators, we only see the final broadcast stage. This is where the author of the article gets to enchant us.

But behind the scene is apparently another set of stages, progressively narrower and more powerfully present, with the human stage props themselves subjected to formulaic enchantment. (Enchantment is the correct word here, imo.) We don't get the skinny on who has enchanted the top chef skimming the 15%. Must be quite a theater at that level and higher.
This is probably the first time I've encountered something where "It's so bad that it's good" makes sense to me. I could not stop laughing. The exterior shot with the Seinfeld-inspired music. The laugh track at inappropriate times. They talk about going to a sushi restaurant, and when they've finally agreed to go, they sit down and don't go anywhere. This is like the alien scientists who want to bring back humans after they've gone extinct, and end up cloning chimps. Bravo!
It’s hard to be objective because of filter bubbles, but I’ve seen it a lot on Reddit last.
As clearly laid out in the article, the rust equivalent to npm install is

cargo install foo

The entire point of providing downloads is for people who don't have dev tools already installed.
Either way, it looks like it's Discord's problem when it isn't

> more likely

I'll agree to disagree here though. That seems significantly less likely to me. I haven't heard of excessive CPU/GPU usage causing throttling, unless it's temperature related. Normally when you have high CPU usage, your clock speeds up not slows down. But in that case, the problem is high heat or 100% usage, not the side effect that happens to be throttling.
400 "features and improvements" sounds like they just counted closed tickets. Ticket open -> couldn't reproduce -> ticket closed.
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At this pricing, it might only make sense to embed it in a larger application (e.g. Duolingo) or use it for internal IT.
Utah lawmakers want age restrictions on social media platforms
So you can just buy a company's name as a domain on a new TLD without legal issues?
Not a soap opera; it's a sitcom. The Youtube video you found is not particularly good. It gets better in the later seasons. A lot of it is pretty clever; some of it is brilliant.
That's not actually true - if you look around, you'll find a surprising number of people who are right-wing economically overall, but specifically support UBI; and this is especially popular in tech circles, which, if it really goes as OP described, would be the ones amassing power. Two simple reasons: first, when suffering is too obvious and blatant, it's harder to not notice it; and second, you can only push people too far before they riot, and it's cheaper to pay them just enough to avoid that.

The question, rather, will be: what kind of UBI - "just enough to prevent large-scale unrest", or "as much as we as a society can afford"? The former is not necessarily an utopia or even close to it; think The Diamond Age and The Expanse.
not all figs are pollinated that way, but yes point taken. we should not just arbitrarily kill off anything that offends our sensibilities.
This reminds me that figs are extremely controversial in the vegan community for this exact reason. To me it seems a little silly given the inevitable consumption of insects in food, but to each their own I guess.
It's not a dealbreaker for practical reasons, it's for moral ones. I don't think they should even ask for or collect that data, given the ability to de-anonymize that the additional information provides them. They don't need it and shouldn't ask. Especially as most people don't know they can just make stuff up, and never do.

I'm with you, I make up email addresses, mail addresses, credit card numbers, pseudonyms, genders, birthdates etc...
There's a fantastic book, called the secret life of groceries by Benjamin Lorr. In it, he mentions that at the FDA they call Trader Joe's "Recall Joe's" for their disturbingly high number of recalls
I love having HTML/CSS/JS in one place, it means things never get detached from their immediately relevant context. Also thanks to nice extensions for VSCode (which wouldn't work across separate files) I can option-click any class name and get a mini-panel to edit the styles inline without hunting for the style section or a separate style file. I can also see when styles I have added are not being used in that component.

When I demo side projects and my own work to my coworkers they are always surprised "I didn't know you could do that!" and the thing is they can't because they are all stuck using React.
> Multiple studies have shown how this is easy to train.

Running ability is also easy to train, that doesn't mean everyone can run a marathon. Some people have flat feet or poorly proportioned limbs unsuited to long-term running. These aren't disabilities preventing them partaking in such activities, but nevertheless limits their potential.

> Being able to do college algebra is equivalent to being able to dribble.

No, it's being able to at least dunk. Again, a common skill but not one everyone can achieve.
I think some estimates were that avg query costs around 1-5 cents USD so to break even the users has to make less than 13-66 queries per day which is quite reasonable. I use it daily and from a brief glance I avg ~20 queries/day, which will probably go down once novelty wears off.

I also doubt that openai is in need of making profit now, just covering operation costs is a huge win at this stage.