skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Marxist* notion that workers should get salaries commensurate to net profit of the company is weird and purely subjective.

Is that actually a thing? I read the Capital quite a long time ago but I don’t think Marx advocated for any of that. He wrote about workers’ ownership of the means of production and how they should be the ones deciding what to do with the results of their labour.

In a market economy, that would lead to workers-owned companies, so the people deciding salaries and compensations would be the employees. How revenue is split is still a strategic decision: you still need war chests for difficult times, investments, etc. You’d hope that the pay would be more fair, but it’s a consequence of the employees taking decisions, rather something postulated a priori.

> Self-employment is a good way to take on more risk for (potentially) higher pay.

Indeed. And some people really like it, which is great. But you obviously cannot do the same thing as a one-man shop than as a large company. A working economy needs both, otherwise the plucky independents quickly get out of things like manufactured goods and food. Also, for some people stability is more important, and sometimes both sets of people are the same at different points in their lives. It is not really a good argument against fair wages.

> Before anyone counters with "but what about unskilled workers who can't self-employ", I would return the question - yes, what about them?

This sounds fine and dandy until they take a rifle and get off you what they need to survive. The simple truth is that people are not going to just starve because you think they don’t deserve a living.

> I see no particular reason why profit of a company must be shared with its workers, most of whom did not outlay the initial capital (or subsequent funding rounds) that built the company.

OTOH, capital itself does not build anything or produce anything. You need people to actually do the work at some point, and they are at least as necessary and important as the rich dude who signed a check at the beginning. Never mind the fact that “investors” who get rich off the secondary market do not bring anything to the company of which they trade the shares. I do it as well at my (very modest) level, but I don’t pretend I am doing anything useful by buying and selling stock.
Ideas, staying sharp, keeping up with swift and pytorch etc… sure, absolutely useful to code on weekends or a bit here and there.

What I meant what that there’s literal zero way someone can be an SVP and still perform any actual IC work.
Agreed. I would just know why they do what they do; it seems everyone using the Elastic license is because of what aws did with elastic search. If that is the case, there are other options friendlier for open source (vs source available) while not allowing aws (like) to do what they do. It’s not totally in line with freedom but at least makes it usable.
Weird take to equate a commercial cloud with a life-saving hospital. Doctors have a duty of care to patients. Nobody's going to die because Azure Splines didn't implement the reticulation feature that people are asking for in their forums.
> Give it a few more generation

We contacted Framework directly and asked if they planned to build any larger or more powerful laptops. They said no. The most they can do at this point is try to set a precedent.

-Emily
There's definitely a decent body of evidence to suggest ADHD is associated with emotional dysregulation, but I'd be surprised if that explanation turned out to correct.

ADHD isn't simply a lack of dopamine, but a dysfunction in dopamine (and noradrenaline) regulation. It can involve too much dopamine (like with hyperfocus), and not enough dopamine in different loci. This isn't even mentioning the non-dopamine/noradrenaline understandings of the pathophysiology that are still arising with further study.
> I'm also developing a GUI for Docker Swarm, if you don't feel like fiddling with command line too much: https://lunni.dev/

This seems like a cool idea, I wish you the best of luck!

I will, however, also link Portainer, which I've used for both Docker Swarm and Kubernetes management: https://www.portainer.io/

It does basically everything you might want (it even gives you redeployment webhooks, which will make new containers be pulled, if you enable them), with the caveats that they're focusing a lot on adding paid functionality nowadays and infrequently you might have connectivity issues, which a redeploy of Portainer will fix.

I've also heard of and used Swarmpit a while back: https://swarmpit.io/

When I did use it, however, it did feel a little bit broken in places and the experience wasn't quite as smooth as Portainer was (also, for whatever reason, it seemed to give me back different YAML than the one that I had last deployed, maybe generating it on the fly?). No idea what was up there, but the UI was pleasant regardless.

So I think it'd be pretty cool if someone were to borrow the ideas that work from either those as inspiration for their own tool! :)

On the CLI, there's also ctop, which is nice for inspecting the current containers on a node, even if it doesn't really have much to do with Swarm: https://ctop.sh/
If they don't report it they don't have to pull the cockpit recorder lever and after 1 1/2 hours there is no trace of their fumble except their own reports...
I don't know the current iOS Chrome install base, but having everything synced is a powerful incentive I'd guess.
> Presumably, the people who care about web would only install firefox on their iOS devices, while the people who don't care would just keep safari.

Until they get large banners of "Please install the Chrome App to visit this web page"
Oh I completely agree with you. Good managers have an amazing multiplying effect on their team. People underestimate how important it is for a team to gel to be productive - although it's been said since the Peopleware days.

On the other hand, I've had maybe 2 great managers my entire career. The majority were either bean counters or empire builders. The latter is particularly toxic - they don't manage down at all beyond the minimum required. They focus almost exclusively on external optics and climbing the ladder.

So given that, I can see an appeal to trim down on managers. Of course, choosing the right managers to let go or convert is incredibly challenging.
Just to give a little context as a pilot: It is the job of the tower controller to decide who uses the runway when. There are often multiple planes waiting to take off, and multiple planes nearing the airport to land. It's not uncommon for a tower controller to allow a plane to takeoff while another is approaching the runway. The theory is, of course, that the flight will depart in plenty of time.

In this case, the controller failed to tell the departing flight to hurry (the references to 'no delay' or 'immediate' in the blog post), AND frankly timed things pretty close given the weather. Without the ability to actually see the approaching plane, or perhaps even the plane on the ground, it will probably be found that timing a departure that close at all was reckless. That said, I feel for these tower controllers, it's not common for many planes to get stacked up waiting to depart, and it is their job to get them out. What may have worked just fine on a clear-weather day simply became too dangerous on that day.

The official manual for air traffic controllers in the US is the FAA Order JO 7110.65W [1], if anyone cares to review it.

1 - https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/order/atc.pdf
Sorry, I was contrasting with physical media because their first example was indeed contrasting with physical media. My point still stands. It doesn't have to be physical media, Spotify does not offer DRM-free downloads and some artists are indeed Spotify-exclusive.

I am not blind to the existence of DRM-free music downloads, no.

-Emily
Unfortunately it's not quite perfect for me on Wine, I tried.
I’m doing exactly that at one of the big name tech companies. I refused to resign when asked. It’s well past the return to office deadline and still been business as usual. Literally no negatives aside from a few awkward conversations with the manager. I’m told that HR will eventually fire me but that’s still better than daily commutes.
Yes. The controller should have said "no delay" along with the takeoff clearance, but also given the extremely poor visibility (they couldn't even see 1/4 of the way down the runway), it shouldn't be surprising when a plane takes a few seconds longer on the runway to get situated and double check a few things.
I never played the game as a kid, but thanks to the amazing content creator scene (Swampletics) and memes over at r/2007scape I gave OldSchool RuneScape a go in my 30s and went directly for an Ironman (where you cannot use the market, but have to do everything yourself).

It's such a charming game, I'm too old to spend hours playing, but I'm doing one hour here and there and I'll probably max some time in my 70s. Looking forward to doing some serious bossing when I'm retired :)
Not really possible to cache. The model takes as input the entire chat (or some version of personalized history i guess).

But it s more likely that bing will discriminate between simple "keyword queries" and elaborate quesitons
The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
Replace commercial with non open source.
At least in the case of Google and Facebook, the owners have a different class of stock that has enough voting power that they cannot be fired by outside shareholders.
I am fairly certain that those choice words where exchanged at the water cooler at a FedEx brake room way after the incident. And even then I'd suspect the attention to be more on the "dear god, we have all been lucky to still breathe today* instead of cursing at some other people. That kind of behavior is what you get from real professionals.
> you should not, absolutely not translate math notation to code.

I don't see a problem, if eg it helps with getting some intuition.

Sure there is a formula for this example. But the point in the article of writing this sum as a for loop is to explain what the notation means.

For a programmer who is not familiar with sigma/pi notation for sum/product, explaining it with a for loop is a quick way to understand.
Check out the comments from the article. Of course most of us have no way of verifying that information.
That's so much better than "I'm fully accountable, but no-one will actually hold me accountable, but every other CEO is saying they're accountable without actually being held to account, so I'm only saying this to emulate other CEOs, which is also how I reached the decision to layoff a bunch of employees."
the wilderness was truly thrilling, PKing eventually became the main draw of the game to me. I will never, ever forget waking up one day to learn that Jagex had essentially removed the wilderness and PvP mechanics to combat Real World Trading. PVP was dead and I was legitimately depressed.
Increase number of reports at the top levels

10101077 = 49000
Our company let us choose to work from home or come into the office for the last 3 years. It worked very well, productivity improved.

This year they have suddenly decided to mandate 5 days a month in the office. Our people are split across continents, we spend all day on WebEx calls. We are being gaslit that being physically together with a few of our colleagues will make this work even better.

We just lost two members of our 12 person team, including a particularly brilliant one due to the new mandatory office days requirement.

Insane.
No, no and no. Safety critical systems must be validated to be safe in the operational domain and for that they must be deterministic. AI is anything but that.
A finer distinction would be "closed-source operating system".

There is nothing wrong selling a Linux-based OS/distribution.
This clip of Lebron answering a reporter with such detail of a play shows just one aspect of how exceptional he is when it comes to basketball.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNVJFRl6f6s
I'd rather have a safe bad experience than a shiny plane crash.
Wow this is great. I wish they would do the same thing for Maplestory. OR bring back OSRS in the same style for Maplestory. RIP childhood games.
Supposedly that controller was actually later promoted to managing the tower of a major hub airport.
> There is no amount Nintendo could have raised salaries that would have avoided the GP comment, is the point.

Correct.

Which is exactly as it should be, as there also is no amount of profit increase that would satisfy company owners.
I think this case is different: The companies may be shedding people who don't want to be in the new 'bossism' culture that focuses on megalomaniacal CEOs (see my description in the GP). At least some companies are arguably prioritizing that culture over talent.
Microsoft stopped being dead when they created .Net and developed Visual Studio. Most silicon valley folks ignored the meteoric leap in programming technology.
Nice idea, as python is much easier to write code for than lua so should fit game scripting well.

But, the examples are not the kinds of things that I would care about before trying to put this into a game engine. It needs a different set of examples.

* How hard is it to call into a C function from a hook in the py code?

* How hard is it to wrap / unwrap values from their py representation to C?

If you want people to embed the interpreter into an engine then show that it is clean/easy to do the embedding, rather than showing that the interpreter can execute code. I would assume that it executes python, but need to know how well it embeds.
What would that be good for, did a shuttle accident take down an airliner and I am not aware of that?
Because SW devs never wanted to unionize in any way as they say they'll get held back by unions and they'll make more compensation without them.

And no, most chartered engineers do not really print money, some making even less than SW devs.

In my insignificant EU country, nearly every profession has it's own labor union, and guess what, the IT union is one of the weakest, seeing some of the worst possible contract terms and work conditions for a skilled profession, while the metal workers union being one of the strongest, having some of the best perks, rights, working conditions and mandatory wage increases in the country.
Andreas Gursky is doing amazing things. Go to an exhibition and look at the big pictures.
I dont see a problem here. Debris can be returned together with the monitoring and cleanup bill.
If you reduced the comp of the C-suite by 50%, you could probably lay off only 2500 people to achieve the same cost savings.
What do you use nowadays for search?
The article talks specifically about the hoops Microsoft makes you jump through to install an alternative browser.
It doesn't mean that they're doing terrible as a going concern, but it does mean that they're a terrible company to work for.

If you're hiring in bulk to tie up talent your competitors might want during a boom, and then promptly firing thousands in the bust, you're bad people and should feel bad.

But then, to paraphrase Upton Sinclair, it is difficult to get an executive to understand the impacts of their decision when their compensation package depends upon them not understanding it.
> I just searched HN and found references 12 years ago.

Hah!

I would just love to see that thread - may it is also filled with "What's an IC?" :-)
I don't like the gym neither. I worked and trained heavily in one for a few years and these days I find them utterly boring and not that beneficial for the kind of sport I do. The gym is not the only way to get in shape. What I recommend you is to start an activity that you might find interesting (e.g martial arts) and combine that with calysthenics at home. I know you mentioned you prefer to workout from there, however, I stronly recomend on engaging with something social because that bring benefits other than just the "getting in shape" part. However, if you still truly want to workout from home, I can tell you the setup I've been using for years now:

- Stationary bike

- Pull ups rack (can be used for dips too)

- Rings (I hang them from the bar and use them for doing push ups or australian pull ups)

- A weighted vest (20 kg max).

- An abs wheel.

With only that and taking care of my diet (avoid sugar as possible, eating stricly just 4 times per day and doing intermediate fasting) I've been able to stay in really good shape for the last six years (plus a year ago, I started to do other activity out from home as well)

I hope it helps.
I'm one of those PhDs with zero domain knowledge analyzing data and I share the sentiment.

Most of my analyses provide very little value because they are sort of common sense to people with domain knowledge. When I ask people what could be more useful, one of two things usually happen: 1) it's impossible due to data and/or infrastructure limitations, 2) what they ask turns out to be nonsensical in further analysis (like asking for average of something that follows a very fat tailed distribution with a few observations dominating the phenomenon. Of course it's usually impossible to explain this to people).

The more I think about this, the more I think that in truly data powered companies, both the decision making and data analysis have to be carried out by more or less the same people. The organizational hierarchies have to be much flatter. Essentially the employees will have to be some kind of "secret agents" who have both the skills and the mandate to steer the company in the direction they see fit. I sort of see this already happening in the FAANG companies where, or so I hear, it's very difficult to get hired, the staff count is quite small compared to traditional companies and the senior engineers have a lot of power in the company.

Using math PhDs or Palantir or whatever as a sort of modularized black box for "insights" while giving them no real skin-in-the-game does not work.
> And the point of converting text or other objects (like images) into embeddings is to compare a large number of documents to a source document very fast.

But a "source document" could also be a natural language query that you need to convert to an embedding - if you want to enable natural language search on your corpus? (maybe along with handling queries in French getting good semantic hits in English etc?)?
What industry would that be and how is your safety record?
Your LLM needs fine-tuning, the linked article says it's 2004:

> 2M1207b is the first exoplanet directly imaged and the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf. It was imaged the first time by the VLT in 2004.
I understand the reasoning for the 'black box' to have limited storage. I do not understand the reasoning that supports lack of a trace log to retain in the face of turbulence and other possible lawsuit generating events such as this.
Sure.

BTC is a medium, measure, standard and store of value.

BTC is also durable, divisible, portable, acceptable and scarce.

Sadly for fungibility you need to look at XMR, which I prefer exactly for this reason.

But saying crypto is not money is a terribly ignorant and/or disingenuous argument.
Actors are only pigeonholed because of the whims of the industry. They are usually unimaginable wells of deep creativity and anyone who disagrees is incredibly ignorant of what's possible. AI as currently implemented, literally, and by definition, just produces average mediocre junk that is easily branded and controlled. This is fundamentally incompatible with any progress or meaningful novelty. Buyer beware.
1. They are trained very well to handle stressful situations calmly.

2. Knowing an incident just happened, they are probably aware of the fact that each of their words is being recorded and will be examined during the investigation. Like "don't talk to the police if you are arrested" it's wise to say as little as possible (after the danger has passed)
If only a real Firefox for iOS 9.3 was released. It would make the unused iPad 2 I retrieved way more useful than it is now. That could be the thing that would motivate me to create an Apple account to download it. And, I bet, would reduce e-waste by a lot by allowing older iThings Apple is not willing to support anymore to be useful again.
If you are not involved directly with any of that professionally, it is better to treat it the way non-developer treat the OS. Assume it will work as intended because loads of highly trained professionals take care of it. Added benefit ehen it comes to aviation: strict and sensible regulation (the MAX disaster notwithstanding).
To be fair, I'm not even sure if Slack cares about web users at all. It just doesn't work that well, at least for me. (Though I obviously haven't tried it in a bit, so maybe it's good in Chrome now.)
> heads in the sand.

Quite literally?
And the CAST Handbook by Nancy Leveson is really good in the sort of area of systems theoretic accident analysis. (It's available for free online.)
Handling all cases of pre-existing Nix installations, (multi-user, single-user, incomplete, broken, etc) is something we are trying to improve. There is also upstream community work going into improving this experience and we will adopt that as it becomes available. The .deb installs Nix for you, so your best bet is to remove the existing installation (https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-...) and try the native installer.

Regardless, I'd like to fix the scenario you are in. Would you be willing to send in some logs or details?
This comment started off well and then just took a nose dive at the end all of a sudden
Bit of a metaquestion but what am I reading here exactly? Is this academic research? I cant see any reference to where the work was carried out, or in what context (Cornell? Or has the paper just been submitted to them?).
What airline does not see pilots, crew and maintenance as just another cost point that needs optimization to the max in order to satisfy shareholders and investors?
It is still just changing vectors and speed in three dimensional space so...
Brittleness isn't really a property of having tests IMO, more about designing it to reduce unexpected dependencies and interaction-at-a-distance between components. (Part of it is also understanding how the system works. If you are new to a code base, virtually all dependencies are unexpected)

Tests can help reveal when those types of dependencies break, but even so, I would argue that is brittle code held together with cling wrap. The fundamental problem is still there.
Wikipedia says 2008.
FinSMEs (https://finsmes.com) is a great source for this. The information and format of the articles are succinct and to-the-point.
Which indexers do you use?
>Sincere question btw, as far as I know they’re “non-profit” but they get a good bit of hate

They sort of aren't a nonprofit anymore. Too much of their money came from the search deal as opposed to donations so they had to spin off the Mozilla Corporation which is completely owned by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. The foundation is what does research like this, and they're funded by donations and a certain percent of the corporations profits.

As for "drowning in money," they make ~$500 million a year. Many people think they waste it by doing things like paying their CEO a few million or being located in San Francisco.
Bad Scrum plus SAFe ends up in around 30% sync and preparations, this is a yearly average since some meetings are quarterly
Yes, and you've reminded me of a very similar example[1] captured by my favourite planespotting channel. At Perth Airport, a Singapore Airlines 777 was slow to take-off, the (I'm guessing trainee) controller ordered a landing Qantas 787 to go around, froze momentarily, causing her supervisor to intervene to hold the Singapore 777 whom the trainee then held for wake turbulence.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdZpPikptP4#t=3m25s
The tape under the turing machine is infinite, so it's certainly not limited to 47M states. The conjecture states that all machines that halt will do so within 47M states.