skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people here (there is a rude word for these cheerleaders of the feudal system, but I'll save that for less polite corners of social media) saying "he deserves a vacation".

A CEO is a leadership role - akin to being prime minister of a country, or captain of a ship.

Their ridiculously outsized rewards come with responsibilities, and they are supposed to lead by example. There was not much sympathy for the captain of an Italian cruise ship when he abandoned his post before his crew and passengers. Or a PM who partied through lockdown.

Likewise a CEO who lays off a huge number of employees and then fucks off to a Pacific island is not deserving of any sympathy, let alone nice sunsets and cocktails.

What should a CEO do? I dunno, but some CEOs took pay cuts, because they realized the impact on morale on their employees. Instead this guy just dumped more work on the employees left behind and went off on holiday.
Well, in hindsight, that's really bad, truly inconsiderate timing by Benioff.

He should have gone through the usual ritualistic theater of accepting all responsibility and showing that he feels ashamed and remorseful about the ~7,000 individuals who had bought into his Hawaiian spiel and have now been kicked out of the company to fend for themselves.

CEOs can't just fire people and disappear; they must act publicly with contrition, as if they care -- even if it's only temporarily for show.

Fittingly, "aloha!" can mean either "hello!" or "goodbye!" in Hawaiian.
Check whether an alternative firmware already exists (e.g. OpenWrt or DD-WRT).

https://openwrt.org/toh/start
There's no concise answer, but there's a fantastic book covering and motivating his first sentence.

https://a.co/d/bZFsIyg

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With all due respect, writing one program with a small memory footprint doesn't disprove my point. I'm referring to writing very large, complex programs that interact directly with hardware - kernels, boot loaders, firmware, all of which must be as clear as possible. And I say this with many years of experience dealing with other companies badly written device drivers and firmware.

I absolutely need to worry about what assembly I get. I am often checking my assembly or looking for optimizations in my assembly. And I'm doing this across multiple architectures.
Well at least here in the US, those "professionals" are failing hard at their jobs, with test scores falling year after year (beginning long before COVID). So it's understandable that parents have lost some faith in them.
I think there is also a question of organizational size. A 4-person team in one room can be a hyper-efficient cohesive unit, a lot like a family or a group of friends.

A 100-person organization requires very different processes, with planned meetings, emails, records, etc. All of that works fine (and likely even better) when people are remote.
I take it somewhat differently: the function by itself may be pure, but executing it is a real action in a physical universe - an event with causes and effects.

The colour of a thing isn't obtained from any state changes - rather, it's computed by going back down the causal chain leading to the thing in question. A pirated video file has a different colour than the bit-for-bit identical file that fell out of an RNG, for a very simple reason: in the first case, you actually got a pirated file. In the latter, you didn't. The provenance of data is what determines the colour.

I feel viewing colour as effects of an impure function implies that the colour is a thing that gets created due some events, and exists on its own. But it doesn't. Rather, the colour of a thing is a pure function of how that specific thing came to be, and also of the "colour palette" at the time of interest. That is, the same bytes can bear the colour "illegal" today, but be of "perfectly OK" colour tomorrow, due to a law change you aren't even aware of.

Curiously, while the article implies that the CS POV is grounded in hard reality and the legal POV is focused on make-believe constructed universe abstractions, I'm starting to think the opposite is the case. The legal POV is really about discovering how things came to be or happen. Looking at the causal network. That's as real as it gets. CS POV, in contrast, purposefully discards provenance and gives everything value semantics. That is clearly a fantasy view (though a very useful one for certain tasks).
Oh, i AM unhappy and dissatisfied with the state of things. So, thanks for noticing?

However, just like most people i dont have the political might to change anything about what im unhappy with. Except vote. which i do. which doesnt do squat either.

so, you do you, and i do whatever i do.
Wow there was an email chain in the Army. Crazy stuff.
What precise timeframe do you require to believe a policy is indeed a policy and not some elaborate ploy to trick and deceive you?
I should probably add that I'm being a little pedantic. For your broader point, the journalists could more accurately say that "the year-on-year percent change in the CPI eased to x% from y%" to be more accurate, but I think most people who are reading it understanding that saying "inflation eased to x% from y%" to be a shorthand for that.
This should be the default, with the fewest keystrokes and the least visual clutter. Mutable state should be the special case that you need extra syntax for.
Probably some backwards thought that it means people will buy their newspapers on their pointless commute that didn't need to happen.
> [...] don't have DRM nor strict login requirements. This is precisely what Gabe argued for.

No. Gabe did not argue against DRM or logins, but he argued for better service. The steam login wall and DRM are certainly not the better service he meant.

We are still lacking a product with great execution in the news space. I'm expecting something similar to spotify/apple music or steam.
Ask HN: Is anyone actually making money with ChatGPT?
Or created anything of value (value higher than they would have without using chatGPT)? Or StableDiffusion etc?

If so, what sorts of things?

We've seen videos saying it will change things, and make money, but haven't yet seen any examples.

If it's just going to be used (directly) to create spammy content, will it just be more of an interactive Wikipedia, an education tool more than production (besides performing routine tasks as long as we know well enough to edit its work)?
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Who specifically are you thinking of? Every founder I can think of was born in the middle or upper middle class.
Being easier than C++ or Haskell isn't really saying much at all. Neither of them have improved code readability and are notorious for their learning curve.
For any geography n00bs like me who thought French Polynesia was probably some farm outside Bordeaux...

Nope, some beautiful tropical wonderland vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94WR5nDR-oQ
Have you tried Menlo? It's pretty great. It manages to make you look stylish without sacrificing comfort.
People bored on commutes read news to pass the time?
Or simple math because if purchasing power of currency goes down by 2% then nominal profits have to increase to maintain the same profit margin.

If a business has a 3% profit margin, would you expect them to have a 2% profit margin 5 years from now, and 1% profit margin 10 years from now, and 0.1% profit margin x years from now?
Or be anywhere near an apple store. How else would you rather they took a custom face scan
It's not even the first of such 'raids'. Pretty much any sizable org that dares to question the BJP has been struck with such raids. Apart from the above, Newslaundry[1] comes to mind.

[1]: https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/09/11/newslaundrys-statemen...
> you’ve got lawyers on many continents banging on your door, trying to entice you with soft words to make the only obvious remaining move.

I was somewhat surprised with what seemed to be the lawyers trying to persistently but sweetly beg him to sign the papers. I would have imagined the lawyers using much stronger words, nearing profanity-laced commands, but they seemed like a parent begging a child to eat their supper or put on their coat before going outside.
FWIW, the company I work for went hiring crazy as soon as we committed 100% to full remote a few years before COVID.
In other words: "Study" was not statistically significant, all results should be ignored.
> There are no crypto ATMs registered with the FCA, meaning any crypto ATM operating in the UK is doing so illegally.

Who is stupid enough to operate a ATM (cryptocurrency or not) illegally? This has the be the height of stupidity.
This isn't true in the US thanks to the vast public library system, coupled with interlibrary loans. Any child can get access to any book for free. School libraries aren't required to carry every book.
It wins 'most loved' in the stackoverflow survey every year, so that is certainly some evidence.
it is amazing when people make an unnecessary leap like that when reading. Some people do it a lot, and some people never do it.
You need to use the IO monad to get anything working, true. Monad transformers? Not at all.

I'd say knowing how to use monad transformers is the barrier between intermediate and expert Haskell programmers.
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No country deserves to be ethnically cleansed.

I meant "western" geographically here.

I'm sure Russia won't invade the Baltics.

But I'm not sure that Russia will never invade Azərbaycan. (Azərbaycan has oil and is not in NATO and frome time to time they attack Armenia or Armenia attacks Azərbaycan).

I remember the second (Putin's) war in Tschetschenia. I've known since 20 years that Russia/Putin is ruthless.

How to deal with Russia? I actually opt for appeasement and containment.
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Most machines can last indefinitely with maintenance. The other day I used a printing press that was two hundred years old, was in basically continuous operation for much of that time, and is still used daily, today.

Cars have two obvious problems from a long-term maintenance standpoint: the steel chasis, which is protected from rust by paint. That will absolutely and inevitably rust. The second is that people don't understand maintenance. They'll happilly sit next to a machine that's screaming audibly for lack of oil, and think nothing of it. That's not something that will get better in the future.
Pick a better objective metric that correlates well with job performance that can't be twisted by management to promote the ass kissers and snitches.

Unions will be delighted to adopt it.
I sure hope that makes its way to real rents by the time it’s time to renew. I’d love to hardball for the first time in 10 years and demand a lower rent instead of it slowly and sometimes fastly creeping up every year
I wonder if I can use GCC on macOS to build apps for macOS/iOS that can be App Store deployed. Or if I'm stuck with Clang there.

These days I still use macOS and exist in the Apple ecosystem. I wouldn't mind moving to Linux, but unfortunately I need a MacBook to do work where I build iOS apps. I wonder if there is a way around that.
This. Offices are hugely distracting. All sorts of things to take your attention away and add the hierarchy element and your are obligated to talk to higher ups if the “swing by”
Wages increased 5.1 percent for the 12 month period ending in December 2022, so I'd say it's normal to receive a cost-of-living adjustment.
Oh, definitely. I agree with you!
Plus they don't mention the commute time which can be a good palette cleanser if if is just the right length, but also can be a massive waste of time and stress-inducer.
this take is kind of breathtaking? There's an entire history of workers unions in the US and around the world, famous spurring events like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster, surely you aren't just waving the entire subject off as "absurd", thinking that whole factories of garment workers for example would have success via "individual performance" ? like they'd have fire exits just for the better performing workers? I can't even get my head around this take.
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Personally I think almost all of my distractions while working at home would go away if I could afford a maid or just had more spare time and energy for housework. So really the issue isn't "the home" so much as the fact that my home is in disarray because I have too much to do.
Meh. I'm all for taking a vacation and all that...But this take mistakes the role of CEO. The CEO's job is to be the public and private image of the company. To the employees, the CEO must rally them together when misaligned. This means praise in times of success, and owning the missteps in time of failure. Why? Because pay and stock options define this as the job. It is why they are worth the pay they get.

The internal optics of this is "He laid off a bunch of my closest friends, then ghosted the company for two weeks while sipping champagne." He had no such difficult decision you describe. It is well known that he basically flubbed the whole thing. Marc is obviously destroying his legacy, shareholders are downright angry with him. This was his chance to align the company and hurt with the workers, make promises to cut his own luxuries or such to show that he stands with them. After all, it was his own failures. Instead he chopped 8,000 people and did his best to ignore internal conditions for two weeks. If it was an engineer after a project failed, I totally get the vacation. But let's not pretend that CEOs take fewer vacations than workers here. Everyone deserves vacations and almost every CEO takes far more than most workers are allowed.
In that hypothetical I do not think they would necessarily do layoffs. The more likely scenario would be:

2019
Cost of capital: 7%, gross return 10% for 3% excess return

2022
Cost of capital: 12%, gross return 10% for -2% excess return

In which case that project would get cut and layoffs would occur.
Reminded of advice my former boss, who spent a decade plus leading an elite military unit, received as he set out in his career:

“Be careful how much you give this organization, because we’ll take it.”
> This is just a vacation.

I've never had "just" a vacation in French Polynesia, I guess many of us haven't, either.
> The absolutely first thing I do at every company and on every project is ask if I can block russia, china and belarussian IP space

Sorry for the language, but fuck that attitude. I don't live in any of these countries, but I used to live in a large European one that still regularly gets blocked by US sites for no fathomable reason.

Maybe you should try using the internet from a VPN location outside the US to see how fun that is as a paying customer of the sites that are blocking you for your crime by association (if temporary physical presence can even be called that).

One time I couldn't even unsubscribe from a VOD streaming service that I had been subscribed to while on an assignment in the US once I was back in Europe because their entire website was just a big geoblocked mess, including account/subscription management. Of course they were still happy to take my money! Less egregious but still infuriating: OMNY, New York's open-loop transit payment system, just outright blocks me when trying to access my account from Europe. Have the people ever considered the scenario that a visitor might use their service and later need the receipts for e.g. an expense report? Sure enough, London's TfL does the same thing for the US.

I can't wait for the day that the decision makers responsible for this insanity get stuck on a business or holiday trip like that and realize how annoying this is – or even better, realize that things like VPNs and botnets exist and can obscure the source of any Internet traffic...
1 primary source for the event and 100 reaction videos from secondary sources. the information super highway that was supposed to liberate us all is stuck in some hellish local optimum.
They are on the early days of integrating them, so how could we expect them to refactor GHC all the way already?
That already happens. Basically every car gets recycled, even if it's just for raw materials.
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There is a big bias that older founders are more pro-RTO and have more network and experience. Also 37 samples from a single fund is not enough.

That's Statistics 101 : decent p-values and control your variables before making bold statements like this.
Or they perfectly do understand who their customers are, they're simply not you or me or really any other developer.
Ever used Stackoverflow? They do yearly surveys. I am surprised there are people not aware of them
As the old logicians joke (https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/thr...) goes: I don't know.
Specifically ChatGPT does not have a public API yet, its coming soon though.
I have some bad news for you.

Most electricity growth happening in the west is variable renewable energy like wind and solar. That is not firm capacity and electrifying sectors like transport and heat will double, triple or quadruple electrical energy consumption.

Now, consider average wind speeds in a year like 2015 where for around six months, average wind speeds across north america were well below seasonal averages.

Electrification needs 50% more electricity? Complete nonsense.
That's not inherent to EVs, that's just modern cars in general. Even 15 years ago, base trim ICE sedans from GM were coming with cell connected OnStar. It's inevitable that as the price came down other manufacturers would implement similar services.

"Tech" in a vehicle sells, and connected services like app based locks and remote starts are an easy subscription sell.
Slaves work. Doesn't mean it's okay to have them.
Always wondered about that too. Once got a contrast solution injected into my shoulder (they were going for the tissue around the joint) under a live x ray feed and I could watch them on a screen. I was padded with lead wherever possible, but still, cool experience.
On the other hand it does have an impact in that it is functionally permanent.

Reversing it would require an active push for something that is unpopular
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The movie Pacific Heights came out in 1990, proving that rental issues in S.F. are nothing new.

ooooh.... so creepy
I mean... those people wouldn't still have jobs if he worked 24-7 for 10 days.
The news cycle was pretty heavy with the other incident involving unexpected turbulence that resulted in hurt passengers.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/12/18/multiple-injuries-r...
A decent union is mostly about job conditions, not job security - collective bargaining prevents a "race to the bottom" where abusive conditions creep in due to there always being some people who'll do the job anyway. A good example is the Screen Actors Guild which imposes all kinds of minimum conditions, for example, due to which all kinds of safety issues in filming are handled quite decently (even if stuff does still happen), despite the fact that many desperate wannabe actors would easily sign a contract where they agree to whatever conditions the company imposes.
I co-founded a remote-first organization over a decade ago, and we beat the odds of how most businesses fail in the first few years - we're still in business today, and growing.

We were remote from the beginning, but we got together in-person more frequently at the start. It was helpful to brainstorm and get other ideas generated in-person.

Along with the other comments here, it seems the advice is to get together in-person more often at the start of a business. I highly agree.
I upvoted you - HN is becoming more like /r/cars and Trumplandia every day and I'm not sure exactly what is going on.
Why kind of statement is this? Of course it's "some kind of victory" because it's better than it was before. No one is saying it's over, but the expectation is that once the trend goes downward, then we've broken the back of the problem and further tightening will likely cause us to overshoot. There is no possible way to make inflation drop from 8 to 2 in a month unless you trigger massively deflation in 6 months. The current data says the rudder is in the right position and we just have to wait for the ship to come about.
OH 1000000% I mean can you even name a single business that has started in Berlin in the last 25 years? You cant. Because not a single business has started. Taxes have killed all brand new business ideas in the German tech start up scene.
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Hilarious but unsurprising -- well, at least as far as getting the date wrong goes. It's an LLM, so you can never rely on it for accurate information.

The only thing that really surprised me was it berating the user -- I can't in a billion years imagine ChatGPT doing that, and this is a Microsoft product designed to reach the broadest possible audience. Why? How?

(Also, I loved it repeating "I have been a good Bing," complete with contentedly smiling emoji, all the time.)
> The safety actually does cost some performance.

I thought the safety was compile time optimization and semantic analysis, to enable code generated to feature performance optimization that reflects in improved performance at runtime.

So, where are you seeing performance penalties?
I'd say using transformers are more the barrier between beginner and intermediate. Its not impossible to do serious work without them but I'm not sure its worth doing.
pre-seed startups from a single VC and they don't release the raw data. A single company doing well could be completely skewing the data. the fact they lump all forms of hybrid remote with fully in-office is also dumb.

This seems like a VC twisting their data to push a narrative against remote work. I will say that hybrid seems the worst of both worlds, you get most of the bad parts of remote work and also lose most of the benefits like being able to recruit talent anywhere, people being happier due to shorter commute, etc.
Early in the story, he mentions the roommate had already played an elaborate deceptive prank on the author, so I don't see an issue with doing what he did. The roommate had already established the precedent that deception was fair game.
Is it causation or just correlation? It would make sense if those who were growing fast were the ones most likely to be able to afford office space.