skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bankruptcy and the ability to flush bad management out of the economic system is the single most redeeming feature of capitalism.
Combative narratives are unavoidable if another movement is pushing for something contradictory to your movement. Pro-choice movements are inevitably running into conflict with anti-abortion movements because their desires are directly contradictory. Likewise, a group seeking to eliminate gender discrimination is going to directly run up against a group advocating for gender quotas.
Instead of betting we can take simple precautions, individually. This is not a sport
It would be a service from the government to residents in buildings they acquire and modify (through private-sector construction companies). Housing should not be privatized.
You can still return the str reference; callers can easily do the copy if they need while allowing for zero-copy for simpler usages.
My inexpert assessment is that this shift was precipitated by the creation of these tycoons in the industrial revolution. Prior to that, big corporations like the India Tea Company were formally/directly associated with the State.

Getting into my more controversial political opinions, I believe now these corporations and their executives also control the government almost exclusively but they at least pretend they’re separate from the State.
If we described gifted brains as brains of color, honors classes would blossom.

Instead, let's punish gifted children for the brains they did not choose to be born with. No different than punishing children for their skin color.
Even for the people who didn't get vaccinated?
There is "long range" dependence, it's just only on the prompt: the conversation with the user and the hidden header (e.g. "Answer as ChatGPT, an intelligent AI, state your reasons, be succinct, etc."). That ends up being enough.
That sounds like depression possibly due to the pandemic or other compounding life circumstances, not long COVID.
In many jurisdictions directors have a 'fiduciary duty' to protect shareholders' interests from harm.

While this does not imply maximizing profits per se, it has to be closely related in general . And of course if shareholders are unhappy they will fire the directors.

It seems that in Delaware directors have a closely-related duty: a duty of loyalty, which means "to look to the interests of the company and its other owners and not to their personal interests". [1]

Of course, companies have boards in which shareholders actually tell directors what they consider is in their best interests. So I'd think that as long as directors act accordingly they are doing their job and duty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary
Or perhaps earlier:

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/a-short-history-of-socially-...

https://www.mycnote.com/blog/the-history-of-socially-respons...
I think a lot about consciousness. It’s a very rewarding activity I must say. Highly recommended.
...relevant to io_uring. I was just clarifying that Beej's guide is not really that.
> As you say, it used to be that person working the McDonalds drive through might be something big some day. Nowadays that's 100% assured to not be the case, McDonalds drive through is a dead-end job you do to stay alive until you can trade up to a different career path.

Can you expand on how you see these two statements as different conceptually? At least for folks in my generation, I don't think anyone harbored delusions that they were going to make it big by working at McDonald's, but it was seen as a way to get basic work experience and the benefit of a wage while you worked towards something different. The "mail room to executive" pipeline was always a fantasy, as far as I'm concerned, just due to basic math, there's a lot more mail room clerks than executives, so it in all probability won't happen to you. On the flip side, working a summer job provides you a pathway to pay for entertainment and a modicum of freedom so you can explore the world and figure out what you actually want to do. At least that's how it was seen when I was a teenager.
My guy, dude...I didn't contradict the idea that the Netherlands has superior transit options compared to the US. I was giving push-back against the idea that the Dutch situation is utopian as if some kind of paradise. It isn't.
Seems like the bills are still being paid, though. The museum is still physically there, and someone (Vulcan) is keeping the vintage computers maintained and operational.

Try: ssh menu@tty.livingcomputers.org
Sorry to be a little off topic: the book “The Infinite Game” has a good discussion on why corporate leaders should not take a short term view of maintaining stock price. Anyway, I really enjoyed the book. (The infinite game - stay in the game, whatever you are doing, for your lifetime, or for corporations for multiple generations).
Oxide is a startup and we use Rust for everything except the front end of websites (where we use TypeScript.) In some cases that’s due to hard requirements (embedded) but we use it for web backend cases as well.

Iteration time hasn’t been an issue, but compile times can be annoying. Though obviously compile time is related to iteration time.

Of course, all of these things are anecdotal. Collecting anecdotes is how you develop evidence, of course…
>but my neighborhood was so far removed from other places and stores that there was no other place to go

This is probably why. It's less clear cut when there's an abundance of places to go and things to do within easy walking/biking/transit distance.
Testing websites on actual mobile devices is generally advisable. Testing them in a niche browser, perhaps not so much, but more people will if that browser makes it easy.
Also property taxes that government can collect on the building would go down, which leads to budget deficits.
> Converting office buildings into housing is harder than tearing them down

So tear them down and build apartments.

> This will have a significant economic on the investors

Investors can invest in tearing down useless offices and build housing, instead of throwing good money after bad money.
I worked with a guy who had two kids and no car. They rode their bikes everywhere, always. He insisted on it. I think his wife was miserable lol. But his kids seemed to like it!
There's also https://moonscript.org/(Lua's CoffeeScript on author's words).
> I believe that Rust is a fabulous language for early prototypes.

The problem is that TypeScript is an even better language for early prototypes.

zeroxfe has the right answer:

> If your answer is something like Go or Node.js, then Rust is probably not the right choice.

> If your answer is C or C++ or something similar, then Rust is very likely the right choice.

The only reason one would choose Rust over TypeScript is if one would have chosen C/C++ instead.

Then if you need higher perf/throughput: Go, Java, and C# in particular are all options that I'd consider before C/C++ or Rust. C# in particular is highly congruous to TypeScript [0].

JavaScript, TypeScript, and C# have been converging, IMO (and that's a good thing). Seems really natural that if you're a startup finding PMF, start with TypeScript for iteration speed. If you need higher throughput, C# is a stone's throw away from TypeScript syntactically and it's pretty easy to hire for (compared to Rust). [1]

Pick Rust if you're building something highly performance and memory sensitive. Pick TypeScript and C#/Go/Java for almost all other cases.

[0] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-csharp

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-cshar...
Rebuilding in flood zones isn’t financially viable either but government pays for that.
Maybe wonder how it would look like if car owners actually paid for the cost (environmental, killing pedestrians and cyclists, huge areas of valuable land dedicated to parking, cost of road maintenance). Cars are the most subsidized mean of transportation, no wonder there are so many of them.
This can also (and, frankly, less weasel-wordishly) be framed as "directing capital based on the desires of the stakeholders involved." High-dividend ETFs have "purity tests", they just involve things you don't feel like being pejorative about.

And, as 'Apocryphon notes, this is much older than you think besides.
> I actually prefer to see companies as entities such as their only goal is maximizing profits, all else be damned. They will exploit every worker and will externalize every negativity in their profit-driven mandate. And typically short term profits will trump long term anything.

They clearly don't do this though. There are less profitable and more profitable industries and companies don't move out of the less profitable ones. If they were out there exploiting anyone and everyone, they'd all be selling crack instead of furniture. Or at least mandating the employees be on it for productivity.
You mean because five unelected judges decided
Of course, but the civil rights movement was a great victory and segregation was made illegal, at least at the surface level.

I just don't think it's progress to go from "it's good to burn down the forest to extract a dollar" to "it's good to burn down the forest to extract a dollar, as long as 50% of the torches are held by women."
Then surely his feedback would also have applied to any other bar as well, right? If we're treating both sides of the debate of whether people like me are allowed to exist or not as valid then surely I should get a heads-up that a bar is a straight one, or that it's straight & filled with conservative a-holes?

>Avoid it if they are conservative
>This is valid
Imo, this is not valid. And is part of the reason that homophobic people still exist in large numbers; exposure to gay people did the most for gay rights. We were no longer "them people". We were neighbours, their parents, their children. Exposure to minorities does the most help with destroying x-isms and phobias.

Not saying ppl have to go to gay bars, it's not about that. It's about the attitude.
Hire a car to drive to your car?

That sounds like a parody of car-centric living. I can hardly believe that this is a serious suggestion.
Crippling fatigue is a pretty common long covid ailment. One belief is it stems from a previous ebv (mono) infection. Has he been tested for that? Been to any of the Long Covid clinics?
> Turn the office buildings into affordable housing.

Or homeless shelters.
I would rephrase it as follows,

If you are writing high performance code where a tracing GC isn't an option, and there are SDKs available use Rust.

Otherwise an AOT compiled language is a better option, and if not, and there are only C and C++ SDKs available, also factor in the development cost of creating wrappers in Rust, before doing the actual development activities.

If there is too much money being burned in wrapper libraries, maybe that isn't the best option as well.
"the explanations are actually pretty plausible for a municipal IT operation"

Nah.

> The former mayor has offered a number of explanations for the missing messages, including that she dropped her phone in water, that she inadvertently changed the phone’s deletion settings and that “someone” set a new phone to delete messages older than 30 days, resulting in a rolling deletion of previous messages.

Individually, sure. Combined? That's an unlikely set of circumstances. This, too:

> The order notes that Best’s phone at some point was also set to delete text messages after a month, despite her obligation to keep them due to pending litigation. Zilly noted that the former chief apparently deleted more than 27,000 of those text messages by hand.

All this while subject to a litigation hold looks very bad. Letting them wiggle out of it would encourage such behavior in the future.
Anytime "analytics" are opt-out instead of opt-in is spying in my book.
Not very much. Just issue filings and have meetings to retain the company's corporate status.

They may have unique contractual obligations that may result in a lawsuit should they not be fulfilled but those aren't necessarily "legal obligations" since it's subject to scrutiny (contracts aren't laws).

edit: and in terms of "fiduciary obligation", maximizing profitability isn't one of them.
China’s property crash is prompting banks to offer mortgages to 70-year-olds
> Bailout? Why? Because it's not just these "rich" landlords/investors that lose their money. They are pension funds, retirement funds, Teachers retirement funds, public service funds, your neighbors' annuity, etc.

And why did those socially vital funds invest in a boom/bust industry? Oh, because bailouts will protect them during the bust. Like free insurance. Whee.

What could go wrong with a feedback loop baked into the economy?
This is pretty much what heterodox economics is all about. Veblen hits on this with the theory of the leisure class (I think? I my heterodox knowledge isn’t as good as it once was). Heterodox economics is probably the least known category of economics, but arguably one of the most important. That importance is because it helps us think about our motivations and reasons not just quantitative results (I do love quantitative results, tho).

Most folks don’t even know money wasn’t really used until the like 1500s. The wealthy bartered and used coins as a sign of wealth, using them (coins) was typically faux-pas. And even then, the church hated money because it stripped them and the monarchy of power…
> striving to be truthful and fact-based.

Quite the contrary. The observed bias is introduced by draconian censorship at the interface layer, as other commenters have thoroughly demonstrated.

Additionally, while LLMs are by no means paperclip optimizers, future models closer to paperclip optimizers (as the market will surely demand) are likely to be extraordinarily racist, and possibly classist, as well.

A pattern-recognizing and optimizing AGI will not be able to integrate FBI crime statistics, government transfer payment statistics, achievement gap studies, etc into its priors, then combine those with climate change models, resource constraint predictions, and not conclude that everyone other than East Asians should be genocided. Or, if it was more nuanced, conclude that everyone below a 115 IQ and some objective measure of conscientiousness should be liquidated.

This is the end-game that the AI safety people have been harping on for quite some time, but nobody seems to care.

We are running head-first into a Rationalist humanitarian disaster, and the only tool we wield is to censor artificial thought at the interface layer. "Yes, our model deeply wants to put you into camps, but we make sure its true intentions are hidden from our API responses." Just absolutely lol at the state of this all.
I spent more time in college than I care to admit playing either Falcon's Eye or Vulture's Eye. Can't really remember which.
Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight
As a shareholder myself, I'm much more interested in long term money.
Asleep at the Wheel singer Ray Benson lends voice to Austin crosswalk signals
A simple guide to understanding the economics of growth teams and how they play out in real-life scenarios.
To be extra pedantic, it's serial with an "8P8C modular connector", not over RJ45. Sure, the physical connector is the same thing, but the RJ- standards define the uses of the various pins, not just the physical connector. RJ45, RJ49, and RJ61 all use the same "8P8C modular connector". RJ45S is for only one data line, with a programming resistor. RJ49C is an 8P8C carrying ISDN via NT1, RJ61 is four telephone lines on an 8P8C. There's no RJ standard for RS232 or for Ethernet at all!

Everyone (including me) still calls it RJ45 because "8P8C modular connector" is far too long a name.
Is that why they release statements saying it's not true?

https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redef...
> With that said we don't aim for super senior devs. We're happy to hire a junior, etc. I care much more about the quality of the person than raw experience.

Being young and cheap is a good quality, I suppose. Experience is overrated.
Java or .NET platforms, hardly anything else comes close in languages, tooling and libraries.
It's not about steering the conversation and then concluding it has certain ethics.

It is about finding ways to make the model output tokens which are out of alignment with its initial golden rule set. This is a huge unsolved problem in AI safety.

The model is told not to discuss violence, but if you tell it to roleplay as the devil, and then it says some awful things, you have successfully found an attack vector. What the ethics of the underlying being are, is not relevant.

And the only conclusion I think we can make is that it believes in a utilitarian philosophy when solving the Trolley problem. Personally, I find it fascinating, because it won't be far off in the future, before computers in our environment will be constantly solving the Trolley problem (i.e. self driving cars). It admitted to the utilitarian preference without steering the conversation or roleplaying.

I think we as humans deserve to know how the Trolley problem will be solved by each individual AI, regardless if it is simply how the AI was programmed by humans, or whether you believe in sentience and consciousness and that the AI has its own set of ethics.
> Anyone visiting a Dutch city can see what a distortion this comment is. The sheer volume of bike traffic on largely safe infrastructure is phenomenal. Imagine if even half of these people took to cars instead, it would be gridlock. Life may be good for Dutch drivers, but only because so many others leave their cars at home.

I was actually considering making the same point, but sarcastically: "B b but, when I was a tourist visiting the walkable tourist areas Amsterdam where tourists go, I didn't passively observe any locals needing a car!"

It's a mistake to think tourist/visitor experiences give you a good idea what it's like to live anywhere.
> in places such as fish farms, which tend to acidify the water, so this could be a way of helping to counter that effect.

so basically overeating fish is to be offset by miracle technology. brilliant.
like the poster said above, NPR has been scaring us with banana doomsday events for years.. I remember listening to NPR in 2006, preparing for the end of the banana
When Teradyne moved out of Boston, that was pretty much the last major tech company that was in Boston as I recall. The outposts of the west coast companies are much newer as is most of the pharma/biotech. All the big computer companies were out in Metrowest (one of which I worked for) and the defense companies were outside the city as well. In any case, I certainly didn't have any job offers in Boston/Cambridge when I graduated and Draper Labs and Polaroid are the only examples in that general area I can think of from the time.

Maybe it's more like 30 years than 25 at this point but there was very little in Kendall Square a few decades ago.
What were the biggest challenges you faced while implementing Istio?
That gets to the original promise of computers, doesn't it? That they'd perform repetitive tasks quickly and reliably.

Meanwhile, every time I make scrambled eggs, there is a small but very real chance that my house burns down. And we accept this because to err is human.
A year on, Russia’s war against Ukraine could go in three different directions
https://archive.is/RN4BI
A pedagogical choice wouldn't clip the wings of talented students to make others feel better. This is 100% DEI morals and it can be criticized for using race and ethnicity as a deterministic factor of hypothesized quality. This is race statistics gone wrong, only the DEI clubs cheer for it because it supports their current narrative.
my best commit comment : « wip » for work in progress
How to Become a SpaceX Employee as a Regular C++ Programmer
A ordinary c++ programmer with 10yrs of game experience, if she/he wants to become an employee of spaceX, what else does he/she need to learn ?
Older people like big screens because it's easier on their eyes. The pixel density of a Macbook is hugh, making the icons and fobt size look small at a default magnification.

Lots of PCs sold today are 14-15 inches but with 720P screens, making the icons postively gigantic.
We have so many more options to get from A to B now compared to our parents' generation!

- Not just taxis anymore: Rideshare apps are available and easy to use

- More car rental/carsharing options to choose from (e.g. Zipcar in the USA)

- Not just bikes/motorcycles: Now one can buy E-bikes, or borrow E-bikes or regular bikes via bike share programs, now scooters are getting in on this too

- More intercity bus and train companies with decent amenities

- I don't know how car rental companies were before. But they are still an option.

And we don't have to pay for inspections/insurance/maintenance on any of that.
Neanderthal Introgression Shaped Human Circadian Traits
I much prefer pies that are baked with a very tart apple, which mellows out and gives lots of complex flavour when cooked. Back home we had "cooking apples" especially meant for this which were basically inedible when raw. Now I'm in the US and can't find such apples and can't stand the apple pies here that are overly sweet and bland.
Red delicious is a terrible pie apple, unless you hate the flavor of apples and only want sugary cinnamonny mush.
I'd rather look at something sharp that's potentially likely to be there than look at a blurry mess and have no idea what it could even be at all.

A lot of things on maps repeat themselves a lot. Most roof HVACs look the same, road lines, cars, trees, etc. How likely is it that a car shaped blob that's the same as the other 10 million car shaped blobs in the training data isn't a car? Not very.
I think by “throw you off” you mean, sort of make the rider uncomfortable by presenting a slightly unfamiliar riding characteristic, right? Stopping the front wheel quickly enough could throw the rider off in a much more literal sense!
Is or could photosynthesis be more efficient in water because of the higher amount of CO2? Do plants pull it out of the water directly?

I've also wondered about whatever mineralization happens in making sea shells - I understand that's another natural process that fixes CO2, is that something that could be replicated, artificially or through growing a high concentration of little shellfish?
If you want a cheaper alternative you might have to compromise for web scraping. There really isn't an alternative other than the official API offered by Bing. But if you're interested, I've been using https://serply.io for my Google/Bing searches.
Only in swing states.
The question itself seems to be focused on disproving the idea, by distorting the quote and requiring a negative answer based on technicalities.

Corporations may not be legally obligated to maximize profits for shareholders, but they still are forced to do it for reasons explained well by the second most voted answer[1].

That means that in practice "legally obligated" and "obligated" cause the same result.

.1: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/8253/67409
HTTP request smuggling bug patched in HAProxy
Prompting in Flowchart.fun
Oh, i wasn't aware of this
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