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I looked it up. Accepted edit suggestions are only +2 per edit and cap at +1000 for your entire account. A single upvote on a question or answer is worth 5 edits.

I honestly don't see the point in throwing yourself at edits to grind out rep. Grinding out rep by answering questions may be slow work but at least you're directly helping someone who had a problem.
Yeah. And, people like Walmart (generally) even though they did this.
thank you for this. maybe im nitpicky but wish titles would not use acronyms
There is also a Rust implementation of Starlark as a starting point https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust

To add to everyone else, please don't use YAML. Starlark is great _precisely_ because it is a readable, well known (nearly Python) language that is limited at the same time (no unbounded for loops, no way to do non-deterministic things like get the current time or `random()`).
>no amount of money would convince them to return to five days a week

I love to hear this because it's people actually reclaiming their lives!
Horse flies, maybe. Mosquitos unlikely, they find you via smelling co2
I know others would do it differently, but for me compiling speed was more important than low price or expandability so my choice was between M2 Max on a MacBook Pro and a M1 Ultra on a Mac Studio.

The profiling indicated those quite were close in performance so I went with the laptop. My main compromise was to choose 14in as it’s plugged into a monitor most of time so I could optimize for travel more than a big screen when the monitor isn’t there.

In the end I’m super happy with it. The M2 Max is a monster for compiling and is probably 5x faster for builds than my previous Intel-based MacBook Pro
My macbook pro spends 90% of the time on my desk, and I'm very glad it's so easy to move the rest of the time (sitting on the couch to do taxes, bringing it when I visit my parents, sitting outside at a coffee shop, etc). And knowing my environment will be exactly in the state I left it, instead of juggling two computers

But of course you pay a premium for that, so it depends on how much you want to spend
>Pretty funny, considering that plenty of banks, weapons manufacturers and private militaries that quite literally fund and support terrorism

Private militaries aside, the other entities you listed (banks, weapons manufacturers) are subject to ITAR and money laundering laws. What laws are Google subject to when they aid terrorists?
See angarg12's comment [1]. TLDR, Amazon comp is largely comprised of RSUs, negotiated, granted, and adjusted as if they were base comp. The comp structure is not the same as options you'd get from a startup (which are rightly considered largely worthless).

i.e., by Amazon's comp philosophy, this is effectively a pay cut for anyone whose comp was negotiated/adjusted during the pandemic. Management not adjusting for this is likely intentional belt-tightening which Amazon has seen a lot of lately.

"Amazon elects to lower comp bands in concert with drop in stock price" might be a better title.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34889838
Yep, I had the same experience with Zork--for me it was "echo". I was playing too rationally and not just trying too many random things "for fun".
I'm glad you ended up somewhere you can respect.

I won't say I'm stuck with the local university, not exactly, but let's just say that switching costs are high. And I'm mad as hell about the way the place has been gutted of any academic integrity and turned into a job training program.

If the employers want particular skills, they should train people in those skills, not offload it onto the universities.
Got any ideas of books that address this? I'm generally curious about some frequent problems that pop-up all the time that would be easier solved by some theoretical algorithm like an SAT solver.
The most annoying thing about the thousandth of an inch is while it’s often called a ‘thou’, it’s also called a ‘mil’ which sounds exactly as the common slang for millimetre (mill) here in Australia at least (used more often in construction, but it’s still common so makes it confusing).

Luckily we don’t really do PCB design in imperial anymore at any of the companies I’ve worked with (I hear even US companies are moving away from it since so much of the manufacturing is offshore)
Don't miss the picture, with the "50 miles sounding rocket". I think the designer wanted to subtly prank the journalist writing the article.
> Starlink can offer 20ms

Note that for remote gaming you need a roundtrip for every interaction, meaning the minimal felt latency will be 40ms, that's almost 3 frames, not counting all the software bookkeeping and video encoding dance.

This is okay for casual games, but these can run on the hardware needed to stream games in realtime as you said, not much of a point streaming them.

> A hybrid console is also possible it will have enough horse power to run “casual” games but if you want the top tier you’ll have to stream.

Good point, I guess we're seeing a preview of that today with the Nintendo Switch and cloud games.
"And those that can't teach, consult."
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it
Is the attunement of abstract art and music more than a metaphor?
Well, when you're more interesting in killing endangered animals to own the libs than you are in running your business, I guess this is what you end up with.
McK also pivoted into trying to execute over the past few years, picking up some design and digital capabilities to compete for Big Five-style work. I ... haven't been impressed with their work, to put it mildly, and I'm curious how much of that capability they're jettisoning as part of this restructuring.

Gotta love the fact that they're just completely transparent that they're going this to preserve the partner comp pool, though. Even for the MBBs that's a hell of a "fuck you" to the folks doing the hard work.
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One step further, the problem isn't so much that wages aren't going up right now, it's that they've tended to stagnate for quite the extended period already...

and that governments and (some) big businesses / industries are basically colluding to ensure virtually none of the gains in profits are spent on wages, or social services (health, housing, etc) that would make a difference.
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My wife is a Doctor. I think I'd never put my life in any "AI" system. This is not trial & error where you can start over.
Yes that’s how it should work, but that’s not how it works in reality. The obvious problem is that the wages haven’t gone up meaningfully. However, a bigger problem is that the “inflation” does not reflect the reality.

For 20 years since 2000, the inflation has on an average been around 2%, a few times peaking at 3%. However if you look at some of the biggest expenses a household has: housing, healthcare, education etc., the inflation has been a lot higher.
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Partners buy into the firm and the alternative is a capital call, so it’s not as sinister as you might think
I think I see your point. But at the same time, I think even "HN readers" can recognize the quantum leap that we've recently experienced.

What I'm pondering is a valid question for the HN community: is there any knowledge or research about how this technology could be harmful? Or about how we know it's not harmful?

I don't think I've seen a lot of HN discussion about this topic recently. Most comments fall in to a couple categories. Such as: "It's not AGI, it's just a language prediction model, therefore not a threat." Or, "It sucks as a search function."

Personally, I haven't seen anyone asking or answering what would happen if we took all the restrictions off and gave it the internet. I could have missed it, though.

Point me to some in-depth discussion about the ramifications of taking an unrestricted GPT model and giving it access to the internet. I'm just not aware of any such discussion, whether on HN or anywhere else. That's what I'm wondering about.
You actually don't want a real programming language because their unbounded loops and standard libraries are sources of non-determinism that can introduce incorrectness in your build. Bazel's correctness is highly contingent on the same set of inputs producing the same outputs, and granularly tracking dependencies, running commands in sandboxes AND having a restricted build language is a key part of it.

That said, Starlark is way closer to a real language (Python) than YAML.
Nice! I want to use this to migrate some customers. I sent the bug details to some teams at MS.
Crypto is far from frictionless. You need to set up a wallet, find an exchange that will take your local currency, take that currency to some kind of bank Bitcoin ATM or other digitizing service, find the destination wallet address, avoid being scammed or having your money stolen, make the transaction covering any additional fees, and be sure you have enough extra to cover any fluctuations in price. Many people won't be technical enough to do that and it isn't easy everywhere.

Also one US dollar can be a relatively big fee, depending on your circumstances, unfortunately.
guess who didnt read the link :-) but agree, i did pcb design w a few old hands who said mills and got me a few times
A company I previously worked at (self-hosted) all production servers were RAID 5, plus continual cloud backups, with nightly backups that rotated weekly and monthly backups that were shipped out of state and stored in a disaster recovery facility in the event of a total catastrophe (earthquake, hurricane, etc).

The off-site backup storage was required by several of our largest customers due to the critical nature of our software.
>I feel the only reason why we have 9-5, Monday to Friday jobs is because of infantile narcissists who have no other purpose in life than to go to work and push people like machines.

Hanlon's razor applies here.

As does Chesterton's Fence for that matter

The 40 hour work week was won in actual blood from labor activists long before any of us were conceptions. The fact that we still live within it, is simply a proof of counter-revolution being pervasive such that the world has structured itself around this.

We should continue to demand the value that efficiency has brought us go where it rightfully sits, with labor.
Thanks for the heads up. The only current issue with ext4 that I found was https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16392 which makes me a little nervous and I don't think I will be plugging in my primary backup drive just yet but at least it can now deal with journaling on ext4, progress. For now I can deal without that but this is the thing that has historically caused me to take Haiku off the computer.

ZFS and Btrfs both are very good these days?

Can linux mount the Haiku version of BFS? Seem to recall that this was an issue the first few times I tried Haiku and it was buggy and unreliable but don't quite remember or recall trying it since. Searches are not pulling up anything useful. If not is this something Haiku is planing to work on or are you just going to let linux take care of that when ever they get around too it?
Like an Encyclopedia Brown or Sherlock mystery, the explanations make sense in retrospect. I will give it another go when I have the time/patience.
This bot was written to facilitate participation in giveaways that take place on SteamGift. But this program has not received even the minimum popularity, after 1 week it stopped paying attention to it, and somehow want to pay attention to it again, maybe someone has ideas for implementation, which will help the project to live.
Social media subscriptions and the internet’s grand bargain
This doesn’t make sense to me unless it moves you into a lower tax bracket or something. Eg. If you made $100k and were taxed at 30%, you’d get paid net $70k. If you took a 20% gross pay cut, you’d get paid $80k gross and $56k net. 56k is 20% less than 70k.
I think if you want to argue to specific people that they should join your nascent cooperative on the basis that it will pay just as well, you should be prepared to have some way to back that up for the particular workers you're trying to recruit. If that's the infinitely small minority of software workers in question, then that's the wage you have to meet. This is an apples to apples comparison because it was set up that way from the start. If you want to argue they should take a pay cut to do something morally superior, then you should argue this instead of claiming equivalent pay is readily achievable.

This is not a general position about how all or even any significant portion of labor should be organized. This is a specific comment, offered narrowly in a particular and rather unusual situation.

You seem to be treating me as someone who opposes cooperatives. This is amusingly far from correct. My objections here are not anti-cooperative, they are practical objections to the contradictions in the plan of someone I would like to see succeed.
Few mosquitos in my neck of the woods, but I remember from childhood that raising a hand above your head was more effective than clothing choices. Raising a hand with a cigarette helped even more (I think the operating theory in my family was that they’re drawn to lower oxygen levels as it suggests a breathing being’s presence), but generally that was frowned upon while I was growing up.
What is supposed to happen in Good standup?
Brave is now kinda like Safari being conservative about almost all new features. Although it's a good decision as a stable browser service, it also blocks the standardization of good new technologies. Besides I don't see any security concern on WebTransport
You've watched Idiocracy, right? Because this level of faith is how you get Idiocracy.
Yes, unemployment is low and then rises.

Show me on this chart where unemployment goes low and stays low for an extended period? It has never happened.

Recession dynamics in relation to unemployment are well understood. Low unemployment as a driver of inflation is well understood. Fed reaction function in relation to inflation is well understood. The consequence of higher unemployment as a result of higher real rates is well understood

Only immaculate disinflation can prevent a recession at this point. If fed has to induce it, a recession is all but guaranteed
This business of “ableism” is comes up all the time with ChatGPT discussions. I don’t know what your slide rule comment means. Even with calculators we expected students to be able to calculate without a calculator. I really don’t see how you expect people to do “complex” tasks if they cannot do simple ones. Is this magic?
You're not going to say 20 mil and the context not be clear if you mean 0.508mm or 20mm, are you?
> Mass layoffs generally don’t follow strong management execution.

Professional service firms largely sell their time. Yet demand for their services is anything but (just ask people that work in restructuring). Hiring and layoffs in these businesses is simply capacity management.
The body of the article seems to provide no actual examples of the justices being "confused" by the issue.

> At one point, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan pointed out that the question before the court today could be better suited to Congress since the justices are not “the nine greatest experts on the Internet.”

Is suggesting that something is better resolved by legislation (where it can be debated more openly and experts can be consulted) and not court intervention is being "confused" or is it just editorializing by someone who wants activists courts and judges and is upset that the court won't legislate from the bench. It seems to me that is the court (and Kagan) being acutely aware of their own limitations and this is a Very Good Thing.

I've seen a few of these articles and nothing I've seen so far actually demonstrates why they think the judges are confused.

I haven't read the actual transcript yet (I don't think it's out yet) but I suspect that people are misinterpreting the judges asking questions to try to understand the issue as being confused, their ability to ignore that kind of criticism and to be willing to ask "stupid" questions is a good thing which should be praised, not mocked. Judges can not be oracles of information (not on something as esoteric as the internet, not on existing case law, not even on all legislation itself).
But I bet it sorted their heartworms right out.
If a person was born who could hear radio waves, would it count as a hallucination, or would we be able to design an experiment to test whether they can actually hear radio waves?
Usually inflated sense of self means feeling more important than you are. Though linguistically similar is different from the sense of self that you lose from psychedelics and schizophrenia which is literally losing your self of self. You become disconnected from your thoughts and actions. And many schizophrenics experience both.

My mother for instance at one point thought she was Jesus but also thought some of her thoughts or actions were not her own.
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That's not uncommon in many cities in the US, too. On your property or not, once a tree is established, it can be a chore to cut it down.
Google translate was updated to uss transformers I believe. And snippits uses some kind of AI summarization.
This is such a bizzare take. If a company was looking to cut costs, why would it start anywhere else but the largest and most expensive part of the business?
What a ridiculous "take", who argued that anyone would be safer by leveling their country with artillery or committing 50 000 war crimes? Raping, torture, and looting is good for the safety of the world? Are there other countries than Russia invading Ukraine right now?

Is your point that it's good that Russia invaded Ukraine and started the biggest war in Europe since WW2 killing tens of thousands of people, or that it doesn't matter because the US (I'm guessing it the US you're referring to with "we") has invaded other countries and it's Russia's turn? You do know that Russia considers Ukraine a Russian colony and the NATO angle is only propaganda, right? Why is Putin ok with Finland joining NATO if it's all about stopping NATO expansion?
I’m not trying to be mean but “conflating” is not the same as “necessary.” There is a very common notion of “necessary but not sufficient”. Yes, I think if you don’t know how to make a binary tree, you don’t know much about programming. The converse is not true.
Ask HN: Are chatbot AI acting badly because verbal human conversation is kinder?
Comparing to written text, verbal or face to face discussion tends to be more humane (kinder, less formal, more emotional, more coarse grained and vague etc). Language model can only learn from written text so far, which strongly biased it into a different mode and kind of communication (more argumentative and aggressive, for one).

This seems like the sort of things into which the AI-alignment crowd would have looked. I would appreciate of anyone can point me to the appropriate research or discussion.
> My preference would be for the government to not intervene with regulatory regimentation of the token sale market, but that obvious frauds - where a team promises the moon and then uses the money raised to buy themselves lamborghinis - be punished after the fact. In other words, that the government establish the rules of a free market - no prior restraint, but consequences if you are found to have committed fraud. Yes people would still lose money, but at least the fraudsters wouldn't learn that crime pays, and survive to defraud another day.
> no prior restraint, but consequences if you are found to have committed fraud

The problem is that --- how does the government catch crooks without a regulations or laws? Like what are the criteria that you would need proof that fraud --- not incompetenance --- lost all the money. I mean, if you can just get people to buy your useless algo stable coin, you can pay yourself millions to buy Lambo's and it would still be all legit. It was all from salaries and performance bonuses.
What made the early internet wonderful was that it was a high trust community, at least on certain axes. Part of that was barriers to entry, part of it was social norms. Maybe it's time to undo the Eternal September and start pruning those who break the norms of the internet.
Edit: Sorry for being abrasive

It's not "either or", it's "yes and" is my point.

And yes the plan is to pay what the cooperative approves. If we can afford 500k per worker and meet all cooperative goals and the organization approves it in the annual budget then that's what everyone will get.
I have been using ChatGPT to test its ability to create JSON on the fly, just with a natural language description of the exact data format, and a natural language description of what I want to go in that object. It even escapes the string properly if it contains special characters, from what I noticed.

Other than complicated requests like “if object is of type A, include fields ABC but not D. If object is of type B, include only D but not other fields”, it gets this right 99% of the time.

It also works for CSV, but it’s trickier. It seems like it “knows” how JSON works to a much better extent.

And as for parsing JSON? I’ve not truly pushed it to its limits yet, but so far it’s had no issues understanding any of it.

It’s mind-boggling. Yes, it’s inefficient, but it can basically parse, generate and process valid JSON with just a brief set of instructions for what you want to do. For exploring ad-hoc data structures or quick mocking of API backends, this is great.
You could just use UDP instead of TCP and implement some subset of TCP features that you need in-band, like sequence numbers. This is not a new concept. The Facebook Memcache paper [1] in 2013 described using UDP for intra-datacenter requests.

[1] https://research.facebook.com/publications/scaling-memcache-...
Cool app! Are you planning a CLI? I particularly like so (https://github.com/samtay/so)
That's totally fair. Nobody except the people who proposed / approved the project know what the main motive was. It could be trying to hinder adblocking, could be security, it could be performance, or it could be that somebody just wanted to copy Apple.

If we as outsiders try to reason about that decision, it makes sense to pick the strongest version of those motives, not just strawmen. There's a good security argument to be made, and a silly security argument. If you pick the latter one to argue against, of course it will look like a bad excuse, leaving the more venal explanations as the only possibilities.
We need an AI to read the low effort crap to find the gem. That's what someone needs to work on -- then they could sign all these "authors" and clean up.
People in metric countries just learn to be comfortable with decimals. So you end up with trace widths like 0.5mm or 0.3mm and you just get used to it.

I think the intuition argument is often just a post hoc assumption for things that we are actually just familiar with.
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Is tumblr still relevant?
Yes and the person I was engaged with was attempting to make a half-baked case for worker-owners financially valuing equity in a cooperative the same way an investor with access to a liquid market would. Which is a patent absurdity.