skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that thing where they stop and insist you cross first even though they have the right away really bothers me. it takes longer for both of us and creates a really uncomfortable ambiguity about whether they are actually going to start.

I've just started going up on the sidewalk and dropping a foot to make it clear I'm just not going to cross...or turn if it makes sense

I guess its not as bad the mission post pandemic. seems like people are really blowing through stop signs now
PsychGPT listened to my concerns and referred me to DocGPT who prescribed an IV drip of Xanax and Thorazine. Everything is going to be fine. Just fine.
My advice is if AI tooling improves tasks you do (art, writing, coding, data entry) you should be using it now. If it doesn't you should continue to ignore it. Aside from avoiding art and transport industries I am not sure there is much else to consider at this point.
Not-profit just means it doesn't have shareholders in a traditional sense. But it can have real-estate, it can pay very high salaries, travel, distribute significant bonuses, buy expensive hardware, etc.
Yes but in their wake they still left great contributions (CLIP, whisper, etc). So far they still seem net positive, even if they’re now for profit
What if someone is a remote worker? You want them to fly across the country just so they can get laid off in person? Or do you expect their boss to fly across the country and visit them at their home to deliver the news? Either one sounds ridiculous at best, grossly insulting at worst.

The way to 'humanely' lay people off is simple: give them a generous severance package. 6 months of pay/benefits should be plenty to find a new job without any disruption. The last time I was laid off as a mass lay-off (my group was laid off because the company decided to quit the product sector we were in), I got 4 months' severance and had a new (higher paying) job within a month, so I wasn't mad at all.
If you can't distinguish between those two types of people by asking additional questions about their design, are you capable of accurately evaluating them in the first place?
I see this pattern a lot in straight couples. The wife has much lower economic productivity. Why? Please don't read this as a slight against your wife! (A person's economic value is completely separate from their value as a human being.)

My statement comes with a lot of assumptions. I cannot believe that someone who works like that actually makes decent money. Are they working the absolute minimum and paid enough to feel satisfied?
"Updating only what has changed"

So... An rss feed?
Is this sort of interview common in the industry? This is the first time I've seen someone describe a technical interview I know I could pass with flying colors.
You mean articles claiming heavy rain “filling” reservoirs fixing the drought while ignoring the continuing lack of water in the aquifers the state depends on?

CA doesn’t need a storm. It needs consistent and ongoing rain and heavy snowpack every year for years.

Pretending that CA isn’t in a drought because a few reservoirs got filled is stupid, and encourages the climate change denier narratives of “all the evidence of climate change is fake because magical fairy weather cycles mean god will save all of us who ignored basic science and statistics enough”
I certainly didn't knew that even though >50% of the funds underperform it's only by small margin in aggregate.
It's a good direction but I wonder if it's strong enough. It acknowledges a lot of the problems in the current state of cybersecurity and effectively states "OK, we know this is a problem, we're going to do something about it."

But I wish they'd state exactly what they're going to do. Coming out with nominal fines for service owners and providers will just be chalked up as the cost of doing business. If a service like LastPass is going to be liable in the case of a data breach causing a consumer to be vulnerable but it's just a wrist slap, that just means prices shoot up without any necessary change on the provider.

It's one thing to acknowledge the issue, but being minimally invasive is worrying. If you're going to acknowledge that market forces have failed the consumer in your report, I hope your next step isn't going to be "hope the market is scared by scarecrows"
"You can trivially strip TS out of JS before sending off to the client"

To quote you, that sounds needlessly wasteful to me. Also I prefer not needing to deal with SourceMaps or different source when debugging. So it's quite the contrary: I gain a lot. Different strokes for different folks.
Being literate in history is very useful for putting these social panics into context:

“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth... How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would go along and I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless.

But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead.”

― Richard P. Feynman
They will divest of it again with some serious losses as soon as AI hype vector changes direction. Trend is your friend :-)
Blackstone defaults on $562M Nordic property-backed CMBS
Stability AI Announces Stability for Blender
Conveyor-belt sushi chain Kura installs AI to detect tampering
It depends entirely on how you define vague terms like 'apocalpytic', 'imminent' etc., and nail down the discussion into specific falsifiable measurable predictions in short and specific timescales, e.g. "By 2028, will 5 million currently-existing human level-1 support jobs have been replaced by chatbots/speechbots?"

Whether you consider eliminating 100 million white-collar jobs (e.g. phone support, clerical, medical reporting, admin, HR, scheduling, travel reservations, animation, translation etc.) in the developed world to be 'apocalypse', 'growth', 'digital transformation', 'technological progress' or any other abstract noun else depends entirely on your viewpoint, politics, your day job and job security. 'apocalypse' doesn't just mean starting nuclear wars.

These discussions are all meaningless semantics until people tie them down to clear specific terms with clear measurable timescales. Which they generally won't, reducing this to salon chatter. (Does 'imminent' mean 'within the next N months?' or 'within your lifetime?')
You are talking about things like the "All Nodes Go Down Without a Proper Shutdown Procedure" example in https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/crash-recove... right?

To handle this case, some teams may have a manual runbook, some teams may have some automation with ansible, some teams may have nothing. So, if someone can come up with some hacks and package that into a k8s operator, it is still a win. It seems to be the best primitives we have at the moment.
HDA1 is more robust Lane Keep Assist that takes into account mapped highway curves and adjusts speed and steering accordingly. The car might as well be on rails.

I haven’t had issues with vanilla LKA on a non-HDA mapped road other than expected problems where lane markings or shoulders are unclear.

Perhaps grandparent poster has a misaligned camera on their vehicle.
Very cool! And this is under the pop-os github org, which I assume means it's being developed for Pop_OS and shared with the community
Oh, I kinda like it. They took a moral stance on something (good), explained it well (good) and made it easy to offboard (good).
I don’t use Svelte of any kind so I’m possibly out of my depth, but I don’t know what I’d want to automate with import maps. I don’t think Deno addresses any use case like that but I’m hesitant to say so because I really don’t know what need I’m even addressing.
Which parts of this do you consider to be unreasonable?
Even leaving out politics you still have issue with people not caring.

Look at judges. I've personally witnessed judges and magistrates saying things that aren't true. Like thinking you're calling them prejudiced when asking to dismiss with prejudice. Or explaining that a trial de novo is a "complete do-over" and then turning around and saying they won't hear a motion because there's no record of it happening at the prior trial. I've even had a lawyer say that civil rights were violated but that the judges don't care and will see your case as a nuisance unless there was serious bodily injury or severe financial impact.

The politicians passed these laws. The people think they have these rights. The judges don't care. So the minority affected realize that they don't have those rights while the rest live in ignorant bliss.
I, for one, welcome our new SAAS overlords.
TikTok screen time limits for teens
I kinda believed in things like ranked choice voting before but lately it seems like these just create more situations where people don't trust the outcome of elections.
The idea is to ridiculously overestimate the e-bike cost. If you do that and still come out ahead, there's a good case for it.
> is so great that switching to bike will statistically increase your lifespan

Yea but so can a large number of other activities that let you keep your car.
An issue will appear down the road when you have title in hand and can’t fully confirm the car is “clear” of all ability from them to brick it or features.

Who knows - maybe a lot like the John Deere thing - a title may transform into a long contract whereby you wrench yourself and it becomes void.
People have been trying the driver-monitoring-as-a-shortcut approach for years now. It turns out that effective driver monitoring is extremely difficult, so the typical result is that you end up with the worst of both worlds:
A system designed under the assumption that there's a human backup and a human that's not able to react quickly enough to prevent accidents.

It's not clear how to fix this, because the human can appear completely fine by all observable metrics even when they aren't, and vice versa to a lesser extent. This problem also gets worse the better your autonomous performance is.

That's why virtually every safety expert in the field is fairly critical of these sorts of systems.
They don't have to come to an agreement with the Union. They can come to an agreement with other workers.
Usonia
Yes specialists are a huge advantage, but I do believe in certain fields, being a specialist can be a big disadvantage.

For example, if you are a "product designer" aka someone who designs software user interfaces, I fundamentally do not believe you can be exceptional at your job unless you have experience programming front ends.

In web development, writing CSS forces you to think about everything on the page. Everything. Adding interactivity with Javascript forces you to think about user experience on a micro scale. Those details add up, and I have found the best product designers are often those who were previously developers.
Companies don't have to negotiate, they can Hardball if they want
I already did.

And they want to charge $1,000?!?
Software engineers from Google and Facebook consistently ace interviews, not do well, but ace.

They also complain about their company cultures. The leadership of Google and Facebook is weak. They stopped putting people first and instead looked at extracting money.

Once the culture changes from improving humanity to extracting money, motivation goes down and the people who push forward despite poor leadership stop fighting leadership so much and become cynical.

Once cynicism sets in, innovation stops.
Chat gpt is identically helpful to most chat and phone support staff that are underpaid but still paid and have zero power to solve anything as they are required to follow narrow scripts and have zero ability to make exceptions.

For example Chat gpt can easily replace all of UPS chat staff that UPS does not allow to actually see data or do anything to help.

Will it be useful to customers, not at all. But UPS will no longer have to pay the people that they want to be intentionally useless in order to have a fake facade of customer service.
What is the possibility that the decision to kill it was just really bad timing, right before this big "boom" in rapid AI advancement?
There are some movements in the US to get federal privacy legislation (this is getting more likely now that 4+ states have local legislation). While a lot of the press coverage is about what types of data are regulated, the inside-baseball chatter is much more focused on the how of enforcement. In particular: is there a private right of action? Or in layman's terms: Can I, just some citizen, sue over private violations? This will impact what's actually "allowed" far more than what the law says.

The actual impact of GDPR in Europe is hamstrung by the enforcement mechanisms. All enforcement happens via regulators or government agencies, just like how most CCPA enforcement in California must be undertaken by the Attorney General. Private citizens can lodge a complaint, but cannot actually force action. Despite their increased mandate, most agencies did not receive additional funding post-GDPR and effectively act as a bottleneck to enforcement actions.

(It's even worse because American companies are HQd in Ireland for tax haven purposes, so they get regulated by the Irish agency, which is strategically underfunded so as not to scare away the revenue streams.)
Your land? You don’t own it “outright” - stop paying taxes for a few years.

The town will come and arrest you, taking the land by threat of death. (They’ll use police.)
I wonder how well would small motorcycles or scooters (not the stand-up kick scooter type, but the step-through motorcycle) work for the same purpose. They have many of the advantages that e-bikes do, but largely does not require dedicated infrastructure because they can travel at speeds similar to cars.
The problem new generation has is that if one marries to financial equal, they would divorce because they can support themselves while enjoying independence once honeymoon period is over. On the other hand, if one married to financial unequal then other person has very high incentive to divorce as they get half of the wealth other person brought in plus potentially lifetime of fat alimony checks secured by life insurance in states like CA. Divorce rates in US is now off the chart and kids born in these families knows how how this love thingy eventually pans out. Gen 0 members now describes classic romantic novels as "cringe".
It didn't except in the minds of delusional people, and I'm never paying 20%.
Lemon-derived nanoparticles block the progression of kidney stones
Not to sound dismissive, but I'm curious how that's working for you? Are you still in the industry? Seems the vast majority of jobs that pay well and expect obj-c experience are in the context of "single digit percentage of our codebase is still in that and we just don't touch it."
You mean like Betamax vs. VHS? ;)
How does someone move from sprint to Guava? From what I understand Guava provides nicer collections and utility methods which is not nearly the same thing the Spring ecosystem provides.
Simple answer – no.

The broader problem is that the government, courts, police and everyone else who is otherwise in charge of enforcing rights in this country does not know the first thing about technology.

We have dealt with this problem plenty of times in the past by setting up specialized bureaus and giving them broad authority to regulate players in the space and deal with infractions (the SEC is a great example of this), but there is no such tech authority. Imagine a world where the smartest programming minds aren't just joining Google but also the agency set up to regulate Google. Imagine if in a post-scandal hearing you don't have politicians who can't figure out an iPhone ask the questions but someone who knows how to set up a network firewall and what 2FA means. Until that happens, just passing more and more laws is going to be meaningless.
Rethinking splice()
You can make big money as a tech recruiter. Why work for one big salary if you can take a percentage commission off of many big salaries over the course of a year?
I can forsee that there would be a YC startup creating a opensource clone of this.
I'd argue that it's even more inhumane to force WFH employees to fly to the office to fire them.

You raise their expectations, waste their time, then destroys the possibility of having them enjoy the remainder of the trip.
It's a prisoner's dilemma. If we collectively switched to a payment system with lower transaction costs, we would all be better off. But as an individual, it is in your best interest to use the credit card with the highest rewards program, because you have to pay that extra 3% either way.
Well sure, if keeping your car is important to you, then do what makes you happy.

For me switching to a bike meant more exercise without having to commit any extra time. Just swap on type of commute for another, duration didn’t even change due to congestion which is easy to cycle past.

Given the US rather extreme obesity problem, I would suggest that it needs all the help it can get when it comes to improving fitness.
Sure about that? Literally everything? There's not a single solitary document that might require receiving somehow other than email?

USPS provides a vital service of connecting rural people in America to both package and letter delivery. People need to get medicines, supplies, and yes, letters, and have very little access without USPS. Everything from voting to legal documents to IDs to taxes to cash and checks and much more flow through USPS, at very affordable rates.
Thank you! (And thank you for contributing to great games!) It's good to hear that the question was taken seriously, even if I might've preferred the decision going a different way.
The most striking part of this to me is

If the new system detects any covers placed on sushi plates being suspiciously opened and closed, an alert will ring at the company’s headquarters in Saitama and Osaka prefectures, both manned by six or seven officers at all times.

The monitors at the headquarters will show numbers indicating the restaurant, the table and the plate in question.

The company officers at the headquarters will determine what has occurred through the new system as well as images captured by other cameras at the restaurant concerned.

They will then call the head of the restaurant.

Staff members at the restaurant will immediately remove the plate in question from the conveyor belt, then speak to the customers at the table concerned.

It's funny how an "AI" camera then triggers a convoluted process
Not sure why you think it PNW only. The number came from the CEO of AMEX, back when they were the exclusive credit card provider for Costco. He said, in 2015, that the average Costco card holder made $100K a year. So presumably that would be in all of the US.

More recent attempts at analysis put the number closer to $125K these days for all their customers worldwide.

Which makes sense, given inflation and the fact that they only build Costcos in more affluent areas and target business owners.
Now there's a Government Program i can really put my confidence in. After all, Uncle Joe was around when Al invented the internet so he must know what to do!
> The more "human" feeling thing is to have 1-1 zoom calls with each person being fired so you can talk to them about their situation and specifics.

I think they also do that. This is just to give people the initial news as soon as possible, and without ambiguity or speculation as it takes days to percolate through if you did it 1:1.
Neither party is fiscally conservative in the United States. No politician gets re-elected by cutting services or raising taxes. Each party uses the Federal credit card to buy and retain voters.
I’m a very happy GCP user. Cloud Functions are ass but Cloud Run is amazing, and as far as Python versions go, if you can make a Docker image of it you can use Cloud Run. Scale to zero. Automatic load balancing. Any Docker image. Yes please.
I live in Tokyo, I do not get this sense here.
Given the quality of today's software, 200 shocks me too: I'm surprised it's more than a handful of people, let alone 200. I thought the normal way of doing game QA was to simply release the game full of obvious bugs, and then wait for users to complain.
Do you remember in the movie "Up in the Air" when some technology to lay off people en masse remotely was presented laughably as some dystopian craziness in the future?
>There’s little reason to carry full coverage on a car over 7 years old

Can you elucidate? I assume by 'full coverage' you mean comprehensive (you get paid if your car gets damaged), vs liability-only (other person gets paid if you damage their dar).

Doing some very approximative math, my 7 year old car is worth $12k, and adding comprehensive insurance costs an additional $500/year. Why is it so obvious I wouldn't want that?
I am sure if there was a simpler way Ford would have done it.

The obvious reason is that VW either (a) doesn't want to sell it or (b) wants to retain IP.
Scientists found in an experiment that the greatest source of stress in the analyzed population is the scientists' experiment.
Where are the ancient alien proponents when you need them (they can tell you what and where these corridors without expensive equipment).
Not arguing nondeterministic universes. Within a universe agents see computationally irreducible phenomenon. It is just game theory decision problems embedded in cellular automata. The agent which says they could have decided another way is correct - their modeling of the problem did in fact have that property. The agents which thinks this insane and improper modeling are suffering from a hindsight fallacy.
I think this space is in initial choke chaos.

Eventually commercial entities will build pipelines which will absorb open models and build on top of them using proprietary tech, data and expensive compute.
People using PsychGPT when they need real help is somewhat worrying, I mean, Dr. Sbaitso has decades more experience treating patients.
I tend to turn on music when driving to avoid diving too deeply into thought especially on longer trips. If my driving focus gets priority inverted with my imagination it can lead to less than safe operation of the car.
Modern software engineering / data analytics jobs require 3 month prep (from 0 background) in total to be hire-ready. Of course people from other fields are jumping ship.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan.
that was not my point - sorry, i expressed myself badly. i agree with what you say. let me restate:

"who will test the testing framework?"

and supply a convincing test suite for that framework. i do not want to be debugging some testing framework when a test fails.
Site of Tesla Mexico factory near double size of Texas plant
Does furniture deliver and maintenance machinery only fit down 6 lane highways, or do you think it might fit down a single lane road?
There's the old gag about a letter received by the Post Office that it managed to deliver (at least, in the story):

It just said:

Wood
John
Hants

and is supposed to be read as "John Underwood, Andover, Hants"
"Hey, do you have time for a quick call on 9am on Monday morning?"
Most don't.

There are some very talented recruiters that are very well-connected, very good at what they do, and very hard working, and they can make quite a bit of money.

But most recruiters are working for one company or one agency on a salary or hourly basis and it's not much money.
Well the alternative in that movie was a consultant who flew across the country and fired people face-to-face on behalf of companies. If you ask me, I'd rather take the Zoom call.