skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haraldur Thorleifsson is the creator of the design studio Ueno, which Twitter purchased in 2021. The deal was structured so that he gets paid the entire deal upon his termination.

This tweet rant can cost up to $100 million for Musk.

>He’s not paying anyone

It's mostly dirty tactics. Musk estimates that significant amount of employees are not smart enough to get what they are owned. He tries to get away without paying. Only those people who sue for wrongful termination, or unpaid bonuses get paid.
I don't know what "mindless sycophants for $$$" means, but I see people "question the narrative" all the time, everywhere on the internet I go, even here on HN, which is aggressively moderated and tone-policed. I don't know why you seem to think that's impossible.

Maybe what you really want is to be able to freely question the narrative without anyone questioning yours?
One reason is that "&" is nestable, but ownership is just ownership.

Currently the types are:

owned T T
ref of T &T
ref of ref of T &&T

You're suggesting that instead you skip the "&" and write some sigil for owned types, say "@":

owned T @T
ref of T T
ref of ref of T ???

How do you write the type "ref of ref of T"?

On its own this isn't a super compelling argument, because "&&T" is an unusual type that one doesn't normally use. But it hints at the fact that "&" is a modifier. The stronger but less pithy version of this argument is that if you have a type parameter "T" it's essential that it can be instantiated as "T=&U" for some "U".

EDIT: come to think of it, you don't often write "&&T", but it is commonly used. If you `println!("{}", x)` where "x" is a reference, the "println!" macro also takes a reference and you get a "&&" type.
Pay for a lie flat seat and stop whining then. You have that option on flights that are 9 hours.
> We use a simple Neumann U87 microphone as the house-standard microphone at all of our facilities. They’re expensive, but that’s what we’ve used for years.

I'm seeing one go for above US$ 3K on Amazon right now:
https://www.amazon.com/Neumann-87-Switchable-Studio-Micropho...

Right now I use the mic on the wire that came with my previous Bose QC35 headphones (I use them with my QC45 because I don't like the bluetooth mic). Let's say I want to step-up my microphone game but I also don't want to spend a ton (max around ~$250, flexible if strongly recommended one goes above it). Does anyone have any good mic recommendations? I just want to sound good and clear. I have medium-to-deep voice but can be nasally often because of allergies.
> I'm not sure how you could interpret it like that.

Honestly this is how it reads to me.

Real science is complicated. It is very often -- maybe even most times -- the case that researchers can observe something happening, identify it, but not know what is the proximate cause.

Then, if they can identify the direct cause, that leads to the next problem: what caused that, building a chain of links, until they can say "we think it is this that is the root issue".

It is normal natural scientific caution to say "we don't know what causes this."

But it's an over-simplification. We do know what the ultimate cause is: human induced changes to the environment.

It is possible to both say "we don't know the reason" and to also know the root reason and for both statements to be correct.

Around the world, wildlife is dying off in large numbers. Even when it is not directly humans intentionally killing the organisms, it is caused by environmental damage caused by humans.

Saying it's not is like standing over a bleeding body, gloating, with blood-covered hands, and saying "I didn't kill him! The knife did!"

Yes, honey bee colonies are collapsing and the direct proximal cause is unidentified. However, that is a small facet of general large-scale collapse in insects in general: 85-90% in the last century.

That in turn is a big important faced of a general collapse in wild animals over that time, and indeed, over the last 2-2½ centuries.

The death of most wild animals is only a part of the death of countless plants, fungi, invertebrates, and microbes of various kinds.

You can't pin that down to a single cause, such as, say, DDT. There are lots of causes. But one thing caused all of them: human technological civilisation.

Before the Industrial Revolution, humans had already driven lots of species into extinction. Steller's Sea Cow, the Great Auk, the Dodo, all in documented history. Before historically recorded times, giant land sloths in South America, elephant birds and moas in New Zealand, and lots more.

But it's been exponentially increasing for about ¼ of a millennium, and the thing about exponenntial curves is that close to the end, where the rise is nearly vertical, all hell breaks loose and it becomes hard to trace the connections between phenomena and changes that are occurring very rapidly.

Even so, the root cause is clear.

It's humans.
I'm added a few keywords, but with /keyword command where I can list my keywords, I got nothing back. Is this a bug or I'm a newbie?
Boy this is really apropos of Alvy's book "Biography of a Pixel" (which I loved), and Alvy does such a thorough job of documenting the contributions of so many people, flying in the face of our tendency to sweep the accomplishments of groups under the banner of one "hero" figure.

Go read the book - it expertly mixes fascinating anecdotes with technical details to achieve that rare accomplishment of keeping you totally entertained while secretly making you smarter.
One of the issues with clandestine programs is you won't KNOW they undermined democracy at home for years (if ever). That's why they're banned.

Generally I agree, though "It isn't overreach if you have a warrant." is (forgive me) wishful thinking. If real courts with real judges were considering a real right to privacy that would be true. But we are well past that. And that's without considerations for things like Parallel Construction...
> Back in university, students used to tease the Systems Design Engineers, calling it "boxes and arrows" engineering. Not real engineering, you see, since it didn't touch anything tangible, like buildings, motors, hydrochloric acid, or, uh, electrons.

Hey, I resemble that remark! Quite true though. The common paths I saw was adding a specialization or continuing on getting an MBA for others.
When people tell me that Rust is nice to write it feels like gaslighting. I want a smooth path from not having code to having running code and Rust doesn't offer this at all.
To be fair, I'm trying to avoid being heavily political on something that seems like a win-win-win policy for all sides.
For copyright there has to be a minimum amount of creativity involved before the law applies. Small snippets of PII would not overcome that hurdle but these small pieces of PII are protected like you describe in the UK and the EU (GDPR).

The rights grante by the GDPR cannot be signed awy by a licensing agreement, but the can be overruled by other laws (e.g. mandatory retention times for tax purposes).
Not a documentary but Micro Men, it was a one-off BBC drama about that era.
I used to buy it in powder form in a drugstore near uni. It didn't dissolve well in water, in my experience, but was quite effective.
It's simpler to buy any true value option than pick from all the rental properties in the rust belt.
Is Meta Becoming a Trustworthy AI Company?
I would write some text here about how this makes me feel but that’s only adding MORE text!
Decent lighting does wonders here. Most webcams, in particular the c920 workhorse work great - when there's sufficient lighting!
the submitter owes you nothing
I agree with both sides on this point. Responsibility lies with the individual AND the system (society).
Edwards Deming said "A bad system will beat a good person every time", but I think history has shown exceptional people can overcome bad systems. The problem is most people (by definition) are not exceptional.

There is a persuasive lecture given by Darren McGarvey that makes this point more eloquently:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001g2zf
That's one of the budget issues, yes, but not the only one.
I'm not sure what you think you've fixed, but the images are still way too large from my perspective. Some of your images don't even fit on a single screen at once.
Which-way still is a problem, even for experienced developers. Do you believe it’s easier to develop mastery now? If old programming was a cellar, modern programming is a dungeon, each corner leading to another dungeon. Losing a program is not a big deal, in contrast to losing or accumulating wrong experience.

Continuing the analogy, we dreamed for our experience to see the light, but that never came true. I think that’s where the nostalgic sentiment comes from.
Hi all, I'm the author of this post (and the CEO/Founder of DuckDuckGo). Happy to take a few questions about how DuckAssist works, but to clarify what I think may be some confusion from the other comments, we're not just asking a LLM to summarize Wikipedia from its training, nor did we train an LLM on Wikipedia -- instead, we use our own Wikipedia index to pull out the relevant sentences, and then ask the LLM to verify the answer is in the sentences and then: if so, output it simply; if not, try to answer a similar question, and if that doesn't exist, then do nothing.

It can still be wrong for a variety of reasons mentioned in the post, but this is a different approach and in our validation testing (using banks of questions with known/unknown answers in Wikipedia) we know it works reasonably well, and have a lot of ideas of how to make it work much better over time. This is a beta after all, and we have plans both for improvements and additional features.
> I would think that increased competition would improve conditions for customers?

It did improve conditions for customers! As an example I currently bank with Ally, free checking account, no ATM fees (on any ATM, in/out network doesn't matter) and pretty sure they have good overdraft protection though I've never checked. Compare that to a place like BoA that has ATM fees, minimum account balances and fees, and while they probably have better overdraft protection than in 2008, it's probably not as good as what Ally offers.

The reason Ally can compete like this is simple, BoA and most other traditional banks have a ton of physical locations they have to pay to keep the lights on in, Ally on the other hand is entirely online. And while it may be nice to have a physical location for "peace of mind", in practice I found that it's usually better when the company (like Ally) puts the money into customer service so the phone gets answered when you call.

Honestly the biggest problem with Ally is that they are still a bit of a "savvy bank", that is if you ask any old joe on the street if they have heard of Ally, they would probably say no. Same goes for the litany of other new banks that have roughly the same business model as Ally. They would all be a great deal for those that are low-income but they aren't in your face like BoA or WF with their physical locations so people usually end up going to the "traditional banks" which are IMO not designed for them.
I am sorry but I believe that data suggest that income inequality and marginalization are what cause those issues. No child wakes up one day dreaming about shooting someone.

Also, if I am correct, I think teachers and underpaid and schools are working at max capacity. This also creates a big inequality with people that can afford the best schools.

And better if we do not talk about the crime that is healthcare in the US...
I suspect that's just a historic instance of the same error playing out. But, I'll take that on advisement.

It doesn't make sense as a description of where people live, but [English] language rarely makes sense.

Thanks for your reply.
This is one of the reasons that Tyre Extinguishers target SUVs
https://tyreextinguishers.com/
I've probably posted it several times now, but there's a great acquired podcast about ARM. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/arm-softbank
This is an amazing collection ( currently going through eugenics movement in US and holy bananas - it is a wild read ).

This is bookmarked for future use. I am not sure where I would be able to get such materials with such ease. I genuinely can't believe I did not stumble on that before.

This is what HN is all about.

edit: ride >> read
You don't need to implement a custom API server to implement an operator - you can just watch a CR.
Ivory now lets users create a Mastodon account directly from the app
> YOU are the consequence of individual contributions 10s or 100s of thousands of years ago.

I am the consequence of thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands of individual contributions (genetic and otherwise). Sure the sum ended up in me, but how changed would I be if one of those changed? Who can know. Yes, we are all the consequence of innumerable contributions and choices since the very beginning of time, but that means that as we stretch that time back each individual elements quickly loses meaning and becomes static.

But if you do believe that each contribution matters then great news - your little contribution to the universe's heat death will be there on display for all eternity and the fact that it can't actually be observed because of said heat death will also be due to your contribution, so no worries as you're still important at the end of the all things.
OpenSuperQ
Restoring the brain’s mitochondria could slow ageing and end dementia
Multi-repository variant analysis: a powerful new way to perform security resea
This way of managing the balance between the needs of wildlife and the wants of humans, stands out in a world where normally the animals (and plants) have to give way to fulfil the desires and safety needs of humans.

May it remain so.
People in poverty aren't paying any taxes to fund any of that though. As the article somewhat noted, people in poverty get an average of $12,400 from the government annually. (Excluding Medicaid, which is much more spending, but even poor people do pay a small amount into that.)

57% of people pay no income tax.[1] The carriers and planes are essentially only being paid for by the top 40% of earners.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/57percent-of-us-households-p...
Pineapple is “definitely a tree”?
Nice! Gonna watch it later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
GigaChadGPT
This project started out as a joke where I needed a motivational bot to help me hit the gym Now that ChatGPT's APIs are released, this is finally looking more realistic. GigaChadGPT uses ChatGPT under the hood with some "clever" prompt engineering. Hope you enjoy!
Relevant: not just bikes' latest video "These stupid trucks are literally killing us" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
> I really wonder how the battle against the nebulous "hate speech" became so widespread almost instantly in the Western world.

Because some asshole Austrian speechified a country into burning down half of Europe and killing millions of Jews, and after a whole ass world war the Western world - the parts that actually had to rebuild their societies from the ashes, not the US, for whom the war and Nazism in particular were more business opportunities than anything - decided that even free speech needed to have limits.

edit: of course the US has limits on free speech as well, just not for "hate speech" per se.
Watch live: House Intel discusses global threats and (hopefully) surveillence
I like that definition, but: is a tree with very low branches (like a fir) really a shrub? Does a fallen tree become a shrub?
And just how cheaply it must be printed, enveloped and delivered... If the returns were not enough those mails would not be send.
I like it, but I wish I could zoom out, the font is obnoxiously massive and ignores the browser's zoom level
I think it depends on what alternate paths the person is thinking of. I throw most GC languages out. So now my path is mostly (not all) Rust, C, C++, etc.

Rust is great in that regard, for me at least. The stdlib is awesome, crates are awesome, powerful features like Iterators are awesome, and being confident in the code i produce is awesome. Which isn't a knock at C, but C just isn't for me.
tell me about the big fintech and games ones
How do you find out what kind of city a place is? This might seem downright stupid to say, but I don't even know what types to even be looking for.
No, not odd. Multiple of the authors of the paper you are linking are cited in the Nature paper. Your paper also cites prior research from Solomon - the first author of the Nature article. It is unsurprising that the two papers don't reference each other as they have been written and in review at the same time.

They are all atmospheric researchers, so there is ofc a change that their research subjects overlap.
Yesterday in the senate the FBI revealed they have purchesed location data. Wonder if the spooks will cop to anything else without Sen Wyden to ask hard questions?
Knowledge will become more exclusive and a ward of 'academies' (for lack of a better word). To become a 'monk' in the future will mean choosing the path of 'learning'.

Commoditization of knowledge (which is a devaluation) will naturally amplify other human capabilities that afford social power. So we will again see a reversion to the more common pattern of the powerful lording it over the intelligent. This will prove more damaging than any unwanted soaking in a daily bath of LLM word deluge.
> It's a "fact" that a book has specific words in a specific order, yet we're not allowed to share that fact with other people without legal repercussions.

Talking about the order of words in text X is not the same as a reproduction of text X.

Example:

Original: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

Reproduction: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

Talking about the order: In the sentence beginning with the following fair-use excerpt "The quick brown", the word "fox" precedes "dog".

> I'm just saying that the idea that PII could be copyrightable doesn't seem THAT crazy to me

It would be awesome, because then I could license out my address and collect royalties any time it is used or mentioned.
Slightly spammy title (by HN standards) for what to me is an essential article for the budding webmaster/full stack dev.
I don't really care much what others do but I am interested in the "why" of it.

I have an SUV. Last week we had to ford a 20' wide, 3' deep creek. If I had the alternative (minivan) we wouldn't have been able to pull that off, which would mean not getting home. I also haul 10,000lbs of livestock on a regular basis. I usually use my truck, but a truck can't carry my kids, so when we go horseback riding I take the Suburban.

Can't figure out why folks in Suburbia with one or two kids would choose an SUV. I much prefer my Subaru, but it's mostly relegated to date nights at this point in my life.
I kinda get the feeling everyone wants the optimizing compiler framework to be out there so that it gets widespread use...

But people like Google offering ML compute as a service want to keep the actual optimization modules secret and closed source. That way they can make their hardware perform superspeed while competitors hardware looks slow.
I have a lot of criticisms of Rust's usability, but I think you're being pretty much just unreasonable here. One of the first things a Rust novice will see when picking up the language is:

let a = 1; // a is immutable
let mut a = 1; // a is mutable

Then a bit further in they will learn about references, and that there are two kinds of references:

a: &i8 // a is a immutable reference
a: &mut i8 // a is a mutable reference

I believe it is pretty clear that "mut" is what signals mutability, while "&" signals that something is a reference. There is next to no reason to associate "&" intrinsically with mutability, since you will have seen "mut" in a non-reference context and you will have seen "&" in a non-mutable context.
This is a good example of how wealthy people (and countries) are destroying our environment, to the detriment of everyone. Those who are poor or environmentally responsible are impacted by the choices of those who have the wealth to buy and use large SUVs.

This is especially true for poor countries in areas that will be affected the most by early climate change problems. Ironically, wealthier countries tend to be in a better position to avoid the initial negative impacts of climate change. They're also better equipped to handle the consequences.

This ties into so many political issues. For example, migration. We already have climate change caused migration. Policies in the U.S., for example, are becoming increasingly punitive towards migrants, while, at the same time, doing little to address the massive damage being caused by the U.S.

There's little hope for improvement; though, fortunately for those of us in wealthy countries, we'll be mostly OK for a generation or so.
Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests
> What I can't wait for is Pythonic Rust where we have a language that treats humans as first class citiziens but offers the guarantees that Rust does.

The innate complexity of the ownership rules make a Pythonic Rust unlikely, someone must manage the memory so you either put up with that complexity, manually do it with malloc/free, or let the garbage collector do it (in which case it's not Rust anymore).

Perhaps you could have a Go-like Rust where everything that escapes the function or breaks ownership is automatically transformed in a reference counted object (which is still a form of garbage collection, but deterministic and compatible with system programming). So that the syntax is simple and programs are easy to compile, but you might get performance bugs when the program does heavy use of the ref count, invalidating cache lines left and right etc.
You Know It’s Not the Same as It Was: Job Hunting for Community Roles in 2023
Probably something along the lines of “if it quacks like a duck then it’s a duck”
> Activism on the part of individuals turning into collective action is the kind of thing that would produce actual change

Great, I'm sure that's true. Concretely, what do you recommend individual Millenials should be doing?
It's not watertight, but controlling your own DNS, as through pi-hole, helps protect against this.
As the article rightly points out, the US has spent more money over time on the poor, not less, with middling effect. Whether or not the military budget is bloated, there's no evidence to suggest that yet more money for the poor would result in better outcomes.

Articles like this never address some fundamental questions that would be much more enlightening:

* Why does poverty persist in any country? Is there any country where there are no poor?

* It states that the percentage of the poor in the US stayed relatively constant over time. But is it the same people (and their descendants) who are staying poor, or are the poor of one generation (or their descendants) able to lift themselves out of poverty into a stable middle-class life?

Instead it chooses to frame most economic choices made by the poor as being "exploitative", and at the same breath blames payday loan companies for being predatory and yet posits that the poor need greater access to credit.
Maybe cel shaded is what you're looking for. Basically rounding colours to the nearest pallete color so that lighting looks cartoonish instead of uncanny.
It’s not just about who’s funding the military, it’s about misuse of resources. If that same money was spent building out our public transit, food production or community improvement, we’d see an improvement in the lives of US citizens up and down the socioeconomic ladder. The reality is we spend our resources building weapons that only have a negative impact on humanity, producing nothing.