skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sigma male grindset is by the funniest meme at the moment. I love how far its been taken into absurdity. It is becoming frustrating having to talk to nephews about the realities of ecommerce and business after years in the industry and them thinking you can flick a switch to become a millionaire over night. The most worrying trend is the attitudes towards women and people of perceived lower status, a victim mindset can hold people back but so can poverty and systemic issues.
All I have to say is...wow.
Buddy, don’t get it twisted, I’m just as worried as you are about this possibility. (“Unconscionable” means “not right or reasonable; unreasonably excessive”.)
> what do you do if you realize a giant chunk of your workforce is not needed?

It’s not like the workforce just appeared out of nowhere. They were hired by the same management who is now firing them.

Ultimately society has to choose where it wants to be on the spectrum between difficult to hire and difficult to fire, and easy to hire and easy to fire (workers can also unionize to push things further towards the “difficult” end).
The FDIC chose a chart design that can display up to 25 bank failures per month (See 2020 for examples of how the Y axis is used for failures).

Of course, too much shouldn't be read into this, but it's interesting they chose such a chart rather than a table listing failures.
check out https://bldata.berkeley.edu/pipeline/ if you want to download terabytes of radio telescope data from scans searching for aliens....
This is specifically what the situationists were trying to express with “the society of the spectacle”. It is very interesting to live though a time where broad swaths of humanity are awakening to such a critique.
I was going to say the same thing as you. The article has a good title but besides that it completely missed the point. And the sentence you quoted was only the cherry on top.
Ask HN: Strategies to handle RAW photo libraries
I would like to improve the way I store and view my photo library. It consists of 15 years of RAW photos, about 2TB or so in size and growing.

My current backup "strategy" is having a NAS with two mirrored HDDs, but this feels more and more dangerous. It only needs one incident and everything is gone. I would love to have an automatic backup over the internet, because I know I'm not going to do it if it's too manual. But I don't know if there are cost-effective solutions for these amounts of data out there. Dropbox and icloud max out at 2TB for example.

The other part of my problem is that I want my photos to be more easily viewable, they are not supposed to rot on a disk. I love scrolling through my iPhone photos, but it's more difficult with RAWs. I have an older Lightroom and a newer CaptureOne catalog. I edit many if not all of my photos, so my workflow has to include these tools. In 99,9% of cases there's just one edit variant of a given photo, so mostly exported jpgs would map 1:1 to the RAWs.

In the end I would like my photos to be easily viewable on the go and searchable (by content ideally). The way I currently do it is to export jpgs into a folder ingested by the Photos application, which merges them into my icloud library. That's nice because it's the native experience on my iPhone and apple's servers are much faster than a connection to my NAS, but it also feels like a solution without a lot of freedom. Also, not all photos are equally important (I usually tag with a good/neutral/bad, not a star system), but I have no way currently to filter on my phone between keepers and other photos. I want to have all available, but would like to be able to hide non-keepers unless I specifically ask for them.

There are many aspects of designing this system going forward, and I would appreciate any input how you deal with this. Please refrain from radical suggestions like "just shoot jpg" or "print the important photos and throw away the rest". I know about all of these lifestyles but I'm generally happy with my own, it just needs polish.
These clothes make me think of the markings used by butterflies and other animals to ward off predators.
Calling an NFT a security might be the most charitable definition ever.
Business is not your friend, it's not your family. The only goal of business is to make profit. If they can make something good along the way - great, but don't expect them to do it.

At this scale it seems very hard to make good decisions. It looks like a lot of companies overestimated their long term needs. Also, they might have hired those employees to prevent competition from hiring them,and it might have been a good business decision. What people fail to understand is that corporations goal is not to maximize well-being of their employees.

I wonder if this is a result of liberal movement that allowed those companies to leech to various causes (LGBTQ rights,gender equality, etc) and allowed them to spread image of friendly, responsible, good, family-like image. I 100% support those movements myself, but I also have seen this coming for years. As soon as it no longer pays off to be friendly, corporations stop be such.

The best way to fight this is to educate people that corporations are not your friend, family, they don't care much about you.
Also, travelling for work vs for pleasure is vastly different.

I probably also average about two nights per town when going train travelling in Europe. Sometimes one, sometimes three.
Maybe we're 2 months away from the singularity or 200 years. Who knows? Until then you should be paralyzed with fear. Don't get comfortable!
Elsewhere on HN’s front page today: negativity drives engagement. Vox and others on both sides of the political spectrum turned that into a business.
Sure, Wikipedia is great, like finding moissanites [1] in the mud: great, but you are still in mud.

Perhaps I am too doomy, but as we see every day, and now with the GPT advances, almost every hour, a bridge being built between the information space, the decision-making space, and the 3D space of the physical world, and this bridge being restricted to only certain entities, it makes one wonder: would a Wikipedia even be possible today?

[1] Diamonds are a De Beers invention and a monopolistic violent endeavour, moissanites are cheaper, no artificial scarcity, and better looking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite
Morally? Unless you uncover something fraudulent in the candidate's application, it's downright amoral, not grey at all.
I think you misunderstood the article. This is not about running a private registry. Running a public registry (e.g. for an open-source project) exposes you to bandwidth costs and such.

The solution in the article allows such projects to use their own domain without incurring any of the maintenance burden of running a public registry.

One of the problems for open-source projects currently is that any move (even to another provider) causes a lot of disruption, because all users of the project need to update the address they pull from. This solves that.
I think it's really demoralizing to people who cherish free speech and the sharing of knowledge to see these inflammatory insinuations. Suggesting a moderator act to censor discussion in an attempt to limit the spread of the work of Iraqi scholars at rigorous and highly respected universities who are both in their area of expertise and speaking about their homeland does not have a charitable interpretation that I could find.

Given that you've been posting here for a decade and know or should know all the guidelines your comment is violating, I think there's a good case to be made that the community would benefit from an enforced break from your posting so that you can reflect on them.

Per the guidelines:

>Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate.

>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

>Please don't post shallow dismissals

I would have simply flagged your comment if I had sufficient karma to do so.
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When we're talking about big companies, never turn your cynic mode off. They shouldn't be judged on human terms, but rather on psychopath/sociopath terms.

Every action they take is based purely on utility and they would never add a competitor, no matter how insignificant, to their store unless they judge it to be good for PR.
This is your brain on America kids.
Leakers also provide a vital window into company culture for people who may need to decide whether to work there. You never get the truth about what the company and leadership is really like during the Potemkin village tour of recruiting and interviewing.
Well lifetimes of shaking is not practical is it.

Marbles in a jar are not arranged in a neat spacial grid, but in all kinds of configurations.

The chance of recovering any near perfect starting symmetry, depending on the size of a jar, might take decades or millions, or more years.

In the meantime, all that energy being used to shake the jar is generating huge amounts of heat entropy.
Do AI's necessarily output based on logic?
I don’t want server side react.

It’s disappointing to me they’ve gone so hard on server side.

It feels like Facebook use it server side so they’ve lost interest in being purely client side.
Does WaPo still belong to Amazon?
What is that based on? Police have a responsibility to provide security and rule of law to residents.
You can check my blogroll [1] — it's (front-end) web developer heavy, so I'm not sure if that's interesting to you. My own blog has also an RSS feed [2].

[1] https://darekkay.com/personal-blogs/

[2] https://darekkay.com/atom.xml
Yeah, i kinda hoped someone would start building building something which would be automatic paying with a blockchain. Like when you upload a docker image, that will automatically pay a few cent or dollar for that storage which will be active as long as the money does not dry up.

Sadly that ship has sailed, until a dollar/government backed blockchain which allows to do such things will pop up. Which won't happen i think
Maybe a quasi proportional font like Iosevka Etoile? You can easily hack it to your likings (see https://github.com/vincentbernat/vincent.bernat.ch/blob/feat...)
It would be great if they could figure out a way to stop air travel crime that's fast, and stop doing the parts that take forever like taking off your shoes or removing things from your backpack. Go ahead, scan my face, biometric everything, spy on every square inch of the airport and the luggage, just hurry up.
> It's not going to be the only one.

It probably is the only one, or at least an unusual outlier.
> Do you keep paying a plumber once they complete their job?

What an utterly stupid analogy. You never hired the Plumber as an Employee in the first place.

They layed off female employees on maternity leave just as they gave birth to children. No payout for the remainder of their maternity leave. That also contradicts your assertion of whether FAANG employees were making children btw. Google was horrendously cruel here.
Tech workers just discovered that they will be kept only if they are performant, and they are stressed about it. Welcome in the real world.

Most meta employees don't produce any value but are getting well paid because in the past meta has managed to be the most used social network. Produce value for the company and not what you believe is value and yoi will never get fired
I have less of a side as I age. The opposing side would probably have a convert if they weren’t dominated by raving lunatics obsessed with offensive garbage.

I have a feeling a lot of people across the political spectrum feel the same. Some day one of the parties is going to find not pandering to the emotional appeals of their brand of extremists is actually a huge political gain. I hope for that day, but not much.
> Do you keep paying a plumber once they complete their job?

The analogy is flawed.

You pay him until he completes his job. Or he will be pissed.

Google is telling the plumber to leave before the agreed upon work is done.
Striking a conversation with someone at a bus stop is likely interrupting someone who has to be somewhere, so will stay rather shallow.

Try parks, bars, college campuses, maybe museums.
Google has done a lot of less than good things recently. This is honestly probably the first thing I’d classify as evil with no nuance.

The only possible way I’d think this is justified is if Google would have to file bankruptcy if they didn’t do this.
I always wondered, was it just a matter of RPi having better PR, or did we just went the wrong timeline?

Why aren't we surrounded with chumby X, chumby hackerboard Y and Successor Z?
“Is it necessarily a bad thing if people stop wanting to have children and the human race just gradually disappears?”

People can make up their own minds on this, but I don’t think states and governments will want to stop existing.
And what's your opinion then?

Teams and individual were hired for projects and roles that management doesn't now think will work. Keep everyone on-board indefinitely? Doing... what, exactly?
>As alway, have a fiddle with a ground based setup first.

now see, if we do that, then you're ruining the one chance I have of being the exact right person to go to space to fix the thing.
> NOT legally or morally required to screw people over for an extra short-term buck

I saw nothing in the Friedman doctrine that says anything about prioritizing short term results.

But if the company doesn't do what the shareholders want, the shareholders sell, and the stock price goes down.
_Why_ are you proposing a 32 bit solution that suffers from having to change the epoch every so often, given that we have a 64 solution that lacks this drawback?

What’s the use case for it, where this would be a good trade off?
No, the expansion of the universe isn’t the same thing as increasing disorder of particles.

It is possible that that the original expansion, inflation, and even dark energy are also driven by thermodynamics, but we just don’t know that.
It's a failure of management in any case. Just like returning cash via excessive dividends, it's an admission that the current management doesn't have the imagination required to use the assets at hand in a profitable way.

So many of the large companies today are one trick ponies trying to milk their singular profit center to the nth degree instead of diversifying into new niches.

Meta failed spectacularly in the direction they did try- but ultimately, like Google, even that (VR) was a way to expand their advertising business, rather than truly expand their footprint.

Apple seems the singular Silicon Valley company truly able to find new niches and expand their competencies. I do wish they'd stuck with Jobs original obstinate insistence of not paying dividends- it was a forcing function to keep them actively investing that cash into new ventures.
What's sad is that there are so many unmoored men who are drawn to this type of thing; that a true and caring network of real people and relationships eludes them, and that they were not taught to distinguish reality from artifice.

It's deeply, crushingly sad that a flimflam gimmick preying on parasocial affection is a draw - they're so low that it works on them.

How do you even undo that kind of damage?
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
"what the ones who are fine are doing differently"

* enslaving other peoples - either indirectly through foreign sweatshops or directly by exploiting e.g. a younger generation - see parenting and house price inflation - rents are unaffordable as housing prices inflate and also mandatory because housing is no longer affordable for most, families cannot start when people don't have the financial stability or social backstop to do this. Some of these jack-asses have recently been attempting to forcefully impregnate women to "fix" this, that will go about as well as it sounds.
* being older/part of a club - having wealth and connections is something you build over time, and gives you advantages others cannot replicate. You can't just "do something differently" if that requires suddenly coming into wealth and influence.

Maybe you should not feel fine, and maybe you are a (quickly) shrinking has been "majority".

Social data (not online social media but actual census etc) seems to be on my side, not yours.
> I wouldn't look forward to unleashing an eternal, 24-7, intensive task with a connection to the internet

Just use another machine for stuff like this? Spare computers are cheap nowadays.
> Mis-hiring a ton of people to only let lots of people go shows a untrustworthy dishonest shallow character.

How many people in HN do you think have moved out of gmail/google ? The answer is obvious - very few have. So, we have two theories:

* Either, most people don't think what you said is true.

* Alternately, people think what you think is true but don't care enough. This is like workers in china etc. This is just moral high standing. Expecting great character but not making a change oneself.

So, yeah, nothing will change. 100% sure.
A lot of people think they're a wolf in sheep's clothing, when in fact it's the other way around.
What should I use to create a new SPA for a new project these days?
A better analogy is you pay your nanny to fly to Australia with you. You lay her off in Australia and get a refund on her return flight since she no longer works for you — she can find her own way back to the US.

And key here IMO is she is laid off without cause.
Steps Towards Trusted VPNs
It sounds more like you've mistaken the average Joe for the obedient, privileged, and unempathetic Joe. You're making a blanket claim that any social problem that involves a technological solution is insignificant, be it about human rights, democracy, or fraud and abuse. That defense of tyranny and oppression can hardly be framed as respecting other's viewpoints.
The context is she is using Haskell type declarations as if it was a regular programming language. Arguable the type declarations are interpreted, and dynamically typed in the sense that there is no static type checking before the interpretation.
This article doesn't mention pricing, but I'd be interested to see how this measures up to OpenAI's costs.
> Trusting that he's being honest is half of it.

Isn't this a guy who's been shady with a lot of things in Facebook's past? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook
> Russia is not a member of the ICC either, does that pose a jurisdiction issue?

At least one of these four things must apply for the ICC to have jurisdiction (excluding for aggression, which is more limited):

(1) The accused party must be a national of a state party,

(2) the alleged offense must have occurred on the territory of a state party,

(3) exactly as either (1) or (2), but with “a state which has filed a declaration accepting jurisdiction as to its nationals or territory, as applicable” [in practice, this will presumably always be territory] in place of “a state party”.

(4) the matter was referred to the court by the UNSC.

Because Ukraine, while not a state party, has filed an open-ended declaration accepting ICC jurisdiction for offenses on its territory, such offenses, no matter the nationality of the accused, are subject to ICC jurisdiction.
Never did. It’s owned by Bezos personally.
Don’t forget that most companies want us to actually do more, there’s pretty much infinite creativity available. Faster and cheaper code delivery will probably lead to more code , more moonshot ideas to be involved in, more scaling issues, security issues and on and on.

There will now be more competition of course, more LLMs to build and maintain. More features to keep up with etc.

Also AI safety jobs will become more of a thing, could just be getting started.

…or it’s the end of all work!!!!!!
If businesses did try to align to & respect their workforces these dont-trust-anyone sentiments wouldn't be necessary. And I contend, the business would likely behave much smarter, make less f-ups, make better products and decisions.

Accepting merely a fait-accompli that there is misalignment & operating in negative prisoners-dilemna non-cooperative modes forever is just a shit play. Both sides need to show up & power-share to actually make anything work.
So far nothing external. I write posts to force myself to fully understand things.

I also hope that it will be a nice addition to my resume.
Sweet summer child. Who do you think determines whether you are "productive"? Your manager. If you don't play the political game and get on their side, you get fired, no matter how "productive" you think you are.

Or your entire team gets fired by their manager, because you are collectively considered unproductive. Sucks to be you if you worked on a project that was considered to be Hot New Thing that Saves the Company up until 5 minutes ago.
The article does not ignore the losses. In fact, it used a rule stricter than FIDE rules to trigger losses on illegal moves.
Just want to say, thanks for the great content. You're an inspiration. :)
That's just funny to me. Those ugly cartoons were never cool and anyone using one for their avatar looked like a moron from day 1 all the way through to day N
Throwing Alex Hormozi into that list feels like the author just found a random person on YouTube that seems like a get rich quick guy and added him to the list? The other ones seems very shady I agree.
In Scandinavia this is regulated by law. Being on leave does not protect against dismissal in Norway. But the Working Environment Act states that the notice period does not start to run until the leave period has expired. And, the fact that you are on leave cannot in itself be used by the employer as a reason for dismissal.

So, if Google had laid off a worker in Norway who was on leave, they wouldn't have much choice but to stand by their obligations.
You don't have to lecture me about the pitfalls of willingly relying on for-profit companies or the benefits of decentralization, but in the case of Docker we don't really have much of a choice unless you're suggesting that don't use it at all.

Images are published wherever the author decides that they're published and these changes are going to affect everyone who relies on an image that used to be hosted on Docker Hub.
> It’s what I love about HN. Sure, most of us wouldn’t mind being rich (sorry, ‘financially independent’), but it’s not the driver. The driver is to make something cool; to make something better.

Is this sarcasm? If it's genuine, I can think of many reasons. Either you are too young or wearing horse blinds or not living in the valley. Practically every start up is driven by a desire to be rich. This is why everyone sells to make millions at the first opportunity. They objectively have made the tech industry a worse place.
You claim "all digital art is worthless because it can all be tweaked into existence in under a minute".

If that were true, I could show you any piece of digital art, be it 2D or 3D rendered, and you should have no trouble making an identical copy in under a minute using only diffusion models and tweaking! That is an impossible task, I promise.

I'm enjoying stable diffusion as a fun playground and rendering engine. But it can't magically produce the exact picture in my mind.

Even simple things like "hero tree in dark misty forest, old swing hanging from large twisted branch, path extending into gloom". The AI will produce a nice image, but not the one in my mind. The image in my mind is important for style or composition reasons relative to the whole work. Artists rarely think in terms of isolated one-hit-wonders, they are producing work with important and meaningful connected threads and detailed elements.
By analogy if people manage their own illnesses without engaging health service should be a testament to the level of maturity of health services in USA.