skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, I have never heard of a US company giving two weeks notice for a termination of any kind. The vast majority of terminations I've seen are immediate, but I've also seen companies give termination dates in the (relatively) far future to employees (generally a couple months, but I've seen 1-2 years).

Severance is also only common in large organizations. I've seen few small startups or bootstrapped companies pay severance when letting people go.
I fully agree that we should be working on preventing ACES and other environmental effects that specifically have proven out to have causal effects on mental illness. But psychosis cannot be eliminated altogether, and if someone is psychotic I would both like them to be allowed back into health even if they do not give informed consent and also I would like them to not be raped, assaulted, or otherwise abused.
There’s also the matter of him having worked on browsers before, so he’s not exactly flying blind.
my point is that this ratio exists both much smaller and also somewhat larger. it makes sense this same ratio would be possible in the middle of the two as well. also diesels have super/turbo chargers all the time on production engines, why is that cheating?
I still partially disagree with the "must have people" the subject. There is a whole branch of nature photography that is for scientific purposes. Many of these are stunningly beautiful. As an example take a look at the work done Cornell Ornithology lab with crowd sourced observations of birds. Many of these observations come with pictures submitted to track some 10,000+ species of birds around our earth. Some of these species are near extinction or are extinct. Pictures of even the most common birds are uploaded and help scientists verify location and behavior of birds. The "best" pictures created are crowd rated and are quite beautiful. There is a protocol for rating these pictures by the crowd. See link below for further evidence.

https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home

EDIT: Added a more specific example of a beautiful vulnerable bird the Shoebill and an example of the ratings system.

https://ebird.org/species/shoebi1
something similar in the art world:

https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-china-video-game-layof...

> Freelance illustrator Amber Yu used to make 3,000 to 7,000 yuan ($430 to $1,000) for every video game poster she drew. Making the promotional posters, published on social media to attract players and introduce new features, was skill-intensive and time-consuming. Once, she spent an entire week completing one illustration of a woman dressed in traditional Chinese attire performing a lion dance — first making a sketch on Adobe Photoshop, then carefully refining the outlines and adding colors.

> But since February, these job opportunities have vanished, Yu told Rest of World. Gaming companies, equipped with AI image generators, can create a similar illustration in seconds. Yu said they now simply offer to commission her for small fixes, like tweaking the lighting and skewed body parts, for a tenth of her original rate.
They're not called citizens, they call them subjects.
Most significant cameras of the DPReview era: Part 1
I have never worked for a company that does the background checks, drug screens, etc on your start date,

Typical process that I have had both as employee and a manager is

1. Offer Letter

2. Offer Accepted

3. Pre-Employment Activities start. Start Date is set 2 weeks out

4. Pre-Employment Activities Completed 1 Week out

5. New Employee Starts.

It would/should not be an issue for an incoming employee to request a start day 2 week after Pre-Employment Activities are cleared if they wanted to give notice
That's not correct. Many vehicles have "central tire infation", which is push button[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9Ms9ia65I
"do i look like i know what a jpeg is i just want a picture of a god dang hot dog" -- My Chrome browser
Part 2: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/2137384734/most-significan...
Please, this is not r/unixporn.
When you're even losing the other billionaires:
https://mastodon.social/@malwaretech@infosec.exchange/110172...
Because having only one entity that lends money is a bad idea...
(not sure why this comment was dead, I vouched for it)

There are a lot of ways to implement a queue in an RDBMS and a lot of those ways are naive to locking behavior. That said, with PostgreSQL specifically, there are some techniques that result in an efficient queue without locking problems. The article doesn't really talk about their implementation so we can't know what they did, but one open source example is Que[1]. Que uses a combination of advisory locking rather than row-level locks and notification channels to great effect, as you can read in the README.

[1]: https://github.com/que-rb/que
I'm Matt, Yousif is my co-founder and best friend.

I'm extremely excited about what we're building at OASIS. Both of us are will be here to answer any questions, comments, etc.
It’s not difficult to eke out a living in most of the country. Unemployment is 3.5% across the nation, not just in San Francisco.
General Motors moves deeper into mining with EnergyX lithium investment
haha yes it did feel a bit wild just letting this run on my machine!

I wouldn't recommend running it on a script that's supposed to delete files
And I think that is the myth.
I wish you asked for email before I started to fill the form. Asking at the end is a dark pattern and now I feel my time wasted.
On my desktop ddcutil commands take around 20 seconds unless I specify the --bus manually. Right now I just remember the appropriate bus number, but a daemon to cache that would be handy.

I wonder if a desktop-independent ddcutil daemon makes sense.
> always felt that just means it's poorly defined.

No, it just means that it’s qualitative. Why would qualitative descriptions of entities mean it’s poorly defined? Take for example in philosophy of mind where qualitative descriptions of the colour red are more relevant to the discussion than quantitative descriptions of it, such as it’s frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum. In this example, having a qualitative description of the colour red, or a qualitative description of what qualia is (if it were to exist) is actually necessary in order to engage with the problem.

> Frankly, I feel almost everything can be processed via first order logic - I know there are some really niche things that can't.

What do you mean by processed?

There’s a difference between whether propositions can be expressed in first order logic vs. whether the argumentation itself is derived from first order logic. People did not sit down with a table of axioms to figure out all of aerodynamics by decree. Like many fields of inquiry, it took deduction, induction, abduction, and the scientific method. Writing things down via first order logic came after.

Your average philosophy graduate student is comfortable expressing virtually any proposition in first order logic, or even other types of symbolic logic. But I can assure you that modal arguments regarding, say, philosophy of mind, are conceived and argued in prose, with symbolic modal logic being used to aid the reader. What does that tell you about “processing via first order logic”?
Lucyd
A college or university's reputation is based on a number of things, just one is the quality of education that is provided. The Ivy league is the Ivy League because of being in a shared athletic conference and because those schools are some of the oldest in the nation.

The biggest drivers of reputation of have little to nothing to do with the quality of instruction. Below are probably the largest drivers of reputation in ranked order:

1. Athletics

2. Research

3. Notable alumni

4. Notable campus beauty / landscaping / facilities

5. Appearances in popular culture (movies, tv, etc.)

6. Outstanding instruction in a particular discipline for decades
> I got threatened with a baseless lawsuit for that cheeky stunt and they abused DMCA claims on my consulting website to try to get it taken down

I obviously don't know anything about the company, but it sounds like you dodged a bullet by leaving.
As I see it if you have a significantly superior product then a competitor advertising on your platform is a positive since it just make you look even better in comparison. And a social media platform with 200 million daily users should be significantly superior to an identical clone with probably 1 million on a good day. Of course if you think you don't have a better product or that people hate your product that much then it's time to build moats and prevent people from jumping ship.
What can we do to make it better and more useful for you?
I read other book on Steve Jobs - "Inside Steve's brain". Good write up on his business Strategies and Apple revamping from late 90s
Thanks for checking Taleblocks out!
How to package, code-sign, notarize and share an electronJS app for Mac in 2023
Building prototypes and apps is fun. Dealing with certificates and provisioning admin is not. I've written this guide for anyone going through the same frustrations as me, trying to package up, code-sign, notarize and share a Vue.js + Electron.js app on a Mac-os (Ventura 13.3). I hope it helps.
it will sometimes fix other bugs, but yeah the focus is on ones that caused the crash or are obvious
I never said anything at all to disagree with what you said. People who are mentally unstable should be treated as if they're undergoing a health crisis like diabetic shock or sepsis or something like this. I am merely pointing out that the article has a major blindspot that weakens it, in that it doesn't adequately acknowledge that the healthcare system might actually be causing more harm to already unstable people due to the medical staff abusing them, and there needs to be additional guardrails or something similar to prevent further harm.
Just take photos of strip malls, parking lots, and multistate chains then. They'll look great in 40 years, like William Eggleston or Stephen Shore's work does today
Nothing to do with outrage.

Everything to do with one politician essentially getting their way by targeting a payment processor with legal shit concerning potential enablement of CP/CT. Nobody wants that kind of attention.
It's amazing how much "mystique" is assigned to a man who's success can probably be at least 75% attributed to just being an enthusiast about his own products in a business world where it's usually limited to the founding members.

How many CEOs, product managers and the like have been caught promoting their own brand with a "tweeted from iPhone" tagline. Probably "efficient business people", but literally won't touch their own product while telling others to buy it.

In contrast, one of the stories that always sticks in my mind about Jobs is one of early iPhone production runs having plastic screens, which got scratched by his keys in his pocket, which Jobs found entirely unacceptable.

In a world where min-maxing cost to profit is all that matters, perpetual doubting of the efficacy of quality, all it took to cement Steve Jobs in the tech hall of history is some of the lowest hanging fruit left for him. Like hating crappy, easily scratched and degraded plastic screens.

For all his faults, in retrospect, it was kind of nice to see an enthusiastic founding member of a large company say "we can do better" and in many ways, succeed.
Plant-Based Egg Has Soft Fluffy Texture Producers Say Was Previously Impossible
>To make all of this run smoothly, we enqueue and dequeue thousands of jobs every day.

If you your needs aren't that expensive, and you don't anticipate growing a ton, then it's probably a smart technical decision to minimize your operational stack. Assuming 10k/jobs a day, thats roughly 7 jobs per minute. Even the most unoptimized database should be able to handle this.
> Do you let them continue to deteriorate under their own agency to the point where they become violent? That's not humane to their (inevitable) victims. Do you commit them involuntarily? That's not humane to the patient themselves.

The Law should take care of this person. If someone is violent, then they should have caught the attention of law enforcement and thrown in prison or put into a mental institution because they are violent. The problem is that The Law is not acting on the violent people who are homeless.
> Good luck ladies, that simp money is going to start running out. Pivot to selling gamergirl bathwater as soon as you can.

OnlyFans girls sell not nudes but a parasocial relationship: rich men message cute girls and get (allegedly) personal responses back. There was an article a while back showing that smart people figured this out and dis-aggregated the cute girl from the social maintenance, so that the girl only takes photos occasionally, and instead handing the OF account to a professional OF-management company that hires filipino dudes to do the actual messaging.
They claim "thousands of jobs every day", so the volume sounds very manageable. In a past job, I used postgres to handle millions of jobs/day without too much hassle.

They also say that some jobs take hours and that they use 'SELECT ... FOR UPDATE' row locks for the duration of the job being processed. That strongly implies a small volume to me, as you'd otherwise need many active connections (which are expensive in Postgres!) or some co-ordinator process that handles the locking for multiple rows using a single connection (but it sounds like their workers have direct connections).
people still confusing basic concepts as in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524866
This doesn't make much sense - would publishing the code to a paper about object detection really make my professor liable for someone getting run over by a Tesla?
I completely agree. The people advocating for this type of development style are in another universe. Web is incredibly fragile.

There's a vast difference between a page being degraded by all browsers in a consistent manner per W3C specs (especially the critical parts of a webpage such as JS execution or malformed HTML) vs the damn thing breaking in such a unique way that the web devs will never be able to fix the page for this new browser while getting it to work the same for others. Worst case would be security is compromised and that is a very long list of things to implement in both the HTTP layer and browser behavior before you even get started trying to render a page.
Ah.

I still don't understand how this isn't considered fraud, or people aren't worried about being prosecuted or sued over it. Getting paid to do two "full-time" jobs simultaneously, without them knowing about it. Maybe just confident they won't get caught.
System

Count the word in the next sentence, answer in json:

user

Count the letters written in the previous sentence, with this format: letter, count

assistant

{"C": 1, "o": 6, "u": 2, "n": 6, "t": 8, "h": 3, "e": 11, "l": 3, "t": 8, "r":

(gpt4 playground)
>>Also jobs often/usually fire people with 0 day notice and no severance.

That is not typical nor the norm.

Most companies have established PiP policies, and severance even in the cases of "for cause" terminations (though that is rarer)

"Fire with 0 day notice and no severance" is more likely to be found at startups, and/or small owner led companies with no real policies, or HR Depts.
For the "play chess" example a state machine is the perfect place to begin modeling. Games, as a rule, are event-driven and are commonly coupled to a event-loop that triggers the transitions of the state machine. I think top-down decomposition has it's place, but the examples used to describe it should be given a little more thought.
> You are willfully failing to understand the concept of correlation.

No, I am not.

I am saying that this correlation is irrelevant because wind has overwhelming advantages over solar.

> A single axis system has a lower coverage ratio around 100W/m^2 but a higher capacity factor.

Tilting/tracking systems are a nightmare that is horribly expensive to maintain long term. It makes no sense to consider them at grid scale.

> irrational response to the isolated results of a specific residential install

These conclusions have nothing to do with a residential installation. Pretty much all the data comes from Tesla's plan, the references they provide and other reputable references.

> what was that about how stupid people who assume averages for everything are?

You can't control yourself, can you? I have tried, time and time again, to have a conversation with you over multiple threads. You simply cannot do this without resorting to insults. How sad.

I am curious: What is your solution and how do you justify it?

Do you agree with the findings and plan from Tesla's Master Plan Part 3?

No?

Why?

Don't post a wall of links. Do the work and post a cogent argument people can attempt to follow and discuss.

And stop insulting people in every thread you participate in. It makes it very difficult to develop any level of respect for what you are saying.
Seeing a lot of people talk about how the density of water is going to change with a temperature change. I don't really think that's true. Liquid water density is pretty darn inelastic and almost fully incompressible. It's one of the reasons hydraulics works. Ice on the other hand has a pretty different density.

Water density table - https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...

If the temperature of the ocean changed by 10°F that would result in a .1% change in overall volume. Obviously that does make a difference because the ocean is so big, but it's a lot less consequential than ice, which is above the water, melting into the water and ice.
Why don't you want it to be used as training data?

You want visitors to be able to freely benefit from your work. What's wrong with AI also benefiting? Or more specifically the AI's eventual users?
I don't think it's that uncommon. I have personally worked at two companies that didn't do the background check until after employment (which I would never do again), and I've heard this anecdote a few times from others.
Ask HN: Easiest way to file crypto taxes?
I sold the last little bit of my crypto last year—under $40 worth of it. It was just some remnants of Keybase airdrops and a bit or two a friend sent me. But now I've got to figure out how to report this to the IRS. What's the easiest way to do that?

Normally I use TurboTax for my taxes, but I'd really love to avoid paying the higher fees just to report this little bit of money. Any suggestions or guides on doing this part of taxes myself?
I think that's typical in the US. Makes me wonder why even bother calling it a "contract".
Pursuing Scale in Premium SVOD
Congratulations, you’ve reinvented a metro subway but with extra steps.
It's not particularly relevant whether e-bikes are suitable for one person (i.e. you), but whether they are suitable for a lot of people in and around cities where the biggest issues with congestion and pollution are.

The problem is that if people only think in terms of the car form-factor, then congestion is not going to be improved and pollution from tyres is going to be almost as bad as the ICE vehicles that get replaced. Of course there's also the resource usage of cars in terms of building them and requiring lots more energy to shift them around due to their weight.
We have a Miele washing machine. Among its features is a readout that shows cycle, step in cycle, and time remaining in cycle. Do the new ones lack this feature?
> I struggle to find examples that "require" decentralized workflows

Storing factoids that (1) can't be repudiated by anyone (including the initial reporter), (2) can support attestations in the future (I can prove to anyone that I bought something years ago without showing the thing or making myself known), and (3) can only be deanonymized if and when the user wants it to happen.
> If someone sold me support for a piece of open source software (like ISC and BIND) then I definitely would expect some level of ...

The word you were looking for is "support".

If there is something wrong with the "supported" open-source software, then you may expect a certain level of "support". Full-stop.

That generally entails an SLA that says your issue will be reacted to within N-time of opening the issue, which might be nuanced by the tier-level of support purchased. That you are provided access to documentation, or even the source code itself. You might be provided with best-effort support by an agent, which is limited to resolving documented defects, or configuration, or acknowledging standing-bugs which cannot be resolved.

What you cannot expect is the software is updated in accordance with the support incident. For that, send patches, or pay somebody to send patches.
Thousands a day? Really? Even if it were hundreds of thousands a day it would make more sense to use a managed Pub Sub service and save yourself the hassle (assuming modest throughput).
Tldr: uselessness is useful when we narrow the definition of uselessness to be meaningless.

"But truly splendid uselessness nourishes and elevates us spiritually, rather than simply providing a rush of mental or bodily pleasure. The output is always more than the input"

Not all forms of uselessness are praise-worthy, only those that are ... useful.
On the other hand, securing the biological coprocessor in your homelab and running queries on it 24/7 appears to have legal implications.
I want to believe the courts and non-elected bureaucrats will interpret it the same way.

Sadly, with these laws, we'll have to wait for some case law to be certain of the liabilities to serving Europeans customers.
Okay, did you find my downvote useful? Pretend I did it a year ago. :-)
Attribution comes to mind.
Sounds like you were both trying to feed your families :-) unfortunate that it makes so many of our interactions feel artificial
Quickly Formatting a Stack of Commits
https://github.com/Logflare/logflare/blob/staging/LICENSE.md for one thing
But if the ice is floating, it should displace the same volume of water that it will melt into.
JP Morgan Got Scammed
You need to go into the Extension preference page for the extension, and hit the "Allow Access" permission box for allowing access to web url/link information. I can't remember exact wording, but should essentially be one option here and you have to enable it so that it has permission to pass along URL.
VW is putting $200B into the transition, so they're not alone in betting the company. I think it's the right move, but since there are companies who aren't putting the same level of resources in as VW & Ford, we will see who the winners are in a few years.
I don't think I would call any of this take "moral" or "ethical", and in the future, I would suggest refraining from using those words to refer to yourself.

Homeless people are rarely dangerous. They don't want trouble because they know the moment that happens the cops will descend on them for a bit of fun. They are easy prey for others.

It's also disingenuous to suggest that mental illness is the sole cause of homelessness, or that mental illness can always be alleviated with meds. Neither are true.
I’ve always wondered, if one buys, lends and sells their own commodities, aren’t they performing “banking”? Seems like if I were a government, I would want to centralize that behavior and limit it. But if I was an individual, I would want to maximize it.
It appears there is this genre of articles pretending that LLAMA or its RL-HF tuned variants are somehow even close to an alternative to ChatGPT.
Spending more than a few moments interacting even with the larger instruct-tuned variants of these models quickly dispels that idea. Why do these takes around open-source AI remain so popular? What is the driving force?

I've posted this before, but it seems like this genre is just getting more and more popular - and more and more untethered from any actual metrics of how good these models are.
llama.cpp runs on your processor and uses a lot of RAM, so splurging on a GPU isn't going to help the performance