skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yet every single 'manager' just sees AI as an opportunity to oust these people. They see workers as tools that should be replaced as soon as possible. They would rather have worse quality content, just more and cheaper.

Yep, I once wrote an app that cut the time needed to process medical claims by half. I asked the manager what was going to happen to the medical claims staff. Were they going to be retrained? 'No. Half are getting let go as soon as this goes to prod.' I went from feeling very proud about the app to feeling absolutely terrible.
Disagree with the latex point. If you are using latex just to put your resume together, you are wasting your time. Just do it in google docs or word. Anyone reviewing your resume won't even care unless you brought it up for some reason.
This explains vampires.
> Jan 10, 2023

stale culture war
Well, respected sure, he does write on interesting topics. He's just not a very effective write, he's a story teller, which is good for novels, but annoying for articles like this one.

Anyway, I fail to see the point really of the article. I don't disagree with it, but I doubt that anyone in power cares that Facebook is a zombie, if it still makes money. The only way to really implement a way for consumers to leave these "expired platforms" is to prevent them from forming to begin with. I just don't see how you'd do that, make a law that states that you can't be a social network and a marketplace, or that your users aren't allowed to coordinate event using your platform. They will regardless of you supporting it or not. Half of Twitters features are invented by the users, Twitter just added the features to support the thing the users did anyway.
Game Pass is doing a lot better than the XBox itself is. I honestly think that Microsoft needs to pull a Sega, stop making hardware and release their games on other people's hardware instead. Game Pass on PS5 would get a lot of subscribers. Halo on PS5 would do insanely well.
I get your cynicism because I've made the same complaint. But I wouldn't universalize it, because I think it's more of a marketing and context issue than an issue fundamental to the whole ecosystem.

Startups often prioritize time-to-market for what is effectively a prototype. Startups get a lot of hype. Therefore, frameworks that focus on time to market over refactoring / debugging get a lot of hype. Sometimes those frameworks actually internally put a lot of effort into refactoring / debugging, but when it comes to marketing themselves, they don't.

But some frameworks are marketed more towards mature or large organizations, and they certainly do emphasize refactoring / debugging. The JVM and .NET runtimes are big examples here. Their debugging and operational monitoring capabilities are several classes above most of the competition, and their primary and tool-vendor ecosystems continually push further debugging capabilities as features.
Not even a cool cynical take. It fails to take into account that Intel has taken tax incentives for providing jobs. They might be justified in what they're doing here and it might be mostly unrelated to these tax incentives, but they certainly don't have zero obligation to provide jobs. https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/intel
I wonder if they are allowed to search on Google.
I don't consider unlimited battery life (meaning battery will likely last longer than the watch itself), water resistance, and ruggedness to be part of "casio purism". I don't want to charge my watch daily or weekly, like I don't charge my clothes or shoes or umbrella.
I think the journalist is bang on point. The company can pay $1.5B in dividends but cannot pay enough to keep their workforce. Corps will do everything to avoid paying their workforce fair share of the profits.
Stripe has always had some of the best docs since the beginning. The cool little api integration with your sandbox api keys really stood out for a lot of developers who were early adopters of their payment processing service.

Laravel and Vue.js are another two that come to mind when it comes to the best documentation. Laravel has done most of the boilerplate leg work for you, and their detailed docs provide you the keys to the car to build just about anything. Vue.js also has great documentation for that simple fact that Evan created Vue.js with the intention of being able to read the docs end to end and understand Vue.js over a single weekend when a developer was off from their frontend job.

Personally I love documentation, but I’ve struggled for years to find a way to write the perfect Stripe level documentation for projects.

If you are interested in creating your own Stripe looking documentation and content right within your app like they do, then please check out what I’ve been working on.

I would love some more support and feedback!

The link to the repo and project are in my bio if you’re interested :)
Imperial is fun!
>Company Y could pay their employees to sit around, but why would they?

I worked a short stint for a couple of years at a post house that fell into this very predicament. They staffed up to complete a full length 3D animated feature. They were very excited about the accomplishment and on that high energy wave decided to keep the staff around from encouraging plans at starting work on a new feature. Those plans never came to fruition and the team languished and became a very expensive part of the company's books. Other divisions suddenly became less profitable because they were supplementing the whole employee base. So not only did it affect the bottom line, it also negatively affected morale of all of those actively working.

In Hollywood, avoiding this is common by laying off everyone at the end of production. For seasonal/episodic shows, people are re-hired when the next season goes into production.
Everybody knows that everyone lied, that there were no WMD, that all is an excuse to kill and profit, that the real culprits got await scot free.

It all comes down to the US being a failed democracy. It does not matter if it's all lies, the people in power cannot be prosecuted, the secret agencies cannot be shut down. The beast is too big, we just have to live with the tyranny hoping it doesn't turn on us next.
> Keep in mind that dinosaurs evolved in a 12°C warmer world.

Sounds like a ridiculous claim to me. Source?

Edit: searching seems to suggest 5-10 degrees warmer. 12 warmer seems like an aggressive bet, but it may be possible

> Move to high elevation and latitudes. Make use of shelter and caves. Make use of cooling technologies.

Ok and what are you going to eat? And use to power your cooling tech? And how will you create fresh water? And where will you acquire raw materials to build things? And how will you survive the severe weather?
I'm surprised that old emails count as evidence. An email file is just text - text that anyone can write/edit/fake.
> I also don't quite see how merely having attestation in the standard is harmful.

Because having it there makes it an option, and I think that history is pretty clear that if you give the tech industry a bat, they will beat their users with it sooner or later.
Physarum
We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years…
Very glad to see gap support added. I was playing around with a fork to add it, but didn’t get much time to polish it up
Can LLM already serve as a database interface? Big Bench for Text-to-SQL
>> GPT and Linux: Any projects trying to merge the two?

They are two large, but unrelated projects. Why should they be merged? How would they be merged?

This is like saying: "Pepsi Cola and Ford Motor Company: Any projects trying to merge the two?" I suppose you could merge them by installing cola dispensing fountains into vehicles, but I am not sure how useful it would be.
> Yoga's deps

ah yes, all zero of them

https://www.npmjs.com/package/yoga-wasm-web?activeTab=depend...
The information content of a file is approximated by it's compressed size. If you have a 1Gb file of all zeros or all ones it will compress down to almost nothing, but a 1Gb file of random numbers will hardly compress at all.
How does one send this message to BBC? They should be ashamed of themselves.
So walk me through this...

Under the new law, if Apple, or anyone else, wanted to develop a new port what would they have to do?

1) Create the new port.
2) Get the government to sign off on it.
3) Get the market to adopt it.

You see the problem though...

2 and 3 are both reliant on each other.

So if Apple comes up with a great new port, why would anyone shift? For that matter, why would Apple even try to come up with one, knowing there's a huge uphill climb to even be able to use it themselves?

Historically Apple (or anyone else) would just have to come up with a port... use it on all their products, and sooner or later others would catch on.

Who knows what the future holds... but I know 20 years from now phones will still be using USB-C thanks to this law. And that concerns me.

My main objection is just I don't like the USB-C port.

Like, will this ruling apply to laptops? So we can't have MagSafe? Or we have to have both? Does Apple have to ship with USB-C and then you'll have to buy MagSafe ports? That sucks.

The USB-C port has the stem on the device. Which means, if the stem -- the most breakable part of the port -- breaks, you're buying a new device instead of just a new plug. That's what I fundamentally hate about USB-C.

And it's thicker than a Lightning port. There's not a huge difference, but what if I want a slimmer phone again? Too bad, so sad... the government doesn't want you to have sleek and sexy.

Except, can Apple ditch ports all together and just use wireless charging... or is it mandated to have a USB-C plug?

Apple is only going to make one version of their phone... and I just don't like Europeans being able to dictate what gets sold in America.

Apple (and others) bow to Chinese (and others) censorship... I hate that too.

This all just feels so petty... "Hooray, we stuck the Americans with a different phone port, isn't Europe so wonderful!" Just feels like a weird place to flex.

All of this feels like someone is upset at Apple for not paying enough in taxes so they are trying to get a bit of revenge.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/apple-ireland-tax-europe...
You do realize the article you just linked starts with "threw out a lawsuit by the families"
You see a company you don't want to work for because they fire people, I see a company I would want to work for because they don't keep around people they don't need.

Don't get me wrong, I don't actually want to work for Intel, but my entire personal ethos is basically "efficiency is good, actually", and it is interesting how differently other people see the world.
That doesn’t mean it can’t be questioned
Wow, no. Just no. That's not how research is done. What you're describing sounds more like writing a clickbait article than writing a research paper. Writing a research paper in that manner would damage the researcher's credibility. A good research paper does lead with a discussion of related research and methodology and is careful to not accidentally make unfounded conclusions. In fact, some papers will include a "threats to validity" section, which I think is a good exercise in skepticism.
https://www.google.com/search?q=intel+profit&rlz=1C5GCEM_enU...

Seems to say they lost 2.7B in the first quarter of 2023?
Yes definitely. Being able to easily access them via a remote shell is a killer feature IMO. Being able to pipe + automate is useful too if used non-interactively.
> What do you think shareholders expect to gain?

A stronger onshore chipmaking industry could be one thing. There are plenty of other reasons individual shareholders might have to park their money in one place as opposed to another which don't simply have to do with maximizing returns. People have ethical considerations, ideological considerations, patriotic considerations...

The purpose of Intel is to manufacture chips. Selling them to make money allows them to reinvest to make more chips. Offering shares on public exchanges raises funds to... you guessed it, make more chips.

If the only true end goal of every corporation is to make money, then eventually we would eventually end up in a financial shell game where money is shuttled around ledgers while nothing of value is created. (Yes, I know.)
I complement you for spelling "harebrained" correctly.
Okay. Anything of substance?
For those not wanting to download a PDF:

>At this time, agency personnel are not authorized to use Artificial Intelligence tools (e.g., ChatGPT, OpenAI, etc.) for official use. In the interim, EPA has blocked access to them.

>Background

>Artificial Intelligence is a technology that simulates human intelligence processes to make decisions and perform tasks, often using business information. AI tools collect and process large amounts of data that may contain highly sensitive information, such as financial, confidential business and Personally Identifiable Information.

>EPA is currently assessing potential legal, privacy and cybersecurity concerns as releasing information to AI tools could lead to potential data breaches, identify theft, financial fraud or inadvertent release of privileged information. We must implement robust security measures and rules of use to ensure EPA personnel and information is protected.

>Interim Decision

>While the agency works to implement security measures and rules of use, as an interim decision, EPA has blocked access to AI tools. The Agency is continuing to analyze AI tools and will follow up with a final decision.

>The interim decision to block these tools was made after careful consideration of various factors, including potential legal, information security and privacy concerns. If an employee has a compelling requirement to access AI tools, the employee can reach out to their Information Security Officer and request an exception to this interim decision. More detailed communication is forthcoming

Personally it makes pretty obvious sense to me. Having possibly sensitive data be put into the AI by someone who doesn't know any better is an extreme risk worth restricting access to AI for now.
Not sure. Compiler is x86 + LLVM right now so I don't know if anyone's built a Jai binary for Silicon yet.
I don't think that's actually true. e.g. a quick google search turns up [1] [2] [3] which all state that a board is not legally obligated to maximize shareholder value. Do you have a source for the law/court decision?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

[2] https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/shareholder...

[3] https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...
Today I learned the -n flag. Is this also an OpenBSD exclusive?

I have to say, these flags are a really nice enhancement to cron.
This is't 2.8kWh per mile. There's only 1 mile being built. So you maybe get 2kW for driving that stretch - assuming you have the inductive capabilities in your car.

Does any car support this yet?

A nice theoretical boondoggle when we could be building out rail or funding deployment of actual charging stations.
In case you have your eye on an inactive Twitter handle, now is a good time to monitor it.

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The jury is supposed to make all the decisions with respect to weighing evidence once it’s admitted. The standard for admitting evidence is very low if it can be authenticated, and it’s basically “is it relevant and does it have an impact on the questions the jury will be asked to ultimately come to a conclusion on without unduly prejudicing the jury in some way.” The jury’s decision must meet the standard of liability (more likely than not, clear and convincing, no reasonable doubt, etc.)

So it’s entirely possible for a ton of evidence to come in that none of it meets what you’d consider the “no reasonable doubt” standard and for a jury to consider all that suspicious evidence to be true enough that they can convict someone under the “no reasonable doubt” standard.
What are the ~12 crypto coins that are illegal to sell?
Lots of references to that weird cartoon frog in the JSON output.

Using something that's been quite controversial in the past does seem at least a little naive ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog
Yeah, their involvement in the assassination of Fred Hampton and blackmail/suicidal encouragement of MLK Jr. makes this pretty clear.

I'm sure if some brave activists were to rob the correct field office (which is the only reason we ever found out about COINTELPRO) today, they'd find similar evidence for the murders of Darren Seals and other BLM figures.

> Two other men connected to the protests, Darren Seals, 29; and Deandre Joshua, 20, were found killed under similar circumstances. Joshua was found dead in a torched car in November 2014 during the Ferguson protests. Two years later, Seals was found dead in a torched car after having been shot.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ferguson-d...
I like Steam. It is much better than pretty much every other game store platform thingy.

I do sort of wonder—Valve is notoriously slow with their development. Maybe that’s an advantage for a platform developer. They seems to make surprisingly few shit moves, but then, they also don’t make many moves at all. Either they are on the same enshittification trajectory as everybody else, just moving along more slowly. Or they can see the other platforms steal their ideas, sprint ahead in to shitsville, and say “ok let’s not do that.”
The article claims "[t]his calcium carbonate strengthens the biochar" but this runs counter to my understanding and I'd like to see some numbers, particularly versus alkalized biochar that is never exposed to CO2.

How important is binding in compression (which is what concrete is used for)? Not very.

Carbonate doesn't strengthen, it weakens. And if forming carbonate in biochar strengthens versus standard biochar, I would imagine forming oxide in biochar would strengthen even more.
You mean datalog or Mangle? Mangle adds a bunch of things that make various things easy to model in the sense that you have entities and connections and data and query that. Maybe one could call this a "knowledge hypergraph".

Datalog is very basic and everyone needs aggregations and structured data so Mangle also supports aggregations, structured data and also some function calls. When you use these it is clearly no longer datalog, but it is easy to see what part is datalog and what part is "more."

To qualify this a little: Mangle does not provide much for mutability (neither the "spec" which is a bit implicit, nor the implementation) so if you want to make a real DB with inserts or an RPC interface you have to code that yourself.

I find having a readable source file and running queries is good for playing around and also may cover many use cases for small DBs with static or slow changing data, or configuration.
Every company I've been a part of has redesigned their front end at least once.

These redesigns would be a lot more difficult if we had to edit HTML on the client and the HTML that a server returns.

Also, HTMX is best styled with semantic classes. Which is a problem for companies using Tailwind and utility classes in their HTML. With class-heavy HTML it's nearly impossible to redesign in two different places. And performance suffers and returning larger chunks of HTML.

Despite all that, I want HTMX to be the standard way companies develop for the web. But these 2 problems need to be addressed first, I feel, before companies (like mine) take the leap.
And they have no legal duty to their employees?
If they issued the dividend after they fired people and became profitable again that would be one thing. That isn't what happened here right? Or did I misunderstand something?
It was a Fiddler on the Roof reference. I don't believe most people think of Fiddler on the Roof as a musical about pogroms, although from a certain point of view maybe it is. He's referencing it because the final scene is what's important.
While I do think "enshittification" is a thing, I think it's also the fear of becoming "stale" that leads platforms to eventually overcompensate, aliening its users and potentially dying off. In my opinion, the life cycle of a platform looks like:

1. Platform is created with a strong vision in mind.

2. Platform gains popularity, adding new features. Many will die here, but the most successful projects will create features that positively supplement the core vision. There is a lot of positivity amongst its userbase.

3. Platform eventually becomes one of the leaders amongst its particular niche, typically new features begin to slow down as the platform reaches its ideal feature set and all the low hanging fruit is gone.

4. The platform is no longer causing disruption in the space, but is now the status quo. New competitors or clones will pop up trying to get a piece of the pie, but the network effect keeps users on the platform

5. Despite having an ideal feature set, platforms don't want to completely stop development, so new features continue to come in, but are more and more misaligned to the original vision. UI changes, incorporating clever features from its competitors, or trying to chase the trends in the tech space (NFTs, AI, etc)

6. Users are more and more alienated, but are willing to remain with the platform until a competitor arrives that is viewed to be worth the trouble to switch. As the network effect kept users on the platform, it also opens a floodgate as users quickly switch away.

7. The platform languishes in relative obscurity before being bought out and left in a zombie state.

I think there are quite a few established platforms that remain in stage 5 or so. There's lots of criticism of Facebook, Twitter, Discord, etc. but everyone continues to use them because of the value they feel from other users using the platform. It's only once people leave for greener pastures that they die out (just look at the rise and fall of chat apps like AIM, MSN, Skype, etc. over time).
You're factually incorrect. Sawdust is not cellulose, and sawdust is not used in food. Cellulose is a purified extract from wood, just like sugar is a purified extract from sugar beets. And shredded/crumbled cheese have long used cellulose for its anti-caking properties. It's not a scam, it's so your cheese doesn't clump.
what about companies that don't issue dividends or stock buybacks? does that mean that their stock is worthless?
> On topic though, this doesn't make "It could be fake," a reasonable defense.

Why not?

If you go into court claiming you have a contract with someone but you have nothing notarized or even signed, you're the one who has to provide evidence of your claim. A video is no longer sufficient to do that because any plaintiff or internet troll now has the ability to convincingly fabricate one. It's no more proof of anything than the plaintiff making an unsubstantiated claim.

> The courts will have to deal with it one way or another, and right now expert witnesses is the tool they have, and the tool defendants will need to use.

Why should it be the defendants who have to pay for the expert instead of the plaintiffs?
Obviously. My original question was whether the justification for extrajudicial killings has yet been tested by a court, as claimed
So as a foreigner what I don't get tis shouldn't not getting paid the fair wages drive down demand for these kinds of jobs? Am I in the minority in beleiving that customers will pay what they are charged upfront instead of extra sneaky costs. (Btw I will definitely tip for exceptional service but I think bringing me food and not throwing it on the table is kinda bare minimum:) )
Ah, I see you've been to the South

It's way too cost efective for the majority of people to consider anything else
Believe me, our startup offering a coffee marketplace for fans of TANO*C HARDCORE music who want to contribute to Azeri poverty elimination efforts is going to need to scale from hundreds of users to hundreds of millions in a matter of months and you need to design ahead for that.