skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of streaming residuals seems to be a big, big part of the strike, and man, that's a tricky issue.

On one hand, writer compensation has always been structured around residuals -- and it seems like pay for writers on streaming shows has stayed the same, even though residuals haven't. That seems unfair.

On the other hand, "residuals" as a concept make less sense for shows that live on subscription streaming platforms.

Each view of a Stranger Things episode generates exactly zero dollars. Obviously there is a lot of value in Netflix having good, popular shows -- but the marginal cost/revenue structure is very different from cable TV, where you can actually map viewers to income whenever you air an episode.

Clearly the writers want to capture some of the possible upside of a super-popular show, much like residuals did in the past (and like startup equity does in SV). I just wonder if the industry is ready for a new structure to try and express that upside-value.
> I would not be surprised if the entire Boric fiasco is just Chinese infiltration.

Large claims require citation. Got any?
I disagree. That would be the BBC.

I think Orwell first made that observation, but it's become a much more effectice propaganda instrument since his day.
They are scrum masters.
Get the hiring manager on a boat with you on international waters. Then they'll have to hire you... because of the implication.

yeeaah, this post is simultaneously hilarious (because the show is hilarious) and also demonstrates that the author is more interested in being edgy than promoting an inclusive environment for people who aren't tech bros.

This speaks to company culture, and to be fair, the more inclusive end of the spectrum isn't a given. There are plenty of companies like Kraken and Basecamp that have made it known they value just focusing on work rather than identity politics, and the author is waving a flag that signals he's part of "their tribe".

To some companies and people (such as myself) this flag happens to look red, but I don't think you can generalize to corporate america, because I think more companies are more interested in cultural homogeneity and having their worker bees looking similar and falling in line than they are in celebrating individuality and promoting diversity/inclusivity in their workforce. Even if most don't make this as explicit as Basecamp/Kraken.
It is just my experience over 20 years of reading. A 2x10 or 2x5 table is not going to make an article too long.

But all too often, the word “average” will be used without even clarifying if it is mean or median, and I have seen too many cases where it just so happens to support whatever argument the publisher is making.

See even the example ghaff quoted. The union went out of its way to remove information about the earnings distribution because they did not want people to know how the median was moving.
Also seems possible that the tools might have been moved, at a later date? I imagine a stone age person digging through some Neanderthal settlement remains, would loot any tools.
Hey I built getdispute.com to do literally exactly this: sue big companies in small claims court easily.

First, I strongly recommend sending them a demand letter. You can generate one for free on getdispute.com/products/demand-letter and/or pay us a few bucks to mail it.

Second, physically mail the letter to their legal address. The mail goes to someone in legal tasked with reading the mail.

90% of our cases end here. A correctly written demand letter, sent by physical mail usually gets noticed and resolved very quickly.

If nothing happens after a few weeks (give it 3-4 wks) then you could file a case in court. This will require you to file the case, pay the filing fee, and then serve the defendant via a 3rd party process server. Could all be done in 1 day if you know what you're doing. If you serve the defendant (FB) correctly, they are now obligated to show up to court or otherwise risk a default judgement against them that cannot be reversed later.

Another 50-75% of cases end here as most defendants prefer to settle out of court.

If they don't respond, you will need to go to your court date and explain the case to the judge. Usually, without a defendant appearing, the court will grant a default judgement in your favor, assuming the judge decides they do in fact have jurisdiction. To be safe on jurisdiction, file in the county FB does business, or otherwise has a legal entity registered.

All of this said... it's probably not worth the time/money to do more than send a demand letter. It is probably worth your time to send a physical demand letter.

Good luck. 2.7m small claims court cases are filed each year in the US, approx 50% by individuals. So you're in good company.
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It's relevant because it proves that majority of the workers are competent. If you are not able to succeed with a competent workforce then you're just a bad CEO/leader and should step down.

Also it's wrong to assume companies are rational. If you are constantly in a cycle of hiring and firing employees, then it indicates you have a no long term vision and no skills to navigate the market.
I'm rooting for them to remain democratic, just saying the resource curse[0] is not a concept made up by evil dastardly westerners to keep "global south" countries down. It seems to be the default path, sadly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
I think Google and OpenAI are equally likely to collect/use/sell any information you give them, so in that sense the risk is the same, but you are incentivized to give way more information to OpenAI, at least if we're comparing search and ChatGPT. Nobody is copy/pasting an entire document into a Google search (it's useless and also it doesn't let you), but you are encouraged to do that in ChatGPT.

Obviously you could also use Google for email and document storage, potentially giving them all that data, but I'm sure the EPA has separately assessed the risks of using cloud providers for those things.
The FBI uses parallel reconstruction a lot to hide how they actually became aware of a suspect. As a jailhouse lawyer it was interesting reading cases where some FBI field agent did something really technical and comparing that with the their public testimony in cases that demonstrated a lack of the technical knowledge/capability needed make those technical jumps.
That would not be ideal for me (Bay Area resident) where water is crazy expensive. I'd want to keep it for watering plants, flushing toilets, etc.
People flag conspiratorial antivax comments, news at 11.

Personally, I already spent two years dealing with physical threats and violence from antimask/antivax crazies, I'm not about to give them the time of day when they crawl out of the woodwork on the internet.
Form a small, informal coop with friends and family.

My grandparents were part of what they called the meat circle. It was a bunch of farmers that took turns slaughtering a cow of their own to share with the group so they didn't have too much meat to deal with at home.
In my mind G-Shock is a brand of watch and there are many different ones.

So the statement “Casio releases a G-Shock watch with fitness features” makes sense. “Casio adds fitness features to G-Shock digital watch” also makes sense. The “original” is a bit confusing to me. And judging by the comments here others, too.

I get why it’s in the headline. This fitness watch is sort of styled like the very first (= “original”, though given the plethora of G-Shock watches and their enormous diversity that seems like a weird way of framing it) G-Shock watch from 1983.

Maybe “Casio releases 40th anniversary G-Shock watch with fitness features”.
Did you stop using it because you read about that, or some actual incident?
Note that these arbitration clauses aren’t necessarily enforceable and small claims judges can and do exercise a lot of discretion in their judgements.
Extending trend lines is a logical fallacy.
Overall this is an excellent write-up and I enjoyed reading it very much! Thanks for the reply!
1. Understood! Yes, I agree about messing up the DOM, and I'm sure you've seen some egregious cases haha. asChild definitely enables some less deliberate choices when composing bits and pieces together and assumes some good habits around event handlers - probably not an approach that scales well for growing teams, but definitely convenient for hacking on things. Can I bum you for a link or some search terms for the "other approaches"? I'm curious about them.

2. You're spoiling us. Thank you. Re-visiting the hooks docs, I think I was just meant to use the `Aria...Props` interfaces the whole time haha. I have a feeling I overcomplicated some things in that codebase.

3. "you can only submit strings and not more complex objects" - I think this is the crux of the tradeoff. Frankly, the only thing I use Formik for when I bring it in is binding Zod schemas to form state to get validation messages in a pinch. If React Aria had a first-class schema-driven Form component or similar, I'd be a satisfied "customer".

Had another random question overnight -

4. Have y'all considered implementing anything in the realm of the "CSS Spatial Navigation" proposal? The conversation around it looks like it has gone quiet in the past few years, but I think there's definitely an opportunity for non-grid-y 2D navigation in web UIs.
This time in history is unique because it’s the first time companies have cared so much about making profit.

/s
As I said, the job is not to know the answer to the question but to work out how. If you are hiring someone from the outside, you are outsourcing basic functions.

If his job is as simple as hiring consultants, why do you need to pay someone $1m+/year to hire a consultant. Just hire a guy on $10k/year who tells you to hire a consultant.

It isn't a valid option. This is one of the reasons why most corporations are poorly managed (right now, I would guess that there are maybe 10 CEOs of US listed companies who will go down as great CEOs...that is being optimistic, almost every CEO is paid like they are a star). Their "thinking" is outsourced to someone hiring a bunch of grads with no experience, that is what consultants are...it is like advertising, churn and burn grads.

A key part of making better decisions is taking those decisions yourself and learning from the outcomes. But the way things happen now, all of the experience is gone and it is just a revolving treadmill of people who move through jobs too quickly to ever see the result of what they did or take responsibility for it. Hiring consultants is an indication that the company lacks executives with the capacity to perform their function correctly (unfortunately, this is the case at most companies now).
No one is mastering anything by censoring themselves - and that's exactly what it is, you still used the word just replaced some letters with dashes. I'd honestly understand if someone said "I wish articles wouldn't use profanities in their titles" - then yes, I'm 100% onboard. But using the profanity, just with dashes instead of letters? It's performative, not dignified.
I'm so confused by this comment.

Could you expand on your thoughts a bit? What do you mean?
Only if you actually get a gig on another season in that same time.

Writing is a very inconsistent job, and stability is really valuable. A contract that guarantees you for half the time, at the same rate, is a lot more uncertainty.
Have a folder/subproject per team?
Chargebacks will get you banned for life from most Meta products, potentially even affecting personal accounts FYI. Adtech vendors have blocklists for users/companies/etc that they will not do business with, and a chargeback will get your name/credit/card/etc on that list.
Figuring out how to use LLMs in production
I find percents bad, hard numbers are much better.

- Automated process 'x', saving company x thousands/millions per year
- Automated process 'y', reducing engineering time from 1 month/year to minutes per year.
What's your argument - that people who don't understand the space at all will dictate rewrites in other languages? It seems very unlikely.
I hear you. The so-called (full stack) jobs they have you doing everything under the sun not necessarily because you are proficient at any given assignment but because you can identify risks and bad practices quickly out of experience. The worst the job the more experience developers they need. I only once had a job where we were doing things right. The customer received our solution and it was so good, the customer said: "This is great, your solution is well put-together and well documented, your API's work out-the-box as expected, and they are fully tested. We can take it from here, thanks". Layoffs started a month later.
Indeed, the paper associated with the blog post is also on arXiv. But how does that relate to your complaint?
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Oh, definitely, but it'd at least (ideally, though not necessarily) make it easy to filter for messages from e.g. official government accounts or real individuals something like that. I wouldn't expect any spam blocking from them, really, but rather an easy way to isolate the important messages. Which is like spam blocking, but in reverse, and is something they could be uniquely positioned to do very effectively.

Then again, they allow mail that fraudulently tries to appear "official" or important when it's just an ad (and sometimes an outright scam!) so all that would have to be legislated to ensure it happens, I suppose. Would love to see "mail system reform" on a party platform, but I guess that doesn't get the voters out.
Not just computers, but the most expensive energy draining component of a computer, and racks of them, in massive farms, generating arguably little value
Data compression is really good these days, and there are file formats and compression strategies that are optimized for gaming. The specific technique being used here is still used in 2D games, but there are spritesheet optimization tools available to do it automatically.

My understanding is that for the biggest games there's an intentional tradeoff to use more storage in exchange for faster load times, although the need for that has apparently lessened over time. If you go back and look at some of the big multi-disc games of the late '90s/early '00s you might be shocked by how much duplication there was in order to reduce the need for disc swapping. (You might also be shocked by how much of that disc space was required solely to support pre-rendered cutscenes.)
Even Newtonian physics can be very non-intuitive. Especially when things get complicated. A lot of experiments done in introductory physics courses revolve around this. Stuff like a feather and a bowling ball falling in a vacuum and throwing a ball on a merry go round. Rotating reference frames are the worst...
I am very glad to hear you liked it :)

That's a really good point - I suppose you could rephrase to say "the work that's easiest to discuss achievements in the first round interview is rarely code"

Basically, it's hard to explain, even to a technical person, how hard a code problem was, even if your solution was brilliant. But being able to do stuff that isn't code is a really easy way to showing you can 'getting shit done'

I actually cover this in my follow-up post, around the difficulty in detecting strong technical proficiency in a short first-round interview.
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That's the smallest 'screen' that I have ever played a game on for sure!

Brilliant work.
So it's tricky. I believe the solution is to break the gameplay down into basic tasks - moving to a targeted point, deciding which point to move to, avoiding attacks, attacking, etc.

But the more "tasks" you train the RL AI on, its like you put more guardrails on it and it becomes closer and closer to "supervised" learning -- it's only learning what you imagined for it. Which misses out on the fun of a lot of the potential for RL AI, which is that it should come up with novel techniques and strategies to games that humans can learn from.

So, yeah. Personally I feel like the answer is doing lots of different versions of mini-training for tons of different games -- but just the sub-part training for the games. Then once it's trained on the "universal mechanics" of gameplay, allow it to start playing more games.

The trick is going to be super-generalization. IMHO. But in AI, opinions are a dime a dozen.
The last sentences read like the opening header on a landing page.

That’s a cool business.
You need long enough that you reach steady state at speed, the choice of a mile is a bit arbitrary, but seems reasonable in that regard.

You also need to test your power distribution strategy, and cut over between sections, etc... those require a longer run, and again, a reasonable choice.
Interesting! My ‘hubby’ actually sold me her Apple Watch and I gave her a G-Shock in exchange as she felt the Apple Watch to be a little too much - but she actually recently (only yesterday) did the Toronto Marathon (so proud of her!) and I couldn’t help but feel like she could’ve maybe used or kept some interesting data from her runs in general.

I immediately sent her this and with her birthday coming up I’m thinking this could be a great gift. :)
> and a forum becomes inundated with people vying for attention

You mean spam. Any system in which does not quickly and harshly punish spam will quickly be crushed under its weight ruining the perceived value that attracted users to the service in the first place.
My answer to that is that there's no way to know in advance if 64 (or any other #) of bit is enough or not. Tech history is full of examples of arbitrary limits being defined thinking that there's no possible way anyone would need to exceed them, only to find that everyone needs to exceed them later on.

Is 64 bits enough? Maybe. Maybe not. But if you're wanting to future-proof, then setting an arbitrary limit is not the way to go.
"Dozens of former national security officials have gone to work for Facebook and Twitter after leaving government service, raising concerns about the influence of their onetime agencies over the social media giants. [0]

At Twitter alone, at least eight former FBI agents work at the company’s so-called “trust” and “security” divisions — including its product policy manager Greg Anderson, who previously worked on “psychological operations” at the National Security Council, The Post has learned. Another is Matthew Williams, the company’s co-lead of its Trust and Safety department who spent more that 15 years in intelligence with the agency.

The discovery of the DC-to-Silicon Valley pipeline comes amid an outcry over revelations that the FBI influenced Twitter to suppress The Post’s account over its reporting on Hunter Biden’s overseas business interests in October 2020 and has regularly demanded specific accounts and tweets be banned.

Multiple releases of internal company documents since Dec. 2 show Twitter developed a close working relationship with the intelligence community, which frequently leaned on them to censor political speech."

Meta’s top policy manager for “misinformation,” Aaron Berman, is a former CIA senior analytics manager.

The migration from the intelligence services is particularly pronounced at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, where at least nine former CIA agents and six former intelligence employees at other federal agencies are or have been employed.

Jim Hanson, president of information warfare analysis and consulting firm WorldStrat, told The Post Meta took a particular interest in bringing G-men and woman on board after the 2016 presidential election.

Meta’s top policy manager for “misinformation,” Aaron Berman, is a former CIA senior analytics manager who spent 15 years with “The Company” — even writing the president’s daily briefings.

Others include Scott Stern, Meta’s senior manager for trust and safety risk intelligence, who spent more than seven years with the FBI leading “high-stakes operational determinations for complex and ambiguous overseas counterterrorism operations,” according to his LinkedIn page.

Stern joined Meta in January 2020 to help develop algorithms to combat “misinformation,” as well as more traditional FBI bailiwicks like child safety and counterterrorism."

[0] https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-...

"Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship" [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532

Maybe it's cognitive dissonance. Maybe it's simply that you support what they are doing, who they are censoring, the propaganda they promote, or you feel this deep-state apparatus is aligned with your interests and your worldview, but it's very obvious what this is.

I'm going to assume you're an intelligent person, just being disingenuous. They explicitly admit they are in these positions to counter "misinformation".
Any investigation opened prior to the expiration can be continued under it. Surprisingly they opened quite a few 'open ended' investigations.
No, shows actually require more work today. For example, Wednesday, is only 8 episodes but required 8 months of actual production. In comparison, Grey's Anatomy averages over 20 episodes a season (in its heyday, 27 episodes/season) but only required 6 months of production each season. (Writers who are part of the "writing room" are contracted to the show until production ends. They can write film scripts in their free time but can't work in another show's writer's room.)

The problem is that everything these days is heavily serialized, and directors and studios are far more willing to demand last-minute script changes. Because of the nature and extent of serialization, this requires significant amounts of work--often more work than the original writing, because changes have to be propagated throughout the season.
Amazing how you can speak for 8 billion people!

I know it's edgy to sit in a relatively safe country in the world and espouse about how bad the US is... but if you were to actually look at the facts of the past 70 years of general US hegemony (nearly 30 of true hegemony) -- most of the indicators are showing the longest periods of peace, economic growth, and lifespans in most of the world.

Look at the other 2 candidates -- Russia and China

Russia: invaded and annexed part of their neighbor. Brutal destruction of Chechnya. Support of NK with technology.

China: autocratic communist cabal. Essentially took Hong Kong by force. Threatening to invade and annex Taiwan by force.

The argument is clear, and it's also clear that your edgy "US bad!" stance is sophomoric at best.
It wasn't sarcasm, it was just being humorous...and, indeed, I have replies saying how ridiculous it is to expect executives to be able to run a company. The sarcasm wouldn't have been detected because the reality is that this kind of thinking has become embedded in US corporate culture: reward with no responsibility.
> He will be asked to justify that belief

Why? His lawyers could provide the same justification: Convincing deepfakes are easily produced at low cost by adversarial plaintiffs and internet trolls.

> That he's not saying that is telling

People are imperfect and if you misspeak under oath there are consequences. Testifying at all subjects you to cross-examination, which is time consuming and subjects you to lawyer tricks by the other party. Not wanting to do it is the default.

> They have submitted it as evidence. The jury weighs if it's credible.

First the judge decides if it's even admissible. There are some forms of evidence so weak that they only serve to prejudice the jury, and unauthenticated video is pretty much there now.

Demanding that the introducing party authenticate it should be table stakes at this point.