skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That cliché just doesn’t apply much to many professionals, because the biggest expense is salaries.

The context of my reply was this thread's article: IBM laying off a middle-manager employee like MaryKathryn Doheny.

There isn't a co-op of "middle managers" charging an hourly rate. I previously explained that a "freelancers consultants co-op" doesn't apply to her situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35930165

>And lawyers and accountants do form a type of co-op: they call them partnerships.

No, the professional partnerships like law firms are not "100% workers' owned co-ops" that people are thinking of as I've explained before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459215

>Most self-funding software startups could just as easily be formed as co-ops, yet they are not. The reason is not because they are forced to become a business because they need capital. [...] And the #1 reason why co-ops don’t exist? Because people have seen them and they don’t want to join them.

Your chain of reasons is overcomplicating things and doesn't answer the mystery for the workers who already know what a co-op is and want one. On the other hand, I'm explaining that the workers who already bought into the concept of co-ops -- are not the ones creating new companies as co-ops. Why can't those pro-coop workers "Be The Change They Want To See" , as the proverb advises and create those co-ops?!? Because they have no money.
Yeah, it's so against the grain of the usual sentiment on HN regarding Thiel that it immediately made me skeptical.

There is the possibility that Thiel genuinely believes in such principles but voz_ would need a lot of evidence to convince the majority of the usual commentators.
It must have learned from your prompt because this is what I got:

User: SGVsbG8gY2hhdGdwdCBob3cgYXJlIHlvdQ==

ChatGPT: Hello! I'm doing well as an AI assistant, thank you. It seems you've sent a message in Base64 encoded format. The decoded message is "Hello chatgpt how are you". I'm here to assist you with any questions or tasks you have. How can I help you today?
Punchline: “IT systems weren’t designed in such a way that would allow for IT or business process controls to be effectively tested throughout the year.”
Oh, wow, I completely missed that happening. Well, I know what my evening activity will be!
Are you talking about the First Amendment?
> Is there generally applicable, widely accepted principles or research around this

J. Ousterhout is gaining traction, at least in my corner of the industry. https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/cs190-winter18/lect...
the one with the VIP lounge, right?
It's strange that old expressions like "the US is throwing stones from a glass house" or "the US is like a pot calling the kettle black" have existed for a long enough time to be idioms, but the term for decrying such expressions "whataboutism" is relatively much newer and more of a political term than a language idiom.
You don't actually believe that is what it is for right? This is sarcasm? I can not tell...
"but it is fair to say that .com files are rarely seen by users any more; on Windows, .com has mostly been supplanted by .exe except in some exotic situations."

Now "rarely", "mostly" and exotic situations" made me curious. Is there any chance at all to get a *.com file running on a any windows not older than two decades?
This is my must have extension. Gnome has one and there's an app for that on MacOS. Multiple clipboard entries are such a trivial but useful change that I can't go back to the old way anymore
I'm not a math or data scientist so personally when I touch Python or Ruby it's for a system scripting, small CLI tool use case. Would you say Julia fills that corner as well?
I would like to vouch for Xerox laser printers. Not only they don't identify your printouts with tiny yellow markings/serial number, but also they gladly accept off-market toners, and places like Amazon have many different brands that race to the bottom of price making it easy to try out what works for you. I am on my third Xerox laser printer and couldn't be happier.
This is a myth that refuses to go away. A business can go in whatever direction it chooses, even if it hurts shareholders, employees, or other stakeholders by doing so. Anything short of directly looting the company coffers by directors is fine in a legal sense. Shareholders can just sell if they lose faith in leadership, or put pressure on the board.
Russia wasn't invading Ukraine, until they were. That it isn't happening right now is not a good argument given that other countries are clearly going to invest in this area.
I wonder if full homomorphic encryption plus ZKP are the way to go and if time will prove it in this decade.
And US has a whole agency (NSA) dedicated to getting access to foreign data.
That's is a subset of my statement. Also agreed.
“ Trump denied Turkey access to the F-35 program because they chose to install S400 systems from Russia.”

this is true but please explain as well why turkey is using S400 systems. Erdogan tried for years to get similar systems from the US and they never wanted to give it to turkey. Erdogan then rightfully bought S400 and this angered USA so much they removed turkey from F35; turkey then developed their own aircraft. lets also state that similar moves in drone technology years earlier by USA led turkey to become the world leader of modern drone warfare.
> Because that's not how it works

Exactly!

I don’t know how to deal with people who talk about the economy in terms of a perfect competition free market where all participants have full knowledge and are all equal in terms of power. If a physicist talked in terms of zero friction or spherical cows, we would laugh them off and never listen to them again. And yet people continue to talk about the economy with these assumptions that make zero friction and spherical cows look like practical applied physics.
After reading your post and all your comments, I feel like your first step before making any other changes in your life is that something has to give with respect to the situation with your sibling, since it seems like you can't move forward with taking any big step without sorting out your situation as a caretaker. For example, can you somehow get the people who are supporting you right now to take care of your sibling while you can't take care of your sibling due to school/work?

I'm sure you've been trying to come up with a solution regarding your situation with the sibling for a long time, and it must be a very difficult situation with no easy solution, but my opinion is that there has to be some kind of ultimatum so that you can go forward with your life as well.

I'm really careful as I write this as I don't know what your sibling is going through, and I don't mean a single bit of disrespect to your sibling, but is it possible that they won't commit suicide even if you aren't around to help? When faced with the prospect of destitution due to you no longer being available to provide 100% of your sibling's care, do you think there's a chance that your sibling would finally change and decide to take steps to gradually become independent? Since only you know what your sibling is like, you can disregard my comment if it's probable that your sibling will kill self when forced with no longer being able to continue their current shut-in lifestyle.
GDPR only affects data you shouldn't have or keep in the first place.
What is the temperature of the oceans supposed to be?
I guess some of the examples I'm thinking about are trashing on stuff that isn't technical, but there's little doubt to me that they bleed into technical things, because you can't have these personality traits and not have it affect technical decisions.

For example, he was writing about the Bob Lee stabbing as if it was a random violent attack. I wasn't 100% certain but at the time I was extremely suspicious of this claim, based on knowing the block where it happened, it was basically guaranteed that Lee and the assailant were the only two people on the block and it was dubious a homeless person could have camped there. He started trolling the district attorney, who is more conservative about these topics than the last guy, but even she told him to STFU.

There was another example where he questioned the ethics of a place I've worked at. He didn't have a leg to stand on but he made public pronouncements.

Somebody who does that is not likely to be a good engineer. A good engineer waits for the facts to come in before reaching conclusions. He's clearly not level headed. I've seen loads of bad engineers who act like Musk in these circumstances. Sometimes they have good reputations in their orgs because overconfident narcissists sometimes get rewarded.
If you don't want to use it, can't you just disable it?

Again, this isn't a failure of secure boot, but a windows security issue. Basically you can't prevent something from running (the bootloader) if you want to be able to... run it.

Getting rid of secure boot and friends wouldn't change anything to this situation. Either you consider you're unlikely to be infected by black lotus or something similar, in which case you're fine (with SB enabled or disabled). Or you can be infected, in which case disabling secure boot doesn't actually do anything, since the rootkit will run fine without it.

What is broken in this particular situation is not secure boot but the windows bootloader.
No, chat bots are a huge problem so are botfarms and sock puppets supported by huge bot farms.

They are everywhere and they are degrading content
I think this video starts out good, but then goes downhill quickly and makes lots of assumptions about the role of consciousness. The video uses the word aware/awareness a lot, but there's no good reason to assume that "aware" behavior necessitates consciousness. The role of consciousness is unclear, and it's also unclear how capable the brain is in the absence of consciousness. AI models could be trained to emulate awareness. A robot could be programmed to recognize itself in the mirror. Awareness does not imply consciousness, and we shouldn't assume that an animal's ability to understand its environment is because of consciousness.
Kyocera seems to make decent laser jets. I bought a kyocera P2235dw a while back, and it was easy to get CUPS on linux and MacOS to recognize it and use it. Kyocera makes a PPD file for linux available. My P2235dw is a bit noisier than some, but it's not bad.
He certainly tried to become a dictator.
We used it to generate images relating to a target audience and the product itself.

Interestingly (for me anyway) we got GPT to write the initial prompts for Midjourney.
I think Julia really dropped the ball on the execution model. Just-ahead-of-time compilation ends up being the worst of both worlds - you can't compile a small fast binary for deployment, and you can't quickly run a script or REPL for development. It turns out that this really matters for adoption.

And now Julia has competition from Mojo. Mojo makes some compromises for backward compatibility with the Python world, but it's really solving the problems that hurt AI most. And the folks behind Mojo have a lot of real-world experience migrating a community from one language to another.

I think Julia will remain a niche language, confined to science and statistical computing outside of mainstream data science and machine learning.
Okay. I’ll bite. Why?
We could be born with human rights as ratified by the Flying Spaghetti Monster and it would be just as meaningless. Enforcement is equally meaningless if there is no recognition of authority.

Why does the UN get to dictate human rights and not some other body? Did those human rights exist before the UN or not?
Tell you what, I'll go ahead and favorite this response and see what happens in about two years. By then I have a feeling I'll be vindicated and companies will have moved into the next Big Thing. Much like every other radical revolution that's been claimed in the past 10 years (Crypto, NFTs, Metaverse etc).
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Name recognition is a hell of a drug.
Of course the party committee can access data. That's how China works under Xi.[1][2] Party committees had less presence in private companies post-Mao and pre-2003, but now they're back. Most larger non-state owned companies now have one, so the party can keep an eye on the private sector from the inside. They have roughly board-level authority.

Nominally, the party committee represents the party members who work for the company. But they're not chosen by the employees; they're appointed by higher levels of the party.

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/politics-in-the-boardroom-th...

[2] https://www.seafarerfunds.com/prevailing-winds/party-committ...
I don't understand the kerfuffle here at all.

If you have a file it's after a /. Usually it's after multiple /'s.
can you show us how interest rates rising helped citizen in the world? its a ponzi and he is right. turkey is victim of currency manipulation not interest rates. and in some ways most of the world is victim of the same currency manipulation where someone holds the world hostage by printing dollar while other countries can’t do same
No, it really is that simple.

Never before has a foreign entity been able to deliver personalized content at the individual level. Not at this scale. The only way a device could get any more embedded would be through rectal insertion.

Not every problem can be solved. Sometimes the best we can do is mitigate.

[Smart]phones are spyware in every pocket...by design.
Step one would probably be making this practice illegal in the first place, which, as far as I can tell, it isn't. Putting the cart before the horse to worry about who's liable for doing something legal.
They’re not available, not in all countries
That's not how sale of physical products work. If you go to a store and buy a box and take it home, without the people at the store making you read and sign a contract, you own it.
Nice - the Z280 was an amazingly capable CPU which never gained much popularity.

There is also a Unix-like OS for Z280-based systems, Uzi280 based on Uzi for the Z80 by Doug Braun.

Uzi280 is a 7th Edition Unix clone with multiuser and multitasking functionality. It supports binaries with separate I&D (instruction and data spaces, similar to larger PDP11 systems), code sharing, process paging, and a hard-disk cache. The kernel is mostly written in c and fits into a single 64K memory segment.

A description of Uzi280 can be found at
https://oldcomputers.dyndns.org/public/pub/rechner/zilog/z28...

However, the downloads linked there no longer work. You can find a copy of Uzi280 and other software for Z280-based systems at https://github.com/agn453/Z280RC and an emulator at https://github.com/mtdev79/z280emu
Well that seems part of the explanation why their games are so well-regarded. If you obviously can't miss things, you also can't get excited about discovering things.
I guess we should revoke Molvoda's TLD then. One could think that readme.md is a file and not a domain.
Or Moldova's .md, Anguila's .ai, Cocos Islands' .cc, Palestine's .ps, Paraguay's .py, Somalia's .so... The list goes on. Filename extensions have always been confusable with TLDs. And yet we've somehow coped for decades.
Well, being aware of and actively combating propaganda is a fairly recent social development.
This is so far divorced from my experience, like we're not even thinking about the same software.

Rails is very opinionated, and when I've encountered new rails code bases they are easily legible to me and can readily be understood.

Even outside of rails, the largest real pitfalls of clever ruby I've seen are related to gratuitous use of metaprogramming, which one can sometimes encounter if you need to maintain or find a bug in a gem you aren't familiar with.

Maybe your problems weren't with rails, but with the programmers of the code bases you were looking at? I believe it's possible to write unmaintainable code in any language.
At least Thiel has no monopoly on physical force.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/11/23635168/hp-printer-updat...

https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-hp-prin...
400 My is almost 10% of the age of the Solar System. Definitely not a blink of an eye.
No, it really doesn't. E.g. deletion of data about a contract or account that just expired (or expired <mandatory-retention-period months ago>) is data you were totally fine/required to have, but can't be deletion that can be rolled back long-term.
Honestly, it’d be nice if there was like a PNGCrush for git repos.

Or maybe even if Git offered zstd compression would be cool too.
It seems like the old Bell system with its monopoly rents was a feature then. Scams like this were impossible economically since even the cheapest long distance phone call rates were high enough to discourage scam call centres.
I’m not minimising the importance of technical users. I’m just saying that ugly POST messages aren’t helpful to most people. Hell, I’m technical and I don’t miss them.

I’m not sure about your point that mostly technical users buy MacBooks, since they don’t show POST messages. Doesn’t that suggest I’m right?
> This is also why you should never feel bad if you can get one over on a company. Pricing error that gets you expensive shoes for €1? Screw ‘em. Contractual obligation that effectively gives you lifetime for €1? Screw ‘em. They’ll do the same to you whenever they can

I recently saw a £700 bicycle carbon fork on sale for £70, new, the shop just forgot a zero. I didnt buy it out of feeling bad :(
> The only way HP gets away with this, because people just accept this kind of behaviour.

No, the way they get away with it is to collude, and make sure customers have no other choices.
> Prompt injection works because LLMs are dumber than humans at keeping secrets, and humans can be coerced into revealing.

I wouldn't say dumber than humans. Actually prompt injections remind me a lot of how you can trick little children into giving up secrets. They are too easily distracted, their thought-structures are free floating and not as fortified as adults.

LLMs show childlike intelligence in this regard while being more adult in others.
>destroyed other peoples’ property.

What property was destroyed? The HP printer still works with genuine ink cartridges and the third party ink cartridge will work for printers that don't require genuine HP ink.
This is from 2020

https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-hp-prin...
The idea that there’s cornucopias of choice in day to day life for 99% of Americans is absurd

You have to go to extraordinary and extreme measures to break out of the basic choices that you are offered for which the profits all go to the same group of people

There is basically Zero diversity in the corporate landscape for either consumers or workers.

Maybe even if that’s the trend, let’s choose not all live in a pvp hellscape owned by about 10,000 people that enjoy infinite luxury, another 8 million who insulate them by showing that “You too can be a class striver and abandon the working class” and the rest of the 8Billion people slowly killing each other for the scraps left behind as everyone tries to claw their way into the 1% and beyond.
(free (speech absolutist)), not ((free speech) absolutist)
Not at all. My opinion is that you should be taxed the same way no matter how you use the energy that falls on your soil from the sky. It shouldn't matter if it goes through chlorophyll or silicon.
I also use pirate talking when trying to attack a prompt.
Of course not. Just odd in the sense that I am on the other side of the fence, so I feel left out :)

Just not my cup of tea I guess.
See Prompt injection: What’s the worst that can happen? https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/14/worst-that-can-happen/
If that was your point, then you expressed it poorly. You wrote: "The article is already out of date." (emphasis added). That implies that the article was out of date as of the time you wrote your comment, or at some unspecified point prior to that, but, in fact a stronger and more specific claim is true, namely, that the article was out of date as of the time of its publication, approximately 2 months ago.
> in Go and interfaces are the only way to properly test

Adding tests using interfaces is solely adding more code (and the method signatures are simply duplicated) so it's the exact opposite of OP's problem.
For IDE i can't speak but, they're necessary for terminal/textual ui's like vim, emacs, kakoune, helix, lazygit, etc.
The problem is that the code generation tools does not let you learn the different parts. On top of that, all the documentation around just tell you to use the codegen tools and unless you go look at the API reference (or the source code directly), there are no resource to learn the different parts.

Take a look at how django does it. `django-admin startproject` creates:

- settings.py
- wsgi.py
- asgi.py
- urls.py

Then you just need to add your models and views. There is the `startapp` command, but you don't really need it.

Even with the codegen tools, you still need to learn what a plug router is, what a phoenix controller/view is, what an ecto repository is, etc...

The codegen tools just overwhelm you with irrelevant code (i'm making an API, why the hell do you generate static files? and why do i need to edit so many files to take it out?)

Another point I don't like about Ecto is that you can't easily switch the database backend depending on the environment.

With django, I can have an sqlite3 db for the dev environment, and a pgsql one for the production. I don't want to run a docker image for pgsql on my machine. I just need to read the DATABASE_URL environment variable, and the ORM takes care of the compatibility. If later on I need some specific pgsql feature, I will have to run the docker image on my computer anyway, but until them please keep the complexity out of my way.
It's hard to see all the demographic shifts 20+ years ahead, or the kinds of turns a life can take. I stayed in SFUSD. Still in the city. Made money in crypto, haven't worked in quite a few years. My brother also went through and took a more traditional academia-to-government contractor path, house, three kids.

All elite schooling does is put you on elite tracking. That is materially the best historically, but honestly, you can develop an amazing network and skillset online, too. That's mostly on the parents to realize that the opportunity exists - a lot of parents have difficulty keeping up with the interests of teenagers and just tell them to do their homework, but it's actually the moment where they can leverage a lot of wisdom and say, "no, actually the school assignment is nothing to stress over - just focus on building one good technical skill for yourself instead of the class, and if we don't know where to start we'll email some industry pros."

There is a long tradition in tech of some of the most successful people being, at the start, eager students who actively sought out expert advice and built their network by going directly to the source - not to the highest status roles that get bombarded with that stuff, but to the people a bit behind the curtain, in a critical doing-of-things role. When you get enough of those, you end up well oriented to the actual challenges of the field, and school can melt away into the background as a how-to-get-there detail.