skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GP was not talking about a layoff but a termination "at the whim of a boss." I've also worked at a number of big companies in the US, in "at-will" states, and the process is much like the GP describes.
If a PI knocks on your door and says "I represent X, you have in your possession property of theirs, you can turn it over to me now or you will face legal action" and then you turn the thing over... that is not them illicitly taking the thing. That is you and them resolving a dispute out of court.

If the PI brings a bunch of big goons with guns and they imply that they'll kill you if you don't turn the thing over, then sure, that's a raid. But also you'd presumably call 911 immediately and file a police report stating that you were robbed.
What are those lines near nuclear explosions?
These companies are solely built around the concept of trust. Your average person just doesn't care that Google is tracking them, and will therefore not take the obvious productivity hit by using a service with lower quality results (anything not Google).

I feel like DuckDuckGo has had enough controversy in the trust department that it's entirely worthless as a company and as a service. Anything I do need to actually search these days, I just use Google, as I don't care about Google knowing I needed help with a Golang compiler error. It's not a worthwhile tradeoff for me.
I think they got 5 nines mixed up with 6 nines. The 5 nines is 5 minutes per year. I asked ChatGPT and it claims they had a target of 5 nines which makes sense.
Truth is messy. The vaccine is an amazing achievement and saved many lives. Understating the health risks to young men (myocarditis), and overstating the efficacy fed the anti-vaxxers, and was a disservice to science and healthcare.
It doesn't need analogs. Depression is mental.

Legitimately what dialogue are you attempting to start?
[Author] You're welcome -- glad it was useful!
Then you wouldn't even move. Just rent some apartment for a year and then return home when you're done. That's more than enough to pay for a mortgage and rent.
I'm feeling the same way, I'm thinking it has to do with the amount of people wanting to have a career in tech (including the non-technical folks, business-types and such), the ease of sharing information online, and the notoriety of ycombinator in the startup space.
And even after those 5 years the phone is not a waste because most things on android are apps that update independently without an OS upgrade unlike ios where to get a new browser engine you need to upgrade the OS. Firefox supports android 5,which was released in 2014, that means a phone released in 2012 can still run the latest browser engine.
Get the Beepberry and play games with friends across the globe (via WiFi)!
Its funny how all of a sudden Chomsky takes U.S. laws as the highest authority. How the turns have tabled.
Would you destroy your professional reputation and make yourself unemployable for one year's worth of salary?
I was using DDG exclusively for over a year. It gives way better results than Google. Recently I switched to Kagi, for its ability to prioritize my favorite sites, and block others. I'm paying $5 a month for it, and I've honestly not been this confident in the search results I'm getting for a long long time.
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Sorry, I was thinking of a bbc article that directly said they would split the fine. [1]

> In his restitution ruling, Davila determined that Holmes and Balwani should pay Murdoch $125 million —- by far the most among the investors listed in his order. The restitution also requires the co-conspirators in the Theranos scam to pay $40 million in Walgreens, which became an investor in the startup after agreeing to provide some of the flawed blood tests in its pharmacies in 2013. Another $14.5 million is owed to Safeway, which has also agreed to be a Theranos business partner before backing out.

The BBC article:

> In a separate ruling, US District Judge Edward Davila also ordered Holmes to pay $452m (£363.8m) to victims.

She will split the multi-million dollar payment with her former romantic and business partner, ex-Theranos boss Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65620371
In the past you would look forward to having a family, owning property, living life. Now generations Y, Z, and Alpha (these poor souls in particular) have permanent debt, non-existent wealth, global habitat falling apart leading to mass famine and migration, increasing dystopian governments, and being automated out of a job.

There's no there, there for kids. I'm being quite broad with the definition of kids.

I understand those of us who are fortunate to benefit from other's misery might have a differing perspective but that's not the reality for the average individual especially if you're still in school.
You get a lot more from containers than just dependency management. You get isolation options for everything related to i/o from disk to network. As well as hard CPU/Memory controls. It's a few steps above what you get with chroot, etc.

There's plenty to like about containers.
Has it? Crypto proponents all the time are talking about the unbanked and people in countries with unstable currencies. I really don't know, but what's the deal in El Salvador? in South America? Ukraine? Aren't people using it?
Bill Shields Space Tycoons from Liability in Catastrophic Rocket Incidents
In this particular case, it's about wanting information from the people actually researching a subject vs people making stuff for political or business purposes.

Even if researchers are wrong initially, because of lack of data, they are still acting in good faith. Which you can't say for people who are spreading made up or poorly sourced information to make a buck.

Society generally frowns upon allowing people to blatantly lie or act in bad faith order to sell products. While that might be a form of censorship, it's one that society largely benefits from having in place.
It's extremely unfortunate that a lot of our society has bundled together the ideas of "Unethical" and "Profitable" so much that people are attracted to evil industries taking advantage of the poor, because they think it will get them a lot of money.

Can't wait until this shit is pushed onto a bunch of zoomers who are looking for the next way to get rich without doing any actual work.
A minor correction: it’s not unambiguously zero since there was a suicide blamed on a chatbot.

But sure, most of the concern about AI is about stuff people imagine happening in the future. So the question is whether future safety concerns are worrisome enough to want to get a head start on regulation.

Also, it’s not just deaths. Generative AI is, among other things, potentially an unlimited supply of disgusting imagery. That’s likely to be a big legal headache for lots of organizations.
I think may sometimes be possible to get out from under it without paying the full sum. ie. you pay some percentage and it lapses after some time.
Do you know of any companies that actually provide better reliability in their consumer product? The ones that lie or skew their uptime calculation don't count.
LCD and e-paper are different things. E-paper keeps its content without power.

You are using both terms. What is it you are using?
You’re trying to assert that people making claims based on some knowledge are wrong because they don’t have every fact, while claiming that you have no facts whatsoever.

Do you not see how completely fucked up that is?

We don’t talk to each other this way here. We shouldn’t talk to each other this way at all. The “gotcha” structure of debate will be the death of public discourse and with it, democracy, and with that the rule of law. When we live in Idiocracy it will substantially be because of people trolling “prove it” because it gets them out of thinking about uncomfortable things.

But this response isn’t about you. Not even a little. It’s for the other people reading this tree of replies, for the next time someone is trying to shut down conversation.
> DDG's penchant for censorship harms the credibility of their assertion that they do not track.

DDG is limited to Bing now that Yandex was cancelled. All the censorship comes from Microsoft not DDG.
This is ridiculously cool!
Or the Williams original, which was the first pin I ever played (at the local roller rink, no less).
Exacerbating ecological disaster building more and more resource and energy hungry data centers does not seem aligned with the rest of humanity

I have been running ML on my personal data and modeling worlds for the last few years. There’s no reason to keep OpenAI around given open source. My own data does not need a river water cooled data center.

OpenAIs ONLY moat is a government one so governments can keep up the free market ruse but have OpenAI in its back pocket for military and intelligence applications
That information is very important for me, thank you.

Currently, to avoid computing the embedding of a sentence twice, I put them in a JS Map as a cache. I will find a way to empty the cache.
People are willing to press the abort button too early on these people and it's both insightful and terrifying.
Ok. Agreeing with some censorship does not mean you must agree with all censorship.
Another benefit is that it keeps getting increasingly better compared to Google – not because DDG is doing anything particularly innovative, but because Google search keeps getting worse and worse.
> Was preventing the spread of covid throughout the population possible once China failed to contain the virus?

It's not about preventing the spread, but about controlling the rate so that hospitals don't / didn't get overwhelmed.

One of the early countries to get hit was Italy, and the army had to be called in to help with the logistics of taking away the body bags / coffins. A year after the pandemic started there were still refrigeration trucks outside of some morgues because of capacity issues:

* https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/us/new-york-coronavirus-victi...

Everyone on the planet will eventually probably get COVID, but as long as it's not at the same time, there are chances for treatment for those more heavily effected (some folks are fortunate enough that it's no worse than the flu; others suffer for months (e.g., Physics Girl)).
I can see both sides to the argument.

I personally don't mind deletion of antivax stuff because I'm not antivax. But I can see the point of view those mentioning what happens when there is deletion/censorship of things in the future that I could have interest in.

We also do know that there exists "some" subset of things that were mentioned that seemed antivax on the surface but did actually turn out to be true or at least somewhat true. But these were usually not outright false claims, but informed speculations or very niche.

It was such a dividing topic that any form of skepticism however small was seen as an attack. This as someone who is vaxed and has gotten every booster available.
> “Customer service” staff don’t play a single character on the sites. Instead, they sit in a chat queue to be cycled between virtuals they occupy for two minutes at a time

Wow. I would not have thought that could work. What happens when the person they are chatting with brings up something from a previous conversation and the person occupying the virtual has no idea how to respond?
Except that fixed term mortgages have the option to prepay - so people in the US signing 30yr fixed mortgages are locking in a fixed ceiling for the duration of their mortgage, and if mortgage rates come down in a couple of years, they just refinance the whole thing, but they pay a spread over an ARM for this option. For some people it’s more prudent to pay a few hundred extra basis points over the next several years, than risk their mortgage resetting at a higher rate, and having the option of refinancing at a lower rate…they’re purchasing insurance…
Not a continuous function
> I just assumed whatever optimizer SciPy uses would be reliable

That's usually a bad assumption for wrapped math libraries outside of the foundational ones like numpy. They tend to have a pretty low ratio of "mileage" to complexity in the first place, it's easy for the project to become a zombie without users realizing, and the layers of challenges to fixing issues leave many of them unresolved. If you need reliability, you'll have to deliberately choose software that's mature and actively maintained.
Ok no I am sorry. I agree.

I had the impression you were one of these guys that daydream about their (unrealistic) home defense plans.
Eh, the counties where this happened in likely couldn’t afford to eminent domain this problem away. It’s their tax base they’d be nuking!

If it was a legitimate problem, you’ve described what happens sometimes to folks buying homes. It’s a risk of ownership.

Could be sinkholes. Could be subsidence. Could be a toxic waste dump.

Lawsuits fly, etc.

However, long term it usually boils down to aligned incentives. If the people at risk had to pay for the risk (either by taxes or directly), they’d either move - or cover the costs and reap the good or bad consequences (including bankruptcy/loss of assets).
No, it's the loss function we differentiate. The input to the loss function are the network weights. The input to the network are samples and those we do not differentiate.
Don’t layoff staff: go bankrupt

Do layoff staff: Get regulated for lack of staff
I’m tempted to do this, just to then turn around and send a letter to the debtors saying that I will take no attempts to collect this debt and you do not need to pay.
It's not great but not absolutely horrible. Two-finger typing most of the time and the overall feel is stiff, but not too stiff.

I usually hold it with my hands and use my thumbs, like a Game Gear. Re-mapping the "d-pad" joystick and "yxba" buttons to arrow keys and hjkl [1] makes it easy to read and navigate text content on it (hence of gopher://), especially with the wide and high resolution screen.

1. https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/mapping-devterm-r-01-gamepad...
Is it realistically possible to be a actor or screen writer without joining this union? If not, then isn't the union itself a monopoly and a form of tyranny?
> Increase the easy widespread availability of cheap fresh locally-grown fruits and vegetables.

Yes, fresh produce is what's needed to address increased deaths from: transportation, homicide, suicide (ok, maybe an impact in general health on this one which does impact mental health), poisoning. I can imagine the billboards, "Thinking of using drugs? Try a freshly picked apple instead!".
You're right, they'd pay probably 25% more in payroll, get a lot less done in terms of features businesses need (compared to neat tech stuff we devs want to build), and the business would eventually go bankrupt.
Since the main reason not to use grapheneOS is that it only supports Pixels and you already have one, you might also consider it. Install feels almost suspiciously easy coming from the likes of cyanogenmod.

https://grapheneos.org/
I'm not sure I agree with your use of "nominal", but if you're saying right means something like "typical" then I'm fine with that. I guess I'm not sure what "working as intended" or "nominally" would mean. If the "intention" of my emotions is to approximate my true state then they're doing that just fine. Why would they tell me the world is great when I don't believe that to be true?

> It is "wrong" in the sense that it has all of these objectively negative consequences whereas being blissfully happy does not, so it can be claimed to be "right" in relative terms.

Obviously I can only speak for myself but depression has manifested both as hyper-productivity and hyper-defeatism for me. I've never felt content so a lot of my life has been an endless struggle to just feel okay which made me unbelievably productive when I was younger and naive enough to think I could fix things.

It can be negative at times though, but my perspective on this that optimising for my own happiness is not an achievable goal. All I can do is optimise so that my suffering can be a net-positive for humanity and those I love. So although I might feel like I don't want to go on and I don't want to be productive I do because if I'm not productive or kill myself then I'm letting everyone down and my existence then truly was a net-negative both subjectively and objectively. I have to at least make this objectively positive.

So the reason optimising for other people's happiness is everything to me, is because my own means nothing. But that does get destructive when I'm letting people down because then I suddenly start trying to calculate if my life is a net positive to the world and things can go "bad" quick when convince myself I'm doing more harm than good.

I think I'm atypical to be fair, but I would argue my depression isn't objectively negative at all which is exactly why I put up with it.
For anyone curious, the best search market share data is from Cloudflare. Here is the latest report: https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/searchengines-2023-q1. And here is our reasoning of why it is the best: https://spreadprivacy.com/search-engine-market-share-data-tw...
I think you two may have a confusion of terms. I'm just guessing here, but I suspect the complaining they are referring to is the zero content anger spew some people think is appropriate, not critique.

I see it a lot in small communities centered around open source games. It is easy for some one to vent their anger in a useless fashion (can we agree that pr teams calling it passion is a euphemism they use to avoid insulting people giving them money?), and comparatively difficult and rare for people to put their experience into relatable terms or to criticize a change as it pertains to the project's goals.
"By 2027" could be as soon as 2024. Things are getting weirder now that La Niña ended, and there are good chances that later this year we will enter in a strong El Niño event. An 2022, the 5th hottest year on record, was during a La Niña year that was supposed to be the cold phase.
The amount of get-off-my-lawn grognardness that LLM activity inspires is really ridiculous.

I really would ask you to take a second look at the spirit of your comment and think carefully about how much you really understand about the work being done on top of LLMs and if it justifies this kind of response.
I think it was David Brin who had a character who believed that it’s not that power corrupts, but that it attracts the corruptible.
HTML is not regular, so it can't be recognised by a "theoretical" regular expression, such as introduced in a theoretical CS class. Modern regex engines however, are more powerful and can recognise non-regular languages too.

Then there's a distinction to be made between recognising a language and parsing it.

This article goes into more detail: https://www.npopov.com/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-...
It sounds like more of an internal process you're experiencing. Personally I noticed more meta content is surfacing but I still see a lot of interesting links on here. Also, if you're burnt out or if you've been in the tech space for a while, some things may not seem as exciting as they used to be.

I'd say take a break, and also try some alternative communities. There are some places with a focused discussion on tech, like Lobsters.
> most big tech companies would be better run if they were democratically led with the workers voting on which strategic initiatives to run like a coop

Better for who? Workers? Investors? Users?

For some reason we don't see big tech coops at the size of Meta, yet nothing prevents them from existing. Any chance that it's the nature of coop itself that inhibits growth?
[Author] Fair point -- I clarified the language and gave a concrete example. Hope that helps!
I tried with a few papers. Didn't work. Always making up summaries.
This is currently, and for obvious reasons, trending towards a thread about how evil the debt collection industry is. That's a shame, because there's a lot of interesting stuff to learn from the mechanics of the debt collection business, and it's stuff you can put to use to protect yourself (and others) from its worst abuses. There are "is" arguments and there are "oughts". We probably all agree on the "oughts", at least for the high-order bits of it, but isn't there some interesting "is" stuff to talk about?

I'd read this stuff the same way I'd read a HOWTO posted on a carder forum. We probably wouldn't waste our time with a huge thread about how evil carding is; we'd read it for interest, to see how a distributed criminal conspiracy functioned. We should try that here too.
The "oxygen catastrophe" made the air toxic in ways that life could not evolve to cope with at that time.

The wiki goes on to speculate that eukaryotes were required to solve this problem, which is an enormous amount of time for such toxicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

During the cretaceous, oxygen increased so substantially that it would be obversely toxic to modern life, too much instead of too little.
I switch to DDG from brave when I want to do an image search. Brave forwards image searches to either Google or Bing based on your choice. Even if DDG is getting their images from those sources, I still prefer the DDG image search UI.
In this particular case, what product was sold by antivaxxers or how did they make money?
I get so tired of seeing yegg raked over the coals for this one.

A search engine by definition takes an editorial stance on things. They take in all of the internet and decide what to present to users. For a search engine to take no editorial position is to yield the floor to whoever can best game the system, and a propaganda machine like Russia's is absolutely capable of exploiting a search engine that doesn't proactively take measures to avoid being exploited.

That DDG wanted to avoid spreading Russian propaganda that argues against the very existence of the Ukrainian people isn't DDG meddling in politics, it's them steering clear of enabling genocide.
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The sad thing about the conventional object-oriented programming paradigm is how it put the really cool syntactic idea of piping/chaining in the straitjacket of classes and objects.

The ability to pipe shouldn't be tied to whether a function is a method of a class.
We had a controlled burn near the SF Bay Area get out of control in 2021 which forced some evacuations. Of course controlled burns are still needed to reduce overall fire risk, but incidents like that naturally make local residents a bit leery.

https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Estrada-...
> This article is for anyone who may be interested in getting into the debt collection industry and wants to learn some basic information about buying debt.

It seems to me their comment was also written for "anyone who may be interested in getting into the debt collection industry". Hard to see how it's off-topic. One might argue that such people "should already know" these things if they're interested but how are they going to know if nobody says it?
From that page: "To advertise on DuckDuckGo, visit Microsoft Advertising." Is DDG the #2 position or Microsoft? Kind of a notable difference there... if DDG is just an arm of Microsoft it rings a different tune.
Are there any open source host-your-own LLMs that have licensing that allows for commercial use?
>> People have recreated that core game many times with fairly trivial code

> Yes, because they have something to reference.

But you couldn't reimplement podman in a few hundred lines of code.

> Ideas are easy

Not all ideas have the same quality. Should be self evident. Nevertheless you should be able to see that I understand ideas are cheap in some sense - that's what the comment about decoupling "this was an iterative process" from "I could never do this." You can transfer an idea effortlessly - it's more about implementing it. But if its it trival to implement clearly more of the brilliance was on the idea side of things.