skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?

MS is not making money on dev tools, and roughly never has.
They even say that in their reporting. What possible source of data are you using to say that MS is making money at devtools?
The only way to do it would be to mix it with cloud stuff or services.

Github is the closest devtool thing that they get the most money from, and

1. It was never profitable prior to MS buying them.

2. MS does not report profit, only ARR. Which is small (1B). That suggests it is not profitable, and at the very least, not profitable to matter (it's revenue is <1% of MS revenue, it's profit is probably an order of magnitude smaller).

Heck - if you talk to the people there, they would tell you the same - for many years their dev tools headcount and budget was stable or declining because it is considered a cost center and not a profit center.

Github changed some of that but they are still not profitable, AFAIK.

Overall, this 'don't try to make money from tools' approach is intentional - as i said, the market is small and they know that. So they really don't try to make direct profit at dev tools anymore (at best, they try to get it to pay for itself), instead using it to generate indirect revenue.

There are a very small number of exceptions to this (attempts at enterprise revenue for github, which, again, are not succeeding yet).

VSCode is a very explicit recent example of this approach - they don't even charge for it.

The only reason they still charge for VS and subscriptions is to defray costs at all.

You are both making a lot of weird assertions with no data, and lots of attacks on people and things. This is not particularly helpful?
And that is why tech workers should finally unionize. The amount of negotiating power we're just throwing away because of ideological blindness is insane.
I don't understand how scaling is so broken. I switched my Linux desktop environment to a high DPI monitor in 2001 (it was a Sony CRT). Stuff like font and bitmap rendering looked better then than it does now.
Payroll taxes are indeed calculated (at least in the US) by worker location, so you need to withhold according to their location.
Self reporting, much like all tax breaks. They tell the city "we have this percent of our employee base required to be in the office". But they can't just lie because they might get audited.
Buy they weren't right. There's a reason boomers fall for obvious scams and fake Facebook posts.
This is the source:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2023/06/06/apple-tv-...:

> In the version of the film being shown on the Criterion Channel and Apple TV, around four seconds of the film have been cut during a scene where Hackman heads out of the Narcotics Division office pursued by Scheider. The original scene, which starts at around 9mins and 42 seconds into the film, sees Scheider and Hackman’s characters having a conversation by the door during which two racial slurs are used. In the edited version, all but the last couple of ‘innocent’ exchanges of this conversation have been cut out - clearly to remove the slurs.

I just checked the unedited version. One of the slurs is one I'd never heard before for an Italian (had to look it up), and the other is the N-word.
Payroll tax is always where an employee is physically working. If they're WFH, then taxes are calculated based on your home address.
See 5.1.1.1 & 5.1.1.2 on https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html. Eight minimum, accept at least up to 64 characters, forbid breached passwords, dictionary words, aaaaaaa style passwords, and usernames, but beyond that:

> Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
That makes sense. I was just a bit confused. I wasn't aware that's how the wishlist was used by some. With that said, I imagine Linux users are probably more familiar with that use than Mac users (i.e., power user vs. casual user). But, if it's representative of the Steam survey, then I suppose it's as good a metric as any.

Regardless, I definitely didn't mean to imply that Mac users are big gamers. Most Macs are MacBooks and most people don't buy a laptop primarily for gaming. It'd be a secondary concern. There's also a chicken and egg situation in which Mac users may not be big gamers because there's not many games for Macs (not to mention that Steam runs terribly and is buggy on M-series Macs). Any Mac users that are big gamers probably have a console and/or PC (like myself) due to this situation, so any wishlisting is done on the device I play games on, despite the desire to be able to play on the go on my MacBook. Any Mac users that aren't big gamers may be due to having limited games. My wife who isn't a big gamer, but does like to play games occasionally, is relegated to using Bootcamp on her iMac.
They may already be in multi-year contracts. The last company I worked for was subletting space from a flash in the pan dotcom that signed a 10-year lease on the building. It’s possible the rent was the only revenue the company still had.
???

Timeline is:

* Twitter DID have this problem.

* Musk buys Twitter.

* After a couple months, Twitter does not have this problem anymore.

Who do you think was responsible for that?

A. The old engineering team who was 90% gone on a (laughable) tantrum?

B. Ella Irwin, Head of Trust and Safety who had been there for years and resigned after Musk came in?

C. Yoel Roth, Head of Integrity and Safety who had been there for years and resigned after Musk came in?

D. Elon Musk

I'm no Musk fanboy but the answer is evident.
I guess I'm not of the age(?) where I can get outraged about people using their freedom of speech to cut/edit/mashup a movie however they want.
Well it most definitely will cause unrest/revolution if it stalls the economic cycle where people can't get food.

That's happened enough times in recorded history to have a solid causal link. Which is already possible with current LLM capabilities; but since its decentralized won't be noticeable until its too late (like a dam breaking).
No bargaining power but "I'm just gonna leave" power is quite high. It doesn't actually take that many people to quit before it starts to landslide which is why companies try really really hard to control the narrative of employees leaving.
It's an impressive turnout, but I wouldn't ignore the power of modern low-end APUs. Here's a 3-generation-old, entry level Ryzen laptop playing the game for comparison: https://youtu.be/Aqgm0zcV7Kw

"this well" is more or less equivalent to a older Ryzen 3's native performance. Apple is really banking on developers recompiling for ARM to reduce overhead here.
"Complaints on the internal social-media platform included those from workers who said they decided to home-school their children and take care of elderly relatives based on the assumption they could keep working from home."

No horse in this race: Can you actually adequately home school a child and also adequately work from home?
> Snowden did not run to Russia

He ran. Don't blame the US for trying to detain him.

> Snowden has stated he would be willing to return the U.S. to face trial if said trial would be open and transparent as well as present a public interest defense.

Why does he deserve special treatment?

> Daniel Ellsberg[...]has fully supported the actions of Edward Snowden

Daniel Ellsberg gets to decide what the law is?
I guess we weren't doing anything during the pandemic! Ouch.

I was wondering if companies would put their money where their mouth is and pay more for attendance and let the problem solve itself. I would trade a couple days for more salary, maybe even a whole week! Think of it as location repricing in a more favorable direction. Instead, we are seeing it as a soft layoff. C'est la vie I guess.
What do you mean she isn't free? She isn't in prison.

If you want to be metaphorical, Snowden isn't close to free either. Manning has more freedom than Snowden.
So Stanford is now parroting talking points from the Cato institute? The source of the information can't be trusted at all, so this is just as crap. No, nearly 3/10 of Gen Z does NOT advocate for installation of cameras, but the 3/10 of the conservative Gen Z they asked totally could. But that's just sampling bias, nothing more.
yeah, "an enabled feature shall never be retracted for a user which had the feature enabled before" is extra spicy and requires a different architecture entirely, since you fundamentally need to store the evaluation for each user and check before you return a value.

Definitely something to use with caution in my experience, since the performance profile is very different.
> We need to find a way to distribute the benefits of such developments.

It’s called free software and making models at various ‘weight classes’ to support many GPUs. Basically don’t let companies like OpenAI/Google/Microsoft run the show and, ironically, support companies like Facebook who open source their models.

And yes, I know OpenAI has open sourced models in the past, but the fact that they won’t open source ChatGPT, GPT-4, and select other models like DALL-E 1/2 make me wary of them.
Another copycat CEO who read somewhere that in-office work drives "collaboration, creativity and innovation" and thinks that it's the ultimate solution to solving a companies problems. In reality, all these CEO's ONLY care about the stock price and their structured earn-out/incentive compensation within their executive employment agreement and how that plays out for them.
After reading through the article I’m very impressed that these driverless cars have been able to perform so well in a complex urban environment.

As the author says, “Technically, this ride was perfect. But I, along with city representatives, am still unconvinced.” The author doesn’t explain their underlying hostility to the technology but the fact that these are the best objections they were able to come up with means this article should, in all fairness, be interpreted as a “glowing endorsement”.
Man this statement resonates with me.

I’ve found some folks view transferring power to benign government seems like good idea, but I think they fail to realize getting that getting that power back won’t be so straightforward if or when it doesn’t work out that government is no longer working for them or supporting their ideals, but the government is instead ruling them.

We have had to pretty good lately tbh in the US compared to some though honestly the could be questionable also depending on the values one has.
> I don't think so. The spirit of the patent system is you submit your product to them in the form of a working model.

On what basis? The patent system protects inventions not products. Not all inventions are sellable products in themselves, and not all products are inventions.

How would you patent anything meaningful if you can only patent an entire product? It’s would be trivial to around just patents, just make a minor insignificant change to the design of the product, and bam, you’ve got something brand new and unprotected. Thus rendering the entire reason for getting a patent meaningless.
>for “collaboration, creativity and innovation.”

Ok, I get the first one to an extent, but why does an insurance company depend heavily on "creativity" and "innovation." I thought insurance is a pretty straightforward numbers game.
Gotta love being called a dick for having a hypothetical opinion on image formats.

You are suggesting that `<picture>` alone would solve this issue. It very clearly does not; you're still limited by what browsers support the format you use in your pictures. If you only release it in one format because you don't want to deal with compression/format changes/whatever, then you still have the same exact problem.

If months from now, Chrome is the only browser that doesn't support it, then it's just as bad of a solution as now, and I'd no longer be called a dick by a random stranger on the internet. What then?
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They've been straight up lying about the M series chips performance from day one. They will show insane graphs of the M chips beating top end desktop parts with an asterisk that explains the very specific BS benchmark they used that clearly favors their chip but won't generalize and then public benchmarks never even come close.

People still parrot it.
It's not perfect, but you might be looking for the "I still don't care about Cookies"[1] or Consent-O-Matic[2] extensions.

[1]. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
[2]. https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
I think they did it because they still sell SC4 via the App Store, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone there is just a huge SC4 fan.
> The day after the outpouring of criticism, Vargas sent out another companywide email, according to employees. “It said: ‘We read all your comments. We understand and we appreciate them. But we’re still moving forward,’” one Farmers employee said.

Sounds like you may read them, but you don't understand or appreciate them, Mr. Vargas.
Tell that to my microwave, my oven, the clock in my car, my watch, the clock on the wall…
I use Grafana Cloud with OpenTelemery without problems.
Will he break 100 M views in 24 hr.?

Whats the fastest 100 M views in history?
I once bought three different three-for-two offers in the UK, expecting to get the 3rd, 6th & 9th most expensive items free, but I was actually charged for all but the 7th-9th, which would have cost me a lot more

(I got the price I expected in the end, by making three separate purchases)

I also saw a competing chain labelling food nearing its use-by date with a higher price than otherwise identical items with longer to go, but presumably that was a genuine error
100% - they've cynically calculated that this will mostly impact their more senior employees (on higher salaries) and just use it as a cudgel to drive them out, without having to do layoffs.
>anymore than the internet brought people together

The Internet DID bring people together though. You and I are having a conversation that only would have occurred due to the Internet.

On a more specific sense: my wife and I met online. My children would not exist without the Internet. That seems like bringing people together to me.
Can you even cancel Apple TV inside an Apple One family bundle?
> First world problems

...yes? If you say something doesn't happen in the first world, then the only possible counterargument is someone citing a "first world problem". If "first world problems" aren't a valid example, then that would mean your claim is immune to evidence. Which would make it a useless claim.

> Today I learned how to get left wing people to argue that regulation isn't necessary for a strong economy.

Nobody said that.
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Very interesting! What year did you complete your PhD? Care to share a link to your thesis?
SHIFTLOCKERDUDE

2 months ago

Tornado took it down last night

Sounds like someone somewhere also didn't like it ...
The scenario is a mob of trolls attacking a contributor in bad faith. If you kick out the contributor, what's to stop the mob from picking off someone else?
Unless you're at a company that was remote-first before ~2000~ 2020, you'd be crazy to assume any policy like this is guaranteed for more than a year. That doesn't mean every company will go back on their promise, but if you guess 20% will in the first 5 years, it should make you think hard about whether or not to move.
I'd even eat into their business and get people elected that would build state/federally funded mixed income non-market social housing
I guess I don't understand this argument. It's significantly cheaper to have a remote employee, especially if you pay location-based salaries. In addition to lower salaries, you save a ton on office space, janitorial services, food and coffee, workmans comp, office managers, furniture, etc.

I think it's more likely that some people really like to work from home, and other people really like the office. And that's okay! People have different preferences and circumstances. The only issue is that it's one of those things where both sides can't really have their way at the same time, because it defeats the purpose of an office if you're the only one there.

Of the 22,000 people who work at Farmers, 2,000 have reacted negatively. (Yes, I assume it's higher b/c some people don't want to publicly disagree with their employer.)

Overall, I think everyone simply has a preference, but it's become an escalated debate. I think eventually we'll see half of companies being remote and half being in the office, and everyone will get to make their own decision for what works best with their goals and lifestyles.

(All that being said, in this situation, telling people they can work remotely and then changing it is pretty crappy.)
> consumer protections afforded by their consumer protection organization

That is actually true of many so called "developing" countries too. The consumer protection organizations will accept your request and "investigate". The result of their investigation can amount to doing nothing (canned response) or recommending you go to court.
You can win in the court, eventually. Spending time & money on what should be an automatic process.

> What the ACCC does
> We educate businesses and consumers about their rights and obligations under the consumer guarantees.
> If a business misleads consumers about their consumer guarantee rights, we can investigate. We may take some form of compliance or enforcement action.

> What the ACCC can't do
> We don’t provide legal advice about what consumers are entitled to.
> We don't provide legal advice on what businesses need to do in a particular situation.
> We don’t resolve individual disputes about whether the consumer guarantees have been met or the remedy.

This is the beauty of bureaucracy in "developed" countries - they may or may not help you. And you will not know how effective they are until you actually need help. Kafkaesque rules and the multitude of agencies could be masking the potemkin village underneath.

I've heard some good things about the customer protection in the EU, but I don't think it's even generalizable over all of the EU member states.
Tools as Creative Constraints
I'm not saying it's a good thing, I'm simply pointing out it's more-or-less universal standard behavior for people and corporations to abuse positions of power unless checked externally - anti-trust action, checks and balances within government, other regulation, etc. As noted the recurring tendency on HN and elsewhere to paint Nvidia as some kind of unique diabolical actor is very strange.

How are Nvidia consumer GPUs a bad deal? When comparing top of the line cards (I'm not going to bother looking elsewhere in the product lines) for 60% more cost (yes, significant) with an RTX 4090 you get:

- Performance that walks all over the 7900 XTX[0].

- The ability to use it to self-host, experiment, learn, etc a never-ending range of ML applications that (as discussed) "just work" as a docker pull away.

With an RTX 4090 you could have stunning gaming performance one minute and then seconds later be running a local LLM, etc. That is tremendously more value than the 60% price difference. If all I wanted to do was gaming and I was price sensitive I'd save myself the $600 and be happy with an AMD GPU. But, looking at market share[1] (at least 80% across desktop gaming and GPGPU) either the value of AMD GPUs is a little known secret (it isn't) or consumers, with the ability for choice, overwhelmingly see the value in Nvidia GPUs.

[0] - https://techguided.com/7900-xtx-vs-rtx-4090/

[1] - https://wccftech.com/q3-2022-discrete-gpu-market-share-repor...
Usually you discard extreme values to reduce noise, and in fact they wrote that's why they did it:

> We then take the fifth percentile as our final measurement, because we assume that most noise sources are one-sided (for example, cache misses, pre-emptions and so on). During training we process the measurements across ten machines for computational efficiency.

> I though we should always choose the fastest time when measuring performance.

Depends. For games you usually do sth similar to what they did - exclude small percentage of worst results to reduce influence of noise and then optimize the worst scenario to make the game run consistent and smooth.
Don’t waste your time. The conspiracy theorists will never be convinced that businesses do not want to voluntarily give their money away to office landlords, a group they’ve always hated.
Do you know what this median annual household income of $71k means outside of the USA? Inequality is a global problem, unfortunately. Cheapest Tesla being generally affordable in one country doesn't mean it's not fairly expensive.

Side notes:
- the World Inequality Database is full of interesting data (https://wid.world/)
- I'm not sure the median income is always relevant (I mean, if half of a given population couldn't affort to eat correctly, I wouldn't say food is "generally affordable")
- fortunately, not everybody needs a Tesla, let alone a car
Surely they include emissions. Otherwise, I'd like to register my box fan as a carbon capture device.
> It appears that their position is that they are not be blamed.

This was coming from a low level IT guy who joined during the Obama administration. He had no particular attachment to the Bush Era programs.

But as he explained it, Snowden's story of how he got the documents makes no actual sense and that other assets were involved (he may have not known Russian involvement at the time).

And now that we know more about the state of Russian intelligence, it was probably always the plan to have him lay low in South America indefinitely. But Russia realized things were getting pretty botched and just extracted him directly.
DNS records are usually set once and forget. You read the documentation once when you’re doing it, and then you basically never have to touch it again. I had to look up the difference between a CNAME and an A record, even though I’ve set them numerous times before. Not useful in day-to-day.

DNS servers: going to assume you query a DNS server that has a map of domain names to IP addresses, with basic routing via DNS records, which then resolve to a final address which is sent back. Again, never going to have to know this unless I’m a network admin.

Port-mapping: what is there to understand? I have literally never had to map ports unless I’m port-forwarding a game server I’m running on my local machine, that’s using a router to be exposed to the outside network. Literally, every cloud provider will give you an endpoint address that does not require port-mapping. If you’re setting up a company network you have to port-map, but not if you’re deploying a simple server/app. Ergo, network admin’s job.

Compilers: lol. There’s tons of languages, and tons of different compilers for each language. Then there’s distinguishing compilers, interpreters, compiler-interpreters, and transpilers. At the end of the day they take text (usually) and transform it into another form. I’ve built a compiler before (toy AST & recursive descent), but I have never needed to know about it in a CRUD context.