skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lack of corporate regulation and labor organization have led to a real asymmetrical arrangement for workers. It's a classic power imbalance. CEO-to-worker pay is at its highest level in 100 years [1]. Seems to me senior corporate leadership and founders are basically full of it. If scientific discovery is subject to multiple discovery, leadership just can't be a unique skill and founding a company just can't be a unique occurrence [2]. I'm confident there are 1000s of qualified folks capable of outperforming senior leadership in any position at any fortune 500. I'm confident if it wasn't Tesla, it would've been another American electric car company 6 months later. Buuut do we pay CEOs or founders as though they're replaceable? They play golf with board members and send their kids to summer camp together. They're dilettantes, hucksters, shmucks, dorks. For example, I'm always amazed when this type holds an all hands to discuss company culture un-ironically. As though leadership principles or company values or whatever pseudo-religious structure they divined might actually take us in? How can you even respect yourself? I suppose the pragmatic, sociopathic voice in my head might justify it: "If they can see this as more than work, I can extract more from them. If they can see me as more than another person fumbling around in the dark, I can elevate myself above them." I just couldn't live with the constant lying to myself.

Always makes me chuckle when folks blather on about risk-reward premiums while relying on public infrastructure -- postal service, education, military, internet, rail system, roads, power grids, democracy, freeways, bridges, etc. Start or run your business in war torn Afghanistan and I'm happy to talk about 400:1 pay ratios between leadership and lowest paid employees. No? Alright then. Sit down, shut up, and just be happy folks aren't pulling out the pitchforks... yet.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/261463/ceo-to-worker-com...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
Why would carbon fiber be a suitable material for this application? I get why people want it to be lightweight and resist environmental corrosion, but it just seems like the wrong choice under hydrostatic pressure. I found some recent academic articles analyzing composite cylinders for submersible applications and in those papers they buckled at a fraction of the pressure equivalent to 4000m of seawater. The fact that they advertise their suite of strain gauges seems to indicate that they under-designed the thing and intended to just see what happened in practice.
classic layer 8 issue
A common supplier for typewriters in general is Ribbons Unlimited: https://www.ribbonsunlimited.com/

The carbon film you're referring to is likely part #1299095 (black correctable). Believe generics of these are still made. I also buy NOS sometimes. So far the 30-40yo cartridges seem to work fine once you get to the spooled film vs the few inches that may have been exposed to the elements. Not sure if the chemistry of them is just that stable (vs ink ribbons) or I've simply had good luck (i.e. I'm not speaking from 40 years of experience or anything).

The tougher one to source is the "bicycle" style of cartridge used on some Selectric IIIs (other IIIs were built/swapped to work with the old II-style carts).
I'm from Northern Ireland so grew up with a religious conflict in the background. Of course I understand it's different from church to church and place to place.

But on the whole as I grew up and the conflict ended I still saw, for example, women's rights being denied, fast rights being denied and scientific fact (young earth, anti evolution) being denied by religious figures with political authority.

From what I see around the world via the media much of these same values are limiting the same rights in the US, and even more so in the Islamic world.

I've had many good experiences in churches myself and with being around religious people, but I'm also very aware of the experiences women and LGBTQIA+ people have in these environments and of how often church authorities have abused their power from covering up sexual abuse to exerting undue political influences or participating in what I would see as cultural genocides in the form of missionary colonialism.
I agree, though the data is not exactly apples-to-apples because Tesla sells fewer models (which is probably a good thing).
I haven't used Gear Patrol much in the past. Are their reviews of the same quality as DPReview's?
Not every machine is suited to every usecase. It might not be useful to you for the one specific use you've picked, but it's still useful to a lot of people.
Depends. In Japan you're only allowed to buy a car if you have a free parking space on your property. A police office will come by your home to verify that the number of parking spots on your property is enough to house all the cars you plan on having. So in this case you would just have to deal with only having one car, or pave over the lawn to fit another parking spot.
> virtually every study of happiness shows a correlation to healthy relationships in your life

These studies never make sense because there's no way to objectively measure happiness, especially not in a way where you can compare two people's self-reported levels of "happiness". The word happiness itself is already is an over-loaded term that everyone has their own definition of. (At best you can measure proxy outcomes like measuring health based on relationships, but there are so many confounding variables it's hard to narrow it down.)
PG enums are "enum tables" under the hood. With native enum support the JOINs with the enum tables happen at query compilation time, which is a performance benefit you should not ignore.
If a corporation like Samsung became evil, I wonder if they could make a bunch of money running a DDOS botnet and attacking other casinos or something.
"2. I haven't seen a single use case of blockchain in the world yet. This is a valid critic and I do understand."

Hmmm, it doesn't exactly sound like you are "absolutely baffled". You acknowledge that there are astoundingly few good use cases for blockchain.
The worst part in retrospect is the sedentary, seated, nature of the work. I don't necessarily want to encourage either of my children in this direction for this reason alone. It turned out to be quite unhealthy.
CarPlay is fine. The disconnect is that for all car related functionality, you have to break out from it to go back to the car UI.
People in Seattle are no more richer or "happy" (your exact words I was replying to) vs. in SF is my point. Sure a home costs a little less but you're also paid less in Seattle. It's not a dramatic 2x difference in costs (again your words).
> Should I leave the company?

Yes.
Odd. I think it might be something else. I've been lurking Lemmy as I decide what to do about reddit and have not noticed any unusual loading times. The page linked to above takes two seconds to load (the spinny things stop turning and the data is given) for me. Literally, a 1-1000, 2-1000 and it's up...
But will the CCS be as fast at charging ? It seems like Tesla could control a lot with their proprietary connector if it has a faster charge rate.
Hey John!! Wes here, sitting in the shade of my RV right now. Funny to hear the last line, because mine says the same thing about when I am driving. And when she is driving she literally tell me "fuck em, I will drive how I want" lol.
This total lack of empathy is why our industry is a circle wank of dudes. Why do you feel so obliged to defend the most evil company in history? And why do you feel the need to make personal attacks at some dude, is it because you think you are so much better yourself?
There's a BBC documentary from last year which I just watched:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fpz9zw

and honestly a lot of it seems quite amateur hour. One of the steering motors was fitted backwards. When they discovered this, at the bottom of the ocean and a few hundred feet from Titanic, the solution they used was to hold the gamepad at right angles to compensate. That time they proceeded with the tour and made it back, but I can see how things could have gone a lot more wrong.
What was special about Pivotal?
Then why did the SEC allow Coinbase to go public? They were already allowing to trade what the SEC now considers securities back then.
I hope they can update their horrible forum software.

I have been a user there for like 10 or 15 years, I don't recall, and the ui sucks.
Their agreements with Tesla are not public, so it's hard to tell what the benefits are. You say "everyone" is switching, but it's only American companies that have pledged to switch to NACS from CCS (so far), I don't think 3 for 3 is a coincidence.

Also unlikely to be coincidental is the fact that Tesla "opened up" its charging patents/specs to competitors [1] in 2014 - but only signed its first partner in 2023, a few months after billions of federal dollars were made available for interoperable charging networks.

1. IIRC, they included a mutual non-aggression clause for patents, and if a 100-year-old company with plenty of patents like Ford, you may balk at that. I'm speculating that Tesla has been offering much more generous terms than the 2014 offer
His complaint doesn't include what level he was at MSFT. Depending on level he may have only been meeting expectations. It also doesn't include what his compensation was, just his additional compensation for working on co pilot. He could be 1 million TC + but we won't know.

A few other factors to consider:
The people doing the low level coding are usually not the top compensated people for a project. Its the higher level architects that determine the overall plan for the product and set the direction for mid and low level engineers.
Thanks for opening an issue! We'll definitely look into that. Would love to learn more about your experiences with DevSpace as well. If you're open to chatting, reach out via slack or via lukas [at] loft [dot] sh
Oh, the nostalgia!

I remember the first "holy war" I was ever exposed to was Z80 vs 6502.
Even though the title includes a programmer's perspective, I don't think they were saying they want their child to follow in their professional footsteps. I think it was more about wanting their kid(s) to reach their potential, develop wisdom, good character, and always work on self-improvement.
That's the "$5 wrench" argument rephrased.

It's not much in its favor, but a sufficiently motivated person can resist handing over cryptocurrency better than they can any other asset.
I hadn’t heard this before as a casual Rust user but found this: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/02/01/rust_core_team_de...

Is there more to the story here that I’ve missed?
I used to think POSIX shell scripts are the best. But ever since deno support npm packages directly, running `deno run url-to-scripts` seems really good now. You get readability, types, and library ecosystem.
What Kind of Intelligence?
The article talks about how this was to do with their 1/3 scale model. I guess the relevant question then is if the "new model" is just the old 1/3 model scaled up, or if there are important differences. Are they still using a viewport that's not certified for the depths they're reaching? Are they still using flammable materials? Are there still parts in danger of de-laminating? Do they still have a culture and pattern of covering up and lying about safety?

If there were relevant changes to the new model other than scaling it up, it'd need to go through a much lengthier certification and testing phase.
Well at least the evidence is at the bottom of the ocean
Seemingly, “skin in the game” is only assurance against getting scammed, not incompetence.
I don't think it really matters whether or not Midjourney themselves are liable, the output of their model being legally radioactive would break their business model either way. They make money by charging users for commercial-use rights to their generations, but a judgement that the generations are uncopyrightable or outright infringing on others copyright would make it effectively useless for the kinds of users who want commercial-use rights.
Skin in the game is neither magical or infallible, and nothing is. It is the greatest display of trust/confidence that we have. We can't have perfect, so this is what we have.
The were repeatedly exiled by persian authorities and ultimately sent to a prison city in Israel (Akka), so it wasn't their direct choice they ended up there. I guess the political situation back then was different. Abdul-Baha from the article above was with them, and His father Baha'u'llah as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BCu%27ll%C3%A1h#F...

That said they would not consider their oppressors as their enemies but rather that the oppressor is hurting themselves more than their victim by depriving themselves of actual happiness

Here is a letter Abdul-Baha's father wrote to the persian Shah while in prison. It is just incredible to say the least

https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/...
I usually just pull off at a truck stop for sleep if I'm traveling, but even those have been getting filled up lately. Plenty of exits will just have semis lined up on the shoulder because there's no room anywhere else and they can only drive so many hours by law.
> > "Men often feel pressure to conform to traditional masculinity at the cost of their own emotional health."

It's not pressure per se but the fact that rationally one would imagine that although it's hard to do if you manage to do it then it would be a superior experience vis-a-vis not trying and thus saving energy and mental health.

It's a bet where not only money are on the line but also energy and mental health in order to achieve a superior experience.

To me also most of the unhappiness in the male ranks is simply because men were never made to live this long, the fact that men live almost as much as women and the mortality is about the same is unheard of.

A quick turnover of men is a synonym with a healthy and dynamic society.
This is largely a west coast problem. We are doing a trip to the west coast this summer (sitting in the shade of my RV in AZ right now on our way) and we had to book a lot more in advance than other destinations. The past few years in the central and east we can usually find a spot day of unless it is right near a major attraction.
Berkeley occurs 4 times in the list. Similar repetitions occur for other schools.

University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
UC Berkeley
In the last 5 fives, gold's highest price was 60% higher than its lowest point. That is indeed pretty volatile.

Let's see if Bitcoin is comparably volatile…

Oh, it's highest point was only 1920% higher than its lowest point. That's definitely the exact same as gold. /s

Also, that ignores that gold has been a store of value for millennia. It's almost synonymous with wealth. In a total financial collapse, if all modern technology dies, you can be sure gold will still have value. 99.9% of people have no idea what Bitcoin is besides funny computer money.
I doubt anyone serious has claimed is a magical antidote to faulty thinking.

It does provide strong incentives, which you should trust a lot more than words.

Your point that some people are daredevils who don't care too much about personal risk is interesting though. Hadn't thought about that.
No one said they are more happy than engineers in SF.
It might be a case of them seeing way more potential with LLMs compared to image generation.
Why do you need crypto platforms? Isn’t the whole point of crypto that you do need “platforms” to use it or store it?
Infracost VSCode extension: cost estimates for Terraform right in your editor
Hivemind: Train deep learning models on thousands of volunteers across the world
I thought that "skin in the game" just means that you feel the consequences of your actions, and are (maybe) forced to learn as a result. I think that doesn't work well for single catastrophic events as you describe because single mistakes are deadly/ruinous/etc. IIRC Taleb is focused more on the field of managing risk for shared-decision-making and aligning incentives, but none of that rules out total failure etc, it just means that everyone bears the consequences.
> Most cross platform GUI frameworks are object orientated even if the underlying graphical APIs are procedural. For example, win 32 API is procedural.

Well, win32 is kind of object-oriented, in a way, even though it doesn't always map cleanly to OOP languages.

Windows are basically objects whose methods you call through SendMessage. There is even inheritance by replacing the window procedure and delegating to the parent procedure. There is polymorphism in that many kinds of windows support the same messages (e.g. WM_PAINT) and can decide how to handle them.
I mean I am not blind, there are plenty of no code platforms that work on B2B space. But nothing in the B2C for general purpose domain that do this in a privacy safe manner, at least not one that will shake up the tech companies.
Oh 100% this. To play Devil's Advocate though, I run a Matrix room too and the search functionality on that is a lot worse than Discord (it takes around a minute to actually find something), so most users end up asking again because it's easier (...for them, of course).
The parent said "meant for communities" and not "used for communities".

The biggest difference I see is that Discord is "free" for communities, or at least the model is different: an individual user can apparently pay to contribute to the server and "unlock" features. Also I think Discord just comes with history for free, which is a killer feature in many communities.

Slack is more "meant for companies" in the sense that the "owner" of the server (i.e. the company) has to pay each month for each user. Many open source communities can't afford that, which is why they like the Discord model better.

Disclaimer: I hate both, because they don't have an open API and the Desktop apps use ElectronJS. So I'm not sure if I'm biased towards one or the other :D
Having trouble with figures of speech has been linked to schizophrenia. e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0067...
No, this is an absolutely ass-backwards argument. To be a currency or a store of value or money (read: to be of any use) it has to be exchangeable for goods and services. Now we can see transactions on the blockchain but we have no idea what that transaction was for. *Nobody* can tell you what a bitcoins worth of wheat is without resorting to exchange rates of bitcoin to actual currencies. But because the entire exchange ecosystem is so illiquid, intransparent, unaudited and rife with fraud there is no way to know how many bushels of wheat you could get for something like 13 BTC.
I'm building an app using tauri. More than 70% of the code is rust. The tauri codebase itself consists of a lot of Rust code, and it's based on two substantial rust libraries for cross platform window management and cross platform webview management
It fights against one kind of incompetence (direct and deliberate fraud) but it doesn't remove a bunch of other types. Many people will happily live in a deathtrap because they don't really think anything will happen to them.
Do you know if Packer is still decent for building cloud AMIs? Or do you have any suggestion for building custom images that can run on cloud platforms as well as locally?
Well, if they've trained the LLM on Bild headlines, I don't think the results will be pretty...

Reminds me of Sim City 2000 newspaper headlines, but with more right-winginess...
Exactly. He did his job, and was paid handsomely for it (and whether or not it became anything).

He leveraged massive resources to do it and was allowed to tap people with multi-decades of experience (even implicitly - you think he build the execution engine where his "test harness" ran?).
Not to mention that he essentially wrote a wrapper around an API..

If he put his total comp this pity party would shrink to one.
News stories aren't evidence. They are written to make you click and then subscribe. The doomer perspective is simply wrong. There is no increase in extreme weather, just reporting of it.

This document goes through all the data for the UK and shows this to be true using the government's own numbers and charts:

https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2023/06/UK-weather-2...

e.g. "Since the naming of storms began in 2015, they have gained more
attention in the media and amongst the public, with the consequent misapprehension that they are becoming more common.
In reality, wind storms have been declining in both frequency and
intensity since the 1990s"

This page presents charts for number of heatwaves, forest burn area, hurricane frequency and energy and tornados in the USA over time. They all show no problems and in some cases declines in extreme weather.

https://realclimatescience.com/extreme-weather/

But reporting this sort of thing is left to non-profit bloggers because the news industry wants you to be scared, all the time, because scared people read the news a lot. This can result in insane outcomes, like the Washington Post telling you that a lack of hurricanes is "terrifying"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

Weather events: terrifying when they're there, terrifying when they aren't. There's a theme here.
"How do you know someone's a cyclist? Don't worry, they'll tell you"
I would love that my kids applied code to automate stuff and solve complex problems. Would I want them to become software engineers? I wouldn't, because they would most likely end up working on some SaaS product or something equally stupid, and burn out every few years. But if they went into something like aerospace engineering, energy, or whatever, and happened to write a bunch of code, it would be really cool.
Are you driving one-way? How do you have a route that is a lot of downhills without uphills? Are you starting at the continental divide?
So dismissive! I've been repeatedly told that literally no one uses the site as is, but this is strange because that is how I use Reddit. So I am a nobody? Thanks, I guess. My opinion does not match yours therefore I must be a victim of gaslighting who can't think for myself? But I can think for myself and as someone in this industry I know how expensive and fragile constructions like Reddit are.

Serving interface requests costs money. What external apps are prepared to pay is not enough to support the business so they are saving people time and money by setting a high barrier. If serving discussion forum interface requests is so easy and cheap then shouldn't competition fix the problem anyway?

Of course there are all kinds of great apps out there. Handicapped access is certainly an issue. But any honest look shows that is not what is driving this protest. This protest is coming from the large numbers of users who can't imagine using the default web interface while browsing on their mobile phones. If Reddit management had any sense then they would somehow make things work. But they don't, and they were already on a fairly steep downward slope. And just as I am considered to be a nobody who is incapable of thinking for myself so it will also be that Reddit's fall will be seen not as a long term inability to make a profit but as clever and righteous protesters bringing them down for ending their sweet free deal. As long as it dies. The sooner the better. Then maybe I can stop hearing about how John Oliver is the great lord of the whiners.
How does anyone keep up with anything? It's a visual thing. A lot of people are learning drawing, modeling, animation etc in the exact same way - by watching YouTube (a bit) and experimenting (a lot).
Hey, seems there are a few typos/grammatical errors in the faq, might be due to the recent changes, just thought you should take another look. I’m on my phone otherwise I’d take screenshots and share.