skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What typically happens: Farmer hires 75% more people so none of them get overtime but now they each make 57% as much money because they've each had their hours cut.

Wouldn't that also increase rates, since you need to hire more laborers, which means the demand for labor increases?

Another possibility, is lower peoples' rates to $24.80—40 hours at $24.80/hr + 30 hours at overtime = $2108, so the same as they were being paid before.

Or something in between.
here is one of our early examples: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/flow/chat/pro...
No truth was told to the OP. You need to document your reasons why a PIP is needed. As someone points out in this thread, the whole point of the PIP process is to get a paper trail ready if Google is going to fire someone to avoid accusations of discrimination. HR will block any PIP with "My manager says so" as the basis.

The people that say "My hand was forced" are lying to you and lying to themselves and are frankly poor managers.

My alternative theory and one that is more common and I'm not sure why it didn't come to me first is OPs manager is conflict avoidant and wants to always be the "good guy". Firing people is no fun. PIPs are no fun. It's the cowards way out to pass the buck.

To put it another way, if OP asked their skip why they are in a PIP, what do you think their answer would be? It'd likely be something like "Go read the PIP document yourself" because they have confidence they have documented underperformance in the PIP tool.
> Even if you plunged the entire US back into poverty, that's not going to solve anything

weird change of subject there
I see it more often being used in place of dumb/wild. I think it's pretty rare that people use it to refer to someone as a homosexual.
Generally agree but I don't think Secure Boot falls in this category unless the keys are locked in firmware (and in that case the firmware is the problem). Root passwords aren't evil either just because they can be withdrawn from the user.
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> If it isn't plastic then what is it?

a good thought exercise, but a distraction from the question at hand, which is, do we have convincing evidence that it's plastics?
Short version: despite some fairly severe symptoms, I've managed to develop tools and coping mechanisms that let me do OK in spite of myself. A lot of it was from brute force, though. We went on to discuss some of them to see if there were any practical tools he could pass along to other people in the same boat.

I largely made an appointment in the first place because I was weary of using all my mental energy to stay afloat. Not drowning isn't the same as thriving, and I wondered what I could accomplish if I could spend some of those mental cycles on more productive goals. We found some meds that work well for me, and I'm still astonished at the ability to, you know, choose work on the things I want and need to work on. What a different world that is!
>"so what if you think a for-profit company is making an extraneous decision and wasting the time of their employees?"

Yea exactly, so what? Are you a share holder? Are you an employee? Do you even have evidence that what you're saying is in fact true? Do you even know what you're talking about?

>you don't need to be a language fanboi

Ah I see, you're one of those Rust haters. Nothing I said here had anything to do with Rust. They could have been porting to any other language and I'd say the exact same thing.

>superficially changing languages to meet the trend is wasteful/ harmful/ dangerous/ stupid in nearly all cases

In other words, only when the high and mighty serf agrees with a company's decisions is it a good idea. He doesn't even need to know anything about the company, he already knows from his omniscient powers when a company decision is the right or wrong one.
Lisanne Bainbridge, Ironies of Automation. Especially timely now when every company is bolting a LLM onto the side of their software.
I don't believe it, I also don't treat/consider relationships as transactional. My argument is that if these relationships are transactional, there should be an obvious benefit otherwise most people would consider the potential gain to be too risky and not have these relationships.
Why stop there. Let's see who is behind the problem they're solving with item 2:

Some examples of scenarios where users depend on client trust include:

1. Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they're human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.

2. Users want to know they are interacting with real people on social websites but bad actors often want to promote posts with fake engagement (for example, to promote products, or make a news story seem more important). Websites can only show users what content is popular with real people if websites are able to know the difference between a trusted and untrusted environment.

Not written in item two: And the people paying to promote the posts funding these sites want to know the promotions are landing on real consumers' screens.
There’s this one from September 10th, 1996, which I find intriguing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180402143912/http://www.xent.c...
Constraint modelling is really neat. It only works well on a specific category of problems, but when it works it can feel almost like cheating. You don't actually do anything, you just restate the problem in code and the computer does the work for you.
Hacking Honeybees Brings AI Closer to the Hive
It’s not like human bureaucracies are any better. Most of the time they act like brick walls, it’s similar reasons.
You forgot to tell us what it is.
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My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0, bundled with Linux Unleashed book in 1995's Summer.

I had to copy all the floppy images from the CD-ROM into the hard disk and then boot the installation from floppy, as my IDE CD-ROM still wasn't supported by the Linux kernel 1.0.9, and my Trident card was downgraded to 800x600, as X couldn't do 1024x768 with it.

Happy birthday Slackware.

EDIT: kernel version.
When we were at war with each other in large groups a lot of productive elements went negative for a long time, and it took world cooperation to rebuild it. Even when you study war victors and losers, the winners being nice to losers was more value for everyone vs when not-nice severe loss conditions were imposed after.
The first time I played Minecraft Classic was really significant to me.

I was around 12 years old at the time, and I was in middle school. I remember feeling extremely frustrated at the school system because I was ready for much more in terms of academics, but my teachers mostly taught to the lowest common denominator. I read books by John Taylor Gatto, and later Alfie Kohn. I was extremely interested in "Unschooling", an idea that if the school system were removed, kids would actually learn more by their natural curiosity. That idea isn't very appealing to me anymore but Montessori schools and more self-directed learning in general would probably be a good thing for the educational system.

I had found a website that allowed you to click a button and would redirect you to a random "interesting page". There was a website called "Everybody Edits" which was a 2D platformer made out of a grid of squares, and players could add or remove squares. Servers had challenges with read-only levels, and there were buttons and doors and little boost pads. I thought the game was pretty fun but I left after a couple hours playing different challenges.

I clicked the button again, and it led me to minecraft.com . That game almost immediately blew my mind. I built a little brick house with flowers out in front and I got my mom to come over and look at it.

What made it so special for me was this very tangible feeling of freedom. This was a game that allowed me to build anything, where I wasn't restricted at all by my parents, or my teachers, or any authority figure whatsoever.

After playing with the singleplayer mode, I saw there was some multiplayer servers. I don't remember much about the first (several?) servers I joined, I think they were all build-protected so nobody could grief them, and they had some pretty builds.

Then I joined a server that didn't have any build-protections at all. It kind of reminded me of a jungle? Whatever terrain was randomly generated there was completely destroyed. Minecraft classic had an extremely short height limit, I think 64 blocks. Many many people had joined the server, built a pillar directly to the top of the world and constructed a "canopy" built out of random blocks. I swam over to the only structure that existed, a brick house that was decaying. I started to fix it, but then another random player started destroying it, being kept in a constant moving state of existence.

To this day, I'm still obsessed with web games and games that allow an extremely high level of freedom. Much later in life I got a software engineering degree, I went to work for a big company with a big paycheck, I bought an RTX 3090 to play Minecraft RTX, and now I'm fulltime trying to build a pathtraced game on the web using WebGPU. The main reason why I want pathtracing isn't for photorealistic visuals, but to enable the same level of freedom that Minecraft has.
If you look at net worth as a measure of success women singers absolutely dominate men, especially when you consider that the high achieving men tend to be well past their prime or dead.
Mine is Day of the Tentacle, which then turned me on to the whole Lucas Arts catalog and other point & click adventures like Myst. I credit these games for making me a better problem solver/mathematician/programmer because they got me used to being stuck for quite long bits of time and there was no one you could really go ask for hints.
Because they are focused on fossil fuels, which are responsible for both CO2 emissions and increasing standard of living, including reduction of climate related deaths.

The real solution is to use a better base load fuel source, which would be nuclear, but they're not pushing for that. That necessarily means they are advocating poverty.
This is the one thing I dislike about Penn Jillette. The way he excuses himself from his former stance on climate change. He accepts it now, but he says "there wasn't enough evidence back then" and "they didn't do a good enough job to convince [me]".

But it's not their job to convince him. They're the ones who have spent their lives studying this. And they're convinced. The number of people with the education and expertise who are convinced far outnumber those who even claim the same level of education and expertise who are not convinced.

And this has been true for at least 30 years.
You're still taking a London centric view, which is very odd.

The context is India, remember. One of England's former colonies.
I don't see how "carbon will be one of the main limiting factors". Carbon is abundant in our environment -- it's around 0.03% of it and is spread evenly enough that you can always find it. It's even relatively common in the universe.

What is hard to find - and has always been hard to find is cheap energy. And carbon dioxide is essentially the lowest energy state for carbon. It's a dead end as far as energy goes. That's why it's a waste product.

If you want to build useful structures then you're still subject to thermodynamics, whether you're using "organisms" to do it or not. So using graphite or any other form of carbon would be a better source of carbon than CO2. The only reason to use CO2 is that it is commonly available (which is why plants use it).

And again, no one is proposing removing all the CO2, just enough to keep us in this little ice age we have been enjoying. So there's no reason to worry about running out.
Provable properties for cryptographic algorithms is a thing. Provably correct compilers exist. It’s not hard to imagine provably correct kernel modules for example and benefits they’d bring. If they had better ux you could imagine business logic, state machines, asynchronous computation to have provable properties as well. It’s very interesting area but on the edge of usability currently. I’d predict it has great future as ai gets incorporated more and more as it gives solid logic/mathematical proofs over solutions - if it doesn’t make sense to you, think json schema like validated llm output but for any computation.

Sophisticated programming languages dive towards this direction already compared to untyped cousins. Programs are validated against type theory correctness. You can go deeper with dependent types. And those languages go all the way down to prove everything there is to be proven.
Or pay to buy a trusty AI to help you
In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russel
Eh, believe it or not. It's no skin off my back either way.

But doctors are people, too, and he and I built an easy, informal rapport. I'm certain he wouldn't have said it if he wasn't sure I'd laugh in response.
"The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" is a classic: https://www.amazon.com/Implementation-Operating-paperback-Ad...
Absolutely, 'content spinning' in gaming is an issue, but it can still aid players. Encouraging original content and source acknowledgement is critical. Balancing user experience and ad revenue is tough for gaming sites. For unique discussions, try platforms like Reddit or game-specific forums. Your insights could greatly enrich Zelda content creation
The King of All Cosmos getting incredibly drunk and accidentally destroying all the stars. Few games have a better backstory or soundtrack.
I'm originally from CS but have an interest in linguistics. I can highly recommend any paper by the late Charles J. Fillmore who over many decaded developed ideas that rivaled the standard Chomskian school of thought.

His wikipedia page lists a few publications that could serve as starting points:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Fillmore#Publicatio...
Why is this comment so obviously written by ChatGPT?
Building a 'like button' with Astro and Val Town
> You've never run into a problem where 2 C projects require a some shared system library but require incompatible versions?

I have to say ... no. And I've worked on some very large C projects at times.

Part of it is cultural. In the systems library space, there is a much stronger (nothing is perfect but I'll say much stronger) culture of compatibility awareness. Libraries don't break compatibility randomly without any planning unlike in less mature ecosystems (coughnpmcough). So you don't need to depend on libfoo 3.17.42 because neither 3.17.41 nor 3.17.43 work for you. That's not a thing.

Part of it is how the system works. If you look under /usr/lib you'll notice libraries are versioned and have symlinks from major/minor version to them. Different versions coexist and you can link accordingly. Even if you have (rare) badly-behaved library authors who break compatibility, it's not an issue to have multiple versions and each program links to the one it needs.
Where I’m living ADSL is still exciting (and one of only 2 options for wired Internet service). Currently on 2 (semi-stable) 60mbps down / 15mbps up pairs bonded together sold as a 100mbps down / 20 mbps up service. I keep it because the cable provider charges a ton for anything over 10mbps up when not on a promotional rate.
But this is about the film version, though.

Digital IMAX is pointless, but it is still technically "MAX" as the max is for physical size, not resolution.

The original reason IMAX uses 70mm film (8.3x the area of 35mm) is because projecting onto a larger screen required a more powerful lamp, which would produce more heat and burn 35mm film, so they had to place it farther away from the lamp, meaning the film had to be larger.
Show HN: AlignedBot, the safest and most aligned chatbot
I found the mixed reactions to Llama 2 interesting, with some people concerned about the safety implications of open-sourcing a powerful LLM, while others were finding the chat RLHF version overly cautious (e.g. won't tell you how to make mayonnaise because we don't know how the eggs were sourced).

I was curious to see what happens if we dial that up to 11, and allowing the chatbot to be rude to make it harder to jailbreak. The result ended up being pretty entertaining.

Try it out, and let me know what you think! https://fsck.ai/labs/aligned-bot
"Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence". I hate "Dark Patterns" because UX is hard and 90% of accusations are complete assumptions of intent.

Advertisements are almost universally served from a secondary/external source. So when you make a request to load your inbox, the ad may come in a half second or so slower than the native content. In a world where content is loaded in Async that means it may come in slower than your reaction time to read the page and click.

If you load up your console and look at the network requests, I would bet you a crisp $49 bill that you will not see all of the content loaded at the same time and the ad being delayed intentionally.
Isn't this more scary? If the earths core was really the cause of warming, then it is really unlikely we can do anything to stop it.

This is what I don't get about climate deniers justifying we shouldn't do anything because it is NOT 'Human-Caused'.

If it is 'Human-Caused' we could possibly do something by changing our behavior.

If it is NOT 'Human-Caused' then we really don't have many options.

By saying it isn't 'humans' causing this, they are both more defeatist, more doom, and also more irrational by acknowledging something is happening but we still shouldn't do anything.
Who knew about radiation sickness, and when?
Migrating 10Minutemail from Java to GraalVM Native
Does every state share this view?
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I don't think it's wrong. "Stupid" random information is addictive and has neurological effects and we're bombarded with it.
This comment is so funny it's almost satire. Look at John deere to see how fun tractors can be.
A T1 was about ten times faster than a 3-1/2" floppy drive wasn't it?

I never thought of a T1 as "slow" until I started downloading CD images for Linux distros. The first cable modem connections I had were so much faster for downloads.
Too many good memories to list them all, but for a couple that fall under your "oddity" category, there are two games in particular that will forever be tied to specific senses for me:

* Medievia (yep, the text MUD): played this a bunch with a buddy in college around 2007ish, and at the time we were both obsessively drinking Vanilla Chai tea. So even now, whenever I smell that tea (the Bigelow brand specifically), I think of short hand commands like "bs; l in cor" and responses like "Double maim!"

* Fallout 3 : been well over a decade since I played this, but when I sat down and played it for the first time I also happened to pour myself a pint of Guinness right beforehand. So now whenever I have that tasty first sip of a fresh pint of Guinness, I can't help but think of the line "War. War never changes" and the opening tune to "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" by the Ink Spots.
It's the ad-tech sector of the web declaring a secession from the internet, for ads can't live under the law of the open web. The new AdWeb is going to look like appstores: websites will need to pay to the adweb owners, and users will need to use smartphones or locked down browsers. As for the open web, it will stay and continue evolving free from money making concerns.
Your skepticism needs better metrics. And you are greatly underestimating the intensity of American/Western emissions and greatly overestimating the increase of those in developing nations. Sweden plus Norway, total population 16 million, have greater emissions than that of Bangladesh, a nation with 169 million people.
Have most people read a paper? I see threads like these with some many interesting suggestion, but are they read by people outside of their general area of study or expertise? I read quite a bit of fiction, but I've never really been able to read anything much past an abstract which much understanding. I have no science background. Am I missout on something?
And it's supposed to be free, right? Even with fairly good insurance I've never been able to get out without some bill surprising me.
This is probably among the best I have read: https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1462&co...

In a system with growing inequality where the rich benefit at the expense of the poor, this artificial redistribution can go on for some time, but once the inequality gets so bad that people revolt, then the amount of "guard labor" that needs to be performed goes up. Poverty and desperation makes people more likely to perform "guard labor" because it gives them a chance to escape poverty and avoid being targeted themselves which further feeds into authoritarian politicians gaining more power as they have no trouble finding soldiers willing to maintain the inequality. This works but only until guard labor reaches such a critical mass that half the population engages in it. Once that point is crossed, guard labor will start defecting against the current political leadership and conduct a military coup.
> think it's a last resort for someone who isn't listening to a specific feedback well

Pretty much this at least when I've used it. What was surprising was I had an employee do a complete 180 when put on a PIP. They had been given lots of feedback, clear guidance, and even a direct, "we've talked about this, and it's putting your job in jeopardy, if this continues you will be fired" conversation prior to the PIP. I honestly expected to fire them and the end and thought I was just crossing my Ts and dotting my 'i's with HR, but to my shock the PIP seemed to shake something loose that nothing else did. All I can think is that putting a clear deadline on it finally got through. When I left a couple years later we were starting to talk about promoting them. Don't know if it ever happened.

I can't assert how other companies and managers use them, but the only time I've ever deployed PIPs is as a "we've talked about this, and this is now your last chance" with the honest intent (even if I'm not expecting it) that if the issues are resolved they are put behind us.
British company.

They are rigging the results by not counting the new restrictions on UK citizens entering and operating within 27 EU countries, including the 5 countries they visit most: Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.

No honest person would claim that the UK passport is equal to the Danish, Irish, or Dutch passport. Absurd.

I am not aware of even one country, anywhere in the world, that has made entry easier for UK citizens following Brexit. Certainly, nothing has happened over the past year to justify the UK rising in the ranks.

I have a UK passport but, even before Brexit, found it more pragmatic to travel on my Irish passport. British tourists have long had a somewhat tarnished reputation and, in some countries, resentments still linger from Britain's rather brutal past.

Since Brexit, over a million UK citizens have applied for and received Irish passports, giving them back the EU citizenship rights they had before Brexit.
My first distro. I remember buying a Linux Magazine that gave installation CDs as a bonus and had a quick walkthrough to install it.

I ended up deleting windows from my pc by destroying all partitions...It has been quite a ride :-)
I was referring to bloat as in memory usage.

A quick glance at Moe, I see inheritance in something as fundamental as buffers.