skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine. What most rich progressives, who constitute 90% of the people I interact with, think of most poor working-class people in Iowa, who constitute 0% of the people I interact with. Does that help? I'm trying to explain the nature of the problem.

And no, most progressives are not working class, and basically none of them are lower class. That's pure vanity; the belief that you, a wealthy person, stand as a tribune for a group of people you yourself are not a part of. A group you're imagining in your mind.

Waiters and bartenders, for instance, are not progressives. They're either anarcho-syndicalists or they want to own the bar.

No one, but I mean no one, wants to live in the world imagined by upper-middle-class whites wherein "equity" means we should all give up stuff for people with [spew of bullshit about "disproportionately climate challenged communities of historically marginalized buzzword buzzword bullshit"]. That's just you. The rest of us, like immigrants? We think you're fucking ridiculous.
> UPS’ CEO said drivers will average $170,000 in pay _and benefits such as health care and pensions_

> Full-time workers will average $49 an hour

$49/h × 2,000h = $98,000

The title of the article is a little exaggerated. How much of the $170k is "benefits" which should not be benefits but basic employer services.
Hearing the British government care about "the risks of excessive surveillance" is a new one.

Although I guess it's because they're talking about companies, not the government itself.
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You’re assuming they work 40 hour weeks. UPS workers average close to 60.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. Delivery drivers create direct economic benefit to a corporation and should (imo) receive compensation that is aligned and proportional to that benefit.

Public school teachers are government employees. While I think their job, from a societal perspective, is more important than a delivery driver’s, it’s impossible to make the argument for higher pay on the same grounds. I do agree that teachers should be paid a lot more.
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Surely the solution you have in mind is to increase teacher salaries, right?
If everyone else earns more, nobody else earns more, because of inflation
Then the answer is to pay teachers more, not others less, right?
> The big question is whether one even needs medical care to begin with.

Well, then while we are at it we might as well evaluate whether we need to be on this planet at all? I mean what's even the point in being mortal if in the end we are anyway going to the mortuary? We might as well fast track it. I mean, right?

So my question is - did you write this statement in all seriousness or there were traces of sarcasm that my radar totally failed to detect.
I work with a friend who is Chinese and she often takes notes while learning things. She is at least as fast as I am at longhand writing in English AND she has to translate to Chinese on the fly. Also she ends up with WAY more compact notes than would be possible in an alphabet.

I think maybe it's English that would benefit from being written in ideograms! The popularity of emoji is partly due to their compactness.
Prices pretty much reflect the commute. Live near a subway line or closer on that line to Manhattan: it’s in the price.

NYC real estate is pretty shockingly efficient. If you think you found a great deal, you are almost certainly in for a bad time.

Parts of each of the Boroughs are pretty sketchy. Again, the parts that are not: priced in!
Wow, why didn't anybody think of that before?
What if "C/C++" is not actually a thing and modern software engineering practices is what actually makes software safe? Writing modern C++ with good test coverage, sanitizers deployed and wrapping critical/unsafe parts into safe interfaces gets you _very_ far.
Other jobs are hard work too.
DPI. Popular VPN protocols are easily identified by first connection packet signature.
yeah she's aussie :-)
Rosemary Church

https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/rosemary-church-profile#abo...
What you’re missing is about 20 hours per week.
I love that it shows you the 90th percentile
OpenSSH 9.4 Released
nah definitely an Aussie

https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/rosemary-church-profile#abo...
Have you tried living without delivery drivers?
> And lobbyists are not lobbyists, they are oligarchs.

???

No, this is nonsense. The normal meaning of the word "lobbyist" is an _employee_ who uses political connections to push corporate interests. The normal meaning of the word "oligarch" is someone with large wealth. These two are not similar at all.

So the phrase you're looking for is probably "And billionaires are not billionaires, they're oligarchs".
So the $49 is immediate, at the end of the 5 years it should rise to $56.50. And I think a fulltime salary is 40hrs/week is it not?

56.505240 = 117,520, plus overtime and healthcare and pension and other benefits being the other ~55,000 I suppose.
So unfair that it's always the bad who make a mess but the good who have to pay for it.
Indeed, that's part of what motivated netflix to make fast.com.
The problem is the interconnectedness of "practicing a discipline" and "surviving". The modern economic system irreparably entangles the two concepts, so that if you want to survive, your discipline better be economically viable. Horse-breeding stopped to be something that can be done by anyone but a minuscule section of the population; same for painting and clock-making. LLMs are poised to do that to large swaths of professions that were based on writing.
If we're talking about Go, the design of this language is perfect for writing a network related stuff, it's pretty easy, safe and stable. Language's stdlib is mature.
As far as I know, in case of Rust you have to rely more on external libraries when you're writing network stuff to make development process less verbose and comfortable. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
Depends on where you’re going but neither are that bad, depends on where you live specifically in either of those places.

The Bronx has higher crime for sure.
INAE, but I think they sniff the initial handshake the protocols have and then drop subsequent packets.
This is why Netflix runs fast.com, so that if an ISP wants to cheat on speed tests, people are still going to get those cheated speeds even when they stream real Netflix videos. Really clever.
That SoC is pretty nice and relevant for this discussion.
Did you want to make any kind of argument here?
I mean it’s on a par with using simplified Chinese here. People understand what you mean, but you get disapproving looks. A foreigner using G translate would probably be fine, though :)
This was my understanding, too. Anecdotally, I've always seemed to get slower results on fast.com compared to Ookla/speedtest.net/my ISP's speedtest website (the latter of which all seemed to show similar results, leading me to believe that fast.com was exempt from this sort of prioritization).
Speech to text is very impractical and error-prone.
I was talking about hobbyists. Who said anything about businesses?

CUDA also works on consumer NVidia cards, not just business ones.
What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)
Exactly. At this rate, we should include the cost of all the sexual predator (not sure of the exact technical term) lawsuits faced by ceo as a part of their compensation as well. As well as cost of lawsuits for wrongful deaths when talking about police pay. It is insured so they know the cost upfront…
FOSS hyperparameter optimization framework to automate hyperparameter search
It’s about class and power. I’m still amazed at how brazen Powell is about it all.
lets see how the unicorn looks tomorrow
Hyperopt: Distributed Hyperparameter Optimization
Yep,

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Church lived in London until her family moved to Australia when she was 8 years old. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University in Canberra and has completed graduate studies in media and law at the University of Canberra.

like 25% of all Australians, born elsewhere :)
Probably because Telegram is a state-level honeypot. The chances a place like Russia would have its population (and lots of people in what they consider their "ex-colonies") communicate over a platform that they can't intercept and monitor are zero. Add a track record of technical incompetence and an absurd backstory of the founder that escapes from state control to .. Cyprus of all places.
I don't measure file size in bits. I don't want to multiply/divide by 8 when roughly estimating how long a download will take. I end up doing 10 instead for maximum ease and pessimism.
I lived in China for a few years and only recently left. No exit bans for foreigners unless you commit a crime or owe debt there.

It’s a completely different story for Chinese nationals. Many are barred from exiting the country to the point where many Malaysian travel agencies (small/family owned ones) have gone bankrupt (due to outsized reliance on Chinese customers)
I know the UK adopted GDPR, but I'm not sure about any changes which might have happened since Brexit.

However, in the EU, where the GDPR was written, consent must be freely given (which means that it must also be possible not to consent without negative consequences). Especially for employees, the prevailing opinion is that employees cannot give consent freely in most circumstances (https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...)

I'm surprised to see a recommendation to gather consent in this context.

(BTW: the report itself is hidden behind a link fairly far down in the article: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/41099/document...)
Supporters would probably say that this would come at the expense of investors/shareholders.
Are you affected by the annual “internet cutoff”

My office in Moscow has IPsec tunnels and is fine, but we also see no outages other than the occasional last mile loss on one of the circuits (not at the same time). Maybe that’s because it’s a business line.
> My impression was previously that Russia was somewhat of a wild west when it came to piracy and internet restrictions.

Your impression was absolutely wrong. Before war, Microsoft and other big western companies along with police hunted companies which tried to use pirate software. So it was not a good idea to use pirate software for company in Russia, at least if you're big enough to be noticed. Ordinary people were kind of ignored, AFAIK.

Both Internet restrictions and surveillance also were present in Russia in the recent years. Officially to protect children, unofficially to suppress opposition as well.
Because bankers, like it or not, produce that much value. UPS drivers don’t, and are instead holding their company hostage to force them to pay them more, placing unnecessary restrictions on people entering the job market, which ultimately comes at the expense of everybody else in their market.
I'm not sure what the last part means about the other China being another China, but continental sounds like a good alternative actually. No concept of main versus spare/alternate/lesser, just not an island
Not the point, and you clearly have a loose grip on economics.

Have you tried living without water? No? Would you pay $170,000 per year for it?
Your comment would be true if American and British English were linguistically classified as distinct, mutually unintelligible languages (beyond amusing accent jokes).

A Mandarin speaker in Taiwan has a different accent and slightly different vocabulary than Mandarin speaker in Beijing, but neither of them would be able to converse with a Yue speaker any more than a Russian speaker would be able to converse with a Polish speaker.
305 Mbps for me. Cringy how slow internet connetivity is in the UK.
I suspect that your line has a configured limit as opposed to physical limit of 250mb/s (perhaps the fibre equipment is capable of 500mb/s or something).

I've seen this ever since I moved to fibre about 8 years ago, I've never taken the fastest packages and whenever I test on speedtest.net it always starts off exceeding my limit, then comes down to my limit over a short while.

The limiter for you may very well allow you to burst for a limited duration, so your speed on 1MB files are possibly at 440mb/s, but once you have sustained line usage it brings you down to your limit. I wouldn't know if this is an intentional feature or just because of how the limiter solution is implemented that it needs to sample over a certain period of time.

It is a slightly useful behaviour if you're browsing the web and only occasionally clicking links which land up being downloaded way faster than your normal limit, but as you're only getting this speed if you do little to nothing for the 10s or 100s of seconds between opening pages, it doesn't have any negative effects over all.
Uff. Apparently gives correct readings mostly in Chrome only.

I have a 500/500M connection and on the same computer Chrome gives 465/364 and Firefox has 311/303M.

EDIT: this was on Linux/intel.

On Mac M1Pro it Chrome/FF/Safari all get pretty much the same numbers.

Both computers have wired ethernet.
This seems suspect coming from Vice.
The preceding view is just as silly. Humanity doesn't destroy local life, we become local life. Saying "leave nature alone" when humans are nature personified... its so self defeating.
> But MOND has so many problems

The fact that the results happen to fit some MOND model(s), while interesting, doesn't really mean much: these results could be 100% correct and all of MOND a pipe dream at the same time. The crucial question is, is the analysis correct?
I'm going to go out on a limb and bet the vast majority of people do. For the typical person going to a supermarket with a car where they can see what is available and looks good just isn't a big task--especially because you usually have other errands to run in a given week.
I believe the logic is fine.
You seem to think you need multiple data points from the same version of the model (i.e. multiple samples per day at least) would be necessary to judge the actual performance on each particular day.

That's worse logic. How would you visualize the very large sample you would get? Even with the current 118 samples (one per day) it's already difficult to find a pattern.

Would you "average" the samples?? That would not help IMO, you would need to average the score of each image, which requires either manually doing it or finding a reliable algorithm to do it automatically, but good luck with that.

So, a sample per day which allows clearly visualizing any change in the results over months and years is a valuable thing to do and I find it hard to improve on the methodology. You just need to keep in mind that one single picture from the sample is not enough, no one is going to disagree with that... but that doesn't make it "bad logic" and it's pretty thoughtless to say so.
For those in the UK, you should join the United Tech and Allied Workers - see https://utaw.tech

Aside from normal union activities, they have a very active interest in employee surveillance and are looking at how to fight it. Go and join, before you end up wishing you had done it sooner.
Wasn't Wireguard explicitly designed to avoid that? (IIRC it took lots of inspiration from state of the art data exfiltration methods used by malware)
Best of luck, this transition period is going to be chaotic for a while I'm sure. Glad to see the project in the hands of someone who seems to be on top of things. I also appreciate the carefulness of changes to the codebase after assuming leadership.
CEO is trolling working class. It’s total cost of benefits added to TC. So while from an economist POV this is the total cost of one employee, it’s not the TC (total comp) that Tech often uses, largely because it’s hard to know the added costs that the company pays per person
Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" comes suddenly and strongly to mind. A coincidence, I'm sure.
Where I am, ISPs have arrangements to give intra-country traffic higher speed than inter-country. The nearest cloudflare PoP this chooses is always inside the country, so it gives misleading result.
There's a linked blog post[0] that goes more into the methodology and reasoning.

"As mentioned in the hacker news discussion, the model doesn't change daily. [...] As OpenAI releases incremental updates, we'll see the model change automatically and be able to judge outputs. A single sample per day leads to quite different results, but that's fine I think. What I expect to see a year from now is an evolution of output. In variance: how varied are the outputs over a month?"

So yes, they could just produce 100 images with each new model release, but chose to spread those out over 1 per day instead. Is it the most scientific way to measure progress? No. Is it more fun and interesting to check back daily? Probably.

[0] https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio...
Unless you alienate most of them because of your hard head.

Thinking of cost like this is very shallow

The post is not doing any favours and it is not convincing anybody to apply to the position, quite the contrary

And guess what, your company is not the shining star that has to make absolute sure to never have a bad hire. Sure, take the low-hanging fruit as early in the process as possible, but up to a certain point, more interviews won't mean better results
A GPD lower than that of Italy? Here's something better: per capita is lower than that of Bulgaria's. Perhaps Putin's plan is to lower the country's population to increase the per capita ratio?
It doesn’t, it comes at the expense of other people in the delivery driving industry, who are kept out of UPS jobs by the union
The people who spend on marketing are not incentivised to spend less :)
Sure it does. It limits the supply of people who are willing and able to perform the job, which increases the market value of those who are.
Possibly the easiest thing to exist in error or for the state to fabricate and yet you didn’t even provide a citation.

tsk

Dude is literally living in exile, yet you claim allegiance by him being affiliated with Russia, when his only crime here was being born in there and thus having some ties.

Seems crazy to me. Like, cold-war propaganda crazy.

this idea that Telegram is somehow nebulously “the enemy” and signal is “the virtuous” is so patently and clearly a propaganda campaign and we fall right into it.
They are giants in the local market, one where making it big practically requires support from the highest level of government.

So “Russian [x] giant” really means “Putin’s favored [x] company”.
Read the paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf

Page 7
I thought the same! That would be something.
In Germany there are tons of signs that you should not park this way when it's close to a wall, probably because of the exhaust fumes. Sure, it's not a law but I suppose the tenants or shops won't be happy if you follow the signs. Actually interesting thing to think about with electric cars now :)
TLDR

Untrusted devices behind one router, trusted devices behind another router, both routers behind a third. The routers should be dumb, rock hard, and nat. If the untrusted devices were behind just the outer router they could potentially intercept trusted traffic traversing that network. If the trusted devices were behind just the outer router, I guess the untrusted devices might somehow use IP tricks to enumerate devices or something.

They mention vlans, and say it's basically a homemade vlan. Why not use vlans then? No mention of DMZs. Or if you have a single router with configurable firewall, couldn't you just firewall traffic between untrusted and trusted ports? I'm not sure of the context of this idea. Do they make cheap routers with enterprise-level hardening that don't support firwalls?
The key aspects that the supreme courts in the US looked at when they decided on the author guild vs google, was if the use of the work supersede, supplant or become a replacement for the original works. They also looked if google sold portions of the copies, and if the activity enhanced the sell of the original work for the benefit of the copyright holder.

Some parodies has been found as non-fair use when they supplant or becomes a replacement for the original work. People often get upset when that happens with head lines like "they are outlawing parody!", but from the laws perspective the outcome of a situation is actually very important when determining fair use. In the general case, parodies do not replace original works so the law works generally fine. I guess one could also view it as a transformative work in general do not supplant the original work, while a derivative usually do. A generative AI version of grumpy cat might behave more like a derivative than a generative AI version of a generic cat, even if both are using the same technology.
It does stuff like tree shaking as well; it's quite good. If your page is bloated, it makes it better. If your page is not bloated, it makes it better.
Not very bright.

Was wondering about those friendly fire incidents that keeps cropping up from Russian units - one unit got arty on them by the Ukrainians and then they requested counter-fire but their own side dropped it on them instead.
Yeah, I'm such a loser, right?

I didn't choose to use LastPass. It was foisted on me by my employer.
If the comments in here are to believed and it's not just people trolling, it makes me pretty ashamed of our industry: https://www.autoblog.com/2023/08/09/ups-drivers-land-a-17000...

"This is disappointing, how is possible that a driver makes much more than average Engineer in R&D?" a worker at the autonomous trucking company TuSimple wrote on Blind, an anonymous jop-posting site that verifies users' employment using their company email. "To get a base salary of $170k you know you need to work hard as an Engineer, this sucks."

USP driving is taxing both mentally and physically. Sweltering heat, freezing cold winters, people screaming at you, manual labour.
>It's also easier to park "back first" in constrained parking situations.

Not that I park in garages much but every once in a great while, I find myself in a situation when I just pull in forward where I'm not literally parked in but do have to inch the car out with very little clearance and a whole lot of back and forth turning.
> the founder of Telegram has absolutely no love lost for the Russian state

No need to have any love, strong-arming people is usually where mafias shine.
The comment is about the need for medical intervention. TikTok and other social media platforms can convince you that you have all sorts of medical issues when you do not. And even if you did, the question still remains as to if intervention harms your overall quality of life.

This is not a generalization saying to not get checked for cancer or other serious diseases early, but to take any self-promotional “medical advice” with a grain of salt like whether you need to fix your nose, buy expensive probiotics, or try to get prescribed a certain drug based on a list of symptoms.

And no, we should not fast track death. Life is already too short.