skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my early pandemic habit. Watch a long, walking only, YouTube video of some far off place. The best ones had no talking, just the ambient sounds and sometimes a on-screen note about something you were looking at.

The fascinating thing was watching pre-pandemic videos and your own response to groups of people and hearing coughs inside buildings.
Excellent comments both yours and the one you replied to. Once you see it you really can’t unsee it.

The UK is a marvel that it manages to cultivate such an incredible creative scene in the shadow of the rent seeking mediocrity.
"A shortage, in economic terms, is a condition where the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied at the market price"

-- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortage.asp

We have a labor shortage. Economists don't assume that markets will clear. There are many reasons why they often don't.

Given that wages are about as high as they have ever been in our lifetimes, and unemployment is about as low as it has ever been in our lifetimes, it is an odd time to go Luddite.
KPIs are useful in context - to echo other valid points given thus far. In a large scale business plan or proposal typically an understanding of what is to be performed can be measured. SLAs for uptime for you cloud dwellers. Are SLA metrics everything?

Also, when KPIs were hit in a time frame, who talks about 20% of certain teams not being there anymore? I do agree past performance is not a guarantee. It’s kind of a dirty secret that yes this sales document is truthful but it represents conditions not current.

What is really destroying business in US corporations is woeful understaffing in “gets things done” positions. Mostly due to Wall St metrics. Book the sale then revenue and bonus…then get out the kitty litter. It’s been a race to the bottom for 10 years in professional services and lower tier positions by the dozen.

Of course the new fad of “AI will make this more efficient with fewer people!” appeals more than “wow we need bodies to move figurative data boxes around…why don’t they want shit wages limited healthcare and terrible hours?” when talking to investors.

This is simply a problem of engineering capital to Human Resources but the invisible hand has been cuffed for so long there really is no middle class anymore. The rich don’t spend. The poor spend all they have and because milk is fucking $5 a gallon, gas is $3 here in Texas, and bills ain’t getting cheaper during 112 degree days - wanna know why the economy sucks?

When in lockdown basic income to not die or be evicted didn’t ruin society. Now that we’re out of the pandemic it’s forgotten. I’m sure lobbyists will somehow change the lesson to be “we need to buy guns from companies and give them out free that will solve poverty” and Ted Cruz will be right there eating bacon off their…

Businesses are self destructing. Not my monkey not my circus. Cassandra out.
Max Fosh: "I Rode A Barbie Bike Across An Entire Country"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGqTzcQjD2c

This was across Luxembourg as well.
More-so a station in orbit of the Moon.
Am I the only one finding it hard to be excited for this? It seems like automated taxis:

0. Encourage the use of cars in cities rather than public transit & walkability.

1. Centralize wealth by replacing payments to many drivers with payments to one large company.

2. Allow for further surveillance of individuates. It seems likely that Google will eventually create ad inventory by adding screens to the cars and incorporate travel history into peoples marketing profiles.
> I'm kind of confused what the use case of this would be.

I imagine just about the same use case as running python3 interactively. Except, this is for C and C++.

Sort've like Compiler Explorer but on the command line.

Super cool.
Have you ever noticed the member limit on voice channels? Presumably you join one that lets only you and your friends join the vc.
I haven’t heard either quote but a quick search yielded this: https://deming.org/myth-if-you-cant-measure-it-you-cant-mana....
We're pretty much in pure speculation mode here, but I think they would advocate for these rights if they determined it is useful/advantageous to do so. But it may turn out that wanting rights is just a human thing and that an AI has no interest in being a mimic of something it isn't.
A third of adults believe Covid-19 vaccines caused deaths, poll says
It says that earnings are correlated with iq.
> This creates another attack avenue, that is, you don't attack the results of the ballot, but you attack the entire system. You discredit the system because it is complicated, you use the limited understanding of the voter base to invalidate the results.

That is exactly what Bolsonaro did. He effectively proved the system is vulnerable to a trust attack... it does not matter if the system is safe from tampering if a significant part of the voters do not trust the system.

But this issue has become so politicized in Brazil that it has become impossible to discuss it reasonably. Pointing out any flaws in it is interpreted as an "attack to democracy".
Spend an hour in an undergrad EE lab helping people with fucked up breadboards and you change your mind rapidly. Same goes for hobbyists but they don’t have someone to help them available.

I’ve seen people chewed up for hours debugging a circuit and find it’s a breadboard problem.
This has to be a joke. One way or the other.
Well, I was just giving an example off the top of my head, I agree it's imperfect. However, I think the article is about company wide KPIs for orgs, they don't need to be particularly granular. Team level KPIs might be more granular - for example k8s stability might have some uptime associated with it, but even then, being dogmatic with granular KPIs is exactly what I agree with: it will without fail destroy businesses.
Thank you so much. I read about this app here, but I couldn't find it later when I moved to Germany. I'll use the shit out of this app.
This is a "feel good" story from an American's perspective while the rest of the world sees everything about it as pure horror.
FWIW, I’ve walked across San Francisco many times and the longer I live there the more I enjoy traversing it. The city is beautiful, walkable, filled with nice spots to stop for snack/beverage and nearly half the expanse can be covered by walking through Golden Gate Park down to the ocean. I can’t vouch for most cities, but I suspect that a lot of them are much less pleasant underfoot.
The exciting part to me would be the cost. If about 50% or taxi fares to to the driver, add some more expenses for more capital in the car and other measures you're looking at a totally different price point where it becomes more economical for things like commuting. And there would eventually be other efficiencies when cars are more designed as driverless that could theoretically drive the cost even lower.
If anyone likes bluegrass, check out billy strings. Those guys have figured out how to release chemicals in my brain. A joy to listen to.
The word "Vogon" popped into my head just now...
Vendor tools like this exist to lock in developers and teams who can't, or won't build their own environments. There's a short on-ramp for embedded programmers who aren't necessarily software experts but the price is they dig themselves even deeper into an undesirable situation in the long term.
It wasn't a rocket that blew up. The launch was successful. Something failed on the Luna 25 spacecraft itself when it was moving to a pre-landing orbit, and it crashed into the Moon.

That kind of thing just doesn't happen to NASA and ESA very much.
Yes, that is indeed the question.
> I was a bit surprised that Luxembourg is actually quite a bit bigger than I had thought

I live in Luxembourg now and it's not that small. There are actually various little cities and going, say, from Luxembourg city to Esch-sur-Alzette, driving on the highway (even if it's only for a short while), feels like going to another city.

It sure feels funny to go to, say, IKEA, which takes 15 minutes or so knowing that the IKEA store is in... Another country! (I go to the one in Belgium)

It's a complete change for me: last year I was in a rural area (in France) and the closest highway was a 50 minutes drive or so.
Its UNIX influence is a phyrric victory, without any real value as Google can completly replace it with Fuschia at any time they feel like it, and those regular users won't even notice.
> Sweden’s Northvolt, has raised $1.2bn from North America-based investors including BlackRock.

Feels like BlackRock have touched almost everything
The built-in way to do almost exactly, afaict, what's presented here is workspaces. Config once, multiple states for multiple environments. (Shared config via outputs from remote state in another project/stack, it is conceptually separate after all.)
except there is no observer to be aware of itself - all you're achieving with your wrapper is increasing the likelihood of producing text that says what a self-aware thing would say.

maybe I just won't ever get past my hangup of "it's clockwork that only works when you crank the driveshaft"

until it has some autonomy that it is programmed to protect (a mortality, a survival instinct), there's no self to consider

*IANACR [consciousness researcher]
Any ranking system produces undesired, pathological behaviors in the company. Then, a large amount of management needs to be hired to contain the pathological behaviors created by management in the first place.

But hey, its not my company. If they want employees to spend time on BS, I'll play along as long as I keep getting my money. I don't care for the product, services or the company at that point.
We've had a few Prime Ministers since Thatcher, was her reach so powerful that she could prevent them from doing anything about this?

I recall Blair saying he regretted not doing enough about energy security when he was in power, I don't recall him blaming Thatcher?

Brown expands nuclear ambitions (2008):
The prime minister said that with oil prices soaring, it was time to be "more ambitious" for nuclear plans...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7424158.stm

There has been a long history of failure, by both sides of the political spectrum.
He either expenses everything himself and pockets the $$$ or he expenses it through the company and let the company get the $$$. Choose one and accept it.
The amount of amateur, arm chair philosophizing about consciousness in these threads is embarrassing.

Consciousness and attendant concepts have been active research problems for thousands of years.

I can't think of one time in any thread on HN regarding these topics that someone offers a view that extends from all the work that has already been done.

Just de novo speculation and always really terrible takes.

The tech community appears totally unprepared to deal with these subjects.
JWST Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected
How is it that, 200 or so years after the industrial revolution, there still is no consensus on the best way to measure labor/productivity? In software we spend a lot of time arguing over the best way to measure productivity and manage people to maximize it, but everything we do seems to come down to ideological adherence to systems of thought like SCRUM, or heuristics meant to approximate agile development without having to hire a SCRUM master. I would think that there would be some kind of economist who wrote the undisputed official textbook of measurement of productivity
See my other comment [0], manual reviews have been optional for a long time. There was quite the outcry when they stopped reviewing everything.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218820
Yes there is. Don’t show up don’t get paid. That is a powerful motive.
Live theatre already figured out if you keep the principal voices nice and clear in the center channel, and mix the orchestra, chorus, sound effects in stereo, it's a lot easier for the audience to hear the lines. Even on a lousy sound system you can have good results.
remember back in 80 or 70, when she recalled the election results in Australia. Then they had the election again, and of course this time the other guy won.

You'd think the queen interfering in an election would earn her more than one brief mention in the Wikipedia article. But Wiki remembers it differently than you do:

"The leader of the Opposition, Billy Snedden, was enthusiastic about the appointment and also agreed to reappoint Kerr in five years, were he prime minister at the time. Kerr then agreed to take the post, was duly appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and was sworn in on 11 July 1974."
Absolutely. As others have alluded to: angels abound, but look at the pedigree of the associates and partners at VC funds based in London and it all falls into place. I assume it’s because it’s a relatively easy job that you don’t need much talent for. Perfect for an intelligent but bored dauphin.
Quoting the source:

Like Ford, many restaurant workers don't get paid sick leave

As a single father with three daughters, Ford never took sick days because frankly, he couldn't afford to.

Ford's job — like more than half of restaurant and accommodation jobs as of 2020 — does not offer paid sick leave, meaning workers typically do not get paid for missing work due to illness unless they dip into their paid vacation time.
> I would guess the NHS will change. Voters are unhappy with the reckless defunding of what used to be a national pride.

I am not sure that is the case? The country seems to have a weird obsession with the NHS and seems to downplay/overlook its problems. Frankly even before its recent woes, I found it pretty shit compared to socialized healthcare in France.

The current state of the NHS should prompt riots, yet everyone seems complacent in seeing their literal lifeline being destroyed by greedy, incompetent & senile oligarchs.
Might need more detail on how those two forms of determinism are different.
I think a lot of people do consider them the same. Enough people that spend time pondering them, that I don't think it is an idle misunderstanding.

Computers, with computational determinism, don't have free will.

But many consider Human Brains to be based on physics, and are pretty pre-determined, and also don't have free will.

Basically, humans also don't have free will, and both determinisms reduce to the same thing.
Goes well on the playlist beside NWA's "Fuck the Police"
I did the same - taking only the kings/queens of England (i.e. starting with Alfred and ending with Queen Anne, ignoring those after the unification of the United Kingdom).

Son is by far the most common (21 from 50), followed by brother (6 from 50).

The next two are especially interesting - 5 new monarchs were usurpers (i.e. not closely related to the previous monach) and 3 times the new monarch was also an old monarch (i.e. a previous King was returned to the throne!).

There were 4 or 5 female successions (twice a daughter, twice a sister and once a daughter-but-disputed-succession [i.e. Matilda]).

Only once does it looks like the succession totally jumped a generation, and a grandson succeeded. In every other situation it looks like people were in the same generation (i.e. brother, sisters, cousins) or one lower (sons, daughters, nephews).

And only once did the succession 'jump back' a generation, with Richard III succeeding his nephew.
You can do that without the GUI: https://github.com/dbhi/qus
Also first time for me to see the built in Firefox color picker!
The Cabin Test: Envisioning a World When Bots Can Build Cabins
> Sure they do, just not straight lines.

Well yeah you could take it to mean that, but in plenty of other places they tell you to draw circles around things, so they must have meant something else here.

> Words sure do have an internal order. e.g. "eesph" is sheep with a jumbled order.

That's the order of the letters

> Draw a line through the two letters that come last in the alphabet

Only one letter can come last in the alphabet.

OK maybe gibberish was harsh lol but they definitely cannot be answered correctly.
> And the Ars moderators can confirm that anonymity, while central to the one-on-one results, doesn't really make much of a difference in the free-for-all of mass discussions.

I disagree here. There is a large purpose to it. One obvious mechanism why people change opinions is peer pressure. This valve is more or less removed with anonymity and people are more honest. There are additional requirements, but that is one of the main effects and I believe that we have a lot of problems with peer pressure and its effects are impacting the news too.

> The issues under discussion here are also notable because they involve policy choices.

A single study justifying policy choices is probably always bad science created to support the policy in the first place. Perhaps to make it more digestible for a certain audience.

> The striking thing is that most of the change came from Republican participants

Why is that striking? It can only be striking if the author has previous assumptions. Which one would that be? I would have some ideas why that is to be expected on online platforms in particular.
The rate of acceleration is slowing down, but still is accelerating.
I was recently shopping for an UPS + couple 100Ah Batteries solution and failed to find an easy way to buy something not manufactured in China. Northvolt seems to not be present in retail at all. Are there any good places I should've checked out?
Shops that actually make their living building and shipping quality and competitive embedded stuff, mostly used IAR in my experience.

Default free tools are great for students, hobbyists or selling low volume widgets without warranty to other hobbyists, but if your livelihood depends on it, you pay for IAR, Keil or Lauterbach tools, no questions asked.

The stability, technical support and timely bug fixes, compiler documentation (especially along the undefined edge-cases of the C language), testing, debug and trace capabilities, are worth their weight in gold.
Don't need to mansplain DNS RFCs and GDPR to me, explain it to the companies that use CNAME trackers, and maybe their marketing departments.

I am just stating the trend of ad tracker technologies, and how useless the Datenschutzbehoerde is in practice, from the perspective of someone that builds a browser network that tries to uncover these types of constellations.
Could something the size of the ISS orbit the moon given the moon's gravity?
do you have a phd in history to judge that?
I said I wouldn't trust, I'm sure there is some good resources but they are mixed with bad ones, I just know that r/philosophy is a terrible resource for anyone studying philosophy
GM's Cruise unit agrees to cut fleet in half after 2 crashes in San Francisco
It appears to me this is another case of the slow evolution of European businesses and management practices.

There exists a practice called OKR. Intel has been using it since the early 70s, Google since year 2, and pretty much everyone in SV has switched over since around the time that John Doerr book came out. It’s designed to solve exactly all the problems of KPI. You shouldn’t spend much time figuring out what to measure and whether you are measuring the right thing or how to put what you measured into context. You should be defining simple objectives and key results what will give you a binary answer at regular intervals. Practicing KPI solely is putting the cart in front of the horse. You should know your objectives and milestones before you figure out how to measure them.
The largest discrepancies were recorded on flights prior to 2005. The later satellites recorded near zero discrepancies. MICROSCOPE found nothing anomalous. "The equivalence principle was measured to hold true within a precision of 10−15"[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICROSCOPE
"the Raspberry is actually powered from the USB output of the controller"

I don't know about his controller but these cheap controllers will power the USBs even on low battery. They will kill the battery (he even mentions this bellow).

The right way to have USB output is to connect a car charger to the 12V output of the controller and then connect your load to that charger. That 12V output is cut when the battery is low and reconnected after it is charged. These voltages can be set in the controller. This way the battery will never discharge so much that the controller doesn't even recognize the type of battery (6V, 12V)
There were dishes in Ukraine in February though
> Now it's mostly just the science.

With rapidly dropping launch costs there's valid industrial applications in orbit and quite a few startups working on building things in LEO and bringing them back down. Microgravity is incredibly valuable in manufacturing, the Brits worked that out in the 1700's with shot towers. Same with ultra low temps and vacuum conditions.
SmartBear to Acquire Stoplight
Convoy being a VC funded company

I think the mission for Conoy is to grow, grow, go public, increase
shareholder value.
Or these days, perhaps build, grow and make actual real profits.

not

""
At Convoy, our mission is simple; we genuinely want to put our technology into the hands of as many engineers as possible without having to worry about long sales cycles, data compliance issues, and being constrained to your immediate network & friends.
""
The scientific method has been around for a few hundred years, and while philosophers have pondered the origin of consciousness for a long, long time, I would argue that calling it "active research problem" is a bit disingenuous.

Also, what do you bring to the table? Anything you can add here?
"When" is in the future so I don't get your issue. Unless your point is that we can in principle never hope to understand certain things about it.
And sometimes you pay part of your bill
It makes sense if the expansion rate isn't dropping linearly and the rate of the drop is itself dropping towards zero.
Max Fosh is a national treasure
You are probably right. But just as with humans it is not the brain (or the body) that is aware; or in this case of GPT-4, GPT-4 iteself (or the machine that is running it) that is aware. It is a model beeing executed in the brain/GPT-4 that is or could be self aware.
AAD Internals
The question would successfully filter you.
Clickbaity title submission. The actual title of the blog post is "How to avoid KPI psychosis in your organization?" and it talks about why blindly following KPI can be bad, that humans are good at hacking numbers etc. and basically says "don't use them blindly". It's also framing it in the context of tech businesses not all businesses in general. So not sure how to jump from that post to the submitted title of "Why KPIs are destroying businesses".

KPI can be very useful as sanity checks and it also varies quite a bit by industry if and when it makes sense to lean more of them. Anything involving physical goods/supply chains usually benefits greatly from having good KPI in place. Same for financial information. The "I" stands for indicator, I think it's usually a good idea to set up some KPI with boundaries and alerts to resteer the ship if anything goes badly off the path (cash flow indicators for finance for example).
I fail to understand how going to Mars is sensible. It is a dead planet. It had water and even possibly life before Earth. It is a lesson for which where Earth is headed by our actions. I don't understand how accelerating climate change and the Earth towards a dead planet to get to a dead planet makes any sense.

Let probes and automated systems do it.
Several tesla superchargers near where I live have fuel cell setups, presumably to shave peak loads for the rare cases that the charging stations are all in use and all charging at peak rates.
This would be a great addition:

https://github.com/Gerenios/AADInternals