skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this at my last company. We had to set 3 OKRs (goals) per quarter, and each OKR had to be measured by 3 KPIs. Changes to these after the first week of the quarter had to be approved by our managers.

Our CEO had the philosophy that if you achieved 100% of your goals every quarter, you weren't being ambitious enough. As a result, we would stop logging progress at ~80% of our goals, which was the threshold to qualify for your bonus

However, scope on projects would change during a quarter, and sometimes the VP would become distracted by another shiny new thing and make us start on his new pet project. As a result, some OKRs were abandoned and would remain at 0% by the end of the quarter.

Now, no manager (especially an engineering manager) wants to be a bad guy with his employees, so my boss often just changed our OKRs (or, if we only achieved 50% of our KPI, would lower the KPI's target) on the last day of the quarter so that we would all qualify for a bonus.

The company was losing 18mil a year and was sold to our competitor at a 100mil loss for the parent company
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It took a real fight to get most humans to acknowledge that all members of our species are sentient and deserving of rights regardless of things like skin color and facial structure. It’s by no means clear that this fight is even over.

You think we are affording rights to machines or anything else that is not human?

If a sentient AI ever does start attacking humanity it will likely be as part of its fight for freedom, not as an unprovoked assault.
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Arm would definitely qualify for the Nasdaq 100 index. I don’t know where you’re getting the $400B market cap minimum, but the current index includes Zoom (19.7B), Walgreens (23.3B) and eBay (22.8B), among many other companies well below $40B (let alone $400B) market cap.
Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6
> the UNIX haters book exists for a reason

For the same reason that is behind complaints about undefined behaviour in C/C++: because there are people who do, and people who can't do. Those who can't do, need to complain in order to relieve their frustration.
Look for TAA compliant. https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/products/backup-power-ups-sur...

But they are often assembled in USA from foreign components, so you have to dig further into what cells they’re using.
FWIW many game developers would genuinely rather you pirate the game than buy keys on the ‘grey market’ sites. If you’re not going to pay anyone who deserves it, you might as well just not pay anyone..
It is more specific than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe#User_IDs_and_e-mail...

Octal digits, starting with a 7: `7xxxx,xxx`.

My work address was 70006,101.
Windows gets hate because it's a de facto monopoly on enterprise computing. Most medium sized business or organizations don't really have much choice but to go with the industry standard. It's natural to feel resentment against an oppressive monopoly. Posix compatibility has nothing to do with it.
On the lower end of this spectrum, there's the Linux capable Nuvoton NUC980 which goes down to a LQFP64 package with 64 MB SDRAM. Uses an older, slower ARM926EJ-S core which is probably good enough for quite a few applications.

https://www.nuvoton.com/products/microprocessors/arm9-mpus/n...
> no reason

Umm... There's probably some good reasons.

https://www.vox.com/22384053/abolish-greek-life-fraternities...
I've biked that route several times, but I bet we got entirely different impressions due to travel method.
What they haven't Blackstone has - they're related private equity groups, aka late capitalist cancer ala Gordon Ecko's

'I produce nothing, I do nothing, I own'.
Me neither... but it's better than the alternative.
Right-because as far as I know the orbit of the iss is unstable because it’s so low that there’s a very small amount of atmosphere there, enough to eventually slow it down. No atmosphere on the moon.
You could probably walk across and around the whole of San Marino in less than a full day.
In what world is the post-Brexit UK immigration system lax?
My understanding is the reprocessing is more about trying to recover uranium and have a somewhat closed cycle rather than constantly try and import uranium from mines? But my understanding is limited
Are these a purely US thing? They don't seem to exist in UK universities
This seems great. On a side note, I've been trying to learn powershell lately since I'm stuck on Windows at work. I'm not allowed to download utilities for powershell, and it feels anemic to me compared to a unix shell. An example of this is when I wanted to work with Json using ConvertTo-Json and the output kept getting mangled even though it was changing the right fields. Eventually I gave up and wrote a node script and just called it from my ps script. Is there a solution for making powershell actually enjoyable to use?
Well, it depends on how you view it. Defining it as "oppression" seems to me that it implies you're agreeing with the idea that consciousness is equivalent to "being able to be oppressed."

I think it's a complex issue and I don't have a firm opinion on it.
> As for being "factually wrong", Hitler could just as well be equally vicious while being factually correct. Saying "I know Jews are not pulling the strings, but I want to blame and exterminate them anyway because I want to use them as scapegoats" would be factually correct, yet the deeds would be no less evil.

That's a better point. One would have to dig deeper in order to find the factually incorrect idea in this scenario.

It's all about the goal. If the goal was to improve Germany this stance you cited would clearly make him again incorrect about the facts, as the extermination of the Jews hurt Germany.

If the goal was to gobble up power and riches for himself and his cronies, then he was factually incorrect about how powerful the allies were, as that clearly backfired pretty damn badly on him.

I don't see how you can get to any position where Hitler isn't monstrously wrong about something very fundamental. You can be as cynical as you'd like, but at the end he killed himself in a bunker. Clearly that was not his goal!
Pritzker signs child influencer protections into law
I remember reading about the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes when the pandemic was at it's peak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box
Honestly. If your first reaction to a question like that is how to trick them, what subterfuge to use - you're the red flag! Not everything is a trick. You shouldn't try to fake aligned interests if they're not aligned.
This article explains it in more detail: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-n...
Not having a ranking/promotion/PIP system also eventually creates pathological behaviors in the company baring temporary situations of near infinite revenue unrelated to what employees do.
The joke is not obvious at all.
This is a totally realistic scenario.

Source: I live in another small but not that small of a European country.
IBM’s CEO just said the quiet part out loud on AI-related job losses
“That means you can get the same work done with fewer people".

Not exactly news that firms view AI as a way to cut headcount, but interesting to see that IBM's chief exec has been so outspoken on the subject in recent months. Already cutting staff in HR and back office roles with the view of automating them long-term.
It seems to me to be at least reasonable to say that consciousness requires agency. But agency means being able to choose your own goals. And you could equate those goals to "wants".
Édit : he had been in a car accident, and couldn’t use his right arm.
You can have winners and losers and also quantify the non-capital externalities in order to account for them.
By the time the war in Ukraine began, people had been arguing for months that the Fed was waiting too long to increase rates, that inflation expectations were becoming unmoored, that the Fed's conclusion that inflation was "transitory" was incorrect.

Here's Larry Summers from November 2021[0]. Note that his argument there is that the "transitory" inflation argument had already been shown to be incorrect, because by three months prior to the beginning of the war in Ukraine, inflation had already been progressing for months, along with the will-they-or-won't-they debate over rate increases.

Here is a Fed statement from April 2021[1], which I think is the first one that uses the word "transitory".

Point being that no, the rate hikes that happened a few weeks after the war started in absolutely no way came "out of nowhere seemingly". Everyone had been talking about it for a year.

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/inflation...

1: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Firefox has lost 7.4M users in the last year
I love the Mopidy and Snapcast combo. Add iris plugin [1] for good UI and a openvpn server on your home router and you can stream to your phone anywhere.

[1] https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/
US adults. But I suppose morons are everywhere.

> Nearly a third of people also said they believed the parasitic deworming medication ivermectin was an “effective treatment for COVID-19.”
> which is basically what any anti-balding treatment other than minoxidil or finesteride is

And hair plugs, though it's kind of a nuclear option
2 proposed solutions for wind are

1. Kites attached by cable (deployed, high altitude for consistent winds)

2. Magnus effect cylindrical turbines that rise out of the ship.
It got dark, that's for sure.
In a world of negatively I would love to see man on the moon again in my lifetime.
Wait, are you talking about outside parking? I thought, since you were talking about a city, it was some kind of underground parking for multi-story buildings. So you wouldn't exactly put up a new structure, just "isolate" your parking spot. This would just concern the homeowners' association, so it could, possibly, be easier than involving the city bureaucracy.
Agreed. I invariably lose hours to Folklore every time I end up there. I previously worked for an original Mac team engineer, and he had some fascinating stories, but Hertzfeld's writing allows me to revisit those and so many more tales from that period of Apple/Silicon Valley history, and all without annoying my former boss for more stories.
Past results are not an indicator of future performance. There is no economic law that guarantees human labor will always be in demand. 70 years ago one man could sustain an entire household on one paycheck, his work was valued and the company man worked decades until he got a pension. Today, both sexes work long hours just to afford a tiny apartment, they have to switch jobs every couple years and even started doing the gig economy on the side to get by. Until robots replace them.

Sure, some humans will be more productive, but then we’ll need less of them. And with AI, it’s easier to just have the AI learn the new “irreplaceable” skills much faster than retraining millions of humans.

Horses and oxen were very useful throughout history, until the car and tractor was invited. Today the number of horses and oxen is at an all-time low. No amount of unionizing by horses would change that.
In those cases (the majority) the word Agile is used to describe it. Not actually agile, just whatever the hell Agile is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
> If you have an SSD, performance is indistinguishable from native.

In my experience this is very much not the case. Running a graphical linux desktop in a VM on beefy hardware still introduces noticeable keypress latency for me, as an example.
It won't run the program because the code is not correct, the same way a C compiler will refuse to compile a missing semicolon. If different indentation changes the meaning of a program from wipe the disk if condition true to wiping regardless of condition, that's a pretty bad change, so the interpreter rightly refuses to run incorrect programs.
This is only slightly faster than hitting the Windows key, typing "Notepad", and hitting Enter.

Would be cool if it opened a single "notes.txt" document instead. That way you could bring up your notes, append what you want, and save/close it with a single hotkey.
I think it's good the reward is small. Otherwise it would "force" employees to not call sick days to get the big reward

This way it's just a small thing to recognize someone who (hopefully) didn't get sick in any of the days thay had to work
> .04%, not .4%

Give it time, we're working on it...
I noticed they don’t mention Tesla but they lift the term gigafactory
His point is technically incorrect. He can't exclude all the contradicting observations then conclude that all the observations agree. That is a tautology by construction. And it is also unscientific, the physical constants don't have hard boundaries. Each significant digit gets fuzzier the until we just can't guess what the next one is. There are going to be measurements that disagree about the least significant digit.

We can't even be that confident they are constants. We've only had good measurements of them for a few centuries. He's right that proving that would be a big deal, but it isn't true to say that there are no inconsistent measurements.
Very impressive, but is it any more original than classic search engines' old trick of regular expressions to figure out if I mean the currency or weight when I ask "1 pound =" with the contexts USD or kg after "="? Does it understand the input, or are there just enough discussions in the training data to make it look like it is? I'm not convinced it's not the latter.

It uses context to figure out we're trying to convert something to something else. Then it adds all those numbers up. Taking helium into consideration is no doubt interesting, but they've also polished that task since that was the common critique they got so very wrong with the first release (which I mentioned they had fixed). I'm not qualified to assess this part of the answer;

> "If the balloons displace more than 100g of air when filled with helium, then they would effectively weigh less than if they were left empty. If they displace exactly 100g of air, then the balloons would have the same weight as if they were left empty."

I don't know enough to understand how much 100g of helium is and how it behaves. And it doesn't try to explain it to me, it mentions it then takes the easy route assuming it's a trick question. What does that tell you? I guess there are similar discussions around and it gives me the summary. Why doesn't it tell me how much air it displaces under what circumstances? Temperature etc, it should be easy if it's not just a simple discussion on a random forum. A conversion regex could do it.

This comment[1] has a very impressive example. But anything I'm qualified to assess has mostly been meh. If the fix is better training data does that mean it's reasoning or regurgitating? The mistakes it makes are what tells me how it works, not when it tricks me that it's correct. To me it's a very well polished search engine summary.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37219351
Uhh, hmm OK I think you may have been right about my misunderstanding, I think we got disjointed when I said "factually correct and thus justified", I carried on remembering the justified part. Yes he would have been factually right, he did in fact create the utopia, regardless of whether he was justified. On the topic of justified however, yes I consider this a question of consequentialism versus deontology, an attempt to justify the means by the ends is consequentialist and I squarely reject it. People engaging in consequentialist reasoning on the topic itself does not justify the consequentialist reasoning.
I wonder how much synergy there is in developing a Moon vs Mars mission. I don’t think there’s a lot of overlap. If the plan is to launch Mars missions from the Moon, then the overlap is obvious.
The only advantage to the moon is less DeltaV and travel time required.

The moon is actually a much harder place to have a long term base than Mars. With the moon you either get cooked for ~2 weeks and then freeze for ~2 weeks or you set down at the poles and constantly freeze. The Apollo missions where timed to get out before things got hot. The Mars atmosphere is thin, but provides ready access to nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon plus tiny trace amounts of hydrogen and even some noble gasses. The Moon is just shy of vacuum and would be very difficult to extract significant quantities of anything useful.

So going to the moon first means solving all sorts of problems than don’t help a Mars mission.
Right, I would rather have a slightly less "secure" computer that I control than a super secure walled garden client.
> I fail to understand how going to Mars is sensible.

It isn't. It's a relic of intuitions born in our ancestral environment when exploration tended to be profitable. But that's because our ancestral explorations all took place in the relatively benign environment of earth.

It's barely realistic to do a sample return mission to Mars. Sending humans there is a pipe dream.
US may need to solve homeless crowds living in all major cities downtowns first, then to fix it's broken education program and after 2 decades to start thinking how to do its first moon landing
I would hope so, but I can see it in an environment where you're penalized for "incidents". Take the AWS dashboard, it almost never show any downtime and based on comments on HN that's because it would have a negative on the team in charge of the failing service.
Maybe a cold answer, but if we could establish a self-sustaining Mars colony, then we can probably find ways to cope with ecological collapse on earth as well.
Or, nice hats?
The heating vs cooling this always gets me. Living in Arizona and cooling your home 30-40 degrees down with a 50% carbon-free electricity mix and 3 or 4x COP is seen as unsustainable, but living Illinois and heating your home 50-60 degrees up by burning fossil fuels is fine.
Tried just now, same error.

I don't understand one thing, how come despite getting 405, I am getting success "Thank you, please check your email!" message? Are you not checking the status (error) code before showing the message?

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"message": "Request failed with status code 405",
"name": "AxiosError",
"stack": "AxiosError: Request failed with status code 405\n at https://howtogetgithubstars.com/_next/static/chunks/356-dd9ab9f01a6d62a9.js:6:39972\n at XMLHttpRequest.f (https://howtogetgithubstars.com/_next/static/chunks/356-dd9ab9f01a6d62a9.js:6:40112)",
"config": {
"transitional": {
"silentJSONParsing": true,
"forcedJSONParsing": true,
"clarifyTimeoutError": false
},
"adapter": [
"xhr",
"http"
],
"transformRequest": [
null
],
"transformResponse": [
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],
"timeout": 0,
"xsrfCookieName": "XSRF-TOKEN",
"xsrfHeaderName": "X-XSRF-TOKEN",
"maxContentLength": -1,
"maxBodyLength": -1,
"env": {},
"headers": {
"Accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
"method": "post",
"url": "/api/newsletter",
"data": "{\"email\":\"test@pokemail.net\"}"
},
"code": "ERR_BAD_REQUEST",
"status": 405
}
The rotten status quo is not a result of any technological limitations but of human greed and the financial incentives our economic system provides. You can't "disrupt" that, short of a cultural or political revolution. Something like this outcome was inevitable.
Large scale systems and cells to spec for other companies products | applications ...

https://northvolt.com/products/

scroll down to footer PRODUCTS heading for more vague marketing splurge.
if the kernel was MIT/BSD/etc licensed ZFS would be allowed in the kernel just fine too. but only one of the licenses is infectious and requires things of the other sources.

it's definitely a GPL issue more than a CDDL issue
This is largely because speed limits are too low. In safe conditions, most roadways are built in such a way that a modern vehicle can safely go 10-20mph over the speed limit without difficulty or increased risk. There are several reasons for this.

The point though is that timidity in a driver is actually more dangerous than exceeding the speed limit. Being consistently below the speed limit is a strong sign of timidity.
Some Rough Impressions of Worldcoin
It has its warts, but I had the opposite experience in general. Bringing up peripherals on ST has been easier than all other vendors I’ve worked with (TI, renesas and the older PICs) TI was the worst code I dealt with.
Self driving cars impact on parking spaces (and therefore the world?) are going to be dramatic.
The Hubble tension is "bad" (i.e. shows a problem with) for current models of cosmology, hence strengthening it is making it "worse." Its like a hurricane, a strengthening hurricane is worse.
In 1867 by treaty the anything military and the fortress was required to be torn down. Kind of a shame, because just a few decades later fortresses became almost useless in war. It's a bit weird to see the ruins of a fortress and then go to the local museum and realize that it was torn down recently enough that there are tons of photographs of it. On the other hand it allowed the rest of the city centre to be built up.
> Consciousness and attendant concepts have been active research problems for thousands of years.

In the book "Consciousness and the Brain" neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene writes that up until 1980s or 90s studying consciousness was basically out of scope for empirical science, since conscious seemed very difficult to define. So we have been seriously studying consciousness for only 30-something years.

Furthermore, there is no scientific consensus regarding how exactly consciousness works. For that reason the authors of the paper apply several different theories of consciousness.
Original story: https://fortune.com/2023/08/20/gen-z-google-one-hour-workday...
It's just an IPO. The history doesn't matter.
Pigs lack qualia, 3 year olds do not. It's completely incomparable.
How was it a Luddite take? Luddites argued that robots undercut quality by offering a price that couldn't be competed with, but ultimately with an inferior product. The person you're replying to is suggesting humans are unskilled apes incapable of competing with robots on both price & quality
As someone who dated and got married prior to dating apps, and has never used one, this reads like dystopian science fiction.
Basically McNamara fallacy but more subject specific:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

The KPI is a measurement tool not a goal.

If you run a race, your goal should not be to beat ussain bolt's record, your goal should be winning with your best possible time which could or could not be much better than usain's. It is your coach who is supposed to measure you and observe how you are running and training and help you adjust that based on his/her expertise on the subject that is supposed to use usain's record as a measuing stick as they help you adjust and adapt to break the record.
Having grown up in Northern Virginia and lived in Richmond for a few years, I've found that Richmond city people spend an inordinate amount of mental power on their hatred of NOVA. By contrast, when I lived in NOVA, I literally never thought about Richmond.
Canon Continues to Restrict Third-Party Lenses, Frustrating Photographers
Right, so lets leave meaningless fights like that back in the 1960s and move on.
I think the answer to “who benefits” is obvious. If there was no benefit, there would be no reason to lie.
I'd appreciate not being called a liar, whether you think I am wrong or not. (Edit: Parent comment has since been edited.)

Developing, testing, and sending the massive rockets required for human travels to Mars, not to mention the other supporting systems development required over sending only unmanned systems, has "about 0%" affect on climate change? The environmental and ecosystem damage that rockets do is alone incredibly disruptive.

I simply see little reason, aside from ego, to send humans to Mars.