skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First it talks about Valve's "issues with diversity" without establishing a clear link between the flat structure and that.

It quotes some professor who says it's related because “you’ve still got middle-aged, privileged white men making decisions at the top” due to a lack of safeguards.

> Then the article tries to apply guilt by association, by basically saying "Theranos was bad, so flat structures are bad".

It quotes another professor who says that the lack of structure is what allowed theranos to avoid having controls that would catch things.

> It also implies a company being diverse is a mandatory thing, and non-diverse firms are somehow inherently bad or non-desirable.

Not so much implies as takes as a given, I think. That's been pushed hard for several years now, to the point I often see it treated as axiomatic.
There are many 'bike friendly areas' outside of the West notably in Asia. Obviously all of this is dynamic but to present it as a 'done deal' because we have made a decision, especially as 'humanity' is ridiculous. And pre-emptive bitching about downvotes is not something to expect from an account as old as yours.
It's a shame that Kindles aren't hack-friendly, there are lots of old Kindles lying around that would be great as an always-on display.
> I'm not amazed in the way you are. I expect a variation in quality across topics and domains and question styles.

Yes, I can see that. But over time, you also learn and adapt the prompts to ChatGPT's peculiarities so that it provides more useful output.

Still, I'm sure there are many topics/domains for which it's not useful.

As another anecdote, I'm not a mathematician but at one point I was playing around with proving theorems on a theorem prover.

What I found is that ChatGPT is this paradoxical entity which makes the most elementary math errors all the time (I'm talking third-grade level math mistakes), and yet, it was by far the most useful tool ever in coming up with lots of useful PhD-level ideas and math theorems that would allow me to complete proofs when I was completely stuck (and not just for proofs which it had seen before).

It came up all the time with brilliant ideas and theorems which simultaneously I didn't even know existed, were not part of any theorem database of any theorem prover I had seen before (and I've seen the vast majority of them), and there was no way I was going to find them by searching on the web or writing things down on a notepad (I know this because I had tried, for days at a time, along with other ideas such as visualizations and simulations).

That's not to say a mathematician wouldn't be aware of them, but I don't have easy access to one, and I was surely not going to pay one given that I was just exploring, mostly for curiosity.

This seems like a paid ad, but I promise you, I have no affiliation whatsoever...
It's the same everywhere. Right now everyone in the chain is squeezing the level below them for as much as possible.

The coffee shop near where I work is a small business and their landlord increases the rent regardless of market conditions. At some point they either close up, putting 2-3 people out of work, or end up charging $10 per cup of coffee.

Right now there is no market counter force against the rent increases. There are many empty units but the landlords keep the rent high to keep the value of the building high. There is no penalty for keeping the unit empty even if there is demand for the unit at a lower price point.
If you look "stand-up spinner" in google you'll see what it is
With the same calculation, it'd be $9.2k monthly savings in San Francisco vs. 2.1k savings in Munich.

I forgot about Switzerland. Arguably it's not EU, but it's still a place that EU citizens can easily go to.

Given that both Portland and Munich have 1000+ entries on levels.fyi and the given numbers are the calculated median, I'd say it's a fair assumption that getting the median comp in both locales would be equally hard.
Are Netflix recommendations advertising?

The people who see them have already bought the product (a Netflix subscription) so the recommendation isn't trying to convince them to buy something.
> ... current release on windows is broken ... You grumble and give up

No, you just scroll further down on the GitHub releases page (or whatever) and grab an older version that does work, same as every other platform.

For yt-dlp in particular, on a recent x64 or ARM64 kernel you could grab the precompiled Linux binaries and skip the compile the same way, if you wanted. They ship self-contained static linked binaries on Linux.
If in AWS, use Cloudformation. Your future colleagues will thank you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218187
Omg, I purchased one of the Caldera neck rest collars and slept with it on last night instead of my chin strap. Wow is all I can say. Normally my AHI is around 2, it was 0.2 last night. What is this black magic!? Thanks so much internet stranger!
i use fish for interactive work and bash for scripting. if there is a script that i don't want to write in bash, then i use a real programming language like python or ruby.
Government can put you in jail this is not a slope we want to grease.

Private "censorship" is localized and fairly harmless.
No, you introduced the topic. The parent to your comment did not mention asylum seekers at all. Unless you have some other comment in mind, in that case would you mind pointing it out?
Well a 12.9” iPad Pro with the keyboard case gives you basically all the same computing hardware as a 13” MacBook Pro, plus:

Better quality mini-LED display

Better/additional cameras

Touchscreen with pen support

Magnetic charging for the pen

Detachable keyboard

Cellular data option

It’s not really a surprise that the iPad can cost more. Just a shame that the App Store limitations prevent it from being as useful a software platform for many use cases.
You can source bash files (like .bashrc) using the plugin "bass". You can also launch fish using a bash file, just export the variables and run fish as the last command.

I personally just put what path modifications I need in .profile and have fish as my login shell.
Nothing in life is guaranteed. I have contingencies in place to withstand life events, but there is no place on Earth where you can guarantee your future.
My recommendations:

* avoid hype trains: it is a trap

* avoid complexity unless there is business based justification: it is another trap

* understand that every thing you build needs maintenance

* understand that the integrations you build for something you don't build also need maintenance

* software has many layers: choose where to be disruptive and where to be conservative

* avoid superficial cultural assumptions like "smart good junior people that hug trees will do wonders": you need a couple of pragmatic engineers to impose common sense in the operations

* avoid bogus metrics like "I deployed to production 20 times last month" and embrace sound metrics like "we delivered the features on time with few or none bugs found in production"

* foster an engineering culture: ensure people understand context, tradeofs and relevant metrics
For it to make sense to you, imagine somebody buying a pizza:

- How much is the pizza?

- It's 10 dollars.

- I don't think it's worth 10 dollars!

- Uhm, okay then don't buy it.

- But I really need that pizza, it's really important that I get it!

- Then pay 10 dollars?

- That's too expensive, it's worth nowhere near that!

- If it's not worth 10 dollars why is it important to you?

- It's extremely important that I get that pizza and I really want it, but also you have to understand that it's not worth 10 dollars, so give it to me for free now!

...ad infinitum.

If it still doesn't make sense, then it will never make sense.
It is (almost) always a package deal from all sides, because humans feel better when they are parts of a tribe.

I agree that this is not a beneficial trait at this stage of our evolution, but it once was.

Censorship can only reinforce the alienation and thus the internal cohesion of any tribe.

Let them live and thrive and more importantly, let them counter each other.
Ah, yes; because the only people we should consider in these discussions are Silicon Valley tech workers, who consider making $150k a year to be "on the low side".

Do you ever give a thought to the vast majority of Americans who make less than you? Or even to the vast majority of tech workers who make less than you?
You must not have read to the end, that response is quoted and directly addressed.

I guess it is naive to believe that review sites review products based on their merits rather then based on how much the affiliate links pay.
The rules are given in the context of writing. I read it, most of it is generic. It’s almost as if the person knows there’s no real rules to the game, and humble enough to just give basic life advice.

But I’ll concede, I don’t understand the purpose of offering general life rules under the guise of writing well. I really don’t. Is it an exercise in authority, or flexing a mandate, or what exactly is it? It sure as hell ain’t any real insight into writing.

But to get your ass to sit on the chair and bang those keys, that does not come from the sky, anyone who has actually tried will tell you that.

Writers block, right? Or, when the sky stops talking to you. Now that’s a phenomenon that’s worth describing.

But alas, pace yourself, got it. I’ll try not finish the entire burger, and save the rest for later. Shocked they didn’t mention a small walk, or coffee with an old friend.

What’s up my ass today I guess.
Last time I looked the Nook simple touch (6 inch android eink tablet) was about £30 delivered 2nd hand. Love mine. I spent a long time (a few years ago) setting it up with all sorts of android fun, but now I just use it as a epub reader and it fits that niche perfectly for me.
The number of delusional Americans with strong exceptional vibes on this thread is pretty frightening.
Either that or set up a kiosk 10 metres before the gate where you could backup your smartphone to a usb stick and do a factory reset. And another kiosk at the destination airport, for reversing the process. Data 100% encrypted.

Bonus, collect payment upon decryption, a la ransomware. Maybe start a chain and call it "runsomewhere".

While I'm mostly joking here, things like this are already happening; the mechanism of 1Password's "Travel Mode"[1] is pretty similar to the above idea.

[1]: https://1password.com/features/travel-mode/
It would be fun to resurrect Slashdot with clones of great past commentators.
I don't think there's any legal basis to do that via executive order, while preventing companies from funding foreign military-adjacent research might be on more solid ground.

But I'm not a lawyer, don't know the regulations, etc.
I've noted this here before, it's worth repeating:

We will continue to accept our current 42,000 human-driven-car-related deaths/per year (2022) in the U.S. rather than 420 self-driving-car-related deaths annually for many years.

Autonomy is a fierce thing that humans can't bear to part with.

>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its latest projections for traffic fatalities in 2022, estimating that 42,795 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. This represents a small decrease of about 0.3% as compared to 42,939 fatalities reported for 2021.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crash-death-est.... Apr 20, 2023
New Metal Boosts Batteries
Further (replying to my own comment), watch The Social Dilemma on Netflix. I almost didn’t watch it because I thought I’ve heard it all before. But it really shocks the conscious when you see it all laid out clearly with strong real world examples - building from the mental health crisis, to the culture wars, to the erosion of worldwide democracy writ large - all driven by the power of adtech.
> It quotes some professor who says it's related because “you’ve still got middle-aged, privileged white men making decisions at the top” due to a lack of safeguards.

Sure, but that's not sound logic. It doesn't actually prove it, it just tries to extrapolate bad behaviour from race and gender (which is what racism and sexism is)

> It quotes another professor who says that the lack of structure is what allowed theranos to avoid having controls that would catch things.

How is that exclusive to flat organisations? This logic can be used almost verbatim to hierarchical organisations as well - a strong hierarchy is what allowed Company X to avoid having controls that would catch things. (Because no one dared to say anything to the leadership)

> Not so much implies as takes as a given, I think. That's been pushed hard for several years now, to the point I often see it treated as axiomatic.

This is either propaganda or plain misinformation. I don't accept it in any way, it's definitely not an axiom.
Powering on with Grid-Forming Inverters – Department of Energy
Been running a selfhosted install of PairDrop for a few months now. It's so useful.
Elon is butting heads with Palantir though, while Dorsey employed them.

My country (Brazil) was subjected to a CIA backed coup but after seeing the fate of freedoms in socialist neighbors I think it was for the better.
Who said it’s a done deal in the future, things can change. I would personally ban cars, Taxi, Uber etc in NYC, but that’s currently a minority opinion.

Also there are a few bike friendly areas inside the US, it’s just uncommon.
The author isn’t willing to ‘declare the “use iPad to get work done” experiment dead’, but I am. If a blogger and podcaster can’t use the now 13-year-old iPad platform for his work, what hope is there for the rest of us?
This is very egalitarian of you, but much like the effort to turn STEM into STEAM you would strip the world of a useful distinction in order to be more inclusive.

When I say someone is technical I mean this: I could give them instructions that include the words "open a terminal/command prompt" and they would both know what I mean and not be completely freaked out at the idea. If they are non-technical, then they may use several different devices quite successfully but have only the faintest idea how they work under the hood.

Every industry has to make this distinction: an auto mechanic needs to know whether they're talking to someone who understands cars or someone who just drives them. A plumber needs to know whether they are talking to someone who understands plumbing or just knows how to flush a toilet. They may have different words to describe this distinction, but it's an important distinction for the language to have and the word we've settled on in IT is "technical".
The thing that I think was pretty stunning about this article is that it pretty much lays bare that, in some people's eyes, "diversity" is the only goal. That is, the title says that "Flat hierarchies rarely work", yet its only argument really for "not working" is that these companies aren't diverse. Nothing about business results, employee satisfaction, nada. Just "it's not diverse", and even then it doesn't really add much concrete evidence for its point, just some anecdotes from some people that "it felt like high school". The inclusion of Theranos is just flat out dumb: to attempt to try link Theranos' collapse to their org structure (as opposed to, say, their outright fraud and the fact that their tech never worked and was physically impossible) is laughable.

I honestly wonder if a story like this, which basically consists solely of conjecture and the author's point they want to make, would ever have been greenlit at the NYT if it wasn't specifically pushing this "approved" narrative.
I wrote a bit about this as well:

https://logical.li/blog/team-capacity/

https://logical.li/blog/hype-trains/

https://logical.li/blog/seven-traits/
And makes it hard(er) for them to do anything tyrannical. Although I doubt your argument holds any more water compared to non-flat institutions when there's the tyranny of lousy upper management that shows up so frequently. Nor am I sure why you think it would make them easier to hide if you're essentially in the trenches with everyone else instead of hiding through the proxy of layers of lower level managers.
https://archive.ph/v3Ctg
What do you mean? If the script is using hashbang, you can just run it. If not, run "bash script.sh". If you need to source it, use the plugin "bass". If you want to run a one-time bash command copypasted from somewhere, just type "bash", run your command, and then ctrl-c.
The word is spot on for a union, see https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/collusion.asp: "Collusion occurs when entities or individuals work together to influence a market or pricing for their own advantage."

"Collusion is a non-competitive, secret, and sometimes illegal agreement between rivals which attempts to disrupt the market's equilibrium. The act of collusion involves people or companies which would typically compete against one another, but who conspire to work together to gain an unfair market advantage. The colluding parties may collectively choose to influence the market supply of a good or agree to a specific pricing level which will help the partners maximize their profits at the detriment of other competitors. It is common among duopolies."

Normally, workers are rivals who are competing to sell labor to the market. A union occurs when these workers agree not to compete and "work together to influence a market or pricing for their own advantage."
These llms are weak facsimiles of the brain, not humans. The real world is the ultimate training model, it can't be fully substituted with a bunch of strings.
> Take your pick

I guess this is what it really boils down to. Here in Europe we don't have to establish college funds, go bankrupt because of a heart disease, become homeless due to being out of work or get our kids shot in a primary school. We prefer to take a less materialistic approach to life and priorities at the cost of not being so fixated on "wealth".

Americans are just built differently
This is it. Flat structures aren't totally flat and there is some depth, but it's all about 'us' and there is strong leadership and ownership. People can wear multiple hats to get things done. Essentially, everyone is 'on the same page' for the better of the business.
To complement sibling post, some other stuff that I think makes it clear that open-source was not one of HashiCorp's values even before this change:

DM@07:30: So how we think about it is, we're kind of obsessive about journeys. [...] And we decompose the personas into two: there's the practitioner, and then there's the decision-maker. The practitioner, you're trying to progress through a journey of discover and learn, try and trial, use and advocate— and you do not care if they buy anything from you. The decision-maker you're trying to progress through the why/try/buy journey. [...] It is a pre-dredged river, it is not fair; they do not know what is happening to them. They are not going where they think they are going— they are going where I want them to go. [...] And it turns out it works.

GS: Is there anything specific, do you think, about open-source that you layer in?

DM: For us, open-source is really just a distribution channel. (Also it's a development channel, but predominantly it's a distribution channel.) [...] So I don't think it matters whether it's open-source or not, as much as just being really, really obsessive about the digital videogame that you play.

--

On the one hand, it's nice that Dave McJannet is so up-front about these strategies, how manipulation is a part of them, and how much market positioning is about pushing people around to retain control of an ecosystem.

On the other hand, he sounds like a pushy, arrogant asshole tbf.
You can always run .sh scripts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013232...

People are starting to study this. Basically it would be like installing artificial snow to redirect the light energy back to space.
yt-dlp, in particular, provides static linked binaries for Linux x64 and ARM64. You can just download the latest binary off their GitHub releases page. It's a breath of fresh air.
>Linux: as much as I like it, Android is a complicated mess

EDIT: misread, I agree
This Company Created a Return-to-Office Plan That Employees Like
Nobody (I know) that uses fish actually writes scripts in fish. Everyone writes scripts in bash for portability.
"Union" does not automatically mean "everyone doing job X gets $Y/hr, no matter what."

Many unions allow for performance-based pay increases. Furthermore, if you're actually doing better (in a situation like you describe, it should be trivial to prove this), it is likely that the union would help you negotiate a better performance-based pay increase than you would be able to negotiate on your own.
I agree it's more complicated and the technical term is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_section_(physics) For each particle, it's different acording to what is hitting it.

Anyway, for atoms we mostly care about colisions with charged particles. I'd say that they are almost empty.
Welcome to the USA.
I have a spare button in my second layer layout on my mouse. I should map it to option+click and see how I like it.

The mouse is a Ploopy mouse. QMK, open source schematics, 3D printed parts, loads of useful buttons. Highly recommended if you're prepared to edit C code to set its layout. https://ploopy.co/mouse/
Dating Apps Put a Hefty Price Tag on Finding Love
So is their plan that the businesses will be employee owned but not employee controlled, thus locking nice rates for their services?
It's not treating like with like, it's attempting to treat with something that has contain the substance but no longer contains it. They add something to water or alcohol then dilute repeatedly until it's just water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic_dilutions#Diluti...

If you believe it works then you should drink a bit of water from the ocean everyday, because so many sewage are poured there that every virus and bacteria of every human illness has been there, and the oceans are so vast that it's been diluted properly!
Retro? Sure. Punk? Not when the patents are tightly held by a greedy patent troll who seems to do everything in their power to stop hobbyists and hackers
"Programming languages, tech stacks, and other areas of engineer preference largely don’t matter. Let engineers pick what they want. Remember that the good solutions are often free and have stupid sounding names."

This is a dangerous statement. Some tech stacks are way more complex (and therefore more expensive) than others. You need to choose wisely what you use, because whatever you put in production will stay with you for at least 5 years (thumb rule...) and rewriting is a pain.
Amsterdam has 3.5 times the number of bikes vs cars. An outlier for sure but evidence at least that it's an alternative people can be happy with.
Hexagone: A font that automatically converts hex color codes to RGB
Sunscreen could be used: https://docs.sunscreen.tech/fhe/fhe_programs/pir_intro.html

>With private information retrieval (PIR), a user can retrieve an item from a database without revealing to the server which item she's interested in. PIR is useful for both web2 and web3 applications. In web2, for example, PIR can be used to help detect harmful images in end-to-end encrypted messaging. For private cryptocurrencies, PIR can help light clients retrieve relevant transactions.
C4: C in Four Functions
Agreed. The worst kind of government is one that tries to control what people think and say. Approved narratives and facts are the way of dictatorships.
Maybe they’ll spend the extra cash on security? They’ve had an almost unbelievable number of breaches.
Four people from four different nations ride SpaceX rocket into orbit
Looks like there are several self-hosted options, like this one: http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

Probably because it's easy to get root, like another poster mentioned.
Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact