skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great discussion. We should define what the engine is.

United States spends ~3% of the GDP in defense. Obviously this creates markets but there is a relatively centralized decision to spend that amount of money.
> A labor market.

That is capitalism though and has the same problems as capitalism. For example, the doctors guild could say that surgery costs a million dollars. That makes all the doctors rich, so all doctors agree to not perform surgeries for less than a million dollar. Does that mean that surgeries objectively costs a million dollars?

The way we solve that issue today is by regulating unions so they don't get that level of power. But what that regulation looks like isn't objective in any way, and it will shape the prices you will see, so labour prices are subjective.
The battery of my Librem 5 (L5v1-05) only lasts a night when doing nothing. I charge it in the evening and in the morning it's nearly empty.

This is with no SIM, just wifi. Kernel is 6.3.0-1-librem5 on PostOS 10 (beryllium). GNOME 3.38.5.

The battery life has been like this since I received it in March 2021.
I would say that Marx and labor theory of value are still relevant as mechanisms for understanding capitalism. According to Marx, Capitalism is a mode of economics that has unleashed the productive forces, but its internal contradictions give rise to increasing crisises. There is a constant downward pressure on labor costs versus rising costs of living.

Crisis has been averted multiple times, and the productive forces continue to be unleashed. To prevent total collapse, concessions like welfare have been made.

However, there is a real possibility of potential growth being stifled by self interests of powerful economic actors. This bleeds out now into identity politics as people view the liberal system as incapable of providing the growth and future they thought would be delivered. Either unprivileged groups want to be paid high wages or the privileged groups want to protect their high wages from being cut down. This is a form of class warfare that isn't too different from what Marx observed in his days.

This still is far away from achieving the socialist mode of production where the workers become the planner and rulers of the economy to further unleash the productive forces.
Even the regular employees don't get equity

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
One of the things I've learned over my career is that basically everyone is winging it, and successful companies often don't understand what makes them successful.

Also, unless you are a saint, your reports are lying to you because of the power imbalance. These two factors combined are the cause of lots of incredibly boneheaded business decisions.
There are complaints all over the internet about this, it's not particularly isolated.
your statement:

> but presumably the attacker here had to know about the crash, and the layout of the crash dump

another statement from the article:

> Our credential scanning methods did not detect its presence (this issue has been corrected).

The article does not give any timeline when things happened.

Imagine the following timeline:

- hacker gets coredump in 2021, doesn't know that it contains valuable credentials.

- For data retention policy reasons, Microsoft deletes their copy of the coredump — but hacker just keeps it.

- Microsoft updates its credential scanning methods.

- Microsoft runs updated credential software over their reduced archive (retention policy) of coredumps. As that particular coredump doesn't exist anymore at Microsoft, they are not aware of the issue.

- hacker get scanner update.

- hacker runs updated credential scanner software over their archive of coredumps. Jackpot.
They are as non-profit as they are open.
Maybe folks should quit Amazon Prime en masse to hit them where it hurts (and the only place it matters to them) - the bottom line.
This is kind of my point. In 1949 when Einstein wrote this, the US state colleges were little more than vocational schools. He was advocating for a world ruled by academic achievement, kind of unaware of the brave new reality it would come with.
No, the invention of subscription models is not because of piracy. It's because you can keep extracting money from customers "forever", rather than just once, and continue funding your business instead of having large gaps of reduced revenue when a product has not been recently released. A moment of consideration easily reveals that SaaS was inevitable with cheap hosting/networking and readily-available worldwide payment processors.

Sources which are speaking solely about the increase in revenue (and related benefits) and not a peep about piracy:

https://hbr.org/2023/04/the-rebirth-of-software-as-a-service

https://bebusinessed.com/history/the-history-of-saas/

https://smartbear.com/blog/the-pre-history-of-software-as-a-...

https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/history-of-saas/
> Obviously they are imported, that's the point.

"Imported" here only means that they crossed the border, not that they are being lawfully distributed in the US.

> Amazon and Newegg are US companies distributing imported Chinese Huawei phones.

Not true. Third party resellers are importing and selling some Huawei phones.

> ... show me where phones are banned.

Can you buy a Huawei phone from a retailer in the US? Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart? Or from a telecom? AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile?

Huawei and ZTE have also both been banned from getting FCC licenses. You could definitely buy a Huawei phone in the US, but it wouldn't be licensed by the FCC.
Adding another data point here from someone who clicked away after hitting the registration wall. Free or not, it's just not something I want to do before getting a solid sense of the product's value. Let me explore your work for a while and then decide to sign up on my own.
GraphQL out of the box doesn't make things optimized, but with any decent setup like Postgraphile, Hasura, or just DataLoader you do get highly optimized single-pass queries vs something like having many REST endpoints where the queries end up coming in piecemeal. I know this as I've been deep into these problems and it makes a huge difference in performance.

And the comparison is valid because these optimizations do happen and do make a difference, and are pretty easy to get if you just for example choose Hasura which is a very popular library (and there are many many others too). GraphQL makes this possible in the first place, whereas RSC and REST basically don't.
It's less of a Ponzi scheme and more of a gamified, time and treasure expensive hazing ritual whereby the sheepskin "proves" "quality" and some measure of aptitude, intelligence, baseline of problem-solving ability, and ability to finish something. It has been and is also 4-N years of extended adolescence. And in the distant past, when universities were more selective and cheaper, it's where people often met their spouses.

How else should we prepare people for the various workforces: knowledge work, financial services, skilled trades, etc.?

Universities fear 2 things: bad publicity and losing accreditation. Perhaps accreditation orgs such as ABET (in the US) need to get off their collective, perfunctory rubber-stamping posteriors and ensure financial and fiduciary stewardship are occurring, and that a university doesn't become tantamount to a white-collar human trafficking recruiter demanding the life savings of their victims on the vague promises of a bright future.
The point is not that there are not failing people in USA, but that there are much less successfully ones in EU.
> the actual phrase he says may be completely different

That's also true in English, in my experience. I've never heard someone express this phrase (or a variation) in conversation, but the sentiment is common.

A typical phrasing in English would be more like "She always says she's done but she always comes back."
It is true that a great deal of review is lip service. A cynic would point out that while IRBs contain an ethical review, they often exist only to absolve the university of legal or moral responsibility. The realist in me points out that ethical review has been right-shifted: now we're more likely to approve a wide range of experiments that skirt right up against the common ethical boundaries, and then let the subsequent public response determine the ethics of the action.

None of this really matters until somebody announces we can make viable embryos from stem cells or that we can bring a viable embryo to term in an artificial womb. Both of these seem to be not implausible in the next 20 years.
It's almost as if corporations only care about their shareholders and give zero shits about their employees.
I switched to React when jQuery (and particularly storing state in the DOM and lots of custom events called) became a PITA.

I don't feel that React has reached that tipped point yet, but when it does I'm hoping we'll all move to Sveltekit or something like it.
Few would disagree that

"mean asshole" = ad hominem

"ban" = cancellation

Edit to respond to the comment below, since we've reached the limits on the depth of nested comments:

"Ad hominem" = "directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining."

Calling someone a name, like "mean asshole", is an attack against their person, whether it is true or not. Therefore it is ad hominem, whether it is true or not. The definition of ad hominem does not require that it be untrue.

You can, of course, redefine it, as gender ideology seeks to redefine many things by substituting a foreign meaning for a familiar word.

But forcing people to adopt a new language and set of names, and therefore to implicitly recognize false claims in which a trans person attempts to occupy the role and spaces of the opposite sex, is coercive.

Society is starting to realize that the substance of those claims is false, and the coercion is contrary to civil liberties. No amount of bans or insults will change that.
This assumes that people have access to accurate, up to date and unbiased information to make informed choices about what to buy.

Yes they buy things, to what extent the things available/popular are the product of a free market vs established conglomerates having regulators in their pocket for example is highly debatable imo.

How many of these giants would survive without a steady stream of government contracts?
Fundamentally? A power plant exploding or dam collapsing would kill way more people and cost far more in property damage than a single FedEx airplane with two crew being shot down.
A lot of this is because of WFM, 5 years ago when you applied for a job you had to compete with all the bozos within 50 miles looking for a job but now you have to compete with all the bozos in the country looking for a job. five years ago they'd get 20 CVs for a job and now they are getting 1000. Even if they job market is tighter companies don't notice because they are getting 50X the number of resumes for a job. Further they can hire some guy in South Dakota who will happily work for half of what some guy in Manhattan will work for. In short WFH has fucked things up, it's a lot like how online dating hasn't helped people find love people are lonelier than ever even though they have a much larger selection. We work better in person and in smaller groups.
Since 37signals has been having challenges hosting SaaS and hiring for dev/ops roles, it naturally makes sense that they'd be looking to shift that operational burden to their customers :)

I'm being extra snarky. But I must admit that I've grown a lot more skeptical of this company in recent years.

Their marketing about their products as well as about their open-source components has too much bravado.

They can't just say that administering their own Kubernetes control planes and network stacks feels like more trouble than its worth for a smallish organization like their own -- they have to announce that the status quo is wrong and their new solution is right.

HTML-over-the-wire makes sense for some use-cases and not for others, but according to 37signals there are exactly zero situations where it makes sense to transport JSON or PB between a back-end and a front-end.

It's been a few years since I evaluated Basecamp for my employer — at the time, the functionality was fine, but limited compared to other options for project management on the market and included some very opinionated portions that couldn't be customized. Integrations and client apps were also more limited compared to other options. It was the same story back when they offered Highrise CRM. Nothing wrong with their software, but there's a reason that larger players are able to satisfy a wider range of customers for business productivity and project planning software.

I was excited to try Hey, and found it similarly opinionated and underwhelming in terms of actual functionality. Maybe this has changed in the meantime, but I didn't see enough movement in the product at the time to want to commit to using it personally.

And while others can interpret their leadership team's management decisions however they wish, what I saw was them needlessly alienating some key long-term staff members and contributors to their open-source components. What a waste of talent and good will.

All this to say that I don't doubt that some of 37signals's products and some of their open-source components are indeed useful and valuable to some folks and some use-cases. At the same time, their approach to self-promotion and marketing has just started to leave an off taste in my own mouth, making me skeptical of a substance-free announcement like this.
It blows a hole in all sorts of internet activities. We're going to have to rework a lot from scratch when it goes through.

And of course the big internet companies won't complain about it because it gives them legislative capture of the web.
When I worked at Yahoo during the mid-naughts, I had about 1 day of work a week, if that. Most of the other time my entire team spent playing video games, watching the stock market, getting food (food wasn't free at the time but I believe the smoothies were), etc. It was a bizarre environment and couldn't wait to leave.
This is just as lazy a take as the UK government though.

Many societal problems would be trivial if you could get perfect compliance from the population. You can't, so if you're interested in solving problems you need to be willing to grapple with the world as it is. So far as I can tell online safety has not meaningfully improved since the late 90s - "enforce safety at home" has been the advice for all of that time and it has never worked.

I don't have a solution but "blame the parents" seems to be a very clear non-answer without some plan for how to make creating safety at home more easily actionable.
Slack and Teams aren't in the same category as Basecamp which is more of a ClickUp, Asana or Monday competitor, ie a project management tool.
Yup, see you guys in the thread next year.
I always heard it as "She's said goodbye too many times before," but that was probably my mind filling in the gap. Also, I never heard the rest of the lyrics so I don't know if they're present or past tense.
No, the current systems are hell. This is a massive improvement.
It's a sweeping take to say that everything Chomsky has said is wrong or immoral.

Fwiw, for anyone reading along, Chomsky didn't coin the term "state capitalism" and he was not the first to apply it to the USSR. Lenin himself actually uses the term to describe the USSR, seeing it as a necessary transitional step from (normal) capitalism to a socialist system:

"Reality tells us that state capitalism would be a step forward. If in a small space of time we could achieve state capitalism, that would be a victory."

And I'm of the opinion that the beginnings of the USSR, led by Lenin, were much more idealistic than what it would quickly become. Generally, it's the anarchists and libertarian sociliasts who are using the term disparagingly against a USSR that does not live up to their ideals. And, of course, Noam Chomksy is using the term "state capitalism" to describe a USSR that is much later in its history, or a USSR that is a thing of the past.

The Wikipedia article of the term State Capitalism is pretty interesting, imo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
> All the bragging about working multiple jobs or just clocking 20hours at most on so many forums like Blind, etc.

I don't follow these forums where people are saying this, but your comment struck me because neither of the two things you listed are wrong, as long as the person involved is doing acceptable work. This assumes there are no requirements to disclose other jobs, no enforceable non-compete agreements, etc. The consequences for doing unacceptable work—or not doing any work at all—are well-established from before covid, and would still apply in this case: that is, if they can't do the job, fire them. I agree that it's different and perhaps scary new world for executives, but what about it is wrong?
Maps are not mere data. There is a lot of creativity involved in choosing the data to present and leave out, the style and colors, the arrangement of labels, etc. That's why maps are copyrightable. There is comparatively little creativity involved in feeding large fractions of the internet through a standard transformer model. Neither is there any significant creativity involved in the presentation of the raw weights. It's not at all clear to me that the weights are or should be copyrightable.

People will certainly try, though, and like all regulatory regimes copyright loves to expand and never voluntarily shrinks, so they may succeed. Honestly I think the most likely outcome is that model weights will be ruled as derived works of the input dataset, and courts will try to enforce that people who train models must license their entire dataset specifically for model training. Some would cheer that but I personally think it would be a disaster.
Its been very interesting over the years. Myself and these other folks have this connection, but no way to communicate or even know who they are.
THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF IT!

Thing about async/await.

const a = await doThing();
const b = await doOtherThing();

The order of the written code and the order of the executed codes are two different things. Being able to write code in proximate/logical order is a enormous relief, even if things don't actually happen like that.

Same with hooks.
The overwhelming majority of human beings both now and throughout history are creationists.

Heck, it's such a popular idea that techies have reinvented it by saying we live in a simulation, which obviously implies one or more creators.
> Or you talking about let everyone going remote? That's transitioning into a fully remote company which is not happening

This was the state of things before the RTO mandates. The whole company was remote until they started demanding people come in 3 days a week.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/andy-jassy-says-he-wont-forc...
> Yeah... if it wasn't for examples around the world of "publicly owned" healthcare being absolute dog shit.

> IE: the VA.

My family's experience with the VA has been better than private healthcare. I am not a veteran, so I've been paying ~500 premiums for awhile to get a similar level of care to the veterans in my family. They do live in California and Minnesota, which are considered liberal states.
> i've heard these takes on public schools but they failed to explain what's actually bad about them. could you provide more detail?

I'm also very interested to hear about this.
So aggregating finfluencer tweets, reading what they say, and doing the exact opposite, is a valid investment strategy?
They are trying to make training weights of models into munitions, like encryption was in the 80s. That is worse for open source development of models than anything anyone else has done including Amazon. The best thing that can happen is that Altman et al are hit by a bus on the way to their next meeting with a head of state trying to legislate them being the only responsible censor and natural monopolist for Ai.
The technical aspects of this don't matter one way or the other if you believe that it is a fundamental human right to have secrets and communicate them. That's the root question here.

If you say, "well yes but only for legal purposes", then the jig is up. End-to-end encryption must die. You can fiddle here and there with what getting the warrants and the wiretaps and all that looks like but you have decided the fundamental question. From then on, between civil libertarians and law enforcement the issue becomes a skrimage. The courts will hash it out and subsequent legislation will ebb and flow the limits on both sides. But you have decided the fundamental question. Humans are not allowed to actually have secrets. Period. That is what happens the second you make this conditioned in any way.

Of course there are better and worse versions of this that can exist but ultimately I think it should be opposed as a state violation of human rights.
Do you have any source to this? If this were the motive, why would more VCs not require their corporates to be formed as non-profits?
Regarding. ..square root part I also find it intuitively true. Another way is to find people who most other need to reach out to during work, again that number probably come close to square root.
Constant time stateless shuffling and grouping
I've seen more of those since living in the southeastern USA, than I ever did in the northeastern USA... despite having lived in Connecticut where gun laws were, until recently, fairly lax for a blue state and there were quite a few stealth gun nuts.
Really interesting information, thank you.
I'm a bit surprised the poster was asking for something more magic not less.
So you live in the city already and don't need to drive on the highway to your office? Or? You don't otherwise drive on the highway to go any place?

I actually don't need to drive into the city for a day event but it still takes me 2 hours to take the train and subway.
I heard that immutability libraries like immer.js [0] help with this. Anyone go this way and had good success? Is this 'the way'?

[0]: https://immerjs.github.io/immer/
population collapse: solved {checkmark}

warring super-solider arms race: {added to jira board}
I put a big note in caps right above, or move it to the bottom of the file for later. Or just rewrite it immediately. Whatever it takes to stay in the same mental space

Some helpful advice for writing is to not be afraid to throw away what you wrote
What kills me is there’s no Skiatrons to be seen, not on YouTube nor in any museums.
In particular that it's OK to directly call setState inside functional components was a surprise to me (when I read that some months ago), it does make things simpler.
Thankfully we don't have to choose between dealing with the insanity of shipping everything everywhere six times during production to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation somewhere, and steak production being terrible for the environment.

We can get rid of ALL the stupid things that are "profitable" to a few middlemen but nobody else.