skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Settle in for a wild propaganda-filled fall season.

Between UAW Strike, SWG Strike, barely avoided UPS Strike, and probably a few I'm leaving out, we're going to be inundated with half truths, misdirection, selective statistics and even the occasional outright lie.

UAW opening demand isn't just a 40% pay hike - but also a four day workweek (when combined is ~70% increase in pay). Nobody expects for UAW to get everything they demand (that's not how negotiations work of course) but still, it's a particularly unreasonable starting position and is likely demonstrating just how far apart both parties are.

It's become a sort of meme to bag on C-Suite salaries - with a lot of folks fundamentally believing C-Suiters don't earn their pay or at the very least don't earn the extreme pay gap between them an your average line worker.

Anyone thinking a C-Suiter clocks out at 5pm and doesn't work after hours has no experience in the C-Suite (or even upper management for the matter). There isn't really a such thing as "off hours" for these folks on average. Correspondingly, decisions made by your C-Suite can earn a company huge returns, or doom the company and all of it's employees and stake holders.

Comparing C-Suite compensation, pay scale, growth rate and disparity from line workers is disingenuous at best. They cannot be compared, nor should they.
A failed CEO of a large company almost never ends up bankrupt, and they almost always remain a multi-millionaire. What exactly is the risk they're taking on?
> If you're the CEO of a company and you increased profits by 92%

Did you? Attributing all the success a company achieves to the CEO feels shortsighted.

Aside from anything else: if all these companies saw their profits grow by so much surely there’s an external commonality there? “The CEO did it all” would be slightly more plausible if only one company experienced that success.
It seems erroneous to me to imply that the CEO deserves a bigger pay increase than the workers that actually increased profits by 92%
In my view, one big learning from LLMs is that yes, more often than not we are just stochastic parrots. And more often than not that's enough!

But sometimes we're more than that: Some types of deep understanding aren't verbal or language-based, and I suspect that these are the ones that LLMs will have the hardest time getting good at. That's not to say that no AI will get there at all, but I think it'll need something fundamentally different from LLMs.

For what it's worth, I've personally changed my mind here: I used to think that the level of language proficiency that LLMs demonstrate easily would only be possible using an AGI. Apparently that's not the case.
> paid zero

> paid $1.5 million in cash

These are two wildly different things.
I’d love to understand your thinking behind the idea that a document standard should rely on a query language and not a file format…

Document standards are file formats…

Or are you saying a document format should just be some DDL statements? What? How is that interoperable? It’s coupled to the database that is storing the data as an implementation detail, which is exactly the problem with using SQLite.

> That alone would be a difficult project

I’m not suggesting using the SQLite file format, I’m suggesting the pretty basic idea that the storage for a general purpose widely used and interoperable document format should be logically decoupled from anything else, and definitely not be tied to the implantation details of a single library or even a single version of that library.

The file format is the most important part. It’s the only part. Nothing else matters because there is nothing else.

It’s not rocket science.
Those are your words, not mine. The thread was talking about ditching GDScript in favour of C# and comparing it to other engine scripting languages. You want to go with the conversation on a trip to the mountains, you go alone.
Bluntly, getting too hung up on languages is procrastination. Lua is more than fine. (GDScript isn't actually that bad, just completely esoteric). Similarly I wouldn't get hung up on Blueprints or C++ when worrying about Unreal, partly because their C++ is so particular it's extreme.

Defold is basically a pile of interesting simple subsystems, especially around game logic, that in combination become surprisingly powerful, and the experience of the devs shows. It is one of those tools that even if you never use it again some of the ideas stay with you.
On the other hand, why would the NSA even bother? With these talented individuals providing them a never ending supply of security issues? And they don't even have to pay for them besides having their normal 0-day discovery team look for them. I think supporting this is their reaction when a 0-day they are relying on gets patched out.

I can imagine special cases where they would exert resources and effort, such as the IETF or some other economically efficient chokepoint (Rust?), but not in general.
"Obviously, CEOs should be the highest-paid person in an enterprise"

Hold on there chap! How is this obvious?
Oh, he's not alone.
He was replaced, but not with someone as good. Apple has done well under Tim Cook, but there is an obvious lack of innovative vision since Steve’s passing.
Well that's simple, larger companies that want to pay their CEO more can pay their lowest paid employees more.
Leftists appear to have gone to Mastodon and then dissipated. Mastodon has many architectural and incentive issues that make it an unfit platform and unsustainable at scale. Fitting that leftists were unable to identify these issues!
40% of IT work is already outsourced and that’s a number that is rapidly growing and that’s only over a decade and a half. It doesn’t even take into account foreign employees that now just work remotely.
Yeah but these guys typically fail upwards such that they are immune to failure, and take almost no personal risk at all.
US market car manufacturing isn't in India/China because of NAFTA. And because cars are big and heavy, of course.
> CEO making serious mistakes can and has cost GM millions

So despite GM paying the CEO millions, they couldn’t prevent him from making mistakes?
> The answer for how much CEOs should be paid is the amount of money you would need to pay to employ the most optimal person to run the company.

"Should" by what standard? Minimizing deadweight loss?
There's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_the_Court in here somewhere, I just know it...
Are they reusing the name to be more confusing? Intel ME calls to mind the management engine that's been embedded in most Intel based computers for the last 15 or so years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Analogies are not necessary all the time.
Right, but in general the CEO doesn’t really do much to the stock price. If the general market is up, it’s going up. If the market is down, it’s going down.

How many companies really break that relationship in their market sector?

So tldr, ceo pay is based on the economic cycle rather than how the company does.
I especially love the dark pattern whereby the “suggested tips” are shown in descending order from left to right, trying to take advantage of people’s instinct to pick the first (presumably lowest) option.
> (That you know of).

The number of ways I might have been pwned and not known about it is basically infinite. Why should I prioritize replacing X11 over any other hypothetical threat for which I have no evidence that I'm at particular risk of? Nobody has photographed my house keys and made copies that I know of. Should I re-key all my locks just to be extra safe? I could replace my front door with an armored door too.. but a burglar would just come in through a window instead so what would be the point?

There's no point armoring your front door unless you also put bars on all your windows, and there's no point adopting wayland for security unless you fix all the other security problems with running malicious software on the GNU/Linux desktop too. And miss me with the QubesOS/flatpack/etc suggestions, my days of playing amateur sysadmin are over I just want to use my computer, not tinker with experimental desktop administration.
Because the number 1 quality that you want in a CEO is that he has experience being CEO, and there aren't that many openings for you to get in on it, and the ones that are are given to people who's been CEO before.

Obviously.
I note that format doesn't work with Invidious, it only handles the older(?) format using & instead of # : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BaDQCjqUHU&t=24m
I am always suprised at how people think that elected official then have to get bribes in order to survive like its a doctor prescription, and how it seems that when they do we can’t do anything about it ffs
No analogies. It is what it is.

Markush groups, as GP mentioned, are there specifically for chemical patents. So that's what's shaped the patent law, not software or cars.
Tariffs, which are just a regressive tax increase on car consumers, are a very bad industrial policy. You want to do export promotion instead.
> If it's a publisher or series you can find printed on the shelf, books are legit.

Not even that is a guarantee, there have been cases of rip-offs making it through a bunch of book-on-demand services.

All "marketplaces" allowing third parties unlimited, unmonitored access to product listings suffer from that issue.
It's like selling your data to ad tech companies. They'll do it no matter how much you pay for the product.
(Since DX is already explained...)

Grafana/Prom/Loki is an awesome stack - overall I'd say that we try to correlate more signals in one place (your logs <> traces <> session replay), and we also take an approach to go more dev-friendly to query instead of going the PromQL/LogQL route.

It's a stack I really wanted to love myself as well but I've personally ran into a few issues when using it:

Loki is a handful to get right, you have to think about your labels, they can't be high-cardinality (ex. IDs), the search is really slow if it's not a label, and the syntax is complex because it's derived from PromQL which I don't think is a good fit for logs. This means an engineer on your team can't just jump in and start typing keywords to match on, nor can they just log out logs and know they can quickly find it again in prod. Engineers need to filter logs by a label first and then wait for a regex to run if they want to do full-text search.

Prometheus is pretty good, my only qualm is again the approachability of PromQL - it's rare to see an engineer that isn't fluent with time-series/metric systems to be able to pick up all the concepts very quickly. This means that metrics access is largely limited to premade dashboards or a certain set of engineers that know the Prometheus setup really well.

Grafana has definitely set the standard for OSS metrics, but I personally haven't had a lot of success using their tools outside of metrics, though ymmv and it's all about the tradeoffs you're looking for in an observability tool.
And they got 18.1% for it.
Keep your own eggs distributed across multiple boxes, and make your vendors who don't accountable.
Price is based on how difficult it is to find someone that won’t drive a massive company awry, not based on them becoming better.
> If you're the CEO of a company and you increased profits by 92%

This assumes that the increase in profit is attributable primarily to the CEO. Well, that at least 43% (40/92) of it is.

> Just ask for what you think you deserve and don't work if you don't get it. It's as simple as that.

This only really works with unions. Fortunately, these workers have one.
It's Cloudflare's fault.
> Some examples are easy to point at, like the case of the recipe book that lists Zelda food items as ingredients

As an aside, the case you're thinking of was a novel, not a recipe book. Still embarrassing, but at least it was just a bit of set dressing, not instructions to the reader.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-recipe...

> I saw someone giving programming advice on discord a few weeks ago. Advice that was blatantly copy/pasted from chat GPT in response to a very specific technical question.

This, on the other hand, is a very real and a very serious problem. I've also seen users try to get ChatGPT to teach them a new programming language or environment (e.g. learning to use a game development framework) and ending up with some seriously incorrect ideas. Several patterns of failure I've seen are:

1) As you describe, language models will frequently hallucinate features. In some cases, they'll even fabricate excuses for why those features fail to work, or will apologize when called out on their error, then make up a different nonexistent feature.

2) Language models often confuse syntax or features from different programming languages, libraries, or paradigms. One example I've heard of recently is language models trying to use features from the C++ standard library or Boost when writing code targeted at Unreal Engine; this doesn't work, as UE has its own standard library.

3) The language model's body of "knowledge" tends to fall off outside of functionality commonly covered in tutorials. Writing a "hello world" program is no problem; proposing a design for (or, worse, an addition to) a large application is hopeless.
It’s easy.

“ugh, this thing needs to get out by end of week and I can’t scope this key properly, nothing’s working with it.”

“just give it admin privileges and we’ll fix it later”

sometimes they’ll put a short TTL on it, aware of the risk. Then something major breaks a few months later, gets a 15 year expiry, never is remediated.

It’s common because it’s tempting and easy to tell yourself you’ll fix it later, refactor, etc. But then people leave, stuff gets dropped, and security is very rarely a priority in most orgs - let alone remediation of old security issues.
Does it work the other way round?
4 day work week has been successful in most places. As a world we should move towards it.

Other benefit: less environmental impact, more time for people to improve themselves and their mental health, etc.
> suggested that Congressional salaries be a fixed multiple of minimum wage

That's insane no matter how you look at it.

Minimum wage is paid by individuals, private businesses and their owners. Congressional pay is paid for with your money - an effective infinite of your money, or they'll just poof new money out of nowhere to continue to pay themselves.

Correlating the two is plain wrong.
Those are soybeans. Did you think they're black turtle beans, like you'd find in latin america?

They're black soybeans. The kind used to make douchi. Read the ingredients list on your bottle.

Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#/media/File:Soya_Bean....
Exactly. Why can't it return a RaycastResult or whatever.
The biggest problem for me in moving to Godot is the editor tooling. I find the @tool and EditorPlugin workflow to be very finicky. Editor restarts were needed to refresh/correct changes from @tool scripts. And a lot of what I needed to do in the scene view (context-free) required hacky solutions. Not to mention, they changed a lot of related APIs in Godot 4, most of what I google are still from Godot 3 and don't work in Godot 4 (no backward compatibility).

That said, I'm still enjoying Godot, the only fun part in the past week.
I dine out way too much, date a service industry veteran, and know many other service industry workers. Never have I experienced that, seen that, nor heard of any of my friends saying they did that (even for no tippers). In fact, they’d all say doing that would be incredibly unprofessional.

So I am curious what region you are in that you experience such hostility.
Eh sorry I meant a /24 not specifically a class C
In other words, "all the implementors chose a standard, but we're the standard deciders so we're killing the whole idea".
Ah yeah, that rings a bell now!
Like this? Don't worry you still have a few days to "Take the pledge to protect"... for #SeeSayDay 2023

https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something
CEO pay has gone up pretty much across the board, significantly outpacing workers for several decades, even at companies that have not done well.
America's GDP allocated per congressperson is like $50 billion each.

Salaries wont fix bribes for someone with that much to command and even the already rich can make a lot of money getting into politics. Their salary means nothing to them.
Since there's no pay penalty for being a bad CEO (pay correlates almost exclusively with company size) I guess we can assume that being good at the job is not the quality most important to those who do the selection.
"Should" is a loaded word here. Market equilibrium is not always the best thing for society as a whole, morally or practically.
> If you're the CEO of a company and you increased profits by 92%

YOU, the CEO, didn't single-handedly increase profits by even a single percentage point. One employee out of 1 million, take your millionth of a cut of the profits, that's still $150K.
Exactly. A program running as the user can change the user's desktop configuration to launch a hacked browser instead of the browser installed by the system. It can also edit PATH and then wrap sudo and get root access the next time you use it, or fuck with you a thousand other ways.
CEOs make mistakes all the time and often face few consequences.

We should all be lucky enough to have the chance to earn in a few months what we'd normally make in a lifetime. I'll gladly accept the extra risk that goes with that.
Yea, I don't get the significance of $33T. It's a monotonically increasing number these days.
How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle?
Just look at most countries around the world.

Corrupt elected officials is more of the norm, than the anomaly world-wide.
Well, one of those guys was just flexing/lying tbf ...
Hah well they're not crunchy like the ones in the regular Lao Gan Ma regardless
Or maybe they would already be employed at a better place paying more and using their labor with greater leverage.

I believe that workers and non-CS engineers are horribly underpaid around the world. They are underpaid in the US's Aerospace, they are underpaid in Russia's military industrial complex and they are also underpaid in China which actually supplies the stuff that everybody uses. Don't doubt they are also underpaid in Japan and Korea.
You're being weirdly aggressive here, and you have yet to actually address any specific point I've made in any of my comments, much less defended your own, so I'm going to call it a night.
A /24 sure, but GP was asking about buying a single IP address.
Mexico it is then.
Next year's other headline: More industries seeing more interest in unionizing.
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth
The effort is to close that gap. Can’t build cars without workers. Elon famously tried and failed.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/13/elon-musk-says-humans-are-... (“Elon Musk says ‘humans are underrated,’ calls Tesla’s ‘excessive automation’ a ‘mistake’”)
> It’s probably political career suicide for anyone who proposed getting rid of zoning

Where I live, local developers run local politics. The developers would rejoice! If it happened to be political suicide for anyone along the way, I'm sure they could find new politicians to run.
Good. As it should be. Record profits deserve record contracts.
They mostly don't, people just like being cynical.

Though, legislators don't have individual power to take action to be worth giving specific bribes to; what may happen is that if someone is friendly to your business, you want to keep them motivated to keep re-running for Congress and do the awful annoying job of being a legislator, when they could instead quit and go back to industry or retire on the beach or whatever.
I highly recommend Fly By Jing. Those ones are crunchy.
Finally, I hope those garbage books will slightly decrease from there.
Yes - that is serious tails I win heads you lose sort of numbers
I’ve worked with “c-suiters” and in an auto parts factory. In no instance did the former work harder than the latter and in some instances the “c-suiters” were far below a factory worker in terms of ability and intelligence. I have, however, never met an auto worker that was born into a rich or well-connected family, which seems to be the primary differentiator between the two groups.
Any idea why this change occurred?

I know it’s probably multifaceted, but my first thought was that increasing inflation since the 70s has meant that there is an incentive to have as much debt as possible, the hope being that it will be inflated away
> Imperialism has a specific definition

Yes, when a central power (the metropole) dictates outcomes and behavior to other powers (the peripheries).

> which is not what we are doing

Its exactly what the upthread claim is that we are doing. I’m not as much arguing whether or not that is happening, as that the assertion that it is happening and that it is a constraint on imperialism is self-contradictory.
Genuine question, have you tried hating the game and observed the response? I'm curious if your experience has been the same as mine?
All the more reason why they ought to get a little back at this point.
Amazing how the people who are so "concerned" that raising working class wages will result in higher prices never seem to consider that outsize executive compensation, massive stock buybacks, etc are responsible for higher prices. Almost like they aren't concerned with the prices at all!
Just launched a newsletter about Dope Sneaker Events on Substack
Then tens of thousands of people directly controlling those drones. We have the manpower and the ability to build these drones. Azerbaijan and Ukraine basically kicked ass with essentially DJIs and grenades.
That the brand is still alive and active. Certainly someone in marketing has seen it.
Would be a great way to get rid of a little addiction lol
Are you aware of the cost implications that may exist by them keeping the plants here?

Maybe that article linked would help you understand the structural cost implications that are proposed.
In other news, in 2023 U.S GDP tops $26T for the first time.
I'm not sure how you hope coming out justifying the ridiculous state of CEO pay is going to go for you, but the problem is the incentives are not aligned.

CEOs make big decisions... but they get paid more money than they'll ever need even if they do doom the company. In fact, many CEOs against union workers are torching their own companies to avoid a fair deal which would cost their businesses less.

The only way CEOs would justify their high pay is if we were able to hold them responsible for their company's misdeeds and throw them in jail. But since Sundar Pichai is still a free man, we clearly definitely don't do that either.

CEO is a completely zero-risk, massive return job that you get largely for knowing the right people and having a deeply flawed moral fiber that enables you to sleep at night after doing unusually cruel things to everyone else. That's really all there is to it.
It’s generally a bad deal for the worker compared to cash. An assembly line worker has absolutely zero say in the direction of the company, their work will never meaningfully move the needle on stock price, so it makes no sense to tie their income to something they have no control over.