skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really true. They have the most people beneath them that can take the fall for them. Finance shenanigans? CFO takes the fall. Missed targets? COO or CMO. Major hack? CTO. Etc.
> these companies are unable to replace their C-Suite with anyone costing less

They can replace their C-suite with me. The fact they don’t want to because I’m not some rich, well-connected, historical CEO does not mean they don’t have the option.

I’d do the job for just the basic pay package.
Doesn't the government have to pay interest on the debt [1]? If it's "to itself" then that wouldn't be the case. So even if it can print the money to pay off the debt (or the interest) they could be forced to at an inopportune time. Such as when inflation is already elevated.

Increasing debt doesn't seem to be a guaranteed bad thing but seems to be a risk that's being taken. Other events such as defaults, wars, pandemics, etc... could push things over the edge.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/economy/inflation-fed-debt-mi...
>it's a particularly unreasonable starting position and is likely demonstrating just how far apart both parties are.

Their demands are only unreasonable if they lose. This is a strike. It's fight, not a discussion. The goal is to give the company no choice but to give in. The strikers are under no obligation to be fair. They can make whatever demands they want. They don't have to give an inch if they don't want to.

>They cannot be compared, nor should they.

Comparing them is pretty simple, actually.

$ units

You have: 21 million USD / year

You want: (28 USD / hour) * (40 hours / week)

* 359.35059

/ 0.0027827977
I recently visited the UK and it was really nice. Order a £15 sandwich, pay £15.
> Supply and demand does not account for ...

Yes, it does, in each scenario you presented.

> We are free to change the perceived value of workers through the power of worker solidarity

It's more like using the power of government to ensure the company has no alternative to the union.

Company leaders have no actual power over the workers. They cannot force anyone to come to work. They cannot have you arrested. They cannot confiscate your property. They cannot beat you. They cannot prevent you from accepting a job at another company. They cannot prevent you from leaving. They cannot extort, libel, slander, blackmail, or threaten you. They cannot put a hit on you.

All they can do is offer you money in exchange for your labor. That's it.
How are you using bash in your work as a data auditor?
Can you not read, buddy? I said Microsoft, that means a lot more people with a lot more experience.

What’s even funnier is thinking that MS buying a mediocre old paint editor is a good business move. Paint.Net is practically an undergrad’s project.
This is the answer. I’ll never use Google search again.
Some of them got used to shoot down our own planes, no?
Spoken like someone who's never had an eating disorder. Thanks for the non-helpful "advice" that's obvious to everyone on the planet.
> We'd show up, sit down, do the rituals, and head home, without really interacting much (if at all) with fellow parishioners.

Did you not have tea and coffee in the hall after? That was how it worked at mine.
Some 20+ years ago I was a frigate Commo on the great circle route from Pearl Harbor to San Diego.

We'd pull email down over Inmarsat, but the geometry was such that the ship literally had to come to a different course and speed to keep a lock on the bird.

Physics matter sometimes.
The older I've gotten, the less patience I've had for tools that take a couple of extra google searches. My time is valuable, and I don't want to be fighting my own tools to do simple things.

I understand that it isn't linux's fault per se , but I would never understand running your personal desktop on Linux for non-ideological reasons.

WSL and WS-Android both exist. They have allowed me to selectively ignore the worst of windows and touch Linux on a needs basis.

I used to root every android device and apply balance mods before starting any game. Now, I just wanna do the thing.
During Covid lockdowns I put together a genealogical research solution. At first I had no plans to share it. However, with a great TW community helping me I did share it. In doing so I put together an online help for it—also written in TiddlyWiki (which needs more content and proof reading). https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/
> They cannot prevent you from accepting a job at another company.

They can totally do that with a non-compete clause. Just not in California.
> And should mediocre CEOs that fail or otherwise perform poorly get golden parachutes? No, of course not.

Oh but they do! That’s the rub. Also it’s very hand wavy to say “the CEO’s job is exceptionally difficult”. But that person has a whole bunch of people bringing him ideas and trying to improve the company. In fact, that’s how you even get promoted. So they pick a bunch of things to do. If it doesn’t go well and the stock tanks, the first person to leave are the workers and not the CEO. In fact, in almost every case the CEO is the last to get affected. Win or lose for the company, the CEOs only win.
Because it can't borrow as easily of its credit rating is weakened by carrying a high debt load. You might as well ask why it issues debt at all if it can just print. Why bother having a central bank if we could just have a treasury?
But this only explains the current system. As a fiat currency, money could be created without the debt bond mechanism at all. In that simplifed scenario, its all about inflation.
Antlr is pretty robust too, might be worth checking out.

https://www.antlr.org/
> having a deeply flawed moral fiber that enables you to sleep at night after doing unusually cruel things to everyone else

I don’t think this is necessarily true. You might just be really good at lying to yourself.
With 3nm being the last of the FinFETS will it end up in a similar situation in a decade? Will it be used for a lot of applications like 28nm is now for a long time?
Imagine a FAANG software union asking for 40% more pay for devs, to match the CEOs'.
Ah, so the propaganda has already started.

In four year's time, will their pay be 70% higher than it is today if all demands are met?

Yes.

Are you hopeful about a 70% pay increase in four years? I sure am not...
imagine a line worker comparing themselves to a ceo. tim gurner is right the workers really are becoming arrogant
My econ 101 talked about the difference between commodity and illiquid markets which explains the difference between worker and CEO pay. The CEOs are coming from a restricted group of insiders and can't be replaced because of their relationships which make them unique. Workers in the sectors most often unionized have few distinguishing characteristics from the perspective of the company and are thrown around by the same laws as the price of corn. The black death is a well-documented example of a restriction in the labor supply raising the price of labor and improving the wellbeing of laborers. There is no indication anywhere that supply and demand is wrong about the job market.
Ciaran Cannon: We have a blind spot when it comes to the dangers of cars
> I'm fairly sure I could achieve the same results for considerably less.

I'm highly skeptical of that. Not driving the company value to zero is worth a significant amount of money; anyone who has worked under a bad executive or CEO can tell the difference between one that didn't accomplish aggressive goals and one that's objectively bad. If you have a bunch of executive experience, maybe you'd be able to replicate that CEO's performance, but absent that it's more likely you'd cause more harm than just not making the goal.
So do I... usually. But seriously, look at that wavy line: what are we doing there? And those belly cuts? Did you gut this fish already (if not, ew), or are you serving salmon-steak-ends?
> it's all kumbaya FOSS until you start encroaching on their enterprise feature set.

The open core model relies on a delicate balance of ensuring that the OSS product is featureful and standalone, while successfully monetizing value added features for advanced users and enterprise customers. Not many companies do this right, but there are those that understand and handle this balance well, and manage to have both a successful OSS and commercial product. Grafana comes to mind, for example.

Just because you think that SSO is a required feature that should be part of the OSS product doesn't mean that HyperDX is using OSS as a growth hack. Nor is it fair to label a young startup that for a product that just launched.

FWIW I agree with their decision to make SSO a paid feature, but we can go over any number of features, and some OSS user is guaranteed to demand a specific feature, yet will not be willing to pay for it. SSO is not special, unless it's a core feature that the product depends on, which doesn't seem to be the case here.

When done right, open core is the best model to monetize OSS projects, and we should be thankful that companies adopt it at all. I'd use an open core product before a proprietary one any day of the week.
IDK about the current guy, but the CEOs who moved production to Mexico will be seen as deserving every penny.

On a per-unit cost, what’s labor vs CEO?
Dagger looks more comparable to Argo Workflows: https://argoproj.github.io/argo-workflows/ That's the first of the Argo projects, which can run multi-step workflows within containers on Kubernetes.

For what it's worth, my colleagues and I have had great luck with Argo Workflows and wrote up a blog post about some of its advantages a few years ago: https://www.interline.io/blog/scaling-openstreetmap-data-wor...
LoS is different to the original concept of "flying below radar". The original concept was based on the problem of ground scatter - below a certain altitude the radar beam is hitting the ground and producing spurious returns which mean they swamp out any interesting signals.

But modern radar is much more sensitive, and the noise-handling algorithms better - basically it's much more able to distinguish "I hit some trees with my beam" versus "metal". Combine that with modern transmitters which can also produce tighter beams and all the other electronic goodness, and the net effect is that you can scan just as low as you can see in all directions and filter out everything which is boring (i.e. the ground doesn't actually move very much, so really it's a fixed background on your radio image).

The other element of this, is AWACS: AWACS radars are higher, and look down. So not only do they go much further, but there is no "below radar" with them - they can be operated from much further away, and have all the same advantages (i.e. much better signal return discrimination). An AWACS will see you on radar long before you're in weapons range (hence the body of them orbiting near the Ukraine border these days).

The final element is that "flying below radar" was also just plain never that effective. You can test this by asking how often it's actually been done, if it's so effective. If it worked all the time, then that's what military's would train to do. Instead the only real advantage it provides is it reduces light of sight, and that's not uniformly applicable - i.e. a radar on elevated terrain would be able to spot aircraft making low approaches around it because it can just look down and pick out the airplane-like returns and ignore the ground scatter - and said radar can be far behind the lines.
In this case he didn't get any shares. If he'd used the options to get a mortgage then he's got a pretty big hole in his pocket when they became worthless.
Lebron James is not the CEO of his team. In your analogy, he's a worker not a CEO. He was the vice president of the player's union.

The NBA compensates workers based on the value they bring to the team. Isn't that what the UAW is arguing for?
Because their union insists that all their members get a 4-day work week or you don't get any workers at all. This is what unions are for: standing up for workers' rights when the employer would otherwise be incentivized to pursue the short-term gains from exploitation.
You can already work 100 hrs of you want, then you can 10 big holidays. He didn't propose to illegalize overtime.
Having control of money is power. A kind of power that everyone needs, and many workers (who are typically poorer than company leaders) don’t have secure access to.
do they go back through WW2? Interesting times then in twrms of debt.
I suspect its more about market segmentation. Its a slight hassle to use the app and if you want those great deals you dont get much choice in what you can order at a discount - the discounted menu items rotate frequently.

So people who have more disposable income wont make a habit of using the steep in-app discounts and just order whatever they feel like eating at MSRP.
> Fair point, but if this was open-source, would you really go and read all of the source code in several programming languages and also audit all of the dependencies?

This probably isn't the best justification to use on tech forums. Odds are higher here and in similar forums that some of audience do indeed read the source code, do static analysis on them, check the libraries for CVEs, etc.
What’s the implication? Sorry. I can see it going either way.
These people with the highest accountability do not hesitate to blame lowly software engineers when it suits them.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/8/9481651/volkswagen-congre...
Linux user. My phone runs postmarketOS.
>This was not a secret back door. It was compliance with export controls everybody in the industry dealt with.

The author states it correctly. Here is the text from the author
"The idea was that they got permission to export 64 bit crypto if 24 of those bits were encrypted for the NSA's public key. The NSA would then only have the small matter of brute-forcing the remaining 40 bits to get the plaintext"

Here is the text from the RSA conference.

Hello,
1st off please don't publish my name on your site. I'm too lazy to
set up another cheezy mail acct.
Today I downloaded cryptography/nsa/lotus.notes.backdoor.txt from
your site. I have a close friend who is a developer for Iris (the
people who make Notes for lotus.) I sent him the file I downloaded and
asked him what the deal was, and here's his response:

Here's the necessary info to truly understand the issue here; a speech by Ray
Ozzie and Charlie Kaufman's white paper on the topic. What it comes down to is
that notes provides superior exportable encryption technology when compared to
other US products on the market. For anyone (but the NSA) to crack our
international encryption keys they must crack a 64 bit key, the same as with a
US encryption key. In the international version we take 24 of the 64 bit
encryption key and encrypt the 24 bits with the NSA's public key and send it,
encrypted strongly, along with the encrypted message. This means the NSA can
decrypt with their key and have 24 of the 64 bit key. They still have to break
the remaining 40 bits. 40 bit key encryption has been the max for exportable
encryption and that is what all other US exportable encryption providers
allow.
That limit has just been raised to 56 bits and we are incorporating that as I
type. In the worst case: the NSA's private key is compromised, the 40 bit
portion of the key still must be cracked. So we haven't weakened the security
of international encryption, but actually made it equal to the US security (to
everyone but the NSA). We are proud of this arrangement because we have found
a way to make Notes as secure as the US government will allow for our
international customers. If we hadn't used this technique all of the
international notes encrypted data would be with only a 40 bit key. As it
stands, the 64 bit key used in both US and international encryption is
extremely secure.

It's too bad the author of this article choose to attack Lotus Notes without
considering the options the US government provides. We could have just
shipped 40 bit encryption like MS, Netscape, etc. and leave our international
customers with weak encryption but we didn't. Oh well, you can't make everyone
understand, this confusing and frustrating stuff. I hope this helps.
Where are you getting these numbers?

Debt held by the US gov as a whole is only about a quarter of the total

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-who-owns-a-record-21...

The amount of interest it must pay is proportional to the debt, but can also rise quickly with interest rates a a lot of the debt is rolled over on fairly short timescales (<1 yr IIRC) Debt service is going to start crowding out other spending in short order.

If the US gov monetizes the debt it will mean it has to pay more interest on what remains and what is issued in the future.

So this matters a lot. The situation is untenable.
The larger and less accountable an organisation is, the more corruption and waste there tends to be. I would agree that donations to a large national religious movement are probably more of a scam than national taxes, but that's not the comparison being made here.
"GPT-4 plays chess at a strong club level" according to @BorisMPower, whose X/Twitter profile says "Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI". And today @GrantSlatton claimed that gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct plays chess at 1800+ vs Stockfish when prompted using PGN.

On Aug 10, 2023, @BorisMPower wrote (https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/1689838493806333953):

> [...] GPT-4 plays chess at a strong club level when properly prompted, which is impossible to achieve without having a good internal model of the game.

> Even at Go, the model does ~10x better than random, by essentially picking up on locality being a strong signal.

> I don’t think anything has been published unfortunately. ELO is around 1800

On Sep 18, 2023, @GrantSlatton wrote (https://x.com/GrantSlatton/status/1703913578036904431):

> The new GPT model, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, can play chess around 1800 Elo.

> I had previously reported that GPT cannot play chess, but it appears this was just the RLHF'd chat models. The pure completion model succeeds.

> The new model readily beats Stockfish Level 4 (1700) and still loses respectably to Level 5 (2000). Never attempted illegal moves. Used clever opening sacrifice, and incredibly cheeky pawn & king checkmate, allowing the opponent to uselessly promote.

> https://lichess.org/K6Q0Lqda

> I used this PGN style prompt to mimic a grandmaster game.

> The highlighting is a bit wrong. GPT made all its own moves, I input Stockfish moves manually.

> h/t to @zswitten for this prompt style

> [OpenAI Playground screenshot showing PGN game in the prompt]

I was able to reproduce this just now: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, prompted with PGN, defeated Stockfish Level 4 (1700?) on LiChess (https://lichess.org/D39lnanQ).

Here are the prompts/code I used: https://github.com/jordancurve/gpt-vs-stockfish/blob/main/ga...
+1. It will soon be 500T, then quickly followed by 1QN. Agreed, a bit of an oxymoron.
The C64 won the 8-bit PC race from 1983-1986 (earlier in Europe) but x86 PCs and Macs won the 16/32/64-bit PC marathon from 1987 onward.

It is well known that 1990s Apple struggled to differentiate Macs vs. cheap beige PCs running Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 that could run the same user programs (Office, etc.) And that Mac clones cannibalized Apple's dwindling market share.

Jobs killed off clones, and solved the differentiation problem with the iMac in 1998 and Mac OS X in 2001; subsequently the iPod and iPhone focused on device categories where Windows was not dominant, and the iPad beat Microsoft at its own tablet PC game.

This is a nice collection with terrific documentation of Apple's "vintage" history from the 1970s to the 1990s. For example you can compare Macworld/MacUser vs. PC World magazines at the same time to see both sides of the Mac vs. PC war/friendship, and history of the computing industry in BYTE.
That hasn't been true for ~13 years now, Congress's healthcare comes from ACA exchanges.
GP said nothing about dietary cholesterol. It's well researched that high levels of saturated fats increases blood cholesterol, though. The conversion is dietary saturated fat to blood serum cholesterol.
That's amazing!

I've already been using it in a very similar way on a Chromecast (the one running Android TV), which made me use my Apple TV less and less, to the point where I actually unplugged it. This might just be its ticket back to an HDMI port :)
> Ah, and the SRE team assembled themselves, hired themselves, decided what to work on, direction, technology, plans, etc all on their own?

And you think the CEO did this? No - hiring managers and directors decided it was necessary.

> This is beyond naïve

Not at all. Who decides what the product needs? Product Managers, or sometimes Engineers directly. “Setting company direction” is vague at best, and can easily be replaced by people in more direct contact with customers.

And in any case, you made my point by agreeing things would hum along for some time. Executives are not critical to a company. Workers are. Without workers, profit immediately goes to $0 (modulo automated factories / SaaS, but as mentioned once something breaks, you again need people).

You seem to believe that workers are incapable of autonomy, of seeing needs and meeting them, etc. This is why Scrum exists, because people like you don’t think people like me can be trusted to do what’s necessary to keep things running.
Source code is surprisingly compact.

As for one data point on how much better it can be, here is Zig's own parser, parsing Zig's own parser:

# Source bytes: 139 KiB
# Tokens: 24646 (120 KiB)
# AST Nodes: 10998 (140 KiB)

Each token is 5 bytes which is pretty minimal (1 byte tag + 4 byte file offset). AST Nodes are also encoded compactly and non-uniformly, in this case coming out to roughly 13 bytes each. Despite these minimal encodings, the parse tree comes out to almost 2x the size of the source file in this case. 2x is a lot better than 50x though.

Source: zig ast-check -t lib/std/zig/Parse.zig | head -n7
Nobody who is qualified to do it... I've worked with executives at that level, and let's face it-- most of us don't have the single-minded devotion to do it, nor the experience to manage thousands of people.
Everyone knows the correct filename scheme is:

- Master Job List v1

- Master Job List v1 final

- Master Job List v1 final final

- Master Job List v2 final

- Master Job List v2 final, short

- Master Job List v1 absolute final

The v2 ones are forward looking, the 3rd one down is the one the COO uses to run the company, and the last one is the one they use to do the taxes
this seems like a nice idea, but consider the fact that banks don't want people to have these low rates.
Relatedly, for all those that ever wondered why all the commands in vim that start with : are called "ex commands" in the documentation, it's that weird stack of ex was always inside vi and vice versa, vi was always inside of ex.
I hate that the actual paper is behind a huge ($100+) paywall and the article doesn’t call out any brands. I take an Omega 3 supplement and want to know if mine is rancid :p
Look a what used to exist that does no longer, or is viewed negatively as dads "escaping" the family to go play:

Fraternal clubs: Elks, Rotary, Oddfellows, Masons. Where these do exist, they've been gender integrated.

Sports leagues: bowling, softball, golf.

Hanging out at the bar.

You can argue that these had their downsides, but they did provide that connection
I totally agree that CEO pay is out of control for the most part, but I doubt the companies can really afford to give such a huge raise to thousands of employees. I think in the 1950's US, the average CEO's salary was "only" around 5-10x that of the average workers rates. This meant while CEO's were wealthy, they weren't Uber-wealthy like they are today with 100x salaries vs. average worker pay.
Thank you. This is super clean.
A four day work week is only another pay increase if you're talking about a salaried worker. The kind of worker represented by UAW is not generally overtime-except, so they don't get paid for hours they don't work.