skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hating ideologally obsessed activists and hating people for the color of their skin are not even close to the same thing.

It's true rainbow activist types use sexual orientations and minorities as shields when their politics get criticized, as already seen above.

If people say "listen to gay people" they hardly mean say, UK writer Douglas Murray or the activist group Gays Against Groomers.

If people say to listen to black people, I'm quite sure they don't mean economist Thomas Sowell.

If they say transpeople, they definitely don't mean Scott Newgent of "What is a Woman?" fame.

All these people have the correct identity groups, but they're no-nos because they have the wrong politics. The DEI people clamoring for better representation definitely don't want offices staffed with Sowells and Murrays. Because the identity is just a shield, and the politics is the point, as eg. Rep. Ayanna Pressley put when she said they need "more black faces willing to be a black voice" - again, Sowell certainly is black and has a voice, but Pressley meant having the correct politics to count as representative.

Wanting less DEI is wanting less of a certain kind of politics, not wanting less people of whatever sexual orientation or skin colour. Because the politics is the point.
Wow. Text starts on page 531 of here: [https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewNewsFile/80/H259-CCSMHxr-6...]
In the recent past, US banks were found to have specifically designed software to calculate how to best re-order customer transactions to maximise overdraft fees.

Banks also generally make it hard/impossible to opt out of overdraft, something that would probably be preferable to many customers. Overdraft fees are a huge source of income these days.
Isn't RAG "just" dynamically injecting relevant text in a prompt? What more would one implement to achieve RAG, beyond using Postgres' built in full text or knn search?
The stair is much thinner near the center though. If the center pillar was wide enough that would probably be fine but if the pillar isn't fairly large your foot may only get like an inch or two of tread near the center and be easier to fall down.
> conscientiousness + willpower -> athletic ability -> $ ?

It's funny that people think this is a meritocracy. Nope, those student athletes get special treatment because they are student athletes. Or else, maybe those student athletes had NO athletic ability, but got athletic scholarships via fraud. https://abcnews.go.com/US/mastermind-varsity-blues-college-c... “Among those prosecuted were ... Ivy League coaches who opened sham spots on their rosters for Singer's clients in exchange for bribes”
proud to say that I’m almost all usbc

my ILEC camera, PS5 game controller, iPhone, laptop, work laptop donglebook, all charge from the same cord and power block when they need to

my portable speaker is still microusb on one side and usb 2.0 or whatever nomenclature on the other side

airpods are primarily inductive charging, but it has a lightning cable port, along with my apple keyboard and mouse when I need to connect them to a different computer and go wireless again
My answer to the tiktok trend: "Roman Empire? Not much. Mostly I think about the late Republic."
There is bias on both sides, and I never said otherwise. However, the one difference is that Blind team doesn’t remove comments and reviews critical of companies at request of those companies, while it has been public knowledge for a long time that Glassdoor does.
This seems insane to me. Paying your employees a living wage is just another cost of producing the food, it should be part of the menu cost like everything else.

Splitting it out is no more sensible that adding "building rent" or "ingredient cost" as extra line items on the final bill.
Why would any company take the risk on adopting a single-person passion project DBMS that is leftover from failed startup?

The best you can hope for is to make a logo, slap it on Github, and then I'll add it to my list:

https://dbdb.io/browse?tag=failed-company
The UK is an oddball now -- VAT-free shopping for non-UK citizens ended in 2021. You can still do it in (most?) EU member states though.
let me guess, the intended application of this is scamming
It‘s an example of war-centric history writing. Often wondered why history focuses as much on war and other petty fights.
At this point, between Rust, Julia, and Swift, it is in pretty good shape. The biggest one that used to be a problem was handling of undefined behavior, but at this point, LLVM's poison system works quite well.
> unpaid PTO

I think that's UTO :-)
It is, sometimes. The Tennessee Valley Authority operates three nuclear reactors that generate commercial power.

They also generate tritium for hydrogen bombs.

And do things like this:

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

It's not about hiring infallible operators. It's about operating with enough redundancy that humans can be fallible without causing a disaster.
The treasury auctions T-Bills (bonds with 1 year or less to maturity) at a discount and that's how you get the "yield" so technically they don't pay interest.

For example, if you were to buy a 1 year today, you would purchase it for $94.84 and the Treasury would redeem it at maturity for $100. That's you receive the current yield of 5.43%.
> This is super interesting because you’ll end up with different people with different opinions on “what is the best answer” if they all have different experiences.

In context of grandparent comment it's code, so while we can have different solutions to the same problem, we can verify if the solution is correct because it's not an opinion on some subject.
I also live in Oregon, and I’d be willing to bet that this comes down to a legal argument. Meaning if you don’t think a fee is fair you can pursue legal action. The effective way to regulate this would be have an agency that tracks this stuff and when something is amiss, the offender gets fined.

Which is to say that if you wanted to pursue this, I doubt it would be worth your time being out of state.
But we tried the port for each use case thing in the 90s and it sucks. VGA, Printer port, ps/2 for mouse etc. It's pretty easy for me to tell which usb cable works with my monitor dock because it's a really thick one.
No US city mandates a "living wage surcharge."
It is insane, and what's even more insane is that restaurants pulling this shit still have customers.
Can anyone recommend a backup strategy for iCloud? Specifically, my Macs' hard drives aren't big enough for any one computer to store everything locally, so some documents end up living only in iCloud which is clearly asking for trouble. My ideal solution would be to regularly mirror iCloud's contents on my NAS (which is big enough to store everything locally) but I've never seen anyone implement something like that.
Nomads basically made huge swaths of Eurasian land uninhabitable to peasant communities because your settlement will be raided until it ceases to exist.

In this fashion they were not unlike malaria and tsetse fly.

Eventually, settled societies concentrated sufficient amount of military and industrial power in one hands that nomads could no longer compete and fell apart, and these steppes were finally populated by villages and towns.

Some of the smarter nomad communities figured out how to avoid that fate and settled down by themself.
He was probably set up to be the scapegoat from the board to begin with...
Now are all the folks who defend invasive targeted ads for helping small business reach customers also going to bemoan this?

“Think of all the mom-and-pop businesses with deceptive pricing models that will be put out of business by government overreach”?
How about just rejecting the withdrawal instead of overdrafting?
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, Retires After Pricing Change Debacle
> 100 random indices from a billion-scale table -- without vectors, just a vanilla table with an int64 primary key -- easily took 700ms on beefy GCP instances.

Is there a write up of the analysis? Something seems very wrong with that taking 700ms
That would be a game changer
In general i would probably agree with idea of consciousness emerging solely from physical processes as the safest bet that i could argue for, if i had to.

However, I'd like to add a hypothetical „counterpoint“ (meant as a thinking draft, not a real argument):
What if our human concept of time is not even a close estimate of the actual reality? If we haven't yet fully grasped what time really is, then there might be other sources for free will than we currently can even think of. Consider this analogy: what if what we perceive as time operates more like color in a dimension just above our understanding (of reality)? If these „colors“, like frequencies, mix and blend, they could result in countless timelines and realities overlapping. In such a (unrealistic) scenario, free will could arise from interactions across these myriad timelines, rather than being strictly confined to our current perception of deterministic physical processes. Sure, this thought is full of flaws, just trying to sketch out that even though i think your argument is valid, I wouldn’t be so sure about it being „the only argument needed“. The sheer possibility that we have a totally inaccurate understanding of fundamental concepts like time should remind us, to not be too sure in thinking that there can not be any source of free will other than things what we can perceive in our realities.

But yes, valid point of yours. I will have to think about this a few more times in the future. But i believe (probably just wishful thinking), that there is more to it, than just cause and effect in our observable universe & perceivable realities.

Like moving your arm to drink a sugary drink. Sure, zooming in on the atoms, B moves because A moved and so on. Clearly deterministic. But who is looking at the sugar-molecules that are triggering the chain? And who is looking at the countless years of evolution making me crave it & reach for it?
Sure, still deterministic processes. But when looking at the atoms in my arm moving, observing deterministic processes and stop looking, we would just ignore the component of time & evolution that made this deterministic process possible AND made it happen „right now“.

And then also the societal influence…

Maybe i should have started asking about your understanding of free will and then compare it to mine. Maybe i am not even thinking of „free will“ as truly non-deterministic, but just simulated non-determinism. The closest example i can think of right now would be something like a GPT model running in real time, finetuned over the existence of life…

Which should still be closer to „non-deterministic“ than to „deterministic“, at least in regard of what we as humans can perceive.

Anyway, i didn‘t even read the article yet. Probably should start to do that before commenting thinking drafts like this.
I contend that even if he is a scapegoat, this should be considered a good thing. It's not enough to let them off the hook, but I don't think anything would be. However, needing to scapegoat someone is a materialized cost to a verifiable person in power. It is a precedent the next CEO and chair will have to pay attention to. They will need to be more careful in the future when they try to rip off their business partners.

This situation is being watched by all the other executives out there at other companies, who are just waiting for a moment where they think they could get away with the same thing. This resignation is a loud and clear "don't you dare!"
As I understand it, dilithium crystals control the matter/antimatter reaction somehow. Zephram Cochrane's first flight used a ship powered by a nuclear reactor, I think.

The warp field is made with an array of "warp coils" which apparently require the large amount of energy from the matter/antimatter reaction to create a subspace distortion field that allows warp travel. What is subspace? It's never adequately explained, but sometimes monsters come out of it and kidnap you to a pocket dimension where they rearrange your organs.
I think i need to read this bill

It seems it taps into a sentiment that’s allll over the place but not based in the reality of this bill
I got skiddish about my data integrity when I tried updating the email address associated with my icloud; my notes stopped syncing from my iphone to my macbook etc so I decided I would export everything for a backup lest a "sync" operation decide to wipe my data from the blank device to the one with data.

I was frustrated for hours trying to find the export option in notes (there are some half-measures) but in the end I was pleased with the file format they give you when you download data from this page, equivelant to google Takeout:

https://privacy.apple.com/account

It does take a few days from the request to the zip download, but I got my 100GB of apple photos and 5,000 apple notes complete with pdf and url attachments
Define understanding...
Yeah, I don’t know how anyone can say this is not a problem. I’m sure there’s some deep technical reason why each cable does or doesn’t work, but as a user I have no idea why it’s the case or how I can figure out which cable will work where.

I thought I was being smart ordering some decent Anker cables until I found out when trying to connect a display that they apparently they only support charging? And maybe USB 2.0 transfer speeds?

So I went back looking to try and figure out what I needed instead. Depending on what the various devices involved support, I needed some variation of a thunderbolt cable (2, 3, or 4?) or a USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C or a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C. But then I’m supposed to know something about thunderbolt versus DP alt mode versus god knows what else none of which is clearly labeled or explained anywhere on the devices I’m trying to connect.

But then there’s this handy table from Adafruit that says maybe not? https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/85323 — apparently only Thunderbolt supports video, or DisplayPort? And USB-C “full featured” cables are only for higher speed charging, not displays?

Find 10 sites, get 10 different answers.

Anyway, turns out a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C cable worked for this specific display. Why? No idea. Will it work elsewhere? No idea.

I’ve been in the industry professionally for about 25 years now and I have no idea what cable I need to purchase and have no idea how to tell before I purchase whether it will work for a specific use case. I have no idea what non-technical people are expected to do with this besides try every cable they own and pray.
I think there is a pretty easy to distinguish difference between 'SEO spam junk' and 'non notable' but if you're worried about that you could always have 'non notable' default to all outbound links to be 'nofollow'. For every problem there is a solution, if you want to solve it. I've seen and heard just about every excuse possible why particular things should be 'non notable' but not a single one that has stood up to scrutiny, it always seems to in the end boil down to 'because we say so'. Which is a pity because ultimately 'notability' is as much in the eye of the beholder as it is something objective and what is non-notable to one large group may well be notable to another. And if that first group is over-represented amongst the wikipedians then that's the end of that, no matter how important something really is.
Doesn’t the use of RL here imply some level of simulation?
As a trained (but not practicing) lawyer who focused my education on corporate and tax law, I have read history from the source either directly or indirectly in nearly every course I took.

I have not, in any of my education, come across the notion that (as OP was responding to) corporations were allowed due to a belief they would increase the net utility of society (or specifically in this case, that decreased Netflix hours watched would be a net utility objective that would’ve been in the realm of things a corporation was initially intended to be formed for).

The reasons for corporations to spread beyond royal charter to arbitrary creation by the general public had to do with lawsuit administration and limiting liability. Prior to corporations, partnerships were the primary form of organizing and when they were sued each partner had to be included separately which was cumbersome and many partners had nothing to do with the operations or activities that gave rise to the liability.

The legislation which codified the above is credited with a massive increase in company formation and capital allocation in the 1800s. The presumption being that things that were once deemed too risky when there was unlimited liability were no longer as risky.

None of what I’ve written here is “modern ideology” unless by modern you refer to the 1800s.
Adding further: many banks make it difficult or impossible to opt out of overdraft programs.

I had to have a huge argument with my local rep. She kept insisting "what if there isn't enough money to cover the transaction?" and did not seem to understand that it was perfectly acceptable to me for such a transaction to fail, rather than succeed and incur a substantial fee.
2nd law of infodynamics implications for the simulated universe hypothesis
They probably will now, but if they had gone through with those changes, they would've lost a lot of studios.
Kharkiv to build Ukraine's first underground school to protect children
The most obvious assumption that comes to my mind is that if you're a Californian visiting the rest of the US, you're not covered in local businesses. If you're from the rest of the US visiting California, you're covered by this bill as the business you're purchasing from will likely assume you're a Californian. In a situation where the business finds out your real address (as is the case in many online transactions where you input your billing address) you probably won't be covered unless the wording of the bill specifically forces businesses based out of California to apply this rule to all business they conduct. I'm mostly curious about the online transactions, as that seems like a pretty big motivation to exit California if you're a business owner.
Depends on how thick the ceiling and floor are.
Yes actually, it would be. It would also depend on whether you have fine control over the size of the spacetime pothole. It is also possible that the larger nearby gravity well would pull on the pothole.

I like to think that concepts such as "you must be at the edge of the solar system to initiate faster than light travel" or "cannot initiate faster than light within the gravity well of planet" originate here.

I have nothing to backup that theory of course.

As for space pollution, I never really thought of that. But considering some of our observation tools observe 'gravitational waves'? I could imagine another "starlink and light pollution is getting in the way of space observation" situation.
I have no citation, but I’ve been told that writing something out by hand stimulates different parts of the brain, as does explaining that thing out loud.
On the other end of the price/quality spectrum, I have Hues that are still going strong after 6+ years of daily use. You can use them hub-free in HA using a ZigBee dongle.
Right? We don't need to send a signal to unity a signal has to be sent to the industry at large. Unitys collapse is the signal we need to send. If history tells us anything it's that a company doesn't learn from its mistakes but the industry might learn from a companies demise.
i went this same route and was actually looking at flakes wondering "Why is everyone using something that's not stable"

it took a ton of time before I finally switched to flakes. They really need better messaging about this because the environments are incredibly complicated.. the possible choices are cumbersome.

The problems are a matrix of
- root daemon or non-root daemon
- nixos or non-nixos
- home-manager or non-home-manager
- what OS are you on?
- flakes or non-flakes
- stable or unstable

i'm happy with nix and love it but i definitely stumbled on al lof the mentioned
Yes there are newer designs that are suppose to be passively safe. But of course the money and government approval needed to build them, especially an as of yet untested design, are all locked behind political doors and hurdles.
Thumbnail COM surrogate gets stuck, and Explorer waits on it with no timeout
Reminds me of an old Discworld chestnut:

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
It won’t work, these robots are far from being practical in a real scenarios, I remember last year or so a dog robot from a very popular robotics company (no names needed), and during demoing in an expo, it could not even go down the stairs in a backwards direction.. additionally, the battery life is a bigger concern, these dogs lack the mobility of the drone that can sweep a large area quickly, and the payload of a UGV to carry a proper battery, not to mention the easy to disable sensors or jamming the signal, especially the GNSS being the easiest to do. So policing-wise, I highly doubt that they are more than a money grab scheme than a proper use, other usages however, they might have a limited use-cases.
First Pentium II was released in the middle of 1997. By 1997 the first Pentiums were some 4x outclocked by later Pentiums, but probably not more than 2x slower in real world applications, by no means an obsolete machine.
My ~1996 P75 lasted me till about 2002, fun times.
I’ve been convinced by your points here (and a few others). I strongly strongly suspect caste discrimination is a real thing that happens and that is hard to detect/address, but agreed that it’s adequately accounted for legislatively, at least in California. And yeah, I’ve been convinced of the potential negative effects of such additional legislation, redundant or not.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts + info!
> As someone who spends a lot of time working with technology and did his stint in tech support, I have a certain natural recalcitrance to turning to the company itself for help. I presumed that I would be made to run through a litany of time-wasting tests to establish what I had already concluded. But without much in the way of recourse, I resolved to give it a shot and fired up a chat session.

And here is why I love apple. I can either spend all the time attempting to investigate and fix the solution in a way the author did, or I can simply pick up the phone and let Apple do it for me.

I can't imagine the pain had this been Google.
The enshitification business model is like a gold digging spouse. Someone gets into a relationship with and makes a baby then once the person is tied down everything changes.
As you well know, when you're wading into volatile arguments here --- and the racial dynamics of elections are obviously that, for multiple reasons! --- the onus is on you, the commenter, to prevent spontaneous conflagration by writing carefully and hedging away the most noxious interpretations of what you're writing. You share responsibility for how your writing is interpreted. You've long since given up on that, which is why you're finding so much of what you write so unwelcome here.
If antimater particles were time reversed then I could see how they could have negative energy and thus antigravity. That's not at all how any observed particles behave though.
This is a good counter argument, thanks for making it :)
> Going on the face value of what your original post says, it sounds like a very risky thing to do. PMs are going to have a significantly more difficult time getting a job than an engineer I think.

OP said he was a dev for 10 years and recently switched over to being a PM. If PMs suddenly became less hirable than developers, perhaps he could switch back?

I also started out as a developer, got into product and then project manager, so I'm crossing my fingers, hoping that I can fall back on my "base" of software development if things go south.