skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should I listen to you

a) because other people listen to that person, and one person's smarts only outstrips the strength multiplier of followers in extraordinary circumstances

b) because they're part of the tribe, and like it or not you're gonna be working with them. More useful to everyone to invest resources into figuring out what makes them tick than tuning them out.

c) because responsibility is rarely as divestable as one might hope. If my team lead doesn't listen to me and then sets up the team to shit the bed, I can certainly document "I wasn't involved in this decision; I would have done it differently," but the response upper management's gonna give me is "If you knew a better approach, why didn't you coach the team lead to take it?"
The author begins with the baseless assumption that self-optimization is "to cope with a system of political and social injustices". There is no case.
Is this a real thing? I can't find anything about it on wikipedia.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

If you can't take criticism that alone, should, disqualify you from public office.
Hacker News routinely allows shill pieces written by guys sponsored by people advocating the climate catastrophe narrative. I haven't seen those getting flagged.
I use Youglish all the time as a native speaker, it's awesome. Usually it confirms my suspicion that words I'm unsure of are actually pronounced both ways by different people. But occasionally I'm surprised.
That's not how it works - there is no "auto-posting". Companies have to actively add their listing to HN each and every time.

It is possible for a company to conduct layoffs and still be hiring; in fact, I'd say it's more common than not. Companies need to shift personnel (role, location, seniority, etc) all the time as they grow and change.
I have wondered about how this will evolve. There are accessibility settings that allow you to specify the frequencies where you hear better and worse, which could make this effect even stronger for people who have hearing loss in particular ranges. And given how expensive hearing aids are (both up-front, and for the batteries), I could see some people using AirPods as a cheaper alternative.
I think most people complaining about that are talking about support discords for software projects - where the default used to be that you contributions were permanent and searchable. Walling it off makes it less useful.

I use discord mostly for keeping up with friends and am very glad those chats aren't on the open internet
"for cause" in the US usually implies a reason that is above and beyond bad performance, such as egregious or criminal actions (theft, fraud, abuse, sexual harassment, criminal negligence, etc.).

not showing up on time enough, or being kinda crappy at your job generally would not qualify
'Super commuting' is on the rise – and it spells big trouble for mid-size cities
A great project.
I tried searching for the german word "Eichhörnchen" and the third pronounciation was in swiss german. That is a different language.
Use with caution :)
Or businesses have accepted the fact that an armed robber can't rob your cash register if it's just a NFC/Chip&Pin reader.
Right, but someone /other than your boss/ was mad that you didn't arrange for your boss to receive the credit. That's the WTF detail.
Simple implementations are always better in general really, because you find yourself well within any reasonable test case. Sure you can do fantastically exotic things with all of the above, but, at that point you're on your own.

I've always much preferred to keep things as "down the middle" as I can for all of those reasons. Never had a CEPH cluster fail, haven't had any issues with ZFS (recently), nor any issues with BTRFS (recently), and that's not magic, it's all just because all of that is by the book or not done at all. It's a constraint at times, to be sure, but, hard to scoff at the results.

Also you're correct in assuming ARC/L2ARC is still.... weird. Sometimes you get wirespeed cache hits, sometimes you just don't, with no rhyme or reason outside of "well it just decided that file didn't belong in cache".
I'm on the tail end of my career (hopefully), so I can share some unsolicited advice for younger workers.

1. Remember who you work for. Yourself. Not your boss, not your grandpa who always wanted you to become a writer. You only have so many breaths before you get your ticket punched, so make them count.

2. Don't seek work as something you should love. Those should be your loved ones, and hobbies etc that stimulate you. Sure there's a small minority who get to do what they love, but over time love can turn to disgust.

3. When starting a job, figure out the organization's incentives. Some orgs want change, some will fight any change. Figure out what the org wants and your life will be much easier. My job is like the Maytag repairman, kind of waiting for stuff to break. I refer to it as being a digital janitor.

4. Nothing you build digitally will last. Hell, between linkrot, bitrot, and the heat death of the universe, nothing lasts. So don't expect what you've built to last, or to hold value. It'll all be re-factored/re-engineered/re-architected and become obsolete.

5. Large organizations are toxic and often sociopathic. So are small orgs. If you can find a way to start your own business, try to avoid becoming that way. Good luck, most businesses either fail or become that way. But at least you have more choice in the matter.

6. Find a mentor (sometimes referred to as a rabbi) who can provide guidance to you when times get tough. Don't choose a rabbi from your reporting chain. You will find yourself adopting a worldview that might not be aligned to your own interests (in other words, the bastards will manipulate you). This rabbi can be a friend, or just someone you vibe with. Be careful in choosing your rabbi, and take care of this relationship.

7. Illegitmi Non Carborundum
Thank you so much for having a look at my code. I was trying it with replit and it was working fine at my PC and I never got to know about this issue maybe I was logged into my replit. I have fixed it now. Do you mind giving it another shot? I am sorry I am pretty new to coding and learning things by trial and errors.
What do you mean hijacking?
The cost of living varies widely in different areas. In many parts of the United States, 100k is a very low salary, due to extremely high living costs.

For example, the government classifies a family of four with an income of $149,100 as "low income" in San Francisco, and thus eligible for government welfare benefits.[1]

The median house price in San Francisco is currently $1.3 million.[2]

An average 776 square foot apartment (which is rather small for a family of four) rents for $3,336 a month.[3]

[1] https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-f...

[2] https://www.redfin.com/city/17151/CA/San-Francisco/housing-m...

[3] https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/sa...
Pro tip: Use YouTube to learn the pronunciation of non-English words, too!

Hors d'oeuvres: https://youtu.be/o1-ndsRPxbM

Châteauneuf-du-Pape: https://youtu.be/3DSgsON3u8E

Laphroaig: https://youtu.be/UdE20EFNDUs
Literally the thing people are calling "AI" is a program that, given some words, predicts the next word. I refuse to entertain the absolutely absurd idea that we're approaching a general intelligence. It's ludicrous beyond belief.
Perhaps cast from AL a set of standard panels which can then be bolted together and have shotcrete and insulation be sprayed against them. The AL would remain on the exterior. All kinds of cool designs possible. They could do all that in a factory and ship out modules.
Really just shows how little effort is put into making those foss tools easy to use for the layperson (NB: not implying that they should, just that they don't). Turns out people will pay to be able to use a slightly simplified version of something cool, that they would otherwise need to "figure out" a bunch of stuff to get it working.
"It will probably be undercooled causing P cores to be kneecapped push applications to the E cores as soon as it warms up, and never let them go back."

It doesn't have any E cores.
In general, respect needs to be earned, so I don’t quite agree that authority automatically implies respect for “neurotypical” people. To the degree that it is true, it might be because the fact that the person was put into a position of authority is taken as an indication that the person probably earned that authority, so is taken as a prior for their credences regarding that person. Also, respect doesn’t necessarily imply obedience or subservience.
That's not a contradiction, is it? Selective engagement and non-engagement are different things. It's reasonable for some individuals to be generally less sociable than others. That doesn't mean it's OK to explicitly exclude them.

Nobody expects the teacher to bring in candy, but it's kind of awful if they only bring it in for the students they like.

"Rule of law" is ideal, even for laws you don't agree with.

etc.
I find this to be snake-like behaviour.
Fixed it now, thank you.
I'd rather address our reality than plan for someone's preferred sci-fi story. We're utterly ignorant of tomorrow's tech. Let's solve what we know is happening before we go tilting at windmills.
I just bought a 10th gen i5 laptop with 16gb of ram for $60 off of ebay. HP c640 chromebook. Fast enough to run a 7B LLM at 1-2 tokens/sec
It's actually tested with Google. Apple does not work because they have restricted the Passkey creation outside the browser. And there's a list of tested sites in the pull request.

Linux situation is definitely not solved yet, and some sites still ignore Firefox because of missing support. The only reason I mentioned KeePassXC because it's the first free and open source solution that actually supports importing and exporting Passkeys. Even if it's still beta/rc phase.

Every other password manager browser extension injects same kind of scripts to every page (1Password included), because browsers lack an open API for WebAuthn.
Germany is a weird country. On the surface they are the top of the line in technology.

On the other hand they still prefer paper money, fax machines and paper forms instead of their electronic versions.
Television and radio were literally unencrypted public channels, I don't think that person would object to a public broadcast of that nature.
It's still humans who make the decision to let “AI” call the shots.
You and me both. They're the people keeping alive the original "hacker spirit" from "ye olden days" of computers, back when it was all new and exciting to have an actual "home computer" on your desk at home. Almost all software back then was "open source" (though we didn't call it that yet). :P
Apparently I did; I'd forgotten all about that. That may well have had a big hand in it.
>Bad acting humans with AI systems are the threat

Does this mean "humans with bad motives" or does it extend to "humans who deploy AI without an understanding of the risk"?

I would say the latter warrants a discussion on the AI systems, if they make it hard to understand the risk due to opaqueness.
What's the alternative though? Can we expect local governments to develop and run qa websites and apps? The only realistic option is to have them rely on a 3rd party service and and service is going to have some kind of sign up agreement you need to accept before using.
Bros are bros. The children are raised and meme'd into it. Culture in the large is super hard to change. And scolding doesn't do it.
None of the Qotom devices in the same price range support connecting 2 SSDs. My current NUC also doesn't.
Just sent this off to tailscale, whom I'm going through this right now with. lol. They put tailscale- in their TXT record name.
IMO arch or similar is going to do more towards teaching Linux than raspian will. Just install that on a cheap laptop/phone and play around with different apps/configs.

For hardware learning pis arent even that great, an stm32, Arduino , or esp32 is a fraction of the cost(so you don't have to worry about burning the io pins out as much) and the toolchain is basically the same(simpler I'd argue even)
> those employees they sacked did actual work

I am always amazed when they are layoffs, and the people in charge are like <surprised picachu face> at the fact that important things aren't getting done afterwords.
I worked with a very autistic chap once. The most incredible mind and considering his levels of autism he was very self aware.
He said that he should be treated like a computer when it came to work. Clear instructions, no ambiguity and with a clear reason.

If the reason did not make sense then that could be an issue and we would discuss.
> Your activity might still be visible to:

> * Websites you visit

"might" is not "is". Deception.
As someone who is non-neurotypical, it's not authority I have a problem with, it's arbitrary rules. The extent to which authority is heavy handed in enforcing the rules is the extent I have issues with authority. A big contributor to my divorce was my wife's objection to me not following the rules. She became an authority to me.

I don't think I need to go into the senseless rules that govern our lives and social interactions, because the 'rules and order' people won't see them and those who know what I'm talking about already know.
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers.

I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
But usually there’s a one-way flow of intent from the human to the tool. With a lot of AI the feedback loop gets closed, and people are using it to help them make decisions, and might be taken far from the good outcome they were seeking.

You can already see this today’s internet. I’m sure the pizzagate people genuinely believed they were doing a good thing.

This isn’t the same as an amoral tool like a knife, where a human decides between cutting vegetables or stabbing people.
Whenever this comes up, one of the justifications is "death threats". Any anonymous account or bot can make a "death threat" ... but its being often used in political theater and discourse to sow division, real or not.
Yeah, that might be the best way to come to an agreement with the statement - I feel I’m very much the same. Plenty of non-spectrum people are ‘playing the game’ in a way that I imagine someone on the spectrum may not even realise is happening.

Of course, different people are better or worse at picking up on this, but I find often the people who want to wield arbitrary power are usually worse at picking up subtle manipulation (a pretty strong correlation), and those who aren’t as arbitrary you can be more direct with!
I feel like you're identifying two distinct issues here - preventing you from commenting on posts, and preventing you from seeing them at all. It depends on the platform whether you can actually separate the two though (regardless of whether either should be legal).
"still be hiring"...

except their "new" CEO (founder, ex Chairman of BOD) was adamant. "We've had a firing freeze for months. I don't understand why this is happening."

He's being called out now because he was so emphatic and insistent.
Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers are down?
Got too much 500 on dozen of services now.

UPD: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/l6x2h1zp69bc
Correct; the fact that my name was on the presentation that went before Congress, vice my CO's, indicated to them that I went AROUND my CO.

In reality, this is certainly possible. It just would have been a career killer. My CO was the one who sent that presentation up with my name front and center. He had to defuse the situation.

Also, and this is absolutely relevant, I was not a Commissioned Officer. I retired as a Chief Petty Officer, though I had a degree (Nuclear Engineering) and multiple "graduate level" certifications (PMP, LSSBB, CISSP, etc., etc.). There is only so far competence and capability can take you without rank in the US military. I chose to exit rather than move over and promote, which was the right decision for me.

I apologize for lacking the context in my previous comments; I often forget people don't understand the intricacies of the arcane ways of the military unless they subjected themselves to it.
Is this actually a contradiction? Even if you have too many people, that doesn't necessarily imply that you have every person you need for every project.

For example, the new hotness now is to put "AI-powered" in front of everything, so suppose you decide to pivot your business towards that, so you need to hire some AI/ML scientists. You also have too many software engineers whose only skill is CSS, and you've determined that you don't have enough work for all of them, so you decide to lay half of them. This will lead to the (seemingly) contradictory situation of doing "massive layoffs" while also doing "massive hirings".

Now, this is of course giving a lot more charity than a lot of these companies are entitled to. Companies like Microsoft and Google purposefully overhired in 2021 and 2022 and then laid off tens of thousands of people once interest rates got high again, because apparently their CEOs are so utterly incompetent that they didn't know that economies fluctuate and maybe they shouldn't be put in charge of trillion dollar corporations.

I don't know anything about Flexport, but what I'm trying to say it that it doesn't seem inherently contradictory to me.
So the headline here is kind of wrong. The question isn't whether or not a government account can block people on social media--it's pretty well conceded that's a First Amendment violation, although there's no direct SCOTUS precedent on the matter. The actual question is when is an account a government account.

Note the specific questions in the cases at issue:
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/oconnor-ratcliff...

> Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official’s personal social media account, when the official uses the account to feature their job and communicate about job-related matters with the public, but does not do so pursuant to any governmental authority or duty.

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/lindke-v-freed/

> Whether a public official’s social media activity can constitute state action only if the official used the account to perform a governmental duty or under the authority of his or her office.

(While SCOTUSblog color-codes all of the filings depending on if they're for the respondents or for the petitioners, it's a little messed up here since some organizations filed one amicus brief for both cases, and the nature of petitioner and respondent are different in the two cases).

It'll be interesting to see what test SCOTUS comes up with in this oral argument; it's not an easy as you might think to draw a clear line between personal account of an elected official and an account with official government imprimatur.
Job postings are special kinds of postings that don't have comments enabled.
Which of these is silly and suboptimal?

1. Communication on a novelty social media platform that limits the amount of I formation you can relay at any one point, by design and that [probably] less than 25% of Americans use.

2. Communication over a set of public frequencies that nearly every American can access free of charge from their home.

3. Communication over a regulated public utility that every American with a home can access?
That's not an English name. It's the name of a spanish river. Wad is river in Arabic. They pronounce it correctly. It's common that foreign words are adopted and adapted to the host language, but sometimes, specially if they're names, the original pronounciation lingers.
Well The local governor of Hawaii used twitter to cancel a missile alert - so it isn't that wild an idea

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923080/hawaii-governor-...
I've noticed that a lot of industry practices demonstrate their value in unexpected ways. Code tests, for instance, train you to think of every piece of code you write as having at minimum two integrations, and that makes developers who write unit tests better at separating concerns. Even if they were to stop writing tests altogether, they would still go on to write better code.

Microservices are a bit like that. They make it extremely difficult to insert cross cutting concerns into a code base. Conditioning yourself to think of how to work within these boundaries means you are going to write monolithic applications that are far easier to understand and maintain.
It's important to understand that the Supreme Court has never been some impartial body that operates above politics. Even the "originalist" or "textualist" movement embodied by the Federalist Society was simply invented in the 1980s. Some examples:

1. (1A) The Supreme Court has refused to strike down anti-BDS laws that exist in ~37 states. For example, to be a teacher in Texas public schools, you have to sign a contract saying you won't support or engage in anti-BDS activities [1];

2. (2A) An individual "right" to own firearms was only created in 2008 [2], over 200 years after it was enacted, ignoring all history and interpretation of 2A;

3. (4A) Civil asset forfeiture should be unconstitutional under 4A. It is not;

4. (1A) In the Redeemer era, the Supreme Court vacated hate crimes convictions for the Califax massacre that involved a very restrictive reading of 1A [3];

5. In the Filburn decision in 1942, The Supreme Court ruled that growing wheat for personal use counted as interstate commerce because growing such wheat meant you didn't participate in interstate wheat markets when you otherwise would [4]; and

6. Citizens United decided that money was protected political speech [5].

I could go on. The point is though that all of this is completely made up and it's done so to protect government and capital owner interests almost all of the time.

Some of the more controversial decisions of the last few years have relied upon the "major questions doctrine" [6]. What is that? It's a principle of statutory interpretation that simply says that if an issue is big enough, the court gets to overrule the executive and legislative decisions if the court decides the language wasn't sufficiently clear (for the court). Where did this principle come from? They just made it up.

So, the decision regarding officials blocking critics will be a political one. Personally I don't think a government employee blocking someone on Twitter is a 1S issue. I guess we'll see.

[1]: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181218-texas-teacher-fir...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller

[3]: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/united-states-v-crui...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_questions_doctrine
This is surely part of why they started with the EU - it’s (1) relatively wealthy but not US wealthy, and (2) their ad businesses are already at risk and becoming a liability.

A quick Google search says that Metas Average Revenue Per User is $11 worldwide, $60 in US/canada, and $18 in Europe. They have a 40% profit margin. So a $10/mo subscription in Europe is likely more profitable than ads. And would still be so in US market.

There is a risky balance still - they’re obviously the best customers so the statistics may dramatically shift and they likely lose a chunk of signals to train their ad models against, meaning worse performance. That’s an opportunity though, I suspect that a huge cost of theirs is the ad engineering and they can potentially cut down on all that infra - from training to serving.

And yea, if the billion dollar fines keep coming, it may also be a meaningful accounting decision.