skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding to that:

Stephen Fry. His documentary about bipolar disorder, for instance.
FWIW, "Twitter" is 1000x better than "X" but...

>I wonder if any psychologist or mental health professional has done an analysis of Musk's `X` obsession

Only if said psychologist wants to look ridiculous.

>I wonder if its in reference to the variable x since it can be anything he assigns it

I mean, clearly? I don't even think that's a secret.

>Its definitely a common narcissistic trait

IMO its fine to dislike Musk but suggesting someone is a narcissist because they like the letter X is an insane stretch. Especially from an armchair.
I maintained the Flash video player at Twitch until I couldn't take it any longer and created an HTML5 player. Flash was a mess. :)
Yup this is it. As anyone who worked even closely with "AI" can immediately smell the bs of existential crisis. Elon Musk started this whole trend due to his love of sci fi and Sam Altman ran with that idea heavily because it adds to the novelty of open AI.
>I don't even know if my partner had long term relationships before me -- I suspect yes, and I assume they haven't been married.

Huh, well I guess different strokes for different folks. The idea of dating someone & not picking up, as a matter of course, on whether or not they've ever had a previous relationship is baffling.
> largely due to the fact that US is relatively permissive towards large income disparities.

Actually, its due to a shortage of highly skilled labor/specialists relative to demand. Europe benefits from more advanced math and programming talent as a result of Eastern European and Russian/Ukraine labor availability. US immigration policy puts America at a disadvantage in this regard - something they are weakly trying to address here.

Sorry if that goes against your income inequality agenda.
I would still rather the phone be made a half mm or whatever thicker and have more battery :-/
It has an undeniable ability to draw the best talent away from Europe and Asia, who want to earn more. I have worked with armies of these people -- they left their home countries for the opportunity for the big check. And those checks are way past the disparity you describe from at will employment, this is 10x more not 1.4x more.
Also the countries where the highest level of standardization imposed by law will see highest AI use in SMBs, where most of the growth comes from.
All startups have acquisition as a goal. If not, they aren’t paying attention to statistics.

This very site you are on is funded via VCs where only 6 of the hundreds of companies that have been funded have gone public.

Who is going to buy these mom and pop shops? Are you going to say that startups can’t be acquired and either have to go public or go out of business when the large companies just put a few people on a clone of their project and crush them?
Benefit as in live?
To be fair, it's a dynamic zoom / pan plot so a little less eggregious, but still bad.
What Okta did wrong and what to learn
Weird to put Ken Thompson down as in the Unix haters club.
The historical data is based on an analysis of air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice cores.
This is a deep misunderstanding of human psychology.

> the top of the company should love because a) you saved them a ton of money

The top of the company is probably already rich. Being richer is great, but one of the few things rich people generally won't burn to run the money-making engine hotter is their own sense of prestige and entitlement.

> b) you identified a pile of incompetence in their company.

Yes, and you told that fact to people who were already responsible for identifying that, which means you just told them that they are incompetent too. And that transitively works its way all the way up the org chart.

You would make the whole chain of command lose face and do so in front of the rest of the chain of command. It would be career suicide.

Every manager would rather silently waste money than be made to look like a fool. Because the money comes out of the business's bank account, not theirs, but looking stupid affects their personal reputation.
Better than GitHub, not better than Gitlab, tbh
> only the PC had Encarta

Encarta was available on the Macintosh in the 90s
European technologists and engineers are hamstrung by EU regulations.
An empty grave is, in fact, "extraordinary evidence".
Water rights on the Colorado are a huge, contentious issue and there are many states involved in the fierce negotiations over who gets a slice of the ever dwindling pie. As per the Guardian article, California is among the major stakeholders drowning out the pleas of the Navajo nation for access to drinking water. In fact, of all the states vying for more water access, California takes the most water out of the Colorado by a large margin.

This problem is not exclusively at the feet of Arizonans nor retirees.. with a population of 40 million in Cali (and 1/4 of the state being desert) vs 7 million in Arizona, I daresay Californians are spending more of this limited resources on golf courses and manicured lawns, which regardless of how opulent and wasteful it feels, these aren't even the main issue. 80% of all the water in the Colorado river goes to farmland (and I do mean all, 100% of the water is being diverted before it reaches the ocean and has been for some time). Much of it for water-intensive crops such as alfalfa, not to mention producing 90% of the nation's winter vegetables in California.

All of that is to say, if we're going to point fingers, let's not stop at lawns in one particular state. And before we dismiss possible solutions out of hand, we should probably do an assessment of whether or not a proposal to help the issue is economical, practical, and scalable (cultural relevance is just a nice bonus). Bear in mind, the federal government has successfully argued that the treaties do not require them to assess the needs of tribal peoples nor build the infrastructure to meet that need and the supreme court has formally ruled that the Navajo will not got water access under the attempted legal push. California, Nevada, and Arizona all lobbied the court in support of this "no" ruling (I'm assuming amicus briefs, but reporting doesn't specify). Hopefully further political and legal efforts can grant the Navajo nation this basic human right, but in the mean time, it is worth looking into stop-gap solutions for the 40,000 Navajo on reservations who don't have access to drinking water.
That's fear
In the military it’s extremely common for someone above you in the Chain of Command to get the credit; it may be your boss, or several levels up.

Some of that credit may or may not spill over to you, but the general thought process is that they are responsible for what happens in the command so they get the credit. Good ones avoid that and push the credit to where it belongs, but then they don’t promote. This leads to an incentive to take credit from those under you in order to get promoted.
Because most sociologists suggest that most people don’t take time to critically think like this. Emotional brain wins out usually over the rational one.

Then you have this idea of the sources of information most people have access to being fundamentally biased and incentivized towards reporting certain things in certain manners and not others.

You basically have low odds of thinking rationally, low odds of finding good information that isn’t slanted in some way, and far lower odds taking the product of those probabilities for if you’d both act rationally and somehow have access to the ground truth. To say nothing of the expertise required to place all of this truth into the correct context. But if you did consider the probability of the mother having to be an AI expert then the odds get far lower still off all of this working out successfully.
Can't disagree. He's was doing what the incentives in place said he should be doing.

I would find it boring/tedious to keep rebuilding the same thing since I'm more of a solve the problem, operationalize the solution, then move on person.
I get to vote on union policy, I don't get a vote in whatever idiotic policy-of-the-quarter some director five reporting levels above me decides to push, for his own self-serving interests.

Those decisions are never data-driven, and are always some unholy amalgamation of industry-trend-chasing and some insane personal-politics-games that he's playing against his peers.

My choices with a union are 'change it or take it, or leave it', my choices without a union are 'take it or leave it'. Flawed democracy versus flawed autocracy.
Yes I called them nearly daily in the beginning. I have also been corresponding with them by email and Twitter. Both the complaints and customer support team only give me canned responses saying they know it's disappointing but they need more time.
FWIW it's theoretically possible to support any language/runtime, but since eBPF is operating at the level it's at, there's no magic abstraction layer to plug into. Every runtime and/or protocol involves different segments of memory and certain bytes meaning certain things. It's all in service towards having no additional requirements for an end-user to install, but once you're in eBPF world everything is runtime-and-protocol-and-library-specific.
"<noun> scares her because <authoritative source> said that <noun> is very dangerous. And I don't know why there'd be so many people saying it if it's not true."

The truly frustrating part is how many see this ubiquitous pattern in some places, but are blind to it elsewhere.
Belief in any one religion usually entails a corresponding belief that all other religions are "fictions".

Atheism is just adding one number to that count.
Then why couldn't the US prevent nuclear weapons from spreading around the world?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/nuclear-warheads-by-coun...
That approach works for buying a WordPress deployment or a Gmail license. It doesn’t for anything where you need customization, serving needs or audiences which the private sector doesn’t prioritize (the VA can’t blow off accessibility or tell veterans that they need a fiber connected-M2 to have decent performance), or provide income to a startup which needs to explore a somewhat novel problem.

The real problem here is one you see in many organizations: misaligned incentives. Government has some unique challenges but most of what you see are common in the private sector, too: some people talk like the public sector is consistently super high quality on lean budgets but for every Chrome there are a dozen terrible enterprise apps which also fully count as private sector products. The pathologies are mostly the same: internal politics, building things you won’t personally use, not wanting to revisit past decisions, or otherwise having your paycheck come from things other than what’s best for your users.

Startups aren’t magic pixie dust for avoiding those problems: most fail, and the winners often hit the same problems from a different direction - making users happy until Google buys them and cancels the good parts, having to start aggressively monetizing at the expense of the user experience, etc.
the solidarity i'm describing would help you see how you have the same interests as an amazon driver or warehouse worker, except you get paid a lot more with better working conditions. your dissatisfaction with coworkers and leadership sound like interpersonal problems that will happen in any organization regardless of power structures.
Protesting Hamas will do fuck all.

Protesting military action might actually save some lives.
Nope, if you read the first thread I linked I describe the business (technical writing) a bit.
Though scientific, it's still a guesstimate and not factual data.
The screenshot at the very end shows it as an 8 digit code to be compared, which seems very short for the amount of trust being put into it.
This will be hilarious the day that the Twitter ip and trademarks are sold to meta for peanuts.
You should definitely not ask someone out five times at their place of employment after they have said no. At school? At church? Maybe
A bit over a decade ago, I was sold on the concept of microservices. After implementing, maintaining, and integrating many microservices; I have realized how incredibly exhausting it is. Sure microservices have their place, but understanding the often higher costs associated with microservices should be considered when developing a new service. Focus on the costs that are less tangible: siloed knowledge, integration costs, devops costs, coordinating releases, cross-team communication, testing, contract versioning, shared tooling. I could go on, but that's just a sample of some of the less obvious costs.

I feel that the collective opinion of microservices has shifted towards being trepidatious of microservices as many have experienced the pains associated with microservcies.
Same story in France and I suspect other countries
>This was something I was concerned about, but then an environmentalist friend told me that a few companies are responsible for the majority of emissions

It's sad that I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm or not because I've had people sincerely say that. BP really won their gamble on feigning interest in carbon footprints.
The whole concept of non-family-run corporations is barely 200 years old. At that point in time, it literally took an act of the legislature to form a corporation, and this right was typically only granted for a limited time for a very specific purpose (i.e. specifically and only to build a railroad between two specific cities, and set to come up for renewal in a few years).
I disagree. Clearly the absolute amount of CO2 is more important than the relative change.

It would have much more impact and be less misleading if they started at 0.

Not starting at 0 both lets people dismiss the graph because they used the stupid not-starting-at-zero trick, and it hides the fact that CO2 concentration has increased by 50% which is insane!
Toilet humor from the Arse. (That's how brits spell and pronounce "ass" btw).
Man that link you provided is quite an entertaining fiction read circa 2009.

Good thing I followed the author's lead: "If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. "
This is neither here nor there. We are talking about monopolies. The fact that a given monopoly allows member voting does not change the fact that it's a monopoly, and carries with it all sorts of monopoly baggage, making it prone to corruption, mal-incentives, rent-seeking and other antisocial behaviour.
> Why did you choose sveltekit-i18n instead of another svelte i18n lib?

Mainly for the following argument:

- It is built for SvelteKit and has good SSR support.

And also, the following:

- The translations are loaded for visited pages only. (and only once!)
- As of v2.4.2, the size of the sveltekit-i18n package is 14 kB in the minified form and 4.6 kB in minified + gzipped form

From https://blog.aakashgoplani.in/comparing-i18n-libraries-in-sv...
Interesting that remote working is one of the key demands. I wonder if this is what will finally get tech workers to appreciate the value of unions.
I think most organizations should take a stab at scaling out with in-process services first - ie, instead of an rpc it's a function call, instead of a process, it's a module, etc.

In a well-factored app, stepping on one another's toes should be the exception, not the rule.

Unfortunately, I think modern web frameworks don't do a good job of enabling this. They often encourage "God object" patterns and having code/data very tightly coupled.
In the Java world, we've developed record/replay across microservice boundaries, so it's effectively possible to step from a failure in one microservice and into the service that sent it bad data.

https://docs.undo.io/java/Microservices.html

[Edit: for which, by the way, any feedback is welcome - it's technically quite promising but real world experience is worth a lot!]
Too bad they don't have a "last 6 million years" view -- CO2 was 1000ppm in the Cretaceous.
If anything, glibly dismissing mass protests as "luxury beliefs" is itself a luxury belief.
The problem is AI is not intelligent at all. Those problems were looking at a conscious intelligence and trying to explore what might happen. When chat gpt can be fooled into conversations even a child knows is bizarre, we are talking about a non intelligent statistical model.
Easy! Government lawyers troll through the 180,000 pages of existing federal regulations, looking for some tangentially related law which is broad enough so as to be interpreted to include AI--thus giving the Executive branch the power to regulate AI.
How do I not pay for this with my tax dollars?
Your friend is using a stupid environmentalist trick where they talk about “tracing back” CO2 emissions to the corporate entities that produced the hydrocarbon product: https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/100-comp...

Yeah you could apply pressure on those companies. But that would cause gas prices to skyrocket. And nothing else would provoke Americans into actually getting out guillotines than $15/gallon gas.
Are the engineers having the product managers be the main negotiators with management? Would be interested in what the union mix of representation is and who does what.
AGI is scary, I think we can all agree on that. What the current hype does is that it increased changes the estimated probability of AGI actually happening in the near future.
What about this quote of Illich from the article:

> “I consider conviviality to be individual freedom realized in personal interdependence and, as such, an intrinsic ethical value,” he wrote in “Tools for Conviviality.”

He doesn't seem to define conviviality outside of community or to put it another way, community seems to be an important requirement for conviviality. This stands in contrast to modern western individualism.
Let's all keep reporting them for price gouging until they get put out of business. Things that could be put to use should not be sitting in a warehouse.
I made a tool called "Pig" that does this type of DNS enumeration: https://github.com/donuts-are-good/pig

You just give it a domain like this: `pig example.com` and it spits out anything it can find about your DNS, including matching services for about 150 different common services.
I would say blanketed bonuses are a bad idea, or I'd make some partnership deals with other engineers. However, this was a pretty clear cut "give this man a medal" situation, in a clearly toxic company. This is why my reaction is what it is.

There was an old thedailywtf post about how a company thought they'd incentivize fidning and fixing bugs. Suddenly every engineer had a QA buddy, and they'd make like 50 spelling errors, which QA will find, and enigneering will quickly resolve. They took down the bounty within a week.
From where I'm sitting the historical contours are somewhat different. I understand what is asserted by Israel, but I think an examination of their historical treatment of Palestinians makes it pretty clear that they're interested in basically removing them from the area at any cost. In my own opinion, this history makes their claims about not wanting to harm civilians not very credible. I've drawn a lot of parallels with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and I think that this is another place where history is repeating itself. The US claimed over and over again that it was fighting "justly" and would not be committing violence if it wasn't the cleanest way to resolve the threat, but retrospective analysis shows that this isn't really what was happening on the ground.
> I generally understand your point but the reality a union pitch has to provide a better answer for is that job hopping works out pretty well. I went from $28/hr part time to $350k TC, base $200k+ over 5 years of job hops early career and remote LCOL.

Job hopping tends to work out great early in one's career, but most everyone will plateau. My very first job hop netted me a +33% increase, my next was +20%, but the increase always trends downward. I'm 20 years into my career now, and my last job hop was maybe +0.2%. It's no longer worth it to move.

Also, $350K TC in 5 years is astoundingly good, like almost unbelievably good. Congratulations but you must know that makes you an enormous outlier. I don't even make close to that after over 20 years and in a HCOL area.
A solution to this situation could be to force structured businesses with a certain base of revenues and employees to freely allow their employees to invest in the company and sell those shares in a public secondary market. Most countries have already complex accountacy regulations and public registries even for smaller businesses.
Your description of how you think it should work is how it actually does work. The Times Tech Guild is not a union in and of itself. It's chapter of The NewsGuild of New York (representing news workers in New York), which is a local of The NewsGuild (representing news workers nationally), which is a member of Communication Workers of America (aka CWA, which represents communications workers nationally).
Show HN: Launch a private Ethereum Testnet with all clients and MEV infra
We've been working with the Ethereum Foundation & Flashbots to build tooling and infrastructure for developers to test various workflows for Ethereum. As part of that work, anyone can now spin up a local Ethereum dev net with the entire Flashbots mev-boost infra (relayer, builder, boost) using the ethereum-package. This package supports all EL and CL client types, works on Kubernetes for scale testing, and comes with a few bells and whistles like metrics, mock-builders, and beacon chain explorers.

This is the de-facto tool for teams modifying and testing the consensus layer.

Here's a full tutorial - https://docs.kurtosis.com/how-to-full-mev-with-ethereum-pack...
They are making their own silicon (see the RP1 at [1]) and obviously have very significant input as to what Broadcom puts into the main SoC, a chip that is primarily now made for RPi needs.

1: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38064086, should probably be merged
The tldr here is that they looked for people in the sample who's bones had evidence of wear that would normally be fixed in "healthy" people. They found some, a bit more than expected for the sample size. What it does not say is anything about age or anything about healthy people not also dying. What this paper suggests is that the 1918 influenza a H1N1 killed a lot of people who were unhealthy too.

And the idea that Cleveland only had one 7 month long wave of 1918 H1N1 is also ... a big leap not really supported.

It's too bad the actual paper is behind a paywall. You can never tell what is a wired journalist misunderstanding and what's actually in the paper.
You only get so much time on earth either way!
> From April 2023, Meta’s lawyers made four offers to purchase the domain ‘threads.app’ from Threads Software Ltd. Every offer was declined. It was made clear to Meta’s Instagram that the domain was not for sale.

> In July 2023, Meta’s Instagram announced its ‘threads’ social media platform and removed Threads Software Limited from its Facebook platform.

This looks initially damning, but working in a big enterprise I can totally see how this would happen accidentally. One team would try to make the purchase, knowing that a product launch is coming. Then another team removes anyone using the name "threads" on any of their properties, not having any idea that the first team tried to purchase it.