skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting your data? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q - according to the Fed, real median weekly earnings are up almost 10% over 30 years.

And why does it matter if they're going up?

They dwarf everywhere else. US productivity per worker is arguably going down - mainly because actual working hours are going down.
I think I've seen enough complexity created by engineering teams given total autonomy, with hands-off leadership, that I'd prefer a much more constrained approach. There should still be autonomy, of course, but proposals for new tech, languages and paradigms should only be considered with due diligence.

The most unpleasant codebases I've dealt with are ones that have suffered from a lack of strong leadership, and they are almost uniquely microservice setups that pull in everything but the kitchen sink, usually because it's just trendy to use it. Monoliths can get pretty damn ugly too but at least it's contained in one single codebase.
Yes. In physics. E.g. Maxwell's equation reduces to a single equation in geometric Algebra: https://peeterjoot.com/archives/geometric-algebra/maxwells_g...
An increase in labor activity correlates to the hyper-individualized, commoditized economy - as a reaction to it, yes.

Will it impact it? I don’t think so.

We are an information-product economy. The outcome of it is Product A/Business A can get swapped out by a few clicks from the user to Product B/Business B. And in the process the hyper-organized, powerful Union A can’t do anything about it. Yes, there are all sorts of economist side-channels you can get into on this topic, but suffice to say the user-choice and de-frictioning around that choice has never been so powerful, and unions are from an age and of an approach from before this happened. Maybe to your point, B2B software will get impacted by organized labor, ie where there are consequential vendor lock-ins. But from that angle - do I sign a vendor agreement with a union shop, and the likely delays and quirks on product features and support? I’m not sure I would. To my earlier point, the same dynamic benefits employees, why let a union slow that?

As long as the user has as strong a choice on dictating revenue as it does currently, I’m not sure what point you’re making? Labor is a reaction but on the supply side, and no impact on the demand side which is what I’m referring to as the driver.

To your second, you’re looking at a domestic employment market when the reality is an international one. I didn’t mention once my American-ness protects my income. But my global-ness and commitment to keeping that perspective, plus learning other (human) languages, does.

In large I feel your response missed the point I’m making.
I agree that does seem to be something of a smoking gun.

And it’s not without precedent to secure an injunction against as US tech company launching a new service - gmail was known as googlemail in the UK and some European countries for several years owing to a trademark dispute (https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2010/may/04/digital-me...)

But sadly a lot of trademark and copyright cases come down to who has the bigger pile of cash behind them.
They sure don't do that anymore... At least not at any of the Dallas factories. Even patents reap little money. You practically sell your soul when you join the company and all your ideas are theirs.
Unfortunatelly, the video is incomplete.
The presenter explains what Peterson said and shows a video of his reaction to the accusations.
What is missing is the actual video snippet of Peterson performing the fallacy - i.e. show me what Peterson said, don't tell me what he said.
Preferably at least a few the seconds leading up and shortly after the timerange in question should be included to minimize the risk of an out-of-context citation.

As it is now I have to go searching for the interview in question if I want to check for myself if he actually did a bait-and-switch, as only evidence for the switch part is actually presented.

If the video featured proper citations, one for the bait and one for the switch, I might've been able to form an opinion, but alas, for now it is not meant to be.
> I ask management for a 30K raise after saving 500K and my message is still unread. I suspect I will eventually receive either nothing or 5K.

Pain I feel very acutely. As an employee, I saved a FAANG company billions of dollars in potential GDPR fines after they carelessly declared 'mission accomplished', weeks before the deadline, and never even got a 'thank you', much less a raise.
> once people start mass-purging their viral memes

It's hard for me to imagine this ever happening. It would be the most unprecedented event in the history of human minds.

> we won't be reward-hacking ourselves stupid [...] Or there will just be corporate egos left over and we will be in a cyberpunk dystopia

I don't see how reward-hacking can ever be stopped (although it could be improved). Regardless, ego seems to continue to win the day in the mass appeal department. There aren't many high visibility alternatives these days, despite all we've supposedly learned. I think the biggest problems we have are mostly education based, from critical thinking to long-term perspectives. We need so very much more of both, it would make us all richer and happier.
Not sure I entirely agree with that premise. Author paints with far too broad a brush. I'm on the spectrum and I was raised to give deference to authority figures in school settings. I never had run-ins with teachers growing up. Half the problem nowadays is that people have diagnosed everyone with everything and parents are willing to ignore obvious behavioral issues because of a diagnosis rather than handling the thing head-on.
I was thinking Malcolm the Tenth
In the README found in the root of the repo you posted a link to, you'll find the domain man7-dot-org mentioned as the site run by Michael Kerrisk who has been running it for years.

More details at

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html

and

http://blog.man7.org/2013/05/adding-further-man-pages-to-htm...
No, the fact that one autistic person acts like this does not mean that all autistic person acts like this.

However, it is a common enough trait among enough autistic people and being able to navigate social interactions with autistic people is a skill neurotypical people should learn.

This is a case where maybe we should be using our ears more than our mouths, because it seems like several people in this post want to dismiss this piece of advice with "well, not all autistic people". But that's been the struggle of neurodivergent people from the start, the desire for others to dismiss anything that may make them slightly uncomfortable or inconvenienced.
Am I an idiot? Re-working language definitions and compilers is _hard_. Instead, why not accept there are flaws and try to catch/fix them? I can see two obvious paths (I'm sure there are more) to address (N.P.I) these issues - top down: AI based code review. Wouldn't that catch 80%+ of common errors? Bottom up: Aggressive hardware fencing of memory access, much finer grained than pages? What am I missing?
Who thought that? Surely everyone knows incognito mode is about privacy on your local computer ie watch porn without leaving evidence. weird.
Which parts of the UK Civil Service would you say are more competent / effective in your personal experience? From the outside (US) perspective it's hard to see it as anything except the same-old bureaucracy and crazy rules that make it impossible to have any positive impact in America. (For example, the UK rules for getting a passport basically make it impossible to find somebody to countersign your application unless you happen to know a lot of lawyers / doctors professionally)
Not to undermine the urgency of the CO2 situation but this graph is extremely misleading.
I spy a company about to be bought by Meta. Quick grab some shares!
There doesn't necessarily need to be just one. You can have a few that cover an industry that are bigger than an employee specific one while still having competition between unions. For example I work for the NHS and there are multiple unions I could join, all of which are consulted on pay deals.
Traffic bot?
Useless as a guide to predicting the future, but quite useful for future Elon Musks, who looked at the inevitable end of cheap fossil fuels and saw a business opportunity.

If something is a must-solve problem, well, tautologically, that means it must be solved, and there will be willing buyers for solution venders.
The question is whether Facebook’s use is likely to confuse consumers: software isn’t a category of its own, everything is software now, and this is different software — any context immediately distinguishes the usages (and there’s no reputation for Facebook to be maliciously trying to leverage). I doubt Facebook will lose. The lawsuit is just chancing for a settlement based on it being easier for Facebook to settle than defend.
Buy Raspberry Pi 5 if, and only if, you want to support MPEG and their proprietary codecs through royalty fees.
Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet, Netflix is now just another independent movie/TV studio. FAANG has become a term entirely independent of what it originally stood for (also "MAAA" doesn't have the same ring to it).
It isn't at odds, since in both cases (euthanasia and medically-prolonged end-of-life), it is the human person that is trying to control the ultimate outcome of life. The Catholic approach is to say "let God decide".
It's not terribly hard to start a clinic, but it just makes sense to consolidate, and it doesn't make much sense for anyone who's not a vet to start one (because of the relative pricing power of vets). But it's not bad for vets to be able to exit to PE after they have established the clinic.

And after consolidation PE can make better deals with vendors (from pharma to insurance networks to maintenance).

(Of course exorbitant rise in vet costs shows there's room for more vet clinics, but it's mostly a side-effect of a lot of rich people spending a lot on their pets.)
Facebook and Google renaming were on the corporate side. I can still go to google.com or facebook.com and see the normal branding. And Facebook specially was part of an actual marketing strategy.
Actually yes. The chart is put together by "The 2 Degrees Institute" which has a stated objective of influencing "behavioural and lifestyle changes". That isn't science.
Most credible is a credit union for your banking, a broker for your stocks, a Nigerian Prince for your crypto money market "account".
First use of the word "climate" in the article:

>How do I know this? Let’s start with humanity’s biggest problem. No, it’s not climate change. It’s something most people have never even heard of.
A man-made ATP synthase?! Very cool!
That is why I'm replacing my SUV with a Tacoma (other than that the SUV blew its engine). I tend to move a lot of outside stuff and with the Jeep I was making many trips with lots of buckets. Now I will be able to let them just dump a pile of mulch in the back and then just spray the thing out.
Lawyer in training here!

Trademarks do get grouped into classes (the so called "Nice Classification", like the French city [0]). The classes are very detailed, and the first 34 refer to "Goods", the rest to "Services".

Specifically class 9 refers to (among many other things), "computers, computer software", class 42 to "design and development of computer hardware and software".

However those are mostly just to simplify searching for and dealing with the huge amount of trademarks. Each trademark comes with its own list of goods and services it's supposed to cover. Their trademark in the UK [1] covers "computer software, software and apparatus for the extraction of business information and knowledge".

They also appear to have registered a trademark this september [2] with a much broader scope, so after Meta started using threads. I'm not familiar with UK law and how it relates to trademarks in this case, however.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_(Nice)_Classific...
[1]: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...
[2]: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...
Especially the 1px spike at the end
Fictional depictions of AI risk are like thought experiments. They have to assume that the technology achieves a certain level of capability and goes in a certain direction to make the events in the fictional story possible. Neither of these assumptions is a given. For example, we've also had many sci-fi stories that feature flying taxis and the like - but there's no point debating "flying taxi risk" when it seems like flying cars are not a thing that will happen for reasons of practicality.

So sure, it's possible that we'll have to reckon with scenarios like those in Neuromancer, but it's more likely that reality will be far more mundane.
> Can you though?

Yes, you can:

"The term was coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
Most of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
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I assume Facebook sells ads to UK business, which is something the UK could stop. They probably also have UK employees but I'm too lazy to confirm that.
Considering Apple's approach to most things it seems about right. Even if the language was extremely good and better at many non-Apple stuff, you would still be right to question its viability.
Apple doing what is best for Apple regardless of what people need or what you could expect from a reasonable partner is the only reason you need to not bother with swift anywhere else than on Apple hardware. This is a company that switched off the ability to execute 32bits software on hardware that was natively capable just with an arbitrary OS update.
I used to be very naive, but I would not rely on anything Apple that is not clearly linked to their hardware (so that their interest at least somewhat aligne with yours). Nowadays I would go as far as saying that if you do not directly make money from using Apple hardware, you should not bother at all.

I believe most end up learning this either the hard way or by simple observation ; and one cannot come to any other conclusion than avoid Apple stuff outside of Apple hardware...
Yeah but your country needs you, and that’s actually pretty good pay. I think tech would be a little bit broader if more people considered serving for a year or two.
You think it's not true? Just ask Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+has+the+global+temp.... It says "about 1.0o F" in the past 100 years, so not even as much as Epstein is saying.
Votes on submissions are +0.5, so it takes two upvotes to count as one. Comments get you +1
The current predicament we are in was not produced by a deliberate attempt at global geoengineering. It was a global economic project with a byproduct of climate change.
Just random stuff from Twitter, because I'm not going to waste my time on his books.

"You should be a monster, an absolute monster, and then you should learn how to control it."

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/17168812447500333...

Or you could just be a decent person. It's not that hard.

"The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence."

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/17150743954154250...

Counterexamples: Trump, Elon Musk's tenure at Twitter, Boris Johnson. Clearly the current system is not purely a meritocracy. This is also a completely vague statement, so plenty of room for weasling. What exactly does "predicated on competence" mean? I once read that someone fairly famous wrote "Be precise In Your Speech". Oh yeah, that was Peterson.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/17136892453603086...

Misogynistic crap. Women are not some undifferentiated glob. Some women don't even have any sexual interest in men!

Also retweeting climate change denial etc.
Threads was a dumb idea, clearly pushed by non-product executives. If there were any product people, then wtf were you thinking? You can't expect to waltz in to that arena, zero plan and expect your "Meta" backing to carry you. Especially given that FB has become an absolute mess of a product.

Addendum: I recently re-signed-up for FB in 2020 & 3 years later killed my account because of the sheer amount of irrelevant content. Felt like I was watching bad TV.
That is a fallacy, stupid claim that because they do not sell (for what? we do not even know) the domain with THEIR NAME in it that they are not looking for money. In fact they know that KEEPING the name actually will make them possibly more money in the long run. This new alone brings them on the radar of millions of people who never even heard of Threads Software.

Lets just assume Meta will be disallowed to use the name Threads in the UK, now what? They will rename the app just in the UK, they make an even bigger insane offer to Threads to settle this and Threads lets them use it under certain conditions, like letting them get their FB with that name back ...

Why are you to claim their are not looking for money, they like every company is "looking for money". They may not want any money from Meta (we do not know) but they are looking to make the most possible money with their brand name - hence "looking for money" either way.
Nice work. I saw that the json file will be published to CDN, the json file may contain some sensitive data e.g. company id. How do you handle that?
The management class are easy to manipulate and you can either play the game and get ahead, or you can refuse and be angry about the guardrails you erected for yourself. At the end of the day, the only person who is ever going to recognize the sacrifice you made is you, so you better be happy with your choices, because nobody else is going to care.
Not really, I'm mostly lurking in Russian-speaking Telegram channels. The visa for nomads there is pretty straightforward (basically 1.5k usd per adult + 0.5k per kid income requirement) and it's definitely more expensive than Phuket, but other than that my knowledge is very sparse
But the work required to factor things out behind an HTTP boundary is a superset of the work required to factor things out into a module as GP describes. So if you were going to do microservices, you could do that same factoring and then just stop when you get to the part where you'd add in networking and deployment scripts.
I rather suspect that the generalised elliptic scaling factor is a continuous function, so the answer may be a bit boring. For any infinite series with a finite sum I would be able to give you an ellipse (indeed, probably an infinite number of ellipses) whose scaling factor is a rational multiple of the sum.
Google Chrome never implemented trailers, so no gRPC. Every browser is guilty.

> I spent almost two years building/optimizing a partial WebRTC stack @ Twitch using pion. Our use-case was quite custom and we ultimately scrapped it, but your millage may vary.

So many words about protocols. Protocols aren't hard or interesting. QA is hard. libwebrtc has an insurmountable lead on QA. None of these ad-hoc things, nor WebRTC implementations like Pion, will ever catch up, let alone be deployed in Mobile Safari.
I've generally come to the belief that it's related to how humans think about cause and effect.

Dumping boatloads of CO2 into the atmosphere is second order from the actual goal of producing electricity so most people just can't/don't/won't think about it.

In this case we'd be intentionally dumping SO2 so people are capable of thinking "wow that's not moral" or whatever issue they might have with it.
"We need this to scale to hundreds of millions of users across many regions"

"But we have no users at all right now"

"But we might have hundreds of millions of users in future"
You can enrich the spans created by eBPF by using OpenTelemetry APIs as usual, the eBPF instrumentation is a replacement for the instrumentation SDK. The eBPF program will detect the data recorded via the APIs and will add it to the final trace combining both automatic and manually created data.
Why did you assume that everyone is motivated by money? After $100k, what difference does it make for one's happiness?

Personally, I wouldn't want such a shallow individual working in my government.
I think the key here is that the job has to be intriguing enough. Working on shaping US AI policy is something that many people would sacrifice quite a bit to do. Pushing paper not so much. Most fed jobs are on the paper pushing side of things, which also makes the actually interesting jobs harder to fill due to the reputation for bureaucracy. Probably why they made this fancy recruiting site.
Could they not argue that Threads was removed from FB because they refused to sell the domain or violated some TOC and not because of user confusion?
I really meant the choice to use it here, not the implementation of how it works.
I was recruited by, and damn near did a tour with USDS.

I ended up passing on it.

They wanted an "entrepreneur in residence" to help drive change, which sounded great to me.

Then they did the whole "we need you to keep in a cup" thing.

I wouldn't have had any problem passing the test, but I told the recruiter "this is where the change needs to start".

There's no way I can attract and retain good technical talent if we're still ruling out candidates because of smoking pot.

Plus, I find the whole "pee in a cup" thing demeaning, intrusive and offensive.

The recruiter and I were both very frustrated by the situation. I wasn't the first candidate they'd lost over the issue.

I don't know if it's still like that, but the feds seriously need to get their act together in hiring process before we can improve the quality of government systems.
Real-Time Latent Consistency Model
Whenever this happens, I really have to wonder about all of the people I call "good" on my team. Like surely someone gave a shit enough to know this is how it works, right? ...right?
>Second, people still crave the advantages of removable batteries that were left behind: increasing battery life by swapping batteries instead of using a cumbersome external battery pack, inexpensively and conveniently extending the life of a product by replacing a worn-out battery with a new one—without paying for someone else to perform delicate surgery on the device.

This whole paragraph is delusional. Apple users carrying and swapping out batteries? Apple supporting and allowing people to simply swap out a battery instead of going to the apple store for a certified repair? Apple??
How do you deal with people who are more interested in working on their own side projects than actual work? I've dealt with some of these people in the past, where we hire them due to side projects but it seemed like they were neglecting work and putting in minimum/average effort, while (I suppose I can't confirm this but just postulating that) they were spending more time on their side projects.
The Majority Report with Sam Seder on YouTube have good videos breaking down things that Jordan Peterson has said.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Majority+report...
I can't really see how they won't.

Microsoft were forced to rename SkyDrive to OneDrive by BSkyB, a company with less in common with them than Meta/Threads Software Ltd.