skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great. Now people can pay FB to not see any ads, while FB will still collect their data and sell it to data brokers.

All social media sites should pay users to use their services in exchange for their data. The cost of them providing a service pales in comparison to the value of user data. And there's no way they're giving up that lucrative part of their business.

Make no mistake. This is not some benevolent side of FB where they're seeing the evil of their ways. This is just a marketing tactic to attract more users they can exploit.
They aren't speaking about protest in the interest of the human rights of Palestinians.

See the fact that protestors aren't suggesting that Hamas give themselves up as a means of protecting the lives of their Palestinian human shields.

Protestors want October 7th and no consequences, or limited consequences on the terms of those who would see the perpetrators keep power. Specifically, to be able to slaughter masses of civilians and then run behind their human shields with impunity and forever.

Human shields that should move as far South as possible. Human shields who widely support Hamas and their actions.

Hamas has the ability to end all of this in this very hour, should they care enough about the Palestinians. They only need to give up.

Protestors have the ability to demand that Hamas end this conflict in this very hour, should they actually first care about Palestinians and not the continuity of War.

All Hamas has to do is give themselves up. Or at least move camp to an area that is away from the civilians.

Hamas won't, and neither will their "pro-Palestinian" supporters demand it.

Which is a primary problem with ostensible "pro-Palestinian protest" in the context of the current conflict.

Terrorists can't slaughter 1300+ civilians, declaring civilians combatants, and then credibly declare the deaths of their specific human shields to be a human rights issue that is the responsibility of their enemies. Unless they are in the process of giving up. The same paradigm applies to the nature of their support.

The deaths of Palestinians are a Human rights issue. But the cause and responsibility is on Hamas and its support. They can give up in this very hour. Or simply move camp. Anything else is an ongoing illustration of their deceit that doesn't care an ounce for Palestinian Life.
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Huh, what was I smoking? I don't even smoke. That's not right, don't know what I was thinking, sorry!
Stock is -63% since IPO
Or rotations like phasors or whatever the heck spinors do or...

(Spoiler: it's all of them)
I can believe it. There are those skilled at performative intellectualism, i.e. sounding very smart and insightful, but the performance itself is the product, it is all they sell and offer. Whenever I hear a public speaker appealing to supposed ancient wisdom of obscure tribes and traditions who had better-than-modern diets, laws, monetary policy, medicine, footwear (or lack iof), etc then that tells me that it’s just more hucksterism
not the OP but presumably it depends whether you're referring to social progress, art, technology, etc.
They say just their website is down and that "Git Operations" are working, but I'm unable to use Git over SSH.
Canoo is trying something like that. It's a pretty utilitarian looking vehicle. Deliveries are supposed to begin by the end of this year. Not sure if that's still the case.

https://www.canoo.com/pickup/
> The alternative is to live under the petty tyranny of employers, hopping from job to job

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.

For one, there’s not a lot of tyranny there and I don’t think a union would have brought me that comp. I know many other similar experiences from individuals who work this route too.

For two, I did it via an ethical but transactional relationship with my employers. Unions still work on an old school mentality that a fair long term relationship is worth locking in.

I’m aware the music might stop in eng comp at some point, and I’ve planned/risk managed for that too.

If all unions can offer tech jobs is banding together and rise up the median conditions for everyone, while as a solo operator I can lock in early retirement, that’s a hard sell.

For what it’s worth, I’m quite pro-union for jobs where it makes sense. But there is nothing in your argument that makes sense for a SWE hunting life-changing comp, which is quite doable still. Why put my family at risk to help everyone else go along to get along a bit better than the previous contract, if I can solve our lifetime financial future in a few years?
In your opinion, would it be a misrepresentation to say that C-16 makes it easier to fine employers that refuse to use employee pronouns for harassment?
The "not stranger then we suppose but stranger then we can suppose" part for me isn't the how did life start or how did that eukaryotes evolve from prokaryotes. Those are both genuinely mysterious.

The thing that gets me is why it was easier to go from no life to life.

If you said it took 2 billion years for life to emerge from inorganic molecules but 300 million years after that we had eukaryotes then I'd say, that seems about right - I wonder how it happened?

Tell me that (as I understand to be the case) life pops up a couple of hundred million years after it's possible to have life on earth - and then several billion years go by before you get eukaryotes then I'm really left scratching my head.

I'm not saying mitochondria aren't amazing but the leap seems closer to me to the evolution of warm blooded animals from cold blooded ones. Life from nothing seems fantastically more complicated.

I'm generally down on life's origins being an off-earth thin but ... sometimes I wonder.
This is the only solution in my opinion. Don't buy something cheap if it's from a crap company.
Switzerland :) given its where I started before I went nomading. However it's the place I will always come back to especially because of quality of life aspects. From all the places I have been to, all the places I would want to show my kids, I couldn't imagine raising a child anywhere else.

Also tax is fair here, I couldn't imagine any other place in Europe for my businesses.
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This seems subjective. It's like putting "compatible with the character of the neighborhood" in a city's zoning codes.
This article has a very naïve take on a complex issue. It does seem like not all mechanics are on strike, but also appears quite obvious that there is some number of them on strike. Not sure if the author knows much about Swedish unions and how strikes tend to work here.

The transport workers union has announced a sympathy strike, stopping all loading and unloading of Teslas in Swedish harbors, so regardless of one's opinion on the matter, the strike is far from over.

https://da.se/2023/10/splittrat-stod-for-teslastrejken-parti...

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/fackets-hot-stopp-for-tesla...
Not everyone lives near a microcenter though. The pi zero W/2W comes out to like , $15+ ship + taxes and is more like $24.
It is endlessly entertaining to me that we get such frequent "Help I'm locked out of my Google account" posts, while Google aggressively tries to sign in users.

They've somehow got a problem on both ends of the spectrum.
That’s now how I understood the quote.

I thought of it more like if you went to go hire a doctor, then the best people to review that doctor would not be the university that gave the doctor their credential, or even the doctor’s patients; it would be the doctor’s colleagues who understand the doctor’s strengths and weaknesses best because they are the only ones who have the direct relationship as well as technical skills to compare against.
The company firing all previous employees is a risk of a strike. Striking is a negotiating tactic. Tesla's response is hostile negotiation but it appears that the employees agree that what they have is better than whatever else they could get.
Can we get an AI Force as well? If AI is a threat, only option is escalation.
This sucks. This impacts a project I've been working on for a while now: https://keyboard.gg/

For those who don't know, it's near impossible to get licensed if you're not a large company. Nintendo is currently the only console now that doesn't do officially licensed accessory checks.

I had spent about a month trying to add PlayStation support only to find out that they have authentication checks every 8 minutes leading to always having to unplug and plug your controller back in.

I don't know... I had just been really excited to make a solid keyboard adapter that would work for all major consoles and this is extra bad news on top.
I'm not saying they don't belong in the book. I'm saying, evidently poorly, that they don't belong in the first chapter.

Strang has a bit of a "Next, draw the rest of the fucking owl" vibe going on. It wasn't what I'd been led to expect from the reviews.
> Some people do have a legit need for some level of verification.

AFAIK there is no verification involved in the blue check purchase. It just indicates that the account holder pays some money every month.
>> EVERYONE was angry at me. Even though I had just averted a catastrophe for the company, I made everyone look bad by doing it and particularly because of my status/position on the team.

People can be excessive in both taking credit and placing blame. An appropriate and helpful way to frame this is "the system was configured incorrectly but nobody noticed because the problem never actually happened. It's a good thing the new guy had time to go through things and spotted the problem before it ever happened." No need to crucify the team or exaggerate the value of the new guy.
Let me give a personal story about this guy,

A while back, when I was just beginning therapy, my therapist recommended I take an online personality test, which unbeknownst to me, was authored by Jordan Peterson. After I took the test, it gave 5-7 paragraphs explaining what each individual personality trait meant. Pretty boilerplate, but for some traits, when you got further down the explanations, it started feeling less and less like a personality test.

For example, for the "agreeableness" trait, it would talk about how it was testing how "compliant, nurturing, kind, naively trusting and conciliatory" the person is, and that it generally found women scored higher. Sure, I can believe you've found that during your surveys.

But then you scroll down a little more, and it starts saying things like "This difference in agreeableness between men and women is largest in countries such as Norway and Sweden, where the most has been done to ensure equality of outcome between the sexes. This provides strong evidence that biological factors rather than the environment and learning account for the dissimilarity."

Uh... Why are we talking about Norway and Sweden suddenly? Scroll down a little more, and it makes more sense: "Agreeable people, [...], are more likely to enter professions associated with people, such as teaching and nursing, which are dominated by women. This is true even in the Scandinavian countries, where attempts to produce gender-equal societies has reached a maximum."

Ah. So what we have here is, regardless of whether you agree it's true or not, a political agenda masquerading as a personality test. It's purpose is to argue Peterson's vocal political belief that the gender pay gap is not an issue, because women are biologically better at being nurses instead of engineers. His proof? Just look at those Scandinavians, they have completely solved sexism (citation needed) and still see this gap!

Peterson may have genuinely good self help books and lectures, but the issue is it's not for the purpose of actually helping people. It's to push people closer to his world view, to agreeing with his political agenda. If you truly gained something from reading his books or watching his lectures, don't let me take that away from you. But be mindful of when his self help veers towards political beliefs.
I found myself experiencing some serious cognitive dissonance reading this, so there’s probably a lot of truth to it.
> Is this deep deep flaw endemic to humanity across cultural lines?

Yes, almost certainly.

> Are millennials/ Gen Z the first generation where men anre (perhaps?) allowed to be almost as emotional as women?

This does not appear to be the case in my experience (as an elder millennial with Gen Z acquaintances). Although it surely varies by subculture and individual, in my experience women in the dating market still pretty strongly enforce pretty traditional gender roles for men. You can also see this in social media, notably TikTok - if you're familiar with the trend of young women talking about their "icks" (things that turn them off in men), you'll notice that the "icks" are usually about men being emotional, or being affected by their environment, or showing weakness in some (often trivial) way.
I use so much YouTube, the bundling didn't bother me. I didn't initially care about YouTube Music, but after giving it a try I find it better than Spotify for my purposes anyway so it worked out.
> And thats with me owning a Model 3.

I just wanted to reply here and say we need to disentangle these concepts from one another. This "vote with your dollars" stuff is bad on a number of fronts (Reducing all manner of political actions and statements down to consuming products; Vote with your dollars inherently means those with more dollars get more votes, which is not how voting should work) but far more importantly, it makes people add caveats and statements like this to their speech as though this makes their point better or worse in some way, and it shouldn't.

This person owns a Tesla, and he at least seems to disagree with Tesla's politics regarding unions. This is fair. These are not opposing viewpoints because you didn't buy a Tesla because you love Tesla as a corporate entity and you love Elon Musk and you want to support that: you bought a Tesla because you wanted a Tesla, likely at least in part to solve the problem of requiring personal transportation, of an electric variety, and you thought this was the best solution to that problem for you. That is 100% valid and should not inherently be construed with supporting Tesla's union busting tactics here and elsewhere.

And I say this because we all own products that are made by corporations that are up to all kinds of tom-fuckery all over the world, and we're never going to improve any of this if our arguments degrade into pointless finger wagging at one another because so and so owns a Tesla, therefore they're okay with union busting, or I own an iPhone, therefore I'm okay with suicide nets, or anyone who owns any battery powered device at all is okay with children in lithium mines, on and on. We end up in these nonproductive arguments trying to out soapbox one another while the people actually responsible continue burning the planet to a crisp.

Now, you are free as a person to optimize your required consumption to fit your moral and political views, of course. Buying fair trade coffee is demonstrably better than not. Not buying fast fashion is pretty solidly a better choice. But for a lot of products the choice is murky at best and basically all of them have their problematic aspects, and chiding one another for that as though we control it in the slightest and aren't holding our own closet of skeletons is not productive, and also worth noting, those less-impactful consumption decisions very often come with higher price tags, meaning that the ability to do that is oftentimes gated behind a certain level of privilege.

So yeah, sorry for the side tangent, but I wanted to comment on this.
Speaking as someone who spent over 20 years in the DOD:

There isn't a way to make things better in the DOD that doesn't go against the culture. Period. My literal JOB was to make things better and it was the worst time of my career. That was with Flag Officer backing and independent authority. I got a chest full of shiny candy and a pathological distaste for it all after a few years of that.
Same, I'm intermittently getting this error trying to work with remote repos:

git@gitlab.com: Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
It's just the title bro. In The end of that video they find a way that's not the cross product or the dot product.
> Where is all the dislike coming from?

He is providing, if not a counter-narrative, then at least a narrative orthogonal to those other people favor.
> You could also stand to interrogate a little more the connection between poverty in "the hood" and the global struggle against colonialism. American black people and palestinians have a long history of mutual solidarity. Aren't you curious about why?

Honestly for me... no. My parents grew up in poverty in a British colony, and they're extremely well off and their children more so. It gave us a lot of advantages. If they grew up here in the United States as a colonized people, they would have had even more advantages, and if I'm being honest, my entire family looks at the black community with confusion as to why they don't take advantage of the fact they're born in America, which puts them lightyears ahead of my parent's upbringing and poverty.

My mom ended her career by a desire to give back and taught in inner city public schools. Honestly, that was enlightening and explained a lot of why kids aren't doing well. Although both my parents and those kids grew up / are growing up poor. My grandparents wouldn't have tolerated what my mom found in the schools. At the end of the day culture matters.
> Domains should be delegated to services using a simple OAuth2 protocol

Maybe i'm missing something, but why not do this using simple DNS? Nameservers at the registrar, or nameservers at some simple dns-only thing, and point hostnames to whatever you want at the moment.
On his book "The Secrets of Consulting", Gerald Weinberg advise against improving more than 10% of performance, and if so, of hoping to have any credit.

Just like the article, his reasoning is that if you improve performance too much, it makes management/the team look bad for not doing it before, while a smaller improvement in performance make management looks good.
Ford Maverick?
I'm still pissed about the discontinuation of the Bolt.

I rent Bolts frequently now that Avis carries lots of them. They are amazing cars and LITERALLY EXACTLY what many customers wanting EVs have asked for: cheap, "normal" interior, not slow.

This would be perfect for my wife, who is driving an aging Fusion PHEV (that she loves).

Yes, I can get her a Tesla, but she's expressed reservations and the direction the product is going is not helping (stalkless, missing ultrasonic sensors, screen shift).
Remember you can get an HP Prodesk G3 400 or some such for $60 refurbed with far more hardware capabilities if you don't need the portable form factor, gpio, or power consumption.

It's actually a better deal for home servers.
> Can we get an AI Force as well?

In case you actually didn’t know [1].

[1] https://www.ai.mil/
Having played around with openai's DALL-E 3, I can definitely imagine a future where you can find "gray market" AI's that are trained on data without consent and generate content without restrictions.
In those cases, 100% of that add revenue is going to the content creator so it doesn't bother me as much.
Every PC has millions of lines of firmware code that often fails and causes problems. Case and point, pretty much all hyperscalers rip out all the traditional vender firmware and replace it with their own, often partially open source.

The BMC is often a huge problem, its a shifty architecture and extremely unsafe. Meta is paying for u-bmc development to have something a bit better.

Doing things like rack attestation of a whole racks worth of firmware if stacked PC is incredibly hard and so many companies simply don't do it. And doing it with the switch as well is even harder.

Sometimes the firmware runs during operations and takes over your computer causing strange bugs, see SMM. If there is a bug anywhere in that stack, there are 10 layers of closed source vendors that don't care about you.

Costumers don't care if its PC or not, but they do care if the machine is stable, the firmware is bug free and the computer is safe and not infected by viruses. Not being a PC enables that.
I was a tech lead and managed a massive project (multiple billions of page views per year) that did a complete rewrite with React in 2014-2015.

React was complete shit back then - especially the first load speed. It was not ready for "real" production. We basically built an internal framework on top of React for things like server side rendering (which no one did with React back then), above the fold loading optimization, developer experience, devOps on top of React. We basically built Next.js internally.

So no. It was not production ready for real performance-based websites. Next.js made it significantly better as soon as it came out.
Yup. Seems like an increasingly common move by businesses. AMD did this with global foundries, for example.
Google ads absolutely have malware.

YouTube I'm not sure but there are blatant crypto scams so you could lose your money
The column in the table claiming the "number of page loads that would experience the 99th %ile" is mathematically suspect. It directly contradicts what a percentile is.

By definition, at 99th percentile, if I have 100 page loads, the one with the worst latency would be over the 99th percentile. That's not 85.2%, 87.1%, 67.6%, etc. The formula shown in that column makes no sense at all.
Indeed, I studied in the engineering and not the gender department (we barely had liberal arts IMO), and I too learned how to read. Maybe the cultural elite, like starbucks baristas and people who work in HR.
Hmm at least in my area I've never heard of anyone having anything stolen out of a pickup bed. Maybe I'm just too rural, and stealing from people that keep guns behind their seat and in the glovebox doesn't feel like a smart life choice? That being said, I don't see people keeping expensive stuff in the back of a truck unless it's parked in a garage. People that need tools for work install those locking tool boxes if it won't fit in the cab.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, those that value a bed use it as an "outdoor" trailer. Load it with firewood so the bigger, the better so you're not driving some tricky route between trees to get to the wood you're moving more times than you need to. Throw literal horse manure in there. Back up to the feed store and let them throw 100 lb bags on there.

The SUV (or hatchback) makes more sense depending the use ratio. Mostly commute but sometimes pick up feed bags? OK Honda Fit! Mostly drive around the farm and move gross stuff or loads of rocks and wood? Get the truck.
I’m genuinely curious what a unit test for something would look like.
> Tesla's response is hostile negotiation but it appears that the employees agree that what they have is better than whatever else they could get.

If you're being threatened of being fired for even negotiating ("striking"), would you continue to "negotiate"? Might be that they don't agree they have it better than elsewhere, but the alternative is being fired, so they'll just be fine with the situation as-is.
or just a second drone
I’m asking you for a specific case where a PE firm could specifically screw you and you have no choice but to be a consumer in a way a public firm couldn’t?
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