skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon is incredibly jealous of Sam. That is why he posted the gist.
Ordering off a 5k-year-old Mesopotamian menu
> If a vote of employees actually mattered we'd see more time off, less working hours, more of the profit go to employees, and maybe even less socially destructive companies.

All the companies I've worked at have had QA session with CEO and this exactly what ppl ask about and ofcourse C level ppl give useless junk "answers" and call it day.
Maybe paulg gives employees real answers.
> CEOs are professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft

Elon Musk has entered the chat...
It's very useful for multiple scenarios:
1. Learning new syntax. E.g. the new switch expressions are pretty neat and better than the old switch statements. Changing and learning how to write them is super easy thanks to this feature.

2. A code base with less then good practices is vastly easier to adjust to better standards than in python. I've done both and dotnet is mostly applying suggestions and then looking for more advanced problems which where not caught by automatic analysis. It's not perfect, but it reduces useless churn.

This also holds true for rider and vs with resharper.
Not at all you have a selection of things you can turn on.

Open tabs, browse history, cookies, cache, site permissions and downloads.

You can enabled as many as you like.

Just having "open tabs" ticked will only close tabs and nothing else which is what I use
One more... Any benefit would be CPU specific:

if ((i & 0x1) == 0) rp12 ^= tmppar;

Seems like it's ripe for something like:

rp12 ^= tmppar & ~(0 - (i & 0x1));

If my logic is functioning ;-) this eliminates the branch, but many modern CPUs running linux probably have a conditional mov which should be faster with the straightforward version.

Edit: Except RISC-V, there are no conditionals other than branch. Maybe this will help on that arch.
The same ones that Discord or Zoom have.
Why did he sign the letter and post:

>I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.
is he pro unions and employee owned companies ?
They all say he's good at what he does, but none of them actually sound like he likes the guy.
> The lesson here is that web developers only have their own interests in mind, and what they want isn't necessarily what's best for the web.

True, but it's even more insidious than that. A ton of web devs seem to believe that what's in their own best interest is what's best for the web.
I don't think that's quite accurate.

There are genuinely amazing, highly respected executives in some (most?) tech companies.

I do agree though that the public facing image of a lot of them is a lot of hype. A lot of the big companies want to build an aura of infallible leader extraordinaire's for their management team.
1 person, 157 hours.

The rest is recordings and we have no idea how long they are. Probably a new one every time there is a pause. So maybe a month's worth.
You are taking it as a given that developers are making these choices at organizations where it is normal for them to have to fire a nailgun through the palms of their hands at the beginning of the day. I'm saying that when developers are making these choices they should be doing so at organizations where it is a given that they don't have to do that.
On the other hand, in my imagination PG is someone who would stand corrected if there was a good reason.
Supposedly they had about 50% of employees leave in the year of the conversion to for-profit.
Your comment is so useful that I actually created an account just to thank you for your wisdom.
Recent and related:

Fortran - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37291504 - Aug 2023 (223 comments)
And Omegle for enabling and creating a safe haven for pedophiles.
It's as if an anthropologist read Plato's Republic and developed an ambition to be a philosopher king. "Government-funded cooperative breeding", quite a sequence of words to clobber together. Sounds utopian.
It's estimated that 25% of the global population is subsistence farmers with little to no connection to the global market. AI is not going to impact every demographic, using it as a guideline for policy (or human psychology) is too risky to be useful. The dynamics of resource competition have not changed now that ChatGPT exists, people will not start tailoring their families towards AI unless it becomes a matter of survival. As-is, not a single person I know is convinced that AI will replace human labor in any meaningful capacity. The consensus seems to be, religious or otherwise, that AI is not a limiting factor in population growth.
Why would Gemini be at fault for customers withdrawing funds? Isn't Genesis at fault for not having the liquidity to support the withdrawals?
> Mercurial was never trying to "replace" git. All of these guys came out at the same time.

Mercurial even had a couple weeks' head start on git, and git partly happened trying to replace Mercurial in early experimentation. The name "git" was always an interesting self-deprecating choice because it was (intentionally) "stupider" than its competition that it knew about, which included Mercurial (and also darcs/Monotone/Bazaar).
> "It's frustrating to continue to see both the level of genuinely well-intentioned work that the public is unfairly (and often viciously) critical of the motives of..."

It's inevitable that the top business in any sector gets loads of uninformed and/or just plain dumb haters. Ask Amazon, Microsoft, etc. employees about it. One gets used to it.

That being said, Google probably deserves it more than most (yes, even more than MS) among top tech companies since its revenue is primarily from advertising, the air pollution of the online world.
only in this particular case
Sounds like a good way to to secure your position as leader.

My job also secures my loyalty and support with a financial incentive. It is probably the most common way for a business leader to align interests.

Kings reward dukes, and generals pay soldiers. Politicians trade policies. That doesn't mean they arent leaders.
You get like 30 seconds of cold air before the compressor being off is evident. A lot of people turn this “feature” off if they can.
Would love to see any early plans for the 2 speed gearbox. :)

Given that this is so heavily based on a Lotus Elise, it feels like the engineering scope is going to be quite different from a normal vehicle. It'll be interesting to see how much of the Elise's design will incidentally also be visible here.
What is more important than "are bounds checks expensive or not" is that Rust gives you tools to do both, just like C++ gives you tools that do both. The defaults are flipped, but both languages are equally capable.

Dropbox famously found bounds checks to be expensive in one part of their Rust code, so they introduced the equivalent of a feature flag to toggle them.
Finance is cut-throat in the upper echelons, and also around culling people producing less value than their salary. But once they find someone willing to produce $400K of value in exchange for $200K salary, who is not otherwise interested in career growth, they usually just leave them be, that's how you see people staying in the same job with roughly the same responsibilities and skills for 10-15 years. Which creates other pathologies, but in some sense is less harsh than tech.
You can use this filter list in uBO as a workaround for the extension being off the add-on/extension store.

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt

Comes with the added benefit of working on Firefox for Android until they open up the addons floodgate.
thanks my 10yo who is in to scratch really likes that (hedy.org)
A whole bunch of stuff—from income mobility to life expectancy to incarceration rates to morality rates from avoidable causes.
Has that actually happened before? I've yet to see it, but I'd like to be corrected If I'm wrong here.
> At the end of it, he made a comment like, "Of course none of this will happen to Google. You're too innovative."

Yes, but how did everyone listening fail to notice that he winked 3 times in a row, paused silently for 30 seconds and looked disappointed when no one seemed to catch on?
Game theory, one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, etc.

Perhaps employees saw the power struggle with Microsoft as something the "pro humanity" board couldn't win, so they prioritized their job or stock?
"We love the red line concept! Can you please work that into the rest of the design?"
> Northrop's blue collar assemblers

... they are not factory assembly line workers, right?

> over budget

this is the classic problem of too small overall budget. too few launches, not enough money, everything has to be perfect, because everyone wants their pet science/dream project to succeed. so overall efficiency is abysmal.

but the data gained for/through the scientific mission is nice.
Greg was only forced to resign from his board seat, not his job.
I'm not sure exactly what the rule says. I've heard stories of people buying a modern SUV, and needing to push a button on every trip, to disable the start/stop feature. I've also heard of people making a little motorized arm that pushes the button automatically.

Edit: It's not strictly mandatory. See page 3 of https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2014-title40-vol19/p...
Cults have always had some focus on "recruiting", partially because they do recruit people that way but because it leads into despairing interactions with "wogs" that lead members to believe the outside world is corrupt.

I don't know if you've had the experience of having a friend get into Amway and then giving you a long rambling nonsensical lecture about how they plan to make money at Amway that makes no sense at all... but you should because it's an education in how discourses with that structure play a role in mind control. You see them in Scientology, you see them in scam supplement ads on YouTube (it's genius that they ramble for 45 minutes before revealing what they are selling), and you see them in EA.

As for risks the cultural risks you are talking about are very real and not taken seriously enough although sometimes I wonder if the largest urban areas are just full and people who are living in a place that is full have an instinct to stop reproducing. If that's the case and there is a significant population drop it may turn around.
But Microsoft reinvented itself with precisely leadership change in Satya, right?
> (chat for example)

This must be a typo, as chat is the very thing that Signal is meant to provide. If you meant group chats, that was a widely requested feature from the user base.

It’s important to keep in mind that many of the features which Signal has been implementing, are already present in WhatsApp. The very goal of Signal is a chat app for the masses (not just us nerds), but one which actually respects privacy. The one feature that nearly everyone would agree is controversial, was the payments and associated shitcoin, but even that is a case where Signal would have feature parity with widely-used apps, and it exists in an obscure corner of the UI.
I think he's gone a little more "experimental" and Avant Garde in his practice of the art. /s
And somewhat ringing of these current events, his mom was on a charity board with the head of IBM.
(GrapheneOS community mod here) GrapheneOS still has and will continue having Matrix as an option, at least for the time being. IRC and Telegram have also been options for a very long time, but Matrix was prioritized and considered the main platform, and that which the project promoted as the platform the community should gather at. IRC, Telegram, Matrix (and now Discord) are bridged together.

People who would rather not use Discord to interact with the community can use the other available options. Discord isn't the "main" communications platform, or even currently the main community hub, but it may become that in the future. It will depend on where the community gathers, and what the experience is for people joining the community as well as the moderation team alike.

Unfortunately, as much as the project wanted to prioritize and promote Matrix (and it has), the constant issues, both technical (state resets, bricks, lag, random bugs) and those that have to do with the lack of available moderation tools have pretty much made the decision for the project. We reported these issues close to over a year ago now and went through multiple iterations of our biggest rooms after dealing with state reset bugs bricking the rooms. We dealt with the subpar moderation tools by handling raids basically manually without any of the advanced features that other platforms offer. But there comes a time where you have to consider your community's benefit.

Regarding Telegram and IRC, as I mentioned above, those have been and will continue to remain options, but they all have their own sets of significant drawbacks in multiple areas. That said, it's still the community's choice which channel to use, as they're all bridged with one another.

Of course, we also have our own discussion forum at https://discuss.grapheneos.org and also have a Subreddit all the same, though we prefer that people use the former over the latter.

I hope that provides some more context behind the decision, and helps conceptualize why it may not be as "ironic" as one might initially seem.
I doubt that retail adsense is very large - it’s probably mostly large enterprise deals where you do get your personal poc for support and whatnot
"Four years ago, Altman’s mentor, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, flew from the United Kingdom to San Francisco to give his protégé the boot, according to three people familiar with the incident, which has not been previously reported."

I guess he had a change of heart about Sam because ... ?
it is also industry maturing, there are tons of people came to the industry in the latest years because of money and not because of passion about tech.
I worked in the org that Jeanine now runs. It had a series of bad-to-disastrous leaders at the Director, VP, and SVP level.

To call out Jeanine and only Jeanine in language this harsh feels wrong. From my recollection and from what I have heard from people still working there, she is par for the course.

Also I am almost never the person to bring this kind of thing up but ... there aren't a lot of other black women in leadership at Google. Makes this targeted attack feel worse.
Yeah but for non profits it’s worse than for profits and that’s the point. At for profit companies everyone (the board included) is trying to make money. That’s the end goal, and most decisions go towards that goal so even if employees don’t agree with a decision, they can at least see the decision as coherent towards an agreed upon goal. At non profits the board and the employees desires are much more likely to be in large conflict in my opinion because the board has no financial stake in the company. This OpanAI thing is a huge example of this but it also happens all the time at normal non profits. The board at non profits is randos with jobs separate from the non profit being on the board for fun but they get ultimate decision marking power when the employees actually work there and spend 40 hours a week or whatever doing shit for the company.
I don't know her (nor do I presume to know her), but if I take your definition of "bad" as in "morally bad" (you used it in the context of evil), that feels pretty presumptuous, and then fairly attacking to assume the commenter is "defending the bad". There are so many people who end up half-assing their jobs in various ways, I think it's a pretty slippery slope to start calling those people "bad". They may be bad at their job, but I wouldn't call them bad people.

I also don't have enough information to say she's "not" a bad person, but with the information given, I don't see anything that would indicate she is one.
That's quite the sweeping claim. Some quick googling suggests otherwise.

"Chronic stress induces significant gene expression changes in the prefrontal cortex alongside alterations in adult hippocampal neurogenesis"

>In this study, unpredictable chronic mild stress in mice resulted in a deficit in neuronal dendritic tree development and neuroblast migration in the hippocampal neurogenic niche. To investigate molecular pathways underlying neurogenesis alteration, genome-wide gene expression changes were assessed in the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and the hypothalamus alongside neurogenesis changes. Cluster analysis showed that the transcriptomic signature of chronic stress is much more prominent in the prefrontal cortex compared to the hippocampus and the hypothalamus. Pathway analyses suggested huntingtin, leptin, myelin regulatory factor, methyl-CpG binding protein and brain-derived neurotrophic factor as the top predicted upstream regulators of transcriptomic changes in the prefrontal cortex. Involvement of the satiety regulating pathways (leptin) was corroborated by behavioural data showing increased food reward motivation in stressed mice. Behavioural and gene expression data also suggested circadian rhythm disruption and activation of circadian clock genes such as Period 2.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/2/2/fcaa153/5912...
I'm in one. This is a pretty specific dressing down from a senior engineer. It's disturbing, and consistent with Google's output
Are companies supposed to be democracies? PG being hypocritical I guess.
I have to believe he might be willing, if the threshold for a successful vote were 95% of all employees making a credible threat to leave forever en masse!

While organized labor’s history is a mixed bag, it seems to include ample examples of cold-blooded titans of industry (with far more willingness to act with contempt and physical violence) bending to the will of a far lesser proportion of employees taking far milder action.
Very cute, but there is actually a difference: the gov is only supposed to provide public goods. Voting either directly or through a representative still can lead to a scenario where the gov steals from some to give to others.

Here is a real-life example:

I live in the Portland metro. A couple of years ago, voters decided to vote to tax my income above a threshold to pay for preschool for people who have incomes below the threshold of taxation.

This does not lead to increased economic efficiency. Every year I now have to pay $x dollars directly to other people's children under the threat of state violence. I would much rather put that money in my child's 529. Or use it to pay for my child's daycare!

This isn't increased economic efficiency. It is literal theft.
Oh so it is Punjabi, I didn't pick up on that sagda (vs. Hindi would be sakta) for example. (And I thought it was the single day because of 'ko', Hindi would be 'ke baad' - I might've realised except the 'baad' still isn't that clear to me.)

For whatever it's worth, I concur with that transcription & its translation - I can't find jaanu online but it's so close to Hindi (jaan) that I don't doubt it at all. (It's a hell of a lot easier for me to realise what he's saying when it's written out by someone else, heh.)

(I've also vouched for parent comment, it's informative and afaict accurate, I don't understand why it would be dead.)
Woah!! Thank you! I guess I shouldn't have been afraid to touch that setting.

In my web searching to find a resolution to this problem, I didn't find a single mention of this. Oh, web, you have failed me again!
Or, when you fire people, have a clear reason for it. Not being "consistently candid" is not that.
because people like the developers within the company did not like that decision and its also within their right to disagree with the board's decision and not to want to work under a different leadership. They're not slaves, they're employees who rented their time for a specific purpose under a specific leader.

As it's within the board's rights to hire or fire people like Sam or the developers.
Trust your gut. No one here has a good story about "Sam I Am".
As a teenager/young adult, I was almost 100% “piracy”.

As time went on it evolved more into “try before I buy” for games (with GOG being my platform of choice) where if I actually have more than 3 play sessions, then I actually enjoyed to game and wasn’t just caught up in addiction behavior. The many thousands of songs I had collected gradually rose to about 20% paid for via CD’s.

These days even the majority of my music has now been bought, thanks to things like bandcamp and also having enough money that I don’t have to evaluate whether I can support an artist or need to support myself. I absolutely won’t do pure streaming, my archive is important, especially since I make modifications.

I’m always going to do what I do, but I’m all for supporting people doing things I like if it’s not a sacrifice.

Hell, there are probably a hundred or two YouTube creators I’d happily throw a dollar at per year if it was easy. And they’d make more money from that than if I sat down and watched thousands of their videos ads and all.
I've been following Windmill since their HN Launch (my first script was edited 540 ago, just checked). Less than a year ago I started using it more heavily and it's been a breeze. Their Discord server is very active and Ruben usually replies and fixes bugs in minutes, even on weekends.
Does Discord or Zoom enforce their rules? How other sites like icanhazchat enforce that rule? Omegle didn't care about their own rules, endangering minors.
I had the same thought this morning and was debating selling my nvda stock when I saw this - feels like they are well-positioned right now, as with crypto a few years ago, but if there were an efficiency breakthrough that allowed commodity CPUs to do the inference instead, this advantage could vanish quickly.
But of course employees can vote, either individually with their feet, or as groups via unions!
I would agree, it definitely isn't always a lazy criticism. But to be unlazy it should include something that expounds on why it might matter. When the entirety of the response to the study is "in rats" that doesn't seem helpful to me
So Gemini is suing Genesis for $1.6B. Genesis is suing Gemini for $0.7B. The New York AG is also suing both of them. The SEC is also suing both of them.

I just hope there's a few bucks left over for the investors after all the legal fees.
>> The Win32 environment is essentially a protected-mode DOS application"

> 95 and prior were literally running on top of DOS.

Not sure how you're gathering that the GP is contradicting this. Windows 95, 98 and Me are all architecturally the same: a protected-mode DOS app.

Running DOS from within the Windows shell is not the same as exiting or skipping the boot of the Windows graphical shell, and is running in VM86 mode (which as the GP points out existed in Windows/386 / Windows 3.0 Enhanced 386 mode) See Virtual 8086 mode for some more overview.
On the topic of spam..."Spam" to me these days includes email from companies who abuse the soft opt-in, service emails and "existing commercial relationship" rules.

Cart abandonment, tips on how to stay safe online, requests to go paperless, newsletters, claim your free subscription that came with your purchase, thank you for your purchase (separate to the order confirmation), requests to leave a review, continue your application, offering support, "you haven't logged in for a while", new login from $device, thank you for completing step X ... it's endless.

An endless torrent of excuses to get the their company name in front of your eyeballs.
When employees can vote with their feet, and in this case they absolutely can, yeah they kind of do work that way.
No need for hard concepts.

I am talking of things like "opsie, I don't want to commit this yet" (git reset) and "destroy all my work" (git reset --hard) being a command line switch apart. That's just wrong. That's so wrong I keep git reset --hard safety net around, in fact. https://gist.github.com/chx/85db0ebed1e02ab14b1a65b6024dea29
cool. it was