skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My next vest would have been this month. My severance amount was more than my 6 month 20% vest.

I was still on my initial 5/15/40/40 initial offer.

For people who don’t know, Amazon’s offers are based on total compensation target with a schedule of:

- year 1 - base + large prorated signing bonus + 5% vest

- year 2 - base + smaller signing bonus + 15% base

- year 3 and 4 - 20% vest every six months + base.

I had two vesting periods left.
There's no grounds for a lawsuit, not in the states. They can legally fire you for nearly any reason or for no reason whatsoever. All PIPs do is help the company fend off claims that the employee was fired for an illegal reason (e.g., for being a member of a protected class, retaliation, etc.)
did they stop using plastic guides for the timing chains yet? :)
Bezos cut his chops in finance at DE Shaw. That’s how every bank treats their employees.
Particularly insidious if you don't stick to the 16 byte stack alignment. We had one case where we calling from assembly code back to C, but the asm didn't honour the C stack alignment. The C code was trying to access some vector variable on the stack and crashed because the compiler generates code assuming %rsp is 16 byte aligned when you enter the function. The stack was only unaligned some of the time and the crash happened very distant from the wrapper, making it a pain to track down. (Asm wrapper has since been fixed).
That's every monopoly in history. Any smart monopoly allows just enough competition to tread water to show regulators that "hey, look, there's competition, we're just dominant".
Not at all shocking coming from the same company who replaced its OS-wide help system with a browser that displays Bing search engine results.

Ludicrous and insulting, like it is saying LMGTFY.
The adage "Use before Re-Use" has been very helpful to me in dealing with this issue.
On my beater? No. Hookless rims for clincher tires. No idea why, but common enough that the bike coop I got it at had a standard down charge for them.
AI being used to identify war targets is definitely relevant though. Why wouldn't it be?
> It works reliably and predictably in all weather conditions.

So they don't need to be shut down when it's getting too hot to cool them?

https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p...

https://www.energylivenews.com/2012/08/14/us-nuclear-plant-s...
> It is probably a way to give workers fake kudos without actually giving them anything.

It's actually the opposite. The ratings themselves are associated with multipliers for your annual bonus and stock grants. IIRC, the full spectrum of ratings and multipliers was:

Meets None (0.0) -> Meets Some (0.5) -> Meets Most (0.85) -> Meets (1.0) -> Exceeds (1.25) -> Greatly Exceeds (2.0) -> and Redefines (3.0)

Ignoring the company multiplier, which was always a value slightly greater than 1.0 when I was there (that may not be true now), for a Senior Engineer (L5) with a $175k salary, 15% bonus target, and annual stock grant of $110k vesting over 4 years , the value of the rating to them at each exceeds level would be:

Exceeds: ~$12k / year
Greatly Exceeds: ~$53k / year
Redefines: ~$107k / year

The top 2 buckets only account for about 8% or so of employees, but the number for Exceeds was around 20% of employees during my time.
Oh, is it 20 now? Strange that the US does so much worse than the global average, which is 6-8 years. Is it a competency issue, you think?
SSH -X fails if IPv6 is disabled
I just ran into this issue after recently disabling IPv6 on my machines, a fix is to add "AddressFamily inet" to the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and reload the ssh service.
A wearable robot that assists people with walking
So, good? The employee recognizes that the employer is just screwing around with everyone, seems like a FAFO situation; I hope Amazon has this happen endlessly.
My use-case is slightly different, but I use Proxmox for my home server and would recommend it. Especially if you're familiar with linux systems or want to learn about them which I've done through the years I've been using this setup.

My server was originally a single debian installation set up to host local services for things like git. That grew into hosting a site, vpn, then some multiplayer game servers. When I reached a point where too many things were installed on single machine, I looked at vm options. I've used VMWare/VSphere professionally, but settled on Proxmox for these main reasons: easy to set up and update, easy to build/copy vms, simple way to split physical resources, monitoring of each vm, and simple backup and restores. All without any weird licensing.

That server houses 4 vms right now. That might be a bit much for your mini pc but you could do a couple. The multiplayer servers are the main hog so I isolate resources for that. The windows machine is only for development which isn't your exact use case. I can say however that I've never had issue when I need it. Only thing I can't speak for is the need for graphics passthrough.
I've used Yabai for about three years now, it generally only forgets windows or specifically their states if you use the swipe multi tasking features. However when this happens I have a keybind and Skhd command which quickly restarts the daemon [1] and fixes the windows.

It takes a little while to get used it, but Yabai is now an app I can't live without.

1: launchctl kickstart -k "gui/${UID}/homebrew.mxcl.yabai"
You are very confused between how something works right now and how it can work in principle. In this you very much resemble CPython developers: they never attempt optimizations that go beyond what Python C API can offer. This is very limiting (and, this is why all sorts of Python JIT compilers can in many circumstances beat CPython by a lot).

The evidence to how absurd your claim is is right in front of you: Google's implementation of Protobuf uses std::map for dictionaries, and these dictionaries are exposed to Python. But, following your argument this... shouldn't be possible?

To better understand the difference: Python dictionary stores references to Python objects, but it doesn't have to. It could, for example, take Python strings and use C character arrays for storage, and then upon querying the dictionary convert them back to Python str objects. Similarly with integers for example etc.

Why is this not done -- I don't know. Knowing how many other things are done in Python, I'd suspect that this isn't done because nobody bothered to do it. It also feels too hard and to unrewarding to patch a single class of objects, even as popular as dictionaries. If you go for this kind of optimizations, you want it to be systematically and uniformly applied to all the code... and that's, I guess, how Cython came to be, for example.
search works fine for me. it's spam detection that's terrible.
Would be interesting to see a comparison vs languages that compile per lane logic to SIMD such as ISPC or (CPU side) OpenCL or others.
There are only so many chords, this means nothing. Songs can use the same chords and be totally unique.
Serious question: What is the advantage of Proxmox for power linux users that can run a debian or ubuntu server box + KVM ?

I'm always reading stuff about people using proxmox but don't really understand its 'edge'
What makes you think that the entire body of private access journals and books hasn’t been used?
The addition of hot reload of extensions finally makes C++ programming on the new Godot bearable. It was a deal breaker when I touched the game engine from 4.1 and this release delievered exactly what I wanted.
Ask enough experts to make a security assessment about the picture of a car and one will eventually say what you want without reservations.

The source for wikipedia is a finger-in-the-wind opinion.
The transmission was drivable but damaged because it was a bad leak. Given its age and some body damage, it didn't make sense to repair--and I got a ridiculously good trade-in anyway.
Once i read an analysis comparing EP legislative action to action of national parliaments and it said that EP has much higher rate of rejecting legislation.

It makes sense - in parliamentary democracy, the coalition in government has majority in parliament and government members are often party leaders (or other important people in parties), so legislature could be pushed through parliament by party lines.

In EP there is much weaker connection between government (EU Commission) and EP, which makes EP more independent.
Why proxmox and not simply using libvirt? I am very happy with kvm, but always looking to make my life better.
lol yeah, I'm not even willing to commute 30 mins to a local office let alone relocate. Maybe for a mid 7 figure pay day.
I think they may be referring to the principle task that consciousness serves in humans, which is to rationalize decisions we've already made subconsciously to other people so they will help us.

The conscious "why" comes after the decision. In that sense it's exactly the kind of bullshit machine that LLMs are.
I think it has to do with the notion that many (most?) people who could hone, and employ, respectable cognitive skills neglect or refuse to do so in favor of putting down other species and LLMs. They point to the human exemplars and think having the same DNA template elevates them to that level. They have to be superior even if it means applying ridiculous biases around intelligence.
It’s not that it’s worse, it’s just refusing to do coding without persistent prodding and the right prompts. Some think they are trying to do something with alignment, and maybe prevent it from giving code away so that they can upsell.
Having the end in sight is a huge factor. Two weeks of just more grind in a terrible job? No thank you. Two weeks of counting down the days until freedom? Definite maybe. But yes, NPV of the first couple of weeks of the next job might be important.
Life lessons from a 44 year old (2022)
Deadgrep (uses ripgrep and evil-collection has a binding) takes me to my happy place -

https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep
I found it acceptable.
This worth investing time in getting infrastructure "just right" pay off big later in his grug experience.
What is Lear
The Downfall of Karabiner Elements, the Necessary macOS App
Man, you guys would be so screwed if you didn't have the "Summer of Love" to fall back on when someone criticizes your personality cult.

You should contemplate that sometime, just as an exercise. What would it be like to live in a world where whataboutism doesn't amount to a cheat code to summon the easily-led? One where your beliefs, opinions, arguments, and actions actually have to stand on their own, without reference to unrelated crimes committed by other people in a different time and place.
Alternately good liars probably have a solid theory of mind. You need to tell the other person what they are likely to believe so you need to know how they think.
Of course forbid with very strong penalties and no statute of limitations...
I think they didn't anticipate sucha a large backlash, especially from investors. They felt the backlash threatens OpenAI, both its non-profit and for-profit arms, so they reverted their decision, which in my opinion was a mistake, but time will tell.
The Evolution of Pop _OS and the Birth of the Cosmic DE
Why wouldn't apple allow to remove all animations when switching desktops, without disabling SIP?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/434555/can-you-com...

Native keyboard shortcuts are there for all to use to switch desktops, but the fading in/out animations that last around 1s completely prevent fast desktop switches as is so useful in i3/sway.
Amazon's Trainium2 AI Accelerator Features 96 GB of HBM, 4x Training Performance
It's a way to correct under-leveling rapidly. Google at least aimed to hire at the level of fully demonstrated and sustainable competency; if there was any doubt you'd be hired at the lower level. That can be corrected in a ~year with greatly exceeds or redefines ratings. There was a bit of step function in yearly raises depending on the rating as well but promotion was a substantial raise.
From the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."
Has anyone tried this with complex layouts (e.g. 4 monitor tie fighter)? My main issue is window state is lost due to race conditions in the display identification logic, though I haven't tried dared a Sonoma upgrade yet which contains compositor upgrades
Spotify actually has (at least) a few hundred pools of money; one of the pools might be "Free listeners in the US", one might be "Moldovan listeners who have Spotify as a bundle with this particular cell phone provider". A fixed percentage of that money is set aside for the rights holders for the performance (master rights) and the rights holders for the music (publishing rights).

The allocated money is then passed to the rights holders, based on the percentage of listens they received within users in that pool. Individual rights holders can negotiate additional bumps, and Spotify has some exceptions for what needs to be counted.

I know that the idea that money should go from a listener directly to the bands that user listens to, instead of splitting up the pool, feels like a pretty interesting one. Unfortunately, folks who listen to a lot of music tend to listen to smaller and more interesting bands as well. This change wouldn't necessarily result in more money in the pockets of smaller artists; it's not inconceivable at all that the rich would get richer.

It's also worth mentioning that the average person who spent money on music at all, prior to the invention of streaming, spent far less annually than they spend on streaming now.

I think artists are reacting to a lot of issues. The entire music industry is built around signing absolutely disgusting contracts with deeply talented and fundamentally naive 18 year olds who are effectively replaceable by the next new thing. This is compounded by the fact that most artists don't have a relationship with Spotify; they have a relationship with their record label who has a relationship with Spotify, and the label isn't really interested in giving an artist a full accounting of what they've brought in from Spotify.

Finally, and most importantly, there is a real disconnect between the social impact of music and the actual size of the industry. There's a lot of money there, sure, but the music industry is like a professional sports league in terms of total revenue. A few superstars are going to suck up a lot of the money and not leave much for the bench players, let alone the folks three leagues down from the "show".
> just like we use const instead of typing out constant.

Those aren't constants†, they're immutable variables which are quite different. Because of the "as if" rule and provenance in some cases you get the same benefit as with a real constant, but that's not what this is.

† In C or C++. In some other languages const does, logically, get you an actual constant.
Like in Workflow Guided explorations like: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.08802.pdf, for example, if you said "Forward the email" the Bot needs to sample from a set of actions which in this case would be DOM elements and the JS API to call to click the right button to forward the email. This would be a harder/interesting to test out. Can it learn to forward an email on firefox desktop browser and then do it on an iphone?

It feels like opening a drawer once learn't, the bot has a (world?) model of what all drawers might look like, so it can open different drawers in any world. But this might not generalize to web interfaces and more specifically, how to do those actions on those interfaces?

Not to take away from what this paper's scope and achievements.
Thanks for the perspective. I guess where I’m coming from is Google was a web search company. They’ve expanded into mobile and that also means their own mobile OS. They also got into browsers. Similar could be said about Apple. To me it’s less about vertical integration and more about expansion. Walmart used to be grocery. Then they added retail. Neat experience at the time as a consumer, but it killed local retail and has gut punched other national retail. Since then they’ve added auto service and pharmacy. At what point does someone come in and say, ok giant corporation, you’ve proven you’re so large you can enter into most if not all markets and decimate your competitors but it’s not a long term net benefit because we’re consolidating everything under too few umbrellas. Maybe I’m wrong to think that and I do recognize the benefits of scale. I’m just not convinced a civilization is thinking long term enough when I keep seeing small businesses go under and medium businesses get acquired (aka: bought up). It seems like this is a meaningful part contributing to the disparity in wealth.
Why? I find having a single capable hypervisor hosting VMs far more reliable than a bunch of smaller machines.
I guess you are a Mac user. Because realistically, most PC users that care even a little will have more than that, at pretty low prices. 16GB is standard in PC laptops that are sold for under 1K euros. 64GB will be found in laptop generally over 2K but at this point it is more a workstation replacement, somewhat changing product categories.

I used to care, because I felt I had to use macOS and Apple sell the configuration that would make those types of software painless at an exorbitant price.
But then if you say fuck you to Apple, voila, not much of a problem anymore...
Yeah, this was how I was thinking as well.

But to continue the analogy, it's more like you split yourself into two smaller "you"s, and in the process each new "you" gets half a coin in the pocket of each new "you".
Vim universe: fzf – command line fuzzy finder (2019) [video]
Fyi the dance is called the jubislide, "slickback" is just from the song people often dance it to (which uses a sample from the show boondocks)
We are applying the concept of stateless and stateful serverless functions to computer vision, allowing to develop applications really fast and that can run embedded on devices or in the cloud
One of my favorite comments chains here was was something to the affect of:

Commenter posts a nice summary of how ZFS will try a quick compression algorithm to see if a block is even compressible and then try other more expensive ones to achieve better compression.

Another commenter asks how they know that.

First commenter replies that they wrote the code for it.

Nothing more than a ZFS user (to some extent my company relies on it even) here, so I just try and color inside the lines, but I'm ever impressed by it.
The effort of these apologists makes my stomach sick
A recent article chronicling the rise and disillusionment of carbon offset trading:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231129175703/https://www.newyo...
That's pretty a good description for the general audience. From what I remember, previously, most general vendors would hide their Linux laptop offerings and you'd find them by a special link only or had to search for them. Now going to https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/faqs/operating-systems the section is about equally divided between Linux and Windows questions. "How to install Kali Linux", "How to Install Linux on a Chromebook" etc.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. (not referring to Wyden)

Really, the best reason (from the security org point of view) not to collect so much surveillance on your home population, is because it creates a single point of failure for foreign adversaries to gain access. Most of the interesting data is already commercially available for advertising.
Work that doesn’t pay particularly well and can be hard on your body. This is a huge departure.
Synopsis of "That's Interesting!" by Murray Davis
Of course. He's playing 4 dimensional chess for the freedom of speech.
In Buddhism there’s the idea that our core self is awareness, which is silent - it doesn’t think in a perceptible way, it doesn’t feel in a visceral way, but it underpins thought and feeling, and is greatly impacted by it. A large part of meditation and “release of suffering” is learning to let your awareness lead your thinking rather than your thinking lead your awareness.

To be clear, I think this is in fact a correct assessment of the architecture of intelligence. You can suspend thought and still function throughout your day in all ways. Discursive thought is entirely unnecessary, but it is often helpful for planning.

My observation of LLMs in such a construction of intelligence is they are entirely the thinking mind - verbal, articulate, but unmoored. There is no, for lack of a better word, “soul,” or that internal awareness that underpins that discursive thinking mind. And because that underlying awareness is non articulate and not directly observable by our thinking and feeling mind, we really don’t understand it or have a science about it. To that end, it’s really hard to pin specifically what is missing in LLMs because we don’t really understand ourselves beyond our observable thinking and emotive minds.

I look at what we are doing with LLMs and adjacent technologies and I wonder if this is sufficient, and building an AGI is perhaps not nearly as useful as we might think, if what we mean is build an awareness. Power tools of the thinking mind are amazingly powerful. Agency and awareness - to what end?

And once we do build an awareness, can we continue to consider it a tool?
C17 rims are considered very narrow in road cycling these days. It's been a few years since 17mm were new and upcoming. Campagnolo widened their Zonda wheelset to C17 in, easy to remember, 2017 and they were late.

The goal of performance oriented riders (for many, fixated might be the more accurate description) these days is to run the widest possible rim that will still hold their tire width of choice reasonably well. This has several reasons. One is that wind tunnel treats have repeatedly shown that there's an aerodynamic sweet spot where the rim is slightly wider than the tire, despite the increase in total frontal area for a given tire width (google "105 rule"), another is that riders want the suspension benefits of lower pressure but as little as possible of the downsides of the extra drag of wider tires, the extra mass of wider tires, increased danger of pinch flats and decreased lateral stability. Wider rims help with all those compromises.
The author of edbrowse is visually impaired, and so is the target audience.

This is like saying braille books could use more illustrations.

Please read the very first hyperlink to learn more, http://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html
> How many competitors died on the vine because Figma was able to offer a free tier subsidised with low interest rate VC money?

Is it any different from wealthy established multinationals offering a free tier subsidized by steady profits from established (sometimes even monopolistic) product lines killing all startup offerings?
Exactly, just as the true god has seven aspects [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fi...
It’s highly ironic that fossil fuels might be creating a problem that cripples nuclear fission going forward. That being said, I’m hoping we manage to scale up direct energy transfer and bypass the need for turbines.
Spotify follows the same game-book as the record companies did in the early 00's.

Pay nearly-nothing to the artist, take money for themselves and charge the consumer. Nothing has changed other than an online-internet enabled application than a CD.

You don't even have your own physical copy, once you hit cancel you loose all. So your locked in to a model where if you wish to listen to music you are forced to pay, otherwise unless you head for the sea's and download which IS illegal and where the artist gets completely nothing, you've got nothing. Where at any point is that fair?

If Spotify sent you a CD of your top-listens of the year then that would be something.