skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When their charter says

"primary fiduciary duty is to humanity"

I don't think that means it intends to pay a financial dividend to each and every person on the planet. I think it means that if it is successful at AGI, that in itself will expand the economy enough to have the same effect.

"Rising tide lifts all boats" type logic.
I went through the process
there. The process gave me months to prepare for another job and by the time the official PIP happened, I was more or less waiting on it to get my severance.

I could have quit anytime during the process and had other opportunities waiting for me. I was offered another job before my 10 days of paid time off elapsed let alone my 3+ months severance and I survived through a vesting event.

At almost 50 years old and Amazon being my 8th job out of now nine, why would I wrap my esteem on my job? It was just my 8th time to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter.
It's not income directly for him, it's paid to his label, and that label will take their own cut. My impression is that the label takes the largest cut of all the people involved, but I'm happy to be corrected on that.
Researchers create molecule to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Recursive React Component Rendering
No rights enshrined in a constitution is guaranteed or respected, anywhere in the world. First, in come countries legislation breaching constitutional rights appear all the time and the burden is on the people to fight that legislation that is presumed valid. Second, people believe that some rights are no longer aligned with the modern times (see USA second amendment) and are willing to remove it. Third, constitutional rights that are not completely removed are brutally "regulated", with the same effect, and most people agree with that or actively support it.

In summary, there are no rights that are guaranteed even if they are in a constitution.
If he was OK doing the evil thing, he wouldn't have gotten PTSD doing it.
Maybe if the "popular" shells, but http://www.nushell.sh/ is looking better and better
"Do you have an example of a prediction he made that didn't own out?"

How many of his predictions are even disprovable? Do you have a list? Was that protien fold prediction even disprovable?

An example of a nondisprovable prediction is:

-one day an AI will become self aware.

A disprovable one is:

-Skynet will begin to learn at a geometric rate. It will becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th 1997.
Many thanks! Incredibly versatile implementation.
A lot of people sleep on PowerShell, possibly because some of the syntax is a little clunky (and quite slow compared to some other shells, I will freely admit). That being said, I'd argue object oriented programming is a massive improvement over text oriented programming. I never want to touch awk again!
There's plenty of anger going around, especially when you consider the major labels own almost 20% of spotify.
There’s plenty of people who lose motivation to work hard and want to just coast while taking very high salary. Happens in professional sports teams, happens in tech.
It’s not an “attitude.” It’s the legal structure of the corporation’s leadership. They were no more capable of incorporating the public will than an individual is capable of taking a vote on the flow of traffic on a public highway. That is to say, even if they had done what is proposed here, it wouldn’t have made a difference.
I would say it depends, if employee was set to be fired - there is nothing that they could do to avoid it, decision was made to downsize team, or they were assholes, had personal clashes with leaders etc.

There are probably cases where pip is used to give a good person who is slipping a kick. That was probably initiated by their manager to motivate them back on track. However, a good manager would have a serious talk with that employee, rather than use formal HR process.

So thats why (I think) pip is mostly used to get rid of people.
NTSB says unintended acceleration was not electronic: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-t...
The problem is that forced attrition doesn't create a dynamic, competitive environment full of go-getters. It creates an environment full of treacherous bums who work as little as possible, and spend all of their efforts making sure they look good and don't take the blame for any failures.

You can see the results of this in Amazon's consistently poor companywide performance in every arena. They're even managing to lose ground to Microsoft in cloud computing. It's pathetic.
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They ended up making uint8_t a typedef for unsigned char rather than a distinct type (which is permitted but not required by the standard) so the semantics are now clear.

Edit: That's what I remember but I can't find evidence of it. The docs say this is ABI dependent so perhaps the above statement is true on some specific ABI (if I haven't misremembered it entirely). But I can't track down wheere a relevant ABI would be documented.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-13.2.0/gcc/Architecture-i...

Edit 2: this header has a typedef of uint8_t to unsigned char, but it's part of glibc rather than gcc

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/gcc/linu...
Creativity is not just cognition and pattern matching. There is something more fundamental at work... obviously calling it 'magic' doesn't describe it, but some people call it 'inspiration' and they feel it on a physiological level. They starve and torture themselves to serve it. To recreate something like that you would need to simulate not just a human's biology but an entire world.
Is the impact actually even measurable, let alone meaningful? Or is it simply green-washing to sell more product to a consumer base primed for such marketing?
>I wonder how much of this is a result of lawsuit culture

Or a lack of union protection.
The last two 40% chunks vest at 6 month intervals. Amazon’s RSU comp also vests in 6 month intervals (May and November). If you’re in year 3, you could be waiting on a vest that includes signing bonus comp and regular comp RSUs.
At risk of sounding elitist and “gate-keeping” - this is what happens when you open the gates to millions of people with no technical talent whatsoever, and promise them riches if they just complete a simple 6-week bootcamp course on React and slap a “Software Engineer I” sticker on their LinkedIn. Of course React is used everywhere, it’s all a lot of people know.

And once these people are in, they tend to moan about the state of things, about how everyone is “gatekeeping knowledge” and intentionally making software difficult to work on. No, you just lack the skills to work in this field. It would be like a pre-med trainee walking into a hospital and insisting everything is too complicated. That it all needs to match their limited understanding of how medicine works.

I’m speaking as someone without a computer science degree, but with a master’s in a different field of engineering. Software is VERY difficult, among the most difficult fields to work in, cognitively speaking. I have spent YEARS of my free time learning everything that a B.S. in computer science would provide, and still feel like I have a superficial understanding of a lot of CS topics.

If someone lacks the chops to make it, then we should either train them up or encourage them to pursue something else. Not offer them “get-rich-quick” schemes and destroy the technical rigor of the field in the process.

/rant
Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government [video]
I think the human creative process is more interesting than AI. I love learning about the person behind the creation, and hearing how their upbringing and experiences shaped what they created.
Using JavaScript Variables in Tailwind
It wasn't my "first thought". But go ahead and explain how it makes sense.
Maybe I have a different memory of record deals, but I've never heard of a band that made money from album sales. This is why they are always touring. It's not to promote the album, but to make money themselves. That's why there are jokes about bands "coming out of retirement" to do a tour after so many years being because one of the members needs to make a payment for something or other.
ZFS will still be preferable for production for a long while until bcachefs has proven itself, and bug reports slow down. That said, I'm also stoked for bcachefs.

ZFS has always appeared to me like a bloated mess. Btrfs is more minimal, but too much so, in that it doesn't do parity (at least very reliably), which sucks because I don't always want mirroring. And it has a reputation for gobbling your data up.

If bcachefs can provide all the most useful features of ZFS, while being minimal and baked into Linux by default, man that will be amazing.
> Google said the change was because of security reasons, highlighting that forgotten and unused accounts are more likely to be compromised.

Some might think "unlikely", however this really happens. Old account are hacked and the videos, previously free, posted with that account dont play anymore unless you pay a few cents.
Unless the employee sues you, which is discouraged by practices like these.
Depends on how well the wiring is done in the first place.

I am an enthusiast of the entire reliability spectrum of vehicle brands.

There are people on Range Rover forums wondering why their infotainment doesn't work half the time in their brand new SUV, meanwhile when I goggled why my windshield wipers wouldn't turn off in my 97 Tacoma, I found a thread that suggested a wire would wear through in 200-300k miles (which was my mileage).

I owned a BMW 325i that was full of gremlins, then owned the competing Lexus IS350 (with far more features), to double the age and mileage without 1/10th of the issues.
The PIP does two important things:

1. Raises the stakes

2. Involves a 3rd party (yes, yes, we can argue that HR is not your friend, etc.), which _can_ help with the trust (it's not just you & me anymore, you not knowing how I twist my story of you)

I get all the skepticism. I simply have different experience.
Can Elon Musk stop X going to the wall after tirade at advertisers?
>I despise it

I'll bite, what do you despise about it?
Insane how anyone could call Figma terrible, even from an engineering perspective it's basically magic seeing it throw thousands of assets around at high framerate with multiple users, it all just works.

Actually it's so good it makes Adobe software look embarrassing how poorly it performs.
> Why is it not fine when a company is more or less breaking even but paying good salaries to its employees?

Because this ignores reality. Especially at FAANG companies, growth is expected and the majority of compensation is stock. If you stop growing, and stop having a profit, your stock tanks, and future compensation - as well as compensation from years prior that is still in the form of company stock - becomes worth much less. You can't hire people who are as good because you're "in decline." Your products falter because talent leaves and you can't find new talent. Even if all the above is imagined (it's not) you now have real impacts in terms of declining application quality and shrinking user bases.
Source on the newer GPT-4 model being worse at coding?
> This is a woeful state of affairs propagated by an ill founded and widespread confidence that the C and C++ standards probably aren't as hostile to type aliasing as they actually are.

Yep. Honestly, while I get the historical reasons for strict aliasing, I wish it hadn't been created. Just make -fno-strict-aliasing the default and normalize the abundant use of restrict, maybe shorten it to res or rest just like we use const instead of typing out constant. These implicit rules that usually, but not always, do what you want can be a bigger footgun than having to do things explicitly.
There are drivers that will turn blindly into a corner at excessive speed because they feel lucky or invulnerable except they are not

Making the corner tighter helps solve this.

I walk to work in the suburbs. I have to cross a 6 lane highway. It's signaled properly. But the one thing that nearly kills me every few months the road has very smooth radius corners. Drivers can easily carry 40mph through the corners. Between red-on-red being legal, right-on-green-even-though-pedestrians-crossing-is-active, and generally driver fuckery, I'm amazed nobody has been killed at this intersection.
That book has received a little bit of criticism:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-...

I searched for "Isaacson hagiography" and grabbed the first article from a major outlet...
Used to love Sketch then they did some strange stuff with pricing and I moved to Figma. Just checking out their site now might give it a try. But always irks me when companies put SSO as a premium enterprise tier feature.
HA! Must be hard knowing you'll never accomplish anything even remotely close to that mediocrity in your miserable life.
To the point here: I think people think these managers are in a position of real power. They are not. They are cogs in the wheel as are their subordinates. It's entirely possible this manager wasn't even the one doing the direct ranking, sometimes this roles up to levels beyond where the manager can give real input. Someone has to get pipped as the system demands it, it happened to land on the person in the article. The manager is then trying to get them out of it because they believe they don't actually require the pip.

So this is both a failure of the manager (it is their job to navigate the system and boost their reports during stack ranking), and also a failure of the system as a whole (this person probably shouldn't have been pipped).

I don't think it's so much doublethink as it is this manager is trying to balance competing interests in their very immediate sphere.
The patent had expired on the drug four decades prior and no other pharmaceutical bothered to try and make it available.

We really got the best outcome out of this stunt. He exposed real weaknesses in what we're doing and also the FDA process to market generics and instead of doing anything to fix it outside of the context of this one drug, we shot the messenger.
I'm not sure if you're American but take a look at the food situation here. Eating out practically anywhere is total garbage food. If you want high quality stuff made by people who know what they're doing be prepared to pay big bucks. A little pastry shop opened by me with a professionally trained French chef. The croissants are out this work but are like 8 bucks a piece whereas the Costco ones are maybe a dollar a piece and taste good. The market obviously incentivizes consumers to purchase the Costco variety but that's b/c the Costco variety is being more heavily subsidized than people realize.
"Reverse engineering"[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering
Public figures, especially elected officials, have a significantly reduced protections from defamation in the US.

Not only is truth an absolute defense to defamation in the US, the plaintiff must show that the defendant's statements were made with actual malice if the plaintiff is a public official. Merely being unsure if something is true or being negligent in determining the truth of it is not sufficient.

Furthermore, nearly all civil lawsuits require that actual damages be done in order to have standing at all. That is, you need a dollar amount because that's basically the only remedy that a civil court can make. That means that if the damage is due to lost reputation and your reputation has already been thoroughly soiled, it will be incredibly difficult to put a dollar amount to it.

So:

1. It has to be actually false as shown by the plaintiff

2. It has to be known by the defendant to be false as shown by the plaintiff

3. It has to be made intentionally to harm the subject as shown by the plaintiff

4. The statements must have actually harmed the subject in monetary terms as shown by the plaintiff
Xorg is unmaintainable and this is acknowledged by the experienced maintainers that don't want to maintain it any longer.
mailcow

mailinabox

Just postfix + rspamd

I’ll have to give self hosting a shot with one of my domains :)
Heroku Postgres Migrating to Amazon Aurora
The point is that someone is paying the cost of maintaining the library's ABI surface area even if it's not you. In a thread specifically for developers considering how to offer an interface to their software, I think it's only fair to recognize the costs of those different approaches. In that regard, OpenSSL is an extremely bad example, or an extremely good example of what not to do.
If you only give money away at your death, are you really giving it away? What else are you gonna do with it?
"mitochondria is a powerhouse of our cells" its most banal summary used widely of what you aptly summarized. A legacy code of complex life that we cannot get rid of :D
I want a streaming service with following business model:
I pay 10 dollars for unlimited streaming. Spotify gets 1 or 2.

I listen only to taylor swift on repeat - she gets 8
I listen to only one song the whole month - then some obscure metal band from Finland gets 8
I listen to 40 bands equally - they get 20c each
I listen to 1 band as 20 other combined - the band get 4$ all the rest split 4. Thats it

Here is the kicker - no aggregation and averages for millions of users - my money goes only to the people I listen to in whatever ratios.
Or maybe there's no secret sauce for intelligence and if the system / organism can display all that functionality then should just say it's intelligent.

I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I'm not convinced by the "secret sauce" / internal monologue school of intelligence.

If we want to be pragmatic, we should just think about smart tests and just assume it's intelligent if the system passes those tests. It's what we do with other people (I don't really know if they feel inside like I do, but given they are the same biological beings, it sounds quite likely)
Perhaps this one:

https://www.npr.org/2011/08/10/139345519/scientists-explore-...
And? You say that like punishment or retribution is expected for breaking someone's ToS.
By Ton-Miles the US leads the world in freight hauled. But for a variety of reasons, railroads are more interested in extracting profits from existing large customers than they are in increasing mode share. A couple of reasons for this, railroads are natural monopolies with industrial facilities needing to be connected to a single rail line. The railroad companies are much more interested in hauling large bulk from single sources that are time insensitive than a heterogeneous mix of freight that needs to be switched and is competitive on timing with trucks.

This results in RR policies like precision scheduled rail (PSR), that tries to precisely utilize rail and crews to shuttle long trains across territory. PSR is only oriented to reduce RR costs. If a PSR train is late, every other train is delayed. PSR has also come alongside regularly running trains that are much longer than sidings, which makes it impossible for other trains to pass.

Everyone responds to incentives, and there are a couple of regulatory changes that could fix this.

1. Some level of regulation that penalizes RRs for delayed trains. PSR results in lower operating costs but the externality of delays isn't properly paid for by the RRs.

2. Increased technology investment like signalling improvements, positive train control and automatic couplers.

3. Some level of regulation of freight interchange along with timing and price regulations. You can send freight from an RR in Kansas to Louisianna, but you would have to go through two or more controlling RRs that would rather go point to point on their own network. I don't know what this regulation would look like.

4. Land value tax for tracks. Railroads are disincentivized from improving tracks, particularly with electrification. LVT would be hard to pass generally, but it makes a lot of sense to tax railroads less for electric tracks. Electrified tracks allow faster acceleration and electric locomotives are much more reliable than diesel locomotives.

The railroads in the US make immense profits (BNSF makes $6B in profits a year). There are severe regulatory capture problems that prevent these advancements.

I have read the Switzerland in particular has excellent freight rail that is speedy and used for smaller loads. I don't know their operating techniques that allow this.
> and their collaboration tools were lacking for a long time

Lacking as in completely non-existent. I used to love Sketch for being a very nice native feeling Mac app but Figma proved that doesn't really matter and I also love the fact it works on PC now PCs are the workhorses for creative AI workflows.
Happy Birthday ChatGPT
I believe the npr show radiolab has an episode about this.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/cellmates
This is an empirical observation regarding implementation details of machine learning models specifically, not math models in general. Clearly, in principle, specialized models can beat general models simply because at least some applications have exact models. No learned functional approximator will beat an ALU or even an abacus at simple arithmetic.
Human expression, human experience, the soul, if you will. And from this, the prompt is where the soul is.
Maybe Q said it could fix fusion? :-)
A solution used in the Linux kernel[0] is to use a struct with the packed attribute, which implies the fields aren't necessarily aligned. Simplifying, I think this macro should work the same in gcc and similar: apply to any pointer to get something that behaves as *p but will read or write as unaligned.

#define unaligned(P) (((struct { typeof(*(P)) x; } __attribute__((packed))*)(P))->x)

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/7b9e664beb237d90bc600...
That's quite the jump in #2. What guides the experiments?
My grandma lived to 93 and smoked her whole life. Didn’t die of any lung related illness either. Obviously don’t recommend
> Samsung "failed"?

That wording is a bit harsh. They haven't failed, but they haven't been able to compete at scale, which is what matters.

> They're coming from behind and enjoy latecomer's advantage. They can take advantage of western R&D results.

Isn't that the main issue, that they can't?

> They have a captive market thanks to sanctions.

That isn't true. Current sanctions target exports of certain consumer and professional products, none of which are chips as far as I understand; and imports of certain products branded strategic such as AI related hardware.

> They're coming from a smaller size. Chinese semiconductor companies had such small market share that capturing even a small part of only the Chinese market already translates to tremendous growth.

I don't think this means anything in this context. Capturing a larger chunk of a single market doesn't even mean that they are better than most at what they do, just that their go to market strategy is more effective than their competitors. SMIC could be releasing chips with comically large transistors, as long as their scale and prices are preferable to those of their competitors.

> They can only go up while the western supply chain will go down.

This is wishful thinking, at best. But again, growth means nothing here. SMIC could "grow" a 1000% for all I care, and it wouldn't move the needle.

> Finally, there's the global south which is also growing. This is a huge market that they can sell to.

That depends highly on China and their allies. China may capture markets in Africa, but it is actively alienating most of Asia Pacific, minus perhaps Russia.
For now.
See you at the next attempt.