skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that's always the case, but it's naive to assume in any employment relationship that the ownership class has any other agenda than enriching themselves through the labor of the working class, same how the working class working for these major companies and enabling them to do what they do (including automating other peoples jobs to make them redundant and save their bosses money) have any other agenda than enriching themselves as well in the process.

At least until they themselves eventually find their place on the chopping block as well either through management decisions or automation hits them too. But SW devs never though of this as the market always favored them and they saw themselves as irreplaceable godlike figures at the top of the food chain, so maybe it's time to reconsider that mindset, gain some empathy about other people's jobs and think about unions to push back on certain industry trends that screw over the little guy, since what goes around comes around.

Whenever I sign a new employment contract, I'm aware it's not a charity, I'm there because they need me, as I make more money for them than they pay me, and I'm also aware that the moment that math stops being true, they won't hesitate to let me go and replace me with someone who can do the same work cheaper. Such is capitalism.
If you're willing to do some grunt work, there's still cheap boards to be found on alibaba and the like.
> This is an interesting result. It makes me wonder if you could grow a silicon ingot in this way.

No really. The way we grow silicon crystals is already very efficient and would not be improved by this sort of thing. We grow them by pulling a seed (in carefully controlled conditions, with a bit of twisting and other tweaks, but still), adding dissolutions steps would waste a lot of time. Besides, the defects they get rid of by dissolution (say, a magnesium atom on a calcium site, which we call antisite defects) do not exist in silicon, in which all atoms are identical.

> Another crystal structure that would be useful would be sapphire for things like sapphire screens and other covers.

Again, sapphire is something that is quite easy to grow. And like for silicon, it does not have any antisite defects. One of the limitations with growing sapphire is its purity, and it would not be improved by additional dissolution steps.

I am not saying that similar steps could not be used to help produce industrially relevant crystals, just that silicon and sapphire are very unlikely to be examples of that. This is a way to grow in a lab in weeks a crystal that would take millions of years to grow in nature. It would not really help with crystals that grow already very efficiently, and whose growth is controlled by other mechanisms.
Supply and demand curves for labor have moved well past the federal minimum wage, that is why it is not a factor.

Employers’ or employees’ arguments are irrelevant, the only thing that matters is how many buyers there are relative to sellers (or a higher minimum wage).
CPUs can fetch data far faster than the code snippet in the post.
The point is you can’t rely on the desert to simply be sunny.

If you screw up the ecosystem, the result is haze, mist, and other obstacles to solar power, not to mention animal and human interference.

From what I understand, Saudi oil produces less carbon than other types of oil. So the Saudis are expecting they will be among the last to shut down - which a reasonable assumption.

Otherwise you would be shutting down a lower carbon fuel in favor of higher carbon fuel.
I particularly liked his saying that went something like, "before you invest in a company, you should understand and be able to make the argument against the investment better than those who hold that position."
You can certainly not tip your servers at bars and restaurants, no one forces you to. You can be a one person protest. But you won’t change anything other than how little the server takes home. The business won’t even observe your principled stand, and they’re the one whose behavior you have to change. The only observer will be the worker who just doesn’t get paid for their labor.
This is a bit confusing. It appears the model license https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/ is different from the code license (Apache 2.0).

Seems like... there are lots of opportunities these days to clear up what open source means?
400 is not an 8-bit integer! This function appears to be for parsing integers you know in advance will fit into 8 bits, rather than arbitrary input.
Workers are free to start and run better companies.
I don't see that as contradicting what I said at all. Sometimes industries can't compete on wages and go out of business.

Thats an example of workers having leverage. The workers did get a higher wage, just not on a crab boat.

If you want to stereotype workers, they are smart and lazy. nobody wants to work longer and harder to make less, when they could work less and make more.

To counter your question, why do you think the boat owners went out of business? Were the owners just to stupid or stubborn to pay more? That they would rather lose their investment, and often their own livelihood, rather than pay workers more?
But exactly the statement you need to fold it to a constant.
> "Reject modernity, embrace tradition"

I think it is a safe default

Btw thanks for the exchange
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Strange that they consider the claw marks on the walls to be what created the tunnels. At first glance looks like a lava tube or standard cave opening that was expanded by the animals -- perhaps trapped within and "farmed" by humans or Neanderthals?
Well the restaurant doesn’t guarantee the worker $15. If you don’t have enough tips, the worker just makes less.
honestly: why bother at this point?

It's their product. They didn't have to make it trash but they've not just let it, they made it by design this way.

Why eat trash?
How much focus was there in the direction of TFLite?

Were any improvements made?
Small typo on the pricing page:

> Chose your cloud provider and region

Should probably be "Choose"
The scenario where you have a mix of customarily tipped and untipped food service workers in the same venue is especially weird, though.
I don't know, 3D CGI has already been moving at the breakneck speed for the last three decades without any AI. Today's tools are qualitatively different (sculpting, simulation, auto-rigging etc etc etc).
Most service industry people I know aren’t full time for this very reason.
My $500M Mars rover mistake
Rewritten to actually be readable (and apologies for that):

I agree. I wasn't saying that, anymore than someone was saying "all cops are bad and have hurt way more people". I'm certainly not saying YCombinator or any of its companies have done something specifically bad. Besides that, the whole point in "bad cop who is let go without any harm to their future" metaphor, as applied to YCombinator, would be about the subsequent work of any "bad employee" at YCombinator. I would point out though that this lack of transparency is why neither you nor I might not know of any misdeeds --and that's the problem.

OpenAI has access to massive amounts of capital & data, and has a pretty significant reach already, and it's just the beginning. Would it really be so absurd that Sam Altman couldn't have a far larger influence on the world, positive or negative, than a cop? If it is absurd, then we're either investing way too much in OpenAI or way too little in cops.
For those people, who also wondered what dolomite exactly was, beside a mountain range:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomite_(mineral)
The “enough not to quit” could be much lower than $15, like $7/hour. You can’t advertise $7 and get workers but you can dangle potential tips in front of them. The whole thing is weird game theory.
Yeah no offense but most of the people online that I find complaining about Go used it a long time ago or got their talking points pre-generics and haven't touched it or really looked at it since then.
I am patiently waiting for Discord to be sold to some corporation such as Microsoft so we can all move on to the next big thing. I wonder what it will be. Probably not Matrix, but definitely something.
There is a book...

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers...

"It was in response to the concerns coming out of the Virginia ratification convention for the Constitution, led by Patrick Henry and George Mason, that a militia that was controlled solely by the federal government would not be there to protect the slave owners from an enslaved uprising. And ... James Madison crafted that language in order to mollify the concerns coming out of Virginia and the anti-Federalists, that they would still have full control over their state militias — and those militias were used in order to quell slave revolts. ... The Second Amendment really provided the cover, the assurances that Patrick Henry and George Mason needed, that the militias would not be controlled by the federal government, but that they would be controlled by the states and at the beck and call of the states to be able to put down these uprisings"
Hm, what would this mean for Apple Card users? Would it be shut down? How about those who have Apple Savings Accounts?[0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-cards-new-high-...
godaddy wants over 1k for me.meme

my fingers are likely faster
Ask HN: How do you protect your open-source side projects from copycats?
Hi HN!

10 days ago I did a Show HN post about a Chrome extension to speed up YouTube ads, which was open sourced under MIT license.

A member of HN who is also the admin of a developer community saw & commented on the project. Rather than support it as a contributor, they functionally copied it, created their own Chrome Web Store posting and shared it on r/webdev with zero acknowledgement or inclusion of the original MIT license.

I've documented in detail the whole experience.[1]

They now have an order of magnitude more traction with 10k+ users.

Although I'm happy that our project now has contributors it's hard not to think any work we do won't just continue to be copied.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[1] https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator/blob/main/lessons_post.md_post.md
Neovim, especially now that they no longer maintain their own bridge to Libera.
They would if there was less tolerance for monopolies and fair rules. It would appear that the only way to achieve that is through radical political change. Essentially we need to revert back to capitalism and end the ongoing gilded age.
in the context of the minimum wage discussion, the problem is when the labor is willing but not allowed to work, ends up unemployed instead, and the store sits vacant.
I read what the article said
but all I can think of is that
everybody is betting on
inflation getting worse
which means the Federal Reserve
will continue raising rates
which means if you buy a long term bond now
you are worse off than holding literal cash
and buying bonds in n months.

I hope I am wrong.
I hope we won't see more interest rate hikes
but wishes are not fishes.
I think all the story was is that people from both political parties and the FBI were trying to take down disinformation. Sometimes Twitter agreed to these requests other times they did not. What I am surprised about is the attempt to turn this nonsense into a story, it’s unbelievably weak stuff to most people that just doesn’t hold up… Do you think government should be able to ask social networks to take things down?
I'm gonna wait until this is released as a model. This is really cool though!
>Soon, I can do away with the 10+ apps and just use 1

Sounds like Beeper
The royal family is actually liberal compared to the people they rule. Read about the Grand Mosque Seizure [1], wherein Salafist extremists seized Saudi's main religious site and demanded the House of Saud to step down because they were influenced by "Westernization".

After that event, the royal family struck a deal that gave the extremists more influence in exchange for holding onto power...we're talking women banned from television, cinemas shut down, extreme gender segregation, etc. It was that way until MBS, a relatively liberal person, ascended and whisked some power away from the religious police and extremists, with an iron fist, of course.

Despite their vast oil wealth, Saudi really lacks the human capital to keep the gears going without the help of foreign expats. If the oil wells hypothetically dry up tomorrow...the country is in deep trouble.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure#
They aren’t low-to-middle class when their homes are worth millions of dollars, period.

The way they can stay in their homes is to use their equity to add revenue generating additions to their home and take on a renter.

This is how it has worked for hundreds of years until the exact same folks who passed prop 13 passed anti-density zoning legislation a few years before hand.

Pretending people are being “forced from their homes” in exchange for literally millions of dollars is and absurd framing of a huge windfall.
continous training
idk it'll closer to 60% coding, of which >50% would be looking thing up rather than actually writing anything
I’d like a lot of restaurants to exist though, I don’t want being able to find workers to be the limiting factor and have 4 choices for food instead of 40. Plus it lets a lot of business owners start up their own businesses and support a lot of workers.
i thinks its more they are willing to make slow steady progress than try and push bills that wont make it through a split congress and only serve to make their opposition more intransigent.

whats the point of failing to pass a bill that will alienate moderate swing voters loosing you seats in the next election. when you can pass bills that get you some of what you want now and more the next and after each election.
> Not really. That only punishes the worker, not the interested business. [...] The only real solution is unilateral legislation, without waiting for the culture to change.

The day unilateral legislation gets enacted will be the day restaurants replace most of the wait staff with ordering kiosks and automated drink dispensers.

Waiting on government to fix your problems is a fool's errand.
Yes, fair enough. However taken at face value, their point is if you don’t tip full service workers like waiters and bar tenders when they’re working at the theatre, expect they will quit to work at the restaurant or bar where you will tip them. Maybe they’re fluffing their article for clicks, but assuming they’re not, this is a pretty reasonable take. If they are, and it was as you posit it might be, well, shame on them.

My point was if you imagine yourself ordering $100 in food at a full service restaurant with reasonable service, do you imagine yourself not tipping? I think most Americans can’t imagine that. It’s customary.
the clipdrop demo doesn't inspire much confidence with how bad the generations are, we're talking 2021 levels, not to mention everything is NSFW somehow, should probably work on those filters.
An advertised price that is racing to the bottom by offloading more and more of the cost to tips from customers.

Meanwhile the employees blame the customers, the customers blame the corporation, and the corporation blames the employees.

The corporation is the only one that is laughing all the way to the bank.
This specific drug won't affect human lifespan, but the regulatory process that approved it can be used to approve other drugs, which is the big deal.
A powerful open source tool for managing networks and troubleshooting network problems!

Connect and manage remote systems with Remote Desktop, PowerShell, PuTTY, TigerVNC or AWS (Systems Manager) Session Manager. Analyze and troubleshoot your network and systems with features such as the WiFi Analyzer, IP Scanner, Port Scanner, Ping Monitor, Traceroute, DNS lookup or LLDP/CDP capture (and many more) in a unfied interface. Hosts (or networks) can be saved in (encrypted) profiles and used across all features.
The article does caveat that you must be able to safely read 4 bytes of data even if the string is shorter.
No, it's because welfare programs enable employers to offer wages that aren't livable.

The absolute floor for wages should at least meet a person's non-discretionary expenses plus a bit of discretionary spending if they're working close to full time. If it doesn't meet that minimum level, then the employee is unable to work that job. They simply can't.

By moving some of their non-discretionary spending to welfare, that means the employer can offer a lower wage.

We are effectively subsidizing all the businesses that utilize entry-level/"unskilled" labor. Walmart employs people whose sole job is to help walmart workers apply for welfare benefits, and as a result, can pay those people less.

Realize that state and federal agencies spend time developing pamphlets advising welfare recipients how to make the absolute most out of the maximum of roughly eight dollars a day SNAP provides in benefits per person. It's crazy that we're telling welfare recipients how to make the most of eight dollars a day for food, while giving tax writeoffs for business jets.
It is a very natural corollary of not judging a book by its cover. Judgment is almost impossible to avoid, so you should naturally not expose yourself to it.
I'm assuming it will be just like any other time a card portfolio is sold or transferred (Costco Card: Amex -> Citi, REI Card: US Bank -> Capital One, GM Card: Capital One -> Marcus (which is Goldman, ironically I think they want to get rid of this card too), etc...). Unless Apple discontinues the card completely, they will choose a new bank, that bank will take on the existing portfolio, everyone will get new cards (maybe numbers depending on how they did the BINs)...but with the physical card not having a visible number, the apple pay card being able to be automatically updated, and the virtual card's number being right there in the app it should be pretty painless.

Since Apple manages the whole thing through their own app and not a Goldman Sachs app, it should be fairly seamless as everything should look the same and you won't need to make a new login or worry about how to start paying a new bank. If there's new cards to be issued it's likely it will just show up in the Wallet app and they'll mail you a new physical one. Last year Apple moved the Apple Cash card from Discover to Visa and most people didn't even know that happened. There was even a button to switch it over sooner if you wanted to.

With the Savings Account I expect it will be similar as long as they can find a bank willing to offer a similar APY. Especially for people who just use it with the Apple Card and don't deposit directly to it using the routing/account number, you probably won't really notice.

source: all speculation, but I have worked extensively in payments for years and have launched banking products.
since a self-published author has to write the blurb himself (of course, you usually wouldn't even have a dust jacket, unless you went to the expense of a hardcover), I'm curious:

What would you want to see on the jacket?

The first paragraph? That puts an unfairly high burden on the first paragraph, IMHO. If a friend is telling you about the book, they're almost always going to say more than would fit in those few paragraphs.
> “Of course the AWS S3 Express storage costs are still 8x higher than S3 standard, but that’s a non issue for any modern data storage system. Data can be trivially landed into low latency S3 Express buckets, and then compacted out to S3 Standard buckets asynchronously. Most modern data systems already have a form of compaction anyways, so this “storage tiering” is effectively free.”

This is key insight. The data storage cost essentially becomes negligible and latency goes down by a magnitude by making S3 Express as a buffer storage then moving data to standard S3. I see a future where most data-intensive apps would use S3 as main storage layer.
Games and pretty much any other experience being generated by AI is obvious to anyone paying attention at this point. But how would it work. Are current ai generated images and videos using rasterisation? Will they use rasterisation, path tracing or any other traditional rendering technique, or is will it be an entirely different thing.
The whole argument is about “words and gesturing” aka the prevailing attitudes regarding which qualities and behaviors are supported/celebrated and have power in discourse.

I don’t think the parent comment was trying to say that when the mentality pendulum swung after the US civil war era in the direction of the oppressed (as they claimed it did), suddenly the liberated former slaves became the ones in power of controlling politics/economy/etc.

That aside, yeah, you are correct, in the actual practice the rich and powerful are rich and powerful. The difference that the pendulum makes is about whether they are treated by the public as Fords and Rockefellers or as Musks and Thiels, which is just about the prevailing attitudes.
Yup, the shitty dorm is indeed the one thing that stands out, of recent memory. Not sure that helps his case. That he made one uncharacteristically risky bet isn't exactly proof of anything, either. I'll happily grant you that my language was hyperbolic, however.
Proponents of firearms always seem to fall back on the same argument against a ban:
“Take the guns away and the bad guys will be the only people armed”.

This isn’t true though. Guns are used to shoot people because they are available, not because they are legal.

In the UK it is still possible to acquire guns illegally, but they are rare and difficult to come by. There were only 28 homicides from shootings last year.

If you just make it a lot more difficult to acquire a weapon the shootings disappear.
>The belief that you are not a victim is (often) a very useful belief because it prompts change in the only place you're reliably able to produce it: your own decisions.

I figured that this is the angle that he was going for, but I still don't believe it. Feeling like a victim can prompt change as well, and like you said, refusing to feel like a victim can prevent change. It's all about the situation, but I think that refusing to have an honest assessment of your situation will usually cause you to make bad decisions.

> Citation please? That's an extremely bold claim to be throwing out as established fact.

Grieving usually takes at least 6 months[0]. Trying to speedrun the process because you refuse to let yourself feel negative emotions is literally the absolute worst way to deal with loss, to the point that I'm actually surprised that somebody actually just suggested that. Same thing with being unproductive for more than 48 hours. That's a recipe for burnout, and trying to just power through burnout for your entire life without accepting that you might need to rest for a bit will make you feel useless and depressed that you can't reach your absurdly strict self-goals. Self-hatred increases the risk of suicide[1], and I can't imagine that anybody would use this framework unless they despise themselves or have never suffered in their life.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK66052/

[1] https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/buildingselfesteem/2018/9...
The rumor is that Apple Card will move to Amex. WSJ says 12-15 months, but AppleCard is contractually obligated to use the MC network until 2025.

I can't imagine they'll close all those accounts, so likely we'll see some sort of migration leading up.
Great benefits for Apple Card users to have Apple abstract all the drudgery away. Experience is the differentiator, back office is a commodity.

What’s left is to make Apple Cash a deposit account with FedNow instant payment rails access. Buy a distressed regional bank to get a charter if needed. Every iPhone user then becomes a potential banking customer (136M US iPhone users, compared to 66M JPMC household customers, for example). Interchange revenue will slowly decline (again, FedNow), which Apple can compensate for with the deposit spread.