skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partly true. Unions are a way to balance power disparity between Owner and Worker.

Currently, tech mostly has more work to be done than engineers to do said work - so the balance is tipped toward the individual. (At least in the US). Once that balance is tipped the other way, the value of Unions will go up dramatically.
Exactly. Personally I’m fine with both:

1) Forward looking demoes that demonstrate the future of your product, where it’s clear that you’re not there yet but working in that direction

or

2) Demoes that show off current capabilities, but are scripted and edited to do so in the best light possible.

Both of those are standard practice and acceptable. What Google did was just wrong. They deserve to face backlash for this.
Sometimes NPR's Planet Money podcast does this but it's generally 10-15 minutes at a pop coverage of a specific theory or news item for general audience, they covered buffets recently in a different way

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1197954459/all-you-can-eat-bu...
Yeah I mean I can think of a fair few better nouns that are applicable to MSFT than biggest and slowest...
This seems to be a common view among some folks. Personally, I'm impartial.

Search or even asking other expert human beings are prone to provide incorrect results. I'm unsure where this expectation of 100% absolute correctness comes from. I'm sure there are use cases, but I assume it's the vast minority and most can tolerate larger than expected inaccuracies.
Have pondered slurping down pizza toppings and discarding the crusts...
More like 10 years ago, that’s when Microsoft dropped the ball.
Please don't do snark, name-calling, personal attacks, or post unsubstantive comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Humor's fine, the trouble is that most people overestimate how funny they are. scott_s said it best many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289
Good news for the environment really. Electric cars and storage need to be a lot cheaper to become ubiquitous.
> The Atari ST

I remember these commercials, because they were on a VHS recording I had of Back to the Future, along with a brief news clip of the only Soviet Shuttle flight.

Amiga 500 commercial (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KiNpqATUY

Atari 1040ST Computer Commercial 1988 With 1 Megabyte Of Memory!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdumpLhvqMU
I always demolished my friends as Ness (to the point where they renamed PK Fire to PK Cancer) but Ness is one of the least competitive characters in tournaments and I'd get absolutely demolished because he's so easy to counter if you know what you're doing (hint: intentionally absorb his PK thunder when he's trying to get back on stage).
Stop throwing logical wrong logical evaluations around and you won't hear people retorts, saving the need for you to whine about it.
How active is this project?
- Libertarians assume more job mobility than actually exists.

- Libertarians overlook all the problems with markets that Adam Smith identified. It's as though they never read the second half of the book.

- Libertarians overlook how existing players raise barriers to entry for existing markets.

- Libertarians overlook the collusion between market players and government to share power and wealth between both.

- Libertarians make many, many, many assumptions that are demonstrably false.

At this point all we can assume is libertarians know all this, yet keep advocating for libertarianism because it is they who seek the power and the wealth. That is to say, the libertarians are the bad guys, or, they're the stupid guys.
Seeds, m'dude. Nature's figured out how to transport plants already.
Well, we found out that Microsoft is able to reverse essentially any decision they feel strongly about, which is essentially what "pulling the strings" means, in common usage.
Noam Chomsky turns 95: paved the way for AI. Does it keep him up at night?
It may look similar in these high resolution pictures, but it’s different.

With dithering, there’s negative correlation between the noise added to neighboring pixels (if one gets a bit blacker, at least one of its neighbors is more likely to be made a bit whiter).

This adds Perlin noise. With that, I think that correlation is zero or, possibly, positive.
Key passage:

"Altman approached other board members, trying to convince each to fire Toner. Later, some board members swapped notes on their individual discussions with Altman. The group concluded that in one discussion with a board member, Altman left a misleading perception that another member thought Toner should leave, the people said.
By this point, several of OpenAI’s then-directors already had concerns about Altman’s honesty, people familiar with their thinking said."
It's "business insider". Don't underestimate how poorly management understands "technical resources". I can certainly see lots of leadership just assuming that pay is the only relevant variable and ignore culture entirely during an acquihire, assuming people are fine doing whatever as long as they're paid.
Works for hire.
I knew I should've been an asterisk / joke about that! :)

Yeah, I could certainly see that but I disagree with your assessment that it is just pandering or self-soothing.

Seeking out any external information in your off-time / outside from that activity gives you the edge against people who just show up and only engage and think about the activity while doing it.

If you are watching basketball play-by-plays or even better, recordings of your own games (read: consuming transformative versions of games just outside your skill vs passively consuming a professional game) outside of basketball practice, there is a good chance you will pick up or develop ideas of how to apply that to your own game.

Yes, passively watching someone play WoW has a low chance of making a world-first raider but watching a world-first raider do raiding with the intention of picking new ideas up will expose you to ideas and methods you won't otherwise be exposed to through normal gameplay.

By listening to other engineers speak, you are being exposed to problems and solutions you would have had to encounter and solve yourself (or possibly never have so you will never cross pollinate ideas)
I wanted to give you a proper response to this but ran out of time. In any case, thanks for the kind reply!

If you felt like the comment was breaking the site guidelines (for example against shallow dismissals), then yes, a flag would be appropriate; or perhaps a downvote as a slightly lesser expression.

In terms of "people like this": the trouble is that we can't tell much about each other from these tiny globs of internet text, and what ends up happening is that we connect the dots in ways that come from our own prior experiences (usually negative ones), and then we end up feeling surrounded by jerks.

The root issue is not that everyone is that big of a jerk (though some do behave that way)—it's that we don't have enough information. Shallow comments expressing negative opinions are the most likely to generate this feeling in the reader, because the combination of lack-of-information and negative-sentiment is sort of fatal.

From a moderation point of view: if you read enough of these threads, it turns out that every reader has a different set of triggers for what feels to them like "people like this" whose "purpose is to negate" and so on. People thus have completely different interpretations of which are the worst comments. This makes sense once you understand that we're all filling in the blanks, connecting the dots, etc. out of our own prior experience. We all have such different priors that we will in different blanks in different ways.

This is not a basis for strong vocal moderation because if I scold one user saying "you're being purposely negative, please don't", what happens is a great many readers for whom the comment didn't land that way will feel like the mods are being heavy-handed and forcefully protest. Moreover, the user being scolded will most often reply, quite sincerely, that they had no intention of being that way and had no idea that their comment could land that way.

When running into a comment like that which creates a feeling like that, the temptation is to reply forcefully—i.e. with as much frustration as the comment generated in you—but for the purposes of a good online discussion, this is the worst thing to do. It only creates even stronger negative feelings in others, who then feel entitled to strike back in turn—and we get a downward spiral which is equal parts tedious and nasty.

The only thing I know that works is to "metabolize" your negative reaction by letting it run its course in you, and eventually subside, before replying. At that point, you have two options available that you didn't have before: either to reply neutrally, or to simply move on to something else that's more interesting.

Of course this advice is not so easy to follow in practice, and what it requires of you (I don't mean you personally of course, but all of us) is much deeper than it appears. On the bright side, it does mean that internet forum communication is not quite as trivial as it appears!
Actually they did build a really competent smartphone operating system that was as good as iOS at the time quite frankly and was affordable.

The issue is they went and rewrote a chunk of it, breaking APIs and fucked all the developers off, then abandoned it.

The only thing they are is fucking stupid morons.
The bloomberg article gives 404 for me
I've seen a few articles on this systemd BSOD feature, but none have had screenshots. Google doesn't come up with anything.
They're right - the amount of money poured into driverless cars could have easily been used to make public transit across the country much more usable, and immediately available. Though I realize the money is not fungible between private sector research and public utilities.

Perhaps one could argue that without this level of research into driverless cars, we would still lack auto-braking and radar cruise-control (which are standard on many new cars now). I don't know though, personally I wish more time and money was spent building out public transit and making it a viable option for more people.
Even within bike racing, defining 99% is tricky. The sport generally punishes all-arounders. In road racing, most winners either have great sprints with just enough aerobic capacity to hang on til the finish or have massive aerobic capacity and anemic sprints. I no longer follow the sport, but riders like Peter Sagan and Julian Alaphilippe were more impressive to me than, say, Chris Froome.
I was repeating bad information then. Thank you for the correction!
Were they posting to 4chan previously?
https://github.com/rubyonjets/jets/commits/master/

Pretty active?
I am so happy that this is being discussed. Programming addiction is a scary. It takes over people's lives, and sometimes it gets so bad they produce close to nothing of any value to anyone else, while feeling like they are a top asset to the tech industry.
True. But it is more about trend like watching movie in multiplex is fun, there are those large butter popcorn containers, soda machine, bigger screen, better sound and so on. But more people are now streaming than going out for movie.

So now I think more people then ever will be having restaurant food at comfort of home and not worrying about traffic, driving, cabs, parking, crowd, one more beer or wine glass etc.
Have you looked at MSFT corporate record and the current state of their bread and butter products?
Fleet Problem 13: Pearl Harbor Foreshadowed
I got the same vibes. Ultra and Pro. It feels tacky that it declares the "Gemini era" before it's even available. Google really want to be seen as level on the playing field.
Lucidrains has a re-implementation of this: https://github.com/lucidrains/gateloop-transformer and was unable to beat the transformer baseline at equal numbers of parameters.
The combination of 'it just works' and 'SSO integration' is a killer.

To be honest, in 20+ years of working in IT, I never understood the point of the latter until recently, on a gig salvaging systems for a client with ~650 users after their sole IT guy unexpectedly resigned after 20 years and left for the mountains.

IRL, SSO is gold. Many hackers, like me, underestimate it.
For the reality of just how difficult moderation is and how little time moderators have to make a call, why not enjoy a game of moderator mayhem? https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/
Swede here. You are absolutely mistaken.

This is a huge deal in whole of Scandinavia. Today Finland unions joined in. The other day both Norway and Danish unions joined in. Before that, many other Swedish unions joined in.

This is Tesla versus the Scandinavian model rather.
The decision to kill the orphan baby chimp does not make any sense when they justified the shootings as imminent danger to human life - something five times stronger than a human baby still is not very strong. Maybe it's a mercy since they orphaned it a second time with a rifle but it just sounds like that zoo/park should not be allowed to keep primates.
After 10 years of research and billions of dollars spent, the most visible outcome is that you can call a Waymo in San Francisco and it might not park itself on top of a pedestrian.
> why would I pay DoorDash or Uber Eats $30 to deliver some fast food when I can go to a real restaurant and get much better food for cheaper?

1. I don't have to drive

2. I don't have to listen to other people talking loud or being obnoxious while I'm trying to eat my meal and have a quiet private conversation with my wife

3. I can enjoy it in the comfort of my home, whether this means eating dinner in front of the tv, or enjoying a scotch or wine we have at home, or even just being able to get out of the clothes we've been in all day and enjoy comfort food in our PJs

4. I don't have to brave the cold or wet weather

5. I don't have to deal with wait staff interrupting my meal every 5 minutes to ask if everything is ok

6. I don't have to worry about music that I don't care for, or is distracting, being played while I eat

7. I don't have to worry about dirty dishes on the table, or the table itself being dirty (although to be fair I have no control over the dishes used to prepare the food and so some might consider this to be moot)

8. I don't have to worry about my home being crowded and busy with strangers, making for an uncomfortable dining experience. My mother once took me to a restaurant to celebrate my birthday, just the two of us. I'm a foodie and, despite listing several reasons I often prefer delivery / take-out over dine-in, I actually do love a great restaurant and the food at this particular place was supposed to be amazing. The two of us were put in a tiny corner in a crowded restaurant so close to the tables nearest us that the three parties (us plus our neighbours on either side) could hear every single word of each others' conversations. It was practically a communal table situation. Edit: I forgot to mention that we had a reservation which made this experience all the more frustrating. Which leads me to...

9. I don't have to worry about finding myself at a restaurant that has communal tables

10. I don't have to worry about people celebrating their birthdays receiving a loud and obnoxious group of wait staff bursting out of the kitchen to interrupt the entire restaurant's private conversations with an annoying song and cheer

I recognize that a lot of the above points can be avoided by choosing a different restaurant. But sometimes you still want the food of a particular restaurant but that restaurant's dining atmosphere is what kills it for you.
Even if they did you know the annual performance review would go something like:

"You did a great job this year and met or exceeded all of the metrics we measured, but your compa ratio is just too high so instead of a raise we are going to give you a lump sum instead."

Big company culture vs. startup culture is a known issue. People choose to work for startups to avoid that big company culture, so if a big company buys you out then it's time to move on.
How does crap like this get published? Not a shred of evidence is given for its assertions, and they sound pretty preposterous. Nobody actually wanted to go to Microsoft, and they didn't even think Altman was that great as a CEO. So why did they all sign the letter threatening to quit? Mysterious unspecified "pressure". Why did Microsoft claim it was willing to hire the OpenAI team at their current compensation levels, pissing off their own employees, if it really wasn't? Umm, no reason.
Former CTO at Arist (YC S'20) here.

Jet's literally got us off the ground and to the point where we could handle spikes where we scale up 1000x to handle hundreds of thousands of messages per second and then immediately scale back down 1000x because of the spikey nature of our workload.

Almost all of the traditional issues one encounters when running a Rails app in production vanish when you build on top of Jets, as scaling just becomes something that happens automatically without you worrying too much about it other than at the database level.

One thing that was particularly impressive about Jets is its whole ApplicationJob system that provides an easy-to-use API for writing lambda fan-out routines, which we used as the crux of our message scheduling and processing system https://docs.rubyonjets.com/docs/jobs/

Anyway, I mostly work in Rust now but still am and will always be a huge fan of the project and Tung Nguyen, its creator :)
No, the density of the object is less than water, not the density of the material. The Duck is made of plastic, and it traps air. Similarly, you can make a boat that floats in water out of concrete or metal. It is an important distinction when trying to understand buoyancy.
Random side note: kani is the Japanese word for actual crab. Fake crab is kani-kamaboko ("crab fish sausage"), but the second word was lost in translation.
Cracking the game early is completely tangential to you supporting the developers of the thing you enjoy. I've bought games and then immediately downloaded the pirated version before. If you don't support the things you like, you're going to end up with the things that everyone else likes.
Did you notice the quote marks around adequately? We managed to hobble along but it was obviously not going great. "It wasn't catastrophic" isn't my goal. I want stuff to go really well, not just about enough to not go out of business/not be in violation of contractual obligations (with a lot of slack getting picked up by their better performing peers).

Again it depends if you have an alternative, in my experience I always had it was just sometimes costly/inopportune/a pain in the ass in the short term to find someone better. Long term it was always better (I never regretted firing someone too quickly but often regretted firing someone too late).

I was also always worried about team morale but every time a low performer was fired it actually improved morale.
The guidelines are pretty explicit about asking people not to write comments like this. Either way: "@dang" is not a thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a common mistake, especially here in British "Columbia". They're the English and Spanish spelling of the same thing (a reference to the New World).
> starches like potatoes might only cost the restaurant $0.30 per serving, compared to $2.25 per serving for steak.

What you need is a hybrid buffet, in which each person gets a certain limit of meat, but unlimited of all the cheaper food.
If you sell for below market price then the order will be filled quickly and you'll be ahead of the pack.
Making sure they don't actually make any money off you - this means checking your eating performance against your estimate of the prices of their inputs (wholesale food prices) - challenging and fun ?
Tesla is a good opponent. Musk is generally despised. Electric vehicles are seen as fancy-pants toys for eco-freaks. So the usual people who come to the defense of big companies don't really feel the need to break a lance for Tesla.

This is specifically the case with the Sweden Democrats. A big motivator for them is a) bashing greens, and b) being a better alternative for the working class than the Social Democrats. Siding with a foreign billionaire over "salt-of-the-earth" workers is not a winning move.
There’s a lot to be said about Altman, but calling him a “psychopath” is just wrong. It’s a legitimate medical term and should not be used for hyperbole
> seems to replace almost every word with bullshit

Sort of related, it also doesn't let you cuss. It will insist on replacing fuck with pretty much anything else. I had to add fuck to the custom replacement dictionary so it would let me be. What language I choose to use is mine and mine alone, I don't want Nanny to clean it up.
John sounds as if he were born and raised to demonstrate Equord-Hammerstein's bit about the stupid and energetic.

If Marko ever runs into John again, he can point out the words "epic" and "epoch" derive from Greek, not Latin.
The year I ran the NYC Marathon, I finished in the top 2 percent of men. The winner beat me by 45 minutes.

While I wouldn't go so far as to say 95% sucks, there can be a world of difference between that level and the true elites.
Not sure it 'collapsed'. Probably leveraged to undercut oil.
and here's a readable version: https://archive.ph/ABhZi
> Why it matters: It's unclear if 23andMe is attempting to retroactively shield itself from lawsuits alleging it acted negligently.
> cut the non-profit crap

Great learning opportunity for those that have not taken time to learn and understand non-profit structures in the USA.

this is clearly an opportunity for the uninformed to study the US non-profit system, unique in the world. For example, I recall a delegation from Japan touring the HQ of a non-profit educational group in San Francisco. Like the p-poster here, they apparently had no clue why or how capable people could come together and form stable work culture aside from "hierarchical, profit motive in USD$" (.. and people did actual work, unlike many management level stock manipulators).
Am an employee, signed the letter.

I can't read the article so maybe the content is more nuanced, but the framing irks me.

This all happened really fast and the offer was informal. I can
only speak for myself but I do have a lot of respect for modern MS, and would have seriously considered the move if that's what kept the team together and comp was reasonable. I would be surprised if most people felt differently.
Calling the air inside the duck (which is not sealed inside) part of its "material" would be misleading. That's not how most people would interpret the statement and I'm confident that's not the explanation for why the statement was made.
best of the internet
I think it depends on how you measure top 10% in a video game (especially the MMORPGs Asmongold plays), being a top 10% player by stats is a function of play time and 'grind'.

People actively looking at top 10% players can have more game knowledge and build efficiency than people who just grind bigger numbers.

Being an "effective" software engineer also depends on your definition of effective. Mark Zuckerberg was clearly an effective software engineer, but was he in the top 5% of engineers?

People judging their abilities by adjacent (and loosely correlated) metrics is a road to unhappiness.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to become a good measure"
Congress is not the agency that does the killing. More efficient ones with practically zero oversight do. See Frank Olson for an example, we only know about that after mkultra was revealed in CIA abuse investigations. His family still is fighting for justice some 60 years after his assassination.