skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this.

My ex's whole family smoked like chimneys, but she had a few bad experiences and essentially went straight-edge outside of the occasional glass of red wine.

Her older brother had serious psychosis issues and was even institutionalized for it briefly. Was on meds, had a few rough years.

Eventually he quit because his then girlfriend got him a job at one of the few remaining Blockbusters and they demanded drug-free, ironically enough. He liked working there, and between him and the girlfriend, quit smoking. Maybe a year later he dropped the schizophrenia meds and started working out. The transformation happened while I was with my ex and it was amazing to see it play out. Like, dude was basically crazy, and in a couple years was managing a video store, had a gf, and got his shit together.

Perfectly normal guy since, at least last I heard.
Psychosis is not Psychopathy.
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> Yes, a Windows installation means a gaming portable is compatible with almost every PC game ever made, including many that still don't run on SteamOS for one reason or another. But SteamOS's robust Proton compatibility layer means an ever-expanding list of thousands of games are certified as at least "Playable"

That's the pitch? Some games that run fine on Windows 'might' work acceptably on SteamOS?

SteamOS doesn't do anything besides play games distributed on Steam. There's absolutely no benefit for a Windows OEM to drop it for an OS that has < 1% market share.

Not everybody has the luxury of purchasing different computing devices for different use cases. An ASUS ROG will play games (Steam + everything else), but it's also a real computer you can write programs on or school papers with.

We need to reverse the tide of electronic products getting dumbed down every year in the name of "user experience".
It's a bit worse than that. Prestige matters a lot too. General rule of thumb is that you can only apply to a position at a university of equal or lesser ranking than the one you were previously at. (obviously can still climb the ladder, in many ways, but this is a strong pattern all throughout the process from High School to Tenure) You're exactly right about the number of positions problem too. Because clearly the result of this is that the quality and methods from higher ranking institutions diffuse into lower ranking ones. Hell, when I was at a community college I had a professor from Harvard and several from Berkeley. Prestigue doesn't make sense in a system like that because you can't maintain an edge when you are literally telling the people you trained to go work somewhere else.

I think you're exactly right about the reasons people keep quiet. But this is not helpful to anyone, especially the universities. They are certainly losing a lot of money and even prestige from all of this. You don't make Nobel laureates with publish or perish. But no one wants to shake things up, which is weird because academia is __explicitly__ supposed to be the place where you can focus on things that aren't profit driven. Or at least short ROI. It is a loss for the country too, as it means a lot of academics move away from low risky TRL research and follow a model much closer to industry research (which is profit driven) Historically industry has (generally) relied on academic research doing low TRL and then they bring it to mid and high TRL.

We've lost sight of what we're trying to accomplish.
> What is all this based on?

Supreme court precedents and the law. I've provided several of the relevant cases

> Imagine how many people write falsehoods about Biden with clear, actual, malice! Biden cannot sue them (in a meaningful sense).

The main reason that it would be difficult to win those cases is that as a public figure Biden would have to show "actual malice" for each person he sued regardless of if that person was a journalist or not.

In practice, the expected value if suing a large number of people with limited media reach is generally not worth it, but that has nothing to do with the constitution.

Where being a journalist might help is that media shield laws, depending on the state, could allow the journalist to protect their sources from discovery once they've veen sued.
"a bad thing happens somewhere in the world therefore you shouldn't complain"
Yet past the sarcasm, you're not able to offer a compelling counter-argument. I wonder, why is that?
TSA found record firearms at airport checkpoints in 2023. Most were loaded
A "company constitution", just like every constitution, is just a bunch of paper where someone drawed some letters. If there's something to be gained by changing it or trowing it out altogether, it will happen eventually.
> I think your use of the word "individual" is a bit weird here. I absolutely find it likely that OpenAI is doing individualized manipulation against everyone who uses their systems. Maybe this would be more obvious if you replace OpenAI with something like Facebook or Youtube in your head.

> Just because they are using their power on many individuals doesn't mean that they are not using their power against you too.

Yeah but at this point you're identifying individual risks and grasping at straws to justify manipulating* everyone's threat model. You can use that as your own justification, but everyone manages their own personal tolerance for different categories of risks differently.

*Also, considering the published definition of manipulation is "to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage," I think saying that "OpenAI is doing individualized manipulation against everyone who uses their systems" is an overreach that requires strong evidence. It's one thing if companies use dark UX patterns to encourage product spend, but I don't believe (from what I know) that OpenAI is at a point where they can intake the necessary data both from past prompt history and from other sites to do the personalized, individualized manipulation across future prompts and responses that you're suggesting they're likely doing.

Considering your latest comment, I'm not sure this discussion is receiving the good faith it deserves anymore. We can part ways, it's fine.
It's corporate behaviour modification and social engineering. Perhaps not a surprise to anyone familiar with Bernays and his Propaganda.

I don't see it as information asymmetry, so much as mostly mediocre products and services designed to a budget trying to look more exciting and life-changing than they could ever hope to be.

The weird thing is we take it for granted instead of being repelled by it.
actually, that is what it is about, that it is not a narrower use-case, and you can extend and change the workflows however you like them. but an interesting way to present your own company. Seems like you are doing something similar to what https://www.octomind.dev/ is doing, right?
Or he's completely uninvolved and it's now pinned on him.
Is the goal financial security in retirement, or perfectly uniform stock market ownership distribution? Annuities suffer from similar problems but like, if the retiree has sufficient income, at the end of the day, who cares if they personally own part of the stock market?

People see these power law distributions and are surprised? But like, do you actually want enforced uniform wealth (communism)?
Yes, when people work in sensitive positions with the potential to make enemies, they have a higher risk of death from those causes.

However, it's also easy to fall into the fallacious trap of defining people solely by their profession. People who have sensitive jobs and also do other risky activities in their spare time incur those risks in addition to the risks they have due to their profession.

In fact, some successful people with enemies engage in more risky activities because they can afford to do so. Rich people dying in general aviation accidents is a pretty frequent pattern, for example.
> It’s the government’s job

It's your job (and mine).

The world doesn't divide roles that simply. Any community needs much more than 'government' contributing.
It's not exactly hilarious. There's a germ of a good idea.

I think it may need tightening. The "Jack Handy" concept is deliberately slow, so you need to make each word count.

If you delivered the same gag as stand up it would take just a few seconds. As it is there's no build and no payoff to the parody of low-key motivational vid.
And then another 10 years until the last Linux distro LTS version has removed support for it :)
I wasn't talking about Azure. I was talking about Microsoft's software products such as Outlook, Windows, etc.

Rergardless, my point is that Microsoft saying that they have audits and controls in place is exactly the same as them saying "trust us". They're just saying "trust that we have effective controls in place".
I'm not based in the US, so my servers are paid a wage directly by the restaurant.
Your first point assumes that it is easy to identify top tier talent during the hiring process and that tech employment is not a market for lemons [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
It is not like those pixel phone are hand made and tuned to exacting standards by highly qualified google engineers like Mercedes Benz does it on some of its expensive models.

It is a commodity gadget made at some cheap shop in Asia. So people worked pixel phone have not much to do with its growth or lack of it.
Straight ASL.
To clarify my point, your insurer spells this out to you, though you as a patient may not understand it to be the case. There is no surprise, its the expected behavior reading the literal minutiae of the giant packet your health insurer offers you. It's just that many people do not understand they have multiple additive deductibles for certain types of care.
Hi, just clarifying on this. There are two primary causes for historical closed orders having “outstanding balance.”

The first is fraction of cent balances from differences in different systems on how taxes were calculated. Another is due to interactions between systems where tax rates changed between initial order and shipment. These don’t have customer facing impact in terms of payment due, but require handling from an accounting perspective.
> Losing an at-will employment position is suffering? It's unfortunate, maybe, even a little sad. But to say this is "suffering" borders on entitled lunacy.

How would you define "suffering?"

Merriam Webster includes "to endure death, pain, or distress" or "to sustain loss or damage" as part of the definition, which definitely seems to include getting laid off.
Genuinely interested: who the hell pays to DDoS services like Sourcehut and Codeberg? :/
> I imagine that, if we were creating something like this today, we'd just emulate in the browser with a streaming disk!

Kind of like what https://infinitemac.org/ does for Apple systems?
If anything, it's regressed.

All of this complex tooling gives devops the ability to say "sorry, no capacity, see you in two quarters".
How much of that other half would still be around if the iPhone was no longer a thing? Apple Care? App store purchases? IAP/microtransactions? Apple Pay? iCloud storage? Chargers? Airpods?

They can structure their financial reports however they like, but it doesn't change the fact that their entire ecosystem is directly or indirectly tied to that one device.
OP claimed that pwsh was started because it was new and shiny and would lead to a quicker promotion than working on cmd. Turns out that the guy who created pwsh didn't get promoted, but actually demoted. If you can't understand that demotion is the opposite of promotion, well...
For the same reason Boeing developed the 737 MAX instead of a completely new model. The fixed costs are too high, the risks are too high, and the profit margins are too low. If it takes 10-15 years to develop a new plane, several years to ramp up production, and several years beyond that to break even, it does not make sense as a business. If you think it purely as an investment, there are always better uses for your money.
One of the classics: https://web.archive.org/web/20040604194346/http://bash.org/?...
This will quickly less and less relevant as AI itself is incorporated to solving this problem.
Maybe that's a good thing?

Companies need to stop defining growth in terms of head count and instead in terms of revenue and profit and learn that just because you have access to money doesn't mean you should go on a hiring frenzy.
You mean the cup holder?
It can be, again, being Danish makes this a little hard to talk about on the global scale. We’re very homogeneous to the point that I once worked in a team where 33.3% weren’t white men and that was so far above the organisations average that we were awarded… we had one woman and one Indian guy, so 2 out of 6, and that’s how homogeneous our society is.

But I’ve worked in a little bit of both environments. Usually it depends more on the people than the hiring practices in my experience. It’s always a danger that you’ll want to hire someone like yourself.
The reasoning is reverted: people want houses where they won't be bothered by neighbors and won't bother neighbors thus they limit density via zoning. They don't build houses on big lots just so they had a reason to drive.
It's bad in Europe as well. Spotify let lots of people go last year, Pitch recently fired 2/3 of their staff. Glovo, Veriff, Xolo are just a few others I heard about, but I'm sure it's a hell of a lot more.

I'm thinking once this correction has settled we're probably left with companies that produce actual value instead of just hype, which is good, and I'd rather work for companies with real profits anyway, but it's rough to ride this wave right now for sure, especially if you get laid off and need to pay bills.
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I can't help but think of all the media organs, the WSJ, Bloomberg, FT, Economist, CNBC, Fox Business, et al who cater to this small segment of the population. It must be incredibly alienating to see all this attention paid to well off people when you're on the outside.
I have the same not-a-VS-Code-or-electron problem.
Only nerds care about non-native widgets.
The fact that you don’t know that GPT was primarily trained on public crawler data and feel inclined to make authoritative comments on it, refuting people who do understand how an LLM works is exactly what I mean by “false sense of knowledge”.
I had the same experience... in Sunnyvale / SF, of all places! I was shocked at how bad the charging infrastructure is for non-Teslas.
It's no secret.

Congress carved out provisions allowing federal contract waivers for virtually every crime you can think of. It includes assault, rape, and murder.
Right and we the voters set the tax policy and the wealthiest can freely decide if they want to remain in the US.
Transparency would be far more useful if it came before the service being rendered.

Obviously there are some practical limits in exceptional cases, but I can't think of another industry that has high-price services where providing estimates isn't standard.
I’m saying it’s a partisan bullshit exercise from which you managed to pick a single quote and remove any context and pretend it was a headline and that it had precisely zero value or credibility and I’m unsure what it is doing here pretending to be anything else or why you are pretending to play dumb with your comment.
It's the meaning that matters, not the order of characters, words or letters. If the characters and words are in such order that the content is understandable, why should spelling matter? If anything, 2 people with equal amount of time, and a person who doesn't spend time on trivial typos would be able to write more meaningful content within that time.

Of course, if you do have automated systems setup to correct everything, then by any means, use them.
Looking forward the Netflix documentary about this one.
Coqui Is Shutting Down
Freelance developer from Germany here.
There is a significant drop in projects and a slowdown in permanent offerings, but no layoff wave like in the US.
Demand is still high but due to the current recession most companies delay hiring for now.

From my point of view there is also a skill-missmatch in Germany.
While firms look for the usual most modern tech stacks, workforce is often conservative, staying years or even decades at one company with outdated technology.
Hiring non-EU citizens is almost impossible because of the bureaucracy.

So, in Germany the situation is complicated and different from the US.
I find solace knowing that ego and hubris will always be a force inside those with the agency to do really dumb things.
And what a story.
While that's a given, it won't stop companies hiring people and paying them sufficiently to make them accept a prison term as a part of the job. eBay needs to face significant damages in order to drive home a disincentive for other corporations considering doing the same. It needs to be high enough that the share price takes a long term hit.
I can only speak for the UK, but the tech market is very different here. We don't really have large tech companies like in the US. Most tech work in the UK is in sectors like finance, retail, or public sector. While our economy isn't great and there are lay offs it would be wrong to call it "tech layoffs".

We have some tech startups here too though, and those are obviously struggling right now, but startups don't normally lay people off, they simply fail, and that happens all the time anyway.

However, where it is like the US is in the way tech hiring has dropped off a cliff. So if you're working at a startup and the startup fails, or if you're a contractor and your contract isn't renewed then you're going to find it extremely hard to find work right now. I'm getting a lot of messages from ex-colleagues at the moment struggling to find work but thinking about it I don't know anyone who actually got laid off unless you're talking about long-term contracts not being renewed.

The only sector that seems completely fine is public sector work, but there's just not enough public sector work to go around.
full-widths has its places in vertical texts!
"Not saying this is the reason at all"

But also, Apple is not relying on Fitness+ to survive unlike Discord with Nitro.
Right, and if you are on an assembly line, why wouldn't you use a fixed torque?
Never heard of that happening, and neither would you, since you do not see interview feedback. Please don't make up a story.
> "we called [Cloudflare] and they quoted a very big number" [0]

This is what I've never understood about Cloudflare.

You're suppose to be able to purchase a business account for $200/mo [1]

But it seems like at some point, Cloudflare says you need to upgrade to a custom pricing plan.

What triggers Cloudflare to state you can't use the $200 Business Plan account?

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@arch@floofy.tech/111739294821803544

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
> Why do you keep reinstalling Fedora

Because it's a partition I use to test Linux and rather than upgrade I'd rather start over from scratch.

As for the distro choice, Fedora is ahead of Ubuntu but not as bleeding edge as Arch.

I'm sure there's plenty arguments for using x distro over y. Fedora is just what I landed on.
It needs JCL cards for proper batch processing.

Speaking of mainframes... I ran across this video on the latest workflow for COBOL / CICS development on your IBM mainframe. You have the old 3270 emulation way yes, but then we move into 2010 technology: a custom version of Eclipse IDE that submits the jobs for you, then we move into modern times with Visual Studio Code integration (using something called Zowe CLI):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYUYnKim7U
For the power price, in winter, it’s 8.7 cents/kwh at off peak, 12.2 mid peak and 18.2 peak. (Canadian prices, about CAD$1.35:US$1.00).

There are other charges that don’t vary by time of day or kWh, so those numbers are only good for absolute, not relative comparisons.

https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect...
Most of the remote jobs I see from Germany also hire only those who live in Germany, so it seems to me that Germans don't even want EU citizens, just Germans.
There are hundreds of cases, all different. Many involve software bugs but at least one does not. You can read about that one in the common issues judgement paragraph 217.
We collect telemetry about user actions and the successes of our service. All the data we collect is about how the service runs and we only look at it via aggregation. Internally we have training every year about what you can and can't collect and under which scenarios. It gets stricter every year.
the number 1 in Mandarin Chinese is usually pronounced "yi" which can be mistaken for the number 7 ("qi"). so in certain contexts, e.g. reading out a phone number, it would be pronounced "yao" instead.
How much is the fee? It only costs like 7 $ to fully charge.
But why do they need another DE when Gnome and KDE can suffice botrh demographics and are vastly more mature and see more dev effort?
Including the fact that the smartlock _also_ has a keypad, and that the code is just 7 digits the author claims not to be able to memorize seems like a really easy way to undermine an otherwise solid story about dystopian crapware apps locking tenants out of their rented property.
Thank you, much appreciated. While I'm still processing the arguments, the style itself is breathtaking. They don't make sentences like this anymore:

> Home computers are not unusual, anymore; the novelty is gone.
Allegedly this advice (making the Youtube face) actually works, prevails in A/B tests, and at this point is basically required in order to get enough viewers to sustain a channel. Veritasium did a video on it a while back, and the guys on Linus Tech Tips’ podcast have talked about it a bunch of times. It seems that the number of people who dislike Youtube Face enough to actually block a channel are low enough so as to not matter.

So as a viewer, you have a choice: You can continue to block channels that do the Youtube Face, knowing that you’ll be missing out on good content (because yes even good channels do it), out of a desire to send a message that no one will heed. Or you can put up with it and watch the videos anyway.
I'm not sure I would call it "externalizing costs" if the only change was making daytime energy significantly cheaper (and not increasing off-peak energy prices). You could simply not add any batteries and your costs would still go down. You would presumably only decide to add batteries if the cost of doing so was less than the money you'd save by shifting energy usage to cheaper times.
The value is money/time. $1M over 40 years is only $25,000/yr, minus inflation and tax. Wherever that person lives, I don't suppose they feel 'loaded'.
Top executives of a major tech company sending death threats, flying operatives out to the victims, stalking and tracking them, and conducting a dirty character assassination campaign.

I've been using eBay since the '90s, mostly happily, so I'd prefer that it turn out not to be an organized crime outfit, and the company not be seized like a criminal operation would.

But $3M fine for getting caught playing KGB seems like zero deterrence to the next unhinged tech executive who has no sense of where to draw the line wrt evil. It's only a message to pay for smarter thugs.
It’s a big company, and I left 5 years ago
> All the more important to ensure this additional demand is flexible.

It's inherently flexible. Shaping it to be that way isn't a particularly hard problem. The issue is that it's entirely new demand -- what you're really replacing is the petroleum burned in existing cars, not any part of the existing power grid. So how do you solve the demand currently served by coal and natural gas and home heating oil, rather than gasoline and diesel?

> Converting <home heating> to electricity is going to require more electricity

I feel like editing out the "at night" part hasn't actually provided a mechanism for supplying that electricity at night when it's cold and you need heat.