skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The bigger the company the less likely anyone will attempt to give you specific information about why you are being terminated during the termination meeting - I think your expectations of how things should work don't match the reality of how they do work.

I don't doubt that has been your experience, but that's a terribly low bar that only some companies fail to clear. I've worked for several very large organizations, and had the exact opposite experience. They were all way more thoughtful and compassionate during terminations than what we saw from Cloudflare (who is supposedly a modern and innovative company). Being too forthcoming is a risk, but as we've seen by this video and lots of other situations, going to the extreme of being an impersonal robot is a reputational risk. Any decent HR Department would be able to handle this situation with more grace, and general reasons why it didn't work out without introducing risk to the company. Cloudflare was so risk averse during this process, they damaged Cloudflare's reputation. This is doubly troublesome since Cloudflare positions themselves as an exceptional and innovative company. They should be a lot better than this, and the CEO has said as much. [1]

> Even then you'd expect them to get SOME feedback about not hitting their numbers, but we only have one side of the story here - she may have gotten feedback and ignored it.

Thanks for mentioning that. It's a definite possibility! However, based on the employee being generally aware of at least one of her deficiencies (not closing a sale), the operational incompetence of Cloudflare in this instance, and particularly the manager not being present, I genuinely wonder if it is reasonable to give Cloudflare the benefit of the doubt? It is possible she ignored warning signs, and I'm open to new information. That said, I haven't seen anything to make me feel like the person being terminated is the problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969065
Does this exploit require the page with the specially crafted link to be on the host secured by Keycloak?
I agree! I've been struggling to get Kagi to work all morning, which has been frustrating, but this status report was refreshing and pleased me.
Computer says no

https://youtu.be/0n_Ty_72Qds
the legal responsibility of a director is different. she is accountable (along with other senior directors) for issues caused by the company

"A director can be found to be personally liable for a company offence if they consented or connived in an illegal activity, or caused it through neglect of their duties."

https://www.girlings.com/latest/when-does-a-director-assume-...

so she either knows about this or is negligent - either way jail time should be given
In other words, you're simply making an _assumption_ that Valve will instantly drop support at Microsoft's EOL date.
Have we concluded that the bolts/nuts/door was assembled incorrectly and not faulty metallurgy or faulty assembly instructions?

Still unsure if the recent door issue was a matter of sloppy assembly (which inspection should find) or sloppy specifications/equipment (which inspection would reinforce, possibly making things worse).
and thank you for this!
Amazon brought this on themselves by allowing all of this garbage in the first place.
IIRC in its initial version it was never "mesh", but more like fixed multi-hop routes over one or two intermediate nodes (i.e. no route discovery)
This. It's not a problem as long as the self-regulator is kept in line with periodic checks from a higher regulator.

It's similar to how income taxes work. You self-report all the figures, and then they are sampled and spot-checked and occasionally audited. The possibility of being caught by an audit, then prods people to generally submit truthful reports, because of the risk of penalties.

And then, if that incentive ceases to work, the self-report/self-regulate status gets revoked.
Phi-2 basically demonstrated that you don't need a very large model to figure out language. It not very smart but speaks perfect English. it's not obvious the best way to gain IQ is to have a larger language model. some other structure might be needed.
IPP Wi-Fi Configuration Extensions v1.0 [pdf]
This is laughably over blown.

I don’t expect my doctor to know the component parts of atoms. Nor do I need them to.

I don’t expect a designer to know how a pixel works.

At some point in the stack we have to draw a line and say this level of detailed knowledge is not generally useful to the majority.

In terms of generic web development today, I would be fine at drawing that line at low level system concerns (memory allocation, cpu cycles, hell even compilation)
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ANNOY is essentially a binary space partition tree for points without having to worry about sets of points aka polygons?
Well, the theory is that what is being regulated by federal government is the inspection process of the company, rather than the inspections themselves.

Mostly the government doesn't want to get involved in checking if bolts are tightened, they want to make sure that the company has a process to check that the bolts are tightened and is following it. It would be extraordinarily expensive and inefficient for government inspectors to do all this work themselves.
It's clearly a systemic problem regardless.
Many (if not 99%) of silenced speakers were not nazis. Unless everything right of X is nazi and everything left is commie. Which is bullshit.

The „influential group“ refers to „consequences“ like making people loose their jobs after spamming their employers for controversial (at best) speech.

Protest is fine. But preventing speech is fine. Do you want to stay outside of a meeting room with a banner? Cool. Do you want to politely ask uncomfortable questions? Great. Do you want to prevent those people from speaking? That's where it gets bad.
> The opinion document as far as I'm aware has no legal force.

Agreed! But without this guidance we're just stuck guessing what "strictly necessary" means.
Truth be told, I'd rather we give enforcing the equally-applied rule of law a shot first.
> Charging non-Teslas at SCs is almost as good, you just need to tell the app which unit you're plugged into.

That's not the "just need to" that works for me. For privacy reasons I don't carry a device that constantly reports my personal information to Apple or Google. Can I install this app from F-Droid? Strike one.

Now supposing I decide I'm cool with being tracked by Apple or Google all the time and use a device I can get the app on. Do I need to register an account with the app? With my personal information? So the fact that I am driving a specific Tesla vehicle along with my location can be tracked by Tesla? Strike two.

Now supposing I decide I'm cool with being tracked by Apple or Google and Tesla, do I need to register a Visa or Mastercard with the app so I can also be tracked by the payment provider, who will sell my transactions to random third-party eReceipt brokers who will dutifully add my travel habits to the profile they keep on me? Strike three.

Nope. Not playing any of these games. Gas car, cash. Thank you very much.
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Show HN: Built this interactive story game with audio and video
A simple RPG style interactive story game. Uses GPT, Stable Diffusion and TTS to build stories on the fly. The characters are guided by user prompts and the story progresses accordingly.

https://twitter.com/krznun/status/1745859295957450871
Easy fix since ChatGPT always apologises for not complying: any description or title containing the word "sorry" gets flagged for human oversight. Still orders of magnitude faster than writing all your own spam texts.
A cap on tourists could be next for Venice
Cancelled NuScale contract weighs heavy on new nuclear
Maybe arxiv sanity lite is close to what you want?

https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/about

Otherwise, there are a bunch of newsletters/Substack's that add a layer on top of the arxiv stream.

Are there any you're already on? That would help me recommend a few more..
"Looking for answers in the bottom of a bottle", seriously? In my own experience, drinking with friends at a spontaneous "fuck that job" party after a massive layoff is one of life's great pleasures. To each their own, I guess.
Rockets leave the launch site very quickly. And they launch from the shore towards the ocean.

No one is allowed to be near the launch path or within 2-3 miles of the launch.
Yeah we can't realistically get better water outcomes by only changing out supply. We have to change our usage too. Farms should be converting to crops that have lower water usage, and food manufacturers should be converting to foods that make use of those crops.
How Aha whiteboards smoothly handle editing thousands of objects
> Most people don't argue within moral frameworks. Most people don't live logic-based lives.

Yes they do. You may contest aspects of the foundation of their logical and moral framework of choice, but most people on earth adhere to a moral or religious framework. Those are logic-based and that is what apologetics and natural theology and philosophy are for.
The Cult of Mac
It's getting ready to cross the road..?
> Does this mean the Jeep is now part of my body? Of course not.

Why is that "of course not"? Is your arm part of your body? Your hair? A wig? A pacemaker? A well-fitted mechanical exoskeleton that you use without thinking about it? A poorly-fitted exoskeleton that you're still learning how to use? A Jeep? It's not as clear-cut as you make it sound. If the criteria is: well, I can't feel the Jeep -- well, you can't feel your liver either.
I personally don't think its bad if firms just find excuses to keep people on payroll, regardless of the strategic significance.
> Agree 100%. Wind turbines killing birds is a disingenuous argument when it comes to climate change.

If the people involved in this conversation actually cared about birds, they wouldn't be worried about either. They'd be worried about cats. Cats kill about 20-55% of the entire US bird population every single year. Somewhere between 1.3B and 4B birds per year in the US alone. [1] And an order of magnitude more small mammals (6.3B - 22.3B).

It's several orders of magnitude more than turbines and oil-and-gas drilling combined.

Studies put the number of birds killed by wind turbines in the US at 140K-690K. That's 0.0035% to 0.05% of the birds killed by cats. It would literally be a rounding error nobody would ever notice if all the wind turbines came down.

I honestly can't believe we're still having this conversation in the context of wind power. Put some UV stickers or black paint on them and move on. [3]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

[2] https://www.denverpost.com/2019/09/20/bird-population-decrea...

[3] https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/newsroom/2022/b...
Or nuclear. There's that. Way less land occupation, no carpeting hillsides with solar panels, no ungainly windmills, no millions of pounds of toxic heavy metals to dispose of when batteries and panels go bad, and...oh....it works regardless of the weather.
I interviewed at Microsoft and I got multiple questions lifted straight from leetcode word for word. Some easy and some hard DP questions.

Google and Netflix had hard questions as well, but they were all novel questions not on leetcode/hackerrank. However, CS algorithms 101 were fundamental to both.
It's not clear to me which aspects of Boeing's authority are in question even after reading the FT article.

Boeing has both have Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs) who are involved in design certification questions for airframe type certificates and quality inspectors who are involved in certifying individual already-built airframes for airworthiness (conformance to type certification and in condition for safe operation).

The former are usually not called inspectors, but many of the comments here are covering topics that are the domain of DERs rather than inspectors/A&P w/IA.
While I think most people understand this sentiment, the root issue here was the lock-down – Yes, if you imprison a whole nation it is good to have some sedation. You could say that a lot of people wouldn't have gone through lock-downs without alcohol and porn either. That does not make it more admirable.

I agree in the sentiment that we have more important issues than providing ever more entertainment – we had no issues spending our time 50 years ago; Without immersive technologies. Instead of translating the extra resources technology have given to more entertainment, we could have translated it into more free time.

I would happily have less consoles, VR, and games and instead have a nation-wide 30 hour workweek (I need my friends not to work either).
>> unattended LLM do anything for your company at all. It can, and will, fuck up dramatically sooner or later.

So, just like any other random employee?
https://archive.is/XVvy8
> Although financo/algo-trading is math heavy, it does not fall into the category of scientific computing.

Care to elaborate on why this wouldn't be the case?

As far as I can see, half of my desk is ex CNRS/CERN/CEA/... , the other half is the top brightest PhDs and engineers. When I look at weather forecast models, or biological DNA white papers, I don't see much difference in terms of scientific process or category of problem than what we see in quantitative finance.

It may be sad, but the truth is finance phagocytates an immense chunk of the scientific community,abd it provides. There are interesting and hard problems to solve, virtually unlimited compute resources, etc.

Most top quant HF have yearly double digit million dollar infrastructure bills, compute and storage clusters rivaling or surpassing academic ones, dedicated hardware manufacturers, etc.
> greet.c is not a derivative work of Y because I have not included any copyrightable elements of Y in greet.c.

I think this is very much debatable, and I believe the FSF at least takes the position that greet.c is a derived work of Y since it is designed to depend on Y. Even more, their position is that a program like this:

#include <stdlib.h>

int main() {
create_complex_c_code_using_gcc_specific_extensions("./intermediate.c");
system("gcc -o intermediate ./intermediate.c");
system("./intermediate");
}

Is quite possibly a derived work of GCC, since it depends critically on communicating with GCC using a very complex and specific data interchange format (the GCC-specific C source code). Note that this is not including any portion of GCC itself, even after compilation.

Now, this type of thing has never been tested in a court of law as far as I know, so it's difficult to say whose interpretation of copyright and its implications is actually correct. But this is similar to the idea that if you were to write an original novel that uses characters or very recognizable aspects of, say, The Lord of the Rings, you'd be creating a derived work (and thus permission from the Tolkien estate), even if you didn't include any part of the original longer than "Galadriel".
The longer I remain a software engineer the more I hate relying on computers. Maybe the people closest to the technology are the ones to first realize how superficial and downright damaging these innovations actually are.
> If solar + batteries + RO plants could produce water at a price that made agriculture economically viable, then I just don't see how it wouldn't already be happening.

The costs of solar and batteries have been dropping for decades. It's 100% believable that this type of thing has been considered, repeatedly, and discarded as economically infeasible, leading to the major players in the field choosing to ignore it for a while—but that the costs have now dropped enough that the economics work out.
This comment made me sad. I would hope we aim for jobs that don‘t invoke the feeling of „trudging“ and the need for „entertainment“.
I get actively angry with them over their absolutely terrible election coverage ("what are the implications of this event for so-and-so's campaign, and how might they respond? Let's ask our panel..." OH MY GOD MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING CAMPAIGN STRATEGY IS NOT FUCKING NEWS, I yell at my radio before getting ahold of myself) which is a real problem now that election seasons, which used to be best measured in months, have somehow expanded to encompass the entire calendar of every year.
Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/senate-votes-to-...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Broadband_Consumer_Privac...
> You could consider this a form of epistemic learned helplessness, where I know any attempt to evaluate the arguments is just going to be a bad idea so I don’t even try.

Replace "the arguments" in this sentence with "complexity" for a more universal statement on human nature.

Some people deal with complexity through science. This sounds great, until you realize that science is currently systematic (step by step) and not systemic (whole picture). Reality is made of interconnected systems. A systematic approach leaves blind spots.

For instance, look at medicine. Traditionally, men were seen as less complex to study because of the lack of a (regular) hormone cycle. Our medical system is largely based on authoritatively treating women as "smaller men". This results in systemic ignorance of women's health.

Even in veterinary medicine, kittens are often treated as "smaller puppies". This results in needlessly dead kittens.

The difference between essential complexity (complexity created to handle complexity) and inessential complexity (complexity driven by another purpose) is also important. Some people rely on inessential complexity to derive authority: they sound like an expert when they talk about their "complex" system.

Understanding systems and system dynamics is useful for discerning between good information and bad information. If you can visualize an argument as a system (and as part of a system), it is easier to avoid getting lost in the details.
This particular criticism is not directed at Israel, but at countries supporting Israel, such as the USA and the UK. The point is that human rights violations are enabled and even supported by third countries when Israel is the perpetrator, but not when Russia is the perpetrator.
Nobody disputes that entertainment has value. The article is about the fact that so much talent and resources is funneled into immersion.

Using your neurosurgeon example, I posit that having fewer VR headsets will not prevent the doctor from unwinding. Nor will having mobile phones with less vibrant colors or application with lower engagement metrics.
So you want them to be paid in exposure? If a company offers a service that another needs, but doesn't pay for, should they provide the service for free for them? If GitHub goes down, should CF provide the service to them for good PR?

I feel awful for sourcehut, but that doesn't mean that cloudflare should be obliged to support them for free or below cost rates.
If you read the analysis published after the MCAS disaster, self certification is something recent so the FAA at least used to have people.
Most rental cars I've used already had 100% fuel, so I definitely had to return them at the same level. I think there is a little more flexibility with ICE, since analog fuel gauges are probably less accurate than EV charge level meters.

So I was usually able to find a gas station near the airport rental, and get as close as possible to topping off (if the car was a full tank when I first picked it up). I've never tried to rent an EV, so I'm not sure how easy that would be in a comparable situation. Probably not very.
Since all of the proposals I've seen so far to do this involve pretty serious privacy problems, I'm not optimistic about the future of the internet on this count.
C# has pretty nice integration with OTEL out of box (ASP.NET Core and otherwise, distributed as separate packages)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/ob...
> before the company even acted on what we sent them, Substack shared the scope of our findings with another, friendlier publication on the platform

Everything else aside, if they can't help themselves from doing petty stuff like this, why would you let them manage your subscriptions?
I'm working on https://rolepad.com - a platform for managing your job search (rather than searching for jobs directly).
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Except Twitter is trying to hire a ton of people right now... I think they need more engineers pretty bad and Elon knows it.
When I write poetry, song lyrics, or music, I am fully immersed.

The difference between video games and art is that I create the environment that I am immersed within.

Sure, like English or any other language, I’ve inherited the cultural context for my artistic endeavors, but that context is a basic requirement for any sort of immersive activity.
EDIT: This is Meteor lake, not the Raptor Lake-S Refresh. Mea culpa.
> believe both (even if they are contradictory, that's a thing humans can do)

It really isn't, though.
Spacex also had the very small advantage of all the basic science being done for them for free. The constraint in the NASA golden years wasn't getting it done cheaply, it was getting it done at all.
How things look is important.

Not as important as how they function, but still important.

People, software programs, buildings, landscapes... appearance is information, about quality, about professionalism, about creativity, about attention to detail.
Apple knew AirDrop users could be identified and tracked as early as 2019
After working on golang projects for a while, I really like having one obvious way to do things.
This confirms a deeply held belief of mine, which is that the principle task of a professional software engineer is to research, both in terms of creating a theory of the system you're working on, and researching how to solve problems with computers generally. The industry changes every day, and the languages and frameworks you started with will not last long in this business environment with some many evolutionary pressures. The esteemed Jeremy Howard mentioned parenthetically once in a lecture how for all his career he spent at least 50% of his time at work simply hitting the books, hacking, discovering new ways to program. I took this advice to heart midway through my career and it has been most helpful to my earnings.