skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience it's the workers, and it's machoism amongst the workers that creates an intentionally anti-safe culture where such cultures are permitted. Where I live they remove the angle grinder guards off and use 'safety squints' when welding. A friend had people working on his house, when I visited I made them stop their work and put the recently removed angle grinder guards form their new tools back on. I also and got them a chepo welding helmet. Not long after I left that day they took the guards back off and a young worker cut off a 1/4 of his hand and had to be rushed to hospital. My friend had a 'let them do what they want to do' attitude to the workers which thankfully has now been replaced with a 'safety first' attitude. Unfortunately too late for the kids hand.

This sort of stuff can't be done bottom up as there is huge social pressure to demonstrate manliness to peers through risky activity. Only strict top-down edicts where such digressions are severely punished can take away that pressure; i.e. instead of using safety equipment it's because they're a sissy it's because their mean old boss is a sissy and they're forcing them to use it.

While OSHA can be a bit onerous it really does help to have an organization with teeth pushing safety culture. Instead of the conflict between the workers and their bosses 'stupid rules' it's the 'stupid rules' of some 3rd party.
McDonalds does not allow tipping: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/why-are-staff-no...
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> It's like they have a built-in LLM

and an LLM can tell you how to do it

Strategies:

Practice Storytelling:
Incorporate anecdotes, metaphors, and analogies into your conversations. This makes your communication more engaging and less direct.
Example: Instead of saying "We need to increase our sales," you could say, "Imagine our company as a ship; to stay afloat, we need to navigate towards higher sales."

Use Fillers and Connectors:
Use phrases like "as you know," "in other words," "basically," and "to put it simply." These help to extend your speech without necessarily adding new information.
Example: "As you know, our goal is to improve efficiency. Basically, this means we'll need to streamline our processes."

Focus on Emotional Appeal:
Use words that evoke emotions rather than just conveying facts. Express enthusiasm, concern, optimism, or caution depending on the context.
Example: "I'm really excited about this new project because it has the potential to revolutionize our approach."

Reiterate and Rephrase:
Repeat key points in different ways to emphasize your message without adding new content.
Example: "The main objective is to boost productivity. In other words, we need to find ways to work smarter, not harder."

Ask Rhetorical Questions:
Pose questions that don't necessarily need answers but keep the audience engaged and thinking.
Example: "What does this mean for us? It means we have an opportunity to grow."

Resources:

Books:
"Talk Like TED" by Carmine Gallo: This book offers insights into how to present ideas effectively and engage audiences, inspired by TED Talks.

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie: Although more focused on interpersonal skills, this classic book provides valuable advice on persuasive communication.
Have to speak the truth albeit at minimum, in case legal...
Aren't you just proving my point, though? Your post is objectively xenophobic.

> Continental Europeans have very bad experiences with British tourists

Funnily enough I've never been anywhere where our trashy British tourists go (why would I?). So actually I don't know what they're like, but I've heard very bad things. I've also heard even worse things about the Dutch, though.

> And I am quite sure I get support from around a 100 Million dead guys

Well whoever they are that you're talking about, they are dead, so I am not sure they're in a position to support you at all. Having said that, I wonder what the all the dead Europeans and Jews murdered by Germans would think of Germany.

> But the shithole you live in of course may vary

I live and work in Hamburg.

>Turks are a very big community (I guess more than 20 Million counting all generations) in Germany with a lot of not well adapted folk.

Yes, because of how the majority ethnic German population treated them and continues to treat them. It's a very racist country. That's what living and working in Germany and falling in love with a Turkish German taught me. Thank you for the cultural exchange.
How misleading that human+computer is called centaur chess and yet the plugs are much smaller than the equivalent of a horse
“You get what you pay for” is still a reasonable metric, even if it is more a relative scale than an absolute one.
In practice PE rarely held accountable in Quebec.
It's only just starting here in the UK. Those card payment things seem to have a tip option that can be enabled and they make you hit "no" (or choose a nonzero amount). A dark pattern basically. So many people must feel pressured to press a nonzero button. I'm going to start refusing to press them and make them get it ready to accept my payment.
They aren't corned though. All they have to do is leave. Then they stop losing so many troops and they have their sanctions lifted.
Because one is not expected to tip in Germany, only in the Balkans. Italy and Hungary both have service tax if you sit down. For takeout they might have a tip jar where you tip a few coins. And I've only been very nicely asked to tip in Sicily, where a barista is his 60s kindly made two perfect espressos, arranged everything on a platter and jestured that I need not handle anything but the tip jar.

A screen with a tip suggestion? A great way to guarantee no tip. Also, I only tip in cash. The cash should go to the people doing the service, not machines, not faceless corporations and definitely not towards more taxes.
IntelliJ's database client is excellent too (available in many of their IDEs, cross platform - but only available in the paid versions I believe). Auto complete, many export options, editing, record views, results diffing, vast amounts of supported engines, and so much more

I don't think I've ever encountered a bug in 5 plus years of using it

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/relational-databases.htm...
"In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to “Mandate for Leadership,” the project’s extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch" [0]. Here's details on a bunch of them [1].

People and organizations, not just on the left but also over 100 influential organizations on the right [2], take Project 2025 as the desired direction for a future Trump administration. Trump himself has endorsed many of the same positions in this document.

Right or wrong, that's why people have made the association between Trump and Project 2025. This is what conservatives as a group seem to want for a future Trump administration. There doesn't seem to be a competing vision for the party, and certainly nothing laid out in 900 pages of detail.

Why wouldn't people on the left make the association between Trump and this document when so many on the right do?

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-pro...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-ex-trump-contributors-...

[2] https://live-project2025.pantheonsite.io/about/advisory-boar...
Yeah, exactly. That’s why you want a culture of collaboration between engineers and managers to come together and decide what is important. It’s just hard to keep that up in practice, especially if a company grows.
Could our marginalization of healthy human sexuality relative to other normal, if risky, activities be contributing to said “filthiness”?
> I don't think the evidence definitively supports the conclusion that it's down to which group.
I've lived besides Gypsy communities, and had during school Gypsy friends. Some were in the top of the class, and many were not. The big predictor for integration was not ethnicity but culture.

Some have a culture that indoctrinated them to exploit and explicitly not integrate with the general population. How would you integrate a culture that explicitly rejects integration without changing the culture itself?
SA has mercifully managed to avoid the death-spiral that is the pursuit of infinite growth. I've been posting on SA for almost 20 years, and many people have been there even longer.
I'd guess they were missing a

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I guess you could ask the same question of the middle eastern countries. Pretty reductive perspective, no?
Yes, I saw that earlier. We're about to turn the Internet into the digital equivalent of the garbage dump from Wall-E.
Neft Daşları, a Sprawling City on the Sea
Companies these days are global btw.

Not everyone is working on the same timezone.
I guess that the million people who have escaped in the last couple of years are also guilty of something.
How would you use it? For searches.

If I want to find something in the brain but not in bone structures.
If I want to find something in a kind of cell but that have a nucleus.

They are also extremely useful for automated annotation. Your automated system may annotate with a upper term because it doesn't have enough information to be more precise. That's already a big help for a human to come and put a more precise term.

We are at a convergence of technologies, with ontologies, graphs, llms and logic programming. A lot of people were too early on this and discouraged from pursuing further by people that couldn't grasp why it was so important.
>Centralizing power is asking for abuse.

Not particularly. Whatever you do, it can be (will be?) abused. Centralizing power means that a centralized power abuse will happen, like in the case above. In a distributed power system, an attack could occur that targets most entities successfully, but they won't respond efficiently because of lack of centralization. Like computer viruses in the old days.
Corporation and consultants mostly, judging from my experience.
If asked about precise law or regulation they just wave hands.
It’s all just text.

Just copy and paste
Here's one

https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/canonical_ubuntu_16.04_lts/2...
I'm curious what their take would be regarding books that require non-monetary payment from users.

E.g., registration on some website, or the book only being accessible by some medium that pushes ads.
Why Discover is no American Express
The files in question reside within C:\windows, which requires admin privileges to write to. If untrusted data can end up there, you're already on the other side of the airtight hatchway[1].

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220907-00/?p=10...
The article briefly touches on it, but complicating things are practices like tip pooling at restaurants (tips are shared among all low wage staff, regardless if they did anything) and tips going into the revenue bucket of the business.

I’m less inclined to tip when I don’t know where the money is going. Handing people straight cash frequently also ends up in tip pools from policy as well.
The US has been the the only major country sanctioning Cuba for a decade and a half, but the economy has only gotten worse. Sanctions may explain why they has lagged behind in tech. It doesn't explain why Cuba needs to import 70-80% of their food despite being a fertile tropical paradise.

https://www.wfpusa.org/countries/cuba/#:~:text=Cuba%20import....
Study: Can Consciousness Exist in a Computer Simulation?
this might be a good place to start: https://huggingface.co/spaces/radames/Candle-BERT-Semantic-S...
Any human technology that the general population can't understand is an egregious failure in education that will be indistinguishable from large-scale cognitive impairment. -- h-d'a
I think it was a generic example rather than meant to be specifically accurate. Replace McDonalds with the name of any other restaurant. Why is the server entitled to 15% but the cook or dishwasher not?
Julia goes through LLVM, which has good DWARF support (and, additionally, until recently, Julia hosted rr's CI, so Julia directly cares about rr). Whereas AFAIU Go does its codegen fully from scratch, without much regard for gdb/DWARF quality.
From the perspective of an rr maintainer, Sid's work was good and we were supportive of it. The main issues with migrating to that as the "blessed" version are that 1) rr has accumulated a decade of very hairy fixes for crazy kernel/process behavior that we feared could be lost during a port and 2) there's a closed source project (remix[0]) built on top of rr that would have needed to be ported too.

[0] https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/12/rr-remix-efficient-repl...
I only read half of this, BUTT it CRACKED me up.
The public sentiment in those cities regarding immigration has completely flipped from the moment the buses started arriving. They were loudly in favor of refusing to enforce immigration laws when El Paso, Texas was dealing with hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings over decades, but the second a few thousand start showing up in buses in Chicago and New York City, they declare a state of emergency and start demanding the stop of the immigrants being transported to their cities because they have no room. And now it’s probably the single strongest issue the Republicans are going to win on in the election.

I’m not conservative, but sending illegal migrants directly to sanctuary cities might be the single most effective strategic political move in my lifetime. It flipped a decades old stalemate on its head practically overnight.
My friend's father can't travel to the US anymore (including transfer flights through) because he is higher up in a nickel mining company that does a lot of business in Cuba. Bank accounts, trading accounts, wire transfers, etc.. nothing can go through the US. Ships that dock in Cuban ports can't then go on to dock in US ports. etc. etc. etc

It's a kind of blockade
Linear algebra books are working for me, not sure which ones you are trying to access. I'm actually relieved to have another source for the awful course I'm sitting through at the moment. I wonder what teaching quals a lot of the teachers I've had to suffer through actually have :(
The most important difference is that in practice the SWE can't go and report the employer to anyone for breaching e.g. occupational health and safety laws, or any others, because those laws don't exist for the majority of software flaws. At best you have privacy laws like the GDPR or industry-specific ones covering e.g. medical devices...but CrowdStrike isn't meant to run in those environments anyway, see, look at this text buried in the license agreement.
Just curious, what's wrong with dbeaver?
That sounds like any other companies I have ever worked for: looks great from the outside but a hot mess on the inside.

I have never worked for a company where everything is smooth sailing.

What I noticed is that the smaller the company, the less hot mess they are but at the same time they're also struggling to pay the bill because they don't innovate fast.
I used to binary patch PDFKit to nop the password check (in PPC days). I wonder if that's still possible with code signatures.

Back then, there were also some other means, like writing your own InputManager to inject code, or F-Script Anywhere, which injected a F-Script interpreter into a process.
Why Doing Taxes is so Hard? (2020) [video]
That's right. US trade with China has exploded in the last couple of decades and China's communist regime is falling apart quickly.
If that’s the conclusion you’ve drawn from me questioning their entire business model and arguing that their selling point is advertising on race cars, I don’t know how to help you.
It happens all the time.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/canada-furious-with-u-s-...

https://www.thecasecentre.org/products/view?id=70853
Awesome, generating pages for the Linux kernel repository in less than 7 mie sounds great.

> Only indexes history of one branch.

I wonder if this means it only generates pages for one branch or it does for all the branches but indexes only one
in search efficiency sense (although it might be irrelevant as it is for static sites). Some of the demo sites have a "branches" page with more than one branch.
When their bottom line and head is at stake, what were they supposed to do?
> J and I are thus equivalent.

Why isn’t “june” then “iune”?

> U covers the case where V is a vowel

Why is “quit” not “qvit”? Because isn’t a “u” following a “q” always a non-vowel (constant)?

https://www.ck12.org/spelling/u-a-vowel-that-can-act-as-a-co....
It has been exactly the same with outsourcing production to China...
Yeah, the reason it only works for these coarser race conditions is that RR only has one thread executing at a time. Chaos mode randomizes the durations of time allotted to each thread before it is preempted. This may be out of date. I believe I read it in the Extended Technical Report from 2017: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05937
Like that cop in The Wire who was so proud he "caught the Unabomber" and McNulty goes "didn't his brother turn him in?"
You don't seem to be aware that Cuba actually trades with many countries, including the US, and this for a long time. https://www.britannica.com/place/Cuba/Trade
Great servers DO NOT want to get paid a higher wage from the restaurant instead of tips because they make so much more in tips.
If the forum members are smart then "by popularity" is a good way to pick a moderator.
The Malware that Hacked Disney [video]
Most countries have an incredible amount of debt and have nothing to show for it. Moreover, the borrowed money accumulated in high proportion only in a handful of pockets, leaving behind a flimsy corrupted society.
How much of GPU drivers are left in kernel for Windows? Updating GPU driver or having desktop crash on Windows and it recovering reasonably seems common enough experience.
By and large, we all get horny, and we all like to get our rocks off. A good thing too, or the species would have died out ages ago.

It's sad that even in 2024 it is taboo to talk about it in the eyes of some, or apparently to even publish tangentially related source code to GitHub. I very much doubt that any curious teenager is going to get turned on from reading the buttplug.io source code. And if they do: props to them.

On the one hand, we seem to sexualize the weirdest things (beauty pageants for kids, anyone?) without anyone seeming to care. But on the other hand, we're weirdly prude & defensive about perfectly natural processes (sex, masturbation, sexual curiosity & experimentation) to the point that we have to censor them on the internet. I still can't grok that.
RR supports recording multithreaded programs, but only runs one thread at a time, so it cannot trigger data race bugs.

It can find higher level concurrency bugs though, and has a "chaos mode" that schedules threads in an unfair random manner.
TDP is mostly meaningless between manufacturers. You can (usually) compare TDP within a manufacturer but even then it’s a bit dicey across generations.
Haiti is currently a lawless hellscape, from what I understand. As bad as Cuba might be, I don’t think it’s in the same league.
> Its both sad and ironic in the context of some of the poorly serviced parts of India (sanitarily speaking)

Regression is real. We should not forget that when confronted with the level of nonsense threatening the very fabric of our social cohesion and societal model in recent years.
That game still exists?

Back in 2005 I figured out how to log in on multiple Habbo accounts at once. I would run casino rooms using the dice and use a mob of clones to make it look like real players are winning and betting big. If an actual real player ever bet and won, I would kick them, tear down the whole room, transfer the items to new accounts, and start it up fresh. I probably had a few dozen accounts banned.
There is a lot of frustration here over what appears to be essentially this claim:

> ...we argue that it is possible to offer generous interpretations of some aspects of LLM engineering to find parallels with human language learning. However, in the majority of key aspects of language learning and use, most specifically in the various kinds of linguistic agency exhibited by human beings, these small apparent comparisons do little to balance what are much more deep-rooted contrasts.

Now, why is this so hard to stomach? This is the argument of this paper. To feel like this extremely general claim is something you have to argue against means you believe in a fundamental similarity between what our linguistic agency and the model. But is embodied human agency something that you really need the LLMs to have right now? Why? What are the stakes here? The ones actually related to the argument at hand?

This ultimately not that strong of a claim! To the point that its almost vacuous... Of course the LLM will never learn the stove is "hot" like you did when you were a curious child. How can this still be too much to admit for someone? What is lost?

It makes me feel little crazy here that people constantly jump over the text at hand whenever something gets a little too philosophical, and the arguments become long pseudo-theories that aren't relevant to argument.
do you have any benchmarks to share? the best I've seen for a 4090 are all in the mid-20s, never more than 30t/s.
Not if you actually look. Romans invented a concrete recipe that was lost for a millennium. Their ports were holding together longer than any modern concrete. This Roman concrete recipe was recently rediscovered and has been getting traction again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete#Modern_use
IMO it's a lot easier to just appear to be amiable in a corporate environment than do other things, especially if one does not really care about being amiable but only APPEAR to be.

I have so far learned to make meaningless smalltalks and other small techniques just to make sure that I tick all those normal human being boxes. I actually care nothing about that but ticking those boxes makes me feel safer.
tl;dw: it's Python-based RAT (trojan) PySilon inside a BeamNG mod
Interview with a Link Spammer (2005)
Hugo Mercier says we've been misinformed about misinformation
The bootstrapping required to produce an iron tool from scratch (really, a small village with a surplus of food sufficient for one full time adult male + accessible ores) is doable in less than a lifetime with some recorded knowledge on how to do it. Even if they’re literally at the mud hut stage.

Producing even the simplest IC? Definitely not. And that is ignoring the need for electricity and everything else required to actually use it.
Astronomy, space travel and the search for life may change by 2049
Nesa
Was the USSR brutally sanctioned by a superpower? It was a superpower itself - it was supposed to be even more of a superpower!

"In the 1961 edition of his famous textbook of economic principles, Paul Samuelson wrote that GNP in the Soviet Union was about half that in the United States but the Soviet Union was growing faster. As a result, one could comfortably forecast that Soviet GNP would exceed that of the United States by as early as 1984 or perhaps by as late as 1997 and in any event Soviet GNP would greatly catch-up to U.S. GNP."

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/01/so...
Yep, it's mostly about branding and control. It needs certain concrete layout and logos, and has to be relatively easy to change them.

We also render shipping labels in PDF, and we have to be VERY strict with that. But we're still not touching that, as that process is not at slow and problematic as the invoicing one.
Same in Oregon, from personal experience. There is no subminimum wage for restaurant workers but tipping is still very much expected.