skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The economy has been heavily financialised, interest rates have been at 0% [0] and a big chunk of economic activity is government spending.

If you want to be dramatic: we had negative real interest rates for a long while.

Nominal interest rates were close to 0% and inflation was positive.

> Shareholders don't appear to be worried about how the company actually runs in the details.

And shareholders who are interested get vilified as activists or short sellers.

> IE, the wages suggest workers don't really matter because they don't.

The labour share of GDP has been mostly stable for the last few decades between 55 to 65%-ish See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG

Profits have also been fairly stable as a share of GDP at around 5-10%-ish: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W273RE1A156NBEA

Just to be clear: going up or down by 5% of GDP is a lot in absolute terms, but not enough to justify hyperbole about "workers don't matter".
> they tend to make decisions that maximize worker welfare rather than profit

That this a "con", says something worrying about the values that, as society, we have decided are more important
It’s funny how I’m doing biological research that’s beneficial to humanity and there’re so many hurdles in the path of progress (numerous ethics committees).

And there’s spy software that’s sold to whoever can buy it. But somehow Israel isn’t scrutinized for such company existing in their jurisdiction.
> I'm baffled why everything I consume from Britain is damn pessimistic.

I'm just saying, although we've recently elected a centre-left government, we shouldn't expect a free-spending, state-expanding government.

In their election campaign they spent a lot of time marketing themselves as the party of stability and fiscal rules. The first bill announced in the King's Speech was a "Budget Responsibility Bill" requiring them to get independent assessment of major tax and spending bills.

> start drinking I guess???

Now you're talking my language!
Malaysia: Your product is faulty and caused us damages

Microsoft: Nobody forced you to use our product
Depends on if you are cutting fat or cutting muscle.
Does nobody remember Enron? They encouraged their employees to invest in company stock, and when the company collapsed those employees were doubly screwed: no more job and no more savings. Too many eggs in one basket IMO. Investing in your own company is only for people who can tolerate very high risk.
Please feel free to make your pitch to whoever is in charge of hiring CEOs at Boeing.
Shared Experience, Shared Language: A Review of Metaphors We Live By
it has to be intentional. almost any two products that you might want to compare are always using different units. haagan Daaz pints are always shown with different units than the larger haagan daaz.
The problem is it's completely undiscoverable. You can tell Alexa "play some music" because you're pretty sure one of these linguists added a rule for that. But can you tell it "play me a song that lasts longer than 5 minutes"? Doubtful. The only way to know is to try it.

The problem is the space of possible commands is waaaaay bigger than the space of commands you can manually handle, which means if you just randomly try stuff 95% of the time it won't work. Users learn that very quickly and end up sticking to the few commands they know work.

The one exception is "search" queries - "how tall is Everest" and so on, but that only really works well on Google's platform because they've done all the work for that already.

Contrast that with LLMs which basically at least understand everything you're asking of them. If you give them a simple API to carry out actions they can do really complex commands like "send a WhatsApp to my wife telling her how when I'll get home if I start cycling in 10 minutes". That's impossible without LLMs but pretty trivial with them.

Obviously the downside is they are prone to bullshitting and might do completely the wrong thing.
If you're looking for naughty processes you could start with:

mkdir /tmp/foo
mount -t proc none /tmp/foo
Transit data on Google Maps in Sydney Australia has been broken for ages. It's correct (and more clearly illustrated) in Apple Maps.

https://x.com/jxeeno/status/1814975093380116783
Sorry, I don't mean for my views to hurt your feelings.

I find it obvious from the context that they were referring to celebrity CEO:s in global corporations and not Mom or Pop in some small mom-and-pop corner store.

When I look at en.wikipedia on Huang it seems he graduated into a managing role and then founded Nvidia. By "real-world experience" I'd mean experience as a worker, but I can't answer for the person you're actually quoting.

However, it's an interesting example. Clearly Huang has managed to promote an image to you that is very different from mine. As I see it, Nvidia is a main supplier of hardware for globally fashionable grifts and scams, like large portions of so called 'crypto' and 'AI'. I also expect Nvidia to be an important supplier in the war industry, and I'm sure it is in surveillance tyranny.
Who could have seen it coming?
The day trader needs to find a greater fool for that to work.

Shares prices already reflect an estimate of the long running fate of the company.
Funny that in the UK, small business owned by employees is typically associated with tax dodging (basically there is strong anti small business agenda in the government). So we have this legislation called IR35 that very much stops employee owned company from generating profit. This applies to b2b only, but I wouldn't be surprised if strong lobbying from big corporations will get its scope expanded.
After all why someone should run their own shop if they could work at a supermarket? Big corporations are worried that the most skilled people engage in running their own business rather than being available in the employee market, so there is strong push to stop it.
Odd, since the underlying MapKit JS supports Firefox.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs/
I totally forgot the why part: Meat! There was very little food available in Poland, Meat was a luxury good. September 1980 strikes (catalyst for movement that broke Iron Block) were about food and living conditions. Bread queues, empty shops with no meat at all.

https://ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl/2022/01/14/mieso-a-sprawa-... https://dziennikpolski24.pl/lubelska-zaraza/ar/2799170

>>The Security Service sent alarming reports. "There are still shortages of cold cuts from group IV, shortages of high-quality meat, there is no lard on the market, there are total shortages of: canned fish and imported fish, and the quantities of salted herring are limited (lack of supplies). There is a shortage of full-fat milk, full-fat cheese , fatty cottage cheese, bryndza cheese. There are limited quantities of hard cheeses. Moreover, there are shortages of semi-durable bread (including gryam [sic!], breadcrumbs, there is no real honey, cubes and liquid spices, and there are full restrictions on delicatessen products. ..."

Rumours about "Train full of meat on its way to Soviet Union welded to the rails by Railway workers" at the time of moscow Olympics didnt help.

This lead to full Martial Law a year later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Poland

>>The official reasons for imposing martial law were the deteriorating economic situation of the country, the manifestations of which included, among others, lack of supplies in stores (including food), rationing (from April to October 1981, many important goods were again covered by the so-called food card system, e.g. meat, butter, fats, flour, rice, baby milk, etc.)

Soviets tried to quench the unrest by sending meat from military reserves ... in coal wagons. Rumours quickly spread about coal wagons full of rotten dirty meat from moscow.

TLDR: No Pizza because no meat, thats why we ate toasted mushroom sandwiches.
I don't know if this needs to be stated, but the idea is that they're intentionally named after unpleasant or evil things. Presumably as a way of saying: "We're dangerous/edgy/hard-core; no skulduggery is beneath us."
> Not only Firefox is not supported, but even Chrome on Linux doesn't work.

Which strongly suggests that it makes use of H.265 content somewhere (the source code corroborates such functionality), likely as a carry over from content created for the iOS/macOS versions of Apple Maps where support is granted.

> It's embarrassing for a company such as Apple.

To be fair, it is still in beta. There is still plenty of time for them to recreate the content in a format with wider support before release.

Much more embarrassing is that we enable this state of affairs. The situation that keeps Firefox and Linux from jumping all over H.265 is not some natural property of the universe, it's just a social construct that we uphold by willing choice.
Stop optimizing for financial leeches sucking value out of the system and externalizing all the societal consequences, start optimizing for the vast majority of the population.

....sounds better when you elaborate on the categories you selected.
IIUC you think it's obvious but it's possible it's not obvious or that different people have different views on it, all of which they consider obvious.
In CrowdStrikes case, they could have rolled out to even 1 million endpoints first and done an automated sanity/wellness check before unleashing the content update on everyone.

In the past when I have designed update mechanisms I’ve included basic failsafes such as automated checking for a % failed updates over a sliding 24-hour window and stopping any more if there’s too many failures.
Agreed. People read over them just like the original developer. But it helps to not introduce some weird architecture where a simple solution is available.

For bugs better use tests.
Maps is table stakes for a smartphone, and having such a key feature provided by your main competitor is a huge risk. So purely on that basis, it could be worth it.

Then, on top of that, there is value in the data you're able to collect. Traffic data is really valuable. Tracking the movement of vehicles and pedestrians lets you create very accurate maps based on "real world" data, you could use it to figure out really specific things like traffic light timings, diversions, pedestrian crossings, parking space, layout of private roads...

At one point, Apple was working on a car, if you were making a self driving car, all that data would be useful for you, and beacuse of the value of it, competitors may not even sell it to you. So your only option is to generate it yourself.

As for transit data, that is fairly simple, most transit agencies will publish their timetables in GTFS format, there are tools to automatically export this in scheduling software. That will probably get your 90% of the way there, so you might have a few on the groud people in major cities to tweak and make it more accurate, which is nothing for a company on the scale of Apple.
German companies come pretty close. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany

Also see how many cooperatives are run.

You can definitely make these kinds of things work and eg worker cooperatives are generally legal to set up around the world, but they don't necessarily work any better than vanilla companies (and that includes not necessarily being better for the employees).
Very interesting problem to solve. Congratulations on the launch!
They already had MapKit.js as a mapping SDK available across various browsers, off their own hardware. It's been available on a variety of browsers, even Firefox, this is just a beta that doesn't support it.
I find it interesting that everyone looks at Bun and shames Node saying they need to catch up to Bun and implement stuff Bun has but Node doesn't, yet nobody is like Bun should catch up with feature parity of Node. Node isn't trying to replace Bun, Bun is trying to replace Node so it should be the one who needs to match parity.
This is not tenable. 400k people aren't going to all individually work extra hard for starbucks if their own work doesn't individually benefit them.
You are mistaken. In UK there is a six year window starting from when you receive, or when you should have received, the goods. Look up Section 75 protection.

Chargeback window is 120 days but that’s not what I’m referencing. A company going bankrupt and consequently not delivering is covered under Section 75, it’s a breach of contract.
I have no idea why the poster above is outright lying. You can disprove their claims in a minute by looking at the official page of the Arbeitsamt.
The problem with employee wholely owned organizations is the employees at the primary location aren’t typically incentived to grow the business beyond their area.

The primary location would need to set aside profits to fund new locations and their money would go towards new employees.

Most employees, especially ones living pay check to pay check would much rather take the check than use that money to pay someone else.
Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
> (a) they find it hard to raise capital (b) they tend to make decisions that maximize worker welfare rather than profit

at the end a company needs to be financially successful and for this it needs to provide competitive products and services. Otherwise, they'll just be replaced.

There of course may be a chance they'll get replaced by another employee owned company, but the odds of a free-capital owned company replacing them are probably bigger as they have more freedom to make the right decisions to become successful.

Also imagine your pension would just depend on the odds of the company you have been working for a live long, because you just cannot invest into other companies because they are only owned by employees.
the reason groceries put their produce on sale is because it's about to go bad.
Apple's income doesn't come from adverts, it comes from selling iPhones
> LLMs have no intelligence at all, they don't reason.

So the benchmarks (1) of LLM's like Claude 3.5 are categorically flawed at reasoning and they will never get better?

Yet their outputs are heuristically good enough to reduce jobs from engineers by driving the cost of code generation down to almost 0.

If we take the idea that you believe that it cannot reason at all in any capacity, as whole it would be regretful for you to bet against these systems not getting better or that another breakthrough would change the perspective of a new generation of LLMs.

(1) https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet
Map looks terribly (like ~5y) outdated.
Probably to try to get reviews. I would think that is Google Maps' biggest moat.
Good for other search engines, I suppose. Reddit is a giant toxic pile of bovine manure.
> That and eliminating involuntary unemployment so that companies have to compete with a guaranteed job that is not exploitative.

You don't need to have job guarantees for that. A strong economy in general helps for this, and a basic income would also help.
Of not traded shares that don't really have a price?
Not really? Which of these generations do you feel is a 1-3% uplift?

https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/Intel+Core+i7-2600...
Bun is pretty awesome.

However, the node:crypto module still doesn't work 100%. So, I can't use it yet.
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> The best part is that they can now offer it to App Store developers as a free SDK. Meanwhile the same developers would have to pay an exorbitant cost to use Google Maps.

Apple Mapkit is free up to 25K api call a day, after that you have to contact Apple for more (and pay I guess?).
Wealth disparity is a function of overall worker comp, but it doesn't matter whether you force companies to pay part of that comp in shares instead of cash.
Because it's like one of the most important app on your phone ?

How many people would still buy an iPhone without Apple or Google maps ?
extremely annoying, but only true private option on somebody's else computer.

i read headlines like the above with the implied "not just to the employees there anymore"
Who said LLMs couldn't do irony?
...which only underscores how pointless this is: if it works in Chrome on MacOS and Windows (https://support.apple.com/en-us/120585), it will also work on Linux, so why exclude Linux?!
NVidia doesn’t sell models so it doesn’t matter to them if individual models have moats.
Yep! ..and when workers are owners, optimizing either ways works !
Well, there's still a bid and an ask quote on the market, even when no trading is happening?
As others have said, they already have a few (Mail, Music, iWork, FaceTime, etc). Like FaceTime coming to browser, and apple music going to android, this is probably an attempt to cast a wider net for their ecosystem. Also the EU DMA law is could be causing some strange behavior here.

I wouldn't be surprised to see apple try and release some expanded subscription that includes mapping features. Not sure what TBH and there have been no leaks, but they're searching for revenue streams, and the App Store is getting eyed by regulators.

Oh and the browser restriction is probably temporary - MapKit.js works on all major platforms, even Firefox, so its safe to assume this will get there too.
I do wish monospace designs were at least a _little_ trendier. My blog uses one, but honestly I feel like I should change it up since I'm looking for roles right now and I worry it doesn't _delight_ like modern designs right now.
my belief: if you think your team's workflow sucks, there is always a worse one in a company you think would do better. always strive to improve it but do not demonize your peers over it.
That is a reality in can point to many examples. From Thames water to Sara Lee in Australia.
Am I reading this wrong, or is it a variant of "If you have kernel access you can mess with userland"?
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy implies it's usually the second one though. If the company isn't already dying then the insiders will fight against cuts until it is.
No tech company is going to announce every single wafer that’s ever been etched and reworked or has some random process problem that causes a discard or a batch failure. It happens constantly, 10-20% of chips being rejects or salvages is a good outcome.
First problem: the searchbox does not get focus upon opening. Looking for a place is the main thing you do. Why does it require mouse handling and handling at all?

No keyboard response to Escape. It's basically the maps widget with a user unfriendly, but nice looking, drawer

Same with the Contacts app on macos, it's slow, crashes, and I doubt anyone uses it
> ...what was the process in place and why did it fail?

It appears the process was:

1. Channel files are considered trusted; so no need to sanity-check inputs in the sensor, and no need to fuzz the sensor itself to make sure it deals gracefully with corrupted channel files.

2. Channel files are trusted if they pass a Content Validator. No additional testing is needed; in particular, the channel files don't even need to be smoke-tested on a real system.

3. A Content Validator is considered 100% effective if it has been run on three previous batches of channel files without incident.

Now it's possible that there were prescribed steps in the process which were not followed; but those too are to be expected if there is no automation in place. A proper process requires some sort of explicit override to skip parts of it.
In many places in Europe: Normal price per item big letters, price per Kg small letters. Problem solved
I worked for that company 7 years ago, they were looking a way to make money with it but didn’t found out how. They already make money from radio advertisement products and didn’t seems willing to put resources on anything not lucrative. Updating/open sourcing was not on the agenda.
I grew up next to, and a couple years younger than, someone who is now a famous novelist and singer-songwriter. In our childhood, he was renowned in the neighborhood as a dungeon master. He rode the theater of the mind as far is it would take him.

The advice in the magazine reminds me of the inverted pyramid structure of classic reporting. Most important first, assume that the reader could stop reading after any sentence, so make the most of each phrase.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism...
This has been debated for 100s of years and the era of funny money that is created at the stroke of a key i don't see how we can maintain the view that it should be so skewed towards capital.
You can have this now adding types with JSDoc and validating them with typescript without compiling, you get faster builds and code that works everywhere without magic or need to strip anything else than comments.

The biggest pain point of using JSDoc at least for me was the import syntax, this has changed since Typescript 5.5, and it's now not an issue anymore.
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I will start a webshop and looking for recommendations of advertising my products. I have heard many stories of an online business was suddenly banned by Google or Meta so they lost 100% of purchases, because that was the only one source of their customers.
Their own statistics show (by their definition of) drug abuse increasing in 2023 [0].

Even with all the repressive stance, death penalty, they still see an increase. That isn't what I would consider "working" for such harsh penalties.

> They've won the war on drugs. It's not even a contest which is better, the drug free environment is way better. You just have to experience both to realise.

There are absolutely no "drug free" environments in the world, absolutely none so your statement is impossible to assert in reality.

I prefer to live in a society where death penalties do not exist, even less for the cases of substance use/abuse.

[0] https://www.cnb.gov.sg/docs/default-source/drug-situation-re...
It's like saying that intel doesn't sell OS, so it doesn't matter to intel if windows is married to x86
I was speaking to an employment lawyer about how to structure the business I'm trying to start. I wanted partial ownership from all employees and, more importantly, aggressive profit sharing.

The particular models that I wanted to look at - the partial ownership - turns out to be incredibly expensive when hiring on new employees - from what I've understood - and so I'm leaning in to the profit sharing model, hard, and perhaps the company design will be one that enforces that aggressively. I didn't understand everything the employment lawyer was discussing and it was just a preliminary discussion. I think it's worth it for every person interested in starting a business to work with and speak with a lawyer.

I'm not really much of a fan of everyone owning stock, though, myself - especially everyone gaining stock over time. There's a million ways to build a company, of course. Giving employees stock over time seems like it could be a good plan if there is real intent to become publicly traded at some point. I personally wouldn't want the profit sharing to be tied to a stock amount. It would reward seniority or tenure a bit too much (in my opinion).

A system I would prefer would be one where:

* all employees regular salaries and all business costs are paid
* a reserve 'warchest' is kept or grown where the goal 'size'
of the 'warchest' is relative size to keep the company afloat for
x years of low or zero income (to survive bad years).
* profit share "the rest" (or most of the rest).

Exact specifics of the profit-sharing could be unclear. Could be:

* a flat "every employee gets 1/(# employees) the rest".
* each division gets a percentage and then each employee in that
division gets 1/(# employees in division)
* a point system where tenure gives you more points and you get Xi/(sum X)
portion.

Lots of options.

I prefer profit-sharing myself because it doesn't lean in the direction of becoming public and everyone experiences the fruit of their and their coworkers' labors.

I've been warned a bit against partial ownership because "what if the existing employees don't want to be profit sharing anymore", etc? I dunno. Lots of thoughts.