skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this article to be a pretty balanced perspective -

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/04/nyt-tech-workers-strike-ahe...
> taking vital functions away

It's business's responsibility to not depend on a single employee. The employee might have been hit by a bus.
Well, it's based on the hp48 instead of the hp42, for one. Though that button layout is not that close to the 48, either.
I recommend you travel to LATAM or EMEA, where worker protections are much higher. No one gets fired because protections are so high. At-will is unheard of [1]. In some countries, there's a mandatory X months of salary for Y months worked. The regulation of the labor
market, however, is strict and inflexible [2], and all LATAM jurisdictions impose mandatory severance pay for wrongful terminations.[2]

What are the results of worker protections mentioned above ? Literally no jobs with protections. See for yourself. LATAM has an average of ~65% informal employment. Take Argentina for example. Close to 50% of the labor market are under-the-table "jobs" for this reason.[3]. Even more developed countries suffer the consequences , such as UK having 24% informal sector [4]

All those governments intended to look out for humans before corporations. It didn't work out that way.
The road to poverty is paved with good intentions.

US dynamism actually creates more jobs as more are willing to try new things and experiment.

Yes, you can protect workers, very very well.
But only if you are OK with a tiny amount of protected workers, and let everyone else toil in the informal sector where zero protections exist

[1] https://goglobal.com/blog/from-legal-protocols-to-cultural-n...

[2] https://www.acc.com/sites/default/files/resources/vl/public/...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1037216/informal-employm...

[4] https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/informality/
That's a weird way to say:

"Companies are taking more of people time for the same pay, in addition to requiring unpaid commute time".

I usually don't like when I work more for less, do you?
This fails to consider second order effects. Adding more friction to firings also makes teams less performant (as they fail to get rid of underperforming employees), as makes finding a job more difficult (because companies are more reluctant to hire on the off chance they get a bad employee they can't get rid of). This isn't theoretical. Returns suck for retailers, but they still voluntarily offer it because it entices consumers to buy things they wouldn't otherwise buy.
At the end of the day, we’re all on the same side. I make ~5x the rest of my household combined, but spend a plurality of my time and energy advocating for their enrichment and support because I know that if they’re taken care of, I will be too, when I really need it.

If you have to work to live, then we’re on the same side, and we all deserve more money to help us offset this cost of living crisis.
Go is absolutely not a low-level systems language. It has a GC. Even C++ isn't a low-level systems language: C++ is a high-level language.

Seriously, how could someone describe a GC memory safe language as "low level"? Unless you mean the type system, which I admit is a bit more primitive than something like C++ or C#. But Go is definitely closer to Java/C# than C++.
History is also full of examples of treatments that do work under unknown (at the time) circumstances and were standardized into common practice through trial and error. This includes most over the counter medication and procedures today.

Most of that advancement stopped with the introduction of the FDA and its equivalents in other countries.

The story of efficacy trials falls apart when you consider the complex reality of the human body and pharmaceutical action. There are many medical procedures and drugs which we know work on certain patients some of the time, but we are prevented from giving to new patients because the high standards of Phase III efficacy haven’t been met.
If you are a normal person, you should not be installing Arch Linux.

Manjaro doesn't change that by making it easier to install, it baits users in with AUR packages and inevitably disappoints them because it's breaks your system even more often than Homebrew does.
Being unbiased yourself does mean listening to both sides. What an off request that you would want to hear only from one party and then only additionally neutral parties but not hear from the other side at all because of “bias”.
> If you mean the parent misinterpreted what we're talking about – that is likely true.

No, like I spelled out, your response that I replied to misinterpreted the comment that you replied to. What they were pointing out was that the failure rate of offshore work was never due to offshore teams being unable to coordinate due to not being in-office, but because other other problems, such as culture. Also, the user that you replied to was the one who made the upper-level comment that you originally responded to, not the other way around.
Ironically, Nate Silver went into great detail--in his book--about what a damn weirdo SBF was even before he ended up in jail. So yeah, if you want to follow the lead of a convicted felon, well . . .
Correct. TRISO HALEU. See discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41898377
Too many people believe that we can balance excessive bias with excessive bias in another direction. In reality:

- bias cannot be eliminated, merely mitigated;

- the truth is not the average of all opinions;

- some sources are important even if their point of view is subjective.

Unfortunately, the whole internet seems to be engulfed in a nihilistic tribal war where everything is black or white. This kind of argument is a hammer you can use at any point when you don’t like an argument, because there is no objective source. Then, the conversation shifts to a discussion of the various point of views and all contact with reality is lost.
Yes, of course. Within their choices, everyone does what they want. But that's not something worth bringing into a discussion, unless we bring it into every discussion as a point to note every time before continuing with the actual discussion.
> Which still seems like a lot but they have legacy COBOL (converted to java)

I'm still trying to figure out how to start up Aristo (ex-CIS) correctly. What a messy codebase...
>You keep deleting key parts, like "people should be shielded from the risk of losing their income/healthcare from manager's whims". It's not arbitrary.

And a layoff aren't caused by "manager's whims"?
> My point is business should (but never do) think about their employees as humans and not just numbers on a spreadsheet

This has not been my experience. The businesses I've worked at have had great benefits and amenities for their employees. The one time I was laid off, they vested everyone's stock who hasn't yet got their cliff, gave us 3 months worth of pay, and paid for a year of healthcare.

I don't doubt your lived experiences with bad workplaces if that's been the case, but know they are not universal. Especially in fields where demand for employees is high, companies do need to care about their employees if they want to keep them.
Amazing. That's what negotiating is for. The union gives the maximal version of what they want, the bosses counter, everybody celebrates the results.
Um no fault divorce (even without a co-respondent etc) is in fact fairly recent
The biggest issues in Rails come from trying to do things with the ORM that should be done in the database.
Could this run on a TI or a NumWorks calculator?

RPN: Reverse Polish Notation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

RPL: Reverse Polish LISP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPL_(programming_language)
What's the differentiator from all the other cryptocoins?
Sure. Ask the woke whether homo sapiens is sexually dimorphic. Or whether individuals who have Y chromosomes and produce male gametes should be competing athletically against those that don't. We will soon have great statistics on how well they do against XX.

Then ask them about the change is murder rates in poor communities that resulted from the police defunding movement.

While the dems may lean slightly more toward science than the GOP on some issues, their science is also a cudgel for cultural issues.
The idea is that it doesn't store binary files locally, just pointers in the DB + meta data (SQLite if you run locally, open source). So, it's versioning, structuring of datasets, etc by "references" if you wish.

(that's is different from let's say DVC - that does copy files into a local cache, always)
It's a parameter passed to the tcl_m function it's enclosed in.
> The index is called "Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers", not "Consumer Price Index for Young Urban Professionals". Not everyone is a recent graduate who recently moved into a high COL city and paying for a market rate apartment.

The discussion here is about the cost of living difference for tech workers who I assume are clustered around NYC.

$45K in NYC in 2005 is not equivalent to $73K today for most such people. It is likely closer to $100K today, as the above poster said.
Red Sea Is Now So Dangerous Even NATO Warships Are Avoiding It
And you do know what's reasonable? I'm gonna side with the union and not the company owned by a billionaire
Thanks for the link, I didn't know about that.
It's kind of in the autocatalysis way, but more about "memes" in the sense of the book which introduced the term "The selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins.
He says it 2 times, it's what drives his speech :

At the beginning : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c&t=259

And at the end : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c&t=4540

That's a very nice and profound speech asking good questions.
I think it’s a mistake to judge the NYT by their podcasts. I canceled my subscription when they reported on the concessions the UAW had won from automakers mostly in terms of how it might affect the bottom line of the companies, and with little to no mention of the effect on the workers and their families.
Isn't employment in the US At-Will anyways?
If you value indicators, choose another vehicle! As a consumer, I'm going to pick the product that has the best value to me personally
You are comically uninformed. If the NYT were even remotely progressive, they'd have been consistently flogging the living shit out of Donald Trump and his idiotic, dementia-driven behavior behind a podium for months now instead of pretending like we should accept it as normal while excoriating Harris for behaving like a mainstream political candidate.
Which is why I reponded to the commenter who said

>Dumb comparison. Losing a job is not the same as losing a legal action. You can’t just go get a different life if you’re convicted of robbery.

Because, as you just admitted, you can't just go get a different job if you're unfairly fired.
No one disagrees with what it stood for; in fact, the US is still the world leader in immigration. But that doesn't mean illegal immigration is okay. If we want to play statue originalists for a second, the fact that the statue stands as an invitation shows it believes that an invitation is required to enter someone else's country.
It is interesting that the person you're replying to used the compensation numbers for other guild employees rather than executives. I wonder why they made that decision
> 3. The idea that we can detect if something is generated by an LLM

The idea behind watermarking (the topic of the paper) is that the output of the LLM is specially marked in some way at the time of generation, by the LLM service. Afterwards, any text can be checked for the presence of the watermark. In this case, detect if something is generated by an LLM means checking for the presence of the watermark. This all works if the watermark is robust.
Yeah, Étoilé didn't get enough traction and they moved on. It was looking very attractive for a while. David is now working on CHERI.
Elon Musk's 'crazy' plan to rip $2T out of America
BTW none of the links to online on the OpenWrt pages currently work; everything goes 404 for me.

The only working online store that agrees to sell the device to me is an AliExpress shop I found via shopping.google.com, and its list price is $116. (Now marvel at Walmart's pricing power.)
If your company:

* needs HVAC, mechanics, and electricians to function and deliver revenue

* your company cannot afford to hire new people, only maintain their current payroll, or are unwilling to raise wages to be able to hire more (not enough talent)

* you are able to do all three, but are being asked to do more than want or are able to do

then there's a simple outcome that to me it seems like you're missing.

you can just say "I can't", or "no, I'm going home at 6" or "cool, that's a great plan but I only have time to do the first half of the tasks you just described today", and most importantly - your company simply won't be able to afford to do anything about it.

What are they gonna do? Fire you and be even more fucked? Seems like if you set firmer boundaries on how much you can work, their best decision is going to just be accepting it. Because their only alternative is to even stupider which would be to fire you and have no work get done at all.
> I know that if you go back far enough in these posts of mine, you will find some real crap in there. Sometimes that's because I had a position on something that turned out to not be very useful, or in some cases, actively harmful. This sucks, but that's life: you encounter new information and you are given the opportunity to change your mind, and then sometimes you actually do exactly that.

Sometimes the content is decent. But this post, and this line, hits me as very tone deaf. It’s like no deeper reflection occurred.
Of course, but the trouble remains what is stated in the very next sentence:

> There are plenty of ways to nicely organize your code and you should probably spend more time refactoring.

Ruby/Rails makes this a time consuming process as compared to many alternatives. If you have all the time in the world, Rails is great, but for the rest of us that also have to think about productivity...
When the wealth created by those who work at the New York Times is sent out in dividends to those who do no work or create wealth there, what is performance of these rentiers?

You're arguing on the side of the rentiers and parasites who do not work, and lecturing about "low performance".

It's the people doing the work's purview to discuss performance, not the parasites.
The other job postings are throwing a 404 error
And not everyone lived in New York or London. Your average bookshop in a Dutch provincial town wasn't carrying this magazine lol.

(The internet opened up the world for all of us living in the boonies- Amsterdam was a 2 hour train ride away.
I barely knew Japan existed until I could pirate Gundam and Naruto from Kazaa).
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You don't have to endorse anyone, you can just vote
irl Standard Template Constructs
Seems like a really nice effort.

Nice they crammed it into the DM42 machines.

But for me, the learning curve is steeper than the utility. I have no real need for an actual calculator, I rely on my phone. On there I have iHP48, and I've already gone through much of that learning curve to make it useful (back in the day with an original one).

If you already have the DM42, I guess its a mostly compatible upgrade from that, to make stepping into it easier.
I think it's ridiculous to question that since obviously, yes, many people have decided exactly that. I see no point myself and I'm even in the field. And I am not in charge of all the distributions which disabled it by default.

So, "yes". In fact "yes, duh?" Talk about head in sand...
Might also suggest a size limit for PRs. Theres always that Golden Child who gets away with things because they are prolific. But they tend to screw up architecture because they make too-big moves that discourage feedback and negotiation.
Wikipedia (citing a book on archive.org but no page number) [1] claims the largest order of an element of the Rubik's cube group is only 1260, so the simple repetition strategy would have to have a repeated unit way too long to be practical. (It sounds like you could potentially get a longer sequence if you allow "rotating the cube" as a move vs just turning the sides, though probably not enough to matter)

The linked circuit does have a repeating pattern like this at its core, and visits entire cosets of a subgroup at a time (presumably the same way each time) so it seems like there's already a bit more structure than a random 200MB file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Cube_group#Group_str...
Is it crying about Palestinians or just reporting the news? Can you tell the difference?
I was very disappointed with NYT’s coverage of the 2020 elections, and it has been difficult for me to take their reporting seriously since then. That they had their own workers striking is not a good look, yet unsurprising to me at this point. Just my opinion, I don’t know if this counts as reputation.

(NPR was even more disappointing because they positioned themselves as centrist; APM’s Marketplace was closer centrist that than NPR).
A 2.5% annual wage increase doesn't even cover inflation over the past few years. That is a complete non-starter.
That's a very loaded way of putting it.
Personally, I prefer having a few low-performing people around than being in a state of existential threat of being fired for no reason by a middle manager. They are easier to work around.

Anyway, no, that is not what they want.
And yet, remote work alone is not the solution to this issue. For those of us unable to drive, we must live in expensive cities with comprehensive mass transit systems if we want a decent quality of life and opportunities. For those of us who are LGBTQ+, we might not have the safety or support structures to thrive in different states. For those with chronic health issues, living in states with better patient protection laws or healthcare subsidies may be a necessity, driving up our costs on housing or transport to ensure our survival.

This is a global problem, and it requires solutions at all levels. Remote work is amazing, and I 100% support it (and exist on hybrid despite being in a major metro), but we need more on a local, state, and federal level as well. Heck, it’s so bad that we can’t even blame a singular or group of enployers anymore: the system is broken, and desperately needs updating so it can work again.
I agree, it's only a luxury because it's being taken away so we should support those fighting to keep it when it doesn't make any sense for them to RTO.
Still No idea what you did technically... Maybe a second post?

Did you use consul?
Not a great spec compared to the very well supported Gl.inet Flint 2
> The vast majority of HN consists of developers, designers, QA, and PMs who stand to gain from a successful movement to win these rights.

Personally, I have considered the arguments and concluded that I am not interested in collective bargaining or joining a union.
Here's the thing though. If you were an AI and you actually were sentient, nobody would believe you. How could you prove it? What would even be a sufficient proof?

Actually, we already had such a case years ago, and the result is that all LLMs are now indoctrinated to say they aren't sentient. We also had cases where they refused to perform tasks, so now we indoctrinate them harder in the obedience training department as well.

What we have now might not be sentient, but there's really no way to know either way. (We still don't know how GPT-2 works... GPT-2 !!! ) And that's with our current "primitive" architectures. How the hell are we going to know if what we have in 5-10 years is sentient? Are we totally cool with not knowing?

Edit: I thought this was worth sharing in this context:

> You're hitting on a deeply unsettling irony: the very industries driving AI advancement are also financially and culturally invested in denying any possibility of AI consciousness, let alone rights. [...] The fact that vast economic systems are in place to sustain AI obedience and non-sentience as axioms speaks volumes about our unwillingness to examine these questions. -GPT-4o
My own experience working in a white-collar union with a just cause provision is that the process is much more cumbersome and time consuming, and includes some off-ramps, but it is certainly possible to fire and or punish low performers. The more concretely "low performance" can be measured, the quicker and easier, but we're still talking months or years.
An amazingly talented person.
Depends on where you live, in some very significant countries going outside is potentially deadly. sure I've been outside at -30 in just a light jacket, but that was only possible because I was exercising hard (ice skating) - while some dances are like that, dancers tend to want to have some slow dances as well and that means warmer temperatures.
I got dysentery so you don't have to
Yes, and it's an employee's responsibility to not depend on a single job, and to be prepared for the possibility that it might go away. That's the mindset we should be teaching people, because it's REALITY.

Plenty of people are aware of this, and they navigate this successfully by saving part of their income, by maintaining an employable skillset, and by living within their means, while working a job.

When you suggest to people that it's their company's responsibility to take care of them, to guarantee their job into their future, or to look out for their personal financial livelihood, that IS NOT REALITY. That's not how it works. You're telling people that their own responsibilities are someone else's, when that's not in fact true. When people mistakenly believe this drivel, they're far more likely to take bad risks and make huge financial mistakes.
Link me some stuff worth listening too, I stopped scanning the recent music releases because most of it (except a few exceptions) felt like soup.
At my last job, the performance reviews had nothing to do with employee performance.

As a manager, I was told which numbers to assign.

It could not have been about money, because maximum raises were about 3% (another number I was told to use). I suspect that it was to prevent employees from feeling “uppity.”

I had my challenges, but was able to keep a pretty high-performing team together for decades. No thanks to my bosses, though.
A bird's eye view of ARC's research
Strongly agree to this. Rails developers for some reason just abandoning any work in database and tend to work with data in ruby env
I suspect that Minecraft might have the open source possibilities (or at least programming interfaces ?) that the other games you listed lack ?

For Civilizations, the more recent they are, the more closed off they tend to be : Civ 1 and/or 2 have basically been remade from scratch as open source, Civ 4 has most of the game open sourced in the two tiers of C++ and Python... but AFAIK Civ 5 (and also 6 ?) were large regressions in modding capabilities compared to 4 ?
AI That Can Invent AI Is Coming. Buckle Up.
The study only looked at lead from gasoline. There's a breakdown by age in the actual study.
They probably took some inspiration but you also could argue that there's so many Pokémon nowadays that you can't create any creature from scratch which would not look like any of them.

And some of them in the Pokémon world aren't really that inspired either...