skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5% of your new hires, doesn't necessarily mean 5% of your company.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...

^But let's say you messed up hiring 20% of your company, and then you corrected that (layoffs for the past 2 years). You haven't hired enough people to justify perma-cutting 5%. And the number of functioning employees who stop working in a role isn't going to be as high as 5%.

The reality is that most hires are probably fine in the role they're in. And you don't actually need to be this aggressive in cost-cutting.
The Honda and Mazda both use a single camera to visually detect pedestrians while the Subaru uses two cameras - perhaps this is the difference?
Let's say all of that happens. Is there any reason to believe that will lead to "a positive feedback loop of self-improvement cycles, each successive; and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing a rapid increase ("explosion") in intelligence which would ultimately result in a powerful superintelligence, qualitatively far surpassing all human intelligence"?

Or is it more reasonable to suppose that 1) all those improvements might get us a factor of 10 in efficiency, but they won't get us an intelligence that can get us another factor of 10 in efficiency, 2) each doubling of ability will take much more than doubling of the number of CPU cycles and RAM, and 3) growth will asymptotically approach some upper limit?
You're saying people will face professional consequences for their political opinions. That seems like the kind of thing Graham is complaining about to me.
Empowering Others Is Impactful
Every coworker (and each person outside your company with similar skills) is a competitor in a global marketplace for various skills. It's just not very useful or helpful to think about it only in that way. Day to day it's much more helpful to think of my coworkers as fellow travelers, wrenching on the same big distributed machine in the cloud, generally just trying to get shit done and be useful.

Speaking as someone who works at Meta, I certainly don't plan my life as if I'll always be employed by Meta, always earning this high of a wage. The ride could end at any minute, and I plan accordingly.

10% is an overestimate, of being fired or backstabbed in any given year, fwiw. The people getting laid off in any given cycle tend to be heavily skewed towards newcomers in my experience.
> Doom will be next, maybe?

Prescient! (but I couldn't get it to work)

https://80.lv/articles/you-can-now-run-doom-in-a-pdf-file/

https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf
A bit aggressive. No, wouldn't connecting to a slow 3g tower affect ping times to all global servers proportionately?

The proposal has other flaws, but phone to tower latency isn't one.
As a heavy container user myself - I've been using containers since I needed to build my own 3.x kernel to test them - docker doesn't solve the reproducibility problem nix solves - IE, I can make a Dockerfile that does `RUN curl foo.com/install.sh` and who knows if that'll work ever again. Nix on the other hand doesn't allow you to do IO during builds[^0] only describe the effect of doing the IO.

[0]: Though apparently darwin (mac) doesn't support sandboxing by default, so you can bypass that but anyway
Well, to be blunt when your CEO openly abuses ketamine and smokes blunts with Joe Rogan it invites a certain level of additional scrutiny.

Perhaps if Tesla wants to be treated like a regular car company they should get a regular car company CEO?
The core reasons the jobs left are industrial and monetary policies.

Or, said another way, because the Chinese prioritized and subsidized manufacturing growth and we did the opposite.

Why? Because it made some specific Americans very rich. It also ruined the lives of many other Americans. While making the country much less resilient to shocks or conflicts.

Which is, of course, the problem.
This is not necessarily useful. The sub field only indicates that this is a different user, which maybe protects the private info of the old user. However, a big part of OIDC integration is to automatically allow any valid user registered with the IdP to automatically have access to the corporate account, and to any company-wide resources, which can still include very sensitive information.
Sure, but this is how a supply chain gets bootstrapped. All those factories in China didn't magically appear one day. Just like they didn't appear when Apple started moving operations to Vietnam. You start piecemeal and build out.
My wife reminds me of this. And as you both pointed out, it's not just social media, but the algorithmically fueled addiction to endless content. A relative told me their teenagers have to use Chromebooks in middle school, and all quizzes and tests and homework are done on the computer. Not only that, but if they finish a quiz or test in the classroom, they're allowed to sit there and watch YouTube right there in the classroom until the period is over! When I was in middle school, that free time was precious to me because I used it to make a dent in my homework so I'd have less to do after school. It boggles my mind that school administrators would have no clue that kids should have not unfettered access to stuff like YouTube in school. As a guy who has to work on computers most of the time, I'm very grateful my childhood had plenty of analog time, and life in the great outdoors on a daily basis!
I appreciate the try and the self-reflection my friend. To hope we can both appreciate truths we see in each other.
So the "sub" claim does work but the "staff engineer at a major tech company" doesn't want to fix it because it happens too often?
I am pretty confident that the statement is false.

The `sub` claim value is equivalent to the user ID that's exposed in the Directory API, it's derived from the underlying user account's unique user ID, and it won't change unless the user account is recreated.
Turbulence is getting more frequent and more severe
I'm not arguing against that at all. Just that if the PRC wants it's best chance, the clock is ticking. It becomes more costly the longer they wait.
I’m going off the purely structural construction of the first fab. There’s a timeline on TSMC’s site.
Welcome to Europe, Airbnb is dying since Covid. Booking is the clear winner. The only gripe I have with them ks their usage of dark patterns, not fully kosher
Why is this a hack? This just a toggle to disable the new “feature”.

It makes total sense for the Windows engineers to have this kind of feature flag.

And i dont think they are going to rip out the code that runs and supports local accounts.
The premise here is that the existence of trans people is inherently political, but in any case, Graham didn't define "woke" as "political", he defined it as "an aggressively performative focus on social justice". How does that describe sending beer cans to a social media influencer?
But that's not where stasis is. We're not even trying to get together and do the hard work because we're not convinced that we're a "we". The hero need not do anything besides be the referent of "I'm with that person," as uttered by many different kinds of people.

Hashing out the consequences of "so transitively, I suppose I'm aligned with you now"... that's where the hard work is (solidarity, etc) but most of us aren't even considering that stage yet. We're still a bunch of smaller us's squabbling amongst ourselves--just how the powerful like it.
Some of the nicer fountain pens just glide over the paper -- you can look for reviews on several fountain pen forums, and on the fountain pen subreddit. I personally like several of the ones from Pilot. Also, Sailor pens will give you feedback that feels more like a good graphite pencil (so not scratchy, but not glass smooth either). Another good option is the Pilot Varsity ones, those are disposable (and priced as such), but for something built to be cheap price they sure do write good.
Einstein didn't emigrate to get rich, he emigrated because the Nazi's took over Germany. Germany had the best universities in the world before they took the path of self-destruction. So that was a second, separate event that helped America.

America stills gets a lot of immigrants.
Unlocking Tech Windows: The Secret to Building the Next Billion-Dollar Startup [video]
That's because despite the right wing propaganda that will tell you Obama is a staunch far-left communist, Barack Obama is a committed centrist, and a representative of the Corporate Party.

He did nothing because he had no interest in doing anything to limit corporate influence or power. They put him in power, after all.
Banks are obligated by a bunch of laws to do business with people they might not want to do business with. They agree on this in exchange of getting FDIC insurance for the "money" in the accounts of their customers.
> I had theory long time ago that booking hotel or airlines tickets from mac used to be more expensive than windows.

I currently work remotely for a company based in California and they issue MacBooks by default to employees. We can request Windows devices but our IT department prefers to have as many people on Macs as possible for admin efficiency reasons.

We hire remote workers from all around the world and so this Mac-first policy has raised quite a bit of discussion about what the majority of our workforce is accustomed to and has been trained on. It has come up time and time again that Macs are really popular in California but outside of that state Windows still dominates by a large margin.

Now, not all parts of California are affluent of course. And like every state the demographics are all over the place in terms of income. I bring this anecdote up because I wonder if both the Bay Area discrimination discussed in the article and your hypothesis about Macs stems from California stereotypes. Outside of the state, even though wildly inaccurate and unfair for a great many Californians, a lot of people tend to think of California as if everyone in the state is extremely privileged.
Chemicals in sewage sludge fertilizer used on farms pose cancer risk, EPA says
It sounds like a secondary effect. They made a whole ton of really bad design decisions that ruined the product for current hardware, with breaking compatibility with existing kit being icing on the cake.
At capability levels high enough that they credibly pose a risk to national security, they obviously won't be.
Good question. I feel my smartphone having a huge impact on me. I don't get how kids would be somehow exempt.
You are describing an ideal use case for a botnet of compromised home computers. Should command a much higher premium than sending spam.
> everyone else has accounts they should not have or devices they should not have

You can start the conversation with other parents at kindergarten pickup.

Each grade at our school has a pledge that kids & parents can sign to wait until eighth grade to let them have a smartphone. This can be as simple as a shared spreadsheet or a dedicated site like https://www.waituntil8th.org

My kids are still young but from what I've heard from families with older kids is that holding the line gets increasingly hard as they approach 8th grade. You have to be prepared to socially exclude families that let their underage children use smartphones or social media, the same way you wouldn't invite a family that lets their middle-schooler drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes to your kid's birthday party.

While you can never get everyone to agree to anything, as long as your kids have a critical mass of friends who don't have smartphones then not having one won't make them an outcast.
Just want to flag that the first image likening Nix to the Holy Trinity has a spelling error in the text "The Operating Systam".
> You're assuming that community driven FOSS development is sustainable

I'm confused. Is FOSS is something more than someone or some entity contributing their time and releasing the source for for free? Does it really matter if thing doing the development is a a person in a garage or a company?

There doesn't seem to be a lot of difference to me. Both a people in garages and a company have kept their pet projects going for decades, giving away their efforts over all that time. Both people in garages and and companies have lost interest in open source projects. As an example Debian is one of the longest lived open source projects on the planet. It is a community drive development. To me it looks likely it will outlast Ubuntu, which is a fork that isn't community driven.

The central tenants that make FOSS work don't seem to have much to do with whether it's community driven or not. Both can succeed. Yes, community driven efforts can fail. But so can corporate drive FOSS, as WordPress may well demonstrate.
The hardest part is making the chips, no?

Packaging facilities cost ~20% of a fab, right?

Naively, I'm assuming packaging is also not as complicate and difficult as fabrication.

Surely if they can build a fab in the US, they can build packaging facilities, too.

Rome wasn't built in a day.
The goal is to easily get a representative and un-manipulated sample of popular opinion. To achieve that, it might be ok to discriminate against certain users who use connections which cannot prove their location, as long as it's not heavily skewing the results.
Thanks. When you homeschool how do you create enough opportunities for social development?
So funny the JRE stuff his past/beliefs/usual audience to having someone like EM or MZ go on there. Ahh well I don't listen to him anymore but yeah. Briefly I got into him he had some fun guests on there/smaller names.

edit: beliefs I'm referring to guests with space is fake and then a guy who literally manages rockets coming on
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696955
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23851227/fbi-doj-qakbot-b...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22382821/fbi-doj-hafnium-...

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/gameover-zeus-botnet-disrup...

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/andr...

And a whole lot more.

Whatchoo talkin’ bout, Willis?
Probably dodged a bullet there anyway, if they weren't even willing to create a basic job description for the role. It's not like it's that hard to write one; you could pretty easily just find a template online and replace relevant keywords.
Lustre Universal Components: The Best of Elm and Phoenix LiveView [video]
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42679498
Mastodon simply cannot be that user centric because the user can only control the subset of the Fediverse that your instance is able and allowed to see. Given that single user instances are largely nonviable due to the abundance of blocking in the 'verse in lieu of adequate spam controls, which ActivityPub fundamentally lacks, your choice of homeserver matters more than anything. And of course, there's no good way to choose one as a new user. Most newcomers will simply give up when faced with the choice. Even with great interest I've gotten stuck at this stage multiple times, myself. No homeserver seems welcoming, and they're all a little culty.

HN looks at the federated model and thinks about how much control the homeserver operator has and imagine themselves in that position as a "user" when the truth is that each homeserver is a small fiefdom run by a dictator and users have even less control over what they see there than they do in the corporate networks
The daily number of people who interact directly with Windows machines absolutely dwarfs the daily number of people who interact directly with Linux machines.

Most malware campaigns target people.
Is there something special about loading complexity into the level of the sentence as opposed to individual words?

Agglutination in many Native American languages and compounding in many Indo-European languages come to mind as examples where interesting nesting and complex relational structures can be found at the level of the word.

The article suggests that speakers of English or German can do "mental arithmetic" whereas speakers of Ket have lots of "math facts." I don't know anything about Ket, but German, Sanskrit, and other languages seem to have a lot in the way of mental arithmetic when it comes to making up long compound words, which are not such a static or stable currency as in, say, English.
We have no extra cash. We are so far in debt as it is we'll never get out.
Mood outcomes in Vitamin C or kiwi intervention in adults with low Vitamin C
Fortunately it is not. https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...
So you don’t believe in forced language unless it includes issues you believe should be forced language changes.

Thanks for making my point.
Agree in theory, but this particular publication looks different. It has had zero mentions of "Tesla" in recent (past 3+ months) headlines.
I ended up using many of the "Coupons" (not all), but the travel benefits after 2 international trips more than pay for the yearly price - and that's without the generous 150K points. Lounge access at airports is a life saver.

I hate credit card companies too - but I can't deny that it's cheap to be rich and expensive to be poor. Just bite the bullet and get it or equivalent nice credit cards and use their (the credit cards) own travel booking websites. You'll be happy you did.
If eliminating signal from malicious, remote actors is more valuable than preserving signal from rural areas, which may very well be the case depending on the application, then adopting this might solve a real problem for you.

I don't see anything terribly idiotic in that.

edit: to be clear I think this is likely one of those solutions that creates more problems than it solves. There's a gulf of sympathy separating that from "idiocy," however.
A truly overwhelming majority of users browse with JS enabled. Designing or even considering those who don't is (in the most literal way possible) a waste of time.
thx did not catch that
can you help me on the math between 8% and 11%? I'm showing that as .11/.08 = 1.375 or "37% higher".

I generalized this to #1/#2 = % difference between the #1 and #2. It's not so much logic as it is arithmetic, but let me know if you still disagree.
The same analysis makes me doubt those wages are likely to prevail for software engineers. They are the result of a particular time and place.
Containers are only reproducible at run time not at build time. Once you build a container and pull it down by its sha256, you'll get the same environment each time. However if your Dockerfile does any IO (curl, apt get, pip install etc) you're quite likely to get different images on different machines.
Yes it is, otherwise the title would be "don't use your email address to log in to any application" and it wouldn't be ragebait enough. The whole issue has nothing to do with OAuth and nothing to do with Google.
Having known several great EEs in FAANG who did exactly that job, sometimes paying Chinese income tax due to the length of their stays at the factory, that is my impression as well.
The whole purpose of the Dockerfile is not to create a reproducible environment. The purpose of a Dockerfile is to run a bunch of commands inside of a container and save the output. Those commands may or may not produce the same output every time they're run.

For example, if you have a debian base container that you run `apt install nginx` in, what version you actually get depends on a lot of different things including what the current version of nginx is inside of the remote repositories you're installing from _when the docker build command is executed_, not when the Dockerfile is written.

So, if you do "docker build ." today, and then the same thing 6 months from now, you will probably not get the same thing. Thus, Dockerfiles are not reproducible without a lot of extra work.

Nix flakes are not like that - they tag _exact_ versions of every input in the flake.lock, so a build 6 months from now will give you the _exact same system_ as you have today, given the same input. This is the same as like an npm lock file or a fully-specified python requirements.txt (where you have each package with an ==<version>).

So, you definitely can make Dockerfiles reproducible, but again, the Dockerfile itself is not made to do that.

Hope that helps your understanding here!
Algorithmic curation is exactly what ruined the existing social networks. They were absolutely better without it.
Since nobody ever writes "hey John/Mary create a fake job ad so that we can do the fraud to help <name>". So the company/hiring manager can later say that "Bandinobaddies didn't have the X skill, HenryBemis didn't have the Y skill but <name> had both skills so we kept him around and offered to him as he already knew the company/role/tech/etc."

And good luck proving that on the call (that was never recorded I proved/or not about the Y skill).
This is pretty stupid, you hire the best and the brightest, arbitrarily firing any of them 'just because' seems like a good way to burn moral for no real gain.
I wish I had something helpful to add.

My teenager has been involved with inappropriate texting with an assuming friend and the textual contents were, quite frankly, disturbing. Therapists say that this is normal these days. Our teen has refused to stop being friends with this person and even suggested that we just get over it. To that end, her phone is locked down with ScreenTime limits but she's somehow getting more time.

The influence of other classmates cannot be underestimated.

Hearing from therapists and other parents that we're doing the best we can is super fucking frustrating because our best isn't amounting to jack shit.

Every kid is different though. Our youngest doesn't seem like he'll be much of a problem but we'll see.

I guess I'll end this mini rant with: good luck and godspeed.
Related blog post: https://epcyber.com/blog/f/chinese-rj45-usb-with-flash-memor...
Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language
Simplex is an SDK that provides low-level functions you can use to create reliable web automations using code and natural language.

Here's a quick video to show you how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/8d27d0f9e0f34c77a81b0ac770151c12

A couple weeks ago, we needed a way to automatically find 3D assets from the internet for one of our work contracts. We didn’t need an AI to choose all the steps for us autonomously — we knew generally what the flow to find items should be and just needed some intelligence to handle different webpage formats.

Playwright couldn’t easily generalize to the different sites we wanted to search over and Claude computer use was tough to use — it was slow, expensive, struggled to click on the correct web elements, and there was no way to correct its actions if it failed at step 20 of our workflow.

So we built a vision-based solution using vision language models that sits on top of Playwright. In our SDK, building a function that can universally search websites is as easy as this:

from simplex import Simplex
simplex = Simplex(api_key="api_key")

def search(website, search_query):
simplex.goto(website)
simplex.click("the search bar")
simplex.type(search_query)
simplex.press_enter()

search("mit.edu", "alyssa p hacker")

You can play around with what we’ve built and see a few more examples at https://simplex.sh/playground.

We'd love feedback!
They are mercenaries hired to maximize the share of the loot that goes to their employers.
To be clear: the comment I'm replying to is a thinly veiled (if snark can be considered a veil) accusation of the GP being a fascist. This is apparently based on pointing out that groups of people don't always have names that accurately reflect their actions, from an outside view. I don't understand how this is supposed to follow logically.
Isn't the difference that the Mazda and Honda system is a backup for a driver who is expected to be paying attention, while Tesla pretends that it can drive itself?
Bruh we have a decade of Research on this. Go type some words in to Google Scholar.
Creating "The Space War," the Card Game of My Dreams