skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should they have paid him wages for all his time and effort?

On the one hand, people should get compensation for their labor, especially since he's probably saving the healthcare system from having to do more-expensive/less-effective interventions. On the other hand, being treated like an employee sucks, so maybe it's for the best.

Where I live, blood centers take the middle road by giving us rewards-points we can exchange for gift cards, but that adds the complication of having to manage gift cards.
I wonder if he was constantly taking iron. I went through a streak of donation and started feeling terrible. I got a complete iron panel done (amongst other stuff) and my ferritin was something like 20.
Yep, reproduced. Caching partial content is a wonderful feature and I’m glad they worked on it. But they clearly shipped some bugs.

Prototypical “bad” technical debt, perhaps.
Game exploits are extremely game-specific
To be fair, .NET has way more than just structs. But yes, they are a starting point.
> Did that work?

Our entire AML regime has scant evidence of efficacy [1].

Scrapping KYC and AML and creating a public beneficial-owner database (like the SEC’s EDGAR) for entities doing business in America would frankly be more effective.

[1] https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
Azure AI is quite buggy, it's hard to keep track of the gpus costs over time, their pipeline caching system is not working well, and also the versioning could be done better. The autoML functionality is nice tho
> If a cartel is alone in the forest carrying out no kidnappings, assignations, drug sales, or other physical effects that can be policed by conventional means... does it matter?

Yes, because that's a made up scenario. What are they doing in the forest if they're not doing something to make money? If they aren't doing anything illegal, they're a business, not a cartel.

Ultimately they want money in the same system as everyone else. If you let people set up companies where the owner can't be discovered in some way, businesses set up for laundering money become an expected cost. Shut one down, another pops up. The only way you stop that is to find the people facilitating it.

Having billionaires is bad enough. Anonymous billionaires is a nightmare.
You’re being downvoted and I know why: I ran into so many people in the Bay Area that felt that pets were sufficient substitutes for kids. It’s not even remotely the same level of love, emotion, and wholeness.
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So you know of two cases of companies putting in work to defraud people by selling products that aren’t fit for purpose outside their warranty window. Name & shame.
Both of them experience the same issue. Though it's a yellow light instead of the ring on the Xbox.
“I know so much more about this topic from some casual Googling than people who actually do this for a living, so please listen to me.”
I’m not sure I follow. The second request is for an overlapping range and can’t be satisfied because of the 403. There’s just no way around that.
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> In all of those phases, safety and health of yourself and beloved ones are likely at the top of your needs

I don’t think any of them were my priority when I was under 20. Health of my beloved ones became more important only recently, as my parents are way older now as well. And older people, on average, are more likely to have significant others to care about and etc.

But yeah, less time and thoughts on how to change the world and etc. as well. I’m not really sure how to explain it, if I’ll be honest, sorry. Just 10 years ago I was a different person. 20 years ago, I was even more different than today.
It's been bad since iTunes became a garbage heap.

There are pockets of competence, but it's not a company priority (even the audio/video apps suffer). That such mediocrity has crept into the OS is even worse.
I was hoping the article would clarify how it was determined that he had this specific abnormality. I've given blood before. Is this the kind of thing they check for and would have informed me if I had? Or do doctors have to go out of their way to check for it?
Federal receipts as a % of GDP has gone up and down by a few % but is basically unchanged from the 1950’s:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ockN

Meanwhile the income tax burden, specifically, has gotten considerably more progressive:

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxe...
D is another name, as the article explains, for Rh (Rhesus) factor. Since some fetal blood ends up in the maternal circulation during birth, an Rh-positive baby with an Rh-negative mother will trigger mom’s immune system to make anti-Rh antibodies, which causes problems for any future Rh-positive babies. Giving mom anti-Rh antibodies immediately after delivery scavenges all those Rh antigens from mom’s blood before her immune system can react. She has to repeat this for every Rh-positive birth.
A great example I just saw was when I was reviewing a PR with translations into one of the Slavic languages that does Slavic plurals and it just avoided the problem by translating the sentence as "the number of things: {number}" whereas in other languages it was "{number} things". Genius, frankly.

Slavic plurals (not in every Slavic language don't quote me):

- when the name of the number ends with "one" you put the noun in the singular. So numbers like 1 and 21 and 100001 use singular nouns, but not 11 because its number is not "ten-one"

- When the name of the number ends with "two" through "four" you put the noun in the genitive singular so you say "I have two of chicken." Again, the teens don't fit because they aren't formed by "ten-two" etc.

- Otherwise: genitive plural "I have five of chickens."
There's various tricks that can help narrow the criteria, but one that seems particularly good is to put paths no human user would ever find or traverse in robots.txt disallow. Ban anything that visits that path.
I was thinking of part-time work with unlimited time off: no expectations of normal working hours, or taking multiple months off. But you're right about time-off/sick days when the expectation is working a regular, full time job.

*! I was also assuming half the pay, but didn't write that either...
The reporting deadline was going to be March 21, 2025.
Do not binge Xylitol on an empty stomach.
atproto uses the DID system, which precedes it by a few years. at the moment, 99% of atproto users have a centralized id from the did:plc database, and a few dozen use did:web. no other DID methods are supported in the tooling yet afaik.
It's mentioned in TFA that it comes from the Mitsubishi family crest. So the logo is conceptually much older than any of their registrations.
So your morals are merely the product of what seems to be legal at the moment? And because one paperwork requirement got removed you now feel license to, by your own admission, commit crime?

This is meant to be a cynical comment on the state of the world? I think your cynicism has eaten a part of you.
Years and years ago. I see you've tried many things but not described whatever issues you may have had with them. I use Nextcloud running on a NAS which also runs a Wireguard endpoint so I have access via VPN to my home network when I am traveling. It's not perfect but does what I want it to do syncing a folder of files between Linux, Windows, and macOS systems, and the iOS app works well enough.

I don't use it for large scale file storage, such as photos or media. Those are on the NAS and accessed through traditional SMB file shares.
You are witnessing the break down of law and order.
Just scalar code? I was hoping to see some Goasm here for acceptable performance (or you could rewrite it in F#/C# which provide appropriate SIMD primitives).

edit: to answer my own question, when inspected with Ghidra, this implementation indeed compiles to very slow scalar code (operates on single fp64 values).
Correct. If I make 200k a year, and put in and extra 20 hours a week I'm giving the company 100k a year with the implied barter that it will pay off during my future career at the company (so an obvious barter transaction). It seems like the company should be taxed on that labor. Especially if it then gets added as a real value to the company's bottom line by being recognized/added to the capitalized value of say software the company develops.

I can't receive any such free labor without being taxed. I can't receive free equity into my home worth 100k without being taxed.

Edit: Or maybe it's been so long since I worked at a publicly traded software company I don't understand how software dev hours are capitalized anymore.
the trick is to spend 30 years stacking the courts with charlatans who value the political project above all else, and to have a congress full of complete losers with no self respect or desire for public service
Ask HN: How much efficiency improvement would you estimate Copilot gives you?
I work at a tech company with about 400 employees.

The company rolled out access to GitHub Copilot for everyone about a year ago.

After a year they did a survey of employees who used it and asked to estimate what percent efficiency gain they get from using it.

What surprised me is the average across responses was around 10% gain in work efficiency.

With all the talk of AI replacing programmers I was surprised to see it that low.

Does that match your experience?
What's the baud?
I tried for a bit.. it really sucks outside the work context, and much like when there were too many competing IM products, it just doesn't work without all the people.

Wasn't too bad when most were under ICQ, AIM or Yahoo messenger... but after FB, Google and MS got in the mix it just went to hell mostly. Still is. I mean I have half a dozen messenger apps on my phone each with half a dozen contacts that thing $FOO messenger is better for privacy/comms/etc.
There probably is a jurisdiction, somewhere, where this is a plausible theory.

But, with the disclaimer that IANAL in any jurisdiction, I'll recommend against proposing such ideas in your workplace.
Doesn't licorice lower intelligence?
I would say that the ability to recognize a past mistake and avoid it is completely detached from age.

The drinking analogy is not a great one because that’s an obviously detrimental activity. A lot of activities are positive.

E.g., trying to publish a book when you’re 65 after failing when you were 25 is not a character flaw.
I'm assuming that the OP is using a signed request and the fact that Chrome rewrites the request is what is causing the 403.

I'm interested in what kind of application depends on this behavior - if an application gets partial data from the server, especially one that doesn't match the content-length header, that should always be an error to me.
Think about it now, if you are bidding on a house and the other bidders are multi millionaires and billionaires, who do you think will win the bid? House prices are going up because those with a lot of cash are bidding them up. Many of those are being converted to rentals. This is why inequality matters.
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Any meaningful answer to this question is going to require the specific jurisdiction.
This seems like a better design than returning no data and a 403, and they wouldn't be the first people to run into it and have to properly handle a partial range response.
Turns out they used to be one conglomerate, but World War II changed that [0]:

> The Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 1946. The company, along with other major zaibatsu, was disbanded during the occupation of Japan following World War II by the order of the Allies. Despite the dissolution, the former constituent companies continue to share the Mitsubishi brand and trademark.

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Maybe the phone does not matter that much: https://cellularsecurity.org/ransacked.html
> This is information is already on file in tons of places, so the requirement is asinine

er, no it isn't, at least some states let you create fairly anonymous companies where the state has no idea of the actual owner of the company, and the lawyers who created it might not either.
Lately I've seen posts about DuckDB, which looks really cool, but Sqlite seems to be compileable with WASM so it can be used in some kind of container. How do the two compare?
> you'll likely be unable to achieve anything close to the economic status expected and planned on

It may be a problem of expectations + loss aversion, as high income from software jobs is a historically "recent" phenomenon

> AI doing it at a massive scale arguably does (remains to be seen, but at least plausible).

I agree that scale can change many things, but the core argument is still someone fearing for their job

> Is this more of an indictment of our current social/economic system than of AI itself? Probably yes, but I'm not sure it matters.

I just want to better understand why so many people here have such a negative take on a technology that is new, exciting, and could bring so much to so many people!

Thanks for your detailed reply: like you I believe it's just self-interest, and "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
> Blood donors are not compensated financially under Australian law.

This is something I find hard to agree with. I understand banning say selling of body parts (even your own). But blood / plasma?
Amen, intent matters. And it sounds like in both of the cases the OP cited, the intent was to force otherwise-unnecessary replacement, which is bad.
Good and that is fantastic news. We are due for a proper market crash.
I find that scenario even funnier because there's literally an alternate version which no one in the US will even consider but would be much more effective: legalise the drugs. Let people sell them in stores. Earn taxes on the sales!

The only reason drug cartels exist is because of the insatiable US demand for drugs.
The spec for HTTP GET is of course in no way similar to the spec for read(). On the other hand, I have to concede that (as I’ve just learned) an HTTP server is actually within its rights[1] to return only part of the requested range(s) and expect the client to redo the request if it needs the rest:

> A server that supports range requests (Section 14) will usually attempt to satisfy all of the requested ranges, since sending less data will likely result in another client request for the remainder. However, a server might want to send only a subset of the data requested for reasons of its own, such as temporary unavailability, cache efficiency, load balancing, etc. Since a 206 response is self-descriptive, the client can still understand a response that only partially satisfies its range request.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#name-206-partial...
And then what happened to those nationalised industries?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7PVEaPh6Fw&pp=ygUUYWRhbSBzbWl...
Because no one will stop them.
The REI workers are basically employees of a retail company that happens to be a coop. The coop part is for shopper/consumer members of people who buy things at REI.
An Xbox Series S does a fine job of playing Xbox 360 games and doesn't cost much.
That makes literally no sense.

I never said that there should be an institution to promote Nazism, people will do that. Look at Twitter, look at Elon Musk, that's what's happening on that front.

Now on alternative media, like , Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, promoting Russian propaganda stating that Hitler was a victim, and WW2 was Poland's fault, among other absurd takes that only people with low cognitive capacity and deficient education would believe.

This absurdity is reaching people in the US, and you want to protect that - which makes me question your true intentions lmao

If you believe that you can't influence people's behavior and how they think, you have not even a basic understanding on the subject and we will end our engagement here.

If you want to promote Nazism, and protect that, you're on the right track, but don't expect people from nation with proper institutions to follow through. Just deal with that.

Hopefully X will be banned in a lot of countries, the sooner the better.
Doesn't say that in the guidelines. Also why is there a /threads page then if one isn't supposed to use it to look at someone's comments?
> You are witnessing the break down of law and order

The rule of law. (And Presidents have done this before.)

Law and order refers to crime and punishment [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order_(politics)
Cool idea but seems to be dead on arrival due to licensing. Would love to have the team explain how anyone can possibly adopt their agpl package into their product.
Apple is just milking the market at this point. They are the Phone Company from the sketch ( https://vimeo.com/355556831 ). Literally.

macOS is another example. The System Settings menu is a hot garbage now, its search is literally unusable. For example, try to look for "shortcuts".

Then there are constant popup windows asking me to approve file access or some other BS. I can't do that permanently anymore, it's just for up to 30 days.

Another annoyance: it's impossible to speed up animations after the switch from Intel to ARM. This makes spaces literally unusable for me. I gave up and got a second monitor as a result.
Damn, this is a strikingly simple modification. Basically, modern deep learning optimizers typically calculate the update to the weights each step using some kind of momentum and/or LR scaling based on the running variance of the gradients. This means that, in theory, the actual "instantaneous" gradients from a particular backward pass might point in a different direction than the actual update the optimizer applies. The change the authors propose is to simply ignore any parameter updates proposed by the optimizer that have the opposite sign of the current gradient from the most recent backwards pass. They're essentially saying "only apply the long-term stabilized update where it agrees with the current 'instantaneous' gradient." They show that this simple change significantly speeds up model training.

I'm pretty intrigued by this, but will, as usual, wait for independent replications to come out before I fully believe it. That said, because of how simple this is, I'd expect such replications to happen within 24 hours. Exciting work!
Even on the highest caliber games "blunders" are often the decisive factor. It's just the higher the level, the more non-obvious the blunders are.

But even when playing with novices.kids, the aspect of double-attack/defense appears quite often. It's very basic and common consideration really.
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Resigning may have been the only honorable option under those circumstances, to be fair. But I don't think the Org would have spit you out at the CTO or SVP level, even after the controversy.

The boneheaded move was elevating you in the first place. Not that you didn't deserve it or were not capable! Just that it was doomed to create extreme conflict with a large portion of the Mozilla community, which has always had a much broader mission than "simple" excellence.

There's a good argument that this breadth often manifests as a lack of focus, and that anything other than excellence should be secondary at best. But that's not how Mozilla was built or staffed or marketed.

And here we are.

I wish it was otherwise -- and of course I agree that it is absolutely not on you -- but I do sometimes wonder what Mozilla would be like today if not for that Prop 8 donation.
ha ha, nice.

even early Windows versions were somewhat Pascal-oriented, with things like "long far pascal" used in C function declarations, to indicate the calling convention being used, whether right to left, or left to right, iirc.
I did understand that particular purpose of the article, but there is something oddly detracting about it to me.

Like a soap opera dramatizes and exaggerates emotions, this article is a little too insistent on itself.
Some things are. Some things aren’t. At one point, you could write

nil, err

without the return and it would happily compile. It’s also tragically easy for actual logic bugs to be obscured by all the boilerplate.

It’s not like three lines of error handling copypasta is some optimal amount. If golang required ten lines of boilerplate error handling, you’d still have just as many people arguing in favor of it because they “like it to be explicit” when it reality it’s verbose and the real underlying argument is that it’s what they’ve grown accustomed to. `?` is no less explicit, but it is less unnecessarily verbose.
Because climate change will somehow not effect the poor?

1) we need hire energy prices to match the externalities

2) we need subsidies to make the poor more efficient at using the power they can afford. I heard in England they don't have proper insulation in most homes. Building to passive house standards can completely transform an energy bill.
> let’s take a law meant to shine a light on corruption and rebrand that law as the corruption itself

Who said the CTA is corrupt?
The Elon Musk Cheating Scandal [video]
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