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> As in, if everyone gets higher wages, bigger bonuses, and more money is being poured into 401ks, inflation gets even worse?

This is the thinking companies would like you to have. Meanwhile, profits have been massive for many companies in spite of inflation. The in site of part is somewhat sarcastic, because a lot of it is driven purely by corporate greed next to macro economic factors.

Companies that move part of their profits into wages don't have to increase prices if... They accept a decrease in profits.

To me, this seems like one of the only ways to avert a real crisis right now. We're moving money toward the rich at a crazy rate, causing regular people to be able to afford less and less. Rich people tent to not spend their money in the real world. A rich person doesn't buy 10 iPhones or 10 F150s, they buy one yacht. The middle class is who cause economic growth and stripping them from purchasing power will slow everything down.

In the end, the rich will also feel this, when their assets implode. But they'll only feel it in the value of these assets. They won't feel it in their daily lives. Only the normals actually feel pain from all this.

Agreed. I'm not even nearing 1/3 of that.

It is, however, a fact that a relatively high amount of HNers earn way over 100k due to the prevalence of people form SV on here. Tech salaries in the rest of the world are nowhere near those in SV.

A works council is a requirement for every company over 50 employees in The Netherlands. It's pretty common that they're involved in deciding on bonuses like this. However, they often don't have that much power in the actual decision.

The Internship is now almost 10 years old. I almost wonder whether that had anything to do with it.

> What if a stalker buys a weapon, repeatedly tells a victim of planned murder plots, etc?

They're probably still committing a crime. The thing with terrorism vs stalking though, is the budgets that are being spent on preventing them. It's also the level of Law Enforcement that does the investigation. Local PD is much less capable and has much less man power than the FBI.

Also, in case of 'tells a victim of planned murder plots' this often happens in person with no record existing. This happens about as often as fake victims saying someone is threatening them. So it's hard to judge whether any report of death threats from a stalker is real.

I've personally worked on stalking cases and until you've got actual irrefutable evidence of a stalker having made threats, it's always a gamble. Even letters and messages are being faked by pretend victims. Overreaction by local PD, without evidence, is how people get shot when they get swatted.

Unless I'm missing some info, I don't see anything that points at them finding all this info through Tor or the server. They identified the user AND 'also found what specific pages Al-Azhari visited'. That could've happened from his PC after they arrested him. Language like this is always ambiguous in order to give out as little information as possible while still providing some.

No, it isn't. That's not what he was charged for, it's just one piece of evidence in the case:

> “From Mr. Al-Azhari’s attempt to acquire firearms through unlawful channels to his desire to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, it was clear Mr. Al-Azhari’s intention was to carry out an act of violence,”

> According to the complaint, Al-Azhari was an ISIS supporter who planned and attempted to carry out an attack on behalf of that terrorist organization. Al-Azhari, who has a criminal history that includes prior terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia, attempted to purchase multiple firearms over the course of the investigation, before acquiring a Glock pistol and a silencer. He also expressed admiration for Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen and spoke of his desire to carry out a similar mass casualty shooting. Additionally, Al-Azhari researched and scouted potential targets in the Tampa area, including Honeymoon Island. He also rehearsed portions of an attack and the statements that he would make during or in connection with such an attack.

Purifiers are all about the filters, anything else is pretty much just marketing BS.

On that note, Ikea has some air purifiers[0] that aren't very expensive and use HEPA filters with optional carbon filter to remove smells. They have basic ones and 'smart' ones in different form factors (even one that is a table!). We have cats and it really helped removed the cat smell from out house.

[0] https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/

Is this extensible for things like CO and Radon?

Friend of mine is always surprised when we discuss something and 20 seconds later I send him an article I once read about it. He has asked multiple times what I use to store all these links. It's Google. I just use Google to find the article again based on what I remember from it.

This doesn't always work though and can lead to a frustrating half hour of searching that ends in disappointment.

At my start-up I got pretty much no time to train my replacement before I left. I was the technical founder / lead dev / software architect. Pretty much the entire application came from and lived in my brain.

They're still up and running and doing really well.

Edit: So it doesn't seem like this is because I documented everything well and code was good. That wasn't the case. They just managed.

What do you mean by 'planting racist information' exactly?

> Sometimes we infer things from a combination of evidence.

People seem unable to do this. They want to see all of these examples as unrelated things that coincidentally can all be considered racist by wokies. To me, it's a case of walking and swimming and talking like a duck.

It's been pasted multiple times in the comments, but here it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/co...

If it was just one of those examples, sure. But there are multiple things that are 'arguably racist' combined with apparent activity on 4chan, I'd say it doesn't seem just coincidental.

We don't know whether this has anything to do with the suspension though, everything that's being written is all just theories.

Looking at the Reddit thread about this, there was some arguably racist stuff going on in his repo which could've been related to this suspension. I'm not sure whether this is the right way to handle such things (banning those specific repo's might be better), but it would be somewhat understandable.

> is now considered "chubby" or "curvy" if not normal by most Americans for whom that is normal.

This is why I hate the 'body positivity' movement as it is right now. It's great that this movement tries to make (especially young) people understand that you don't need to have a tiny cover model body to look good (an that it's unhealthy too). But what it's turned into is that obese people are becoming an example to others without any attention to health issues.

It's no longer allowed to advertise smoking pretty much anywhere, but glorifying (morbid) obesity on social media and TV is fine. Meanwhile, obesity is arguably as bad as or worse than smoking.

This is funny, I'm currently working on a second system that replaced the first. It's awful and I think we need to build the third version.

This is one of the reasons I dislike working in teams that lack 'old people'. Young devs still have a lot of mistakes to make that old devs have already made or seen. The young ones seem to see them as slow and difficult, but they also create stability and control.

In a start-up, having a team of young people will allow you to move fast, pivot and deliver. What you usually end up with though, is a tower built from spaghetti that's serving actual users. I see this again and again and then people get surprised that the software doesn't scale.

Just look at the 'Twitter Files'. It's not great that Elon can access anyone's private messages. It's a great tool to blackmail people.

> having a post tied to your IRL identity blow up is usually a bad thing

Well... Then be careful with what you post tied to your real identity. I have separate accounts for separate use cases. My main on Reddit, for example, can (very) easily be doxxed so I hardly post anything controversial on that account.

Through all the recent data leaks it's getting even easier to dox people based on screen names too. I'm even considering getting a PO box next time I move house, just to decrease the chances of my home address ending up in a data dump.

The issue with your test is that GPT is not even close to what I described. GPT is mostly natural language processing and a 'knowledge' engine. That knowledge comes from the content of the texts it has been trained on without actually adding value to the meaning of the content. So GPT will mostly be influenced by the number of occurrences of specific things in the dataset.

So because a lot of articles about Sweden's COVID response probably mentioned a word like 'controversial' or things with similar meanings, that's what it mentions when you ask about it. It can't actually do a comparison between the US and Sweden, unless somewhere in the data there were some documents comparing them (but then GPT still doesn't make a comparison). These were probably already political, because comparing COVID response is mostly done in that context.

It can't actually make the comparison you asked it to . It can only generate text based on previous texts it has seen. It's unfortunate though, that people apparently don't understand this and add value to the content of the text that it generates. Like in your case:

> while hinting that Sweden's response is "controversial" compared to the US's.

You're personally adding the 'compared to the US's' part through misinterpretation of the text. GPT just wrote that Sweden's response was controversial. It doesn't actually have any way to compare, it just spews text.

This is also why it wrote 'Federal'. It saw that word a lot in this context, so it generates text that contains a word that feels alright in the context of all the other words. It's just a really realistic gibberish generator, pretty much. (Though that really undersells the work OpenAI has done and the quality of what they delivered on.)

It would be fascinating if we could get an AI that can only reply with conclusions based on empirical evidence. I feel that it would probably be called leftist, since more leftist viewpoints seem to be science based than rightist ones (especially in the US).

It would also confuse the heck out of people, because it will change its answers based on new evidence.

Well, there's the PyCon story [0], where two guys ended up getting fired because they made an 'inappropriate' joke among each other in a public space that was overheard by someone else. And there are more stories like this.

So saying anything that might be even remotely offensive to anyone can end up with you losing your job. Based on stories like this, I'm personally afraid of cancel culture. Because this joke is the sort of joke I could've made.

0: https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spirale...

> if any model is allowed to say something non-PC in public, the next day the whole press will be full of articles

I had GPT answer a prompt (in Dutch) with a reply containing the N-word once. A week later they released a new version, so I tried the same prompt. This time it refused to answer the prompt. I assume they have some sort of alerting system to get notified when it uses 'inappropriate' words, so they can then create some query filters.

That's an easy one, it's all of the ones that use Cloudflare.

If your IP address is for some reason blacklisted by Cloudflare, you're screwed. With CGNAT, this means that you can have a hard time visiting many web sites if your IP is used by someone else who does nefarious things.

It is indeed. With CGNAT becoming more prevalent with the shortage of IPV4, this is starting to get really annoying. I'm actually switching providers to one that doesn't use CGNAT for this exact reason.

It would be really nice if IPV6 one day actually becomes default so we no longer have to mess around with this stuff.

> their voices get overwhelmed by the flood of (mostly low quality) content

I have the same issue. People place so much trust in their preferred sources of information and don't question anything they read. Because of this I have a hard time discussing anything beyond the most basic things with many friends, since they just repeat talking points and opinions of others.

It's so enlightening when I do find someone who's well read on a subject and can have an actual conversation about it. Even better if they have a different opinion and give you some new bit of information that makes you think about your opinions or perception of knowledge. Or, when you can agree to disagree because you have the similar understanding of a subject, but have different values or preferences. Moments like that can make me really happy sometimes.

Us Dutchies celebrate it on 25 and 26! Both of them are holiday days by law, which means you get the day off.

If you do work (retail or food service, mostly), you usually get 150-200% of your regular wage on these days.

I was put on a project as an architect recently. My conclusion is that it's over-complicated. Why? The problem that was put in front of the dev team was pretty complex. So if you ask the dev team, it's a complicated solution to a complicated problem. And they are somewhat right.

However, the problem didn't have to be this complex. If someone would've asked some questions about the 'why' of it all, they would've been able to come to that conclusion. But nobody did. So the team was working on an over-complicated system for an over-complicated problem.

So, while I agree with the article that one might be under-estimating the complexity of a problem, it might be wise to look into whether solving the complex problem is actually necessary and whether 99% can be achieved by solving a less complex problem in a less complex way and accepting the solution isn't perfect.

Again, the snob and the gatekeeping.

> watched Spotify's editorial playlists ... leading to a slow homogenization of music culture

All based on the assumption that people only use editorial playlists and there's no other way.

> Spotify's recommendations are not the fair system that you think it is

I never wrote anything even remotely saying that I think their recommendations are 'fair'.

> worse than radio tastemakers of the past

Is it though? With radio, you had pretty much no choice. I can now pick from millions of playlists on a whim. If I find a new artist in some way, I can listen to all their music and I can instantly find artists with similar styles.

You assume that people only listen to curated playlists.

You gatekeep by implying that only genuine independent acts are worth listening to.

You imply that if Spotify wouldn't exist, people would have better ways to find music.

None of this is true. Most people would would just go back to listening to the same 10 songs being played on the radio over and over. Or they would venture to iTunes, Beatport or the likes, which are just as curated as Spotify.

For me, Spotfy is a nearly limitless collection of all the music I could want to listen to. Vacationing in Germany and hear a Polish song I like? Add it to Spotify and find more from the artist, while still on the highway. Feel nostalgic? Play Major Tom and some more Bowie on a whim while on the way to work. Want to discover music that sounds somewhat like another artist? Open Spotify Radio for the artist and let the Algo show me some other stuff. Suddenly have a craving for a genre I never listen to? Search for a playlist on the genre, which usually isn't curated by Spotify.

Through this process I recently found some songs by an artist who's most played song is at <3k plays. This is a musician who sings in an incredibly local dialect. I don't know how I would've found them otherwise. Especially since I found them while road tripping, not while reading some snobby music blog.

So please stop with the gatekeeping and just accept that people might actually like Spotify and use it in another way than just playing curated playlists. And even if they do just use it that way, accept it.