skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The name of this article is a bit misleading (as other commentators stated), but the growing suicide rate is troubling. I think the part where employees feel like robots is a huge part of the problem. It's hard to make ends meet in a rough economy and a lot of people don't believe they have any say in current democratic process, one vote is what you get but the whole management of the system is hardly controlled by the electorate. There's a huge feeling of hopelessness, Mark Fisher in "Capitalist realism" wrote how youth fails to cope with the prospect of future that a big part of them will have to do a job they won't find satisfaction in. Some of us can land truly great positions but the suicide rates show a huge population living under distress.
Tufte is a horrible choice. The link by the submitter is much more useful and elegant.
While I totally agree with that, there are times when typing is my bottleneck. It's often the case that once I've figured out what I want to say, the next challenge is converting it into text. During that phase, I want to be able to quickly convert thought to words on a screen without any barriers.
Yes, passion about how you go about it, not about how it ends up.
As mentioned in the OP, we now have wl-clipboard. :)

Furthermore, it's proprietary NVIDIA drivers Wayland isn't supporting, not NVIDIA itself. AFAIK nouveau works just fine. There are many great reasons for not supporting the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
If you're trying to not die, the most important thing is to choose a reputable airline. One that hires and retains experienced pilots with rigorous training programs. (Most major US airlines meet this standard).
> Actually these people redefined sexism and racism as "doesn't count when applied to the sex/race I dislike". I wish I was joking but this is the state of the art in academia.

This is a great place to talk about something I've observed about academic ideas like these, which I'll call the difference between Academic and Vulgar, by analogy to "Vulgar Libertarianism" and "Vulgar Socialism":

There's a difference between Academic Positions and Vulgar Positions, where Academic Positions are defined as being the ones academics write papers about and Vulgar Positions are the ones average people who support those Positions use in day-to-day discourse, especially in discussions with others. This is a convenient feature: Academic Positions are nuanced and logically defensible, whereas Vulgar Positions are simple, pugnacious, and useful in street-fight debates where you primarily want to shut down the person you're opposed to.

Intersectionality has a Vulgar form: "Check your privilege!" In the Academic sense, that statement is, at most, a gentle reminder to examine the totality of a situation before judging it. In the Vulgar sense, it's a way to shut someone down by stating that they're "privileged" and are, therefore, unworthy of having a judgement at all. In the Academic sense, saying someone is "privileged" is nonsensical, or perhaps tautological, in that everyone has some position where they're privileged and some positions where they're disadvantaged, so saying that a person is privileged is not very meaningful. In the Vulgar sense, "privilege" absolutely does adhere to individuals, and people with "privilege" must never disagree with those without.

Anyway, the Academic form is the only one officially acknowledged to exist, whereas the Vulgar form is the lived experience, the one which drives actions and policies. Therefore, the Vulgar form is never seriously discussed, because when you mention its features, the person you're discussing it with will deny that their philosophy has those features, as, indeed, the Academic form does not.

This isn't motte-and-bailey because there are plenty of people who honestly don't hold the Vulgar position and who would argue against it if someone expressed it to their face. This isn't a tactic, it's the inability of the academic world to communicate their ideas in a nuanced fashion, and the unpalatability of nuanced ideas to people who just want a fight.
The nvidia drivers still do not support the standard Linux features necessary for sway to work. I recommend using nouveau instead, and buying a graphics card from a vendor which supports open source next time.

That's how it is, and I'd like to ask everyone to refrain from drawing this particular flamewar out any further.
I'm betting it's more from change of diet and physical activity. Increased exercise or just walking will increase your testosterone levels (in men.)
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Bad diet is much more likely the culprit.
If the alternative is one engineer spending 50% of their time dealing with infrastructure, $5000 is still a good deal.
The British government, via its public broadcaster, is trying to reduce xenophobic sentiment and boost support for African immigration by combating commonly held beliefs about Africa being poor and backwards long before colonization.

Debunked depictions of early Britons as dark skinned, and Swedish tapestries aledgedly containing Islamic writing are two more examples of this pro-migration effort being undertaken by Western governments.
Precisely. I arrange them such that I can click in the corner I need to get what I want, and then alt-tab between them, or click for the specific one I want if I need to jump. Then I get big real estate, and easy access. I call that good UX because it works well for me.
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For hobby web apps that fit within the limitations of the free tier, I found deploying to App Engine to be simplest. It's hard to beat free, and this lets you keep the app running for many years without maintenance.
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Mention blockchain around here and everyone loses their minds.
> although it would be nice if they offered an offline app

They have a plugin for MS Office and probably some other word processors.
Respectfully: I feel that you (and her) simply have different needs and likely different neurotypes. "useful information" is sought after by some neurotypes in their foraging. others seek narratives and relational understanding. it's all good. (i'm admittedly disappointed quite often in what feels to me a shallow read of purpose and intention on HN)
You can choose correct facts selectively to paint a false picture.
Probably when your resume has something spectacular to overlook it. Also, congrats to the author: it's inspiring to see someone make such critical changes at this time of life.
Do they even have offices, or is it just a bunch of temp bloggers working from home?

The quality of their journalism is several notches below the sources I try to get my news from.
Rather than businessinsider.com , a better URL for this is https://www.thedailybeast.com/amazon-the-shocking-911-calls-... , which is the actual story.
the article is probably the most selfish thing I've read in a while. It's not evil or exploitative, it's just very selfish.

But I think it's not so morally wrong that OpenAI should not do business with him since they have the security mechanisms and limit his power. He just an grumpy old guy who does not want to share his beach.
> For example, "offset" generally only has the desired effect on a primitive shape.

It might not have the expected effect but surely it has a well-defined effect?

I've tried to get my head round distance functions whilst tinkering with raymarching shaders and the guru's over on Shadertoy and pouet.net seem to have a fairly solid understanding of which transforms behave nicely and which don't. They bandy around terms like lipschitz continuity which leads me to believe they've got a deeper grasp of this stuff than I have ;-)

I guess I'm saying that I have a hunch there is a fairly clear distinction between "things that keep the functions well behaved" and "things that don't"
Lacking technology to do things any better would excuse us for having that kind of attitude, but we happen to do have technology. We'll need the knowledge and experience of growing stuff on a mass scale artificial environments.
But then I fail to see what benefit it's giving me to be a tiling window manager?
Non-AMP link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/technology/california-bea...

I just read the article, and am not sure I see the issue. Quote from his lawyer: “No owner of private business should be forced to obtain a permit from the government before deciding who it wants to invite onto its property"

Where's the issue here? They guy basically bought the property all around the beach, and decided to close down access. I wouldn't say it's a nice thing to do, but it's legal. If I buy a piece of property, my rights as the owner should trump the rights of a bunch of surfers who want to get to a beach. The state probably should have been smart enough not to sell all the land.

Failing that, just seize a small portion via eminent domain: a 15-foot-wide strip on the edge of the property would likely come at a reasonable cost, and ought to provide an amicable resolution for all.
> I believe Word still has an built-in grammar/spell checker that works just fine

Tell that to Grammarly's customers. From what I hear, they do a much better job.
Parenting time tends to take over most of the hours that would have been work-time, on weekends. At least until your kids are old enough that they don't want anything to do with you anymore (or so I hear).

With kids it's usually possible to do something either productive or fun alongside the whole kid-taking-care-of thing. It's just very hard to do anything you like that is productive or fun. You gotta roll with the punches. Typically things that require few unpredictable interruptions and that can't be done with your kid(s) (which varies greatly with their age) are out of the question unless they're in bed or someone else is watching them. Or you turn on Babysitter Television, of course.
Tiling window managers were tried early on, when PCs were introduced. They failed because normal people didn't like them.

Also, mobile OSes won't really ever have more than 2-3 windows shown at the same time, since the screens are so small. That will probably change once we have folding devices or AR/VR. But super limited "tiling" window managers do make sense with such limited UIs.
So are they looking for capital or they have it?
I don't think it has anything to do with income - journalism is not an especially "high income" career path. It's all about culture, cliques and good-old-boy networks - here as perhaps in other cases, journalists are relying on a rather context-specific sort of "prestige" in an effort to escape this sort of attack/criticism.
I've always wondered what's the use of gaps.
I have nothing to say, so by rights I shouldn't leave a comment at all - but I can't help but once again thank you for this superb software.
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Hi Michael,

Thanks for writing this. I wrote a response here: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/9971-a-partial-defen...

The tl;dr version is I agree with you about some of the things you mention, but also feel like there's an element of personal preference for web-based tools showing through.
Instead of mentioning 911 calls the article ought to have been about the working conditions and have more in depth interviews with people like Jace. The reporter probably didn’t have time to do such a piece and Business Insider probably doesn’t think it’ll be worth the investment to do such a piece. Instead we get an article that detractors can embrace and supporters can point out its obvious flaws.
Fully quitting porn has had a tremendous positive impact in my life. But it was extremely difficult to do it. I’ve found a group of people to help and support me through this and our experiences are fairly similar.

I would say that anyone who thinks porn isn’t affecting them should try to quit fully for a few months and see. It costs nothing, and you might find out that you have less control than you thought. The effects can be more subtle than what is mentioned in this article: for example constantly craving for novelty despite being in a good relationship with someone you love.
> Whether they're in a office of a company that rents two floors of a 350,000 square foot office tower in a downtown of a major city, sitting on their couches in a single family home in a suburb playing videos games on their xbox, attending a music festival, literally any imaginable human activity.

This is not 189 total 911 calls - this is 189 calls for emotional distress.

Personal experience dictates that on-the-job suicidal thoughts are vastly diminished compared to netflix/xbox suicidal thoughts. When you are actively engaged and distracted, you are less likely to be wrapped up in self-destructive thoughts.

The best comparison would be do find numbers of on-the-job emotional distress calls from Walmart, McDonalds, UPS, or other large employers. I have no idea how Amazon compares, but 189 over 5 years intuitively seems high.

Compare apples to apples if you want to compare.
Thank you for saying this. I’m so glad I’m not alone in my perception :)
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You might want to take a look at https://github.com/LiveAsynchronousVisualizedArchitecture/si...

It is a completely lock free key value store, though does not have eviction built in.

Its memory management is done using a free list of blocks, which is part of how it maintains lock free concurrency.
A vacancy tax is so obvious that there must be some political reason that it's not being discussed in SF. I'm not sure I'd restrict it to foreign owners, holding empty property is a negative externality no matter where the owner lives.
It seems like a lot of people miss this point. If you can't pay the legal minimum to your employees, then something must change on how you do business. I think small business is important but so is smart business.
Do remember that this is probably in Canadian $, so slightly less than you would assume. (today's rate: USD 1
= CAN 1.34)
Not sure reasonable is a word I would use to describe furry porn...
I think this is related to the foods we are eating. It does catch up with you. Also exercise as well can help keep testosterone levels up.
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There are more ways than clicking a window to give it focus. Alt-Tab being the obvious once but also Win+{Nr} on Windows if I recall correctly.
Ahh what are you talking about? That "myth" didn't exist until the open source drivers really started working.

Biggest issue with AMD on Linux right now is that they sometimes seem to forget to fully enable support in patches before release. Like the RX 590 had to have firmware updates post release because they forgot to do everything I guess.

nVidia GPUs were always recommended over AMD because their support was significantly better before the mainoine Radeon/Radeon si/amdgpu drivers really started being great. nVidia will still run better now, but the benefit of the open source driver ecosystem out weighs that for me.
kexec is basically the same as a reboot, as far as userspace is concerned. Your sshd is going to go away.
And for the guys stuck in the trees, the presence of crocodiles in the water minimized the value of the water as a "useful material" for use as a means of transport out of where they were.
I don't disagree, but now we're holding Lion Air to a much higher standard than any other commercial airline, including US and EU based ones.

Certain repairs are tested. Non-safety critical sensors like AOA are not, because you're meant to be able to land if there's a malfunction. Obviously not in this case, which points to procedural problems beyond any one airline.
Oh boy! Here we go again.
Probably, but given the relative levels of adoption of Nvidia graphics cards and Sway, I suspect that he's doing more to limit adoption of Sway than he is of encouraging Nvidia to change their behavior.
My gripe with this edict is that it is not as relevant in the age of dashboards and interactive data. The same reason they were often a bad choice in static views, can be a positive within an interactive dashboard - a busy pie chart indicate visually that selection filters are not granular enough for the design criteria of the view.
> But there's nothing different between your workflow and my workflow except for the fact that our workflows are completely different.

Is it so hard to accept that there are different ways of using a computer and your perceived increase in efficiency might not pan out for everyone? :)
> Maybe just maybe this is not the fault of Nvidia but due to the fact that large parts of the Linux ecosystem are fragile, time consuming to configure and break if you look at them in the wrong way.

How it works with open source drivers is that you main-line your drivers so that the kernel maintainer maintain the drivers for you, for free. Choosing to keep your drivers closed source means committing to keeping your drivers up-to-date with changes in the kernel, or writing an open-source shim that does that. Which approach is more "fragile?"
Oh, interesting. I see this as a pure attack/defense move, not just marketing themselves in the OSS world. We'll see :)
"In these simulated fights, an aggressor force obliterates US stealth fighters on the runway, sinks US warships, destroys US bases, and takes out critical US military systems."

Uhh is this assuming that the US is just sitting still? Scrambling of fighter jets can vary and much is just speculation on how fast they can scramble, wonder which time they went with in this think-tank . Found an interesting discussion on how fast an F-22 can scramble [0]

In general I would be interested in how these "simulated wargames" are being created.

[0] "How fast can an F-22 scramble?"
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9703/how-fast-c...
For many LA small towns, decreasing fewer tickets means a big hit to bottom line
The fact that first world countries/ wealthy people are not having many kids and that third world countries/ poor people are having a lot of kids is very problematic. Natutal selection is seemingly going in the opposite direction to were we want it.

Though to argue against this point, humans every year score on average better than they did last year on old IQ tests. The size of human skulls and brains are also increasing too, so natural selection may be working, just in a different way than we would expect.
And non-suicidal pilots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525)
Also of note: Cliff Stoll deals with the worm in his excellent _The Cuckoo's Egg_ book, including discussions with Robert Morris Sr (RTM's father), who was chief scientist at the NSA at the time.
Seeing as even Linus was unable to "persuade" them, this means "someone will write a fork with nvidia driver support eventually"
Intel bought QLogic's Infiniband assets in 2012, not everything.
Who flagged this? Why? This is a human story about relational context in the tech industry. The people who are saying "no content" are demonstrating a particularly skewed view of what gets to be considered content.

(How do I flag a flagging?)
I disagree. Hearing this about a decade ago was the kick in the pants that I needed to get my life in shape. I realize it doesn't work out for everybody, but demystifying software development as something anybody can do is excellent.

What hurts our industry is the ninja/hero culture where devs burn the midnight oil for no overtime. If you want to be respected as professionals, behave like a lawyer. What would your lawyer say if you told him he needed to do a Saturday night deployment?
Very cool idea. Like some others here, I really appreciate attempts to create new structures for bringing ideas to the world.

Since I'm not a lawyer, can you help understand the theoretical limits of the LP's "lock in" to the Charter? In a cynical scenario, what would it take to completely capture OpenAI's work for profit?

If the Nonprofit's board was 60% people who want to break the Charter, would they be capable of voting to do so?
It's actually not legal, at least in California. That's why he's trying to take it to the Supreme Court- he's hoping to get the federal government to override state laws.

He was also completely aware of this when he bought the property, so it's not like this is a surprise or someone forcing him to change things. He's the one who broke the law and broke the status quo that had existed at that beach.
Nope, and this is part of the building case against Porn in the UK. Please ignore the lies coming from the UK, this will only ramp up as the Porn Ban is rolled out - that is correct, porn will be blocked by default in the UK.
I am having some weird issues trying to switch my account user, but I can access the console home page.
> ... Sam Altman (CEO) ...

Was this announced before or is this the first time they've mentioned it?
That makes a lot of sense, and if that's the case, I'd chalk it up to advertising for convincing people they _need_ all of this type of infrastructure.
I received my PhD in December, so I already pursued further education. My masters was in telecommunications, starting my PhD with a background in signal processing/information theory rather than optics/physics. All the master students I supervised either had similar background like me or an optics/physics background. That said, optical communications combines multiple disciplines, which makes it so fascinating, and I think that a PhD is inevitable if you want to pursue a career here. There are so many steps to understand to get from bits to electrical signal to optical signal and all the way back to bits. I don't think a masters degree can cover all of it in depth. Further, a PhD is in particular helpful due to the conferences where all the big players are looking out to hire you, or where one meets senior researchers for potential postdoc positions.

Salary-wise it's difficult for me to answer, as most of the big industry players are in the US or Canada, but I'm in Europe. From hearsay a fresh PhD with reasonable publication list will get around 10k per month in the bay area. However, glassdoor might give you a better idea. Look for companies like: Infinera/ciena/acacia communications/juniper/mellanox/finisar/keysight...

After my PhD, I probably could have pursued a postdoc somewhere in Europe, but I decided to leave academia. I wanted to stay in Copenhagen and therefore had to change my field of work and will be working for a hearing aid company in their signal processing department.
Yeah, maybe they shouldn't have gone and got themselves stuck in that tree.
IDGI... this is what Grammarly is supposed to do. Take your text and fix grammar/spelling/etc. How are they going to read your text if you don't send it to them? IANAL but I'm fairly sure they can't steal your copyright and if you're worried about them keeping data on you, then I have news about the rest of the internet you are not going to like...
I don't think it's "easy access" nor "big real estate". But to each their own.
You are right that there isn’t much of a story with regards to suicide at Amazon warehouses but there is a story with regard to the general working conditions at its warehouses. I guess mentioning suicide is good business from an entertainment/news aspect but this article is not helpful in terms of helping bring to attention the bad working conditions at Amazon’s warehouses.
Oh that’s pretty cool. Do you by chance have any articles or posts going through your initial thought process and/or eventual realization for why you ultimately thought this transition was necessary for OpenAI?

Was it a particular event, a conversation, perhaps just an incremental ideation without any actual epiphany needed, etc?