skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they're talking about unfinished, undelivered tasks. A feature that is 99% done but only lives on your dev branch isn't delivering any value, it's just adding cognitive load as another thing you need to think about, try to remember, worry about forgetting. It's the same concept they're trying to push about inbox zero and only looking at an email once.

I think the next paragraphs clarify a bit.

> Finishing actions clear the mind – a finished plate does not require ongoing attention or memory. In contrast, when unfinished tasks are allowed to accumulate, they clutter the mind and make even the task you’re focused on difficult to complete.

> The same situation applies to knowledge work. It seems harmless to start and stop tasks as new information becomes available. But there is a hidden cost each time we do so. The unfinished task has to be managed and tracked and updated. It takes up space on your to-do list, on your computer or desk, and most importantly of all, in your subconscious mind.

> These small frictions, multiplied by every unfinished task and accumulated over time, can eventually add up to an overwhelming burden that grinds your progress to a halt. You can actually reach the point where it takes all your bandwidth just to remember and track all the unfinished tasks, leaving no time left over to complete them. You have to run as hard as you can just to stand still.
CPU usage is an incredibly complex metric that doesn't really explain what is actually going on. I noticed while running a benchmark I can get my CPU to 50c and 100% usage and it stays steady like that. But then I tried prime95 and my cpu very quickly hit 99c also at 100%. Likely the different benchmarks were both running as fast as they can but the prime95 one ran on a faster part of the cpu which could generate more heat and does not get stuck waiting on memory or other slow ops.
It sounds like the trouble is that no one knows how to fix it. There's no "[ ] Dead" checkbox to uncheck on the computer, and no "Declare Nondeceased" forms to file, so they kick it up the chain of command. "This is above my pay grade!"

The next person doesn't have a clue what to do either, so the buck never stops being passed. The pencil-pushers don't know how to push this pencil. The bean-counters don't know how to count this bean. The bureau has a problem it can't crat.
Time-series databases are optimized for performance based on having an index for each label/type of value. That inversion allows for a tremendous amount of values to be captured and reported against with low latency, but with the trade off of having less permutations available for scale. The same applies to Prometheus, Graphite, etc.
It's an ugly complicated mess of a war that will more than likely go on long past our lives. It is highly debatable and probably unknowable if it was the right call in the long run. But I'd have to assume the war kept the terrorists busy at least for a little while. They also more than likely would not have stopped if we made no response.
Oilsands among the most carbon intensive crudes in North America (2017)
Taking over Uber accounts through voicemail
I don't think it's necessary, but it's certainly pleasant and at times can signal mastery.
I've always said: "There's surprisingly little money in correct software."
>That's no way to live.

I live that way and rather enjoy it. If that sounds so terrible to you, I suppose you should move elsewhere instead of turning the neighborhood I live in into the one you'd like to.

There's plenty of room for everyone.
It seems to have a lot of incredibly ill defined, unscientific, unproven, and frankly racist and divisive ideas if you ask me. Any criticism or request for evidence, logic, or results is met with wildly disproportionate reactions from bullying at worst to strawmen very often, but rarely actual answers or willingness to discuss things openly.

Recently I've noticed the theme is to post purile edicts proclaiming that CRT is "just acknowledging that racism exists and is bad" (and therefore if you question it or this post, then you're a racist). But no, that's a lie. That's not what CRT is, it absolutely should be critically examined and questioned.
MacOS has a weird solution to throttling. They put a fake process in the process list which looks like it consuming x% of the resources but really it is just blocking some usage to allow the CPU to cool.
"Local man in mental distress as microwave-lasagna meals get delivered to his house every 20 minutes"
The “keep everything” approach conflicts with the “have clean commits” approach. If we keep everything, instead of “Build A; Build B; Build C” we wind up with “Build some of A, B, and C;” * 8.
Eh, I disagree. It's not like the anger didn't come with firings. In terms of things I'd like to get - I'd prefer someone doesn't yell and belittle me. If they want to do some corporate jargon speak to say, "you're gonna be fired in 4 weeks and this PIP is really just a formality" then I prefer that over yelling and belittling and then the firing happens anyway.

It's a false dichotomy anyway. Steve could've been a nice person but instead he was an asshole. You're just letting him get away with it because someone else does bad things too. It's like comparing different forms of beheading - end of the day someones head comes off and I'm just saying... it's ALSO an option to not.
You are totally missing the point.

Suppose some ill luck befalls you: your house burnt down, you got sued , etc, that would quite reasonably affect your work perfprmance.

If we follow Bezos's logic, would the company make a material controbution to solve your issue, like hire you a lawyer to help reclaim claim losses, etc. If not, he is a hypocrite
Well... "the point of" open source for some of us is to participate in a collaborative commune where we are willing to contribute code to the collective specifically because other people are required to also contribute their code to said collective as part of a shared battle against opaque proprietary systems; so the concept that someone is going to then find it, scrape it, and "launder" what was supposed to be our competitive advantage into their closed source projects by training it into a glorified pattern recognizer and then regurgitating it into their text editor without even as much as attribution without realization that the work we did and contributed to the world was part of a tit-for-tat pact as they want to have their cake and eat it too kind of ruins it for me... like it is bad enough that I have to constantly guilt trip people into not violating my license already: systematizing it via Copilot is making me think that we might need even stricter mechanisms for distribution of code within the commune so as to build a kind of "decentralized trade secret". (That said, other than your wording about "the point of open source", I agree with your doom-y sentiment 100%.)
Train costs are sensitive to sparsely populated regions. As long as there is a sufficiently large city every hour or so, distances don't really matter.

Multi-track railways are common near major cities. They are not that expensive, because adding another set of tracks increases the width of the corridor only marginally.

The airline equivalent of a new set of tracks is building a new runway. Because that's often impossible, landing slots at busy airports have become very valuable. For example, airlines have paid tens of millions for a daily landing slot at Heathrow.
I agree totally, there are so many folks rushing into this space now and not realizing that especially if you are new you HAVE to give something away. You can’t run a “company town” model to build a true metaverse. I wrote some responses to all the yet-another-Roblox-competitors I keep seeing here:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...
Just a tiny one :^|
Sure thing, Robert.
On a 737 jammed to the gills. Now do the numbers on an sst with 50 people.
You wouldn’t in this case. All her identifying documents were rendered invalid when she was declared dead.
Windows Terminal is a new replacement for cmd.exe
Blaming companies for paying a ransom is like blaming a ship captain for surrendering to a pirate on the high seas. It’s ransom or death. The captain’s nation wasn’t providing adequate security against piracy, another nation was condoning privateers. What do you expect them to do?

Or better yet, what happened with privateering amongst the nations in history? First each nation unleashed its own privateers, then they built up and deployed their own navies, and the countries that couldn’t keep up fell under a new Pax Romana aside from fits and struggles. Where are we in this process today?
Indeed, this doesn't seem to be anything remotely resembling Justice. It is more like a legal system churning with no idea what principles it is supposed to uphold.
> What happens to the vehicle when a major failure happens at high speed? What about sudden pressure loss at high altitude? Or mechanical failure…

The same thing that happens in any other plane.

> … or weather which causes a diversion (how much ground do you cover just turning around?).

This is an extremely weird concern. There’s so much wrong with it I’m not even sure where to start: planes can slow down, sharp turns due to weather mid-route are not even really a thing, I’m not even sure why covering extra ground is such a bad thing anyway.
>yellow_led, personally, thinks too much fuel is being used

>randomly oppose specific technologies on the grounds that yellow_led, personally, thinks they use too much fuel

I think the assumption is that we mostly agree on the first item, but the second one is supposed to be a means to the first. Which yellow_led and others think is a big mistake.

>I don't know how you randomly oppose specific things.

Random means arbitrary here, I think. Without sound logical reasoning.
This reminds me of that tale/urban legend/reality when, once upon a time, some cows were eating the old Trabant cars (that had an outer body made od some type of plastic).
Not that easily. Even with a fighter at 500 ft above, Mythbusters couldn't break windows. The Oklahoma tests had eight booms a day using very large aircraft. It took months before windows broke.
First they came for the manufacturing jobs, but I did not care because I wasn't in manufacturing.

Then they came for the warehouse and shipping jobs, but I did not care because I wasn't in a warehouse.

Then they came for the call center jobs, but I did not care, because I did not work in a call center.

I was safe, because they could never automate programming.
I've seen a lot of engineers be negative in a destructive way. They tear down ideas, but fail to offer solutions. Usually this is about their ego rather than a desire to help the team.
Would definitely explain the sightings of rapidly moving objects with no propulsion. Also the "object was mirroring my movements" thing.
> His autobiography

s/auto// very unfortunately!

Isaacson may have done the best job possible under the circumstances (authorized and rushed to publication), but I was disappointed.
We didn't give it away for free without limitations: we carefully drafted licenses to attach to our code to establish legal boundaries on what we considered acceptable; my code, for example, is under GPL, which says "I am OK with you using the products of my labor under the requirement that you will then let me use the product of your labor"... hell: almost every bit of open source code has at minimum "I am OK with you using the products of my labor as long as you are at least willing to give me credit somewhere", a minimal limitation that Copilot doesn't honor (and prevents its users from honoring): Copilot is essentially a giant code launderer designed to strip away licenses from effort that was only contingently given to the community.
I’ve once thought this way, but over the years I’ve come to decide that such formalization will never outpace frameworks. Frameworks are easier to grok and scale better than rigorous education.
I awoke in the middle of the night and heard a crow caw. Not a normal caw but more like “caw, caw”. And then I stepped on a Lego. Ow! It went right in the heel. Could this be related?
Instead of being passive aggressive with this psuedo-scoratic bullshit, why don't you just say outright what you mean? You're talking about covid.

A global pandemic is a shitty excuse for these hyper-local phenomena. It's not covid; it's the voting public of San Francisco (and two or three other west coast cities) and the disastrous politicians they elect.
Why not géstate in some sort of artificial womb?
35% per bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/san-franc...
I think this is an important stepping stone towards automating some development tasks.

But the execution went wrong... They used raw data from repositories for training, without any kind of pre-processing.
>"People like Bezos similarly work long hours so its not like they're idle while expecting others to work on his behalf."

On one hand we have a blue-collar man working 60 hour week laying bricks, raising kids, looking after aging parents and doing house chores, cooking and repairs. Also he is not paid for overtime.

In the other we have a millionaire who's work is 60% meetings, who has a chef, a nany, a secretary, driver, a cleaner, etc. And he gets to keep all fruits of his labour.

Are they comparable?
that does about sum it up, yes.
It’s too late to edit my previous comments, but I should mention that I actually agree with your statements about not being able to draw valid conclusions and that they should have used the same kind of chamber; however, I believe the methods were reasonable enough to provide some value.
There are developers that specialize in building and "developers" that specialize in buying land, getting the approvals, and selling it off to someone that actually builds it.
I don’t really get why this is a problem for people. I import my files into YYYY-MM-DD dated directories, then import each as a roll. Each roll now corresponds to a directory of photos. I export them such that there is a sub directly with the JPEGs. I don’t use tags or any such feature of darktable itself to organize the photos.
They wouldn't deny that _a_ person is alive.

They need more to establish the fact that this is actually the person they claim to be.

This is way different for the bank teller that's known her for 30 years. They know who's standing in front of them (presumably).

Way different for someone that's never met this person. The bar is higher. These guys would would want more than just the one bank teller to affidavit that this actually is the person that all records show is actually deceased.

Depending on country and their bureaucracy (she does seem to be in France, so ...) this could be quite hard.
While I agree with you--in that the vast majority of people who publish code under permissive licenses actually have an implied set of "moral code" restrictions that they end up surprised people violate even though they specifically allowed such by their choice of license (implying they should have chosen a different, and likely more restrictive, license)--even permissive licenses tend to at least include "you can't take my code without crediting me for taking my code", and so I can appreciate someone being upset about that not happening.
I believe it. I just don't see the big deal, given the fact that Clinton and the DNC were exposed trying to steal an election. That's why this happened. Assange and the Russians didn't screw Bernie Sanders. Truth is truth, right?
A video sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyaFKnUumAM. I find myself quite liking the sound of it, in particular the poem which is recited — the writers of the Shijing (from which the poem is taken) paid a lot of attention to rhyme and assonance. Even so, Old Chinese phonology is really weird: pharyngealisation is decidedly odd even for Sino–Tibetan (though some Qiangic language have pharyngealised vowels), and labialised glottals are only slightly less so.
«no jaywalking» and «no speeding» are two sides of the effort to maintain the order

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
> Flying on a full or almost-full plane is more carbon efficient than driving solo.

But how do they fare against trains, especially since trains can run on electricity? The mpg quoted in your article (21.6) also seems really low.
The point I am making is that even if they did, removing your code from GitHub doesn't help you: your code is going to end up on GitHub anyway; this is a stronger position that requires fewer assumptions.
Non turbare pixelos meos.
> The whole point of knowledge work is that you are doing things that have not been done before.

I don't think this is true, and treating this kind of work as a sort of magic does the profession a disservice. The details change, but the process of organizing and performing exploratory work can be standardized and improved.

In the chef analogy, even inventing new dishes can benefit from structure. I'll use painting as a different analogy. Painting a brand new scene is creative work, and you're doing things that haven't been done before. But most painters will start a major work by first creating a few lesser works to explore the theme. They might collect some references. They'll often sketch a guide on their canvas. They'll build the composition in multiple layers. They'll lay out their tools before they start. They benefit greatly from having routine and formula to fall back on, so all their cognitive load can go to the creative parts.

> If you are overwhelmed with tasks as a knowledge worker, the solution is not to seek greater efficiency in handling them. The solution is to do incredible work on the ones that actually matter, and half-ass or ignore the rest. If you’re not sure which is which, finding out is job #1.

> People who efficiently do everything they are asked are rewarded with more asks. People who do great high-impact work are not held back because they dropped some emails along the way.

I agree with you, but that's a different issue. Yes, I'd love to see a companion piece on work-life balance and managing and pushing back on expectations. Yes, "efficiency" often just means upper management is trying to squeeze more blood out of a stone.

No, that doesn't mean a professional shouldn't be thinking about improving their workflow. These improvements help you achieve your point:

> The solution is to do incredible work on the ones that actually matter, and half-ass or ignore the rest. If you’re not sure which is which, finding out is job #1.

(Which I also completely agree with).
Also the stories of strange lights above Area 51 that became so popular. Although that was probably a charged particle beam; high power particle beams have been around longer than high power lasers.
https://archive.is/KfLH2
Generally government fuck ups are different though. Like creeping bureaucracy, corruption, failure to innovate, etc.
Thanks, I did not know that about Bazaar. I wish that were the norm in Git-land.

But I can see why people might still desire more explicit constructs to handle history organization. The expectation that the commit graph should be both logical and historical causes a sort of cognitive dissonance, which these sorts of conventions don't fully resolve.
"Hey, we've economically oppressed minorities and made our neighborhood too expensive for them. Not racist!"

No, our nation's history guarantees that economic segregation is racial segregation. These laws were literally designed to create racial segregation.

Saying, "we only like the economic segregation part now" doesn't change the outcome.
In a rapidly warming world, I don't see the need to spend all that energy on supersonic transport when Zoom will do just fine. There are sustainable fuels, but they use a ton of energy. It's an extravagance the world cannot afford.
>"Jeff is in fact is an exceptionally intelligent man"

Equally true for Generals in charge of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

Smart people can do no wrong?
Epic Games has a $1B investment for the metaverse

Nvidia has Omniverse

Roblox hit a $58B market cap in June

Unity has VR chat

And there are a zillion startups/indie games that claim to be "The Metaverse". Of course, for the metaverse to be successful, we need a common protocol, not walled gardens - but this is deep topic, and I don't want to type it all.

Media is moving to the metaverse - Fortnite concerts, Roblox concerts, Porter Robinson's virtual event, Tomorrowland, Lost Lands (couchlands)

Enterprise is moving to the metaverse - Microsoft/Epic games partnership for global 3D info (can't remember the name), Nvidia's Omniverse, just go google search "digital twins"

Rocket League, Fortnite, and Roblox are partnering with big brands

The metaverse is taking shape before our eyes. What we're missing is a common interop format, and the leading contenders are USD (Pixar, Nvidia) and gltf (Epic Games, Mozilla).

I'm building a business for the metaverse at the moment, and there is something real if you look past the hype. The problem is that it doesn't quite look like the metaverse of _Ready Player One_ or _Snowcrash_. So it's easy for people to dream in the wrong direction. As you might expect, much of this is pretty incremental progress, but that doesn't make as great of a narrative, and the conclusion of the available incremental progress is monumental - but there's a ton of work to be done.

I love talking about this stuff. If you want to work with us, or just trade thoughts, feel free to reach out to me about it.
Not just cheaper, but also better for the environment.

/s
Goiters. Not cool.
Would it not be more likely to find microbes that can break down plastic on plastic itself?

(Why are we looking in cow's stomachs for "eco-sustainable plastic degradation and recycling processes" I guess is my question?)
Yeah, this is very much in line with [1] (see Access under $1billion section):

> Access. You now can just ask your staff to contact anyone and you will get a call back. [..] Within 60 minutes, we had a call back. I was in B1's home talking to him the next day.

Truly amazing how the top 0.0001% operates.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...
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Global travel bans on Indians reflects prejudice
People going after people for unpopular opinions is a society problem. Did that happen in the US or Europe before Twitter? It did not.

I see this touted a lot. But supporting trolls to spread disinformation online isn’t protecting free speech. Free speech protection comes from society and it’s laws. Not anonymity.
> I wonder what’s the threshold at which market sentiment flips from “everybody makes mistakes” to “these providers are incompetent and will lose customers”

When some internal document leaks that reveals "internal struggles" or some master plan, akin to the Panama Papers. The problem is, the Panama Papers are just about forgotten today.
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