skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm conflicted by this article. I'm sympathetic to it, but some things just really push past my BS meter. For example:

>This is related to why man became stunted with the dawn of agriculture. We traded a life limited by the occasional violent struggle over bountiful surplus for a more predictable life limited by grinding labor after barely sufficient nutrition.

Firstly, "man" or humanity did all of their greatest work after the dawn of agriculture. Before agriculture, life wasn't bountiful. It was short and harsh. It's easy to see something good and say "well we became complacent" - well, sure, we became complacent because life got better. There's a certain type of public intellectual in our society who says things that sort of intuitively feel like they should be right, but if you actually stop and think about the explanations, you soon realise they're talking rubbish. I don't even think the conclusion is necessarily wrong, I just think the parallel it is drawing is really bad.
That was a foreign occupation, very different. The US didn't have popular support in either of those and was seen as the invader.

It would be very different if some crypto fanatics started an insurgency over wanting to have their computer money. I definitely would side with the state over them and I have a feeling most folks would.
My reply was a comment on the average rate of travel, not a suggestion to walk to the airport.

I have considered cycling to the airport in my area before, and basically run into the same issue you raise.
I had a VP bail on me in a meeting with the CEO when there was an issue and it was the VP's responsibility. It was sudden and without any explanation: just a no-show. I don't think it was a coincidence.
> But if you know that the current company cannot pay like the other company you are interviewing for, or that in this new company the future salary outlook is much better, why bother asking if they can pay you more?

That's situation-dependent: there's often stuff a company can do if you're highly cash-motivated (promotions, other title changes, bonuses, …) to retain you.

On the other hand, often there's not! Especially in older / larger orgs or ones with unconventionally rigid payscales. Even in that situation, I'd generally stand by the recommendation: there's a chance they will find a way to accommodate your needs, and if not you have cemented a strong relationship with your manager and above that will benefit you way into the future.

A few other commenters have mentioned the benefits they have realised by leaving gracefully. IMO this expected upside outweighs the short-term risk, at least in the sorts of roles the post is (now) aimed at.
It would be need to see an "average cumulative annual sunlight" version of this (even in 2D).
Truffles do reproduce. So it is not a question of if it is possible, but merely how an observable phenomenon occurs. There are no penis enlargement pills yet beyond viagra and one of the problems is that there is no proof that anything drug can extend tissue in that way.
That's what I was thinking. Obviously I don't know the situation of this guy but from my experience a lot of people who preach this stuff (or minimalism) either have already made a lot of money or have parents who can support them when things don't work out. It's much harder to jump into the unknown if you know nobody will catch you.
We absolutely need to build more subsidized housing. And I support those policies, including many of the perennial bond measures. I do so out of earnestness and the hope that the next bond measure will placate the various NIMBY factions on the Board of Supervisors. They disappoint every time, but failure would only truly come when I and others like me give up on sincere attempts at compromise.

But we (San Francisco, Oakland, etc) can't build ourselves out of the homeless problem. Our problems and their causes are multifaceted. In 2004 Mayor Newsom committed San Francisco to that very solution with a 10-year plan, and by 2014 it had acquired or built a long-term residence for every chronically homeless person in 2004. Approximately 3,000 units for 3,000 people. See https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents... Chronic homelessness was near a nadir. However, over the next several years homelessness exploded even though in terms of economic inhospitableness nothing had appreciably changed since 2014.

As a child we moved all over the place, town to town, state to state, chasing better jobs and cheaper living, with varying degrees of success. Poor people, even with empty pockets, are resourceful and somehow manage to get around. Some are better at it than others. This phenomenon is especially stark in accounts of genocide, where some people are seemingly unable to fathom relocating even when they have the economic and physical means and despite knowing their death is imminent. But the operative word is some; some can't, but some can. (Neither the poor nor even the homeless are a homogenous group, and much is lost in our--including my own--reductive aggregations.) It would be patently inhumane and unreasonable to pick any homeless person on the street and demand that they move away. On the other hand, policies that assume as a general matter that the poor or homeless can't, won't, or shouldn't relocate in search of better opportunities or conditions are sorely misguided, not to mention doomed to failure when adhered to at such a local level.

Moreover, from a purely accounting perspective, neither San Francisco nor Oakland have the resources to mitigate all the economic pressures for housing. For definitions of "affordable" bandied about by many on the far left, if you crunch the numbers (e.g. $500k per unit, which is somewhat conservative) San Francisco would need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build enough subsidized housing, and that's if the situation remained static. That's not remotely realistic even though the City of San Francisco already enjoys the highest revenue per capita of any major American city. To think Oakland, a far less wealthy city, could merely build its way out of the current problem using public funds and without displacing anybody is even less realistic, to say the least.
He is fond of saying he doesn't have the highest yields in his county (but IIRC he's in like the 90th percentile), but he does have the highest profits. Farming and software share that in common. People get fixated on gross revenue and over a long enough time frame gross revenue doesn't mean shit.

Edit: He's also farming on 16" of rain a year. If he can do it, so can you.
I think one way to improve is to do things outside your comfort zone. So you are great engineer, but can you cycle, read poetry or draw?
Often the greatest breakthroughs come in the shower or on a hike. Calm the mind, enjoy, relect and improve. Might not be the answer you were looking for but wasting time isnt always a waste.
Good. Brave is a solid browser.

As someone who used Firefox continuously from when it used to be called “Mozilla” until early 2020 Brave is vastly superior.

-better UI/UX

-awesome ad block built in and by default, no need for extensions

-noticeably faster

-free of the political WTF-tier decisions of the organization backing Firefox.

Edit: since when do I need to Reddit space here? Maybe I don’t post lists enough and it was always this way?

Edit2: Can anyone explain why more and more comment sections require double-spacing to nest properly? Seems like a HN-relevant question.
I once had to parse EDI docs sent from SAP using C#. One of the worst things Ive ever had to do in my 15 years as a developer.
Michael Steinhardt, Billionaire, Surrenders $70M in Stolen Relics
What a can of worms promotions are. The politics involved stink to high hell most of the times. It's significantly easier to sell yourself as a lead in another company than to scale up the ranks in the current one.
"For me, it only "clicked" once I understood that gender and sexuality are completely arbitrary and subjective social constructs that try to describe a whole spectrum of multidimensional behaviors and (potentially repressed) feelings, so there's little point in trying to objectively categorize them - it's all about the subjective impression of the person themself"

Sex is a fundamental property of living organisms; it is not determined by thoughts or feelings.
You wonder if it isn’t time for a nostalgia-driven return to early webpage design led by the youngsters. Nostalgia kicks in after 25 years, and a return to the earlier designs is a simple way to fight against…whatever it is the Internet has become over the last 10+ years. It’s a very DIY sort of thing, and something for the Bay Area kids to consider.
The film 2001 came out over 50 years ago, and I think HAL is a pretty common reference point for a "what is 'real AI'?" target. Until we have HAL and people are saying that it's not AI, I don't think the target is moving. ;) At least as far as "chatbots" go.

Alternately, you've got the also-very-old Turing Test as your chatbot target.
Talk to your co-workers about it. It's impossible for us to give you any good piece of advice. Your boss may be a prick. He may have been screamed at by someone higher or some client. And maybe he was just having a bad day...

All in all, it's not good for a boss to tell their employees that they're fucking up. unless he comes with a plan to fix it and it's actually better than what you guys were doing... So technically, he's the one who's messing up...
I agree but I still question whether modern ML is useful at all.

I mean OK, obviously it works quite well for China in order for their social credit score system to work (facial recognition almost everywhere you go) -- which is damned impressive, I'll give it that. But does it work in the benefit of the people at large?

I've read a study a loooooong time ago, I think the late 90s, that stated that the amount of time people spend in the kitchen has not moved down at all. For all the praised innovation of technology, people still have to cut salads by hand -- or if they use the so-called kitchen robots that make the job quicker, you still aren't saving time because then cleaning the machine takes more than it took before (you had to just rinse the cutting board and the knife). If memory serves, Michael Crichton cited this study in the book "Jurassic Park" even...

So I keep asking: where's the actually useful stuff? Are we going to be classifying kittens (or making a NN distinguish between those small rat-like dog faces from cookies) until civilization collapses?

Where's the useful AI? When will I, a programmer that hates voice assistants (because I know how useless they are) and the idea of constant surveillance in my home, reap any tangible benefits from AI?

But I suspect you'll cite various small improvements that are only known in small circles and will say "they'll be ready when they're ready" which, even though not wrong at all, will not be helpful.
> Asbestos solved an actual problem, as did freon. Both also created larger problems and were eventually banned.

I'd argue there's a bit of false equivalence in this paragraph, but for sake of argument:

Leaded gasoline also solved an actual problem, and the industry innovated/evolved beyond that.

Facebook solved an actual problem, and created many more. I still recognize its value even if I refuse to use it myself.

I'm sure there are edge cases, but history is not generally on the side of those who have pre-emptively banned things before they come to fruition.

The problem I see with this current line of discussion is that most proponents of banning throw the baby out with the bathwater, and pretend this is all a single product called "crypto".

Banning "crypto" would be like banning insulation because of the issues with Asbestos.
This should be mandatory reading for anyone entering the workforce. If you're about to start as a software engineer, print it out and read it every day.
Your phrase is also a good replacement for "why didn't you ..."
I think during the period in which you switched to Netflix, the remaining community moved to private trackers. If you are still looking for public trackers it will seem the community has died. The truth is probably the opposite, because since everyone moved to private, niche Uruguayan movies from 2004 have become much easier to find in much better quality.
> Github is a social site foremost, a repo host second.

Hopefully EU regulators will take the same view if the Digital Markets Act becomes law.

"Interoperability measures were another major addition to the Parliament’s text, requiring social media and messaging apps to communicate with each other."

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/eu-parliament-...
Can be motivitating words for some people. Coaches will say stuff like this to a talented athlete who is underachieving, if they think it will light a fire.

A good manager would not say stuff like that unless he really felt the person would take it the right way. A bad manager will say stuff like that to stroke his own ego.
One angle is that performance reviews are possibly tied to raises. Hence the boss ignoring things outside your control.

It may also be why hour manager was not there. Maybe your manager wanted no part of it.

Of course, the above is a paranoid, and cynical interpretation ..
Of course, but that's not really related to what I said.
Ask HN: What's a reasonable price to pay for a 1GB index/day on a serverless DB?
You can look for quality instead of quantity in my opinion with new people.
You should probably check out forgefriends.org. There's detailed monthly reports on what they're doing and why. They started cooperating with gitea because the maintainers were open to the idea of federation (most other forges were not interested) and some french FLOSS NGO (chapril.org [0]) was happy to let them experiment in exchange for maintenance for their forging infra (already based on gitea).

Huge shout out to the forgefriends people! I've never interacted with them personally, but from reading their blog and forums, they seem to take a great care to build a human community before all and to achieve consensus with everyone involved.

[0] It's a pun because it's pushed by the APRIL non-profit, and CHATONS is a campaign started by Framasoft to deframasoftize the Internet (after their degooglize the Internet campaign had "too much" success) to promote hosting cooperatives. The contraction of the two forms "CHAPRIL", a joke a person who is not familiar with the french-speaking FLOSS/selfhosting ecosystem cannot appreciate without context.
Downside - squash makes for longer pulls from the image repository, which can matter for large images or slow connections (you keep build layers but now have no caching for consumers of the image). There's various tricks to be pulled that don't use squash - I've had the most luck putting multiple commands into a buildkit stage, then mounting the results of that stage and copying the output in (either by manually getting the list of files, or using rysnc to figure it out for me).
I don't want to turn this into a political debate, but I'll respond to you question. Trump repeatedly downplayed the severity of the virus, called it a "Democrat hoax", argued against many of the masking and distancing mandates that large cities had put in place, claimed that Fauci is incompetent and shouldn't be listened to, etc.

So, no, they are not the same plan. There is a reason why counties that went red have lower vaccination rates and more severe covid-related problems.
Anecdotal: Growing up my school had various computer classes, starting in elementary all the way through high school. In high school we had a computer proficiency class which was basically "how to use a computer for dummies 101" type of class and one of the competencies the teacher had us work on was typing.

Well me, having grown up with computers, I was beyond proficient and in particular was quite a competent typist. Being an engineer at heart (lazy) I realized I could rig the system and be just fast enough each week to win but also faster than my classmates to remain on the leaderboard. The teach was thoroughly pleased with my weekly progress and applauded my efforts. All the while I was busy gaming (Nerf Arena, Quake) on a LAN with some others in the school who were "computer proficient".
My work is only tangential to the software engineering industry. Therefore, my view may not be as applicable as others.

I think it’s inappropriate for this senior manager to have given any feedback about the status or requirements of this project directly to you. As a recent graduate, I would hardly consider you to be responsible for any project management duties. It’s up to the project manager to set expectations and make decisions regarding things like meeting a deadline. In this case, I would assume the project manager is your direct manager.

There is a direct correlation between the output of a project and its inputs: the deadline, any specific requirements, and resources provided to the individual contributors assigned to the project (e.g. a senior resource providing code review). The project manager’s duty is to be the “neck to wring” when there are issues with the project. That is why they are responsible for communicating and setting expectations.

Perhaps your manager did not handle these duties well in this instance. In fact, it sounds to me like this is the case based on your story. Because your manager was not present in this meeting, the senior manager apparently chose to wring YOUR neck instead, which is inappropriate, especially given your tenure.

This is going to happen to you a lot in your career. You can protect yourself or prevent it by keeping good records of your actions. For example, your commit messages could contain a copy of whatever specifications you received, or you can make a habit of confirming your assumptions via email with the appropriate contacts in copy.

Either way, don’t take this too hard. You are unfortunately bearing the brunt of unprofessional behavior that is happening well above your head. The fact that you completed the project and feel proud of the output is what you should remember from this experience.
> it could indicate that at least mild Autism is a beneficial adaptation

Not picking on you or your post, but it's interesting that we still consider this an adaptation. What if this is humanity's natural state and allistics are the adaptation?
There’s a ton of good advice but I’d like to add my two cents.

Your boss also has a boss that (s)he is also trying to make happy to keep his job.

Regarding design decisions, timelines and everything else, look at that from the business’ perspective. Are they about to miss a launch (and $$) because of a dateline pushed back?

Are they getting heat from customers (and risk of loosing $$) because some feature is faulty? (read, bad code, slow, buggy, etc)

At the end of the day the bottom line is money, so when you are able to optimize for that, you are usually held in high regard (good use of business money).

This can be a little counterintuitive for us engineers, specially if we haven’t been that long in the industry, because we are trained for beautiful code, elegant solutions, etc. instead of a company that is trying to meet next quarter’s goals.

I’ve received raised based on “hacks” that felt not dignified enough to be worth my time (read, junior with big ego wanting to solve hard problems), but that little toy app saved multiple members of the team about 2 hours daily!

Hope this makes sense, and don’t take criticism too personal, it can really affect you.

Try instead to put yourself in the shoes of your boss/manager and figure out what’s important for (s)he, what numbers is (s)he monitoring, who might be screaming (hopefully figuratively) at (s)he and optimize for that!

Good luck!
Maybe the goal of the Jetsons isn't to accurately imagine the future, but rather to entertain a contemporary audience.
Is it possible to reverse the text to summary application in OpenAI?
>What specific interesting things do you think would happen if the typical working week dropped to say 30 hours a week instead of ~40?

I can't speak for others, but I'd be less stressed, and I'd be more easily able to savor the moments when work isn't coming. I'd have more motivation to program rather than play video games, just as I used to do before I got my job. To say "we have more time off" when the comparison is the generation that came before me, never mind the standard from 150 years ago - to me means pretty much nothing. It's very similar to how people sometimes say "what are you complaining about? Compared to the standard of living in medieval times, you're living like a queen!". Who's that really going to convince?

The second point is that there's a tension. Many of the same people who subscribe to some variant of utilitarianism still want to moralize about how people use their time, by dividing things into higher or lower pleasures, without being able to justify it. For example, they say a high pleasure is programming or (maybe) chess. A lower pleasure is, as J.S. Mill described it, something for pigs revelling in their own filth (today, people will say this amounts to video games or 'media consumption').

When people say "things are better than they've ever been", I'm inclined to agree, on most fronts. When people use that as an argument to tell me to shut up and deal with my lot in life, it's profoundly sad.
Agreed. Even if you have a contract with x weeks notice period, breaching the contract is a legal move(penalty may vary).

I had a non-standard 1 month notice period in my contract(normal is 2 weeks). I let them know I'm leaving in two weeks. They mentioned the notice period but I held my ground. They folded and 2 weeks was plenty to handover my work.
I once gave clear indications that I was considering joining a startup in hopes that the company could start looking for my replacement. I wasn't treated any differently and carried on as usual until I gave my notice.

Much later, after the startup failed I learned that those months of knowing that I'd likely be leaving and there was little they could do about it was a very terrible time for the higher up dev vp/cto/whatever. My team lead was all fine with it. So the lesson I learned is that it's not the thought that counts.

[It was ironic/unfortunate when I came back for a short term contract and got hired-away before completion on accident by a thinly-veiled coding contest.]
Mine was ouija, but house is a lot smarter, d'oh!
I think Kauai is the only island in the state that doesn't have them which is why you actually see chickens roaming freely there.
That’s a rather long page. Which section are you referring to?