skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iconography of big cats is a common thread, too. I have a notion that someone domesticated Cheetah long, long ago and the ones we have now are feral, inbred remnants.

I wonder: say the evidence here points to the first domestication of animals happening largely through sex and drugs (horses like a drink as much as any human). How long could that be "known" to those working there before it became public? Remember the gay penguins and "rape seals" stuff.
This product ? I don't know,it's still vaporware so far.
But e-paper is very comfortable on the eyes, is readable in sunlight and requires low power.
> People buying more "meals" or "combos" at Mickey D's has been positively correlated to average household income and blah blah economic indicators over the years.

You are saying it as if it was some sort of a profound piece of information. Of course it's positively correlated with the average household income, this is a typical "eat out experience". There's a bunch of other indicators which are even better correlated with the average household income, for example the "average household income" itself.

The better question here would be "does it give me any way of assessing the future of the household income" and I bet it doesn't.
no unfortunately :/
> It’s exactly this. “Audiophiles” are a weird bunch. Much of what they claim to hear is scientifically proven as total nonsense. Audio Science Review is a great place where they scientifically analyse audio equipment. The quality of speaker wire for all meaningful measurements is utterly irrelevant for instance.

You are talking about the extreme kind of audiophiles that aren't really representative of the community, which covers a wide spectrum of people. It's like saying all developers are socially awkward loners. Merely a stereotype.

> I often make the point to people that a terrible movie will be terrible no matter how you watch it - HDR, 4K, Atmos won’t make a difference. A crappy movie, will always be a crappy movie.

Of course. Noone would argue against that. However a great movie really shines on good equipment. Imagine watching Blade Runner 2049 on a laptop display. No amount of convenience is making that experience worthwhile in my opinion.
it still has locks thou - unless you use the less powerful online version. Would be better imho to have a lock free desktop version of Excel that operates like an IDE where you merge changes and resolve conflicts at the point of merge.
I would argue that yes, it can. If the only people who are interested in using the website are those who block analytics - and, given the demographic of a niche search engine, it doesn't sound entirely implausible - then there's no telling how the 99.99% splits into bots and nerds.
I no longer let use-package install things. I use the same init on different computers, so sometimes I would have to wait for use-package to install things on startup and sometimes melpa would be down or some package would be a newer version and require new deps and use-package doesn't handle such situations. It's very little gain for a lot of hassle. Instead I just check all of emacs.d/elpa into the same git repo. That way I can also easily review changes or roll back to last working version.
> If you work on anything like a compiler, a garbage collector, a database engine, a load balancer, any kind of software framework etc then you will have plenty of teams never needing to talk to non-developers.

Replace non-developers with "people outside your immediate team". In a developers-all-the-way-down shop, there are still people who are intricately dependant-on but not involved-in your work.
There have been in few in the last years. Here are two from the top of my head.
https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer/
https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/14/the-spudwrite-single-pu...

Also, you might like to check out the pomera
https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/digital-memo-pomera-dm3...
It was Facebook's philosophy and also Twitter used to go down a lot in the early days. So I'm not sure I'd agree with your statement. It depends on your company culture.
The page links to http://www.crynwr.com/, but the real site seems to live at http://crynwr.com/ now.
No. You are comprehensively wrong about the relationship between intervals and other intervals with regard to percentages, and you have refused to learn from what I just said.

> Kelvin is of course arbitrary

Listen to yourself if you won't listen to me.

Edit: read up on the difference between temperature and heat. I suspect that your mental model of that relationship is wrong, and that's why you're making this mistake.
and there you have it: nobody uses it because nobody knows of it.

of course for a bot it is easy to remember your site, its just another url in a long list of others... but what does a human do? they go to their fav search site, be it duck duck go, google or bing... perhaps even yahoo.

i remember when google just started out, back then you would have used askjeeves, altavista or yahoo... google was really good compared to those... and the name was new, kinda orthogonal to existing search engines (except yahoo perhaps) and perhaps the most important bit: the site was "clean" except for the searchbar, there was nothing distracting there. you opened it and knew it is for looking up stuff

now, to join in, this late in the game? difficult. difficult.

maybe it would be easier if it specialized for some niche? idk.

dear OP: i'll try to remember your searchengine, but i cant promise to become a regular
Manager pay correlates with how many reports they have. So all of them are incentivised to making it look like their team is spread thin, so even if you don't have to work hard he will make you work hard so that he can tell his manager that he needs more headcount.
I have not seen those. But based on my experience with other eInk displays, I suspect they are downplaying their refresh rate issues. I don't doubt they are better than previous eInk displays, but I suspect no one would watch a movie on those eInk displays and claim it's anything close to, say, OLED for example.

Good enough? I would have to try one out.
Google puts a _lot_ of effort into avoiding SEO spam, but it's a red queen problem.
This started from him telling me that we need to keep in mind RAM usage for a language model we were planning to use. I said that we shouldn't worry about RAM right now because RAM is cheap but apparently it isn't so cheap in the cloud so.. here we are :)
Yep.

With an addendum: it's not that they do "nothing", and that's the "problem". The end result is minimal, but the amount of work is still significant.

In any saner place it would amount to almost nothing, but for certain companies it is an Herculean task. And developers know it.

However due to the fact that the company hired thousand of coders, their communication overhead is now too massive. Their architecture also suffers due to the needs of handling those thousands of developers, so there's also a lot of work to be done in coding.

But the pressure is still there. Why hasn't your team changed the color of the button yet? "Why is it so hard?", "Why is it taking so long", etc etc

Jokes have been made about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

The answer to all that was known since the 70s. Fred Brooks wrote a great book about all that.
Oh, wow, this is really cool. Looks like a blocky classic counter strike. I think I played de_aztec for a few rounds.

I'm not sure what the technology behind this one[0] is, but it's basically counter strike 1.6 in a browser.

[0] https://play-cs.com/
A significant part of the team is still located there.
I'd assume they have more control though. I noticed whenever I use Google after connecting to NordVPN, it requires a captcha the first time.
I work in bursts. I probably code 1/3 of the work week. The rest is spent on meetings, helping others, looking at logs/data and keeping up to date on tech. I think that is a healthy balance. There are many ways of adding value to a business.
Sure, if he is a junior engineer with the proverbial "20x 1 year of experience" and is paid like one.
I agree that it's perhaps even better.
With Fly, I feel safe that whatever I want to do now or in the future, I can build on top of the building blocks for it—no matter if there's an "integration".
For example, when Vercel added GitHub integration, you couldn't trigger it based on specific logic (tags, branch pattern match) and a bunch of limitation that they use them for up-selling (using GitHub Enterprise/Org requires a Pro account).
I'm not sure why this was posted, but just to make sure nobody fools him-/herself:

>Doctorate in communication graduates are well-equipped to pursue academic jobs as professors and researchers

If you're doing an online PhD, it is extremely unlikely that you'll get an academic job in a tier 1 country and/or tier 1 university.
As a real world data scientist, I spend at least 10x as much time cleaning data than creating models.

Modeling is basically nothing
The abstractions are constructed, yes.

Probability suggests the same reality is there across a wide variety of experience -- or at least the experience that has been experimented on and discussed by the scientific community.
Can you point out where he is wrong, though? His criticism might not be true for all teams in all large companies, bIt I've worked at one of the FAANG companies and left for the same reasons. And I know similar stories from friends and ex-colleagues.
Brave Search does have a discussion search section.
There was study one where they tried a small dose on humans. One that had positive effects on mice.

Their skin melted off.
The person you're replying to suggested they already have a 10.1" e-ink tablet that meets the criteria.
That is a good point. They are perfectly situated to capitalize on the sun.
They have the manpower as well.
Unfortunately, politics often get in the way of progress.
> You know that experiment with the grapes and the chimpanzees? They gave chimpanzees 2 grapes a day for a long time, then gave them 3 grapes (for a week). Then they went back to 2 grapes and the chimps started throwing feces at the researchers.

Yes, humans are creatures of habit, and our mechanism of deciding whether a change is good or bad fundamentally depends on whether the change is better or worse than the current state of affairs.

In other news, water is wet.
Depends. If I was looking at a comparison of different camera brands and only saw ads for things for my brand, I might wonder. But that would be much, much, _much_ better than the current personalization.
Camgirls private shows have not been completely private
Not sure how many of you care about this. Majority will not be hit hard with this one at all but for some of us this is huge. I am sad to see how this went under the radar of public. Despite the niche, the size and importance of elaborated issue definitely deserved public attention.
I have been wondering if something like https://gtoolkit.com/ would fit the bill, though I have to admit I find it a bit hard to grok.
But having a form of interactive notebook running as an OS on a simple device could be a really powerful computing experience.
His Dilbert level insights about corporate life are very old... running a business is complex and gets less efficient with size, that is no great wisdom.

Building a code project with one person is great but consider the following issues:
1) Making sure the software is built to specifications
2) What happens if he leaves?
3) What happens if another urgent project arrives
4) Who will do support?
5) Who writes documentation
6) What about integrations with other systems in the business
7) What about IT/DevOps and server maintenance?
8) What about communicating it to other people in the org?
I'm sure we can find more.

The generic use of term "Business Value" in this instance means that while development time is indeed a measure of efficiency it is only a small part the overall value that a company needs in a project.

Just to make sure I'll state again, large corporations are indeed not very efficient, I do not argue that, but they are profitable.
I think the heatmap was done by the ones who did the article :)
Presumably he means support for automatic container creation, such as seems to be possible (for example) with golang:

https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/golang/
Unless they’ve changed things, there is no containerization within the VM a la kata. They run their own custom init inside the VM and use it to start the entry point. https://github.com/superfly/init-snapshot is the source.
Not every "nerd" use a blocker. I know many who don't. Some want to support the sites they visit; some want to see the web as it is for most people; some say their mental filters are so well developed that ads don't bother them; etc.
> China has been repeatedly affirming that the country of Taiwan is not a country

There are two countries claiming the title of "country of China", the PRC (holding the power on the mainland) and the ROC (holding the power on the island of Taiwan). Both insist there is only one "country of China", and of course both are insisting their respective regime is the one that should be governing it. None of the two suggest there is "a country of Taiwan". Indeed, the PRC "has been repeatedly affirming" that the other guys' state is "not a country, but is actually a rogue province and fully part of" themselves, but so has ROC! For the ROC, the mainland is actually a set of "rogue provinces" as well, and, somewhat amusingly, this also includes the "rogue province" known today as the country of Mongolia.

The support for two independent countries (China without Taiwan, and separately Taiwan without China) is less than non-existing on the continent (to put it mildly), but (to the best of my understanding) in the last years has some support on the island.
The proxy is an open port that can be connected and acts as an intermediary. In short, when we use a proxy to access some websites, we don't need to directly link to the target website, but the proxy server to access the website. Then the proxy server will send these contents to our computer window. In this way, the target website can only obtain the proxy IP and will not expose our real IP. Proxies are usually sold in three main formats: HTTP, HTTPS, and Socks. Each of these features is different in terms of security.
virtual browser
multiple browser
But developers are much better at describing what they need so there is much less need for meetings in those scenarios, instead they just send emails or open bug reports that gets resolved without the meetings.
Dynatrace Hash Library for Java
You could guesstimate by checking the IP address - blocks assigned to residential users are likely humans, blocks assigned to cloud providers etc. likely bots.
Yup. Here's a casual joke on global warming from Hot Shots! (1991), that's more than 30 years ago now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JkBKGttM_U
Adventures in collating text in Linux, Docker and Postgres
Start Emacs (as a graphical window, not in a terminal), maximize it, install darkroom: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/darkroom.html
How to Hire Disabled Candidates
I think WFH revealed very brutally who in an org is useless. Every large org has a lot of people who don't produce anything but still manage to get by using their good social skills. Those folks got hit hard by WFH.
If I work late I can not sleep at all. It takes me about 2+ hours from the moment I stop looking at the computer screen until my brain goes to "sleep" mode. I don't think that it is related to screen light, more to a fact that working stimulates my brain. Coffee has no effect on keeping me up.
Robot slaves. Billions of them.
Ah, steak jokes. A rare medium well-done.
I gave up on Emacs and went back to Vim because of the slowness and the bugs I was encountering while using the Emacs GUI (granted a lot of them were from lsp-mode and other heavy packages). While digging for answers I was told not to use certain platforms, don't use the GUI, use the GUI, don't turn Emacs off etc. which felt like Stockholm syndrome to me. There's a lot of cargo culted config fragments like the ones you'll find in the article. Why does every user have to constantly reinvent the same config to work around all of the issues in Emacs? I don't know, but I wasn't going to stick around and find out. Vim with all of my plugins, which has the same features as my Emacs config, starts up instantly and I've yet to encounter a single bug. I really wanted to like Emacs, and I've chalked up my bad experience to less people putting dev time towards it rather than actual negligence towards the user experience. In the article the author talks about how he's gone bankrupt three times with his config, maybe that's a sign that the problem isn't the author. If Emacs is that fragile, then its extensibility is really a moot point.
Spammers badly need spam-free content so they can mix some legitimate links with the junk they spew.

One great Black Hat SEO trick is to find where your competitors are getting clean links and insert your own links there so they do your spamming for you.
> It’s been a while since I started viewing the process of building a company as providing a service. Not as in system service but as in community service.

I love/share this view, I hope it catches on more broadly
I have had some success adding "forum", when looking for trade discussions; eg: controls & automotive. With all the walled silos on the net, this is much less useful with every passing day. On the bright side, I don't have to use -twitter & -facebook, so there's that.
>> we were always busy but seldom productive

that. My experience as well. Not on FAANGs but on quite a few multinationals.

>> You will argue with your colleagues and supervisor on every decision you make

and that. Politics are through the roof and driving out the good productive engineers. The people that have little to offer on the tech side though thrive in this environment creating a vicious toxic cycle.
Imagine watching Blade Runner 2049 on a laptop display. No amount of convenience is making that experience worthwhile in my opinion.

I watched most of the 'classic' movie canon (including the original Blade Runner) on rented VHS tapes and a cheap CRT TV, and many of those where among the most 'worthwhile' movie watching experiences in my life. A great movie will 'shine' on any equipment.
This is great but it seems reddit has done something to mess with their date reporting. When looking for recent posts, I might see a result on Google that says it was posted in the last few days, but on clicking the result will actually be from years ago.
An alternative is an E-ink monitor.

Recently Onyx released a 25" version. But it is expensive, around $1700

https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro
> > Kelvin is of course arbitrary

> Listen to yourself if you won't listen to me.

Like I said: Kelvin is arbitrarily scaled. Scaling doesn't matter when it comes to ratios. Celsius on the other hand is also arbitrarily offset. That matters.

> Edit: read up on the difference between temperature and heat. I suspect that your mental model of that relationship is wrong, and that's why you're making this mistake.

I'm quite aware, thank you very much. This whole subthread is about temperature. To be clear: I'm not criticising OP's writings about energy requirements. I'm merely talking about:

> Sure that's only a 6.5% increase in temperature w.r.t. to 46C

Yes, that is indeed followed by

> but that's an incorrect way of looking at it.

but that refers to a discussion of energy that follows. My whole point is that it's *NOT a 6.5% increase in temperature". OP's point seems to be that we shouldn't be considering the increase in temperature, but rather the increase in energy needed. That's fine. No objections. I'm just saying that the statement about the increase in temperature is also wrong.
No, because CFCs are not a problem anymore. Countries were able to move amazingly fast on that, at least compared to the whole climate change thing.
AI art: what can, and can't (yet), be done
I do a lot of writing, but I find that the idea of a distraction free environment doesn't work for me because I need to refer to external material too often. It doesn't matter whether it is for reviewing engineering projects, writing sermons or eulogies for funerals, or doing academic work (I have a bit of an odd lifestyle), I always need to use more than the editor or word-processor. I could see how it might work for a poet, but I'm not that.

If you are one of the people for whom a low-distraction environment works, could you say what sort of stuff you are writing?
I saw a post where I noticed someone living in my country, sharing my most important values is having problems I've encountered earlier in my life. I sent him a message that if he's looking for someone to discuss with I'm here to help. It turned out he lives in my city so we met on the next day and had a coffee. Haven't used the chat before, nor afterwards.
Well, we can do it with the roads, I'm pretty sure if the incentives are right we can come up with a way to do it online. As long as we have not passed the Turing test ;)

The current web seems to favor machines talking to machines and that is definitely not how it was intended.
You claim you reach this conclusion from first principles but I don't see any calculations that back up your statements?
I’ve broken more e-ink displays (2) than LCDs (0?), but it could be because they ereaders tend to be left in unexpected places. But either way, they’re not tricky to crush, and the failure mode is much the same as LCDs.
Yeah this is the real one. If a fly is flying, aim a few inches above it with an overarm throw kinda move, you can grab them out of the air with enough practise. Decent party trick.
You mention the "Dead Internet Theory" (not heard that phrase before!).

I agree: the WWW Internet is dead, that is your problem. No-one visits websites anymore, everyone has moved to the 10 biggest websites and all data is now siloed there.

If I want to search for something topical and relevant, I go to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord etc.

The general Internet is dead: it's just legacy content and spam.

If you think it's bad for you, imagine what it is like for Google Search! Their entire business is indexing a medium which no longer has any relevancy. People complain that Google no longer delivers good results. But what can Google do? The "good content" is no longer available for them to index.

Want to become rich? Make a search engine which indexes the fresh relevant data from the big siloed websites, and ignores the general dead Internet.
Yes, some kinds of meetings can be useful.

The author of the post, in my reading, laments petty meetings not productive ones.
I would say the state-of-the-art today is Micronaut's DI [1].

[1] https://docs.micronaut.io/1.0.0/guide/index.html#ioc
The Buddha didn't say he was coming back. The Buddha said that there would be a future Buddha at some point: Maitreya. That could be many thousands of years away.

In Buddhism we forsake God, we explicitly reject Him. We reject all creation, and embrace only the dark: emptiness, in which all things are fundamentally non-distinct.
That is incorrect usage though; every rule 'generally works but sometimes doesn't' if we account for people not observing it.
"That efficiency actually doesn't matter. People don't work to achieve anything. They work to get paid."

That is fine, but now you are stuck playing politics. You have to keep whoever is in charge of the money happy. And no value is created because everyone is trying to avoid getting blamed for problems.

Obviously, real companies, making real software also have to keep customers happy, but at least those requirements are somewhat predictable as they are tied to the real world use case, and real world value customers are getting from the product.