skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please consider steelmanning (as opposed to strawmanning) ideas you come across. To call an idea considered by numerous people as important "inane" seems inappropriate. You do suggest you may be misunderstanding the idea, but rather than inquisitively asking for an elaboration, you call it stupid.

You should try to think of a more charitable interpretation of the idea. Here's a thought: in a society as unequal as ours, with many people in power satisfied with the status quo, what Rawls is asking them to do is to imagine that they could have been born randomly into any of the families in our society.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/steelmanning
I wouldn't say it's a slap on the wrist. It's not even a scolding. Tim Hortons was literally found guilty of spying on millions of Canadians, and the only consequence they face is that they have to stop doing it.
Already done:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
It's possible this announcement was intentionally timed against the media-consuming Depp/Heard trial verdict announcement in an attempt to bury the news.

Meta stock went down a few points immediately after the announcement.
Rocket.Chat is made for workgroups (“groupware”) and can be seen as open source alternative to “Slack”. Open source teammessengers are Matrix, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat and Zulip:

https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/sys_team
Can you please give an example of some of your jobs where you found meaning from within?
I dont buy these results at all. Julia at second place looks like plain lie and complete nonsense, to the point I'm gonna look into this and run it myself.

After trying hard to use julia for about a year and I came to conclusion it's one of the slowest things around. Maybe the stuff changed? Maybe, but julia code still remains incorrect.

I hope they fix both things, speed (including start up speed, it counts A LOT) and correctness.
I'm not logged in and read it just fine.
I can't comment on the ASP/web side of things, but C# matches up with my atypical use cases extremely well. The high points:

1. Fast compile times for most of development. I'm fine with waiting a while to do a special highly optimized deployment, but getting 95-100% of optimal performance with 0-3 second build times is really nice.

2. Controllable memory access through value types. Nothing getting in the way of C-like contiguous buffers and managing cache line or load alignment.

3. GC that gets out of the way. C# has a GC, but in most of my applications the GC never has to run because I rarely allocate GC-managed instances. It's definitely a nonidiomatic use of C#, but the fact that it's pretty still pretty easy to do is nice. And when I don't have to care about the GC's overhead, the presence of the GC just makes everything easier developmentally.

4. Ability to actually make use of the hardware. The compiler's improved massively in the last several years, and the way vectorization is exposed actually feels a lot nicer than my experiences in C++-land.

And less relevant to my own needs, but still interesting, nowadays you can directly link a C# library into a C/C++/Rust application just like any C library. Among other things.

Almost a decade ago, I was considering exiting the ecosystem in favor of C++/D/not-yet-even-1.0 Rust/etc, but the open source push and a sudden focus on performance basically made the jump unnecessary. C# occupies a really nice sweet spot.
Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/fFIvX
Easy to say when you're confident you can get a job that's just as good as what you have. Fact is, I am not. The ads I read these days for IT positions all look terrible.
Don't forget the best part -- if you do want to update the maps they want to charge you 300+ dollars every year!
you dont present enough concrete values for the parameters to prove the point. eg:

What is the % improved (degraded) capital allocation?

What is the ratio of bureaucracy spend to money handed out?

What proportion of the nation is on welfare and what is the true amount of literal need (remember some people will be over paid on welfare too).

Also technically this is a Negative Income tax not UBI so it could actually be a sort of means tested against income. as pure example to illustrate the concept

Imagine >10k had a negative tax rate, everyone with income > 10k would receive money back, whereas presumably people some threshold above 10k would still net pay taxes on their total income tax return.

ultimately i'm not saying you're wrong, or that I'm right. But that neither of us has enough data to make a claim of fact beyond rhetoric.
I can view it without a login. Here's a plaintext copy for people who have problems. https://pastebin.com/NjhMJThB
>Stop thinking about the West, the rest of the world exists.

Framework only sells in the west and the west (and 1st world/highly developed countries/regions outside of the west) account for pretty much all high end laptop sales - your diatribe doesn't really hold up even so though. The modularity of the framework means less ewaste than the status quo - that is a net positive.
While my employer hasn't (and probably won't) come out and explicitly said that they will eventually be back in the office, they aren't hiding that this is what they eventually want.

We have always been about flexibility and work/life balance, so it's not surprising that 30-40% of us have young kids at home. Last time they tried moving to a hybrid working plan, a ton of people said that they would have to quit because child-related stuff was still a mess. I bet in another year or two, they'll look to see if things have stabilized, and if so they'll start the move back to in-office work.
The bootstrap heap has a freelist that is just an array of entries that tell you where the free memory is.

That array has to be allocated somewhere.

All pas_simple_large_free_heaps allocate that array from the bootstrap heap. Including the bootstrap heap. So, the pas_simple_large_free_heap has hacks that go something like: "if I'm allocating or freeing something and I need to allocate or free the free list, then very carefully also perform that allocation/deallocation in tandem with the one I'm doing". The main hack there is just that there's some statically allocated "slop" for the boostrap free list, so if you want to add to it in the middle of an allocation, you add it to the slop array, and then after you're doing you reallocate the free list and copy stuff from slop into it.
> hellish commutes

The exaggerated adjective is the argument. Your co-workers could choose to live elsewhere, so I wonder if the commute was so bad from their perspective. Those cities in particular have good public transit, which lets you live further away and commute conveniently. Many millions of people live in those cities, and choose to - the real estate prices reflect the demand.

You don't have to want that, but I don't see how we can tell everyone else what is good and bad for them.
Somewhat related, at least with regards to government-issued digital ID, but what are your thoughts on:

https://williamcotton.com/articles/the-tyranny-of-the-anonym...

I’m of the opinion that entities other than, eg Meta, should be responsible for identity verification.
The post privacy is set to "global", and I did not have to log in to read it. Try a private tab?
>The DOJ is now disincentivizing others in his shoes from following the same path.

Extreme counter example: How's the death penalty working to disincentivize murder? How has any other example worked? People are still commiting these crimes even while people are getting caught and going to jail when the DOJ decides to do something.

For those that are criminals, these laws are just part of the game. Keeping the odd person that might think about it when in desperate situations are not the ones commiting the mass amount of these crimes. We're focused on the wrong people.
I agree, pretty bizarre for a public announcement.
I think it depends on how many FB posts you've viewed already. It didn't require a login for me until I refreshed twice.
Companies are not usually ok with this. Do not ask for a 3 month sabbatical unless you are already about to quit. Plenty of companies would consider firing you on the spot.
She’s one of the most powerful women in the world. Not self important just important.
She signed up for fb not meta
I think it's really deserving of praise that Sheryl managed to join Facebook in 2008, joining right as it was clear Facebook would become a behemoth. She then spent 14 years helping to steer a young Mark Zuckerberg through some of the most immoral, damaging and discrediting decisions a company can make. Now, at the absolutely peak of Facebook, where it's losing users, it's reputation is so bad it literally had to change it's name and "pivot", now she steps aside.

"To the victims of genocides organised on my platform, to the little girls who self-harmed looking at photos on our platform, to the businesses we destroyed through our arbitrary and capricious policy changes, my job is done here, it's been an honor"
a "shared sacrifice" that accomplished nothing.
Whatever you think of FB politics (which I'm not sure how much influence she has), ops wise she has done an outstanding job at FB to make it run.
Within ~30 minutes of the verdict - I'd say that's likely. I wonder if there's any other bad news announcements happening right about now.
> Not ancedotal. I know a lot of people who own service businesses all over the country. It’s a problem wherever you look.

Personal accounts are "anecdotal" by definition.

> They pay there bills but are stretching the money they have. Credit card debt has surged.

This is patently false [1].

[1] https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-st...
I don’t think it’s that

$ npx nbb -e (println "Hello, world")
Need to install the following packages:
nbb
Ok to proceed? (y)
Hello, world

Or more comprehensively: https://clojurescript.org/guides/quick-start
+100% in two years is "normal", but -30% is doom and gloom.
There's always something else in the news.

COO leaving isn't something that can be ignored. She'll still be leaving tomorrow.
There is a lot of ground between "runs on a single VM" to "runs on thousands of instances". In fact I would think most companies that deliver some online service fit into that category.

For instance, I don't regard one of our products that runs in three availability zones and has 3-4 instances per AZ as being "large scale". It is still a small system. And it doesn't run in multiple AZs for performance reasons but because we really need high availability.

We embedded discovery, failover and automatic cluster management in the server software itself. But it isn't really how we'd like to do it. But it is still less of a hassle than running K8S. (It also means that we can do that if you license our software to run it on-prem on pretty much most runtime environments, and that has its value, but again, this isn't functionality you want or should have to do yourself)
"Sitting by Mark’s side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. [...] In the critical moments of my life, in the highest highs and in the depths of true lows, I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there."

If this is an accurate reflection of her experience, I don't expect it's a side of Mark Zuckerberg most of us imagine exists.
It does not require a FB account. You can see it from an incognito window just fine.
QuadAddicted has a "Random Screenshot" function[1] that will essentially show recommendations for levels that have achieved a reasonably high rating. It's not necessarily limited to large levels only, but most of the recommendations will be decent. Refresh for a different set of recommendations.

If you're specifically looking for "large" levels that will stress even modern Quake engines, the Quake mapper "ORL" is known for making huge, sprawling levels, with "Ter Shibboleth"[2] being the most extreme example. Also notable mentions are the maps "Tears of the False God" and "The Forgotten Sepulcher", both part of Arcane Dimensions 1.8[3] (and Arcane Dimensions in general is filled with very complex maps).

Also worth mentioning is Honey[4]. While it's not as technically engine-breaking as some modern maps, the level design and gameplay is nevertheless known for its sheer scale, so much so that "Honey" has basically become its own map genre.

As a general heuristic for finding large, complex maps:

1. In the QuadAddicted map section[5], sort by the most recently-released maps. The Quake mapping community is small, and many of the mappers have been doing so for a long time. Many of the newer maps will be larger in scale and complexity than older maps from the '90s.

2. Mappers these days often organize their map releases into so-called "Jams" that fit a particular theme. If you search for "jam" in the map name, it'll usually be a high quality map pack.

3. "Speed Maps" and "Turtle Maps" are maps created under a significant time constraint. They can be interesting exercises, and allow mappers to try and get feedback on new things, but if you're looking for large, polished maps, you can skip these.

---

[1] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/random_recommendations.ph...

[2] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/ter_shibboleth_drake_redu...

[3] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/ad_v1_80p1final.html

[4] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/honey.html

[5] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/
In favor of municipal fiber.
Apparently 'Amundi' is a French asset-manager, roughly Europe's BlackRock or Vanguard.
To become a registrar, you need to register with Traficom (the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency). They've got a section on their website devoted to domains[0] and another for registrars specifically[1]. The important bits are the Registrar's Guide[2] and the registration form[3].

Register as a private individual and leave the field where they ask if you want your contact info listed for consumers unchecked. Then, once they process the application and you're a registrar, never register domains for anyone but yourself.

The bit about not needing to host or code anything was a reference to the fact that Traficom maintains a registrar web interface[4]. If you're a low volume registrar, which you should be since you're a registrar for yourself, the web interface is all you need.

Now, couple of things I'm uncertain about: whether or not the registration process involves fees for non-citizens, and which payment methods they support besides SEPA transfers.

[0]: https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains

[1]: https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains/domain-...

[2]: https://www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/file/regis...

[3]: https://www.traficom.fi/en/services/registration-registrar

[4]: https://registry.domain.fi/s/
> That difference in results between giant corporations and individuals should give you a strong clue about who the “justice” system works for.

It's not just the justice system either. It's also representation in government. We have research showing that the average citizen has effectively zero influence on public policy and that our government caters exclusively to corporations and a small number of extremely wealthy individuals. The only time the rest of us get something we something we want is when our interests just happen to align with the interests of the powerful. (see https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...)
lol

WebKit is open source. Libpas was always designed with WebKit in mind. It landed in WebKit half a year before I left Apple.
Yeah, because people that invest heavily in the stock market are the same people that read about celebrities in Closer.
Jury awards Depp 15M; Heard 2M in countersuit
What I don't get about Neumanns new project is it actually solving a problem? As I understand, the problem with carbon offsets is not that you can't track them, it's that you can verify that X company actually planted a tree etc. Is Neumanns company solving this, or just simply putting a record of Y company purchasing 1000 carbon offsets on the blockchain?
It's a great problem to have. I think many of us here are in a similar position. Nice comfy jobs, well paid with no chance of promotion. I've been at mine for over a decade. I know it's going to be bad when its over, however there is also the real possibility of this position lasting until I retire.

I think you may be under estimating luck. Maybe you are not underemployed, maybe you are overly lucky?

If that is the case, then let it ride!
Just turn on “open to work” on LinkedIn. I just turned it in and I’m going to have to turn it off I can’t keep up.
> My mentor was the second to object. He said I shouldn't quit without another job lined up because I'd miss out on leveraging my high salary when negotiating my pay at the next job.

I feel like this is objectively good advice though. At least keep an income stream.
Then it turned out everything was cooked, not frozen.
I competed in group and solo vocal performance in my youth and we were expected to sing something together in 6 part harmony after a single run through with our conductor/voice teacher. We definitely made notes on that sheet music from her comments to help with sight reading and dynamics, etc.
Is it really? I don’t think it is.

Pre-Trump era she was more the public face of Facebook than even Zuck. Then when the Cambridge Analytica scandal basically did a 180 on the entire reputation of the company she effectively disappeared from the public eye.
Why do we have to make sure the company doesn't go under with our fines?

We don't make sure criminals aren't too impacted by jail, why should corporations be different?
No, I did not say "popular."

It is quite simple. Linux took over in 2011. That is 5 years after 2006. We don't have to rewrite history to make Linux look better than it is. Absurd.
All preferences change over time; this is one of many problems with Rawls' logic.
I increasingly believe that Facebook’s pivot to Meta will end up going down as one of the biggest misses in the history of business. The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it. Especially not with a mediocre centralized FB owned “virtual world” where they inflict heavy taxes and content moderation. Facebook has neglected its core businesses for years and seems to have real trouble shipping hardware with reasonable spending.

Now they’re scrambling to ship an iPhone alternative to get out from under Apple policy, but it really seems like they’re on constant defense now and have a very tough lift to actually get something truly mass market. I would be shocked if Apple, Microsoft or Google were irrelevant in 2030, but it is really possible (if not yet necessarily probable) that Facebook/Meta might actually just not exist in the same kind of way anymore then.

When they first announced the rebrand I actually thought it could be genius and that there’s no way they could have been doing it without a really well considered, heavily backstopped plan… but epic strategic miscalculation seems to be going around a lot this year.
>The text is not clear enough, but "geometric mean" is not the benchmark.

Thanks that makes more sense, that's another issue for context then.
I don't have anything against geometric means but there should be basic statistics like average, max, min,... available as well.
If your rent went up $500/mo and you didn't scream and immediately flee, you are in a high cost of living area.

That means eating out is expensive and has gotten more expensive in the last 120 days.

If you eat out at all - and almost everyone does, quite a bit - then it is likely a big chunk of change. Even if you previously calculated it ("I spend about $200 a month on eating out...") that number is almost certainly wrong now and needs to be recalculated.

It's possible parent doesn't eat out ever, just unlikely.
> No, I know exactly who he is. Left libertarianism is ironically very popular among rich millenials & Gen Z, probably because it allows them to be cynical about all institutions when in reality governmental, collective action is the only realistic counter to capitalism.

What you said originally is that Proudhon is popular among a subclass of capitalists, which is a contradiction, being that he was an anti-capitalist. Now you're saying libertarian socialism is popular among a subset of rich people, which also seems pretty suspect at this point in time. Then you're giving an explanation of why this is the case but that also seems implausible and you give no argument or evidence for it (and honestly it just sounds like dismissive hand-waving)... Then you say collective action, exactly what Proudhon (and almost all libertarian socialists, including mutualists) argued for, is the alternative, which is also a contradiction: It can't be the alternative if it was part of the original position. What you're saying isn't making any sense to me...
Yes, I can read schematics and I have preformed multiple component-level repairs on two of my laptops in the past. Even if I hadn't, this wouldn't discount my argument. The fact that the "average consumer" hasn't wouldn't either.

Repairability and modularity are two distinct concepts. The framework laptop is modular but it is not repairable. At least not any more repairable then my Toshiba or MSI laptops. End of story.
Zenskar | Founding Engineer | India | REMOTE (India preferred)

Zenskar is building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription based models to more granular usage based models, legacy billing and pricing infrastructure doesn’t work.

We are looking for an engineering generalist to lead our technical architecture and prototyping. Preferably, someone with a background in Python/Javascript. You will help us build a tech team with processes designed for high iteration speed.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun :) Health of our team is most important to us. Balance work with life - be productive, not busy.

More details about the company, culture and roles can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Pd4y_jfk45FwCCXTkhYfJcT...

If you’re interested, please email apurv [at] zenskar [dot] com.
> Uhuh... and if the state, with its monopoly on violence, wishes to ban these currencies?

Then some people comply and some don't
Many people follow the same pattern as they age. I think many in this discussion are attributing to WFH and other things what is a common outcome of just getting older.
This is in fact what most iOS apps that ask for Bluetooth permission use it for. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20867286/ios-13-bluetooth...
Here are a few tips to reduce resource consumption (german):
https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/sys_matrix/#eigener-server
Don't Mow Your Lawn
It's often the work you're currently doing that colors everything else in your life, from personal experience. I don't think it's fair to suggest, but I would quit and take a break then get started on something new.

My problem with outright suggesting that for you is that it sounds like this company has been treating you well. It's just the nature of startups to become what feels like busy work after launch (or even before).

That said, I've never experienced management shifting gears just to satisfy engineers. I think in some circumstances it might make sense to, for example, promote the main engineers and hire contractors to do the busy work. But it's just not realistic. Business processes need to evolve and roadmaps need to be maintained, especially if there's a board of investors involved.

I wish we could do projects where we build the product, launch it, then just sit back and make money. It'd be heaven to my ears. Unfortunately, we instead decide to tweak things endlessly and add features which often don't need to be there. But often they simply do need to be there if the business wants to scale.

In any case, I wouldn't worry about it: your lack of motivation is most likely temporally locked and heavily dependent on your current work.