skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point is valid, however the bigger issue that you and likely most everyone else are not getting us precisely “Facebook's dominance” and the absolutely, classical abusive relationship the whole of society has gotten itself into with the dependence Facebook and others have created.

There are frequently discussions here about how to address the particular abusive characteristics of one of the tech companies or sector with what I believe are solutions that are too high level. It is the authoritarian, centralized planning, communist mentality that current tech for some reason devolved into that is the problem, I don’t see how more specific planning is the solution. How many more authoritarian utopias have to end in misery before we stop letting abusive people ruin things and cause misery?

What we need is what the government should only ever be doing s as it relates to this is, ensuring competition, which is done by imposing standards that prevent capture and lock-in. Yes, that is a tall order once the government is as corrupted and captured by the very corporations and sectors that are so abusive, however I believe the only way that can be addressed is precisely by pushing for keystone legislation that requires the whole industry to self organize specifications and standards and protocols that allow the seamless communications and transportation of data between systems and services, and makes all data and content the property of the creator, without extensive and burdensome regulatory requirements to transfer that ownership. We must end digital slavery!

All these issues are actually rather easy to understand once one has been able to remove oneself from the toxic and abusive relationship that effectively the whole tech sector employs with its users. It’s all there, textbook abusive relationships 101.

I would map all the common characteristics of abusive relationships to the behaviors of tech companies (or most companies theses days), but I think I’ll keep it shortish, even though I guess it may be helpful to see, for people who cannot see the abusive relationship of the tech sector because they’re in the abuse.

Just one example that is relevant to your point; controlling access to loved ones … “you’re nothing without Facebook, now obey Facebook and how Facebook wants you to speak, think, act, and even dress. I wouldn’t need to control your speak and hurt you if you would just obey Facebook”. And of course many of the Battered Wife Syndrome sufferers rationalize with all kinds of things like “Facebook only beats me (controls speech and behavior, depersons, shadow bans, etc) because I misbehave and think wrong things, and it knows better what’s good for us all” on the left or “well, it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want to me because if I want to eat (be part of society ) I have to obey because my data and access to communications is a slave that is private property”

Let’s end digital slavery, can we please!
What bums me the most is that I can’t wrap gemtext at my desired line length. I hate having to write “long lines” in my editor and prefer ‘gqip’ing them to 72 (that’s Vim for hard wrapping selected text). Terrible choice.
> I want my transactions to be private to the world but it's reasonable that law enforcement has a method to investigate criminal behavior.

If law enforcement has a method to investigate your behavior, its not private. You want to have your cake and eat it too. Either you enjoy privacy (and so do criminals) or criminals do not (and neither do you).
What kind of women become elite Army Rangers?
Global warming, to be honest.

I don't understand the question of how long it took; one day, we decided with my SO to stop buying meat and cook vegetarian dishes only. We searched for recipes, and that was that. We still eat the occasional sausage, but it's more as a spice rather than a full meat portion.

We have been vegetarian since 2018, so admittedly not that long, but the switch was really not difficult at all.
Russia’s botched invasion proves the diminishing power of heavy/expensive armies
> The sea grass is comprised of individual plants that are each of identical DNA, ie they are clones. Does this and their proximity and continuity make them one organism?

Probably. The top paragraphs in [1] talk about precisely that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms
Ha good point and fitting username.
Yeah let me be clear. PhD students absolutely should get guidance from experienced engineers (so I was a bit over-zealous with "assist" in my parent post). But this should be more like understanding best practices, and they should feel free to ask questions and figure out how to write better code. There are initiatives to do this called Software Carpentry.[0] However, RSEs should not be writing code for students doing PhD level projects in my opinion, for exactly the reasons you mention.

I know some of the big research councils do this in the UK. For example STFC has a program where they'll work with universities and companies to production-ise research code.

> The scientist just wants to focus on their research and once they have a barely working proof of concept, hand it over to the engineer to figure the rest out. The engineer wants a well specified design and prototype that they can lightly refactor to clean up, scale up and turn into a product/tool.

As you say, this is a great idea in principle. In reality I think that it's really difficult to make it work.

[0] https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-events/carpentries/sof...
I use khal with vdirsyncer.
And DHH
> it’s just a way to separate the wheat (people who are intrinsically interested in programming) from the chaff (people who picked programming instead of law/finance/medicine because it pays better right now)

Why would you assume that self-trained developers are intrinsically interested in programming?
Yes Gitlab has support for CI/CD. It's available in OSS version also. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/
I don't know. From talking to them, they seem really happy with the deal.

One example - one of the original creators of a mega-popular open source enterprise messaging product, that product is the defacto standard in its space, he created it around 2007-ish with 4 other folks. Today i don't see his name on recent commits but i'd be pretty sure he's still involved on the apache project board or something. He was a lead developer in a big org at that time but then levelled up to MD level over the course of a decade or so.

He builds houses now (not a typo - a moderately famous programmer who now has his own house building company), he teaches elderly folks in his community how to use the internet without falling to scams and he cranks out code for 2 startups on a part time basis.

From the things he engages with today it seems to me that he's not chasing money (he could walk into a mid 6-figure MD level role tomorrow if he relocated back to NYC) but fulfillment.

Another example, one of the most skeptical people i've ever met, i just can't imagine a scenario where someone manipulates him but anyway, he's maybe a year into pairing up with a fintech startup and best i can guess, he's paying them. I.e. i'm pretty sure he's invested money in them and i can't imagine they're providing his previous salary. He relocated so i only see on social media these days but he certainly appears to be having a blast of time and i've never seen him in as high spirits.

If it was manipulation then i'd be expecting to see underhanded tactics but that's not the suggestion here. The suggestion here is to meet demand for more interesting job roles with better flexibility for life and in return get the benefit of a top level developer in your org.
NYT claimed so

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/business/us-supercomputer...
How to Deflate an SUV Tyre
Prof. Finkel is certified nuts, love the show
What's wrong with "the index x must be an untyped constant or its core type must be an integer"? ("Integer" in turn being defined by enumeration in the "Numeric types" section.)
Its not that I don't see or know the same information you are using to base your decision on. I've seen the interviews. It's that I've drawn a different conclusion than you from that information.

The fact that he works as many hours as he claims isn't a good thing. It isn't a badge of honor. It's not good that he has had so many romantic partners, it isn't good that he has so many kids that he clearly isn't raising, it isn't good that he is publicly so out of balance and is clearly constantly feeding his own ego with no boundaries. It isn't good that he now is facing sexual misconduct allegations. None of these things are good. None of those things are respectable. None of those things are OK for a role model to be modeling. We need to stop idolozong people for simply being rich and famous and good engineers and we need to start idolizing people for being good humans.

Elon isn't a good human. Everything he or his fan base is told so, he and they (you) hide behind all the "good" he's doing do as to draw the attention away from him not being a good human.
Not vegetarian, but recently started reducing my meat intake:

1. For better health.

2. To help preserve the climate (I see it as a collective duty, and therefore I should fulfil my share of it).

What convinced me were two books:

- The Real Story of Money, Health, and Religion by Loren Howe.

- Le monde sans fin (French) by Jean-Marc Jancovici.
TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
Luna – HyperRAM controller for USB analysis
This instantly reminded me of the paper "pattern recognition in a bucket"[0], which I've seen referenced a lot when I first started reading about AI in general. I only have surface-level knowledge about the field, but how exactly does what's described in the article differ from reservoir computing? (The article doesn't mention that term, so I assume there must be a difference)

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221531443_Pattern_R...
Disabling the Crappy Broadcom Bluetooth Adapter in Your ThinkPad T430 on Linux
Yeah, do a FOIA request for any and all public COVID notifications and see if they can comply.
I agree. Imagine if all of the phone companies suddenly decided that you were a bad customer and that they were terminating your line and you weren't allowed to get a new one. It would make life far more difficult.

Facebook's properties are replacing the telephone for most people and now one company's algorithms can remove you from your communication tools because it feels like you are not valuable to its owner.
Samsung stopping production of LCD panels as soon as next month
US, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Greece, Turkey and South Africa. The Danish one is "self-owned" whatever that means.

The US fed is by far the most important Central Bank due to dollar being the global reserve currency.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-European-Central-Bank-privately...

EDIT: The ECB is owned by member-states's banks, some of which are privately owned.

In any case, private ownership is only one issue, the other is that central banks are designed to have very little oversight.

Saying that "we can change the laws" doesn't change that. It's not always easy or possible to change laws. When is the USA going to repeal the 2nd amendment?
You expect some enormous sea monster but all you got was some kind of immortal sea weed. Trees have this thing as well. Many tree organisms are 100 000 years old. There's also some kind of distinction between tree organisms and tree individuals. Tree individuals don't get to be that old.
The challenge is that usually PhDs are not writing software that's designed for production, is very specific (for a single conference or journal paper) and often the utility of the code is nebulous until the end of the project. So what you don't want is for RSE's to spend ages writing code for a PhD project (which could be done by the student) only to have it thrown in the trash when the student leaves, or when they pivot to a new avenue of research.

I'm saying this as someone who did a PhD and who wrote a lot of code, including refactoring legacy codebases in my group.

Where the utility in having an RSE lies is where the group is all using some shared codebase that gets touched by everyone. This is the sort of cruft that I had to work with: legacy frankencode that generations of students and postdocs had added to. It would have made a ton of sense to pay someone to spend a year optimising it (which is ultimately what I did). But you want to make sure that RSE's maximise utility in the group. Having them work on individual student projects is not an effective use of their time IMO.
I'm not sure if it's web's purpose, but yes, it does everything. You can read, work, play games, watch tv, listen to music, all on the web. It is actually quite impressive.
"Don't worry, all your files are exactly where you left them."
World's biggest clone is a 77-square-mile 'immortal' meadow of seagrass
If all blockchain is bad because 99.9% of tokens fail, why wouldn’t all startups be bad since a similar number fail as well?
I did not try to go vegetarian, but out of interest I tried to expand my eating habits and I find it very hard to replace meat with an adequate source of protein.

* Beans and lentils give me digestive problems, so I can have them maybe twice a month at most.
* Dairy is fine, but it is not better than consuming meat at all in any respect, so what's the point? Chicken and pork are better than diary if you care about ecological impact.
* Nuts are very expensive, I have them anyway, but I could not see them as a reliable source of protein due to cost.
* Eggs are fine, but I can only have so much in a week before I get fed up.
* Veggie alternatives taste and smell terrible in my experience.
* I liked tofu, nothing to write home about in terms of taste, but I can see myself having it once a week.
* I also eat canned herring and wild caught salmon. Haven't checked on their ecological impact but it is a good source of protein for once a week.

But really, there is nothing that can match the nutritional density of a piece of chicken, pork or beef. It is packed with protein and easily digestible, you can buy it at any store, you can cook it very easily in a variety of ways, and you can rest assured you have a complete meal if you have it with a side of greens and some carbs.
>Bell Lab's Plan 9, for example, did so in part in the late 1980s.

Plan 9 did not support forking to remote machines and was not a single system image system. Its support for running a program on a remote machine was a completely userspace program.

If you say Plan 9 was an example of teleforking, then so is ssh. That might be a reasonable categorization, but both Plan 9 and ssh are very different from LOCUS and other SSI systems.
Not to rain on your parade, but if this gets at all popular, you're going to have trademark problems. I doubt you'd get in any trouble, but get ready to change domain names.

Cool idea though.
TLDR; If all you can afford is the B-team then you'll get the B-Team
The goal would be immersive coolness. Obv :)
Thanks for sharing. Didn't know about SomaFM.

I've been listening to plusfm.net for more than 15 years now which is in some ways similar. Just want to give David (running Plus FM) a shout out.
i was an Opera user (presto days), i quit the day you announced moving to chromium and killing presto

what i said about firefox apply to opera too, your decision to move to chromium meant you gave up, and lost the reason why you had users in the first place, users doesn't care about technical difficulties

mobile was a different story with apple, unfortunately

using the "complex web standard" card is too easy, since moving to chromium didn't help increase userbase, not even for Edge

and just being different doesn't help either, look at firefox

poorly managed company, google money poorly used/allocated, on top of poor marketing

opera browser (presto) was the best browser, i remember novel features like web compression to help mobile users save bandwidth..

i wish it could come back and focus on what matter
I sometimes think it would be fun to build a big board with just a load of NAND gates on it, with power connected up on the PCB, but inputs/outputs going to banana plug jacks. You then wire up your logic with patch cables, a bit like modular synthesizers.
Well I think the best way would be for RSEs to maintain a project and PhDs should then contribute to that project via pull requests. RSEs can then point towards proper coding styles, test development, etc.

That would ensure that the contributions of the PhDs does not get lost and they learn how to properly contribute to a project.
Being in the lower age bracket of OP, I have to agree with OPs point. There is quite a considerable pool of experienced, motivated and not career, and no longer really money motivated, people out there. We can be had by all OP said. I'll add an incomplete, and highly personal, points:
1, give us hard problems to solve with smart people
2, spare us corporate BS, careerists and all that
3, listen to us and give us aithority to decide things
4, don't have us report to some people who's only professional experience is in your young start-up

Good news, we are avaiable on all levels in the hierachy. Less on C-level, or even just VP, but we are there. And to be honest, to get your company of the ground the last thing you want is an accomplished VP from big corp in your industry. Those career politicians are best suited for your board.
Arti 0.4.0 is released: Robustness and API improvements (May 31, 2022)
>money launderers, criminals and pedophiles.

I think it's important to expand on the above because the above terms are tame. They give an impression of individual small time criminals.

It's North Korea, Russia, dictators and despots across the world, the cartels, organized criminals. Large scale Tax avoiders, human traffickers, drug traffickers, weapon smugglers. It's the organized big money criminals, both high and low class that fund the worst aspects of humanity.
It's unintuitive how slow the sound is, given how much musicians care about latency in their stack.

1 meter adds 3ms (2.85ms to be precise and that's standing dry air)
Desperate home renters face bidding wars
I think Newton didn't make it because early 90s jet setters liked Palm Pilots that would fit in your pocket and played well with non-Apple computers. It was pretty rare to go to a meeting and see a Newton, but everyone would pull out the Palm Pilot. Price and form factor were probably the drivers.
I could have sworn it was more, but fair enough! I do heavily optimize CI to reduce minutes though, with easy access to local tests (and git hooks to enforce these) and more thorough tests ran nightly on merged branches.
I find the ethics of farming to be very difficult to live with.

I've been vegetarian now for long enough that I don't have any desire to eat meat and I am fairly grossed out by it. I am working towards vegan (again, the ethics), but it is proving to be more difficult. Perhaps my convictions aren't as strong?

My journey had several stops and starts. The best "trick" I have is to not stop eating meat, just start removing it from more and more meals. You just wake up one day and realize you haven't had meat in a year.

In my day to day, I don't really think about it anymore. I am always caught off guard when I realize other people are eating meat. It just isn't something that I consider now.
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> but the characterization of appealing to burned-out engineers, especially older folks,

It's not just "older folks" that are burnt out from being effectively abused by employers for years or decades. I left my last employer after just shy of 16 years as I didn't have a cost of living increase in over a decade, worked over 400 hours of overtime in a calendar year and was constantly being asked for more, with every single thing I did being micromanaged with a time stamp down to the second with it going as far as some managers asking employees to notify them when they'd be AFK to use the toilet to justify a few minute gap in activity, while my CEO gave himself a 40-something million dollar annual raise (while being a multi-billionaire).

In the past year and a half roughly half of that office has quit, heck when I put in my notice one of my team leads had put his in day before and the one I directly reported to put in his the day after I did.

People are tired of being treated like crap, with or without "enough" pay.

Sometimes being trusted, being treated like an adult, and being given some amount of freedom is far more attractive than more money.
It’s also a respect shortage, and a flexibility shortage, and a plannable scheduling shortage.
That has nothing to do with whether countries are pressured or not. The fact is, the standards from those groups are huge pressure on countries to conform.

They offer money, but with strings attached. Either the country conforms or it doesn’t get the money.
Problem is who will maintain and test it. Without DR (disaster recovery) test days its worth nothing cause something will have been changed and not propagated
What happens if tomorrow my laptop falls into the pool? Or gets stolen? I know the password of my password manager and my main emails, but for npm with 2FA I would either be:

- Locked out of npm because I don't have the 2FA key anymore

- Recover my 2FA with my email (which totally defeats the point of 2FA)

- Be asked for some gvmt ID to proof who I am (again a no-no)
The same is true of almost any shortage. You can almost always get what you want, for a price. Whether that price makes economic sense for a business to pay is a different question.
Sounds good. Many people have written on this topics for many years, and yet . . . reality gives us all a different story.

Hiring is broken. Period.

The founder(s) who will understand this, will create a truly disruptive machine.
Of course my statement wasn't meant to be absolute. I come from an engineering background. I am not surprised that in a medical setting the situation is somewhat different, after all I guess the stakes there are higher. If your CFD code does not perform well, who cares. If your analysis of some medication is crap, chances somebody cares is going to be much higher.

Also from experience, it helps if universities have closer ties to industry. As an industrial player you can't work with software that does not deliver reproducible results.
At least in the case of social science, I would argue that it is not dead simple. It is volumes upon volumes of research just to describe what happens in a small district in a small town. But many who opine freely on matters that affect entire societies, miss this fact, in much the same manner that a script kiddie might imagine that they are some form of terrific hacker--only to realise just how shallowly they have scratched the surface.
The put-down to me was where it said: "it's very easy to...", but failed to explain it beyond a few words. I'm relatively clever, but don't know exactly what they are talking about, and the lack of explanation with a statement of ease gives an implication that we should just know their solution.

That changes the message from an informative comment about alternative approaches into something the could be read as a dismissive rejection.

Now, a link to an article explaining the alternative approach... or even just one or two more explanatory sentences... would not come off that way. And maybe it is easy, but it would be better to just put up the facts, not judgments. Post an explanation and let the reader decide whether or not they think it is easy.