skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generalization:

- each role in a company tries to optimize/nudge whole organization toward this role's convenience.

- specialization improves local optimum (advances certain role) at the cost of global optimum (everybody has to dance around new roles processes)

- joining seceral roles into one, creates the oposite result, optimum is searched at more global level (not necessarily found)

- Separation of responsibilities (aka creation of new role) can generate a fractal (e.g. tester of left winglets blue stipe's thickness meter)

- complete joining off roles will create homogenous chaos after n employees (everybody should do everything)

prediction: we will see constant experimentation, first roles will be split, then some will get joined. then split again. then joined again. (people cant search for local optimum and global optimum at the same time)
I’m not a PM, but I’ve been in the room during those conversations. Granted, I’ve never had to rely on a ton of native extensions (at least in a business context, personal stuff for sure).

It’s just like any other dependency. Sometimes you can afford to freeze on a single version until the end of the project, but most of the time projects I’ve been on will regularly upgrade the third party stuff we rely on if for no other reason than security, with things like arm64 support coming along for the ride. We usually prefer to be able to get help with our issues faster than our tickets getting closed with “fixed in new version update”, of course weighing that against breaking API changes or what have you.
It's not a solution, but it's a kind gesture
That's how companies used to work. You get some people & capital together to accomplish something and once you've accomplished it you shut down and distribute the company assets.
Not true https://coronavirus.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/17...
Precision Scheduled Railroading can work, but the changes it entails need to accrue down to the workers, who are still running on a very draining call-based system that produces a lot of burn-out. If the railroads want to run a firm schedule, where trains run without waiting for cars from customers, they need to make the same commitment to their staff; paying them fixed schedules that don't change at the last moment, with overtime if the trains run late or over.
> when they stopped baking goods in-store

Technically, I believe they still bake things, but they certainly don't prepare the doughnuts from scratch on-site anymore. Indeed, quality declined spectacularly when their slogan changed from "Doughnuts" to "Always Fresh".
Video chats with more than 3 people start to suffer from an inability to have multiple conversations at the same time. Physical distance of a couple feet and visual queues like the direction of a speakers face allow that in 3d space. Maybe someone can overcome this in 2d? I haven't seen it yet.

I was on a casual call with ~10 people recently and the way only one person could speak at a time was so unfortunate. Really killed the experience compared to chatting in person.
I miss chatting with that! It was so interactive. I wonder if it could be translated to communication between more than two parties. It sure would be interesting to see a prototype of something like that.
Felt the same but I think we were both wrong :D

"I used to be pretty school smart in subjects like math and comp sci" probably means that you felt smarter than some/many due to your surroundings (it's always in comparison with others).

That perception gradually is being corrected but it messes with your self image.
You weren't that smart, as in, imagine now trying to learn the easy things that learned at that time... you would still be great at it :)

The problems are harder, life is harder, your peers are better and it is all a bit less exciting because you have seen it before.

Thing to do:
* Improve your energy/capacity management. If you're tired, relax don't try to brute-force as it's usual when young. I sometimes half listening to a podcast, execute tests and read an article. Other times I low on energy/capacity I need silence, close HN and just focus on code.

* Find other things to excite you at your job... Maybe having junior devs be happy that you're helping them light a spark again.

* Do individual/team sports. Whatever allows you to clean your mind from work/tech and be excited to do it.

> Does anybody have a good way of testing their intellect or problem-solving periodically?

Join a code challenges site. You will find that you're pretty good at the easier levels :D And you can retest it regularly.

I sometimes used to a quick sleep deprivation test just to be sure that I was slow due to lack of sleep. I use to throw a pen in the air and catch it after 3 turns, it was very obvious the days where I needed sleep.
If it smells like overfitting, it probably is overfitting.
Garmin seems to be nailing it. I've recently got more into golf & snorkeling and Garmin have attractive devices for both those random activities that I could definitely see buying at some stage.
Thank you! Answers in a sibling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31588018

PS: There is a time-lapse recording functionality in the game, I am hoping as players get more comfortable, they will make some awesome timelapses of mining operations!
That is definitely true (and probably easier than doing custom claims), but the reason I use claims is that it saves doing a join against that extra table inside your RLS policies, which can sometimes have a big performance impact. Those claims are also available on the client side, too, saving a round trip to the server if you need to check the claims.
I've been doing this for over 20 years, and it hasn't really been a problem. During the occasional real-life interaction that requires someone to confirm my address and they express surprise, I just tell them that it's correct and I have advanced email needs. It never takes more than a few seconds -- nobody has ever said "please tell me all about your advanced email needs!" :)

> I use a password manager for passwords but I also need to use it to remember the associated emails.

I do this, too. It never occurred to me that you might not populate the email/username field -- it's kind of the password manager's job to keep track of that. :)

> The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies.

I think that on the whole, this is true. However, I have had a number of these addresses start receiving spam over the years. I think this is due to the companies' databases being compromised due to poor security. At the end of the day, the cause of the leak isn't greatly important, and I'm glad I can simply turn off those particular addresses.
It's pretty straightforward to have an abstraction for file systems with "special" file locations, it's been common in app sdks for at least a decade in a half. Unity doesn't have something like that?

Eg you would never use /tmp or %USER%/AppData, but call a function File::getPath(TempDirectory) or something like that.
Taking this a bit too seriously, Brainfuck is actually good for some things - I don't know another general purpose language in which cat or printing out the list of ASCII characters are shorter non-empty programs. Also, Brainfuck compilers often emit code that can process input as characters are received (not waiting for a newline) which can be awkward to do in some other languages (Java might not allow this at all in the name of being cross platform).
You don’t have to drop out of society to be an unknown genius. You just have to direct your genius at something non-public. I know a number of incredible people just quietly getting on with being excellent at something super-niche and never seeking publicity.
Is that really different from dongles? Since you can't buy them from third parties (yet), it sounds like they're just selling you your ports. Even Apple doesn't do that anymore.

Stress is also negligible, or TB ports are not fragile. We have a few thousand MacBook Pros and almost no mainboard replacements are due to port damage. This doesn't make Apple better, just noting.

Fair enough, but we've had no cases of TB controller failure that weren't covered under warranty. Framework's warranty as-is is insufficient for enterprise or commercial adoption. Swappable RAM, wifi, storage, etc are not unique to Framework (and Framework is more limited in internal ports than many older devices).
Reading your comment i thought this was going to be a different nick clegg than the one from British politics, but it wasn't!
They probably loved it because they didn't have to work.

Which is basically just another kind of sitting with a screen strapped to your face. Except less fun.

Work, for most people, is maybe a little too hellish.
So FaceTime?

They aren't in the same room, just same screen, but I'm not sure that really has value for me anyway?
AOL but with avatar solicitors coming to your virtual door to try and interest you in "security deals from Ali Express".
Yes, this is the entire corporate rational behind everything "mobile" and "cloud."
> young urban professionals, who are the target demographic of Tim Hortons

Are you sure? Tim’s is always full of blue collar guys and old people whenever I go in. Starbucks is for yuppies.
Replacing sensitive entity content with pseudorandom seeded junk for subsequent training and transforms in exposed settings. Not the main use case for ER.
Could lignite find a new use in 3D printing?
I do not believe AI claims whenever I read them, and this is happening at the risk of me being a cynic and a disbeliever in the field. And I am not sure if that's bad for society or bad just for me.

I am more likely to believe celebrity gossip than AI news articles.
It isn't really an app though, it's one of those half arsed SPA in an webview that CONSTANTLY updates the large JS payload whenever you open it. Agree about the line bypass feature.. Tims can be insanely slow at rush hours.

They also switched Roll Up the rim to REQUIRE the app if you want to roll (2? 3 years ago?) - I hope a successful lawsuit comes out of that given this privacy ruling.. a lot of people were forced to install the app just so they could collect an occasional free coffee/doughnut. If they did that last minute at the counter they wouldn't even have read the permissions (a similar argument to that which renders many EULA invalid in Canada).
I bet there are also bodies of work by posters on internet forums, social media etc. that would constitute great works if properly compiled, edited, and promoted.

Sometimes these posters are locally famous in their online communities, but in other cases they are overlooked even on their home turf. Perhaps in hundreds of years some of this stuff will be dug up and celebrated, either by humans or AI.

The same thing definitely happens with software too. There are some masterpieces of engineering out there with 15 stars on Github.
I can recommend the book "Better, faster, cheaper - history of manufavturing" which covers this topic among basically manufacturing going to the, literally, stone age.
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The USPTO makes it easy to re-patent things after expiration.
Don't they get around this with wifi scanning, viewing network connections and bluetooth scanning?
That's never really worked on mine.
The only issue I've had was with that real estate data website that rhymes with Willow. They have a strict policy against usernames that contain their branding and my first support ticket resulted in them demanding I change my E-mail address.
zulip allows configuring both your “typing” indicator and online status indication.

Twist takes it one step further and has no online indicator at all; twist is a somewhat different paradigm though.
I think the Metaverse will fail because it's a creepy futurism project. Creepy futurism says the solution to climate change is to replace real experiences with virtual experiences that don't burn any carbon. The pièce de résistance of creepy futurism in the metaverse is intended to be the virtual child experience[1]. You satisfy the instinctual drives to destroy the climate with more children[2], but instead you do it in a sustainable simulated way. Kind of like instead of living forever, which is utterly unsustainable, we upload our brains to the metaverse and have your carbon body used for plant food or whatever and our friends and family get the simulated experience of still having us around! Like most creepy futurism projects, nobody really wants this except the people who spend their days trying to figure out how to save the planet by any means necessary and have come up with all sorts of fake climate friendly substitutes, like the vast array of vegan meat substitutes that nobody eats, but seem to be fully in stock in every grocery store and fast food chain.

Like all creepy futurism projects, there seems to be an unlimited amount of money and associated ESG and "The Current Thing" street credibility behind these projects that see them funded and cheerled in the press to absurd levels even as the public is absolutely luke warm about it all at best.

[1]https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/37980/20220601/virtual...

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...
perhaps reading the actual post might be informative.

He said that if people with physical jobs have to be in person, then people with information jobs should be in person as well
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I love this era of Self Hosted tools, it really has echoes of the fun of early computing
I think there's lots, certainly doesn't seem to be thought badly of among the young adults I know
"The last rays of sunlight disappear leaving a cold darkness in the Uncanny Valley before you."
Facebook dominated in part because people would endlessly scroll during class, at the bus stop, waiting on line, etc.

VR and the Metaverse require a much bigger commitment by comparison. You can't casually use them. Heck, you can't really even eat or drink while a VR headset is strapped to your face.
No, they are arguing against extreme positions.

With public ledgers like Bitcoin, everybody can reconstruct your financial history if they know your wallet address.

With privacy-focused blockchains, nobody can do that.

However, with a bank, your financial history is not publicly available but the bank still can perform checks to guard against money laundering.
Short term, it seems like probably? [1]:

> There are studies depicting the market’s reaction to recommendations made on Cramer’s show. Notably, in January 2009, graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania published a study claiming that over time, the average next-day increase for a stock that Cramer recommended was 3% for the entire study sample, and almost 7% for smaller cap stocks. They proved through the use of electronic communication networks (ECN) that most trades came in after 7 p.m. ET, when "Mad Money" concluded.

> Another study conducted by Northwestern University, titled "Is the Market Mad?: Evidence from 'Mad Money'" and published in 2006, showed that the average cumulative return on Cramer’s recommendation was 5.19%, but, more important, almost all the increases were nullified within 12 days.

> Cramer recommends stocks with momentum, both positive and negative. His recommendations affect the price, with the impact reversing quickly, consistent with pricing pressure caused by viewers' jumping on Cramer's recommendations. Cramer's sell recommendations also affect prices, though the impact does not quickly reverse.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cramerbounce.asp
> there were 31M websites in 2008, and most of them still ran NetBSD

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Downtown Winnipeg has two right across the street from each other!
I think most people in this area have a pretty general idea where it is... While I am at best an amateur mycologist, where drdec below has me angry at his/her sarcasm is that as a human being, no, it isn't at all obvious why the world largest fungi would end up here rather than say in the WA / OR / BC cascades, or for example in the Olympics in Washington State. Those areas certainly have more of the mushrooms that we prize for human consumption, have longer seasons in which those fungi are available too (I'm hypothesizing due to moisture). Remoteness could be a factor (IE: less human contact), but those areas have plenty of very remote terrain as well. Further, I think it is a really interesting question as we contemplate the effects of climate change in these areas.
When I worked at Qualcomm a while ago the company had two major business lines. One of them was developing and selling a line of mobile chipsets (Snapdragon) to a lot of the major players in the market, for which they employed thousands of top engineers and researchers. The other was licensing their CDMA patents to all of the players in the market, and this org was run entirely by lawyers. The second business made significantly more money than the first.
> I guess people really like the busy indicator?

I think people sometimes just really don't want others to think that they are ghosting them, so a busy indicator serves that purpose: "I'm working right now, not purposefully ignoring you, please be patient, or override it if it's urgent."

I don't personally use it, but I understand the sentiment.
Yeah, and i am still sad that they've removed Java RMI.
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Agreed. Reddit is all gifs, videos, memes or anime now. Mostly TikTok’s, really.

I rarely find myself sucked into rabbit holes like I did back when I first joined about a decade ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, none of this is true for the Android devices I've owned. Vendor specific perhaps? Devious way to do it. Doesn't Apple suffer with the same problem (location+bluetooth tied?)
>Facebook has neglected its core businesses for years and seems to have real trouble shipping hardware with reasonable spending.

I don't think there's deliberate neglect here. Fashion shifts and facebook is no longer as fashionable. It is very very hard to stay at the forefront of fashion unless you're product is one that reinvents itself on an annual basis (see the fashion industry)

The meta pivot seems to be more of a desperate anticipation then a strategic opportunity. Facebook conveniently announced meta just before the earnings call.
The only camera brand I have experience with is Axis Communications (very, very nice cameras, but very, very expensive too). There may be more options now, but back when I was playing with them I was able to configure the camera to record to a Samba share (instead of, or in addition to recording to an SD card).
Maybe a giant inflatable ball in your backyard pool that you climb in.
Reported to DDG, fwiw

But have to say, with just "lightmoon" it was not on first page. Had to add "studio" as other comment mentioned to find it. So maybe the downranked it already. Take that google! :D
Yes, weaker programs already do so. The faculty generally are top notch, and superstar students do seek out individual professors due to whatever alignment and succeed. So IMO it's more about the student, there are definitely places with different expectations already.

Likewise, in industry, it's not the hardest thing to get an r&d gig in say a hospital network or university as a research engineer supporting whatever lab(s). Basically a forever postdoc. Though salary may of course suffer.

One of the biggest things that comes out of a PhD is the ability to formulate and pursue open-ended problems. IMO that comes from (a) apprenticing and (b) repeated success/failure, both of which take time. So yes, you can stretch a PhD longer, or do a weak one and try to learn that later such as a postdoc. It's not hard to sniff out who has done the work / magically rocked it because they are magical / hasn't.
Sure. Most people have more clusters before they hit 5k nodes on a single cluster.

But I’ve been in situations where it would have been worthwhile. I’ve been in situations with 30,000 machines that needed to be controlled. Splitting them out into very many clusters would be a lot of wasted overhead in configuration, administration and because you lose nodes to masters.
Also, I was excited to be able to buy a laptop without wifi, but that option has been removed. I would have to sell or discard a perfectly functional wireless chipset to get the laptop I want.

You also cannot buy a Framework chassis without a mainboard. Why not, if they aim to be eco friendly? Why create a barrier to buying second hand components?
> I still don't understand what's the difference between MMOs and Metaverse.

I think it's ads.
Disagree with most of this. It couldn't be more clearly textbook insider trading. He wouldn't have bought the NFTs and then immediately sold them for 5x profits if he didn't know OpenSea would be featuring them.

>I think he's the wrong person for the DOJ to throw the book at

Who cares if other people have done worse? When you break the law you should face consequences.
Still there, look for SATIDs in the 2360s.