skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advising people to rat out coworkers to HR is going to damage people and doesn't reflect well on you.

HR is there to protect the company. They hire and they fire, and guess which one applies here. Could you maybe offer talk to your coworker as an alternative to sending a link to your product?
>My assumption is that if you're in the meeting, it has some adjacency to your work.

This assumption does not match up with my experience.

>If the meeting isn't germane to your work, why are you in it?

I personally have gotten pretty good about declining meetings, but plenty of people aren't. Besides, I've been occasionally asked by my direct manager to attend a meeting that it turns out I wasn't actually needed at or remotely interested in for my work.

It would be nice to live in a world where meetings worked ideally and there weren't a bunch of people there wasting their own time, but that is sadly not the world we live in.
I can go to historic archives of any time period that left a written record and find someone with a pessimistic take like your. Obviously the details are different, but there are always many bad signs for someone to point out.

In the end life isn't perfect, but it generally has gotten better
You still can, for free and all. Sure, Borland -- and the whole litany of company names that have owned Delphi, the product, since -- have on-and-off had "free" (=as in beer) editions, but that on-and-off inconsistency tends to sour my perspective on those. But, the venerable Free Pascal language and compiler gained (after a few fits and starts) a sister project, Lazarus[1], which is basically a clone of the Delphi class library and graphical IDE.

All FOSS all the way down. To quote jerryp, "Recommended."

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[1]: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Overview_of_Free_Pascal_and_Laza...
While I agree with almost everything you say (thanks, BTW, for a great question) I find myself being optimistic. Certainly, the world's oligarchs, both in the USA and other countries, are nailing down their control of political parties, news, militaries, etc. This is not good.

That said, in the early 1900s we had a similar thing going on and Roosevelt convinced the wealthy to share a little bit of their wealth with the common people, and that sort of worked out. I think it likely that the modern day oligarchs will make similar decisions.

This is likely to take the form of universal basic income, a 'smart' digital currency that can be turned off for people who don't do what they are supposed to, and it is likely that common people owning any meaningful amount of property will probably go away also.

So, where is the optimism? I believe that advances in science, massive automation, increasingly fun technology like VR and AR, more time for family and friends, will still provide a decent life for most people on the planet.
It's easy to label alternative morals as bankrupt. If my kids were starving and I could feed them by scamming some American with more money than I'll ever see if I added up every dime I make for my entire life, I'd feel pretty morally bankrupt if I let them starve instead.

The people who write the code aren't the problem, they're a symptom
I'm not able to repro the vertical scroll bar. Did you mean horizontal? It will scroll horizontally past a certain point. The code is not open source but I could definitely make it such that it is, I think that is a good idea. I am using a random generator, yes.
Even the new static doodles that windows has added to the search box are too distracting for me.

I have ADHD and I'm just trying to get my work done, and even my OS is trying to take advantage of me when I'm not at my best to maximize some attention-capture KPI.
Google Maps energy-efficient routes for electric cars, hybrids
Boy, there sure are a lot of pro-Godot and anti-Unity posts on HN today. Some marketing group is having a fieldday.
Oh sweet! I had a similar idea in undergrad in ~2012[1]. I love the retroactive timeline so you can see the rough balance of who was talking when—this is a really useful graph.

1. https://christian.gen.co/conversation-monitor/
Haha, Paris was exactly what I was thinking of. "Pretty lady, flower for you! You want flower? Flower for you, pretty flower for a pretty lady," pressing the flower toward the woman as if trying to give it away for free, and then if she takes it, "that'll be [insane price for a flower]", hand out for payment, and resisting taking it back.

Your best policy in public in a major city is to internalize Tony Stark's strong aversion to being handed things.
> or even worse in text messages manage to misread it and reply incorrectly

Overzealous autocorrect can happen to names, too. There's a whole thing about Asian names not being in computer spellcheck dictionaries: https://www.abbynews.com/news/youre-not-a-mistake-b-c-group-...
"forging a resume and doing the interview for him"

Um ... surely when he showed up to work and he wasn't YOU ... there were some questions?
just for page visits w/ google analytics.
Just to be clear, I am not saying NYC is literally cheaper than other places overall. I’m saying that this one major cost component of car ownership is not there, so the high sticker price of housing should be lessened by some amount.

Live in SF or LA and you’ll face similar costs and still need a car on top of it.
Will this internal drying of the liquid paint affect the looks of the painting in any way? ie will the painting look different in 100 years than it does today, assuming it is kept perfectly preserved and untouched in the ideal environment?
That article: https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/
> Note that seccomp has limited visibility into recvmsg / sendmsg args because bpf can't dereference syscall arg pointers.

BPF programs attached to syscalls (via kprobe or fentry) can read arguments via helpers (bpf_probe_read_{user,kernel}). Seccomp uses "classic BPF" which has no concept of helpers or calls.
We have one (or more) people posting ads impersonating us hiring translators on Upwork and in Facebook groups. The scam seems to be they "hire" the person, give them work, and then never pay them.

Having zero cost of goods sold makes it possible to undercut on prices and pay for all your acquisition and still make a buck. Doesn't seem scalable or sustainable, but it has been a real nuisance for us. Translators are contacting us for their payment...

Upwork has not been willing to help us at all. They pull the ads quickly so by the time support clicks the link, the ad is down. They act as if it didn't happen if the link doesn't still work. Crazy.

There is a lot of fraud out there. Anything you can imagine and then quite a bit you can't if you don't spend your time thinking about how to screw others.
Fusion creates heat, not electricity. Turning that heat into electricity is not costless, and puts a lower bound on the price of fusion energy. So we're never going to get "nearly limitless, clean, cheap energy" from fusion.

But we do have a great upcoming source of cheap energy from the big fusion reactor in the sky. Solar power has been dropping in cost 80% per decade for the last 50 years, and that looks to continue for at least the rest of this decade.
I first started learning C# and XNA before college to make a game for my Zune HD. That was my first exposure to OOP. Ah, those were the days...
I was a kid in the 70s and people were far gloomier about the future than they are now, especially after I moved to the USA. Think of yourself as swimming in the open ocean: you can't feel the big waves (low frequency/long wavelength), just the chop you are trying to paddle through.

I think there are a lot of good things happening. There's finally progress on climate repair (tiny, but nonzero) which means we may have more time to fix things.

The last 40 years of entrenched bullshit is finally tottering due to its geriatric constituency, so I think there's a good chance for positive change on the horizon. And even the re-emergence of some of the worst people (let's just aggregate them into "the racist shitheads") I see as a positive sign: they were always around, but in the background. Now they have emerged because it's clear they are on the wrong side of history and they know that if they do nothing they will be greatly diminished.

There's no gleaming path to the future like you used to see in glossy utopian pictures in the 1970s. It will be bumpy. But overall I think the derivative is positive.

I'm not sure the USA will get its shit together, but it's only about 4% of the world's population.
It's revolutionary tech, web 5.0 at least, not everyone understands.
Honestly this list is of dubious general value

As a long timer man in tech, being a shy and private person and being uncomfortable speaking in public, I've experienced the same exact things listed in those articles for as long as I can remember, except having to fake a business partner cause I've never participated in a round of funding, but I'd probably hire one if I needed to. Because it would work better than sending myself.

I've learned that those aren't my strongest skills and that's OK, I've become a very good writer instead, because it's something I like and I feel comfortable doing. to the point that people now ask me to help them or plainly ask me if they can pay me to write for them (notice that if you think my writing is mediocre it's because it's true: English is not my native language and foreign languages are another of those "not my strongest skills", I'm much better with programming languages)

Sometimes things are as they are because we are as we are.

I also think there's a cultural aspect to the phenomenon, in some countries, especially in USA, people are pressured to talk in public and express "dominance" or "confidence" by taking the stand.

Fake until you make it they usually say.

In my case it only made me feel more of an impostor, who was faking skills he did not have.
Neither! It's this one:
https://github.com/chriskuchin/terraform-provider-hiera5

On the terraform registry here:
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/chriskuchin/hiera5
> To see the other side I also did a 1 Month stint as a MTurk worker, earning about $300.

are you me?

I did the same thing (worked as a mTurk labeler for 2 weeks) which convinced me to never use mTurk for anything even remotely important.

I've been able to use semi-supervised approaches with actual domain experts reviewing outputs.
>NATO still exists in the first place because Russia keeps on existentially threatening the rest of Europe

Russia was on reasonably good terms with Europe for at least 2 decades.

And during that time NATO decided it needed purpose so it decided, among other things, that it needed to destroy Libya.

The same westerners who are being whipped into a white hot rage about Ukraine collectively shrugged their shoulders about that.

For some inexplicable reason NATO fucking up Libya made Putin paranoid and unwilling to accept the potential for military expansion of this offensive alliance to the most vulnerable sections of the Russian border. I cant think why.

>With the horrendous things Russia is currently doing to Ukraine, it's no wonder Europeans want pushback on Russian encroachment

Of course they do. Everybody getting caught in this crossfire of western imperialism vs. russian imperialism is scared shitless.

>And unlike Russian encroachment, NATO "encroachment" is voluntary.

Hardly. Libya didnt ask to be torn to shreds.
Since you mentioned taking time off, how does that work for you with three jobs?

I would do the same as you if oprimozimg for income. But I tend to optimize for free time rather than income. So I take 4-5 months of PTO a year at one "full time" job which takes ~15 hours/week. (TC > $400k)
Yes, it's estimated Fukushima will cost a little over double you're worst oil spill. https://theconversation.com/five-years-after-fukushima-there...

But we happily live with oil drilling and transport.

Countries like France show how safe nuclear can be.
Nuclear weapons? They are still keeping the next world war from happening, and probably the only thing doing that, TBH.
There are generations coming of age right now that do not remember a time when things were "normal". I have hope that they will have the motivation to change things that my generation, and the ones before mine, chose to leave up to fate.
I disagree. Start your own business and you'll see the pain that this kind of shenanigans causes.

Your problem is your lack of experience is also giving you a lack of empathy.
I think you misunderstood my point, it was more a jab at the entire industry, but I do imagine it’s probably a difficult problem to solve.

I also have no interest in running thick clients. For all it’s warts, browser based clients leverage browser security which is something I value.
Yes, except for the Richest, and therefore the Smartest, men in the world, especially if they're at least 6 feet tall.
Research is done for some private sales, or for loans from private collections to public exhibitions. I can’t think of any specific examples that went as far as xraying though.
It's only open-source on desktop.
Unfortunately my first thought is to wonder if they’ll scrap it after I’ve invested some time into it.
North Carolina Republicans Push Bill Forcing Towns to Destroy Car Chargers
What I find gross and unethical is your attitude, it's open source or not? If yes don't be shocked when someone is reusing your code legally.
In my area (southeast Florida), trains: not enough rail. Both trains and buses: not often enough. Buses: not enough routes, too many transfers (from experience, what would take 20 minutes by car took 1.5 hours by bus). Bikes: even though we have bike lanes, we get drivers from everywhere (tourist destination) and I wouldn't want to risk my life.
It's also literally the modus operandi of every consulting firm ever; bring in the A team to sell and seal the deal, and then farm it off to the lowest possible team they can find.
We even stopped trying getting to cheap nuclear energy, which seems to be a vastly simpler problem.
When I did something similar the hard part was implementing continuations efficiently, a feature that a lot of these small lisp interpreters lack.
Yep. But it is about time we revamped that infrastructure as well. There are huge opportunities in the next couple of decades with respect to transportation (toward electric from trucks and let's get those overhead wires in for our rails already) and labor (automation, productivity increases are our best way out of inflation).

However, the expected but worst thing that could happen now is oil crashes down because of a recession (demand playing most of the role in oil's price) and labor becomes cheap again.
>In the end life isn't perfect, but it generally has gotten better

I agree with your point, but people take this as a given (that because things are better now they will keep improving). It can get worse, and it doesn't need to bounce back in the long run.
My near-in sight was absolutely fine. Nowadays, it's getting harder to read near-in, but I think that's just age - I'm in my 50's now. I need good lighting to read the tiniest stuff like the voltage output printing on the average USB wall wart, for example. Otherwise, it's still quite good with no issues, no glasses needed.
Yes, of course a license can't fix anything if nobody uses it.

So it should be implicitly pretty obvious that that meant "the license can fix things if FOSS developers actually use it", shouldn't it?
I think throwing chalk could just be gaming metrics. If people are interested it shows that what's happening is valuable, they benefit from what's being presented or have input that the presenter needs and they want to get that across. What the organization should care about is not that people ask questions or give feedback, it should care that time is being used well. That is we know this meeting isn't a waste of time because people are interested active participants and if people just sit quietly and wait for thing to be over maybe it wasn't that useful.

When you force people to talk you are getting the metric (people asked questions) but because you are forcing it the metric becomes disconnected from what you actually care about - was this meeting a waste of time. You haven't actually improved things you've just obfuscated the problem.
As I understand it, they're paying to trade with people who probably have their own reasons for trading that have nothing to do with any market-changing news. They want to trade with "random" traders, not sharks.

It's not obvious why this would result in larger spreads. The reason for it is to be able to offer smaller spreads due to lower risk.
Hasbro 3D-prints your face on its action figure toys
"IAM Roles Anywhere" was announced just a couple of weeks ago. It might be applicable to your case.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/aws-ident...
I've often seen internal IT/ops departments build their own packages for CentOS (pre Stream days) and do their own support. It's not the right call for every organization, but in that case, the Red Hat support does little.
And you based that point on unity's licence being per seat, implying that they don't have a profit incentive to push for IAP/ads.

Their point was that this implication isn't correct, because unity does indeed have a profit incentive for ads and IAP, as they're providing a platform for such.
It's one of the features unity mentions on the pricing page.
Doesn't really sound that complicated, people wanting to live in a place where barbers know how to style their hair and restaurants serve the food they enjoy eating.
Anonymous electronic cash, something we've needed for decades, is basically possible today (finally) due to technology, proven market demand, infrastructure, "legitimate use cases", etc. There will probably be multiple systems, and then market mechanisms to interconnect. They will lead to the greatest loss of power by states and other coercive institutions vs. individuals ever seen in the history of mankind.
Why don't you view it as a moral question?
Most places you look: https://seandietrich.com/mendon-missouri/
This might be a regional variation for how people are imagining this - I agree with you, living in a cold environment my furnace takes 2-3 hours to get the house up to temp, even longer in extreme (-30) cold, and will still have prolonged on/off cycles after the house heats up so that it's pretty much guaranteed to still be running in case of a staggered start. Warmer climates might be able to get things heated up in less than that hour.
"Google thing, but without all that pesky correctness" is a sadly common pattern.
1. Selection bias. There's a lot of stuff in the Bible that is total gibberish to modern ears.

2. Inversed cause and effect. Even if you aren't Christian, there's a good chance that the morals you were taught as a child are influenced by it. The Christian Bible is literally the world's best selling book.
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.

https://youtu.be/AXtBsikiY50
I also like that one: Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance, the 7P.
> mass rape and murder happen

You forgot abot deportations to the Russian far East and Siberia.
Or use Google street view.
That's not 'behaving like malware', that's malware.
In the short term, all the fundamentals of the economy are doing well -- unemployment rate, corporate profits, wages are up, et cetera.

Sure the stock market is doing poorly. The stock market isn't the economy.
Very cool! Such a clean implementation
Something else important to mention is that dynamodb now re-consolidates tables.

This is a lousy explanation, but Read/Write quota is split evenly over all partitions. Each partition is created based on the hash-key used, and there's an upper limit on how much data can be stored in any given partition. So if you end up with a hot hash-key, lots of stuff in it, that data gets split over more and more and more partitions, and the overall throughput goes down (quota is split evenly over partitions).

I believe this is still a general risk, and you need to be extremely canny about your use of hash key to avoid it, but historically they couldn't reconsolidate partitions. So you'd end up with a table in a terrible state with quota having to be sky high to still get effective performance. The only option then was to completely rotate tables. New table with a better hash-key, migrate data (or whatever else you needed to do).

Now at least, once the data is gone, the partitions will reconsolidate, so an entire table isn't a complete loss.
Absolutely.

Best time to be alive, so far; but a hundred years from now, it'll probably be even better, except for all the naysayers talking about how cheap fusion is going to drain the oceans in 100,000 years, and decrying that the poorest people are stuck with substandard personal holovids.
Thinking they ran an aboveboard investigation of the person they think leaked their surveillance tools is optimistic. Given what I've read about the CIA at that time plotting the assassination of Assange, I don't share your trust.
There are some real dark vids from GDC and the like talking about the psychology behind manipulating people into MTX and real money economies in games.
> There's just something I can't describe with words about what it lacks today - where it's possibly more philosophical than technical

My personal viewpoint is that there's nothing inherently special about biological intelligence that can't theoretically be reproduced with electronics, but that today's AI has some practical limitations like no significant persistent internal state. I saw an "Inner Monologue" paper by Google Robotics recently which could be a step in the right direction.

> Humans for example operate within the universal set and within all dimensions we can percieve.

Our brain's direct output is electrical signals to a set of muscles. I don't think there's anything in particular stopping a physical robot from having similar generality of operating space.

> Even in todays state of the art if we gave robots all the sensors that we have they still couldn't evolve with their environment like we could

Ability to evolve seems mostly orthogonal to intelligence to me. If humans instead came about by an intelligent creator or gradient descent, wouldn't we still be intelligent? AI adapting to the environment through gradient descent or self-modification should be fine and faster than evolution.

> or invent fire like we would with current algorithm or neural nets. They would just keep doing whatever they're programmed to do within their set of "stuff" for lack of a better term

In virtual environments, neural networks have adapted to changes and learned new strategies, even those not intended by the creators. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kopoLzvh5jY
There's many things to be optimistic about, but the complex nature of society means progress will likely look like a slow crawl towards the right direction, but we'll eventually get there.

One place to look at are teenagers. They grew up with the internet and open access to information. If you sit down and speak with any of them, they are more aware of the areas that need improvement and are not afraid to speak out about them, regardless of the fact that modern society tries to throw everything at them to keep them from doing so.