skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot I could have taken issue with in the comment I replied to starting with your conflation of libertarians with Trump supporters. You also haven't been paying attention considering libertarianism really had its heyday under the Bush and Obama administrations and has flagged quite a bit since then. You're positing that there is some subculture of these supposed evil libertarians that have been biding their time here on HN and elsewhere, practicing their menacing writing skills to further their vile plots. You say that anyone who takes this type of rhetorical approach is doing so in order to conceal their true desire to engage in hate speech, honestly this is just twisted you're painting your opponents as monsters instead of admitting that someone might disagree with you and it seems you'd prefer to simply ban anyone who disagrees as such. Talk about authoritarian ambitions. To top it all off, you Godwin the conversation by comparing this imaginary foe to Nazis. To me, all of that seems very in line with conspiratorial or paranoid thinking. No wonder I didn't want to put the energy into a long winded rebuke like this one.
I don't like working remote. I like working in an office. I find it more productive when my coworkers are right by me. Software development done well is an interactive, creative process. It is easier if you and I work together and can brainstorm on a whiteboard, or over lunch, and reduce the friction. And then go off to our respective cubes to hack it up and then share our work. That's the process I've found works best for teams.

But I want to work at what I'm doing, for the startup that I'm contracting for, in the space that I'm doing work in. And that's not here (they're not "anywhere" really) and all the local (southern Ontario, west of Toronto) companies suck, underpay, and are generally mismanaged.

And I'm not moving and giving up the life that I have I have so I can be where the interesting work is. I've done that once already in my 20s -- left my parents and siblings to go to the only place in Canada where the tech industry was really a thing (at the time) -- and I won't be made to do it again.

Canadian tech companies have been profiting from underpaying their engineering staff (relative to the US market) for a couple decades. Now they will suffer because they have to compete with remote. Recession might change this, but for now I intend on taking advantage of this.

So, remote it is. It's not perfect. But I'm not going to drive almost 2 hours a day to get underpaid by some mediocre local company run by mediocre management and mediocre investors. There's a larger world out there, accessible to me for the first time ever.
Insulin pricing in the USA?
2004 was the peak of Blair-Brown Labour party investment.

They didn't get it all right. They used PFI and outsourcing to fudge the sums on major investments, and I dare say they didn't invest in mental and social health care in the amount required. But nobody ever has.

The job of fixing this is so expensive and requires so much political force. We're still worried French immigrants are going to eat our dingos, or something. I'm fairly certain now we're destined to limp into an American insurance model; eat the poor.
Thats cool but you probably need ~2000 calories a day which would require chewing through 28 pounds of lettuce(70 kcal/lb) which ain't easy.
"The most resilient people I know came from rough-and-tumble upbringings like you describe."

This is such a casually violent thing to say. You know why the most resilient people you know came from rough-and-tumble upbringings? Because they had to or their life would have spiralled out of control... and guess what there are innumerable people who's lives did spiral out of control and they aren't there for you to meet and judge. They are dead or shoved into one of societies ditches somewhere as an ignored homeless person who has no social connections with housed people because they essentially have pariah status. Do you think that is ok?

It is called survivorship bias and it is honestly a little embarassing that you aren't cognizant of that even while it shapes your broad outlook on others

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Present day ARM Surface devices (well...device) are very fast.
Is this a garden of a yard you are maintaining? Cultivating a garden before you see weeds cuts down on the weed seed bank. One of those things that takes rigorous practice for a year or more before it is obviously having a long term positive impact.
Interestingly, this is basically what CPython does to implement its native permutations function. The C source is, as always, extremely easy to understand: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Modules/itertool...
Certainly, you're right there. Though do we need auto updates for addressing that, with all of the risks and annoyances that come with that mechanism?

For example, something like GitLab doesn't have automatic updates (in self-hosted versions) and seems to get by just fine with sufficiently scary update notices for serious CVEs, for example: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/22/critical-securi...

Of course, those who just don't care won't even bother with those updates and the consequences are obvious. Automatic updates would prevent that, but then again, the backlash in the Ubuntu community for having snap packages on servers (and to a lesser degree on desktop) would suggest that that's just not enough to get people to buy into it.

One could also claim that server software and desktop software are entirely different beasts, but personally I'd prefer to update software on my desktop PC through apt or another standard mechanism (when I want, from sources I trust), as opposed to every piece of software deciding on their own bespoke update mechanism.

Personally, I don't really have a good answer. Both approaches are somewhat flawed, just in different ways to different folks in different circumstances.
It's hard for me to imagine an office environment that would make up for commuting every day. Unless I live walking distance from the office I'll pick fully remote every time.
I don't get it. Is this some kind of ideological self-censorship? We're not supposed to talk about this even though it's true because it might make Marxists happy?

What exactly are we supposed to be gaining by burying our heads in the sand and refusing to talk about high-valuation unprofitable companies?
What groups brought Kyle Rittenhouse to Kenosha? He worked in Kenosha, his father lives in Kenosha, and he was staying with his sister's boyfriend in Kenosha.
Hey John,

Thanks for commenting. I had read your article via another comment here. I had not thought about the syscall approach before, because as you note Apple does not (well, did not previously) guarantee syscall stability.
I've been thinking about the dumb idea of using solid uranium/thorium as the (closest) salt containment layer: you have a solid uranium (melting point 2000C) or thorium layer (3000C) around the salt, which may not degrade it that quickly if the salts (which are a solution basically, if it's a liquid?) are more or less saturated. Or even if it isn't, how long would a layer of uranium or thorium last? I guess that's the big question.

You don't care if the thorium or uranium captures neutrons I would think. Thorium neutron capture is a good thing.

So depending on how long the solid "breeder" inner shell hold up, when you "recondition" the inner shell, I assume you can just dissolve it into salt, feed it into the normal fission products processing that the salt fuel use, and put in a new solid uranium/thorium salt shell.

Or maybe thorium could be alloyed for more endurance properties as the containment. Of course I have no idea about the various cracking / strength / fatigue properties of thorium as a metal.

I wonder if pellets/spheres could use thorium as a surrounding material.

So how nuts is all of that?

Maybe you could do a weekly monthly re-coat of the inner layer with more thorium or uranium to replace that which gets dissolved/degraded.

Edit: ORNL on thorium properties in a nuclear environment

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4622065
https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...
What makes GMOs problematic?
1. Dang is subject to the normal rules of time and space.

FALSE: Dang is a cosmic entity of Lovecraftian proportions who exists outside of and beyond our pitiful human conceptions of "time" and "space." Dang is eternal, dang is everywhere, dang is everything.
- higher latency
- uses more server resources per-client,
therefore it's more expensive
- harder to do SPA-like apps
My team is about 40% remote. About 25% nonlocal remote. If I had to pick my top 5 performers, two would be remote non local, one would be remote local. And two would be onprem. Seniority, past experience, action-orientation, and conscientiousness are the determoning factors it seems.
> the good trees grow faster

They replant with round-up ready pine, so they spray to kill aspen which is a firebreak species, and grow massive pine stands which are the opposite. It's the major reason for the massive forest fires we've had lately (and thus the massive flooding).
> FB and other big tier 1 companies when they started to hire remotely

All of the big tier 1 companies have serious strings attached for remote work. I've interviewed at several in the last year or two, and they all advertised remote work but also had weird requirements like "must be within 150 miles of an office" and "for certain positions" and "based on seniority."

Perhaps the reason they are struggling to hire remote employees is linked to the fact that they have poor remote culture AND dubious support for remote employees in the future.
All of my cars have been silver or grey because those were my choices buying off the lot and I didn't want to pay extra and wait to get one from the factory in a more interesting color.
I use de-Googled Lineage. I've been thinking about switching to /e/os on my next devices.

My carrier still knows where I am, but Google does not. They might get a subtle hint if I connect to wifi.

My default browser is Bromite, configured to open everything incognito by default.
Does turning the air conditioning off when you’re not home save energy?
Read the article and found it sensational.

I was at Amazon for over 10 years. I think it’s a horrible place to work, and I regret the toll it took on my physical and mental health and my personal relationships.

Maybe we should be alarmed by this deal. Here’s my insider view.

AWS is about the only place at Amazon where real innovation is happening. The rest of the company is drowning in a black hole of technical debt, including: poor code, half-baked designs, and even worse business decisions from MBAs… like trying to get Alexa to sell you shit. It’s a cringy, idiotic experience.

And the other challenge is that a lot of talented people already worked at Amazon and don’t want to come back. Hiring engineering talent is only getting harder and harder. It turns out engineers don’t like being treated like shit.

At this point, Amazon’s only safe hiring pipeline is Indian immigrants, who often don’t even have an H1B. They have to jump through hoops to quit and have to leave the country if they do. In my time there, Amazon used them and extracted and squeezed every bit it could from them.

What innovation would you expect from such a place? So main focus now is hope that someone else doesn’t come eat their lunch and grow inorganically. The CDO tech stack is garbage, with endless projects that drive promotions.
> can you explain the learnings from your recent project?

I've seen a lot of organisations publish "learnings" as an artifact of the retrospective on a project that went pear-shaped, but IMHO they can only be classified as learnings once the org has internalised the error(s), developed strategies to mitigate against them, and demonstrated an ability to avoid them.

Until then, they're merely a set of recommendations (with a grammatically questionable name).
> Have you considered that those of your view and those espousing that remote is more difficult might have different personalities, levels of need of social interaction, or lifestyles?

Yes and no.

There's the people personalities that affect the end result, but sometimes the company is the one setting hurdles that make everything hard.

"There's no free interaction, like at the coffee machine." but don't offer spaces (or time) for people to relax online and/or connect.

"You don't have the immediate help of others that are around you." others that can distract you sometimes, and meanwhile you want to even deduct the bathroom break's time from remote workers.

"I need some socialization." do your time, then find another outlet of socialization.

Some companies are not embracing remote working. Some might have valid reasons (most of the staff is local and we want the ones that could remote to have heavy interaction) or non-valid ones (I'm the boss and I want to see everyone at the office). Of course, for these companies, remote will be hard. They are making it so.
Oh nice, now I have something to point to as an example. I've been independently calling this "manager-speak" for a while, since co-workers seem to only pick it up when they switch from development to management.
what would these be?
edit: this was a genuine inquisitive question, not snarkiness.
Yeah that's true. In Italy they gave some money to low income people and I'm sure after the next elections the right wing government that will win will take that away.

They never say how it made people able to avoid joining black market jobs or crime. They just show restaurant owners crying because they can't find (greatly underpaid) workers.
I don't think OP is. They know how they feels and they're betting others feel the same. Employees wanting to work in an office isn't the same thing as employers forcing people to.
A new vertical farm will grow 3M pounds of mycelium a year for fungi-based bacon
It's probably okay to learn facts from copyrighted material even if you're an AI - you can't reproduce the text of a novel but you can learn the meaning of a word from context in it. Similarly you can learn to draw a hand from looking at a ton of stock photos with hands, as long as you produce original hands.

AI will need some favorable legal precedents to avoid getting banned though, or else they'll have to only train off CC0 Flickr/Wikipedia scraping.

I also think it's a more obvious problem that it can reproduce copyrighted characters by eg prompting for "Homer Simpson".
Working in an office without your coworkers is in no way a substitute for working in an office with them. What people are talking about when they say they prefer an office environment is face to face collaboration and socialization. You don't get that unless the people in the office with you are you coworkers.
It's still Jira, data science isn't that special.
> There is nothing more evident about the fatal flaws in social media than when news concerning a platform is suppressed on the cited platform.

I just looked at the Trending panel and "Mudge" is #12 for me, with 4333 tweets. #11 is "Taco Tuesday", with 4172 tweets. #7 is "Virgo" with 98,500 tweets. So I'm not seeing a lot of evidence of suppression. I think it's just a pretty niche story. I think the allegations are important and worth investigating, but the specific nature of them looks way more interesting to tech insiders than general-audience users.
Honestly, and I'm not sure of the technical specifications, but the screen is so bright that I really never notice the reflections unless I'm in the absolute worst conditions- where I probably shouldn't be running my laptop outside in direct sunlight.

It's an interesting issue, because I have the same feelings about the recent launch of the SteamDeck. The highest priced model has an etched mat screen and the lower models have a reflective one. I'd say that it's far more noticeable in the steamdeck than it is on my macbook screen, even though they look very similar.

My guess is the adaptive brightness and sensors are very well tuned.
Dial-up was still the predominant mode of Internet access, to the point even Free Software was often sold in the form of people selling CD-ROMs because downloading a full Debian or Slackware install over an occasional bits per second connection was too painful to contemplate. Especially if the phone company demonstrated Quality by dropping your long-running connection.

And that was assuming you had a CD-ROM drive. Otherwise, you were looking at stacks of floppies. (I still remember being told not to waste money buying pre-formatted floppies because a stray boombox would erase that formatting. I mean, true or not, that piece of advice is so perfectly of a specific era it deserves to be remembered. Besides, you couldn't get more capacity out of the disk if you went with the formatting The Man recommended.) Even hard disks were hilariously slow and low-capacity back then, especially if your computer was more scuzzy than SCSI.

Also:

> strong cryptography is not yet universally illegal.

Communications Decency Act! Marty Rimm! Clipper Chip! Skipjack!

There. Have I put a sufficient amount of The Fear into you yet?
>It turns out their corrupt research couldn't convince a court, who decided glyphosate was to blame for cancer, to the tune of $300M c.f. Johnson v. Monsanto Co.

What makes you think a jury of 6-12 laypeople are better qualified to make conclusions on the available evidence than scientists?
I can see the difference between remote and in office being passion.

I like remote because I don’t want to be all in on work. I don’t care enough about my company to even write up an expensive bug I noticed. I just let it waste my org’s money.

I can see those who actually give a shit being more likely to go into the office.

I don’t think your remote workers would be more productive in office. I wouldn’t be. I just stare dead between the eyes in the same meetings I just nap during when I am remote. Rather, highly productive and engaged people are just less likely to want remote.
This is a better product. https://frame.work/
> Parallels only product is Parallels, it's the entire company.

Not true these days. "In December 2018, Parallels became part of the Corel Corporation and joins an impressive collection of industry-leading brands, including CorelDRAW®, WinZip® and MindManager®. Parallels has offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia."
Majority of research claimed that J&J talkum powder is safe?
You can use "Aurora Store" to download apps without a google account, I use that on lineageOS
This whole subject does reveal the duplicity and manipulation of Bayer-Monsanto on this topic, because they use studies on purified glyphosate to make their claims of harmlessness.

However, RoundUp is glyphosate + surfactants (oily lipid-type molecules) which are needed to dissolve the waxy leaf surface so that the glyphosate can be absorbed by the plant, without which the herbicide would be ineffective.

Studies with RoundUp formulation show the disruption of cell cycle effects, which can lead to cancer in applicators who get exposed. This is a common issue with a wide variety of strong surfactants, for example see this from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, where they dumped tons of a surfactant mix called Corexit:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Corexit
The best way for us as individuals to regain power and protest over misuse and collection of our data is to defiantly and deliberately "corrupt" that ill gotten data...

Go into really kinky sex shops and just browse around... Go to Chuck E Cheese and crash a kid's birthday party and jump in the ball pit (especially if you don't have kids). Buy diabetic socks, especially when you don't need them, or even lingerie for the opposite gender from Target. Host wild phone conversations with your friends in a nonsensical language, and do it as much as possible... Cover your front phone camera with black tape when it's not in use... Talk frequently about the opposite of what your real plans are directly into every microphone placed on every Internet connected device... Never use the same password you use on important resources for social media...

Adopt a great new pseudonym, and never verify yourself on any of your social media accounts, they can't demand that info, they're not the Government.

Hack the planet. :P
1. Find an interesting remote job.

2. Sign-up to a local coworking space in Central London and make a habit to go there every day. Try to make friends with people there and go out with them every now and then. Many coworking spaces even try to facilitate community building by organising events, etc.

3. Profit.

Socializing doesn't need to happen at work.
Not permanently damaging the soil and causing long term chemical poisoning to the population and our offspring is a pretty basic don’t
There was a famous artist who got brain damage. Afterwards he could only see grayscale.

He also started disliking colors. Couldn't actually see the color but he thought they looked "dirty and weird".

So that's a possible cause for the popularity of gray. Brain damage. Caused by ubiquitous use of antidepressants or bad air or whatever.
> Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty, and I Heart Huckabees satirized the dreary emptiness of white collar life. Didn’t my coworkers realize how ridiculous it sounds to use this jargon?

Fight Club had an enormous influence on me during my teenage years. It would kill the younger version of myself to learn the kind of white collar environment I operate in every day.

On one hand, Corpspeak is one of the most consistent forces of office life that beats the dying young punk voice that still whispers to me from time to time. Why don't we all just quit the tip-toeing and cut to the heart of each interaction? This way we would all be acting in our most authentic form. This would be a hardcore way to build something great together.

On the other hand, as the author describes, Corpspeak allows me to gloss over any bad feelings that may be felt or insinuated by myself or my colleagues. Although it feels inauthentic and may increase existential dread if pondered too closely, this "glossing over of feelings" makes the job less tiring, and enables me to show up for 40 hours, week after week. It also leaves me with tons of energy leftover to live the other 128 on my own terms — as long as I don't think too deeply about it all.
See now, I think COBOL in the browser would be a winner!
Twitter is like, the 7th season of "Silicon Valley"
Design the next iPhone
Is it just me, or does some of this feel less whistleblower-y and more petty? For example:

> The company also lacks sufficient redundancies and procedures to restart or recover from data center crashes, Zatko's disclosure says, meaning that even minor outages of several data centers at the same time could knock the entire Twitter service offline, perhaps for good.

That said, this is Mudge. I have a lot of respect for the guy, and I believe what he says. I'll chalk the pettiness up to this article being a summary of a more complete document that I'd like to read at some point.
Try coming here without an H1B working for big tech and let's see how long that dream will last.
There are also operating systems using Linux that have no GNU at all. So it doesn't bother me at all when someone calls it Linux, and I'll continue to call it that myself unless there is additional context needed. Even then, I'd probably just reference specific GNU tools since there are other userspace tools on the system that are also necessary, but are not GNU.

https://www.glaucuslinux.org/

https://www.alpinelinux.org/
> We

Who is "we", and why are you including yourself in this?

It's one thing to state that. It's quite another to go and do it.

The farm industry has made a choice. What are you going to do to make them change that? Offer to pay more? Get lawmakers to side with you? Purchase different things at the grocery store?

I think we'll still be talking about glyphosate in another twenty years and that not much will have changed.