skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looked interesting and I was going to try it out but installing it via `apt` would have pulled in 3 GB of dependencies!
For a brief moment NeXT was trying to spread Openstep far and wide. What a future everyone could have had, rather than those locked into the Mac ecosystem. Which is most in this country, actually, so same thing I guess.
> As someone who cares (you do, right?!), it’s your job to run towards accountability and responsibility. It’s also your duty to be aware of the methods and strategies of sociopaths, along with their strategies for influence and blame.

As an individual contributor with no desire to move to management and a deficit of skill in bullshitting and manipulating, I feel this advice ("run towards accountability") is really just self-preservation. I know I can't out-maneuver all the little Machiavellis around me, but if I can be legitimately useful to some of them (my boss, for example), then hopefully I can ride the coat-tails of the skilled Machiavellis for long enough to pay off my mortgage.

In other words, no I don't "care" about the goals of the company as a whole, but I still view it as rational to try and produce real value ("results" in the context of this article).
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I think about this Australian woman[1] all the time. It’s clear that the prospect of winning money isn’t the primary motivation for most problem gamblers and gambling addicts and it scares me to think of the implications, especially when helped along by technology. I think those of us who aren’t problem gamblers have an easier time turning a blind eye to the predatory nature of gambling because for most of us the fun is winning a few bucks on a penny slot or putting $10 on black. (Or at least we think it is!)

But, like the app in the article I linked, what’s a casino that takes in real money but never pays out? It’s hard to see it as anything other than predatory. And while the woman shouldn’t have embezzled funds from her employer we’ve sent her to prison and then allowed the obviously exploitative app to continue operating. And when some other unlucky person who is, for whatever reason, predisposed to problem gambling becomes addicted to this app and it ruins their life and possibly the lives of their friends and family we’ll again focus on the “personal responsibility” of the victim and ignore the system and industry that not only facilitated but targeted and then nurtured the victim’s problem in order to profit.

[1]https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7547225/woman-stole-9...
It will always require more.
I'm in upper middle class and switched away from an iPhone to an Android last year and felt like I dropped classes based on verbal reactions from my peers. I thought it was much more prominent as a status symbol in lower classes, but many of my peers also indirectly conveyed that my status had dropped. Some outright said it. I find it pretty bizarre and unfortunate, but now I'm back to getting the new iPhone because it's exhausting to be treated lesser based on a phone choice.
I've always wondered why this kind of thing wasn't available much earlier. We've had electrolysis for a long time now - are fuel cells the limiting technology here? Are electrolyzers not as simple as I expect?
What else have they deleted? Anyone keeping track?
I think there is a huge difference between managers who can get a project over the finish line and ones who can get multiple large projects over the finish line. I'm not saying that Admiral Rickover didn't/couldnt do that but many managers are effective at cracking the whip and making X happen but at the expense of their teams health which leads to burnout and turnover.

I'd also say military management is significantly different than civilian. If my manager tells me to jump I'm not going to say how high. I'm going to say why are you asking me to move its early and i havnt had coffee yet.
Trek Health seeds $3M for mental health's coverage chasm
Brain function are altered up to one month after high dose of psilocybin (2020)
RAM is NOT cache for your drive. It's the active work space where the CPU tracks all the bits and bobs of executing code - state, variables, etc.

Swap space on disk is a cache of RAM, if you want to go down that path - but RAM and disk support entirely different purposes.
>At the time of writing this, this "article" is #1 on HN default sort. It's an incredibly short, and fluffy post (self reported as a 3 minute read), with little more substance than an urban dictionary listing. I'm baffled.

The magic is in the Ren & Stimpy reference.
Albania expelled Iran’s embassy staff over July cyberattack
This is a seductive notion, but it's indeed possible for a tech company to understand how a single piece of data goes through its systems.

It might take a while, and it might involve weeks of code spelunking and dozens of conversations with engineers — but it is indeed possible.

A codebase is not encumbered with the physical constaints of an old city. It's not like trying to figure out the physical state of a certain area of London 30 meters deep — which might be impossible without digging and therefore disrupting other structures in the area. A codebase is simply instructions, which are readable and understandable (with the exception of black-box machine-learning models, but those at least have defined inputs and outputs).
> I think my problem is that the last few decades the returns on stocks and property has vastly exceeded economic

I agree that speculative returns are higher now than they have been in some/many historical periods. It's very likely that this will depress returns in the future, but to what extent is anyone's guess.

However, it's hard to construct a thesis that has US equity returns at or below 0 over a long period fo time. For that to happen, some combination of the following would also have to occur:

1. Population decline leading to a corresponding decline in economic activity. US demographics are projected to be better than most other developed countries for the next several decades. The US is also a destination for highly educated immigrants. Finally, large US companies are international and can (and will) take advantage of growing markets in South Asia and Africa.

2. Severe economic decline brought about by war, civil unrest, or an existential crisis. This is extremely hard to imagine. Short of a conflict with China or another pandemic, there is little reason to believe that economic activity in the US collapse in the immediate future.

3. Speculation was so high that a resulting return to the mean significantly reduces long term equity prospects. I agree that there is a certain amount of speculation in the market (although the mechanisms are different from what happened in the early-00s). However, valuations are no longer significantly high by historical standards. High, yes, but not to the point where mean reversion would suggest a multi-decade depression in equity returns.
Other people have given good answers, but here's another one: People's computers can already mount BigFAT-formatted drives.

Do you know what happens when you insert a btrfs-formatted SD card or USB stick into a Windows or macOS machine? It tells you that the drive is unreadable and asks if you want to initialize it. If the user answers yes to that question, the system formats the drive and all of their data is lost.

With a BigFAT-formatted drive, the system will mount it no problem, the user will be able to browse the contents, and the only weird part is that their largest files are split into parts.
I'm a PM, and I've had to live through a fair number of god awful engineers. It's miserable to work with them, too.

I don't malign the profession because I've had bad experiences. Engineers should be smart enough to know that experiencing a bad manager, or even a few bad managers doesn't mean that " people who live in these roles are overall bad, don't know how to effectively execute these tasks and present an aura of superiority over the technical roles when they're providing very little value at all."

That's just being irrational and salty.
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Not going to happen in the reasonably near future? How do you know?

The particular thing about Thwaites is that instead of melting along one narrow edge (a wide, but not tall area) as it has until recently, it might shift to melt from a very much larger area. The article says the observed rate of melting has doubled, due to unknown mechanisms. The article does not say that the increase has stopped or that the doubled rate is the final melting rate, or even speculate that it's likely to be the case.
> Am I being a weirdo?

"Weird" would be if someone chimed in here to say that what you're doing is not OK.

"Weird" is those so-called friends of yours telling you you're "nuts", not acknowledging that your priorities may differ from theirs.

"Weird" is founders taking VC money before they've found product-market fit, which is something you've already accomplished on your own, without their "help".

If someone aspires to build an Uber-sized business, good for them. Not everyone falls in that camp. I definitely do not, and it sounds like you don't either. It's honestly exhausting that this still needs to be explained to some people.

Lifestyle choices such as the one you describe are inherently subjective, like what kind of food is your favorite. Some people like Italian food, and some people like Chinese food. Some people prioritize blitz-scaling and take pride in "sleeping on the factory floor"[1], and some people would rather have a semblance of work-life balance.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/elon-musk-says-he-is-sleepin...
Nicely argued. I do agree that the compile times in Julia are annoying, and the debugger sucks, but I’ve come to think of them as features rather than bugs; reminders to, as you say in your note, stop and take a breath, a reminder that computers are actually very very slow and you should strive to emulate them by slowing down and stopping to skim HN while the operator puts your punch cards in the card reader and your output will show up on the line printer in a half hour or so, then you can go back to the keypunch and fix the typo and recurse.
(ITYM $1/Wh, not kWh)

For reference, I'm currently waiting for delivery of a 10kWh battery that will cost me about €6100 (including VAT, excluding installation and government subsidy).
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At the time, I was a worker bee. Small dev staff (2 or 3, with 5-10 projects, so 1 person per project), Small company. CEO/Founder was the boss, and direct manager of everyone. I was 3/5 time, and only 2 days a week in the office, with others in and out of the office as well.

So we do this thing, and the dev team impression is that it's taking a lot of time, but it was good because it was a way for micromanaging in bulk. But then we turn around and add up the time and it was a concrete way to say "This is taking too much time" without coming out and saying: "This is crap".
It would be great if one day we could visit planets such as these, even if just with robots.

I mean, the ethics of commiting your descendants to life aboard a generational ship is very sketchy.
Doxxing is not illegal, if posting publicly available info can even be called that. The only suicide that was actually blamed on the site by the victim, is someone nobody can show any official or direct evidence of's death. The second of the 3 alleged deaths, literally blamed the mental health system and becoming homeless the day before.. no mentions of kiwifarms.. It was online "allies" after the fact that made the link among efforts to get the site shut down in the past. All of the claims largely cases of "if you say something enough times people will start repeating it"

This whole mess has some real rabbit holes, but anyone who does a little research will find a lot of the claims used to drum up hysteria are quite wanting in the way of facts or proof.
It's easily verifiable that bank details were shared on KF. It's also easily verifiable to see that non-public information about folks was posted, especially when real details were posted about folks commonly known by their pseudonyms online.

Whether it's legal or not is unimportant. My question is for the internet archive: is it ethical for them to knowingly rehost dumps of PII? Just because it's public doesn't mean it's right for them to treat it like any other page. The goal of the KF users is to harass by putting that information out there: if IA rehosts that intentionally, they're making an active choice to further the goals of KF users.
How does nature heal the brain?
I do both and IMO it's pretty great. Having a good understanding of both business and software is a huge enabler for making excellent decisions.

Basically I've got skin in the game over the entire product, not just my silo.
So FAANG is held as the gold standard in the industry and this is their best practice?

>We have a somewhat strange engineering culture compared to most where we don’t generate a lot of artifacts during the engineering process. Effectively the code is its own design document often.”
If more industries did carry this governance burden, we'd see a lot less cases of companies getting hacked left and right.

For way too many companies, "IT" is just another cost center that doesn't bring in any profits and so is barely kept at life support levels. And when something inevitably happens, it's rarely the C-level that gets to go to the unemployment office, it's more one poor soul who has complained for years that he needs more staff and budget to at least get the most egregious bullshit fixed.
There are plenty of places where this is illegal wiretapping, whether it’s you doing it or otterai is debatable.

https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/
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What do you mean by crappy? I've always found it very lovely and welcoming (though a touch small). The Julia community is also (in my experience) skewed towards scientific computing rather than software engineers which can definitely have an impact on things like "codebase quality" even in big important libraries. That's not a dig or insult – there are different priorities (privileging exploration, innovation, new ideas, and code that only needs to work until the paper you're writing is done rather than long term maintainablity is not a fundamentally wrong tradeoff to make).
Sometimes rewriting things allows you to fix things in multiple places at once instead of one at a time.

My coworker copy pasted a bunch of stuff into each page, so when I actually templated them I could fix the bug he had in every page, not just every time I find the bug
Speaking of Office Space, the way it's branded in this article reminds me of the "flair" scene.

Manager: "We need to talk about your job performance."

Employee: "Really? I'm performing all the tasks and responsibilities I was hired to do."

Manager: "Well, okay. Those are the minimums, okay?"

Employee: "Okay..."

Manager: "Now, you know it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare minimum. Or... well, like Brian, for example, has the responsibilities of a Senior Dev for half the salary. And he has a terrific smile."

Employee: "Okay. So you... you want me to take more responsibilities?"

Manager: "Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to work more and we encourage that, okay? You don't want to be a quiet quitter, do you?"

Employee: "Yeah, yeah."

Manager: "Okay. Great. Great. That's all I ask."
I agree with the point you are making, but I disagree with the conclusion.

A company like Meta that has been building and advancing the field of ML, AI, and even falling foul of the ethics/morality of large scale public manipulation and political campaigning has already demonstrated they have the wherewithal to find where their data exists. Period.
Are you still planning to write the article about cases when SQLite is not a good fit? Would be really interesting because we only hear stories when someone believes it is the best fit.
> and 100GiB is more indicative of HD space and not RAM

That's exactly what clearly points to it being about RAM.

> So the question is whether the two lines are related

There's no reason to think that they're related.
Been thinking (daydreaming) a lot about a fully off-grid house and how in the summer, you get more solar than you need and in the winter you use much more electricity than you produce. What I'd love to see is some sort of system that used batteries for short term storage, and then during the summer, would convert excess energy to a long-term storage format like methane or LNG.

I have not run any numbers on this, but the idea behind it is to stockpile your energy in the summer to be able to make it through the winter without having to resort to some outside source of energy like wood or gas delivery.

I initially thought about hydrogen, but given it's storage density, and the problems that SLS has had with leaks, taking the additional step to convert into methane would greatly simplify storage and use, and likely improve reliability since you'd be able to use COTS products for natural gas instead of custom hydrogen storage
Part of it is safety I imagine. Hydrogen can be nasty (e.g. blow up) if not handled correctly in the electrolyser design.
I recall when Windows 10 came out some company had demanded to know all of the things it sent back to Microsoft over the wire. Microsoft had some guy basically run wireshark and a bunch of network scans while using it and put that in a report. It blew my mind because it implied nobody at Microsoft actually knew what it was collecting and when anymore than your average security researcher, possibly because there are so many sub-entities in the company hoovering it up for different purposes.
I've met devs who don't have the self-confidence to leave their current job under a terrible manager because they don't want to go through the equally terrible interview loops. They're stuck in some kind of purgatory.
Yeah, this is why we need to redesign our streets. Even distances that are easily bikeable are currently made effectively impassable for most people outside of a car, and there’s no reason it should be that way.

If it’s a 44 minute walk I’d guesstimate that’d be 20 minutes at a leisurely pace on a bike, or 15 if you’re quick on a road bike (or still leisurely on an e-bike).
Writers are adjacent to journalists. They do not want for news, and realistically their perspective is over represented in media currently, unlike software developers.
Her name is "Annie Duke", not "Annie Durke"

https://www.annieduke.com/
For what it’s worth, this experience isn’t entirely uncommon in the US either. I live in a rural area that has a trauma center and a hospital because it is X distance from the next closest hospital and gets money from the state/county to exist. But that is all they are. Outside of diagnostic imaging and very basic healthcare, you are shipped off to either Portland, Seattle, or in some cases Idaho. Everything is backed up and it is largely due to a lack of personnel because people are just not joining the field. It is basically the inversion of your problem. We burn out everyone who works in a hospital specifically because of the pursuit of profit. They’re all understaffed and everyone works shifts that are unsafe due to their length to compensate. Hospitals are an incredibly stressful place to work and doctors and nurses have inherently difficult jobs. Yet they’re treated largely like disposable assets to be burned through. It is bad for patients and it is bad for the staff. But it is apparently good for business.
>I wish someone could make a cheap and easy shell to quickly make "hacker news" like clones that people could run for given interests, to create communities like this one geared towards other interests...

It's already out there: http://arclanguage.org/

or...

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

>Anarki comes bundled with News, a Hacker News style app...
Indeed, renaming to GOOG is a good start, saving 34% right there.
you think they are just gonna go "oh well it was a good run, let me go volunteer at the soup kitchen now"?
that's interesting, i'll take a deeper look later. if only i had bookmarked all the studies i've come across. i have an interest in woodland so i've been curious to learn about this and my (layperson) takeway is that logging adds a lot of carbon to the atmosphere. also, the soil stores a lot of carbon, and when you log trees, you degrade the soil and cause loss of stored carbon. (but i'm far from a scientist, just waiting for somebody who knows what they're talking about to chime in.)
I purchased a 32GB kit of fast-for-the-time RAM for around $150 in 2016. There was a 64GB kit available for a little more than I wanted to pay as well. In years after that the price of RAM went WAY up due to a mixture of natural disasters, RAM cartels, and a change of priorities for manufacturers. In 2019 I was offered $320 for those same sticks of used RAM. Looking at current motherboards of the same type, they also top out at 64GB (I know there are higher limits but I'm in the Mini-ITX ecosystem). So I agree with your point just disagree a bit on the 8GB number as I had a fairly middle of the road laptop in 2012 with 16GB of RAM as well.
Good, Google has so much fat they can trim, between products that are useless to employees that don't do anything. They could double profitability over night if they wanted to.
If it comes down to an I-said/they-said about whether I checked some box, then:

- if it's my memory against their database, I'd probably lose.

- if it's my video capture against their database, it could go either way.

- if it's me and several others' videos against their database, we'd likely win.

But besides the win-lose proposition, it'd be worth something to me to be confident whether I was right or not.
They are only 20-30% efficient and have a low energy density compared to hydrocarbon fuel.

You need a massive amount of excess grid energy for it to make any sense.
To extend this wonderful metaphor, perhaps the least terrible solution is for the "city workers" to constantly log any issues as they come across them in their normal day-to-day work. It is the responsibility of the city then to proactively go and fix those issues as they come up.
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The linked project/product does not include foundation, and most likely also needs engineering work to pass codes/inspection.

Stick framing is cheap and simple- 2x4s are abundant. And you can do it yourself solo with minimal tools.

Also, using plywood is way more prone to water issues than solid wood.
Nextdns on every device + ublock origin with chromium on linux and vivaldi on android. All working fine.