skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should pay Bob to acquire new skills in his free time, and/or they should pair him with an overambitious product manager or demanding client.
I feel like that team spent a lot of time at the water cooler.
An actual example of the previous editorial style: https://web.archive.org/web/20050428082501/http://www.thereg...
Seems to me that the actual "lower the budget if nobody uses it" part works just fine — the problem is that the people affected by it are aware of it and form a feedback loop with it (i.e. "the measure becomes the target.")

If you could hide the budgeting effects from anyone with the ability to 1. start projects or 2. add scope to projects, then it seems like it'd work out just fine.

(Of course, actually doing that would require splitting "planning" roles into separate, almost-adversarial "defining projects + increasing scopes for projects" and "feasibility-analyzing + cost-optimizing + decreasing scope for projects" roles. But that seems like exactly the sort of thing the DHS would be fond of. War-games for the project managers; and separate levers for both kinds of sitting presidents to pull on to satisfy their bases, where building up one capability doesn't tear down the other.)
I suppose you could allocate some savings to REITs if you also want some housing exposure.
Every time our son cries, our cat runs to him - from the time he was a baby to now. We can't decide if it's a maternal instinct to "make sure the baby is ok" or if she just needs to know about everything going on in the house. I like to think it's the former.

Plus, this cat wears her emotions openly - much more so than other cats we've had. When she's happy / excited, her fur puffs up. It's the same fur as when they're angry / scared - the tail poofs and the fur along the spine stands up. We were confused at first when she was a kitten, since it's so different from expected. But we learned that the puffed fur combined with intense purring and even rolling seems to be her way of expressing joy & pleasure. It's also absolutely adorable.
Yeah, this is a woo-woo look at how the world supposedly works from an enthusiastic supporter of Ayurveda and homeopathic medicine.

The book references sacred geometry. It talks about inscribing an equilateral triangle on Chartres cathedral to draw a diagram of a vulva.

It's full of literal errors about the locations of real world objects and the nature of physics. He references the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Emerald Tablet of Hermes.

If "philosopher king" means the old guy in the corner apartment who thinks "everything's quantum, man, it's all about balance and vibrations," then I think we can do
without one.

Everything true in the book is just the obvious stuff... don't poison the planet, don't let species go extinct, it's going to be bad. Ok.

It's a stupid, stupid book for shallow thinkers who are impressed by hand-waving gestures at the concept of depth.
I’ve considered setting up an old OS VM for various types of serious usage, but as snappy and responsive as they are you can feel a certain reduced crispness compared to real hardware, probably due to latency increases coming from the hardware and software layers involved.

I’ll have to try with Windows but it’s apparent when running Mac OS 9 and early releases of OS X in qemu-ppc or SheepShaver — despite the machine the VM is running on being vastly more powerful the old Powebook G3 Pismo in my closet (modded with an SSD of course) feels more snappy.

What’d I’d really like to see is reproduction old hardware on modern process nodes with a modern port outlay, screen, etc. Something like that Pismo could easily fit on a card the size of an rPi compute element which would make it easy to fit in just about any laptop chassis imaginable.
Please take my position in good faith, in response to someone who claims to have learned misinformation "the hard way".
Multi-Layer Nuclear Thermionic Avalanche Cell [pdf]
What's the alternative? Professional jurors?
I can't deploy on CloudFormation to us-east-1 right now, getting various errors when creating changesets with AWS CDK.
SAP, and any other ERP, is just the operating system for your organization. If you run it intelligently, the OS won’t prevent you from getting a good outcome.

In this case, it sounds like they should’ve bolted the JIT platform onto SAP
I've taken to the habit of just taking all the toiletries and dropping them in my bag because I bring my own. It's not worth arguing with them, and incidents like this are unfortunately commonplace (as a regular traveler, I attest). The hotel toiletries I end up using for future travels, it's not that I have any issue with them, but rather that I don't always stay in hotels so I always keep my own toiletries.
I must be the only one in this thread who agrees with the author-- Stoicism is a very defensive philsohpy-- it teaches you how to survive harsh times, but has nothing about living a joyful and fulfilling life. I find you have to couple Stoicism with something like religion,or Eastern philosophy, to really get the most out of it
Things like pydantic and fastapi where the type annotations are used for run time argument validation and interface generation.
Devil's advocate: Private firms shouldn't be in the business of evaluating the harm they cause to society. We the people, and the enforcement arm of the people, the government, should pass legislation and enforce laws to prevent such harms. If the people, i.e. the government, is unwilling to perform this basic function, private firms shouldn't feel obligated to take the mantle of responsibility.
Strawman. Incremental compile times don't hit 2-5 minutes in either language, otherwise it obviously wouldn't be viable for real-world use.

And juggling variables was an ongoing ordeal when I tried. I can't imagine how you would work on code without changing any of the variables.
Right. Another option is running the model locally from a web page, served from the project source directory, which is still a lot easier than setting up a platform specific GPU accelerated ML dev environment.
Everyone should join the “cult of privacy”
The Register used to be required reading for BOFH. More oriented to folks in the UK, but I used to enjoy this series. If you have some time to kill check out some of the articles.
Imagorvideo – Go video thumbnail processing server using FFmpeg C bindings
Dependency injections, foreign-language bridges, data validation and parsing, etc.

But thanks to how we can introspect annotations, we could have a specialized syntax for types that would be also usable for those things, while the other way around would be harder.

So it's nice we went the type hints road, because you can now define types, and yet have wonderful libs like pydantic, fastapi, typer, taichi and so on.
This is true of a lot of things. Imagine if libraries didn't exist and someone got the bright idea for one today. It would never fly.
Yes, also in us-east-1 and we currently have an event showing for it in our personal health dashboard (but doesn't seem to be acknowledged on the health dashboard if logged out). It's preventing us from deploying CloudFormation stacks as well right now.

https://imgur.com/a/4fMho2O
I understand anxiety, but at a certain point, we, as an industry, need to put our collective foot down and say that an ability to communicate efficiently in written-form is a mandatory qualification for success.
You could possibly get a result by hiring a lawyer and sending them a mean letter.
I like the idea that money both energy and information, while simultaneously being different things to different people. For Jeff Bezos, money is personal power and prestige, for McKenzie Scott, money is a tool for social good.

Money Is Energy: George Mobus Discusses Biophysical Economics and Alternative Theories of Value - https://www.financialsense.com/contributors/george-mobus/bio...

Bitcoin as Battery - https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2021/bitcoin-as-battery/

Bitcoin Is Not a Battery - https://www.aier.org/article/bitcoin-is-not-a-battery/

The medium is the message - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

Cybernetics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

Blind men and an elephant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Big Sugar is mostly an American problem due to the industry’s lobbying. If people are not exposed to that level of sweetness they seriously can’t even eat your bread. Also, why allow that level of drug marketing everywhere? That’s also not a thing in other developed countries. So I really don’t think it is fair to call out scientists when these two industries have your politicians in their hands.
Eat lots of prebiotic rich vegetables and fruits. Fiber is food for gut bacteria. Also eat plenty of fermented foods. These things increase good gut bacteria and decrease the bad ones.

Avoid alcohol, sugar, and processed foods. These things increase bad gut bacteria and decrease the good ones.
I route all notifications into email. And I don't install apps. But most tools have a link in their notification email and a click takes me into the WebUI.

Teams I work with use GDocs for editing group knowledge things, then export to Runbook.
Everyone over here lauding the speed of Winamp and comparing it one-to-one to iTunes forgets that Winamp never stopped existing and they were free to continue to use it. Comparing it to iTunes is silly if Winamp did everything you needed and wanted.

But, we all know that iTunes did a lot more than just play music. And you can argue the merits of whether those things were good or not, but again, Winamp never stopped existing, and it never added the additional features people clearly wanted.
? Umm. An S curve IS exponential. It's exponential growth, followed by exponential decay.
> XMPP needs to just sit the fuck down, gather the XEPs and put it into XMPP 3.0, with few feature sets that every client and server using it needs to support all at once, not picking and choosing.

Matrix: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/

You are welcome
I bet they are having to take a long hard look at where they are spending their money. A team like that is great when money is plentiful, but a drain when it's not.
The “Hero’s Journey” Is Nonsense
It’s like a team in a wildfire tasked with discovering potential harms to the forest.
I think there’s a core difference between helper libraries and frameworks like React. JQuery is a helper library, but the purpose of React etc are more to manage state, improve efficiency, and pave over security and browser inconsistency issues more than they are to reduce lines of code.
Incorrect.

It is not only the temperature. Did you miss the extreme lack of rainfall in much of Western Europe in the summer, including in France?

(Low river levels to affect French nuclear power generation) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-idUSKC...

Which is part of why they get too warm, there is less water in them so the impact of the plants is higher.

More generally, "France drought: Parched towns left short of drinking water": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62436468

"France's Going Through Its Most Severe Drought Ever, PM Says" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/france-s-...

You are hand-waving away quite a few environmental issues too.
Did they have power to create necessary changes to ameliorate the identified harms?
What matter is that we protect society.

Fun doesn't keep the nation together, we can't decide whats right or wrong just off of fun.

If you want to seriously harm yourself I believe we need to stop you.

That includes drug addictions, I think addicts need to be forcibly helped and not given more avenues to ruin their life.

I hate this "live and let live" type thinking with drugs because it enables people to ruin their lives.

I would rather be disliked but see people be healthy and their lives go well, than be liked for my opinion but enable people to ruin their lives.

addiction is no joke and consent to it doesn't make it right!
I haven't followed. Why not?
A tech lead and a people manager can be the same person
As someone who just came back from Portland with high expectations and instead stepped into a city where in downtown we were outnumbered by drug users, homeless, and other sketchy characters, I have to say you're right. We observed an ambulance trying to revive someone and another druggie crying in fear within the first half an hour of walking around.

The city is also covered in graffiti and full of shuttered, empty stores, it's almost apocalyptic. It's quite a sad state of affairs, and I say that as someone living in the Bay Area next to San Francisco and Oakland.
Man that movie was horrible. Unfortunate because it might've been helpful in convincing people to believe in consequences if it was good enough to finish.
The macOS version is different codebase -- most (or maybe all) user components are only compatible with the OG Windows version.

Thankfully foo runs flawlessly under WINE, plugins and all.
That....is not what I've heard from Jewish people I know (quite recently), nor what that Wikipedia article says. It says that some people have used it that way "in solidarity", but not that this has become its primary usage—and, indeed, it says that Jewish groups have officially labeled it as hate speech.
It’s ridiculous the lengths people go to inject their politics into their every post. Also sometimes cats just get out and run away, not everyone is letting them outside. In fact I’d wager that’s almost never the case.
I didn't say it was strange. I found it amusing that this is what came up during the other person's search for SPARK2014, and yes, thinking it sounded like a suitable electric vehicle name. Chevy called their electric offering Volt, and Volts are in the battery in a gas car too, but I think you get the picture.
Someone would claim to implement sap over a weekend !
I paused at the same line. This told me that the author has an agenda. A more fair statement might be that the interest rates are less meaningful than they could be but meaningless? No way.
They say cat purr has healing properties.
That's exactly my position, in my case my team is fully remote (a niche little team in AWS), I am not sure if I want to buy a place where I live either, a team reorg, or leadership change can destroy my life plans in a minute. I think the solution is a) Start your own online business, or b) Find a fully remote job, which for what I have seen so far, smaller companies that offer remote opportunities , don pay as much as I make now. Does anyone knows any fully remote company that pay FANG salaries?
From the article:
"A proper review of the so called “fat paradoxes” (France, Israel and Japan) suggests that saturated fats are actually healthy and omega-6 fats, at current levels of consumption in the developed world, are not necessarily so"

That probably means a whole ton of marketing material touting Omega oils has to be thrown away.
on the other hand, technically nothing is turing complete because of lack of infinite memory
> the government, is unwilling to perform this basic function

Which usually happens due to lobbying by said private firms
I agree, that business is like a game, and it is up to the government to set the rules of that game.

If profit is winning, then any large enough business will do anything within the bounds of those rules in order to increase profit. You wouldn't ask basketball team to stop taking advantage of whatever edge they can to win would you?
Seems reasonable to me, if you reduce it to putting the demon to sleep.

The demon is always there. A forum filled with engaging, productive conversation can and will slide back to toxic crap if there isn't something keeping it in check.

It may be "optimized" for engaging conversation, but what does that mean in practice? If it's fully or mostly automated, then it's relying on metrics, and humans will always always always find a way to maximize the score :: effort ratio of any metric. Low effort is incompatible with engaging productive conversation.

If it's done fully or mostly manually, then that means actively keeping that demon snoozing.
Quite obviously this group's work had no effects. Waste of money to pretend that Zuckerberg has morals or ethics.

> People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks.

~ Mark Zuckerberg
>pharmaceuticals are mostly ineffective

Something tells me you don't understand the vast scale of pharmaceuticals, many of which keep people alive. Mostly "ineffective", come on.

>I say this for experience, until I fell ill I had no idea about either of those things.

Your personal experiences and biology cannot be extrapolated onto the world at large.
There is definitely a lot of pressure out there for commercial DBs to adopt dual (OS + commercial) models right now. I'm seeing that more and more. I don't like the BSL concept. That is just a big trap imo.
Did they form a new team to deal with the issues the "Responsible Innovation Team" discovered?
The hourly rate used to calculate the award for fees was under $300. This case could have gone either way. The lawyers took this case on contingency, i.e. no win no fee.
Not to sound too bleak, but isn't pandora's jar already opened as of many years ago? We can hardly perceive the societal harms social media has done given we still live in the era where it is the main metaphor. You cannot reform it once it's out in other words.

> The team was made up of engineers as well as people with backgrounds in civil rights and ethics, and advised the company’s product teams on “potential harms across a broad spectrum of societal issues and dilemmas

I suppose the question is whether people are surprised that this team existed in the first place. It sounds like it adds lots of legal liability of knowing about certain problems and not doing anything about them in due time. I wonder what they ended up finding if they found anything at all not already known to the public.
It's like the FB itself is not actually harmful for society [0] /s.

0 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
> Does anybody know what caused this transformation?

Maybe this?

> I used to visit The Register almost every day up until a few years ago.

Years of not going

> I visited it again a week or two ago,
Panic’s Audion also had similar capabilities and was also in the running for being acquired and turned into iTunes.

https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
The problems that technologies like React, Typescript, NPM, etc. solve are mostly only relevant to startups and corporations needing to write business logic and correlate complex projects between teams. The point of front-end frameworks, for instance, is to reduce the roundtrip cost of requests and server-side code by compiling and rendering as much of the site as possible within the browser - an optimization that doesn't matter for most people, but matters when you're "web scale."

Unfortunately, because the web is serious business, all of that complexity became the standard for the entire ecosystem.

Just using HTML/CSS/JS is considered either regressive or niche. It's called "vanilla js" which only shows how utterly locked in to the enterprise paradigm javascript has become, when what should be the default needs its own genre identifier to differentiate it from "the norm."
This reads like a dev happy with their single server when the kubernetes toting new devops hire shows up.
This is a very good challenge for Bob. It is very much a "practice teaching and see how it goes" thing. It may not be something Bob is good at, though it may be something he can improve.

Part of the value of a technical career path is to let high flyers teach experienced developers. While some people are good at training, it is its own skill. Some advanced IC's forget how to teach the basics, but are good at teaching advanced skills.

To be clear, I'm agreeing with you. I just wanted to add the caveat that Bob might fit best as a staff developer who trains senior engineers. He may or may not also be good at training juniors.
> This is done partly because it is incredibly hard to recruit software developers nowadays

Cries in new grad not being able to find work and being ghosted by companies after finishing their OA passing every test tears.
I would say there should be checks and balances. Of course companies should be looking at what is harmful or not, but they should't be the only ones. It's all about checks and balances.
That depends on the team/org you are, if you are in some cosy team in CDO, that just maintain a couple of services that other internal services use, that aren't really that important, then of course is not toxic. Talk to the folks at EC2, VPC teams.
That sounds great in theory but there is a major problem: in the U.S. at least, corporations are political actors. So you can't fob off responsibility from corporations onto "the people". In the U.S., corporations literally are the people.
Ukraine counterattack takes Russia – and everyone else – by surprise
I have done that test. Go is not significantly faster than Caddy for serving static content.
Or chess (including computer opponent): https://js1k.com/2010-first/demo/750
I'm no fan of this. While I don't know what their value and impact was—and this could have led to the team's demise. It's also Meta—I doubt they were also fully empowered to ask the right questions and push for the right change.

A company with this level of influence over the world should work to be self-calibrating: don't significantly manipulate people, block the spread of hatred, don't let unknown actors influence global politics, don't design your products in a manner that others can use them in ways you don't expect that cause people harm, etc. Does that still happen at Meta after this? I doubt it.
When you look at the situation with shoplifters not being prosecuted in San Francisco I don’t think the perception is too far off. Here in Albuquerque it seems they also have given up on going after people who break into cars or steal them.

I totally agree that the “tough on crime” strategy doesn’t work. But the solution can’t be to let people get away with petty crimes or even make the perpetrators into victims. Law abiding citizens need to be protected.
> It is the de facto software in its field and is deeply entrenched. Its UX is the most horribly wicked thing I’ve ever come across.

These go hand in hand
We are doing an Odoo implementation right now. (a few months in)

What did you find is a mess about Odoo? And why is customizing it a nightmare?
They had a security staff back then.
As someone who had seemingly unlimited energy when I started working, I am glad one of his team members recognizes his productivity and wants to do something to help him.

It is clear that Bob has a lot of potential, but it crucial someone take the responsibility to mentor him and channel his zeal. This could be open source projects, building new side projects at work, and making him responsible for more than just a steady flow of client tickets.

People like Bob often spend all of their energy on mundane tasks, and burn out or just lose interest by 30.

As someone who just passed 30, and feels a tad bit bitter about wasting some of my potential, I wish I had someone to tell me what to spend time on, and what not to.
Yes, our cats have always been indoors; our next door neighbor's cats have been outdoors. One of them was killed by a coyote and left on our front lawn for my daughter to find.