skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cal's key ideas for the uninitiated:

- Deep Life: Kind of like essentialism / minimalism: Be intentional & focus on results / remove what matters. Create 5 pillars for your life, and work fits into it: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/04/20/cultivating-a-dee...

- Deep Work: do one thing at a time, in a focused way. Context switching is expensive on the brain and stressful / anxiety inducing

- Career Advice (So Good They Can't Ignore You book): become great at a skill or the intersection of multiple skills. When you become good, you'll learn to love it and you can trade in your expertise for more lifestyle traits (more pay or less hours or no boss)

His podcast is awesome too: https://www.calnewport.com/podcast/
Wouldn't inflation mean equities increase in nominal value? I mean I know they aren't, but it's not intuitive.

As a gross simplification: One would think if I own 1/N pieces of a meat grinding automation machine that when prices of everything go up, all else equal, the nominal value of the machine and the system behind it would go up as well.
Does this work with multiple speakers?

I want to build a tool that takes a video and generates subtitles for it, then I want to index the subtitles and let people search for a specific quote to scrub to that part of the video using automatically generated urls.

This is for a specific fandom of a ton of content, lots of dirty audio mostly recorded in a gym setting with multiple people speaking.
Imagine a “meta” compute environment that only runs embedded with Minecraft built circuits like this - someone needs to craft a crypto-mining circuit within Minecraft :-)
They're essential to modern railroading, and Russia as no internal manufacturing capability. It's possible this will lead to the collapse of their rail network.
> Your work matters. It’s okay to fight for it in your schedule.

Nice conclusion, but half of the solution in this article is to work "12:00 to 4:00 every Saturday"...

Does your work matter that much that you have to sacrifice every weekends?

My 2¢: fight harder to carve time during weekdays instead
Wow—I didn’t know this stuff was being done. While this has been shouted from rooftops for a while now, BANKS and related are still using SMS to verify things—this is yet another shout as to why SMS should not be used for 2FA.
This kind of model is harder to abuse, so I guess it passed their internal checks much more easily.

I can understand not releasing GPT-3, even if I disagree with the decision.
They are probably trying to avoid the WARN act and staying under the radar.

A goal of 10% sounds like vitality curve/rank and yank/stacked ranking.

If 10% of employees get promoted at the same you will know.
This is the criminal cyberpunk future we've been reading about since the 80s...
You exploit Conway's Law by not having separate FE teams. I think this is called the Reverse Conway Manoeuvre if memory serves
I HATE A.I. Art [video]
It's easier to use than that. With virtual tables you must CREATE TABLE for every schema you have which is very tedious if you are querying CSV files with differing columns.
Very unlikely to occur in tech because it's not capital intensive. Zombie firms are usually in sectors that require constant capital investment to sustain operations, or those that have gone on a buyout binge. Think about things like airlines, utilities, oil and gas, trucking, and so forth. Real estate is also predisposed to this because they are always levered up to the hilt.
Is there any way to try it out interactively without having to sign up for early access? When I loaded the website and I read what it said about changing Discount Rate, I immediately tried clicking around to actually do that and see the change but of course it didn't work.
> Overall, Guix seems like the more polished product

Possibly when comparing the Guix vs. Nix package managers, but for Linux distributions GuixSD ("Guix System" now) is very far behind NixOS in this regard. I've tried to install GuixSD on different hardware several times over the past couple years, and failed every time, between a lack of drivers and unpolished or buggy installer. Last time the installer wiped out my partition table without prompting when I went in to manually partition (to set up dual boot).

NixOS on the other hand has always been flawless to install, and now there's even a modern GUI installer.

I like Guix better in theory, but Nix wins in practicality.
We are witnessing information warfare unfold in real time.

Every government and many companies are trying to exert pressure. People are responding by picking sides. It's a dangerous situation.
The broadly accepted view is that the USSR won their front of the war using American supplies and Russian blood. And that the western fronts would have been far worse except for the Eastern front bleeding Germany dry.

The US won against Japan essentially without help from the USSR.
I had the same reaction to the first few paragraphs.

I’m glad it is written, and hope it wakes more people up to it. I don’t know if the author has looked into stuff like permaculture design principles and permaculture ethical principles. Those in turn were distilled from indigenous communities — point being, we do have something in our collective consciousness on how to do this … it’s just not in modernity.

As far as deconditioning from our material wants — I do see some of this pop up from time to time. Minimalism. Marie Kondo. Mindfulness.

I’ve also learned that people are walking their paths, and each of us have to discover the truths within ourselves. A society that uses _regenerative_ (not just sustainable) principles and practices, can open up space for people to get in touch within. However, it’s still something that someone has to voluntarily give it a try.

Have you looked into the work of Carol Sanford? She has chosen to try to transform business for decades now, and managed to do that for the companies she worked with.

There are also things I’m open to discussing further — in relation to Buddhism, Daoism, Consciousness, etc., just not in a public forum here. If you like to discuss those, you can email me at talktohosh at gmail.
I agree that there are tons of great use cases for Chromebooks (I've owned like eight of them, including the Chromebook Pixel, and love them), but I also think that once you start getting into Android or Linux-heavy use cases, native devices are better than Chromebooks.

An Android tablet is a muuuuuch better experience for running Android apps than the Pixel Slate. A Framework running Fedora is a muuuuuch better experience for doing dev work than a Chromebook.

ChromeOS is great when used for what it is, and it's cool that it can flex to handle edge casey things with VMs. But if the VM stuff is most of what you want to do, just go a different way.
I hope this does not backfire as a product without a target audience. I want to see framework succeed in making modular hardware, not at offering lock-in services from Google or even promoting ChromeOS and other Google products.
Firefox Nightly allows you to use your own collection of add-ons that you've set up on AMO, including I Don't Care About Cookies and forks as long as they're up on AMO:

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-ad...

I've been using this on Android for a while now and holy crap, never going back.
The Niemann-Carlsen Mystery
For lang-specific package managers that have a lockfile format, it's possible to write tooling that lets you run `cargo lock` or whatever and then generate the required Nix expressions for those dependencies. For stuff that doesn't support such a format, if you had your scripts export to your own little json lockfile format, you could have Nix read that (Nix expressions can ingest json).

There's some ongoing work to better support 'generating' those Nix expressions and using them in builds without explicitly storing them anywhere, as well (John Ericson's RFCs on 'import-from-derivation' and related functionality), and for unifying such tooling (dream2nix). (This kind of thing is what the `guix import` CLI does, but it has some limitations.)

There's some talk of possibly using Oil Shell for a port of Nixpkgs to Windows, although another language might be chosen by whoever really takes up that work. People interested in adding native Windows support to Nix might be interested in helping you sort out Nix packaging for Oil (I see there is a package currently, but it's not a source build).
> It's really not a far step from "search for existing images with these keywords" to "generate image from these keywords/prompt". There's also the option to start with stock images, pick the closest, and have AI refine it to better match the user's vision, so now instead of "good enough" you have "perfect."

This is what I expect to see soon, from many competing providers. There are more than enough free images to train from such that Getty doesn't really have an advantage (imo).

Unfortunately for them, I suspect they will follow the "big laggard corporation" playbook and use protectionist strategies instead of evolutionary. So they'll be late, and they'll lose significance.
I agree they have the best compared to Apple, Amazon, Microsoft. However I don't think it is as good as what is being shown here by OpenAI.
This is a great utility for inspiration. I wonder at its utility beyond that. I'm primarily concerned about rigour. How much is story and how much is study? What details are missing that completely change the context?

For example, a case study of Bill Gates takes on a different light when the story includes how his father was a licensed attorney, that they worked together and appeared to have a close relationship. Surely that's an important detail. Secure family attachments, let alone the resources of knowledge and money, must factor in
to the success of individuals.
"John Spartan, you have been fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute."
I don't see how that's an issue.
Using photoshop doesn't automatically allow you to post the images. You can post the images IF it was not made/edited by an AI model, regardless of if photoshop was used.

If you use the Stable Diffusion plugin, then you're using stable diffusion, and therefore can't post the image. It doesn't matter at all that you used the photoshop plugin.
Resources for Navigating Complex Leadership Work
That list is terrible. They clearly didn't do any testing and just copied off the spec sheet, and ignored what enthusiasts actually recommend as good fans in 2022 (Corsair fans are terrible, Arctic F12 instead of P12, etc).
The only client experience you can offer, is the one you have today
Manipulating or outright coercion of people in dire situation toward euthanasia is abuse, full stop. They could do something else and help them but now that the legal avenue opened, they do this instead. We must not criticize this?

Regardless whether euthanasia itself is negative or neutral or positive.
Welcome to La Terminal
I read the headline and laughed. SIM swappers will get no pity from me. If you play with fire long enough, you'll get burned.
Have you heard Paul Levy’s talks or articles on Wetiko?
Ask HN: Do you write a lot of SDKs for your APIs?
At work, I find myself writing a Python/Go/JS SDK for every single internal API that I implement. This might even be more prevalent for public facing APIs since creating/maintaining public API SDKs for popular languages are table stakes for usage.

- Has this generally been true in your experience as well?

- If so, are there any hacks to create these SDKs with support for best practices like pagination, retry, etc + update them them when the API changes?
True, prob won't be comparable to a really good equity package from Meta/Google. But seeing a lot of $200K+ cash comp for full remote companies.
Or maybe it's just the most brilliant scam to ever be conceived? A ponzy scheme with a built-in rinse and repeat function that also put the final nail in the coffin of the war on drugs. Scam or not, it was a revolutionary idea which was executed perfectly.
> The latter corresponds to a biomass of ∼12 megatons of dry carbon. This exceeds the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals…

This is a nice “wow” statistic, until you look at how few wild animals are left.

https://xkcd.com/1338/
Management at Amazon was the biggest problem. The don't index for soft skills. They want procedural robots that can memorize 100 stories to cover every LP.

Culture fit matters and you can't fix the culture when thats what they are hiring for.
That's because the basic idea is immutability and that doesn't go well with OSes designed around mutability.

Nix/Guix are basically the "glue" that connects two worlds.
There is propaganda abounds from both sides, but I have yet to hear a solid moral justification for Russia's invasion of a sovereign nation.
The research group I was in when I did my PhD focused on modelling. This was 7 years ago and back then UML was considered to be dead. It's all moved on to Domain Specific Modelling Languages (DSMLs). Who's using DSMLs you might ask? Your car manufacturer is using them for writing the software for your engine. They draw out a diagram and both the code and safety cases they need to submit to the regulators are auto generated.
The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels
Yikes, people still start new projects with Stripe after all the horror stories here on HN? In my mind they are on PayPal's level of broken fraud prevention by now.
That compose thing likely came from a library not application code.

It also must have documentation other than the type annotation.
Good point about realtime or not, however with ML I have found the weaknesses get addressed pretty fast by someone. There is a big step between proof of concept and practical application though, so we shall see.
the innovator's dilemma
Gain experience, conviction, credibility, and wisdom.

Make decisions.

Drive initiatives.
There are different sorts of creative excises. I do think that there is something interesting going on in the contrast between generative art and generative programing responses, but it's also true that most creative output is work and isn't done for the joy of doing it. Getty images exists to provide quick easy to use stock images not to plumb the depths of human existence. Photo realistic painting or abstract art will remain interesting and some people will want to know it was done by a human just like cameras, photoshop, and digital art in general hasn't destroyed the market for paintings, but they have pretty much destroyed the market for portrait painters. Idk what the future will bring, but it probably won't be a bunch of humans hired to paint the goings on at red carpets and it probably will involve AI doing more of what we might call creative work
The usual reason is that you can't enable hibernate with disk encryption
Known issue. Currently multipart uploads can only be uploaded at 2 parts per upload ID concurrently. We have a fix pending that should fix that bottleneck within the next month or so (maybe sooner). The change will show up on https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/platform/changelog/

For now there are typically settings you can configure in whatever client you're using to lower the concurrency for uploads.
What is Sherlocked? I searched around on Google, but I couldn't figure out what you were referring to.
Wouldn't that require that the mountpoint exists in the underlying filesystem? That is, you can't create a /gnu directory to mount into if root is read-only

EDIT: Or is the filesystem not literally read-only? Sibling comment seems to imply that it's just chattr +I'd
When will people stop giving things one character names, it's impossible to search for.
On paper? Awesome!

In practice? The rubber-meets-the-road challenges are not insignificant. Everything that aspires to set up environments like this seems to find itself dashed upon the rocks of "oh, that particular third party API is the same in prod as it is in pre-prod," "stateful datasets that need to be independent of other environments but also purged of sensitive content," and a bunch of unknown unknowns that exist in a given production environment despite everyone's best efforts.

I've got an AWS application that I'd love to to build preprod environments for (not in Kubernetes) and despite controlling all of the dependencies myself, I still have an eternal backlog item hanging over my head to go through and abstract all the environment-specific stuff out. In other words, "the heavy lifting isn't in the part that I understand your service to do." :-/

Man, do I wish it were otherwise.
In the US it seems to be 5 years for criminal infringement, or 3 years for civil actions, according to Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 507: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#507
I agree. The redistribution of copyrighted material through "reaction" (but not really) streams is also ridiculous, and they need to get on top of that.
> There are already 2 comments here that are 100% sure tether has zero dollars backing it.

Yes, that's a silly claim. Pretending that's anything near the average criticism of Tether is also silly.
I would say I'd like this for all the planets. What Cassini and Juno brought us is simply stunning. Some of the details visible in Jupiter's clouds or Saturn's rings have just been amazing.

The images Voyagers and New Horizons brought are nice and not to be discounted, but fly-bys vs orbit insertion missions just not the same. We should have oribters parked around each of our local major bodies. We should then have rovers on all of the solid bodies (that won't melt the thing in mere hours) after that. The MRO is such a great example.
I predict they'll lose because any of the existing contenders floats effortlessly over the 'transformativity' hurdle.

While I'm worried about the impact of widely deployed AI on commercial artists, musicians etc. and don't think many developers have really come to grips with the implications and possibilities for all fields, including their own, I feel nothing but amusement at the grim prospects of commercial image brokers who have spent years collecting rent on the creativity of others.
Caching is a thing.
Oh cool! Yeah I have stopped doing it lately as I was not really using them (I would like to use them for making rough notes for future youtube video scripts), though in general it does seem like good self care too even if I don't review them. That said I just tried the base model on one of my voice logs and it was pretty good! Trying the medium model now and it seems basically perfect. So I will have to start doing these logs more!

Anyway I am pretty terrible with email but short exchanges can work for me, or maybe we can connect over signal. Send me a message to my email in my profile and I would be happy to sync up!
Scala is not that bad. I'd take it over java any day.
Okay, so there's a sense in which AI essentially destroys knowledge culture by performing a reductio-ad-absurdam on it.

Examples:

1) Social content. We start with friend feeds (FB), they become algorithmic, and eventually are replaced entirely with algorithmic recommendations (Tiktok), which escalate in an AI-fuelled arms race creating increasingly compulsive generated content (or an AI manipulates people into generating that content for it). Regardless, it becomes apparent that the eventual infinitely engaging result is bad for humans.

2) Social posting. It becomes increasingly impossible to distinguish a bot from a human on Twitter et al. People realise that they're spending their time having passionate debates with machines whose job it is to outrage them. We realise that the chance of someone we meet online being human is 1/1000 and the other 999 are propaganda-advertising machines so sophisticated that we can't actually resist their techniques. [Arguably the world is going so totally nuts right now because this is already happening - the tail is wagging the dog. AI is creating a culture which optimises for AIs; an AI-Corporate Complex?]

3) Art and Music. These become unavoidably engaging. See 1 and 2 above.

This can be applied to any field of the knowledge economy. AI conducts an end-run around human nature - in fact huge networks of interacting AIs and corporations do it, and there are three possible outcomes:

1) We become inured to it, and switch off from the internet.

2) We realise in time how bad it is, but can't trust ourselves, so we ban it.

3) We become puppets driven by intelligences orders of magnitude more sophisticated than us to mine resources in order to keep them running.

History says that it would really be some combination of the above, but AI is self-reinforcing, so I'm not sure that can be relied upon. We may put strong limits on the behaviour and generality of AIs, and how they communicate and interact.

There will definitely be jobs in AI reeducation and inquisition; those are probably already a thing.
It's down on my end
Personally, I'm not grumpy about anything. Disappointed, perhaps, at worst, because it's grounded in christianity.

I don't see what you're referring to regarding plain language -- would you be so kind as to provide the quote from the document?

The two sentences that lead me to believe that the document applies to all contributors are:

> The founder of SQLite and all current developers have pledged to follow the spirit of The Rule to the best of their ability.

> They view The Rule as their promise to all SQLite users of how the developers are expected to behave.

Granted, it only refers to current developers, but if they view it as a promise for "how the developers are expected to behave", that indicates to me that future contributors would be held to it as a standard.

Of which is their right -- it's their project and they can determine who they want contributions from just as much as any other project. But it lacking any statement to the contrary, it certainly seems like religious belief is one of the bases on which contributors are judged.
Beyond the Peak
If... you're being intentional about your time/schedule, do 'weekends' matter as much?

EDIT: I can understand 'kids' aspect. Outside of that, if I'm doing the things I want to do at the times I want to do them, the notion of 'weekend=do_what_i_want' isn't as compelling. I try to schedule in things I want to do when I want, weekends be damned.
Any recommendations for sites/services to look at job openings that aren't obvious? Or are you seeing these through your network or something?
The people who operate the site are who I'm talking about.
And the challenges for the business they're entering in to are scale and compliance. It's pretty wild, to me, to see how many people have to learn this lesson OVER and OVER and OVER again, but it turns out - you can't do ANYTHING alone. No person is an island. If you think you can go it alone, you are simply forgetting the things that got you where you are. And all of that is doubly true in finance where the entire industry is predicated on interoperability. They are trying to do away with all of that and say "I alone can save you". They want you to build an entirely distinct economy, with them, because they can't play well with the existing economy. That's the whole game: "I'll build my own economy. With blackjack! And hookers!"
They're saying they want everyone to be able to freely trade, but they're building a separate economy, cutting out the existing financial institutions that don't sign on to their libertarian ideas of a healthy economy. It's a roundabout way of exclusion, but exclusion is the only play they've ever known.

And you wonder what the challenges are, of building and maintaining your own sub-economy? I mean, it seems pretty obvious, but if you're really curious, just pay attention to this group. You'll see the challenges play out in real time and, most likely, overcome them.
Yes - to clarify, some mobile 7020 chips were recently announced, but they are Zen 2 based (as evidenced by the third digit.) I just wanted to be clear that no "next-gen" (i.e. Zen 4) mobile 7000 chips have been announced.
What kind of obligation does anyone have to use Thunderbird if it doesn't have features that they want?