skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working from your bed or your couch is not ideal for your back. If you exclusively do remote work, make sure you get an ergonomic chair and table and start a workout routine to strengthen your back muscle.

I know several people who developed severe back pain during Covid lockdown. Disc prolapse is a real risk for us office workers and is even worse if you stay at home all day having removed all physical routine from your life. I like to commute with my bicycle to the office every day (16km round trip) which gives me physical exercise w/o me forcing myself to go to the gym.
I think most companies are pretty amenable (that is, a lot seem to fall into the trap) of having an employee who becomes rather irreplaceable. Maybe it's the guy who makes himself responsible for the build infrastructure for the rest of the thousands of engineers, or maybe it's the guy who hacked up hundreds of thousands of lines of code years ago when the company was still smallish and which still mostly work but is now mostly on architecture (days filled with meetings with varied teams) unless something tricky is wrong and you're really glad he can still code and debug his legacy mess. It is harder at larger companies, especially because those will tend to have a higher density of managers who actively look for bus-factor-1 problems to try and ameliorate, but still.

I think it's funny how at the large companies there's an inversion to your "lone wolf" claim somewhere in the promotion pipeline where to get to the next level you're supposed to show leadership and ownership of some core feature domains, you'll be working on basically one bigger thing for months at a time. Sure, technically the "team" owns it, and a few other members may have implemented some of the simpler pieces, or done QE work on it, and you probably had to have meetings with other teams about aspects of it, but everyone knows whose baby it really is and who is best positioned to add new code or debug existing code. When your team is pretty stable for enough years (quite a nice experience) everyone on the team has at least one baby + eventually passable familiarity with everyone else's; not without good reason, it's a pretty powerful way of organizing devs who don't need constant hand holding. It's not as lone wolf as literally working by yourself on your own company, but it's not like you're drowning in collaboration. As people inevitably drop out, there's often an attempt to transfer knowledge formally, because of course there are things that the person leaving knows about their special areas that are not well understood by the rest of the team or company. Companies and teams where there really is a sense of full shared ownership and common almost equal understanding of things are pretty rare, and I would bet tend to be on the smaller side.
I don't disagree, but some of the great parts about vim are its self-sufficiency and reliability. It's awful when your editor won't open because it's trying to write a log message to a drive that was disconnected or checking for updates but the network is extremely congested.

One could make a command to check some central registry (or, what the hell, maybe a .vimrc blockchain) but typing that command would be about as much work as the curl/wget/git solutions proposed elsewhere.
Why was this written like I should care what a grown adult does with their life? If I could sleep in until 8:59am every day I would. All the more power to them!
No need to use the IPA. There exist romanization systems for Hokkien: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB
I’ve averaged about 5 years over three jobs.

My current one was going pretty well for a year, but COVID stuff and life craziness made it less enjoyable for the next year after a re-org.

I waited another year and tried switching teams at the company and while it started rough I feel like I might find a groove that will get me a couple of years.

After that I might go look for something else.

Sometimes there is a good year followed by a bad year followed by three good years. If you leave after that first bad year you might just jump to another good year bad year cycle and in the end have less good years if you just stayed five years at each place.
> Hard to fork and maintain my own version

apt-get source xxxx

put patch in debian/patches

dch --increase

dpkg-buildpackage.

Copy the patch and rebuild next time a new version comes out.
Yeah, while the old Unity was buggy, the UX was much smoother than the Gnome3 it was replaced with (either with the dock or clean upstream variant).

One thing I enjoyed was Unity using Xapian instead of Lucene as the search engine, which worked much better for multi-script Serbian language out of the box.
All the parts of me that agree with you (and I love these parts of me) are parts that I try to, somehow, both suppress and maintain.

Suppress: in order to stay abreast of the changing world.

Maintain: in order to have a sanity-saving anchor to the real-world I'm familiar with.

> 4) Excellent stationery

Just thinking about this gave me the kind of excited thrill that could passingly be mistaken for sexual.
I value my sleep time, which is why I'm not going to bed earlier than when I actually feel like it, as it usually results in hours spent on useless disorganized thinking about everything and not sleeping much.
It looks like something interesting, I sent an email as I got stuck after the read me and haven't had a lot of time to poke around in the code.
Why not change jobs to find one that is remote?
I hate that. In the company where I work, the meetings are 11 AM, and you can clearly see that people wake up 10:59 and have no clue where they are, what they did yesterday and what they have to do today. It is such a waste of energy and time to have to go through all "hmm, yesterday.. I.. hmm"
Fair, I've always heard the term in reference to psychics.
I envy that sort of a remote late-to-rise ethos (or circumstance). I've a couple of kids and the youngest dictates the sleep/wake cycle of the rest of us - usually he's up around 5:15am and full of restless energy. On the plus side, any calls I have with the West Coast or Asia usually happen with the kids are asleep, so the house is nice and quiet.

However, without remote work I'm not sure I could function, a commute and physically being in an office from 9 to 5 would mean all the family schedules would be seriously re-worked. Plus, I'd see the kids only at the weekends since they'd be in bed by the time I got home.
King is right about that. If you want to become a better writer, you need to read more good books with high quality prose and stop reading garbage. The thesaurus, while sometimes useful, can become a crutch. Stylistically the great writers will rub off on you if you read them carefully.
I’ve been remote since pre-Covid and a detached office space has become a must for me. At my last house, I had a finished shed in the yard. Now I have a space above the garage. Having the option of physical separation is key.
Oral History Interviews – David E. Kaplan
I think the reason it isn't enforceable is because the software will just be made in another country. This bypasses the entire issue. And if necessary you just get an American "AI engineer" to rubberstamp it.
I use ExplorerPatcher so that on W11, I can still have a button per open application:

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

It also brings other Windows 10 UI paradigm's back in.
10base-T is 32 years old and still works (there may be some advanced ethernet switches with rj45 that don't stoop so low as to link at 10M anymore, but most will), gigE will probably work just fine in 20 years for slow legacy devices. :P

To answer the original question... your server design should have quality capacitors, good passive cooling (put fans in, but know they're likely to fail over 20 years; make it easy to swap them, but try to do ok if the fans all failed), and underclocked. Storage is tricky and may or may not last 20 years. Run with several storage devices mirrored or raidz3, and make it easy to replace failed storage devices. Also, make sure any batteries are remote mounted where leakage won't damage important circuit boards.

Most devices fail over the long term because of storage issues, heat stress/cycling, capacitor failure either directly or because the electrolyte leakage damages other components, or because of battery leakage. Some of these modes reinforce each other --- fan failure brings more heat which makes capacitors fail, etc.
Ours is on Fridays.
I don't think King was saying "never use a thesaurus", he was just pointing out that relying on it too much is not a good way to develop as a writer. The way you do that is by reading great books.
> Having been a member of HN for 7 years, you should be well aware that we deal in facts and data here,

Could you start with the "facts and data" of where it is specified that there is requirement for "facts and data"?

Having been a member here for 7 years, I can assure you that most posts do not contain "facts and data" and there is no requirement or implication of a requirement to post with "facts and data". In fact, a vast majority of everything written here is completely subjective and unsubstantiated.

See. I'm not going to prove that with any facts or data at all. I'm just going to assert it.

Ironically, you have a variation on breaking one of the actual written post guidelines in this very post:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
#1 on HN and no comments? I'm curious how the ranking system here works... Posts with the greatest # of upvotes per minute?
I think the problem is < fake books and > Amazons fundamentally broken reviews system.

Seems like the fake review bots are a lot smarter than the anti-measures applied by Amazon. And the fun part is that both parties are probably running on AWS ;)
I work remotely, core time starts 11:00 but I wake up at 5:30 to study, do sports, and when I start to work around 9:30-10:00, I'm really productive. For sure I have to go early to bed, to get at least 7 hours sleep, but thats a nice trade-off.
Federal government facilities were made available. This goes to constitutional limits of authority over state functions, and state laws and federal laws have to sit alongside each other sometimes, in an uncomfortable non-hierarchy.

I am sure if the federal government had been able to unequivocally order the NSW and Qld states to open the doors they would have. No federal government goes past an opportunity to exercise it's authority inside its own boundaries. The fact they didn't to me is a strong indicator that in law, they couldn't.
Ultimately you know it’s like both things can be valuable.

A bunch of 1-2 year stints might quickly help you identify the patterns if things they work well generally abd what doesn’t.

Meanwhile a 5+ year stint will give insight into how a company maintains things and adapts and can also teach valuable lessons.
I currently wake up at 4:55 am, 5 minutes before my daily standup -- this is self-inflicted. I was in Greece when I took the job (contract) and I'm now in the UK. Daylight savings has also gone against me.

Client is in Australia where I grew up (and have a strong network).
That is one of George Orwell's six principles of good writing in "Politics and the English Language", which ever writer should read.
I recently used a DSL in my CFD projects, and it works surprisingly well
Looking through the DC-SCM specs [1], this thing is nuts.

- 13 (*Thirteen*) separate I2C interfaces
- 4 I3C interfaces (Update to I2C, still mostly proprietary)
- 2 QSPI interfaces
- 2 UART Interfaces
- 2 USB-2.0 interfaces
- PCIe 3.0 1x interface
- PCIe 5.0 4x interface
- JTAG to host system
- Various simple control signals (power, ok, etc..)

It's pretty goddamn future proof, though there's zero chance you could support all the various interfaces on anything arduino-esque.

Note: Apparently this isn't exactly news, here's[2] the antmicro press-release about this thing from 2021. Here's [3] the actual docs on the DC-SCM (including kicad schematic & PCB layout!).

1: https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-dc-scm-spec-rev-1-...

2: https://antmicro.com/blog/2021/07/dc-scm-open-hardware-for-f...

3: https://github.com/antmicro/artix-dc-scm
ML-generated content can be pretty funny. This is more an example of Amazon being a garbage distributor of crap; this is an example of fraud. I hope there's a followup of what punishments happen with such a grift from one the world's largest companies.
That's a good start, but I'd say it's about as far as the people in the article got - i.e. if you already know the weights, you can do inference fully in mechanics.

That could be quite useful for pretrained stuff, no question. But I imagine, to go full steampunk, you'd also have to find a way to train the network fully mechanically.

I.e. implement something like gradient descent without using a digital computer...
I see an unrecognized bad pattern here: managers who make people leave early.

And of course you should be proud that people are leaving early some job just to get into your team!

Discussing "short tenure" as a problem is, well, short-sighted. Nobody leaves his job when the job is ok. And when the job is not OK and you now it (yes, this exists), then it is on you as a manager to make people stay anyway.

I see another pattern especially in youngster IT managers: they try to develop psycho-powers to understand how humans are programmed - this is just magical thinking. Leave the psychology to the professionals and just do your job - manage your project in a way that people like working there.
We knew it was coming once GPT-3 was released, but I personally didn’t think it will come so fast in a form of printed books.

I wonder how hard would it be to train a model that given a longer passage of text could tell with a high certainty that it’s machine generated?
Yeah, that's old fashioned. A fully loaded 747 flying at cruising altitude will be able to go between 108 and 144 miles before landing if all the engines suddenly died (the difference is because of the fairly large range of heights that constitute "cruising altitude"). More modern planes can go even further from the same height. Planes designed to optimize that number can reach 360-480 miles if the engines fail (but obviously those planes carry less cargo).
It's 10 minutes minimum for me, and it's still painful. 20-30 minutes works best. How can one even open their eyes clearly after just a few minutes, let alone think?
Amazon review bots upvoting HN articles about themselves?
I think they were disabled for 16 color mode, but on 256 colors they were rendered with dithering, which looked kinda cool. I distinctly remember it from playing rollercoaster tycoon; the game ran in 8bpp mode and used the system open/save dialogs.
The 'book factory business oppportunity' trend spotted in the article is explored in depth in this excellent Dan Olson video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

It is a great and informative watch.
A less constructed example showing this even more strongly:

I used to buy distilled water from my grocery store. The water had to be shipped to the store, that took gas. Not green, not efficient compared to: Now the same store has a reverse osmosis machine, available because of new technology, that uses regular city water and filters it. It's half the price. No gas is used to transport the water to the store, it flows through a pipe to get to the store. This increases GDP, the same amount of water (at least) is bought, but lots of peole have some extra money left over. GDP increased, pollution decreased substantially.

BUT. The discussion does go on from there.
The people with extra dollars might spend that on something polluting - maybe even as polluting as trucking water around - but they might well not.

Even so, as with the original example, only better, this is an example of economic growth that actually decreases consumption, taken by itself. (Now comes the argument about knock-on effects such as what the freed bucks get spent on, and the named law (word) saying that when you make a good more efficiently, demand for it increases.)

If you're a Marxist you can substitute "freed labor is spent doing" for "freed bucks is spent on" above, I suppose.
I have a $60 SCD-30 CO2 sensor board[0] hooked up to a Raspberry Pi Zero W that serves up air quality data in chart form via Grafana. It’s not as portable as the device in TFA, but is a lot cheaper (at least if you already have a RPi) and you can easily look back at how the levels vary over weeks, months, etc.

By far the biggest source of CO2 in my house is the gas oven — its days are numbered!

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4867
I feel like companies don't use Github as much as individuals. I've seen Azure DevOps used a lot, Gitlab right behind that, Bitbucket as a third option, however I've yet to work for company using Github organizations. And I don't blame them tbh, Github for organizations, has less feafures, but costs a ton more than other alternatives. Other thing i've notices is that sometimes, bigger companies have special deals with Microsoft, that for example include some Azure DevOps features for free.
>Just because you swallowed that pill

It's not about me. I don't think that you read what I wrote.

Are you saying that someone who didn't finish high school can get into Harvard medical school?

Most people in the world have zero choice.

What would you do if you were born in some place like, oh, East Saint Louis or South side of Chicago, and your mom was a prostitute on crack and you never knew your father. All the role models that you saw were criminals, and all your peer group that you grew up with were into crime, and when you were 13-, 14-,15-years-old, you were arrested 8 or 10 times. Your school was rickety, teachers were terrible, you never got 3 meals a day so you couldn't concentrate in school.

Or you were raised in Bengladesh and don't even have access to electricity, let alone a computer.

What if one just doesn't have the brainpower? My in-laws taught in schools in very nasty areas, and there were kids that they spent hours with trying to teach them how to add two 2 digit numbers and the student just couldn't do it - things that would take you 2 minutes to understand, some cannot understand at all.

What if you work in some town in the middle of Nebraska and there is only one significant employer in the area. You have no university degree, but scraped oneself up to being a plant manager making $120K per year, but you HATE it, abhor it, your superior treats you like trash. But you have a wife and 5 children, and you live in a huge 5 bedroom 6 bathroom house with 5 acres in the best area of town. Your wife loves living there and your children love their schools and are successful in them. And your wife's parents live nearby, and they both have Alzheimers Disease, so she takes care of the daily. But you hate the job. and there is only that one employer. Are you suggesting that the person, with a high school degree, sell their home for $500K, moves to SF and buys a 1 bedroom condo in Palo Alto for $800K and all of them live in the one bedroom, including the wife's parents? And the guy goes out with his high school degree and find a job as a computer programmer working at Google, which is harder to get into than getting into Harvard University? No. The man has to stay in his job, and hate it. But get his happiness from having a happy family, a nice home. Stuff outside of work. Work is not the main goal in life. Family and friends are.

You really don't have too much experience in life, or have not really thought it through.
This has been a concern of mine for a while; I have also published absolute garbage just to see how far I can take it. I've published music under various pseudonyms, books underneath different pen-names... the list goes on. I've retracted such publications, but it is frightening if one person like myself had the curiosity to try, what is already out there, and, what a well-funded nation-state actor could do.

----

Post-truth, like post-modernism, does not mean an absolute absence of truth, but a decline in confidence in common knowledge, making your own truth the center of your life, rather than a set of values shared by a community.

We now believe that our own truth is somehow better than the "centralized" or "official" truth. We are now free from the institutions and authorities that controlled the truth. But this is an illusion, because the very definition of truth requires trust in something other than you.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/j5gyp5/the_sear...
Ublock origin and disable JS on mobile works well
Despair. It's like grief. People experience grief for terrible things, things that are immutable, fixed, unchangable.

We humans are a meatgrinder to the biosphere. The figures are something like 200 species go extinct every day. You've probably got less than 200 friends and people you incidentally know. Imagine if every single one of them just died, all on one day. Then the same happened the next day. And the next. And the next.

Would you not despair? Would you not grieve?

Pretty sure that's where we are with the climate. Some worst case scenarios I've seen, and not from alarmists, from pragmatists, suggest we could be looking at societal collapse in a decade.

If that's right (and it may not be, but I'm also sure the error margin isn't huge either), that means most people, possibly everyone, born today probably won't see adulthood.

I've voted Green all my life. I eschewed a car for over 10 years and caught public transport. I sorted my recyclables. When I got car, it was only one for me and my wife, and it was a small car. We've planted over thousand trees. We grow as much of our own food as possible. We are off-grid with solar power. Biggest thing, didn't have children.

So I tried pretty much to the best of my ability. My life is pretty much a failure in that regard.

I changed nothing about the outcome.

I despair. I grieve. I'm terrified. Those are natural human emotions, not luxury.

(goes back to being sad, alone)
What's stopping you from getting up at 0530 now and doing some hobby? This is exactly what I do - I absolutely love that first hour, it's like you're the only person on earth. I'm a natural early bird so your mileage may vary.
I’m trying to think: is there a package that was added to Emacs core that’s continued to have good development? Does bundling eglot mean that eglot releases are now tied to Emacs releases?
The reason app developers think it's fine to dump them in $HOME is because Linux hides them. Those app developers do not bother hiding them on Windows. The specific functionality being used does not 'work just fine everywhere'. It is not the case that Linux functionality is How Computing Works with every deviation being 'out of the way', not even in a hypothetical world where Linux isn't the drastic minority of machines by an order of magnitude.
Has the same author published many other books?
I wonder if it's a few keywords in there. Let me try.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33313447

let's see what happens.

It got 7 points and then flagged.

Then again maybe this is a bad test. Perhaps just reposting the above story in a way to dissuade human upvoters would be the right approach.

Then I'd have to withhold it for a couple hours and reveal it later
Ketamine’s effects on depression are not caused by the hallucinations or psychedelic effects.

I can’t speak to other hallucinogens but I would imagine the situation is the same there. The day after an acid trip isn’t a new neurochemical environment because of the powerful hallucinations the day before, it is something else.

> My own experience with psychedelics tells me no: once you become familiar with the effects the "high" loses some of it's properties that make it a useful tool for introspection.

My own experiences run directly counter to this assertion.
Great Leap Years is an excellent podcast.

Less technology oriented but also a good listen by him: 7 Deadly Sins.[1]

[1] https://www.stephenfry.com/7deadlysins/