skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mob programming seems to be a super inefficient way to develop software. Basically programming by committee?
you might want to use different algorithms for automatic control than those exposed through the motherboard firmware, which are pretty much limited to either constant, manual setpoints (usually with extrapolation), and a linear temp-to-rpm curve (ideally with different possible sources).

if you look at my linked Counterforce project, i believe there to be value beyond these simplest management schemes. we'll see.
“ the use of a bomb disposal robot to kill a suspect is not without precedent. In July 2016, Dallas police officers did just that for what was believed to be the first time in U.S. history. “We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was,” police chief David Brown said at the time.”

Wow, I never heard about that. Suicide robots carrying bombs.
The R-Word and the Euphemism Treadmill (2012)
just way too early

That is far from Meta's only problem. They are well known as a manipulative corporation with little accountability for their actions or care for their users.
I’ll take some virtue over none.
Ukraine has a strong professional core and lots of NATO support. But yes, you’re right; if the population and the army are motivated and serious about maintaining a high quality conscript army, they can do so.
Ponder this modern classic, something I throw at everyone who will listen: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/supernormal-stimuli/
I don't know why people are enthused about "passive heat removal" for a reactor that's operating and generating electricity (as opposed to post-shutdown decay heat removal). That requirement rules out every possible type of fission reactor there is, other than extremely small ones with very low power densities (like OP).

Forced convection is how you fit gigawatts of power in the volume of a small room; it's what makes nuclear fission practical at scale.
I could write an academic paper on how to improve nazi gas chamber efficiency and how well researched or reasonably accurate it was wouldn't exactly be the problem.

Ironically, because I'm sure I'll be called hyperbolic, China literally has concentration camps right now which benefit from the social credit score system.
Your comment reminds me of a comedian who used to remark that for a person like Bolt it is not really extraordinary to do what he does: it’s his ordinary job.
Extraordinary would be, say, a plumber dropping by the stadium on his way to work, outrunning Bolt, then quietly going back to his clogged drains.
Hope we all recognize that no matter how many parameters the current generation of ML models have, they are fundamentally a bunch of dump memories. Nothing new.
a relative link into /etc? what am I looking at?
> So probably whatever OVH offers.

That'd be more helpful if it narrowed it down a bit more.

OVH offers ranges from 8 USD/month for a virtual CPU core in public cloud to like 1500 USD/month dedicated instances with 24 dedicated cores.
What does exponential growth mean here?
It crops up because people give these absurdly misleading cost estimates for adding incremental wind power to the grid. You can’t have wind power without spending money on an equivalent amount of reliable power, and no one wants to include those required costs in their estimates. This tends to dramatically understate the actual economics of wind.
Just retried with the same name as before, now I see it reduced to your list, plus a new entry:

[ + ] TikTok: TikTok
To be clear, I wasn’t talking about during a presentation. I was thinking after, for example on Twitter or in a magazine editorial.

The one place I’d be more OK with it is in another paper. But even then if the criticism is rather scathing, I think there is a courtesy to them reaching out and saying — “we’re planning on showing how your method was wrong and your results misleading for this reason in our forthcoming paper”.

Because once the argument goes public people tend to dig in their heels and true progress is not likely to be made.
> The top down, hard ass culture of Elon etc, basically flips the work to being extrinsically motivated based on fear.

Why not both? You can have a hard-ass culture of relentless insistence on highest standards and a good ambiance within the team.
Found the boomer. You're right, the goal is to feel disappointed. Isn't that what your generation was about, "Disappointment builds character" and all that toxic nonsense?
How is it not? You are trying to increase your profits without producing additional value.
Not a great critique, limited to matters of personal taste rather than the actual content, while calling it "dangerous". Isn't there a better critique which covers the actual claims made in the series?
Based on the description, it almost sounds like someone scammed them into spending (presumably) a lot of money on something pretty useless.
Erlang is AFAIK the only production programming language that is OO by this definition.
It definitely persists, it's just that now our Apple Watch does it without needing to build the dashboard ourselves :)
At some level he must know (AI) winter is coming along with the recession, which is why he is so defensive, as if a barrage of words will stave off the inevitable.
Well... not really. The no-logs policy is a bit misleading: “We are 100% committed to our zero-logs policy – to ensure users’ ultimate privacy and security, we never log their activity unless ordered by a court in an appropriate, legal way.”

No need to route them to a specific server, a court could just ask NordVPN to log the person's traffic
Why should they waste time and money on a job site when people can just tweet @elonmusk?
You seem to just not be the target audience for this blog post. I enjoyed it because it fits in with a lot of the subjects that I've been looking into and it resonated with me. Your comment is the equivalent of saying that some research paper about a mathematical topic is terrible quality because it assumes you already know Calculus.

Edit: Also, the author mentions right at the start of the article:

> In this series of blogposts, I will document my experience of porting the game that I am currently working on... I’ve planned on doing this for a long time and want to keep some sort of record of my expectations, the journey and the result.

The point of this article is very clear from the beginning. It's simply documenting the authors journey. They don't need to provide any value to you. You didn't pay to read this article and they may want to keep a record for personal reasons. Putting it out their for the world is great since it allows other people to have a glance at how the experience went, and I hate when people leave discouraging comments because some article/video/entertainment doesn't cater to their every need.
Yeah, I don’t think this is a project made by someone with a formal SWE background.

One of their blog posts talks about “Process Count” in Windows task manager. Apparently there’s a whole community who are into stamping out Windows processes? Amusing.

> Throughout my time within the tweaking community I have seen an uncomfortably large amount of people who care WAY too much about their process count in Task Manager and break core functionality for a lower process count.

https://zusier.xyz/blog/posts/process-count-doesnt-matter/
Are you basing your opinion off of this one web page or...?

They wouldn't need a careers page to know who to hire, generally careers pages are for applicants.
What's the obvious reason?
Lost civilization may have existed beneath the Persian Gulf
He obviously doesn't want the majority of staff to say. I don't think it is for obvious reasons. In fact, I doubt he knows what the majority of the staff does, he just assumes it's obvious.
First version of Docker was released in 2013 and was a curiosity for a few years.

Kubernetes was launched in 2014, and similarly, was mostly a curiosity for a few years. Twitter at that time made an (probably?) unlucky bet on Mesos, a competing but not that similar technology, that is now pretty much dead.

Google Cloud launched it's VM service in beta in 2012. A lot of base AWS services did exist, but was similarly a curiosity: AWS 2012 revenue was 2 billion. This year they are on track to 80 billion.
Indeed. Too late to edit now though.
Let's write stories together – “Novel”, A collaborative story-telling
Hi Folks,
recently I had an idea to create a platform where people can create something together, part by part. And then I decided to do it with 'stories'!
I didn't have a lot of time to work on it, but now it's in a good stage, and you can test it yourself.

When you open Novel, you can see some stories created by other folks that you can collaborate on them, or even start your own story and others will join on continuing it.

Let me know if you found any issues, or if you thinks there's some missing features.

Also it's open-source and you can check it out in my Github account.

Thanks!
I think about this a lot: what is the best way we have to build software components? And what constructs are we missing? Because I really think such a construct should be first-class in a language to denote its’ significance.

I suspect it is something close to ML modules. But I have a hard time seeing them as much better than the equivalent OOP-style of encapsulation. I figure I must be missing something but nothing seems to jump out at me upon repeated investigations.
My college degree was in writing, so I used that and a portfolio to make the transition. During interviews, it seems my software engineering experience and portfolio are more valued than my writing degree though.
> I think the author has deeper seated issues to deal with, especially if they spend time languishing over this, and then writing these posts to justify/circumvent their negative emotional reactions by reframing and then echoing their internal troubles to the rest of us like we need to be enlightened.

Seriously. It is loud and clear. The justification of their own pathological behavior is wildly unhealthy. Too bad they don't see a therapist.
Does it need to be stated that moving all interactions to Zoom means that writing by hand gets much more difficult?

Why? Maintaining eye contact and connection is so much harder when there isn't a shared physical space. If you take notes by hand, you are disconnecting from what little shared connection you have in a small video box on screen.

You could take notes using the keyboard but the keyboard is right next to the microphone. Though we have technology to reduce the noise it's going to impact your concentration and focus in the meeting at the very least and everyone else's concentration at the very worst.
which, if you don't remember

> This run was beaten by the TPP community on March 1st, 2014 with the defeat of the Elite Four and rival Blue.

seems like a wonderful weird experiment to run!

https://helixpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Gen_1_(Pokemon_Red)
uhm so i dont know if I'm having Mandela moment or Senior moment but I distinctly remember last.fm sending me an email telling me they were completely shutting down and i remember having to close my account and all my carefully curated stuff just disappeared into nothing.

the old service was really cool but it stopped. i have no idea wtf people are talking about when they say its '20 years old'. it literally ceased to exist.

i realize it may have been replaced with something else, but that something else bears almost no resemblance to what it was.

please help - a confused old man
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I always prefer to switch to the native YouTube app instead of using Safari. Of course you can’t block the ads then.
This does not help with outdated docs.
Thanks for answering.

> My current experience on alder lake + Nvidia 30 series isn't quite a smooth enough experience to move my non-technical fiancee over, but it's close enough that I've considered it.

So you are considering it because stability with Nvidia 30* would still be good enough for you in light of a gaming use case?
I mean don't get me wrong I'm just having fun, I'm not some socrates-truther but "generally fans don't talk directly with the creators of their process, for years on end" have you met fans? Hell yesterday the entirety of Tumblr decided to invent a fake Scorsese film with memes and slash/fic and fanart and arguments about it's place in his canon. They probably produced more in a day than was written about Socrates in a century.
No, Musk signed for the loan, but as Twitters CEO. Twitter is on the hook, not him personally.
I think certain classes of claims one should be cautious about engaging with. The fact that so many have with so little scrutiny has had a seriously negative effect on our society. Having an opinion does not make it worth scrutinizing. My cat has an opinion on whether she should go to the vet or not. I don't take it into consideration.
Love's Gay Fool (2013)
Help me understand the "interesting" in there.
Also, secretaries who recorded speeches in shorthand were a well established institution is ancient Greece and Rome. Since Socrates was a celebrity teacher, it's likely his every speech (after becoming famous) was taken down verbatim.
That's actually the only real downside to this system currently, I'm just using a cheap flimsy folder that can't really be used to write on without being on a surface itself. I'd like something a bit more firm, but that isn't big and bulky. Still on the hunt.
thanks; this warmed my little hacker heart!
It doesn’t create quite the same issue because being criticized can make the outside voices not only unheard, but people may want to actively avoid even association.

One environment discourages research in certain fields while the other encourages it in certain fields. It’s similar, but not the same. And I think the former is worse.
Tyrosine by itself doesn’t help me nearly as much as complete proteins. I don’t think it’s just neurotransmitters even - amphetamines are kind of hard on your body, and since they suppress your appetite you need to consciously try to get enough.

Also phenylpiracetam is not an amphetamine. I think for any medication it’s just important to remember it’s not a silver bullet, it’s something you take on top of what you should be doing t already, not as a replacement for basic needs like sleep and food
One Venue, Two Conferences: Separation of Chinese and American Citation Networks
I actually distinctly prefer not having lines on my paper, because my notes are typically big outlines and drawings and diagrams.

I am planning on coming up with a few different paper templates that I can easily print when I need it (I have a cheap $100 brother laser b&w printer that works perfectly and cheaply for this purpose).
Hopefully you spelled out the conditions and confidence required for life being found, because I can see it being debatable. We might detect compounds on other planets which to our knowledge can only come about through industrial civilization, but one can argue that there's some other process that is currently unknown to us which could give rise to these compounds.

It's similar to the phosphine discovery on Venus, which is indicative of life but certainly debatable. Though in the phosphine case I think there's debate over whether or not they actually detected phosphine? Regardless, I too am excited about the possibility of detecting signs of intelligent life soon.
thank you, i thought i had lost my damn mind. i was like wtf are people talking about 20 years old. it shut down and i lost all my stuff , years and years ago. i dont know what it is anymore but its like last.fm in name only
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments. Abusing HN like this will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sun size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc
Career pages often list specific positions that are currently hiring. A large company like Twitter will not just have a general catch-all applicant form.

So, given the current environment at Twitter, the parent post you responded to seems to have hit the nail on the head. Give things time and it will get back to normal, and we can expect new opportunities to be posted on some sort of careers page for Twitter.

People are really looking hard for reasons to be negative about Twitter and Musk. This careers page isn't one of them...
Just to balance this out a bit... the alternate reality of "everyone tried" is kind of fictional, because a huge factor in high performers of their chosen sport/field/art is determination, resilience, imagination, visualisation, their psychology and finally personal desires - which are a product of their life experience combined with physiological predispositions.

In other words, what made Usain Bolt a gold medal winner wasn't merely physical potential and chance, but the mental ability to push his body to extremes and work at it every single day because he desired it that much and had the mental stamina to do so. In the "what if" reality, you would have to change everyone's mind to have the same psychology. You can have all the physical attributes and potential of a runner, but if you hate running and generally don't have much "grit", you aren't going to get far.
The comments mention a Safari extension called Vinegar, which fixes this and also provides Picture in Picture without YouTube premium. It is $2 in the App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...
That still doesn’t disprove the point though. I like videos that get straight to the topic of the title rather than blabbering.

It’s very frustrating to see deceiving titles and the actual content related to the title is 2% of the entire video..
Or maybe they've enough people already. Who knows?
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Sure. How about the one where:

1. Communities around the world issue their own currencies independent of the dollar (believe it or not, this is as important for financial stability as not just relying on Facebook’s server farms in California)

2. They give their members a UBI in the local currency that they can only spend locally

3. The amount of daily UBI to give out is determined by the vendors in the community voting on it (monetary policy)

4. Have each vendor tagged with “food”, “clothing” etc. and apply taxes to make negative externalities more costly and withdraw money from the economy (fiscal policy)

5. Calculate statistics on how money flows locally in the smart economy and have economists make recommendations about the fiscal and monetary policies, while the population continuously gets to adjust them up and down based on these recommendations

6. Hooking up all such communities to a decentralized exchange called Intercoin, where the central currency is only held by real KYCed communities and isn’t easily susceptible to pumps and dumps by speculators and banks like Goldman Sachs, and also encourages recurring and sustainable value exchanges between communities

7. Allowing tourists to buy the local currency, and allowing individuals around the world to donate to the community and see stats how the money is being used

More info here for instance:

https://intercoin.org/communities.pdf

If this is too vague here is a concrete example:

https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees/2688
I suspect they think it means that they store things in `/etc` on the host machine? It seems to just be a place they stuff things though:

https://careers.twitter.com/etc/designs/careers2-twitter/pub...
Probably will soon? See Elizabeth Holmes.
SerenityOS isn't a memory safe OS. That's for sure. No innovation here…

But anyway, there are not much safe OSes out there I guess.

There are all the Rust experiments (with usually a shitload of `unsafe` code in there).

There was the Midori experiment by MS (no clue whether there is source code available).

There have been Java based OSes.

But all in all, there doesn't seem to be anything that has got any traction.
If you just like the listening statistics part of lastfm, Maloja is a nice looking self-hostable alternative: https://github.com/krateng/maloja
Warning: Completely breaks the back button on Mobile Chrome and Brave.

I thought it was cool until I was stuck there.
I honestly disagree in good faith. I'm not saying I feel no empathy for people in shitty jobs. I do. I've worked plenty of shitty jobs. I've worked jobs that I percieved as bullshit. But someone else didn't perceive them as bullshit and wanted to pay me to do them and I agreed it was worth it for the money at the time.

But the whole thing conceptually makes no sense. If you hate your job then just hate your job. Quit if you can. Don't if you can't. But the "bullshitness" of it is irrelevant and the only person with skin in the game on how "bullshit" the job is, the employer who trades a resource to pay for the job to be done, says it isn't bullshit. Your perception of if your job is bullshit is irrelevant unless you are interested in doing something about it but by nature it's not the kind of thing that the person complaining about it is usually in a position to do anything about.

So if you want to make this your stand, then

a) quit

b) Lobby internally to get moved or whatever or unbullshit your job

c) accept that you are willing to do bullshit jobs for money

But just complaining that the jobs are bullshit is meaningless. No one is paying you to philosophize on the abstract value of your job. It counts for nothing. The world doesn't owe you to have the internal perception of value in your job. That's your job to achieve. Not the world's responsibility to provide.

Basically so what if it's bullshit? Let's say your job is literally to show up to an office and write "my job is not bullshit" on a whiteboard on repeat indefinitely. So your job is clearly bullshit. So what? You've accomplished absolutely nothing by pointing this out. Someone is willing to pay you to do it and you are willing to show up for the money. There's really no further interesting discussion to have.

But if you are going to make "my job is bullshit" the thing you are going to a loudly take a stand on, and then you wake up in the morning and show back up on your own free will, then I think that's indicative of a weak character of the person aimlessly complaining, not any other issue with the system.
It's not about how much you produce, it's about how well you knew the reasoning behind the thought.

By talking with the person directly you're able to understand that reasoning much better vs interpretation.
Here's a community run wiki that's been kept up-to-date https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library/wiki
I switched to caddy for my personal stuff quite a while ago due to the easy config. I just have everything in a single Caddyfile (TOML). No idea about performance though as for the one thing that needs it I use Envoy proxy.
There is a huge difference between "working because you need money" and "working because you want money/something to do/achieve a higher calling", to the point that it's not really fair to compare the two. The latter is better for society as whole, in my opinion.

And the tragic thing is that we could probably achieve a society where that second mode of work is available to everyone, with enough capital investment. Many jobs that people work out of necessity could be automated completely, with today's technology (forget any bleeding-edge AI stuff, I'm talking Robotics 101). Jobs that remain could be made immeasurably less unpleasant. It would just take a restucturing of society around minimizing human suffering, rather than maximizing the wealth that can be accrued by a ruling class.