skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question for now is if we can get a descriptive AI out of all those generative AIs. Intuitively it should not be too far away and we should get it by somehow running it (or the training) 'in reverse'.

ChatGPT disagrees though: https://twitter.com/zby/status/1598286995230720002
Interesting paper. The "energy consumption" of WASM in Chrome is about half of JS; in Firefox, WASM consumes only a third of the energy required for JS; interestingly Firefox WASM consumes only about 60% of the energy Chrome WASM requries; all median values.
> By law you can't install your own software or ECU in your car and use it legally on the roads.

Who told you this? As long as the ECU you install meet the requirements, feel free. There's even a few open source ones. See https://megasquirt.info/

You are displaying the problem with allowing Apple special exemption to flout the rules - eventually people start believing that it must be against the law ... just like you did.

Better nip this nonsense while we can instead of everyone starting to believe that they may not modify the devices they purchased and own simply because the manufacturer said so.
83% is so high that you don't really need to compare it to anything. It basically means almost all devs are burned out.
In fact its so high I'm not sure this study makes sense. Its higher than people with real stress like physicians, policemen and firefighters.
Yes I've seen burn out here and there and even experienced it myself in one toxic workplace, but 83%? I don't know what went wrong with the study but this just contradicts my life experience by a huge margin.
Yeah we’d never even consider adding a public ip to our databases (or web servers)
I will never work from the office again. I dont want to socialize with people. I want to get my work done and prefer things to work async.
This is a great idea, with one relational database as a reference point for every query on the graph database. I added it to the backlog: https://github.com/memgraph/memgraph/issues/689 Thanks for the idea! :D
If only humans (me) were rational beings. I will never walk away from a 7-figure salary + RSU compensation at FAANG, no matter how miserable it makes me feel. Them laying me off is sadly the only option.
Einstein is really a great example for when your past success does not translate to future endeavors and I even considered mentioning him in another comment.

I know a few institutions where exploring and playing is a standard procedure, however they aren't many. And even this has a limit because science is expensive. So you need a way to know which silly ideas to pursue and how to best utilize your resources and budget.
Correct, the Honda/Toyota plants in the USA are non-union.

Interestingly enough the “Clean Energy for America” bill pushes for additional tax incentives on EV's built by companies using union labor:

More specifically, the proposal says that electric vehicles assembled in the United States would qualify for a $10,000 tax credit while EVs that are built at facilities whose production workers are members of, or represented by, a labor union would be eligible for the full $12,500 credit.
> I'm shocked anyone else allows it at all too

I was too! But then like I mentioned with UX dark patterns encouraging users to click by making them believe they have to click it, it's perhaps not as surprising. Non-technical users are already conditioned to click OK or Yes to anything that appears on their screen without reading it.

Glad you found the advice useful!
>Remember that a chip is a liability to its issuer. Whoever ends up with those chips can come back to demand cash, so - in the case of a casino - it’s not in their interest to randomly issue huge numbers of chips to customers who don’t actually deposit anything.

At the casino where I used to work one Auditor would pore over slot machine reports tracking down single cent tickets.

People had stuffed their pockets with tickets when out for a night and then forgot about it.

But the auditor had to account for it in case they came back wanting the penny. My mind reeled from the tedium nature of that job.
Let’s Encrypt issues 3B HTTPS certificates
Not being ruled by unelected bureaucrats is well worth it.
look at it this way, electricity/flying/computers/space stations were at a time as impossible as rejuvenation now. There is not much difference, just a lot of things to figure out. I think we will get there.
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I have a printer in my home office only because of work.

For work we use QuickBooks Enterprise and it’s oriented to paper checks.

More interesting, some tasks are _faster_ when you use a paper print. I’m thinking of processing payrolls. You should verify before authorizing the processor to complete the run. I prefer to not waste paper and routinely verify the PDF on screen. But if things go sideways and I’m under pressure, a hard copy is the way to go.

Finally, I do my own vehicle maintenance, and a hard copy of the service manual page is good to have on hand.

I could go to Staples for the service manual pages, but for work that’s just a waste of time.
you can't run binaries built for other distributions, without patching them
People really blow out of proportion the importance of TSMC. Taiwan is valuable to the west because of its strategic location. TSMC could disappear tomorrow and the US will still have to defend it. The day Taiwan fall is the day the US loses its dominance.
> 1- starting their email response with an (unjustified) ad hominem attack on the researchers

I do not read this as an attack. I think it’s reasonable to ask if their views are representative of their employer when they have not stated. They claim that proper disclosure wasn’t followed, and that the WaPo journalist was untruthful in their reporting. They’re defending themselves, not attacking their accusers.

I find point two the most concerning. It feels like a case of deflection or whataboutism. Had they not called out Google specifically, it would feel less aggressive.

Point three is … bizarre. The responses seem to come from someone incapable of handling stressful situations (not something I want in a CA), or someone trying to DARVO. The inability to properly to refute claims that should be easily disproved doesn’t logically imply a potentially global conspiracy.

I expect a CA’s representatives to be calm and measured in their responses.
So many people don’t.
Re your last point: cloud specs are already far beyond that. Cloud companies just pocket the difference. Cloud lets hosting companies benefit from Moore’s law, not you.

Look at the machine you can build for one months’ typical AWS cost for a medium size SaaS company.

Cloud also charges insanely high rates for bandwidth.
Keychron K2. Absolutely love it.
https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k2-wireless-mecha...
To be clear: I'm mostly complaining about the general concept of people giving "I like A" answers to "should we allow people to choose B over A" questions.

Your comment was an example of that, if not a particularly egregious one. We're not about to sway Apple in a HN comment thread. Specific reference to your comment was intended only to use it as an example to illustrate the point.

> I expressed no such fear or concern as far as I'm aware?

Nor did I claim that you did. While it is not your position that allowing others a choice would harm you, explicitly mentioning that you don't stand to lose anything by allowing that choice is supportive of the main point in the next sentence.

> the parent asked for a counter-opinion

They didn't.
What will be interesting is looking at data 5-10 years out. If most of the deaths were in the elderly, Covid simply accelerated their death by X years.

You’d expect that you’d see a reduction in deaths over the next ~10 years (when those people would have died from other causes).
Should ₹ be part of the Latin font subset? (2020)
Kinda, but for example you could have mobile flash and it would look the same on that as it would in opera, IE, netscape or what ever browser you wanted.
I have personally demoed this with a current ipad pro and it works nearly identical to their marketing videos.
Sure there is. It's fragmentation, and it's not a choice. I can't buy my favourite Unisoft game and play it with my friends in steam, instead I'm forced to download uplay or the epic launcher.

That's not a choice, and it's no better than being forced to use steam in the first place.
I’d say an interesting variant would be regular chess with Swap2 rule from gomoku. Which is basically the first player makes the first few moves for both sides, and the other player can decide to swap black and white.
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Oh so it doesn’t actually have anything to do with blood or descent. Just cultural inheritance from han dynasty.
> power consumption

It really depends on the model. I see, for example, Kaby Lake Y models with a TDP of 4.5W . Though, in general, yes, many report that Intel is not taking power consumption as a priority (which does not mean that they do not offer niche "ultra/extremely-low power" products).
Because encryption without verification is practically useless.
The post says there are no legitimate use-cases for browser push notifications, but I disagree.

I'm building a niche social media PWA (eschewing native apps to save time), and use browser push notifications to let my users know when someone has DM'ed them.
So I’ve been watching the NYT dealbook interview and want to add some clarity that I think is missing here. Let me add a disclaimer that I don’t condone SBF at all. I just want to use his words to provide clarity. Everything below is paraphrasing.

Q: Did you co-mingle funds?

A: I did not mean to.

Q: It says in the TOS that you would not do that. How is it ok then?

A: It says elsewhere in the TOS that customers can take margin positions, so in some cases the co-mingling was to be expected.

Q: How did then such a large amount of money get co-mingled then, because it seems that a much larger amount of customer funds were affected than just the accounts trading on margin?

A: In the early days, we did not have a bank account, so when customers wanted to trade on our platform, they deposited money to alameda who then credited the money to us. I don’t know for sure, but it seems that the money that was credited wasn’t always put in the right account (ie safe money, per the TOS)

So as I’ve understood so far, it seems SBF is claiming there was just incompetence and mismanagement. A lot of regulation in finance is to prevent people from being able to do this. Anyways, to those who have said, “stealing money that I traded for magic beans is still stealing”, I think it’s a little more complicated than that.
I apologise - I double checked and I was wrong about the search results. I get those results on DuckDuckGo, not Google. Not great for DDG, but not the same as Google results.

I understand and appreciate your point, but I'm going to have to disagree with you that the goal - when naming software - is to rehabilitate words, and that of all words the word 'gimp' is in particular need of rehabilitation. Its main use today appears to be in the fetish community, and I'm absolutely fine with that! But it's not a good name or association for an unrelated image editor, in my mind.

I just don't think it is a good idea to put loaded language into people's Start bars, whatever the author's intention, when the people just want to use an image editor.
I had a problem not with the password data but with the content of some notes (or whatever it is called in LastPass)

I have been a paying customer of Lastpass for about 15 years. I moved to Bitwarden for all sorts of reasons. I work in technical information security so it was also for that teason (but not only)
Last Ninja on the C64 and (to a certain extent) Spindizzy come to mind as well...
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>For this number to be relevant at all, it needs context - among the general population, how what percentage suffer from burnout?

It doesn't have to have a perfectly described population context. If you had a metric that established 60% of all developers had issue X and 60% of the general population also had issue X, it doesn't minimize the significance of issue X. It's still an issue, in this case preventable, and it still effects a relatively large number of people, so let's focus on that.

Context is certainly useful though because if the issue is more widespread (or found isolated with high correlation), it helps us better understand the cause of the issue vs looking at some subset of the population and trying to guess the cause to fix it. If it's the population at large, maybe Agile or knowledge work isn't the cause of burnout, maybe it's something else. But we should still identify the issue and try to fix it.
DANE works on the assumption that DNSSEC is secure, but it's just an another PKI that's way worse and less transparent.
The skill here is to find some ways to chunk the final output into smaller sizes. That usually means compromises and sometimes publishing some stuff that you want to reference later in lower level (or only tangentially related) conferences just to get it citable for later work. It's usually not fun and sometimes a huge compromise so I fully understand (and applaud) that you didn't go that route.

If you're still interested in picking up an academic career I noticed you spent some time in Europe (if the link under this post is your puplication). I'm not sure about the Dutch system but in Germany there are universities of applied sciences. Requirement for tenure as a professor is usually PhD+3 years work experience in the field outside academia. It's very teaching focused and you have to slowly ease into research again because you'll start doing it as a one person show but it's a decent option for an academically inclined person with a PhD to "come back" into the system from odd/unfitting career paths. Not sure if this construct exists in other countries but my guess would be the anser is yes. These days there's also plenty of positions that are international programs so language might not be an issue.
Ha yes, I meant to say opposite philosophy, ugh. Vim is command -> object but Helix it’s the other way around. In Helix you select first then do something.
It would be interesting to see long-term results of off-sites in which a company's executives and an equal number of long-tenured average-performing and high-performing employees gather to share and learn from each other, with follow-up on-site meetings to experiment and execute afterward.

I have never encountered an off-site like this, but if you have, how did it go?
We're sorry, but you don't have a choice. You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
Says SBF himself in the interview he gave on Tuesday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DezodR9hNI&t=774s
Eg parents I think 100% will say they're burnt out.
Elon Musk claims Neuralink is about ‘six months’ away from first human trial
> Do you think assumptions and definitions are something different?

Nah, I'm sure we can go real deep into how they relate to each other. Here I was just stressing their importance together, not their distinctiveness.

> I think 4 comes closes > I guess, I was assuming none of these

Well, you are underestimating the genius of that choice. Now that I thought about it, IMO, the 4 meanings could be seen as equally important but complementary perspectives into engaging with knowledge (I’m sick of the KM acronym). You are warned, I'm gonna steal it!

> the less defined/fuzzy term solved well.

Yeah, that is what I thought. Over (pre)defining things could lead to predefined (=limited) thinking. No always good for exploring wide topics.

> Maintaining proportion

Ok, so it is the proportion of

1- Breadth/depth for Knowledge

2- Gain/Losses for Business

3- flexibility/simplicity for data structure.?

I just added the third one, like, how you could scale Remnote, not just as a business but also as a data-structure? what if, in the case of data-structures, scaling is seen as maintaining proportion between flexibility and simplicity?

I will just say this : I have a general theory on how Outliner+DB combos have an excellent flexibility/simplicity ratio [1] (= top-notch at scaling) , So I hope the new table feature will be implemented deeply into remnote (and not as an afterthought)

Good luck!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756956
But it could backfire in the other direction. Lets say I trust AWS and Let's Encrypt (the two CA's I currently use for my domains - that was the only reason I picked those two, both HQ'ed in the US), would I then be forced to used a Spanish CA for my .es domains or a Tuvaluan CA for my .tv domains?
In the windows world I download the installer for whatever software I need, click next->next->next (or choose where I want my stuff in my filesystem, add it to the path, opt in or out of stuff) and it works out of the box. No stores. (Well there is one, but I guess no one uses that)

In the linux world, I mostly look for package managers, or if not, its mostly just ./configure -> make -> make install (or choose my own defaults at configure stage). (There are some app stores like canonical, but I guess no one uses that)

Haven't used modern apple computers much, but I suppose its a mix of dragging and dropping dmg files, installers and package mangers (brew) or compile it yourself stuff.

Why do any phones not do installation like this? Its simple and you get what you want?
This is uniform across Europe, it's 30 days from a positive test to have comparable numbers. That isn't very reliable any more as testing is reduced and not comparable from country to country (it was more reliable in 2020).

The "got hit by bus after positive test" group is so small it's negligible. E.g. in my country, there have been more covid deaths in two weeks than traffic accidents during the whole year.

Because of the variation in testing practices, excess deaths is the only reliable statistic we have now.
I've been thinking about a possible chess variant to eliminate opening preparation drudgery.

The Fisher 960 variant tries to do this, but it can be very different from regular chess, and some of the positions are unbalanced.

I think we can use the fact that engines know when a position is even. There must be millions of even positions in the first 10 or so moves. Pick one of those randomly, and start the game.
“Excess deaths” can mean undiagnosed Covids OR death from staying at home too much.
> and finally got the proper support in Windows 10

Not quite, you still can't use some features like longPathAware with the "ANSI" APIs. The preferred APIs for file paths are still the ones using wchar, although the UTF8 codepage is apparently the preferred method for non-path APIs and console IO, at least on the GDK.
Sort of true, you can but it require a fhs environment setup
I was interviewed at Google by a complete noob. Interesting experience.
Maybe they gave that job to weed out robots, no idea.

Guideline: Speak extremely slowly, let it repeat several times. Let it confirm. Give up after several failed attempts to explain basics to the junior.
SBF interview: Look, I screwed up
Apple Map JP walking routes are getting ‘only the locals know’ smarts
Nice guide, but one thing that seems slightly off: All the cubes don't look exactly cube shaped, they need to be slightly taller to look perfectly cube. If for instance a cube is 2x16 px wide, then the height at the side should be approximately 18 px.
I'm curious what people who've used AliPay in China think about this. From the little I've heard about it (on a podcast interview[1]) it seems like people refuse cash because AliPay is so strongly preferred. How does that fit into the whole "casino chip society" view?

[1]: https://corecursive.com/software-world-tour-with-son-luong-n...
Both related to Covid, no?
I've been programming for 53 years and have never been burnt out from the act of actually building software. In fact it's been the opposite for me. Every time I've ever had a significant challenge, alone or in a small competent team, to get something built quickly and right, I've savored that challenge. The times I've sat up all night long coding are some of my fondest memories. I remember with startling accuracy every time we struggled getting something to work, got it figured out, and danced. I remember every white board, direct message, even every slice of pizza in the trenches.

I've even commented here on HN many times that I've never been burnt out coding and never will be. I'd be the last one out of here to turn off the lights when everyone else was burnt out.

But now I am most certainly burnt out, not from building software, but from being incarcerated in dysfunctional I.T. hell.

For OP and the posers who think they understand the mindset of serious software developers, here's what really burns us out:

- the same stupid meeting every morning where nothing is raised or closed and no non-programmer has a clue
- taking direction from the same clueless bosses who have never accomplished anything but treat us like their children
- the new technology or philosophy du jour that does everything but address the root of any problem
- management that absolutely cannot grok fundamentals like cause/effect, critical path, detail/issue, urgent/important, diminishing returns, etc.
- continuous leadership bombardment of idiocy and stuff we know can't work
- management's complete failure to solicit or accept feedback from those of us who actually know
- nothing written down and no one remembering anything
- confusion by almost everyone about the difference between activity and achievement
- no written business requirements, technical specs, or test plans, but instead, some new untested methodology
- leaders who don't understand the difference between steak and sizzle
- continuous business failures because of poor leadership, not technology (and they keep doing it!)
- I could go on and on, but I wouldn't get anything done today and be just like my boss.

I'd love to see an OP that addresses any of all of these things I've been suffering from for years, instead of a headline with a precise metric on a misunderstood premise.

I'll suffer all day today and then to get rid of the corporate stink, build something cool for myself later tonight. That's not personal burn out, it's industry burn down.
Iraq's 'theft of the century': $2.5B in public money 'evaporated'
The amount of shifty money practices I've seen so far is astonishing, all in the pursuit of more science per proposal. Ideally you use some of the funding from the previous project to do some exploratory research somewhere very different and then write up a proposal around it, but since you already did some of the work there'll be money for more research and instruments and things and maybe fun ideas that students have.. creative accounting all around. I'd be appalled if it wasn't in the name of science.
Yeah I flirted but after that experience I moved on to a couple of other places and started to pay closer attention. Trying to be a competent higher-up is not worth the headaches. I'm happy to find my niche at a place that pays well, delivering just enough to whatever higher up is asking for it so people stay happy with my performance to say "he's a good guy!". Side projects are where I get my personal sense of accomplishment these days
Forced full-time "pair programming" might by itself cause burnout in a lot of people.

I wonder how many mathematicians would put up with something like that. Full-time pair proving.
EBOY

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They are the isotitan. No discussion of isometric pixel art would be complete without it.

Behold their PIXORAMAS!

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Is that a challenge?

I'm sure I have a couple of vice grips around here somewhere. I wonder how far an iPhone will fold before Apple Pay stops working. Surely some YouTuber has tested this already...