skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also reboot, which is safe on Linux, but does an instant power cycle with no proper shutdown on others.
I always wonder how "old silicon valley" work culture would compare to the current one? How was it like working for Sun Microsystems in the 90s? Digital in the 80s?
Right here with you
>I've been thinking if I can write a MITM proxy at home for youtube that somehow only allows content from explicit channels.

great idea!
Yeah it sounds like you're describing Electron. That's how VSCode works, for example. It's just a web app running in a web view.
I think it's against HN rules to call people shills, but I am too flabbergasted at people acting like it's no big deal that the FBI is working in secret to shut down narratives.
In this case reporting two dozen small fry accounts to moderator teams is very weak as far as censorship goes. They’re doing the same thing as everyone else who hits report on Twitter does, except cutting in line. But you can bet there are tens of thousands of businesses, especially Twitter’s advertisers, who have the same if not closer relations with Twitter and, if made displeased, could cause Twitter to censor you even quicker than the FBI could.
Reducing production in one region that can’t sustain it is not “taking away” our (unprecedented) access to beef.
tiktok is worse.
I also work at a faang in a senior engineering role.

I agree with what the other commenter is saying. I’ve been in several teams with several managers and xfn partners and you have a lot of different cultures. From the toxic wasteland to the ultra focused get shit done right fast environment engineers love.

To your point about why more people complain than not, it’s the human condition. Haters hate is stronger than non haters happiness and are more than willing to share their salt
Interestingly, WordPress does (kind of) have a database abstraction. The way you get it is to format your data model as a “custom post type,” and then you basically get an object store with various predefined functions to access it… kinda works for more use cases than you’d think, but also weird!
Not an expert, but I remember reading something about daily cardio and noninflammatory diets (low sugar, low processed foods, adequate protein and fibre, etc) was able to reduce some expressions of ADHD symptoms.

I bring up ADHD symptoms because a lot of online tech leans on the short attention span of kids.

In my own experience, focusing on this has had a small but noticeable effect on temperament around tech.

The other side of the puzzle I think is helping kids with confidence and setting their own boundaries. If they're too young for that, they're too young for tech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software
...did we read the same thing?

This is sinister music played over a video of someone doing the dishes.

"Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth."

150 emails in 2 years is a partnership?

All the provided examples are actual misinformation and low effort nonsense and at no point was twitter forced to do anything.

This is literally nothing.
> It's in small lots; it's undependable; it comes from many sources, not just a few; and it's priced wrongly.

My (very poor) understanding is that much of (all of?) power that gets sold back to the utilities goes through virtual power plant (VPP) programs like Tesla's or Swell's, where although there is a relationship between the owner of each solar installation and the utility, the VPP is the entity that sells the power to the utility.
I think golang is designed intentionally to make it easy to read unfamiliar code.

To paraphrase: The idea being that a well designed library api gets you 90% of the benefits of a richer language’s features, but without exactly that penalty that Carmac calls out.
These, or something very similar, are essential to concentration. It's just not possible otherwise. The problem is this means nothing if the work culture is an expectation of always being available. So it's not entirely a technical problem (like many work problems).
> There are modern proprietary systems as well. RHEL is a good example.

RHEL is free software, isn't it?

(it's just that if you decide to fully use the rights given by the licenses, bye bye support and updates from Red Hat IIRC)
Yeah maybe that would work. I learned Faust online at Kadenze and have participated on the Faust Slack channel and made a few additions to some build files for making VST3 plugins in Juce. Boy that was a year or two back! I also compiled some Faust to the ESP32 and hacked in OSC support. I was mostly writing in native Faust and debugging in the web IDE although there is at least one block based graphical tool.

I'm really not sure how you would map Faust to something like the FV-1 though - its instruction set is designed to do a handful of structures really efficiently.
> Jack Ruby was a supporter of the president who impulsively killed Oswald

Jack Ruby was once again let to die in a prison before he could testify in a proper court. So many convenient ends disappear...
Imgix is really fun to use.

Cloudflare Workers are awesome to work with.
> Because some managers and employees want to work on career development that might benefit you

Then they should be doing that throughout the year because it's part of their actual job.

Not once per year by mandate via a stupid questionnaire.
No media devices in bedroom helps
Evan S. Connell mastered minor writing
You can press 3 on the keyboard to skip 30% of the way in, it's a reasonable approximation.
I read an article once about treatment of schizophrenics in an African country. Basically put in a single cage but monitored and treated well. Westerners saw it as barbaric, but the local culture saw them as being possessed in a good or bad way and most recovered in a month and there was a ceremony to welcome them back from their journey. No negative societal MH stigma attached to it.

Medically, not sure about it, but culturally seems more mature than we have.
I'm even more confused now :/
Disagree. People regularly absorb blows with more energy than a bullet without injury.
I have a really hard time believing Twitter would have reacted in similar way if an individual or company initiated the same takedowns
How do you identify borrowers, lenders, or custodians of cryptocurrency based on "the Blockchain"?

I'm not keeping up on all the latest news, but I had the impression that people use "oracles" to incorporate off-chain information, and many if not most of the exploits recently involve subverting those trusted sources.

If auditing was trivial, people would've figured it out in the last couple of thousand years.
ahhh, but you forgot the axiom of choice! now something exists, but we have no idea what it is!
oh right.. The guy who famously published this https://theprint.in/opinion/majority-indians-have-natural-im... before Delta variant ripped through India and killed millions.

SARS-Cov-2 is not novel anymore. Most of the population has immunity some form or other. The disease is almost an afterthought. That doesn't mean that this guy was correct all along, especially when the world was rushing to vaccinate.
So the harm to Twitter in refusing the original request is zero, right? There's no "stick" if the downside of refusing is just them asking a different way that you may have to actually listen to.
> With progressive taxation of corporations, we could disincentivize the existence of trillion dollar corporations

In my misspent youth, I worked on a 10% project that helped consolidate and free-up racks of servers so that they could be physically forklifted between space leased/owned by different subsidiaries of one of the world's 5 largest corporations (by market cap). I heard through the grapevine that the main reason for this arrangement was so that these subsidiaries qualified for small business discounts on electricity, and they wanted to keep physical separation in different parts of the datacenters to bolster the case that the various subsidiaries were in fact separate entities.

When you adjust taxes and rates based on company size (or things correlated with company size), you need to be careful about subsidiary loopholes.
While technically correct, the headline seems like a very aggressive interpretation, given that he simply requested feedback on slack:

> co-CEO Marc Benioff told employees in a Slack message on Friday that the company’s newest hires aren’t being productive enough, and he asked for feedback as to why that’s the case.
Layoffs can crash productivity.

One of my jobs had layoffs, so basically everyone is just awaiting bonus/vesting and then planning to bolt.

They fired 20% and turned 80% into people not planning to be there long after April.
> What is this “material universe” of which you speak?

The part of my qualia which can be reduced consistent, predictive patterns (and, for convenience, a set of concepts which represent patterns, an explanatory models for patterns, within that.)

The idea that there is anything that meaningfully exists outside of my qualia, is the lowest-level of those models, and that that includes other entities which have qualia of their own, is a high-level model (or maybe, more accurately, a conjecture) built on top of those models which might have consequences for, say, my preferences for how I would like the universe to develop, but interesting lacks predictive consequences – its a dead-end within the composite model.

On a fundamental level, outside of any beliefs about the “reality” of the patterns or explanatory models of the “material universe”, objective questions are ones which have consequences on the expectations within that set of patterns, whereas subjective ones are those which do not.
-- yes - used to work for a small isp - multiple law enforcement contacts per day - the twitter scale seems tiny --
> When the FBI does, we end up with horrible stuff like COINTELPRO.

You could. But that's not what happened here, judging by the evidence on display.

All I see is what I expected to see: law enforcement engaging in a careful manner with a company that is dealing with an extremely large flow of communications. And if some of those communications are of a society destabilizing nature it is well within the mandate of the FBI to stick their noses in and make requests. You then have the option to refuse those requests, in which case you may either end up in court, they could forget about the whole thing or you are served with a piece of paper signed off by a judge.

What is illegal and what isn't is ultimately for a judge to decide but not every two-bit issue needs to go by a judge if all parties agree that the world is better off with moderating it out of existence.
> They have 1000+ channels and my team is tagged in a lot of stuff so I get a lot of notifications.

You don't have to have ADHD to struggle with something as intense as this. We also have the same problem. I have probably 250+ channels in my sidebar.

I treat it like email. Muted everything. Read things sporadically. Mostly Cmd-Shift-Escape to mark everything is read.
What's the advantage of this instead of just merging?
Our kids have not hit puberty but I think they are on the right track.

A big part of this is filling their time with endeavors they enjoy. Sports in particular are a big part of their life. They have been set on a path that they could be pros and make a career out of it shoukd they choose to and if injuries dont grt in the way.

You will be surprised how quickly tv and screen time goes away when the entire family is busy. There is no downtime during the week except when perhaps commuting - otherwise its light play with toys.

When other parents hear about our kids demanding schedules and training regimes, some are shocked. But we were also kids. We were full of energy. Kids love running. kids love learning, coaches , teammates, nownfriends. Its that or screentime.

Of course, this demands high sacrifice from parents. Its expensive. Its busy. You have to have nannies to shuttle kids from school to training or else have a renote job that allows you to commute midday.

Its work. Its not for everyone. There is no secret sauce. Just work, looking around, and knowing at the end of The day having the satisfaction that your kids are turning out quite alright. Then starting the next day, knowing that the weakest in this balancing act is you, the parent... not the kids who dont complain and are all smiles.
https://www.modelmayhem.com/ Might also be an alternative.

I only used it to find camera folks in the past when I was in film/documentary work but I know it’s mainly a modeling site. Haven’t kept up with the industry since 2015 so not sure if still relevant.
I have been in a similar place with a partner too. It is a terrifying state I have never seen in anyone else before… pure catatonic episodes. But there was a level of extreme paranoia and at times I would be accused of conspiring with an ex (who I didn’t know) to ‘get’ her. This particular relationship that I had was extremely tough and left lasting damage on me - enough for me to avoid any intimate relationship for a few years till i could recover. I hope she is doing better now.
It would be easy to add this to OpenWrt I think. I wanted to use coins since they're physical objects, and I also wanted to educate on what money is, how to use money, and earn money.

Funny anecdote happened one week ago, when child got back from school and said "Hey dad, look what I've got". He had 100-dollar bill in his hand, I'm not even kidding. He said "I traded some Pokemon cards at school"...
I can recommend
https://course.fast.ai/
The FBI serves the state, and itself. If they need to make friends with a leftist to get something done, why would that stop them? I personally find it hard to believe that Crossfire Hurricane was run by a conservative cabal in the FBI, but maybe you're right. Whoever were doing it were elitist reprobates.
I live in NE Australia (~17"S) and our feed in tariff recently went up from ~6.6c to 9.3c (so now around US$0.063). Massive boon for us, given rising prices. With a 5kw system we feed in 1500kwh per quarter and buy back 600kwh (at ~22c), averaged across the year. Lots of variation summer to winter (sun angle) and depending on wet season, WFH, etc. On our "best" days we'll generate >38kWh. Pool runs for free year round, aircons run for free during the day. For now it's very cost effective for us without a battery. Less so with one. Less so for friends without pool / large appliance running through day. Older systems, generally much smaller, have grandfathered feed in tariffs sitting around 40c. These people tend to go out of their way not to use power during the day. Pool on at night, etc.

Interested to read other's experience.
Yep someone needs to be the ass. Ideally the VP Eng. / Head of Eng. or equivalent should be the superass and set a good meeting culture. Also have retros for people to be able to bring up any topic for further actions.
Like one specific beer, or all beers? Just so I can, uh, also avoid it in the future.
Thanks for the clarification, I honestly didn't know what they were asserting.
They did not. They were a Python and React shop, with efforts underway to rewrite in Rust.
I bought an Xbox something as a Blu-ray player. So far I haven’t attached any other money to it but I do play a free racing game so there’s that.
This episode, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEFo3a1AnI

Dr. Chris Palmer: Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health | Huberman Lab Podcast #99

> My guest this episode is Chris Palmer, M.D., a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He explains the important connection between nutrition, metabolism and mental health and his pioneering work using the ketogenic diet to successfully treat patients with various mental illnesses, including depression and schizophrenia. Dr. Palmer explains how the ketogenic diet is an evidenced-based treatment for epilepsy, mimics the fasted state and can offset the cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s. He describes the key roles of mitochondria in mental health, how certain conditions likely arise from mitochondrial dysfunction, and how low-carbohydrate diets increase mitochondrial turnover to improve mental health. He also explains how low-carbohydrate diets positively impact the gut microbiome and weight loss, important risk factors for mitochondrial health such as marijuana and alcohol, and the best way to increase circulating ketones depending on individual needs. We also cover how a ketogenic diet impacts mood, sleep, and fertility. Dr. Palmer’s work stands as a revolutionary approach to mental health and disease that, given the prevalence of mental health challenges, should be of interest to people of all backgrounds and ages.
I set up windows when I check slack with my team and use mac's focus features to disable it's notifications outside the windows.
You bet your ass they would if those individuals were celebrity influencers. Or if those companies were advertisers.

Twitter needs such entities to survive. Displeasing then is more existentially threatening than running afoul of the FBI.
The corruption is that the requests were ideologically based. In other words, they only requested conservative tweets to be removed.
The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer

https://theauthoritarians.org/
I use MPD and various network clients. I guess this is not for me? I'm unfamiliar with mpv, but then I don't get out much
You have to give credit to whomever came up with it, its a cheap but effective linguistic kill shot. No doubt it was engineered to be divisive, and whomever is wielding it is unlikely to be reasoned with.
Thank you for being a helpful human being. From one swe to another, why does Meta require one-off corrections from a back channel based upon an individual employee’s generosity?

Shouldn’t our responsibility scale, not just our technical systems, with the level of trust users place in your system when they base their livelihoods on it?

I say this as a parent whose stepson spent 5 years building up a substantial following on Instagram only to have it ripped away from him like this poor girl. He went through all the proper channels, provided his identification to prove who he was, and sent all his frustration into the black hole that is Meta user support.

Certainly we can do better as an industry, right?
"They are vulnerable to reproducing poor quality training data"
(Peter Norvig, in the article)
https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests/

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

https://transparency.twitter.com/
I think it's early days yet. A work in process, and maybe not the last iteration.
It’s much easier to do that with something called a sales tax!
I know how you feel, after a few years of fully remote working, that knocking sound makes me cringe and twitch.

The fear response is real.
“But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.”

First amendment? What is that?
The reason blockchain isn't doing well has absolutely nothing to do with there being "no settling, no clearing, every transaction should be immediate and final." and everything to do with the "assets" that the blockchain represents.
If - for instance - Mike Pence had been murdered (and I believe there was a real possibility that that could have happened) I'm pretty sure that you'd be playing an entirely different tune. The FBI is free to interpret the law and you are free to take them to court if you don't agree with their interpretation. This does not normally need to be spelled out.

Next time you receive a request from the police that you think is reasonable try stonewalling them and see what happens. I guarantee you won't like it.

And as far as the secrecy is concerned: records were kept, that's why you are reading about this.
Same! Refrigerator sized HP 9000's running HP/UX and Pick.
https://www.thelittleprince.com/#the-book
i personally use the hide feature for the dock.
How many people that ignorant actually work there though? Maybe there really is more dead weight than we thought..
-- would be interesting if HN publishes a law enforcement transparency report - @dang --
> Either you or a company you sell out to in ten years...

Has Readwise in particular done anything specific to garner your skepticism here, or is this just general HN distrust of the longevity of third-party services?

From my own limited exposure to their team and philosophy [1], it seems like they are genuinely passionate about their problem space, and intent on building for the long-term.

[1] https://blog.readwise.io/why-were-bootstrapping-readwise/
Was always a bit of an odd fit
This may be better explained by the Hygiene hypothesis - hunter-gatherers get exposure to all sorts of microbes and parasites early in their life while city-dwellers could be shielded from equivalent exposure. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
yes and the day when they all go away will be a good day
There is another option: You can buy relatively high quality PTZ cameras designed for low-end broadcast (HoW and legislative mostly). Some will output to USB, at the higher end you’ll need to capture SDI, NDI, or 2110.

I have a coworker with this setup and it’s easily the best video quality I’ve ever seen on a teams call even in his fairly dark room.
You don’t need a noncompete when any investor is going to be scared that a major company will sue over “pilfered secrets”.

Combine that with being burned out and I can see trying something else.
That is for seizing land, not seizing and nationalizing a private business.
Twitter took stuff down at the government's request even though they couldn't find a violation of their own ToS, let alone determine that things were illegal.
The Merge (2017)
It can work really well for business software
> 1. We're not talking about your company which probably had a different context. We're talking about the FBI telling Twitter to silence opinions and facts.

The context was quite comparable: live conversations, messages both public and private.

> 2. Whether you agree with the LE request has no influence on whether it's legal or not.

Twitter had an extensive legal team before Musk fired them all, I'm pretty sure they were well capable of determining which requests were legal and which were not.
The big showstopper is what to do with the hypersalinated byproduct. You'd kill anything that was near where it's let out. It's also very corrosive and I imagine the would be a problem moving it far from the plant.
Ironically I felt reassured reading this. "[...] I'm evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after [...] evidence piles up" especially resonates with me. While I rationally understand it's just corporate bureaucracy / politics, sometimes I still wonder if I were just a bit more capable I'd be more persuasive.

If John fucking Carmack cannot move the bureaucracy this way, then it's folly for me to try the same. I should accept that we're playing checkers not chess.
I know I experience qualia and thought processes.
His internal badge (ie. goodbye) post. This is definitely not in the article.

Edit: The article has a link to some other paywalled link that may contain the full contents of the note. I don't have a subscription so I can't tell but the quote is real at least.
"We will tell you where to go today" was the running joke in the late 90s already.