skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine if Tigers only ate the tails or ear flops of their prey and then ran off after that.

Not exactly the same, but orcas literally follow baby belugas until they are too tired to swim any further and drown. Then the orcas eat the lower jaw (most delicate part I guess) and leave the rest of the beluga to go to waste.

Point being, probably better to not point to the practices of other animals to determine whether or not what we’re doing is ethical.
That’s the correct quote. The Quest Pro with its wireless charger actually largely solves this problem. Try not using an Android phone for a month, and then use it. It’s the same nightmare (after all the headsets are Android devices with internal batteries).

It’s an important gripe, but it will be solved. I think there are more fundamental issues. It’s hard to explain, but even with superphysical level of improvement I don’t see people enmass wearing VR or MR headsets the way we use phones, airpods, and to lesser extent watches.
You see it on Hacker News quite frequently too. Quite a lot of people here silo people into "builders" and "maintainers". They then exalt the builders and talk down the maintainers.
Rackspace says customers will start getting ransomware-hit data within days
Chidb – a project for teaching how RDBMS are built from scratch
> I’m not sure we’ve ever seen a giant company successfully “slimming down” ?

There was this case in 1996 and 1997 but this seems more the exception than the norm:

https://money.cnn.com/1997/03/14/technology/apple/
Does it provide a healthy (physically and emotionally) path to financial independence and ability to retire, sooner rather than later?
> imagine fighting for your life against a sharp hook caught in your mouth until you give in to pain and exhaustion and then die of asphyxiation and/or being beat and dehydrated

Maybe I’m not a very compassionate person but its hard to appreciate if fish really are significantly beyond primitive levels of cognition (with obvious exceptions for dolphins, whales, and to a lesser extent sharks).

Most of them would never think twice about murdering thousands to propagate their own species. Such is the fundamental nature of life we all were born into.

The fact it’s an asphyxiation over ice over an hour vs being eaten alive in nature isn’t much of a big difference.

But maybe like lobsters there’s a middle ground? The shark fin thing is clear bad idea but calling out fishing in general probably won’t win you many supporters.
Extra lulz. I understood ME to be a stopgap in the NT transition, where 2k was supposed to be the consumer/corporate merge but that was delayed til XP for reasons… I think drivers? But of course there was IE strategy.

Maybe I’m just softening because I haven’t had to deal with IE for so long, but I really do think it’s an incredible achievement that MS transitioned Windows with as little disruption as they did, with all sorts of good and bad incentives. It’s a wonder Windows even still works, much less keeping such a large majority of install base. Obviously it’s not my favorite software in the world, but I’m thoroughly impressed with what the devs have pulled off through a cartoonish timeline of priority shifts with unbelievable backcompat expectations.
That can be true, it's also definitely what people say at a failing org that has become bureaucratic and political and doesn't value technical skill. I have seen this first hand. There's such thing as an asshole that nobody can work with of course. But overall it's a red flag when accomplished people leave an org because "it's not for everyone".
I want to say this but too lazy to defend it.
There's a strong bias for "just world hypothesis" stories like this one. Someone wealthy has to be poor in other areas. Someone smart must also be dumb. In fairness, to strive for anything you must have faith in a just world, that your efforts won't just be dashed by bad luck or a cheater. That doesn't mean it reflects reality though. It's just a story to help us sleep at night.
No? One of the first tweets mentioned tells republicans to vote on Wednesday, when its too late.
My brother was diagnosed with same and certainty suffers from anhedonia to this day.

You seriously think the public stigma is one of the "worst" things about it? Almost no one my brother encounters knows about his diagnosis and yet he suffers a lot. I sort of doubt other people's opinions are of primary significance in that, although perhaps his perception of how others see him does seem a bit problem
There's more to being a successful human than straight A's in school, and for some people the A's are easy.

I think if the parent thinks the agreement they made was stupid and is now a detriment to their child's well-being, they should edit it.

Acknowledge having made a mistake. Don't pretend you were right from the start. That's an important part of the learning process, and your kid needs to know it's safe to make mistakes and adjust course later, that you're not stuck with something just because of one decision in the past.

Be clear on what concerns you and why (especially be sure that it's a concern for the child's well-being and not some need of your own that you're trying to meet by changing your kid) and have a conversation with this young person about it.

This is a growth opportunity, not a lost cause.
WordPress having official SQLite support will make it more portable and self-contained for hosting on edge platforms, as well as in the browser via WebAssembly.
> you will get a person on the phone at 3am

And that person will do nothing else but waste your time.

What is the natural result of any interaction with Microsoft support too. Not limited to 3am calls.

Anyway, I wonder how RedHat has adapted to the IBM culture. I haven't dealt with software support for a while now, what I'm very grateful for.
Another option would be "forghejo", that's how Zamenhof suggested replacing ĝ

"Forgejo" is not ideal in Esperanto, because both "for" 'away' and "gejo" 'gay man' are totally valid Esperanto words, and "forgejo" is a valid combination (even though it's hard to understand what "away-gay" should mean); compare "foriri" 'go away' or "forigi" 'do away with, remove' xD
If they are so bad, why are they so successful? Why hasn't anyone disrupted them with superior business practices and a better product?
> Meta has a large legal department full of lawyers who are paid a lot more than whoever you can afford.

Yes, they have very competent lawyers. In fact, the lawyers are so competent they might actually realize "hey this isn't a case of impersonation we can have her account reinstated and avoid even the possibility of a legal hassle".
This! So this. We also need to reestablish “chronic” as a word with only bad connotations; not something that means it’s ok to live with chronic diseases like t1d or x-arthritis’. Solving the overactive immune system will solve an outsized portion of what’s afflicting western populations. Depression, chronic fatigue, any auto immune disorder, etc.
Godspeed John! I sure hope your next project has legs! ;)
I didn't. They are still quite successful.
I was trying to parse that headline for a second to figure out what the library liberica has to do with coffee, perhaps a library to interface with smart coffee machines? Cool stuff though.
I think you're right, and the distinction is an important one. For example, current models can produce art in an impressionist style, but could they invent impressionism given no training data? I don't think that they could.
Then you probably should re-read all of the text that led you to the conclusion that that was what was happening.
I wonder if techies are the "temporarily embarassed billionaires" here?

"No, I didn't build DALL-E 2 or ChatGPT or Copilot, but I totally would have if I had just had a little more time to read the papers, so I'm cheering those who did, even if it goes against my own interests..."
Whoever those others are…they are irrelevant.
You're still putting words into people's mouths. No one said none of the good engineers get promoted, they said that being a good engineer is not sufficient to be promoted. A good engineer who is also good at playing promotion games would presumably do very well.

PragmaticPulp specifically said the engineers his team hired were actually rather good, just had bad habits:

> The strange thing was that many of them were actually good programmers when it came down to it.
I’ve done some commercial fishing for bluefin which are overnighted to Japan. The dock brokers measure the lactic acid in the meat and price accordingly. To get the max rate, you have to use the heaviest tackle to get the fish in quickly. Then you push a steel rod through the brain, and cut the tail and run a wire leader up the center of the spine. While these rules are mainly about preserving flavor, I have adopted them for recreational fishing. Throwing a live fish in a cooler is simple, but the Japanese technique is gross but more humane.
Wow...is there a big move towards it individually?
That is exactly what we are working on at WasmLabs! https://wordpress.wasmlabs.dev
> protect them

from what? I've spent countless, countless, countless hours on the internet since 1996 when I was 4, by age 9 I had my computer on my room, at 12/13 we were laughing with my friends about the horrible shit on rotten.com and now I have a fine life without any particular issue, so what are you trying to protect them from? doing dumb shit? e.g. there's nothing you can ever do that will prevent a dedicated 15-years old to have sex, smoke joints or get drunk, but if you try hard I can guarantee you that they will resent you a lot and will have a much, much harder time when they are free from parental control and are left in the wild.
You’re a spiritual being having a human experience :) reconnect with your higher and hidden nature from which you have become separated.
Scuba diving around Monterey CA we sometimes observe sea lions killing mola molas (ocean sunfish) for sport. The sea lions bite the fins off but don't eat more than a couple bites, they just leave the crippled fish to sink to the bottom and slowly die. One time I saw about 10 half dead molas laying on the seafloor flopping around.

I do support the ban on shark finning, but we should recognize that other animals can be just as vicious and destructive when they get a chance.
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Whataboutism only matters if you already made your decision.
Liabilities
Think about it: how likely is it for an employer to hire someone who self-discloses schizophrenia? And if you choose not to disclose, how do you explain the gaps in your resume when you were involuntarily committed or recovering from a recurring series of episodes? Stigma still plays a big role, even in today’s society. Edit: And that is to say nothing of the problems you face if you are kicked out of the hospital with no place to go. Schizophrenia is a scary illness, bro.
Where did AnIdiotOnTheNet's comment include not being a developer, not being patient, or thinking their time is more valuable than others?

Why is it so much more important to put someone in their place and win internet points with ad-homs in the "community" which supposedly values freedom?
> How hard would it be to "add one"/refactor?

To add one? Trivial.

To refactor all of WP core to use it? I could probably do it in a week or two of focused work.

To enable all plugins and wordpress themes to use it? It is, literally, probably a million times more LOC.
I'm not sure where I said that good engineers don't get promoted. Of course they do. They either worked for a good management team, aggressively self-promoted, or were in a visible project.

What I am saying is that there are a lot of good engineers don't get promoted, despite doing important work on vital systems, because they don't aggressively self-promote and optimize their careers around the promotion path.

There are also companies that are good at recognizing good yet normally-under-appreciated work, and there are companies that are bad at it. FAANG is bad at it, in my experience, and the experience of people I've worked with. It's an anecdote and not data.
Element does run on all platforms, yes - but it's not a well executed application and people often find it confusing.

That said I'm hopeful for the rewrite and I trust they've got the best interests in sight. I just mostly wanted to chime in on the "several more options" because this is unfortunately commonly said but disregards the sheer amount of work it takes to build a modern chat application.
Wait until you find about the atrocities people commited to other people such as the atlantic slave trade or the holocaust
I think being a billionaire is unethical, and the way to prevent them is to ensure that the people along the way get their share.

Entrepreneurs are self incentivised rather than being externally motivated by money, and if the chances of not being a billionaire we're to stop somebody from being an entrepreneur, we wouldn't have entrepreneurs already

Mind you, if we jumped back a couple hundred years and asked: "does banning slavery disincentive entrepreneurs from starting plantations?"

The answer would be irrelevant to whether slavery should be banned
They need to develop strong boundaries against predatory tech. FAANG et al are narcissistic and uncaring towards an entire global generation of children. You teach them to stay away from strangers? Teach them to stay away from harmful technology as well.
So much so that you can't buy panels, inverters or mounting materials.

Everything is out of stock, earliest deliveries are weeks, sometimes months away depending on what you are looking for and suppliers that do still have some stock are playing favorites with their long term customers (which makes sense, from their perspective).

I ended up buying two NOS inverters and one brand new one that was a bit larger than what I really needed (three separate sets of panels, 42 in all). One of them arrived damaged and I had the option to return it for a full refund or take a 50% discount, I took the discount because I knew I wasn't going to be able to find another one.

Even second hand gear is priced through the roof.
I said: "I never played any game to be promoted, I simply never consciously sought the goal of promotion, and I was promoted anyway just because of the real, substantial job I did."

And I did see other peers who did not play any games that I could see be promoted for merit.

So maybe generalizations over large companies just don't work well.
Thanks you so much for getting this fixed. You honestly made my Xmas.
If there is ever anything I can help you with please don't hesitate in contacting me.
Politics or "people who don't know what they are doing doubling down on decisions or lack thereof and others aligning themselves because they are busy doing stuff and rocking the boat isn't useful unless you have time, mandate and mindshare enough to coordinate with others".
Its great that people are starting to wane off algorithmic money maximizing social media, but you can do this without switching to a flip phone.

Just remove all social media and you will be set, even chat apps are OK, its really the rapid attention grabbing content that is the issue.

Also the books and the weird connection to wanting to stop the industrial revolution is just r/im14andthisisdeep material

> “I still long to have no phone at all,” she said. “My parents are so addicted. My mom got on Twitter, and I’ve seen it tear her apart. But I guess I also like it, because I get to feel a little superior to them.”

This is an interesting way to put it.
Thanks for sharing.

I don't doubt that it worked for you, but I wonder whether this is a good approach.

You say you never had limits on anything. Say one of your kids tells you he wants to trying heroin a bit. Would you let him?

Now, obviously mobile phones aren't as addictive as heroin and the consequences of failing to control yourself aren't as bad either, but they're still extremely addictive. They're addictive enough that _most people_ struggle to control their impulse to take their phone out every time there's even 10 seconds of downtime. I was at a playground a couple of days ago, and literally every parent there other than me was scrolling their phone while their kids where playing.

> Probably dozens of times, maybe hundreds, we have had "the talk" about how there's a lot of weird shit in the world

Another observation is that you seem to be responding to the question of "how do you deal with your kids being exposed to nasty stuff out there", where the question is really about addiction.

So let me ask you explicitly: When there's a bit of downtime, do your kids reach for the phone? Follow up question: how many hours a day do you estimate they spend staring at their phone?

I'm skeptical that your approach is a good one because these days people who aren't addicted to mindlessly scrolling their phone are the exception rather than the rule.

EDIT: To add some more...

A great example of a victim is my girlfriend. Her parents also didn't prohibit much from her. They've had many "talks" with her too about how there's good things and bad things in the world. But guess what, phones didn't exist when she was a kid so her parents didn't tell her to be careful with phones. She slowly started using more and more. Nowadays she spends 2-3 hours a day in between dinner and bed scrolling her phone. When I point this out to her she says "I'm tired, I just wanna relax". I have the firm conviction that telling a child "this is dangerous stuff, you'll get addicted, do NOT play on this" will reduce the probability of this happening later in life, because you might "catch yourself" using too much earlier in the process.
Meta itself only exists because of poor direction. It is an aberration of humanity. If good counsel and advice were important to Meta, it would shut down on itself because its very existence is an offence to common sense.
And in my experience, FAANG are not bad at it, so my point is: These generalizations don't work.

I even stated that I don't doubt this may have been true for you. But if every large company were really so bad in general as is portrayed here, the people who make good stuff, and who need to work with each other a great deal to achieve that, would leave.
Hmm. My brother has never had interest in holding a job for too long so it isn't something I think about a ton.

If an employer doesn't want to hire someone who occasionally disappears I understand that and I'm not sure it's stigma.

Anyhow, this is a sensitive topic and thanks for discussing it. It's hard to unfurl and investigate these things. Good luck with your own experience.
Exchanges have been loaning each other crypto to shore up their books for audits. This behavior could be trackable with some due diligence, but that might be more than a typical auditor is going to do.
Now we're back to where I started: I don't disbelieve your experience, but given that you're the only one here who shares that experience I asked you to tell me why I should believe that your experience is more representative than the half dozen other people who have shared theirs? To me it seems more likely that you had a particularly good corner of the organization.
Once per week for three years is not constant to you? Weird.
No, they don't do that either.
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The credit card companies, probably
Itanium blades.
Its difficult to tell as it may be advantageous for the Xbox division to lose money in one set of accounts and tax area while profits could be recognized in a different tax area.
- 3.x was just a GUI for MS-DOS.

- 95/98 are a OS on their own although still having quite some old DOS code in there.

All others versions are following the NT tree.

NT 4.0 for non-x86 hardware deserves a honorable mention despite the fact i'm absolutely not a Microsoft fan.
It was quite impressive during it's time, but hardly to be seen anywhere.
Not sure which one you’re calling me

The reality is that there’s a huge gap of scripting needed in todays world that sits between “print ‘hello world’” and something worth paying a professional SWE to write.

You folks don’t always see this from inside your bubble, but there is a world of automation and computing problems that are solved by people who can make it work, and not by people paid to make it work well.
Not really, the truth when presented to a conspiracy type will be rejected because it does not match their preferred worldview.
> I wish Elon didn't get sucked into culture wars, because slimming down Twitter's workforce wasn't a bad idea

I don't know how you're relating those two things, but it's funny you should say that. At the time he was firing people, throngs of self-proclaimed "experts" started pontificating about how Twitter was going to implode and crash and burn. There was about two weeks of non-stop posts from various acquaintances on social media about it. They've all been very quiet lately.
Learned basically nothing here. So the FBI helped Twitter with content moderation? Who gives a crap.
> There was no support on the new OS at all. With a lot of luck one could print b&w, but color never worked again. I never experienced that using HP or Xerox.

the cost of the old Brother and then a new Brother at that point would have been cheaper than the cost of either the HP or the Xerox

and if you were using linux (and almost as often Windows too), the old drivers would have still worked.
> They are, to the extent not random, coming from the material universe, whether from the part arbitrarily deemed “internal” to the “observer” or not.

What is this "material universe" of which you speak? As an idealist, I'm inclined to say that the "universe" is a set of minds whose qualia cohere with each other (not perfectly, but substantially). “Physical” objects, events, laws, processes, etc, are patterns which exist in those qualia.
He lives in Texas still
I have a client (banking sector) which "recently" (5 years ago) started with AIX since they already had POWER systems running IBM i (i.e. modern AS/400), and had to select a Unix for a new vendor's EFT system; it was reasonable to use the (almost) same hardware and provider.

Another similar client is using Solaris (Sparc) for an analogous application; they are using it since 1996, I think because Sun (Oracle) always provided an easy migration path, so the applications didn't need to be ported.

As in most medium/big enterprises, in both cases the hardware/software price is not the main decision driver, but (IMO) it is the support/SLA, compliance checklists, and overall risk management.

BTW, in these cases Linux is also used for more "internet oriented" applications.
I'm sure someone will chime in with direct experience wrt Oracle, but most cases where it looks like many companies are overpaying by >5 times for a certain service or product compared to the value it delivers are similar. Such decisions are commonly made (or at least signed off on) by upper management who are paying so much purely for CYA reasons. The old "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".

Another related but distinct reason is box-ticking purchasing decisions. Decision makers who 1. aren't the end users 2. lack technical knowledge 3. are overconfident and overweigh their own opinion, are likely to decide between products purely based on the number of feature boxes it ticks, regardless of their real-life usability and usefulness. Companies like Oracle know this and cater to it. They don't care if a new feature is useless or poorly implemented as long as it creates a new box that makes the decision makers 0.5% more likely to go with their product.
After tanking it he'll be lucky if he can sell it at all, let alone for what he paid for it.
Why Carmack was involved with Facebook/Meta when he joined was pretty confusing to me. Even if VR is pretty interesting technology to work on, where’s the joy in it if you’re effectively working for the Empire?