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> If you want some practical ideas on how to bust bureaucracy, whatever your role or title, check out my book “Humanocracy” (available at Amazon), or “The New Human Movement” video series on YouTube.

Didn’t know about your book/YT and haven’t read/watched them.

That said, isn’t it a very fast road to nowhere and burnout? I’ve tried many times to fix bad management and its impact on software quality/customers (can’t help it, i hate avoidable toil). Every single time it achieved nothing whatsoever in the long term (the minuscule improvements I managed to make over 12–18 months were undone a few weeks after I left). But I had expanded large amount of energy and political capital resulting in having to leave the companies to protect my sanity followed by months to recover from the burnout.

Is there a point in fixing companies that don’t want to be helped (which seems to be the vast majority)? It’s their cash to set on fire after all and changing jobs regularly to keep it fresh (every company has a slightly different twist on dysfunctional) seems to be a better strategy for the individual cog.
Visited “Golden Lane” under Prague Castle not long ago. Dates back to 16th century. What fascinated me was how tiny some of the “apartments” were. Basically 15 square meters for living, but also conducting their craft or business. Yet many of them seemed quite charming. Maybe we don’t need much.
Hope, despite not being named after the virtue, did eventually beget Charity (1996): http://pll.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/charity1/www/home.html
Which is already solved: salt caverns work well.
"Could companies lock horsepower behind a subscription paywall?"

They already did...

https://www.motor1.com/news/622846/mercedes-subscription-mor...
This may help: https://sangsara.net/2020/01/27/heifer-ios-shortcut-for-batc...
Correct, but the challenges are to compile the dynamic library correctly so it runs on another machine, and on a given target machine choose to load a correct compiled artifact. Python has extremely good support for those compared to other similar ecosystems. The fact that most Python packages decide to do bundling on a comparably broard set of platforms, while packages on some other language are not, is a window to understand how the operation is made much easier by the ecosystem.
No, I get that, but if you can't actually buy the product, then how is it going to tempt anyone to buy anything else? Like with Costco's hot dogs, I might go in for a hot dog and buy other stuff. But if there was a 30 year waiting list for their hot dogs then I'm simply not going into Costco.
I'm a full stack web developer and held 2 positions at game dev studios in the past.

The first one was very much a traditional full stack experience, developing front end features for the website and web based apps, as well as back end features for the web and games. We worked very closely with the game development team, so day to day I had to go into dev builds to see if my changes worked properly. I loved the job, it was the games I always wanted to work on, colleagues and management were great. But crunch was hard, ended up burning out which took a while to recover. Looking back at it, I would do it all again, I learned so much and I'm proud of what my team and I achieved.

The second job was as a UI developer, using the Gameface middleware, which basically renderers a web frame on top of the game, allowing you to design and write UIs with web tech. I was doing React there. The job was alright but the management was horrendous, a complete shit show at some points. Ended up leaving after a year and never came back to the games industry.

For both jobs, the salary was lower than other web dev jobs. And at times, it can be quite tough with crunch. But on the bright side, you meet great people and learn lots about game development even if you're not directly in the production pipeline of the game itself. I guess if your focus is to work on the game, you can easily transition within the company.

Your tech stack can be relevant depending on where you apply. Experiences wary greatly between studios, sometimes even within the same company. But I noticed a trend where working conditions and salaries are getting better in the industry, so maybe it's a good time to join. Have a look at career pages of game dev studios, you might find something you like.

Or maybe look at the indie route, working on your own game idea during your spare time. I'd highly recommend starting with Godot[0], the concepts of that engine are quite easy to grasp and you can produce really good results with it.

[0] https://godotengine.org/
I can only assume if you don't think Google knows exactly who you are, you must have much more internet hygiene than most people do.
I don't believe ChatGPT-based solution will ever replace Google, but if someone tries and gains enough traction they'll encounter at least one of those issues and be on top of HN for that.

Google will find some plausible excuse, something deep in ToS they broke, competitor will not be able to work around it or reach someone within Google to explain to them what exactly need to do to restore that part of service.

We'll all suspect Google has done so intentionally and maliciously, but nobody will be able to prove that beyond doubt.
that's awesome! do you reckon the pr is going to get accepted? I definitely remember reading discussions of this issue in the past and seeing a firm "we don't want this feature in i3" response.
Quality of code is very relevant for business success for millions of reasons.

* good and self-respecting developers will not work on bad quality code. Business will be left with bad/mediocre devs who will implement bussiness needs slowly and with bad quality

* good code base and good dev practises make development much faster and with fewer errors, with easier new developer onboarding etc.

How many of IT projects have had a rewrite a costly rewrite because it became unmanageable?

80% managers think only about business needs- even those who previously were developers themselves because it is convenient and they do not have sell that maintenance is also needed
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> I'm a bit at a loss on how to install it !

If there is a release for your os/arch, then download the binary and put it in /usr/local/bin/jcb (you may need to chmod +x it). Otherwise you'll need to get golang and run "make build" which will get you a ./jcb binary.

> Is it intuitive to create transaction in advance to simulate a budget ?

You raise some interesting points that I need to think more about. I've just been making placeholder transactions to pad out the budget while I don't know exactly what the months transactions will be. It makes it hard to know where you stand midway through the month. At the end of the month you can see exactly how much you spent, but you can't see how much you budgeted once you delete the placeholder.
I read a commenter say he had two rolls of weed or something which is legal in most states now (I don't know where he is). But not just narcotics but even kidnapping or just about any charge really, are you saying destroying property, needlessly traumatizing children, going in armed like it's world war three or they were hunting for bin laden, stealing his money and disconnecting cameras so their actions won't be recorded. Are you saying that should be expected under any scenario?

Please don't feel insulted but I feel like your comment is a result of poor civic education in America. I say that because everyone should know that guilty or not you are afforded the benefit of doubt and you should be treated like an innocent person, even if you are caught red-handed in a crime until the due process of a lawful judicial proceeding finds you guilty. This means, cops have the responsibility to behave professionally, respectfully and freaking knock on doors, avoid the display and use of military weapons, holster their weapons until there is an actual threat. Again, the lack of education in these matters is widespread, most don't know their basic rights (not just you). If you see the condtions of Jails (not prisons) in america, it is appalling, really, my takeaway is the rule of law or the constitutional rights of people are absolute jokes, rendered that way because of lack of education. To think that an innocent person with no due process or legal proceeding could be locked in solitary for months or be in an environment where they are sleep deprived and sleeping on concrete, getting raped and beat up, medical procedures against their will, losing their jobs,healthcare and housing all because the public tolerates this type of bullshit or the type of bullshit you see here where act like they're in afghanistan, because "big strong man with guns and badge good guy,can do whatever he want".

So, no, what I have seen in the video is unacceptable whoever the target is, short of an active shooter, terrorist or dangerous fugitive.
Sorry for being unclear: the roided up and jacked cops are one problem. The overweight ones are another. The former are more likely to have problematic attitudes (specifically: roid rage) than the latter, which your proposed physical fitness test would not catch. And I'm noting that you might be surprised about the level of aerobic fitness in some fat people (the latter).
People make mistakes in stack overview. The community identifies an incorrect (or suboptimal) answer as accepted fairly often in my experience.
Have a look at this study for a tokamak-based system: "The cost of the fusion-specific technologies accounts for approximately 75% of the total direct costs of constructing the plant" [0] They also conclude that "The model levelized cost of electricity was found in the amount of ∼160 $/MWh." Note that 57% of that cost is due to depreciation of the hardware, and another 23% is replacement costs for materials damaged by the neutron radiation.

Another source says: "Setting the capital cost of the fusion-specific
technology to zero results in a LCOE of 72 $/MWh, which borders current
prices for renewables, but is clearly physically implausible."[1]

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421...
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05727
It's important to remember that the "power" of gpt doesn't come from the model, but from the sheer scale of the dataset. It's trained on the entire internet, in text form. You can 100% use a transformer architecture to train on binary data. But what data do you have hundreds of tebibytes of?

Language also follows very common and repeatable patterns. "Hello" is often followed by "How are you?", etc. Just like Zipf's Law dictates that some words are used exponentially more than others, there are linguistic and conceptual patterns that appear with predictable frequency. If your bits don't follow similar rules, the results might not be as clean.

I'm pretty sure you could code a transformer to work on binary or video data. Sounds like a great github project. But it's unlikely you'll have the scale of data to do anything close to ChatGPT.
Why would you dislike working with data modules or design time? It makes no sense to me.
As has been shown through the Twitter Files, getting this content off YouTube would require persistent and dogged Harassments from the FBI and CIA through YouTube (Google) back channels.

Not likely to happen for Elon Musk's sake!
Can you reference what you mean about being illegal to teach critical reasoning in Texas?
> I feel like this is a failure of the organization, rather than of those managed.

Very much agreed. Indeed, this is the most important job of the management. Many comments speak of engineering as something that would go off track if left to their own ways. But, the reason for that is lack of context and wrong incentives, in the first place. If engineers don't know why they are not being allowed to work on technical debt, it's a management failure.
Google deciding to give everyone literally 100x or 66x more free space than their competitors did manage to acquire a lot of the email market, which meant non-negligible hardware costs. It spent three years in internal development of Gmail. I have no idea why you think managers weren't involved in those decisions.

Meanwhile, I have no idea if battery life impact is worth measuring in your use-case. My assumption would be "no" because I would imagine the battery life impact would vary too widely to yield useful data and I don't see what I could do with that information anyway other than recommend some people not use the app. But I'm not really thinking deeply about it now, so I'd love to be enlightened. Meanwhile, trying to get more customers is a good thing, even if it fails.
Did you film it by any chance? This would be a good throw-away Twitter or blog post
If you have specialized in a sub-discipline, it can be an entry point without prior game dev experience or shipped titles. For me, my background in and love of audio and music programming made me desirable despite a lack of game dev roles. Turns out there is a severe lack of audio programming talent across the entire industry (we are looking for more at Naughty Dog as well!). Other specializations within graphics, physics and AI may also be ways to bypass the typical, Catch-22-like requirements for prior game dev experience.

The old generalizations about lower salaries and higher hours are no longer true across the board, by the way. As the industry is maturing, a lot of that is changing and the culture around things like crunch is changing for the better.
Though that does look slick, the project is only ~5 months old. Which is a bit young for me to jump aboard.
Talpiot Program
Updating the canary to say "we haven't been served any warrants" when there was, in fact, a warrant served would be an intentional lie. Compelling that kind of speech generally requires a much higher legal bar if it's possible at all.
The idea that software doesn't need maintenance (for any reasonable definition of maintenance) is ludicrous. When a new vulnerability is found, fixing it is maintenance. When the cloud providers change their setup in a way that requires updates, that's maintenance. When user growth causes scaling issues, fixing those is maintenance. When users move to a new platform that needs support, it's maintenance. Claiming that such changes are new features is marketing bullshit. From the end-user's point of view, none of those add new features, they just keep it working the way they're used to.
> "You do not need to. You can register with an anonymous email (like SImpleLogin) and use anonymous payments"

Well, that would be an improvement, but all searches will still be linked to 1 account, whereas i can search on other search engines without this privacy issue.

On top of that, privacy laws in the US are... quite bad (even compared to Europe.)

> "we are in the business of search, not the business of monetizing data"

I appreciate your effort, i might reconsider at some point.
Thank you for your reply!
You can build that phone. Phones made an engineering decision to put more battery rather than more RAM, and it's just a matter of putting more LPDDR5 chips onto the circuit board.
Effects on the lips of horn players seated too close to the timpani (2014)
Sometimes I feel I'm the only one on HN who is in favor of free markets.

It's also clear that apparently many people who respond have never heard anyone make a case for free markets before. It's amazing, because free markets have produced the prosperity and high standard of living we all enjoy. Leftism has never delivered the goods.

Maybe I make a dent, maybe not.
You don't become addicted to therapeutic doses of amphetamines. There is some degree of physical dependency, but it's safe to stop taking them cold turkey and would only take ~a week-a month to return to "baseline" after that.

This is actually not true of the non-stimulant ADHD drugs like Intuniv; you have to taper that one off over a few weeks or unpleasant things happen to your heart rate.

And, of course, ADHD patients constantly forget to take their drugs, and the system where you have to get a new prescription every month isn't even something they can reliably do, being ADHD patients.
Proportionality, I would say, but I'm not from the US and don't know US (case) law so I might be way off here.
I’ve been seeing more and more PHA based straws, and they are great. Look and feel like plastic, but totally biodegradable.
I think when most people say they're taking Adderall, they actually mean Dexedrine or Vyvanse, which are both D-amphetamine.
Supposedly Cleantech/ClimateTech is hiring a lot now[1], according to some articles I saw pop up recently.

I did try to investigate Cleantech jobs last cycle, back in mid 2021, and didn't have a great experience, personally. Most of the jobs posted seemed to fall into one of two buckets:

1 - Startups that "helped companies go carbon neutral", i.e. they accept money from the business, skim some off the top (for their business), and funnel it towards various clean initiatives, then send some certificate to the company showing they've offset X amount of carbon. It just doesn't seem much different than a grift to me, and there's various issues with carbon offsets that John Oliver goes into here[2]. Also regardless of whether it's a grift or not, that sounds like totally uninteresting tech to work on.

2 - Startups that bill themselves as helping companies get more efficient, i.e. help improve their logistics or make their electric grids "smart" to save energy, etc. Problem with that is that already seems like something a company wants and tries to do anyway, and while yes in the short term it does seem like that results in wasting less energy and saves resources, in the long term, it just allows the company to ramp up further and use even more energy and resources. Like two companies with the most efficient logistics in the world are Amazon and Walmart, and that just let them become even more massive.

So wading thruogh all that to find more interesting Cleantech companies I found to be difficult. I did go forward with a few recruiters anyway, and at least with the companies I went forward with they were terrible at scheduling interviews and also seemed to top out at fairly low wages compared to other companies anyway (like I was seeing 120k at the top of the range for even architect roles, and I wasn't super keen on working for that little).

In the end the companies that extended offers were all consulting firms, so I ended up in kind of the opposite realm anyway.

But hey, clean and climate tech are apparently hiring a lot right now, so they're an option if you're worried about your job elsewhere.

Also if someone is in this field and has had a different experience than I have had, please let me know. I'd like to feel like I'm helping more than hurting for the world, just haven't found anything that sorta fits my skills (primarily web and games) that seemed worthwhile.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/05/laid-off-climate-tech-is-l...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0
> ..the US definitely on of a CFC..

Ugh. ..the US definition of** a CFC...
Do you actually feel "euphoria" taking more than the prescribed dose of Adderall? I've been encouraged to try increasing the dosage by psychs before and I just can't. It feels more like a panic attack than anything.
You did not have a reason. You just have this general notion that any one of your emails could, hypothetically, become evidence in some unspecified court case sometime in the future.
From the linked paper:

'Gunther Schuller (b. 1925), an influential horn player,
writes: “The timpani’s spreading wave-lengths back up
through the horn, violently jarring the player’s lips. Under
these conditions split notes abound and what notes can be
played develop a strong rasp. A half minute of this and the
horn player will retain no sensitivity in his lips” (1962).

...

This proximity effect with the timpani has also been highlighted as a potential source of injury to horn players
(Horvath, 2010), where “the impact of the timpani on the horn
is an extremely direct and painful one” (Schuller, 1962), “like
being hit in the mouth” (Buckle, 2008), and “will also negatively affect endurance” (Hill, 2001).'
Yes, I get that you update the canary; we can substitute "kill the canary" with "refusing to feed the canary", same deal, right?
I think a big difference might be that in tech, you often have a global monopoly, while finance, medical, and law are more national ones.
Much agricultural use of water in the american west is intentionally wasteful to protect the farmer's future rights to use water. Farmers are afraid of losing a possible edge over their neighbors if they do the right thing. Not providing a legal mechanism to fix this, even during this worsening crisis, is an utter failure of our country.
I’m launching a job board slash professional development community soon. Join the discord in the mean time.

https://discord.gg/jFZFWBujJa.
How many decades do you want to go back?

How big of a fuck up are you looking for?

Do you wanna hear about the time I broke all internet e-mail for the entire world in 1996, or do you want something more recent?

Hen you ask an intro question like that, I think you would want to have some idea of how you'd answer my questions like this.
Ask HN: Kids Computer
At some point i want to get my kids a computer. It should have a proper paint tool and something to animate with. Ideally the artworks can be placed in a world of some sort with some basic program capabilities.

Why is there no such thing?
I'd argue that tech stands to eventually swallow the companies in the domains you talk about.

The truly difficult thing about monopolies is that their power and strength in the marketplace grows exponentially.
What your comment, in other words, boils down to this: managers, directors, VPs, etc, just build their empires by hiring more and people. That's why it is possible that "25% or 50% or 90% of that effort [personal productivity] is going towards things that ultimately don’t have impact for customers, it’s not very productive after all."

Maybe, time to trim the fat from the top: get rid of these empires by downsizing. Also, companies at very high level should look at the bad effects of empire building, which happens in every large organization. Now one can ask "who gonna bell the cat"? If executive vice presidents start empire building, who gonna stop that? After all, CEO should give free reigns to his underling EVPs. Maybe, the majority stock holders should bell that cat; however, they have delegated that to the board of directors, who are different set of cats.
Indeed, but I strongly suspect the parent was positioning this as a thought exercise.

In that vein, do you think it's right for the town in which you lived right before moving abroad to charge you property taxes on a home you buy in a foreign country? What if there was an exemption on the first $250K in property value? After all you may one day return to your home town and they were providing bus service while you were gone...

What about your home town charging you property taxes on the place you buy in the big city a few years after you move away for college? After all your family is still there and those schools won't fund themselves.
Police forces seem to work just fine without such measures in other countries. I wonder if there are any studies on what the difference is or the differences are that cause the discrepancy in violence.
Because I actually have five years experience in both and what you win in "time" in rad studio you lose in debugging because of how highly opinionated it is. an electron app as bloated as it is, is easier to maintain than this nonsense. Now imagine the unmaintainablity of delphi with whitespace hell of python... Yeah no thanks.
Isn’t this built into the American Dream ethos and a product of individualism at the forefront of American culture?