skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This resonated with me:

> Trap: Skill + Need - Joy
This is classic burn-out. When you do the work all day, you feel drained and exhausted rather than energized (as you would if it were Flow = Skill + Joy). You do the work, because the company needs it done. You do the work, because you are undeniably great at it. Even though you hate doing it, you’d rather take it on yourself rather than foist it on others, whether because you want to “protect them from the drudgery8,” or because you believe they can’t do as good a job as you can, or because you can’t afford to hire someone. Because you create great results that the company needs, it doesn’t look like a problem—not to you, nor your team. But because you dislike it, you grow to resent it, and eventually you can’t face it, and you’re finished.

Nowadays I find myself exhausted even though I’m doing important and high priority work that the C-suite cares about. That paragraph articulated why I feel so burnt out with it now.

Thanks for sharing.
I think proposed Vc lib is tested under clang as well.
This is what I'd also like to see.
I think there are several TCO issues you'd run into here:

- vendor lock-in: anyone who has worked at a shop running Sun SPARC machines when they got purchased by Oracle can speak to the pain involved with negotiating software licenses or hardware support contracts with the Only Game In Town.

- the price/scarcity of mainframe talent: you're going to have to pry IBM z-series experts away from banks who are paying 50-100% over market rate, oftentimes in straight cash, to maintain systems that are propping up the United States economy in its entirety. Not to mention - my first job out of college >10 years ago had a mainframe, and I was incredulous that _anyone_ still had or needed one in the 21st century. Now I can appreciate the specific tradeoffs being made that caused the business to choose a mainframe, but attracting top-tier cost-effective junior dev talent out of college becomes several orders of magnitude more difficult once the word "mainframe" leaves your recruiters' lips.

- scalability: in the event that you ever decide to add features or functionality (or, say, increase your tweet character limit by an order of magnitude), you have now committed yourself to scaling your systems in units of mainframes costing millions per unit, as opposed to servers costing five figures per unit (not to mention, you probably need a dev environment that's airgapped from your prod environment, which means yet _another_ mainframe...)

- build vs. buy: using the same commodity x86_64/ARM hardware and Linux kernel that everyone else is using allows you to take advantage of all of the open-source datacenter software being built for that happy-path profile. The minute you stray from that path, the engineering-hour cost of everything you do has the potential to skyrocket, because you can't use anything off-the-shelf and need to recompile everything for z/Architecture. In fact, based on some cursory web searches, it doesn't appear that you can compile the Rust toolchain to even _run_ on z/OS as of today, so at minimum, OP would be committing to implementing that.

But at the end of the day, the constraining resource in every software organization I've encountered has been engineering hours, and by choosing a mainframe you're drastically limiting the potential number of engineering hours available to you in the employee market.
I maintain both branches - a WIP branch and a final rebased result. I agree with the age old concept that each commit on the master should be a full self-sufficient feature. I also like to keep the messy WIP for reference. How does the 'falsification' argument apply here?
Headlines like this count towards slowly eroding my faith in media. Not factually incorrect, but the intent only becomes obvious after reading.
> Aviation accounts for 17% of tourism-related GHG emissions (pre-pandemic)

17% of tourism-related emissions, 2.5% of total emissions.
Van Dobben near Rembrandtplein. "Kaascroquetten broodje met mayo" (Cheese croquette on bread with mayonnaise) was my goto when I lived there some years back. Good enough to order two. Very filling and tasty.
Surely, it wouldn’t need a whole OS, but it would need a specialized layer running over the top and that that point it might as well be a forked OS with the layer on top.
You dont seem to understand how corruption works. Quid pro quo is hilariously easy to avoid doing. If he’s been told to do this by google, then in 5 years he will be back at google with a big fat signing bonus as compensation for sabotaging Microsoft. This seems unlikely tho. He just likes google and promotes it because he is “bought in”.
In 30 years of being around SF, this is really only accurate of Tenderloin,
Civic Center, SOMA, Market and Mission St, roughly 10% of SF

Most of San Francisco has been pretty rough for most of its history. The Haight has struggled with being a destination for street kids for going on fifty years. Vis Valley? Probably the most infamous projects west of the Mississippi. Chinatown? That's pretty much always been tenement housing and the sort of grunge that you get with that many people essentially living on top of each other.
Could one maybe just buy one share of berkshire hathaway?

Could one buy fractional shares of berkshire hathaway on fidelity?
In his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant recounts going to Texas when he was with the army during the Mexican-American war in the 1840s and seeing a herd of horses so large that it extended from horizon to horizon. Even when they climbed to the top of a nearby hill they could not see the end of the herd.
>> Intensity and difference need to be encouraged—genuine striving and passion. The courage to love fragile transient things, to form deep attachments and let them sculpt and wound you. Desire for stasis and placation is the default. Desire for something more meaningful is the relatively unsung alternative.

This last part doesn't make much sense because this attachment is the default state of most beings. There is no effort needed to form 'deep attachments' nor is it any special when you why get wounded by these attachments because that's the expected outcome.
I hear some version of this all the time. Why then are gui systems like electron so popular and why do new design systems continue to incorporate html/CSS as the design tools? If it's so bad why hasn't something else replaced it? If something truly better was developed it would be wildly successful.
I don't know the answer, but I'm guessing cross-platform frameworks are just really difficult to develop. You say "just about the worst option imaginable", but the evidence doesn't really suggest that.
> you will need to go the route of finding the (often undocumented, sometimes unpopulated) SPI flashing header, and using an external device to directly write a working BIOS onto the SPI flash chip

Y'all these days are spoiled with your headers, test clips, howto videos and cheap EPROM programmers.

Had to reflash an i2c 24-series eeprom on a satellite receiver. You don't want to power the whole board, so gotta lift the VCC pin off the SOIC chip (not hard if you warm it up and pick at it with a soldering iron), solder kynar to leads/nearby lines for VCC, data and clk lines, and aligator clip for GND. Connected to some self-made janky 24 series parallel port interface.
Taxation is theft, with extra steps.
The legal situation is different if the intended use of the footage is commercial (film/tv in your case) or not. Getting releases is still very much a thing in all the shoots I've been on recently.
Was the article created by a bot?
That's an interesting extension of the illegal numbers or coloured bits theories, but we don't really see it used that way in practise. When governments or media industry groups crack down on this stuff, they don't go after everybody that ever had those bits in memory. Maybe that's just for practical reasons, but we've never seen every router in between a buyer and seller get confiscated too as they've been somehow tainted. Honestly this doesn't seem like more than a dystopian mental exercise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/illegal-hashes/
You could pull fish out of the water with your bare hands
Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment
Yup, this is why it became so easy to claim any fact you didn’t like was “fake news”.

The real news is so often just bullshit.
I find the new(ish) touchscreen tipping so offensive. Defaults at 25% is not uncommon. I’ve switched to cash now to just avoid the whole thing. Can we hear from service workers? Are you guys just making bank now?
On videos I usually watch, the comments are alright now.
https://archive.ph/9fduJ

With so much attention on the U.S.’s urban-rural divide, you might soon hear that the rural population in 2020 was much larger than in 2010.

That isn’t because people moved en masse to the country during the pandemic. It’s because the U.S. Census Bureau is updating its definition of an urban area, from one with 2,500 people to one with 5,000. That reclassified 4.2 million people, living in 1,140 areas of the U.S., from urban to rural.

...
Because at least it has the semblance of legitimacy?

Look, I’ve fairly liberal views on piracy (arrrr, etc.), but this isn’t the time or place to get into that discussion.
I haven't seen this either, but the only building I'm particularly familiar with used 2 story elevators (board at 1 or 2, arrive at 17 or 18), so I'm guessing the close door button isn't going to do much (the elevator on the lower level has to deal with the loading conditions of the upper level, and vice-versa).
https://archive.ph/YbUOC
OK I'll try again:

Forward: fine tune responses base on new prompts with more details (output from human) - learn from human to create context

human -> machine

Reverse: condense large inputs with details to best fit understanding base on feedback (input into human) - teach human from context

machine -> human
No one really knows how many bison there were in pre-Columbian times. 50% more than estimated, is not a big difference, especially since our confidence intervals are very, very wide about historical numbers. That being said, there's no going back to the 1400s. Farming and ranching are here to stay.
It might indeed be just you
When I think of the near future, masses of 'average people' scare me as much or more as do government and big business. There are many more of them, for starters.
The paper http://collins.lternet.edu/sites/temperate.lternet.edu.colli... which sadly the article neglects to link to says this:

> Several differences between bison and cattle behavior potentially explain
why bison increased species richness more than cattle. While
the existence of DNA fragments from forbs and woody plants
has been identified within bison dung (58), nongrass species
comprise a minor portion of bison diet in comparison to
grasses, as evidenced by direct identification of forage con-
sumed (59), carbon isotope values of bison hair (59), and
microhistology of bison dung (60). In contrast, the higher
dominant grass cover in the cattle treatment suggests that these
domesticated grazers likely consume more nongrass species
than bison. This is consistent with studies of cattle diets in tall-
grass prairie and elsewhere which found forbs comprise 10 to
34% of cattle diet (61, 62). In addition to differences in bison
and cattle foraging behavior, bison also create physical distur-
bances (e.g., wallows) and grazing lawns (34) that increase hab-
itat heterogeneity (20) and thus species richness across scales
(63), whereas cattle do not form soil disturbances similar to
bison wallows.
Sadder but Wiser? Maybe Not
https://archive.ph/fzkZu
In my view, we should use nuclear power to desalinate seawater at scale, turn the Sahara Desert into a massive prairie, and raise a billion cattle there to help feed the world. We really need to move away from agriculture for environmental reasons, and red meat is also the most nutritious food humans can consume. We should also do the same thing in the Australian desert.
This is a great article and glad I read it as I’m at a cross-roads currently. I’ve exited from a startup I founded in 2021 and figuring out what to do next.

One thing I noticed is that I dislike virtual meetings, especially regularly scheduled ones. So need to figure out how to navigate that if I do something new.
https://latentweb.ai
I dunno who this Alan Kay guy is, but he needs to get to the point faster.
Mobian: A look back in the mirror and a glimpse of the future
Yeah! When I make my book into PDFs, I get a ton of those yet see no issues visually.
Understanding Japan (2014)
What planet have you been living on? Bittorrent is widely used to distribute copyrighted material - movies, TV shows, games, programs, porn... I'd imagine a large majority of bittorrent traffic worldwide is pirated material, with a small portion being datasets as you describe, and other legally-shared data like actual Linux distros, etc.
I would argue TikTok (and most social media) is a commercial use. TikTok makes money, so does the TikToker sometimes.
thought-terminating cliche.
Yeah, I’ve never had a problem with it. I mean, sure it’s not perfect but I really don’t get all the hate.
You only have to read as far as the subheadline to get what it's about, and the literal first two paragraphs make it even more explicit in case you missed it.
Just wait until AI generated articles pollute the internet. Trusted sources only is going to make a more decisive world.
Your reply is the evidence, you didn't quote the Hyperloop vs Magnetic Train argument, you don't care about the problem, you care about an argumentation that is against personal gain ;)

Have we replaced the ISS? Why haven't we?

Why Europe was so dependent on Russian energy and was hesitant to give up and pursue nuclear for this long?

Why does the west still need to burn coal in 2023?

Why isn't there any Magnetic Train in the US?

Why nobody has access to universal free healthcare in the US?

I can continue for hours, but you shown your lack of interest
$8.5 million ought to be enough to buy a couple of hundred iPhones.
[Disclaimer: I did not work in the video games industry in the 90s, but I did work in VFX studios hired to do cutscenes in the mid-00s]

Before engine-compatible assets were good enough to render in-engine, cinematics that involved character animation were authored with an entirely parallel path, using the same reference art, in a character animation program. Maya and 3d Studio Max were popular at the time and most reference art and lookdev was done with them anyway, so that was a popular choice, and Softimage (RIP) was an artist favorite in offline animation too.

Sometimes making the cinematics wasn't a core competence of the studio working on the game, so VFX or animation studios would be contracted to do this. Often this meant the studio was already set up to work for TV or Film, so it was staffed such that a 3D render would reach a compositor relatively quickly, where many manual corrections would happen in 2D space. Compositing software has largely consolidated nowadays to the few survivors (Nuke, Flame mostly) but at the time there were many, like Combustion and Henry (Quantel), and even After Effects was used a bunch in places I worked.

To this day, not all engines love creating cinematics, because even if an external/offline renderer can do the full render (like in Unreal Engine), some engines don't support the animation systems required to do cinematics, or don't support them at a velocity artists like. In other words, the same software workflows are used today.
The original books are fantastic but this download literally is a folder of 302 loose jpegs, taken from a 4' distance by a camera phone. Frankly, Internet Archive should just delete it; it's embarrassing.
I was just wishing today to install an old version of Garage Band that could run on an older Mac. But I don’t have it on a disc, and can’t see how to download old versions.
English language and culture in general is steeped in obsolete terminology, words that become divorced and changed from their original meanings.

Though in this case I'd argue that it isn't obsolete terminology. You can still boot into real mode/DOS on a modern x86/64 PC, at their heart still lies an IBM PC compatible. IBM made IBM PC compatibles up until they stopped making personal computers.

You can do what you want but idk seems a little silly to be that passionate about being wrong.

"If you like that "PC" terminology, other terminology you may be interested in may be: "color TV", "transistor radio", etc."

Neither of those describe or imply compatibility with any specific set of standards.
Not only does he have an issue with the authorities, the Chinese people don't seem to like him either, for promoting 996 (working 12hrs a day 6 days a week) and also trying to put people into debt...
I think you wanted to say, “They could not care less."
That might be true in isolation, but I think it would mean losing 90+% of the wheat, corn, etc farming that uses that land now.
Yes, it's not quite as bad as burying the surprise deep in the article.
Large companies put people in very "tight"/narrow well defined roles (developers included) and like to hire MBAs in C-suite roles. And yes, I agree they will have well defined sales pipelines and product market fit.

Business is about numbers, yes - at all sizes of companies.

But what actually drives those numbers?

Its 1) value and 2) sales/and marketing. Its not the accounting department. That's my point.

Understanding costs and margins is crucial, yes. But its very much secondary to having a valuable product that people want and that you can market/sell effectively - that's business, not accounting/finance.

A developer asking questions about the value a product creates and the problems it solves or doesn't solve will do far better than learning accounting/finance as far as "learning business" goes or getting an MBA!

I'm not a Musk fanboy, but he has created multiple valuable companies (spolier alert, he didn't do that by focusing on an MBA but rather on creating valuable products) - here is what he has to say about MBAs in large companies:

https://youtu.be/Y6P8qdanszw

"Spend less time on finance and power points and more time on making your product as amazing as possible". Bingo. That's business.
I had one of these growing up too - for largely the same reason (2nd hand it was much cheaper than an IBM clone).

We ran Wordstar on it, which worked AFAIK out of the box with no modifications. Everything else was a crap shoot. The screen was incredibly slow too, like using a terminal over a slow modem. It got me through university though.
"a previously approved process" is a nice claim.

we reserve the right to change the terms and conditions...
blah, blah, fucking blah.

I'm very firmly of the opinion that an ad on the street, a billboard, or in a newspaper or magazine, or even a website (under certain conditions) is public and not private (as much as they are annoying), inasmuch as you can be filmed in public - it's a public space.

An ad on your phone is* private as it is 'yours', your number, your unique id, your puk etc. It is sent only to you, as the owner of the phone.

Unless you share your phone with several (quantity/ number to be debated) persons, which would have to be declared. But if Jenny or Jimmy from finance are looking at spicy underwear and I get the ad for more of the same when I'm on duty - then so be it! It would have had to have been declared a public phone (for such behavior to be acceptable/ accepted).
It would be 2.5 a year. Non competes are 2y across all of finance.
I read an article in a pop-sci magazine making the case that the jungles in South America would basically collapse if one removed Sahara Desert. (Something about the sand storms.)
That is a backward/ex-post Sharpe ratio. Bankroll management requires knowing the forward Sharpe ratio for VAR. You can't know VAR without knowing the forward expected variance. This is why black swan events wipe out traders who think they know their risk but really don't.
Interesting that this article links to an Israeli website to list the ISO 639-1 language two-letter code.

The list is available on Wikipedia[1] but the original ISO document is ridiculously behind a $180 paywall[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

2. https://www.iso.org/standard/22109.html
I spend part of my time in a rural area. Only in the last couple years was fiber even available near my house, and then it's a matter of $300/mo on a 3-year contract for 250mbps symmetric, plus the cost of running last-mile from the road to my house.

Thankfully, Starlink came out, and I was able to get like 50/20 for $110/mo on a month-to-month + $500 fixed.
I'm glad no one heeded this for techno-viking.
what not training on an artist’s copywritten work does to an AI
I use Brave exclusively now for YT. It’s heavenly to have zero ads. I was just about to give up on the platform because I can’t abide looking at ads. I’m nuts. I actually point the phone away from me while the ad is playing so I don’t get exposed to it. If I can manage to not ever catch even a single glimpse of the ad and not even detect what’s it’s for, I feel I’ve succeeded.

But now using Brave I don’t have to bother with any of that.
Nope, and the "Universe 25" label should make you immediately suspicious about what happened in Universes 1-24. Those never got published.

Gwern did some investigation into it:

https://www.gwern.net/Mouse-Utopia

As far as I'm concerned the whole thing amounts to fraud.
A lot of these are dairy cows too which changes the calculation
https://archive.is/smFV4
In a field that includes X Windows, you might want to reconsider "worst design imaginable".

There were dozens of serious attempts at a remote GUI applications framework from the 70s to the 90s. HTML + JavaScript is the one that finally succeeded. It is not a coincidence.

Unlike all its predecessors it was conceived in a free software environment, and worked with both degraded and upgraded environments. It was fast-evolving enough for commercial interest, standardized enough for mass adoption, and trivially simple to author.

Yes, the web has grown complex beyond all reason and if you want to make a real state-of-the-art web app today you'll have to use an absurdly deep stack of tools. It's probably time to rethink things. But give credit where it's due. No other system would have even been _able_ to evolve like HTML + JavaScript has done.
I’ll preface this with the acknowledgement that httponly is misunderstood by many, but it won’t change anything:

HttpOnly only prevents session theft as you cannot read the cookie, but you can still use it. you can still perform actions by sending AJAX requests with cookies attached.

In a subdomain takeover you receive cookies on all requests, you can view these irrespective of httponly unless you are limited to controlling html and js of the subdomain (which I think is true of GitHub static sites).

HttpOnly is largely a failed mitigation, modern SPAs require access to JWT tokens which compounds that; the solution is to focus on appropriate scoping (to prevent subdomain hijacks having such implications) and preventing XSS.
I believe your story about population collapse. But what I find confusing: if the bison population had time to explode, why didn't bears and wolves also explode in number?
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There is no honest reporting of numbers online without some sort of tracking.
I hope the author has their flame proof pants on. The mastodon community (well portions of it, its not one community) will not appreciate this sort of thing at all.

This was somewhat covered previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221851 but is worth having a look at.

In short though, any attempts to do this tends to result in huge block lists, the hashtag #fediblock circulating around, and in some cases outright personal attacks on the people behind it.