skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Calling yourself a "programmer" will be detrimental to your career,

Ah, yes. There is the crux of the issue, isn't it?

People called themselves Engineers to advance their careers artificially (sounds really nice and impressive, etc).

Now, everyone is an Engineer, making the Engineer word have significantly less meaning. Today, a Software Engineer is largely a Software Developer of 10 years ago.

Just like economic inflation - title inflation devalues titles, which causes people to inflate their own titles further to stand out once again - which becomes a negative feedback loop.
w98 could be debloated, the same with w95 without that sp.

On XP, well, with the classic theme it can run pretty fast.

But I woudn't use propietary OSes today except for nostalgia experiments on secluded VM's.
Grumpy engineers always grouse about this.

I was a consultant at a big engineering organization. They used to huff and puff about the integrity of engineering process etc. but all of the work was done by “engineering technicians“ for 40% of the pay.
I would say your expectations are reasonable. The anecdote was more to point out the some of the ridiculousness of title inflation (and now that I reread, I did a poor job of getting that point across). I was no where near director-level in job responsibility, nor did I really want an actual director job to begin with.

But now imagine I'm full of myself with my new "Director" title, and go out to interview for real director-level jobs. Man, the previous company would have done me no favors as I go out there and get absolutely slaughtered in interviews.
Be glad you are an outsider looking in. The UK governments own analysis says there will be a 15% drop in trade with the EU over 5 years (this was in 2022) [1].

New trade deals already "done" with countries outside the EU are either a copy and paste of the existing EU deal (Japan) or very limited and rushed (Australia) so they will have almost no impact in offsetting the 15% drop. Actual replacement trade deals (with the US for example) will take many years of negotiation and may not ever happen.

Small/medium size businesses have to deal with EU customs as a 3rd country now. So the cost of selling into the the largest free-trade single market in the world, right on your doorstep, is too high for direct sales to be in any way competitive. Any company serious about selling goods into the EU has to pay for warehousing in the EU somewhere, and sell from an EU subsidiary to avoid the massive admin overhead and delayed shipments.

Larger businesses can soak up the costs of warehousing (or they had them already), so the main affect of Brexit is to cripple small UK businesses that are now expected to sell to south-east Asia, or something.

This is many billions of lost tax revenue due to the reduced economic growth.

The social cost is what most "remainers" are annoyed about. Having EU citizenship stolen away from you and your children, now only the rich can easily work, study or retire abroad again, just like it should be i guess...

And the matter is not even settled, support for remaining in the EU has risen significantly, that's what a 48/52 result in a fudged referendum does, divide a country.

[1] https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexi...
I now found and followed this:

https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-...

And it seems to have worked. After extracting this updater tool and running it, smartctl kept showing the old firmware version (3B2QGXA7), but after reboot it now shows the new version (5B2QGXA7).

I took the risk of running this while the OS (Archlinux) was running with the disk mounted (this is the OS install disk), and at first sight this didn't cause issues. But still do it at your own risk!!
boot from Windows on a SATA drive?
The debt is Twitter's, not Musk's personally.
If your co2 is lowering its far more likely you have really leaky ductwork.
Couldn’t find the recipe.
> It can take a while to convince some of these new hires that as their manager, I'm a person too.

However the company is not a person - RMoney be damned
I re-read the article. I agree I wasn’t capturing the full picture in my initial comment. But I stand by my original sentiment.

It would be wonderful to be proven wrong, but I have a feeling that we’re unlikely to see a perfect text generation system with no bias anytime soon. What perfect system exists in the world?

You seem to specifically have an issue with the Democrat vs. Republican leaning demonstrated in the article you linked. If the small bias that exists disqualifies your support for this wildly useful tool, then I suppose there’s not much that can change that. We’re left to hope that another model pops up soon whose biases are more favourable to you.

Other than the D/R bias, other biases seemed to correlate pretty well with protecting oppressed groups. Once again, under the premise that bias will always exist, I personally think that OpenAI has done a pretty good job at channeling that bias towards protecting groups that tend to be the subject of most hateful content.

But then, I’m also coming from a position of being supportive of good moderation. That’s why I like forums like Hacker News, and I suppose why we’re having this conversation at all. If I only saw utility in raw, unbiased, unfiltered text, I’d probably go read elsewhere.
I agree. I side more with Deontology. But I understand that lieing should be used in small doses and only to protect the just from the unjust.
Not "monetarily" as high value as some of the other examples here, but Icefrog, the lead developer/game balancer for Dota and Dota 2 is also mostly pseudonymous.

I think if it weren't for some stupid comments by a League developer (?), no normal people would know who he is. Now, if you try hard enough, you can find his identity leaked in an old blog/forum post (?) and have it proven/corroborated in other areas online I think.
This is a non-problem in all SSR projects I've ever dealt with.
If I was young again and had six months to a year to just do whatever I’d definitely get back into hacking on blender and turn it into a real job.

There were a bunch of people who were getting jobs at animation studios based off their work on blender back then and nowadays the Blender Foundation has funds for more than just a couple core devs.

If you’re good at math and can code a bit learning your way around a huge codebase like blender so you can add state of the art stuff from papers will definitely get you noticed.
Documentary Bayraktar Wings of Legend“ by Ukrainian Journalist Natalia Moseichuk
I think I managed to upgrade the firmware from within Kubuntu (it wasn't the OS Nvme) by using this method

https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-...

I've done it some months ago, so I don't remember if it was that one exactly.

I'm now relieved to know that 5B2QGXA7 is still the current one.
Isn't this what a pen name is?
Except it's essentially the only CMS with a decent user experience, and plenty of plugins to add the functionality needed without ever looking at any code.

If a WordPress alternative shows any code to the user, it has already failed at that.
The world is mostly ready for the 2038 problem because we have mostly transitioned to 64bit machines where it isn't a problem.
While I don't expect extinction from any particular given cause — and definitely not from any of global warming, nuclear war, loss of biodiversity, peak phosphorous, or the ozone layer — humans have a few massive failure modes:

1. We refuse to believe very bad scenarios until much too late. Doesn't need to be apocalyptic: The Titanic isn't sinking; all of Hiroshima must have gone silent because a telegraph cable was damaged and it can't possibly be the entire city destroyed, and even if it was the Americans can't possibly repeat it; the Cultural Revolution cannot fail; the King can't be executed for treason by his own parliament; the general can't cross the Rubicon; Brutus can't betray me.

I think many of those things would have been dismissed the way you're doing now.

2. Tech is changing. I don't expect extinction from a natural pandemic, but from an artificial one is plausible; not from a natural impact event, but artificial is… not yet, but no harder than creating a Mars colony; propaganda has already started multiple genocide attempts, what happens when two independent campaigns are started at the same time when both groups want to genocide everyone not in their group?

The same risks would still be present on Mars, and the only way I see around the deliberate impact risk is space habitats which have their own different set of problems (given we can't coordinate on greenhouse gases I see no chance of us coordinating on Kesler syndrome either in cis-Luna nor in Dyson swarm scenarios).

I don't have any solutions here, though.
Mountains beyond mountains is a great book with an alternative view. Dr Paul is likely to do a good job with your money helping people because he's taking local patients and root causing their problems causing them to get sick, and solving those.

Somebody from on high isn't going to have the right perspective to do a good job. I think the effective altruists are solving a problem for themselves "how do I feel better about having all this money" and not "how do I solve this person's lack of ability to fill prescriptions problem"
Why is Time magazine printing the name as uncapitalized "effective altruism"?

Those two terms have important generic meanings, and this Effective Altruism thing doesn't appear to be some generic natural combination of the terms.
Are you suggesting we give up on rendering layouts that respond to different window sizes, display resolutions, and zoom levels? I think what you’re suggesting is that clients requesting websites should receive essentially an image of the website with limited interactivity, but that’s not going to make anyone that’s ever used a website satisfies in C.E. 2023.
Is the training the hard part?

Is that not what humanity has developed from centuries/millennia of experience with all the approaches to child raising and education?

Engineering something trainable is clearly the difficult part given the entire conversation is about whether or not it's even possible.
Hey, G here, CMO at testimonial.to. There's still plenty of profits left each month, that's not the reason! In one sentence, he just no longer believes in sharing every core metrics but still plans to build in public.
Love mine. I think it looks fine, has a simple display to display a few values, white, and nicely rounded. Basically invisible. I use it to collect the info so I can look at the graphs as needed.

Seems like a really nice design. I was impressed that bluetooth LE was enough to connect reliably across 3 floors (with the gateway on the middle floor) of my house. The view plus automatically acts as a hub if you plug in USB for power, but falls back to batteries as needed.

All in all just about perfect, it works, easy to setup, and collects tons of data (Radon, PM2.5, CO2, Humidity, Temp, VOC, and pressure). I do wish it collected carbon monoxide though.
But that’s not in any way shape or form the “accessibility” being talked about here.

Just because it’s the same word does not mean it’s the same meaning.
Every time I see "closed due to inactivity" implemented, the outcome is that new feature get added rather than fixing existing problems, because the memory of those problems only persists in the users day to day life. The developers have no useful record.

But, I doubt that can scale. I imagine there's some happy place sitting near semi-automated "duplicate" recognition, and a voting system, to give the users a voice. Closing due to inactivity is never a happy place (unless it's sitting waiting for required user feedback maybe).
Host here. I’ve been on many projects that get canceled. We’re building cool stuff. We’re going above and beyond, and we’re excited. But the project encounters shifting priorities or budgeting constraints, and the work never goes anywhere.
This is Ron's story of refusing to let that happen, sneaking onto the Apple campus to work, and as a result, getting his project onto millions of Apple Computers.

(It's been on hn before, but this version has new details and more back story)

A favorite part of mine:

Ron: Frequently people would come up to me and ask me, “Do you work here?”

And I’d just tell them no.

And they’d say, “Oh, that means you’re a contractor.”

And I’d say, “Actually, no.”

Then they’d say, “But then who’s paying you?”

And I’d tell them no one.

Then they’d ask, “How do you live?”

I’d say, “I live simply.”

And then they’d ask me, “What are you doing here?” And I’d give them a demo.
Nah that's just the standard library. Anyone can access it.
I recently bought an CO2 monitor and it was a very good decision.

I was shocked to see how fast CO2 will build up in just a few hours. Specifically online meetings when I do a lot of talking seem to drive it up.

That said, opening windows will drive the CO2 down to 500ppm in a few minutes. I think the OP does not know how to properly ventilate a room. You need to completely open the window or even multiple windows. They probably just had it half-open which will waste energy.

Also, if you look at the actual limits, no 1.2k ppm is not horrible. It will regularly reach 1.5k or more for me. Prolonged exposure of that can make you a bit sleepy but there is not reason to panic.

So, ventilate a few times a day properly. Don't just have the windows open all the day or the heating bill will kill you.
is this claim based on any research ?
The second best thing after the scenery is the spotty cellphone reception, so the only thing to do is to look at the amazing scenery through the window instead of scrolling mindlessly on social media.
Please Build More Silly Things
Funny thing. This article prompted me to check the health of my two Samsung SSD's (a 250GB 850 EVO SATA III, and a 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe), which were fine.

But Samsung's Magician also listed my Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102 2TB spinny disk. It found a SMART error. I ran a performance test and looked at SMART again, and the "Hardware ECC Recovered" value went from 80 to 81, with a threshold of 64. My other software labels this as "good". Nevertheless, this drive is now being replaced by a 4TB WD Blue. Thanks, article. Saved me some future troubles!
This summary is not helpful to me. No clue what this site is pitching/selling and Kagi just seems to have stripped the excessive graphics.
Higher income people have higher credit card debt because they spend more money. The issue is whether they're paying their bill at the end of the month or using it to finance their consumption and letting the balance grow.

Guess to be more accurate I should say "accumulating large credit card debt relative to their ability to pay the monthly balance". Which to be honest there's not much evidence is growing in any segment of the population. Wages have risen faster than credit card debt, so it's likely the "record debt levels" are simply people getting wealthier (in nominal terms).
Growing up poor, I was always a few generations behind, rocking a 486 DX2 when the PII & PIII where the latest and greatest. 33kbps modem when others had 56k. When I was 10ish Me and my older brother would go to the thrift store and dig through the computer parts, it was an adventure.
That's all available from Certificate Transparency. Chrome refuses certificates that haven't been submitted to CT.

AC Camerfirma seems to operate multiple CA certificates (e.g. some labeled by year). Here's a search that finds certificates issued by one of them: https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=51020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency
when equipping a storage system, it does make sense to use disks from different manufacturers, different models, and different vintages (manufacturing batches).

equipping a storage system with disks all of the same make, model, and vintage is invoking the statistics gods to strike failure all at once (or close enough that you won't be able to keep up with the rate of failure and time to rebuild)

personal experience: attempting to rescue a failing 192 disk system containing disks all of the same make and model. wearisome.
There is no such band, because "the '70s" isn't some homogeneous genre of music, and not just rock. Just terms of rock, you have Neil Young, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Queen, Boston, Steve Miller, Rush, Golden Earring, Wishbone Ash ... who best captures the seventies? It's pretty nonconstructive question other than as a conversation prompt.
While having the preview were some terms of making this open to the public. Certainly didn’t care of the terms and conditions for a bit of morning glory. Great glimpse!
Not to mention the jannies do it for free
The download is directly from archive.org. Is there an official site or is a member of archive.org maintaining this? It would be nice if there was a git repo with the scripts / tools used to build the image from a standard W11 iso.
The -ProfileManager flag to Firefox gives a startup window to manage, create, and select profiles (and has existed forever).

You can create shortcuts (or shell scripts) by hand with --no-remote -p ProfileName to auto-open specific sites in specific profiles. It's certainly less convenient than PWA installs, but is an old tool with all sorts of old ways to automate it.

Multi-account Container is far easier than all that though and does reduce the number of windows to manage in your OS taskbars. Obviously you need to be careful with which extensions you install that they are safe for every container you want to use, but that's a given and a good idea in general no matter how many profiles you use: keep extensions to the bare minimum you are comfortable with. Vet their permissions manifests and keep additional permissions you grant them to a minimum.
Ridden the ‘Chief before a few times. Always met some cool people to talk and play games with.

But really, after recent air travel, I’m like who wants to fly when they can take Amtrak?
Thank you for sharing this. I’m still reading, but the section about math resonated so much with me.

Just today we looked at a performance problem. CPU/memory usage, DB queries, indexes and joins, size of data, frequency of requests, redundant work, caching, different parts slowing down others...

These things are so ingrained that I don’t think of then as applying math. In my inner eye I see pictures moving around. It’s all familiar and obvious. But thinking about it, there’s always math behind it all in some way. We don’t express it as such but it’s still there.
One has to think, the drop is trade must be temporary and out of spite (from the EU side), since if the UK had goods other EU nations wanted to import just a few years ago, then they surely still want to import them today.

> now only the rich can work or retire abroad again

This is the same for almost all countries though, isn't it? As a US citizen, I cannot freely just travel across the EU either (without visas and what-not).

Perhaps time will tell if this ultimately was good or not. I can understand both sides of the issue - remaining an independent nation and suffering the costs an independent nation must endure, or join a federated government and effectively become a State (in US speak) within the EU.
The article is about the ESA though, not the EU. UK is still a member of ESA. Not everyone in the ESA is in the EU (Norway, Switzerland and the UK are non-EU but full members of ESA, Canada is an associate member) and some EU countries aren’t in ESA (Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania and Latvia are full members of the EU but only associate members of the ESA; Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta are full members of the EU but not even associate members of ESA)
What always sucks me back into chrome.

* seamless japanese page translation

* Firefox always seem to be applying an update at that critical moment where you just need the browser to start RIGHT NOW
It’s quite concerning because it seemed to be off the books/hidden originally, SBF is one of the few who claims he’s been able to issue or redeem tether, it’s ‘Tethers bank’, and SBF is implicated in one of the largest crypto frauds in history.

Aka it stinks.
> As for linguistics, IMHO the existence and success of GPT pretty much puts Chomsky into the proven wrong bucket, so again, not a good example. (his whole point used to be that statistical model can't learn syntax in principle, and GPT's syntax is close to impeccable)

What do you disagree with? He appears to be correct. The software hasn’t learned anything. It mixes and matches based on training data.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndwIZPBs8Y4
(2010) The fix, Bitcoin patch 0.3.10, was implemented by Satoshi

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827.0
lol wow you're really something, this is literally one guy, there is TONS of research on this which contradicts his findings. This guy does a pretty good summary https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/ definitely heavier on the research wouldn't you say?

He also misses the biggest add of typing your code which is that other people can understand it better. This is often lost on junior programmers...
Just a note as a happy customer of Puget Systems that my experience working with them has been excellent, they really seem to be expert in their field, and have been for many years.

Also, their submerged in mineral oil aquarium computer was really cool, back in the day.
The -ProfileManager command line flag opens it up as a startup window.
Tried it with Arthur C. Clarke's "La Estrella" ("The Star", Spanish version), and it did quite well too, although it somewhat downplays the faith crisis at the end.

> Arthur C. Clarke's "La Estrella" tells the story of a group of scientists who are exploring a distant star system and discover a planet that was once home to an advanced civilization. The planet is now a desolate wasteland, but the scientists find evidence of the civilization's existence in the form of a giant monument and thousands of visual records. Through their research, they are able to determine that the civilization was destroyed by a supernova that occurred in the same year as the birth of Jesus Christ. This discovery leads the scientists to question the existence of God and the purpose of the universe. The story highlights the fragility of life and the power of the universe, and serves as a reminder of the importance of cherishing the time we have on Earth.

The key moments are in Spanish for some reason, and half of them are hilarious (in a cute naive AI way):

- La fe de Arthur C. Clarke se vio puesta a prueba cuando descubrió una estrella que había explotado hace miles de años.

- Los astrónomos chinos detectaron una supernova en 1054 sin saber de qué se trataba.

- La nebulosa del Fénix es una cabeza de alfiler, una tenue cáscara de gas que rodea a una estrella única.

- Los habitantes de la estrella habían construido un monumento de una milla de altura para llamar la atención de otras razas.

- La explosión de la estrella había destruido todos los planetas que orbitaban alrededor de ella, excepto uno.

- Los habitantes de la estrella habían dejado miles de registros visuales y máquinas para proyectar estos, junto con instrucciones gráficas.

- La civilización de la estrella había sido destruida en pleno florecimiento, sin dejar supervivientes.

- Arthur C. Clarke se preguntó si la destrucción de la estrella se podía conciliar con la misericordia de Dios.

- Arthur C. Clarke llegó a la conclusión de que el Universo no ti[truncated]