skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean "investors". I meant local people. Average micro-business. I don't know Albania too well - I only spent a couple of weeks there, but I had a feeling it was bustling of small businesses. I have spent however years in other places which have a similar reputation (Indonesia, for example) - and yes, corruption is everywhere, but your average grandma can get out on the street with a cart and sell noodle soup or fried rice. This is something unheard of in the EU. She may have to pay a small bribe to a local gang, but hey - it is the local gang, that operates by the same rules for generations, and everybody knows how it works. So it is not unpredictable after all.

You do have a good point, in that it throws off bigger investors, but people get by. They don't make a killing income, but neither do they starve.

What is "predictable" for bigger investors though is unpredictable for these very people. No wonder the average grandma in the EU does not have the skills to start a small business, if needed. The laws and regulations are simply too complex for her.

I guess the issue is with scaling a business in a corrupt environment (as opposed to starting it, which is 0 friction). Once you grow bigger than your local gang's area, you deal with higher and higher levels of corruption. God forbid you end up scaling a business to the point where you have to bribe the highest level gang - the national government. That would be very expensive and risky (the regime can always change - new people, new demands). BUT assuming you stay small, you can make a living running your own (family) business without much friction.
(Caveat: there are a handful of cases where the Chinese and Japanese stroke orders differ, so take care treating these as equivalent.)
Not OP, but I'm under 30 years old and I agree with OP 100%.
Hey, no big deal. It's all good.

SO has made it clear that they don't want "my kind" participating, so ... I won’t go, where I’m not wanted. Life’s too short.

That question was a bit of a "trial balloon." I'd pretty much written SO off.

* pop *

Problem solved.

Just S’s and G’s, might want to take a gander at some of the other (over 100) questions I’ve asked. They are not all perfect, so there’s plenty of ammo.
Linux spreading everywhere .... like cancer. Balmer was right!
There is no doubt that most companies (and the government) could cut 20% with no effect on their productivity. It's just no practical to ride the razors edge of leanness and it also would probably harm morale.

Twitter cut 80% of it's workforce and is becoming MORE productive.
Sure, nurturing it to execution is a PM at the small scale and a CEO at the large scale. Ideas people are not competing with non-ideas people: they're competing with ideas people who can execute.
God we're already making it an acronym?
I can't comment too much on Agile but I can say that I don't trust my instincts as far as "however long it takes".

First project I finished on my own I felt was FAR from finished, but it had to get out the door. It was missing so much....

Customers LOVED IT. They still love it ... crappy code, missing what I thought were essential features, and all.
"It seems some just can't grasp this concept.". Your confidence reveals your lack of knowledge. No one has a scooby what consciousness is or how to measure it. It could be that every atom has a modicum of conscious experience. It could be that consciousness is an emergent phenomena (although I think this claim is unlikely as it seems to me to be making a category error). It could be that it's actually Midi-chlorians. I repeat nobody knows. There are as many theories as there are people who have thought deeply about the problem. You coming along all confident with your debunking mindset and your scientism are just showing everyone who has any understanding that you do not know what you are talking about.
In California teens aren't allowed to drive the way I was able to when I was a teen. Teens can't drive around other teens, and I don't think they can drive at night without an adult. This is for safety, and when I think back about my teen years it makes sense.

Also, maybe for some of the same reasons, they take the driving test much more seriously then when I was a kid. If you could park the car and stay in a lane, congratulations. Now it seems like they really fail you for not knowing how many feet something can hang off your tail, etc. It's a lot more pressure-- and probably a lot more work for the DMV.

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Using quirky metaphors and swearing can be problematic for people who aren't fluent in english though. I think the removal of all greeting lines and thank you comments is a bit over the top, but generally pushing a consistent, impersonal scientific writing style does help a lot to make SO more accessible.
Honestly I'm now wondering how much of these "startegy/management consultants" jobs could be automated with AI. I mean from my understanding their primary work product is a slide deck.
Thanks keep following YoBulk..We will keep on doing some path breaking work in CSV importing space.
Summary quote:

The OODA loop is complete gibberish. It's describing the tip of the iceberg in the most complicated way possible, in an attempt to impress people too incompetent to understand it, written by a man unqualified to talk about it.

It's a complicated subject, over-simplified and then re-complicated to appeal to people who like to put words inside of boxes and connect them with arrows.
SCOTUS “confused” after hearing arguments for weakening Section 230 immunity
That's only a problem if you believe that the 33rd hour is as productive as the 23rd hour, which isn't the case. We're talking about 4 day work weeks, not 4 hour work weeks.
Fully agreed, but please don't discount the domestic workforce keeping things going alongside those other categories of workers. Some of us work long hours and extra days not because we are abused by a parody of a capitalist boss/system, but because the work needs to be done and we take pride in supporting the progress of humanity (for better or worse). That plumbing issue, that damaging weather event, that medical emergency, that slip, trip or fall, that electricity outage, that vandalism repair, that train derailment, that earthquake, that dirty diaper, that messy suicide, that produce delivery, that firebreak, that water break, that pitbull attack, that abscess bust, that gas leak, that sandwich you ordered online; someone is around to handle these emergent events. Some of us need to be around to take care of the rest of those who are spending 12 to 72 hours (or more) contributing to or experiencing these events.

Please don't forget us.
fb/google for the most part won't give you cpa... they will let you set cpa targets (which often miss horrobly) but still bill you by the click.
> It’s the core purpose of a company.

It's not though. A state (New Jersey for J&J) gave the company a charter to do X.

J&J's charter was not to return money to shareholders [1].

[1]: https://www.investor.jnj.com/_document/johnson-johnson-resta...
It's my wild unfounded guess, I guess ^_^

Any modern CPU needs RAM, specially to get things to cache, I don't think there's any way around it.

What I was trying to say is that having a large L3 means that it never has to wait for RAM access, and that should be fast.
That's not what they say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29kWFrNWnyk

"The 3D printed ball is truly playable, nearly fitting the performance specifications of a regulation basketball, including its weight, size and rebound (bounce)."
Stellar and Comet are popular clients for MacOS. They're both pretty nice, from what I remember.

Legere for Reddit has been recommended by my colleagues that use Windows but I can't vouch for it personally.
Haha, "inflation beating pay raise."

Our VP of HR said "If we were to give you raises when inflation goes up, we'd have to cut your salary when it goes down."

Bitch, when was the last time we had significant deflation?
It seemed as though people weren't looking at the bottom 5 URLs when we were showing 10. And it also created a bunch of space between followup questions. Some users reached out to us and requested we return to 10, so we are going to do that soon. We're going to add pagination, similar to how Google shows multiple pages of results.
I have done this before and you get a lot of looking for “experience in Go, Java, or Elixir.”

Then two lines down it states they team uses python. Or maybe that it doesn’t explicitly state the language at all.

Parsing around this sucks. Maybe one of the new openai tools could solve this. I attempted it before their time.
Oh?! I've been out of it.

There's a few options: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-phones-with-a-headphone... But yes, it does seem like a sad trend.
If that's the case, then there should be a clear understanding that I am completely unavailable from the moment I leave the office for the day.
> Chrome dominance is bad and is too much power in the hand of one company.

But also, Blink dominance is bad, and edge does nothing in that regard.
How do you suggest people embrace this technology for coding ? Turn on Copilot?
This sounds awesome but the idea of giving Oracle my credit card is terrifying.
I think you're implicitly assuming (1) the email must be written and (2) it doesn't matter what the email actually contains, who writes it, or if it's good or bad. Might get some mileage out of examining those.
I've only had successful paired programming in one situation and it was amazing. I believe it worked because we were friends and at the same knowledge level. In three days, we ripped through a project that should have taken a month. Our 'C' code was perfect because there was always someone looking at it in real time and catching the errors on the spot.

I do not think that I will ever encounter this level of productivity ever again.
When would God rest?

It's crazy when you think about how much of society is aligned around the totally arbitrary idea of a 7-day week. It would be hard to switch because so many things are aligned to it.
That too. Fortunately that "solved itself" thanks to the kids not letting anyone sleep past 08:00.
Coming from the sales side 9-5 is useful as people know when to find me, IE office hours. The service side of business, waiting on others.
It’s hard to have this conversation given the countless definitions of “Agile” but I think the majority of what I’ve experienced does not help with the concerns you raise.

Proper project management to enumerate concrete goals with well-defined timelines is what you need, which is obviously not a novel part of any Agile interpretation.

Often the desire for Agile comes from not knowing how to manage a project and reaching for the popular thing that people think will magically solve their lack of expertise.
Apologies for missing this! I really appreciate the thoughtful response. I'll be joining the Booth part time program in the fall.
Thanks for your argument that health care should not be connected in any way to employment.
> if you had unlimited time and money.

If you had unlimited time and money, then you wouldn't need Agile. There's no intrinsic value in having 50% of the system working at 40% of the deadline.
I’ve recently found myself thinking a lot about the coercibility of ideologies as an intrinsic property of the ideology. Agile software development is certainly as much and ideology as it is a methodology, and it seems particularly susceptible to coercion. I know people who love it and who hate it, and they almost all have one thing in common: the all disagree about what it actually is.

Personally, I think it’s clear and I am a huge fan of the espoused principles, but I feel like those same principles are constantly misinterpreted by people. Of course, maybe it’s me.

Or maybe the Agile Manifesto is simply broad enough and vague enough that everyone interprets it the way they want
And where do those searchable answers come from? The Sky God?

If SO was an answer search engine, SO would be collating answers from answers.com, yahoo answers, reddit, etc into one platform. Clearly it doesn't, so your thesis fails.
Poisoning web-scale training datasets is practical
> I believe the world would be a better place if web properties took more responsibility of what happens on their premises. The internet would skew back to smaller web properties, and a centralized media giant would not be able to close anyone down because they don't like them.

It seems more likely to me that increased legal liability on content hosting platforms would have exactly the opposite effect. Smaller platforms aren't going to have the resources or desire to deal with the legal headache of endless lawsuits because someone didn't like what one of their posters had to say, so they're either not going to operate at all or ban everything even remotely offensive to avoid legal problems. And the larger platforms you're concerned about would have even more power, since only they can afford to play the legal liability game, and even more incentive to ban controversial speech to mitigate those legal concerns.
Killing 230 would make things much harder for smaller platforms. Big players like Google and Facebook have enough resources to find a way to reduce their chances of being fined into oblivion, but smaller sites don't.
I dunno... that choir has sung at inaugurations and similar events for both parties. It's always had elements of being a victory lap, sure, but for a long time it really was a celebration of things like the peaceful transition of power, and that really is something to be celebrated. Also, if you have a precedent for accepting the invitation when it's given, and then you decline because a certain person was elected, that seems equally partisan, but just in another direction. Maybe the solution is to go back in time and not accept any invitation at all, I dunno.

I actually agree with a lot of your point, but I'm uncomfortable with the extent to which you're suggesting our actions have to be governed by what others think, especially when we go on record as to saying why we are doing something. I might be hypersensitive to it now, but one of the things in our political environment that really gets under my skin is the mentality of "you say you think X, but I [somehow] know you really think Y, and Y is bad, and I'm gonna judge you the same as if you had said you think Y". So, apologies as I've probably misinterpreted what you were saying. IMO it's good to be sensitive to perception, but only to a point. If there are naysayers who will pick at whatever you do, and won't believe what you tell them anyway, letting them overly influence what you end up doing seems like a bad idea.
Yeah, it's hard to come up with good solutions here. Maybe:

Charge a dollar to submit, then get it refunded back when someone reviews it and confirms that it's not obviously GPTrash? That'd be a bit of a pain, handling those refunds and managing complaints from real authors falsely-identified as spammers (and spammers correctly identified, but hoping to argue their way through). Seems like the sort of thing that'd need software to mediate so you can easily click a button to do the refunds and some third-party company fields complaints.

But then you run into the problem that such a system would cost money to build and maintain, which'd require charging Clarkesworld a fee, and they'd apparently have trouble paying that. Maybe the SaaS providing this service keeps some percentage of the dollar that submission pays that's identified as a spammer, but that sets up a terrible conflict of interest...

I dunno, it's an interesting problem. One that I'm glad I don't need to immediately solve. :S
Spent some time digging through the website today figuring out where Haiku stands. Seems they still have not sorted out the issues with non-native file systems, it is getting better but still buggy and some (most?) are read only. This is the number one issue that is keeping me from adopting Haiku as my primary system, It looks like I can now access all of my external drives with Haiku but digging through the site has not left me confident enough to let Haiku have at my drives.

Other than that it seems solid as long as your hardware is well supported. Think I will commit my laptop to it this weekend and see how long it lasts.
Lowering my expectations.

I took a massive pay cut and I still feel exceptionally lucky. The new job being fully remote doesn't hurt.
But if it's not JSON it's still going to be some SerDe. Is there another format that's enough of a factor faster that it means we should rewrite all of our stacks? In other words, the developer's time vs throwing more hardware at it.
https://archive.is/OcSlR
The majority of sars-cov-2 infections are asymptomatic and they always have been. Additionally it's significantly transmissive for days before symptoms happen when they do happen.
I'm sure.

There's a certain ick factor in consuming machine-generated content, but I suspect it's more of a resistance to change or the fact that all machine-generated content until now has been garbage. Or some romantic idea about a human having written it.

Once I get over it and try to look upon it with more childish eyes, it seems like it will be pretty amazing to generate infinite content I want instead of waiting for some human somewhere to write exactly the content that I want, if ever.
Economic unfairness, not inequality, is a profound source of people's dissatisfaction in life

Psychological effects of economic inequality are influenced by perceived, rather than objective, inequality

People naturally favour fair distributions over equal ones, and prefer fair inequality over unfair equality.
Although it’s interesting that the book publishers, record labels and movie studios of the 1950s and especially 1960s did actually put out a significant amount of extremely controversial art (along with the mundane, uncontroversial stuff) and suffered the lawsuits accordingly.

I don’t know what that teaches us other than that capital, whether represented by algorithms or studio execs, tends to follow the culture as much as it creates it.
I get the sense that the price you pay for the advice and the perceived work that goes into it has a direct relationship with how you take and act on that advice, at least for the people and orgs that consume these consulting services. Having an AI spit out slides would cheapen the effect, to the point where you might as well listen to the other people in the room with you instead of their AI.
this is worth watching too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2kbZLcsQUo
The text is not the message.

There is a widespread cultural assumption that important messages should be delivered as personally as reasonably possible. People think that it shows proper respect and that the matter is important to you. In contrast, if you choose a more impersonal way of delivery, it signals that the topic is not particularly important to you as a person.

Many people already think that emails like this are performative bullshit. If it's actual bullshit written by a bullshit generator, it's going to look even worse.
On the surface this seems like the first move that would increase my respect for him since he’s taken over Twitter.

I’m anticipating being disappointed.
I agree with you. Some clients (like Tapbots Ivory) allow you to ignore those (meaning, it'll just show you everything without the trigger warnings).
Wonder if they hired Bain or BCG to figure out how many to layoff
Oh yeah I've seen autogenerated source code ... It freezes my browser trying to syntax highlighting it. Raw works fine.
> are explicitly portable between devices

Yes and no. Passkeys are portable in the sense that Apple/Google have already compromised on the "keys should never leave your device" standard and have set up backup/restore options for if you lose your phone within their ecosystem. This is portability, but extremely limited portability. It's not portability in the sense of allowing you to migrate between ecosystems.

There is also some promise that passkeys will be portable between Google/Apple ecosystems in the future. The fact that the FIDO alliance refuses to build a client-independent way of moving between ecosystems and instead seems to be suggesting that migration should be handled with environment-dependent implementations severely limits how useful that portability will be.

Passkeys are also "portable" in the sense that you can register multiple keys with a single site. But this is not actual portability, it's just backup/replication. When you get a new device outside of the ecosystem, you can't port your passkeys anywhere. What you can do is register that device with every single site you have an account with.

This should obviously be seen as a barrier to the goal of replacing passwords entirely, but for some reason it's not seen that way. To understand the problem, we have to stop thinking of the current world where there are like 4 or 5 sites that have passkeys attached to them; you have to instead think of a world where passkeys won and a user has hundreds of sites with passkeys attached to them, many of which they might not have visited in nearly a decade.

And when they buy a new device, they have to migrate all of them. That's not portability, that is not something that a non-techie user wants to go through.

> you're still then vulnerable to phishing unlike with passkeys.

Extremely important to mention in these discussions, passkeys are phishing-resistant, not phishing-proof. We gave up on phishing-proof when Google and Apple started doing backup and restore within their own ecosystems. Your iCloud credentials can be phished, at which point your passkeys can also be phished by setting up a new iPhone.

Arguably, the Yubikey/dedicated-token approach was phishing-proof (for at least a somewhat narrow definition of phishing), but that's not the approach that mainstream platforms are going for. If you're using an iPhone, your passkeys already get backed up. That ship has sailed, the only fight remaining is whether or not you should be able to import them to something that's not an Apple device.
Curious how they can detect this. All the see is a GET request with your ip and ua. Perhaps if they see too many they can flag your ip.
That is extremely ugly, and would be weird to handle. I always have a pump on me when I play. Most people bring at least a small bag pump to ball. This seems totally unnecessary.
>That sounds like you have communication issues

Cool victim blaming to justify you wanting to sleep in or ignore your coworkers.

If I implied you had laziness issues you’d fly off the handle but you’re happy to imply a whole host of mental, competence or physical issues to my communication just because I pointed out video chat has a delay. Think that speaks volumes you’re so gratuitously defensive. I pointed out objective facts you lashed back.