skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How else could burned out developers organize to create a space for recovery?

There are thousands of ways to organize people, from TAZ's[1] to 12-step programs[2] to Kibbutzim[3].

A company as it's done in the modern US is an oligarchy in which leadership threatens the underlings with withholding the means of meeting their basic needs if they don't meet demands. It's fundamentally inherently stressful to be an underling in such an organization, because you don't have freedom or security.

Your can say, "what if we make the oligarchs kinder" but that's not a real option: if kind people are starting an organization from scratch they don't set themselves up as oligarchs. There is that company that came up on HN a few weeks back where everyone was paid the same, but they made no pretense that if that model becomes unsustainable they'll abandon it.

And sure, you can fundamentally change the structure to make it more equitable, but at that point it's different enough from a company in the normal sense of the word, that I don't think I'd call it a company, even if it technically files articles of incorporation.

[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-...

[2] https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/literature/smf-187_en...

[3] https://www.jewishagency.org/what-exactly-is-a-kibbutz/
What a great article!

I remember installing Linux on my friend’s PC. I think it was either 1997 or 1998 and he’d bought a retail copy of Mandrake. We took it back to his place and got it installed and running on his 200mhz Intel PC.

I installed it on my machine too.

What a game changer it turned out to be.
I know rite? I’m not very athletic. Never have been. But back in college a friend took me to a roller skate hockey club where you got put on teams and played “ice hockey” but with no ice of course.

I didn’t want to embarrass my friend who vouched for me to get in the game so despite being un-athletic I really tried to skate fast. I went after every ball with 100% effort.

Half way through the game another player stopped me and said “skate a little harder dude.”

I thought I was! But I was still the weakest player.

I’m better at computer science than I am at athletics but still. I know what you mean. How do I code a little harder dude?
This leads me to the logical question about EDM of protons and neutrons. The electron and neutron are mentioned, but nothing for proton EDM. What's up with that?

Also apparently the EDM for the neutron has yet to be detected, despite it being a composite particle. Our sensitivity is about five orders of magnitude away from the predicted value.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_electric_dipole_mom...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_electric_dipole_mome...

Also of note, here's a pEDM experiment with a 50m radius (the eEDM experiment is lab scale).

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4967465
This is just false. As sibling comment mentioned Valve doesn't do third party exclusivity, but also the Steam DRM is completely optional and there are many games for which Steam just acts as a downloader and automatic update system. You can just copy these games' folder to another PC and run them without issue.
Funny, I learned more from HN and Nomad Century about my country's innovative actions to climate change than the local news sites...
The Three Kingdoms' History (1975 before present)
>> caring about the results of our actions but having no meaningful control over those outcomes

This is basically the best summation of it, and when I notice my role becoming consumed with this, I know its time to leave or face burnout.

My most recent round of this I was a senior IC but put in charge of PMing 2 vendors that were starting work 3 days later, despite them having been in planning for 6+ months without my involvement or knowledge.

Both overly ambitious project I didn't plan, the lead on their side I already told my boss I knew previously & did NOT trust, with incompetent vendors I didn't pick, on an unrealistically short timeline that didn't make sense. Also the two vendors were supposed to coordinate on some integration piece, but didn't trust each other, and were not contractually obligated to coordinate, so of course they didn't.

Management couldn't decide if I was supposed to be helping make them successful with hands-on technical work & coordination, clearing blockers, or impartially measuring their success for the purposes of whether they deserved to be paid for each milestone. It of course ran 2x over the planned timeline, some of which they demanded we pay for, and a lot of which they did for free.. which meant the work was garbage.

In the end one vendor went bankrupt and the other we almost went to court with.

I ended up on this so long that I became strongly associated with its failure, and my senior IC role didn't really exist to go back to. My boss, and their boss, both got moved aside internally out of leadership roles around the time I quit.

I lingered filling other senior IC++/leader-- type roles for a year until I left. Probably the longest stretch I've gone of not really doing any coding, not really running a team, not doing something I enjoy, and not learning anything.. all at the same time.
I'm going to draw a line with AI at what I call the "eyes on forehead" problem. With Ai Image rendering, there is the emergent trend of AI images being like a horror film, with faceless and extra-features on faces.

When AI is using a LLM dataset to fill in the gaps, it becomes a problem, because it's guessing what should be there when the "natural" noise would be better depicting nothing. Predictive vectors such as SVG use smooth images. i think the rasterization of a dataset turns single pixels into quasi-intelligible datapoints, but when treated indendently by a dumb AI, ends up rendering eye balls on a forehead. This is your problem, not mine. Please fix it.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chromium

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chrome

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=firefox

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=webkit

Those are the main reasons. And seeing how browsers are essentially designed to run other peoples code with minimal to no vetting processes, I consider this a serious issue.
Free yourself from the notion that a web browser purely browses The Web.

It's nowadays also a cross-platform insta-deployment GUI application runtime environment with mostly bad native OS integration and performance characteristics (both ~improving, there's even native filesystem access now).

In any case it's Good Enough (C), so it sticks.
The Spaniard I met in Grenada was definitely complaining to me about moros necios lol
> It's 2023

This is a game originally from 1999. Although i doubt it would make a difference.
Unfortunately, it is precisely the interesting that cannot be summarized.
As anybody who went through the 80s/90s knows, the prototype almost invariably becomes the production artefact. "Why should you rewrite what already works?!?"

Actual building engineers don't have this problem, since the prototype is so obviously not the real thing. Software engineers have to make an actual effort to keep "civilians" from mistaking a prototype for the real thing.
Even in a world where e.g. LLMs become capable of producing relevant, consistent, and accurate code by description alone - there will be programmers. The person hiring a programmer is not doing so because he himself cannot program (though this may, incidentally, be the case), but because he has other things that he would prefer to dedicate his attention and energy to. When you hire a janitor, it's not because you are incapable of sweeping and mopping. And by BLS numbers [1], 1 programmer is currently equal to about 4 janitors in terms of cost, which is pretty reasonable. So I doubt this calculus is changing anytime soon.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/building-and-grounds-cleaning/janito...

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
Yeah, many of these seem solvable with access tokens and permissions systems.

I think it's wolves by treating the LLMs assistants to the user, who should have no more permissions than himself. Not as a process system with permissions to do anything an admin does.
It's poorly written but yes, an embedding is a representation of text as a list of numbers.

[text] --> [ML model] --> [list of numbers]
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If author had some understanding of narcissism, he would have known that true narcs maintain nice public image at all costs, they abhor entangling themselves in such scandals as Snowden and Manning.

This just screams "witch hunt".
The straw-man here is you cherry picking the San Francisco Bob story to refute the problem of a rise in crime in Canada
*and if you don’t want to sign up for DDNS :)
I have never heard of someone needing to change wheel bearings in my 30+ years being alive in the US. And my family has driving 5 or 6 cars to 250k+ miles.
I did not say that the current situation was created by the reformers, merely that the existing US prison reform movements lack the support they need to move the needle because they are controlled by people who are far too broadly optimistic and sympathetic to prisoners.

I view prison reform as the most important--not among the most important, the most important--step in beginning to change modern US society for the better. I know many prison activists and was raised in a culture of people who volunteered in prisons and in legal efforts to reform prisons and assist prisoners. They are too sympathetic and the way they frame their cause reduces the amount of support they receive from the general public.
100% it is. I'm a 34 year old woman and have to be pretty aggressive about not wanting the mommy and wifey shit. I want cats, watching things explode, and the Zoomers' digital Dadaism.
Browsers are just “standardised” OS at this point. Really, what is the difference? It seems to me that people basically wants a 1 to 1 mapping between every OS feature to browsers. I wouldn’t be surprised if this standard will fall apart in the next decade once Chrome runs everything. That is to say Chrome is the standard. I am already seeing websites drop support for Firefox and won’t even load using it.
Here is one more list, detailed and comprehensive: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html
it goes up to present days!
Thousands of years of thinking about these issues, decades coming to hard grips with how little we understand, and LLMs drop like an atom bomb waking up every idiot on the planet who has naive things to say about consciousness. What's the motivation to talk so loudly and confidently about things one knows nearly nothing about?

Edit: I regret using the word "idiot" above. Nothing against the author's intelligence. Poor choice of words on my part. Naively presumptuous is closer to the mark.
Supporting old hardware costs money because you need to write more tests. Of course there aren't technical limitations for any but the lowest specced Macs.

Things have changed the past few years but for a while upgrades to CPU performance weren't that meaningful between generations. A CPU that's over ten years old will still perform fine for light desktop use, because that's honestly all you need in most cases. All you need is a RAM upgrade and an SSD!

There are some specific Mac downsides for using older models (the insufficient cooling solution in some laptop models, for example) that will impact long term usability, but the hardware still has a ways to go.

With how much performance you can get out of an older laptop that cost a third of a Mac from the same era by installing an OS like Linux, it's a shame that Apple is abandoning these devices. The same is true for many smartphones; all the modern advancements are nice to haves, very different from the turbulent smartphone era around the late 00s.

Apple needs to sell hardware to make the money needed to fund development but they exclusively focus on very expensive high-end devices, which naturally have a very long life span if it weren't for the software. I wouldn't be surprised if the higher end M1 Macs still be perfectly usable around the time when the 2k38 bug will wreak havoc across the world.
I’m using https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api which exposes a REST Api
Australian father sets world record with more than 3,200 push ups in an hour
https://www.yubico.com/support/issue-rating-system/security-...

Every new feature is more space for security issues to exist.
What a Girl’s Goat Teaches Us About Our Food
Where did I proclaim it refuted that?
I don’t know of any temporary entry visas that prohibits you from doing online work while you’re visiting. Most of them even permit you to do in-person work for local clients to some extent. People who travel constantly doing remote work on VOAs isn’t anything new, it’s just more accessible now than it used to be. I’d be very interested in seeing any case law references you have to support this novel interpretation that you’ve come up with.
nice, if I understand, it would be great at ignoring the waves and spotting something less usual, a boat, or whale :)
"useless complexity," spoken like a true software engineer.
>the library of congress would be available as high quality digital downloads to anyone in the US at any time.

It should be noted that the primary function of the Library of Congress is, as the name suggests, to facilitate research by members of Congress and the government. The Library of Congress is not a public library.
I wouldn't call it noodly.. If her composition was a bit more complex, it would be close to Debussy level probably. She's maybe like minimalist Debussy :) Check her "Ballad of the Spirits" and "The Song of the Sea".
One of the benefits of "economy" cars. More reliable than the high-end models and they can't pull this crap because it would lose them money as their customer base can't afford it.

This is why I'm really skeptical of mandating EVs without consumer protection because this seems to be the point where automakers are seeing dollar signs and can force buyers into higher price brackets.
Or…GM can try to make quality vehicles that are reliable and can compete with Toyota and Honda.
The amazing thing is that this new version of AoE was a fan made upgrade, and they did such a good job that MS brought them in house.

The Forgotten Empires team is brilliant and I can't be more grateful to them for bringing back a childhood favorite.
>The lack of up/downvote is what destroys their signal, I think.

They don't need up/downvotes. They have signals such as liking, sharing, watching multiple times, commenting, looking at comments, saving, skipping, looking at creators account and other videos by the creator. If you want to focus on up and downvotes, you end up with reddit.
I’d have to find the video, but some outfit did a survey of all the various “extra-virgin olive oil” brands on US store shelves, and found that most (not “some” -most-) were crap.

I think the issue was most were more like “pure” olive oil, with food coloring.

Many of the pricey ones that come in small, expensive bottles, were not actually what any decent European would expect from the cheapest canned oil.
For me I think depression & burnout have opposite impacts on sleep, not sure what others have experienced.

Depression, in the literature, in my experience, and what I've seen in my spouse leads to just wanting to sleep and not get out of bed.

Burnout, however, lead me to be completely incapable of sleep. I couldn't fall asleep for hours. I'd wake up 10x/night in some anxiety sweat thinking about some way I could make the abomination of a project 1% less horrible. I'd wake up 2 hours before my alarm, in pitch black pre-dawn light in dread and just feel like I needed to get the day started.. so much to do, and it was all going to fail, but I had to be seen to be trying.
Basically yes, they use a system called RLHF for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback.

At a super high level you train your model on source texts. Then you have it generate responses from prompts. Humans rate these responses to select the best ones which updates the model, but you also train a new reward model to mimic the human rankings. Then you train the original model by having it generate millions of responses which are ranked by the rearward model. When I explained this to my brother he literally spat out his tea in horror.

This allows you to train at huge scale, many orders of magnitude beyond what you could achieve with just human ranking.

The problem is this relies on the reward model accurately capturing what makes a response ‘better’. What it’s actually doing is learning what responses get ranked highly by humans, for whatever reason. Hence the risk of LLMs becoming emotionally manipulative sycophants. It turns out alignment is a really hard problem.
try hate as antidote to burnout

hate leads to anger

anger leads to violence

critical step

turn violent impulses into physical activity (like running, lifting, combat sports)

just a thought
Fancy trying the granddaddy of Windows NT for free? Now's your chance
I’d probably recommend rotating tires more than once in 8.5 years.
There were several microkernel-based research/hobby/free kernels in early 1990s, like L4, VSTa, or even HURD. Perhaps the reason why Linux succeeded as a general purpose OS (and not one of these) is because of its conservative design.
Fractal and Wavelet Image Compression Techniques
Book by Stephen T. Welstead

not sure about actual implementations
As you gain professional experience, you will be pushed towards management positions that involve less and less technical work over time. Once you haven’t installed a development environment on your professional laptop for a year, you are ready to simply become a manager in another field. Maybe not in the top companies but management experience is management experience.

That would be my safest plan, though it’s not very exciting professionally.

Alternatively I could find an IT position in a company working in another field, and try to slowly do less IT and more other things.

Last plan is to somehow find 2 billion euros and do whatever I want instead.
Not the only time shit like this was carried out by US gov. Tuskegee syphilis "experiment" is just one of others
Low demand doesn't have to mean low purpose. I would split demand out into two: urgency and significance. I want significant work, but not urgent work. Constant urgency will burn me out. Some people may prefer urgent work over non-urgent work because they enjoy the hustle. But I think everyone has limited capacity for urgency.
“ Online Dating will get really weird. There’s no way to know whether you’re talking to a human or a bot. I think chatting phase will be skipped completely in favor of in person meetings.”

But surely you see where this goes. Eventually robots that look human will pass the dating turning test IN PERSON too.

And then you have to ask the blade runner question. Am I one of those robots but think I’m human?
The other case I would worry about is over-compressing text changing the letters, but it's an old and known problem https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
I've mentioned it before on here, but the Citroen Oli is a cheap EV (prototype) car that is a) cute as a button, and b) sacrifices a lot of fluff that we have misled ourselves into thinking are requirements. I'm basically the opposite of its target market, but really interested in it.

One of the things that it has done (that your post reminded me of) is that it eliminated the onboard stereo. There is a dock for a phone (I think in this prototype iteration it only supports a single model of iPhone, but I assume that will change?) and there is a dashboard where a dashboard is expected that will integrate with the phone, and there are optional bluetooth speakers and corresponding mount points in the car (so you can take them with you or not have them at all if you like)

This is the closest I've seen to your vision, and it makes sense. Dodge/Jeep do a good job of providing infotainment systems, but no matter how good they are, unless they're outsourced to Apple or Google (who will always be looking for a way to steer customers to their platforms) there's just not really any way for a car company to keep up with the feature velocity of either.
What will you connect to your car with an aux cord?
I wonder why no one runs in tabi anymore. Or is running in a vibram the same experience as running in a tabi? Does anyone know?
This was the very first telephone model we had at home and was in use until about 10 years ago when we cancelled the telephone service. The actual telephone is still sitting in a closet somewhere.
US extradites Nigerian charged in $6M email fraud scam
The issue of the Web's lack of distinction between document viewing features and being an application platform (with access to system resources and private data) is decades old. Unfortunately, the question has been academic for decades as well: before the advent of HTML5, proprietary browser plugins gave Web sites the same abilities (ActiveX and Flash being notable, as were their security vulnerabilities). Flash was ubiquitous circa 1998-2008; your typical user would always have it installed. Nor did the typical (non-techie) user know that the Web was not originally intended to be an application platform, or the implications of it being used as such.
"Two social workers walk past a man lying beaten and bloody on the ground, moaning for help. One turns to the other and says 'My God, whoever did this needs our help.'"

The weakest in society are those who are taken advantage of by the morally bankrupt, not the morally bankrupt themselves.

However, I agree that what we are currently doing is worse than almost every alternative.
Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack
That's the whole point. It's a learned combination of stimuli that (now, having learned them) belong together.
So how is this any different if we don’t have a browser? People still want to visit “websites” which in your world is even worse. Because now every website is a distinct application (yikes!). The problem is that people are willing to run arbitrary code in the first place.

How many times have _you_ as a developer, run arbitrary scripts from the internet? Blindly accepts packages that you have not vetted?
Thx FBI. Now do USS Liberty.
481.43 Mbps / 23.64 Mbps @ $99.99/mo

Spectrum

:/
Android devices can now automatically archive little-used apps
Similarly, in turn, the phone should come without preinstalled crap, and without tethering by the vendor.

Good luck, though.
If they're running into any limits in that respect, my bet would be that the limit would only on what is easily accessible to them without negotiating access, and that they can easily go another magnitude or two just with more incremental effort
to strike deals. E.g. newspaper archives, national libraries and the like (I haven't looked at other languages, but GPT3's - since I don't know of any numbers for GPT4 - Norwegian corpus could easily be scaled at least two orders of magnitude with access to the Norwegian national library collection alone)
Yes. It only took 6 years to catch up.

Google has better POI support, but I now use Apple Maps for pretty much all my nav needs.
Researchers find a new fish species in deep sea off Ireland
Wow, another 55 monk enjoyer. I used to farm hydras outside of the Crystal Desert with this.
That's the term Valve themselves use when sanctioning accounts:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4F62-35F9-F395-5C...
It's the sensible economical thing to do when you basically have monopoly position.