skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly not a mistake for plenty of companies and more important plenty of people.

A CEO doesn’t care about the people, cares more about the bottom line, but people matter and not everyone is working on some amazing life changing thing that they are super passionate about, some are just doing what they are good at to be able to survive and afford to pay bills, for these people, having a long commute and being stuck in the office 5 days a week as just another slap in the face for such people.
r2d4/llm.ts: Call any LLM with a single API. Zero dependencies
Lots of resource from the demoscene, especially 1K, 4K and 64K intros

- How a 64k intro is made [1]

- in4k site creation of demoscene 1kb, 4kb and 8kb intros [2]

- SizeCoding.org is a wiki dedicated to the art of creating very tiny programs [3]

[1] http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/64k_intro.html

[2] https://in4k.github.io/wiki/about

[3] http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Main_Page
I have a much older Google phone, a Verizon sold Pixel 2 which is not unlockable even after connecting to the internet.
I got the phone second hand hoping to run LineageOS but I couldn't, so I just left it on my drawer.
They really need to put an end to this ewaste generating policy. I should be able to do what I want with my device.
A notebook and pen seems to do the trick. In the beginning of the day, write an entry of what I'll aim to accomplish and when. At the end of the day, judge myself on my productivity and write a plan for the next day. That alone has been a force multiplier of productivity for me

Also remembering to have fun and enjoy life always (surprisingly!) seems to help
What if Amazon take bad choices in "something" and my company is tied up with its services? I know that Prime is always "Amazon" and that's okay. But for a startup (but not only) imho it's better starts with something more "standard" than something as serverless that is obviously an abstraction above other tecnologies.
Why is it inferior? Last time i checked lightning can't do 240W charging or 40gbps data transfer? Just like afaik typec doesn't have corrosion problem lightning has, also type c is universally used across the majority of brands, heck even in ipads and macbooks, you say apple deliberately choose to replace 'superior port' with 'inferior type c'? Lmao)
Very similar, I am pretty sure laptop fans were making my tinnitus worse. Noise canceling headphones help, but I do not wanna wear them all the time.

A fanless laptop has been a revelation for me. I am not going back ever.
> But then I have to ask - if his employers are happy enough with his work to keep him around, what is the problem there?

In SW environments, having the time to do more work is supposed to mean actually completing more projects. They hire you to "perform duties for x hours a day", not "complete x tasks/x story points per sprint", so if everyone on a team is taking a similar approach, your velocity might be half or less what it could be if everyone ended up on-site.
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Context: 3x startup founder/CEO, focusing more on impact than constant work

- Things (♥) and Reminders for todos (the latter for location based reminders or when I need to use Siri to set them), to put reminders so they are captured

- Notes end up in Dropbox Paper (for work), Mac Notes (for home, sharable within, iMessage users), Notion for specific projects

- Polymail for inbox zero, on iOS and Desktop (I'm biased, but Superhuman never stuck for me and Gmail isn't as effective, feels distracting and unintentionally designed)

- Fantastical for calendar (home, work, although I'd like to break these up more so that I can share them by project/team)

- Openphone for throwaway cell phone for orders, 2fa, etc.

- Arc for web browser

- 1Password both for work and private passwords

- News Feed Eradicator to remove/limit feed distractions on my laptop, Screen Time on iOS

- Turned off all notifications except calendar on Apple Watch

- Slack for work chat, but intentionally been spending less time here for more deep work time. Conversations seem to get more efficient if forced to happen on SMS and phone calls.

- Just bought a Remarkable, which I intend to finally use to replace carrying around paper journals for notes and journaling

- Google Suite (surprised by this, but I no longer need the MS Office Suite any more)

- Google Meet (some people make me use Zoom, but GMeet has gotten much better, no software downloads or updates, it just works and the quality is far better than it was when they launched)

- Like @ggwp99, I also plan my week either Sunday evenings or Monday mornings (I intentionally ignore email Monday mornings since people seem to volley their problems, which may not be correlated with my priorities)

- Start every day by asking the question, "what one thing would make a massive impact on my day or week or month," and start there. It's usually the thing I don't want to do.

- Workout classes 5-6 times a week, 7:30am, pick your poison... F45, Barry's whatever motivates you to leave soaked in sweat. I fought this for years since I didn't care about the superficial reasons for working out. Now I find that I am 100% energy at 9am, flushed with endorphins, and I feel better with 6 hours of sleep than I did with 9.
I think the big thing with "boring" vs "exciting" tech is people pick exciting tech for reasons other than it being a good technical fit (lets board the hype train!!!). Bad results then happen.

Boring tech is usually more stable and more mapped out. Everyone knows where its good and where its not. Other people have already had whatever problems you have.

I'll always bet on the boring tech over the hyped exciting tech.
Pen and paper, with a digital calendar on my personal email. Individual projects have TODO.txt files that are version controlled.
Well, before the metaverse, a persons geographical position and date of birth allowed for some inference of context. You get a 4D coordinate, so to speak. Doesn’t seem very strange to me?
Yeah I am familiar with those (Cloud Run, Fargate et al) and they are much less egregious than Lambda and Cloud Functions. As for if they qualify as Serverless though I don't know, it seems poorly defined.

How about I clarify that my stance mostly relates to Functions as a Service so it's clear that while I wouldn't choose Cloud Run over GKE that is hugely different to FaaS.
We've reverted the title now. Submitted title was ("The AI revolution is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour")
Custom timeboxing app I built for myself. I just create the tasks, set deadlines and let it automate my schedule.

It’s like Motion/Reclaim.ai, except everything is on-device and I can use my CalDav server)
Odd statement considering the path they are is to conduct a societal wide experiment on mass unemployment as the robots take over more and more jobs.
Will Mr. Altman be in his office at 9 AM tomorrow?

OpenAI is at 3180 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, US. That's a crappy location in the Mission in SF.
Nah, they dream they could bring Russia to the modern age, democracy, human rights, respect for other nations , collaborations . Nobody in EU wants to steal Russians resources, too bad the Russian oligarchs are doing it.

there is a Romanian saying about Romania but it applies to Russia too, "poor rich country" not sure if it translates well... the country is rich but the people are poor and suffering because of the small number of parasites.

My theory is that when you have same persona ndparty in power for decades then they can't hide their incompetence and failures on a party from opposition and they start inventing bad guys somehere outside (like UK invented the EU bad guy and ended up with Brexit(
so Putin invented a big conspiracy about the west, LGBTQ , Israel and blame all his failures on them.
Now he is gone old and senile and he believed his propaganda.
I kinda agree that very early, small teams, should be in person. But OpenAI has ~375 employees. They're 7 years old. A team of that size has hierarchy, it has middle management. There's plenty of room to have people working remotely in that size of an org. Especially when it increases your hiring pool so much. If you just need hackers, throw a net in Palo Alto and you'll catch 5. But if you need the best person to implement a infiniband backbone who also has familiarity with sparse network training? Well they live in Finland.

Luckily we don't have to rely on gurus or influencers to decide this. Companies will succeed or they won't and my bet is that plenty will succeed with significant remote headcount and Altman will be shown to be wrong.
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"5. Rockstar coders want to work at Google"

Ehhhh, I think they want to be PAID and PAMPERED like they work at Google. That's certainly not typical of Europe, automotive, or embedded hardware. Hey, anyone know how Tesla pays its software devs (outside of self-driving)?

I love how this is buried as the fifth point (and actually, isn't even the fifth point).

You want good software and software devs? Yeah, uh, hire and pay good people.

Time number one billion that some failed enterprise is discussed at the leadership level and everyone pretends that paying good people wouldn't have helped.

Instead, it's "management issues", aka the money you paid to execs that's the problem, not the people you know ACTUALLY MAKING YOUR FUCKING SOFTWARE.

IF you are a company with a CRITICAL software deficit, then I hate to tell you this, you probably need to spend money on good developers. Experienced, good developers.

Spinning off a new company under different management? That's deck chair rearranging. Actually, spinning off the software, which the parent company views as an annoying expense / cost and not a feature of quality or something that will close sales or build customer loyalty (which is HUGE in automotive) was a terrible idea, unless there was a fully top leadership endorsed billion dollar blank check to get it off the ground. Which of course, even without knowing, I know there wasn't buy-in.

Old car companies don't respect software. Name me one, just one, that provides software visibility of OBD-2 codes without having to buy some stupid OBD port that communicates with a smartphone? That provides techie metrics dashboards for fuel use, rpms, etc?

I mean, the DATA IS ON THE CAR'S INTERNAL NETWORK. That's why the OBD reader can read it.

Hate on Tesla and Elon all you want, but he fostered a company that had at least decent value in software. And I'm not even saying Tesla had GOOD software. It just has "OK" software, which is WAY better than any other company by a wide wide wide margin.
Hugo + netlify also here. It's been working so well that when I had a random idea for a vanity website, it took me longer to buy the domain than set up the pipeline.

As a devops engineer, I find netlify amazing for how little effort anything takes and how well things work within seconds. In my opinion they're a good example of what systems can do when talented engineering keeps users in mind throughout the entire process (and not just to deliver feature X or function Y).
We can't know what innovations are missing due to corporate greed or the ubiquity of AC power transmission either. You're making the same argument as people who think Tesla had the secret of cheap and abundant wireless power transmission but the knowledge was suppressed by shadowy elites.

It's kinda hard to believe you seriously believe you might end up living in an Amish village. Perhaps you should visit the US and be surprised at how mediocre a lot of stuff is.
If there is one thing that these past few years have taught me, it's that you need an extreme amount of cynicism when contemplating the opinions of CEOs. Their ignorance was put on display for the whole world with the events surrounding the pandemic (and I'm not only referring to layoffs).

There is actual science showing that autonomy improves motivation and creativity (alongside other basic human motivators). That includes all of working in-office, at-home, or up a damned tree if the employee so desires.
The size and spacing of the links and buttons could be bigger on mobile though.
210k works in the Public Domain, searchable
M1 Air is hands down the best machine for the money available today.

Excited to see the competition though!
You can also run Matomo without tracking Javascript and instead feed in log files [1]. This works with the Cloudfront log files (and many others).

[1] https://matomo.org/faq/general/requirements-for-log-analytic...
> In the early 2000s, there was all this hype that the next frontier for American tech companies was China. Yahoo went into China and started ratting out its users to the politburo and having them arrested and tortured because that was what it took to stay in China. And Google, the “don’t be evil” company was like, “We’re going to do that, too.”

Even then, I think, they were like, “We don’t have any ideas. We can’t do better than Yahoo. We just have to do what Yahoo’s doing better than them. We’re not going to have a better idea than Yahoo has.” So, they went into China. (Project Dragonfly anyone?)
I remember beanstalk. We used it for years at twitch. We got a shit ton of mileage out of it. It's easy to talk shit about the problems of the old tech, and beanstalk has a lot of issues. But it also let us build a ton of stuff much easier than the alternatives.

This cycle will forever be this way. You only think that the new stuff is the best if this is your first rodeo. If it's not, it's just the right or wrong tradeoff for the point in time you are at.
Who decides when we will update? If there are competing standards next round, who gets to decide which one?

The very corruptible EU?
Modular, maybe (though sometimes it's just introducing a network hop in between dependencies). Event-driven being easy to reason about? No way, never.
Biometrics aren't the second factor when using WebAuthn, the hardware security key is. But anyone with access to the security key can use the second factor. Biometrics would tie the key to you preventing them from being used by others. The best we have right now for unlocking the security key are PINs, AFAIK.
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Sorry about that. Yes USB-2 is the limiting factor. I don't think it is quite as bad as you stated. They made 2 statements one about the tech being 13 years old. I agreed that the tech was 13 years old. Admitting that I felt I was implying the limits of the lightening port were dated and had technical limits.

I guess if the original poster hadn't made the gratuitous comment I would have been more focused on answering their valid comments. This is a good lesson for me to not be trolled and others to not make gratuitous comments. Finally apologizing if someone feels one has been rude.
Look, the point is simple, AWS marketing says you can do everything all the time with microservices and their 'DevOps' infrastructure to "abstract away" all the complex you know - engineering - that you cannot automate effectively and have a long running robust system.

So it's humorous to see an Amazon team that is doing things correct and holistically in contrast to the sales and marketing bullshit that AWS and Cloud evangelists spew.

Us nerds have a great way of missing the point and bikeshedding on the technicals (which is also great sometimes!)
What happens when your smart device is 7-15+yrs old and isnt supported by anything anymore?
> ~50ug (which honestly I'd recommend for beginners)

So says the guy who took LSD while on antidepressents.

> EDIT: Sidenote, safety first friends.

possibly I'm high but I find this rather amusing. Enjoy but don't play doctor until you get your degree.
So why they did replace lightning in ipads and didn't use it for macbooks to create a full lightning ecosystem? Suggestion: because it is not capable and they know that lightning is nothing more than a cash cow for overpriced accessories
> It's just extra oil changes, gas, tires, and maybe maintenance on things like the radiator.

Well, it really adds up. Compare it to a desk job where all you need is a cheap laptop.
Yes actually, currently using in production. I actually advocated for the move to Cloudflare and we ended up adopting workers because Cloudflare unfortunately has broken stale-while-revalidate support. So I built an implementation in Workers that abuses the Cache API to store our own TTLs and also our revalidating state. It works pretty well as we don't end up with too many isolates per POP but it's not perfect.

I didn't end up using KV or other features yet, they weren't a good fit for the cache revalidation implementation.

I think at-least for now I see it differently to FaaS services like Lambda/CloudFunctions because I don't intend to use it to implement application logic, rather just augment (or in this case shore up deficiencies) in the edge.

We may consider doing more stuff at the edge later for latency advantages.
This to me changes the calculus because Lamba (well vanilla, not Lamda@Edge) and CF solve my usual problems just with higher costs.
CloudFlare workers actually let me do things I couldn't do.
So the cost is still just as high as FaaS platforms BUT importantly I actually get something for it, something I can't otherwise have and important enough I am willing to pay the costs and overheads for.

Please advocate for real state-while-revalidate support internally! It would make tons of folks super happy.
You mean arms on Mars or something about the Linux kernel?
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Maybe this is a regional thing, especially in SV driven by the VC hype. In general I find America very focused on small business rather than startups. Our economy is really built on small business and the more we forget that the worse things get.
I guess you don't understand how laws are working in the complex modern society. Laws are defined in human languages which has a inherent incompleteness and ambiguity, is vulnerable to drafting errors and bound to a certain amount of complexity budget. Also our society is a fast moving target and regulation is always a follower here, lawmakers are giving discretion to the administration and judiciary for how to interpret the law to give them some speed to follow up without going through all the painstaking legislation process.

But even if we're bound to this practicality, it's always about the spirit of the law. We have a principle called "statutory interpretation" which is dedicated to this problem, and administrations/judiciaries are often required to follow the law's original intent. Otherwise, administration and/or judicial branch can perform ad-hoc interpretation of legislation in favor of themselves and this defeats the whole purpose of trias politica.

Apple is not immune to this principle and EU is bound to enforce the original intent of the law. This is also why the supreme courts are one of the most important political entity in virtually every modern countries since they have the final and unobjectionable authority on interpretation of laws by setting judicial precedents. Unless you're going to challenge the whole field of Jurisprudence, it might be better try to understand why they're asking this to Apple and Apple takes it seriously.
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I learned a lot from Kali Linux's zshrc [0]. But then I'm certainly no expert in customizing my shell environment, as I usually mostly stick with the distro's defaults. Still, now mine is a bit nicer. It also includes the `ip --color=auto` thing, which is mentioned in other comments and which I hadn't known about either.

[0] https://gist.github.com/Anon-Exploiter/4e12193df0099183d1872...
Another billionaire who values seeing that they've forced people to be in an office more than employee morale or well being.
He’s right about the spatial Finder. The Mac OS 9 Finder is still a better user experience. The OS X Finder only become marginally usable when they added the sidebar so that you had some starting reference points; it was much improved with Spotlight because you could then find things without spatial reference points.

But I still maintain that adding the NeXT browser view to the OS 9 Finder would be the perfect experience. The OS X Finder went down this awful .DS_Store-strewn half-assed path and it’s still just the weirdest set of choices imaginable.
Nice research. I already know this though. I think everybody who has a cat knows this.
I don't believe someone who only has a few logins is really the target here. Someone with only a handful of logins can easily remember separately complex passwords for them. For most others, they are using a variety of services and are reusing their simple passwords which put them at greater risk.
Does it matter if you have no choice but to use said software?
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But, of course, place of birth doesn't determine nationality, and also not necessarily modern nationality. I know a few families whose children were born in France, but have the Spanish nationality, and one of them changed nationality (not to French). Polish borders have shifted a few times, to highlight another problem.

I think the problem comes from trying to keep the text short.
He also recommends disabling exceptions which is a valid approach for size constrained applications. STL throws, so it can never be used safely with exceptions disabled. When you do this you're committing to writing C-with-classes rather than modern C++.
Outsourcing twelve timezones away is great, but thirty minute's drive? No, that's taking things all too far...
Yes, exactly. My point? I'm just answering your question, not sure what you're getting at.
> physical dumb devices

Physical dumb devices that are 100+ years old are usually made out of pretty durable, but individually replaceable parts. Thus they get fixed if they do break. The mechanisms are usually pretty easy to figure out, so you can spot if a spring is broken, a bolt is loose, a thing stopped turning, etc.
Since it's been almost a decade, I figure I can tell this story:

I was on the Calendar team at that time, and some project managers enlisted me to do some data analysis to determine if Tasks should be shut down in favor of reminders. At this time, there was no mobile app for Tasks - the only official mobile site was the basic HTML version for pre-iPhone smartphones. There were, however, several third-party mobile apps using the Tasks API. I was able to demonstrate that those apps, plus the official desktop client (inside Gmail), were responsible for a lot of monthly active users. So I guess Google has finally deduplicated by shutting down Reminders instead, which I think was the right decision. It was probably around 5 years ago or so that Google released an official Tasks mobile app.
To the degree people have the flexibility to (and many, including professionals like doctors don't), it's probably most productive at the end of the day for people to align with companies that share their preferences (and even collaboration/in-person needs).
Passkeys are just software backed FIDO keys with no attestation and less features.

FIDO is flexible enough to distinguish userPresence (I.e., touching the key) from userVerification (commonly, entering a PIN), but this is only defined for physical keys IIRC.
I meant to say that it being NP hard was the beginning of issues. Even if there was a polynomial time algorithm for it there are other can of worms to deal with.

But I was wrong ultimately
I really don't think OpenAI employees receive inadequate compensation.

I think there could be a healthy balance between companies with 100% office time, hybrid and remote. There is a trade off that might work out differently for different companies.