skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first paragraph misses the point. The argument was not about the current rules of any current platform. It was about the potential for abuse on future VR/AR platforms by platform owners. The platform owners are the rule makers and can change the rules at any point. Others platforms like the gaming consoles are proof the rules can be a lot tighter.

Apple is in no way excluded from enshitification.

Apple refusing to support more than one external monitor on non-Pro or non-Max M* laptops is an example in hardware by virtue of being intentional market segmentation.

On the software side, ads are slowly encroaching previously ad-free spaces on Apple software too. Apple is also a services company providing everything from an ads platform to apps marketplaces to media to payment services to banking services and leveraging their position in anticompetitive ways. It's platforms are subject to the same pressures of enshitification.

The part you quoted is just one of the steps. The strategy for a platform is to act as an indispensable middleman and abuse everyone both upstream and downstream.
Fascism doesn't mean "bad", "warlike" or "current American enemy". It was a specific ideology that Russia does not promote today, whatever their other faults.
Guix actually makes an effort to make extensions of the maintained Guix channel as easy as the design choices allow. You can extend Guix in various ways: adding whatever channels you find or maintain yourself, extending it by setting GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to a bunch of files, or by telling Guile to load some modules from somewhere else with "-L /where/your/files/are".

Guix doesn't care what software you install with it. It doesn't demand that you subscribe to any philosophy. The project just chooses to only package and distribute free software in the main channel. There are projects that have dedicated themselves to extending Guix with non-free or ... weird software. Guix will never go out of its way to make using those channels harder.
>Or it will hold employees accountable to the shareholders (owners of the company)

I own stock in my company, I don't want to go back to office. if you really care about coddling shareholders I suppose you're also in favor wage suppression, anti-union activity, corporate job cuts, and all the other anti-worker crap management & owners throw down. in short, grow up & realize a mindset like yours just holds the people who actually get stuff done back
That doesn't explain the failure to incorporate free information nor build the tools to convey that info to the users
>That's not compatible with US legislation, is it.

Lmao. The trick is to have enormous legal bariers for entry, which is also what OpenAI seems to advocate for.
Can't upvote this enough (or indeed more than once) but yes, this is the way to do it. Don't stay anywhere more than 2 years until you're more than comfortable with your income and/or taking a role where it's beneficial to stick around for longer.

Companies don't expect people at the beginning of their careers to stick around for long.

The other benefit is that you get to experience a broader range of environments and technologies, which is good for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY
How do you manage with only three monitors...?
Absolutely love their youtube channel, would highly recommend it.
> Sort of reminds me of the East Germans and their little scent jars

Can you explain that to me? I don't understand the reference.
My parents bought me an early Commodore 64 for Christmas in 1982 and I spent untold days typing in source code from Compute!'s Gazette which was the Commodore-dedicated companion to Compute!.

Their MLX system for entering assembly language programs with a checksum was an amazing way to enter programs from a magazine. I remember enlisting my sister to help me type in the programs and I told her, "Type the line of numbers here. If you type one wrong, it will tell you." She quickly retorted, "If it know what's write, why doesn't the computer type it in!?"

You talk about mind-numbing... A9 00 C0 A0 D4 01 03 05 0A

Apparently I did that too much because I can convert that to 6502 Assembly language in my head.
Wrote to safenames. Received an answer. Might be useful to someone.

Thank you for reaching out and I can appreciate your concern over the apparent transfer of your ".GA" domain name. Safenames is one of the leading Corporate Domain Name Registrars and we have been instructed by Freenom to register and manage their ".GA" domains moving forwards.

We are currently in the process of mapping registered domains to their current registrants which should start to be reflected on Whois lookups shortly.

All customers, as a result of this change, will be receiving emails from both Safenames and Freenom in due course, explaining this in more detail. If you have any urgent questions, please contact Freenom and they will be happy to help.
> This is a great way to get management up your ass and get fired.

If you get fired for doing that sort of thing, the company is doing you a favor.
> but “well-regulated” models hidden away behind APIs to be acceptable

This isn’t my takeaway from the letter [1]. Expressing caution towards one element of a thing doesn’t imply acceptance of or even preference for the other aspects.

[1] https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/06062023meta...
> basically unbreakable

The clip-retaining rims seem to love to chip on the IKEA 365 style ones.

The long-tabbed GlassLock ones seem less vulnerable to that.

Which not unique to glass boxes, I'm still amazed by how robust the living hinges can be, some are going on 10 years and haven't split yet.
Can someone suggest a Windows Terminal (or commmand prompt) client for ChatGPT? I have played with the R package chatgpt to use ChatGPT from the R prompt, but it is so much slower than using the web interface that OpenAI provides.
It's like a game comparing the measurements
"Build interesting things" is pretty actionable, it just requires opening your code editor and building stuff that interests you. There's a good chance that your interests will overlap with other people's interets and that you'll end up having built something interesting.

"Meet great people" isn't crazy hard either, literally just talk to people, and keep talking to the one you find great. If you have trouble talking to people, I recommend Dale Carnegie's book (How to win friends or something).
> it was logistically barely possible to spy on 100%

It still is. LE barely has enough capacity to fight every criminal, let alone watch 100% of everything everyone does online. And if you look at how tough a time social media are having at content moderation it seems like tools to automate this well don't exist yet. Just look at stories like this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/10/15/n...
restic to a Glacier-like storage or dedicated storage box at the likes of Blackbase or Hetzner.

That would be around $5/TB/month, AFAIR.
> Sounds like you're a decision maker and you told like being told your decision are being made on a fragile basis. :)

I have bad news for you if you think this doesn't apply to like 99% of of management decisions (and product, and...). Even, and perhaps especially, the ones that are trying to be "data driven": usually the data's shit, but everyone just pretends it isn't because they don't want to spend the time and money to do it right.

The "modern" "scientific" "data-driven" business world mostly runs on hunches and prejudice.
This assumes the ability to perfectly model this function, which is in a sense what we're setting out to demonstrate. It can certainly not be taken for granted.
I'm OK with SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE for constants, because that is an ubiquitous convention. Same for globals, they should be rare anyways (and constant most of the times). For crates dashes are already widely used and that is how it should be.

+1 for plain keywords. Common separators when necessary (e.g. constants or everything that ends up in the filesystem, bc upper/lowercase is a pain there).

Regular struct, enum, trait variable names: CamelCase hands down, like almost everyone does it.
Are they going to ask ChatGPT what penalty he should be given?
I attended a conference in Portland in 2022. The conference itself was fine, but Portland was a wreck. There were homeless encampments all over the place, open fires right on the sidewalks, needles and trash all over the place, boarded up buildings right in the middle of downtown. It was just bizarre and I felt pretty uncomfortable unless I was walking with other people.

I don't see why anyone would choose Portland as a conference location now. The city is in really bad shape, it's just not the same place it was even just a few years ago.
> Vancouver
> cheaper

wut.

It's one of the most expensive cities in N. America and routinely outranks other cities like Los Angeles as being more expensive. No shortage of homelessness there, too; don't leave stuff in your car cuz it's gonna vanish.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-rank...

MTL is cheaper but there are language barrier issues, and it's just a lot further away. SF was the location of the conference since half of the tech world is in California, or is tied to / interacts with California.
You're not paying for the disk, you're paying for the disk to be there when you need it.

> Ere by Fate or Happy Accident

Doesn't "ere" mean "before", not "either"?

> Forget data centers, DNA is the Future of Data Storage

Giving a much more literal meaning to "bit rot".
/r/sanfrancisco

Is still like that
>All in all it’s an interesting take on AI because you don’t often see stories where the AI’s sole goal is to manipulate you into a state of continuous fulfillment.

Reminds me of the Architect in the Matrix who said the original Matrix was a paradise but that people couldn't stand it - it needed strife, conflict, etc to be engaging.
What about the part where you’re still remote for two days? Hybrid means in office part of the time, WFH the other part of the time. Yes you have to go into the office in a hybrid situation, but not 5 days a week, only 3. That’s my point, you shouldn’t complain “waaa hybrid makes me RTO” while conveniently ignoring that you also get non-RTO days… well unless you’re a completely uncompromising twig.
Have a look around this thread. Lots of smart people having difficulties figuring out how this works. This is a bad sign. It shouldn't be this hard to figure out the basics.
>>> You talk about mind-numbing... A9 00 C0 A0 D4 01 03 05 0A! for pages and pages and pages.

Man, seriously, can't even think what would happen if you made a typo and how you would debug it
Yeah judging by the layout I don't think this would be a good replacement for the community as a whole.
It was probably "ZX Computing".

I found that MSDN magazines leaned a bit too far forwards. When I needed to learn some technology, I would find it in 1-3 year old magazines. Due to constant site reorganizations, the code behind the articles might still exist, or it might have been lost to link rot.

Others you may have read could include "C Programming Journal" and "Embedded Systems Programming".
Isn't this sort-of happening, just with the differentiation not being among Big Tech but between them and everyone else?

Big Tech is forcing people to put butts in seats; smaller companies that can't afford to pay that much are embracing remote work as a competitive advantage in the labor market.

At least that's what I'd expect, and it fits with how a lot of my friends are working. OTOH I have seen a lot of companies advertising for in-office or close-to-office (keeping their RTO powder dry) despite obviously having no chance of competing on compensation.

I want to blame that on the recent mass layoffs, hirer's market and all that, but I'm not sure -- maybe they're filtering out employees with high self-regard on purpose?

If I were hiring I'd probably look for "insists on remote" as a positive signal at least for devs. Values things other than cash, willing to have work output measured, can take late-night meetings sometimes, won't be poached by FAANG -- what's not to like for a manager?
> Do you think it's perhaps possible that people benefit from both a solid grasp of the often-boring fundamentals as well as feeling the joy of tinkering?

I don't think they were explicitly excluding the former, but rather saying it's important to get someone interested before they even become interested in learning the fundamentals.
Might not be compatible with US legislation but it's the most compatible with lining their own pockets.
It would be worth checking that the concentrations of microplastics used in this study are of a similar concentration to those found naturally. Otherwise the research is not very meaningful.
Yeah, I think they're just not saying indefinite because apparently that'd give reddit an excuse to just replace the mods using the excuse of inactivity.
> a company can be called out by Congress for allowing the public to have access to a cool new thing

Facebook didn’t “allow” the public access to LLaMA. It lost control of its model weights. That difference is material. (I know, practically speaking, there were zero controls on the weights. But by their own communication, it was “leaked,” not released.)
Well yeah, physical sales cost a lot of money. App stores cost much less and Apple is blatantly rent seeking
So do seed oils and other PUFAs and a thousand other things and if anyone would just listen to a podcast once in a while (like Peter Attia's) they'd learn a thing or two.
I don't understand what kind of person wouldn't check. What was he thinking? "Oh I have a computer now that knows how to be a lawyer, so I don't need to know how to be a lawyer any more"...?
Penalty?! He should be disbarred.
Is there a company that will push your deadlines back because you're training people?
I've never heard of this rule. If a company has three positions, for which 15 equally excellent candidates are shortlisted, and then three months later another position opens up, one of the remaining 12 will have a shot at it. (Of course, the not-shortlisted ones, not likely.)
Due to the filibuster, most bills require 60 votes (60%) to pass the senate. It hasn’t lead to more cooperation - it’s lead to a paralyzed government that can’t pass good laws.
> iTunes wasn’t a secret. Apple didn’t bait you. It was well known you needed to use iTunes.

Only if you were already in the Apple ecosystem.

Many years ago a coworker was gifted one of the more basic iPods, which was his first experience with the Apple ecosystem. It didn't go terribly badly, but I do remember him not knowing about iTunes at the time.
NYT seems to be running an anti-cat agenda.

This article calls trap-neuter-release (TNR) a "controversial" practice, whereas it's well established and proven to be effective (something even this article says).

A few years back, they ran a full-blown frontal assault[1] on Google's volunteer-ran TNR program, gCat, blaming the TNR program (and only the TNR program) for the decline of the local burrowing owl population.

This led to Google forcing the shut-down of the employee-ran TNR program, and extermination of the remaining neutered cats that couldn't be immediately adopted.

To say that this was devastating to people involved is an understatement.

Of course, this was utter nonsense. The decline of the burrowing owl population is well-studied, and in all cases I know of has been attributed to destruction of habitat - both in the Mountain View area and beyond it [2][3][4][5].

Preservation plans - when they even mention cats - put them dead last on the list of reasons.

The cause for extinction is simple. Burrowing owls need two things for their habitat:

(1) soft ground for the holes;

(2) other animals, like squirrels or prairie dogs, to dig holes for owls to burrow in.

I have a hunch that a certain Mountain View company rapidly expanding its campus circa 2018 wasn't conducive to preservation of the said habitat, and "kill all cats" was a simpler solution to the problem than halting construction[6] (also see: [7]).

But having an indignant NYT article as a justification for felicide has sealed the fate of the cats who got used to coming to the same place for food.

In the aftermath of the shutdown, the local feral cat population predictably exploded[8], and the burrowing owl population at Shoreline Park went down to zero[9].

The report says:

>Habitat loss and direct human disturbance have been the main observable factors for the population
decline at this site.

Cats - feral or TNR'd - are not mentioned in the report.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/technology/google-cats-ow...

[2]http://www.elkhornsloughctp.org/uploads/files/1408724962Moun...

[3] https://mv-voice.com/news/2016/11/15/worries-over-dwindling-...

[4]https://mv-voice.com/news/2012/04/06/new-hope-for-citys-burr...

[5]https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb52268...

[6]https://www.whiskersproject.org/latest-news

[7]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36235779

[8]https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2021/11/16/feral-cats-in-mount...

[9]Page 11, https://www.scv-habitatagency.org/DocumentCenter/View/1387/S...

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TL;DR: NYT made Google kill all cats on Google campus.
> it's the lack of people nearby which sets the temperature of their workday.

This is what bothers me, why should I lose an hour+ of MY day because some people like the feeling of others around them. I don't get that time back, I don't get the money for the wear and tear on my vehicle, all so someone feels warm and cozy, unrelated to the actual productivity of the work.

Employers love to treat employees as numbers, but when employees say "Hey I'm a number, look at my productivity, don't make me participate in these rituals", people act like its childish.

I don't owe anything to my employer, because they don't owe me anything except the legal compensation for the work.
As someone who is interested in banking innovations, there is hardly any real competition worth its name. Just more and more consolidation into bigger banks.
We had a “Company webinar” where they explained that it was impossible to do work when out of the office, so forcing everybody in was the only choice.

Of the five directors on the call, one was in the office. Three were at home. The CEO division of support employees were also exempt from the requirement.
Hi All!)
Working on my piu-piu project trying to make it to the Mars. But the journey is long so I've decided to make something quick and fun in-between... Penis mode!)
Exactly. Only very little part of doing work is the coding. Yes you need that, but it's not _all_.

And when working remotely, what I see is that even good coders disappear "in the zone" for far too long... endlessly optimizing some unimportant part of code that doesn't ultimately matter, sometimes creating even worse code that was there at the first place.

And then you feel bad that you say "hey but this new version is horrible" when you know the guy worked on it for a week.

Okay it's doable remote, but it's harder. That's why I say "it's more effective to be not remote".

As a worker, I get it, I hate commute too and I hate not being with my family. But, when the company fails because the competition is just faster and can build things better faster, you won't get a job anymore. So, yeah, I am not for full remote.
> A massive advantage of paper books and magazines is that you are not constantly distracted by the temptations of a multitasking OS.

I had similar problem, so I started using e-book readers(dedicated, not apps on PC), best of two worlds.
I’ve been on interviewing panels before. It is extremely rare to have two “comparable” candidates for any one position. Everyone has different pros and cons. Tenure at past positions was always very low on the list of qualifiers we evaluated.
> Factoring in the immense cost and human brainpower wasted on creating a superhuman perfect-information-game-playing program, and it's easily a net negative for humanity.

Hear me out - what if we learned something about creating AI by creating a new AI?
True, but then you are required to load all possible values for all autocompletable input fields at page load, which in many cases is unreasonable.

As mentioned, many (most even?) autocompletes do it on the fly, and probably without you realising.
Try this: "What is Stoicism and How Can it Turn your Life to Solid Gold?" at https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/02/what-is-stoicism-...
In February 2023, Meta released LLaMA, an advanced large language model (LLM) capable of generating compelling text results, similar to products released by Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

Unlike others, Meta released LLaMA for download by approved researchers, rather than centralizing and restricting access to the underlying data…

I don’t know any way to read this other than “you would have been fine by us if you kept it behind an API wall”.
Realize that answers from those who have been in your position years ago are answers fitting to a low interest rate landscape. The rule book has changed and so will the industries that are at the top.
FYI https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/deep-seated-de...
But for sure they would be impressive for what they are:p
Using nonfree packages in Nix feels like buying wine at the grocery store: small, infrequent, ephemeral hassles. Using nonfree packages in Guix feels like having to go to a small, obscure package store across town.
Design Dynamic Live Activities
I think this article isn't very stimulating but here's a good summary of the case made by many "realists" about international relations on why Ukraine's entry into NATO and the US-NATO's encouragement of this was destined to lead to a war by one of the most prominent realists, John Mearsheimer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&t=2751s.
It's not BPA anymore, but something very similar.

Also, PFAS is not the plural of PFA - those are actually different classes of chemicals.
1/ get better at developing stuff

2/ interview a lot, move jobs when you see something better

3/ assume the expected return on stock options is zero

Stock in public companies (might be called RSUs) is pretty close to income. Even gets taxed like income. Stock in private companies is not like that. You can't sell it without the company agreeing, at which point the company sets the price as they see fit.
Plain glass jars can break if dropped (or thrown) off the table. If I'm sure a jar is borosilicate then I might consider letting my child drink from it, otherwise it's not worth the risk.
Yea a browser is required and is provided by whatever browser was used to install the app. So if you “install” the PWA with Chrome, then Chrome is used to open it. On Mac/Safari 17+, it looks like it’s provided by Web App.app, which is probably just a wrapper for Safari. A separate browser install is not required.

It works in Firefox, not sure why Wikipedia has that wrong.
I want to get something like this to get some relief from hayfever. I find my symptoms are much better when I'm at work (air conditioned office) than at home.
I am a junior that does C++ currently for HFT. Lots of legacy code, although I don’t think the code is that terrible (although I am a junior so maybe I can’t tell).

Any reason why it’s a terrible path to choose? Am I stunting my growth? I was hoping HFT would help leverage me into a big tech company for systems level stuff since (at least I was told this as a selling point to get me to join) its tougher here so FAANG likes to see HFT experience. Is that not the case?
Yes, but the corn growers lobby makes more "donations" to politicians than the grass growers lobby does.
>This is a special guide, for all those bitcoiners looking to escape from tyranny and go to El Salvador.

I guess my definition of tyranny is different...
Not necessarily, not when I hire. On-boarding, and ramping up in a new environment is a skill and to some extent, I see that as a value add. A person who has gotten comfortable in a role for 10 years is often slower to ramp vs. a person that has seen a lot of environments and projects.
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