skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite as bad as expected. This means that a bit more than half of those with false beliefs probably wouldn't testify to the absolute truth of their belief in court.
Sorry you are confused... You could as easily have found a reference as I could.
Report a crime, get crime solved - are you saying this has never ever happened?
It's not a charade of productivity if it is producing value for some stakeholder.

"some people get fulfillment from their jobs" is a very very banal take. The pitch for Graeber's book is that he's going beyond this banality and actually claiming the jobs are generating no value at all.
Ask / Tell HNs definitely can be click/engagement bait, and this probably is.
Yes, but in terms of editing speed and comfort, one keystroke is the difference between life and death. As long as the motion can be described in a single command, visual mode is overkill.
They are. As I've said elsewhere, I am plenty productive - putting me in an office wouldn't make me work more. It would tire and stress me out and make me be less effective.

The point isn't that I'm shirking. It's that I'm hitting and passing the bar of "good employee" in that amount of work time.

If you wanted to own my time, you could've paid me hourly. But you wanted my skills.
i didnt read the article but im just going to assume they are talking about leaving for college or something like that
Glad it works for you.
Yes, web.py was his baby. He also had some markdown parser stuff.

Baby boomers always tell me about seeing The Doors live in dive bar in NYC. I can say I used Reddit when it was written in Lisp. :-)
Nobody claims that git is impossible to use. It clearly isn't or it wouldn't be so successful.

But it could demonstrably be better and easier and we are stuck in a local minimum of a good enough solution because of the network effects.
The book is based of interviews, so certainly some people feel that way. Anecdotally, plenty of people I talk to (in industry) question the usefulness of whatever widget they're building.
I have got to the bit where he mentions the TV show where he demonstrates a talking NN with 20000 parameters. Would love to find that online (I tried).
As you note, there are many great window management solutions for macOS. I'm also very satisfied that Finder's basic window management features are complemented by a healthy choice of free and paid power-user solutions.

Rectangle (rectangleapp.com) is a good choice that also does snapping. I'm happy with Raycast (raycast.com), which offers window management with an extension (https://www.raycast.com/extensions/window-management).
Even the largest LLMs with huge data sets. I asked GPT4 this morning very simply what relation Charles I was to Henry VIII and it said he was his great-great grandson, despite Henry VIII's children famously all dying childless.
SF recalled their "soft-on-crime" DA a year ago and elected her opponent, but violent crime is up 5.5% and overdoses are on a steep upward trajectory while property crime is only down 1.8%.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/one-year-after-recall-viole...
I love Go. I think it depends on what trajectory you followed to reach to Go or any other language. For me it was

BASIC -> VB -> Java -> Python for some time -> Go

How you feel about Go is how I feel about JavaScript
I agree with the premise of the article, I think, but I find the "good SQL" versions... uncompelling.

(1) Switching `left join` to the default inner `join` changes query behavior. I'm guessing it's intentional on the author's part? But it feels like the wrong change to make when trying to compare syntax like-for-like.

(2) I am also in camp "SQL keywords really don't need to be uppercase", so keep fighting the good fight, brother. That said: it's an uphill battle and far from universal. Most SQL "formatters" I've used automatically uppercase everything.

(3) Dropping the alias in `Actors.name AS actor_name` is another case where you're not doing like-for-like. Just using `Actors.name` means, for example, the first example's output table will have two columns: title and name. I'd argue for most uses title and actor_name are better output column names.

Those points aside, the primary simplification seems to be switching `join ... on` to `join ... using`. Big +1 from me on that.
I am actually angry at how good the project name is.
I was quite shocked to hear that Graeber died quite suddenly back in 2020.
>> Other common entries on this list of forever tools: regular expressions, emacs, bash/shell scripting, excel, probably more I’m forgetting.

Oh yes, many more: Java, JCL & COBOL, Windows Forms, PhP, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Perl, Visual Basic, IIS, SSIS, Ruby on Rails, and so on and so forth.

Maintaining enterprise software is a special circle of hell reserved for developers. Just sayin'.
The Book of Proof post was made 2 hours after this one, you wouldn't have been aware of it. It happens a lot. See a topic, and people post related things because it jogs a memory, they found it while digging deeper, or as a form of indirect response.
There's an option for that in system settings, 'Minimise windows into application icon'
As a gay male who has fallen down the oppression hierarchy over the last decades, I would say the solution is "ignored" rather than "unsolved." Inclusiveness should be conditioned on some kind of social contract that requires a level of tolerance and a bit of sacrifice. This was well understood as sort of axiom in the past, but now even stating the fact that "group X is committed to not approving of group Y," even as a member of Group Y, is itself seen as intolerant.

So it's an unsolvable problem when you demand everyone to have their maximalist demands, which if you deny you are committing "violence" or "erasure."
You can try an extension which adds the HTTP header

Save-Data: on

Some sites (such as mine) respond by reducing the weight of images, etc, sent when that flag is present.

(FWIW Google's search does not bombard me the way that you describe.)

You could also a try a serach engine such as Ecosia that is aiming to reduce CO2 wasted.
Please give evidence and data, like GP did.
Old English is just generally not a priority. There are only so many hours in the schoolday and so many schooldays in the year.
More importantly: Why have users collectively mostly forgotten that software is something you can change?

If I sound like a smug Linux user here, damn right. This is a stupid way to do operating systems.
What happens when we've filled every nook and cranny of the earth with our poison?

Is this the gift we are leaving for posterity?

What about "do no harm" instead? Looking for advancements in authentically environmentally friendly technologies.

The dissonance of I'm driving a Tesla and I'm saving the world! Instead of filling the air with poison, we're filling the bedrock with it.
Well, the old concept is still valid: as long as you have physical access to it, you can breach it.
Consumed by anger? Graeber was an anthropologist, it was literally his professional job to make anthropological observations about society and form them into a coherent theory, which, as someone who read this book in its entirety, he did an excellent job. To say something like “well that’s just the way things are” is tautological nonsense and adds nothing to the conversation he jumpstarted, you’re basically just saying “suck it up, these things won’t change”. One of the most compelling argument of this book was how we got to where we are by socially engineering such a system. If we can come to the conclusion that we got to where we are by deliberate choice, we can unwind all of what we’ve built and do something better for ourselves.
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For me at least, I sometimes find it very difficult to google information I don’t yet know a lot about. It is very difficult if you don’t know the jargon to find anything that goes beyond the very surface level. Or if you did find the correct word, it goes too fast and you are not able to follow. It can be difficult to find an article in the “goldilocks zone” where I can follow along but also learn a lot. I do not do this, but I can imagine that AI could help with that as a starting of point. Then I would probably still google to confirm.
This is crazy. The electronics and telecommunications industries have just kept trucking on and improving hardware and connectivity by orders of magnitude. Meanwhile web technologies have provided the software complement to smartphones that let people manage their whole digital lives online, at the same time as hundreds of millions of people come online for the first time.

Are you defining 'tech' as purely social media companies? Or demanding entirely new classes of product? There has been an incredible amount of iterative improvement.
Magnet does a much better job than the very limited options that MacOS has built in. It has menu/key commands for half-screen, quarter-screen, third-screen, and sixth-screen as well as maximizing without taking over the menu bar. It also has snap by dragging which can be used for all of these different fractions, although I almost always just use it for left/right half or full.
Maybe if you text them that doesn't count as talking
I’ve used this feature on windows 3.11 (I think? It’s been a long time ago…) macOS window management is very lacking but without this I’d just give up, right now I’m barely getting by - installed rectangle recently which gives keyboard shortcuts to window snapping.
I use bettertouchtool, should I be using magnet or rectangle?
Here's hoping that big business vacates the area and that the weird Frisco I grew up with will return.
On the other hand Jesus was born and grew up jewish and would have been familiar with jewish dietary laws and the sacrifices in the temple and the complicated conditions for those.
Graeber is an anthropologist. If anything, I would say he _loves_ humans, and humanity.
Having worked long time in both academia and industry, I can assure you the differences when it comes to bullshit jobs are minor. You might argue about the color of the turd, but it still tastes like shit.
Don't forget Rule of Acquisition #17.
I would be interested to know how this was done.

Unless they have access to Code Interpreter then gpt4 won’t generate graphs and images.

Did they have it generate Python that made the graphs in matplotlib or something ? What did the prompts look like?
Depends on your perception of value. Plenty of things are valuable for a company but clearly useless for the world. Some things aren't even valuable for the company but is to a manager, etc.
MacOS is very far from Unix ideology at this point. It’s not even possible anymore to install things you compile without a bunch of red tape scary warnings. You can’t make new folders in /. iOS has tons of private APIs that only Apple gets to use to make their apps and services the only viable choice, eg iCloud can upload photos in the background but Google Photos times out, even the location sharing hack doesn’t fix this.

Apple doesn’t do it because it’s only a small percentage of users who even know what it is to want it, and they’re already well-served by third party tools. Look at how long it took for widgets to come to iOS. Apple isn’t usually the first mover when it comes to software stuff like this, they like to sit back and let other devs solve problems then see how it plays in the market first before launching a better-integrated version themselves (sometimes in a way that only they can do because again private APIs) with only the basic features included.
"Tyler Cowen (/ˈkaʊən/; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department.[2] He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, together with co-author Alex Tabarrok. Cowen and Tabarrok also maintain the website Marginal Revolution University, a venture in online education."

I think it is pretty safe to assume that at the very least in this case Graeber was correct.
This is huge news for people who runs Linux on Surface devices as they need to compile a custom v4l module for the custom kernel, and also need to run a hacky v4loopback workaround to use it on vidcalls.
> Mac mouse doesn’t have right click

This hasn't been true for over a decade. The Magic Mouse supports right-click (and the Magic Trackpad supports two-finger or bottom-right corner to right-click). Not sure if it's the default or not though.
If I understand correctly, there's an option for that in system settings, 'Displays have separate spaces'
I don't think he got a book deal to write this doorstop about the utterly banal claim that some people find their jobs unfulfilling. Like, duh, that's why they pay you. He got the book deal because his pitch is that the jobs are actually bullshit, i.e. the kind of jobs some salarymen have in Japan where the company is expected to keep you employed and you are expected to show up for 12 hours a day but whether actual work gets done productively is sort of beside the point.
> You could easily have no reason to live and yet continue living. I guess I’m gonna be forced to say the s-word: living is something that happens while not living (your question: why live?) takes deliberate action, i.e. suicide. But someone could be terrified of killing themselves.

If you sit down and do nothing at all for a week you will die, no work required. To continue living takes work. I believe that was my original point. To do anything more than nothing at all requires some reason, be it reptilian drive, fear of death broadly, or otherwise.

In any case, I don't see much value in this line of conversation because it's so far from common reality as to be useless in support of the central claim I disagree with. Most well adjusted people will plainly agree that a lot of necessary things are enjoyable. Some people will say their jobs, which they need to do for money, are enjoyable.

It's really not some crazy deep philosophical idea that necessity equals suffering. We don't need to go ten layers down into some core of human experience to say yes or no. It's just inaccurate, and somewhat hyperbolic, on the face of it.
As someone who also lived on a visa in the US, I think you were required to carry it at all times like your green card. It’s just never enforced.
Interesting. Do you know how HN specifically downvotes posts? I was under the impression that HN _users_ downvote posts, but if the site itself does it, than that is surely concerning.
The state of threading on FreeBSD was so poor that, would you believe it, for a time, FreeBSD was using a port of LinuxThreads (the pre-NPTL posix-like threading library written by Xavier Leroy of OCaml fame, integrated into glibc).

I think that may have still been true in 2005.
Hackernews is a community for hackers ;)

PG created HN
Live in reality.

Enforce rules.

Recognize that some people aren't up to the responsibility level of living certain places and deal with them accordingly, i.e. at a certain level of criminal history you're on timeout or banished. Yeah, that isn't "nice", and if you want the job of rehabilitating the repeat offender because "there's good in everyone", go for it!

But a society must be a place where children can be raised safely and successfully, otherwise there is no society left. Public safety is a foundation of this.

Life sometimes brings us trolley problems where hard decisions must be made. Liberalism is a denial of this, which makes it attractive, but it always ends up being paid for with larger breakdowns as hard decisions aren't made.
True, I don't think of it much now that I've been living here for a few years. But it's scary how easily someone can be caught out while traveling through the NL from one part of Schengen to another where these rules don't apply.
> utility called Alt-Tab

I think you’ve saved my life
Of course :) I can't tell if you are complimenting generic self awareness or are you implying that you have a richer perspective? If later, please share with us.
> and instead of reversing the crazy policies about not prosecuting crime, they’re digging their heels in and going even harder.

??? they recalled their DA and voted in her "tough-on-crime" opponent almost a year ago now. Are you so blindly committed to your ideology that you just assume the evidence supports your position?
I don’t think this is enforceable at all.

As the invidious developers already explained, they did not agree to any eula or sogn any contract
What's bizarre to me is that they're using British currency but putting the currency sign at the end of the numbers.
Coming from a factory background, bathroom breaks are something you have to find time for. If you were to just take one during a changeover, you would see a lot of productivity go into the scrap box. So to me it makes sense to count them as part of the "paid 15-minute break" a factory employee gets. I mark my personal timesheet as not working then too.
I understand why OLAP writes are faster but is there any reason why OLTPs can't achieve similar read performance with denormalized and sharded data?
YouTube is a great place to find recipes from individuals. They usually have the entire recipe in the description. And a video to go along with it!
You should try with 4 and compare. 4 is leagues better.
Yeah, often a good idea not to be too hard on yourself, i think that's what the article is missing
I've been actively pursuing the creation of a profitable venture using langchain and personal knowledge bases for business. However, the market is highly competitive. Recently, I came across a YouTuber who specializes in building custom AI automations. This got me thinking about the potential of combining that concept with a productized service.

Imagine a service like WordPress management, but with unlimited synchronous issue resolution within 24 to 48 hours. That's exactly what I'm working on. It would offer unlimited zapier and AI automations, as well as tweaks to existing automations, all for a reasonable price of $499. This service would be complemented by a regular agency that provides consultations on streamlining full business automation.

My long-term vision involves starting an MLOps/architecture service, similar to pinecone or metal. I believe the real money in AI lies in tooling, backend operations, cloud GPUs, and so on. However, this type of venture requires significant investment, and I must admit that I'm not the most socially inclined person.

In order to attract investors, I'm in the process of crafting a compelling idea and message. My plan consists of the following steps:

1. Establish a newsletter and create funnels to showcase our expertise.
2. Gather testimonials and case studies to understand the specific needs of businesses in this space.
3. Identify a market fit that doesn't solely rely on continually increasing GPU power to scale up AI models.

By following this roadmap, I aim to build a solid foundation and demonstrate the potential of our business to potential investors.
The article was great. The book was insufferable and didn't add substance.
What consolation is that? At least a BS job pays the bills.
ETH = Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
Yes, but it's not very consistent. For example, Safari will not maximize if you double click the title bar. It'll just maximize vertically.
But note that it’s up from #30. So this debacle is inflating the importance of Apollo way beyond what it normally would be, at least with regards to its placement in this chart.

Not that that’s a good look for Reddit, to throw Apollo under the bus, then to find the bus they threw them under was Reddit, and it threw it completely off course.

It is mind boggling that they could not anticipate this response. That memo they sent out after this and which got leaked was such an example of poor leadership, it would really be a shame if this doesn’t lead to some changes there.
I can’t stress this point enough, having read the book.

I feel that “our industry” is also rife with bullshit jobs, I think we aren’t exempt, but I wonder how others feel about this.

I had a bullshit job once: a project of 30M euro was clearly failing hard. 60 people were working every day and we didn’t deliver anything suitable for production. I kept my corner neat, but the writing was on the wall.

It felt so surreal, trying to care and do work, but on the other hand knowing the project was doomed.

After a year or so I couldn’t stand it anymore, I felt physically ill and I quit.

My manager was fired a month after I left. The project got canceled 6-8 months later.
A state machine should have more than states. It also needs actions which cause transitions. The API should be about writing out which new state an action causes given a base state. Eg you have a modal with a button and it can be clicked or dismissed. In the open state, click and dismiss cause close, and in the closed state, click causes open. Anyway, the whole thing is only valuable once you have actions.
I feel like this entire debate is strongly influenced, if not soon made obsolete and pointless, by the presence of the so called AI tools.

Feels like there's a universe of difference between the experience of "carefully craft the query yourself" and "describe the query and let AI write the code for it."
Is this a stupid trick question where, if I respond with a list of nations not known to engage in industrial espionage and IP theft, you respond by saying "well country X once did something-unrelated-to-this-topic to country Y, so your argument falls flat"?

I'll humor you. Germany and France are not known to engage in systematic industrial espionage and IP theft. Not towards China, not towards European peers, not towards the USA. Please don't move the goalpost by talking about France' colonial epoch and stay away from WW2 and Hitler.
Hmm... a lot of jobs being displaced by ML are technical, and not very bullshit.
> It seems there are a lot of people who have no talent but being able to hype up ideas.

I get the sentiment, but PR is a critical skill in the free market. Also it's not easy to tell the difference b/w legit good ideas and empty decent PRs.