skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a difference in interpretation here that plays an important role. To put it simply, when you make $25k/yr, you care a lot about your CEO making $200m/yr, but if you are making $250k/yr I don't think anyone gives a shit.

The parent specified a critical qualifier that I think supports this interpretation and many may be missing. Let's make sure we're speaking the same language before we start fighting.

>> Being productive is really hard when any value produced immediately and __ONLY__ goes towards lining the pockets of the wealthy.

The use of "only" differentiates this from "a job." It implies that they feel not just undervalued, but excessively so. It is the feeling of doing all or most of the work in a group project and only to have someone else take all or the majority of the credit. I believe most of us have been in that situation at some point. I would be shocked to find that a single person that was in that situation wasn't resentful of that person. Either you're lying (to us or to yourself) or you're the chillest person on the fucking planet.

I don't think anyone cares how big CEO compensation is when they're living a comfortable life themselves. The relationship between utility and monetary value does not increase linearly for essentially all metrics of utility. Most follow an S-like curve. When you don't have a lot, every fucking dollar matters and you'll be resentful of anyone stealing any credit from you (scarcity mindset) because the loss is very meaningful. When you're comfortable, then money is substantially less important to you and you probably won't care as much if credit is taken from you because the loss isn't as meaningful. It is actually quite difficult to spend a million dollars a year continuously (or some other Brewster's Millions like situation). You can even see this change in places like HN. When everyone was being let go comments about Pichai's bonuses and Google's stock prices increased. But go back 5 years when there was a bigger boom and all the free stuff and incentives were being given, no one really cared.

In this respect I think people focus on the wrong parts of economic inequality. Rather than focusing on the ceiling, focus on the floor. The floor is not the dual of the ceiling because these are not zero sum games (they are for instantaneous or local times, but not in general).

Courseofaction, correct me if I'm wrong.
This article talks about Oregon too, the other does not mention Oregon.
From the Huggingface blog post: Making LLMs even more accessible with bitsandbytes, 4-bit quantization and QLoRA (https://huggingface.co/blog/4bit-transformers-bitsandbytes)
I met Ellsberg when I attended a live recording of the podcast Philosophy Talk in 2019. It was called "The Doomsday Doctrine", it was about the policy of mutually assured distruction. I remember he talked about the difference between "their bomb is in the air, so we're launching" and "their bomb has exploded, we're launching". Politicians vacillate between the two, when history shows us that they are very, very different. Airplanes and bombers encourage the latter, while missile silos encourage the former. This makes missile silos a severe liability, as they encourage first-steike launches.

I remember talking to him briefly after the talk. It impressed me how decisive, opinionated, and well-thought-out he was, at his age.

He liked my T-shirt, which said "Statistics means never having to say you're certain."

I'm glad I got a chance to meet such an important and positive figure in US history.
Link for anyone looking the New Yorker article:

https://archive.ph/iIwtV
> We had the same problem in Seattle and then my wife took care of it with one of those.

Ya, I'm in Ballard and I've thought about decoys and other sort of proactive ways of discouraging this. I wish we could wire up some action when cameras detect someone scoping out our house at 1AM in the morning (we live at the end of a long driveway so it is always someone checking our car door or something).

But with all the data, well, it is the same people who are doing this (it only changes every few months or so), so it seems relatively straight forward for the police to do something about it. But there is no way to aggregate the data from all the cameras everyone has set up to do something about this.
You won't unless you have the money to hire one. Most experienced or want-to-be CEOs will want to be paid very well in addition to getting a big chunk of the company. What you need to do now is look for investors so you can build out a skeleton upper management rung, as needed, and get some employees.

The product is just the start. Now you have to build a company around the product. You'll need to get someone to increase demand thru marketing, someone to manage production and on and on. I bet you can do that yourself. Once you have a stable company then you can start to look for a CEO that may be able to help grow the company. If you were able to get the product to market, i bet, you can certainly build the company around it to move it further.

Read up on the process. Here are 2 books that will get you started:

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About...

https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step-ebook...

Good luck
Dunno if reported already but this copy doesn’t seem right:

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More grants links here:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#grants
Unlike everything else labeled with the C word, the fact that the FBI has entrapped people for terrorism is well-documented, which is what we expect to see if there is a large group of people doing this. On the other hand, if you claim a large group of government workers are doing something illegal and have no evidence to support your claim, of course it will be labeled a conspiracy theory.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fbi-sting-operati...
It was delayed at least. National Defense Headquarters was moved into the Nortel Campus in 2017 or so.
A government organisation with more than 10 Billion USD budget spent valuable time radicalising some poor kid and then arrested him because he was immature enough to be radicalised... It would be funny if it weren't real. ...Actually it is still very funny.
> In any event, bringing shitty practices from another industry into ML doesn't seem worth supporting.

Why is this still an issue for you?

All players made licensing blunders in the past and the fine folks behind falcon seem to have learned from their mistake by releasing their weights under Apache 2.0, a well understood and respected permissive license.

Many major open source projects started as proprietary software that eventually went opensource. Why hold a grudge against this project specifically? Yes, they made a mistake and learned from it. What more do you want?
This is an exhausting perspective on life. The guy who wrote 80% of the codebase is always going to be more productive than someone who wrote 2% of it, that doesn’t mean they are 10x smarter than you.

I noticed this hyper obsession with productivity in our industry from measuring yourself against how you perceive others productivity. But there’s much less focus put on how your peers became productive at their specialization. That’s the real secret sauce, is to become productive at some specialization in software engineering you need experience + a deep mental model of your codebase and a mental model of your dependencies.

The reason a task that should have been 4 hours takes 4 days is because you had to debug, read documentation and try things. If you immediately could predict why an issue was happening because you had a deep mental model of the OS, the runtime, your architecture etc. you would be able to solve any issue you run into in several orders less time. That’s how you actually become more productive as an engineer in your field.

This obsession with grinding and hyper productivity is out of hand, your physical and mental health are way more important.
Sorry, I didn't expose it clearly.

Yes, I considered the long-term experience gain (columns, not lines: from 65 to 151 and from 60 to 104).

The first nuclear plants were theoretically the most difficult to build as the local industry was less adjusted to building such things, especially specific components.

As those reactor 'models' were very similar (there is no quantum leap) pertinent experience (processes, tooling...) accumulated.

However there was no reduction of 'intensity' (investments, amount of simultaneous building projects, foreseeable projects...) as all this was encompassed by a huge national programme (the 'Plan Messmer').

Therefore it seems that both min and max time to completion should diminish with time.
Yeah, because utility theory is not how people think. Give most people a puzzle that allows for significant gain if you answer correctly, or simply not being harmed if you answer suboptimally, and most people try to escape what they correctly intuit as a trap. Not choosing the best answer is wrong, you don't assume you are smarter than the other person, so opt out.
I’ve made a similar suggestion on HN before. Have a minimum support period for internet connected devices, and once you stop updating after that minimum, you’re required to unlock the hardware and open source everything.
I am not sure if you have been to the UAE. I’d probably prefer to deal with them than Meta or any other US corporation.
Hostess fined $298,000 USD over preventable amputation of worker's fingertip
Yes natural rights are those the constitution recognizes as coming from a Creator and those shall not be infringed.

Copyright and patent are not among those. The Constitution provides that congress can grant "for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

"Limited times" could be defined by congress to "expire" under whatever circumstances they choose.
I think there's a miscommunication happening. I'm happy to make people wealthy from my productivity and labor if I'm also gaining wealth. Their gains can even far outweigh mine. But if they are making excessive wealth off of my labor while I am struggling to make ends meet, I -- just like any other mammal (not even just humans) -- would be resentful. Very few people are "just happy to have a job" but we might also recognize that these attitudes are far more common in highly competitive areas and that there is a large tendency for these regions to not be the most prosperous. If everyone is struggling, it is easier to struggle.
RPM rspecs, port Makefiles, Maven, etc. do not just define package dependencies (build, runtime, etc.) and artifacts, they also have to intimately understand how to patch, build, and package the artifacts. Making the build and package system separate from the dependency management separates concerns and allows the ability for a completely declarative “dumb” dependency graph that can be reasoned about without dealing with build logic that must be executed.

This also allows build processes to evolve without affecting the public dependency graph. This makes it easier to show dependencies are modeled and exposed correctly and makes build logic private to consumers.
My kids were in high school and had Karen as a teacher. Amazing that she remained a teacher for many years after her transition.
It's been a while since I read said blogs, but I'm pretty sure they were discussing this one: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/03/410051/scientists-discover...
Carmack also has no meaningful idea as to how software is actually developed. He was exceptionally fortunate to have found success enough for life in the early 90s. He never had to deal with the real world. I don't know why anyone not in his same privileged as hell position would listen to him on nearly anything he has to say. And I say none of this to put the guy down. He's just not in the position nearly every one of us is.
Thing is that maybe in 300 years someone wants to develop that land and the documents that say to not do that there are in an old version of .docx in an obsolete storage form buried under layers of bureaucracy. That’s how someone ends up living on the casket growing a massive thyroid.

Same reason that makes us not write code that only the author can understand (when working in a team), we need to plan ahead in the same way. We can’t rely on the future solving our current problems or even understanding them fully.
It would be very easy for them to pull it off vs the other way around. So many Chinese people work in Canada. But practically no western people work in China.
I think that accepting citizenship in a nation functions as an endorsement of a nation, yes. I think very few people would interpret it differently.
https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat

The hardest part is downloading the 30GB of weights.
You can have all the money in the world and still be utterly disorganized
We Changed Our Lives Because of Our Remote Jobs. Now It’s All Crumbling
Red Mediocre didn't test well with the focus groups
the militarization of the police force is the issue here, isn't it?

at a most fundamental level what's debated is if civilians and police should be demilitarized as much as possible or not. Who benefits and who doesn't if all legislation strives for a civic society without deadly force? that's the "Elefant in the room".

The counter-argument to a demilitarized civic society usually is that you couldn't possibly control the bad guys. The empirically sound ground truth is that it takes 1-2 generations to get there, and that you will get there if only you want to get there, as a nation, as evidenced by a number of countries who wanted to essentially get rid of everyday knives and nunchucks and tonfas, let alone firearms, and who in fact essentially did get rid of them.

The US, as a civic society, needs to discuss which kind of a civic society they want to be.

the answer to "shall police have gun drones" flows from that. just like the answer to "shall school students need gun drills".
Crypto startup Wyre, once valued at $1.5B, officially shuts down
BitGrid - it's an old idea, that has haunted me since the 1980s. This latest incarnation is in Lazarus/FPC, and up on github.[1]

I was prodded into action when a friend showed me the BitGrid page on the Esolang Wiki[2] I was blown away that someone had figured out how to do the Game of Life in a bitgrid... more than I've done myself.

I can simulate a 1024x1024 grid at 15 Hz clock rate, which should be plenty fast to do some interesting things. The emulation works, I have a tiny little test program that allows me to me reasonably sure of that (it's just shuffling bits around, nothing complex). I have ZERO support software for it... need to write some things, like a console, cycle counter, method for I/O, etc.

It's like finding yourself with a new IMSAI in the 1970s, with no I/O, or anything... just RAM, CPU, Toggle Switches, and BlinkenLights.

One day, I hope to have an Exaflop computer based on BitGrid chips. I wrote a big chunk of a DARPA grant proposal for it about a decade ago.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

[2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid
Similar experience. Fortunately there is an activity log link, showing that Dropbox uploaded something which looks like a CD cover there once in 2011. important notice.
Snowden used to work for that single entity too …
Perhaps you don't understand what a wiki is, but there are hundreds or more implementations of every reasonable etymological interpretation of the term. If you have a particular narrow version of it, that's not universal or helpful.
Google is supposed to know everything about every of their users but they cant figure out how to send emails only to the ones concerned. Such epic fail
Thanks for the kind offer, but I'm about a week or two from finishing the revised version. That said, all my books are free to read online: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks. So, you could have a look now or wait till the new version and then send me the feedback.
Actually it is the right way to plan centuries ahead. Taking a reasonable look at the risk and making an assessment.

The actual risk of nuclear waste is incredibly small. You point would make sense if it was a nuclear weapon that could just randomly go off or something like that.

However with civilian nuclear waste you really have to come up with pretty unlikely stuff for it to ever harm anybody. And you a tinfoil hat to come up with some scenario where it hurts a large number of people.

And those risks are incredibly easy to detect should they ever happen.

So again, unless you have total government collapse this simply isn't an issue. And if you have anarchy in Finland the least problem anybody will care about is a few leaking casks of nuclear waste that might happen.

This is like worrying about bad air quality for your great grant children while your house is on fire. There are about 1000 ways I could think of to improve the lives of people in 200 years that have a far better way to spend billions of $ then burying nuclear waste.

The more likely case is that people in 200 years will look back and say 'people back then already had all the fundamental research why were they so shit at using fission and fusion. What the fuck were they thinking'
> I'm sure there's a loophole

"We would never think about taking your IP but if you want to do business in this region, you must agree to voluntarily open-source all drivers after the product is no longer maintained."

Or:

"Of course you don't have to agree to anything but if you stop supporting the product and don't open source the drivers, consumers can obtain money damages for their devices becoming inoperable. "
Do you have to go in to an office to get it? If not you can just split your dose in half and double the frequency. The reduced fluid volume also means you can do subcutaneous instead of intramuscular so it's less of a hassle.
That depends significantly on your team's measure of points. My team would never waste time trying to split a 5. But a 34, we would almost always try to split.

21s, we try to limit how many of them there are, but we're wary of splitting too much because splitting them up into, say, three separate 8s and then having to add a 13 to puzzle piece them all back together again isn't necessarily an improvement.

But I think our points scale is quite different from what many other teams use. In any case, you have to be wary of splitting things too much (or not enough). If your 'bricks' are 8s, 13s, and 21s, then splitting a 5 is just making more work. But if your 'bricks' are 1s, 2s, and 3s, then splitting a 5 may well be a good idea.
Hi. not sure exactly how to answer your question. May I ask what doesn't seem right?
So you’re saying that you can be sued for telling a story, based on your life experience, just because someone on the internet interpreted it as advice?

So then every comment ever made that wasn’t intentional trolling and fiction then. Must be a backlogged court system with all those cases of someone being held liable for the perception of another. How does one prove they perceived something as advice? Wouldn’t it be easy to throw out short of the comment literally saying, “my advice would be”.
I'd definitely welcome having tags/categories so that I can filter out topics I'm not interested in.
FusionAuth Selected as Winner for Colorado Companies to Watch
I resonate with several points.
I worked at a place for tickets could have a value of : 1,2,3,5

Most of the time it was a 2, with the occasional 1,3. It’s as if some devs enjoyed the time wasted on the banter if we had a fat one or a skinny two or a fat too, or skinny three. It was such a waste.

At one point, I said we should just give everything a 2 because in the end it will take the amount of time that it will take. Regardless of whatever point we assign this ticket.

I don’t miss that job. We spent more time grooming and planning and doing retros instead of collaborating.
I came across this property on my own just by zooming out the map from my location — you might make a more clear example listing like “123 Test St” with lorem ipsum in the listing description

I thought it was a mistake to leave this data in production, not an intentional example listing.

Congrats on the launch! The site looks great
The features sound great. Some advice though:

- I was about to tell you that there really should be a demo, but just now I realized the "World Wide Web Phase 2 Begins Here" button links to the demo. You really should change that text to "Live Demo" or something more clear.

- The demo itself takes a long time to load and seemed to refresh multiple times

- The GitHub should also have a link to the demo, and an image would be nice as well

- The landing page is very ugly. Any generic template would do better and inspire more confidence.

- Why not highlight some of those features you mentioned on the landing page?

Best of luck! The features sound great.
so essentially btrfs/bcachefs without the focus on being used for RAID?
No logs. Not indexable. Feels like a very different thing, with its own FOSS+federated alternatives.

Discourse instances, Lemmy, or even Mastodon / ActivityPubs are probably a better fit
Because people sometimes write parsers for binary file formats? In my case, it is indeed for a programming task, but not for debugging running/compiled code.

A ”raw bytes” view can be useful in many situations.
"I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove."

So much of what reddit is going through right now makes much more sense.
One of my dreams has been to create a sort of tech prison
Notion is goat-ed! It's one of the greatest software ever created in our time imho.

Y.js sounds amazing – gonna have to look into it! Have been using Liveblocks for real-time data stuff, the DX is a breeze to work with!
For 5-6 billion they could have helped to develop and built new GenIV reactors and reduce the waste and also manage all the waste for the next 100 years.

> Given the high costs of managing nuclear waste above ground

Can you show me some concrete evidence that the cost is as high as you claim. In the US nuclear reactors have been storing the waste on parking lots for many decades and it doesn't seem to bankrupt them. In many places above ground nuclear waste is just standing around in casket with literally 0 people attending them.

In Switzerland a single warehouse contains all nuclear waste for the last 50 years and there are not many people working there.

Unless you can show me otherwise I'm gone go with 'its not gone cost billion+ $ to let nuclear waste sit around above ground for a century'.
The walled garden forces app developers to comply with Apple’s consumer-friendly privacy restrictions. Many larger developers absolutely detest these, not least of which is Epic, whose campaign against Apple started months after Apple announced their crackdown on tracking. A crackdown which, if you recall, was universally commended by the Hacker News community.

If the iOS walled garden is torn down by legislation, the result won’t be akin to Android. It will break down the status quo that any app I want is available from the App Store, and subject to Apple’s rules.

The status quo with Android is Google wanting the appearance of being open, but without being a commercially viable channel. This is because it was their choice, not dictated to them by legislation.
We also need changes so that posession of identifying information is not sufficient to establish identity. That sounds like a tall order but clearly this information is leaking all over the place and just because someone has my identifying numbers and date of birth and mother's maiden name and signature and fingerprints and whatever else, should not be adequate to gain access to bank accounts or execute contracts and other legal agreements.