skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t willing to be unhappy for one day to make more money. When a recruiter from Amazon Retail reached out to me at 46 about a software engineering job, I wasn’t willing to relocate from my in house in the burbs of Atlanta (built in 2016 for less than $350K), and I never wanted to be a software developer for any large company nor did I want to be on call - even it did mean making $100K + more per year.

My bullshit tolerance is extremely low.

The only reason I work at BigTech now (at 49) was because the recruiter suggested a remote position in cloud consulting with no on call.

When I do leave here, it will probably be for a smaller company.

I didn’t have millions in the bank to make that decision. I was working for a small startup that offered 5 weeks PTO.
Usually because it’s political. See the recent case where they egged on some disgruntled idiots with the Whitmer kidnapping case. Its taking a very long time to hold the FBI accountable because its not politically expedient but even left leaning publications are starting to acknowledge it.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/19/michigan-gov...
"Prevented from working longer hours"

Can this really be prevented anywhere? That would be appalling. Reminds me of "Harrison Bergeron" (Vonnegut short story).
Nuclear Waste is a lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQ3gFRj0Bc
Ya I think you make a fair point that a lot of non coding work these days probably doesn’t actually improve the product/make it work better for the end user.

I see that as simply bad management, and there is indeed a ton of it. Keep in mind that agile began as a reaction to “waterfall” and was intended to reduce bureaucratic overhead and planning. But the reaction became worse than what it was reacting to.

I think throwing out all process will just lead us back to bad process. Better to have a good process - some sort of planning and system for improvement is good and necessary IMO. Especially if you’re building an organization or iteratively improving product. v1 can arguably be done seat of the pants but what about subsequent versions.
The thing that irritates me is that New York sells its DMV data to the foreign company operating the private toll highway in Toronto. Giving even less data protection than some Canadian provinces that refuse data sharing.
Carmack is very much atypical, but I don’t think getting completely wiped after 7 hours of any focused work is normal, either. It’s certainly the case if you are doing 7 hours of something you hate or find tedious. I would probably be fried doing 7 hours of nothing but code reviews. But if I’m building something I feel excited about, I can work as many hours as my life obligations will allow and feel pretty good about it. Lots of people have no trouble playing 12 straight hours of civilization or other focused video games.
I have been a long time user and even was risky and ran their betas for a long period of time with out any issues. That being said I personally never had issues with 1Password8 but have heard stories about bad performance etc. I recently started running it on my Windows 10 work laptop and it also performs great. Maybe I lucked out? But it has been a solid product for me, and would highly recommend it.
If it is their modus operandi to enhance their power and prestige with false flag operations written small, it's more credible that they would be willing to do so at scale. You can find any number of conspiracy theories that the FBI created the circumstances that empowered themselves, for pretty much any attack you can name. The behavior described here makes those accusations less incredible.
The discord seems active, at least
I think Carmack is absolutely atypical. What he says could absolutely be true for him, but that doesn't mean it's going to be true for everybody. It might only be true for a specific group of outliers.

I can totally imagine that someone who's sufficiently intrinsically motivated, and has enough mental capacity, willpower or whatever to put in long hours, longer hours might very well produce a linear increase in productivity. But most people are going to be exhausted at some point. Or demotivated. And enough of that is going to bring productivity down.

So it's the kind of thing that might very well work for you, but you can't demand the same thing from others.
Responsible actors will try to balance security with transparency. It is not surprising that a newspaper would have a different view on where the right balance lies than the government. You might disagree with the NYT editors’ judgment, but they decided it was worth harming national security to expose government lies about the Vietnam War.

Trump’s hoarding of classified documents and refusal to give them back did nothing to increase transparency, because Trump did not make any information public. So it’s not surprising that the NYT views Trump’s actions differently than Ellsberg’s.
State government is tricky. Pay sucks and doesn’t attract a lot of talent. Same with the education sector.
What issues specifically?

In general, :has and :user-invalid are new and can be useful styling forms.
Google Album Archive Is Shutting Down
I don't think that's how you lose fat. You get rid of the exhaust generated during the chemical fat burning process. If you couldn't exhale you would still burn fat.
We’d be foolish to assume they stopped all of a sudden.

The people involved are total idiots and even crazy, but the FBI are to blame as well in the Whitmer kidnapping plot. As more comes to light, it seems they created the plot and egged the participants on. They werent just implanted to see what’s going on.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/19/michigan-gov...
Yes, I'm hoping that's obvious as it'll be inherent to such easy-to-use links, though the site has such low traffic and I know from access logs that nobody is guessing these links in an automated fashion, that a few seconds of exposure are almost negligible, depending on what it is you're posting.

If the links were unguessable (or had a password option, as has been proposed many times), you'd also lose much of the convenience. But unguessable links is an option if you use the second tab, effectively the same as a password.

Especially if you use "delete after opening", the custom link can be extremely short-lived (no one will guess that in time) and you got an indicator of compromise as well. (I personally trust this enough for ID cards and passwords, but of course that's with the benefit of being the owner and knowing all of the above plus that there is no secret logging.)

Fwiw, I also like the "social network" effect so far. I've discovered interesting things on dro.pm by looking at what people use my service for. Currently, /q has an interesting youtube video that I wanted to continue watching on my phone for example :)
Apple mobile devices seem to get deprecated when the hardware is no longer meaningful. The last two deprecation were (a) only 1GB of RAM and (b) 32-bit chips.
I feel we are back to where we came in.
I don't understand. Why won't it fully charge the phone? And you can use the phone while it's plugged in. In all respects it gives you ~2X the number of useful hours at the cost of having to carry around a very small item.
>How can you get transparency from an LLM? They're complete black boxes by architecture.

You just ask them. I literally just prompted ChatGPT (3.5) to think about its answer again and explain what's wrong with it, and it did. Kept going 2 or 3 times, until it was sure it wasn't doing anything wrong, and magically the script it produced at that stage just worked.
‘Star Trek’ Immersive Virtual Experience Unveiled by the Roddenberry Archive
Some of this is not quite right, or right by accident of a particular virtual terminal's features and configuration.

Having the Alt/Option modifier send a prefix ESC is usually a terminal configuration option, though often the default. The most common alternative (other than doing nothing) is to set the 8th bit, which was useful in the ISO8859 days but not so much with UTF-8.

The vim section of this article depends on the prefix-ESC behaviour, but vim and neovim (and probably other non-ancient editors) will put a capable terminal into modifyOtherKeys mode. In this state the terminal sends a more detailed escape sequence for modifier key combinations, which permits binding combinations that are not distinguishable in the default ‘plain ASCII’ mode. For example, Control-D will send ESC [ 27 ; 5 ; 100 ~ while Control-Shift-D will send ESC [ 27 ; 6 ; 68 ~ (rather than EOT for both) and Alt-D will send ESC [ 27 ; 6 ; 68 ~ rather than ESC D.

(Oddly, the author seems to use vim as an editor but emacs editing mode rather than vi editing mode in the shell.)

The ‘special case’ control combinations are explained by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard where Control does merely flip a bit, originally electromechanically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justi...

> The UCMJ was established by the United States Congress in accordance with their constitutional authority, per Article I, Section 8, which provides that "The Congress shall have Power . . . to make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces" of the United States.
There should be a Constitutional amendment restricting entrapment.
You can buy a small fraction of a chicken farm, so that when chicken prices go up, so does the value of the chicken farm.

Then you simply sell a tiny fraction of your chicken farm, and use that money to buy a chicken.

That way you can preserve your chicken buying power through the years, rather than having a guaranteed -2% return on your money.
Those who seek to obliterate space, or time, seem to forget that space and time are what keep everything from happening everywhere all at once.
Every single person in the world who has ever traded anything with anyone
and the money i use to pay for goods was already charged income tax, and then it gets charged sales tax, which is bigger than otherwise since it is a percentage, and the workers who produced the product is income taxed, and have to pay salestax for their food...... its hardly as if the regimes around the world have any problems with taxing things to hell
I'm with you, but I apply the same logic to all rent-seekers and shareholders. We'd be a lot better off if we didn't have parasites and bottomless pits embedded in the economy by design.
I never understood religious people who confessed that they use to “live a horrible life of sin”. If it was horrible, they weren’t doing something right.
One thing that troubles me in the paper is that the researchers appear to have gone looking for precursor patterns in an ad hoc way, with no physical theory in mind

That seems like an extremely good thing to me. Looking for patterns and then figuring out causality later is a great way to solve real-world problems. Of course you can be led astray if your filters are too open, but if your work is rigorous and you still come out with a 6-sigma correlation then congratulations, you found a signal. What does it mean? How does it work? Who cares, there's plenty of time to figure that out. But in the meantime you can hypothesize that the connection exists, monitor it for a year or two, and if the correlation holds up and turns out to have some predictive value, then a winner is you.
Don't be hyperbolic. They do also stop crimes.
Have you considered a career in law enforcement?
Didn't work for me. It didn't even count down. I tried "distilling" several times, and I always had one left.
I never taught kids, but I taught numerous classes and labs to university students and professionals at various levels. Programming is like a game and is fun for a lot of people. It's an easy topic to teach, but there are a few (obvious) rules

1. Exercises should be solvable, not too easy, not too hard, and self-contained.

2. Students come with extremely different abilities, so you need to have exercises of gradual difficulty to accommodate everyone. You want everyone to be able to find some solutions otherwise they'll be frustrated.

3. If you provide good material, you can relax during the class, the computer does the work for you
It obviously depends on the person and their approach. Nobody is confused why elite athletes can run faster/longer but there is a lot of debate about "work-life balance". Being a "workaholic" is similar to being an elite athlete if done right, and for most people it requires lots of ramp up time to being able to work longer hours as well as proper "conditioning" such as diet/exercise consideration, as well as a genetic predisposition and explicit effort toward maintaining psych.
That Bardwell video is about normal motion blur, which is highly desirable in any cinematic content. You'll see in those YouTube comments (and there are a few mentions in the video, as well) complaints about "stutter blur" and "shaky blur" - the effect you get when you apply HyperSmooth or Gyroflow to physically/exposure-time blurred video. I wouldn't say that smoothed motion blur is desirable in FPV either.

These days, you'll usually see people in FPV either fixing their tuning to require less smoothing (the best solution!), or moving to shorter exposure times and post-production blur instead.
Inside Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company Documentary
Suggest they watch "Moneyball".
Makes me fondly remember XTree...
There is a project called “AnyType” that is real and i use it but it’s “open source promised soon”. The gist of it is a Person knowledge management system except the items are in a linked graph (and the relationships are typed).

It actually has an editor that looks eerily like the linked one so I wonder if they’re related. It lets you use slash-commands that’s much more expressive than everything except maybe notion. But again, it lets you operate against a database-like set of objects.

I don’t think you can point it at real databases though.

AnyType.io
Except that is not exactly "productive", isn't it? After all, risk was not eliminated, only redistributed. Productive output, e.g., would be something that reduces the chance of your house catching fire.
Car-Rental Companies Are Ruining EVs
Arduino reads punched cards for cloud computing
I think a good way to verify that the commands are actually doing something instead of the LLM just generating non-existent parameters is to provide a dry run mode. The actual correctness of the generated command - granted it's valid - performing as it should however, is a whole different issue.
This is getting old. The subreddit moderators may be able to make noise now but at some point the users will move on to other subreddits and forget the ones that are making so much noise. Ultimately, Reddit owns the platform and can do as they please. A year from now all this will be noise that everyone has forgotten.

At this point, if they want to actually make changes, they need to move on to a decentralized platform and bring as many users as they can over to the new platform. If they don't, they are just wasting away their influence until they have none.
No one would ever come up with usecases for more than 512kb of memory without first having access to 512kb of memory.

You need to use stuff. Only then can you have better ideas.
At the same time, to my knowledge he's set the agenda while working on passion projects for much of his career. That makes long hours easier.

To extend your metaphor, there's a big difference between doing 10k in a swamp vs. 20k on a track.
Meanwhile, cross the Pacific pond and you'll be begging to come back to America. It's not an America-exclusive issue: I'd wager most societies now have ended up valuing success and work over all else, even if it's detrimental.
Are they really that desperate for WINS?

Yes. Your record in winning cases influences your career.
Good.

The next step should be to charge the true price of e-waste. People are entitled to their consumerist obsessions - they just need to pay for cleaning-up the pollution their create for the rest of us.

A phone with replaceable/ugradeable parts and software updates would probably last decades. The disposable culture must come to an end before it disposes all of us.
You do raise a good question: why was there this idea that burying waste now was a good idea? I can think of two reasons:

First, it may have been thought that opposition to nuclear energy is due to waste, and that burying it would remove the opposition. I consider this ill-founded, both because those predisposed to oppose nuclear use waste only as one of many arguments, and because the actual objective argument (economics) as nothing to do with waste.

Second, it may have been thought in the height of the Cold War that spent fuel at the surface would be a tempting target for ground burst H-bombs, where it would then contribute to long term fallout (each 1 GW(e)-year of spent fuel has about the same long lived fission products as a 20 MT bomb.) This is not an argument the government would have been pushing publicly, of course.
It reminds me of how "useless" gasoline used to be burnt off at oil wells to extract parrafin oil.
Someone has to print and distribute your book. It has to get through someone, and cost real money. There's still, obviously, a cost element involved.

The internet is automated, it removes that risk.

I can tell you that I had sex with your mother, and there's nothing you can do about it except try and report me to dang. Or flag it to some automated system, which doesn't exist the same for all systems.

A newspaper is a better analogy. Crappier newspapers would die out quicker.
Carmack was on the Lex Fridman podcast last year and doubled down on these comments and actually went even further. He has not changed his mind at all.
NB: the text states "one year after launch, Digg still had 8.5 million monthly US visitors".

The link shows that Digg had 17.11 million MAU in October of 2011.

I suspect a typo / brain-fart.

The larger point that giants take time to fall ... is well taken.
It may not fit the legal definition of "entrapment" but it definitely fits the common-sense definition of "entrapment".
Regulating participants to only those who have a purpose and meaningful reasons, would mean higher bid-ask spreads, less liquidity and less turnover, which then means those markets would probably cease to exist. Gamblers in these special markets are a net-positive, non-gamblers are happy to give some gamblers a payday or some drink money, since it allows non-gamblers to focus on their main activity, instead of doing their activity and gamble that everything turns out fine.
Where does that requirement come from, though? If society is going to collapse in 100 years, I suggest the money be better spent preparing for the consequences of that, not worrying about whether the documentation on dry casks will satisfy some licensing requirement.
An excellent question, and I believe the most likely scenario (and most common one) is that they simply fail to prevent the plots they orchestrated out of sheer negligence every once in a while.
It's because he is completely out of touch with the experience of the average person. This is a guy with a net worth of $50M, world famous in his field, that can tell anyone to fuck off.

His time outside of work is undoubtedly much more free and dedicated to recharging than the one of the guy that has to do chores on the weekend and has effectively barely any rest.
To ask a question probing at the title... who _is_ it for?

Who's doing such well known repetitive tasks that they also need estimation for?

Circular black hole imo.
I think a huge part comes down to if you are actually interested in what you are working on. I can pretty easily do 16+ hour days if I'm doing something I enjoy, whether that's writing code or playing videos games when I was a kid.

Another huge factor is being able to avoid external stressors which are what really drain people and cause burnout I think, having bad co-workers or manager, health issues, family issues, etc. is a killer and will impact your focus drastically. Big difference between working long hours because you are having fun versus working long hours because a boss is breathing down your neck and you'll be fired if you don't finish something in a few weeks

Carmack is also in a favorable position where he's basically always been able to choose only projects he's passionate about for work, so he can't really see the perspective of somebody being forced to work on something pointless by their boss

my take from his comment was that even when you are too mentally drained to write code or something similarly demanding, you could still do stuff like meetings, responding to emails, getting feedback from customers, planning stuff you will code when mentally fresh, etc. So the critical thing is to make sure you can focus on valuable stuff when you are at your best and try to save the other stuff for later
That was my thought as well. I'd bet money that these people are wackjobs and need to be seen as insightful.
Incredible. So in theory, the employment rate could be 3.5% if all 160 million employed folks work only for an hour a week.
The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQ3gFRj0Bc
> accelerates us toward the world depicted in Idiocracy.

We're already there, brother.
> The Archive will also, for a limited time, allow fans to try an experimental technology preview through the web portal, enabling them to walk onto the bridges of the Enterprise (boasting working turbolifts and consoles) and explore them in every detail, all from an instantaneous livestream.

I hope someone backs this up. It's almost Satellaview-level stupid to build a super cool VR Star Trek experience that is only availible for a limited time.
This can be largely mitigated by rinsing/soaking the device in fresh water to dissolve the salt.
To clarify this was a supply chain compromise attack - several states and other governments were hit, not that it excuses blame from Louisiana but if anything is a testament to the issue of centralization.
Borrowing to buy it isn't necessarily more expensive.

You could pay $50k for an average new car, or $10K + $40K over 5 years at 5% (~$5k extra in interest)

If you put that $40k into the stock market, average annual returns for the S&P500 are ~10% going back to 1928, so you would have made ~$24k over 5 years on average. That would put you ~$19k ahead after you pay off the loan with interest.

You could certainly buy at the wrong time and lose out by taking a loan. There are plenty of +/-30-40% years in those "average" stock market metrics. But historically it's been a pretty good bet if you're a gambling sort.
"Do I really want to wave my arms to control an interface? No, they'd get tired immediately."

They would, but only because you're not used to using them much.

Using our arms more would probably be really good for us.

If we had to use our legs and feet to move a mouse then computer programmers might be some of the fittest people on the planet, instead of some of the fattest.

I say this while lying on my bed and tapping with my fingers on my tablet... we're doomed...
Lol don't forget "liquidate all of your assets to donate directly to Reddit and immediately sign up as unpaid interns, and consult with your betters/superiors how to vote in all upcoming elections".

I don't even know what to say, some folk just don't know how to capitalism right.
Smart, if Reddit is going to play strike-breaker, fight back accordingly.
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I cannot (I can) believe people are stealing bottles of sriracha from Señor Sisig. This is the real local news that depresses me, as it makes me lose faith in our community
Average users benefit from the free labor of admins that keep the subreddits on topic, free of spam, mediate conflicts, and remove disruptive posters who degrade the overall experience of browsing and participating in the subreddit.
Usenet.

It took ONE MONTH of AOL users to be unleashed upon Usenet to obliterate it as a discussion platform for all time. First, it was loaded up with stupid, low-content posters. Then the spammers came to throw dirt on the casket.