skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're going a little bit far, but I tend to agree. My reasoning for this is, to look back on experts from the past.

Unless it's a hard scientific fact, a law of physics, most things are really just opinions that people tend to agree with. Remember Leaded gasoline? How about DDT or Asbestos? How about Freud? Of the thing the bible likes to talk about, slavery.

Even in the 25 years, I've been in programming, it seems like all "Proper Way To Do It" have all aged about as well as milk on a hot day.

The only thing I follow is keeping stuff simple.
Improving the UX for moderators and fighting spam are two things they could never spend too much money on.
True, though there’s always room for polish but nobody ever seems to bother with that.
And it got worse with client side decorations. Now even window interactions are app-specific and don't adhere to global settings.
> Why aren't people paid a full time salary for the work they're expected to do instead of the time they sit at a desk?

If the work you are expected to do is fixed--your boss can't come to you with an ad hoc assignment that's not in some formal job description--then you're not an employee, you're an independent contractor. (And that means the corporation no longer has to worry about things like your health care and retirement benefits.)

The real value proposition for having an employee vs. an independent contractor is that the work the employee is expected to do is not fixed--your boss can come to you as an employee with an ad hoc assignment that's not in any formal job description and expect you to do it. In other words, the belief the article describes, that paying someone a full time salary as an employee means the company owns their time, is actually mistaken (even though I think it is very common among corporate managers and executives). What you're actually paying them for is being able to give them ad hoc new jobs to do as the company's environment and needs change, and not have to go through the hassle of writing up a new contractor's statement of work and negotiating a new price. The only justification you need to give an employee a new ad hoc assignment is "this is going to help the company".
Near as I can determine, Applefritter's Deep Dish is the only Apple Network Server 300 (as opposed to the released 500 and 700) still out there and operational.
I think it is fair to say that there is a difference between starting a business you can survive on and one which will make you a millionaire. These often get mixed, especially on HN.
Why is A2P bad and why does it make your personal telco fall apart?

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223133807-What-...
The trouble is, an 'MVP' is often far from 'minimum' in those sorts of situations.

The reality is that MVP should be missing most planned functionality and should really just be a few core features and functions that the rest of the application builds off of, the trunk of the dependency tree so to speak.
That idea is, unfortunately lost on the majority of PM's, and ultimately it costs more time/money to get to a finished v1 because of it.
Mammograms hurt a like shit for a lot of women. People aren't just upset about this because of the violation. There is real actual physical intense pain associated with these procedures.

This is to say nothing about various gynecological exams. "Let me scrape your cervix with a metal tool" is a pretty common procedure, for example.
It’s my understanding that the Russian air campaign in Ukraine was rather unsuccessful so they ended up pulling their jets back.

> By June 2022, Russia had not achieved air superiority, having lost around 165 of its combat aircraft over Ukraine which amounted to approximately 10% of its frontline combat strength. Western commentators noted the qualitative and quantitative advantages the Russian Air Force had over its Ukrainian counterpart, but attributed the poor performance of Russian aviation to the extensive ground-based anti-aircraft capabilities of the Ukrainians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_warfare_in_the_Russia...
I agree with you, but devils advocate wants me to ask if you can define the full time work they are expected to do?

What if my definition of full time work takes person A 60 hours and person B 30 hours?
Waterloo baby, it's their Waterloo. Woa Woa Woa.
If that isn't abject failure, what is?

Musk apparently laid of massive numbers of engineers, each news story seemed to grow the tale.

If he laid off 50% of engineers, and the highest paid ones at that, I'd say profits would be up, or at least the same, even with that drop in revenue.

I wonder what the true story is, re: profit, and without any tax savings writedowns / earning reports in rhe mix.
The gpt4 api provided me with much better and detailed response than the chatgpt alternative. Have not tested with the updated gpt4 api though
I'm very happy that the company I work for was recently acquired by a "full time remote" company.

I started here at the beginning of the pandemic, so my only times at the office have been to pick up equipment, or for large all-hands meetings. The majority of my team does not live in state, and half do not live in the country.

Yet, prior to the acquisition, management had begun to talk about transitioning back to the office. It made no sense to me. We'd been working perfectly fine as an all-remote team for nearly 3 years. I'd heard similar sentiments from other departments.
It can be pretty similar for ICs too though. Even if everyone came into the office, there's almost no one I regularly work with who is in the office I would go into.
This saddened me. Best of luck, truly.
free vpn == click highjacking on affiliate networks.
but botnets will work too.
Generative AI Will Change the Legal Profession
I've never played the map, but Aeon of Strife from Starcraft is a custom map that has the origin of Dota mechanics... and the Protoss Photon Cannon brought about some earlier versions of Tower Defense custom maps.
> the more effective engineers who understand these priorities are given more respect and authority.

The problem with "given more authority" I see is that management plucks these engineers out to make their day job basically "sit in meetings" if you're even slightly effective at simplifying life for everyone else.

Because that is the place of most leverage to place those people, but then those people are in a constant tug-of-war with the first group of "fresh ideas".

Eventually, the people who are in charge of the "prevention of bad architecture" become the bad guys because they (or me, I'm projecting) get jaded into just finding out what's wrong with something as fast as possible to be able to keep up with that workload.

You go from a creative role to a fundamentally sieve role with destructive tendencies, where you are filtering out the good from the bad as fast as possible, be.

First of all, not all new ideas are bad and "there's something bad about X" is not a "let's not do X".

Secondly, going from making things to shooting down things is intellectual suffering if you have a bit of empathy.

Some people on the "committee" with you don't have empathy & literally enjoy it - you're either trying to damage control on a case-by-case or building a "these assholes need to be fired" doc out of the meetings.

I realized what I would become if I conflated authority and respect ("respect my authoritah!").

Quitting was really the only way out of it. But it wasn't hard to explain to my spouse that i needed to leave for a job a level down and which paid half as much, because she could see me bringing my "why the hell do we have to do this" attitude home & to family decisions.
Yes. That is accurate. I lived in Ann Arbor during 2008 but partied in Detroit from time to time. We'd say that "Detroit is very dangerous...if you run into someone. But you won't, so in reality it's actually safer than anywhere else." It's truly impossible to overstate how empty Detroit was at the time. You could walk around aimlessly for 30-45 minutes in many areas and not see a single soul. That said, you really didn't want to run across strangers -- the reputation for violent crime was well-deserved.

A friend of mine rented a room for $250/month in an enormous mansion with 25-foot wide marble staircases and a panic room/vault in the basement. I have no idea how many rooms the mansion had, it was far too big to fully explore in the time I had. Since no one else was renting a room there, my friend used the mansion to throw raves with 50-100 people and we mostly stuck to 2-3 rooms, with the majority of the house still being empty.

Some of my friends from slightly wealthier families bought up entire neighborhoods in Detroit at $10,000/home and renovated them, they revitalized the neighborhoods by installing a fun neighborhood dive bar with cheap menus and some convenient commercial stores. Many of those neighborhoods are still "hot spots" today, retaining quirky/fun culture. Makerspaces bloomed as well[0] due to a truly insane amount of heavy industrial equipment which was being sold for fractions of a penny on the dollar. The aforementioned rave scene also laid a lot of the musical foundations for today's EDM music, though it was not as impactful as the Baby Boomer generation's "Motown Records" (The Supremes, Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Marvelettes, and the Miracles). Before the Detroit Race Riots, people were regularly moving from Chicago to Detroit because Detroit was far and away the "cooler" city to live in of the two.

0: https://www.i3detroit.org
Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms he wants to run for US president
hola redirects things like web scrapers over their infra. once worked for a lead generation startup (i am so sorry..) where one of their services reached out to ask if i wanted to send traffic over their network. sad this is some legal loophole. (sad for them and probarbly us, we didnt do scraping :)))
I’m going to miss two things and both are replaceable with a bit of legwork: animal gifs and niche hobby sub wikis. I find the former calming when I’m stressed out and Reddit was a convenient place to find them. Reddit certainly does not own a monopoly on cute critters though. The latter, even if I never posted, often had a great “getting started” guide with collections of community advice. It just means a little more googling for me
In the article, they says that "a smart business should appreciate those who can accomplish tasks in less than 8 hours, as they can achieve more in less time, and if they're engaging in non-competitive side work, perhaps their compensation should be increased to prevent them from pursuing it full-time."
However, this places employers in an impossible situation. Many companies already provide competitive salaries for software developers. Additionally, if an employee has a second job, it can be argued that their performance might suffer due to being overworked in such a cognitively demanding role.
Civil law systems have something similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usucaption
What's your thought process on malaria nets being vapid? It's not structural change, but (statistically) saving a life for ~$6k (I think that's their estimate? Or was at some point) is amazing, and very "real".

I don't have any experience with the actual culture of EA, but the concept and the philanthropy itself seems at least as good as other charities or mission-focused organizations.
> This is absolutely not something that needs a subscription cost.

Having a server you can stream from - you're right.

For the other features, you're likely wrong. As in - the open source space hasn't come up with a viable solution. I use Plex for DVR, and beyond the one time fee it works. For DVR you need to get the OTA channel guide, and all the reliable services out there charge a subscription fee - which over time will cost more than the Plex one time fee.

Also, how good is Jellyfin at skipping credits and ads?

As I pointed out in another comment - I'll happily use Jellyfin once it is there. As of now, every time I try it the experience is worse than Plex. So Plex it will be till JF gets there.
Perhaps what's needed is a website that doesn't do reviews, but only lists businesses that are open to the public and categorizes them by function (pharmacy, grocery, daycare, etc). Possibly with direct links to review platforms and official websites and so on, but without actually inserting any content (reviews, ad copy) into the website itself; this can be left to other sites.
As a woman, men who are focused on stuff like this (beyond basic physical and financial health) scare and repel me.
These changes are about exactly one thing: getting LLM companies to pay for data. There's nothing reddit can do to allow app developers to have cheap access and to charge, say, OpenAI a higher rate.
Strong and weak as terms to describe memory models is very common, the standard RISC-V memory model is called "weak memory ordering" after all :)
luminati.io, similar for hola. guess they rebranded now as that one redirects :p but its still the same. this should be illegal really...
Public transport is one of those places where you do have to tolerate the fact that weird people (whatever that means) exist in the society. Ideally, I'd consider that a feature rather than a bug, but it obviously depends a lot.

I have a lot of trouble interacting with people I feel are weird, too, but to a large extent I consider that a personal issue and limitation. In principle I consider some amount of such tolerance to be part of a civil and human society. It's natural to not like uncomfortable things but IMO gentrification and intolerance of different strata of people are also problems.

Of course how much should be tolerated also depends on what kind of weird we're talking. "Weirdo" and potential threat aren't necessarily the same thing. But of course how easily a weirdo feels like a potential threat depends on the place and the culture. In some places the threat of actual violence might be common enough that it's understandable to be wary. I might underestimate that since situations that might actually be threatening are a lot less common than just uncomfortable ones here.

If a "weirdo" or a "degen" means just someone who's not part of your understanding of normal or equal, and that means you don't want to tolerate having to deal with them, then I have to say that sounds quite intolerant to me.

So, depending on the point of view and what kind of weird (and how much) we're talking, I might agree or vehemently disagree.
I haven’t noticed much degradation, and I ask it fairly technical questions related to code and physics topics. What I have noticed though is needing to qualify my statements more, to avoid having it go down the wrong chain of conversation and getting stuck in a suboptimal context. By this I mean having to say things like “I have installed <package XYZ> per the documentation and am familiar with the API” or “assume the reader is already familiar with <foundational topic>, do not simply your explanations.” Otherwise I get stuck in a situation where it talks to me like a kindergartener or spends 3-4 additional rounds of querying just getting through the basic boilerplate. Maybe this was always the case, and posts like these are just subconsciously influencing me.

Plugins like AskYourPDF and Wolfram have been a huge boost though. I can feed it whole textbook chapters and have it summarize sections, solve problems, generate new exercises, and generally help with learning in ways previously unavailable.
I believe you interpreted their comment as a sort of let them drown in hedonism moment, but from what I'm getting it's really just encouraging giving your kid space to find the joy themselves. You can encourage new forms or methods to see if it'll stick but you still have to let them be their own person. Forcing anything will just make your kid resent that entirely, and for a lot of parents they don't even realize this resentment of [subject/task/etc] also turned into a resentment of the parent.

Also I think you're too pessimistic about your past potential. You could have made a great musician, esports pro, hell there are even some successful marijuana companies now! I don't say this to stoke the flames of what ifs, but instead to highlight that it wasn't exactly your father's push for CS that is the only reason for your success. You should absolutely take some responsibility for committing and be proud of that, of course you can definitely attribute your understanding of why commitment is important to your father if that holds true!

Now that's good advice, teach your kids the importance of integral foundations like commitment, don't obsess over which specific field it is.
Barely anyone will be affected.

Redditors are being used as pawns by the third party devs in their fight to maintain their free loading existence. Which was easy, social media is good at riling up people for made up reasons.

Reddit has several hundred million users, and even more anonymous visitors. The two biggest third party apps have 1.5M users combined.
eh, we don't really know what all "Turmenistan Airlines" website actually does. It's a government agency after all, and it could be used to hide all sorts of online activity for some other government agencies. It could also just be a test contract, or an internal botnet test and OP just happen to catch that one.
> (X)Wayland vs. X.Org GNOME session comparison on Ubuntu 23.04 is in very good shape.

So X is having the same performance in Wayland vs native.
So what.
I don't need wayland.
It’s more complicated than that. Jews are no where close to become a minority in the country excluding the West Bank and Gaza. The West Bank is under Israeli control but not annexed and probably mostly won’t be part of Israel in the long term, while Gaza isn’t under Israeli control at all.

There are also great differences between what happened in South Africa and Israel such as:

1. Historical connection to the land

2. Completely different proportions of populations involved

3. Legal state of Arab minority in Israel

4. Legal state in occupied territories, namely their own self government and parliament (West Bank) or complete control (Gaza)
I take away two lessons from it, which are in a kind of essential tension that can only be mediated by wisdom and experience:

1) Pick technologies that you can optimize.

2) Don't over-optimize.

Also, the concept of "optimization" here has very little to do with the language itself. It's far more about the overall stack, and it definitely includes people and processes (like hiring). It's not like FB invested $0 toward performance before swapping out PHP interpreters! Its massive caching layer, for example, was already taking shape well before HPHP (the C++ transpiler which preceded HipHop), not to mention the effort and tooling behind the MySQL sharding and multi-region that still exists in some form today. Many backend FB services were already written in C++ by 2010. But they had already gone very, very far—farther than most businesses ever will—on "just" PHP. Heroics like HPHP only happened after enormous pipelines of money were already flowing into the company.
the sense of frantic feature building is normal for a high growth startup. feeling constantly behind is also normal. a high growth startup is not a loving, nurturing, comfortable place. it's a mad dash for money and everyone is going to be pushing as hard as they humanly can, both in terms of work but also in terms of pushing others.

you're on the right track with the detaching yourself, but that can only get you so far. at the end of the day you still need to deliver things that sell. having people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about demand all sorts of wild shit from you is normal.

in the end, it's just difficult. you're being compensated with money and equity - if those aren't up to snuff, negotiate for more. if that doesn't work, you need to make the decision to stay or leave. there's a chance they give you what you want when you threaten to leave - and then you will have some leverage. but just realize this is not ever going to be a walk in the park. millions of dollars are on the line, people are not going to behave rationally because they see you as the limiting factor between them and their riches.
In the end , it s a behavioral issue.

Self-employed knowledge workers generally work both 'remotely' and 'at the office' everywhere, all of the time. Salaried people don't have this kind of attachment to their work so they need to be compelled to. Being present at the office is a good behavioral tool for that, forcefully isolating them from other concerns and temptations. There are many ways to replicate that in a remote working situation, but they mostly require pervasive monitoring of the employee.

As the world is coming out of the trough of disillusionement from WFH, it seems that the trend will be towards new monitoring tools or other ways of proof of work. This is the compromise workers will have to make, because working remotely is a too damn good thing to miss.

Edit: the other option is for everyone to become contractors and charge for results
"It's not an assassination, it's an 'extrajudicial killing'."

"And that makes it so much better?"

"Yeah, that's why they made up a whole new word for it."
We don't have the rules that we want the neural network to learn, if we did we could just directly use those rules, and there would be no need for ML to solve the problem. In this case we want the ML to learn how to infer spatial information from two dimensional images, and the process that generates the data it trains on cannot do this at all. It can create two dimensional images from spatial information, which is a much simpler and effectively solved process.

There are cases when we want a machine learning model to do the same thing as the process which generate it's data, like in the case of model's learning to replicate physics simulations, but even then the entire point is for the machine learning model to accomplish the same or a similar result but in a more computationally efficient way.
Turkmenistan certainly has no capacity for investigating a cyber attack for sure. But they are have no problem with those websites being down. Internet usage in the country is very low, and those websites are down the most of the time anyway.
Long-Distance Wi-Fi with Steam Deck Server
Wow very cool

I wonder what's the 'sliver' property
It says he says "he would run for president in 2024, and win, if he was eligible".

He is not eligible, and he knows it.
Turkmenistan is part of China's BRI, so it could be any state that wants to see that fail?
True and Regan should have spent time in prison for this! Disappointingly Bill Barr and Bush made all of this go away.
Nord as in NordVPN? Source in that case please?
I have a hard time believing this is genuine. It feels like ragebait for security nerds to me.
The discussion of WFH is so politically loaded at this point I don't now what to do about it anymore. Note here the particular use of "bosses", the mocking tone, and trying to shoehorn the whole thing into a vague, unmoored, anti-capitalist rant. So exhausting.

My view is that it's perfectly fine for companies to choose how they want to work, and people can choose to work at the companies that match their preference. If there is a significant business advantage to working one way or another, the problem will solve itself.

Personally, I think I work about twice as well or more in the office than at home. But I also want to be able to not go into the office if I'm not feeling up for it whenever I want. So I wouldn't want to work at an office-only company.

One of the big problems in this area is it's really difficult to come up with an alternate metric than "butt-in-seat" time for employees, even though that's a terrible metric for most office jobs.

But I think it's fair to say, hey at our company the deal is we pay you X for Y hours of time per year. That's not the deal I'd want, I'd prefer to be more flexible on timing and be measured in some way on output, but I don't know a generalizable way to do that.