skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the whole 'post-growth' thing is supposed to be counter-cultural, but I think it underestimates how much of business today is bullshit jobs, criminal extortion, monopolies, cartels, busywork, rent-seeking and net negative value destruction.

We're literally paying people to do stuff that makes all our lives worse. Thats not pro- or anti-growth, it's just stupid.
Honestly, "the parent company owns a residential proxy service" is more than enough to deter me from the product.
They do accept paypal, I just checked their site.

Credit or debit card, Klarna, PayPal, Google Pay, Cryptocurrencies
The concept of family varied quite a lot over times and cultures, there probably are some that fit. Medieval families are quite different social constructs from modern first-world nuclear families. Heck, and if anything - family abuse is, sadly, a very real thing, too.

Same for the companies - they vary, a lot. Working at a two-person startup can resemble a family to some extent (or, well, there are genuine family startups, where partners in life start business together, and some succeed), but large corporations are entirely different experience.
Your work sounds absolutely awesome. Did you blog about it somewhere?
it appears that way
what a mess!!
As I've been looking into freelance teaching and researching what kinds of services people provide, it's become astounding to me how poor most freelance teaching is.

There's a bunch of people with the skills of a first year CS student offering "learn to code" education out there.

But it sort of makes sense, those are exactly the kind of people who would want to make a quick buck on the side, not seasoned professionals who are making 6 figs already.

It's just unfortunate, that people get sold this idea of "becoming a coder in a few weeks" and go nowhere because of it.
But you're not impossible to promote... maybe you also don't think that but also don't cast yourself as that if you're remote. The boss is choosing to find you impossible to promote.
>For anyone who feels like their soul is captured or imprisoned at work, it’s time to start looking around for a new job or a new career that you’ll enjoy more than whatever you’re currently doing.
Sadly, some of us don't enjoy any job. I still have do it to pay the bills, though.
> at some point monoliths can get large enough that upgrading libraries or runtimes becomes an incredibly difficult problem

Some languages (e.g. Go) make this easier than others by allowing two versions of the same import to coexist, but this is why we broke up our Django monolith a few jobs ago.
The second time I arrived at a privatized subreddit, I added all of Reddit to my ublock list. A few days later, I don’t feel like anything is missing
i think a lot invest in microservices as the services require less programming skills. ofcourse, the whole thing requires skills, but little services with simple apis are easy to make.that makes hiring a lot easier and maybe cheaper. i love monoliths, but at my company (not a software dev place) its hard to do these things. most people dont understand threads and architecture of programs, but they can make some fastapi routes and hook them up to some functions. we can create complex things despite their lack in pure software dev skills. (i wish it was different! but u have to work to ur teams strength othetwise it will end in tears!)
> there's almost no one I regularly work with who is in the office I would go into

Then you already fundamentally have a remote job. A non-remote job would organize business units / teams by location so that you're in the same office as people you're working with. And yes, this would require relocations and imply a smaller hiring pool. That's the tradeoff of not having remote work, not just spending more time in the office. You're not comparing remote to non-remote work, you're just comparing two flavors of remote work.
German requirement is a big no go for many non german europeans. A colleague of mine would like to move to Vienna for cultural reason, but not knowing german yet is a show stopper, english is not enough.
At the opposite, you can live in Amsterdam without knowing dutch at all literally for years.
What if I leave for work for a year? Or 4? What is a "good" reason? If I own a house and left for a decade to binge drink, why should that mean I don't keep my paid for property? At what threshold do you tell someone: fuck you and your property, we are taking it because we want it. If siblings inherit, should only the ones who live there have any rights to it?
Some children are just smarter, more athletic, or better looking than their siblings.
That's ok I will take it :)
Yep! This is what dotnet and java does and it’s awesome.
Sorry for the lag in my reply (I just noticed your response)... I very much appreciate the info as I found the lack of official RISC-V support in 12 surprising. I hadn't read about the blockers to being ready for the release which makes perfect sense. Looking forward to seeing in in 13!
I remember seeing this name but never heard of anyone using it. So I don't think that Youtube would copy an unpopular app.
I think the TAOPS curriculum would be incredibly challenging for somebody who has actively incorrect intuitions about math.
Sure, if you don't like local communities being able to make decisions on behalf of their citizens (or put another way: democracy), it must sound great.
This line of thinking that lead to worse and worse environments. More pervasive monitoring generates more sneaky and worse workers. Better goals and work definitions generate results. Having people at the office just means they're wasting time on coffee or staring at a blank screen instead of putting a laundry load or other home distraction. No amount of office environment will solve a bad working environment, and the work environment is not physical.
But you realize that the drivers (can be seen on the replacement driver from Sennheiser which states it's for both models) and even the construction is the same?

So it is not about looking the same with different internals .. it basically is the same just without the dampening.
"Figured out how to beat Uber Eats" is a weird descriptor considering iFood had a decade-long head start and was always the dominant one in the market. I don't think Uber cracked double digit share even at its peak.

Is it really that surprising for people that Uber Eats isn't the default delivery app in every market in the world?
If that's the case I'd expect performance reviews to be limited to attendance. Since they're not, it would suggest we do indeed have ways to quantify our expectations for a role.
This post is so riddled with bias it's tough to take it seriously.

> but in most cases it is overall superior than mandatory office work.

This is literally just "I like it more", but worded as a data oriented insight.
Solving organizational problems is a core component of any software you design in any organization that's not a 100% flat startup unfortunately.

> "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Melvin E. Conway

It's unavoidable. You can bury your head in the sand about it and demand that the technical structure only match your technical requirement, but then the organizational structure of the company will grind to a hault. People will always be people. Just because you give some of them a title like "Engineer" doesn't mean that we won't conflict on people problems.

Entire concepts like event driven architectures or microservices, while might have plethora of technical pros/cons are mainly pushed by management for their non-technical aspects. One of their main non-technical pro is organizational. If your component just emits events, handles events, and is implemented as a separate microservice then you can always just insert a team, or move a team in an organizational structure while minimizing the overall impact to a project.
In my team (big tech company), if there's some new problem to solve, you write a design doc, and validate it with your colleagues. If nobody gets a better idea than you, then you implement what you had in mind. We're not incentized to produce perfect designs, but hopefully something that works and is simple enough that you can implement it within a few months. It's pretty rare that we have to implement entire complex systems from scratch. We also have a lot of internal tools and specific problematics, so I rarely feel the need to look up for an existing solution.
Resolution Matters: Assessing North Korea’s Spy Satellite
Where? I'm presented with "Credit or debit" (direct input), AmazonPay, ACH Transfer, and Crypto https://imgur.com/G4j1DB8
it conveys that you know what ex post and ex ante mean
These days, meaningful pay increases, promotions, and other things generally require moving to a new company anyway, so not being in a pool of candidates for internal promotions/etc isn't as bad as it used to be.
In most languages though, you can reformat the code and get the indentation back.
>I can give you an abundance of examples. We were creating a page that was going to use state in a certain way. I was trying to insist that we address the way state will be handled across pages ahead of time. These concerns were dismissed as premature optimization. A few months later we had 5 pages with the state being handled in 5 different ways.

The right time to address this was probably a bit at a time after the 1st, 2nd and 3rd pages. Certainly not before the 1st and definitely not after the 5th.

>All of that could have been avoided by spending 1 day thinking a little harder and planning for the future.

The reason why you try as hard as possible to avoid planning for the future is because it's really hard to predict the future. Moreover humans have an inbuilt bias towards thinking we are better than we are at it (hence the gambling industry).

Refactoring as soon as possible after the fact will always produce better designs than up front planning for this reason.

>there are regular ways that programs grow based on how the business is growing and you can predict certain places

This is the kind of phrase that makes alarm bells go off in my head that somebody SHOULD be following YAGNI and isnt.

If it's defaults in a well worn framework that doesnt railroad you then fine but anything more than that - red flags all around.
You can often/usually put ()s around things if you want. It's just an uncommon style. (Much like you can format bracey code like lisp with the close brackets bunched up all at the end of one line instead of one per line, but people rarely do.)
Both are used, depending on which tradition of lecture book you follow (or sth like that)
Exactly - this argument is just manager/CEO paranoia.

Which is a real thing. The CEO I cofounded a small business with always had these level of "can they destroy our business" questions for me about foreign contractors he wanted to hire. I always said the same thing - "we have common-sense controls in place for our size, but at the end of the day, you have to trust the people you hire to be successful."

He never did stop the paranoia though.
You say it is not conscious, that's fine. I am asking you to provide evidence why it is not, when conscious life is an emergent system like these systems. I am looking for an argument or a reasoned response about what is different.
mpt-7b and the falcon models have longer contexts available. They aren’t trained on longer contexts so, the results might not be very good.
> What’s “evil” is that the folks who’ve spent their life designing, optimizing, investing in, and producing these products aren't doing it purely out of the goodness of their hearts, but selfishly in the pursuit of a better life.

Sure. That's true though to different degrees for everybody participating in a market-based economy. You can call all of us "evil", but then the term loses most of its meaning.
Variable sigils don't cut it. Twigils for the WIN
Here you go: https://blog.jeroenhd.nl/article/getting-norton-secure-vpn-t...

Not the best writing, it was mostly a recap of the things I did for myself if I ever needed to fetch that file again, but I think the core concepts may still be useful.
> I don't see overseers out there driving these Hispanic laborers to work 8 hours straight.

Are you joking?
some adhd symptoms are connected to depression and cptsd as far as I read. Might be one reason, the meds don't work for you. Does caffeine agitate or calm you down? That might be one of the clues - but I'm just starting out on the journey
Another resource I wanted to mention here is OpenStax. Specifically, their Prealgebra book: https://openstax.org/details/books/prealgebra-2e it's a fully online-native book format with exercises, etc.
Inigo has a bunch of photorealistic scenes here too:

https://iquilezles.org/demoscene/
Ted Kaczynski’s “surrogate activities” term is very relevant here.
Here's a perspective from a SWE (15+ YoE) from a third world country about this whole WFH thing.

I have a Linkedin profile, connections to SWEs that I have previously worked with in my country and who have since moved to the US/EU. Plenty of those connections posted gushing words about our time together in the same engineering team on the recommendations section of my Linkedin profile.

I have a huge Nota bene at the top of my profile telling recruiters that I'm only interested in fully remote positions and that I'm not interested in leaving my country no matter what.

I work for a telecom company here and over the years I have worked with all sorts of stacks/technologies ranging from reverse engineering, embedded C, crypto.. and even more recently rewriting a (small) production tool from C++ to Rust. My salary over the last 10 years has gotten to an impressive ~ $40_000 per annum, and that's before taxes.

It's a safe/stable job and I have family to take care of that I can not leave, so the prospect of landing a fully remote job writing js for a mouth watering TC of $200_000+ makes me salivate.

But every advertized "fully remote" job out there comes with a huge asterisk: "it's fully remote but you have to be in a country where our company has offices, or you'll have to settle for being a contractor getting paid half that and dealing with taxes in your country and time zones that ungodly, or better yet, get paid in stable shitcoins!".

So whenever I see the people with mouth watering TCs rewriting the same crappy code bases in $new_hyped_js_framework on HN/Reddit complain about hybrid work schedules or fully remote but once in 6 months you have to hop on a flight to be at the bi-annual work barbecue... I wonder when a truly full remote positions will be available, because there are a lot of us out there with incredible skills/YoE working for peanuts because we can't leave our disabled loved ones behind to be in the US/EU... or when a non-shitty-LLM will be good enough to turn english sentences into viable business logic. Now, _that_ will make me too appreciate my shitty salary instead of being envious of you guys' TCs.
I assume they are talking about a2p 10dlc registration. Twilio has badly mishandled the rollout, it's been extremely painful. OP seems to blame them for making things too easy for spammers which caused the changes to be needed, which may be true.
Am I right that the common ancestor of sapiens and Neanderthals and Denisovans is -800kya?

And what about the following strong differences between sapiens and Neanderthals/Denisovans: musical instruments, cave paintings, projectile weapons?

I found that the basis has to be there from a long time ago, and one branch makes use of it. The lungfish has limbs, but only some branches of it went terrestrial. An old human ancestor had language capabilities but only some branches used it. Dinosaurs had feathers but only some used it for gliding and flight.

Can you comment on the shrinking brain size that’s observed among humans in the past few thousand years?
Define 'failed'. If the expectation was that Twitter would uproot, en masse, and move to Mastodon, well, yes, that 'failed', but I'm not sure anyone really expected that to happen? That is _not_ typically how social networks die; when Livejournal kicked the bucket, say, some people who really liked Livejournal's mechanics moved to Dreamwidth or similar, but the vast majority just drifted slowly to other social networks with quite different mechanics. Mastodon (and that Jack Dorsey thing, and the others) are basically Dreamwidth here, I think; they'll be of interest for people who specifically liked Twitter because of its mechanics, but less so to others, who are more likely to go to Instagram or TikTok or Facebook or something completely new as Twitter falls apart.

From the point of view of someone who migrated to Mastodon, it certainly hasn't failed; if anything, it's quite refreshing, and reminds me of Twitter in the old days. It's an improvement on pre-2022 Twitter, and certainly a massive improvement on Naughty Old Mr Car Twitter. But I really enjoyed Twitter circa 2010; I am very much the target market.

I do wonder are people over indexing the death of Digg. In that case, people really did move, really rapidly, to Reddit. Reddit probably absorbed _most_ of Digg's user base. But that was a really unusual, possibly unique social media death, with significant special circumstances. We should probably be looking more towards Livejournal, MySpace, Bebo, that lot.
Maybe possible it differs by country then:

https://i.imgur.com/fTtdOfR.png
I think this is peak happiness for me; giving a little of myself, making a (big or small) positive difference for someone else. I don’t “get” anything back, nor do I want that, but it makes me feel good.

Everybody wins. My favorite game.
Nextcloud has tags for files and folders, but you need to explore files from browser and configure source folders. In Linux then some native solutions available: Nepomuk kde, locatedb. For documents semantic search should work without manual tagging.
>But it's irresponsible journalism to write an article of this sort without admitting that every single arms exporter sells to autocracies.

Again, it's a book review. The correct thing to do is discuss the books, both of which surely mention that other countries sell to autocracies.
it does have it limitsfor sure. but those limits are mainly relatable to my own shortcomings as a person (in my experience). i am alone usually, so i am happy to be around ppl at work. not everyone suffers this. i work on it, and as i get better, those limits become less of a hurdle :). i just think that if i have an issue, i cant demand things of others to come towards that. however a lot of people are actually really kind, and do come towards others in their struggles. you can always ask but not expect or demand.
> For anyone who feels like their soul is captured or imprisoned at work, it’s time to start looking around for a new job or a new career that you’ll enjoy more than whatever you’re currently doing

I’ve been trying to do this for years. Was getting close, but then the pandemic happened followed by layoffs, followed by a ton of other shit and now I’m not sure it’s possible. Especially regarding a “new career”.
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja [SNES, 1991]
Wait, sorry, your argument in favor of remote work is that in increases paperwork and pointless documentation that doesn't allow for flexibility? And your argument against working in the office is that sometimes people get sick?

I will say, if those are my two options, I'm going to choose getting sick for a few days a year over filling out thousands of words of tech specs that don't actually clarify anything for anyone (because all of the actual questions get answered over slack DMs anyway) every single time.

(Not saying all tech specs are bad, but they're certainly not a one size fits all process and if remote work means we need more of them then that means we're spending more time writing them then we need to be)
I get what he is saying though. Now that I work remote I am mich more content not making more money via promotions. There are costs to being fully remote, and if one of them is that my career progression is heavily stunted or even halted, I'm ok with that now, because I don't spend 1.5 hours in a car 5 days a week. Tradeoffs.
> my freedoms trump your freedoms

Weird language.

The workplace is not about freedoms, it's about an effective team.

Are in-office teams more effective? WFH teams more effective? The debate will rage on.

For decades, the most successful companies in the world found value in geographic focus, despite high cost of living, questionable infrastructure, stagnant development, etc. Were they right? Are they right? IDK.

Kaban? Scrum? Waterfall? Make your argument.

Just don't reduce a good faith argument about team practice to toddlers.

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EDIT: FWIW, my 2c as a manager for many years, I notice some ICs focus narrowly on their individual "productivity" without considering the sum of the parts. (And I'm sure the reverse is true as well.)
Koboldcpp [1], which builds on llamacpp and adds a gui, is a great way to run these models. Most people aren't running these models at full weight, ggml quantization is recommended for cpu+gpu or gptq if you have the gpu vram.

GGML 13b models at 4bit (Q4_0) take somewhere around 9gb of ram and q5_K_M take about 11gb. Gpu offloading support has also been added, I've been using 22 layers on my laptop rtx 2070 max q 8gb vram and CLBlast. I get around ~2-3 tokens per second with 13b models. In my experience, running 13b models is worth the extra time it takes to generate a response compared to 7b models. GPTQ is faster, I think, but I can't fit a quantized 13b model so I don't use it.

TheBloke [2] has been quantizing models and uploading them to HF and will probably upload a quantized version of this online soon. His discord server also has good guides to help you get going, linked in the model card of most of his models.

https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke

Edit: There's a bug with the newest Nvidia drivers that causes speed slowdown with large context size. I downgraded and stayed on 531.61 . The theory is that newer drivers change how out of cuda memory management works when trying to avoid OOM errors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1461d1c/major_p...

https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic/discussions/1285
Salary is explicitly not paying for time, but output — the performance of duties.

You want my time? Pay hourly.
They said, on social media.
Value of GraphQL imho is the ability for the api to be driven by frontend requirements without bothering the backend guys "to expose that one field in that one query".

Once the app is developed I think you might put up reasonable general limits to what queries are responded to in a general manner over the whole api.
Almost by definition if you are not using a private vehicle you have already given up on the time factor (because while it is possible to find cases where bike/transit/walking beat a car they are rare or less than a block).

And on a bike it feels different than on foot - I like walking the nice trail but it is 10 minutes longer than the silly sidewalk, and it just kind of dumps you in nowhere three blocks from anywhere you would like to be.
Seems trivial to autoformat afterwards?
I have complex relationships with both states, and family roots in each, so my entire life has been spent between the two, and I often visit Texas still.

Both are dysfunctional in completely different ways, and both succeed in very opposite AND similar ways, too.

Regarding “homelessness and crime”, though— I have not noticed a significant difference feeling in safety in either. And in both I lived in the “city” (Dallas and Los Angeles) rather than sprawling suburbs.

I do feel actually a lot more worried in Texas about gun violence when I go back, and find myself always mentally making a note of exit plans in e.g. concert venues or malls back in Texas.

I personally prefer the people in California more than in Texas, but that’s a subjective value judgement. That’s ultimately what keeps me here.