skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point I'm taking Elon to the 'politician' levels of lie detection

Where "verified" means you paid $8 or something, I see no reason to trust pretty much anything else coming from them
Yeah, but making lime is very energy intensive.
You have described many plausible things, from how life is like on a submarine, to Ivan Efremov's future utopia.
Another long time reader chiming in to appreciate your great work.

https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-aws-2021-08-11 is one of my personal favorites, as well as https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel
By that argument, you should count the codebase of the whole browser against slack.
Looks pretty awesome! The ability to use it as a thumbnailer is really neat especially with the rise of 3D printing.
The people who can use AI to make code are the same people who can write code. I've never really seen how this is supposed to expand the dev base.
"I go to conferences and I say 'Fuck you!' to presenters, but I tweet a lot so I thought nothing of it".
> Being as I’m not an idiot

Well, I'm afraid to say after reading this, I have to disagree. Common sense would have made me consider not posting an inflammatory tweet like that, to be perfectly honest.
> publicly accusing your employer's client of war crimes

What other factual statements should you not be allowed to make about your employer's clients?
Is saying "the blood never washes off" the hands of this DoD employee really a personal attack? I mean, it certainly seems like a consistent and reasonably widely held belief that military industrial complex jobs cost lives.

There's of course the opposite opinion too. I'm not interested in trying to demonstrate that one opinion is right or wrong, just that like, is this really an attack?
I found it an interesting statistic that 1.2 billion people have lived on the continent of Australia over the course of human history. Only likely around 50 million of those are non-aboriginal
Uhh AoE 2 recently broke under crossplay due to I think an anti cheat upgrade. Wonder if it's the same tech
It's also super unnecessary to tweet like that. No one wins.
This is a difficult question to answer as I don’t even know if it’s possible to measure this objectively at all.

But in my experience, the people with enough self-awareness to admit they got nothing done yesterday are not the same people who assume they overachieve every other day. I find the least productive people to be the ones who always pretend like they’re super productive all the time.

Self-assessing on this metric may very well be biased. However, your performance is being measured externally. a good manager understands people can have very unproductive days and very productive days, and they should be looking at the broader picture. If someone gets dragged for a single bad day, something is very wrong with the management.
It's corporate talk for "we f up and systems are failing". Musk's act of not paying people now bites him back. I guess they don't have enough servers to sustain the service.
The flag was likely HR. HR is the sort of thing you never interact with unless something's up.
So their employer pays for them to go to a conference and they don't see anything wrong with embarrassing their employer with inflammatory tweets against an arm of the government?

How would they react if it was the megacorp playing stupid by ignoring all common-sense and respect, and pointing at minutia in written guidelines to justify sociopathic actions?
Hetzner is the hands down best cloud/infrastructure provider for the quality and price both but for a static website, spinning up a cloud VM is far from minimal.

You need lots of setup, a web server and web server configuration.

That too when far minimal options like Cloudflare Pages exists that are dirt cheap as well and is somewhat "serverless".
Why Twitter is better now than before. I used to never use it and now i use it more than any other platform.

Don't really get why people are hating so much. Finally there is somewhere where people can post without being banned or having posts removed. Why do you want filtered social media it's fake.
I built a DSL called Thoth using OCaml that lets you build web apps as a single mono-linguistic program. You write a single Thoth program and the compiler output a Node.js server and a React client app. Also, the compiler output human-readable Typescript code.
> "Being as I’m not an idiot, I elect to bring a witness of my own (@lizthegrey ). She slightly livetweeted that conversation until VP VMware tells her to stop. "

This, I think, is the point that caused the firing. It's pretty clear that if you choose a witness who then posts everything publicly that you are not discussing in good faith. Like, it's your right to speak your mind, and maybe you think you are in the moral right, but if you intentionally antagonize the people you work with you won't be working with them for much longer.
Nowadays you can find much better free and opensource models than GPT-2.

The only point of keeping using GPT-2 is to compare it in benchmarks against newer models.

The better alternatives are often bigger in size but you will find better models that are also smaller or similarly sized. However, a rule of thumb is the bigger the model is, the better the quality of the output will be. So you need to aim for the best model that fits on your hardware. Personally I wouldn't go below 6B parameters server side anymore. When buying new hardware, I would aim for something that can run at least 30B, or 13B if you are on a budget.

The benchmarks aren't perfect but here is a leaderboard about the open large langage models: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

You can see that GPT-2 is at the bottom.
“Bill in IT says we need to reboot the router but no one knows the router password and Comcast says the password is on the router but Bill says Jim must have torn off the sticker so we called Best Buy and the soonest the Geek Squad can get here is Thursday. We tried unplugging it and plugging it back in but it’s not turning on.”
https://blog.merzlabs.com
Anything that isn't explicitly supporting the status quo = "politics".

This is also true of a large portion of HN commenters.
I think requesting the maintainers not be actively hostile towards users isn't users being entitled as much as being frustrated.
There are exceptions to limited liability. Courts can pierce the corporate veil and hold directors or shareholders responsible when a case gets controversial enough.

I’m not aware of a recent example of public company shareholders being held liable, but it’s only one Supreme Court decision away.
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I really do wonder what I do wrong with KDE every time I try it..
I see people write stuff like this, but my experience is the complete opposite.
KDE is the most sluggish horrible mess for me every time I try it, it feels like a game constantly fluctuating between 15 and 25 fps when interacting with it.

Gnome on the other hand has never missed a beat, despite having it's issues needing solved with extensions. Performance wise it's always been 10/10, even on my 3x4k setup.

Wish I didn't need wayland, because I really just want to go back to xfce..
Reddit committed suicide, Twitter is actually not that bad.
I once worked a short contract for a big name telecom company in Ireland. I was one of about 15 contractors they’d hired for a big project.

Every day we’d all form a big circle on the balcony on the third floor, right next to the pool table that nobody used. The usual daily stand-up, only without the “any blockers” question.

There was one guy who was working on a user story that required a file from another part of the business. Every day, for 2 months, he said with a straight face “I’m waiting for the file.” And every day, we all nodded our heads as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

Two months. I left before he ever got his file. Maybe he’s still there now, 8 years later, waiting for his file.
Yeah it's affecting us: the PR is already approved but when I merge and push, it's saying it's not approved.
We do put huge amounts of effort into ending it, which so far has only served to delay it by decades.

It's part of life that it ends, it seems. No way of getting around that no matter how many sci-fi solutions Bostrom proposes as realistic.
My bad, misunderstood
I wonder how much Fortune 500 companies would tank as a result, considering they generate a large chunk of the world's GDP.
I know I'll likely get a biased answer here but what do you think the cons are of using types in this way? My current thinking is that types should should optimize for an easy learning curve so folks can just get on with writing code. This seems like it would require a deep knowledge of TS.

lodash does come to mind in fact. The last few shops where I've worked use a very small subset of lodash utilities and ignore most of the library. Their documentation is terse so it's often easier to just write your own code that is longer but more readable to the average engineer.
Arguably, Tumblr did this by removing NSFW, and Onlyfans did this by pivoting to mainstream content
The key element is the poster was essentially _representing_ their employer at a tech conference.

This would be no different than wearing the uniform of a supermarket and going on a political rant with a megaphone.
> I've especially used it for reading visual novels.

I bet you have. wink

Lol
They’re not even technically right.

Leave your edgy fursona (is that how they call it?) to your personal life.
I would’ve fired him on the spot for the blood tweet
Considering the previous tweet said "fuck you", yes it is an attack.
The company won. Good riddance.
Oh, it will improve by several orders of magnitude.

But even then, it's not 'replacing' you.

It's just going to let you spend less time on BS and more time on the things that are your maximal value contributions to a project.

If I had a dozen junior or mid level devs you could hand work off to, would that save you time? Would you kick back and not review what they were doing, particularly around business critical parts of the software?

The conversation around AI has become obscenely binary, pulling from (now obsolete) SciFi influences to cast it as humans vs machines.

But it's a false dichotomy. Collaborative efforts are almost certainly where this is going, and 100% human or 100% AI will both be significantly inferior to a mix of both.
It’s not the time lost that provided negative value. It was the false sense of “being informed”.
I use ai mostly for creating code examples for specific things I haven't written before and for learning new programming languages.

During day to day I haven't used copilot or tabnine yet but I have seen that there exists some plugin I could integrate into neovim which I will definitely try.
It’s very clear that in the interest of business, those statements should not be made by an employee.

They are free to make these claims in a way that doesn’t damage the business. Like a second personal Twitter account.
Flaming business partners on the internet can lose you your job?

Surely not....

This is why we use semi-anonymous services to post criticism.
> Not that I tried, but surely rootless (and daemonless) podman should work?

That is something I'm yet to try. I will post whatever I can on HN. Thanks!
I think a more useful metric would be average life expectancy of the subset of people who lived over say 20 or 30. We could compare that number at 1600s with the present to see the net impact of lifestyle changes (fast food, minimum exercise) vs advances in medical care.
If you read the rest of my comment, I don't actually have a problem with accusing people of war crimes. I think it's assinine to think one could do so and hope to continue to be paid by those people though. I would think that someone so ready to stand on this moral high ground wouldn't want that money but I guess when it actually comes to backing up her morals, she'll take the money instead.
> VMware is committed to harnessing the power of human difference by enabling a workplace where we can all be proud to be our authentic selves.
> European Power Prices Go Below Zero Again as Solar Output Surges

Do they have electricity on Europa (Jupiter's satellite) ? Because here in EU we do not have negative prices. /s
You are allowed to discuss workplace conditions. That's like, protected concerted activity 101.

If the business was uncomfortable with their treatment of their employees being public, maybe that activity wasn't ethical.
I think the point is that gold and fine art have value (someone will pay money for them, possibly illegaly) whether or not the regime approves.

Whereas real estate has no value if the state says that it now belongs to someone else.
All the fist bumps and cheers in these social media echo chambers won’t help them reflect. Unlike the OP who casually tagged some tech guy on Twitter and said “I’d shake your hand but the blood never washes off” (what the actual fuck), reasonable people won’t engage them on social media and tell them how incredibly toxic they are.
People still get banned and get posts removed from the new Twitter all the time. Musk took no time at all to go back on his promises.

> Why do you want filtered social media it's fake.

There's no such thing as unfiltered social media. Every website is subject to laws, demands from the hosts, and business constraints. If you want ads, the advertisers want a say in what content you have.
Just be honest with yourself and say that you subjectively like it better that way, as it grew on you.

There is nothing wrong with that reasoning. Also, there will never be a language which is perfect in every conceivable way, this is such a minor difference that if someone chooses a language over this alone, they are not being reasonable.
I'd have fired them too. You don't get to represent my company at a conference and be a total fucking bellend.
I was referring to the person she was talking to.
The post specified that the stock market going to zero implies some sort of catastrophic event leading to the dissolution of the US government and economic system - which is exactly what happened in Russia and China. As much as people whine about the red scare, a communist revolution in the US is very unlikely.

With regards to the last point, a close parallel would be to ask at what happened to people exposed to Russian stocks prior to February 2022. While not going down to zero, suddenly being cut out of the global market has a similar effect.
My point is that the tone of that comment suggests that the mentioned businesses are (or should be) somehow more desirable than a Walmart, when the converse is true.

Chiefly, they're not essential and do nothing for those who can't afford to eat out or will go there once a month maybe because they're at work when it's open.

A large supermarket with the scale and logistics to offer low prices and long opening hours serves the population at large, not just the affluent.

And that's the first thing what you want in a thriving city, otherwise you're just making a theme park.
> The problem with parsing isn't the difficulty, but rather the potential for endless bikeshedding. You're having to make a ton of opinionated decisions that in turn produce more questions about your syntax.

Considering the author is talking about an endless graveyard of abandoned projects it kind of sounds like ADHD. I have ADHD and have a similar problem.

I still do endless bikeshedding where I'll do things like insist on zero memory allocations or streams/iterators over slices and those arbitrary limitations will completely compromise the project. Either I never finish it because I can't get it to work, or I get it to work but it sucks because of stuff like "the amount of work to avoid memory allocation might be much larger than the work of just making a damn memory allocation".
https://captnemo.in

RSS: https://captnemo.in/atom.xml
Really? On first meeting they brought a witness who sort of livewteeted the meeting? This is so weird, I wonder what is going on with author that they dont see by themselves what they are doing here? Feels like a case of totally missing any sort of self-reflection.
We need an updated XKCD.

Why are you up so late?

Someone posted a bad photoshop job on the Internet!

(c.f. https://xkcd.com/386/ )
Genuine question you like your social media filtered by someone who says what you're allowed to see?
and that was an "external" witness, not even an employee of the company. Which company would tolerate that? Social media has somehow conditioned people to think they can air all of their opinions with no filter and when there are consequences, they act surprised.
As with almost any time "RIP [someone/something]" trends in Twitter, the death of Twitter is greatly exaggerated.

(That's not to say I like the decisions that are being made)
Has anybody ever applied this to a passive cooling box (that only uses insulation)? It would be interesting to see what temperatures can be achieved inside the box using the described effect.
That is odd, I have never had performance issues with KDE. It was no quicker or slower than any other high end desktop system.

My only issue with it is that it seems to try to do a little too much - but that is just a matter of taste.

Personally, KDE is the jack of all trades - it can do anything you ask it, Gnome goes a little too simple, I really like Cinnamon as a middle ground. But each to their own.
1. There are no steam deck games, because most don't want to write for two different systems
2. Android apks are like deb, rpm, ... but they contain most of their dependencies by themselfs. On fact they use an seperation maintained by selinux (prohibits access to resources they don't have permissions to) and seperate users.
some deb packages can do exactly this process of setring up the software and connect to the database out of the box.
It's not an accusation.
Him, the topic here is aviation safety and this particular incident. I didn’t add any analysis of the cause of the incident. The author made conclusions up whole cloth.
If you fire someone for a few insults on Twitter then you belong in Kindergarten, not in a management position.

Boy, I'm so happy I don't work for anyone, I'd hate to have to deal with sensitive pricks that think they can dictate what their employees say on social media.
It feels like that the above comes directly written by His Royal Highness, just copy pasted in place by the site admins.
Have it write the unit tests first.
> … but also honestly fuck professionals who take blood money from the military industrial complex. VMWare should be proud to take a public, principled stance on DoD contracts. That’s the kind of free speech that everyone is entitled to, firing someone over it is shameful.

Taking “blood” money and complaining about doesn’t make you a freedom fighter, it makes you a hypocrite.
Limited liability is a legal argument, a negative price is a market event. The two are only loosely coupled.

I can imagine a circumstance where people want to get rid of their stocks because of reputational reasons.

People downvoting can't differentiate what is likely to happen from what is possible to happen.
No, it's absolutely not about how "counterculture" her opinions are. It's about using offensive language. She probably would have avoided all trouble if instead of talking down a fellow participant of the conference, she plugged her beliefs in pacifism in a positive manner.
https://nicollet.net

Rather than a site to write articles, it's a site where I keep links to things I write (or talks I give) so that I don't lose them.

I used to have a large blog ten years ago, with at least one post per day, because every blog guru on the internet said you needed to post every day to grow an audience. But I'm not smart enough to have something interesting to say every day, so it was rather poor quality. So I started this new iteration from scratch and post once or twice a year, mostly about software design.
In 2022, Meta was added to the list of terrorist and extremist organisations in Russia, and some people suggested that owners of Meta stock should be considered sponsors of terrorism. Do a few more steps and stock may become a liability.
Been using LazyVim for professional go development for over a year now. I can't see any features promised here that I do not already have. LazyVim is a NeoVim configuration for those who don't know. Together with the golsp its insane how good it is. Sometimes I miss those heavy refactoring functions that Jetbrains provide though, like extract function etc.
> The "document" was a central feature, a core OS concept.

Isn't this largely the same in the modern desktop? File explorers do call handlers for each files. But it's also true that the recent trends among apps half-killed the concept of file explorer - they use built-in search functions these days. It's good in its own ways, but often it's necessary to go through filesystem when working with multiple apps, which can be awkward in terms of data management.

Also, many apps automatically save states on close. A problem is that the behavior is far from being standardized, and there are tons of different ways how apps handle their states. This usually gets really painful, as one must learn each app through trial-and-error.
Genuine question, though (and not "asking just to make a rhetorical point because I've already decided on an answer"): is that really the case?

I know the boilerplate "tweets do not represent the views of my employer" thing is a cliche at this point, but I always assumed it was at least partly true. If you're not tweeting directly from AcmeCORP's socials, wouldn't there be some understanding that you're not a direct mouthpiece for the company?
> (...) but I think it makes the employee look bad.

The fact that the author claimed brought a third party to a work-related meeting with a VP with the purpose of live tweeting it to the world already speaks volumes.
FYI, this article is from 2016 and discusses the dot com bubble that popped around 2001.

Jeff Hecht is an excellent author.
https://benigninteroperability.com/

I blog about FHIR, in the healthcare space. Short posts that I also post on LinkedIn. I started at the beginning of the year and typically post two or three times a week.

It's helped boost my LinkedIn audience and profile. Which has helped in other areas.
I lost my medialis quad activation completely for 6 weeks after ACLR surgery. It took 6 months of PT to get my patella to track straight afterwards, and it still isn't quite right.
Your critique only makes sense if she's working for the DoD, or negotiating those contracts for VMWare, or VMWare's business is significantly DoD contracts, none of which are true.
WordPress was very simple back when it started. You needed just a few files: header.php, home.php, single.php, footer.php, and I wrongly assumed "Code is poetry" was about the brevity of poetry.

More recently, for simple websites I created a Golang template that reads a PSV config file. (PSV throwback to my Perl days.) Uses very little memory, no database, and I can reuse the same Go code for multiple websites. I think about sharing the code, but I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble.

I'm encouraged to see people here using their noggin, following their bliss, keeping things simple, and I hope this trend catches on.