skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it would have to be a conspiracy involving hundreds of people across (or within) a large number of news outlets

Do you eat when you're hungry? Oh, you do?! Guess what? I do, too. And so do everone I know of. But have we all met before and arrived at this surprising consensus?

In the same vein, when some sort of global consensus is observed, one possibility is that it's driven by innate needs of actors, instead of due to explicit agreement, or it's some form of "social pressure".

Granted, it's just a hypothesis. But considering that corporations amassed huge profits while WFH scheme was in place, but now want to undo all that without any other rationale (yeah, I'm not buying the "collaboration" and productivity shit), you'd wonder if this driven by some nth order profit motive alone.
The most difficult thing about working in the big tech is managers
The amont of mental health issues I have developed and the stress that exists because of the corporate politics and the existence of the manager class is unbearable.

The absolute worst thing about working in the big tech is not the obscure problem solving or crazy bugs and SEVs.. its managers.

No matter how much they like to embellish their roles with statements like

1. Google also tried to get rid of managers but failed (which was 20 years ago when the tech and the people process were much more primitive)
2. Good manager shields you from politics
3. You've only had bad managers.
4. Managers are needed to set scope, hire, and mentor.

It doesn't change the fundamental fact that the fundamental nature of the manager class is that

1. you take credit for the work your reports do
2. your job entails "cracking the whip" - managing people out, sometimes in really insidious and malevolent ways
3. asking for status updates (which is half of your job) and expecting reports to manage you up while you contribute absolutely nothing in the technical domain, which holds true for people managers at companies like Meta.
4. Most importantly, the phrase "people leave managers, not the company" was born for a reason and holds true even today for the vast majority of the working people

I would even go as far as to say that most of the mental health issues, depression, and unhappiness that exist in the modern world for the working class is likely due to their managers.

You likely chose this path for the superficial reasons like "this is the only way to move up", or for power and money. otherwise you would have chosen the path of becoming principal/distinguished/fellow engineers instead.

Managers will defend their position most times by saying that hierarchy is human nature and unavoidable, and that manager is the necessary evil, but people 200 years ago said the same thing about monarchy and nobility.

Just as people ~120 years ago thought that the heavier than the air flight was physically impossible, even the most prominent physicist Lord Kelvin at that time thought so, and was proven wrong a decade later by the Wright brothers, it is likely that managers and many people today can't imagine an alternative system where people can stay productive and provide good work without the managers cracking the whip at their back.

But, I really hope the day comes when modern corporate hierarchy and the manager class is viewed the same way we view monarchy and feudalism today. personal computers and the internet gave us possbility, although weren't sufficient to provide a better alternative than the manager class, but I hope the ever accelerating technology and AI will help us get there this century. I hope our children and grandchildren and the people in the 22nd and 23rd century will live in a more just and less cruel system than the modern corporate hierarchy.
the dental elephant in the room is that our body can heal cavities to some extent. especially if you change your dental hygiene and diet. (also your dentist might have tried to scam you, of course)
Maybe add people as special authors/contributors to the original work.

There always seems to be a contingent of people that think that anything less than %100 solution is inadequate so nothing is done. Peer review has proven itself inadequate and people hang on to it tooth and nail. Some disciplines should require replication on everything - I won't name Psychology or Social Sciences in general but the failure to replicate rate for some is unacceptable.
How do you replicate a literature review? Theoretical physics? A neuro case? Research that relies upon natural experiments? There are many types of research. Not all of them lend themselves to replication, but they can still contribute to our body of knowledge. Peer review is helpful in each of these instances.

Science is a process. Peer review isn't perfect. Replication is important. But it doesn't seem like the author understands what it would take to simply replace peer review with replication.
FWIW I don't think it's necessarily bad that a old game franchises continue to get made.

I don't have experience with every franchise here but at lest with God of War and Call of Duty, there are lots of gameplay and graphical innovations that get made despite the game being largely the same at the 10,000 foot level.

On top of that a lot of people enjoy these games and are willing to pay for a version that works on modern platforms with higher res textures/models and quality of life improvements.

Mission Impossible and Fast and the Furious franchises are approaching 20 movie sequels between them, but people are willing to pay to see them because its fun and each movie brings something new to the table. Some Anime franchises have hundreds of episodes.

It's like ordering a burger or Mac & Cheese. You like it and you know what you're going to get, and sometimes that's what you want.
well.. "twice a year".. but your insurance policy probably says 1 every 181 days.. just to rob you of the actual twice a year.. #america
> [...] non-scientists seem to often dramatically underestimate the amount of work it would be to replicate every published paper

Either "peer reviewed" articles describe progress of promising results, or they don't. If they don't the research is effectively ignored (at least until someone finds it promising). So let's consider specifically output that described promising results.

After "peer review" any apparently promising results prompt other groups to build on them by utilizing it as a step or building block.

It can take many failed attempts by independent groups before anyone dares publish the absence of the proclaimed observations, since they may try it over multiple times thinking they must have botched it somewhere.

On paper it sounds more expensive to require independent replication, but only because the costs of replication attempts are hidden until its typically rather late.

Is it really more expensive if the replication attempts are in some sense mandatory?

Or is it perhaps more expensive to pretend science has found a one-shot "peer reviewed" method, resulting in uncoordinated independent reproduction attempts that may go unannounced before, or even after failed replications?

The pseudo-final word, end of line?

What about the "in some sense mandatory" replication? Perhaps roll provable dice for each article, and in-domain sortition to randomly assign replicators. So every scientist would be spending a certain fraction of their time replicating the research of others. The types of acceptable excuses to derelict these duties should be scrutinized and controlled. But some excuses should be very valid, for example conscientious objection. If you are tasked to reproduce some of Dr. Mengele's works, you can cop out on condition that you thoroughly motivate your ethical concerns and objections. This could also bring a lot of healthy criticism to a lot of practices, which is otherwise just ignored an glossed over for fear of future career opportunities.
Do you want stack ranking? Because this is how you get stack ranking. If you don't have a standard for productivity, then all you can do is say who is more "productive" than whom.
What I like about RISC-V is that it's not just open for the sake of being open, but actually a well-designed architecture. Practical & effective from embedded to enterprise & beyond.

For example, modularity: most other ISAs have had heaps of extensions bolted onto the ISA over time, in order to produce fast CPU cores. Things like MMX, SSEx, AVX, ARM's Thumb, Neon, etc etc.

So if (for example) you want x86 core with some form of AVX, you get at least a 64 bit, 2-core cpu with SSEx, single & double precision floating point, a long list of addressing modes, support for i386 software/memory models, the works. If you want a 'minimal' core, you're looking at ancient 386 or 486, and neither AMD or Intel will bake those for you.

Over in the RISC-V camp, a vendor can take a minimal core, add only those extensions needed for a System-on-Chip's intended uses, bring that to a foundry, and have software toolchain in place the day silicon is taped out.

Instruction encoding is mostly (entirely?) the same between 32-bit and 64-bit versions. 64-bit simply having wider registers. Compressed "Thumb" instructions translate 1:1 to instructions with the standard 32-bit encoding. Bit fields encoding source & destination registers are always in the same place. Sign extension is trivial. No myriad of obsolete memory models. Etc, etc, as I said: well designed architecture.

All these goodies enable efficient / small / cheap hardware, and relatively easy software support.
Show HN: AppMap – Sequence diagram generation and design flaw analysis
Yep, works perfectly. I had issues at some point, but it's fixed now.
The Next-Generation Vector Paint Program: Ciallo, Siggraph 2023 Talk
I bought BG3 just because it's a AAA-quality game with no microtransactions, no battle passes, no bullshit, no pay-to-win monetization of any kind. What you buy is what you get, just like how video games generally were up until about ~10 years ago.
Yeah the Divinity: Original Sin 2 combat system had the huge emphasis on elemental effects and surfaces and interactions which I found a lot more fun than the traditional RPG systems which feel more like solving a math equation.

So far there has been a lot less of that in BG3 which is disappointing but maybe I just need to level up my spellcasters more. (I hate the DnD spell preparation system but that's another matter)
Here it is: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.pdf
Canceled that.
I think the point was that "but my sea view" is apparently only a problem when it comes to wind turbines, but petrochemical rigs that look like an overzealous chemical engineer-turned-modder's map from Unreal Tournament and bunker-fuel-powered floating skyscraper-sized hulks are not such a hot topic when it comes to seafront land values.

And, for the rigs, they are actually substantially closer to shore than turbines would be on the other coast, because, as you say, the ocean gets real deep, real fast there.
Money-in-politics timeline
I'm puzzled how you single out the parent's tone and don't react to the GP's stance in saying it's "fitting" that Texas (not ERCOT) and its citizens are suffering worse under climate change. That's constructive for discussion? ^^

The GP claimed ERCOT was formed to pollute and avoid FERC jurisdiction. Where is that supported? It's hard to argue that reason when ERCOT was formed pre-renewables.

Separately, the GP said "ERCOT and fossil = bad, renewables = good", and yet as the parent pointed out, ERCOT is a leader in renewables production. Frankly, their permitting has allowed more renewables penetration v. FERC meddling in other markets. [0] We'll see if the recent FERC reforms help renewables.

[0] https://www.eenews.net/articles/fight-over-ferc-grid-order-c...
I didn't say any such thing. I said they should sell the software rather than put in ads and then get people to pay to remove them.
Rent helps a lot when it comes to PPP. Also, services like healthcare, plumbing, education, etc
It strikes me as unfortunate that for a lot of things like home repairs/renovations its pretty normal to get 3+ different opinions/bids.. but for our health its usually your regular doctor, and at most a 2nd opinion in some cases.

We'll make life changing decisions based on the opinion/advice of 1 individual, while shopping around on a home project or car repair that's +/- $5k.

It seems again like a combination of shortage of medical workers and the indirect nature of medical payment. If I knew up front that walking in and getting 3 medical opinions would cost me X, and I didn't need any pre-approval from insurance, or risk denials.. I'd just go do it more. But the system is so opaque that I don't know I can get those answers readily, or believe the numbers are real and won't result in random bills later.

Further, the next step after figuring out the cost of getting options would then e getting a quote for the actual resulting medical care recommends is opaque due to differing payment %s & co-pays by procedure, etc.
the language server protocol supports range operations, although I don’t know how many editors enable it. plus it’s arguably harder to implement. I will add benchmarks once the server is ready, and we can see how far we can get from there. thanks for the feedback!
But how is this the result of Apple engaging in anti-competitive practices? 75% of people choosing your product can not be grounds to breakup a company and the fact that it looks different for other age groups is just further evidence that Apple is engaging in fair competition.
Surprisingly very search engine friendly. It only uses the titles and tags, though, I think.
> if you made a local backup you can still use everything for your own benefits

This is GPL code. You can not only use both the binaries and source "for your own benefits",you can also share both forever with whomever you want. There is no revoking the GPL, nor taking the binaries or source back.
For anyone who doesn't get the joke: The USA once had a strong and popular left wing that arose out of the brutal working conditions of the 19th century industrial revolution, sometimes going as far as open armed conflict against mercenary groups hired by their employers. The pendulum swung strongly the other way over the 20th century, undoing the literal blood sweat and tears that went into securing basic workers' rights. Now we have to do it all over again, and it's funny to see the news reporting on labor organization as if it's some new concept.
The Science of Learning to Code [audio]
I dont even know how seriously to take this comment.

First of all, active shooters can be found anywhere. Of course someone can go crazy and show up at the workplace with a gun.

Second, it depends on what you mean by common. 80% of active shooter incidents happen at work. However, you probably have less than 0.5% chances of being involved in one. Sucks when you are for sure, but these are pretty good odds.

Finally, avoiding an entire city just for that is dumb. Especially when you have way more risks in NYC or Chicago.
And unfortunately my company uses Zoom with no opt out other than leaving my job. :-/
No other Lemmy UI whether it be a webapp or mobile app has ads. This is exclusive to Sync.
You definitely don't need to be logged in. I used it in other browser sessions sometimes and you just have to scroll down about half a page and click "Explore" and it works fine.
I was using a prepared crust (Schär) for my home-builts - and I would heartily recommend it if you're not up to making one from scratch.
The only book i’ve read cover to cover in one day. I would buy a programmer-based version of it in a heartbeat!
Downvote by replying to a sibling comment of higher quality or making one yourself. Or strongman their point and show it’s false. Downvotes are already handed out like participation trophies.
There is a systematic rot. And often management uses a performance review rubric only to protect themselves or to gut out engineers they don't jive with. It sets the wrong incentives by suggesting that any work outside of these items is worthless.

Which is why I disagree with a strict rubric.
I guess I still don’t understand your original point in the context of your reply.

Say the banks are creating new money through these loans. And then enough of the original depositors plus some of the people that have been lent money want their money out that the bank can’t give it to all of them. From a layperson’s perspective (like mine) this seems like the bank has loaned out their deposits — it seems like a distinction without a difference to me.

What am I missing?
There are a couple of worrying trends, but the one that comes to mind first, is how much of that I don't have to deal with when I watch the show at my friends house with their projector seating setup. We can do all of the rude loud things that wouldn't be okay in public, and pause the movie and rewind and change the subtitles. I go out to see the movie with the crowd. There's a theater near me that does sing-a-longs for old movies that's really fun.
Nobody is suggesting otherwise, obviously.

The conversation is about whether there is a drop in productivity and what evidence we have of it, not whether employers have an obligation to collect or share such evidence.
Quite related: nowadays there is this movement within scientific researches ie Open Science where the (raw) data from ones research is open source. And even methods for in-house fabrication and development together with its source code is open source (open hardware and open software)
There are a few Apollo-likes for iOS. One I contribute to is Mlem:

https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem
Maybe you've heard of "competition"?

I'd add here that "tracking numbers" on your package are now standard. Who did that first? Why did the others follow?

Airlines compete on price and availability, not service. "We won't lose your luggage" isn't a big advertising claim. Unfortunately.
To be fair the US has vast and practically empty States in which you can do land based wind farms. Nobody cares what people in Nebraska think.

Europe never had that luxury. Offshore wind is our only option.
It’s appeal to authority, a logical fallacy, the things people who can’t accept they’re either wrong or outnumbered fall back on.
I don't think you played it at all
I want to say Crysis
That just sounds like uboot.
> Also: Texas leads the country in renewables generation:

That's almost like repeating pattern. Germany is also leading in renewable generation and have one of the highest electricity prices in Europe.
An elderly person coming to the post office every day to check for a package may be annoying to the people working there, but they should tolerate it. What's the alternative, chewing out the old person? That's cruel. Banning them from the post office? Unconscionable.
In the PL field, conferences have started to allow authors to submit packaged artifacts (typically, source code, input data, training data, etc) that are evaluated separately, typically post-review. The artifacts are evaluated by a separate committee, usually graduate students. As usual, everything is volunteer. Even with explicit instructions, it is hard enough to even get the same code to run in a different environment and give the same results. Would "replication" of a software technique require another team to reimplement something from scratch? That seems unworkable.

I can't even imagine how hard it would be to write instructions for another lab to successfully replicate an experiment at the forefront of physics or chemistry, or biology. Not just the specialized equipment, but we're talking about the frontiers of Science with people doing cutting-edge research.

I get the impression that suggestions like these are written by non-scientists who do not have experience with the peer review process of any discipline. Things just don't work like that.
The problem is...

Good managers are necessary.

However managers get judged weirdly. Because they can't point to what they did and say look at my work, it's excellent.

Good management is invisible. Things just work. It's smooth. Everyone gets stuff done. Bs doesn't happen.

So it creates this weird problem. A manager is valued based on the number of people under them. Meanwhile they need to quickly figure out who they can trust. And frankly this is a critical skill. A good manager can judge people quickly and figure out who is doing good work and who isn't and who can be trained up to be better. But good managers aren't a dime a dozzen. Just because you know the business well doesn't mean you can make a team effective.

And so the problem.

This is why the phrase goes... People come for the company and the money. People stay for the manager.
Stews and soups are pretty good in general--although I tend to like reheating stews with big chunks of meat less than something like a chili. I agree on lasagna. I always make one using three bread pans, freeze 2, and eat the third over 2 or 3 days.

I'm annoyed at my local BBQ place. They changed their menu around a couple of months ago and now fries are automatically included as a side which doesn't fit well with bringing the takeout home and eating it in a couple hours.
StackOverflow has banned the Generative AI and ChatGPT
If you don’t know anything about large franchises such as street fighter and resident evil then you’re probably not well positioned to make sweeping comments about the state of AAA games.
Excited to see this - and excellent use case for libpg_query (I'm the original author and still help maintain it together with the rest of the team) and appreciate the shout out to pganalyze!

If anyone else has a use case for using the Postgres parser outside the server, we have a healthy ecosystem of libraries that build on the core C library (we maintain bindings for Ruby, Go and Rust ourselves), as well as various projects using it (e.g. sqlc uses it for a type-safe way for using hand-written SQL in Go): https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query#resources
In the US I don't know a single person that has access to POTS. Discord (with paid nitro) is the gold standard for quality and latency, followed by all the free VoIP apps
For what it's worth in the UK top end for a typical fully qualified doctor is £90k (circa $115k). Starting salaries are less than a third of that increasing over 8 or so years.
I think a lot of games over the years have borrowed elements from DnD and so there's a massive audience out there of people primed to be interested in the real deal when it arrives.

The fact it had such a great reputation from the fanbase who'd been playing it in early access probably pushed a lot of people to go ahead and get it.
I had a problem with a single wisdom tooth (around 12 years ago? don't remember). I don't remember but I think it was starting to be impacted or something. It was quite sore and obviously needed to be removed. I don't remember the cost but it was something I could just manage to afford at the time (probably around $500 or something including the cleaning).

The dentist said I really needed to have the other three removed also. I can't remember why exactly they claimed I needed to do that. But it ballooned the cost up well over $1000 (maybe $1500, don't remember). When I said no the second time, they had the very pretty receptionist (/model?) come into the room and sit right next time me and explain again why I needed to have them out.

All told, I had to explain at least three times how I was definitely too broke to consider removing the other teeth. They didn't believe me and even asked again what my job was or something (was a low-paying job).

The other wisdom teeth never caused a problem like that one I had removed. Or any other problem that I am aware of. I actually haven't been to the dentist since. Not aware of any teeth falling out or anything obvious like pain. I think it would be good to get them cleaned one of these days though.
Does anyone else think that modern rpg art style and graphics are often too flashy and overwhelming? I'm tempted to try this game, but held back by its appearance.
Once in production always in production.