skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
johnmuir.org's defense of John Muir is not a racist is pallid by modern understandings of the definition of wilderness.

https://johnmuir.org/native-americans/

> Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than birds and squirrels.” As author Kenneth Brower says, “It is time for those of us who know wilderness, and who understand the idea of it, to wrest that idea back from its hijackers, a coterie of academics and historians too clever by half and stuck too long at their desks. We need, first, to reestablish what wilderness isn’t, because it isn’t what they say it is. No wilderness advocate–not Muir or anyone else–ever said wilderness means no people. Seasonal visitation by humans does not disqualify a place as wilderness, nor does subsistence use of it.”

This is the faintest of praise. Even in 2014 when Brower wrote this, this thinking was on the way out (Tending the Wild, 1st edition, October 2013). There were already substantial questions being asked about this sentiment. To think of them as benevolent visitors is still eurocentric thinking. They weren't visitors, to be tolerated. They were stewards, whose ancestors were materially responsible for everything you saw in those woods.

I sound like I'm demonizing Brower, but that's not my thrust. My point is that it's 2023 and their defense, which started as a refutation of a July 2020 article, is still using statements from 2014, which I find damning.
Posted this in the other thread, but this thorny topic is up for appeal in the US Second Circuit

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66697744/yout-llc-v-rec...
I bet there are plenty of OKR/KPIs now tied to AI at Microsoft.
That’s from 2005.
I just went to Toyota's site and mid range V6 Camry with a few options like navigation, driving assistance, etc. is over $45k sticker price. If you want a hybrid it's over $50k. For a Camry!
(this) Inflation is driven by rent seeking. If there were enough housing for everyone to live reasonably close to the jobs they can work there would at least be a check/balance against that destructive economic activity. However be it 'neighborhood character preservation', review processes biased towards failure rather than with clear goals and approval if met, or tax structures that fail to encourage socially beneficial outcomes; too many factors are against new generations (generally) building wealth, including that of social communities where they have stable career paths.
I don't know anything about this Chevron example, but there are two possibilities:

A) it's not as clear cut as you say

B) it is as clear cut as you say, and I agree with you

But if the latter were true, there would probably be a high profile post on HN or elsewhere about it.
Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words
That's why I'm in Taiwan right now :)
I have to deal with double faced people at work on a daily basis, and usually I have to play the game against my will. I hate a couple of coworkers, and they had ruined my day more than once.

I don't think that kind of human contact is better than spending more time with my wife and kids.

My personal feeling about people eager to go back to the office is that they have empty jobs, but walking around from meeting to meeting, from the water fountain to the coffee machine, and bikeshedding other people's work makes them feel worthy. Of course, they need other people around to have meetings and "work".
If you feel like Google is becoming hard to trust, let me introduce you Apple.

If someone ask which company is more evil between the Wagner Group or Apple, I'd choose Apple without thinking.
Glad we agree we are not in a pure capitalistic society.
Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023
Louis DeJoy’s ambitious plans for America’s postal service
brew install yt-dlp

alias vget=yt-dlp
alias aget='vget --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 4'

# https://opencollective.com/homebrew
# https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Collaborators.md#collaborators
I stand corrected, I was under the impression that the original Pentium was the first architecture that had HLT, but maybe that was the first architecture I ran Rain on, since it had benefits (having ran Win95 on a 586, but never DOS on a 486 laptop)
It’s because that’s called deflation and mainstream economics predicts that it is absolutely catastrophic to the economy, at least if it is seen generally across the whole economy. Obviously, individual goods can decrease in nominal price, but general deflation is thought to lead almost immediately to depressions and recessions.
We spend less than that for a 4-person household in San Francisco. We buy at Costco, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and the Asian markets. I think meat and fruit are our biggest expenses. If we only ate eggs and vegetables, spending would be much lower.

That's for one adult eating 3 meals at home, 2 eating 2 meals at home, and 1 eating 1 meal at home.
Yeah, they don't. They will be cold again and again and show Pikachu face again and again. It changes from certain age, but that is much higher age.
The first step in looking for a job is not “apply for a position online”

If you are experienced, you’re much better off with: reach out to anyone you’ve ever worked with who is now at a company you might want to work at.

Google for them, guess their new company email, contact them on LinkedIn, DM them on Instagram.

Once you have a warm intro your chances of landing a job go up by 2-20x depending on the company and their funnel.
"should be"....
Toyota is the worst make for this, but yeah. The Corolla quote I got all inclusive was $28K and the Camry quote was $37K so I ended up going with a Tesla 3 for $34K after taxes. Much better in every way but it’s still fucking expensive, especially with insurance
Probably a power struggle with another VP. VP's could care less about if a product works or not, but a common thing in FAANG is to propose a big change, do nothing, but convince everyone the project has been launched.

My guess is he was trying to call out another team for doing this, to bring headcount/priorities back to himself.
Maybe even more powerful than unionmaking would be coop making. Realistically, everyone could take their team of the 10 closest workers they know, form a coop, and contract their work back to the employer akin to a freelancer. This would help take the real leverage from large organizations, their magnitude and its ability to shape markets due to inertia alone, if that magnitude was more of a temporal nature on a per project basis. In a perfect world in this coop model, labor wouldn't be "locked up" on boring projects for large companies, labor would be free to freelance onto interesting or mutually beneficial projects if there was any idle time that could be filled with more billable work. Profits would also be shared among labor since ownership is distributed among labor, versus being this separate parasitic class carried on a palanquin by labor.
It just would have brought more people to the region faster. In the end we'd be where we are now, but with bigger stakes if the whole system collapses.
Can you fine tune it?
Every programmer should know for whiteboard interviews*
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison in absentia
Sure, I was just responding to the question:

> Like, can you tell me a language where it does make sense to "apply AND to an empty string and a (negative?) zero"?

People do stuff like that in Python all the time. Personally, I don't do it in JS, though, because I find the conversion-to-bool rules much less predictable. In this case, though, I guess JS would behave the same.
Web of Life

Here is the youtube video and transcript. I think the parent poster refered to section IV, around 19:20 in the video.

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/out-of-your-mind...
I think technically speaking a URL is correct as well, "A Uniform Resource Locator, colloquially termed a web address" per Wikipedia.
So I guess "Whistle-blower" is appropriate here, but marketing a "batch" processing system as "real-time" seems to be a bit of a nothing-burger in my mind. I think the more telling thing is he seems to have raised this multiple times to various superiors and not gotten the hint that they weren't concerned. Someone at a VP level (especially at Salesforce) should have enough corporate etiquette to get the hint. Unless he believed this would literally be hurting/killing people (and I find the hospital/care marketing laughable) it doesn't seem appropriate to not accept "I heard your concerns but we will still be launching on X." He is certainly not financially liable for an overzealous marketing department. I've certainly raised concerns from a technical perspective to be shot down in launch meetings, particularly around marketing claims. However, at a certain point you do your best and start supporting the team effort.
Unless you're physically controlling the network boundaries, how are you proving that on any cloud service?
I am close with someone at Meta. Elon speed running most-hated-man has really taken a load off of Meta employees.
I selfhost https://github.com/alexta69/metube

I have it sitting on a URL and I have an iOS share shortcut to throw any URL at it and it downloads the video.

Copy-paste from my ansible setup if you're interested, shouldn't be that hard to convert to docker-compose.

- name: Build metube options separately, avoids inline JSON in metube setup
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
metube_ytdl_options:
postprocessors:
- key: FFmpegEmbedSubtitle
- key: SponsorBlock
categories:
- sponsor
- key: ModifyChapters
remove_sponsor_segments:
- sponsor
subtitleslangs:
- en
- "-live_chat"
verbose: true
writeautomaticsub: true
writesubtitles: true

- name: Create metube container
community.general.docker_container:
container_default_behavior: "no_defaults"
name: metube
image: alexta69/metube:latest
restart_policy: always
env:
UID: "{{ plex_userid }}"
GID: "{{ docker_users_groupid }}"
DELETE_FILE_ON_TRASHCAN: "false"
DOWNLOAD_DIRS_INDEXABLE: "true"
DOWNLOAD_DIR: /downloads
TEMP_DIR: /metube-tmp
STATE_DIR: /config
TZ: "{{ timezone }}"
YTDL_OPTIONS: "{{ metube_ytdl_options | to_json }}"
mounts:
- type: bind
source: /stacks/metube/config
target: /config
read_only: false
- type: volume
source: metube_tmp_location_volume
target: /metube-tmp
- type: volume
source: plex_metube_volume
target: /downloads
labels:
"traefik.enable": "true"
"traefik.http.routers.metube.middlewares": "authelia@docker"
"traefik.http.routers.metube.service": "metube"
"traefik.http.routers.metube-no-auth.rule": "Host(`metube.home.domain.com`) && (PathPrefix(`/favicon`) || PathPrefix(`/add`))"
"traefik.http.routers.metube-no-auth.service": "metube"
"traefik.http.services.metube.loadbalancer.server.port": "8081"
ports: []
dns_servers:
- "{{ docker_network_ipv4_bridge_dns }}" # adguard
networks:
- name: bridge_ipv4
> Also, Google support in theory means that there's (relatively) little risk of abandonment.

I don't know, Google's known for abandoning things left and right. They bought Fastlane and proceeded to abandon it.

> You're asking a dev why they like flutter, not a businessman.

It's more of a comment on the original post where OP is looking for a job as a Flutter dev - why would anyone choose Flutter to base their product on, if they can't find devs and all the other reasons I mentioned.

As a dev - I really like Flutter - no doubt there, but it just doesn't make a lot of business sense due to a chicken and egg problem and likely won't for a while.

> native doesn't guarantee the best UX. Even RN's maintainers break their own established rules on their websites.

I meant native as in Swift and Kotlin - even splitting it in those two avenues makes you think more about the respective platforms and their expected quirks. I've yet to see a RN and Flutter app with a live activity, for example.

All the sports apps out there that are crossplatform don't have a widget, etc
> and since LLMs aren't even that good to begin with, it's obvious you want the SOTA to do anything useful unless maybe you're finetuning

This is overkill. First of all, ChatGPT isn't even the SOTA, so if you "want SOTA to do anything useful", then this ChatGPT offering would be as useless as LLaMA according to you. Second, there are many individual tasks where even those subpar LLaMA models are useful - even without finetuning.
That's dumb then the great hires have no loyalty they will quit.
In theory, Guantanamo Bay detains foreign nationals who did a lot more than just say "oh one day the world will be better off as a theocracy". Planning to overthrow US government to build either communism or theocracy is illegal and I am Ok with that. Speech is something not mandatory for me to hear and something I am not forced to follow.

In practice, I am sure there are many abuses and lack of due process to establish that each detainee is in fact a terrorist. But comparing that to extermination of millions by Stalin or Ughur reeducation camps in China is ridiculous. It's a small number of individuals who slipped through the cracks, and any system has cracks.
Sound point, but the fact that we're forced to do this parsing in the comments means readers of the linked piece will happily continue to use "the elite" as a placeholder for whatever they already believe.
It's not dangerous because it needs IOMMU support, the GPU can only access the memory space of the guest.
Even though this article isn’t well-argued, it hints at the core of the concern which is the collapse of downtowns. Lots of people, from real estate owners to governments, don’t want that to happen. Whether there’s a RTO “conspiracy” to avoid the collapse of downtowns, I don’t know.

Beyond real estate concerns, my take is fully remote companies are demonstrating how to be productive in a flatter, more asynchronous work structure. This is an existential threat to the exec and managerial class, who are demanding RTO in a fight for their own existence.
Prices drop and people spend less? That's silly.
> but should be used to augment technology experience, not replace it.

Do you have some specific feedback or bullets that stand out to you? Most of Google tech is all in-house stuff that nobody would recognize, outside of a few open-source counterparts (Blaze -> Bazel). I'm confused how my resume could better convey what I'm good at. I can say I worked with Java, Angular, Typescript, etc. But that's all exceedingly generic.

If I say something like "automated X thing in WombatLand using BlogSplort tool, saving 20% of engineering time" I don't see how that is more useful than saying "Automated the creation of full stack internal web-apps to launch in a production environment [...] saved hundreds of ENG-hours for teams launching internal applications"
You can easily find big tech jobs in Seattle, Austin, NY, Denver, Los Angeles, etc etc.

Actions speak louder than words, so no, they are not telling me they want to live elsewhere. They're telling me they like to complain.
Can someone explain why the parent post has been flagged?
The Prototype TOUCHSCREEN iMac From 1999 [video]
>> Meanwhile they complain about a hiring and retention problem.

This happens at every company because they realize most people dont leave, or so few leave that it is worth the few that leave.

You have three options

1. Leave

2. Work less given your effective pay increase. Invest the time into finding a better job and into leetcoding

3. (not ethical, but commmon) work less given your effective pay increase. invest the free time into freelance work to make up for lost pay.
In addition to inflation, the 4 percent points bump on interests also hurts. (Where I live we mostly have non-fixed mortgages)
"lower side of income" != minimum wage
If our government was actually as "green" as they say they are, they'd aim for this because consumers would slow down consumption to only buy what they need. But they know that inflation is another form of tax, and they're too greedy to say that inflation is anything but "good".
openai offers finetuning too. And it's pretty cheap to do considering.
Why Tina CMS might be the best tool for bloggers
What about inept political infighting leading to downgraded ratings or a debt bubble whose interest is going to outstrip GDP? Not those huh? Large language models?
Russia to pilot digital ruble with 13 banks next week
I believe it's illegal to talk about age or even consider it in the US. You need to make it to the technicals. Say webcam is broken for the screen.
GVT-g was intel's first crack at virtualization and is now abandoned. It was supplanted by Intel supporting SR-IOV which itself was succeeded by intel's SIOV.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
It's probably more accurate to say that most of the zero carbon hydroelectric that can be built already has been (and some of the not so neutral ones as well). That was the conclusion I came away with years ago when I wanted to know more about the topic of both why we weren't building new and why we were breaching old.

So even looking at the average footprint of existing projects will steer you wrong because most new ones will drag us back to the mean, which is pretty bad.
The article is not well argued, yes.

But there is direct evidence that politicians are influencing corporations to alter return to office policies:

- Mayor of SF asking businesses to pledge to implement RTO policies: https://sfist.com/2022/03/03/mayor-breed-would-like-you-back...

- Mayor of NYC basically doing the same: https://archive.is/si6xd
In other words, it's actually available for $22k. You just get it right now. That seems... fine? I guess it sucks for the people who need a new car in the past 2 years, but given that the average age of cars on the road is around 12 years, that's a small fraction of people. It certainly doesn't support the original claim that $30k cars are the reason why people getting in debt.
WIPO requires signatory countries have some sort of legal protections to back copy protection, but it does not mandate the exact language of DMCA 1201. The WIPO requirement was actually added by the US after the EFF managed to kill a precursor bill a few years prior[0].

Implementation among signatory countries is high enough to laugh when people say "Well, this doesn't affect me because I'm not American." Unless you live in North Korea or Russia, DMCA 1201 applies to you.

Copyright law is so foundational to world trade that the only way 1201 would get repealed would be if there was some kind of mass uprising against copyright overreach in many signatory countries. In that case, so many large countries would have repealed their DMCA 1201 equivalent legislation that nobody would dare actually try to enforce WTO sanctions against them. At worst, a few countries would demand some horse trades[1].

Practically speaking, however, democracies are bad at protecting against small harms exacted against large numbers of people[2], so this never happens. Europe has the Pirate Party but the most successful national iterations of it have had to adopt broader Green[3] and technolibertarian agendas in order to have any semblance of electoral viability. In the US, first-past-the-post is an insurmountable hurdle despite the fragility and incompetence of our two major parties. Here, political issues don't so much form new parties as much as they infect the shambling corpses of existing ones.

Barring that, if only one country decided to repeal their anti-circumvention laws I imagine there'd be a lot of grumbling from the US or Japan, potentially new tariffs, but no outright sanctions. The weird part about world trade is that a lot of these provisions are only enforceable on very poor countries. China blatantly violates WIPO all the time and we, practically speaking, cannot quit them. There is no international leviathan capable of, say, rolling tanks on Beijing and demanding market access and copyright enforcement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_laundering

[1] Term of art for "unrelated and usually minuscule things used to bargain for a larger purpose"

[2] e.g. how Intuit got the US government to not provide tax preparation services or software to the public for a decade and a half so they could sell their own offering. It's a thing that annoys people but not enough to get voters to flip sides.

[3] including German "Green", i.e. "nuclear is bad, so we shut down all our nuke plants and started burning lignite[4] instead"

[4] What's lignite? Lignite balls.
We may know who some of the bulls are. But where are the bears? Are there any public figures who seem to clearly be hedged against the commercial real estate market and are making pro work from home statements?
I'd be pretty annoyed, as a child or not, if at every turn I'd be asked to retrospect about an accomplishment or even a failure.

Praising children for hard work rather than "for just being smart" is about their own personal wellbeing. Kids who get called smart in their early years have trouble facing real and difficult problems later in life, because they suddenly feel "wait, I'm not really smart" and other such pathological feelings. It's about encouraging problem solving, not just blindly working hard, and teaching that problem solving is a continually evolving process and not some innate thing that you either have or don't have.

It's true that the real world doesn't recognize hard work in a consistent way, but I think this is more about personal development and wellbeing rather than implying hard work will make you successful, for some definition of successful.
UPS is paying $170K on average per driver this year per renegotiated contracts. True, like any job, you start off on the lower side, but unlike other companies, UPS pay begins going way up after just a year and that doesn't include the incredible amount of overtime available to even new drivers.

You don't need to pull in large contracts or even be the business owner of a skilled-trade to do well. Literally every tradesman I speak with is telling me the same thing: we're desperate for bodies; we're willing to hire kids out of high school, train them and pay them > $100K and we still can't fill the seats.

My overall (unpopular point) is that a lot of people are complaining that their high-paid cushy remote job isn't available anymore, while ignoring that there is a huge need for skilled labor in other areas of the economy. This strikes me as a huge opportunity for lots of people, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
On the whole? No.

People that were making near minimum wage before absolutely have though, and I think that's been a huge driver of the inflation. Pre-pandemic, the Walmart in our area had a starting wage of $10 or $11 an hour. It's now $18.
>> If for whatever reason you think that driving a compact car is beneath you

Armchair economist-shoppers, I love them. The other day a guy told me housing in NYC was absolutely affordable. Managed to find a bedroom for rent at $2k/mo. Sure bro, let me stuff my family of four into a shared 1br apt and then have my kids share a bathroom with some random guy in the other room.

Sure, i'd do this if I was desperate...but WTF would I want to aspire to this setup if I just spent 6yrs in college and went to a top Engineering CS program. Come on.