skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You never know what someone is dealing with unless they tell you. A bad business decision as a sole trader, an ex-marriage with kids and a SAH parent that they're supporting, difficult/societal pressures around family (care is _very_ expensive), a gambling problem.

> 5 times the national average wage in SWEE, and that's not unusual at all

In the US. Everywhere else, that's incredibly unusual. 5x the average wage in the UK is 150k plus - that's _very_ unusual.

Also, the average wage in the US is $75k. The "average case" engineer isn't making $375k with 10 years experience, nevermind with 1-3 years experience.

> A person that knows nothing can get a job that pays the national average wage in this industry.

This is nonsense.
Whenever you see someone describe "types of people" you should have the understanding that nobody has a type. People behave in complex ways and display traits that can be attributed to several types. Like a scientific model that has limits, putting fictional people into types allows us to describe patterns of behavior and their caracteritics in better ways than just going "ahhh chuck everyone is different there's nothing I can learn". You can apply this thinking to "archetypes of staff engineers" or any sort of personality trait quiz that purports to find your "type".

I'm always surprised when people think that other people actually fit into a box while obviously seeing that themselves could fit into many boxes at different times.
Right? :-D
Bambu X1C and P1P 3D printers started printing while owners were asleep
The great offender is modem/router. According the manual for my ISP

- slow blinking is attempting to connect to DSL

- normal blinking is success

- Fast blink is fail

- there are 4 different LEDs. some even change colour.
You're describing automation. I'm talking about a very specific subset of it: automatically generating human or (human readable) language.
Probably because doctors get shit wrong all the time and it seems everyone on the planet except flabbergasted doctors have direct or near-direct experience with this.
Sounds like what really killed the service was your inability to deal with reports in a timely manner.

If you can't promptly handle take down requests don't put yourself in a position where you're required to promptly handle take down requests.
It's also possible that some of it isn't "long COVID" at all and is just a random health symptom or problem completely unrelated to COVID. From what I've read the way they diagnose "long COVID" is somewhat suspect.
LCOE is in the linked article as well, and it does paint a similar picture
The ingenious micro-mechanisms inside your phone [video]
Years ago, Games magazine had a contest for the cleverest Burma Shave style slogan, and the winner was:

To be a king
Is not so fine.
You cannot make
A throne recline.
(La-z-boy)
Yes, but the mouse and trackpad work perfectly in the bios - so it's clearly not a hardware problem.

We've been on the phone with support for countless hours to try and make Windows see them, and we're getting nowhere.
I get much better sleep in a completely dark room. I've solved this issue innumerable times with Blu-Tack, electrical tape and straight-up de-soldering or unplugging lights.

3090, Unplugged leads with tweezers.
Mobo, Blu-Tack.
NIC, Blu-Tack - Notable mention of Intel NICs where you can disable LEDs in ethtool.
Bedside lamp, Tape.
Standing fan, Tape.
yada yada etc. etc.

Only Gadgets I've remembered with light pollution considerations easily accessed is my Mitsubishi AC, Onkyo Reciever and LG OLED TV. All have a night mode where I can disable all illumination.
> but then browsers should allow this

Agreed! Between WebCodecs and WebGPU compute shaders, I think we’re getting closer to this ideal.
The Power of Habit has been fascinating to me. It has helped me to understand how I operate and also how others operate. It is amazing how much of our behavior is dictated by processes far beneath our conscious mind.
Collaborative Programming in RubyMine
It seems that this practice didn't spread to Slavic Europe, with the possible exception of Ukraine around the Black Sea. This region had been under Greek/Byzantine influences for millennia. Also, back then this area was partly Turkish, for example Crimea was controlled by the Crimean Khanate. The wild steppes of Zaporizhia separated it from "proper Slavic civilization". Ironically this is exactly where the current ruso-ukrainian frontline is.
Finally something that allows to have a personal repository again (after version control just stole that word). And not in Squeak. Amazing work.

(Does it support version control...?)
Catgut
I don't believe that's the correct way to use WASM. If one has a GC collected language one may be better off compiling to JS, or at least a combination of JS and WASM for some linear C-like computation that's then offloaded back to JS.

People need to look at JS, WASM, WebGL/WebGPU and the other browser APIs as a single platform, and use the right parts for the right job, instead of reimplementing JS functionality in WASM and vice versa etc.
Ruby Weekly Issue 667: August 17, 2023
A couple I read during my MBA last year that I found interesting and maybe quite relevant to a few people who frequent this website:

The Design Thinking Playbook - by Lerwick et al.
Global Strategy - by Peng

I think they're both highly relevant to some of the fast pace changes happening in the world, especially in tech. Even though they're not about tech stuff specifically, they're full of good ideas and also have great frameworks for either design AND strategy and some interesting case studies are in Global Business too.

Apart from that, lately, I've been swamped with psych textbooks and journals, so not really had time for a book per se, however I have been reading about offender profiling (of sex offenders) and doing so in conjunction with a case study on Ted Bundy, and I find that really interesting.
Well, by "advanced AI", I did not mean truly intelligent AI of course. I meant sufficiently advanced to disrupt society to an extent that will make it worse that it was without it. Advanced as in "advanced weapon", not "smart".

Yes, it is true that the planet won't be destroyed, that is a good point. Only we might, like you said. Though, if many other species go extinct, it is sort of like destruction in a way, even though it isn't total.

Feel free to reach out through the contact info in my profile if you want to collaborate.
That's bs.
I'm afraid I've misunderstood what you've written. Are you being sarcastic?

Of course, it's my fault if I don't manage to progress as quickly as the job requires. On the other hand, the decisions taken by management not to hire experienced developers for cost reasons and to favour state-subsidised student contracts is not.

It's my fault if I don't manage to organise the development properly and therefore don't meet the deadlines. It's not my fault if managers change their expectations/features literally every week because they have "the big vision".
I really pity kids these days that wrap their whole life’s identity in their work, take every minor criticism as a personal insult, every dislike of their product as a personal attack on their self-worth. It’s understandable why it happens, especially with cynical and conniving companies trying their best to be in every facet of people’s lives, from dog walking to kid day care to social activities “after work”. People should really resist these conveniences and separate their work from their lives.
While I feel sympathy for her having to deal with this tough and unfair situation, this isn't really surprising. Circumventing the great firewall to maintain presence on outside social media is not actually allowed. Just because enforcement isn't consistent doesn't give her a free pass to violate this policy.

And this notion of being high profile in western media conferring any kind of protection is just nonsense. CCP policy is total information control and they don't care one bit if anyone is offended by the concept or the actions they take to enforce it.
> A top concern for The Times is that ChatGPT is, in a sense, becoming a direct competitor with the paper by creating text that answers questions based on the original reporting and writing of the paper's staff

Sounds to me like they are trying to claim copyright over facts rather than the specific expression. That’s just not how copyright works at the moment.

The framing of openAIs recent changes is telling too. OpenAI seems to have nudged their models to reject requests of querying sentence continuation for specific sources - which the press is now framing as “trying to hide the use of copyrighted data”

What we are seeing here is an unprecedented attempt at expanding copyright doctrine to facts, style and information rather than specific expressions - a land grab of latent space by rights holders salivating to own factual information
I feel scenario B is indeed possible: Sophisticated cultural overlays that modify our interaction and impacts on the biosphere are obviously within the nature of the system.

A key question is whether the feedback signals from the biosphere will be strong enough and will be internalized deeply enough to usher a sustainable era. One can only guess, since we haven't really experienced anything of this sort before.

But logically, if scenario B plays out and we enter a sustainable phase we would be sending out technosignatures. Hence if a similar process has repeated across the universe we should at some point see evidence of advanced life that "just made" it. The fact we don't may mean its not possible. But I would not read too much into this pessimistic conclusion because we may be missing important other dimensions regarding the nature of life and its co-evolution with technology.

We should strive to survive independently of what else might be happening in this mysterious Universe :-)
It very much does matter sorry.
The Rosetta Project had (has?) the goal of storing a modern day Rosetta Stone[1] on nickle disks etched with nearly 14,000 pages of text in eight human languages. They expect(ed) that with minimal care the discs should remain legible for thousands of years.[2]

[0] https://rosettaproject.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

[2] https://rosettaproject.org/about/
You can pause GC and pre-allocate memory in C# in addition to stack-allocating anything you want. Just because people don't do it it doesn't mean it's not possible.

Of course in reality almost no one bothers because "the user can buy a newer machine anyway"-sort of thinking, sadly.
LoRA the Explorer
I miss The overcomplicator type.
If the author is here, a nitpick on the writing: if you use the "let call him XYZ" thing, then _use XYZ to address the persona_ later in the text! Mark, Sarah and Emily for instance appear exactly ONCE in the text, when you say "let's call them XYZ".
Why introduce names (a la "let's call him Mark") but never refer to them?
Even then, there are two issues:

1. disassembling the stars to make them live a thousand times longer

2. it only takes one expansionist civilisation seeking interstellar exponential growth — even if 99.9% of civilisations are quiet, that's just 3 digits of the 22-digit number of stars in the observable universe.
It might be more efficient in terms of raw power inputs, but in cold climates using methane is still way cheaper at current prices.
Not sure if you are being serious, but that is terribly bad advice.

For starters google “piercing the corporate veil”.
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari

I'm halfway into this book. It talks about how technology is increasingly fragmenting our attention.
Didn't know about COPPA's role in this. Thanks for pointing that out
.. for small payloads.

QAT cannot compress across blocks. So as soon as your input is more than 128KB the compression ratio tanks.

Usually well below what even level 1 of software zstd does. They choose the input very carefully.
I'd be much more interested in a reverse article: managing difficult bosses. That's more often than not the problem, the lower ranks usually know their stuff and bad apples are rare, the other way around seems to select for incompetence and obstruction. Good managers are just as rare as difficult software engineers.
The situation is you are brought on board to do work, and you have in-house collaborators and you'll take the blame for their mistakes?

Step back and find an outcome where your work doesn't harm their reputation/security. So how do you make them into allies? Or how do you not matter to them? Figure that out...
I have an even funnier one: I bought a Rowenta table fan because it was reputed to be very quiet, and I’ve bad sleep. It even has a sub-1 “sleep” mode where it uses a really minimal airflow, still improves comfort on a muggy night but you can barely hear the fan spin.

The sleep mode, and only the sleep mode has a bright white LED. The fan is completely dark on (1), and it lights up the entire room on (sleep). The level of stupid is unfathomable.

On that front I was actually surprised by the meaco 1056, while it’s way too expensive for what it is and I would not recommend it and it’s got way too many unnecessary LED behind piano black surface… it does have a “light off” mode which turns off the lights, and even in the base mode most of the LEDs draw down or turn off after a bit.
> progress seems to be going backwards.

I blame JavaScript.
Methane can be the feedstock for so many fuels and chemicals so it has a huge potential. I think a lot of the skepticism of this is due to skeptics associating methane with fossil fuels and having an emotional reaction.
Those are symptoms, not causes...
I’ve been thinking of building a simple api middleman too. Something that can split it between local and openai depending on request and what’s online
You can think of archetypes as "principal components" if it helps to assuage the reaction to being unfairly labeled or pigeonholed.

People are more or less of one thing or another and the loadings change over time and depending on circumstances. The goal is not to build a set of discrete categories but to build a vector space of sorts.
The Wandering Inn [1],
Stories of an alternate world somehow connected to a certain innkeeper of the said inn.

Features extensive world building, character building,
Lots of fleshed out characters, contains humour as well as serious stuff, has dragons, fae, aliens, time travel, hiveminds, automatons, cute pets, cosmic horrors, history lessons, magic, alchemy and steampunk engineering.

It's a bit longish and not finished yet, 2/3 done as of this year.

[1]: https://wanderinginn.com/
The point about learning Swift and directly building an app is a good one. I was thinking recently that a general rule of thumb should be "don't learn a programming language unless you have a project in mind". I have learned so many languages, Swift included, that I just didn't have a project for. As a result, I either gave up or just forgot what I'd learned.

I'm happy for OP that his hiring process went this way, wasn't this also how John Calhoun got into Apple?
Given that this article has nothing to do with actually promoting a political/economic view, this reaction may be unhealthy.
What's New in DevTools (Chrome 117)
Huh, I searched and his brand seems to be about talking to the "nice guys" who are all like "Why do women always pick jocks and not the nice guys like me?"

Which is not a stereotype that I associate with compulsive people-pleasing, exactly... Compulsive self-pitying and limerence, more like.
Biden needs to move faster and not just with the debt jubilee but drastically change how much unnecessary cash American universities spend on bullshit. Visiting campuses in other parts of the world, I am always shocked how much they do with so little while keeping education relatively free.
Cloud has a surprisingly high margin
Looks like you're right. I don't remember it occurring this way in late 2021, so I wonder if the implementation changed at all since then, but it could also be poor attention to detail on my part
from the height of my age, I can tell you all that foocking business is grossly overrated.
I understand this isn't the direction you're going in, but I would love a desktop app which could edit documentation (mainly text, but with diagrams), but save it locally to be checked in to Git. Imho documentation should be near the source, and go through the same branching and PR workflow that the source it describes goes through.

Ideally the desktop app would be a GUI which was easy to use, providing the basic features of Word or LyX or a markdown editor such as basic formatting, bullets, headings at various levels. Ideally some kind of diagram editor as well.

Ideally it'd save in a format which was reasonably amenable to being saved in Git and being merged from various branches, and which wouldn't be too verbose if you're looking through a PR on GitHub etc. So a text format, with no "# Created on <date>" fields. I have to say LyX solves most of these points so that's what I use at the moment.
It’s all about perspective. In two companies now, I’ve been in teams that don’t really care about my tech stack. It was mutual, of course. You can blame the company for making these teams up (I did/do), but that how things are.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is one of my all-time favorites.
Social and political considerations can be components of inertia too. Consider China's fairly recent decision to stop funding new fossil fuel generation development outside its own borders, where social and political considerations should have minimal impact to Chinese citizens.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-says-it-wil...

China is starting to move in the right direction, but there's a ton of planning lag. China is by far the largest single consumer of solar panels. It also deploys more wind turbines than any other country.

Two limiting factors are China's insatiable need for ever greater power generating capacity of any kind, and the surprisingly rapid uptake of renewables globally which has constrained new production.
> I think the really significant term in the Drake equation is the question of time overlap between our civilization and any civilizations in other star systems.

universe begins
0.1 Gy
first stars
9 Gy
our solar system begins
0.5 Gy or less
early life
3.5 Gy
complex, multicellular, macroscopic life
0.5 Gy
sentient, intelligent life

I think the important delays are the 9 Gy and the 3.5 Gy. (Gy = billion years)

9 Gy: After first stars, how many generations do you need of large stars, synthesizing heavy elements, going supernova and shooting the heavy elements around, contributing to the condensation of new stars (now with some heavy elements to begin with), until you cal form solar systems and planets like ours, with enough iron and heavier elements to make life chemically possible. Do you need to wait this full 9 billion years, before planets with the chemical composition of Earth appear, or did they already appear sooner?

3.5 Gy: How long does it "usually" take from early microbial life, for evolution to develop complex multicellular life? In our case it took 3.5 billion years, but are we among the fastest, or the slowest?
I believe this to be an artifact of our current paradigm of software development, which is based purely around static "batch processing" where the software can't be molded easily. (I didn't want it to come off as a plug, so I didn't add it to my original message, but I'm working on something to solve that.)

To get a better idea of what I think is the better approach, check out these talks:

Tudor Gîrba - Moldable development - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pot9GnHFOVU

Jack Rusher - Stop Writing Dead Programs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab3ArE8W3s
It reminds me a bit of Viridi: https://store.steampowered.com/app/375950/Viridi/

I don't have any suggestions, but I want to build my own version now. Emergent behaviour FTW.
Or it means that the conditions are not persistent -- life originates in a stellar system either immediately, or not at all.
It is called "managing up"
Didn't the guy who made Homebrew fail his interview at Google because he couldn't invert a binary tree? That's a guy who has built a popular product in the wild and can clearly code but failed because of the leetcode barrier at all IC levels.
Wait, so how do you approach evaluating that for a server that manages a database?
Emulate a BBC Micro on a Raspberry Pi
If the crowd is an echo chamber and emotions are high content is certainly more than enough to trigger negative behavior. I would think there are plenty of examples of this in a variety of venues. I can't read the news without being reminded of various examples of this.
Looks like the other replies here are correct. It's law-driven and can be worked around.

https://support.google.com/families/answer/7106787?hl=en

This one's an anecdote I found when searching just now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/z4r77a/google_fami...

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/COPPA-Childr...
Uptime Kuma: An easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool
I have various electronic items from the 1970s/80s, particularly a big LED clock, that use red LEDs. Even though they look dated and may lack features, I hope to keep using them until my own EOL, because any replacement would use those bright blue LEDs. Like others here, I generally hack new devices to reduce the glow.
This post shows why working is so uncomfortable.

It is never bad resource allocation, time management or toxic behavior in the workplace.
The fault has to always be the individual.

The person is an interchangable robot or resource, where you simply push some buttons to magically "reset" it.

Then you are shocked when the problem arises again and in other people as well.
I like this suggestion and it made me think that maybe books should be read in pairs: both on the same topic but with opposing/contradictory views.
I think cannabis should be legal but sold behind the counter with id checks to people over 18, with no advertising and no branding. You should not be allowed to smoke in public, only at home.

Basically the same as cigarettes in Australia.

Legal, cheap, available, but not commercial.

Having said that, I’d be surprised if any level of legality happened in Australia in the next ten years. This is an extremely conservative country.
That's no way to discuss the issue, especially when the science (and common sense) isn't remotely on your side.

> Secondhand exposure to cannabis smoke under "extreme conditions," such as an unventilated room or enclosed vehicle, can cause nonsmokers to feel the effects of the drug, have minor problems with memory and coordination, and in some cases test positive for the drug in a urinalysis.

- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-05-extreme-exposure-seco...

That's indoors, unventilated, "can cause" and "in some cases".

I'm curious where you even picked up this bizarre notion.
> Any stories of how perfectionism turned out a winning trait?

Many, especially artists. But I would not take any solace from these exceptions because it hides the number of lives ruined by it.

> Can perfectionism be "cured"?

From my own perspective, there is no cure but you can prevent it blighting your life. Backsliding is always around the corner given a change in environment. The simplest solution is to work in an environment where the most crippling behaviours (extended procrastination, punishing rumination) are just not possible e.g. the type of work with non-negotiable external deadlines where you don't control "good enough". A solo startup developer it's probably the very worst environment and the best might something like a producer of live TV coverage.
https://archive.is/fISvv