skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "...absolutely making society worse in tangible, measurable ways."

You've presented zero measurements to qualify that statement. Your personal dislike of Musk's methods have nothing to do with your wishful projection of a super-villain doing harm to the world.

> "He's just an idiot."

I see. Maybe you should consider whether your personal dislike of Musk isn't getting the better of you. Your comment amounts to "trust me bro, Musk is an idiot".

> "surprise rebranding at 2AM on a Sunday"

You'd prefer an 11am rebrand? That's nice, but the new CEO has already stated she knew about the rebrand when she started.

He has repeatedly said he welcomes his haters and anyone from any side of politics. That's the "free speech" part you're missing. Even Stephen King hates Musk and yet Musk still replies to him and has a joke about it. Your claim he bans his critics is false. Whatever isolated incidents there are with bans, isn't representing the whole.

> "I like thinking about systems...how their parts merge into a whole"

No. You like calling people idiots and posting emotional uninformed rants. You enjoy wallowing in the logical fallacy wastelands. "How parts merge into the whole" are absent from your contributions (the two posts I've read of yours). If you truly cared about "systems", your approach would be balanced, analytical, less emotionally charged, less "the sky is falling".
> My point isn't that the lottery is good, just that its the clear moral winner in an industry which includes Bet365, William hill, Coral and a million other pretenders.

That's like saying burglary is the clear moral winner over murder. While we all would prefer to be burgled than murdered, I think it's fair to say that burglary is very, very bad.
Not necessarily. Unless the presence of the accusation already was used to get that 30% number, you also need to take into account the a priori probability of someone maliciously lying (or better yet, the particular accuser to be lying in this case) and apply Bayes's theorem.
Microsoft Guidance integration?

https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance
IT managers are critical to various distinct functions in every firm. Your organization's IT manager can be better able to handle particular contract management-related needs by gaining sufficient knowledge of all-things contract management.
Exactly what I wanted to say! Out of the list, I can identify with most things. Almost scary...

I think what's most important is to be aware. If traits aren't too pronounced, betterment is possible, and awareness helps eventually taming them. There's no need to eradicate: as you put it, the end game of that is a robot.
There's lots of people out there who are at higher than national average in places that have a cost of living 3x+ the national average, who have exceptional expenses like caring for a special needs child or a sick relative, and/or have childcare costs that folks in lower COLA places often have covered by parents or by a stay-at-home parent.

Collectively we can stop acting like every SSE in America is sipping champagne and eating caviar every day, because they really aren't.
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Precisely my point. If you see code, or written language, just as something you dump in a box to get paid, creating code or text with LLMs makes perfect sense.

If you realize code and language are ways to communicate asynchronously and conserve information across time and space to enable developing and maintaining systems, the apparent value of generic concatenation of words that looks good and functions but has not meaningful message conveyed drops off precipitously.
I can identify with every one of the items on that list.
I can also identify that about 60-80% of the time I've been called a "procrastinator"; or a lone wolf; or a negative nancy (or any one of the pejoratives) it's because I've been fed bad incomplete or incorrect information about what's expected from me or from the team.

>"you are perhaps looking for a robot."

It's clear from the definition...

I use the term "difficult" to differentiate between those employees where everything is going smoothly, and those where more effort is required.

Everything's always going smoothly with my computers they do exactly as I tell them.

It's just humans that constantly misunderstand my managerial instructions.
They wrote a blog post about this change last week as if it was a good thing.

It's not a good thing: "you’ll be able to see the search bar and the left-hand guide menu, with no feed of recommended videos thus allowing you to more easily search, browse subscribed channels and explore Topic tabs instead."

I'm still not enabling my watch history.
This article is depressing, because it evokes a simplistic and dismissive management-style that I have found to be quite common.

Rather I find that people develop workplace behaviors that are rational responses to what they can see from their vantage point, and most of the time they have the organization's interests at heart, as well as their own, just as managers do. For example, sometimes, engineers procrastinate on releases and deliverables because they intuit negative consequences that will impact them more than others, once the release happens.

When workers are entrenched in workplace behaviors that are not aligned with the needs of the org as a whole, I believe it is important to start from a position that they have a good reason for behaving as they do. Then we walk them on the path from how they behave now, to how we agree they need to perform, by establishing a current routine that over time, shifts into a routine that is mutually aligned. It's a two way street of learning, where also bottom-up issues are addressed along the way, and incorporated into how the team functions as a whole.

Low-competence managers like to oversimplify the work of getting stuff done, because they want to feel like they have the answers, but in a serious endeavor that has domain experts in the team, insight-discovery does not happen primarily top-down.
Second that, reading through the article felt like looking in a mirror. It's helpful to be more self-conscious about one's flaws, at least you can spot yourself doing the thing and get a chance at reversing course.

To people who also see themselves here, but weren't fortunate enough to be working with a smart and compassionate manager:

- Listen to the feedback from your peers. Go have after-work beers if a more formal setting doesn't work.

- Figure out if you can move horizontally within your org, to a position where either your flaws won't be getting as much in your or someone else's way, or - if you're brave - to a less comfortable position, where you need to face and fix them.

- Show the article to your manager! Understanding is an acquired thing.
My partner bought an eye mask with built-in Bluetooth headphones so they could sleep listening to audio books or podcasts or whatever.

But it had a bright blue LED, which was not only disturbing to me but could also be seen through the damned mask.

How on Earth anybody signed off on that design is beyond me.
I still think it’s a room temperature and ambient pressure superconductor. I’m amazed at how bad Nature, Scientific American and the mainstream press are.

Let’s see.
In the US that's true, but not necessarily everywhere. My wife was out of work for 15 years after a burnout and while raising kids with their own difficulties, and it was definitely financially stressful where I am (Netherlands). Besides being very stressful in general, of course.
I’ve become more of a lone wolf in my 30s, actually. A combination of gained knowledge and experience, teams not familiar with my tech stack, remote hours (both because of timezone difference and also my crazy work hours) and also, yes, less trust in other people’s opinions. This also happens. It’s not just teenagers that feel sometimes they have the most experienced opinion. After listening to bad discussion for long enough, one becomes burned out and cynical of the “team discussions” and just looks inward to find solutions for the most difficult problems.
Developing software for small, independent cinemas is a notable idea. While I can't speak for the global situation, based on my experience in Europe, many cinemas suffer from outdated and subpar booking software. Creating an aesthetically pleasing platform akin to Shopify for webshops could prove to be a lucrative endeavour. My research into existing solutions revealed a dearth of options, and the few available ones look crap.
I’m not. Take the printer instead. Much more capable of plagiarism and copyright violation
Eli's daughter also wrote a more modern take:

"Goldratt's Rules of Flow"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B9VH7TTZ
Okay, someone tell me why JVM isn't it? Is there something fundamentally flawed in the JVM that can't be fixed?
can htmx work for restful backend that requires client side rendering and routing? my understanding is that htmx only fits for server side rendering such as Django.
I’ve never met any of these types in two decades of software engineering. Well, maybe the “negative Nancy” and the lone wolf, but even then not really.

I’ve met a lot of the qualities/challenges that make up a lot of these types. Maybe especially the “unreliable” type, but never in a way that is laid out here and I certainly wouldn’t call them uncommitted or unreliable. I view them much more as rebellious, to which they are afforded leeway that very few professions. But to me, the inability to meet deadlines, often tells more more about the deadlines than the employees. Maybe that is because I’m from a technical background myself and the management I’ve done has been more Helle Hein and Scandinavian inspired than what is common in the US, but programmers are hard to fit into your organisation because they don’t have any fucks to give about your red tape. Now, programmers and other techies are quite famous for this, but the way I see it, this is what organisations should expect from younger employees in general going into the 2020ies. Young people are not going to respect the authorities of the past. To prove my point, just look at all the rave about silent quitters, which is essentially employees who aren’t going to go above and beyond for you because they just don’t respect that the way older generations did.

The way I see it is that old famous trove about how some programmers wear shorts and sandals to a suit only dress code office. And they get away with it because ultimately the work they do matters more than them respecting some draconian corporate rules. It’s the mind set that you’re going to have to pay attention to. Because those programmers aren’t necessarily douche bags, they may be some of the nicest most committed employees you have, they just don’t care about your corporate red tape. Which is the way I see a lot of these “stereotypes” in this article. But how the author paints them… like they are broken or annoying, well… good luck getting any useful management tips from someone who views employees like that.

One example I’ll dig into is the deadline bit. I’ve never once seen someone miss a deadline without it being the deadlines fault. Ok, I have, but then it was because they got sick or something similar got in the way. If you have employees who continuously miss deadlines it’s very likely that your estimation is simply wrong. Yes, you can try to limit distractions, but once you start putting the responsibility on the employees with silly things like “agreements of responsibility and expectations” you’re also either increasing their stress or sending them directly into the job section on LinkedIn. Depending on what sort of person they are. There is no magical way that you can possibly make someone who continually misses deadlines suddenly start making them without giving them less things to do or more time to do it. It’s just not possible. Hell, if you have someone who misses a lot of deadlines, you don’t have a difficult employee you have a super stressed employee who needs help.
For "sensitive" information, as this is scoped to, one shouldn't LOL at the standards line.
+1 for a lever! I found a busted up old La Pavoni years ago, replaced all the seals and it’s been good to me ever since. There’s a bit of art to pulling a shot on a lever but once you get used to it, it’s a really fun way to make your coffee every day.
C++ and Rust are already open source and there isn't reason to believe applications executed as WASM are faster than near JavaScript equivalents.

There is amazing advantage though to just exposing C++/Rust applications without requiring a separate installation or executable for both security and convenience, but I am not seeing much of this in the wild. I think the sand boxed nature of WASM is a bridge too far for many C++/RUST application developers who would then need to include a tremendous number of support library they take for granted outside the browser.
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It’s called Quick Calories.

https://calories.joeldare.com
It is a waste of power (currently).

But you can have native performance on a virtual machine by translating your VM code to machine code and just running the machine code. There are ways to sandbox without interpretation. WASM goes to some extent in that direction, but not all the way, mostly for safety.

So it wastes some power. The question is: so what? WASM is attractive because it's an instant deployment. You open a URL, boom. Nothing to explicitly download, install and launch. Nothing to maintain. And eventually uninstall. It removes the friction for apps you use once in a while, or... just once, even.

In engineering & design, efficiency comes in many kinds. You waste power on the user's machine, but you got your foot in the doorstep by them opening your URL and running your app. It's not how many of us, including me, want the world to be, but it... be how it be.

P.S.: The real flip-side is when sites start figuring out ways en masse to profit from your compute by visiting their sites. Crypto mining as one example. Oh well.
There's a lot of worrying, not just in this article, about parts of the system that are largely incidental to making espresso. The important parts are the filter that allows the coffee through at the right pressure and a way to keep everything at consistent temperature. There is not much difference between a $100 pump machine and the expensive cafe machine except that the expensive one has metal water jackets to keep everything warm. They also clean easily and produce consistent steam for milk.

To me, the lever machines are really neat. It was the lever machine that started the trend in Italy, and the moka pot that made "espresso at home" a thing.

Still, extraction is only one variable. The time a person spends agonizing over temperature and pressure could also be spent learning how to select, blend and roast beans, which can be done cheaply at home using a hot air popcorn popper.
Another one here - was the only app/tech I needed for practicing other than kindle and a dictionary app. Replaced Sudoku and other puzzle games as my train time-killer when I still commuted perfectly when I didn't feel like reading.
Can perfectionism be "cured"?

Of the list, it's the most relevant to me. Would a "shock therapy" work, where I force myself to treat all solutions superficially, only making things work without trying to understand and polish it all? If such a project is then successful, maybe that leaves a lasting, "healing" mental impression.

On the other hand, I have started to embrace it. It's a tough one to flip into a plus though, as it's a highly two-sided sword (other traits like charisma are useful without downsides, for example). For self-employment, startup founders etc., I suspect it's one of the worst blockers. For an IT forensics researcher, probably the opposite.

Any stories of how perfectionism turned out a winning trait?
Really hope you’re just trolling..

But just to clarify a bit: I’m not “backing down” from anything I said.

Unfortunately it’s just hard tell what exactly I’m supposed to substantiate because your diatribes are a bit too incoherent.. and it’s quite hard to comprehend what are you trying to say.

I would advise you to tone do the amount of “personal” insults when trying to communicate with other people.

They really obscure your actual points (assuming they exist?) and they they aren’t doing much anyway since I still can’t really tell whether you’re talking to me or somebody else.

Also I generally find that insults are most effective when used sparingly or in a subtle backhanded manner.
Flair is a line of inexpensive, fully-manual lever espresso machines with varying degrees of portability. Excellent designs.
This article is depressing because corporate America is depressing.
They accounted for this. Participation was agreed to at the initial time of diagnosis of Covid.
Just to clarify, I always lived in solid-brick/concrete buildings and never had issues with DCF77 clocks (and never heard of anyone having issues), which usually cost in the 15-30 € range. It’s an inexpensive technology that just works, at least in Western Europe.
> Wu refused to go along with China's huge policy shift

She was also heavily attacked by people in the West as she also refused to go along with the Wests 'masks don't matter policy'

She created Google Docs early on with evidence masks would work contravening the Western governments and the 'trust the science' crowd.

Lets not pretend it's just China here, it maybe offtopic to this incident, but at the time you could see it was wearing her down.
worse else, 10 mother-in-laws ...
> I am discovering that mathematicians cannot tell the difference between “proof by contradiction” and “proof of negation”.

I am glad to learn, that I just as dumb as the average mathematician lol.

> Proving a negation is not a proof by contradiction

did I say that it is, though?
Agreed. The moment i saw AnonFiles i was out of there, even considered uploading the declaration of indepence in pdf form to get my social credits up.

I dont know where the servers were, but i feel like it was used for less lovely purposes by the owners and a lack of identifiers & internet curated mess would obfuscate law enforcement's efforts

Edit: my theory however falls flat if there were multiple websites, since having a one large database would be in their best interest. You could argue that there were multiple entities self-hosting the same thing, but why would they link to eachother? Coupled with the VPN ad, sounds like data harvesting all around (honeypot or not)
It does not matter what I believe. It only matters what people tell me.
Ask HN: What happened to the Thorium reactor hype?
I remember seeing a lot of articles and videos about thorium being the future about 10 years ago…
Evolution is a form of intelligence, and the oxygenation catastrophe was definitely a large-scale manipulation of the environment.

Anthropogenic changes are faster than evolution, but is that an important difference, or is what matters the ratio of speed of damage to speed of cognition?

And beyond us, the same question comes for any AI tasked with doing a thing whose side effects develop not necessarily to our advantage: which is faster, the harm or the improved ability to resolve problems?
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Dev.to: https://dev.to/costas8/scorecast-a-tool-for-predicting-footb...
Avoiding Pitfalls in Go
It was years ago I studied the problem and I've lost my notes, but what you say makes sense.
https://imgur.com/a/i0pgsRx

What about TBs transfers over Internet? People like to copy VMs..

Does it have any form of brute-force/DOS protection or a way to slap fail2ban for it? One of the reason I would replace our IIS FTP with this, it's constantly under attack and I'm too lazy to write another bruteforce protection script.
I also loved it, coming from mainly Ruby. It's just reasonable, the step here toward functional programming gets it even closer to the way I like to write Ruby.
I believe the Z8001 and Z8002 are different designs (can't find a die shot of the Z8001 but Z8002 die only has 40 pads).

Zilog could have gone down the 6507 style route, I guess, but the Z8002 would have been more expensive to produce.

So use of the word 'support' is really 'in support of a cheaper 16 bit address / 40 pin version' where savings are made not only on packaging but on the die.
DOOM Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero was a great read. Very inspiring and gives a fresh perspective on the story of id, clarifying a few rumors.
> teams not familiar with my tech stack

Not the other way around?
We could make something like the opposite argument too: without technology, biological life has no hope of surviving events like planetary collisions, gamma ray bursts, or home star fuel exhaustion, which are rare on human timescales but common (or even inevitable) in the long-run.
> conventional grid

sorry, I should've said "conventional power generation". I mean it like "using old school tech, like coal and oil".
> you are perhaps looking for a robot

Ah yes, the LLM persona: the Hallucinator.
2 Points:

1. We do not have advanced AI. We have LLMs. They're not intelligent, not creative, and are never going to be. I'm with you on the other things, though.

2. The planet will not be destroyed by anything we do. H. sap. might go extinct along with many, many other species, but give the biospehere a couple of million years and it will all bounce back, sans humans.

I've been living/trialing the path you suggest in your last paragraph for 30 years. Sadly it's not gone viral. AMA. ;)
I don't speak or write Greek, so I don't really have any insight at all into this. (I can just about, very poorly, read the alphabet, that's all.)

So I can only guess:

Let's assume we have a Greek layout. And that that has keys from alpha to omega, and a RightAlt or something, and keys that have some useful resemblance to acute, grave, circumflex, rough, smooth, etc.

Compose, type an alpha, type an apostrophe?

As an example, I sometimes type in Czech.

č is comp, c, <
š is comp, s, <

Others...

î is comp, i, ^
ï is comp, i, "

ç is comp, c, comma

All that's needed is a vague visual resemblance to the desired diacritic.
The difference is in the temporal dimension of the message. Generated text and code are simply statistically likely to convey enough meaning for the purpose at hand. That's all good and dandy until you think about the repercussions of communication. A person facing a problem and finding a solution encodes a message. This message ideally conveys context and purpose. The situation changes over time and we need to adapt our systems and behaviors. So we can go back to the message and re-work it.

If there is no inherent message, if it is just a byte array likely to get a desired result in a specific context, you are losing traction of mind over reality and letting an awful lot of noise into our delicate systems.

Isn't letting accidental complexity aka noise into our systems bad? If you don't know the purpose and the context of the message, you already let that happen, and it will only get worse as the subsequent modifications to the systems described by the code or behaviors enacted due to the message starts to become an opaque box due to the fact that there is no meaningful blueprint behind the code or the texts underlying it.