skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Workaccount2 beat me to it. But it's well documented, e.g.
https://qz.com/1314814/universal-education-was-first-promote...

"Much of this education, however, was not technical in nature but social and moral. Workers who had always spent their working days in a domestic setting, had to be taught to follow orders, to respect the space and property rights of others, be punctual, docile, and sober. The early industrial capitalists spent a great deal of effort and time in the social conditioning of their labor force, especially in Sunday schools which were designed to inculcate middle class values and attitudes, so as to make the workers more susceptible to the incentives that the factory needed."
No, we can not. We can't even simulate a hydrogen atom, which is far simpler.

For that matter we can't simulate a single proton either. See: https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-co...

(Unrelated but this is why I don't believe singularities exist in the universe - we don't know enough about quark degeneracy pressure to know if it's actually possible for a star to collapse - it's possible the quark pressure keeps the matter from compressing.)
Using place names is very common.

A place I used to work had the internal name of a release called Ulaanbaatar. AFAIK, nobody on the dev team was from Mongolia, but this sort of thing was the norm.

Recent OSX releases are all various places (High Sierra, Big Sur, Mojave, etc.)

Azure regional codenames are "Black Forest" and "Fairfax" for Germany and USGov sovereign clouds.

...and so on.
its wasn't actually freebsd..it was bsd. that os continued past the cray buyout, and as far as I know continued being used even in the XMT era for local management. UCSD was the flagship customer for the MTA2

edit - it was bsd wrapped around a custom microkernel, kind of more like OSX. the original intent was that the MTA be a general purpose machine that would scale down to the desktop. so that provided the user space. there was also a very funny division of labor between the OS, the hardware, and the runtime that caused alot of anguish over the years. one the primary goals for that was extremely lightweight thread management.
I think it's important not to lie, but I don't think the above is automatically a lie. Instead, it's a call to evaluate people on multiple dimensions rather than one.

When you're giving feedback to someone, it is often a knee jerk thing to ONLY evaluate the outcome of their work. The other thing you should evaluate, though, is your estimation of their effort, e.g. how hard they worked at it, and your estimation of their process, e.g. how well they used their time.

If you only evaluate the outcome of their work, and the work is not adequate, you have given them a purely negative evaluation. If you acknowledge respect for their toil and their process, then you have given them 2 positive evaluations and 1 negative evaluation. You're also acknowledging that because you respect their toil and process, they are doing the right thing in spite of needing the course correction you are providing.

Of course, maybe you have a negative opinion on all 3 aspects of the evaluation. If you think they didn't apply themselves, e.g. their effort was not good enough, AND you think they were't efficient in their process, AND you think the outcome was bad, then certainly it would be a lie to praise any of those aspects, though at that point there's almost certainly something more fundamental that's going on and the person is not a good fit for the job.

Finally, it's important to evaluate your own sense of certainty about the feedback.

I think the important thing about the above advice is that if you are giving feedback and you only focus on the course correction part, it's safe to assume that most people will take that as negative feedback on all the aspects of their work. Now, there are situations and teams where there is so much trust built up around everyone's mutual respect that you can skip to the outcome feedback. There are also feedback-recipients who are confident enough in themselves that they feel that they don't need anything but correctional feedback. In other words, "This was shit!" can totally fly when there's a lot of mutual trust and confidence. But too often I've seen people misread the room in that aspect: THEY, the feedback-givers, have plenty of psychological safety, and they think that is extended to other people who absolutely don't feel that way.
X (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment history
A representative from the EFF's policy team I met at def con a few weeks back mentioned that calls are still weighted heavily. YMMV.
My use of "need" here is not referring to Maslow's hierarchy, but our society's standards of labor law.

I personally don't believe that people should be working 80 hours per week for $55k, but, adjusted for inflation, I have done it.

However, I definitely don't think that companies should be permitted to force people to work 100 hours per week for $36k, which is what the DOL is prohibiting here.

> a more logical frame of reference is being sufficiently high up such that you can increase budgets and payrates

It's not a frame of reference unless it is a number.
Let's say you have $1B in profit this year and a really terrible show that cost $1B to make.

You can either write it off and pay no taxes on those profits ($200M saved), or not ($200M squandered) (I'm assuming 20% tax rate just to make math easier.)

Also, many executives have compensation packages tied to financial metrics and they've been known to game those metrics for personal gain.
> Honest question: who benefits from population growth besides developers?

Honest answer: next generation of retirees / older people. They need young people in multiple ways - 1. to sustain welfare (which is pay-as-you-go universally), 2. production of food / entertainment / stuff, 3. services

If you think automation is going to solve that, just look at who were "essential service workers"[1] in Covid where governments had to make exceptions even in the early days of pandemic when things were at their scariest. All those are essential functions for the society. Who is going to handle all of that when each next generation is only 35% of the previous generation's size (with a TFR of 0.7)?

[1] One example: https://covid19.ca.gov/essential-workforce/
I'm on sdf-eu. Not sure SDF has external groups anymore, they may do. Just double check because the website has had outdated info before.

AFAIK the best options are https://www.eternal-september.org/ and https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com/ (read only though).
This is why the Golden Rule is wrong. Not “Do unto others as you would have them to do to you.” but instead “Do unto others how they uhh want to be done unto.” Different folks, different strokes.
For those that wonder how it looks, I found a video:

https://twitter.com/FOmmetje/status/1696266683756003451

or if you prefer:

https://nitter.net/FOmmetje/status/1696266683756003451
i've done the color-as-bw trick, and it works, but everything looks like garbage, more than i would normally expect.

baking soda seems like a poor choice, i've heard borax and soda ash (carbonate rather than bicarbonate) more commonly recommended. maybe it would work in a pinch but baking soda is significantly less basic and might produce gas during the reaction which seems problematic.

but sea water for fixer, that's interesting, never considered that one. is it really ionic enough? i guess i could boil down a reduction

edit: chatgpt seems to think i'd need to concentrate it to saturation and at that point i might as well just use table salt. do you have any experience with this? how does the negative hold up over time?
> when English isn't their first language

India is among the world’s largest English-speaking populations. “Official” Indian English is just a tortured evolution of Victorian English, so it comes across as bumbling when contrasted with the clean, crisp communication we tend to value today.
But wasn’t Doom originally developed for “16-bit DOS computers”? That’s the way I originally played it, by installing it from 3.5” floppies as a DOS program on my Windows 3.11 PC, although it was a 486/33 IIRC. I could play the entire game,
save my progress, and I had sound via SoundBlaster. In fact, I even installed Doom II on that same computer.
I miss building muds. I miss it so much that I've extracted all of the sillymud rooms, objects, and mobiles into json to play with at some future point.

so many lost months in mud-dom.
You're showing why I'm so annoyed by this perfectly!

It's malicious to rope theory of mind into justifying that point because it's just wrong enough.

If the reader doesn't think deeply about why on earth you would ever to rope theory of mind into this, your brain will happily go down the stochastic parrot route:

"How can it have theory of mind, theory of mind is understanding emotions outside of your own, the LLM has no emotions"

But that's a complete nerdsnipe.

—

If instead you distrust this person's underlying motivations to not be genuine intellectual curiosity, but rather to present a statement that is easily agreed to even at the cost of being wrong... you examine that comment at a higher level:

What is theory of mind adding here besides triggering your typical engineer's well established "LLMs are over-anthropomorphized" response? Even in psychology it's a hairy non-universally accepted or agreed upon concept!

Theory of mind gives two things at the highest level:

inward regulation: which is nonsensical for the LLM, you can tell it what emotion it's outputting as, it does not need theory of mind to act angry

outward recognition: we've let computers do this with linear algebra for over 2 decades. It's what 5 of the largest companies in technology are built on...

—

Commentary like that accounts is built on being just wrong enough:

You calmly state wild opinions. There are people who want to agree with any calm voice because they're seeking guidance in the storm of <insert hype cycle>. They invent a foothold in your wild statement, some sliver of truth they can squint and maybe almost make out.

Then you gain a following, which then starts to add a social aspect: If I don't get it but this is a figure head, I must be looking it wrong. Now people are squinting harder.

This repeats itself until everyone has their eyes closed following someone who has never actually said anything with any intention other than advancing their own influence.

They don't care how many useful ideas die along the way, there's no intellectual curiosity to entice them to even stumble upon something more meaningful, it's just draining the energy out of what should be a truly rewarding time for self-thinking.
> Then the key question is to ask whether the two notions coincide: one way to state Godel's first incompleteness theorem is that it shows the two notions do not coincide

It's even more subtle than that. They do coincide in a sense, which is proven by Gödel's completeness theorem (well, at least in First-Order Logic). That one just says that a sentence is provable from some axioms exactly iff it's true in every interpretation that satisfy the axioms.

So one thing that Gödel's first incompleteness theorem shows it's that it's impossible to uniquely characterise even a simple structure such as the natural numbers by some "reasonable"[0] axioms - precisely because there will always be sentences that are correct in some interpretations but not in others.

Unless you use second-order logic - in which case the whole enterprise breaks down for different reasons (because completeness doesn't hold for second order logic).

[0] reasonable basically means that it must be possible to verify whether a sentence is an axiom or not, otherwise you could just say that "every true sentence is an axiom"
It seems the video was reuploaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBgEkbnX2I
I mentioned the MTA in a comment on that thread. I assume somebody picked up on that, or independently knew about the architecture.

Somebody tried to get me to be a friendly user of MTA when it first came out. I took a look- they pitched it as useful for graph processing rather than simulations- and concluded that the architecture was not going to be competitive with intel in the long term, and ignored it.
CT scans of coffee-making equipment
You've got it backwards. It's not a ceiling on nonexempt jobs it's a floor for overtime exempt jobs. You're required to pay X in salary in order to categorize someone as a salaried employee as well as the other requirement on the type of work being performed.
No, that's not the point of simulation. You gain no understand from simulation because what you put into it is what you get out of it. Simulation can help you verify what you already know, and point to areas to examine, but you can't actually directly learn anything from it.

We trust our physical understanding by experimentation, not simulation.

You can use simulations in areas that are fully understood to run calculation on new arrangements of those those things, without having to make the physical object. But it only works when you already understand the thing, you can't gain that original understanding from the simulation.
Perhaps you are looking for Datasette https://datasette.io/?
It's a problem and a grey area. I've yet to have problems with my homebrew stuff but I've already had some conversations with LE that stopped me (fortunately not while exceeding the limit) because my bike looks more than a little weird.

And no, it's not just the components. The reason for that is that the bike motor, controller and rear wheel + sensor all have to be 'just so' for the speed limiter to work properly. There are some defeat tricks, usually stuff that fools the sensor by doing a neat little bit of Bresenham on the input signal but the smarter bike motors realize this is happening and will happily brick themselves. The latest generation Bosch is afaik not yet hacked and this is not for lack of people trying.
You see, this is the problem, you think the solution to the rule of law not going your way is to… rip up the rule of law.

I don’t think your problem is with Democrats, or social media companies, really, it’s with objective reality.

And I didn’t say they were traitors, you did.
Considering this is about how you communicate with others, you are saying people should consider the way you want to be communicated with, but you should be able to ignore how others want to be communicated with?

That just makes you a disappointing, inefficient hypocrite.
> This law doesn't give most people more money; it incentives employers to restrict work hours to 40 a week. If anything, the output is less take home money.

Thereby decreasing supply of labor, which would cause the price of labor to increase. Or people to have more time at home with their families and community.
Methodus Toolz
Generally, male gender is presumed if a neutral form is not available.
Here’s a good one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ooEH3cGHs
> Ah, this meme again.

Ugh. This comment starts out in bad faith and delivers the full way through using linguistic tricks as some sort of "gotcha". I actually find your comment kind of disturbing, even. The word "irreversible" seems to be sticking for you, so instead let me be more precise: the death penalty precludes the state from acting on new evidence which may change the course of action the state takes against the convicted person.

> Putting someone in prison wrongly for 40 years is also irreversible

Here's what you don't have to do: remind me or anyone else that we're all bound by time. Of course time lost cannot be recovered, this is not some great revelation you've stumbled upon. But until death there is an opportunity for the state to make a better decision - not undo them, not "make them right". A wrongfully-convicted person isn't dead, they still have a life to live.

> Are you also against life in prison?

I am against life sentences without the possibility for parole, and I am against any system of justice that does not allow for new evidence to be reviewed in favor of the convicted.
Also worth noting that the test was using an asymmetric connection... of course this is what most have in practice at home or smaller office locations.
It is the HR-motivated eternal infantilization of the people.
In fact, to the person who went through mental and physical developments with no blockages or traumas, it comes across as a quite paternalistic way of communicating, but it is a style liked and embraced by corporate coaches, HR, and the informal CYA policies.
Some call that the Platinum Rule.
Silicon Valley power players begin to reveal details about plans for new city
“They don’t have a plan, they have a vision, an idea,” Thompson said. “To say that this is going to be a long, long road is probably an understatement.”
Wow, that's uncanny. Your site looks lovely. Random remarks: I also used a fleuron as a decoration on my site before I replaced it with a little doodle (I call him Janusz). And, I'm even working on a recipes section for my own site at the moment! Also, hope the little subheader with the pronunciation of your name works.

(psst just checking out your carbonara recipe, here's my cacio e pepe with black garlic: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OUytE9oUnmnwf5BPqt79vqi_...)

> it was also EB Garamond.

Yeah, EB Garamond does the heavy lifting for me design-wise. I use it in Enso (enso.sonnet.io) and Sit. (sit.sonnet.io). I also have an alternative "brutalist" font stack (e.g. butter.sonnet.io), which I use in less serious/"louder" projects. I think I picked it up from a Germany based writer IIRC.

> How do you syndicate to Instagram and Twitter?

Instagram is hard. I don't know if even Buffer supports it without any manual steps. For Twitter I used their API. A GH Actions CRON job would query Contentful for the most recent posts, then push them to Twitter using the twitter NPM package. Recently it's been quite janky.

> I also met a lot of people through my work, including close friends. I love when people reach out and I try to reward it whenever it happens. What you describe seems like being a participant in a small community, instead of a person on a soapbox.

It does feel like this. Sometimes I manage connect some of the people I meet this way, but it happens rarely. I entertained the idea of having a small forum (like ponder.us).

Let's talk some time! (https://calendly.com/hey_hey)
Leaving this here in case anyone runs into this. By putting chrome into incognito mode I am able to access archive.ph. Normal profile gets infinite CAPTCHA.

So I'm thinking messed up cookies or extensions and IP reputation stuff are probably the root of this.

Edit:

cookies or extensions based on testing with chrome normal vs incognito on the same host

IP reputation based on testing with VPN using the same browser
the link should be .co not .com
The same way that you wouldn’t accept your elderly relatives trying to burn down the house you both happen to live in, every fossil fuel based company should be nationalized and shutdown as quickly as possible, while reducing the impact on society’s poorest who depend on that type of energy.

No, wait, private ownership and corporate freedom have actually been proven to be the pinnacle of human economic organizing, so please hand back the lighter and petrol to your demented grandparents and their delusions ideas.

Unfortunately, the people running and investing in these companies will be long dead when their decisions come back to bite us all in the ass.
No good deed goes unpunished.

There are bizarre incentives in stratified hierarchical pseudo-authoritarian corporate social structures.
There is almost nowhere where "50k is good money". It may be above average in a certain area, but cost of housing has increased broadly nationwide even in rural areas.
I think people are coming up with edge cases like "what if they helped you do something they weren't supposed to do, and complimenting them on it gets them fired?!", but that's an exception, and most people would use common sense and discretion in any reasonable scenario. As a rule, pass on a good word about people who help you, it's not that complicated.
My mastodon feed is 100% actual friends. That reality exists; it's just not evenly distributed yet.
Doom used a DOS 32 bit extender called DOS/4GW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G.
The site itself is 'dated' as it has a massive right margin of blank space, a texture background and the following code:

<!--[if !IE]>

<script>fixScale(document);</script>

<![endif]-->

Doesn't mean I'm not currently trying to install it. I am.
There’s multiple levels of “theory” here. We have reasonable confidence that an ab initio simulation of a O28 nucleus would match experiment, but such a simulation is outrageously hard. We simplify things by creating an abstraction of the strong nuclear force, the residual force of the strong force at the scale of nucleons; there’s plenty of room for improvement here. Then, we have a further abstraction of “magic numbers,” a rule-of-thumb level theory that reduces the calculations of the strong nuclear force to a lookup table. While this last step is a pretty good approximation when applied to the EM force and electron orbitals, it’s no surprise that it’s a mediocre-at-best approximation for nuclear structure. Even so, finding cases where it doesn’t apply is useful for developing a refined version of this third-level rule-of-thumb — and a more accurate, more grounded rule of thumb here would be useful for refining speculations about the possible island of stability, where ab initial simulation is even less practical.
Evennia is Python though, not lua. But yeah, there's a lot of people wanting to make MUDs. Makes for a nice learning project too.
Pro tip for managers: Whenever someone on your team does something good, keep a record of it in a doc. This will make your performance reviews a breeze to write
I have seen the future

And it is a Wordpress site with an ActivityPub plugin

For a turn of the wheel

Every Internet site a small node, hosted by friends or family, sharing your thoughts with the world, with far fewer middlemen (for good and for ill)

Until the corporations get enough of their claws into the AP attention stream to co-opt it and become it’s main host and cut it off from its roots to feast on greater portions of everyone’s attention and money

And once again we are watching places like Facebook and Google and Twitter and Amazon devour the Internet

And once that, too has passed

There shall be a new protocol for the people to talk upon

And whatever it is, however it works, ultimately it will be a plugin

For Wordpress.
Why the electric-vehicle industry is talking about ‘black mass’
> $75k in a major metro area is very tough in 2023

Most major metro areas are more productive and pay more per capita.
Some of this is knowing where to look. If you want medicine interactions, examine.com has everything there is to know about the published scientific data on dietary supplements, and the FDA itself publishes all of the drug inserts for actual pharmaceuticals with every know interaction and side effect discovered during clinical testing. Great video content still exists, too. I recently watched most of the Kurosawa back catalog recently, which I should have done years ago, but now most of it is on HBO Max. Every studio having its own streaming platform now at least means virtually every great film ever filmed is at your fingertips now, but you have to put up with the reality that you still need to explicitly look for it. They're never going to put this stuff in the trending recommendations or whatever.

It's like the world needs librarians again and maybe all the nerds who used to staff video and record stores, poorly paid but passionate purveyors of information who had no incentive to sell you anything because they were going to get the same shit wage no matter what. Except I guess we need to figure out a way to also pay them.
I'm sure there are other reasons but at least it drives viewers to other shows that they want us to watch.