skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"but it will surprise no one to learn I never heard anything back"

(surprisingly?) ... I have colleagues that, even in 2023, will express genuine (not sarcastic shock) when a megacorp doesn't reply or provide decent support. I've only got a few, but the refrain will be something like "wow, I'm kinda surprised google's cloud support doesn't get back to us - sometimes for days. they've always had such a good reputation for support... i hope this is a blip".

It's as if they've only ever read marketing/sales leaflets, then really are genuinely surprised when things are 'normal' (meaning poor performance, non-responsive support, bad/wrong documentation, broken SDKs, data loss, etc).
> Just have normal conversation, a bit of small talk, listen and pay attention, flirt a bit, only show off if it doesn't break the rhythm of the moment (better yet, don't show off at all), ask for a date without saying it's a date.

It's really hard to do this well and not be boring however. You have to do all those things and also subtly telegraph that you're somehow attracted to them and don't just want to have "a normal conversation" - mostly by 'showing off' subtly enough, not looking like you're blatantly showing off. It can be done, but plenty of guys are going to try and fail. I do suppose it's better to look excessively boring and inoffensive than to end up on their "red flag, animal, unsafe to be around. Must be avoided" list.
Caves of Qud makes water the currency of the game.

It Forces you to barter because you can't carry enough water to buy many things.

But you always have the pressure to hold onto some to drink. Or you die.
Local LLM with the entirety of Wikipedia accessible via RAG (or better, newer technique) is legitimately a little super-powered assistant. It works when the grid goes down, and the searchability is orders of magnitude better - especially when you're not sure what you're looking for.
Its never been possible to participate in github hosted open source without an account...
I'm currently just trying to hang on, I transferred to a less stressful role internally. I also realized because I'm susceptible to burnout I can't push myself and give myself a ridiculous mortgage. I need to keep my cost of living low cause I might just quit and try to never work again.

It's been a band-aid solution, ultimately I think my problem is I don't want to work for these tech companies, almost all of which seem to be user-hostile with incompetent management just squeezing their employees and jockeying for credit whenever something actually valuable is produced. Burnout is my brain telling myself that, not any unique condition. But alas...I have life responsibilities.
Celebrating 10 Years of Lean UXmas
And that's for good reason. Encyclopedias are supposed to be tertiary sources, not primary sources. Having an explicit cited reference makes it easier to judge the veracity of a statement compared to digging through the page history to figure out if a line was added by a person who happens to be an expert.
You don't even need to go that deep -- just give me a filetype-based icon, file name, and last modified date, and that should be enough for me to choose. And if they want to be simple, include the option to always keep the most recent version of the file (which is going to be the right answer in many cases).
it doesn't use a fan
I've been convinced for years that Google Docs loses things. I both had files vanish and have lost edits - one time I could demonstrate it with a screenshot of part of a doc that later reverted to an earlier version.

Other people at work agree with me. Google support insists we're nuts.

I only use it when other internal folks start collaborative docs, otherwise I do not trust it. Files don't randomly disappear from my local filesystem (and we test our backups).
Same, I have had years of photos in google photos simply go missing when they transitioned from Picasso to photo albums
Is there anything insecure about this code?
yes - my fault.. so it goes
> I just don't understand why people would use Chrome. Most people, I guess, just dont care about their privacy.

I can't think of a single way using Chrome and therefore having "less privacy" has affected me negatively.

In fact, having an internet that just works has allowed me to be more productive.

I'd love for someone to articulate how cookies or tracking has actually harmed them in any way.
Might be like car sliding on ice.. Leave it going as it wants to without you adding further unknowns... Observe carefuly.. decide what to do..

Lots of similar threads here, here my take on a recent one.. "drastic-change-for-a-while":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905149

have fun (pun intended.. find it somewhere first)
Scroll to the bottom.
No, but there's always a first time. If you are in Stockholm, hit me up at pablo at injavascript dot com
Yes I checked container tabs, but they still don't fix my issue.

- I click on a Google Doc work link from Slack, I want it to open in my work profile

- I click on a Google Doc link from the WhatsApp desktop app, I want it to open in my home profile

With Chrome I just need to make sure that the last focused Chrome window is from the right profile.

I really want to switch back to Firefox but that's blocking me.
Interesting to see the "try for free" tier using gpt3.5t, and the paid tier using gpt4t.

"Here you can try something very much like our product, but our product is actually better" is not the most orthodox marketing method. I'd say giving a small sample at full quality is very standard. Is this an ML thing?
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they intentionally avoid using certain words to try to bypass trading bots that trigger on keywords.
Beginner's guide to using a breadboard [video]
This is really cool. Love that we're in a phase of AI tooling where you can just wire various projects together to create what (to anyone else who isn't following the space) looks like magic.

Also love that your kid was more impressed by the squiggly-lines visualization than the AI. There's a lesson in there somewhere I imagine re: dressing up magic to make people care.
prompt shamans, yes
Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
What's sad is I don't believe any of these research papers anymore. Both ways can be found good or bad. It's impossible to deal with.
It's always a group of questions I queue up when interviewing--trying to suss out what the culture is like with respect to work/life balance. I don't want to work on weekends, I don't want to work at night. Sometimes things come up, but it needs to be exceedingly rare.

By making that a must-have item, even more than target salary--you only have one life, one family--I've been able to avoid a lot of burnout in the last few years. But early on in my career, I didn't give that the respect it deserves, and I paid for it.
> Getting a different job in a startup or an agency sounds like the last thing I want right now. From what I’ve heard big tech is not all that much different, and a non-tech programming job sounds like it’d be boring/horrible in a different way.

Here's the thing. Every job is a job. Even "doing what you love" comes with days when you really don't feel like doing it. There is no perfect job that will contain all the things you like about work and none of the things you don't like about work.

Furthermore, you will never ever get the first years of your kid(s) life back. You should be present for those years. Being burnt out and hating your job does not leave you the mental bandwidth to be present.

Taking a less glamorous job to make space in your life for other pursuits is not bad. Even if it's just for little while to reset. And have some perspective: you can enjoy some aspects of a job without enjoying all aspects. Pick what is most important for you and optimize for that. And the most important aspect is not fixed; it will change depending on your season in life.

I don't think I've ever been actually burnt out, but I have experienced the gamut of job satisfaction. You break out of it through self-reflection and understanding what you actually like and dislike about a job, and what really matters to you in life and how to build around that.
Oh that’s true. Dark Souls solved it with the estus flask in the same manner.
An example of a group homomorphism in physics is the relationship between the rotational symmetry group of a physical system (often the group SO(3) for three-dimensional rotations or SU(2) for spin systems) and the representation of that group by the angular momentum operators in quantum mechanics. The angular momentum operators in quantum mechanics form a representation of the symmetry group because they satisfy the same commutation relations as the infinitesimal generators of the group. This means that the algebraic structure of the rotational symmetry group is mirrored by the algebraic structure of the angular momentum operators, and the way these operators transform states in the Hilbert space of the quantum system reflects the symmetry properties of the system.
This is the fault of the web developer and designers, not advertisers. Let's be clear on who to blame.
It took me years to realize that weed was giving me anxiety instead of helping it. Later when it became legal in my state I bought some and my god did it go poorly. The stuff they make in the stores are so strong and because of my nonexistent tolerance after a decade of abstinence I ended up with a panic attack so bad it bordered on a psychotic episode. I will never smoke again.
An early (pre-App Store) homebrew iOS app I used that did this on my iPod Touch was called "Don't Panic".
Oh yeah that’d totally do it. “I have 5/5 BuffPotions so if I don’t use them, I’ll be leaving more on the ground.”
Got a brother HL-L23800W. Replace the toner every few years. Its a printer that prints. Wifi printing is such a gem.
One of our clients had a consultancy agreement with TCS. As one of their software vendors, we had to work with some TCS guys. It looked like their job was to make other people's work harder. They were full of work politics, bad mouthing other people, and shit like that. They didn't seem to be good at their job either.
Modern (as in, the last 20 years or so) versions of macOS still have this feature, except when you start dragging an electable volume, the icon changes to an eject symbol to make it clear that you’re not actually trashing anything…
I think most mathematicians are uninterested in PoM because their interest in math comes from an aesthetic impulse and a problem-solving drive. In short, they like math because it’s beautiful and challenging, and challenging problems are fun for them to solve.

They may also be motivated by prestige, to varying degrees, though I think mathematicians are fairly low on the prestige-valuation scale (viz. Grigori Perelman).

Though I enjoy PoM myself, it actually feels a bit weird to wonder why mathematicians don’t care about it. To me, it’s like wondering why chess grandmasters don’t seem to care that chess is a fictional game and not real warfare.
which may be the best thing. Burn the thing that is devastating you.
Those ads you are seeing above the comments are from the comment service, Disqus. Unless you pay 12$/month, the comment box iframe will inject ads.

These are not ads directly added by "this guy", but rather by his choice of using Disqus for adding comments to the site.
This is why you always maintain backups. Do not depend on data just being there
Okay, and how does this connect to home ownership?

You have even less recourse against the average burglar than the average landlord.
Problem solved?
Seems easy enough:

"1. Exported a competitor's sitemap

2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles

3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI"

Wither Google (and, alas, the Internet).
I find these studies to be deeply flawed. It is a multivariate situation and we cannot control/observe more than one variable mostly and still end up mistaking these correlations to be causation.

It could well be that it is not diary or meat but the amount of glucose/fructose one eats which really affects this. We must go back to molecular level proofs rather than these kind of statistical studies where you cannot control everything (apart from mouse models which most people reject for being a mouse model)
> a non-tech programming job sounds like it’d be boring/horrible in a different way

The people working in certain sectors make it sound like any job in another sector is going to be unacceptable. Have you talked with people currently working those other jobs to find out what it's actually like?

I have a picture of a truck driving over a cliff as I read your post. You're saying you're burned out, but you're also saying you're not open to doing anything different.
> Go on holiday. At least two months.

If the OP is US based, then this may pose an issue as I'm not aware of any employer that would allow this, and presumably his family's livelihood and health insurance is dependent on his employment. A lot of that is an assumption, but quite a common situation.
It's really unfortunate that all of the mainstream OSes run userspace in the lower portions of the address space.

Setting the most-significant 13 bits (really, setting the second to 12th bits and at least one of the following bits) of an IEEE-754 float will result in a NaN bit pattern. That means that any pointer to the top 2 petabytes of a 64-bit address space, if cast to an IEEE-754 double will be NaN. This means the NaN-boxing used in Safari and Firefox's JavaScript engines, LuaJIT, etc. would be no-ops. (Safari and Firefox use different mechanisms, but they'd become the same if moved to the top of the address space.)

It's not enough of a performance difference to re-jigger everything in mainstream OSes, but I imagine if someone were to come up with a unikernel/exokernel OS specifically for JITing some dynamic language, there's some performance to be had by having all of the dynamic language objects in the upper 2 petabytes of the address space.
https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/archived/

The total liability of Google, and its suppliers and distributors, for any
claims under these terms, including for any implied warranties, is limited to
the amount you paid us to use the services (or, if the subject of the claim
is the free service, to supplying you the services again).

In other words, they can delete *your* data any time they want and claim it was an accident. If you don't like it, you can sue for your money back. If you're using the free tier, you can expect $0.
I've played Blades in the Dark, and while you accumulate stress, you roll to get rid of it. I don't think it costs actual money, although they do call it vices. My plan was to really tie it into the excessive accumulation of money in D&D-style games, which is a problem BitD wouldn't have even if it didn't have the stress mechanic.

Money in BitD is very abstract, and a single coin represents a serious amount of money. And you don't buy stuff with it because you can only take so much stuff with you, and what that is depends on your character. Instead you use it to upgrade your lair or bribe people, I think.

So it's not quite what I was thinking of, although it certainly has some of the elements. Maybe it has shaped how I'm thinking about it now.

I remember how longer ago, I was thinking of a Robin Hood game where character progression depended on how much money you gave to the poor. That way you can still buy stuff for yourself and not level up, or give to the poor and level up.
I learned this when I tried correcting the wikipedia page on Docker. I literally wrote the first prototype. But this wasn't enough source for wikipedia. And to this day the English page is still not truthfull (interestingly enough, the french version is closer to the truth).
> They don’t allow you to search for paid apps.

It's more complicated (and arguably worse) than that. Because Apple provides no way to do a trial of a game (without subscription pricing) some games will have a free tier with ads and an IAP to remove ads. These wouldn't show up under "paid apps" even though they technically qualify.

If you look at what App Store business models Apple makes easy and which ones require jumping through hoops it's pretty clear that they want you to fill your app with IAP or use a subscription model. One time purchase software is possible, but is treated as a second class citizen (no paid upgrades, no demos/trials).
Lemmy's main problem is that the software is a buggy, insecure mess. I speak from helping with a small Lemmy* where a couple of subs decamped. (Both are going very well, and one has actually taken off like a rocket.)

The answer is, obviously, "patches welcome." But this stuff is a bit janky.

The other big problem is that the Fediverse is a collection of software that doesn't quite talk to each other - ActivityPub is a bit underspecified in practice, and you're gonna have to test combinations of actual running code. We've been having a bizarre time just trying to talk to Kbin reliably, i.e. software intended to do the same Reddit-alike job as Lemmy. We almost have two-way Mastodon story and comment flow working, except when the Mastodon has authorized_fetch switched on. Etc etc etc, the problems are a string of little glitches.

OTOH, it basically works well enough to sustain discussion, both local and federated. So everything else is fussing, really.

* https://awful.systems/ official refuge of SneerClub and TechTakes
why is this absolutely oblivious, joke of an article voted so high? web browsers are bloated and insecure, and there is practically no difference between them. tor browser tries (keyword) to reduce fingerprintability to make tor actually work as intended, beyond that there is no difference between firefox. icecat, palemoon, and all those forks are just firefox with 0.01% of the bloat removed. any "privacy" or "security" plugin just increases your attack surface and makes your fingerprint more unique (and 99% of websites collect this fingerprint and use it).

browsers are bloated and unfixable. consuming "privacy" and "security" products does not fix this.

> Mullvad Browser: Best Built-in VPN Support

this text is literally written by a bot
For people interested in the Frore system, Linus Tech Tips did a video on it: https://youtu.be/vdD0yMS40a0?si=UwAeqbTxxnDRf1_V.
I generally hate Paypal and will happily shit on them at any opportunity for all kinds of great reasons (cough, blatant theft of client funds for completely arbitrary reasons), I also don't trust them with anything but the as-temporary-as-possible storage of the least possible amount of payment funds when I have no other choice. However, weirdly, on the few occasions in which I've had to contact their customer support, they've been surprisingly friendly and helpful so far. But maybe I've just been lucky.
They are called ROMs because that is what the computer called them. The computer uses them to load initial startup code and base functions, and the ROM is in the "ROM" address space (as opposed to RAM, I/O, etc.). It does not matter whether it is EPROM or Mask ROM. It's basically the equivalent of BIOS.
Ahh a checkbox at submission is an excellent idea, thanks!
Oh my, we posted the same thing at the same time ;)
Very possible, yes: https://github.com/tumashu/vertico-posframe. You can position the box anywhere you want by configuring the parameter:

vertico-posframe-poshandler . posframe-poshandler-frame-top-center
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I use `posframe-poshandler-frame-bottom-center`, which looks like this:

https://klibert.pl/statics/vertico-screenshot.png

Those ugly things at the top of the window are tabs - they can look much better if you use a modern theme (personally, it never bothered me enough to put time into configuring them).
I would always travel and adventure when the burnout built up. Worked perfectly to relieve it. Inevitably after some time I would start to get some motivation back and craving for intellectual stimulation, that's when I could start learning new things, new projects and the desire to get back into work.
NoSQL Benchmark: MongoDB vs. ScyllaDB
In TES II: Daggerfall, gold pieces have a weight which is not trivial if you're reasonably wealthy. To avoid carrying them around, you can open an account at a local bank, or you can have a bank sign you a letter of credit (for a fee) that can be converted to gold at other banks, IIRC.

In ADOM, gold pieces also have nontrivial weight. There is an item, the girdle of greed, that increases your carrying capacity according to the amount of gold you have, and lets you carry insane amounts of gold.
As cool as this tech is, I question the efficiency. They claim '10.5W of heat removal using 1.75W of power' in their press release. I'm not entirely sure how this compares to regular fans, but data points I can find suggests that regular fans use much less power (even the tiny laptop ones) for similar amounts of cooling performance. Could possibly be very cool for a tethered application (mac mini, mac studio?), but increasing power draw seems like it'd be a bad thing for battery life.
No it isn't. And if it is, that's a place you don't want to work and do want to see go out of business.
To move fast, quantum maze solvers must forget the past
The fact that Google's gmail and Google Meet break more in Firefox than in Google's Chrome leads me to wonder what they are doing to make Firefox work as badly as it does.
A lot of attention given to the inadequacies of the nuclear family, but industrialization seems likely the reason we broke into nuclear families to begin with. Smaller family units could move to where the breadwinner needed to go, breaking up intergenerational communities. Funny how our mobility is greater than ever, yet somehow less able to stay together.
Zona incerta dopamine neurons encode motivational vigor in food seeking
I'll do that now, thanks! I might open-source the codebase, too, so people can help.
Estus flasks basically.
I took 9 months off to find the joy again. Then I found an established company that produces something useful for society and that has plenty of people that has been working there for a long while.
TCS conducts business in the US, so it is subject to US courts.
So eating food improves immune response to cancer. Next.
You should really ask anyone who has ever served in the US military what they think would happen if they had to fight the US public. There's a lot more to worry about than "someone owning a handgun". A lot of people think that the tyrant would just nuke parts of the country, but that's not how it would go. You need boots on the ground to occupy an area, and those boots would encounter a lot of resistance.

Also, do you remember what just happened in afghanistan?
Hackaday is a great site to discover new things, but it may be a good idea to just link to the site they're summarizing:

https://diyelectromusic.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/a-dx7-usb-d...
Yes, but the real numbers that can be computed to arbitrary precision with an algorithm are countable: this means almost all the reals contain an infinite amount of information. The real numbers are useful to reason and construct proofs, but as far as the physical world go, only very few of them are actually meaningful.
Also, this seems to imply innovation equals new features. In my day, we had an "innovation process" where we found "lead customers" with specific requirements they would pay for. If we then found a lot of people would pay for the same feature, it became a "capital f" Feature, managed by a product manager and tracked through the dev process. Mostly we found a bunch of different customers with similar, but different requirements. We then worked out an API or hardware interface third parties could use to meet customer's specific requirements at a price point the customer would accept.

But... now we just buy whatever HP or Apple ships and hire an intern to manually do the thing we were trying to automate.