skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the smartphone as much as the negative synergy between many to many shortform social media and the always there smartphone that is creating all of the damage.

If you uninstall every social media app from the smartphone and configure every one to one communication app to silent mode most if not all of the negative impact that your smartphone have on your life will probably go away or become trivial issues. But then again that's kind of like turning your smartphone into an dumpphone, and decrease the need for a big new expensive one every 18-24 months.

The problem with smartphone centric asocial media is that they discourage one to one and longform messages so what you get is the equivalent of a crowd of people shouting slogans at each other and while that can be tremendeusly entertaining it's mentally draining and rarely lead to closer relationships or constructive dialogue.

Add to this is the fact that.there is indications that being bored is actually beneficial to long term mental health.
LLMs are Marokov Chains in the following sense: States are vectors of context-length many tokens. Then the model describes a transitions matrix: For a given
context-length sized vector of tokens it gives you probabilities for the next context-length sized vector of tokens.
Oh no, is this yet another proposal of IPv4 with extra octets?
Management needs thought-piece articles like these, and a lot of them, for any kind of concept to get through to their brains.
From most of the RTO policies I’ve seen I’m convinced it’s an alternative to an officially layoff. Depending on how deep they need to cut will determine how strict the new policy is. While a layoff can, but doesn’t always, target low performers… RTO seems to accidentally target top performers.
> Surprised the author didn't point out that even the lake is artificial.

What do you mean by artificial? As in, not a natural lake but man made or some other sort of artificial like it's not really there or it's not really water but some video keyed in during post? Man made lakes are quite common. In Texas tall tell legend, it is known that Texas only has 1 natural lake with the rest being all man made. As with all Texas legends, arguing against that is about as effective as arguing with a fence post. Never mind, there are plenty of other, albeit, smaller natural lakes. All of the large lakes that most people think of are all developed by Army Corp of Engineers used for flood control and storing water through the common dry spells. They just happen to let people use them for recreation too
I'm happy the price of my local weekly paper (about £2.50) for a town of about 10,000 (most of the paper is the wider county which has a 300k, the first 4 or 6 pages are specifically local)

Because if I (and the others that do pay) don't pay it for local news, then nobody will cover local news, and I value local news coverage far more than £2.50 a week.

Think of it as paying for a youtube channel on patreon.
> Secrets are for the weak.

Care to share your name, home address, and social security number?

Unless you're weak sauce, that is.
I find disabling all notification sounds and vibrations, with the exception of the phone ringer does the job for me.

I'd like to get rid of the smartphone entirely, but it's a great podcast and audiobook delivery device.
It's a made-up word, specifically intended as a trademark for the NAR. The surprising thing is that people willingly adopted the trademark to describe themselves. Maybe it's similar to people calling themselves "Googlers".
Arranging a convention site contract is always a lot of work, even if (hypothetically) the Caesar's rep suggested that they try LVCC.
Upnp is where the shred of doubt comes from. Only a shred because the PC very likely won't use it, and nowadays few routers have it by default. And the solution is, upnp shouldn't exist.
There is nothing wrong with smartphones, it is what people use them for. Remove social media from your phones and you are good. If you are unable to delete social media apps then you have an addiction problem. Consult a doctor or just simply become a responsible adult.
If you think you’re a top performer, but you don’t have a network of people who trust you and like working with you, then you’re almost certainly not a top performer.
We use poetry inside docker in a very similar way, but use a multistage docker file - the "builder" image has poetry installed and installs the application into a venv, we then copy that venv to the "prod" image and run the application there (so we do not have poetry or any other packages that are only required at build time in the final image).

Any thoughts on that approach?
Being great at your job and running a company are different skillsets.
This is no longer true, there's various high level types that WebAssembly can pass around, such as reference types (opaque objects from the outside world, i.e. JavaScript objects) and all the new GC types. So the only thing stopping you from calling into web APIs is importing them into the WebAssembly, which atm is indeed still a manual process (or automated with some codegen).
Huawei was targeted because they refused to allow backdoors in their switches and phones that the 5 Eyes could exploit.
> Therefore, subscriptions for games are not a big thing yet (I doubt it will ever be)

World of warcraft has had a subscription for 20 years and is wildly successful. PSN has a monthly subscription where you get 2-3 games per month added to your account that you can play as long as you're still subscribed. Gamepass has 25+ million subscribers [0]

> I'm not OK with paying $70 a month

Honest question, why not? That's what cable TV cost 15 years ago, and $70 now has the purchasing power of ~$50 then.

[0] https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/09/15/xbox-game-pass-30-m...
oh no. you are trying to set up a full blown alternative. that's not how the majority of world does piracy.

here is how it goes.

you have a laptop/pc. you go to tbp, search for the top 100 for movies/tv shows and download the torrent, watch it and delete the file to save space.

what you are describing is off-limits for majority of the world.

i have rented seedboxes back in 2016 for 2 months to get those "points" to get to a private tracker. never before, never after.

i have been using the above tbp+vlc method on a daily basis since 2005-06.

only recently lookmovie and other streaming sites have made it a bit easier.

oh, also, there is an outlier.

popcorntime. it JUST WORKS. I used it on the 2nd day of its initial release, i saw the whole weeks drama with death threats and the subsequent forks that arose. i have been using that as well so i am confirming and NOT PRETENDING that piracy is easier that actually paying for stuff.
What he wrote perfectly applies to SWE, too.

Top performers do need less management (and what you describe is not management) and they are threatening. These are 'natural' consequences of high competency and human nature.
I'm presently on leave at a university in Croatia and my research group's name is Group for Applications and Services on Exascale Research Infrastructure, so the acronym is GASERI. [1]

The first result for gaseri on Stract is our presentation of group's research work, and the second result is our landing page.

Can't complain.

Viva open source, viva AGPL search engine!

[1] https://group.miletic.net/
Probably just to avoid paying taxes (the famous "dutch sandwich" trick)
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However, as soon as one company gives the WFH perk, they'll get the cream of the crop of employees, and therefore, out compete the remaining companies that have to hire the 2nd best.

> SO in the end, workers will have choice.

This assumes that hiring the absolute 1st tier employees gives the respective company a huge economic advantage.

Let me put it this way: in my professional experience lots of companies have no idea how to make use of the potential of excellent employees. So I guess the economic advantage that companies get from hiring the cream of the crop is not that big; thus the leverage that you claim that workers have is, I think, barely given.
> So why would you abuse your reader by making it a pain in the ass to figure out what you mean?

I think this statement is both wrong and irrelevant.

Wrong: if you look into GEB, you notice that is has many chapters. And each chapter works on some topic --- and the chapters itself aren't a pain in the ass to figure out what they mean. Not at all. Each chapter transports its goal quite nicely and timely.

Irrelevant: this book is not an academical paper. It's a book meant to amuse you, to enlighten you, to sharpen your thinking skills. An academic paper describing just how Gödel's work works can be a *LOT* thinner --- but, usually, is also a lot dryer.

It's actually the case that this book gives you many good things that help you to understand (and accept or dismiss) such academic papers easier. But even here, mind the "many", if you expect "all" from the book, then you'll be dissatisfied.

I also wouldn't say that GEB is a philosophical book, at least not in the way modern philosophy is understood. If you see it as a book dedicated to like ("philo") wisdom ("sophie"), then it is. But so are most after books in the IT field.
>nowadays few routers have it by default

And nowadays few routers have IPv6 firewall disabled by default... Do you see how fragile your argument is now?
If that were the case, all games including AAA would be exclusively multiplayer. While there have been some MP-only games (because that's a good strategy to acquire users), that's not been the case. In fact, you can get MP on cracked games through steam by abusing the API.

GabeN was right, it's a service problem. Sure, when I was a teen I would crack all my games, but I had no money and was never going to be a paying costumer. Now that I have money I can spend, and since steam has acquired me as a user, if I want to buy a game I will check steam. I still crack some games because I do not have infinite money, but it's always because I checked the price and decided it was too much first.
I appreciate how this article acknowledges that once an addicting device is in our hands, we are to some degree at its mercy. So the best intervention is environmental: get rid of the device.

I employ a lightweight version: in my home is a "charging station" where it is easy to place a device and then forget about it. Some days I don't even see my phone until noon. If I drop my device at the charging station when I walk past it or when I get home, it's likely I won't pick it up for many hours. This practice has been a game changer for elongating my attention span and conducting myself with greater presence.

Notes:

- There's no downside to this strategy; I still have a 2-factor auth device, maps for travel, music for car rides, convenient contactless payment, etc.

- The charging station should be away from the main living areas and bedroom – mine is in a hallway's open cupboard near the main entrance.

- The "charging" part of the charging station is a misnomer, you don't have to charge anything, but the label serves as an enticement to drop off the device.
I agree with you about self service. I wouldn’t even consider building a SaaS today without it being 100% self service. As much as possible, any time you spend with the customer needs to be adding value to the relationship, not repeating what you did before.

That said, another side of this is that the sales cycle is typically much, much longer in enterprise, and can take significant effort - especially if you have to go through an RFI and RFP process, internal onboarding, secops audit, etc. And there’s really no guarantee you’ll win. You could sink 6 months into it for nothing. You might just be the stalking horse for some other vendor.

An enterprise sale can easily take 6 months. So one needs to consider, how many mid- or low- tier customer could you get in that time? What is the value of that over time?
That's not true though because most decision and execution processes in Japan are daisy chained. One person can't just make you send a tonne of money because you'd normally have to forward it onto someone else, who clears it with someone else, and then we all sign a ringisho.

The daisy chaining prevents single responsibility stuff like this.

Also for what it's worth I've done verification callbacks to every single one of my bosses at some point during my career here and no-one's ever questioned it.
100%

having a memeoji avatar indicates you're a tech person like having an anime avatar indicates you like anime

(opinions from a twitter perspective, may not reflect real life)
(applauds)

That's also my go-to karaoke song (no codpiece unfortunately)
OP is describing it as an analogy of what the equivalent action by Alphabet would be and it’s pretty accurate - Yandex search remains in Moscow while the rest of Yandex operations (eg cloud) remains in the EU.
That's hilarious. I think the translator may have decided not to want to confuse the audience with the Dutch sense of humor.
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Agree with your second and third points, but doesn't your first one clash with your second?

In my experience, top perfomers/good dev will spend a lot less time with their own middle managers than average ones, except where the culture is terrible. But they might spend more time with managers for other teams and low-level executives.
Most of the time I need to turn light on when I go to another room, but then I pass by the switch anyway.
Exactly. Tineye is my go-to for searching by image, Yandex and Bing are backups, and Google can often still be convinced to by using "search by image" extensions or the "Find image source" button in Google Lens, but it's more friction so I don't usually bother any more.
Moin?
Ah yes, just like in Russia we all know someone who was put in the trunk of a car by the FBI and driven around the forest just because they didn't want to pay up to the local director and his network of cronies. Or we all know of a prominent local case of a murderer or rapist that was released from prison (without any legal basis), then went on to fight a war for 6 months, then came back to our city with new military experience, now knowing how to handle rifles, grenades and man portable rocket launchers, and with severe PTSD.

/s
Here's a napkin-math breakdown my colleague gave me. Prior to lockdown he had the following:

1 hour commute every way.

2 hours every day, where he was stuck behind the wheel.

260 workdays = 520 hours, every year.

That's 65 8-hour workdays, just spent commuting.

He just recently bought an EV, but drove a car that used around 0.8L / 10 km. His daily commute was 150 km in total. So he roughly spent 12L of diesel every day.

In a year, that's 3120L of diesel. 1L of diesel here is currently 21 NOK, or approximately $2. So in a year, he spent over $6000 in fuel alone. Not to mention all the other wear and tear on his car.

He can use his lunches more effectively. Instead of spending all 30 minutes in the lunchroom, or surfing the web, he can do housework, do his daily errands, shopping, or what not.

All in all, by working form home, he saves money and time. And lots of it!
>but you're average, non-tech industry, person in NA has essentially no need or situation when they would run into Yandex

They have the most popular reverse image search tool now that Google got rid of theirs
Your guess is mostly wrong.

The playstation runs freebsd rather than linux licensing reasons, not for speed.
95% of what Yandex N.V. owns is ООО Яндекс business in Russia. I don't even believe they are keeping Yandex assets in Belarus and Kazakhstan. So that becomes a box that is mostly empty.

I don't believe anybody is going to pay for actual Yandex Cloud in Europe where they have AWS and Hetzner.

So even Russia-based Yandex Cloud with actual racks and users remains in Moscow. What they may keep is vague "cloud technologies" and Clickhouse. Still, these are not a large business. Think VMWare and MongoDB combined. Please correct me if you know more.

Their self-driving stuff, was also mostly used in Moscow. Genuinely hope they would find customers, such as Hyundai.
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Onyx Palma plus my iPhone SE dual carrying is the ticket.

I use the phone as a 4G hotspot, Apple Music, plus apps such as Uber, Waze, wallet, etc. No social networks (LinkedIn and Reddit only on desktop browser), no messaging.

Apple Watch replaced with Casio GShock (solar powered and automatically adjusted via radio, expect it to last 20 years)

Palma has WhatsApp and telegram, outlook (closed most of the time) and reading apps.Podcasts too.

Most sites are consumed via RSS. PDF to Readwise for read later, notes on desktop Obsidian.

I can use Organic Maps in the Palma, and most tickets via QR. I try to force myself not to use the iPhone at all on the street except one of those cases (recharge public transport ticket, camera, payment, etc)
Deno in 2023
Interesting read, thanks.

I would say I definitely lean closer towards the revisionist take and while I do see the middle ground Walker is trying to state exists, I feel like its just a toned down version of the revisionist argument for the traditionalists stake.

I do believe part of Japan leadership wanted to surrender and would have if we did not require it "unconditionally". We definitely kept the bomb secret in order to show off our power to the Soviet Union - we hid as much as we could and only alluded to our new weapon in passing.

"Defeat is not surrender" is such a cop out. Now wars can only end in surrender? Says who? Why can't we draw up a truce and just end-it-now instead of this invade-or-bomb nonsense? Why did it have to be one or the other?

I do agree it was Total War and the morality of a lot of these things were not on the mind of many, espically Truman after inheriting the situation.
I use Yandex on a weekly basis because its reverse image search is much better Google and Bing.
In my circles, the joke is having heart attacks while shooting oneself in the back after falling out of windows.
Does anyone here use both a dumbphone AND a smartphone?

I was thinking I could call forward from my smartphone to my dumbphone when I'm leaving the former at home. Seems like a good compromise?
“#1 search engine in Russia”. Done and done.
> Euler Spiral

AKA the "apple peel" projection.
Integrating the New [WebKit] Layer-Based SVG Engine
How Sidekick really works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_pr...
Okay, but, are you saying you wouldn't want wolves to solve the problem if they could?
No, it's absolutely not theft and courts agree.
High Roller Sweeps is the largest online gaming provider in the world, with the distribution opportunity to enter the online gaming industry. To experience the thrill and new technology of online games.
The FT one (https://archive.ph/YiA3q) says almost nothing. The Bloomberg one (https://archive.ph/AsVYu) says "The Russian unit represented more than 95% of the Yandex Group’s consolidated revenues in the first nine months of 2023, and approximately 95% of its consolidated assets and employees." Not much left!
The edit-compile-test cycle in 1986 on a large mainframe was approximately 6 hours. A laser printer cut that down to 3.5 hours and that was enough to be able to do twice as much in a day. You can't imagine how surreal the difference was between my productivity at home on my micro computer vs what I got paid for.

The only way to get anything done at all was to have the program more or less complete in your head otherwise you'd be busy for months on a simple problem. Exploratory programming? Forget about it...
Thanks for the suggestions! Something that really interests me is both data conversions and AI, I’ll try to find something interesting to work on that is in an intersection for both topics. Alternatively, I got an idea to make a tool for comverting a Minecraft world file into a real time render of the world, and make it look good since there is only 1 tool that exists and is pretty outdated and I’ve seen people wanting a wabsite to do it, not a console application.
> We need a space that can handle an event our size, and configurable enough to accommodate our content.

I love this sounds like a pun about loading/executing a payload.
Large Language Models and Me
> Reminder that those who bought it, voted for it.

I truly loathe this argument. I've seen it for cars, seen it for laptops, seen it for mobile devices. For years. People like you really think not purchasing the bad will fix stuff like this?

Purchasing decisions let you pick between competitors. That is all. You can't pick the open-source car that does not exist, unless you want to start your own car company just to build one. If you don't buy any car at all, then you simply don't exist to them, and they don't care about you.

Nobody is going to quit locking down their software just because a rounding error doesn't like it that way. They don't do it because they need people's votes, they do it because the company simply wants the software locked down, they don't care what customers think about it. Even if nobody bought the car, and everybody told them directly to offer open access, they'd probably still refuse to provide it, until and unless something like a regulation is passed that mandates it.

Cars aren't spying on you because people are voting for the spying. Nobody who buys the car is voting for it to spy on them, unless I guess their hypothetical dystopian future insurance gives them a bonus/discount for allowing them to view the data from the vehicle and they're actually okay with that.

Just look, you have a limited number of choices. You can "vote" for anything that is currently on the market. That is all the choice you have. If you want a car from the current market, you're going to have to pick one to vote for. Odds are they're all going to have some sort of surveillance-state bullshit, or the ones that don't have it are just going to be less-nice vehicles in general.

Similar to how, before Framework, everyone concerned about open-source system firmware was most likely rocking a speedy 2004 ThinkPad with a couple gigabytes of RAM. They were unable to simply vote for an actually fast, modern machine, as all of them had proprietary blobs doing who-knows-what. So someone had to come out and actually build one, and now we have Framework.

I believe that for phones, we might have Purism sometime in the 2030s, once they work out the most basic issues with their software stack, probably caused by trying to use existing Linux userland.

For cars... I haven't heard anything yet. Nobody's come out and built an open-source car company yet. So we're currently in the phase where you simply can't vote for an open-source car. Now, do you still need a car anyway? Then I guess you vote in favor of a locked-down vehicle. Even if you're not actually trying to vote, and you just need a car right now.

So that's why I hate this argument. Just because you bought a car doesn't mean you should be on the hook for "voting" for every feature the car has. You voted for the car. Doesn't mean it's perfect.