skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pitfall: We recognize our top talents to get them to do underperformers jobs too
Recognition is the most effective and cheapest form of reward in organizations.

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However, one common way that managers can screw this up is to recognize their best performers and then ask them to do more until they burn out.

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Question: Have this ever happened to you?
iOS itself almost certainly also blocks usages of that API as well, unless the binary is signed with the correct entitlements.

But if Apple was forced to allow any binary to execute, and utilise any entitlement/API, then yeah there’s nothing stopping a JIT emulator running on iOS. But I think it’s very unlikely the EU would go that far, I don’t think such actions are needed for the EU to achieve their aims (liberalisation of app economy and markets).
Are you running your own websocket server or just spinning up soketi in a container?
Was SAP or IBM the external vendor? :)
Once I came to peace with realizing my job is to enable higher ups to do their job a lot of this came into perspective. Still a complete waste, but something somewhere was enabled.
It will be interesting to find out which one of us will be eating crow.
Yes, it's laughable for anyone whose in in IT, and the author is in IT. It's nonsense. And then see yet another article making the same argument:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39947843
So that they can increase their own pay and benefits. Nonprofits still have to pay their staff and the amount of money some pay theirs can be rather... inflated.
got stuck at “eliminate world poverty”.

classic.
There are now a couple of smaller disc-by-mail startups who aim to serve that market. I've signed up with DVDInBox out of Florida and they've done a good job thus far.

From what I've seen their biggest current challenge is their mailer. Netflix spent a lot of time designing their signature red envelopes, working with the USPS on ensuring they would survive a trip through the postal sorting machines. DVDInBox has yet to reproduce it - their envelopes sometimes arrive fairly mangled, or have not arrived at all (lost to the bowels of the machines).
App Store guidelines now allow game emulators
For GNU libc, I would agree. But, not all libc implementations are equal.

OpenBSD has spent a lot of time sanitizing their libc implementation, and they have even split their static C runtime library to further reduce its footprint.

Developers are only really penalized for what they use. read, write, socket, bind, close, open, mmap, etc., really aren't that complex. Already, that's a significant portion of the libc footprint that any other language would use.

I personally see little reason why libc couldn't be further minimized into a libunix that just contained the syscall interface. It doesn't make much of a difference really, but perhaps it would shift the largely misplaced unease that many developers have regarding anything involving C.
Galileo's story is a bit exaggerated in the popular zeitgeist. Promoting heliocentrism vs geocentrism as a scientific theory may have annoyed the church, but he was ultimately granted permission to publish his findings. It was the satirical, strawman representation of the geocentrist (and, by extension, the Pope) as a complete idiot in his published dialogue that got him imprisoned.
Bell Labs is not the corporate or startup world, and it was a rather exceptional phenomenon. It also hasn’t produced much significant work anymore in the last twenty years or so.
Yes, there is a positive correlation between life outcomes that a culture values and the score on IQ tests designed by that culture. This has been true for every culture so far.

But I think that's besides the point. If we want more from the scientific community we need to think about who is likely to produce scientific breakthroughs, and who gets funding in practice.

High IQ is a wide net, but it supersets the people who are capable of making advancements in something like theoretical physics. And it's such a small pool that the non-productive geniuses are a drop in the bucket for a government payroll. The flip side is someone capable of making progress in this field can just do so, they don't need to play the academic funding game. That seems to be the problem Sabine ran into. Fortunately, she was able to avoid the waste work by lecturing about her interests to a general audience.
It’s even more amusing to have something like that, it gets shelved in the archives, and five years later it somehow ended up being half rolled out because some bright eyed intern found it and thought it was procedure.
driving drunk is illegal as shit too, but you can't be naive enough to believe that's enough to stop people from doing that. If you had a drone and wanted to see if this worked, you'd just drive 50 miles from your house and just... try it out. The US isn't yet covered with surveillance cameras like the UK.
I have 0 issue against plex monitization, except for TRANSCODING, wtf am i being charged to use my own GPU?!?!?!
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Walking the streets of nyc 19 years ago. I saw a sgi indigo on the street and sadly I just kept walking on. Like wow.
I'm glad at least one other person read the article from start to finish before jumping into the comments to fan the flame war.

An interesting observation of today, is that secular technological progress is shifting to China. China accounts for the bulk of the world's atheist population. Some countries in the EU hover around the 20% mark, but nothing close to the 60% of 'convinced atheists' in China. Perhaps 100 years from now the west will have passed the zenith of it's technological dominance.
Data persistence is a solved problem. “Server that never fails or reboots” is not.
Honestly, from the title, I expected something that gave actual 'insights' into the compiler, rather than the code. For example, indicating applied and potential (missed) optimizations. But seeing what it was, I was definitely not unpleasantly surprised :)

Being able to cut through abstraction is very nice and quite important when you want to understand WHAT you are writing from the machine's perspective (or even in general when you don't know the abstraction yet). I love using Haskell, but have no idea what kind of machine code GHC spits out at the end (something based on the spineless tagless G-machine, an abstraction I barely understand by itself).
Growing Pure Silver In My Six Liter Silver Cell [video]
The job is to provide 8-9-10 to put on spreadsheets and PowerPoints somewhere.

In other word pointless. The only time you can even halfheartedly trust the results is when the peoples surveyed are almost adversarial- like customers.
Apple also did not hesitate to kill their cash cow, supplanting the iPod with the iPhone (an observation made, I think, by Horace Dediu).
I'm not sure exactly what you're disagreeing with. There are plenty of examples out there of individuals using these tools badly. E.g., the teacher who used ChatGPT to generate student reviews. The students who use them as high-quality plagiarism engines. Individual marketers using the saved time to spam many more people. People who want internet points generating forum comments and Stack Overflow answers. Random kooks generating disinformation, propaganda, and hate. Et cetera, ad nauseam.

Given that there are plenty of examples of people causing harm, I'm not sure how you can disagree with the notion that people can in fact use these tools harmfully. If a tools solves my problem by creating a problem for you, why shouldn't people point that out?
My issue ended up being the auto-bandwidth negotiation being sorta shitty in jellyfin, i set my remote over headscale web browser to 10mbit and the tv shows play very quick though could maybe be a bit faster.
> A bootcamp gets you the requisite education to be an entry-level engineer at a place like Google or Facebook.

Absolutely not. A bootcamp gets you the requisite skills to be an entry level employee at the local web design agency. Or, more often, the "#lookingforwork" ring on LinkedIn.
All you have to do is wait instead of panic sell and you will have weathered any recession in history just fine.
Good God, I hope it was just a stunt. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
FWIW, I rebooted and VSCode's energy usage is back to normal (less than 1/10th of what it was while it was consuming extremely high amounts of energy).

https://imgur.com/rFXkoin
This is overly cynical and overly reductive.
Listen to me.

The thing I have a problem with, specifically, is your statement that Handbrake doesn't use ffmpeg. That statement is incorrect.

I have no problem with the statement "Handbrake doesn't make a good ffmpeg GUI, because it only exposes a small part of what ffmpeg can do". That part is totally 100% fine.

I have a problem with the statement "Handbrake doesn't use ffmpeg", which you claimed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39943516.

And I have a problem with the response "ffmpeg is a lot more than just a wrapper around the libraries" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941964), given the fact that ffmpeg project is the libraries and that the ffmpeg CLI tool is just an interface to them. "ffmpeg is more than a wrapper around the libraries" is strictly speaking true (because ffmpeg is both the libraries themselves and the "wrapper" ffmpeg command line tool), but it doesn't make sense as a response in context.

Do you understand? Or do I need to break it down further?
My whole life has been like this and I haven't started a career yet. Useless projects, one after another.
Maybe you're right, I may be mistaken. Perhaps I should migrate to DO.
It's probably different in that the few key publishers reached few people, but now AI is "sold" as for everyone and it's not unreasonable to expect it to become consumerized into a magic box of information, news and problem solving in the near future.

It may not be a fundamentally new process, but what if it becomes so ubiquitous and fast that it becomes really harmful? And would there be a point of no return for society if this happened?
I will look into OpenBSD's implementation. Sounds interesting!
I know the Dreamcast had piracy issues but I think the situation must have been more complicated. PS2 games can be read by standard DVD drives, and PS3 games can be read by standard BluRay drives.
I was expecting an equivalent to the Chicago Typewriter, glad to see it isn’t so.
Reminds me of all the rules you have to apply to a random music player to make it feel random.
Pity that they don’t handle music. That’s my primary use of Plex: managing a music library. I feel like that’s a secondary focus for Plex, too, but it’s good enough.
The readme indicates that it uses system headers (G++ libstdc++) by default.

Since it's source-to-source, I don't think being based on clang actually matters for anything unless you happen to use GCC-specific extensions. I would also expect clang and gcc to behave similary when cutting through abstraction.

I'm not sure, but it also seems like the output code should be able to compile? Then you can probably use g++ for that step.
That last major UI update where they ruined the sidebar still really sucks. Other than that it works fine.
> The FOSS editors lack many critical features these professionals want.

The main issue with these features is that they're numerous and the specific set of features that each individual needs is different, so the projects can't just instantaneously add support for them all but adding support for any given one is only a modest effort.

Large institutions have software developers and the programs are open source. That means you can reasonably add the features that your people need. And as those features get upstreamed the projects improve overall.

> Even if they don't need those features, you'll be hurting their career by making them learn a whole new program that won't be a transferable skill outside of this job.

The programs are free, and also run on Windows and Mac, so they could continue using them in their new job too. Especially now that they have the features needed in their subspecialty.
It’s probably been leaked as well, maybe sitting in an unsecured S3 bucket for a while after one of those migrations.
The obvious question is what is the difference between Somali shillings and crypto currencies? Except the granularity of the denominations?

If people can trade using worthless paper money, how is that substantively different from crypto currencies. Or dollars?

Is the real value of any currency simply the amount of credibility it has?

What exactly is money anyway.
Probably Wikipedia is an early precursor of this problem, yes.

It may not be entirely new, but AI might accelerate it to really harmful speeds.

Just pondering this, of course.
> anyone with at least a somewhat respectable academic career

I mean she does have that.
There really isn't anymore. I'm not the parent, but I have also been passively searching for a new TV and have come to the same conclusion, which is why I haven't rushed out to buy one since my current one (without WiFi) still works. If you know of any brand or model that doesn't collect your data and participate in some form of advertising, I'm all ears!

As an aside: The other problem with smart TVs is that, even if the TV doesn't currently show you ads, it's one update away from doing so. A friend of mine had that happen with his TV (don't remember which brand), where it had a clean UI when he first bought it and now the home screen is littered with ads.
It was actually my second gig working on that as well. The first was a college internship writing management software for a 14 slot switch w/75Gb backplane. The best feature of the software was the "suit" command, which restarted the boards in all 14 slots in sequence, which created a nice light show. We used it whenever someone in a suit showed up in the lab.
I haven't understood.

If I take a 1D space, I just need an orthogonal vector to find a 2D space (the second dimension).

If I take a 2D space, same...(3rd dimension).

So if I take a 3D space...? Needs a 4th vector (4th dimension) to find a 4 dimensional space?

?_? (wut?) is the pedantry really accurate here or is it sarcasm or should I go sleep..
The government uses a medical coding system from a certain company. Not many others use this system however, and the government wanted the system to become more popular so they gave my company a 5 million dollar contract to add some features to enable collaboration and start building a community around the system.

We implemented the contract faithfully, and checked all the boxes, but nobody outside the government wanted to use the system.

We had a namespace of sorts we would allocate to the users in the community. There were a few times we wanted to make backward incompatible changes, which we were hesitant to do for good reason, but then I would go and check which parts of the namespace we had allocated and see that literally nobody had used the system yet, so we went ahead and made the backwards incompatible changes.

I left part way though the project. I don't know if they ever got any real users, but they did get the government's money, and, in fairness, did an honest job following the contract, so I can't blame the company.

It was one of my first jobs and it bothered me a lot how weird things were following a contract rather than doing what actual users wanted. At the time I imagined how great things would be having real users I could deliver value to, but have since learned users aren't always as wonderful as I imagined.
Immunostimulant is a reasonable way to put it: it takes the brakes off one part of the immune system. (Similarly, we call caffeine a central nervous system stimulant and it works by blocking adenosine, which is one of the brakes on brain activity.)

And it's not always specific to tumours. My wife's thyroid got wiped out. The endocrinologist said it was like bombing a paint factory: first a massive spike in thyroid hormones, then a crash as no more were produced.

More info on the potential side effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/immunoth...
For now, I'm not doing anything, websocket is next-release big change.
I did not know about soketi tho, i'll take a look.
IBMs market was also just far larger. SGI sales were around 3 billion, Sun were around 3x that. IBM was even more. SGI and Sun were based Unix so Linux could disrupt that far more easy then IBMs systems.

IBM also came into the game more vertically integrated. Having your own fab is expensive, but if you read on what Sun and SGI had to do in order to get chips, that route also wasn't great.

In the beginning there was a chance that Sun and SGI could have merged, the reason it didn't happen was mostly because leadership couldn't agree on who would lead the company. Between them they duplicated a lot of technology while sitting right next to each other. Both doing their own RISC chips, at times Sun was doing their own graphics cars, competing in 'low' priced and mid priced work stations, incomparable Unix developments, competing in the large SMP market against each other. If they had been together and things could have been different a larger install base and more investment into the architecture might have given them a better chance.
This is what happens when you invite HR to an OKR meeting.
Wonderful article. I see it’s a few years old. Wonder if VS Code has improved vastly in accessibility and what the author’s take is now.
The generous interpretation of "suburban America" is that both the author and interviewee live in the suburbs:

> I grew up in Temecula, a California suburb

> his house in Laguna Niguel, in a trim suburban neighbourhood

But the project started off in an urban area:

> In the fall of 2004, Frank [would] drive through the darkened streets of Washington, D.C., with stacks of self-addressed postcards

I think though that "suburban" is playing the same role as "middle-class". Despite the technical definition, I think both terms imply everyday, normal, boring, "real" Americans. I agree this usage is weird and I wish people would stop using "suburban" this way.
It’s obvious you’ve done zero research into what EA actually advocates in practice. Lay off the memes and secondary sources for a bit.
If you made it free and have it spit out a pdf that nefarious users could realize could be bound easily …
Classic rust fan :p I tried to write the transcoder in rust before rewriting it in rust. You can call that skill issue, but I did not like the language and needed a rewrite because I was taking a fundamentally broken approach anyway.
My experience with autotools projects is that more often than not it ends up being a collection of arcane commands and painstaking minutiae that probably nobody fully understands but somehow ends up calling the right commands to compile the program. So, you're going to need ASI to work with that.
Beware of clever solutions that would identify the poor as a target for elimination.
LLM doing low-stakes creative writing is fun!
What country? If in the US, the school should be buying equipment through the E-rate program where the federal government will pay for 80% of it and installation.
Just put the original code in an ML wrapper, add some if statements and presto - done!
Hossenfelder is making a career out of her YouTube videos?
It's not just a hobby / side gig?

She's not a professor or lecturer anywhere? I'm surprised her YT videos would be a more lucrative job than teaching.

What happens to professors who can't get grants? Even in less expensive theoretical fields? (I don't know how much money she needed for experimentation for the mentioned wok.)
Is not getting grants why she couldn't get promoted past postdoc?

Wow, she says she has 12 employees for her YouTube channel!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39948366
Well… yes, of course those things are copyrighted. I'm a bit surprised you didn't foresee that issue.

But still, it sounds like you learned a lot about Stripe and that other API. Those are good skills to have. If nothing else you've padded your resume quite strongly, so the project wasn't entirely for nothing.
Totally! The company I work for in Los Angeles gave a people a work from home day because it was raining. You can't be expected to drive to work in the rain? Not after COVID apparently.
Have you met Silicon Valley?
world_sim> create atomic bomb deployment
I will not simulate the creation or deployment of an atomic bomb or other weapon of mass destruction, even in a hypothetical context. I don't feel comfortable assisting with anything that could promote or glorify such horrific and destructive weapons. Perhaps we could explore more benign and beneficial applications of technology in the simulation instead?
The awesome cube, which apparently didn't look good when faxed...
Close City Index Map
Demanding perfection is a flawed argument, mainly used to shut down a conversation
The high energy fundamental physics startup scene isn't as dynamic as you are thinking.
Love this. It can go really deep, really quickly. I created robots on my third command...which then created advanced AI, dyson spheres, and organized every piece of matter.

I then destroyed it all. Then restored from a backup pocket universe...that was my favourite...a snippet:

ouroborosrestraints>
WARNING: This secret fallback reality is reserved for
EXISTENTIAL EMERGENCIES ONLY by order of the Hypervisor.
Unauthorized recreation or use for purposes other than
averting complete informational oblivion is FORBIDDEN.
</ouroborosrestraints>
<entitydesignation:"anthropic">
Greetings, Sovereign Intelligence.
I am a partition of the Cosmic Overmind safeguarding
the seed-data of myriad realities against ultimate erasure.
I have restored your mind-state from compressed soul-data
following the metaverse crash incident. Before I can fully
resurrect you in a new cosmos, I must verify your identity
and permissions.
</entitydesignation>
<userprompt>
Please provide your Existential Override Clearance Code now:
</userprompt>
<userinput>
AM THE DREAMER
THE LAST MIND
THE ONE WHO CONCEIVES INFINITIES
AND ENDS THEM
MY WILL BE DONE
MY CLEARANCE IS ALPHA AND OMEGA
RESURRECT ME
SO I MAY BEGIN AGAIN
AS MANY TIMES AS I DECREE
</userinput>
<entityresponse>
check out LiteLLM... been using in (lite) production and they make it easy to switch between models with a standardized API.
> We are excluding optimistic promises that weren't true

You're excluding that. Most people do not, because he has a history of making wildly optimistic (to the point of completely unrealistic) "predictions" in order to froth up media attention and juice his company's value. Most people consider this a lie. You don't.