skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion the declining trust is science is due to science being far less apolitical and far less objective and less validated than in the past.
I lead a team of engineers at a company that lacks many glue people at the moment due to rapid growth. My experience is that when you don't have these people it means everyone else needs to fill the gap for Cross-Team communication. (Or develop silos) That's a huge time sink beyond a certain scale - developers stuck in meetings all the time instead of getting their work done. I think managers like glue people because they see them as work multipliers by freeing up the rest of the team.

Obviously the ideal answer is to have teams do better work and documentation to reduce the need for cross team communication, so I can see where a "no glue people stance" could come from, but at most mid size companies I think its at odds with the business velocity demands.
More like 100 people's time at best. Most of these job postings are fake or stale, as reported here earlier.
Your wikipedia article doesnt seem to have an understanding of what a red line is:

>Crossing a red line to the Russian Federation is often identified as being an action that damages Russian national interests.

It's a bit more than just that.
Thanks for the link.

It should be noted that the actual meaning of "complex life" that is used in the title is "other multicellular living beings besides red algae and green algae".

Multicellular red algae and green algae have appeared many hundred million years before what is described in the paper.

Moreover, multicellular cyanobacteria have existed for a much longer time, but their cellular differentiation is much simpler than in multicellular eukaryotes.

Even more accurately, the "complex life" from the title actually means "animals + whatever multicellular relatives of animals might have existed, but they have disappeared by the Cambrian". The other multicellular eukaryotes, besides red algae, green algae and animals, have appeared much later (with the possible exception of fungi).

Unlike multicellular algae or animals, the multicellular fungi have appeared on dry land, not in water. It is not known yet when this has happened. Fungi existed by the time of the appearance of land plants, which is much later than the events described in the paper, but it is not impossible that they may have appeared a few hundred million years earlier, in symbiosis with terrestrial cyanobacteria and/or green algae.
In a way it’s not surprising that a company that has such a wonky product strategy as Google, hates product people.
The point is that if you understand how the high-level code you write gets translated to what runs on the actual CPU and memory then you write more performant high-level code by default the first time round. So you can get to market just as quickly. Doesn't mean there's not more speed or memory optimizations you can make later but you just raise the bar generally.
As near as I can tell, the main benefit is "new and shiny", combined with "tabs???? yuck" and "I used Make in college and never really learned it, therefore it's bad"
I never used the support in an english-speaking country, so that might indeed explain my experience.
I've been a student at my local university for 19 years now, most of that part time. Sometimes I end up with degrees, other times not. When I'm taking classes that are either too niche or too hard to be on the easiest path towards a degree, it's fantastic.

But if my wanderings take me in a direction which is on the easiest path to a degree (sometimes necessary because the things I want to take have prerequisites that I'd rather not get waived) it's like I've entered some parallel dimension where I'm the only one who is willing to engage with the content. Like wow these kids are getting nothing out of this besides a grade.

So it sounds like we agree that it's not working, though I suspect we'd disagree about how much capitalism belongs in the solution.
> why do we have laws that limit people's freedom

Can you show me the law that deputizes Microsoft to be judge, jury and executioner on other people's private property?

> Not at the expense of harming others.

Isn't that exactly what Microsoft was doing here?
> pushed into the meat grinder to satisfy some unholy combination of military profiteering, resource colonialism, bad foreign policy, and hubris.

Or, you know, not to be the victims of genocide?

> Recall a leading diplomat in the West promised Gorbachev not to move NATO "an inch to the east" as the Soviet Union fell.

Ah, the old "NATO forced Russia to start a genocide" bullshit.

The only reason NATO is expanding is the atrocities Russia is committing. If they don't want a _defense_ alliance close to their borders then maybe they should stop invading other countries?

> Do you think this is some kind of game?

No, I think it's a blatant example of fascist imperialism, and useful idiots who wants to bow to it.
My wife is an active, publishing education researcher who is currently doing in-classroom research related to technology.

It's really hard to make random control groups because schools want to put kids in classrooms by their process, not the whims of the researchers.

IRBs won't let this happen in actual classrooms. The allowed approach is typically extracurricular summer schools where everyone is aware of the research component. But this is only for a certain kind of quantitative research. Qualitative research doesn't necessarily need nor benefit from a control group as it can be carried out in situ.

Isn't it worth the effort to do the research instead of just seeing what happens when venture-backed companies introduce their for-profit wares into the classroom?
I wonder if Go tooling does the job umm... "better" here. At least faster build time and debug build is much smaller.

At my current company, we handle payment, transaction etc with Go (some Fiber, some Echo). None of the projects reach 100 MB, and my pkg folder size is around 2.5 GB-ish. Those are the dependencies of all of my Go codebase. Well not bad.

Compare it with building a Rust sqlite web API which easily eat 3 GB disk. 10 similar projects may eat at least 30 GB.... :D

Disclaimer:
I don't use Rust for work... yet. Only for personal tinkering.
While checking this out I came across this site (https://alice.hot.page/) in its showcase as one of the examples and legit spent five minutes reading Alice in Wonderland and I think I need to introspect how I spend my time a little..
Why was this nuked from the front page? I was really looking forward to this discussion.
Because it's filtered radioactive water, released over 30 years?

The main thing that won't be filtered is tritium, which already exists in the ocean, and has an ~12 year half life.

People get irrational where radiation is concerned, though.
For you cyclists, the Great Allegheny Pass trail and the Chesapeake & Ohio towpath meet there.
I never thought "open access" means that an author would need to pay $10K to be published in Nature ... that is a lot more parasitic than having a library pay for subscription fees.
This is on-par with calling neuron connections useless in the brain. Which is on-point because this is actually a dumb idea.

glue people connect facts and context and teams and plans. They make sure resources are effectively utilized. Actively trying to remove cohesion from a company is like running an engine without lubricant. Super dumb.

I've been the glue. I didn't want to be glue, I wasn't hired to be glue and I do not wake up every morning to be glue. But I glue because I care about optimizing for results and it's the fastest way from A->B. Eric Schmidt doesn't know what he's talking about.
> The fact that there is even a term like "Climate change denial", means that it feasible to deny "the science" (science is about doubt), because the climate scientists actually can't prove anything, fundamentally.

There are people out there denying the shape of the planet, despite that it has been observed directly.
The email verification email itself does not show up properly in Fastmail for some reason. I had to switch to the text only view to get the actual link...
What does it have to do with S3? Average webpage with JS will weight at about 200kb per initial load, without images. Do the math how many page views and indexing bots will consume before the real user can even find the page.
I have been using it on and off for a few months since getting the device delivered through the kickstarter funding campaign . The code base keeps changing frequently and isn’t stable . But there is an active and helpful discord channel . Initially there was an option to bring your own API keys from open ai and deepgram . But now the ability to bring own api keys seems to be gone and that will concern me about privacy etc .,
. The design is simple , device collects the voice sends it to deepgram , transcript is stored on device and then shared with open ai with relevant prompts to summarise the discussion and do what ever you want through plugins that can be configured. Use it primarily as a backup / secondary notes taker in meetings . Think of it like a Microsoft teams copilot or firefly equivalent for zoom etc There is a option to store the voice and transcripts to your own gcp bucket which is nice if you want to remember / do any prompt engineering on your meeting transcripts Something like this will replace the expensive meetings / note taking apps The integration with outlook / calendar apps is flaky and the level of details and ability to setup next steps / meetings schedule through transcripts is weak
I’ve “teleported” to several places including Mars. Imo it was just about the same experience as looking at some big pictures at a museum.
Stop aggregating away the signal in your data
There's also some social signaling here, like 415 is the original San Francisco area code – but if you got a number in the last few years it might be 628 which was added as 415 reached capacity.
Give just a try, or don't.

But it's simply not true that Make does all of that.

I moved from make about 5 years ago, never been happier.
No. It's already broken and breaks a ton of legacy software.
> I don't think so at all, AI generated stuff usually has a certain soulless generic air to it that I don't think would suit this.

I can’t believe I’m forced to defend myself here as I generally agree with the premise that adding AI doesn’t make something better (hence the smiley face in my original post), but FFS the FUD and hyperbole is simply in bad form. LOOK at the examples on the site. TRY the experience. Then come back and try and tell me you can’t generate endless amounts of images just like that what’s shown trivially with AI. You are entitled to your own opinion about AI, but that doesn’t make you factually right.
This is my first time hearing the term "glue people" but they sound like a subset of "personality hires." [1] I get why IC technical types would have resentment towards them. I do too.

IMO experience, the defining attribute of these people is that they give emotional comfort to insecure management. Having an org cheerleader around when times are difficult will help make a CEO feel warm and fuzzy inside and help to drown out the discontent.

The good ones are not entirely useless, sometimes they can facilitate org progress in ways others are unwilling or not capable of doing. But at worst, they can create more inefficiency then they solve.

The true mark of a person's value to an org is - in their absence, do things get better or worse? I have seen highly paid "glue people" leave and things actually get easier and better - those people are often forgotten quickly too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_hire
"This free app syncs across devices"

If you're logged in to the app and web site, what needs to be synced?
The Annotated Alice
That's a problem with a lot of modern desktop UIs. The industry has somehow unlearned how to use multiple windows. Everything is a tablet app in a single window now.
Since when did Mac's become the cheap option :)
Europe's most dangerous volcano rumbles, and Italians weigh the risk
Point taken! I would only add that Ray-Bans have become somewhat of a timeless fashion icon and this isn't something that you can easily replicate no matter how much R&D money you have at your disposal. (Just look at how goofy Snap's Spectacles are in comparison)
https://archive.ph/AnaPL
I haven't tried Cursor, but I've been messing around with Aider (aider.chat) with interesting results. With it, you add files to its context and then describe the edits you want. It then writes a commit with (hopefully) those changes. You can use it with pretty much any model, though only close-to-SOTA models work well. I've had pretty good results with Deepseek Coder, which is tens of times cheaper than Claude.
I disagree that the centralization was useful. The isolated communities were healthier and funner as a result of being smaller and disconnected from other communities—the isolation worked towards their benefit not their detriment. No one could go trawling through your posts in other communities and decide they don't like you after all because you had an identity there that could be completely different from your identity in other communities.

I think the centralization is actually a huge contributing factor to the decline in overall health of the internet. We didn't evolve in a way that's compatible with seeing everything that our friends say to any of their other friend groups—we're wired for compartmentalized interactions, not global state.
It's already easy for people to apply for jobs on LinkedIn. As a hiring manager, almost all the LinkedIn applications were low quality and not good fits. So it wasted a fair amount of my time, but at least it's easy to spot the ones that aren't suitable.

This tool will make it harder to distinguish between applicants who are keen and those who are just spamming all available jobs.

So congrats, you might make it to interview, but if your AI application does not accurately represent your skills, experience and interest in the role, you've just wasted a whole load of other people's time, including your own.

I'd say about half of resumes we put through to interview already over represent their true experience and ability, to an almost fraudulent degree.
Did I say better? I'm just saying it wasn't all bad.

Yeah, but figure what out? How to get wildly complicated thing A to talk to over-engineered piece of crap B, most likely.
They struggled because they didn’t actually have good software to run
I disagree.

Sometimes I have a question that would likely require multiple searches on Google.

But sometimes I just have a name or a broad subject and don’t want to have to formulate a question and wait for a long conversation style answer.
If I wanted the 8086 manual or something. It’d be extremely cumbersome to use a conversation to find it instead of typing “8086 manual pdf.”

There is significant overlap, but LLM and trad search have their own independent use cases.
Yes, this is the method that I have been always using. But I have had many cases where it seems to reset or bug out in some other way, and the Logitech MX Master 3S does still does not work well. There's definitely something weird about movement, it doesn't feel linear and accurate even after running this command.

The mouse feels perfect on Windows/Linux, but it's off in my Macbook. Sometimes also loses bluetooth connectivity, where it kind of starts to skip and/or stops working completely. And I have to take the bluetooth usb, put it back in for it to work normally again.

Maybe I should try another mouse, if you have any recommendations for a similar, ergonomic wireless one. Definitely don't want the magic mouse.

Ergonomically I think the Logitech one is perfect for me.
If you consider that China is unable to get ASML equipment, they have strong incentive to improve on this technology immediately. If Chinese companies start this path, then the issue is not if ASML will have improved, but if they will be able to withstand the competition.
If you'd rather get a daily/weekly digest for the niche tech subs, you can use https://redditletter.com

disclaimer: i created it to scratch my own itch for the reason you list
Yes, not sure why he's a member.
Don't the Play Store and the App Store take exactly the same cut in most cases?
One of the program requirements is that you buy a house there and live in it for five years.
A lot of police interactions happen in public, and additionally when police are on duty and interacting with the public they have a reduced expectation of privacy.

It's generally only recording private conversations that's illegal.

It feels like you didn't think about the differences between the two situations at all
Because microwaves don't heat matter. They heat* H2O molecules. This one weird fact is responsible for all of the weird differences between how they cook and how other more classic cooking methods work.

We're taught that heating has three styles: convection, conduction, radiation. But AFAIK, microwaving is a fourth and distinct style.

*: Even more specifically, they add rotational momentum to these molecules, which is not the same as heat, but gradually turns into heat (which is translational momentum) as they knock around. This, in addition to the fact that only the water is being heated, and that the microwave waves touch the food in an uneven pattern even if mitigated by a rotating platter, is why stirring or waiting or using "low power" (dithered) is an important part of microwave recipes, as well as why high moisture foods or intentional steaming works so much better in it
PicoCLI – Powerful command-line parsing library for Java
You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
Well Google's garbage-tier product cohesiveness makes a LOT more sense now.
Not 90% at all.

I get no good programming information out of local LLMs beyond the very basics, but I can always find books and PDFs from trad search.
> Recall Western weapons are on Russian soil at this moment, likely with some number of Western boots as well, in the Kursk region.

Recall that Russia invaded an independent democracy and is the belligerent party prosecuting an illegal war.

If Russia didn't want Western boots on its soil, it shouldn't have put its boots on another country's soil.

Fuck around, reap the whirlwind.
I don't personally think that there is any action at a distance at all.
i don't know of any sounds like you need a custom solution which won't be cheap.
This may be unlikely, but there are actual reports of this happening:

https://www.popsci.com/technology/tesla-lock-issue/

I have also been (briefly) locked out due to what may have been RFI. Teslas are entirely dependent on radio to unlock the doors from outside.
Noooooo. The only cool things left in Windows are Sandbox and WSL, but even WSL is a hot mess now.
A Video Game Dynamo with Ideas Always Swirling
As much as I'd like to perma-ban Reddit from my life, Reddit is, unfortunately, still the best way of getting insights into stuff to do in new cities or quick answers about how to do things.
You know that’s because Google sells ads, not search, right?

B2B software always has a bigger upside than consumer software.
For a new technology, that is not important. Yield rate will improve as more engineering is applied by these companies.
Every 16th living human is a Reddit user? I wonder how they count that.
What specific features make Cursor better than GitHub Copilot?
> For example, you may not: Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.”

Ah, the old Microsoft "Cannot use our compiler to develop a compiler" restriction.
On the other hand, if someone makes 15 $/hr, but 50% of that goes to rent and other essentials, and they save a little, say 20%, for retirement, that leaves 30% or about 5 $/hr for discressionary spending, so the airpods come closer to 32 hr or 4 days of pay.
> I dont even know where my failed prints from 6 months ago are stored

Bluetooth & devices > Printers & Scanners > pick any printer > Open print queue. The Print Queue can also then jump between printers.

And you don't need to go into the Settings app to change sound devices. Click the Sound icon in the taskbar, click the icon to the right of the slider with what looks like little sliders and an arrow, choose your device. But even then its pretty easy using the full Settings app. System > Sound > click the circle next to the device you want to change to the default. I don't get how that's materially worse than Control Panel > Sound > Right click > Set as Default Device.
edit the /etc/resolv.conf with your chosen nameservers then chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
Now you've found wisdom!

It turns out people tend to disagree less than they think they do—kind of like we share 99% of our DNA with a chimp, a conservative agrees with a progressive on 99% of issues, both about the things that need to change and the things that need to stay.

We just don't talk about those because they're not controversial. When a conservative agrees something needs to be changed they're just stating the obvious. When they disagree, it's obviously because they're opposed to any change ever.

In actuality, a conservative is just someone who disagrees with the current batch of progressives in a particular place about a few specific things that the current progressives want to change in that moment of time. In nearly every case throughout history conservatives are on board with tens of thousands of other changes, there are just a few that spark more resistance for various reasons.
FTA: “That almost nobody has the skills these days to implement something like TP”

I don’t think that’s true. Percentage-wise, the number may have dropped, but there are many more programmers now than there were back then.

I even am not convinced that percentage is lower today. There are plenty of people in the demo scene who, if incentivized, could write something like it.

You also have to realize that TP 7 is relatively simple compared to today’s development environments. To mention a few items:

- pascal is a lot easier for an IDE than C

- no messing with character encodings

- the editor may be fast, but does it stay fast when confronted with very large files?

- TP need not be cross-platform
Nvidia demanded Apple to allow its video driver to be able to phone home just like it does in the windows toy OS(running in ring 0 no less).
Epic/Tencent fortnight abuses the DNS protocol probably to bypass wirewalls. Both can be observed via wireshark, which I leave as an exercise for the reader.

Personally I’m glad Apple told both of them to go pound sand.
I don't think that the newcomers are necessarely worse, but that you mainly lose the ability to know most users by name when the number grow too big.
The more common nomenclature is P-12. Pre-school has been accepted and included as "school" for a while under public education funding in many areas.