skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you all track sprints / progress / goals on your side of the fence?

At least in the orgs I've been in, it seems to me that everyone is always aware at any given time who the "coasters" are. We have to constantly work around them / isolate them from causing damage. Hell, even Forte should give some signals.
Why yes, I'll download a 695MB APK file from an internet stranger.
> No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper

Can someone expand on this? How do you run software that isn't code signed?
Studies such as this for example show highly elevated divorce risk after forms of layoff or termination.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-020-09506-x
Companies that went full-remote around 2020-2021 are more likely to try to drag people back into the office, but I wouldn't suggest that you don't interview with those companies.

The best thing you can do is get to the finish line, get the offer sheet, and demand that your position as a full-time remote worker be written into your agreement with the company.

FWIW I know someone who did exactly this with a defense prime, and the crazy fella actually won the battle with HR when they tried to bring everyone back into the office.

Worst case scenario, they say "no," you decline the offer, and you've sent a clear message to management. It might feel like a few hours of wasted time, but we as industry practitioners have the power to make this a normal interaction between a prospective hire and a stubborn corporation.
America is unquestionably the foremost cultural, financial
, and military power on earth. The fact that your best example is a war that america lost voluntarily because they were unwilling to engage in scorched earth tactics is pretty telling. Afghanistan was a quagmire with no real starting goal, no real end condition, and no motivation to fight. If america decided to drop a few platoons into the country and massacre civilians with mechanized infantry and close air support it would have been over in a month, but to what end? It would make them barely better than the Russians who tried to actually use those tactics and didn't have the resources to pull it off.
It depends on how many years you do it, and how early. It's quite the trade in your 20s: Think of the freedom and peace of mine an extra couple of million in the stock market can give you. Then you slow down, celebrate, and know that you can let that money make more money on interest than you do from work. Reach the mid 40s? The pile has grown than enough to retire very comfortably.

The trick is that you have to know when to stop. I have a friend who ended up traveling with an oxygen machine, because she worked 80+ hour weeks for one too many months, and ignored a pneumonia.
An allegory is a moral fable. It's a similar genre to Aesop's fables or parables. A relatively familiar example is Animal Farm.
This feels like a strawman. How many people are working multiple jobs? How many are doing it effectively enough to not get caught nor fired for poor performance? And, if they are able to somehow juggle multiple jobs without performance/NDA issues, then is it really a problem?
I have always work remotely. I know many people who should not be trusted with work from home. Believe it or not, people are selfish, including workers, not just the managers and execs.
i'm a visa worker and i've seen people in my country say that visa workers are prejudicial to the country's work environment.

what if this kind of person gets to union leadership and just accepts a bad deal to visa workers?

what about a pro-back-to-the-office (and there are tons of people here that are 100% for RTO policies) workers? if they get a majority, they can vote that union workers have to go back and that's it.
You mean Amazon can't afford on call support engineers and has to rely on free out of hours labour from its employees? That's astonishing.
Fair enough. I forgot the name of this ruleset, but there's a very simple D20-based game ruleset which is designed for beginners but IMHO is more fun even for everyone, as it focuses on creativity and storytelling! The rules are very simple:

(1) The players take turns. They describe what they want to do, and the DM narrates the outcome, incorporating a dice roll into the process if needed, because:

(2) Any significant action requires a dice roll, which cannot be re-attempted if failed.

(3) A roll of a 1 is a critical failure (a guaranteed failure even on an easy task such as cooking pancakes), and a critical failure during combat causes accidental self-injury. A roll of a 20 is a critical success, which always succeeds (e.g. a level 1 archer can destroy a level 18 Elder Dragon if they aim for the eye and roll a 20). Any roll between 2-19 is compared to the difficulty level of the attempted action. Difficult actions require a roll of around 16 to succeed; easier ones, perhaps around 12. The raw dice roll (if between 2-19) is supplemented by adding around +1 or +2 if the player has invested skill points into the relevant skill, and by also adding around +1 or +2 if the player is using high-quality specialized equipment for the task.

That's it! Of course you probably also want to incorporate standard gaming tropes such as levels, gold, HP, MP, weapons, armor, and such, but all of that is not meant to be set in stone within this system - e.g. if you want to try using a pair of sapplings and some rope as a giant improved slingshot weapon, that's meant to be allowed to work, in this system (albeit maybe with a -3 adder to dice checks, since the weapon's quality is probably total crap). It's about being nice to each other and encouraging each others' creative ideas, so the team + DM can tell a totally new and perhaps unexpected story together.

When I explain DND-like games to people, I usually tell them about this system, because it's very welcoming, and encourages people to try out new ideas and find creative solutions to big tasks. A campaign can be super open-ended; e.g. "Destroy Sauron's ring - by any means - open world". With these rules, all sorts of creative ideas (such as the classic idea of asking one of the giant eagles to fly over Mt. Doom and simply drop the ring into the open caldera of the volcano) can be attempted, and can succeed, if the players are plucky and resourceful!
> Well I'd say it encourages poor nutrition by allowing people to continue to eat terrible food, while briefly suppressing their appetite for it by slowing down gastric emptying. While this isn't every case, people's nutritional choices are unchallenged and often remain unchanged.

Someone on a nicotine patch can still smoke while they have it on. Does a nicotine patch encourage smoking?

The way the medication is supposed to be prescribed is with lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise. People don't have to follow that, but it certainly doesn't encourage them to eat worse.

> That flows the dysmorphia stuff. I meant that it indirectly encourages body dysmorphia because it side-steps the shame and compulsive behavior that lead to the person's original obesity. So long after the weight-loss, you remain freighted with the toxic "weight-based" mental model of your body, rather than a holistic one of nutrition and well-being.

I can see how you would logic that out, but it isn't true in my experience, on average. The shame and compulsive behavior that led to the person's original obesity usually compounds on itself, and people come to these medications when they want help. No doctor is forcing these down an obese patient's throat, or injecting them directly. It is still up to the patient to decide they want help.

Most don't simply want to be thin. Most want to play with their kids, be able talk a walk around the block, be able to breathe better, and so on. Obese people don't want to be thin - they want to be healthy. In fact, most assume they will never be thin, because it seems so unattainable. They just want to get to a place where they aren't dying faster than everyone else each day.

So no, I don't think anyone on this medication "develops" body dysmorphia in the sense you're thinking, though I could see why having not gone through it you might thing it does.
> find it really strange when articles like this claim nobody is paying for generative AI

Where was this claimed? The author quotes OpenAI’s multi-billion dollar revenues.
Saw an interesting interview on The Majority Report with David Dayen about the FTC ruling and non-competes in general:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VYKxGglmnA
photos: https://www.arcanumurbex.de/photos/military-objects/duga-1-r...
"A handful of employees might not be performing to spec, and we can't be bothered to find a good way to measure that, so let's screw over hundreds and hundreds of good employees instead" is still basically malice.
I wrote that someone has to pick up that fork to eat those nachos. However, processed food makes it easier to eat more calories than you need. Ice cream used to be a once-a-week treat. Now, you can buy a pint of a caloric bomb for 2.99 USD. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, but as someone who exercises frequently and eats similar food when traveling, I can say with conviction that something is going on with the food sold in the US. For example, I often get pimples on my face after eating pork or beef in the US. I never get pimples when I eat pork or beef in Europe or South America.
I have more problems not getting fat when I'm in the US and I feel more bloated. The usual explanation, which has merit, is that portions are bigger in the US and people move less than in other countries. However, I eat 95% of my meals at home, cooked by me, and I exercise 1 or 2 times daily.
There really doesn't seem to be much here that's worthwhile? I'd love it if someone made a better macOS settings app, the current one feels like it's made to be used on an ipad or touchscreen device.
It made sense starting from when the concept of an office was established until mid-2020. Has the world really changed so much in these last ~4 years that we can't even imagine going in to work 5 days a week now? That too considering every other industry besides tech is already doing it?
MacOs ships with the `say` command and once in awhile I'll do something like `longRunningProcess ; say its done`, but not beyond that.
No, you need a prescription in the US. And that prescription is withheld by sleep specialist “doctors” until you do an expensive and unnecessary sleep study. These doctors serve no useful role other than telling you really obvious things, but you are forced into multiple appointments with them just for the prescriptions. Going through insurance then can require at least one more follow up appointment, but sometimes more depending on your plan. Some of them require multiple appointments where the doctor confirms your usage.
So the US is simultaneously a toothless non-power and the secret genius insidious power behind everything bad that has ever happened. Got it.
Money/capital stops the worker in general or do you expect the average worker to be able to buy the firm they are working for now because wages are that good?
Yes, but it's all anime gacha games like Genshin, Honkai, Arknights etc.
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As a mobile game dev, this is a bummer. I have been fortunate to get review and preview coverage on a few of my games from TA. There aren't many sites doing what that do. I get that the market has moved and now discovery happens in the App Store and via advertisement dollars, but growing up reading EGM or IGN.com and seeing people excited about a game just from a few screenshots colored me for life. I'm sad mobile game players don't have that opportunity.
This is largely an issue of definition. When Tolkien spoke of disliking allegories, he was largely referring to the medieval tradition - https://slate.com/culture/2016/05/an-allegory-is-not-the-sam... - where you are quite explicitly making a direct connection to a specific thing.

He did, however, love to speak of "applicability," which many people would call allegory today. The One Ring, for example, is clearly meant to to embody power and the temptation of it/addiction to it. This is pretty unambiguously true! What Tolkien didn't want was for people to view The One Ring as some specific embodiment of power, e.g. the atomic bomb, and instead for readers to draw parallels to their own lives, experiences, and knowledge. To him, this was "applicability," but in the modern discussion of literature this sort of thing would still often be called an allegory.
What does it mean to not be trusted with work from home? Those same people would just pretend to work in the office, only worse, they'd be wasting other people's time as well.
I just setup an AMD Ryzen™ 7 7735HS and this is the first time I’ve ever had an AMD powered device and it’s also just freezing completely, blank screen and then rebooting occasionally on Windows 11. The most annoying part is there are no logs in Event Viewer. No Blue/Green screen nothing. Also doesn’t happen during intense CPU activity or anything, it’s seems random and I’ve had the device for less than 30 days. I’m wondering if it’s worth troubleshooting or if AMD systems just aren’t that reliable or maybe I just got a dud. Concerning that other users are having similar trouble on Linux as well.
> Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs? Do that many people even work on AI development?

The implication is if AI is a bust, Google, Microsoft and Meta alone would have to run leaner organisations to make sense. Each of them is massively betting on LLMs are their core growth engine.
Uh, managing their reports and judging their performance is like the primary responsibility for most managers in big tech.

If they can't do that, they will grasp at any reason outside their control as an excuse for why their team is underperforming, WFH is the perfect fall guy, and I can guarantee you that Amazon has no real data to back up the claim that WFH decreases productivity - in fact they published data to the opposite.
I'm in the same boat, this is a requirement to save for retirement and there's very little else that can compete - despite the fact that inflation is outpacing nearly all the efforts I've made thus far to have a reasonable retirement.
Yep, every time an organized labor topic comes up here, all these "Captains Of Industry" show up to HN to tell us how they all think they are making well above their peers' average salary due to their specialized talent and superior negotiation skill, and could not possibly benefit from a union. "Heck, I'll one day be a tech exec myself, and then I'd totally regret supporting unions!"
I’ve thought we should mirror skilled labours in many ways for a long time but I don’t think we’ve made an inch of progress.

The way newcomers get “mentored” haphazardly by random coworkers and google/youtube/stack overflow/AI is absolutely bizarre and exceedingly unprofessional given our work has real world implications. Some sort of apprenticeship model and at least a degree of oversight would make so much sense, but… Well, we’ve got this mess instead. It’s strange.

Maybe I only feel that way because I came from skilled labour before I started programming full time. My experience of learning from someone who’d earned their tickets was sooo much better than the self-teaching and cargo-cult leadership I endured in tech.

Despite that, I’m extremely grateful to the people who served as good mentors in my career. It made an immense difference. And while I enjoy self-teaching a lot, it’s awful to need to rely on it because your industry is practically structureless in that regard. So many days of trial by fire that could be avoided.
Amazon has a flatter structure than Google, and it used to be that L7 was the highest rank (an internal doc cautioned the newly promoted L7s to stay modest even though, and I quote, "people may treat L7s as demigod").
I agree with a lot of what's said here, but don't agree fully with the doom and gloom.

The job losses have already happened. Companies have laid off quite a bit of employees because they wanted to get ahead of the AI wave. They thought they could replace most of their engineers, and turn 1x into 10x. The only field that has benefited is the parasitical companies that have sprung up around these AI services trying to rentseek their way to profitability. So when the bubble bursts, laid off talent will be able to demand a premium to come back and fix the smoldering remains.

That said, it's still going to cause reasonably bad damage as a whole because so much of the tech industry is dependent on angel investors which behaves in almost cult-like ways when it comes to trying to find something to fund.
D&D is the rules system. You can bolt on your own setting, including a hyper-realistic medieval world. I GM'd that game, or its derivatives, for almost 26 years, and never really used their (frankly terrible) generic fantasy setting, since the fun part for me was coming up with our own world. There's nothing mechanically that prevents you from running a medieval game with D&D rules. There are better systems for it, but there's nothing stopping you. You just don't want to.

I don't blame you for that. I don't want to run one either. Which may point us to why D&D is ahistorical: a realistic medieval game would be of limited interest to most people.
I’m 100% sure the rush to add AI bots of various sorts (often just natural-language document search—which often replaces such complete neglect of making things easier to find that I wonder how much good it’ll actually do vs any traditional approach applied well if they’d ever bothered to do that, or even vs nothing since that’s apparently been fine so far) across basically all of every industry as far as I can tell, is helping prop up developer employment rates until rates drop and stupid money inflates the AI thing into a real bubble on the investor side.
Re question 1: LLMs are already working pretty well for video generation (e.g. see Sora). You can also think of weather as some sort of video generation problem where you have hundreds of channels (one for each variable). So this is not inconsistent with other LLM success stories from other domains.

Re question 2: Simulations don't need to be explainable. Being able to simulate simply means being able to provide a resonable evolution of a system given some potential set of initial conditions and other constraints. Even for physics-based simulations, when run at huge scale like with weather, it's debatable to what degree they are "interpretable".

Thanks for your questions!
So I was ready to type "it's just a game", but the truth is OD&D isn't even really that- it's a set of mechanics from which a games master could select in order to make their own game. How closely you wanted to hew to the socio-economic truth of the 'Medieval period' was 100% up to the GM. "Chivalry and Sorcery", "Empire of the Petal Throne", and "Runequest" were all games that tried to implement more 'realistic' simulations of pre-modern society that came out soon after to specifically address D&D's lack of setting detail.
I hear the voice of the stoics in there …
Ask your friendly neighborhood Ukrainian refugees if they agree with that.
They have to do that to stay in fab business. Their design business is gonna be sold out I think, like HP/Agilent.
About the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.7
Valid question. Given that they are assuming the debt, what relief are they getting to pass it off onto the next bag holder? Anyone assuming the debt would ask the same question.
Pinch-to-zoom on a MacBook touchpad did not trigger a reset of the idle timer.
>It's harder to catch those folks in the act when they don't physically have to be present in the office.

Maybe look at output? My experience is in call center/helpdesk. Either someone takes calls and tickets or they do not, very noticeable.

If the company really wants, there is software like Teramind and Aktivtrak that screenrecords and keylogs.
Used his Army ID. World War 2 recruitment wasn't big on background checks.
> Many people here seem bitter or have an idealistic point of view

It is the opposite of idealism to see the world as it is. Pragmatism is rooted in acknowledging both the good and bad.

Idealism is ignoring the bad in the name of "pragmatism". Maybe you have to ignore it for your Public Relations metrics, but not for your executive or engineering perspective(s).
I am quite deep into dangerous half-knowledge territory here, but I think this is wrong. The optics of a camera will transform a point source according to its point spread function [1] and you are then integrating the contributions of all point spread functions overlapping a given sensor element, which often is a little square. So taking into account the optics, what you have actually sampled is not a square, you only integrated across a square. And each spot within the sensor element was illuminated with different light that got integrated together into a single pixel value, so you can not just turn around and say that each spot on the sensor element was illuminated with the same color, the one you got from integrating across the entire sensor element. If the scene you imaged had no frequency content above the Nyquist frequency [2], then you should be able to exactly reconstruct the illumination of the sensor, including at scales smaller than a single sensor element.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency
Yes, those subscribers do count, but the author writes of sustainability doubts in that respect, arguing that current hype and FOMO-style thinking may well fizzle out:

>I believe that a lot of businesses are "trying" AI at the moment, and once those trials end (Gartner predicts that 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned after their proof of concepts by end of 2025), they'll likely stop paying for the extra features, or stop integrating generative AI into their companies' products.
"Management one level above you wants to fire you" and "the CEO said anyone who ignores him is getting fired" are two very different grades of problem.
I've used both in production.

FluxCD is fully batteries-included, but the UI (3rd party!) leaves a lot to be desired, and turns off a lot of developers, and as a result makes it difficult to get team buy-in

ArgoCD is missing some critical systems, like how to tell when the underlying image needs updating. There are a number of ways to handle this but it's either a kludge, a plugin, or both. However, the UI is fantastic and very easy to pickup and understand, team buy-in is usually close to 100%

I generally recommend starting with argo, and once the team/project/s have matured, migrate to FluxCD. Eventually you want to lock everyone out of the CD system, but initially people are skeptical and want to understand/watch everything work, especially during debug.
yes, thank you, that was a stupid mistake on my part!
"I already paid off my student loans! Am I eligible for a refund and loan forgiveness? Yes, up to $20K — but only under these 2 specific conditions"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/already-paid-off-student-loan...
'The danger is definitely not over': ISIS is still here
Your feelings are valid and they're doing this to perform better as a business.
You seem to be confusing a past loan with the new loan just taken on; a new loan those assuming it don't want to take on in the first place.
The way it's even implemented now is like the nightmare realized from everything Richard Stallman warned about for decades. Especially for non-technical users, they've practically implemented a system where Apple decides what software you are and aren't allowed to run on your own computer. They can muddy the issue by claiming it's for safety/security but I don't buy it. They could have made the override still clear but much easier to access.
That's pretty cool! Would be great to learn more about your app and how the wave/tide prediction was working. Is there some place to read more about this?