skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...some small business owners were intimidated by demonstrators with baseball bats, asked to pledge loyalty to the movement and choose between CHOP and the police...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest#...

Call me old school, but it sounds like there were threats of violence for political purposes. I'm not sure how an armed and ideological group can seize an area and block the police for any interesting length of time without being a terrorist group. If not political purposes, why are they doing it? If not violence, why do they need guns (there were a few shootings) and how are they holding the police off?

And you aren't really addressing the point I was challenging you on - how are you identifying 'right wing' and 'left-wing' here?
> special computer

I would work on the same laptop at an office that I do at home. I doubt they would even provide me an ultrawide 2nd monitor that I also use at home.
A long time to get hired is a disaster when you're currently unemployed. As a background thing while you're currently employed it's no big deal. If you are someone who intends to change jobs every 2 years or something you just start the process earlier. I think the job market is usually kinder to those looking for a change in jobs too unfortunately, since your current employer is an implicit vouch for you.
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34365536
So what's the theory of how RV actually works? If it's possible to get "actionable intelligence" by this method, I think it would imply that the scientific materialist worldview is completely wrong. Because how could information that e.g. only exists in some other person's mind direct the remote viewer to a target, unless the information itself was somehow more "fundamentally real" and interpretable than the complex interplay of matter and energy that must go on inside of the human brain that holds it, assuming "matter" and "energy" and "brains" are real?

I'm not saying that this is impossible, but if it's true, we would have to throw out much - perhaps all - of present day scientific consensus.

One comment I've seen on Reddit seems to offer an alternative explanation:

>RV functions as a kind of precognition-on-demand. Think about it like the opposite of memory. Instead of setting your intention to view information from a memory in the past, you are setting your intention to view information from an experience you will have in the future, which is the act of checking feedback. If you have no real world feedback, then you have no verifiable real world data in your session.

Still outside of mainstream science, but I think there are some theories of quantum mechanics where the future can affect the past? If that were the case, being informed that the target was "Mars, 1 million years ago" might inspire one to come up with a narrative like that and transmit it to your past self?
Sure; but it’s a lot more ambiguous if you’re a programmer & writing code on the weekend. Especially if the code is in any way related to your work. Also whatever your contract says takes priority over the law in cases like this.

Always read your employment contract carefully and clarify stuff like that if you need to. Your company doesn’t want copyright over the fanfic you’re writing on the weekend. If that matters to you, the best time to clarify it is before you sign the contract.
You can wear polarized sun glasses to help block the light reflected off of roads and water like when driving or boating. Seeking stronger horizontally polarized light would historically lead you to a water source. Adult horsehair worms complete their life cycle in water.
That is dangerious. While unlikely there are a few possible attachs. If the law changes such that the license is invalid you need to change to an up dated versian. if you allow them to change the license for that case they can change the license to anything. Consult with a lawyer to see if there is legal language that allows them to change the license as needed only so long as it meets the intent... note that intent is tricky. GPL 2 and 3 do not have the same intent according to Linus Torvalds but Richard Stallmen will say they do. good luck getting you contract to allow license changes if the intent is the same and having it really be your intent.

the above all seems unlikely but you cannot discount it. which is another reason to not sign a CLA - you have no idea what future changes you might agree with.
For how long did reading those three words delay you from getting to the point?

How do you justify the leap from you not caring to "no one cares"?
I will never understand why people don't lead with the link to the live demo: https://suboptimaleng.github.io/slime-sim-webgpu/

It's very cool!
Idly comparing the silly little annotations, I notice the following state changes you've probably also stared at to the point of semantic satiation...

Functional GUI: M_LIN8 G800x600 > 800x600 @00000+100+Dch4
Functional DOS: M_TEXT T80x25 > 720x400 @00000+050-W
Broken GUI: M_VGA G400x600 > 400x600 @00000+200-Dch4
Broken DOS: M_TEXT T80x25 > 720x400 @00000+250-W

Pattern analysis:

- Broken DOS and Broken GUI are 200 or 250, functional are 100 or 050. What's that address?

- Broken GUI is somehow in M_VGA mode instead of LIN8. How and why did it get like that, and is that related to why it somehow got into 400x600, horizontally half of 800x600 (??). (True "textmode" is actually 720x400, as seen in both DOS modes.)
150%.

I loved, loved, loved being a technical SME and engineer.

It was incredibly satisfying and fun. I got greedy and also enjoyed systems, so I moved into an architect role, then director/exec.

I have a great job and enjoy the company and mission… but the politics is exhausting.
Yes and you do these things during the day and not during the time when everyone else is home from work. I go shopping at various times, but when I go to the stores during the "return from work" rush hour right after common work end times, it's way more busy, queues are longer, etc. WFH is the best.
After only seven years in the industry, a promotion doesn’t make much sense to me right now.

I want to write good code and build great products. But in the corporate world, visible work is more important than good work. So, there are two options for me: either be a staff engineer or a manager. While staff seems like the obvious choice, in most companies, staff engineers are just managers who code. The number of meetings and admin work goes through the roof. Not to mention the nasty politics and mind games you have to play just to survive.

So, if I have to choose between staying at home or getting promoted, WFH is the obvious choice. Oh, and I learned late that hopping jobs is far better than chasing promotions for my financial and mental health.
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I'm thinking more like weather prediction with big ensemble models for human suffering prediction, you know, time series prediction, which need not be a monolithic ethical imperative with loads of subprojects and not so uniform initiatives. I guess Deepmind's SOTA weather transformers could indeed be a good starting point. I did find that an animal welfare org speculated about doing similar actually!
Looking at the upgrade story it already looks like a nightmare that might make the OP pull their hair out.

Wordpress is a single upgrade button on the CMS, no terminal necessary or needed.
WFH employees are interchangeable with employees in other countries (India, Poland come to mind). As a manager, I don't care where you work if you are not in the office, so I'll find the best employee at the lowest possible price.
We are really going to argue in 2025 that encryption is too hard when you want a cheap, tiny sensor to operate for months on a single CR2032 battery.
What? Engineers should own the code they write, including being on call to maintain it. Out-of-scope dependencies should be irrelevant, and if they're not, get some of those tens or hundreds of thousands of employees to work on better observability.

I agree that if you own the blahblah service then you shouldn't get alerts for a broken dependency foobaz if that team is already aware, but if blahblah itself breaks, not being around to fix it is pretty dangerous.
> I wonder why so few companies employ Pixar’s Brain Trust method

It doesn't scale. That model hasn't been utilized at Pixar lately - whatsm was the last good/hit Pixar movie that wasn't a sequel or side-quel? Like most companies, Pixar relies on a few great products or ideas, and then doubling/tripling down on them, to make sure the graph grows up and to the right for shareholders.
Depends. I can also axe showering, changing clothes, make breakfast during standup, do laundry during my lunch, be there for packages rather than visiting a depot, etc.

A tremendous amount of time is saved just by being home.
Me too. The reason my current and previous companies can handle their high throughput is 100% from my architecture but I have no actual responsibility and stress in my position.

I’m sure I could make a gnarly salary somewhere but I’m extremely happy with the free time that I have. Beats any other job that I’ve had by a mile.
i'm fine with my company owning copyright on code I write. Sometimes they let me keep copyright on things I contribute to open source on their time but I get permission before I do that. (they are considering changing the rules such that they retain the copyright and then I would contribute back in their name not my own)
That’s more personal time, not work time. It’s not like they’re subtracting your commute from the time you have your butt in the seat, and most savvy employees aren’t going to spend an extra 2 hours working at home.
> If you want that you need AGPL.

Or EUPL :-).
> I think truth is much more important

The truth is the most important thing there is. The problem is newspapers are so far removed from the truth it's not even funny. Journalism and truth do not even belong in the same sentence.

Especially today where they engage in shameless rage baiting for engagement and therefore have every incentive in the world to defame someone who might very well turn out to be innocent.

Even the most tyrannical court in the world cannot repair a destroyed reputation. It takes a lifetime to build and seconds to destroy.

Journalists should not be condemning anyone before proper judgement is rendered. Courts staffed by fallible and corruptible human beings are enough of a necessary evil. We really don't need journalists profiting handsomely off of the court of public opinion.
I think libel laws should be updated, so entities are compelled to correct the record when requested. News media have gotten away with publishing "well we thought it was true at the time" (or "we didn't say it, we said someone else said it") for too long.
* you, interviewing for a new position

Interviewer: “mr. so-and-so, I see that you worked as XXXXX at YYYY for ZZZZ number of years, can you tell us about the core reason your career stagnated and you were not promoted in all that time there?”

* assumes you somehow got the interview…
Are those real ROM-based-systems, that could execute code directly from ROM, without loading it to RAM first?

The only ROM-based-systems I worked with are the Atmel AVR microcontrollers. They don't need to load code into RAM for execution, they have the ROM memory mapped into the address space. I think they can't even run instructions from RAM, which makes remote code execution physically impossible.
Ant also broadcasts a unique(-ish) identifier. This was enough to end Nike+. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike%2BiPod#Wireless_protocol_...
Maybe. If you’re a senior engineer, I could also imagine arguing that I had authority to license it under BSD or whatever as an agent of my employer. The argument would probably be much stronger if you got sign off from your boss though. And legal if your company is big enough. (Though IANAL)
At least it’s a less known school. Usually they mention only the big names like “Stanford scientists…”. When it’s a lesser known school it’s just “Scientists….”
The idea of parasocial relationships with infinite bandwidth seems sad, but not necessarily infeasible. I’ve no idea if current technology is there, but the idea of Leela streaming chess while trash talking opponents and answering questions isn’t a million miles from something I’d watch on Twitch. Lean into the superhuman bits. Not sure why I would want to see a bunch of fake normal people though.
Wage suppression tactics aren't the same as productivity-enhancing tactics
If they care about that kind of privacy why would they not buy a device that has encryption for the broadcasting?
> it sounds like there were threats of violence for political purposes. I'm not sure how an armed and ideological group can seize an area and block the police for any interesting length of time without being a terrorist group.

Then every bridge protest, any strike that gets contentious and/or gang activity is terrorism. They’re not. What you describe is an attempt to consolidate power; not sow terror.

The definition of terrorism is famously ambiguous. But if we expand its definition to include Seattle then must also include armed marches and counter-protests. That still leaves us with a domestic terrorism problem that is overly concentrated amidst right-wing extremists.

> how are you identifying 'right wing' and 'left-wing' here?

Broadly, by partisan orientation. More loosely: by authoritarian and individualist manifestos versus collectivist and anti-capitalist ones. The closest we’ve had to left-wing terrorism since the ecoterrorism era is Luigi, and that’s partly because he’s almost impossible to fit on a one-dimensional metric.
Don't write code related to work on the weekend. That is unethical no matter what the law says. There is plenty of code not related to work that you can write on weekends and thus it is ethical (may or may not legally be yours but ethicaly it is)
If this scenario is relevant for anyone, it's a tiny number of people. That leaves 99.99% of the fitness market.
To add, the best people will almost certainly pick the work from home option, leaving behind those who would have difficulty finding another job if they lost the current one. Hence this means you’d actively have worse employees, just for some company culture.
That is not my experience at all !

I live in Québec, Canada and my wife had breast cancer and her periodic scan happened at a 4 months interval. When they detected oligometastasis on her spine she had radiotherapy 2 weeks after the biopsy.

The only thing not covered by the gouvernement is a drugs called kisqali that sucessfully keep her alive (may it continue to works). If I did not had gold plated drugs insurances, the public alternative was weekly chemo (taxol or taxotere i dont remember).
Is somebody extremely privileged because they have $5? Or are you just upset that people would spend $5 differently than you would?

If you spend $10 per day, how can $5 be anything to fret about for hours? You're losing more spending your time fretting about it right?
when they stop playing nikkieninedoors on my edge machines, i might think about allowing some credibility.
I'm from Quebec, I completely agree that it wouldn't go well at all, but that doesn't mean that we would try to defend Canada.

And that exact Canadian identity has been eroding very strongly in my experience. There's no real Canadian identity, I'm not even sure why that has shifted, but apathy is much more common than any feeling of belonging. Maybe the fact that urban areas control Canadian politics (which makes sense, that's where the population is) and has been doing so for decades now leads to a stronger disconnect between rural populations and their governments.
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Nature rewards certain types of effort with a dopamine rush.

As a counterpoint, philosophical discussions are in serious decline across human societies.

No dopamine, no interest.
I've found this claim online in only four places. Three are the "Alternative for Sweden" website, Samnytt, and Fria Tider. None are reliable sources (one's a political party of bigots, one's a tabloid that's been "sued multiple times for libel", and the third "anses ha ett uppenbart rasistiskt, främlingsfientligt och islamofobiskt innehåll" (quotations from Wikipedia)). I wrote this, before I looked up the names of the websites:

> I don't know enough Swedish to say for sure, but the language feels tabloidy, and there are passages with quite similar sentence constructions in articles purportedly written four-or-more years apart – so this might be one story that was adapted / plagiarised.

The fourth is https://svenskamordfall.se/stockholm-1980-1989/, which I can't identify the provenance of, but doesn't cite any source for its claim. The Swedish Wikipedia article has some kind of edit war, but the edits are all redacted, so I can't see what the edit war is about. (The revert comments look like "Tar bort icke källbelagt påstående.", so maybe it's about this.)

I'm not wholly sure that this story is true: it could be a smear put out by this journalist's enemies. I see little reason to believe there was even such a trial, unless someone can find court records.
Right. As well as, or in able to. Not instead of.
I hate the game reviewers pretending that games are providing entertainment instead of just random numbers in RAM and random pixels on the screen. The game doesn't know who programmed it and can't know because that wasn't in its source code.
No.

To be fair there are many, so very many, people employed to write software that cannot actually write software. Many of these people are likely already replaceable by LLMs if they just modify static templates and copy/paste programming patterns.

For developers that actually write original logic and solve real problems your jobs are safe. LLMs are only as good as what they are fed.
> i'm fine with my company owning copyright on code I write

Sure, but that's not a CLA. You have a contract, and your company buys your work. If you contribute for free to a random project and they ask you to sign a CLA, they are not paying you for your work. They just want your work + your copyright for free.
Yeah. I think a lot of people who write these contracts (or work in HR) simply never consider the idea that people would create things outside of business hours. They don’t want to steal your fanfic or that song you’re writing or whatever. Just talk to them and make the contract look right.
Indeed, there are also some hidden advantages to contractor status, in that personal copyright implicitly remains your property until licensed to a firm.

An NDA can also have some nasty obfuscated golden-handcuff clauses. =3
also who even gets promoted internally and in what way? usually it is meager salary gain for a lot of new responsibilities

99% of time if you want to get promoted or get a pay rise you apply somewhere else if you want your pay to match your responsibilities.
Sadly, I was at the receiving end of this. FWIW I don’t work at a tech company, but rather at the IT department of a University in Florida.
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Learned it the hard way. Multiple times. Being an A player isn’t worth the effort in most places.
Well I think it is important. With the vast amount of knowledge that is being created every day we have to filter much of it out. If that university has made a reputation as a leader of knowledge acquisition and known for well run labs and procedures then they earn that reputation. The author of the story might just get more eyes on the story if people think it will contain good knowledge from a reputable source.
simply lift pasta and observe (and do this enough that you learn what to look for). that's enough to avoid tasting it until a final confirmation.
if i use personal time for work commute, i count that as time wasted.
Do we have any idea which rocket this came from?
Flat design has been an absolute pox on the industry. Skeumorphism was also pretty bad (since it was basically just flat design with pictures).

Windows Forms got a lot right: I think the one missing symbol was "active but not editable".
I just had my annual “career check-in” or whatever they are calling it now at work. I’m at the crossroads level: stick as being a software engineer and accept I’m not smart enough to ever be promoted again on software engeering track, or head for management track.

My guess is I would be either an excellent manager or an appalling one. Either way, I have absolutely no wish to do it. My wife is saying I should go for it in order to continue climbing the ladder.

I can’t pretend I’m not glad to see someone who would have been happy sticking as well. Hopefully you get the chance to demote yourself soon :)
Thanks, that's definitely directionally correct. (And if it turns out to not be quite what I'm looking for, it's probably enough to find alternatives.)
They are externalizing that liability on to the rest of society then. It's obviously in everybody's interests that convicted criminals can get jobs outside of crime.
Left vs right and their position on masks and the vaccine varied by country, and in the us it flipped early on, I want to say something like 19weeks from the first case in the US Vice and Fox swapped talking points. That was truly strange. I'm not smart enough to understand how the oligarchy in the US works, or how various news sources align.
> Being financially secure and not caring about a promotion is the biggest superpower you can have at a tech company.

And not being in the country on an H1B…

This is not a rant against H1B Visa holders. It’s a condemnation of the system that makes their ability to stay in the country contingent on their job.

I saw it first hand at AWS. When Amazon started Amazoning when I was working there, I knew what was up and wasn’t stressed, didn’t jump through the hoops to stay off PIP and when they gave me the choice of getting 4 months severance and “leave immediately”. I took the money and ran and got another job in 3 weeks.

My coworkers who were there on H1B, were definitely afraid, even if they did have more than enough money to hypothetically tide them over.

I knew I could get a job, a contract, start independent consulting or do something before my money ran out. That wasn’t an option for them.

For those who don’t know how the PIP process works at Amazon…

- if you choose to “leave immediately” instead of working through the PIP, you got one month of base pay for every year and partial year you worked there.

- if you failed the PIP (and you will), you got 1/3 of the original amount.

- of course you can appeal. But if you fail (and you will). You get 1/2 of the 1/3.
I used to commute a 30-40 minutes in the morning from S. Austin to midtown. The reverse route could easily take 2+ hours. I finally quit taking the freeway and started going a thru-town route. Then it took 3 hours, but one hour was spent eating dinner. It sucked and I could easily have written the same software at home (and also avoided marketing people randomly popping in to ask about a feature because they didn't want to speak to my manager (who actively shielded us when he could)).

God only knows how long that route takes now, but guaranteed the suck level has not gone down.
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