skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That actually could help.

A big reason that say 50 years ago if you had made a newsworthy mistake when young and then had been clean for decades after that mistake being in newspaper didn't cause you to have trouble getting jobs or housing was that it took effort for people to find that archived newspaper item.

Move to a new town far enough away that your youthful mistake didn't make the papers there and build your new life there. If someone in the new town wanted to see if you had been in the news in the old town they had to actually get someone to go to the newspaper archives in the old town and search them.

There might not be any indexing of the archives good enough to allow going right to stories that mention you. They might end up having to just manually scan old newspapers (actual physical newspaper or microfiche copies).

That's too expensive for people to routinely do it for everyone they hire or rent to.

Now the records are digitized and on the internet. They have been indexed by search engines and used to train LLMs.
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We learned that corporate leadership folks are willing to make workers suffer out of ideology and ignore data. Valuable signal.
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If you're looking for Covid response lessons to learn, WFH is pretty low on the list in my opinion.

We saw how fragile our entire system is from infrastructure to food. We saw how quickly a bit of fear turned an entire political party (at least in the US) from vilifying big pharma to putting it on a pedestal, handing over mountains of money, and creating legal cover for any and all liability. We saw how strong of a grip the news media has over society, turning public opinion on a dime as new recommendations/talking points came down. We saw how intertwined social media and the government really is.

WFH feels like a quaint novelty to me in the context of what all went wrong and what lessons were missed during the pandemic response.
If planes, with active propellers or jet engines, are only audible for a diameter of 20-50km around the vehicle, how could a falling unpowered ring of metal be audible from 200km away as per TFA?
I see .. might have been because english is not my first language, but I thought the way I wrote was clear and common?
Would you sign a CLA if it specified the License your code would be able to the project under? (I.e. the project can only use your code if it says MIT or BSD or GPL licensed).

CLAs can have a legitimate purpose in clarifying copyright ownerships.
Eliza OS – open-source AI agent framework for crypto and more
I wouldn't give all 2 hours to work, but you're not wrong.
Just use WordPress seriously.

All the other CMS‘s are broken and don’t work properly when you upgrade them. I remember Strapi having this issue and most people I talked to would never use Strapi again.

With Wordpress you can easily transfer it to somebody else who knows WordPress and not some immature esoteric CMS system, nobody but the original developer who left the project knows about.

It’s one thing that a system is open source and it’s another if a lot of people knows about that system.
Being financially secure and not caring about a promotion is the biggest superpower you can have at a tech company. Work on whatever projects you want. Skip whichever meetings you want. Don't want to waste multiple days writing a pointless report? Fine. Don't want to participate in org politics? All good. As long as you are doing decent work and have a good reputation among your peers the threat of firing will always be an empty one. And soon you'll start to realize how much of the work people do at any company, especially at higher levels, is just performative ass kissing.

Every single terrible job experience is the result of a shitty power tripping manager. Take away the manager's power over you and suddenly your job will be fun and fulfilling again.
I am happy when people find a financial upside to my work... but also understand the $1m revenue limit clause Unreal engine used.

Lets be honest, after a year staring at the same code base... nobody cares what happens to source-code... lol =3
Yes, it's a success, but not a scalable one.

There probably aren't a lot of decent streamers who are also AI developers around.
The system knows to serve you ads about the new topic because it's new. You're already getting ads for the stuff you're normally talking about. The new topic stands out easily.

It doesn't have to be your phone. Could be your TV or any other device.

Most importantly there's just patterns of behavior. Companies are absolutely desperate for every scrap of data they can get on you. Why would they not capture audio from your mic?
No one forgot. The lasting effects are here and real.
One of the many lessons I've learned (so far) in my career is to do a job you don't mind, maybe even enjoy, on a team you like and ignore the whole ladder climbing game.

Promotions are overrated and if you are in software you should be making a comfortable living from the beginning.

More money can be helpful, but it isn't worth the stress of chasing promotions and playing the political games required at higher levels.
Since I also would like to automate my dumb AC, I am ogelling these two products, which have most of the listed features as well, but I am open for any other recommendations:

1. https://cielowigle.com/cielo-smart-thermostat/

2. https://sensibo.com/products/sensibo-air-pro
No vision. Not sure for function
Hardly "at least" two hours a day. The average one-way commute in the United States is under a half hour; the state with the longest average commute (New York) is at 33 minutes.

https://www.census.gov/topics/employment/commuting/guidance/...
I think it's either 8, 32 or 64 bit. Maybe 16 bit.

The size of memory space is not necessarily aligned with the bit width of the CPU. There are a lot of 32 bit systems that can use much more than 4 GB of RAM. And there are no 64 bit systems I know of, that are even theoretically able to use 16 exabytes (16 million TB) of RAM.

AFAIK ARM32 is still the norm for embedded systems. And there is still a place for 8-bit microcontrollers.
Is job hopping to get a bump in salary still a thing nowadays? Serious question.

I haven’t needed to look for employment in the past year or so, but I’ve heard some terrible things about the job market, enough that I’d be surprised if it was still possible given how slow hiring seems to be.
Slavery was a condition, usually a legal status, where someone's autonomy was stripped from them.

The work component only existed because why else would one want a slave?

If someone born into slavery died before they could walk, they still were a slave. If an old slave was allowed to retire without working again, that didn't stop them from being a slave.
> Similarly we can look at that past 20 years of Euro/Yen/Pound against Argentinian Peso and conclude that it's all fine?

Have you looked at those conversions?

One June 1st 2007, 1 Argentinian Peso was worth 0.082£, today it is 0.00078£.
"You may think you know how much Intel is struggling, but the reality is worse."
It'd be interesting to see their attrition numbers for that. If Dell is losing employees at higher levels you would see promotions opportunities whether the company grows or not.
A lot of the blow back acts like Character.ai and similar setups aren’t wildly popular.

This clearly was Meta’s attempt to come up with a more professional, sanitary version of it that might have appeal to people who aren’t techy enough to download C.ai and flip through cringe anime chat bots. And they went too far probably due to corporate design by committee.

But the core idea is valid.
Rights issues. Have international viewers of eastenders or Blue Peter and you have to pay the cast more, and pay more to license the music used in the background, etc.
Ask HN: Are Programmers Dead?
Potential shown by LLMs recently is just mind blowing. Even though right now it can only code basic stuff, but if the rate of progress remains the same as what it is right now then I won't be shocked that they will be able to do real complex level of coding / tasks in coming future.

Though it might take some time for companies to trust / adopt such agentic solution but once the agents are packaged as stable scalable products with tremendous cost cutting, they will spread like wildfire.

Given this, is the job of programmers in future in jeopardy?
Check out Payload - fully OSS, modeled after the … few good parts of WP

https://payloadcms.com

I built it because I was in the same situation as you.
The party you are thinking about isn’t the party that was against the science of vaccines
It would have been supersonic at a very high altitude and likely came in at a steep angle, so sonic boom + large exposure area + long path.
I'm sure your HR friend has a linkedin recuriter subscription that allows them to blast any dell employee with a cold linkedin message.
Sonic boom(s). Unsure what the speed is, but could have been significantly higher than terminal velocity at sea level.
The concept that you would rather promote a mediocre employee who works in the office over a star who decides to work at home is just absurd, and horrible for business. I cannot imagine it actually being implemented.
My UK contract had no IP terms and after many years they tried to sneak them in via the employee handbook - I objected and we negotiated, ending up with a reasonable and amicable split: anything directly related to their line of business is theirs (whether in the office or not) but everything else is mine personally.

This seems the ideal balance as we each get what's valuable to us without overreaching (the original proposed terms would've covered literally everything including random stuff like books and video posts, which they didn't genuinely care about)
I am still not sure what you are saying. Are you saying that Forgejo being GPL allows e.g. Codeberg to modify it without releasing their changes, and with AGPL they couldn't build a valid business model?
Okay, thank you! I'll check it out. By the way, what country are you located in? I’m gradually adding new countries based on user demand to simplify sales tax compliance, so I'd be happy to add it.
While it was supersonic it would have produced a sonic boom all along it's path of travel.
It may be a 701, but I need to find which box it's in to actually check. It has a 7 inch screen, it's old but still holds charge in the battery for 2h at least, has a long charging cable, my only "mod" was to upgrade the RAM to 2GB, and it has a 4GB SSD I think - I have a card in it with 16GB and it runs a never updated version of crunchbang that was installed I really don't remember when - it doesn't go online ever, so it's fine. The last thing I did in it was to replay Illusion of Gaia using an emulator.
I was more suggesting that if the receptors could be targeted (I have no idea how, just spit-balling) by another agent, then tolerance would perhaps not occur. The addict/user would still need the original drug.
I learned using Shadron 8 or so years ago.
Being able to take a few minutes out of the workday here and there to attend to minor home duties (laundry, pets, deliveries, etc.) is a pretty significant extra perk on top of the time savings of avoiding the commute.
I’m not surprised by this at all. I purchased a pro-sumer grade (Ambient Weather) weather station a couple of years ago that happened to include an indoor CO2 sensor. Among other things I discovered:

* Modern building codes (for energy efficiency?) leave buildings far too sealed. HRV/ERV should probably be mandatory as we continue to have tighter regulations for insulating homes.

* The level of CO2 produced by a Gas stove range is a bit shocking.

I now leave my windows open a crack during the winter which keeps CO2 levels around 800-1200ppm. If I purchased a home I’d upgrade the HVAC system to include an HRV/ERV.
Speaking as someone who tracked up the management chain….

Senior Software Engineer was the best job I ever had. The perfect balance of autonomy and responsibility.
This is from 2021.

It is disappointing that open-source software sends stats without informing users or asking for consent. That said, the user was an abusive entitled asshole, accusing (without proof) the developer of spying on users and saying things like:

> It's not your app. It's free software, you gave it away.

They deserved the block.

They also sent a pretty bad PR to remove the functionality, just leaving things empty and lingering. This is clearly not someone who cares to do things right, they only care about what they personally want.

https://github.com/exelban/stats/pull/742/files

This is the same person who tried to shove a DO_NOT_TRACK “standard” down every project’s throat and promptly gave up when maintainers questioned their motives and approach.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745#issuecomment-5543...

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/6158#issuecommen...
You're missing the parts that aren't the commute.
Open plan offices are a waking nightmare. If you want people to return to office maybe make offices reasonable places to work.
I work in a local TV newsroom for my job and the idea that the public has about journalism has been deliberately warped. A great example of criticism of bias is that it's widely reported that Luigi Mangione's motive was unknown until they uncovered and verified the manifesto. "Clearly the corporate media is in the pockets of the insurance industry. You can't think of one reason someone would hate the CEO of United?" Of course reporters can relate to your experience with health insurance, they're workers too. However, if you think about it, it's more biased to try to relate to that group (even though almost all the viewers are in it) than it is to ignore your opinion and only say what's in the black and white.

99% of accusations of media bias in my experience are just someone whose experiences don't match those of that particular story.
IIRC, the reason it needed to be a VM in the first place was because X (simplifying a bit) "started" at Sun, running on PowerPC boxen. (Here's another subthread mentioning the same thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42597613)

I agree it was an engineering marvel, IMO only less impressive than the CPU implemented in JPEG instructions for Pegasus.
> Would you sign a CLA if it specified the License your code would be able to the project under?

I don't understand.

> CLAs can have a legitimate purpose in clarifying copyright ownerships.

Isn't that the whole point of a CLA? The CLA is usually a way for the contributor to renounce their copyright. In other words, the project asks me to make a contribution for free, and on top of that they want to own the copyright for it.

If they want to own the copyright for my work, how about they pay me?
Yeah I always check this too - and if needed add a clause to my contract to make it clear that programming work I do outside of business hours & using my own equipment remains mine. I do a lot of opensource work and it would be a disaster to have copyright ownership clouds hanging overhead.

But for a company to assert a copyright like this, they would have to actually sue. And companies will always be loathe to sue employees over incidental stuff like this because the negative press will almost always make it not worth it.
It's consistent with both theories about rto -- one that remote work harms productivity (and someone working remotely cant be more productive than their office peers) and the other postulating its just a power move
If you're a businessman then do business, proceed. But from the beginning of this thread, I wasn't concerned with business people whose primary interest is velocity.
There are wise people here, they are just lurkers though (wisely).
If you start going around talking about computer systems as literally alive (as I do, from time to time), I think you’ll at least find that other people find this perspective interesting (mostly disbelief/heresy, as if you told somebody 200 years ago that there was no god).
So you value passion for the company culture and style over, say, effectiveness, ingenuity, and performance? The idea that you would not just promote the best people because they work at home is just absurd and bad for business.
No, the YouTube channel 'ThePrimeTime' has quite a few videos that talk about why programmers aren't going to be displaced by AI.
I guess the connection is that when you're far away from home you can project an aura of confidence/respectability that you may not have at home where people know you since the days you were not yet an expert.

Of course people can't be born experts and for every expert there must be a prior step in their personal growth when they were less expert. But that doesn't prevent people from using an imperfect heuristic for judging whether you can trust someone's expertise.
We're really going to screw things up for everyone else because of a couple dozen professional bike racers? This deal sucks
There is need for a middle ground between privacy and the safety of the community. In my country, a lot of horrible crimes could have been avoided if the repeated criminal's past crimes were something people could at the least be aware of, one way or another. I'm talking about murders and sex crimes.
Yeah, the ceiling part is key for me.

There are interesting challenges in web dev, but it's mostly related to scale, architecture and organizational complexity - realistically, no one is going to have their mind blown reading your loginController.

Game programming does have a lot more space for wizardry, you can code a shader or a mesh splitting algorithm that feels like black magic to others, and it's just you with a code editor.

There are still many reasons for me not to regret my move, mostly related to the realities of the market - lower salaries, crunch, the seasonal/project based employment, limited choice of OS/dev tools, etc.

But credit where credit is due, that field is super fun.
> I prefer copyleft licenses, because they ensure that the end user has access to my code

Now that so much software (the majority?) is used over a network standard copyleft licenses (GPL etc) no longer ensure this. If you want that you need AGPL.
If you're a loser whose skill set excludes human interaction, yes. Coding is a very small portion of the work required.
You need to be more specific about which parts are wrong and in what way. They made a claim about the past, a claim about the present, and a couple claims about businesses. I have no idea which ones you're reacting to.
Calculators can do math per CEO of Texas Instruments. (h/t @naval)

More seriously, I don't believe the current progress will expand beyond fields where there's clearly defined rewards (eg narrowly defined task of producing some outputs given well-defined inputs).
Are we really going to argue in 2025 that encryption is too hard?
> (And again, I generally applaud the enthusiasm. But those things would better be suited as portfolio-building personal OSS projects on github rather than trying to squeeze the dollars.)

Why? They are under no obligation to do so, and then they are working for free. (A common trope related to FOSS, often argued on this very website)

> There is a difference between legitimate business interests after large investments, and freeloaders.

What large investment are you talking about? The thousands of hours of free labor that went ffmpeg? Yeah. See also all of the open source software that went into the operating system and utilities they built everything on. That doesn’t stop people from selling proprietary software, so why is this any different?

This is free market capitalism. If they can find people to pay $29 for a copy of this wrapper, more power to them. That also happens to be a much more powerful resume bullet point.
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I'm sure you could offer the Japanese dentist 10% of what the procedure would cost in the US and they would do it in one trip.

It cost about 25% of US prices to fly to Costa Rica, stay at a resort, and get the procedure done in a top notch facility. And that's if you just need 1 root canal and crown. If you need even more done the savings move closer to 90%.

And that is a really nice places. You could drive to Mexico and get it done at a decent place for comparatively nothing.
Is it necessary to mention which university the person is from? I have the same reaction when news titles say things like "34 yo woman discovers blah blah blah" or "Spanish scientists found that ...". No one cares about the meta data of these people, let's get to the point and hear what they did.
This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented.

No, I'd vote terrible idea terribly implemented so good (that it failed).

The argument for GenAI chatbots in culture has to be more than "people like it".

The worst possible GenAI is one that manages to be "better" than the standard sterile, moronic homogenized celebrity that everyone already likes. And sure, like any computer program, a GenAI can be randomly "interesting" but this kind of thing is quite shallow imo.
>When governments go the whole nine yards, such as with China's PV and EV industries, or the US with agricultural subsidies, it results in very cheap products and inputs to other products.

We have subsidies for solar and other stuff but the competition is absurdly stiff. What the US government actually needs to do is limit imports. If you want to subsidize that stuff, the money can come from tariffs.

>The US would be very different if it had started to import the bulk of it's corn from Ukraine in the late 1990s

Yes, it would be worse. Food is very important strategically and economically, and subject to occasional disruptions. You don't want to have people starve because of one or more regions has a low yield. There is zero benefit to letting our land go fallow to save the meager cost of government agriculture programs to help farmers survive bad years. We don't import corn because we grow all we need. It is native to North America after all.
It's certainly not exclusive to physicists. The syndrome is called "engineer disease," maybe just because engineers outnumber physicists.

Garbage code isn't exclusive to physicists. The coders often complain when they have to deal with code from other coders.

And physicists gonna code. The last nontrivial problem to be solved without computation was probably solved sometime in the 1930s. And the most powerful "physics software" is a coding stack.

In my own case I've made a career long effort to learn good coding practices, but I don't expect my code to go straight into production.

As for deriving evolution from particle physics, I don't think I've known a physicist who would recommend that.
I take it from another angle: I don't care so much about what people do with my code. It's not that I don't want others to make money with it (not at all).

It's just that as a user, I'm always happier when I get access to the sources of the product I buy. So I release my code under a copyleft licence for the sake of the other users like me.

To push the idea to the extreme, imagine a world where all the open source software that was ever written was under the GPLv3? Maybe most software would be open source in one way or another (and GPLv3 gives you a way to update the software). So you could buy a smart TV, get access to its sources and to tools that would allow you to upgrade it. I think it would be pretty amazing.