skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forcing me to come into the office spending more of my energy, time, and money, not to mention socializing with people I don't want to socialize with, is miserable and unnnecessary. Not to mention I'm far less productive in such a distracting environment. So it just makes no sense why this is even happening in the first place. Most of my team is in a different city!

Meanwhile—I can't even expect regular keeping-up-with-inflation raises, let alone a reasonable promotion schedule. Fuck the current job market I'm moving to china.
I've been using Firefox for years personally and I love it. But it's cumbersome to try to use it for work, at least in a separate browser instance a la Chrome Profiles or Safari profiles. I wish they'd make that easier.
So formula for success on YouTube is to be constantly making crazy and then even more crazier videos and hope they become viral so more people discover you?

I knew that even 15 years ago when I was watching crazy pranks pulled by French YouTuber Rémi Gaillard[0]....he was so popular back in the day on YouTube.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Gaillard
software testing. it's always software testing.
This is why I struggle with enjoying Andy Kaufman's content -- I'm never entirely sure where that line is. I respect his dedication to the craft, but I have a difficult time enjoying it -- on a meta level, it's unsettling.
This would be like asking a carpenter to build you something without a hammer.
At this point we need to realize LLM is a tool like everything else. Maybe give them a LLM challenge - how to do X. What is your prompt. Why?
Very cool idea! I think the UX needs some love. Zooming feels like too big steps and not very smooth, and for me it takes a while to load/update

I like the concept a lot though - keep it up!
Copying from another reply:
I love coolify and I think they are doing amazing work! In the end it mostly comes down to convenience I'd say. With coolify you are still responsible for more things like migrating away if your host decides to die. I think a lot of people also chose us because we have pretty good support

Re footgun: Yes, just dont want to start with fear mongering marketing :D
Fighting technological progress is consistently a losing strategy unless:

1. You can take some extremely expensive or geographically irreplaceable assets out of commission while doing it. See port workers.

2. You realize that one day it will all come crashing down, and very suddenly and that you must save very aggressively for that day. Forklift drivers and manufacturing workers making 90K a year until their employers collapsed in 2008 and that freed them of union contracts.

This is exacerbated by tech being a high cycle industry, with a lot of new entrants and large firms (beyond the largest) often dying or collapsing, so chaining a few major players with contracts is unlikely to protect the industry as a whole.

There isn't a scenario where AI engineers exist and we all keep our nice tech jobs long term as they are (handwriting code).

It doesn't help that in a large factory, having 70% onboard is enough to stop a plant. In tech, if 30% break rank, the thing is still getting built.

Need to figure out where the ball is going.
depends. That wasn't my experience at all, and shouldn't be for anyone.
The added bonus of replacing laid off tech staff with overseas contractors is another morale booster.

The ball is squarely in the employer's court and they are maximizing their position accordingly.
Windows manages volume snapshots on NTFS through VSS. I think ZFS snapshots are a bit "cleaner" of a design, and the tooling is a bit friendlier IMO, but the functionality to snapshot, rollback, and save your bacon is there regardless. Outside of the automatically enabled "System Restore" (which only uses VSS to snapshot specific system files during updates) I don't think anyone bothers to use it though.

CoW, advanced parity, and checksumming are the big ones NTFS lacks. CoW is just inherently not how NTFS is designed and checksumming isn't there. Anything else (encryption, compression, snapshots, ACLs, large scale, virtual devices, basic parity) is done through NTFS on Windows.
I miss YouTube where you could just browse topics, like right around when Google bought it is when I liked it the most I think. I much preferred categories/topics based UI over this spoon fed algorithm. I think there's also a sweet spot in production value that I prefer. I like Technology Connection, Adrians Basement, Cathode Ray Tube Guy (name?), etc level of production much more than LTTs high production value.
And no one I know was ever happy about accidentally downloading a telesync release. They were at best a stopgap for the FOMO crowd before a proper dvdrip inevtiably took their spot on the trackers. Yes you can make an actually high quality analog hole rip but it takes much more effort.
Same experience. For a while I had to do chrome again because it became unusable on my aging phone and then they turned the ship around.

I am always stunned when I have to use anything else at how unusable some pages are without my extensions.
This is a very pessimistic view of the world. In return for contributing to the needs of the colony you benefit from all the colony has to offer.
You can use FFT, if you prefer. There's no reason to not use optimized numerical code, since it's just a different import.

The difference in performance is smaller and the difference in complexity is much greater. Optimized FFTs are... hairy. But now that someone wrote them, free.
As an old AppleSoft Basic/65C02 assembly language hacker, I actually followed the article from first principles and I remembered how AppleSoft basic was stored in memory - one byte code for each command and each line ended in memory with a pointer to the next line in sequence.

But this I got lost in…

> Most of the game is handled by the main program "OREGON TRAIL" (written by John Krenz), which loads in modules like "RIVER.LIB" and keeps access to all the variables.

AppleSoft basic didn’t have the concept of libraries. Were they just POKEing values in memory, loading the next AppleSoft Basic program calling them LIBs and the next one PEEKing to retrieve the values?
I see what you’re saying. Maybe in a novice or learning type situation having the LLM generate code you need to check for errors could be educational. We all learn from debugging afterall. On the flip I suspect for most people course questions might be better for that however. For those already good at the craft I agree there might be some unexplored secondary effects.

What I find (being in the latter category) is most LLM code output falls on the spectrum of “small snippets that work but wouldn’t have taken me long to type out anyway” to “large chunk that saves me time to write but that I have to thoroughly check/test/tweak”. In other words, the more time it saves typing the more time I have to spend on it afterwards. Novices probably spend more time on the former part of that spectrum and experienced devs on the latter. I suspect the average productivity increase across the spectrum is fairly level which means the benefits don’t really scale with user ability.

I think this tracks with the main thing people need to understand about LLMs: they are a tool. Like any tool simply having access to it doesn’t automatically make you good at the thing it helps with. It might help you learn and it might help you do the thing better, but it will not do your job for you.
You mean like how we found out that China attacked and pwn3d the entire US phone system? That’s not a shining example of discretion.
This isn't purely new, either. I'm perhaps dating myself a bit but I recall that over the years I have seen a few actors have this weird vibe where they're never "human", they always "on" and seem like their actor-thing has totally subsumed their humanity.

David Cassidy and Shirley McClain come to mind for me on this.
DuckDuckGo and Kagi allow you to remove entire sites from search results and it is the best feature of these websites.
"Intentionally tanked" is just nerd spin. I've never seen an actually convincing recitation of these stories.
That would actually be a surprisingly low figure as far as I'm concerned.
Are you on Android? AFAIK Mobile Firefox on iOS is just safari with a different skin and on Android it's still not really the same as desktop Firefox.

I think what's actually happening is that they are targeting uBlock + Firefox on desktop for punishment.
Hasn’t Spacex driven down the launch price for the government? A zero-margin government program isn’t necessarily cheaper for society. Much evidence shows that state owned competitions are significantly less efficient than the free market.
Ask questions that involve trade-offs, be they design or performance related, and explicitly tell candidates that you're benchmarking against ChatGPT and expect something beyond what an LLM would give, i.e. you're looking more for creative/critical thinking than mere correctness.
Luck is a huge factor for sure but I also think it's not as hard as you're making it out to be if you set yourself up for success.

I have four products that make money, built over the course of seven years. None of them really benefit from each other. If it was pure luck and 1/1,000 chance of success I don't think my current portfolio would be possible. (I also have a lot of failures, so I agree there's luck and risk, just not as strong as you're making it out to be)
I obviously don't know your personal experience, but your description is still how YouTube works for me. For example, over the holidays I would occasionally put on a video from a channel that plays holiday music with various videos of this guy's model train setup in the background. I immediately started receiving model train videos, which, of course, I had to click on and now I know a little bit about trains and building realistic environment models.

That being said, occasionally I do have to go into my Google data and clear/clean the watch history to reorient my recommendations.
With low rates, there was a lot of hiring, and the supply demand curve for SWE jobs was in favor of employees. So companies had to compete more for employees, leading to perks like remote work. In an era of hiring freezes and layoffs (including stealth layoffs via RTO), not so much.

Does that make line managers better or worse at being line managers? Probably not. But it may affect the experience of being managed if your manager is more or less stressed about fighting for headcount, figuring out who to lay off, fitting performance review ratings to a curve, etc.
Because your time is either worth more doing other things or you don't know how to do it :)
I wonder if using DNS level ad blocking would prevent this.

I avoid YouTube as much as possible anyway as they force me to login.
Visualizing the Entire Order and Chaos of the Double Pendulum [video]
I'm fed up too. Spammy, AI-looking sites are showing up more and more. For some reason, many of them use the same Wordpress theme with a light gray table of contents - they look like this: https://imgur.com/a/totally-not-ai-generated-efsumgZ

The problem seems worse on "alternative" search engines, e.g. DuckDuckGo and Kagi, which both use Bing. It's been driving me back to Google.

A blocklist seems like a losing proposition, unless, like adblock filter lists, it balloons to tens of thousands of entries and gets updated constantly.

Unfortunately, this kind of blocklist is highly subjective. This list blocks MSN.com! That's hardly what I would have chosen.
The interesting part about the enterprise quality disk misinformation is how so wrong it is. The core idea of ZFS was to detect issues when those drives or their drivers are faulty. And this was more happening with cheap non-enterprise disks at that time.
An enormous flaw of Sybase/Microsoft SQL Server is that it does not implement the SQL/PSM standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM

The syntax for this does come largely from Oracle.

"SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language."

In any case, I have thousands of lines of PL/SQL written by many people which are currently useless for SQL Server applications.

SQL Server should implement SQL/PSM. The sooner, the better.

For those trying to escape the licensing costs of SQL Server, Babelfish may be an option.

https://babelfishpg.org/
Mastodon's founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
Possibly true, but I'm sure you'd agree that it can't really be called steadily since around 2010-2014
Those are all great points, but it's not all that simple, because of the Paradox of Tolerance (Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), and others).

And those values of yours (and I guess, mine too) are probably even more bottom wing than left wing : and as you well know there have been scores of left wing anti-liberal regimes in the last two centuries, with plenty of disastrous results.

(With the extra issue that 'liberal' also sometimes stands for right-wing, under a quite different meaning.)

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And I'm not a saint, so there's also aspects of both lashing out because social trends make you feel like in a box that is closing in, and also self-flagellation because of sometimes being tempted into using platforms (with their addictive features and social benefits).

(Also of course some platforms are less problematic than others.

Also, there's an extra aspect when most of the platforms are from a foreign country (USA) that has been sliding in an anti-liberal direction (on their 'left' too) for many decades now. Why tolerate these platforms when you don't even have indirect democratic control over their companies ?)

But yeah, compassion and "cultivate your own garden first".
The only group bleeding customers dry _are_ the government competition. Have you any idea the launch costs of NASA/ESA versus SpaceX?

Artemis/SLS is a complete boondoggle disaster. No redeeming factors at all when you look at the costs, the goals and the potential results.
For the same reason that capitalism also developed by means of violent atrocities, genocide and murder. And it also would do all this again whenever this is needed to maintain itself, so any competing system would need to defend itself in acts that would be portrayed as authoritarian and violent in capitalist societies, even if these societies handwave and find excuses for the same acts if done in capitalism. This is part of the power struggle inherent to the economical system.
RP2350 Hacking Challenge Results
Capital claims the rewards. Company gets twice as productive, there's no reason to pay workers more unless they organize to demand it. So the bosses keep more and more of the surplus.
>This site has been reported as unsafe

>Hosted by cleanlabelproject.org
>Microsoft recommends you don't continue to this site. It has been reported to >Microsoft for containing phishing threats which may try to steal personal or >financial information.
The project annoys me every time it pops up.

All that work and no simple table of results?

Here's what the "Best protein powders" button hidden on their site links to: https://cleanlabelproject.org/product-categories/?refinement...

WTF is that UI? And where's the data? What are the measurements? And why isn't it a list of protein powders?
Sitka lost their fiber optic link last summer. No internet, no cell phones, no texting, no credit cards. Lasted for days.

https://www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2024/09/11/news/sitka... reports some of the consequences.
The listed diff from Jan 2024 puts Snowflake at almost double Pg, and third place MSSQL server is next to last place. Even if they meant Azure when they said MS in third, it is still in negative territory while there are more than 20 dbs with positive ratings.

Postgresql +15

Snowflake +28

MSSQL -78

So DB of the year seems to be based on feels rather than their numbers.
I think human nature dictates that this opens up a literal market for the opposite. People aren't served by exhausting hysteria, it's just a cheap date, a way to grab low hanging fruit. The more that's focussed on, the more an opportunity arises to cover abandoned needs and wants.

The question becomes, is YouTube's algorithm good enough to itself pick up on this new market and serve it? I see no reason it couldn't. It's possible human algorithm-minders might sabotage this instinct by going 'no, this is the big win' and coaxing it towards MrBeast stuff, but surely the algorithm will eventually win out?
In the last few decades workers got the impression that there is some sort of a utilitarian reason or rationale behind the workplace practices or management approaches. After all there is research! Business schools!

This facade has started to crack in many places, and RTO is just a very obvious example, it's almost absurd how the companies prizing themselves for being "data-driven" descended into "we're doing this because bossman says so". But it follows the spirit of times anyway, people will quickly adjust.
In the USA, at least, most the lumber for home construction is farmed. We don't rely on "old growth" for much anymore.

Meaning the forests are kept forests and new trees are planted to replace the ones that are cut down. The land the trees are farmed from is kept forested because it provides a income source for the owners. Also the trees tend to grow much faster then they do in natural forests because things like spacing out trees is optimized.

This is a big complaint for wood working folks, ironically. Because natural grown trees grow slower the wood grain is much tighter and ends up being generally higher quality. Where as modern farmed wood has huge rings.

Although it isn't too bad because you don't use soft woods much for things like furniture making. Where as construction lumber is almost all soft wood.

So at least in the USA the ratio of grown-to-cut wood is about 1.92. So we plant trees nearly 2 to 1 versus what we cut down.
I agree with most of what you wrote, but not the implication that NYC value is obvious.

>You really don't see the value of New York beyond its office buildings?

I like to visit NYC a couple times a year, but absolutely don't want to live there. If the number of people who physically work there goes down, so will the reasons it's nice to visit.

I don't think I can properly explain my thought process here, but I do think of big cities as anachronistic and little inhuman. All those nice things in a city depend on a large number of lower income people being forced to live there by economic opportunity. That's not necessarily bad but frequently lower income residents don't get to enjoy the services they provide.

I say anachronistic because as people increase in economic freedom, their desires adjust and they frequently move, e.g. everything else being equal people will choose a 700 sq.ft. apartment over a 180 sq.ft. apartment. If the ratio of high income to low income residents shifts too far in either direction, cities go through a painful re-balancing process that may or may not land on it being good or pleasant (by some subjective standards) place afterwards.
I have no clue how to use YouTube. It seems like as soon as it latches on 3-4 interests of mine, the entire home page is exclusively filled with videos relating to that. I can mark videos as "not interesting" but it doesn't do much. I will see exactly the same videos on the home screen, ones that I'm not interested in and don't plan on watching, for weeks or months sometimes.

I'm sure there's plenty of interesting content about topics I haven't searched for, but YouTube seems intent on not letting me out of whatever bubble it thought out for me.
Given the margins on supplements, I assume it is to avoid a battalion of lawyers suing them into the ground.
It would be nice if they actually listed the companies and products that were toxic. That would be useful.
How does this compare with railway?
Could add some networked devices for redundancy. I know someone who builds very accurate gyroscopes for naval use out of redundant arrays of commodity accelerometers.
I specifically said abandoned / derelict. Shall I point you at the wiki page of a "straw man argument"?
He spends 4500+ words talking about how bad wokism is (mostly complaining about how some people are complaining about language), and all of maybe 100 words acknowledging racism, and even then uses some of those to say it isn't as bad as the woke think. If you were writing an essay opposing a solution to a problem you really believed to be a terrible problem, wouldn't you take a little more time on why the solution was counter-productive, and maybe offer some alternatives?
Recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675538
You’re commenting on the central megaphone of one of the biggest VC components in the valley ecosystem.

That it has “hacker” is seemingly incidental. This place has always had bad takes from rich people - or takes from people who are seeking to be rich by way of tech.
Just list them. Why won’t they list them??!?

Reeks of “this one surprising common household object will cause instant death, watch at 10 to find out which.”
> CC disagree with that interpretation: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpre... (also https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Defining_Noncommercial).

That's not what I understand from these pages (that only reinforces that even to CC, NonCommercial is not a clear criteria).

They also note NonCommercial as “not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.” which perfectly matches my 3rd case above.

For instance, you perfectly can print and display an NC image as a poster in your professional office, it's not "commercial".

> That's not a point for ignoring the license.

It's definitely an argument to ignore this part of the license: an unenforceable item is effectively void.

> If you download pirated movies, games, or other software, it's very unlikely you'll get caught, but you're still committing a crime.

Beware, that's different here. Downloading/uploading pirated items is illegal. Here, the NonCommercial clause is so ambiguous that even CC doesn't know how to put it. So its enforcement is even further delicate and open to interpretation.
Where Do You Put the Camera? [video]
> but find them [zoom] tiring and a poor simulacrum of real in-person conversation

After working remotely for 8 years, I find video conferencing to be preferable.

* I am more physically comfortable. I can control the thermostat, the humidity, the lighting level. My preference on these three things are very different than standard office. In addition I have better control over items such as the food I am digesting, the office chair I am sitting in, the smells in the room, etc. One concrete example, I am often cold in offices. If I am cold my muscles tend to be tense, and my mind reads that signal and makes me more anxious/alert. I can concentrate better and think more clearly if my body/mind is relaxed.

* Reduction of information to only the most relevant. Do you know how much data you receive when sitting next to another human. Significantly more than the 1000mb/s my home internet connection provides. During a critical negotiation or an intimate moment you might want that extra volume. During engineering it's a distraction. I don't want to smell my co-workers lunch while paired programming. All of the conversations are more focused.

* Consent. I choose to connect. I can choose to disconnect at anytime. I'm never stuck in a conversation while waiting in line for coffee, and if someone virtually decides to drop by my desk, I have more flexibility in dealing with the urgent need.
This is my biggest gripe at the moment. I can't find any information on which brands contained which amount of containments.
How to Lead Through Transformation in Tech [video]