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dafty4··on Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal
Cool which newer TUI frameworks do you prefer?
dafty4··on Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving for drug-trafficking
@pg, can you ask @thiel if he is in favor of this pardon?
dafty4··on [dead]
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@dang, why was this related post flagged (neither posted nor flagged by me, but of interest since RSS feeds are delayed in posting "live" news updates (e.g., BBC RSS is a delayed version of BBC-Live)):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824487

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dafty4··on US envoy visits Gaza food distribution site as UN says 1,373 killed waiting for
@dang, why was this related post flagged (neither posted nor flagged by me, but of interest since RSS feeds are delayed in posting "live" news updates (e.g., BBC RSS is a delayed version of BBC-Live)):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824487

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dafty4··on Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
The above marginalia.nu just surfaced the following very nice article for me, which neither Google nor Kagi returned in their top 10 search results for the same terms ('thaad aegis hwasong'):

https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/the-rol...

(duckduckgo.com returned it as the 5th returned result (not bad)),

Thanks!

dafty4··on The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)
The professor has resigned after being placed on leave, FWIW:

https://www.wuft.org/education/2021-04-23/university-of-flor...

dafty4··on Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk
But, for the Less-Wrong'ers, is it as scary as (gasp) Roko's Basilisk?!?
dafty4··on Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months
So, are you thinking more about laying people off recently? :)
dafty4··on Meta and Google are cutting staff
The stock price dive at Meta is pretty clearly due to the $10B hit from Apple’s Do Not Track Feature.

Meta should make a free Android phone that allows tracking.

dafty4··on Stanley Druckenmiller warns the stock market will be ‘flat’ for an entire decade
These headlines are such BS. The Russia-Ukraine war and energy crisis won’t be resolved in the next ten years? Give me a break.
dafty4··on Death by hockey sticks
Don’t plot the amount of wild mammalian biomass, plot the amount of totally mammalian biomass.

Doubt you’ll see a downward hockey stick in that case.

What makes a wild mammal more special than a domestic one?

dafty4··on No More “Insight Porn”
TLDR; any mention of Tim Ferriss?
dafty4··on Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant
But "to any person", e.g., a CIA asset in the field might be exposed by a gmail user, thus threatening her/his life, thus pre-emptively disclose the gmailer's info to law enforcement?

Or imagine an idle threat is made off-hand in a private gmail, so pre-emptively disclose that threat to law enforcement?

In the sci-fi Minority Report scenario, Google could use AI language models on all gmail to make a judgment call on "emergent danger of serious physical injury". If I plan to go bunjee jumping with an unreliable provider, Google scans my gmail and tells law enforcement?!?

dafty4··on Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant
Self-hosted VPN for at least a narrower risk surface, in theory?
dafty4··on FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns
And a commissioner appointed by Trump, no less.
dafty4··on FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns
Ever heard of Japanese toy franchises? Sometimes foreign stuff sells better than domestic.
dafty4··on Let's build a decentralized social network together with Logseq
Cool! Can I easily post self-hosted photos? :)
dafty4··on Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain
Looking to economic growth only without any regard for unemployment is myopic.
dafty4··on Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
Thanks for posting the heads-up re: Meta and Netflix; in the latter case I’m not surprised (or maybe they could just reduce the obscenely high salaries they overpay so they can feel superior to other members of FAANG, which doesn’t really fool anyone about their engineering prowess (they’re a content company, not an engineering/product/big-cloud company like the others, and everyone knows it). That would also allow them to get rid of this let-a-person-go-after-a-few-months-but-don’t-worry-there’s-warmth-and-respect BS.

Regarding your 2nd statement: “Other companies are cutting staff”; you mean in big tech already? Who?

dafty4··on Why Kreya isn't open source
TLDR: Money
dafty4··on Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper
Just curious what PDF annotation tool(s)/setup you use?
dafty4··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
Did anyone expect a different outcome?
dafty4··on Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
Thanks, HermanL and PradeepN, for sharing this migration story with HN!

You wrote:

"Despite all the hurdles in our migration path, we have already seen the benefits of running 8.0."

May I ask what are the main performance benefits you have measured/noticed?

dafty4··on Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave
"Orange/red badges are typically a big deal because it is very rare for people to last at Amazon past even 2-3 years, nevermind 5 years. "

Are some career ladder jumpers actually planning to leave anyway after 2-3 years so they can leverage compensation offers between FANG?

dafty4··on Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave
Click-bait headline, much?
dafty4··on Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong
Yes and that next thing will be tax cuts, thanks to the libertarians. #yesWeCan?
dafty4··on Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
Are you referring to the Beyond Burger at Burger King or Beyond Meat in the grocery? I ate the former today and think it tastes pretty good (I don't miss the real-meat Whopper at all.)

P.S. I think your reference to radical candor is unnecessary; how does it further your 3 points? At the same time, thank you for pointing out this managerial meme; a tangential response since you brought it up: you do realize that the opposite of ruinous empathy is depraved indifference, right? How can we be sure that in critiquing Beyond Burger support as ruinously empathic, you aren't shielding your readers from valid concerns that choosing Real-Meat Whoppers over Beyond Meat Whoppers is immorally indifferent?

dafty4··on Linux Terminal Tools [pdf]
Needs to add `apropos`.
dafty4··on History: Harvard Hand-Wringing about Losing CS Profs to Private Industry (1982)
"Professors pointed to Assistant Professor of Computer Science Edward M. Clarke's decision to leave Harvard in June as an example of the University's inability to compete financially with other institutions. Clarke was offered an associate professorship here but has chosen to accept the same position at Carnegic Mellon University for considerably more money, professors said"
dafty4··on History: Harvard Hand-Wringing about Losing CS Profs to Private Industry (1982)
"Professors said junior faculty members make $18,000 a year but could have jobs in the private sector with salaries starting at $45,000."
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