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A lot of those exist because of fairly strong “don’t get close to this” rules or culture. There are certainly areas where our democracies had good properties that slowly erroded too.

Physical operations is the “you had one job” of running a stadium. Gillette even has their own wastewater plant. Some basic rack and stack for IT infra that they could offsite next to all the IT infra they can’t offsite should be child play to them.

There was a talk at defcon about this. I’m on mobile but you should be able to find the esp32 firmware for their detector on github.

Bit rude to armchair psychoanalyze. Also wouldn’t change anything about whether the firing was justified.

Oh. I see the disconnect between us.

To me, either the culture bubble is extremely strong in your area, or being able to admit alignment with ideas shared by a major political party in an area where another party is more popular is an very low bar.

On the scale of topics that I conceal about myself, politics is as easy as talking about the weather.

I feel like this thread is full of two camps:

People who think it's sweet that their colleague is taking vacation to visit family at the end of august this year.

And people who understand exactly why they told that lie.

>I'd like the people I work with to feel safe talking about their family, their disabilities, their religion, their culture or subculture

Yes, you want to feel like the people around you feel safe to share it. Everyone with things that are uncomfortable to hear have learned that they're not. They know the polite fiction to talk around it and make you feel like they're open. They're not.

"psychological safety" in the workplace? Auzla always lies. HR always lies. HR always lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYs-aM8I8U

> not sure how to square this with the dramatic improvement in LLM capabilities

A good tech demo doesn’t matter to the business if the products don’t become profitable at the scale the investment chased.

> we don’t even expect humanity from big tech since that’s what we’ve become accustomed to seeing.

There is a difference between humanity in communication and saying the problem was a human choice.

You can have humane communication about a system failure and actors in that system. Or you can have cold matter of fact press release voice about an individual persons failure.

I don’t think anthropic statement was any less distant than other times big tech brushes off a whiopsie. They just used personal language to ingratiate the reader.

I can not agree harder.

A rando that knows a little therapy language and has good intentions is dangerous. Turn and run.

> The hearsay is essentially repeating what was announced publicly. Their job listing might as well have said, “now seeking applicants for total shit show”. It’s bad form for us to say this out loud.

It's a good thing to point out these unspoken truths explicitly. As people internalize the norms that make it bad form, it becomes easy to skip the mental step of acknowledging the problem. Even internally. But that quiet acknowledgement is necessary to keep oneself sane. Without it, the best case is someone steers away without good reason, at worst it leads to experienced and expressed frustration that doesn't add up and can snowball into the wrong places.

The bit about stream viewers is interesting. What is the typical viewer experience?

I assumed watching streams is similar to watching vs participating in sports. I played a few as a teen, got quite good at one. As much as I like watching highly talented people apply their skill it does nothing to scratch the participatory itch.

I also find it frustrating that articles expressing personality spicier than “safe for work milquetoast” are treated like out of pocket ranting.

Wasn’t that a story with ffmpeg a few months ago? And people were getting roasted for even the suggestion that google should contribute patches?

> It was true in 2005, but still? As I described in another post here, a modern strategy is to get a beefy server than can run the same ABI

I’m already sitting at an expensive computer, if everything else were equal I’d rather cross compile than buy more hardware.

I’m open to reasons that’s presently too hard of a workflow to enable so I’m (literally) paying for a penalty, but I don’t see how it’s a better idea.

Software projects are too large to be left to licensed practitioners if you want to ensure quality. It would require the producing company to follow a formal quality management system. Discussing individual licensing is a distraction until that is in place.

I think articles like this are roundabout arguing something different from their text.

It’s not about how much to half ass our hobby projects that were often halfassed without AI.

Over years professional development has reached many context-dependent equilibriums for the amount of quality to build into various types of software. Professionals are facing downward pressure on that equilibrium point - not just the faster iteration promised by AI.

Agreed. I wear headphones because open offices suck and I like music. I’m not trying to avoid anyone.

>I can assure HN that they want to be on the grid as quickly as possible.

In a conversation about negative externalities, I don't see the purpose of such a statement. If everything else were equal, nobody would choose negative externalizes just for the fun of it.

Furthermore, a company 'wanting' something is only loosely correlated with the internal political will and resource allocation to achieving it. And says nothing about whether that internal effort is appropriately scaled to the external complexity of the task.

It doesn't prevent people from outsourcing their thinking to AI. People don't bother preparing to discuss topics beyond what AI told them. If they have access to their computer during the conversation they'll ask AI rather than google for reference material. If they don't have access, they'll suggest "investigating" (asking AI) and reconvening.

We had a problem that involved some open source library. The call consisted of various people saying what claude said about the code, then me explaining how it was incomplete or misleading (read: wrong) based on what I learned from actually reading the code.

> What’s the logic here

Tenuous connection between unrelated topics to fit them into larger ingroup/outgroup dynamics is the junkfood of persuasion tactics. Bad for you but addictive anyway. If you look for it you'll see it all the time.

I appreciate that it allows people to engage with and discuss the work without immediately feeling boxed out by pretentious poppycock.

I also think obviousness is overindexed as the indicator of bad art because it's often the easiest property to articulate about something thoroughly bad. A lot of the tv and movies that make me quote the robot devil ("You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!") would not be improved by making the characters subtler. They could be the same level, or even more forthcoming, if the writing sounded like natural conversations real people have.

>Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do.

- Creator of Black Mirror, 5 years before series premiere

You know the meme that goes: "Be yourself. No, not like that."

It is possible for someone to have a goal of changing themselves into a person who can fit in socially, and be effortlessly comfortable while doing so. After building the underlying skills, they know how to navigate social situations well enough to intuit how much honesty and revealing is appropriate for a given situation, and can roll back "fake it until you make it". They can accept surmountable social penalties for the comfort of less self-filtering and chance to have more meaningful connections.

"Be yourself" means to change yourself, and then stick the landing.

Yeah, why be such a tryhard? Keeping PR friction down is what matters. Just let the codebase slowly deteriorate. It'll be fine.

Graybeards love to yap. Just talk to them or consume the wide amount of material already out there.

It takes curiosity on your part though. Handwaving about practical concerns taking priority is a path to never getting around to it. "Pragmatism" towards skills is how managers wind up with an overspecialized team and then tell themselves it was inevitable. The same can happen to you.

>The lesson is taught early and often. It often sort of baffles me when other people are baffled at how often this happens in science,

Math and some sciences have the aura of definitive right and wrong, so even though by college everyone knows the expression "give the answer the teacher wants to hear", they just think in those subjects the teacher has access to absolute answers.

The primary thing taught by our schooling system (and 2nd place isn't even close) is bureaucracy obedience. This has the obvious effects, but one of the subtler ones is deference to "science" as an authority requiring obedience rather than the process of figuring shit out.

I don't think they're not recognized for it, they just don't brand themselves as it.

For as long as broadcasting has been a thing, major broadcasters were involved in pushing the technology forward. For most of it's history the American network NBC was a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America. But NBC's brand is not tech, they want to consumer to associate the gliz of the picture.

Bleh, that attitude ruins merch. If all you care about is maximizing the number of walking billboards then you're satisfied because it's impossible to calculate the ROI of making available designs that people actually want to wear in public but reduces walking billboards.

The only tech merch I've ever worn was back when firefox had a good logo, goodwill, and no text on the front of the shirt.

Lots of people just want a simple graphic tee and IFKYK. It's not sports. Bands can sometimes get exceptions, but often approach wrestling tshirt levels of gaudiness.