skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd actually say the relevant group is "people trying to understand the domain" (given the question in the headline).

Which, generally, boils down to a group that is largely programmers, and even those that aren't programmers DO (AFAICT) have familiarity with the "stack" concept (non-technical Eng Managers, non-technical PMs, etc)

I'm not saying you're wrong in any way, just pointing out that it can be said in a way that doesn't sound like "programmers are all that matter" (which I don't think was your intent anyway).
>In this case, the demand is “the ability to express myself to a huge audience.” People are willing to pay to do that. Because of that, they see any job where they get to do it as a net positive, even if the job is horrible.

This is true for any job that is just an extension of a hobby. People put on local community theater productions in their spare time because they find it fun and fulfilling. You don't have to pay people to do that, so the pay for people to do it professionally would naturally be low in a free market system.

Do you know another profession like that? Software development. People spend countless hours working on open source software for free just because they like it. The open source community saves businesses billions in labor costs every year. Would anyone suggest we get rid of the open source community so developers could be better compensated? We are just lucky enough that the global demand for general software development is much
higher than the demand for video game development or theater/TV/movies that it can offset these other factors.
You seem to be narrowing the issue and abstracting it away from the local problems until you can easily dismiss it as a mere tool everyone has employed historically. But I don't think any recent history has had to have a perfectly "acceptable" political ideology and personal history (sometimes going back 40+ years) - that hasn't "offended" multiple extreme ends of various political camps.

...absent the Victorian age and some time after, which we all moved beyond culturally because it was backwards to force one top-down rigid "proper" way to live and speak.

Not to mention the definition of "acceptable" to these special interest camps is forever a moving goal post where anyone who isn't the perfect caricature of mainstream "acceptableness" can't have a say in any economic, cultural, political, etc discourse without being tarred, feather, and demanded to apologize for even thinking they could engage in the process.

This is a very different development than just employing moral outrage. A critical part of a healthy democratic society is accepting people have different worldviews. We're moving to a world where there is one alleged correct worldview and anything else is a showstopper.
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I started learning to write Haskell a while ago. My current reflection is while it’s easy to start learning to write simple code and correct code it a much larger step to actually be able to write performant code that is generic. Performant idiomatic Haskell requires a good enough understanding of the functional paradigm.
Yea which is one benefit of simple tax systems. If the tax rate is 10% across the board, then there is a simple "spirit" there to appeal to.
I live in Pittsburgh, and was surprised to hear that sign was illegal. Having googled around, I see a bunch of local papers talking about it, but nobody's saying the sign was illegal, just ugly and using inefficient lighting.

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2014/07/31/Bayer-pul...
Pretty sure that comment is referring to unionizing within the games industry where there is an overabundance of qualified people who want the jobs available.
This effect hits non-profit organizations really hard - people feel like they need to suffer to earn the right to make the world a better place, but the overall effect is that non-profit workers lead precarious lives, and their effectiveness suffers due to this instability. People with the ability to fix organizational dysfunction can rarely continue to make those wages, and so
they move into for-profit industry.

This is not a good way to run a society.
Shh! Can't mention it when wind is being discussed.
Ugh. I just read the report and maintain that the pilots acted incompetently. Though they regained control of the plane and turned off the stab trim system, their reaction took considerable time. The fatal blow, however, is this: distracted by the problem, neither pilot paid attention to the aircraft's speed as they flew along in level flight. They had tunnel vision. You can see in the report that the overspeed clacker began alerting them midway through the incident. With the nose-down trim, this high airspeed exacerbated the difficulty of holding the nose up. Had they slowed down, the aircraft would have been controllable. The moment they reactivated the system at high speed, adding even more nose down trim, they killed themselves and everyone on board.

I also question the lack of clear communication between the two pilots. Examples such as the captain asking the first officer if the aircraft could be manually trimmed and the first officer replying in the negative, with no verification on the part of the captain and no checklist use make me wonder. Maybe they were doing those things. I'd be interested in seeing a transcript. It's understandable why Muilenburg doesn't seem particularly remorseful.
The poor, poor Internal Revenue Service. With virtually unlimited resources (if it alleges a crime) and a 99.8% conviction rate, its a wonder they collect any taxes at all! How dare these filthy billionaires try to keep their own money.
>Which is that the 'means of production' needs to be OWNED by the people producing. Not a corporate owner (or even an 'entrepreneur'), and not 'the state', but the collective that actually does the work, commensurate with their overall contribution.

You sound similar to an anarcho-syndicalist, which is a position I've never understood well. Let me ask a question in the form of example.

Bob, Ted, and Jim want to start a pin factory. All three want to work for it. So they pool their capital, contributing $250k, 300k, and 350k respectively, receiving proportional equity, invest in equipment, and all three go to work making pins after 2 months. They hire other workers. The contract for all workers gives a vesting schedule that gives them equity over time as well.

The fact that CAPEX has to be provided by employees is not a good feature of this. Should shareholders that have never held a job with the firm not be allowed to invest in it? That is exceedingly restrictive.
Sure, if you accept your qualifier of "only". I see no reason to though.
It's a nice coincidence that the guy doing this happens to be named (James) Stanley, given the long history of Stanley tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Hand_Tools
So you're essentially arguing that Dalio's logic is this:

"I'm donating money to you, fiscally conservative senator Cotton, because I disagree with your policy and think you should adopt a more progressive policy, even though it's against the fundamental tenants of your party. Despite the fact that your fiscally conservative policy greatly benefits me financially, I hope you change your position and adopt a more progressive policy, even if it hurts me financially."

If this were truly his state of mind, why not back a progressive instead, that he knows is going support these reforms? This makes no sense to me.
If you like weekends and holidays, you like unions.
> Where might militant atheists and religious fundamentalists find common ground?

It turns out that the answer to this is transphobia, sadly.
Ooh, I didn't know about that feature. Just googled it. Thanks :)
glad it was useful!
Literally playing video games is now a dream job and people are still complaining smh
The definition of murder changes with societies laws. Much of the prescribed killing in the Christian bible would be classified as murder today. Working on the sabbath for instance.

Successful religions follow the golden rule and the like. People don't need a religion to evaluate how their actions impact others.
> Which is that the 'means of production' needs to be OWNED by the people producing

I would tend to agree except that it's an awful way to diversify risk and a comically bad way to allocate capital. Even if you were to exploit resources to their maximum, I'd give you at most two generations before you'd need to use force to keep the system working.

And this isn't a defence of capitalism, especially not modern US capitalism. That's pretty shitty too but it does scale and is mostly stable.

And while we're here. So water is a common inheritance and can't be owned. Water treatment is owned by the water treaters. There's no state or corporations to sub them. How do you get clean water given no-one is going to be stupid enough to starve to death as a water treater?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#Annual_returns

> Total Annual Return Including Dividends

10.53%

> 25 Year Annualized Return

11.93%
If you give an incorrect estimate, you'll be the one to blame at the end of the project. Remember estimates aren't promises, so better to deal with hurt feelings at the start of the project.
Heh maybe you’re too young? LAMP stack is probably at this point so old nobody cares. But having worked with decisionmakers in corporations with large IT needs most were quite aware of LAMP-I mean it was in many ways the killer app of Linux.

Also this notion that stack was invented in tech is ridiculous. Stack ups have been referred to in manufacturing and medicine for years prior.
Sure, but that's not what the other poster said. They said they shouldn't have a platform "at all". Meaning, "any platform", which is the point I disputed.
I remember using "superformatted" disks when burning MuLinux to disk, many many moons ago... http://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/
Are we different from the humans still living in tribal hunter-gatherer societies? Are they lesser beings, inherently inferior to our glorious master race?
You mean, do I know who you happen to think is cool, which pretty much by definition has to be a cultural and personal opinion? Good for you. Lots of people think working on big flashy modern AAA games is cool and glamourous. I don't. You don't. Presumably that's why we won't work for glamour in the games industry. Lots of people are prepared to work for glamour in the games industry; they think it's cool.
>The thing you need to look at if you’re using say, a dynamic language, or object oriented design, is that in the long term, what is the language and mindset of “objects” with dynamic dispatch providing you apart from an endless stream of bugs that seem to keep reoccurring everytime you try an evolve the software to introduce a new requirement?

I am sick and tired of the arrogant, willfully ignorant developers touting their FP horn and bashing OOP without any qualifiers. This is getting as annoying as Java people posting their design pattern nonsense as if it was something good.

If you know what a monad is, you should also know the founding ideas behind OOP.

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...

The ideas make sense. Moreover, Kay has an amazing track record of saying unpopular things and being proven right in the long run. If you spend some time looking into it, you should see that his high-level intuitions about software architecture are proving to be correct, despite many of his critics. A lot of hyped-up modern technologies are implicit, ad-hoc, overly complex implementations of OOP ideas done without realizing they are such. The whole IT industry would be far better off if people took time to look into and understand the original ideas behind OOP.

1. OOP is a higher-level paradigm than FP, so people comparing them directly usually are missing the point to begin with. OOP systems can be implemented in functional languages or use functional-flavored components.

2. It is beneficial to model algorithms without using state. FP is very good that that. (Boring but practical example: LINQ vs loops and variables in C#. Functional LINQ pretty much always "wins", just like Streams always win in Java.) However, large-scale systems almost always have state. If you do not have some wise approach for handling it, your designs will have issues at system level. OOP is one such approach and at that level its ideas have a lot of value.

I'll edit this post later to add a few more points.
Quickly glancing Dalio's article, he used the word tax once and never in tandem with progressive tax.

Here is the link (original on linked in)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...
The article seems a bit all over the place WRT inflation.

If you're inflation adjusting, then you're not socking $100 a month away, because towards the end of that 40 years coffee will cost way more than that.

As others have said though, it's not really about the $5 coffee. It's about whether you save or not.

If you have $50K a year after expenses, then yeah, a $5 coffee probably is irrelevant.

If you have $5K or $10K, then a significant percentage of your discretionary expenditure has gone on a hot liquid.

Ultimately though this just comes down to saving enough, which I think is intuitively obvious to anyone who sits down and thinks about it without invoking some sort of "magic beans" lens.

If you have a 40 year working life, and 20 years in retirement, saving 33% of your income and investing it in something that tracks inflation should be enough for you to maintain your average standard of living.

I don't think that 33% is a hard bar to hit for most people that aren't on minimum wage. I also don't think most people actually consider it that way, they think of pensions or other schemes as wizardry that will return them vastly in excess of inflation.
There's an important nuance between income and wealth here. Income tax takes money from the people who are still going to work to build their fortunes (and those who are just getting by). The ones who have already made a fortune are only worried about the capital gains rate.

Billionaires who advocate for higher income tax, but not a higher capital gains rate, are just pulling up the ladder behind them. The article isn't explicit with what Dalio is advocating for here.
Time to send that puppet home to Russia, that's where all of the "freedom fighters" apparently flee to.
I think the randomness comes from the mismatched supply / demand. After the people with a leg up (very talented and pliable, or with good personal connections) get selected, you're left with a reserve army of labour, so random allocation is a sensible strategy.

I know many actors of this class (irregular appearances on TV shows), and the casting directors simply don't care; they and the crew just try to remember a few names on the spot that fit the needed profile, make a few calls, maybe do a couple of auditions (often not even that), and they're chosen.
Part of the point of a progressive taxation system is to help clamp down on wealth inequality. The ultra wealthy have more means at their disposal to turn their wealth into more wealth or political power. A strong progressive tax system and an estate tax is necessary to prevent them from turning into a literal aristocracy.

So yes, I consider “soaking the rich” a valid policy goal, despite your pejorative spin.
I’ve never worked on games professionally, but I work in games media and have been able to watch this industry change up close. Video game development is really a different beast than the rest of development. They branched in the 80s the way apes and chimps did genetically. They don’t follow the same tech trends that the rest of the industry follows. I doubt a majority of game devs even know about HN. They socialize with different people. All it takes to appreciate this is to remember how caught off guard the whole industry was by mobile gaming being a thing.

I’m not convinced supply/demand is really the reason why the games industry is the way it is. I compare it to the non-games tech industry and see the conversations, communities, and struggles they’ve had and the games industry is only starting to, and wonder if there is a connection.
Right. But people aren't addicted to the apps per se, they're addicted to themselves. So taking away the apps might temporarily slow down the disease, but that's still not a cure.
>IT'd be like saying that the practical solution to human trafficking is for people to stop visiting prostitutes

I don't want to nitpick but a lot of the strategy surrounding ending human trafficking involves cutting off demand, which means trying to stop johns from buying prostitutes. This sort of `cut off the demand` strategy isn't entirely unheard of.
In high school, (mid 90's) I desired to be a video game developer, because I thought hey I like to play video games so maybe that should be my career! That all changed when I read the Next Generation (greatest gaming mag of all time) issue on working in the gaming industry. After reading about conjugal visits on the office floor because husbands would be stuck at the office for weeks trying to the game finished, that was enough for me. As someone who wanted to get married and have a family this turned me off of going into the gaming industry and led we towards more a much more family friendly career.

As for unionization, I don't think it will help. I have a good career, great salary, working from home 4 days a week and only commute 1 day but can come in after rush hour. I don't see companies being able to provide benefits like that if unions are involved.
How can a blind person ever be a report designer? The nature of the task is inherently visual. No matter how much accessibility you add to PowerPoint a blind user isn't going to be able to chose the perfect font or position a chart in a meaningful way.
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Clinton didn't create the term fake news. The article you link to mentions her having used the term in a speech, but that doesn't mean she created it, nor, as I assume we're meant to infer, that she or the Democratic Party fabricated the phenomenon referred to as a post-hoc rationalization for having lost the election.

In fact, if you read the Wikipedia article on fake news[0], you'll note the term as well as the phenomenon predate Clinton's campaign and loss, even within that campaign cycle. People were talking about it well before that point.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news
FWIW, as an example, Google developers don't have direct access to production PII data.

The best they get are aggregations (sufficiently large enough that you can't identity a person). Specific user information is only available if the user explicitly opts in to share it, and is scoped to the specific case for analysis.

It makes training/diagnosing ML models a challenge, to be sure
In this highly competitive industry, you cannot expect someone to just stand up and demand to not be exploited when they can be simply fired and replaced within minutes. So no, it is not as simple as just growing a spine.
> Do you usually jump in on a new technology or framework and get frustrated because you don’t know how something works when you didn’t take the time to learn the technology you use?

I usually jump in and try to solve my problem with the tools that seem right for the job. Reviewing the documentation as needed. I get frustrated when the documentation doesn't match what I have observed. In this case, the connection limits of the default stateful firewall on EC2 were not mentioned anywhere I could find (knowing exactly what to to look for and where to look, I think I could find a vague mention of the general limit today). The specific limits per instance type certainly still aren't. I found forum posts about the connection limit with useless responses from employees. I reached out to my support contact and got useless information (they did get me access to bigger instances though, which just have a larger, unspecified, connection limit, that was still small enough that I could hit it). I reached the conclusion that AWS must be great, because people love it, but it has very non-transparent networking, and useless support for non-trivial issues. I'm sure if we were spending more, we would get better support people and they'd share insights into their networks -- I've seen that with our other hosting providers, although network insights there weren't needed for everyday things, just more details were nice when the network broke, so we could help them detect future issues and plan for failures.

If the technology mostly works, but I need deeper knowledge, maybe for optimizing, I'll seek out deeper references, but third party references during discovery is very dangerous. When there is a conflict between what is observable, what is documented in first-party sources and what is documented in third-party sources, I would have no context to know which documentation indicates intended behavior and which is most out of date.

> I’m sure you’ve never had s problem with any piece of open source software that was “out of your control” or did you just download the software and patch it yourself?

Download and patch myself, and upstream the patches if I have the time and patience. Isn't that the point of open source? Everything is broken, but at least I can inspect and fix parts of the system where I can see the code. Hell, binary patching is a thing, although I wouldn't want to do that on the regular. I've had patches accepted in the FreeBSD kernel, OpenSSL, Haproxy to fix issues, some longstanding I ran into.

At the end of the day, I'm responsible for the whole stack, because if it's not working, my users can't use my product. It doesn't matter if it's the network, software I wrote, open source software, managed software; even software on the client devices is my problem if it doesn't work. The more I can inspect, the better.
Think machine learning.
>we can infer a force

Right, and my point is that until someone actually does that calculation we don't know how high that force was.
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>Price controls, seizure of private property and general thuggish incompetence have turned Venezuela into a disaster.

Price controls were used extensively by Truman to regulate steel in the postwar period with decent effect. Seizure of private property was also used extensively by China and Korea, both prosperous. Finally Venezuela also suffers from extensive targeted sanctions in the period of its greatest strife (complete with Trump threatening an invasion). I dont mean to suggest policy has no effect, but the outcomes are not simple, they are complex, and external factors matter a lot to the success of individual countries. See: 1997 in Asia.