skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a problem here is Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." [1] And it seems like there's an element of the streetlight effect [2], too; sometimes a bad metric really is worse than no metric.

Also, I really question your notion that people outside a field should be able to evaluate the quality of someone's work, especially in academia, where the whole point is to be well ahead of what most people can understand. That theory seems like part of managerialism [3], which I'll grant is the dominant paradigm in the western corporate world.

I understand why a managerialist class would like to set themselves up as the well-paid judges of everybody else. But I'm not seeing why anybody would willingly submit themselves to that. It's a commonplace here on HN that we avoid letting managers make technical decisions, however fancy their MBA, because they're fundamentally not competent to do it. That seems much more important for people doing cutting-edge research.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerialism
Not quite, it's definitely more clustered in the northeast than population (which has sizeable centers in Texas, California, etc)
I did, oddly enough, look at used PowerEdge servers, but I wanted a multiseat desktop too, so the step-son and I could play games together at the same time. Less than $700 bought the Mac Pro, 2 video cards, 48 GB of RAM (3 sticks) and, not included in my original equipment tally, a 4 TB SSD and 24" AOC monitor. The bare Mac Pro was $250.
As I got it early last year, the 5 year rule of thumb almost applied as a 2009 and a 2012 Mac Pro are nearly identical, the former being able to just be flashed to the latter.
In another couple of years, if I have any cash to spare, I'll likely get a used PowerEdge, though. The cost of those things, for what you get, is exceedingly good.
> Even now, you're trying to talk out of the side of your mouth to make it seem as if every "request" by you is actually an opportunity in disguise for the person you are assigning tasks to.

I'm saying the verbiage matters and conveys different things. There are times I just flat-out tell people to do things (rare). There are times I ask if someone would please do something (most). And there are times when I ask if someone would like to do something (rare). In all cases I'm trying to keep someone's total workload sane.

Not only is this the way I use it, it appears to be the way other people use it, too... While obviously nothing is universal and I can't speak for everyone, the way I use it seems to be common.
From other responses on this subthread:

> If my manager said "would you like to x" I would assume he is trying to figure out who on the team to give x to, and wants to take our preferences into account.

or

> Is “would you like to?” really a firm request? I would definitely interpret that as a genuine question meant to gauge my desire.

or

> I'm a manager. If I made that request, I have left the door open for a refusal BUT I would expect an explanation ("No, I can't do X because of Y...").

or

> In the US specifically, though, I’d take this as a genuine question. Any manager who didn’t get that is going to either learn to change their ways or will be perpetually frustrated.

When I get something that I think would be fun/interesting/an opportunity for growth, I'm genuinely excited to be able to provide more interesting work and to be able to see subordinates grow. Usually these things are stuff that I hope to include as positive anecdotes in performance reviews.

People can say "no", but I'd really appreciate an answer that conveys why they wouldn't like to so I can better understand.

On the other hand: if someone begs off these tasks a lot, I'm not likely to keep offering them. And it will be difficult to promote someone who doesn't take these kinds of growth opportunities.

> Look man, sometimes, tasks just need to be done. And that's fine. You aren't fooling anyone by saying you're "giving them an opportunity to explore disposal management techniques in an office environment".

Again, I'd just nicely ask someone to do something in this case, not ask whether they'd like to.

In any case, you're leaping to hostility fairly quickly. The accusation of "talking out of the side of [my] mouth" is unnecessary-- I'm telling you genuinely as I see it and as I try to do.

Indeed, reading the people who say that they understand it as a firm command makes me want to use this verbiage less-- though I don't quite know how to start the kinds of conversations I want to have about these optional tasks without it.
But emplace() is already as explicit about it as it gets.
I used qmail for about ten years. It was remarkably good from a sysadmin's perspective:

- the config system mostly used the name of a directory where lots of software would use a filename (qmail.ini => /var/qmail/conf), the name of a file where other software would use a variable name, and the contents of the file as the value of the variable. This is really, really easy to read and write without writing a parsing library.

- separate executables do separate jobs, with well-documented interfaces between them. Oh, and if a part didn't need root, it didn't run as root, and if a part didn't need to be the same user as another, it didn't share users. While it was easiest to replace something at the edge of the graph, it was entirely possible to replace middle jobs as well.

- qmail was the original design home of Maildir. I approve of various Maildir++ implementations (nesting folders is useful) and you could add support for them by replacing your delivery agent.

- qmail expected to be controlled by daemontools, a supervision system that has inspired/been blatantly copied and improved upon as runit, perp, s6, and nosh. (I have a suspicion that nosh is what most critics of systemd is really looking for.)

- fast.

- nearly bug-free.

What qmail gave up in exchange for all this: modern features and required antifeatures... which, it appears, notqmail is going to implement. Huzzah!
It might be a question of avoiding implicit interfaces in your code (or documenting and testing it extensively in case you need them). They are great for creating really generic libraries (like Tables.jl interface), but for business logic production code it might be better to restrict the polymorphism of the language (using more strict dispatch rules, avoiding duck typing, type declaration as type asserts).
Wow, so some food has had their nutrients decreased by 100%? Seems a bit far fetched to me.
Thank you for the reply - And yes Red is good even brilliant , but it seems like you are stalling .... when your done your pay (the few) stops.
This might work for hard sciences, but not for mathematics.

Or, I dunno, paleontology or sociology or other stuff.
A non-trivial number of very senior people simply cannot read or write. They can process information about other people very quickly in f2f interactions, but when things are written down they are at sea. Video is also significantly less useful for these people.

I have seen it in dozens, maybe hundreds, of execs I have interacted with over the years, including people I have worked very closely with.

Sometimes it is varieties of dyslexia, sometimes ADD. Could be any number of other "disorders."

It's not a preference/policy. It's just how they engage. Often it is best to recognize it, and engage with them on the terms that work best for them.

And of course this is not new. Illiterate leaders have been with us since there has been literacy.
Just a question for those in the know: is regenerative farming even scalable to meet the needs of a booming population? Can grow enough food without current industrial agriculture?
Can't you just get ecological produce or elsewise produced without round up?
Is there any theory/ideas about how a "post-growth" economy would/could function?
He is not talking of a mindset. He is talking about making a reflection.

If you are the only one doing the work, why is it worth doing?
Thanks for pointing to Starlette, I didn't know it and it looks interesting.

I completely agree with you on Django. I've had the chance to implement an e-commerce solution in Flask and another one in Django and the process has been a lot easier and faster with Django. You just can't beat having all the basic tools bundled and configured, along with one central documentation.
We have moved from BitBucket after they had several days worth of unavailability over a year and the fact that they would regularly decline our company credit card, which would subsequently immediately block all commits to our repos.

It was a mess which was simply fixable by re-submitting the card details again.

They only had one job.
'Minerals and trace elements'. Makes you wonder how they calculated the 'trace elements' (whatever those are) in food from decades ago? Easy! Just say you did.
First Solar has acted as an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm for large ground-mounted solar farms, but they have never been in the rooftop solar installation business like SolarCity.

First Solar's panels would also be an unusual choice for a rooftop installation even if a different installer handled the work. Rooftop solar installations typically call for high efficiency panels. First Solar makes lower efficiency, lower cost panels that maintain performance at elevated temperatures. Their panels are good for solar farms, particularly in hot climates. They don't have anything special to recommend their use in rooftop projects.
Yeah, I've got my share of PowerPC Macs, too (one Powerbook G4, one PowerMac G5, one XServe G5, one eMac G4, all running various versions of OpenBSD). They're really fun machines, and it's a shame Apple decided instead to be yet another x86 vendor.

I also can't wait for a PowerPC revival. Saving up for one of them Talos workstations as my next major hardware purchase (but it's really hard to pull the trigger when the motherboard or CPU alone costs as much as I paid for the entire Threadripper rig I built last year...).
A data visualization curriculum of interactive notebooks, using Vega-Lite
Help me make a world history syllabus out of novels
How do you use a small set of scientific studies to prove one is better? Studies are reductionist, which is a very powerful and useful perspective...but not as useful when you have to measure a dynamic living system that can be optimized along maybe 100 dimensions or more? Worse, what is the funding source of these studies, and what incentives are tied to it?

So you have many different types of soils, and that will produce variations. You have different histories on those soils, you can measure for a dozen minerals, but what about those tiny trace minerals? Top soil optimization...nutrient run-off that creates fungal blooms in the ocean killing life in the ocean, price per pound to produce produce, shelf life of produce, how it looks, is the taste in fashion ----- so take those dimensions that you can measure things on --- and then multiply that by the number of different veggies and fruits and all their different types (eg. how many different apples are there??)

It's too massive problem space to solve with a few studies...and the financial incentives and ideological thinking further muddies the waters.
We don't want 99 people taking antibiotics for every one who gets cured (about the rate most tick bites have of giving Lyme disease), so maybe a bit of gatekeeping is appropriate here. At least to ask "Has it been on you for 36 hours?"

Antibiotics have a major effect on your gut flora and I don't take them lightly.
Is the Instagram influencer motivated by polarization or by social proof? I think the GP is arguing that when your goal is polarization you don't care about social proof.
I saw him speak a few years back, and he called for radical ideas, like suggesting the entire concept of a publicly traded company as we know it allows companies to throw their hands in the air in regards to their ethics in regards to the environment. This extends into their repair program, and various other sustainability focused goals.

Patagonia is certainly one of the rare examples of what a modern ethical company would look like (however this often includes the fact that their goods are much higher priced than what you find at walmart).
git repos can be as immutable as you want. you just need to point your package manager to a commit or tag, instead of a branch head. if you are worried about a rebase, well you have that issue with any public artefact stores.
Well, the CPUs are in the same ballpark (<500 bucks for the 4-core POWER9 ~= launch price of the Ryzen 7 1800X) but the boards are outrageous — $1100 for the Blackbird is almost twice as expensive as ridiculous E X T R E M E boards like the ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME for Threadripper (and a normal decent board for desktop Ryzen is in the $250 area).

Yeah, it's low volume and Raptor needs to pay their employees — but $1100 for a mainboard? Come on. Maybe they should have dropped PCIe Gen 4 from the Blackbird at least.
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I've often said that I married better than she did. ;)
I'm not sure if the amount of plants grown for direct human consumption is still too big. Especially the protein rich ones, like beans, lentils.

I believe the booming population thirsty for beef, chicken and similar massive products is driving the agriculture of corn, soybean and wheat to its limits.
The post doesn't mention Django's migration system, which is a killer feature. Of course, one should change their database infrequently and deliberately, but it is nonetheless a delight to use, and a feature that is not matched by many other web frameworks, Python-based or otherwise.
But then your analysis has to be challenged as well. And the challenges should be published. Success or fail.

If you live in your own bubble the needle doesn't move forward.
Everything you wrote is true, however I think using another ORM in Django is asking for trouble, or at least it's missing a lot of the benefit of Django. The way models work with admin, forms, etc is to me what makes Django so efficient. Also, you don't get much by switching Django templates to Jinja.
Yeah, that makes it Not CGI, so it's more like binary HTTP. I guess you could say, a precursor of HTTP/2 :)
Compiled and interpreted are not mutually exclusive either. In particular in the JS world it’s very common to transpile from modern JS or TypeScript to lowest common denominator JS.
That sounds bad, but what's the 'false negative' penalty? (Not getting antibiotics when you needed to). Pretty high - getting Lyme disease. If it was your kid, I'm thinking we'd all do it.
or let the excess water evaporate and just make a big pile of salt?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Environmental
Thats pretty good :)
It sounds better than incition or whatever word I might make up on the fly.
>The 'financial-math-numbers-wizard' is absolutely the very rare exception. For the vast majority it is an extreme struggle, for both the child and their family.

I am a walking stereotype of this article. I do quantitative finance as a hobby, and yes, I've made a killing doing it, but for my day to day work I've have a history doing Data Science work and Software Engineering. On the side I'm infactuated with meta-learning, meta-cognition, metaphysics, psychology, and AI. When it comes to autistic training, I sometimes help people like myself, but thankfully, most people figure everything out on their own so no help is needed.

I'm apart of a community of thousands of people who are on the spectrum in in Silicon Valley alone, and far more across the country. Less than 0.1% of us are diagnosed as autistic, primarily because there is no benefit in being diagnosed.

We teach ourselves tricks like how to correctly look at others, how to pay attention to body language, how small talk works, and so on and so forth like professionalism. Because of this, when one is highly intelligent and autistic, no one can tell they're autistic, except other like minded individuals.

The small fraction that are diagnosed are that way because paying attention to body language and facial expressions is not enough to look and act normal. I've worked with people who punch themselves while thinking, for example, but are brilliant otherwise.

Psychological disorders are diagnosed by their disadvantages. If being highly intelligent and being able to self program, despite initially struggling at being well rounded and not being able to take social cues early on, is autism, then there is no reason to diagnose that kind of autism, because beyond initial disadvantages there are little to no disadvantages in later life.

These kinds of autistic people are not recognizable, even to trained professionals, unless there is a good reason for them to be recognized, so there is going to be a bias towards what you can see, not what is actually there.
As a thought experiment; how about taking some inspiration from Georgism to try to make capitalism better live up to its ideals:

At least in America, many of the wealthy are able to make money due to inherited resources that they did not earn. For example, their ancestors claimed a tract of land or access to a natural resource. Therefore, Capitalism could be brought more in line with the meritocracy that it claims to be if we taxed on the unimproved value of these resources and potentially on profit gained by rent seeking

Capitalism claims the revolve around people freely exchanging their labor for pay. However, since most people do not have access to the resources or capital to support themselves (often due to the resources already having been claimed by someone else's ancestors) they aren't really entering into the exchange freely. Therefore, Capitalism could be brought more in line with its stated libertarian principles by using the proceeds of the previously mentioned taxes to provide people without those resources with the ability to support themselves independently. This could potentially take the form of capital grants, education, farm land. If it weren't possible to actually give people a reasonable opportunity to support themselves, then a guaranteed minimum income could also address the issue (although I don't think its as good of a solution).
See Great Depression and New Deal. This predates WWII.
The macOS YubiSwitch app solves that problem nicely. https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...
You can be "glad" all you want, but the underlying reality here is that the type of brain that is excellent at coding is not excellent at "social skills." Instead of telling people to "deal with it" maybe realize that there is no dealing with that and that expectations for what people are capable of are unrealistic. For example, some shithead journalists who got laid off complained bitterly about being told to "learn to code." Those fuckers got downright angry about that and yet people who code are all the time told "be more sociable," or "don't be an introvert." Yeah, uh not.
I’ve used todo.txt for several years and have been really happy with it. I’ve tried various tools, including Trello, Remember The Milk, Evernote, Todoist, and more, and I still come back to todo.txt primarily due to its simplicity.
you don’t necessarily need meat, dairy, other animal products, bread, rice, and other cereals.
So to answer the question, you are so brilliant no one else has stumbled on this question
Not only is this not "entirely" true--it's not at all true. The author is disguising a (hotly contested) opinion/minority position as a well-accepted fact.

The mainstream position in the antitrust world, even among liberals (at least until recently), is that Bork's theory is generally right. (For example, Barack Obama's antitrust appointees would generally have agreed with it.)

What Bork did was bring economic models (i.e. math) to bear in antitrust analysis. Before Bork, antitrust law was basically run on judges' intuition about whether business practices were good or bad. After Bork, there is more structure to the analysis--if we are trying to figure out whether things are good or bad for consumer prices, there's an economic framework we can use so that we're not just making random guesses.

You can quibble with the math, but it seems crazy to go back to a world where we just say "big mergers are bad." Some mergers are bad, sure. But some are not. For example, I have yet to hear anyone explain why Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is bad for anyone other than other grocery stores (who have to try to compete as Amazon figures out grocery delivery).
I think as a non US citizen, I'm banned from donating money (and the candidate would not be allowed to accept my donation).

Do you have some other cause for us evil aliens? (Would donate for NASA or ACLU eg.)
Squaring the Circle
This is such a pointed reference that I can't tell if you're just being ironic.

In a very loose sense, PR is the same algorithm universities use, evaluate quality of some content based on the number of references to that content.

It is definitely gamed in similar ways. I'm surprised we haven't seen professors hire SEO firms to help increase citation counts of their research.
Maaaaaaybe. But I don’t think so in practice. At least not yet. Would probably be good to see package.json evolve to allow specification of registry. In my personal experience of using a private npm registry, you pay a lot more attention to package-lock. package.json could probably evolve to specify registry in a similar way.
Wow, I thought if you were not walking next to grass you were safe! Most ticks don't climb higher than about the height of a raccoon because that's where all the hosts are.
Err, isn't PageRank almost the same as "citations"?
> I guess those of us who were bitten by ticks and have been sick ever since are just imagining our illnesses?

No, you're imagining the connection between the symptoms and the tick. Even if such a connection is real, the fact that things happened in this order is not evidence of anything.