skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think You are correct it is a typo. Former and latter and their overuse is one of my pet peeves. Especially when used for merely sounding precocious in long winded statements. :p

As far as "Scientism" being a thing, I appreciate where the author is comming from, but for every bit of science telling us something there is another piece saying the opposite.

I suppose You could say the propagandization of science = "Scientism", I think of how effectively big tobacco made use of this technique.

It does concern me however just how many people will blindly follow and agree with someone in a lab coat that is holding a clipboard with authority. It is almost as concerning as how many people believe the prophecies being spouted by YouTube preppers lately. I mean just because they didn't ru n out of toilet paper a few months back, now were supposed to listen to them about effective disease treatments rather than the people who actually hold degrees and doctorates on the subject?

IMHO (or not so humble) Far too many people conflate their google searches with a four year or more post secondary education where people actually learn how to use the scientific method.
Do you live in an Ayn Rand novel?
In college, my database professor once told us about an object-oriented database that handled SIGSEGVs and created objects on the fly that were supposed to exist but didn’t (exact details are fuzzy)
In my humble experience, slightly less ≈ 30% to 40% less.
Build an website for NIMBY's to see where proposed nuclear power plants and wind farms will be built, make it easy for them discuss with each other and to participate in the projects' consultation process.
> its the storage, processing and disposal that really matters

That you can say about almost all web apps? Then almost maybe you shouldn't use the Internet, I start thinking
My understanding is that Alicia Garza and the other founders of the BLM organization coined the phrase itself: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/blacklivesmatter...

> Outraged and saddened after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed a Black teenager in 2012, Oakland, California resident Alicia Garza posts a message on Facebook on July 13, 2013. Her post contains the phrase "Black lives matter," which soon becomes a rallying cry and a movement throughout the United States and around the world.

https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/BLM

> In 2013, three female Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter began with a social media hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin back in 2012.

> According to the Black Lives Matter website they were "founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
I wonder what generations from now will be using.
You're challenging his opinion? Please keep the HNGuidelines in mind.
Laserdiscs definitely show rot, but I haven't heard of any decay personally on vinyl (other than very subtle wear from the stylus every time you play it and other mechanical damage).

It might depend on what your vinyl is made from.
This is among the reasons why putting people in the position where they have nothing to lose is a terrible idea.
iptables has also been deprecated.
A couple of SSBNs are all we need to assure national defense. The rest is one big jobs program.
Clearly it's years of policy at the state and local level that got us here. I've read big chunks of the Environmental Impact Report for the major downsize that happened in SF in the late 70s. That EIR specifically called out that the downzone would make SF much more expensive in the future if we didn't shift to redeveloping much of the industrialized parts of SF.

That redevelopment didn't really happen, and now we're left with this result.

The really unfortunate thing is because of the artificially restricted housing supply (and commercial, thanks Prop M) it ends up creating these perverse incentives. I would think that normally if you have an industry that's growing really well, and creating tons of high paying jobs, you'd want them in your city. But, because we combined a strictly limited supply with great growth in high paying jobs, the reaction is to be hostile to those high paying jobs.
The danger in all this is that today's popular moral action is tomorrow's reprehensible mistake.

Ask John Cleese. Or Harvey Weinstein. Or any one of a thousand people who became drunk on the nectar of pop approval, only to find they didn't go far enough, or chose a decision that didn't align with the way things turned out.

I don't care what your politics are, nobody is going to take a position on controversial issues and be 100 percent correct. You're going to alienate a lot of people today, and significantly alient some more later.

It's smarter to avoid it.
My point is that it's now a common misconception that #000 is an "unnatural" black -- that's literally the word the article uses. That it's blacker than anything natural, i.e. blacker than objects in real life, that it becomes an "unnatural" level of contrast.

It's a bizarre idea that started gaining traction maybe around 5 years ago, that using #000 in designs is therefore bad because it doesn't occur in nature.

That's what I'm pushing back against. The #000 on your screen does occur in nature, because its output on your screen is just a normal household black like lots of other objects.
i think safety (perceived or real) is different from joy. I also think it’s really hard to enjoy something repetitive and super verbose.
It probably would get invented eventually, but the timing would be different, throwing off whatever predictions you might try to make.

This sort of thing is a good argument against the idea of anything like Asimov's psychohistory really working in a general sort of way. There are too many random contingencies, and they don't average out.

We have no idea when the next pandemic might be, or who will win the next presidential election, or what new things will be invented. Some preparations can be made, but they have to pretty multi-purpose.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (2020 Edition)
>> able to purchase whole groupsets from shimano at OEM pricing which is a massive discount over retail price.

This is false (unfortunately); while CR/Wiggle does sell their own bikes with Shimano builds this is no different than any other bike manufacturer, yet the trek or specialized at your LBS is still significantly more. You cannot purchase any Shimano parts at Chain Reaction.
Well, that's the standard Common Lisper opinion. I don't buy it though -- I don't get the impression that it's a problem in clojure (which does not have scheme-style hygenic macros, but shares the single namespace for variables and functions) either.
> As some of the one-on-one
communications between the Plaintiffs’ teachers and the Defendant have
demonstrated, the former have felt extremely threatened and harassed by the
Defendant which is even more pertinent given that the Plaintiffs’ entire
workforce of 11,000 teachers is female

Weird.
Spartacus did something similar.

After being betrayed by pirates, he was cut off by the legions at the southern tip of what's today Calabria. He crucified a soldier before the Roman earthworks, both to demoralize the soldiers and to warn his fellow slaves what fate awaited them on defeat. His men breached the wall and, if I'm remembering my chronology, fought their way to the Alps (before things turned out badly for them.)
I don't understand why people think using Google as your advertisement middle-man is so much more righteous than doing the advertisement yourself.

Mozilla has been taking money for giving Google access to advertise to its users since at least 2004

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
My interpretation: Contrast, vividness, attention-grabbing.
I think the variety of SAAS platforms (spotify, stripe, shippo, no doubt countless others) becoming available that make it easy for a manufacturer to essentially buy all the business logic they need to sell D2C is the nail in the coffin.
This has nothing to do with Bain and everything to do with retail sales being down due to COVID-19. Besides, Bain doesn't even have a controlling interest in Guitar Center anymore, they sold their controlling interest to a company called Ares Management in 2014.
My job role in middle-management forces me to have these conversations frequently, resource planning and such.

I am often asking questions of my senior leaders about the volume of organizational change that is a constant in the company and what I can do to act as a “shock absorber” for my direct reports and subordinate leaders.

A major customer facing outage resulted in an RCA compiled by yours truly. I found that a critical engineer had quit months before-never backfilled. Work got reassigned to other people. A second event and second RCA, similarly created by me. Same story: an Ops person had left the company last year, never backfilled. A third. Each time I pointed to workloads and capacities. Not because it’s my job to do these things specifically or by expectations of my director but because no one else in the 400 person organization is yet no one else knows how to go looking for this info so it’s sort of become my duty just because I have enough of a damn to start doing it. These aren’t even MY teams, shit just rolls down hill and my team is at the bottom of the shit pipe. Which is something I hoped bringing these results would get action on. They barely have.

What I’ve come to conclude is that my leaders are NOT thinking about these things until someone or something catastrophic forces them to.

If I had the balls I would straight up ask my senior leaders “what would you say it is you do here if it’s taken such severe consequences to start looking at what we’re asking our people to do?”

What’s most saddening: it’s becoming alarmingly common from job to job. It’s forced me to rethink drastically how I’m vetting companies because they do a GREAT job disguising this during interviews.
I've noticed something similar but to align it with the post's optimization theme, here's how I previously thought about it:

We, as humans, naturally try to optimize for the lowest energy output. Most people, when strictly externally motivated, will take the easiest path. People prefer to sit rather than stand, prefer to watch TV rather than do yard work etc. For those without ample job security, competition creates a bulwark against this by forcing people to try harder in order to get a reasonable level of security. Those who already have that job security (in government positions, for example) revert to that "lowest level of acceptable effort", which tends to be a bit lower without the added job security pressure.

Of course, there's always those few who are intrinsically motivated and highly conscientious that try hard no matter the circumstances.
Neat trick. I suppose you could also write the bytes to a self-pipe, avoiding the race the article mentions between ensuring the bytes are readable and actually reading them.
Not just PMs. As a Dev Manager who's been relatively successful the killer tool in my toolbox is genuinely giving a sh!t about the people on my teams. It's pretty crazy (and a little sad) how far this gets you; the bar is incredibly low IME.
Thanks for pointing that out. Another is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect .
My main issue with G-Shocks is that the actual time digits are tiny in relation to the case size. Most of the face is covered with clutter.
Sounds like consumers exercising the power of their spending.
Ex-Google recruiter on how to negotiate with Google
What? In what jurisdiction is a lottery ticket bound to the purchaser?
I still vividly remember that "uh-oh" sound, it's been seared into my brain.
You'd think they couldn't make tech buses sound bad since they replace so many trips by car, but they managed.
As long as we aren’t watering our crops with Gatorade I’m fine

That’s my line in the sand
Like "Magic(k) is the Art (and Science) of causing changes to occur in conformity with will" ?

Also reminds me of :

"The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life"

https://samzdat.com/2017/06/19/the-use-and-abuse-of-witchdoc...
Practically speaking, when I worked for the state this was because only a few managers actually had the keys to the office, so if you showed up early you would be sitting in the hallway.
I am not sure, I think none at all. The parks I am aware of that are still usable are large and/or somewhat away from points of interest like services or density (e.g. Ravenna park that is large and surrounded mostly by burbs, where you only get yelled at by crazy people in one spot).
Happiness/Balance/mental-health isn't easier with money/family connections.

But business/academic success/jobs/monetary success/is...
I prefer the F105w-1a.You can get them for $10-15 usually. The "illuminator" EL backlight is worth the few extra bucks IMO

https://www.casio.com/products/watches/classic/f105w-1a
> The implication being that they'd prefer to sit in their cars rather than start their work day even a few minutes early.

If you're supposed to work from 9 to 5, why would you start earlier if it doesn't benefit you to do so? If your work starts with a team meeting, why enter at 8.45? You could, but my experience is people want you to socialize then. For me (I am autistic) that's draining, not energizing. When I worked for Dutch equiv. to IRS, we had to be logged in at 9, not enter the building at 9. With Windows NT and everyone logging in at the same time this meant you had to start your computer at 8.50 or you'd be too late. I only hike quick, so I was logged in on time (even had time for a cig). Either way, they'd mainly look at the performance reports.
Wow, that's a much bigger differential than my experience. Are you comfortable sharing the general region so I can avoid it?
You are obviously right. For those that are curious enough this books have a great value:
https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Application-Springer-Optical-S...

https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Color-Theory-Steven-Blei...
Well, I think the hate of this idea should in general be more present in the past 20+ years of ever increasing corporation power in Politics.
That, and globalization. Mainly globalization. We got access to workforces which just were far less or not at all available 20-30 years ago. Remember the time when everything said "Made in Japan"? Remember the time when everything said "Made in Taiwan"? Now its all "Made in China", with "Support in India". Even Eastern Europe, much more local for Western Europe than Asia (plus the benefit of intra-EU), has a hard time competing with that.

You could call it competition. I call it race to the bottom. Cause a lot gets sacrificed in the name of lower price. Repairability, source code, QA, tech support, environment -- all too often they're the losers.
I think this would be an interesting experiment, and I'd happily follow it. However, a complication here is that some sites/services still track you/modify their offerings without the need for an account.

I wonder if you did this across multiple devices, you could start noticing differences based on what you used for what. A/B test them back.
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>* Batteries. People say that if you don't cycle them occasionally they can swell and be a fire hazard. I'd rather not deal with that. Will "any laptop from ebay from the past decade" run without batteries in it?

Yes, at least the ones with removable batteries that I've seen.

>* Running closed. I've also heard that laptops are designed to be used open for heat reasons. Will running it closed cause problems?

What use case would cause significant heat generation? Worst case you can get a $15 laptop stand with fans.
Amazing story. Kind of surprising that the Japanese didn't recognize the vulnerability of this part of the shipyard, considering it had been subjected to attacks before. It's a massive single point of failure, and it seems like some steps could have been taken to minimize the risk ... for instance, distributing the blueprints and templates in different parts of the facility, or making backups of critical plans.
Really independence of educational background would imply education was ineffective at improving scholarly abilities. Which would essentially imply education is about as useful as astrology - quite the counterfactual.
I remember some study with training mice to be fed when pressing a button. They found that if they get a morsel every time they press the button they get bored of it. However if there was some randomisation as to how often they got a treat, they would sit there pressing the button all the time.
This sounds a lot like the Apple physical stores - they'll sell and service any gear made by Apple.

Also helps that Apple is vertically integrated and has tight control over it's supply chain and applies MAP very uniformly.
I don't really get it (as always if tether is involved). If someone is printing tether to buy bitcoin, then who is selling bitcoin for tether and keeps the tether?

I mean, if I had substantial bitcoin, I'd not sell it for tether. Maybe I'd use tether as some intermediate currency, but in the end I'd either buy stocks or real estate or yachts. Or I would keep the BTC. But I would never sell BTC and keep tether. Who does that and why?
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> nope, this is not someone I want to follow.

People leave jobs for lots of reasons. Coinbase was offering a very generous exit package for anyone leaving at the time. I am sure some split for reasons unrelated to leadership or these political policies.
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The soda can, in Sweden where this is, has a deposit of 1kr, about 15¢.
>If I was 26 right now, I would probably have instagram, fb, etc...

Lol no. Not if you're a nerd, anyway. You'd mostly be on Reddit and HN. ; p The only people left on Facebook in the West are around your age.

Get Discord and Spotify and you're all caught up.
Ask HN: How do pre-existing conditions help/hurt founders?
I'm a cancer survivor currently working as a developer at a FAANG company, but I'm curious about founding or joining an early-stage startup. I'm currently in remission so my day-to-day work isn't impacted, but there's always a risk that my cancer may return.

I'm wondering if pre-existing conditions have an effect on investor interactions, recruiting, burnout etc., and if anyone has such experience. At present, I've never mentioned my medical history in a professional setting, for fear that it may have repercussions if I pivot my career.

FAANG also has great benefits, so I'm wondering how people handle insurance for early startups (I can't take the chance of being uninsured).

Thanks.
Peanuts again? But we had peanuts yesterday!
The underlying netfilter has not been deprecated; the userspace application for managing it is just changing from the iptables (and ip6tables, ebtables, arptables, etc.) to nftables.
It’s not just that it’s different, it’s worse. The Internet in the early 2000s was a magical time of unsustainable sharing.

So it’s not just older == better. The early 90s and before were all shit for video and being bombarded with ads as well.
American companies can legally affect politics via lobbies, so it is hard for large American companies to stay apolitical.
For the first comment it’s a Linux powered gnu/Linux derivative. It’s fully Linux. Just like android is fully Linux.
Is there something wrong with tipping 50%? I didn’t realize my actions could be considered “socially grotesque”. Hospitality staff absolutely don’t mind extra money - I know from experience.
Everything is falling apart in Europe
Not a single large company was founded in Europe in recent years, because there is a lot of bureaucracy, taxes are very high and it's very hard to fire someone, even if you don't need employees anymore. So many companies are leaving the EU. For example Dyson is moved from UK to Singapore.

The EU will have the same fate as the collapsed soviet union, but I hope this will be a good example for other countries, so they will not repeat the mistakes and ban the socialism.
Correct. The point is that if you just try to go about your business without taking sides you will get the spotlight put on you and forced to take a side. You will either crush the minority customers in your business/platform or the majority will crush you. Being apolitical is no longer an option.
and then 5% (60 employees) of its taskforce quit, I remember that.
Hmm, for me, following works with Google Chrome PDF viewer:

Bookmarklet

javascript:(function() { var v = document.getElementsByTagName("html"); v[0].style.background = "white"; v[0].style.filter = "invert(90%) sepia(60%) brightness(70%)"; v[0].style.backgroundColor = "black"; document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.background = "white"; })();
Salesforce doesn't get dragged into anti-tech sentiment because they build a b2b product. The Twitter activists who lead most of the anti-tech crusades don't know what CRM is or what it does because they
never interact with it because they are unemployed.

The people who do use Salesforce for the most part hate it. But you'll never see widespread outrage about Salesforce because the people who use it have jobs, families, and friends that prevent them from spending all day on social media.
It's called "Scientism".
I find it quite easy. Just use the hsl() function.
Annnd this is exactly why I now exclusively use tailwind, wherever I can.
The arguments around the language and syntax inconsistencies here really echo my experience.

I can't help but think it just wasn't designed, but patched together by different people over time, with no over-arching vision. There's nothing in Terraform that couldn't just be YAML with some semantics (like Ansible which I find much more approachable), and while a custom language can absolutely do better than that, it really needs to justify itself, and I'm not sure Terraform does yet.

There's some hints of why it should be a custom language, but I honestly think it needs an overhaul focusing on consistency and clarity. These things really make a difference, I'd say it's one of the main reasons Go took off in such a big way for example.
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> What I’ve come to conclude is that my leaders are NOT thinking about these things until someone or something catastrophic forces them to.

No one gets paid for preventing problems. They get paid for increasing profit, either by increasing revenue and/or reducing costs. I would bet your leaders are consciously trying to skate by and reap the short term rewards and hoping someone like you fills in the gaps. As long as the problem can’t be pinned on them, or they can bounce before it causes sufficient disruption to the business to affect compensation, their goals are met.
Was watching The Petrified Forest, a 1936 film starring Humphrey Bogart, and part of it takes place in a diner, and on the wall is a sign:

Tipping is un-American

Keep your change

So the idea was alive in some sense even into the 30s.
Is there a race condition with the way you rotate the passwords?
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If rent control was more of a thing, and people were more open to have more buildings, then a lot of locals and culture would have stayed. Instead, everybody's rent went up, people were forced to quit, or got offered great sums of money to sell their place. It was a forced exodus due to stupid laws, and with covid19 we're seeing another exodus of engineers. Who will remain?