skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is guilty of exactly what he’s accusing everyone else of. The major car companies are delivering relatively high quality products at scale (we have decent certainty it’s high quality because the presence of many of these driver assist features correlate with reduced accidents). And they’re rolling out slowly without a ton of stories of cars going haywire and flying off the road. And of course certain cars will only have certain features (addressing his Ford complaint) because those features require the correct mix of sensors and compute that is not yet present on every vehicle. That’s how technology that can affect personal safety should be rolled out. Slowly, carefully, and very boringly.

Releasing “alpha” level software and saying essentially “lol have fun idk” when it can significantly impact customer safety is childish, bad business, morally wrong, and something we as an industry need to move away from. It doesn’t matter if your customer base are early adopters, hackers, or open source supporters. You still owe them their safety and a reasonable and coherent privacy policy.
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If a tool can do something automatically (type checking, other constraints) then it is often nicer to let the tool do it for you, instead of doing it manually.

Sqlite is very unusual in that it uses static type declarations, but it doesn't actually enforce them. That can be quite unexpected.

See also: "Why wouldn't you check the type of your variable before passing it to a function?"
I speak of reason and truth as human constructs. If we cannot be sure that we have free will, then, while truth exists in abundance, we have no ability to validate it. I say this all a bit tongue in cheek because I absolutely believe that we have free will. And in any case, to suggest otherwise to me would seem like a cop-out for the consequences of my own decisions.

The first 3-4 chapters of the book Miracles by C.S. Lewis cover this topic pretty well in my opinion, even if you're not spiritual-minded.
> The sentiment in Python has been trending toward using "classes" (either with dataclass or attrs [1])

That is not even remotely what is being done here. And just because you can do it doesn't mean you should or must do it. Not every argument needs to be bundled in its own object.

> I find this "it would be half as long and work the same" argument totally bizarre. Do you look at a basic Rust program and say "it would be half as messy and look the same if we did away with all the move/borrow stuff"?

Again, missing the point. The point was not about the typechecking but the design perspective it engenders and encourages.

> Of course not. Yes, YAGNI is fine and all, but at least recognize that there is an upside to this tradeoff.

Why would I? There is none in the article's snippet.

> I am not going to need internal state on the object, but I sure as hell am going to want the type checking.

Type checking doesn't require classes. You can typecheck a funtion.

> I wouldn't accuse Python of being "concise" in the first place, so I am happy to add some up-front verbosity in exchange for a much smoother developer experience later in my project, with significantly less mental overhead as my IDE can do a lot of work for me.

You're still missing the point entirely, but I hope you're happy about all those strawmen you beat down.
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I'm not "blaming the AI" for this person's behavior. My point is that there was a non-human component in this decision process which led to this person losing their livelihood.

To make an old-world analogue, in 1980 for someone to be held to account for an objectionable view, it probably would have involved some journalist making the decision to write a story about the comments which someone made. That human component in deciding what is newsworthy has been replaced by a machine in some cases.

Another example would be dating apps. Now we have algorithms which make decisions about which parts of the dating pool an individual will have access to. In a real sense, non-human intelligence is playing some role in who gets to pass on their genes to the next generation, and with whom.

I'm not saying that our lives are ruled by machines, but they're not completely not governed by machines either.
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> The goal I seek (making the computer a medium of artistic expression) is as yet of little interest to society.

Excuse me, but: what? 'The computer' is and has been, in fact, a medium of artistic expression. For millions of people. For multiple decades. Has this person been living in a cave?
You are making up terms for macOS. What do you mean by fingerprinter? Do you mean Gatekeeper / codesigning verification for the first time launch of an app?
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The us has 330 million people. Israel has roughly 10.

Their is a real supply shortage. Israel Can and did secure enough vaccines for all its people. The us cannot, there’s not enough supply.

Because of the lack of supply the us has been focusing its efforts on using the supply it has to go to the groups most likely to face complications from covid, and the folks supporting said group.

The US is leading the world when it comes to total vaccines given.

As for the second shot prioritization. The feds screwed up distribution with there being no strategic reserve. What you have already is what you’ll have. Anything else is not gaurenteed.
Staff engineer means “you are now or have at some point in the past been an indispensable senior engineer at a fashionable tech company (this company inclusive)”.

Principal engineer means “you’ve made a lot of money, so you don't need to work for money any more, but we’d like to have you around so that our staff engineers have someone to look up to”.

This is obviously an incomplete/slightly tongue in cheek definition. The people playing these roles, of course, have a lot of “real” work to do. But there are a lot of senior people who are highly productive without these titles (like yourself, it seems).

Therefore, there’s a bit of an insecurity people carrying these titles are prone to, since it distinguishes them (and usually their salaries, to a highly significant degree) from their colleagues with equivalent years of experience and technical talent. Hence the websites you describe, where people try to make sense of the divergent path they find themselves in.

The titles themselves have been copied from Google, I believe. You can view them at https://levels.fyi
The complaints are coming from BEUC, which is not only composed of EU countries. So writing EU would be wrong.
Recommend taking a look at MYKI. This is my go to password manager, and no information is stored in the cloud.
being Europe a superset of the EU the title is still technically valid, it's "across [some] Europe [countries]"
Yes, yes, quit buying stuff from Amazon. That's what I said when I went to buy compression socks within the last week. I'll just buy from the vendor (OS1). Hey, they take Apple Pay, too. And, hey, what's this $0.98 that ended up in my cart? "Route package protection"?[0] You mean you're passing on the cost of package insurance to me? Fuck that, you can just cancel that $100 order for that $0.98.

If it's not bullshit like that, then my credit card info gets published to the world. So, fake reviews or not, there is a certain appeal to Amazon in that after 20 years I've not had credit card info published nor have I caught them trying to charge me for package insurance. Though I might not trust Amazon reviews, I trust the rest of their process far more than I do some random vendor. Which is why, much as I might wish otherwise, I continue to shop at Amazon.

[0]https://route.com WTF? Track packages and charge money for it? Who funds this shit?
I have always promised myself that if I become a billionare, I will simply stop providing services to municipalities or countries that create arbitrary laws that make it hard or difficult to do business in. Honestly Google should have just boycotted Europe for a week and seen how well everyone handles not having gmail, google, or anything.

California is particularly onerous about all sorts of stuff like labelling everything as cancerous even though you'll probably need to spend 60 years licking the plastic bag labelled as such, or GDPR which required thousands and thousands of man hours at my last job when we weren't in Europe, the law was legally unclear, etc. Or the stupid cookie banners which guess what - do nothing.

edit: another example was at working at a cigar shop where we could happily sell individual cigars and ship them, we could sell boxes of cigars, but we couldn't sell pre-packaged mix and match bags since, well you know, they weren't individually recognized and regulated skus (even though their contents were) and we just decided to drop that program. It's a shame, mix and matching cigars is great. PROP 65 Warning: smoking kills you.
Atomic phenomena are almost inconcievably small to me. There's around a hundred trillion atoms in a human body cell, and around a hundred trillion cells in a human body, plus or minus an order of magnitude or two. It's astonishing to me that people in the early 1900s could measure and calculate the charge on an electron, or that Marie Curie had to process tons of pitchblende to purify micrograms of Radium - and could, and did. Or that Rutherford could say where most of the mass inside an atom is, and split the nucleus of Nitrogen atoms - 1/1000th of the size of the whole atom - and tell what was happening down at that scale - using the technology of 1917.
If you really believed that you wouldn't say things like "we understand". Because if you really believe there's no free will then all human understanding is a sham.
Since I didn't know who George Hotz was until yesterday, I thought I'd mention he's aka geohot of iOS jailbreaking and PS3 reverse engineering fame

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
The media hasn't been an independent arbiter of truth for quite some time now and this last year has exposed it for what it was. For all Trump's faults at least his presidency showed the media's true intentions. All you need to do is look at Biden's inauguration and their fawning over it to see what who/what they support. The guy completely ignores tough questions and reporters bend down to lick his boots.

The only fix I see right now is to get information from as many sources as you can and stop listening to media outlets when you catch them lying about things. For me CNN/MSNBC are completely off the table because they're just propaganda machines.
Thanks, it's a desktop app so no need to self-host.
If anything, the next generation of people will learn to avoid online polarized engagement using their own identities. They will create these curated and sterile personas under their real name while using a nom de plume for actual content.

I'm kind of surprised that aliases have not widely taken off already. But I suppose the consequences are not very severe yet.
The UX of the pass iOS app [1] vs. the Android app [2] (especially the need for OpenKeychain on Android) is the main reason keeping me on iOS.

[1] https://github.com/mssun/passforios

[2] https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...
> Without a doubt the password manager with the best UX is 1Password.

I doubt that. Navigating the sync options and finding one that works with Android phone, iPad and Windows PC was impossible.

Throw in two vault formats (with implications for which sync option can work), and it's a mess.

That was the paid standalone version, not the subscription model (that was when I finally jumped ship).
Pattern matching could be amazing for Python. I love pattern matching in erlang/elixir.
There is a lot of cryptocurrency negativity on this forum.

Some of it is genuine skepticism which I appreciate. It is helpful for me to consider all angles of a new technology.

But I suspect that some of it is just sour grapes. Here is a board full of intelligent technologists. And some of them just missed the boat. Those people either have to admit that they were wrong. Or if they can't do that, the only other option is that cryptocurrencies are drastically overvalued by the market. For some people the second option is the only acceptable choice.
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I do agree with your point, but I think we are seeing the limit of language: when we don't attach the exact same definition to words, we can misunderstand each others while trying to convey the same thing.

The way you use "real" is the way I would use "valid": A theory is valid until proven otherwise.

And the way I use "real" (and I think it is the same way the article used it), is whether something has any grounding in our universe (some pattern as you said before).

For example, wormholes are possible following the theory of general relativity, but we don't know if they are "real", e.g. can there actually be a wormhole in our universe. If we do end up finding one, then they are real. If we however find conclusive evidence that they cannot exist in our universe, then they are not real, but only an artifact of our (incomplete) theory of general relativity.
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AFAIK, in physics this property is called indempotence: the choice is determined by the state of mind at the time of the choice and not by history that led to that state. Theoretically many different histories can lead to this state, or the history may not exist at all, if mind was created in this state 5 minutes ago, in all these cases the subsequent behavior will be the same.
It's all fun and games until someone's home value is depressed by a zoning decision, and then your city goes bankrupt because they mob against you on SimCitter :)

"Due to your citizens refusing to approve tax levies for sewage system upgrades, your city has died of dysentery."
I agree, playing the lottery is a little like buying insurance for something. Everyone knows that insurance is a losing proposition, but no one buys it to save 500$ on that fender bender, people buy it so that they can get through a catastrophic event like 500,000$ in medical bills.
Eh I don't really think "think of the children" is the right narrative here. These games, while especially bad for children, aren't much better for adults. Absolutely require 18+ to play and require them be labeled as gambling but I don't think that's enough.

If we're counting on adults "knowing better" which makes it okay to play these games while the industry profits on precisely those adults that don't then there's a problem.
Is your claim that the picture is the building? Because that's the equivalent of claiming that the a Penrose diagram is spacetime, instead of a representation of the model.

The photo of the building is an accurate diagram of the model of that one individual building. It describes the building, it is not actually the building. However, your model (roof height, walls, location, etc) is the building. If that building is destroyed in a fire and remade to those exact specs, do we not say it is still a building?
Cool idea! I've seen some people on WIP use it for building a reading habit, but a community focused on it makes a lot of sense. Would be interesting to see more excerpts and discussions. Turning it into a habit-forming bookclub.
They don't necessarily need to look evil. "Evil" doesn't sell and probably won't make you work for them. They have to look like a sane environment in which you can't pinpoint anything (philosophically, morally or ethically) wrong.

It's just a matter of language (how they communicate what the company is trying to do), with slogans like "making the world a better place by doing X". But if you think that at the end of the day, all they care about and all the trouble is just for the mighty Dollar, with a little change in perspective you can elucidate:

"time spent in our app": time lost in our app.

"user must be getting value": while getting even more value out of an unaware user.

"feature ... making it “better” (used even more)": more addictive? costing less for the company? costing more for the user?

"to be more productive": productive as in "making money faster but for someone else, while being paid the same".
I recently joined tiktok and their algorithm really freaked me out. It took maybe twenty minutes for it zone into some incredibly specific interests of mine. I enjoy the app, but I've never felt so pushed into the content I want to see so quickly. I'm quite A bit older than their average user but the mental impact on a child seems immense.
>your brokerage can loan that share to someone else who will sell

There were instructions going all around WSB with "put in a limit sell order at $10000000 to prevent them from loaning your shares" as well as directions on how to go into your trading account and disable "stock yield enhancement" or whatever it's called on the platform.

(And I hate that I'm in the position of defending WSB, a group of degenerate gamblers dragging in new victims every day. But it just so happens that they were on top of this one particular angle.)
To clarify, they want UBI that only applies to people 21 year and older, you could just have said it straight out instead of trying to make it sound worse than it is.

Edit: damnyou edited out all his posts. He originally called them out as eugenicists and racists for the style of UBI program they support.
great question.
Frankly, I think it's even simpler than that. It's a tattle-tale culture. Did someone post wrongthink in your comments? "I'm telling!" Do you have a different opinion about some outrage du jour? "I'm telling!" Did you make an offhand mention of some ideas from a bad scary man? "I'm telling!"

In the past few years at the NYT, all of the old-school journalists in leadership positions have been railroaded by the tattle-tales. Millenial and Gen Z apparatchiks have largely taken full reigns of the paper. In general these generations are broadly more supportive of limits on free speech and open discussion[1]. Even more so among journalists specifically.

We're a long way from the era of journalists like HL Mencken or Tom Wolfe or Hunter S Thompson. But we do have world class tattle-tales.

[1]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-mille...
It's kind of strange to watch the prevalence of this victim mentality amongst the 'Rationalists'. The article starts by quoting 5 paragraphs that include calling the blog erudite and funny, interviewing legal scholars about it and referencing rocket scientists who read. Paragraphs that go out of their way to describe the extremely broad range of views of those who read it. This author shows you those 5 paragraphs and concludes by talking 1 sentence out of it and goes "Look! He's calling us white supremacists!".

Note the difference, where the author agrees with someone like Damore, he'll go to lengths to say

>Damore qualified his claims throughout the infamous memo with language like "may in part explain"

But for the NYT, who he just doesn't like, he can ignore 4 straight paragraphs in order to get outraged about the 5th.

It's also this bizarre double think - the NYT telling readers that Siskind says the media ignores men being harassed by women is clearly an attempt to get their readers thinking Siskind is some kind of mad extremist. Oh but also, that's actually true and the media does ignore that. Well which is it, are you being discredited for your crazy views, or is the NYT accurately reporting something you do think.

Frankly, the way this comes across is a group of people who have convinced themselves that they're going to be called racist and sexist, and as a result whenever someone talks about them at all they respond as if they've been called racist or sexist. The NYT article actually didn't do that, which just makes it bizarre when they react like it did.
Staff Engineer is the level above Senior Engineer - a pretty common title at FAANG-like companies.

Here is a good chart: https://staffeng.com/levels.png
There are probably more reasons you may have gotten a D- for it--I'd think a fair professor would have allowed such an argument assuming it was well-thought-out. There are of course plenty of professors (especially in philosophy) who give out grades based on how thoroughly they feel their egos have been stroked. Shame on them. Grades based on sycophancy are no different than any other kind of corruption.
Renaming the variable doesn’t fix the code. It still prints “HTTP Not Found” for every value of `status_code`.
Sure but the EU still failed in securing supply from the available manufacturing capabilities.

Instead they were de prioritized in the list.
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Ah, for Martin Mystère it would have likely been his trademark Diavoli dell'inferno! in Italian ("hell's devils!").

Most characters created in Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore (Mystère, Dylan Dog, Tex, etc) have a typical exclamation like that. I'm gonna start using that serbian version for fun with Italian friends =D
Animals have genetic diversity. You can't prove no animal can choose not to eat.

You also can't prove all humans can.
I think you and the author are talking about different concepts. To your credit, for the author's 'real thing like an atom' here, the term real is ambiguous.

The question the author is talking about isn't whether a particular theory is correct, or even whether a theory contains explanatory power. I believe the author is assuming general relativity for the sake of argument, and discussing the concept of existence within the general relativity theory's framework.

For example, take the three-body problem [1]: does the _theory_ of general relativity require us to add initial conditions to the three body problem? In other words, are there more fundamental initial conditions not derivable that must be inserted as inputs into the equations when we use general relativity to solve the problem instead of say Newtonian mechanics? The answer is No. While the equations will change, the initial conditions (the degrees of freedom) do not.

What does that mean? It demonstrates indivisible properties of the universe given a set of theories. With general relativity now 'energy' and 'mass' are interchangeable, but the existence of mass/energy isn't a fictitious force, it can't be explained away by coordinate transformations. Gravity can't either, but a gravity well points to an underlying reality of mass/energy, not the other way around. If it were the other way around, we would say gravity is the 'real' thing, and mass/energy are resulting effects.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
As a slight tangent Hotz has joked (?) that his real business will be to provide auto insurance to his drivers since he's confident that they'll be safer drivers. He'd basically pick off the best drivers and he has more data than anyone about what constitutes a safe driver.

He makes this interesting observation that essentially all good drivers are alike; each bad driver is bad in his own way.

It's an interesting insight and great for self driving since the "good" drivers would be clustered while the "bad" drivers would essentially be noise.
I always wonder why most implementation of kamban use only one column per step, instead of two as explained by Eric Brechner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD0y-aU1sXo&t=535s
I love the utility of single file web apps, even if this one does use 2 external dependencies.

I've gotten into this myself. I made a couple of (actually) single file web apps for navigating/viewing videos on a web server, or Markdown on a web server.

https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html

https://github.com/pseudosavant/markdown.html
It reminds me of Spirited Away and how everyone fed No Face for a little gold in return, but in the end they all got eaten.
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This division is on the verge of self destruction under the own weight of its inconsistencies.