skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be the change [pull request] you want to see in the World!

(I hate it when people say that!!)
Not betting anything?
It is the most excruciating thing, to watch your nation self-immolate in a blaze of self-righteous naivete and stupidity. Maybe when we are old we will be able to say "I told you so." So at least there's that.
They aren't - at least one out of nine patients with blood clots from AZ vaccine was male [1].

[1] https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-362354/v1
Why does it have to be the West versus the East? Why does "one side" have to be right and the other wrong? Can't we just take the strengths of each and acknowledge the weaknesses of both and form a better society?
I'd be interested in seeing how well it performs vs. integrated search. Outlook search (which is what I use) suffers from performance and relevance issues, yet when I tried this experiment with another full-text search provider (Azure Search) it performed worse on relevancy.

I use email as kind of an activity stream - generally I can remember roughly the people involved and the time period. Would be lovely to have search that performs well in this regard.
I don't see a paywall
> Sure the amount of currency in circulation is finite

Not strictly true with fractional reserve banking
There is also https://dependencytrack.org/ which allows you to gather your software dependencies and notifies you when new vulnerabilities are found for them.
lol - "repeat misinformers"

Ministry of Truth indeed. Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, not as a flipping implementation guide.
Oh, like when Russia invaded Crimea?
My take:

1. Parrot was initially intended to be the backend for Perl 6.
2. Perl 6 didn't materialize fast enough, so Parrot started focussing on hosting other scripting languages.
3. Parrot decided to become the backend for all scripting languages.
4. Parrot became less and less targeted towards Perl 6.
5. Parrot never really became a backend for any other scripting language.
6. Parrot became decicedly a poor fit for Perl 6.
7. Jonathan decided that maybe the JVM could also be a backend, and started porting
8. Building on that experience, Jonathan decided that they could write a dedicated backend for Perl 6, which became MoarVM
9. Parrot development dwindled to effectively 0.
10. During the Great List Refactor of 2015 (about 6 months before the first release) it became clear that porting the Parrot backend would be a lot of additional work, with no apparent upside
11. Parrot support was dropped before the first official release
> In the USA alone, assuming 50% of your bonuses go to taxation

50% of bonuses? That seems low, it's closer to 50% of total comp (maybe 40-45) in the places where these salaries are common.
> The west is in decline because progressive values don't promote strength.

Big reach. I think it's much less controversial to say it's in decline because of mindless consumerism, declining education budgets and corporate takeover of governance, which are hardly progressive.
The difference is between someone getting their own money back a bit ahead of schedule vs someone getting the money they were not owed at all. Framing it as rich vs poor is misleading.
Did you entirely forget about the 60s? Domestic unrest and geopolitical power aren't that tightly connected. People have been saying the West is "in decline" for decades and it's almost always by people looking at chance in society as being some kind of negative force. The "social change misinterpreted as cultural decline" is basically a meme at this point.
Yeah, as far as I can see, they're funding it. Pretty successfully.
Here I am on day three of an attempt to modify a rust program with logic that would have taken about twenty minutes to implement in C# or Java. It has to do with operations on strings (use a regex to find a string in some text, escape all the regex-reserved characters in that string, then use the string as a regex to find other occurrences of itself in the text) so I get that I'm really thrown into the borrow-checker deep-end, but man writing rust feels like working on one of those puzzles where you try to fit a set of tiles inside a rectangle. You'll almost get it but then some edge is sticking out. So you move the tiles around but this leads to two edges sticking out now! So you do a whole bunch of additional exploring before ending up right back where you started with the one edge sticking out.

I even abandoned the learn-by-stackoverflow-search approach to rust and read the first seven or so chapters of the rust book. But even that hasn't helped very much. I know I am just currently in the painful, frustrating stage of learning where nothing really makes sense, and at some future point it will all click, but it really can't be overstated just what a wicked learning curve this language has.
This is factually untrue.

By pretty much every imaginable metric China has improved for nearly everyone (in China) for the past 50 years. Is this also true in the USA?

I don't think China is superior to the USA, but to say China is in a "irreversible decline" is ridiculous.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/celt/eng/jmgx/jjxs/t124869.htm

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-economic-growth-histo...

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-relations-china
Purely anecdotal, but I switched to Dvorak for ~6 months in middle school and much preferred it to Qwerty. Now that I’ve spent more years having Qwerty drilled into my brain I’m hesitant to make a switch.
It is my impression, given the repressive approaches taken in Hong Kong and Tiananmen, that any aggrieved group in China may have great difficulty communicating views in an efficacious way.
FAANG guy here, interviews are hard in that they have absolutely nothing to do with your day-to-day job. If I were to go through the interviews again right now I'd make a massive fool of myself. I'd say it's basically common knowledge that prior to making any hops, you've got to take at least a month or two to grind leetcode problems so that you're back in that head space where you can solve pointless problems with high efficiency.

Interviews are also hard (as I frequently comment around here) because, once you've seen how the sausage gets made, you realize it's basically still a crap shoot which comes down to the loop you get. If you get an unlucky roll and end up with the personality type which views interviews as a chance to show how much more clever they are than everyone, then you've already failed. Their ego is tied to their "high bar" and impossible question set, and you're just fodder for them to show off that "high personal bar" during the de-brief.
Book Review: “A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins
Yes, and the French president is married to a pedophile. We're not quite the same in the US.
Seconded, this is the way everything in Greece works. Automatically entering them into another contract is scummy.
Wall Street mafias want more. More. Always more. More blood. More slaves. More death.
I prefer the quantitative approach taken by Carpalx [1].

This analysis finds that Dvorak and Colemak are both substantially better than QWERTY, but Colemak has the edge.

[1] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?popular_alternatives
If you don't pay people for writing, writers will find other ways to get paid which runs the risk of their writing being tainted/biased by their monetization method (i.e. their writing just becomes marketing).
Discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26765084
Yes, the gun violence reduction team was disbanded. Since then the number of shootings has skyrocketed. Police are in such disarray and completely disrespected that they don't even go into certain neighborhoods anymore.
>Chinese middle class will demand the same standard of living like people in the West

Will they? As far as I know censorship has been amazingly successful
From my experience, lots of great things: stability, great compensation, a never ending supply of technical challenges, products to work on that huge numbers of people use ("oh you work on that? I use that every day!"), a well defined technical career progression path, plenty of personnel depth and financial cushion to do things slowly (so you aren't ever up all night live coding against prod to keep the systems up and the business from going under), a strong engineering culture with more focus on code quality / maintainability (related to the financial cushion and also the default assumption that code will live for a long time), easy to hire good engineers so you aren't constantly strapped for talent, ... probably some more things that I'm missing.

And lots of bad stuff: the communication burden of wrangling huge numbers of people, bad decisions by leadership that you're helpless to impact, just the general difficulty of having one's values align perfectly with those of a big shareholder controlled faceless blob, figuring out what to work on that will be both satisfying and aligned with the right peoples' goals (that is, fun coding projects are often not impactful while thankless slogs are, at least for more senior folks), etc.; essentially, the politics are harder to navigate and feel satisfied with.

To highlight my first two positive points: the stability and compensation has allowed me to pay down all our debt, buy a house (recently refinanced to a 15 year mortgage), save up a year of expenses, allow my wife to go back to school, and pay for a couple kids to be in a lovely daycare. Most of that would have been much more difficult in my previous life in the startup world.

I'm very happy I got the job (when I was about your age), but I also think often about leaving it.

Hope that helps!
West in decline? This was predicted back in '18 when Spengler published his famous book, "The Decline of the West". Oh wait, that was 1918.

The "west" faces a relative decline, which is something to celebrate.* And I can hardly blame the Chinese government for taking an assertive position or for capitalizing on weaknesses in their perceived adversaries. But China faces some structural problems just at the time when the western powers are starting to reevaluate some fundamental assumptions of the last 40 and 75 years.

All around this sounds like a net good all around. Yes, even the repressive activities of the Chinese government I believe will moderate, as the US has become less thrusting in its own imperialism.

* Edit: I say this as someone born in the "west", living in the USA right now. Too much imbalance leads to stagnation, both in company policies (i.e. corporate monopolies) and geopolitics.
Well it’s not like pouring oil on fire via the devisive woke movement is exactly hard.
I suspect a lot of folks learned (in the US) is that if you have a president who politicizes a pandemic and shits the bed on leadership, the populous is screwed.

Let's not pretend that rational discourse was ever an option, and the media isn't the place for blame.
I can type Qwerty, Dvorak, and Colemak all over 100wpm (https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6iSYMMHv0). You definitely have to practice all three together if you don’t want to lose them.

Also happened with language learning. I speak English and Spanish natively. Learned Italian (very similar to Spanish) in high school. After college learned Chinese in China. One day I ran into an Italian person in China and tried to talk to them in Italian. I kept jumbling Italian and Chinese, even though on paper Italian is so much easier for me than Chinese. It was like my brain only had space for all native languages, and just one foreign language. I’m sure with practice I could speak both Italian and Chinese, but that’s the whole point of this comment. It takes practice to maintain them all.
Why did the US let its infrastructure get to such a bad state? And why are there so many dilapidated neighborhoods and literally crumbling schools?

The US is filthy rich, couldn't they have fixed these things decades ago? Just spend hundreds of billions investing in neighborhoods that have historically been intentionally left to rot?

Is it just disdain for the people who live in the crumbling areas? Serious question.

I see a lot of people lately say 'progressive woke politics' is the reason the US is declining with poor infrastructure, lack of universal healthcare, etc, but aren't progressives generally in favor of universal healthcare and improving infrastructure and other spending to improve quality of life?
And who determines what is “misinformation”?
This is pretty common among museum ships. I remember sleeping over on the USS Massachusetts (Battleship Cove) when I was young, and I've been watching the USS New Jersey's youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Ftxa2jwg8R4IWDw48uyBw) and I know they do it as well.

Relevant also is the Smarter Every Day series where the host took a cruise on an operational nuclear submarine. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHf9jaFs8XWoGULb2HQR...
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Many more people will die as a result of stopping vaccination than they will of alleged side effects to some vaccines.
Though the silver lining for America as an economic power is that, at least for now, identity wokeism seems to have displaced socialism as the main outlet for progressive energy. So we might actually avoid economic decline as long as big businesses virtue signal enough about supporting sex changes for children. That future sucks too, but at least we might not be poor.
Could it not be people's own responsibility to practice managing their perception of what they do have? This might be a more pragmatic solution for reducing social suffering, and I've found that you can learn to let material things have less importance in your life. Caveat: this is coming from someone in a relatively well-off country with decent welfare
> 'These are difficult decisions to be sure, but when being seen as on the “safe side” confers benefits without a commensurate charge for the risk of the “safe” action, you get a society which moves in the direction of perceived safety (and where perceived safety may be strongly sub-optimal).'

yes, security theater abounds. it's a multidimensional optimization problem with no absolutely safe side in the long run, only relatively, but often initially unintuitively, safer non-linearly intertwined sets of actions. it's hypocritical to discount the tiny risk of vaccines while dramatizing the tiny (but larger) risk of death by covid. further, it's myopic to look at the risks of covid in isolation (which is what all the frenzy around it has been doing for over a year) rather than in relation to all the similar risks in our lives and couching our responses now within our existing responses to those other ongoing risks.
Also, Rust introduced the idea of these things in a systems language.
The problem with mercury, afaik, is that if off-gasses at room temperature. Watch the shadow here: https://youtu.be/7ZT7xqwk84E?t=149
While Krita can be nice, it can also be a bit difficult and bothersome to use.

For example, there is no printing support. Units everywhere (other than document creation) are in pixels and cannot be changed to millimeters, etc. Tools (like drawing a rectangle) operate on the current layer instead of creating a new one like Photoshop, which makes drawing annoying. Guides aren’t that fantastic to use. There’s a lot of areas that require polish in Krita.
Fresh graduates from university are a poor sample of top CS skills as they often lack practical knowledge of software engineering required to be productive. However this doesn't show that an individual with a strong knowledge of software engineering but mixed CS would be highly productive.

Ideally I'd want to interview for both skills.
It's because we stopped focusing on creating things, and instead started laser focusing on making sure that everybody gets exactly the same amount of everything all the time. It's ridiculous. We are trust fund children who don't understand where the money came from, and it will be our undoing.

Twitter, NYT, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and the like have monetized dividing us, and they have a multi-billion dollar a year budget to figure out how to be more efficient at it.

We demonize people who create things. We demonize people who want to form communities, and we even demonize people who might dare to suggest that The United States is rightfully an example for the rest of the world.

We have gutted our education system. Many of my wealthy friends are either pregnant or have recently have had children. 0 of them will send their kids to a school where they learn that math is racist, the united states is completely racist, white people are racist, trees are racist, grammar is racist, and that they should be skeptical and distrustful of their parents.

We've gone from "America is a beautiful project we all create" to "America is a mine with jewels at the bottom, and we need to extract them and make sure that everybody gets their fair share".

It's unbelievably, unbelievably sad.
> I'd like to think that extreme racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry won't be a winning recipe

It's hard to know if you're talking about China or about the US here
Exposing yourself to what you consider your community of peers and being considered inferior is demoralizing. Even if he is winning, or you imply sarcasm, he felt minimized by a system that doesn't make sense to him (and many other software developers).
It's not wrong, it's not FUD, and that doesn't change anything. The only working plugin is the SELinux one. If you can't use that, you have to rebuild an entire new security architecture... which is what they had to do in Wayland anyway. XACE isn't really built for anything besides MAC either, so it's inadequate for doing anything that isn't an LSM. It also has a problem where new hooks need to be added for every new X extension, and that didn't happen so now it's outdated. In Wayland that entire concept was replaced with a single API function to do generic traffic filtering.

It's also outside the scope of a desktop environment or window manager to ship plugins to the X server. Hence another reason why they had to go with a new protocol that makes it easier to implement their own server...
What this also shows to me is just how difficult it is to predict the future. Here is another thought experiment: There is probably a wonderful technology / opportunity, perhaps lying in plain sight, that we will be kicking ourselves in ten years for not having gotten involved in. But what is it? "Every day brings new opportunities to become very rich, most of which we are bound to miss" [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/missed-teslas-12-551-rise-dont-...
> putting that time toward actually cleaning up neighborhoods or tutoring underprivileged youth

The US has tried again and again these naively optimistic programs targeting “neighborhoods” and “the youth”, to no avail whatsoever.

The terrible reality is that the long-term prospects of a civilization are inexorably dominated by its demographics, and the demographics of the US are spiraling down towards disaster. We have exhausted the Flynn effect and our intelligence levels are declining. We continue to bulk-import millions of people with heritable intelligence levels below those required to sustain the level of civilization we have enjoyed in the past. Those segments of our population that produce enough wealth to sustain our political program are reproducing below replacement rate.

Unless we pull off a massive demographic reversal, which is probably impossible at this point, China is absolutely correct. The future of the US is, optimistically, Brazil, and pessimistically South Africa.
> When you look at the infighting within the US that is front page news every day...the decline is in full swing.

I don’t see how there’s any other option either. At this point there a multiple “factions” who’s end vision of society is actively hostile to certain other factions.
There is: discoverability. If you search in the App Store you’re going to find those two versions and then they’ll have to prominently explain “this is the version of the app you can look at porn with” and “this is the kid-safe version”. They’d probably choose different wording, but that would be the message. And you don’t want to advertise adult content on your platform in any way, that just doesn’t end well.
Is it a requirement to own a personal smart phone compatible with the app in order to get/keep the job?

I'm not sure why a physical "clock in, clock out" solution couldn't be used instead. Or have a shared terminal/tablet/phone where people clock in and clock out.
I’m not saying we punish the user, but rather find a way to minimize availability.

Also, trauma is not always a cause for addiction. Lots of people suffer trauma and don’t get addicted, conversely we also have people with little trauma who get addicted.
The problem with articles like this (and advocacy groups like Avaaz) is that their definition of "hateful" and "inaccurate" content casts a rather large net of which their definition is rather nebulous.

Their claims are dubious at best.
I think that’s one area they are not considering, in a globalized world being “cool” is actually tremendously valuable.
I feel like "keep my cost of living low" is one of the more important parts of this post. Low personal burn rate makes all sorts of things possible.
The author specifically and explicitly pointed out 3 times in 2 paragraph that these were new to them, not to the world at large. In fact, they spelled this out very explicitely in the paragraph following the one you selectively quoted:

> Many of the new concepts weren't novel to Rust. But considering I've had exposure to many popular programming languages, the fact many were new to me means these aren't common features in mainstream languages.

And… they're right. Other languages cropped up with overlap around the same time (mostly Swift), but sum types, pattern matching, option types, … were not common features, and borrow checking remains rather unique.
United Airlines to fund more sustainable jet fuel made from trash
Yep. Again, this advice can be overwhelming: it's not the entire book that is the most useful part, it's the refresher material at the beginning that does a great job of covering the kind of stuff that shows up constantly in interview questions.
The title implied that it's not for amateurs, and now that I have some data about Rust and teenagers, I can say it very much IS for teenagers. After one afternoon wrestling with GDB and C code, they're ready to put up wrestling with the borrow checker.
On an optimistic note, I am not convinced that China is going to win any cultural wars. America, for all its problems, still is essentially a leader for much of the developing world, at least in terms of culture. People watch American shows, know American celebrities, listen to American music, etc. This is facilitated by the fact that these cultural elements are pretty diverse and are open to immigrants. As in, a guy like Akon or Obama can be second generation American with parent(s) from abroad.

This same phenomenon doesn’t exist with China. Most people don’t know any entertainment that comes out of China, beyond a few video games. An African immigrant cannot move to Shanghai and expect his children to be treated as full citizens or even members of the Chinese nation. As long as China remains an ethnostate, I don’t see this changing.

The possible, but worrying scenario is that Chinese capital owns Western cultural production, implicitly (see: Disney or the NBA) or explicitly.
https://seekstorm.com/about-deephn

https://seekstorm.com/

https://seekstorm.com/search-api-features

https://seekstorm.com/search-as-a-service-architecture
I use colemak on the Kinesis Advantage II and I love it.

Keeping the C-c/x/v keys the same is great on a split layout, assuming you're right handed. I avoid using the mouse as much as possible, but when I do use it there's a good chance I'm copying or pasting something. With Dvorak you can't use those keys with your hand on the mouse.