skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An engineer building effective adtech is similarly behaving ethically according to their own career path.

Lawyers effectively defending awful clients, for example, managing to get them off the hook on a technicality, are likewise generating massive negative externalities for society at large.

It's either both or neither, and I'm not comfortable going down that path.
Imagine if people could completely change their idenitites every time they said something. It would make conversation and discourse as we know it impossible.

It would make the idea you created an account to express invalid. You can't criticize Paul Graham if he can say "That wasn't me, it was Gaul Praham".

If your ideas aren't good enough for you to stay by them with some form of consistent identity, do not express those ideas. Think about them, develop them and then communicate them when they no longer embarrass you.
The WH needs to push congress for a carbon tax (which, unfortunately, they are too cowardly to even try). We don't even need to be subsidizing nuclear, it will miraculously become profitable when fossil fuels' externalities are properly priced in.
Vitalik Buterin, the guy who thinks you can do quantum computing by running a quantum computer emulator on an ordinary computer [1]. Doesn't strike me as the sharpest tool to be honest...

[1] https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/127395790524347596...
Yeah, German reinforced concrete structures like those and the flak towers are basically gonna last longer than the pyramids. They are the honey badger of architecture.
I think it's more likely that this is the result of radioactive decay. As elements decay, what was once a tiny piece of crystal or glass would develop defects. Among other reasons, the decay products will have different chemical properties from the original elements--so one atom may fit neatly into the structure 35 years ago, but today it's a completely different element, with a different number of valence electrons and a different size. The structure is fixed from 35 years ago when the core melted and cooled.

Imagine what would happen to your Lego buildings if some of the bricks got smaller or larger, changed the number of bumps, or split into two bricks.

Note that we're not just talking about metals here. For example, an element in a nuclear reactor might be a transition metal, an alkali metal, a halogen, or a noble gas at different points in the last 35 years--with radically different chemical properties.

I am definitely not an expert, but I did take inorganic chemistry and nuclear chemistry in college.

(Note that some of these changes in naturally occurring minerals, and the presence of compounds like noble gases trapped in minerals, are used to date minerals... you can estimate how long ago the mineral melted and cooled.)
> That makes sense, we're seeing a "covid bubble" from people from areas like CA into rural places

It has been fairly extensively covered that the COVID migration from coastal California is overwhelmingly to inland California (and not particularly to “rural places”; e.g., the main destination of the Bay Area COVID migration is the urban and suburban parts of the Sacramento metro.)
The doc contains cheatsheets such as "Gleam for X users" where X is currently Erlang, Elixir, Rust and Python. I think this is a fantastic idea and could be adopted by other language communities!

Might I ask for some more guidelines on how to incrementally incorporate Gleam into existing projects in BEAM languages? A guide on interpolation with a phoenix codebase and toolchain would be wicked cool.
I think that's a bit missing the point of why sanitization is wrong (e.g. 2 & 3). The core problem is that blacklisting elements is really error prone. People frequently find ways around it.

You really shouldn't do "block this element, allow this element" type sanitizing ever.

What you should do is:

1. Parse the input into an AST that only allows safe nodes. I.e. the AST should have no `<script>` node at all.
2. Write it back out as HTML.

It's more work.
Something that I don't see mentioned in the article is that slave-owners in the French Caribbean threatened to switch to the British side following the abolition of slavery -as slavery had not been abolished by the British at that time, a fact that is also not mentioned in the article.

Napoleon reinstated slavery for a lot of reasons. None of them good but it looks like inaction would not have been such a bounty for the local populations either way...
> Historians do history because they love their topic so much that they are willing to suffer an abusive career and low pay.

Yes, incidentally people like this are probably not easily swayed by the minimally researched thoughts of a venture capitalist

I hope he talks to some historians but I fear he may intuit this and avoid it, consciously or not

I hope your historian friends have a habit of sharing their work with engineers!
"Quality control" for some would be "censorship" for others.

If nothing else, that would at still be enough for a HN post with several hundred comments.
Contractors can be let go immediately with almost no repercussions, so the bar for engaging them is much lower than the bar for hiring a full-time employee.

When I was contracting, companies would generally contract me for a week or 2 based on nothing but me telling them I could do something. If I delivered on that initial result, they'd come back for more.
OP here. In my case, I just saw someone I follow for COVID news tweet about it and shared the link here.
> And so: ads. Funding the open web.

Nope. Ads are not funding the open web.

The vast majority of ad revenue and spending goes into the pockets of Facebook (openly hostile to the idea of an open web) and Google (sneakily hostile to the open web, and busy working on replacing the web with all things Google).

Actual open web partially supported by advertisement? I don't think it ever existed. And when it did, it sure as hell didn't require pervasive 24/7 surveillance of everyone.
Why do all the examples from the advertising industry have such easy-peasy, neutral goods? Fishing equipment. Basket weaving books. Dog food.

Targeted advertising hasn't been a blessing just for small businesses selling fishing equipment and organic combucha, but also -- actually, especially, for companies that sell things like:

* Potentially addictive subscriptions (for e.g. online casinos or other gambling games) -- thus specifically targeting people who are at risk for addiction, unless your targeting settings are crap.

* Snake oil skincare products for teenagers, or potentially dangerous weight loss tablets -- thus compounding peer pressure against young people with poor self esteem.

* Bullshit therapy "options" like German New Medicine, specifically targeting people who are terminally ill, or researching things like cancer treatment for a relative or a friend.

Boy am I glad we're increasing the total amount of funding available for online content!
I hate how some websites break when you go aggressive on cleaning tracking elements. One such example is Hey mail. There are many others, but for this one reason I moved to Chromium for Hey mail and all websites that break after privacy protection enabled, for everything else, it's Firefox.
This comes across as incredibly salty. If the arguments are bad, explain why. Or don't.
Once again (I'm getting hoarse from shouting this): Ads are fine. Having ads where I am looking at something because I am interested in it is fine.

Tracking me is not.

Are we talking ad-tech, or tracking-tech?
Not here but I have used Proxmox before (v1 -- back when containerisation in Linux required a custom kernel) and it was pretty nice.
Because one person purposely drives off a cliff, following orders, we ban biking. Despite its usefulness and that the situation was contrived. Right

There are a lot of ways governments can harm the environment on purpose using tools that are generally helpful.
Saying so with your real name and blog? Good luck.
At night when I toggle flux on I can physically feel a sense of relief in and around my eyes. Based on this article Im starting to wonder if that reaction isnt simply for brightness and the rest is psychological.
Game Builder Garage for Nintendo Switch
Unfortunately, while a 2002-era distro is likely to be a good match to 2002-era hardware, you may be exposed to 19 years’ worth of accumulated security vulnerabilities.
The Metro books and games also use "Stalker" in a similar sense
Yes, but also Sony was an early mover into mirrorless (APS-C and FF) where they've had considerably more success.

Most Sony users knew the Axx series (SLR/SLT) were dead when the A7 (mirrorless) released. Sony basically abandoned everything else to focus on their mirrorless platform and it gave them a huge market presence.
> At some point I thought that companies would become more powerful than states, but I've changed my mind on that.

Companies don't need to compete with state power because they can have state power. They can essentially become states within the state. A large enough landowner can be a de facto legal jurisdiction with its own law enforcement arm. Large-scale landlords and employers can simply make and enforce any rule that isn't explicitly illegal. And in addition to eviction and firing (both of which can be catastrophic to many people) they can simply hire "off-duty" police officers to do their law enforcement. Those cops can use more or less all of their police tools and methods, and they can find a reason to arrest and charge more or less anyone in service of their masters.

And in some US states, it is legal for companies to simply have their own private police force, paid by the company and with all the powers of a state police force.
There have been serious proposals to put a bunch of nuclear waste in a tungsten sphere, add a few sensors, and use it as a probe into the earth as it melts through the mantle.
Just don't steal my weird capitalisation hah
Are housing starts down? The article included this graph[1] that shows starts taking a brief dip in Q1 of last year, but bouncing back to above pre-pandemic but not pre-2008 levels. Anecdotally, I see plenty of new construction going up in our town, I assume mostly on the basis of low interest rates since the prices they're selling for definitely aren't low. I've heard the same from a realtor friend in a larger city, saying that builders are signing plenty of contracts, and are even telling people there's no guaranteed delivery date as part of the deal.

[1] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22481706/N...
Its just the fact that people are used to free content, so the idea of paying for it is foreign.

If groceries used to be free, but suddenly cost money, people would riot.
Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks
APS-C was a compromise format. It aided in making both bodies and lenses smaller and lighter, thereby enabling a cheaper product that could be marketed at the consumer level (amateur and family photogs). Pros who came from the film world almost entirely migrated to the full-frame format, noting that full-frame is actually smaller than 35 mm film, and 35 mm film was on the lower end of film size itself (compared to medium and large formats).
> Hardware shopping is time-consuming, stressful, and never done proactively - so you suffer in silence till the new one arrives. Then you have to replicate your old workflow and warm the caches.

What a luxurious problem to have: would rather swipe my card and pay 50$/month than buy a new laptop - ugh!
See https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...
Given advanced applications in both unmanned remote control and boring machine technology and better economics, I wonder if we could get Elon Musk's view on tunneling down as far as possible below the reactor, and then tunneling up under it, to drop the remaining material deep into the deepest shaft ever dug into the earth.
"Everyone is well aware that any promise of company loyalty isn't worth the time it takes to say it."

100%

I was hired by a company that said they don't outsource, they don't lay off employees, and that the pay structure was good (3 10% promotions and a 4th larger one if going into management, plus a $25k-ish profit sharing bonus).

Within 2-3 years, they started outsourcing, the promotions turned into 7% raises with the need to get 5 of them to be making near the same amount when considering the change to profit sharing. The chance to go into management and get that money was greatly reduced, requiring you to work both as a PM and a manager with pay being about the same as the PM role. Within 6 years they started laying people/groups off.

This is a company that has a high reputation for doing the right thing, marketed themselves as different, etc. Yet I have seen the erosion of pay and benefits, violation of their own policies, and all while trying to sell it to you as some great benefit.
What's wrong with "seeing pixels" when all you're doing is basic text work? Bitmap fonts - or properly-hinted TrueType/OpenType fonts, now that the relevant patents have expired - can be pixel-perfect and are far from unreadable.
> It just doesn't work when half of the team can walk by each other's desk, do some impromptu planning, and the other half are spread out across the world effectively uninvolved in these conversations. Nobody wants to go through the trouble of setting up a zoom for the 2 min conversation you have about a thing, or nobody is going to loop in a remote colleague when the team has lunch or coffee together.

This is a tired take. Google Hangouts and Slack Video are quick and work great.
I don't really care about Clubhouse one way or another but if your article uses the phrase "falling off a cliff" I think you should have a graph where you can see that cliff.
People keep bringing that up. I get the impression none of them have a background in civil engineering. Most foundations in the us are concrete. Most of the structure is wood and not concrete for several good engineering reasons.
> Its not a reality check its more akin to mindfulness meditation. Momento mori, a reminder that it is so easy to die of stupid things in this world.

I find it very weird that you need gore for a memento mori.

> As far as I’m aware, this is not the case for video games and violent movies, so I don’t buy it for liveleak content.

Well, if I think about how I felt while watching this stuff (very, very uneasy) versus how I felt while gaming or watching movies I'd say there's quite a difference. So I would argue that the brain indeed processes those things differently.
It's a volume image, not a hologram.

A hologram is to a diffraction grating what a neural network is a dot product.

That is, the hologram is "trained" by the use of an inverse function to bounce light around in arbitrary ways inside some volume of space. The limitation is that it has to occupy that volume of space.

Of course something always occupies the space in a volume imager (in their case a moving bead, sometimes a spark made by a laser, maybe 'volume pixels' of some kind or a tilted rotating disk that a laser writes on) but a hologram is something specific.
Ronald Reagan, famously, too.
Firstly, fairly obvious you've never been a landlord. Second of all, yes, making money by owning stuff is called capitalism and that is the system we have.
I'm indifferent to seeing "agile" in a job ad. Getting a job or client is like dating ... you find out what they mean by their bio over a few dates.

If I ever accept a client or job, there's always a grace period.
It's written more for the benefit of the author than anyone else.
Wow that is good
> Why not reject the advertising model and the payment model until something better comes along?

The Internet Archive is a great example of this. A non-profit that relies neither on advertising revenue nor subscription revenue from individual users, and instead thrives on income for providing archival services and grants from organisations that recognise the public good it is providing.
Huh? The prima facie part means "at first glance". I deliberately chose that turn of phrase to suggest that it might prove not to be unethical, on closer inspection.

The problem, of course, is that this closer inspection didn't happen.
Countries fixate their national pride on what they have.

If they don't have the dynamism, economy, or youth of other countries, they fixate on what they do have — buildings which are faded memories of the cultures which built them.
> I expect we see a price crash there eventually, brought on by over-building.

Sadly, it's not a covid-driven bubble. 5 years ago a new downtown development was selling condos at $600k a pop, and they were sold out before the building was finished.

Affluent people have been moving here for decades now.

ref. https://www.taunyafagan.com/bozeman-price-trends/ for the market around 10 years ago.
I had to look up K-lining. TIL.
Strongly disagree. Slit and other types of brick with cavities air inside are very good insulators.
I've had the same experience. I keep a deep orange filter on my monitor all the time, and I noticed my eyes started hurting a lot when I forgot to turn the filter back on after I had temporarily disabled it. There is also some evidence that prolonged exposure to blue light is correlated with macular degeneration, but there's no conclusive evidence that it causes it.
Well I know we are researching how to /use/ nuclear waste. I believe that’s what one of bill gates projects is trying to do. But I donno if we have just decided burying it is it and that’s it.
The content people really value is already being paid for.

I didn't hear any outrage at all when several newspapers transitioned to a pay model and threw up a paywall. The parties most upset were the newspapers themselves.
Biden didn't come up with the U-3 unemployment rate, just like every administration they used it because it improves even when the economy isn't adding jobs.

It's not a serious number. The only number that counts is the prime-age employment rate.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

The stupid thing that Biden (and Obama) brag about is having the longest recovery in history. What that really means is the slowest revovery in history. You can't say that the Dems didn't learn their lesson, though - the money spigot is turned on this time, and if they pull it off the economy after the pandemic will be better than the one before it.
It is a supply shortage. Get out and talk to a carpenter or a general contractor. Sawmills closed, surviving ones have less capacity due to health precautions, and then demand exploded.
> I don't think it's fair to say ... the Waltons didn't earn their wealth.

Look, I'll grant you that Scott is "arguable" as I said, Koch is also very arguable.

I don't think you can seriously claim the Walton heirs earned their wealth, but I don't think it is particularly relevant to the debate.

> what politically motivated newspaper claims in an opinion piece isn't meaningful

I only cited the WaPo because it collated the econometrics papers that showed the claim. Look, you choose whether you want to believe, whether it is peer-reviewed economics research and meta-analysis or "googling around for numbers." We all know how reliable Google is :)

> it seems most sources claim that vast majority of world population millionaires are self made

I also googled this "claim", and huh, guess what showed up? A bunch of "politically motivated newspaper claims" but this time they were relying on this obviously biased source (https://www.wealthx.com/report/world-ultra-wealth-report-201...), not peer-reviewed economics research.

Ultimately, you choose what to believe but almost all the evidence points to the majority or close to the majority of private wealth being inherited by the wealthy.

> Personally all the people I know who did well for themselves didn't inherit anything

1. This is 100% contextual to America
2. Many people are very shy about admitting an inheritance.

I also don't really trust you to be a good judge of if someone is "self-made" if you honestly think the Walton's didn't inherit their wealth - pretty much every one of them is described as an heir/heiress and they were not actively that involved in the business.

You choose what to believe, but ultimately "facts don't care about your feelings." You seem to be reasoning backwards from your political beliefs to the conclusions you want to hear.
The classic: "make something extremely bad, then roll back some of that, and just make it worse, and people will praise it".

Same here:

- Google and Facebook have turned ads into 24/7 surveillance of everything people do

- Now Google roll backs some of it by saying, "with FLoC we can only surveil groups of people 24/7"

- we are expected to praise them for finding a "solution"
This post should be a must-read for people in our industry, regardless of their level. It captures the questions you should ask when interviewing for a new company or considering staying there for another year. Charity Majors with so many gems: "is there oxygen at the next level? Does the company need more of the type of engineer you want to be, vs more of the type of engineer you are now?", "When evaluating roles, choose ones where your specialty is part of their mission, or at least key to its execution", "Your relationship with your manager matters. So does your ability to communicate about the work you are doing, its difficulty, its unexpected challenges and triumphs, etc." (7 minutes read.)
"Burn it off"? What would that even mean? Burning is a chemical reaction. It doesn't alter nuclear processes that matter here.
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* HIV meds
* LGBT*A forums
* politically charged sites
* cancer/heart disease/diabetes pages
Afaik all major full-frame lenses work with also their corresponding crop mounts. Canon EF lenses work on EF-S, Sony FE lenses work on E mount, Nikon FX lenses work on DX bodies. This explains why there is somewhat limited interest for crop lenses.
> It's fairly well documented that the Founding Fathers were pretty much all opposed to slavery,

They couldn't have been that opposed to it or they themselves wouldn't have kept owning slaves.

Sure, Washington freed 'his' slaves when he died (modulo complications such as he intended them to be freed on Martha's death, but she freed 'his'--not 'hers'--early), but until then he did stuff like rotating 'his' slaves out of Philadelphia every few months so he wouldn't have to free them. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Posey which includes this quote: "The general's cook ran away, being now in Philadelphia, and left a little daughter of six at Mount Vernon. Beaudoin ventured that the little girl must be deeply upset that she would never see her father again; she answered, "Oh! Sir, I am very glad, because he is free now.")

And not to get into Jefferson and Hemings, whom he started raping when she was 14 (whether you think a slave can consent, a child can not), and kept enslaved (along with their children) until his death.

> The United States is one of the only unions on the planet in which every single member state (without exception) voluntarily ratified and agreed to join

That 'without exception' is doing a lot of work in the case of Hawaii.
Labor costs are obviously not nearly 100% of revenue, no one would bother operating a franchise.