skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now, "social media influencer" is a more realistic immediate job than doctor, lawyer, or fighter pilot.

To be a doctor, you need a 4 year college degree, then acceptance into a medical school, then pass the medical school courses and do N years of residency. The average medical school graduate has $200K of debt at that point.

To be a lawyer, you need blah blah blah law school, and then it turns out the USA has too many lawyers already... so the average entry-level lawyer makes $48K. Yes, really.

To be a social media influencer, you need about $2000 in startup costs and a lot of luck, as well as some degree of actual work. There are roughly a million people with 100,000+ followers on Instagram or YouTube or TikTok.

Interestingly, there are about a million lawyers and about a million doctors in the USA.

Finally, there are about 15,000 pilots in the US armed forces, but only about 2200 attack or fighter role aircraft.

In total: a kid with no particular educational affinity is making a reasonable immediate choice to pursue "social media influencer" over doctor/lawyer/fighter pilot. It's probably a terrible long-term career choice, but so is fighter pilot.
One might not need to buy cryptocurrency all at once after the hack nor do it with visible corporate money, CEO can own a crypto wallet not connected to them in any way, there are mixers/anonymizers, etc. The range of possibilities is much broader in that land.
Where are all of the USA's world-class innovators, engineers, scientists, and academics getting their education, then?

The Netherlands school system is falling victim to the exact same controversies the USA and other systems around the world are facing... [0]

[0] https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/03/netherlands-slammed-prioritizi...
Aren't all of the proposed routes for supersonic planes over oceans?
This is a weird take. I spend a year almost exclusively raising my son because my wife was studying to be a sub-specialist on another city and she only had a full weekend once a month. The first thing I did once we had a plan, was to negotiate partial home-office, because even if I could have after school child care, I certainly was not for it. Two months in, the partial home office became full home office because even the commute could throw a wrench on my tight schedule.

Based on my experience, raising a kid on your own is difficult, and without home office would have been even worse.
The save file thing is for security so you don't accidentally hit enter to download something you don't want.

You should be able to change that by going to about:config, searching security.dialog_enable_delay, and double clicking. You could also try changing your preferences to tell Firefox to always save to some location
I think this guy just doesn't like jews
> but there's no reason to go ballistic over a 15 year old blog post.

While I agree in principle I hope this is part of a new trend rather than an exemption for this case because his content is so much more offensive than anything Teen Vogue editor Alex McCammond ever said.
> if enough people know they're the product and know how Facebook makes money, would they delete their account in a fit of rage or continue to use it, knowing that they're victims of surveillance capitalism?

People know. They just okay with it. If they aren’t, they would have stopped using it by now.

If anything, the general public seems to think that Facebook and Instagram’s tracking is more pervasive than it really is. How many times have you heard people insist that Instagram showed them ads based on a verbal conversation they had where their phone was nearby? The idea that your phone is listening to every word you speak is obviously a myth, yet many people believe it and continue to use those apps anyway.

Outside of privacy centric tech bubbles like HN, targeted advertising isn’t viewed as a violation and free products are understood to come with advertising tradeoffs. HN isn’t uniquely enlightened about the “you’re the product” trope.
Huh. I guess I forgot about it. My browser has touch.facebook come up if I type in the URL bar and I've basically only used the touch version even on desktop for ages.
Compression mainly helps with transmission.

Trying to point out that the original structure allows for more flexibility.

If you only cared about space, this compresses better anyway and uncompressed, it still occupies less space.
technically, they are case statements. Even the if is just sugar over case.
"The thing is however, with Erlang you get all of that in a pretty easy to learn language and it will scale to practically anything."

But as I said in that thread, that's actually one of the traps.

While Erlang/Elixir as languages and runtimes will scale to "practically anything", a lot of the technologies in the Erlang stack don't. Mnesia is almost useless, if not totally useless. Erlang's not the slowest language, but it's not very fast, and using something 5-10x faster can "scale" nicely too by needing that many fewer systems in the first place. The message system is not what I'd call best-of-breed anymore; very ahead of its time, but most messaging APIs have more functionality in them now for a reason. Erlang is 1-or-none and 1-or-many seems to be the choice winning out in general.

As long as you stay in the ecosystem you're OK, but if you're using Erlang to speak to a non-Erlang DB, to interact with a non-Erlang message bus like Kafka or something, to call APIs from non-Erlang systems and provide APIs to non-Erlang systems, all this integration becomes more a trap than an advantage. Plus Erlang's type system starts to become a bear in those contexts; Erlang's types integrate well with Erlang, but are just quirky enough that it's a pain to integrate with anything else. There isn't even a clean embedding of JSON into Erlang types. (Erlang, like many functional languages of the era, made the mistake of defining a "string" as a "linked list of numbers representing characters", which makes lists ambiguous as to whether they are lists or strings.) Interaction with non-Erlang systems is always kind of a pain because of the lack of clean embeddings into the Erlang type system.

In 2005, scaling to "practically anything" was a pretty decent advantage for Erlang. Scaling to "practically anything" is table stakes for a language/runtime now. Someone else says languages are "catching up" to Erlang, but to a large degree, they have, and exceeded it in many places. To be honest I think it's Erlang trying to catch up now. And it can't. It's too integrated, too opinionated. What was absolutely an advantage in 1999 and 2010 is now a significant disadvantage.
This is amazing progress for a company that needs to get type certified by the FAA before it can fly anything.

The FAA requirements are soooooo painful, and often illogical and sometimes even mutually contradictory.
The article you have linked said that he got fired. Its literally in the headline:

> Nick Cannon apologizes for anti-Semitic remarks after firing
> But this line of thinking is kind of short sighted and defeatist, don't you think?

Not in the airline industry. Aerion just folded, and Boom is next.

https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/aerion-shuts-down-12346...
isn't this google's entire business model?
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I have worked in tech a while, including knowing a number of executives (prior and post them being executives), and I don't know a single one who is 'in it for the power' and feeling good because they can tell employees where to sit and how to dress (or getting sex from subordinates!).

They're in it because they love making big impacts, having authority to make _big_ decisions, not watching people sit down in chairs.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I am worried about where you work. What you are describing is not normal.
Zuck is personally all in on capturing the VR and AR market and making it the next ubiquitous computing platform. They already have their own OS. One fifth of the company is working on VR and AR, 10,000 employees. They are pouring billions into it. Zuck likely understands that he missed the platform boat last time around and doesn't intend to miss the next one.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/12/22326875/facebook-reality...
CNCF has accepted a WebAssembly runtime, WasmEdge
he WasmEdge Runtime (formerly SSVM) is a lightweight and high-performance WebAssembly (WASM) VM optimized for edge computing. It is widely used in scenarios ranging from cloud serverless functions, SaaS, blockchain smart contracts, IoT, to automotive real time applications.
Until the Indian govt deems it not be the case.....sadly
This is the only instance relating to offensive social media I've ever heard of where someone got reassigned and not fired
I don't know how many people are willing to acknowledged this but...

Many MANY of the conservative families I know are pulling out their kids. Simply put, they don't want Marxism centered around racism to be taught to their kids.

Personally, I have to agree.

My kids daycare was actively trying to put all the boys and girls in dresses and refuse to teach what genders are. We obviously teach basics of male vs female to our children, but this is ridiculous.

During the pandemic I listened to my brother in laws (still in high school) 40 minute lecture. It was on how due to "white privilege" black Americans shouldn't have to pay taxes due to the fact they can't manage finances (this was a personal economics class). It was insanely racist and honestly not insightful. I asked my brother in law how often this occurs, he said "every day, almost every class, it's racist".

At this point, all the parents I know are either oblivious to what's happening, moving kids to private schools or homeschooling.
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> People can be critical of the state of Israel

Sadly the moment you call out Israel's human rights violations and ethnic cleansing you get automatically branded as antisemitic on all major social media and by most mainstream outlets too.
Or he's just against jewish privilege and systemic jewish supremacy
I haven’t lived in Switzerland for awhile but ya, their taxes are somewhat low, though I think their VAT must be high (hard to tell if it’s taxes or just a high COL).

As an American, it gets harder to live in Switzerland because of the lower tax rate and high COL once you break through the foreign earned income exemption.
On 1, I don't think it's a contradiction. It's opt-in by default, and to actually find the setting to opt-in, it's buried deep in the Play Services settings. That's how I read it.
Because all they hear is that the data is about ads.
But it's also about the prices and the payment methods.
They don't realize there things they never know about because they are not in the target group for the product, and not because a lack of interest but because they are not considered as a worthy customer.
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Or, her strength and height inspire people like her to step up and the gymnastic game is changed forever. This feels like a fatalistic approach which we don't do in so many activities.
There are far more CEOs earning ~$500k/year than there are making private jet money. I've worked for a half dozen pretty successful SMEs and all of the C-Suite flew business class and I suspect they'd all take the option to cut a few hours off their trip if it was within 50% of the price of a standard business class ticket.
Music! You forgot music! Like it loud though speakers? No problem!
He directly said Jews. Quote from his blog:

“If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself”
There are additional examples, but posting them and discussing the normalization of anti-white racism is "flamebait" and will get your account suspended on HN for "ideological battles".

In any case the fact that he hasn't been completely cancelled speaks to the unique status that anti-white racism has over other forms.
same, I can read erlang extremely effectively. Even better than some erlang devs. I can also patch erlang libraries (I fixed my friend's http library to be able to do streaming http 1.1). I can't write it, though.
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For all of its problems it causes for tooling, ifdef makes upgrading much easier and allows a backwards compatibility period.
Lindenmayer's work is absolutely wonderful.

Although L-systems are ruthlessly simple, sometimes they are a little unintuitive, because the rewrite rules are in string space, not physical space. A couple of months ago I wrote http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/skitch#!rrrrrrrrfffffff...] which I think might be a promising alternative that's maybe easier to understand, although it's less powerful. I haven't figured out how to get a dragon curve out of it yet, but I think it's possible.

If you like L-systems you will almost certainly like https://contextfreeart.org/ as well.
My thoughts exactly.

Not just for the "Boom" catastrophic-explosion aspect but also for the very-loud "Boom" sound created as the supersonic speed barrier is crossed.
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I can't speak for places outside of the Americas because I've only travelled in the Americas for the last 10 years. But from Northern Quebec to Idaho to Florida to Nassau to Saskatoon bridges are cracking, rail is buckling, public transportation is lacking, etc. Health care wait times are bad or prices are ridiculous because of the false market we have created.

So do I think governments having more money NOT by squeezing me and all those I live near more is a good thing? Why yes, yes I do.

The wealthiest being job creators is bullshit. It's always been bullshit.

Microsoft is anti-consumer. Fuck them, let them pay taxes like the rest of us.
> Why would a developing country want to tax companies at the same level

The point of removing corporate tax is to not tax companies at all. Remove the decision of how to position your country against others altogether.

You could enforce these things by creating a free-trade area for anybody who joins, and excluding or putting stiff tariffs on those who don't.
Fair enough. I have a lot of respect for Andressen (with some caveats held as well) and his ability to spot oncoming waves.

The whole all-in on crypto is one area I am still unsure on (even after coinbase went public for however many billions). Great investment - but is it great foresight ?

On the other hand I will support his call "double down on democracy".
Not at all, the magic was in the intake which slowed down the air so the turbojet engine could use it. And that's why it was so efficient when flying at VMAX.

Wiki again:
Forces from the internal airflow on the intake structure are rearwards (drag) on the initial converging section, where the supersonic deceleration takes place, and forwards on the diverging duct where subsonic deceleration takes place up to the engine entry. The sum of the 2 forces at cruise gave the 63% thrust contribution from the intake part of the propulsion system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Snecma_Olympus_593
This is from 2010 is there any information on if its still that bad and how its currently done?
This post has a fatal misconception that school teaches people to "learn how to learn". In your specific argument, it's the belief that forcing kids to master boring material will augment their ability to learn boring material in adulthood.

Cognitive psychology has consistently refuted this theory again and again. Transfer of learning is virtually non-existent.[1] When a student learns a topic he learns the very specific skills related to that topic. There's no spillover or improvement to the ability to learn other, even closely related, topics.

[1]https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/08/low_transfer_of.htm...
US society has some important applications, roles, etc. for versions of relatively independent self-learning. Soooo, maybe somewhere in the teaching and learning of K-12 there should be some emphasis, practice, role, encouragement, etc. for a start on self-learning.

Examples:

(1) At one time, and maybe significantly still, a huge fraction of learning about computer programming, and computing more generally, was just self learning.

(2) At one time, the Web site of the math department at Princeton just stated that graduate courses were introductions to research by experts in their fields, that no courses were given for preparation for the Ph.D. qualifying exams, and that students were expected to prepare for the exams on their own.

(3) Teachers who need to keep up in their fields and researchers who need to push their fields forward have to do some to a lot of the work via self learning.

And it is easy to find more examples in owning a house, farm, etc.
> You can use psycopg2-binary package.

Yep but the author of psycopg2 recommends not using it in production. That's mentioned in the package's docs with "The binary package is a practical choice for development and testing but in production it is advised to use the package built from sources."

But more generally, this is only 1 package of many that has a C dependency and requires certain system lib files to run.
> So... what is the conventional/best practice way of dealing with this?

I don't know. I have been able to tolerate "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my legacy non-container system: upgrading from one Ubuntu LTS to the next is hard, but within an LTS we've never encountered a problem over 15 years (I think? more than a decade at least) this has been done.

A newer project uses NixOS, but it is so new it has no users. NixOS allows me to mention the particular commit of nixpkgs - that means the versions of the packages in the package manager - into a lockfile. This means I can run daily updates, run my tests against them, and deploy them. And because the lockfile is checked in, if things suddenly start going wrong on the umpteenth of Octember, I can see what changes happened on that day: was it the file I commited? no? oh I see, libtwiddle was upgraded. Yes, it was libtwiddle that broke things.

As I say, this is a brand new project. It may not work as perfectly as all that. And swallowing Nix requires a certain amount of koolaid: it is user friendly but it's very picky about who its friends are.

> Would you expect this to result in more attention at some point, after it results in more exploits?

I think that we will switch to paid platforms that offer managed runtimes. These will probably offer targeted, well communicated updates of dependencies (everyone will hear Microsoft Python is releasing ms-py-http-3: here's what you need to know), and have fewer libraries that offer more code. In a sense these will be switch back to distributions. We will say "why would you manage your own dependency?" And the cycle will repeat with a new flavor.
Libertarianism makes me smile.
Do you know if there is any standardized way to serve metadata on the papers themselves? I want to serve my findings in a way that makes them easy for others to include in metastudies but I'm not allowed to share the raw data (privacy reasons)

All I have found is ScienceVerse [1] that aims to develop a syntax/"a Grammar of Science"

[1] https://scienceverse.github.io/scienceverse/
What do you think an extrovert might say? They might miss the face to face interaction, the spontaneous discussions that may happen over lunch, or the gathering between colleagues that might happen over a weekend.

I respect that those may not appeal to you, and they don't have to, but some people find work in-person more fun. If that's not you, there are plenty of forever-remote companies to get a job at.
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Whenever I work on a project that gathers interest in multiple places I get input like:

* If you do X you'll fail

* If you don't do X you'll fail

* X is neat but don't worry about it til later.

I imagine that the people in charge of python, a wildly popular programming language (at the time, and still), got all sorts of input, much of which conflicted. They chose a path and it was a bad choice, a mistake. This is clear in retrospect 13 years later, but at pycon in 2008 (a few months before python 3 officially released) the viewpoint was more mixed - a lot of people thought it was a good path and a lot of people thought it was terrible and others still thought the transition plan was annoying but would be cleared up pretty quick.
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I'm very cynical about cryptocurrency but that's a stretch. Criminals did that damage to companies and infrastructure, and they would do it without cryptocurrency if it was worth it. I guess dollars sell drugs to kids too and fuel murder for hire.
If you use DuckDuckGo as your search engine you use the bangs that you add to your query, e.g.

!w bang

searches for bang on Wikipedia. The list of bangs can be found here [0]

python: !python !python2 !python3

Postgresql: !postgres

Flask: !flask

SQLAlchemy: !sqlalchemy

Rust: !rust

Javascript: !javascript

CSS: !css

Currently there are 13,564 bangs and you can suggest new ones.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
People who like to do that sit in it all day. If there are multiple conversations going on they will split into the 2nd and 3rd channels. Some people like to hear the breathing and typing of their colleagues all day, some do not.
Blockchain doesn't help in any of the scenarios you describe.

You're still trusting a third-party to release the data. Whether they release it via a blockchain or via a website, what's the difference? The trust model is the same.

You allude to a standard, which indeed is always valuable since it allows people to exchange freely with each other. In your other answers, you seem to take it for granted that using a blockchain means everything is interoperable. But a blockchain is no guarantee that any standard would prevail, especially in the long run. There are already tokens using different interfaces, or even using different blockchains. At this point, "using blockchain" is equivalent to having a public API, no more no less. That's obviously already possible without a blockchain.

So I don't see why you think the use-cases you mentioned benefit from blockchain at all.
Wadler's Law strikes again https://wiki.c2.com/?WadlersLaw
But one says "opt-out".