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Yeah, its basically news laundering. One paper runs an article on an anonymous source or scientific preprint. They use the proper terminology to describe the level of confidence involved, which may be low.

Then others pick it up by referencing the first news report. They no longer have to be specific, instead its just "news source X reports".

Unless you follow the chain back to the source, you don't see the actual confidence level. Sometimes you don't even get an accurate picture of the original source.
> Sure, GH lags SO considerably on the size of the knowledge base, but I don't think that's very important since, due to the rapid pace of tech, content rapidly loses value with age (consider all of the jquery or flash content, or content pertaining to old versions of libraries or frameworks).

This is a weakness of SO and really the whole knowledge base business model (Q&A or not). You think you're building up this network-effect moat. "We have the best question-askers, answer-givers and answered questions. So everyone comes here!"

But, knowledge goes stale. "How do you X in JS?" is different than it was 10 years ago. People don't want a historical archive of how it was 10 years ago, they want to know today!

Then, like you say, GitHub brings in a whole new weird angle. Why ask on some other site when I have a spot where the maintainers and users hang out? Since my loyalty to SO is approximately zero, I'm just as likely to click on the Google result that takes me to GitHub if it looks more promising.
Actually the answers were obfuscated by html/css. Dev tools could expose the answers.
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That's shoving a square peg into a round hole. Amazon's competitors have the same labor pool for their warehouses, so it can hardly explain an 80% difference in injuries.
That depends on what stack you're using. Anything based on Linux and Java will be fairly applicable even years later. Even if it's not applicable, it's often possible to tell this from the answer and the date of the question.

IMO, two things would improve matters greatly. One, add a mechanism to mark questions as "potentially obsolete" based on thresholds that can vary per-topic, or per StackExchange site (so e.g. Java has an 8 year shelf-life, general Linux has a 10-year shelf life, Ubuntu in particular has a 4 year shelf life, etc). Two, allow moderators to override an accepted answer after some time passes. I've seen posters not bothering to mark a superior answer later on, or not knowing how to do it. If the community is unanimous about which other answer should go to the top, choose that instead of the original poster's selection.
looks like Twitter's tech is not enough to catch these bots
Quite right, it's just the seed of an idea. As for scale, that can be achieved through pooling (i.e. group buys), though it wouldn't work right now due to supply constraints.
"I don't know who hurt you" is certainly a personal attack and an internet flamewar trope to boot. No more of that, please.

Making provocative statements about God in a religious flamewar thread is obviously taking the thread further into religious flamewar. No more of that either, please.

Edit: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371909. If you don't to be banned on HN, we're going to need you to change how you're posting to the site.
videos of it don't really do it justice

definitely worth seeing if you're in the area (though it's right on King's Parade so you would anyway!)
I thought the same thing. The article seems written by a young man trying hard to deliver the cadence of an old man.
Well, after the debacle with the Boeing 737MAX i think this is less true then it once was.
The thing is, even when they were big evil, they had the best developer tooling by a mile. Visual Studio, MSDN, etc were novel and leagues ahead of other platform providers’ equivalents
That was one of the best parts of traveling in Florence. You could pick a different café every morning and by the end of a week long trip you'd still haven't tried all the café's in a two block radius.
I think you are correct, but also think that’s why Jefferson deliberately rooted the virtue of experimentation in our ability to use reason to interpret the results.

If someone is acting in bad faith, the fault is not in the experimental process but rather their faculty in interpreting the results. We wouldn’t throw out experimentation in science just because a researcher was biased in their result. The OP seems to be throwing out the baby with the bath water.
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> So how does this work? Before the code is deployed, as part of a build step, we run the JS code using the JS engine to the end of initialization.

I also did basically this exact same thing for Go [0] when I realized their initialization in WASM was very heavy[1]. Basically I ran up until the real Go main started which includes a ton of runtime package/data initialization, and took a snapshot of the data and baked it back into the WASM and removed all the pre-main code. Granted this was years ago so I don't know if it still works on generated code today, but the idea is the same.

I think languages compiling to WASM, if they can, should run their initialization code and snapshot the data. A lot of people don't realize the number of init instructions to bootstrap a runtime these days. Go alone has thousands of instructions just to initialize the unicode tables. Over 4 million instructions before main were removed from hello-world Go WASM init by pre-processing.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/go-wasm-bake
1 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26622
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Given the overall industry turnover figures, a 6% URA target seems like something that's so low as to not be especially impactful.

"Oh @sokoloff quit? He was OK but let's mark him as non-regrettable so we can hit our target. Where do you want to get lunch?"
I tried this on my previous laptop and ran into a number of issues once I tried to install anything with a GUI. It's fine for shells and CLI tools though. I migrated some configs over to a Nix configs under Arch, and while it was a pain to initially set up NixOS (unfamilarity), it's a lot easier doing everything else now.
I suspect it's because so many people use SO for work. When I'm at work I'm not thinking about being a good SO user and upvoting a good question or answer, I'm focused on getting my answer and getting back into the flow of my work.

On the other hand if I'm casually browsing twitter or instagram I'll gladly like posts that are interesting and there's no cost because it's recreation time.
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That's a complicated question to answer! The short answer is that literally every variable involved in brewing affects taste - brew time, water mineralization, water temp, grind, brewer, bean origin, processing method, roast temp.

Espresso and slow brew coffee are probably the furthest apart, and many people like one and not the other, it's a personal preference. But even if you like slow brew, there's not a single one that tastes better than all the others. That's a little like asking which wine tastes the best. Some wines taste objectively terrible, but after a certain point it comes down personal taste. Some people like darker vs lighter roasts, high vs mellow acidity, and on and on.

If you just need somewhere to get started, I would start with slow brew because it's much cheaper. A good grinder can be expensive, but there are inexpensive manual grinders that do a decent job. Watch some videos, buy some coffee, and see what you like.
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It's very Jordan Peterson-y in its prescriptiveness; he definitely has his fans on HN.
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In the Tractatus (TLP), which you quoted, Wittgenstein came to a conclussion about language, not about philosophy itself. He rejected many of the major themes of the TLP in his later work, Philosophical Investigations (even jokingly calling the person who wrote the TLP an idiot)

Wittgensteins metaphilosophical thoughts are best captured in the Blue Book (a series of lecture notes) and Philosophical Investigations.
I think it is just the news has a negativity bias. It happens in trendy and groupthink oriented ways, though.
"Our findings are based on data that Amazon and other employers provided to OSHA annually from 2017 to 2020 within the General Warehouse and Storage industry (NAICS: 493110) and the last mile delivery industries (NAICS 492110 & 492210). ... All employers are legally required to submit annual injury and illness reports to OSHA for any warehouse, delivery, grocery, or wholesale trade facility with 20 or more employees annually, so these records should include every significantly-sized facility in Amazon’s US logistics network."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371759
The trouble is that there's a really obvious media bias - a report showing that Amazon warehouse injuries were 80% lower definitely wouldn't get this kind of credulous media treatment, if anyone bothered publishing it in the first place, and this has obvious effects on everyone's perceptions.
There has been a huge push for low-code over the last couple of years. The idea that anybody can setup a business flow is compelling and easily sold. But low code means a lot of config and these systems are nothing new and over time they will sooner or later become limiting. If you have everything in code any problem can be solved.

You also still need to solve the things like CI/CD, CM, dependencies, data modelling, correctness, resilience, security, compliance, integrations and so on.
Can I git stash my current SO profile before starting?
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Related: Studies of aviation and construction have found that as incident rates decline, fatalities increase:

"The underreporting that results from the implementation of such safety programs really means that you are shooting yourself in the foot. Your organization does not have a great safety culture because it has low numbers of incidents. In fact, the opposite is true. This has been shown in various industries already. A study of Finnish construction and manufacturing from 1977 to 1991, for example, showed a strong correlation between incident rate and fatalities, but reversed (r = –.82, p<0.001). In other words, the fewer incidents a construction site reported, the higher its fatality rate was (see Figure 7.1)."

—The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error', chapter 7
That's always my thought as well. People become comfortable with the hacks/quirks of their dominant language(s) and forget about them when comparing to something exotic like CSS.
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I worked with the artist who designed and built the sculptural parts of this clock: Matt Sanderson. His page on the clock is here: http://www.sanderson-sculpture.com/projects/millenium-clock/
> There is an amazing variety of wonderful modern music in a multitude of genres.

Watching Rick Beato on YouTube dissect the latest top 10 is exceptionally enlightening. There are some exceptions, but there's quite a lot of interesting things going on, musically, in pretty much every song.
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What is this $100 Breville Espresso Machine? The Bambino is $299.
Well, the current US president shut down oil and gas drilling leases from US public lands. There was a lot of fanfare around this.

2020 was the first year the US exported more petroleum than it imported on an annual basis. But due to the sudden federal approved decline in 2021, US will now import more oil in 2022.

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/2/17/us-will-import-62-mo...
The solution is simple then: Amazon should allow Walmart employees to vote on Union issues...
Same. That being said I googled the term and it's not as derogatory as I thought[0], still not good though.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5849631/
> The glass is very fragile, potentially leading to breaking and even injury. Usually top-heavy designs, too.

After cracking my umpteenth glass cafetiere (what you call a french press in the US), I bought a metal one - that was around 10 years ago, and it's still going strong!

It's easy to clean too, but then every one I've had has been.
Instead of focusing on Maths why don't we completely re-think High School? For starters let's get off this idea that everyone should be preparing to go to college. Sure, have a college prep curriculum for the 20% of your students who are going to go to college. Everyone else would benefit from vocational training with a solid educational foundation - that way should they decide to go to college they still could, they just may not be able to get into the most competitive universities.

For those going the vocational training path you'd want to have a program where students in their 1st and 2nd years are spent sampling a variety of trades and vocations so they can determine where they want to focus for their 3rd and 4th years. Let's face it - even computer programming can be taught in this manner and people would be able to graduate from High School and get a job programming.
There are plenty of teams at Amazon which could be significantly larger than that. How many employees do you think they have in every warehouse, and how many managers? ;)
I took a look at the study. Am I reading this right. they went to 416K FTE's from 242K FTE's and lost time cases and lost time days went down?

Case rate from 0.049 to 0.026?

Lost time days 2.6 to 1.2?

These are pretty striking improvements % wise for a big operation. Just interesting to see the headlines that get written! You could also write a headline, Amazon cuts lost time cases and lost time days rates in half in one year.
This makes me want to create a tweet tumbling service. Send us a message and we'll send it to someone else, but no one can prove or disprove where it came from.
"No longer"? When were they accountable to the public? To public opinion, sure, but we still have opinion polls and politicians in most Western countries spend a lot of money on trying to shape that. But accountability is incompatible with centralization and multiple layers of delegation.

There's also the rather obvious conflict of interest between politicians needing/wanting money and politicians being supposed to represent the will of the people (rather than the will of those who can give them a lot of money). That police officers aren't being bribed doesn't mean we don't have corruption. We just have corruption with Western characteristics.
They'll do literal citogenesis sometimes, too, actually. It's happened in court, too. Oh, hey, look the press reported on the thing we leaked to them, that's proof that it must be reliable, judge!
I mentioned the word "joke" at least twice in my post.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and especially not on generic ideological flamewar tangents: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

I know the GP contained a provocation, but that's no reason to single it out, pour fuel on it, and light it on fire. When you do that, you seriously damage this place.

The intended spirit of HN is curiosity (specifically intellectual curiosity), and that implies a completely different way of behaving: overlooking provocations and focusing on something else that's interesting. Please do that instead.

Flamewars, especially on classic flamewar topics, have nothing interesting in them because they're so tediously repetitive, and of course inevitably turn nasty as well (perhaps as a way of making them less boring [1]). So they do multiple kinds of damage here. That's not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I'm not sure if this is a "reality check", and it sounds suspiciously similar to the "population explosion" claims.

US electricity and gasoline consumption has declined since 2010, despite a growing GDP and almost 20 million more people. Efficiency and conservation have achieved enormous gains, and every renewable source that comes online displaces an existing one.

This has occurred across every developed nation. Japan is using 20% less energy today than it did in 2000. Germany, France, Italy, Canada -- all below 2000.

As developing countries bring more of their population into more modern accouterments, of course the total is increasing -- for now -- but thankfully most are starting with a much greater mix of reasonable sources.
> Not sure if they figured out ways of mixing in management / white color jobs into the warehouse numbers.

I once worked as an engineer in a pseudo-office that was actually just part of the company’s warehouse that had been sectioned off and given some trendy decorations. The company was running out of warehouse space but rather than let us move into a real office, they kept us in the warehouse and rented more warehouse space next door.

I could never understand why they did it, but your comment had me wondering now.
I'm so lost. Why are you shipping a JS Engine built for WASM? Wouldn't any platform that can run WASM also run JS code?
Andreas, you do realize interviews are edited, right? The editorial POV of that interview you link to was that WMF is a nonprofit and deserves support. They appear to have cut directly to my answer about the value of being a nonprofit. Whatever is left on the cutting room floor is a decision of the production team.

I agree that there were some problems with the fundraising messaging in India. It's an example of where the initial message testing worked, but when it went to a full campaign, the press ran with stories that were misleading and alarmist. In fact, WMF staff then worked extensively with the communities in India and did a significant amount of press, including television interviews, to clarify the purpose of the fundraiser and dispel concerns.

You continue to push for messaging that you personally believe to be more truthful to your belief about how fundraising works. Okay. That's fair, and you are entirely welcome to continue to do that. However, years of research and focus groups and testing has continuously demonstrated that the primary reason people donate to Wikipedia isn't a fear it will go away, nor is it a strategic interest in the future. The overwhelming reason is gratitude that it exists, and the opportunity to have contribute in their own way.

Would I personally respond to a message about mission and strategy? Yes, I would. But most people do not. Instead, millions of people find the donation banners acceptable and even inspirational -- far more so than messages about product and feature improvements. So despite the loyal opposition of you and others, I'm fairly certain that the WMF will continue to fundraise with messages that work on the level of what people care the most about, which is what Wikipedia means to them in their own lives.

Moving on, the WMF has been entirely clear that $4.2m of that $8.7m is going to affiliates for this year's APG funding. I would have wanted to get information about the $4.5m set aside for knowledge equity out the door faster, but I am no longer at the organization, so cannot speak to your concerns.
This is where I'm sitting right now. I'm trying out Void Linux on my laptop and it's just so simple. I love that I understand my system. I look at Nix as a language and I just have no idea what is going on.

What I'd really like, as a learning resource, is a "Nix for apt/yum users" or a "Nix for Ansible" users guide. There is the cheat sheet (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Cheatsheet) but it's just not enough.

For example, I wanted to just... create an arbitrary directory in my home directory (~/workspace). Does Home Manager do this? If so, how? Do I just have a shell script that is called within a package? That seems excessive. Is this not a use case for Nix? It looks like it can do arbitrary tasks across the system but the documentation is so bogged down with theory that it takes forever to find practical applications.
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Two what?

I'm also curious what defines your standard for clear thinking. Philosophy is at a level of abstraction higher than any other intellectual discipline, and to a certain extent it's not possible to discuss philosophy in the way we discuss engineering, for example. It's the difference between relying on assumptions to communicate effectively and attempting to analyze the assumptions themselves.
Is your spice grinder a blade grinder? If so you are likely getting a very inconsistent grind. This may affect the taste of the coffee dramatically.

The first recommendation I give to people that want to get into brewing better tasting coffee is to get a burr grinder, even a handheld one will do just fine. With a burr grinder you just get a more consistent grind which helps reduce the fines thereby reducing the bitterness.
I would definitely not say "Reasons and Persons" is clear. It might be precise (I personally don't think so, I think he makes tons of subtle mistakes), but it's at least not clear. It's full of ideas like "rational irrationality" which is at best a poor choice of naming, IMO.
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Arguably, SO is already a Wikipedia for techie matters. It's just very poorly maintained and quirky.
Continental (non-analytic) philosophers seem to me to be somewhat like impressionist painters. (Does anyone else see that similarity?) And the absence of this "clarity of thought" focus might be why it feels that way to me.
Looks like Joel Spolsky is cashing out. Fogbugz, Trello, and now Stack Overflow.
I've got limited exposure to this, but we see this in some other fields. I just worked with a group that said they had no "defects". Actually, what you have is no reported defects and no clue what you are missing.

The folks reporting defects in this space get a lot more hassle, but actually know what is going on in their ops.
Possibly related: SO requires you reach some number of upvotes before you yourself can upvote. When I use SO and try to upvote a useful answer I'm always reminded that I don't have the privilege of upvoting.