skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also from Argentina, and about 6 years ago I worked in a public school.

I think giving computers to children is good only if the quality of education they receive is good. I saw many children using their government-given computers to play GTA san andreas and Counter Strike while they were in the middle of a class, and the teachers didn't do anything about it because the government forbids them to take reasonable disciplinary measures (A teacher wants a child to pay attention during a class? Good luck, there's not much he/she can do) and also the goverments forces the teachers to make everyone pass every exam because "it is stigmatizing" for the children to get a bad mark on a test.

What I comment sounds absurd, but I have no reason to lie about it.

So, even if I consider it can be benefical to give computers to students in some conditions, in Argentina it's not well implemented.
A precious African-studies collection burns in Cape Town
No, but you can get a ~3.5% 30 year fixed mortgage for the same reason.
That’s DGraph
Yeah, and lots of people used methadone successfully.

I don't want there to be stiff market competition in the addictive substances market. We already did that with tobacco and still haven't fully phased that out.
This is very much paralleled with non-techies solving techie problems eloquently.

A few weeks ago there was a story in a company where the financial department used pretty old computers that didn't run anyone else's software. They were the only ones that could use it.

When asked, they said they were tired of the programmers mucking around with their machines so they just didn't use anything they knew.

A knee jerk techie solution would probably be password login systems with someone holding the "keys" to it. Maybe some kind of other procedures. Or just do the above!
With the proliferation of the cias involvement in the logistics and selling of cocaine, crack, heroin, I'd say part of "their" decision making was how useful drugs could be to fund black book operations. If you have a jail out of free card for your assets and the competition (majority of drug dealers don't) then the party with a get out of jail free card will be able to take advantage of the artificially high price points due to high criminal penalties.

Also let's not forget about civil asset forfeiture. The gift that keeps on giving to the government.

At this point there is more civil asset forfeiture then property theft in the USA year over year. It's a massive motivation. Illegal drugs is the fuel to the civil asset forfeiture dumpster fire
There is no previous consultant this is a seed stage startup trying to deploy a simple web app. What are you even on about?
Start Your Own ISP ?

To be honest, the first thing that crossed my mind was "good luck getting an IPv4 range in 2021". ;-)

The second thought was. Don't bother unless you've got a clear competitive differentiator. There are already too many ISPs out there as it is without another "me too" cluttering up the market.
I believe it was the podcast 99% invisible that had an episode about urban planners driving around after a heavy snow and documenting unofficial paths for later development.
> What's bad about that?

The timer is what is bad about this.

I do not care about the question.

As you say, any competent programmer could solve this in a few seconds, if they are proficient, or minutes if they are not.

In my opinion, they should not put a count down because they are interrupting the programmer’s flow. If they really want to measure time, they do it without interrupting the programmer, hide the timer, let them take as much time as they want/need to solve these problems. Then, at the end of the quiz, show them how long it took them to give a proper solution, and take in consideration that time to score them.

If Alice solved 10 problems in 10 minutes, and Bob solved the same problems in 15 minutes, maybe there is something there that is worth highlighting in their profiles. Maybe Alice is able to analyze this type of questions much faster than Bob, and if that matters to the recruiters or potential employers, then allow the candidate to use that in their favor.

However, if Bob actually knew the answer, but they ran out of time to select an option, that seems unfair.
I don´t think it has anything to do with our interpretation: the illiterate have no concept of words. They come from writing systems and are not a part of languages.

German has very long "words" just because they decided not to add lots of spaces when creating a writing system for it. There is no particular reason why it's "Bundesverfassungsgerich" instead of "Bundes verfassungs gericht".
Taking a step back - "repo" is short for "Repurchase Agreement".

Financial Institutions put collateral into an overnight market and receive cash, and then they "agree" to "repurchase" / give the cash back (plus some fee) for the collateral the next day - right?

This is the "opposite" in that Financial Institutions put cash in and get collateral (treasuries) out - right? The transaction is essentially going in the "reverse" direction it traditionally went - which is why it's the "reverse repo market".

It's interesting because "having too much cash" is not usually a problem. Now it is.
There's a saying therapists use, "What we resist persists."

The research has shown that being open with others about your experience alleviates the symptoms of depression, including constant rumination. Putting on a happy face for the benefit of others, on the other hand, tends to make it much, much worse.

There are of course confounding factors like whether the person has a victimization complex or whatever, but those need to be handled on their own terms. I don't personally experience anything like that, so I don't know much about it, but my guess is that they would also generally be exacerbated by encouraging people not to talk about it.
You could always create another free workspace, and move pages between them. Once you got tired of that, you bought an account. Happened for us, and I think it was a great way of pulling us in.
I'm not trying to stir the pot when I ask this:

How is a quote about how the Nixon administration having "black people as the enemy" around 1968-1971 still relevant in 2021 when the current administration's messaging is one of inclusion and equality?
So many people have cried wolf about the evils of either the government, or previous generations that this quote genuinely shocked me. I too would think that something like this would and should have more weight.
Banks have overhead, and want to turn a profit.

Also “the system” isn’t setup to be nice to you.
i use PHP CLI tools all the time, they exist. composer as an example.
There is no consequence to my business. Are you drunk or high right now? Because you're coming across as weirdly paranoid and reading way too much into the situation.
> … the thing that is holding Smalltalk back …

Already, back in 1988 —

"The fact that Smalltalk proved to be an excellent prototyping tool should not be surprising, as Smalltalk’s developers had themselves used the system in this manner. … While we have have found the Smalltalk language a very effective tool for building complex systems, we believe it is currently unrealistic to expect that an excellent rapid prototyping system can also be an excellent application delivery system. If Smalltalk is to be widely used to develop production applications, then the language, its development environment, and its implementations need to be re-engineered for that purpose."

"An Overview of Modular Smalltalk"

https://static.miraheze.org/triplescriptswiki/4/49/Wirfs-Bro...
This was nice and refreshing. Thank you.
The problem is that our system is broken. Wildly popular policies can't pass because of republican obstructionism in the senate.

Worse, the senate is hugely anti-democratic. It's not 1/3-1/2 of the population; its the reps of 4/25.

""The 25 most populous states contain nearly 84 percent of the 50 states’ total population. So 16 percent of the country controls half of the seats in the United States Senate (and that’s not accounting for the fact that DC, Puerto Rico, and several other US territories have no representation at all in Congress).""[1]

Source to [1]: https://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/22215728/senate-anti-democratic...

I actually highly recommend reading the above. I found it insightful.
I believe they still run programs like this in the richer parts of Michigan. I've been out of the Michigan educational system for a few years now, but I think Howell and Albion still loan instruments. It's pretty heartbreaking that Detroit is struggling to pay contractors to remove mold from the classroom when 100 miles away they're giving away musical instruments.
> I know some people who can talk about their psychological struggles and remain likeable

I'd argue this is the basis for all good standup comedy.
Hi, white liberal raised by an addict here. I've known quite a few meth addicts over the years. The ones who get sent to prison are uniformly worse off than those who get sent to rehab. A notable distinction, white addicts I know have been mostly sent to rehab; everybody else winds up in jail/prison where there's a booming drug trade and surprise surprise, they don't get clean.
I don't know enough to judge and I would hope that we'd look to the science, medicine, and what other countries have done with success to make that determination.

Psilocybin is the first possible candidate that comes to my mind, but I'd rather have us use a sound framework of harm-minimization than to favor/disfavor any particular drug.
I think the flaw is you misinterpreting the argument.

In my opinion, the bottom line with obvious caveats is this - Human-time is more valuable than CPU-time.

If you are shipping at scale then the calculus is different - Don't waste end-users' human-time and their cpu-time and/or server's cpu-time.

If you're writing code with a team the calculus is different - Use/Learn techniques and tools to reduce the teams' human-time wastage plus all the above.

If you're writing code just for yourself the calculus is different - Save your own human-time.
A good book as such. However, whereas the authors claim that they outline the proof in chapter 6, that chapter fell short of it with key aspects of the proof missing. Overall, I was disappointed.
> could only be diagnosed with ADHD if your life was worse than "the norm"

Because ADHD is a real situation for some people, and for others it's a way to legally take class-B stimulants.

Yes, people really do try their friends' ADHD medication, enjoy it, and then shop around doctors to find someone who will prescribe it. It's called "drug seeking," and doctors do flag patients who do it.

This, BTW, is what happens with medical marijuana. There are people who really need it, there are people who think they need it, and then there are people who who tell everyone but their doctor that it's recreational.
> "three strikes" policies has the effect of significantly reducing violent crime.

That's not quite true. The three strikes policy had the effect of increasing violent crime. After all, if it's going to be their third strike, why would anyone go small?

https://slate.com/business/2008/03/do-three-strikes-laws-mak...
For anybody else who doesn't know what CeFi means: https://swissborg.com/blog/defi-vs-cefi
Well at least it has enriched the mafia so that's something.
>People rarely commit robbery and murder to get another hit of alcohol.

Weird. Almost like making it legal, relatively cheap, and easily accessible makes it so you don't have to resort to desperate means.
Given that the US has only 1 reactor that was commercially put into operation after 1990s [1], it's a pretty realistic way to look at it in the US.

Newer reactors and spent fuel reprocessing are definitely ways to solve the issue, but the fact is you still create those nasty byproducts in the traditional reactors today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...
You should move to south Germany - people are very much ambitious there, work is often their main goal. Also, burnout numbers and other mental health statistics are really up, and that for years before COVID. Many people are working a lot just to buy a house. Far from everyone has inherited, actually Germany started a lot from scratch after the war. Most wealthy people I know built their wealth with lots of work, including weekends. Many colleagues work in the evening. It’s true few build a company though. But many decide to travel the world, or get ambitious with sports, art or charities. There’s a lot of things to be accomplished especially when you experienced first hand that the parents career didn’t make them much happy and satisfied in life.
It is fake.

The thing is is your average American would never even consider the ultimate possibility of a foundational collapse of their economy and currency.

And it's not just the average American. Nearly all hedge funds etc have USD as their basis.

Bitcoin, Gold, Stocks, real estate etc has a value tag that's denominated in Dollars.

You open up your portfolio and be happy when the USD value goes up in a nice green color.

But what happens when USD gets diluted and debased so much that it's not possible to stop anymore. Are we not past point of no return already?

Debasement of currency marked the end of the Roman empire, why would American empire be any different?

Because US has nukes?

Because they can force the rest of the world to keep using USD at gunpoint?

For how long?
It also creates an unholy amount of bullshit jobs in law enforcement and the prison industry. Can't lose those voters.
Thanks, this helps to confirm what I've always expected from my end (the wisp side.) It sure seems like a good match at a high level but seems to fall apart once we get in to the details of making it work.
> We want to stop being a placement agency, and instead become a job search platform that leverages that unique power to create a better hiring process for engineers

> Triplebyte has hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform, and that means we can flip the script on companies. The collective power of thousands of engineers is enough to change their incentives in a way that individual engineers cannot.

> We can change their incentives directly by rewarding or punishing certain behavior. For example, companies aren’t normally incentivized to provide salary and culture data. But we can force their hand by promoting transparent companies in our search rankings. When a company’s access to thousands of engineers is on the line, their incentives are very different. The same goes for honesty: a company often has no reason to be honest with any one engineer, but we can disincentivize lying by making their behavior with one engineer affect their access to the next.

So... a union? In digital, online format?

I'm glad that someone there is now realising the advantages of joining forces to negotiate workers' conditions. It was about time high-tech engineers noticed this.
Crowds, Super Crunchers, and Predictions
It is fake in the sense that billions of dollars are being minted by crypto without any real use case other than theoretically fixing the financial system "someday". But fake stuff has always been a big part of the economy. Realtors extract 6% of most real estate transactions, but provide minimal "real" value, for example. The important thing is that inflation isn't running away and also businesses are not shutting down rapidly, causing a cascading effect of more businesses to shutdown and fire even more employees.
The reason for zsh is simple enough: Terminal is a standard Mac app, and there are some system maintenance things an ordinary user might do which require the command line.

So there needs to be a shell, and that's zsh now.

Apple switched to zsh because they're allergic to later GNU licenses and the version of bash they were shipping was absurdly out of date.
Quite a lot of them are young people whose ""type"" is not yet fixed. To believe that America's high prison population all deserve to be there is to believe that America is a place full of uniquely bad people, which is quite the .. unpatriotic? take.
Depending on the language and how it passes in values, you'll have different answers. Assuming it's javascript the answer is 0,1. In other languages it might be 1, 1.

That's a tricky question, and if you're not good enough to understand why they're asking that then you fail!
Have you considered writing children's books? :) /s

It's so interesting how many weird states our brains can get into like that.

Congrats on kicking the habit though!
"Simply put, it means “the less, the better”" was referring to the principle of "via negativa", not necessarily to code.

Maybe I conveyed the wrong meaning on this sentence. I don't think that less code is better. I believe that the more code you have, the more potentially breaking parts you get. However, the right amount of code is a function of your deadline, team, goals, budget and whatnot.

In any case, it's nice to have principles as a beacon during your development, so you don't get lazy and fool yourself. But by no means they are written in stone and every attempt to summarize an absolute truth will be shallow.
> the problem with this is that I think few people care enough to enter their preferences, let alone to come back and check.

Game-ify the shit out of it? Farmville, but for electoral awareness? Somehow piggyback on the inexplicably-popular-and-viral "take this quiz to find out which X from Y you are" thing?
Apple dropped Samba and wrote their own SMB client due to their fear of GPL v3.

Do they still use CUPS for printing ???.
> The problem with Triplebyte

is that they say they have companies like Apple and TrueCar posting job listings and hiring but they actually never respond and all you get is offers for companies between 10-200 people in size (aka, startups)
> our real long-term incentives still pull toward building what engineers want, not what companies want.

> There is danger that we get pulled toward building for companies.

A common phrase thrown around with free services is "if you're not paying for it, you are the product".

> For example, companies aren’t normally incentivized to provide salary and culture data. But we can force their hand by promoting transparent companies in our search rankings.

Maybe I didn't read the article carefully enough, but are you planning to continue charging companies $15k - $30k for the ability to access candidates on your platform?

If so, companies are still your customers. And if you're building and optimizing your product for people who aren't your customers, your real customers (companies) may not be happy with you which will hurt retention, etc.

Maybe I skimmed the article too quickly, but it seems strange to charge companies $20k+ to post a job on your platform, and then actively do things that "force their hand". It might be a net benefit to the engineers on the platform, but I wonder how it will work from a business model perspective since you're potentially creating adversarial relationships with your "real" customers (companies paying you to access your candidates).

Edit: But maybe it's by design, if you actively remove employers who aren't abiding by your philosophy. Although again, that means turning away customers, which means turning away revenue, which in my mind raises questions about the overall business model. A lot of conflicting interests.
I don't think it's up to the "better" people to solve this problem. Our genetics and culture both evolve much less slowly than technology, and power accumulates via capital concentration much faster than via common-good consensus-building. Also, the kind of rational people we're talking about here often arise as a product of industrialized society and educational systems & cultures of knowledge. Those are the same societies that often have an outsized impact on global inequalities and climate change. If sustainability is the goal, human intellect is what got us away from it and into trouble to begin with -- not that sustainability without what we call intelligent life would be considered worthwhile, by our standards.

Anyhow. You take a paleolithic ape and give it godlike powers with medieval morality, then increase their population eightfold in <200 years... it's gonna be a shitshow. All the resource-consuming things (breeding, extraction, production, warfare) scale up much better than the forces of restraint (academia, law, treaties, philosophy, self-reflection, etc.). It would happen to any species given such a sudden surge in power without planning, and we are not altogether different enough from our ancestors to prevent this.

I think the "rational" people would do what little they can, if only to fill the time and provide some inkling of hope, but doing so under the assumption that the future is already lost. It's too late for a reversal that doesn't involve billions of people and animals perishing.
Similarily, I found that having mental health diagnoses have reframed my already negative tendencies to merely assign concrete reasons to my failings that sound more justifiable to me.

So many decisions and feelings in my life have become framed around statements like "that was because my attention was lost," or "my attention is probably not going to hold up for another hour if I try that," or "I just wasn't paying attention." Every accomplishment and every mistake is colored though a lens of attention, or my lack of it.

The fact that I procrastinate is no longer because "I'm lazy," but "I have a debilitating lack of executive function." It sounds reasonable, and it can be useful to understand the reasons to find better ways of dealing with them. But merely changing the reason from a less specific to more specific one doesn't ultimately solve the problem of procrastination.

It can be tempting to indicate the diagnosis as revealing the one major problem interfering with a normal life, but for me that isn't the case. It provides me with an easy distraction from the problems with how I carry myself and my usual thought patterns.

If I try learning to draw, and reach for learning materials focused on drawing skills, almost none of them will go out of the way to state: your attitude may prevent you from making progress on this lesson. Someone who's in pristine shape and someone who can barely find the motivation to get out of bed each day could read the same book with the intention of learning how to draw and have significantly different outcomes without any explicit indication as to why from just reading the book alone.
Cat software running on dog hardware
Central banks raised interest rates a tiny amount from 0 to 0.05%. Banks were like: we no longer want to borrow all this cash we weren't doing anything with anyways please take it back central bank.
> they store their cash with the fed (through a repo [repurchase] agreement) temporarily.

What does this gain them? Are they paid interest?
> Some ISAs are more suitable for aggressive implementations, and some make it harder. The canonical early comparison was the CDC 6600 versus the IBM 360/91; the even stronger later one would be Alpha versus VAX. A widespread current belief is that the complexity, die cost, and propensity for long wires of high-end OOOs may have reached diminishing returns, compared to multi-core designs with simpler cores, where the high-speed signals can be kept in compact blocks on-chip.

Interestingly, this is also true within RISC implementations. One of the original goals of RISC-V was a simple, clean-slate design that would also avoid the pitfalls in existing ISA's that make 'aggressive' implementations hard.