skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But cuts as large as Keeling is talking about will take sustained cuts to consumption.

I agree.

Yesterday, the size of humanity was insignificantly small compared to the size of the earth's environment -- resources available to support a reasonable standard of living were so abundant as to be effectively infinite.

Today, after the successful growth throughout the last few centuries, the size of humanity is comparable in some respects to the size of parts of the environment. the environment is no longer infinite, it is finite and will increasingly constrain human activity.

Beliefs that are held dear in parts of the rich world (emphasis on individual rights and freedom, consumerism, unregulated population growth, population fueled economic growth to increase the pie rather than reallocating the pie) that were good enough yesterday may no longer be a particularly adaptive way to run society today and tomorrow.
I think it's one of those things that's more complex than being one or the other. It's simultaneously a parody and also a somewhat earnest prediction of a not-super-far-fetched potential future world.
Good point. I think the financial community has created a false sense of legitimacy for bitcoin by quoting its prices on front pages, displaying performance graphs, etc, as if BTC were as legit as stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments.
"Conspiracy theory" is increasingly a misnomer. Whether it's tiny houses, beef bans and insects as a major protein source, or "climate lockdowns," a severe ratcheting down of living standards (just for the hoi polloi of course, not the Davos set) is being discussed quite in the open.
The only one who can judge the worthiness of this apology is Matthew Butterick himself. As for me, this sounds like the first steps of the self realization process Matthias should go through in an effort to better himself.

Let's not judge it to harshly. Rather let's encourage him to keep on walking down that path of self improvement that we all should be on.
I have no doubt it is honest, but it's not a good apology. He barely remembers the specific incident (by his own admission). That's not his fault, but it makes the apology pretty much meaningless. He seems to assume he was a bit of a grumpy-puss that day, and that "jaded" their subsequent interactions. This is incredibly glib and diminishes the specific incident.

But more importantly, he never admits to being a bully. The original post gives this incident as an example of a pattern of abusive behavior. He sidesteps that entirely.
Well if saying “sorry” provides one with complete absolution then what’s the real cost of acting badly?
I can bully you like him and I just have to say “Oops, sorry I must have had a bad day and I hope you’re cool with my apology”? Cool deal
Κροατια – Τσεχια προγνωστικα στοιχηματος Euro 2020
Η Κροατία θα επιδιώξει να επιστρέψει από την εναρκτήρια ήττα της στο Euro 2020 από την Αγγλία, όταν θα αναμετρηθεί με την Τσεχία στο Χάμπντεν Παρκ την Παρασκευή στον τέταρτο όμιλο. Αντίθετα, η ομάδα του Γιάροσλαβ Σιλχαβί ανέβηκε γρήγορα στην κορυφή του γκρουπ αφού κατέκτησε την νίκη με 2-0 επί της Σκωτίας κατά το εναρκτήριο παιχνίδι του τουρνουά. Μην χάσουμε άλλο χρόνο, ας δούμε τα σημερινά Κροατια – Τσεχια προγνωστικα στοιχημα Euro 2020
This is gonna end on tears for sure
Is this #metoo all over again? Must be thousands of victims all over the place just now willing to speak up cause someone published a blog without actually providing any proof.
Thw piece he's responding to is not about the specific incident cited, it is
about a pattern of behavior.
> and the birth of electronic music.

even with the amended version (s/electronic/techno/), this still needs attention ... subthread here, from about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27093490
This site informed me about the existence of the ZMK firmware, does anyone here have any experience with that?
As an Amazon employee, some of the software teams are absolutely horrific. Hire to fire, long hours, huge work load, lots of employees on visa worrier they will be fired at any time etc.

On the other hand, really interesting high scale software problems, some really smart people, good teams
Tailwind JIT is really fast, drastically cut my build times down. I don’t like how slow JS tooling can be either. The JIT compiler makes a big difference.
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A culture that holds individuals accountable must also be forgiving of human foibles—especially with sincere apologies.

It’s refreshing to see two adults acting like it: Matthew limited his criticism to what was relevant, and Matthias responded promptly, politely, and apologetically. Both stances take humility and wisdom.
An apology is a good first step and I'm glad he's taken it. There are several remaining steps, including gathering feedback, developing an improvement plan, and implementing it. I hope Felleisen will take these steps too.
We had a video conferencing phone screen with a shared coding environment. I gave an easy question.

It’s possible that they just couldn’t code with someone watching but the effect was the same.

Note that I didn’t have control over the interview process, so I couldn’t switch to a take home or something else.

The resumes seemed like they had relevant experience. That’s why I pushed them forward to the tech screen.
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Who said it absolves him? The question is why attack him for apologizing?
You know what else lets you explore it in detail? LSD. You'll see exactly how abstraction and pattern extrapolation is superimposed over reality. It likely isn't a coincidence that what you see is like a JPEG artifact but crystals instead of squares.
> We know the why is “because the antidepressants were taken”.

We don't know that. The best we know is that people who take antidepressants on average experience more improvement than a placebo. We actually don't know who got better from taking antidepressants due to the placebo effect.

> I call something pseudoscience when the “why” is “pinned down” as something wholly unrelated, and the people involved haven't noticed;

This is a good point and I would agree that pseudosciences are generally bad at uncovering bad explanations. I will point out that the "chemical imbalance" theory is still widely believed even though it has been pretty thoroughly debunked.

I think the dichotomy science/pseudoscience if often applied to whole fields when there is often a mix of both within any given field. The prevelence can certainly be highly variable from field to field but it isn't as black and white as we like to suggest.
I really think people need to learn to push back, and talk plainly.

This could have easily been a blog called "that time Felleisen was being a cunt and I told him to go fuck himself" and been 1/4 the length.
Oh yeah. That’s definitely what I said. /s

Edit: for what it’s worth, I would accept your apology for totally misrepresenting what I said and trying to make me look like an idiot. (Sort of sounds like bullying, doesn’t it?)
I love standardized tests and I got a little bit of that dopamine hit from the triplebyte test, too.
This is the 2nd wave style of #metoo cancel culture
The popular vote has been swinging in the direction of the national Democratic party for over a decade; Democrats would love proportional representation.

Why would the GOP want to give middling members the room to break rank when the margins of power are so razor-thin? What is the selling pitch?
Agreed, none of them are imitators. Proteges, yes.

Zawinul got his start with Cannonball Alderly, and one of his early compositions (Mercy Mercy Mercy) has big fusion vibes to it.

Hancock is just a Miles level genius. My piano teacher told me something like "I can play at Herbie's standard for a 5 minute stretch, but watching him keep at it for 90 minutes solid ..."

McLachlin is a hippie who cut his teeth on the late 60s modal/fusion scene.

In a Silent Way is my favourite jazz album ever. I think the history was they did Bitches Brew, then after that straightened that approach out a bit to make something more accessible.
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

nearing the end of their life professors tend give one last lecture reflecting their life lessons. most people don't know it's their literal last lecture, but Randy was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 40s and he is an interesting guy I wish I could've met.

another one stretches slightly over 100 is The Brain That Changes Itself.
> there are almost always more candidates than jobs, at least 5:1, in every non-credentialed industry vertical

If this were true for "qualified" candidates, there wouldn't be a labor shortage, right? ;-)
Does Matthias really believe we're so naive as to think this attempt to cover for a career of toxic and abusive behavior by apologizing for a single incident is going to work? It's the oldest trick in the bully playbook.

Technically speaking, apologizing to him is better than not apologizing to him, but it does nothing to make other people more willing to work with you.
Although weirdly he only apologized for the single incident Matthew described in detail, even though Matthew explained that it was just one example from years of bad behavior.
For anecdata, I've worked at two companies in a row now that have used exclusively Macs because it's simultaneously an acceptable platform for serious dev work and still user-friendly to tech illiterate interns.
Starting with an excuse for the behavior is not a good way to do an apology.
Doesn't sit right that he is so focused on the one example of what was supposed to be lot of bad behaviour over time. From the first blogpost/accusation it was clearly a personality problem, however here it is treated as a singular episode.
HN discussion about response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27544797 although very low quality comments so far.

https://lobste.rs/s/6rnyn9/why_i_no_longer_contribute_racket has some good quality discussion on this topic.
> …I even proposed [Butterick] could replace me. I always thought that your experience and your outside view would seriously improve our work. I still think so.

That would be an interesting turn of events.
There's something uniquely amusing about a chart that has an axis that goes $2,$4,$6,$8 and then in the title (trillions).
the blog post that apology is linking to says that it’s only one of many incidents that the victim doesn’t want to enumerate, but the apology sounded like it only considered that one incident, like it’s the only one that the bully could recall (and not without help). felt pretty shallow.
Without the internet it would be rather difficult to coordinate anything with others since you can’t contact them. I assume phone and sms is included in this blockout since they run over the internet now and could be used to build the internet from scratch if excluded.
Despite my initial comment, I'm pro-hairdryer. If it works when nothing else does, then do it. I'm even pro-hairdryer in the sense that it could be used as a stop gap until the patient learns more effective ways to manage their OCD.

I think what bothers me about is that Scott doesn't mention that there are legitimate drawbacks to the solution in the story. It's a nice "thinking outside of the box" story but to use it as an excuse to be smug and very much "I'm better than the rest of these psychiatrists who don't actually want to help you" is distasteful.
> Perhaps they were providing asymmetric value to engineers, and at the end of the day the engineers are not the ones paying for the service

This is a very good insight. Unless candidates pay more than companies, the incentives are off.
The article was sparse on the details, does the Flux helmet not use OPM-based MEG? I agree that it is by far the most promising technology for neuroimaging, though I wasn't aware of anyone working on it aside from a couple of university labs in England.

We're never going to get the kind of fidelity we need for advanced diagnostics (much less mind reading) with fNIRS or fMRI. Bringing down the cost of MEG tech is the only realistic way forward.
he writes about solitude being different than loneliness. knowing the differences and recognizing are helpful tools in life, especially modern age.
Bad move on his part. No public apology ever makes a positive difference. It only draws attention to yourself. People’s thirst for social justice cannot be quenched.
I used to count stairs when I was younger too, and remember that most of them had between 16 and 18 steps for a floor.
Chouinard founded both Black Diamond (called Chouinard equipment at the time) and Patagonia. He sold the hardware business to the employees when he didn’t want to deal with the liability anymore, and they renamed it Black Diamond. He kept Patagonia which was a safer business and grew faster. Patagonia popularized polyester fleece and long underwear among climbers and skiers.

Tom Frost was a Stanford-trained engineer who worked with Chouinard to innovate on ice axes, crampons, pitons, and yes the Hexentric.

Royal Robbins was another big name in early Yosemite climbing and he started the eponymous outdoor clothing company.

The Lowe brothers were well-known climbers in 60s and 70s and invented the internal-frame backpack and the modern padded outdoor camera bags, with their companies Lowe Alpine and Lowepro.

Ray Jardine was an aerospace engineer who invented the spring loaded cam so he could protect the first 5.13 climb in Yosemite. He later invented a lot of the ultralight backpacking gear and techniques that are popular now (tennis shoes, tarps, quilts, etc) which he detailed in a guidebook to the Pacific Crest Trail.

Not all these folks were in on the smuggler plane of course but yeah there was a ton of invention and innovation that came out of early climbing.
Want to see the worst search anywhere on the web? Try this site for movies:

https://letterboxd.com

Here’s a search for “Parasite” with a one-letter misspelling:

https://letterboxd.com/search/Parisite/

The results are so comically bad for anything that isn’t an exact match that I think they are just random.

It’s such a great site. I don’t know how its search is so awful. Letterboxd users joke about its search awfulness. I think the developers must just be punking us. Really.
I’m so surprised at the vitriol in these comments. He spoke to others about the situation and apologized. What more can a person do?
There's the classic miles davis/nancy regan urban legend (which is almost certainly false):

"Well, I've changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"

But miles did reinvent musical genres several times.
hardware development as a service. atleast a virtualized micro-controller so that people can build tiny devices with sensors, peripherals etc like we build web apps on AWS. As a software engg. I'd like to get more hands on with processors/controllers and peripherals etc and this is by far the most frustrating part for me as I have no idea how to debug electronics or solder beyond basics.
I would absolutely love to work with someone on this, if they can provide a basis for this.
While I still slightly prefer the direct experience for other reasons, the recruiting agency experience was pretty good for me in its own way. More specifically, when it comes to salary negotiation. Let me elaborate.

People at the recruiting agency usually get paid a commission as a percentage of the first year of the hiree’s salary (not taken from your paycheck, but just in general). Which means, it is in their interest to get you as high of a comp as possible. Which also means that I dont have to bs around with the recruiter about my salary expectations or anything like that. I give them the upper range of what i want, they tell me either “sounds good” or “they are easily willing to pay more, so why not try $X instead” or “they cannot pay that much, but there is this other company that we work with that can offer you as much.”

And if you work with one recruiter consistently, it gets even easier, because now that the recruiter knows my total comp expectations, she pre-filters opportunities for me and only contacts me if there is a position she is aware of that pays at least as much as I want or more.

Of course there are downsides too, for example, the limited choice of companies that the recruiting agency is working with at any given time, so i still have to find some opportunities and interview with those companies on my own. But as a supplementary option, working with a good recruiting agency has been quite nice for me.

P.S. The type of a recruiting agency i am talking about is the one that is focused on a specific sector (in my case, fintech/quant), so it might be a completely different story for a “generic software dev” recruiting agency.
Because the apology is so shallow and glib and self-serving that it's literally worse than no apology.
Yeah, 12 hours means you can't even count on watching during business hours, you need to constantly be checking evenings and weekends too.
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It's missing the forest for the trees. The original complaint was about a pattern of abuse whereas this post addresses a single instance of abuse.

If someone hits you 100 times and issues you an apology for 1 of the times because somebody else saw him do it and thought it looked mean, does that absolve him of the other 99, which weren't mentioned in the apology?

Taking real responsibility for a pattern of abuse looks a lot different and will require some self-reflection and real steps toward justice.
So they are. We’re better able to localise sounds in the horizontal plane if you prefer, though because of the shape of our ears/pinnae and so on, we can also detect to some extent whether they are above or below/in front of or behind our heads (perhaps there is more accurate terminology for it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_plane )
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I'm not sure I would classify that as "talking plainly." Words like that would put anybody on the defensive, and being on the defensive does not make people receptive to positive change.
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I obviously can't see your code, but in my experience, working with Go daily for years, explicit channels are an extremely rare occurrence.

If you want to run multiple tasks and wait for them to finish, you use a WaitGroup. If you want to stop processing on first error encountered, you use an ErrGroup. And cancellation with contexts also works very well overall.

I actually think Go does it way better than all the "visible async/await" languages. Because usually when you write code, you just want to await the result, so in Go, awaiting is the default. In order to run a task without awaiting immediately, you use the 'go' keyword (at least that's the semantics of it all). It also omits the function coloring problem (this is a very big advantage), because all functions are async.

For my use cases channels are usually only useful in two situations:

1. Asychronous producers and consumers.

2. Creating an "actor" which receives messages on a channel/s and processes them in a serialized manner. Where the messages come from multiple event sources.

As an aside, I do understand why performance oriented languages like Rust choose the async/await path, as async by default carries a performance penalty / requires a runtime. I don't however accept it in non-performance oriented languages.
I never really understood why Apple included php, ruby, and python (and others?) on Macs. Mac was never advertised as a "batteries included dev environment" nor were any core applications relying on those languages (minus python, at least from what I understood). So why include it instead of asking the developer or engineers to bundle/install it?

I know Linux often relies on python and perl scripts, so it makes sense to include them in the base system. But there's no reason to include them in the base system if they're not used.
Except that he does not start with that — he starts with an unequivocal apology. As someone with no skin in the game and who doesn't know these people, it sounds like he's trying to explain why he didn't realize sooner that he was such a raging asshole to Matthew. (I understand that Mattias apparently has a history of this kind of behavior that this apology does not address.)
You really just compared the US Constitution to the Bible..

Really? Ignorance at this level is just something I have no response to. I take it then you have no respect for Individual rights, Individualism, or the founding principles of the US system of government?
This paragraph has addressed methods:

> Questions could and should be asked in regard to tools and apparatus used in such transition, for example repressions, violence and forced re-education. IF they were used.

English is not my first language, i was incredibly happy to learn it in my childhood, thanks to all the great old games (SeaLegends, SpaceQuest, Daggerfall, Fallout). Internet and technical literature motivated me to improve later. Though, i still very lacking.
If political change is impossible without major financial backing, you should be able to tell me which billionaires sponsored the de-stigmatization, normalization, and legalization of homosexuality in the United States over the past 30-50 years.
The computers cost 500U$S and their market value was less than 100U$S.

After one year, 60%+ of the computers were never turned on again.

They sucked, it was a rip-off.

Bonus: 60% of children fall below the poverty line in argentina. A great number of these do not have 2 meals a day.
There are very real cultural differences and taboos against questioning and pushing back against authority. What one culture may view as normal and expected process in improvement, another is horrified and ashamed to consider. Do not assume just because you've grown up or grown accustomed to it that it's 'normal' or practiced everywhere. This is perhaps one of the biggest frictions I see in teams that are full of folks from different cultures and backgrounds.
What I think a lot of people don't appreciate yet is that computationally decentralised systems can still have legal single points of failure.

Lots of chains have holding entities or foundations (nominally for governance, really to justify their premine or "reserves") and seem rather vulnerable, especially if they pay the core developers.

The CEO of that entity won't take your calls but they are absolutely exposed to the whims of the legal system in their founding jurisdiction.
So both just needed to talk to each other? No idea why they have to go through HN proxies.
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While I do agree with what you've said, I think they should be able to price these into a bill that they can send the app developers monthly. They have shown competency in running the pricing on AWS to such great margins and few people seem to complain about pricing.

Perhaps it is a combination of the sentiment that they are owed a percentage of your income and it being such a large number (20-30%) frustrates the developers.
From the fine reply's fine link:

> Of course, I did push back on Felleisen. But there was a limit to how hard I could push. Again—I was merely a guest. In the moment, I was strug­gling mostly to keep my emotions in check. I did assure him that his fears about my future perfor­mance were unfounded.
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Infact
Matthew was an invited guest speaker, he could not push back to such an extent without putting those arrangements at risk. This of course made it more important for Fellesein to moderate his behavior in that context; he should have been aware that this meant a potential source of feedback was missing.
Yes, yes, but what does the fox SAY?