skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the 21st century, when being white is now the morally contaminated category, non-Jews at Stanford forcibly classified Jews as white.

I don't know about the particular details of the Standford case, but this sentence is a real red flag for me. Is whiteness "morally contaminated" or are the differing/unjust experiences of non-white people just now being popularly recognized and elevated? To say that statement feels like a critical misunderstanding of the power dynamics of race.
> Our reinforced concrete structures will never last as long as, say, the Pyramids.
> Wood will last longer, again, with proper care.

I'm curious to understand why as this seems completely counter-intuitive to me (someone with no expertise in materials science or building things!). Can you elaborate?

What does the caveat of "with proper care" actually mean? Isolation from all the elements? Does routine maintenance count (replacing deteriorating materials? replacing fasteners? reinforcing?)?

A wood structure properly taken care of does not seem like it would last longer than a pyramid or a reinforced concrete structure, if each of those is taken proper care of. But this is a hunch, not data, and based on nothing remotely scientific. I'm fascinated by this kind of thing; I appreciate any tidbits you can share!
Netlify + Forestry.io
True, but jQuery does a lot more than just id selection with $!

You could just extend the function to detect '.' vs '#', and do a class selection as well. And then add all of the selectors, subselectors, etc. (similar to, but far more powerful than css3's selectors.) and if you go far enough, you reinvented zepto (but still a long way from jQuery)

(actually, since $ is basically synonymous with jQuery, it'd probably be better to choose a different function name. too bad you can't define it as #(id).)
‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
There's at least one high-profile performer that had to take a 5-year break because going on stage gave him anxiety attacks: Bo Burnham.

He does a good job describing the experience in this interview: https://youtu.be/GbS-7jUBJGY
Things indeed do not happen in a vacuum. Each situation is heavily influenced by the complicated and nuanced circumstances surrounding it.

Do you think a few hundred people in the central government should decide how to handle those situations, or the people most intimately familiar with the details?
I think systems theory can be directly traced to Bogdanov's "tektology", and he surely was aware of Hegel works.
The Great Windows 11 Computer Extinction Experiment
All I know is that it's never helped me.
Yo I had a similar idea for a project (makebuildy.com) that I discontinued a while ago, nice work and landing looks great!
I worked at one of these companies, as one of the scribblers, and it felt bizarre. Multiple people sitting in the meeting, furiously writing down every word spoken by the Great Senior Manager. It felt like I was one of those North Korean guys you see in those pictures, following Dear Leader around writing down all his words. The rationale we were all given was that it is very important to capture every word, because the execs remember what they said and asked for. If you forget to implement something that they mentioned very briefly or off-hand, they'll remember it and there will be trouble...
See this old thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21677853

...and no, I don't buy the "this ends up at servers we have no shared ownership with" someone wrote in the answers.

As I said in other answers here, there are the client binaries out there (and I have them archived). Try them, dump the traffic. Maybe the backend servers don't exist anymore but I'm sure you can work around that.
The current state of tech is pretty horrible. The web is a terrible platform for how it is being used today. There is little to no innovation happening anymore, and everything driven purely by advertisements and user-hostile practices to increase revenue over usability. It's very difficult to not be pessimistic about tech.
I think this will result in classic Jevons paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox . As the price of writing any individual function/feature goes down, the demand for software will go up exponentially. Think of how many smallish projects are just never started these days because "software engineers are too expensive".

I don't think software engineers will get much cheaper, they'll just do a lot more.
YES! I was terrified to do anything alone before my mid-life divorce, but now I realize that traveling alone is absolutely amazing. Seeing movies alone is fantastic.

Doing things alone is a radically different experience than doing them with other people, and I love both, for different reasons.
in DC Networks, 9k frames and pathmtu is very common. the issue however is that the MTU across the internet is 1500, and you cannot selectively use mtu's depending on routes, so you end up with 9k MTU at edge routers which need to split that into 1500 MTU packets.

this fragmentation is absolutely brutal to performance of edge routers.
I've heard this trope for decades, but the only time I've seen it manifest is when the 40+ people haven't learned anything in 20 years. Are there people in their 40s who've kept their skills up and still aren't getting hired?
How do we know the code is working and doesn't have any bug?
> But is _is_ an unknown future prize, and countless stories prove that. Pension funds go belly up, whole industries made obsolete, an accident/injury disrupts everything, etc.

This is only an "unknown future prize" if the defined goal is very specifically to have a successful pension fund, or to
thrive in a specific industry.

Using the example of what makes you, personally, feel the most fulfilled: children die prematurely (disrupts everything), or they have developmental challenges that make it difficult to do much else in life. None of that changes the fact that you're probably still better off devoting your life right now to rearing children.

You're absolutely correct that there's uncertainty in the future, but none of that refutes any of what I said in my comments, or PG wrote in his article. It's a "yes, and" addition, rather than a "no, but" refutation.

YES, there's significant entropy in life, AND given that, the most reliable way to do "great work" is still <dot dot dot> (as laid out in PG's blog post).

> I think your premise of “telling people how to live their life” falls more on the popular notion that investment early in career, rather than family or life experience, is more important. I believe this is wrong and it’s repeated more frequently than my counterpoint!

I argued no such thing. It clearly bears repeating that the more abstract notion is that investment in XYZ early in your life, rather than ABC is more important. XYZ and ABC can be the exact same thing, if your circumstances permit; there's no requirement that they be different things. If you find the most fulfillment and joy in life raising children resources notwithstanding, then you can certainly start doing that early in your life. If you think that raising children will only be more fulfilling if you have some baseline threshold of wealth, then you may have to defer that in favor of a career. Again, it all depends on how you, as an individual (or as a family), defines XYZ and ABC.

I have no problem with how people define XYZ and ABC. What I have a problem with is in telling people how they ought to define XYZ and ABC. Neither PG's post nor my comment did the latter.
Created this account to reply to this thread.

In my opinion, this article could be much better if it accounted for few additional perspectives.

1. There are people in this world who do better with consistency over volume. Dedicate 1 hour every day on your subject of interest. You are bound to get really good at it in few years. The challenging part is “1 hour every day.”

2. Work-centric life shouldn’t be celebrated to this extent. It just doesn’t do good at the end.
If you build your life around this assumption, you're going to be unpleasantly surprised when you see how easy it is to get a job in your 40's. I was hired by a FAANG at 43 with a high school diploma, quit and hired on again non-FAANG (at 45!) and have since nearly doubled my TC in that role over the past five years. In that time I've applied to three jobs just to keep fresh, two FAANG and one at a specialist company in my domain and got offers for two of the roles.

If you face obvious age discrimination, put them on blast and keep looking.
and there's already GPT-f [0], which is a GPT-based automated theorem prover for the Metamath language, which apparently submitted novel short proofs which were accepted into Metamath's archive.

I would very much like GPT-f for something like SMT, then it could actually make Dafny efficient to check (and probably avoid needing to help it out when it gets stuck!)

0. https://analyticsindiamag.com/what-is-gpt-f/
The QR code doesn't change the quality of the food. It's just a correlation that the restaurants that moved to a QR code ordering system tended to also be the ones that hired kids who didn't much care about cooking, and who just produced the same bland dish every time, regardless of who was ordering.

I do my best to eat plant-based most of the time, so I always appreciate when I can have a chat to the cook or server to see what is in the dish and if they can avoid garnishing with ground pork or whatever. To me that's the whole point of going to a restaurant, to have someone cook for you personally. If you're just going to get a production line meal, then you might as well order from a vending machine or get a meal to go from a convenience store. No judgment on those meals, they are fine too, but when I go to a restaurant I expect a bit more of a personalized service.
Very few people regret on their deathbed that they simply did not work hard enough. What they typically regret is not trying things and not spending time with family. Yes, trying things could mean work very hard, like starting a startup but it also often means not backpacking in Europe, not sailing around the world, not opening their own bakery, etc.
The weird thing at least for me in reading that is I very rarely worry or even think as abstractly as what I want from life.

My own take is that question comes very much from the living in the future side of things.
It is not pointless. These optimizations win games, which brings in more money. Professional baseball is a business like any other, so it should come as no surprise that it will be optimized like any other business.
Then I guess I'm just a loser.
Sorry jsnell, this won't happen again.
Cortex – an open source Lambda alternative
Would it work with remote files? Because Kite would not.
Well, the main reason is because I don't live in the same country as the company HQs. Most countries don't have labour laws adapted to remote working yet.

But since we're on the subject, I actually prefer working as a contractor on any occasion. I pay way less taxes, have control over my retirement money, and negotiate silly perks like gym/co-working memberships into a bigger salary. FTEs in my company make 25% less (net) and cost 30% more to the company.
I am excited about all that bricks which are abandoned by vendor devices, completely lost any functionality because of so-called intellectual property. I believe that they should not be thrown into the general trash, but into a special heap near the central government buildings. Also they might be a throwing weapons if the government wants to take these heaps out of here.
I read the support thread on WDs website and someone mentioned doing a hardware reset using a button.
Verifying code and reading it aren't the same thing. And yes, most developers don't verify their code as carefully as they should. But also, there are blind spots to verifying your own code because brains take shortcuts. At the same time, there are difficulties verifying other people's code because of different shortcuts brains take.

There was a simple function in java standard library which was wrong for years because of this phenomenon.

https://dev.to/matheusgomes062/a-bug-was-found-in-java-after...
Today's Ezra Klein podcast has an excellent interview with James Suzman who gives a historical perspective on why we work hard:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
I can't believe this, but I may have reached the point where I'd be willing to pay for search that isn't shit.
Sorry. Perhaps my wording was poor.

I meant that wood will last longer than reinforced concrete, even when you are properly caring for both.

Neither will outlast the Pyramids.

I'll reword my comment so that people understand it better.
> Voter registration - Don't register to vote if you aren't in a swing state

With all due respect: this is quite silly. There are many issues in American democracy besides the election of federal officials, and your vote is important. In my home state I voted on >15 ballot initiatives this year and several were decided by a few thousand votes, including kitchen table issues that meaningfully impact your life and immediate community in more tangible ways than our president or your senators.

I would much rather have a voice in e.g. how my community addresses homelessness than avoid the nuisance of cigarette coupons that have followed me across 7 addresses in 3 states.
>Are there people in their 40s who've kept their skills up and still aren't getting hired?

Those are my people and the answer, at least for my cohort, is an emphatic no. They are extremely mobile and move from job to job with relative ease.
I wonder if they are going to have a plugin for ATOM IDE?
without juniors, how do you get more seniors?
> OpenAI Codex was trained on publicly available source code (...)

It would be nice if github made this tool publicly available in a good spirit of open-source instead of straight up monetizing it.

I get that github is not a non-profit but still.
The example in the hero animation has a bug. The ${text} may not be correctly URL-encoded, which would make the body invalid. And because this sort of feature encourages people to blindly trust the machine and not think about what they're doing this error is much less likely to be caught.

Personally I think this whole class of feature only offers trivial short-term efficiency gains at the expense of long-term professional development and deeper understanding of your field.
But... they're still competing.

You don't think ballpoint pens and gel pens compete with each other?

Just because the consumer gets more choice doesn't mean they're not competing.
So where do these seniors come from?
There is no stranglehold. It's being manufactured for peanuts everywhere that is not USA.

That country suffers from no central negotiating body to drive down the price, and a manufacturer/insurer virtual cartel. In other countries, government either negotiated a good price, built or subsidized a quality factory.

The remaining people who have problems are in parts of global south for various reasons, some of which involve exploitation and others bad government or warfare, leading to lack of resources and experts.
>Insisting that everybody must learn the same way a bunch of well-off youth did in 1950 is grossly exclusionary and wasteful.

No one is saying "everyone must learn the same way". They are teaching a specific way, and are under no obligation to ensure that "your" unique needs are met.

I mean, you say yourself there's no single concept of how students learn. So maybe explain how you'd expect them to to do it?

There are all kinds of models out there. Udemy, Coursera, good old recorded lectures on YouTube. Find what works for you and use it.
The applicative-order Y-combinator that Mike derives at the end, λf.(λx.f λy.x x y)(λx.f λy.x x y), can be straightforwardly compiled into SKI-combinators, which don't have naming at all.

I agree that it's rarely justifiable to actually run a translated version of this code, but sometimes it gives you an easy proof of non-termination for some kind of formal system, which often gives you an easy proof of undecidability, which can save you a lot of time trying to figure out how to compute the uncomputable. Or it may persuade you that adding some feature to your design is a bad idea because it eliminates termination guarantees.
I happen to like that idea but as far as I know no company has tried it (yet)
Thanks for pointing this out.

While I fundamentally believe I experienced the phenomenon PG writes about, there's something to be said about the scale of it. Taking a sufficiently generous interpretation of his essay, an admirable goal for self-growth is not to work hard all the time but to develop the self-discipline to work hard when you intend to be working (with the restraint to not be working when you intend to not be working, and the internal clock to help you schedule the two at whatever the correct balance is for your life).

Perhaps as a life goal as I enter my 30s, I should endeavor to revisit my love for mathematics and computer science (as opposed my work-life-balanced but frankly boring current career path), using both the restraint and discipline I've learned, so to not make the mistakes I made in my early 20s.

After leaving the work-always atmosphere of CMU, I moved in with my then-girlfriend (now-wife) and committed to working exactly 8 hours every day to keep work from taking over again. Trying to cram all the ambition and passion for work I once had into 8 hours of junior dev work basically turned me into a soup of anxiety, inferiority, and resentment[0] for some time. I thought I was wasting my career, after trying so hard in college. It took years to reorient my priorities (and also to reach a position that was a bit less meaningless than tech support for Matlab).

I think nowadays I could do better. Maybe next time a hip startup emails me with a job opportunity, I'll give them a call ;) thanks

[0] Anxious to try and find ways to work harder and achieve more in a bland corporate environment where the build system was more of an obstacle than the actual project, inferiority compared to the success that some of my still-overworked friends were experiencing in silicon valley (with opportunities I didn't have in Boston), and even occasional resentment towards my girlfriend, for whom I had chosen to restrain myself to 8 hours of work a day, because I felt I could do such great things without that limitation.
Do we have any proof that the second dose is useful at all ?
What changes is you no longer have a customer service rep on the line, which is what you de facto have with a server at your table. I could ask them questions about all sorts of specific ingredients on the menu so I end up guessing nothing about what I am ordering. For online menus, sometimes you take a shot into the dark because you can't get any description on the item besides "89. - Orange chicken" or however it comes up on the online menu. Does it come with rice? How big is the portion? Who knows.
But if you made it a thing to daily post fake things so that the activity looks normal, can you eventually convice the social overlords you are someone else?

Relocate yourself to another city/state/country in your profile. Daily make posts about things occurring in that new location. Make those posts in sync with local time. Of course using a VPN endpoint that correlates.
It's hard to say for certain, but it sounds as if you may have been doing things that caused lots unnecessary re-renders. React has some pitfalls for beginners, but I've built highly complex frequently updating webapps without the degree of slowness you're speaking of.
> cement fiber siding like Hardibacker, Durock, or Wonderboard

Those are typically are used with masonry siding. Vinyl siding is usually put on OBS boards with a vapor barrier in between.
Funny as I was just reading "Britain will learn to live with Covid after restrictions end on July 19, say ministers" from the UK Times. Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bullish-sajid-javid-is-co...
I have about 3.3k downloads as of now. Mobile games need over 5 million downloads and many daily active users to make anything. 98% of the mobile developers don't make more than 500$ for their entire project. So, all work is just to stand out. My only way is with good gameplay. I will increase the "Buy" button size and may be add an animation to it suggesting you to click it. Thanks.
But PG isn't writing to that audience. The primary audience for many of his essays are people like him: guys who grew up geeky in upper middle class suburbs. There's nothing wrong with writing for the audience, but he does a kind-of bad job at signposting the fact that this is the target for his advice.

If that's his audience, perhaps a better essay would be, "Look you've got it pretty easy in life already, don't blow it (and even if you do, you'll probably have a second/third/fourth chance)", not: "listen to me about how to work hard because I know", because I haven't been convinced that he knows.

No need for navel grazing.
I worked hard, got a masters, basically doing everything "right". I'm 9 years in with maybe a +20% inflation adjusted salary.
Sure, but I would expect enough self reflection to indicate a logarithmic scale is being used.
I'm not sure if answers to those specific questions are there, but in general PBS Space Time deals with that kind of thing (and a lot more). Here's their YouTube channel [1] and here is their page at PBS.org [2]. It's also available via the PBS app on many streaming devices and smart TVs.

Most of their videos are in the 8-13 minute length, and they do a pretty good job at the start of each linking back to earlier episodes that cover prior material that the current video builds on, so if you see a video whose title/topic seems interesting it is fine to start their first.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

[2] https://www.pbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/
I think it's harder than you might assume for big businesses to move into new business areas, especially if it requires cannibalizing their existing revenue streams. That's a story we've seen over and over right?

Big businesses today tend to not innovate themselves and instead expand into new markets via acquisitions, but how many pot business owners do you think are interested in selling to those megacorps vs running their own show and continuing to make bank?
It's time for the naturally immune to be treated the same as those who've been vaccinated. There is absolutely zero scientific evidence to the contrary, and plenty of evidence to support it.
I'm sorry if I'm derailing the discussion here but "copilot" really is a much better phrase to use for assisting software than "autopilot". If more companies would choose phrases like these that accurately emphasize that the human is not being replaced but assisted (no names mentioned) I think it would benefit everyone in terms of clarity.

Sure, you might say "it's all marketing and if AP exists nobody would buy CP", but I don't think it's that simple. Customers understand when their expectations are being met, exceeded, or let down.
> because of a housing boom it is now worth $350k, you don't pay taxes on that $100,000 you "made"

Actually, in most states in the USA, you do. When your home's value increases, your property tax in nominal dollars increase.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/homeowners-are-facing-the-...
Hard work is just a prerequisite. Tons of people work just as hard as Gates/Musk but don't get the lucky breaks for whatever reason.

I would posit that luck is THE differentiator between these people, not hard work.