skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I scoff at the people criticizing the BLM protests and associated riots. We should have learned this lesson wrt the anti-war protests during the Bush years: when the person whose actions you need to change are absolutely intransigent, attempting to convince them directly is not an effective strategy, because they will not be convinced. Instead, the most immediate goal must be to liquify the set status quo; changes can be insisted upon more easily when the illusion of stability has been broken and there is less friction.

Marginalized people usually serve as a sink for the rage and violence of people who are in power but are still bitter because an imperfect world remains perfect. Usually, these marginalized people simply eat those injuries, protecting society's stability. With riots; with graphic images of police beatings and murders plastered on TV and the internet; with infrastructure shutdowns; with resumed talk of things like police reform, social justice, and reparations, these people instead conserve and then redirect that rage and violence back out to the larger society to deal with. It's understandable that many do not like this disturbance of their peace, but that's kind of the point. And BLM et al. are not manufacturing it out of whole cloth; it's simply the intolerable oppression of an imperfect society, visited upon people who are used to shuffling it off onto lessers.
I'm not sure why it would be any less binding than any other license term, except for possibly the ToS loophole that invokestatic points out below.
Not in the US. In germany, every HOA has something called "Instandhaltungsrücklage", basically a fund earmarked for repairs and maintenance that gets filled by monthly payments separate from the the rest of the fees. The exact payment depends on the age of the building and gets adjusted over time. I pay 1EUR/month/sqm into such a fund. Over 40 years, that would cover at least half of the sum you mentioned. In this case, costs nearly doubled because required maintenance work was pushed off, so that would have worked out just fine.
The article inadvertently shows what robots should be doing, which is helping them physically. For the very elderly, simple everyday things like stairs, carrying things, reaching for things, etc become either impossible or very risky.

I know we don't have this today, but improved battery tech, better control systems (ie magnifying small movements) or neural implants etc may allow us to tackle this in the future. What many elderly need is a sort of prosthetic mecha suit that lets them do everyday things we take for granted. Throw in a self a self driving car and a simple thing like visiting your family an hour away and cooking them a meal suddenly becomes possible.
Country helps!
Goldman seems to be running networking software from 2008
Does this synergistic agilization improve our ability to telepathically write code? This would save so much money on keyboards.
They need to defend their capitals from the rest 99.99%. Expect huge combat robots investments and expanding of private armies.

And, of course, total surveillance helps to prevent any kind of unionization of those 99.99%.
It's the wet bulb thermometer reading (temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth over which air is passed). At 35°C it is considered lethal for humans after a couple of hours.

> Wet bulb thermometer readings are significantly lower than the more familiar dry bulb readings, which do not take humidity into account. Researchers say that at a wet bulb reading of 35C, the body can no longer cool itself by sweating and such a temperature can be fatal in a few hours, even to the fittest people.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people...
One of the things I noticed with global warming (still prefer this term) is that local extremes that are supposed to be super rare are not so rare anymore.

Back home, a freak storm + strong wind damaged large parts of the forest around highest mountains around. Pine trees literally broken some 5-10 meters above ground in a wide area.

It was supposed to be once-in-a-century event. Few years after that another one came. And then another.

I think of global warming more like general equilibrium being broken by heating things up. Overall higher temperature with local changes in every direction (even cooling), and more frequent extremes.
> The 0,01 will be super rich.

By definition, that has always been true.

We have been in the endgame for a very long time.
It is very similar to the current situation, but intensified. Technology tends to be an intensifier for existing power structures.
Sure. I do since school. But who else? I count you in.
But are there more? Are there more enough?
A lot of people including mr Putin are vaccinated with Sputnik. Being vaccinated (for any vaccine) is a must for most kind of workers in Moscow, so millions of Russian people is vaccinated by Russian vaccine. For me it is super strange that Russia and EU can not agree the status of vaccine which is really common in Russia, maybe medical scientists in different countries have different criteria which also makes me to feel uncertain.
Civilisation was born in the Indus Valley and now it is starting to die there.
As shown in this article, we're seeing heatwaves in the 120F range now, with "only" 1C increase in warming. While I can't find any specific estimates in the IPCC reports (section 2.2 in the full report seems the most relevant section), the report frequently mentions more extreme heatwaves. It doesn't seem radical to me as an uneducated observer to extrapolate that out to 150F with another 2-3C increase, especially in the context of a casual conversation like we're having here.
Haha good point.
I learned to do it so it’s easier for people to read instead of a wall of text.

People usually get bored with a wall of text.

My sentences are longer on desktop - but I was writing on mobile now.
I do hope that there are no open vulnerabilities.
You mention accurate description reducing the candidate pool, which I can agree with when it gets long.

Another big issue is the lack of precision in the description. When can you claim you know or are an expert in tech X? And then do that for 10 out of the 10 listed competencies/technologies? Who determines if I'm highly motivated? The specs they list are simply not realistic and ask for everything and the kitchen sink. Candidates have seen through this BS and just apply to anything that might possibly fit them. This means that companies get a ton of underqualified candidates. If they were just real and cut the BS, that could make the whole process more efficient. Dont even get me started in "5 years experience" in a tech that's only been out for 3 years or less.

Reading job posts is probably something I hate even more interviews. At least in interviews you can have a conversation and get some questions answered.
Also record breaking cold in South America right now:

https://electroverse.net/record-breaking-cold-and-snow-sweep...

This sort of thing happens with lower solar activity.
> How would you address an intersex person? Their physical characteristics might have been decided by a doctor shortly after birth without any input from themselves. Their chromosomes might be ambiguous or just don’t match their physical characteristics. Like Hanne Gaby Odiele having an XY chromosome, looking (to me) physically female and preferring the they/them pronoun.

My default is to use appearance in the absence of other factors; I understand there are cases in which this is challenging at best.

Even so, I'm still not quite sure how this addresses my question about how using biological pronouns instead of preferred pronouns somehow "ignores the existence of the intersex" as you earlier asserted. (Indeed, it seems as though the question of pronouns actually rather highlights the existence of the person, if in an uncomfortable and potentially discriminatory way.)
If you can read open source code, learn from it, and write your own code, why can't a computer?
I don't see how this topic is challenging or complex. The building had a catastrophic structural failure.

Having expertise in software tends to associate with analyzing skills. Just because we can analyze things doesn't compensate for being completely ignorant of structural engineering or other unrelated topics.

You know how you can read an article in a newspaper about software and find a bunch of incorrect or misunderstood concepts that lead you to believe the reporter is misinformed or doesn't know what they're talking about? That's because you have deep knowledge of that topic. Then you turn the page/click on another article about a building collapse and feel empathy that its a problem that could be solved. Just because we have problem solving skills and can analyze things doesn't mean that transfers to other disciplines.

If I want ignorant commentary on news I can go nearly anywhere online and find it. I'd rather have HN on focused topics than popular news topics discussed by hackers. I'm just pointing out the question of: where does the line get drawn?

If there was a Marketing News site, would a building collapse be something discussed? I imagine a venn diagram of Marketing and Software has overlap (e.g. SEO, search engines, etc.), whereas Structural Engineering and Software probably does not.
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I agree. We already lost that fight.
There was a story about a guy who had a self published book. He was the only person printing / selling his book.

Until someone showed up on amazon and sold it too, they just copied it and printed it themselves.

The copied book is identical, cover and all, images in the Amazon listing too ... Amazon chose to do nothing.
That would probably be because It's just a superficial issue for people with too much time and money on their hands to enforce their ways upon others.
Nothing triggers me like someone starting a post with "Gonna say something that might trigger you."
Glad to hear distros are shipping gnome extensions, situation is not quite as ridiculous as it sounded from reading that
If you already know how to write it, why haven't you automated it? One could say, the worst developers are the best in estimating their tasks, because they repeat everything they do all the time. ;)
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> I mean I watched people in Canada in the news this morning and thought, why are they still outside in the sun even?

"Mad Dogs And Englishmen" by Noël Coward (1932)

In tropical climes there are certain times of day
When all the citizens retire
To take their clothes off and perspire
It's one of those rules the greatest fools obey
Because the sun is far too sultry
And one must avoid its ultry-violet ray

The natives grieve when the white men leave their huts
Because they're obviously, definitely nuts!

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnJM3zWfUo

https://genius.com/Noel-coward-mad-dogs-and-englishmen-lyric...
I expect them to check /LICENSE file and if it deviates from standard open source license, they'll skip that repository.
Back then that was not the business model. Were they one of the top tech companies today, don't you think that they would be doing the same?
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If I jogged for ten minutes in 35c my shirt would be wetter than it was when I pulled it out of the sink.

No sweat when facing >35 degrees inside.
Why in the world would you have to deal with >35c inside? Do you do construction? Frequent power failures?
Well that's why we have subsidies on electric car though. In canada it's almost a 10k$ discount so it does give all carmakers an incentive to fill that niche because the increased cost of an electric vehicule is partially covered by the gov.
500-year floods happening twice in a lifespan, or the same with 100-year storms or heat waves doesn't actually prove or disprove anthropocentric climate change either.

It's entirely plausible that it's related, but the fact that these things are happening more often in a 5 or 10 year period is not sufficient evidence alone.

Your comment reads like a hammer looking for a nail, like freak weather is obviously a natural consequence of rising global temperatures. I'm not sure that it is.

You should probably examine your assumptions a little bit more closely, and look for a testable link rather than a confirmation of an existing belief.
I completely agree with this essay.

I wrote more on the problems with estimations, and some solutions, here: https://camhashemi.com/posts/accurate-estimations/
You need to be a licensed plumber to touch anything that connects to the public water supply. While there is nothing hard about plumbing, doing something stupid could poison the whole town and so towns are paranoid.

For everything else, you can do all the work yourself if you have time. I've done framing as a job so I have the experience to build a wall about as fast as any professional crew. I do my own electrical work but it takes me much longer than a real electrician (it passes intersection, though I'm more likely to need to fix something and get a second inspection). I can plan and schedule all the contractors for anything I don't want to do myself, but my inexperience means I would need to pad the schedule a lot more than a general contractor (and the fact that I'm not a regular customer means I'm not top of their list to get my job done)

Each city and sometimes inspectors have their own codes. Sometimes they are good things (going beyond the basic codes), sometimes the inspector is just making things to enforce even though there is no engineering reason for that.

There is no reason you can't build your own house (except plumbing). However it will take a lot of effort. Professionals are up on all the codes and the latest tricks and so will be a lot faster.
>It is considered a potential solution to the strain on existing transport infrastructures.

I'm pretty sure the solution to traffic is not more cars.

Getting a pilot's license costs some $20,000. Fuel costs for small aircraft are sky-high and this thing looks particularly unaerodynamic. Obviously the maintenance costs will be high, since you will be maintaining both a car and an aeroplane. Even if the thing were free most people couldn't afford it.

This will be somewhere between a toy and a business jet. Even assuming it winds up being practical for rich people to use for short jaunts, it will change absolutely nothing for the majority.

I don't want to sound like I'm dismissing this plane. Every pilot knows about the "hundred-dollar hamburger" and flies anyway.
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More like people who can't. Working with sensitive documents sometimes requires physical engineering considerations (ie: viewing rooms). Not something that can be replicated in an employee's home. Contrary to what software devs like myself like to think, not every job can be done remotely!
One thing that really bugs me about modern web browsers is that they require modern hardware, due to the absurd amount of APIs they have to implement, which makes them more difficult to build. This is also an issue for mobile.

The modern hardware also masks the performance issues of the typical mountain of Javascript webapp. The fact that most webapps require an "evergreen" browser just makes this worse.

I'd like to see a scaled back browser, perhaps implementing the 90-95% use-case of apis actually in popular use.
"In some decades, nothing happens. In some weeks, decades happen."
First in was lands, then other means of productions, and for the past 150 years, capitalists have turned many types of intellectual creations into exclusively owned capital (art, inventions). Now some want to turn personal data into capital (the “right to monetize” personal data advertised by some is nothing else) and this aims to turn publicly available code into capital. This is simply the history of capitalism going on: the appropriation of the commons.
Accurate Estimations (2020)
> Do people actually think the listed requirements are really requirements when applying for a job?

I’m part of a mentoring group for college grads and junior engineers. It’s common for software engineers to assume that there is a clueless (and/or evil) HR person reading these resumes and executing the requirements listing like computer code. if(education.level < MASTERS) then return E_UNQUALIFIED. Even if John Carmack is applying.

A lot of them get advice from the internet or their parents that tends to be overly cynical and often dated. When we review resumes we often have to remove Microsoft Word and Excel from the qualifications section of programmer resumes because they heard from the internet or a parent that they’ll be rejected by automated HR software without those keyword. I still see people trying to keyword stuff their resumes with 6pt white text at the bottom (don’t do this)

In practice, hiring is hard and successful companies understand that they can’t afford to filter out qualified candidates over arbitrary low-signal missing requirements. I hope nobody really believes that Facebook HR people would reject John Carmack’s resume because it didn’t have a Master’s degree. That’s what Carmack himself is trying to explain. It should also be obvious that Carmack is the definition of an outlier in this scenario.
I didn't buy a thing from Amazon since 2005/6 and I am still alive. Doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but matters to me.
Who knew that saunas are actually death chambers...
Is there no oversight at all? Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west and it makes me sick to think the once beloved marketplace is now just scamville.

This. Most of the time now when I buy from Amazon it feels like buying from a garage sale / flea market. Some examples from my purchases -- 4 pack of AA Eneloops arrived as 2 AAs and 2 AAAs; 2 identical office chairs arrived as 2 different models; Simple Human trash can arrived with 3 softball sized dents in different places; Spigen phone case arrived with some sort of tiny worms/maggots inside a corner of the packaging; Clorox antibacterial wipes arrived in generic packaging containing dry wipes. Porter Yoshida backpack arrived as a similar looking Herschel backpack in the same color.

I remember buying from Amazon and getting solid products really really fast; not sure where that's gone. I do use Amazon for the free Whole Foods delivery and that's been OK, though there's very lax usage of temperature-safe packaging for dairy and meat products.
Europe is very dependent on the gulf stream blowing moderate-temperature air from over the sea, which reduces the extremity of winters and summers we see. The further inland, the worse it gets; hence the notorious Russian winter.
The word you're looking for is manatees: large aquatic mammals, mostly herbivorous.
> Which makes it problematic when we make HR people do the initial screening

Here's your mistake. Don't involve HR except to sign paperwork.
I think more specifically, the relevant bit is here: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

> We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

But, it goes on to say:

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program.

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems ambiguous to me if this ToS is sufficient to cover CoPilot's butt in corner cases; I bet at least one lawyer is going to make some money trying to answer the question.
Well...FANG products have largely reached the point in development where new features are incremental and not closely tied to growth or churn in a meaningful way.

Not being dismissive, simply pointing out...what fundamental leverage does a developer have against inelastic customer demand? Are customer going to stop using FANG products because advertising feature 3.2.97 isn't added this quarter?
>I've often thought the crappy conspiracy theories with coarse and cartoonish explanations get actively promoted to discourage, discredit and isolate people who reason about real incentives and realpolitik.

yes, this has been my experience. as you said, it's an effective tactic to defuse genuine threats to the narrative as being "unreasonable" or "not serious".

i have a hunch that learning to refrain from criticism of insiders is actually the biggest "lesson" taught at the universities and organizations that are traditional centers of elite power. it's part of the pedigree.
I thought the following comment from the Twitter thread was kinda funny:

> "So basically they’ve already given it to Michael Abrash but HR said they have to look open minded."
They're confusing it with a 35 C wet bulb temperature. 35 C dry bulb temperature would only equal 35 C wet bulb temperature at 100% RH.

You can convert with a psychrometric chart [1] or with a calculator [2]. At sea level, 35 C dry bulb, 80% humidity is about 32 C wet bulb. Dangerously hot, yes, but it won't kill you in 15 minutes.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Psychrom...

[2] https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb
There are ways to control estimates - just have good controls on time, scope and cost and make sure every stakeholder is aware of and accountable for the impact of their actions in changing expectations.

Someone (sales team, developer or anyone else) wants to radically change the scope half way through? They have to cut the scope or adjust the schedule to compensate. Software is infinitely malleable so it's tempting to just accept any change that comes along, but with unmanaged changes and complexity come missed schedules and blown deadlines - it's all very predictable and avoidable and usually caused by a dysfunctional organisation without proper communication or accountability.

This is not rocket science and while there are no secrets or perfect estimates there are certainly ways to break down most work until estimation is trivial. Sure there are exceptions (research, v. difficult new problems) but for the majority of business/consumer software I've encountered, a proper schedule is possible and software can be delivered on time and on budget, as long as the scope is properly controlled, the work is properly subdivided early on and someone is managing the entire process and keeping communication open with stakeholders so that when things change/go wrong the appropriate action is taken and everyone is aware of why.
There is no way for labor rights to get better without workers uniting and striking. Otherwise they have no leverage.
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> I mean I watched people in Canada in the news this morning and thought, why are they still outside in the sun even?

Dunno about being in the sun, but if you don’t have AC and the house is at ambient temp you might as well be outside (normally in the shade) as you’ll at least get some air.
There used to be a time when “college dropout” was no big deal in the tech world so long as you could build things (see e.g., Facebook founder & Oculus co-founder) so to see a Masters degree listed as a “minimum requirement” really bums me out.
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