skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The linked article is an example of the market self-regulating.

Unemployed workers starving to death with their families due to lack of income would also be an example of the market self-regulating.

The market self-regulates, but it often self-regulates to optimize the wrong thing. The people who celebrate that self-regulation usually leave that qualification out, or just deny it completely.
Yes, women would hate working at a big company with a great salary, great family leave benefits, flexibility to work from home, and flexibility on when to start their day. They'd much rather work in female dominated professions like teaching, retail, and hospitality where there is no flexibility to work from home, no flexibility on when to start their day, lower salaries, and fewer family leave benefits. sarcasm
probably not. IBM haven't been that much relevant in tech for years. they pivot to the cut throat consulting services while kind of abandoned what IBM used to be. a tech leader.

Microsoft was like IBM after Bill Gates. Not a tech leader for many years until Microsoft pivot to Cloud computing and software as services.
Maybe it’s time to pursue that extra degree and borrow the money regardless of need if you already have borrowed the 50/100k limit … free money. I’m sure that the schools will love raking in the cash and raising tuitions due to the increased demand.
I referenced the 11000 nuclear warheads of US and Russia
Blackbird (Land Yacht)
This seems highly counterproductive. I only work remotely, and I will not bother to apply to positions that are not explicitly remote-centric.
That's really the problem here. Instead of just the content that I specifically signed up for, I constantly get pushed for things I don't.
I wish Assange escaped to Russia and continued his venture.
Based on my layman’s knowledge, it does seem that fossil fuel energy companies have been bad-faith actors. Or, at the very least, reacted predictably to poorly aligned incentives.

It reminds me of a Matt Damon quote from Syriana [1].

To a certain extent, that’s all of us. We are squandering one of the greatest resources to accelerate technology because it’s been so relatively easy to pull energy from the earth that we’ve been lulled into complacency.

I sometimes wonder if our level of technological advancement would even be possible without fossil fuels. If not, and we don’t actively invest in means away from it, I also wonder if that advancement is just a flash-in-the-pan on the geological time scale.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQKhvweL2A
> 'another arrogant software dev lectures someone on topic X'

Not GP. But this is explicitly a software thread.

> >>frameworks and libraries all work, incapable of tracking down and fixing bugs in your application stack...

Pretty sure they are implying that C/C++ lies somewhere in most software stacks.
Apparently Carmack was not the original author, the origin I believe is SGI somewhere in the deep dark 90s.
Which SSD would you say is your favorite?
Small businesses being forced to decide between shutting down and operating unsafely with some minimal hope of profitability is indeed a perfect and inspiring example of how "markets self-regulate."
> The strings do take up space, and I was told that the resources.arsc file where they reside isn't compressed in an apk because that would result in Android having trouble reading it, but its size is still usually negligible compared to the rest of the apk.

If you've localized to lots of languages, it starts getting big. I may be misremembering, but I think it was about 8 MB of the 30ish MB apk at my last job (before some heroic work to move most of the strings outside the android framework)
In this case it self regulated because the market rate for drivers was too high.

The drivers are evidently employed in some way that makes their market rate that high.
Vote with dollars goes both ways, I too vote with my dollar by buying from Amazon.
13th warrior?
It's a reporting issue according to this article and has been fixed in MacOS 11.4
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1...
In every acquisition the Acquirer imposes on the Acquiree.....

In this case, I'd bet that it's Arvind Krishna pulling people out of IBM Cloud (his old division) to run the rest of "big blue"

And yes, IBM will basically bleed talent from Red Hat for the next 3 years until RHEL is a pale shadow of its former self.
It seems that most people in this thread who use the term cultural marxism don't quite mean critical theory. Instead it seems to be about seeing (and advocating for) a dialectic between the oppressors and the oppressed. The idea is that this division maps somewhat to 'cultural' groups. The main 'cultural' division they mention is race. I would assume they also include LGBT+ and occasionally jews as part of the opressed group.

A main part of the concept behind this is that this dialectic is wrong. And hence people supporting it are doing so for other goals. Apparently this goal is "communism". That is, the goal is overthrowing the oppressed. It seems like the idea is that some of the people supporting this dialectic do so without questioning whether it is true. Hence, the argument goes, the supporters of this idea are either maliciously pushing a false agenda, or they are convinced by the false agenda and are well-meaning fools.

I also get the feeling there is an undertone of trying to understand why white / straight / gentile people are actually supporting the progressive side of identity politics.

Personally, I think most of this is plainly wrong. Though it seems like an interesting lens through which to look at the most extreme people at the progressive spectrum of identity politics.
planet earth is blue and there's nothing i can do...
I know of blind programmers but don't know any personally. But I was actually talking about the reverse: dictation. I'm losing use of my arms, and even ergonomic keyboards aren't cutting it. Rehab set me up with a copy of Dragon so I can dictate, but even Microsoft Teams isn't really accessible with it, much less Visual Studio or any kind of terminal. I can see the code just fine, I just can't dictate it.
> bear
Open source alternative to Clubhouse: Jam
1. This video is old (April); Apple released a "fix" in macOS 11.4 in June. The author made a followup video showing that excessive writing still happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHgdqU-1ws

2. This video guesses what NAND Apple is using instead of opening the case and looking. They also make assumptions about the endurance given that Apple doesn't specify it.

3. Total speculation: Heavy swapping combined with 16 KB pages is very bad?
Active vs passive voice in media is a way of avoiding responsibility. It shifts the subject from those who transgressed to the instrument of transgression, or to the person wronged.

What it should read is "Natalie, Facebook may have exposed you to harmful extremist content". Instead the passive voice subverts Facebook's role in deciding which content is served. It's like the content just magically shows up. A lot like how bullets or rockets also magically show up on their own in other stories.
Originally announced in Feb (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-a...) with exact date announced in May (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/jeff-bezos-to-formally-step-...)
He was actually let go months ago, but never received the e-mail /s
> leadership style being around a lot of smart engineers [...] building inclusive company culture in tech.

Red Hat was certainly an open company. I don't know if "inclusive" is the right word though. "Inclusive" has strong connotations now of people being welcoming, especially of those that are different.

This is largely anecdotal, but my interactions with Red Hat and external observations can better be summed up as "build a good-old-boys club of mostly white males who are regularly assholes" than "build an inclusive culture". I know those words are harsh, but the experiences I've had and have heard of are negative enough to warrant those words.

From my perspective, Red Hat seems to have created a culture of hiring smart engineers and then giving them leeway to be assholes under the guise of "open communication" and "meritocracy".

Honestly, memo list feels like a microcosm of this entire thing. It's a place where there originally were no guardrails under the guise of "free speech" and "openness", and it quickly devolved into a hostile place that made people feel anything but included.
I think those are social justice warrior points blind to the actual tasks and responsibilities of an officer. It’s a list of all the things they should not be allowed to do.

Enforcers of policy in any field have some commonalities. One of them is I will check on another but I won’t like someone checking on me. Unless they are just like me ie responsible for doing checks.

There is an understandable amount of leeway put into these things. Inspectors try not to be total jerks. And try not to push rules to extremes. And when they do, they do it with a camaraderie, like if you improve on the following I will let go everything else. Similar to police officers.

But the average joe who is not versed in such things like young unseasoned citizens have stranger expectations.
Founder could add "officer" to his titles. Much like USA school admins inflate their egos ... Chief Learning Officer.

As far as the service goes, grow and grow fast.
> if the law too often leads to unjust results, it will be changed

The track record for that is unimpressive at best

> Especially if the unjust result is experienced by people with power and influence (and not just the poor and marginalized).

The track record for things working out that way is really, really bad
These are last-mile delivery workers. The Information had an excellent article a few weeks back about how dire the conditions are of their long-distance drivers who carry parcels between the warehouses. They have a much higher rate of accidents due to this, with innocent lives mangled and Amazon shielding itself behind the contractor status to dodge liability.

(paywalled) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-deadly-toll-of-a...

It is legally possible for judges to "pierce the veil" of limited liability in the case of severe malfeasance and I'd argue this is clearly the case, but our corporate-friendly judges see it otherwise.
I don't think this is necessarily true. The headline phrasing and your phrasing both have ability to shift perception. Percentage based phrasing like yours isn't apolitical or free of rhetoric it's just a different framing
Speaking personally, it's not worth the hastle to save a little bit of money per year. I'll stick with Fastmail as it never gets in the way and always works.
Canada also has SimpleTax which is enough for the majority of young and poor Canadians filing taxes and is completely free (donation-based). Literally took me 30-45 minutes and I did most of it on my phone. I'm not sure if it's enough for people with homes/children/foreign income, but I do know you can make it work.

I was a bit sad that they were bought out by Wealthsimple, but Wealthsimple has been a largely ethical and transparent company with all the services they provide, be it their investing platform during the GME debacle or their SimpleTax buyout. Hopefully it stays that way.
If you followed around the people responsible and posted everything they did, everywhere they went, and posted pictures of them it is called “stalking”. If you do it for everyone it would be called a “unicorn”.
If you have a problem with people discriminating on place of origin, telling them not to ask where somebody is from is not the answer.
Off-topic question: what’s up with this long-form two-sentence headline trend? I feel as though a decade ago this headline would be something like “COVID-19 deaths among vaccinated infrequent, still troubling”. It seems like headlines nowadays take the form of “Reported news presented as incontrovertible fact. Editorialized punchline and how you should feel about it.”

For some reason that I can’t put my finger on this style of writing viscerally frustrates me (regardless of my feelings on the topic at hand - from what I see of this article, for instance, it’s an innocuous, straightforward account of vaccine efficacy). Am I the only one?
What "crisis?"
For the past 20 years a politican where i live encouraged people to do recharge ground water with rainwater and now he is out of power.

I strongly belive that change has to come from people.

Reduce your consumtion of everything. Become minimalist and encourage others to be.

Just imagine what western life style for everyone is gonna do to the planet
babybal2 is another user, it's just that this video is a rather effective piece of propaganda.
I've had this idea as well. There are plenty of run-down rural communities that are deteriorating just because people move out and don't want to upkeep the town. Housing is cheap there and businesses need people to grow in these communities. It would also be helpful if we had more manufacturing and low education jobs in the US instead of using other countries cheap labor. That would incentivize people to move to these areas because there would be stable work for them.
The act uses defines the word "initiate" and the SMTP only allows "asking if an address exists" via initiating a send (and then dropping the connection before a message is sent).
You're not wrong, but the very idea that it will regurgitate copyrighted code at all (and especially at this length, word for word), means that it will be totally unacceptable for many places. In fact, it is arguably not acceptable to use anywhere if you care deeply about copyright.
separating people into groups based on race and treating them differently is literally the opposite to treating everyone as equal

By “affirmative action” Google perpetuates racism
Do I believe that I'm Apple's target market? No. Do I believe they care about me as an individual? No, not really.

However...

I'm not seeing how your comment is relevant to my statement that I don't want to use Apple's browser in its current state, when I can easily use many other browsers in what you've described as their "walled prison", and I do use them.

Whilst the situation may change for the worse in the future (resulting in a true walled garden), I can currently install anything I like on macos - you don't have to use the app store. This isn't iOS.

I don't feel abused by Apple at all. Conversely, I have been relentlessly abused by Microsoft in the past, however; (no choice in some old jobs)... and recent news stories concerning Windows 11 suggest that they're still at it. My experience suggests that things really aren't as bad as you're implying.
What crisis?
I don't think you should be directly comparing UPS and Amazon drivers in this instance.

Amazon can pick and choose where they have contractors make deliveries (e.g. non rural areas with higher population densities). UPS serves almost everywhere. Additionally, we don't know what hours UPS drivers work in comparison to Amazon drivers.
It takes what should be your method of last resort - copypaste - and makes it the first thing you try.

All the steps in between - looking at the docstring for the function you're calling, googling for more general information, looking at and deciding not to use not-applicable or poorly-written SO answers - get pushed aside. So instead of you having to convince yourself "yes, it's safe to copy-paste these lines from SO, they actually fit my problem" you're presented with magic and I think the burden for rejecting it is going to be higher once it's in your editor than when you're just reading it on a SO post or Github snippet.

Even for a newcomer looking to learn, working on simple stuff that it has great completions for, it seems like it will sabotage your long-term growth, since it takes all the why and the reasoning out of it. Autocomplete for a function name isn't that relevant to gaining a deeper understanding. Knowing why a certain block of code is passed in in a certain style, or needs to be written at all? Probably that is.
I've never read a first paragraph more fully undermined by the rank speculation of your second paragraph.

I'm imagining a teacher giving eloquent explanation of discrete Fourier transform to students, then going on claim that the whole purpose is compute horoscopes for cats.
I do analyses like these for companies sometimes. They almost always get it wrong. I'm surprised Google's report doesn't seem to do it correctly either.

The issue is rarely that people of a specific race are leaving faster than other races. The issue is almost always that turnover is high in lower level roles and that's where the bulk of your black / latinx population sits. You CANNOT look at overall attrition rates for a company. You must segment it by level unless your levels have equal mixes of races, and they never do. I'd bet heavily that low level attrition is just higher than usual. You can see it in their charts that attrition has increased across the board. It just fails to notice that attrition is going to be among low level employees and low level employees are more likely to be black.

In order to not have black employees leaving at higher rates than white employees overall, while black employees occupy lower level roles, you would need black employees to leave at significantly lower rates than their white colleagues, normalized to level.

edit: and I'll also note, for a growing company the more important number is hiring. They're at 8.8% black/latinx each up from ~6% each last year. That's very good. The overall representation has improved by ~0.6% since 2020. That's also very good. Headline is misleading. Google's making strong progress on its diversity goals.
I expect IBM will be an Irish or similar company soon.
It’s become more expensive to audit records not less.

The IRS computerized collecting payroll information decades ago, so any recent reductions have simply been politically motivated.
> while male programmers have had nothing but encouragement

I really hate this stereotype as growing up in 80s "liking computers" was this thing only "nerds" liked in my area. Getting called a nerd was not at all positive and a derogatory slur. I loved computers at my own (social) peril.
It feels like an "emperor has no clothes" situation. I'm sure that even the people at Reuters find the terminology stupid, but they're afraid of what others might think of them if they say so or if they don't use it.
Is it possible to store the code in git or fossil or any vcs? Is there room for code review before deploying? I'm all for whatever editor people find useful, and for easier deployment, but at a glance this feels very similar to editing your cgi directly on the server.

Maybe all the devs that shot themselves in the foot editing php over sftp are getting old, and it's time for a new generation to learn that fear?
We're not "happy" customers, we see issues with Amazon and AWS, but we wouldn't be competitive from a price standpoint if we rolled out own infra, or hired people to do it.
Implement a flat tax. That would make it easier to collect taxes (and I'm not even saying whether taxation levels should be higher or lower than now. Just pick a rate and get rid of the exemptions). Sadly it would result in less people employed as tax collectors, so tax collectors won't advocate that.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Agree with Mence, not the author. He comes over as arrogant. For example countering one of the stats Mence cited (Cows needing 20 times more farmland, which is true) with an argument that isn't necessarily relevant to the discussion. Mences argument is to massively reduce the amount of farmland, not make use of farmland that couldn't otherwise be used for growing crops!
I think this needs clarified, are you be referring to the communist party or United Russia. The communist party has practical no influence outside of Russia and like most opposition parties, little internally either. United Russia is absolutely not Communist, statist yes, communist no.
What Robinhood's IPO filing says about the Reddit army
Early editions of Google Apps for Business (aka G Suite aka Google Workspace) included a free version which included support for custom domains and catch-all email. Those accounts got grandfathered (i.e. stayed free) when Google discontinued them. The cheapest plan seems to be $72/year per user.

https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
Just today I needed to quickly load a file into a string in golang. I haven't done that in a while, so I had to go look up what package and function to use for that. I'd love a tool that would immediately suggest a line saying `ioutil.ReadFile()` after defining the function. I would never accept a full-function suggestion from Copilot, similarily to how I never copy and paste code verbatim from StackOverflow. Using it as hints for what you might want to use next seems like a nice productivity boost.
The law defines the word "initiate".
If you are non-white or female, and can fog a mirror business wise, can't keep the money, or power, or press off of you. On the other side, it's really fun to be berated and pushed away your entire life, only to see leadership fawn over mobs who just looted and burnt down their business. I used to think leadership was blind or naive. It really is cut throat. If siccing a blood thirsty mob boosts earnings, well then, black lives do matter.

Those wounded warrior commercials, how many women or minorities do you see blown to bits or burnt alive or brain damaged? It's not 54% women or 40% non-white. Climb the ladder high enough, you see everything wounds. Claiming oppression is a convenient luxury to squat on the lower rungs and make failure palatable. Means as much as a carnival freak show. You're still going to get it bad.
Yellowstone’s most famous geyser could shut down, with ramifications
I'm a selfhosting nerd so I use Huginn to scrape the newsletters from my email and turn them into RSS feeds that I consume by converting them into an e-newspaper with Calibre.

I also use ttrss's feature to republish articles via an RSS feed, plus Wallabag and it's RSS, to get bundles of long form content onto my Kindle.

My Saturday morning ritual is then to open Calibre and download the last week's worth of Matt Levine newsletters to my Kindle, which I then enjoy on my porch with a coffee.
This isn’t correct iirc. Zaphod definitely knew he was president. The government didn’t consult him about anything, he was just a distraction.
In other words, Robinhood is bringing fresh chum to the financial sharks of the world.

How do we reconcile this with the narrative that they’re the good guys delivering wealth generation through investing to the masses?
How do you expect to ensure a "transparent pipeline" when GPT-3 itself is not fully transparent?
>> In fact you could imagine a musical version of this where the operator is describing feelings or styles and the AI is generating music to match where the operator wants to go.

OpenAI already did this with Jukebox! I'm just surprised more people have not used it as an "instrument" vs as a novelty.

shameless plug: https://soundcloud.com/songshtr/sets/2106-ep
By definition there's a new 1% when you take the top 1% and make it 0. Then you take the new 1%. And so on.

Simple math. Everyone ends up with zero.
Right, but I don't really see why you would need separate accounts. In my experience a single account for multiple projects is actually very convenient (with rules to automatically sort incoming mail).

In my opinion, multiple accounts are really only necessary if you have employees or collaborators and want to make sure that not everyone can access your stuff.

But that's just my point of view, I understand that what works for me may not be suitable for your projects.