skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone else was confused by this, but I'll endeavour to clarify for you.

The allegory the writer of the article used is meant to reflect the same perspective of people in the modern day world and the rest of my comment pretty effortlessly transitions to discussing the limitations of those modern day peoples abilities to understand technical subjects.

The frustration refers to the task given of explaining tech to the willfully tech illiterate. The first few paragraphs I reference clearly move from the allegorical to the concrete modern day person whose perspective I refer to as frustrating. I also do offhandedly refer to the allegory to make a passing reference to the article and show that the allegorical character isn't that different from the modern day target audience of the author.

The rest of the article explores explaining crypto a frustratingly tech ignorant modern person. I think that context would be clear to anyone who even skimmed a good part of the article. You should consider reading the thing people are discussing before leaving a short derailing comment about it.
The more project management tools I have to work with, the less likely I am to work for or with a company.

I have a somewhat similar stance on software architecture. Sure, I’m TOGAF certified but if you actually expect me to work with notation correct Archimare/UML/whatever and not just draw boxes on a napkin you’re either insane or sell a product with no competition.

This is anecdotal of course, but after 30 years of working with hundreds of companies to supply our municipality with software, we have yet to see a correlation between quality and “best practices”. It doesn’t matter if companies do this or that testing and use the full confluence suite or if they just pull spaghetti out of their asses and support is a phone call… the quality is the same over time, hell, often we get more from the spaghetti companies than the “best practice” ones. You might think that it’s a short term thing and that the spaghetti and no testing catches up, but it doesn’t. Maybe because we don’t have to fund those 8 people, that you never really learn the role off but it sure isn’t technical, that sit in on every meeting as opposed to talking directly with the spaghetti slinger and a sales person? I’m not sure, and I’d love to tell people that following this or that “best practice” is the way to go, but that’s just not what our data shows.
>This makes you a rare example. I’ve been saying for years that the real computer revolution will happen when people work with computers, rather than on computers.

Heh, it's funny you mention that, because I always had a deeply rooted philosophical belief that computers are tools, and a properly configured computing device is an "extension" of oneself. Not in some crazy cyberpunk sense of extension, but same as regular, old-school tools are customizable to better suit the user's hand, size or strength, so we can perform better with them, as if the tool was a part of our body.

Sure, it does require a certain amount of know-how, but even at the barest there's some degree of organizational feature like moving launcher icons so you can reach for a tool without jumping through hoops. Every "papercut" removed helps.

For example, this week I had a bit of a need to get text from some images. It's short enough bits of text that can be typed by hand, but that's annoying, so I set up a couple scripts to get the text via OCR and copy it to clipboard, after massaging the input a little bit using imageMagick, and now I can quickly retrieve it with ridiculously small % of failure (and it's usually very obvious), and works with Japanese and everything. At least half a minute of back-and-forth was turned into a keypress and a verification step (I usually double-check what I type so that step was going to happen anyway). It's a tiny thing and not even remotely my finest work in the field, but everything adds up. Got lots of homemade tools to do pretty much everything I do regularly, and properly commented so it serves as a bit of a personal repo of arcane tricks and best practices. I even recoded a few tools in pure bash or awk/gawk so I can carry them around as fallbacks, which allows me to use those things in obsolete or busybox-tier systems.

At this point I might as well admit it's a bit of a hobby. Having artistic skills also allows me to "brand" my system with custom decorations and of course allow me to draw comfortably by having most automation available from my left hand.

Anyway, sorry for the long personal post, but the point is to use my experience as example of the things the computer can do for you if you are willing to put some time into making it behave the way you want, the way it suits your own usages, experiences and abilities and of course environment. Maybe all you need to be happily productive are a few custom document templates and rearranging some icons, or you do complex coding tasks that can be automated to save you from lots of busywork, or you are working with faulty hardware or unstable internet connection that requires some babysitting that can be automated with a few scripts. I'm not saying it's something everyone should know, but it might be useful for people to openly discuss their use cases and experiences, someone might have a recommendation or trick available and everyone wins. It's a lot like working in the kitchen if you think about it.
HHS hid collaboration with Fauci and Wuhan Lab:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/breaking-gop-senato...
An alternative to Maxwell's equations: Weber Electrodynamics
It's the women who are shallow because of the premise and captology of Tinder. It's working as intended. If you're not a super attractive man (a model), then you're wasting your time on Tinder.
Related: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1210242188870930433?s=21
This is a great example of perversive incentives driven by ill-conceived benefit rules.
now if it just had multi-account containers.

Still running the monoculture problem....
I am a huge procrastinator. After a long time of trying various things I found out that getting shit done is a constant battle that starts very deep inside the mind. I'm talking about the stuff you talk with your therapist and probably not on the first session too.

I get stuff done only as long as I'm keeping the chain of motivation from the inside the mind to the thing I'm doing. If I start thinking that I "have" to do something, the chain is broken, as it means that I don't really want to do it.

When my mind is in the "I chose to do it" mode instead, I don't even need Pomodoro - I can consistently do stuff even if there is some aversion.

The most coherent writing about this I know is the Procrastination Monkey series from Waitbutwhy.
Man I wish I could just read some software articles wihthout

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> Humans haven’t literally evolved that much in 200 years.

You’re being generous. I would say we haven’t evolved in thousands of years.

I mean sure, the tech is better but we’re the same self absorbed, careless bipeds we’ve always been.
> Critically, the study found that vaccinated individuals carried as much virus in their noses as unvaccinated individuals,

If they get infected. Which is less likely.

But yes, the Delta variant is worse, we have to stop it spreading by all means, so mask up!
I just learned that depending on what reusable bags are made of, they can be many orders of magnitude worse than plastic. Cotton bags need to be reused thousands of times to make up for the additional environmental impact it takes to produce them. Organic cotton, even moreso. https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotto...

This last bit is not directed at you but re: the issue in general: I get really frustrated with how distorted the notions of “right” and “wrong” behaviours are among many environmentalists — rather than being rooted in fact, they’re all about virtue signalling.

My local grocers are all eliminating plastic and switching everything to paper, and I highly doubt that decision was informed by a thoughtful analysis of potential environmental impact.
What is the logic behind coloring the text in readability view?
You don't think a person has ever called the police because they hear a noise they thought was an intruder, or saw someone or something suspicious only in their mind? People make these kind of mistakes too.
Unix is a bit more general purpose than a hole hawg, which is used by electricians, plumbers, and LV cable installers, almost exclusively for creating penetrations in studs for pipe and wire to pass through. Some electricians use it to drill knockouts into electrical enclosures and I suppose you could use it to spin a paint mixer or concrete mixer, but it has a pretty specific application in mind.
Sounds like you might fit into civic tech: https://civictech.guide/
You also will most likely only have mediocre talent in the long run. You shoot yourself in the foot with these statements.
I like your comment here starting with "straw man" .. and agree with some of the statements.. I have seen lengthy, detailed and authoritative reports that say some of the same things, but in a formal, long-winded way with more added..

This meta-comment of restatement in various contexts, with various amounts of story-telling and technical detail, brings up the educational burdens of communication -- to be effective you have to reach a reader where there are today .. in terms of assumptions, technical learning, and focus of topic.. since this is such a fast-moving and wide subject area, its super easy to miss the distinction between "low value, high volume audio clips recognition" and "life and death medical diagnosis for less than 100 patients". hint - that matters a lot in the tech chain AND the legal structure, and therefore combined, the "do-ability"
Mozilla is far better at delivering social positions then good software.
I used to blame the FLQ and the 1980 referendum. But Ontario has had 40 years to understand the new reality and Montreal _still_ has more subway than we do.

Good advice on co-housing - intergenerational sharing makes a ton of sense for so many reasons.
If they themselves describe themselves as a union it seems strange not to take that at face value.

That being said, even if you don't accept that, there are unions (not guilds) for independent contractors in the creative fields for example in the UK the musicians' union and Equity (the actors' union). If you are hiring musicians or actors in the UK you will for sure be hiring the specific people you want and they will very likely be members of the union.

Your example about hiring union workers may be how it works in the US but is not the case in other countries - you would hire them just like any other independent contractor or employee.

Source: I have been a member of both creative and non-creative unions in my career. I've been in the musicians' union and my wife and many friends are members of the ISM (another union for musicians with more traction in the classical music world) and I have also been a member of a more conventional union (the GMB or "General Municipal and Boilermakers' union") believe it or not. In no case have I ever been hired on the basis of a process like you describe.
I know the commenter you’re referring to may come across as venting but I’ll try to be generous to their take:

In my laymans understanding of game theory, one of the things that becomes apparent is that the best outcomes come from cooperation but only when freeloading can be kept below some threshold. Once freeloading reaches some tipping point, the system destabilizes and collapses.
Behind the Rise of U.S. Solar Power, a Mountain of Chinese Coal
Deepfakes threaten to inflate the ‘liar’s dividend’
Yep, Shopify another huge user of Sorbet. They’ve been using it since before it was open sourced, and have spoken about their experiences:

https://youtu.be/v9oYeSZGkUw

The numbers and testimonials in that presentation are two years old at this point but I can only think that means they’ve improved since then.
- videos: udemy.com, youtube, etc

- ebooks: libgen ... other sites

- chatrooms: IRC, discord

- forums

- documentation
May I ask what is the urgency for? Spend consistent, quality time doing the thing and learning about the thing. The quickness will sort itself out.
My polite tone is not meant to compensate for or conceal anything. Am I supposed to be rude and combative, especially in an environment where I'm well aware that my mostly-sympathetic view of China is unpopular? The aim of my "litany of past comments in support of the CCP" (how far are you digging? I post about all kinds of topics) is just sharing my opinion and the facts as I see them. In particular, I think our (i.e., the US, to answer your other personal questions) sudden turn on China is unwise.

I think it's probably true that many or most people like democracy and individual liberties, but I think it's equally true that these are not the sole criteria by which they decide which government they support. If they were, and that meant that China were ripe for regime change, Singapore would only be a little behind. I think the world is better off without them being "campaigned for" if "campaigning for" is instituting a big global chess game where we try to destabilize certain governments (and an honest accounting of those rarely ends up favoring one side as purely as we'd like to flatter ourselves).
If you simplify it to threads * execution time, the more parallel processes running, for a longer duration, means more opportunity. Everything here is almost always a spectrum not a binary solved/unsolved.

If less people have covid, less severely, for less time, that is less mutation potential.
I assume you mean the Go part. I meant to write a mini-blog post but can summarize here. Lets say we want to use an Either<ok, error> and chain computations. In Go naively without generics this needs the product no-of-input-types x no-of-output-types forms of result mappers/chainers. Instead we make functions that bind all it's inputs so only has an output-type. Now we only need linearly as many mappers/chainers (and_then's). e.g.

x, err := computeAThing(1, 1)
y, err := and_then.Int(err, makeComputeAThingFn(x, 1))
z, err := and_then.Int(err, makeComputeAthingFn(x, y))
another, err := and_then.AnotherType(err, makeComputeAnotherTypeFn(z))

where makeComputeAThingFn(...) returns a function with the body `return computeAThing(...)`. `err` will end up with the first non-nil error and the following and_then.X's will be no-ops.
As many others have said, there are programs in the summer and folks can plan - and these programs have been in place for years. Unfortunately, these programs mostly stopped and on top of school closing, there wasn't enough day care space. And for the school age children, not all of them could do online schooling themselves, needing someone to help them with the computer.

Schooling at home is a lot of work for someone, and it is work daycares aren't prepared nor staffed for.
> So if that is the current understanding of how the vaccine works, isn’t it important to follow up on data that seems to not align with those statements?

Sure.

> If 69% of people are vaccinated, I would expect <69% of recent COVID cases to be from the vaccinated.

I would expect both vaccination and detection of cases to overrepresent people with better access to and inclination toward medical services

In addition vaccinations are biased towards the elderly, and (because vaccines haven't been approved, even on an emergency basis, for this population) completely exclude young children. This also biases the figures.

Basically, the media reporting of “contradictory” findings is pretty much completely abuse of statistics rather than actual contradictory findings.

A decent discussion is here: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-07-27/covid-19-infection...
Well, human thinking relies on prior models/filters for understanding the world as well so that would invalidate us as having general intelligence too?
Reputation systems can be gamed. On massive sites, they reward those with the most time.

Gatekeeping (or moderation) works, but like we've both already said, it only works for smaller scales.
Since 6 months, I have my dream job as per my personal belief value system: making software for the public health industry in my state. I loved the idea (and still do) of being a public servant making best in class software that benefit society through better healthcare services but the reality of the job is vastly different to what I imagined. The reality is the way we build software is broken beyond repair. As an example, my current project which run in the tenth of millions of dollars out of tax money have 0 unit test because my boss and colleagues see automated test in general as a waste of time.

All in all, the culture in here makes it very hard to improve anything as most people I work with have spent their entire professional life in a bubble where every problem is solve through shoehorning various products and framework made by oracle. Ultimately as much as I would love to better use tax money to provide better healthcare services for my state, I'm not in a position to shift the culture.
GitHub's announcement:

https://github.blog/2021-07-27-github-developer-rights-fello...

"GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the software ecosystem." (at no cost to the developers)
What are the projects?
You need to put that in context. Compared to a decade or two ago, an initial release was printed on DVD and unpatchable, a buggy game was effectively plastic waste. If it weren't bad enough, reviews and magazines would demolish it and make sure there were zero sales later on (not that there was a lot usually because most sales happened right after release).

It's an incredible progress for game developers that they can ship a buggy/incomplete game and improve it over the next year. (And you can write an announcement with every update to drive sales!)
>The aluminum cans are stolen because they actually have a intrinsic value. The plastic bag does not and there is no way to artificially add value to it so people collect and return them.

Sure there is. When you buy a bag have it cost $1. If you return the bag you get that back, or maybe $.90 to cover the cost. Not sure about the US, but this is done with glass and plastic bottles in a lot of countries.
Agreed. The article reminds me of the arguments that religious fundamentalists make against evolution: "there are still monkeys, so how could it be that we evolved from monkeys, wouldn't all the monkeys have evolved as well?"

Clearly, no biologist claims that humans evolved from modern primates, just like no modern AI researcher seriously thinks that current machine learning methods will lead to "True AI".
So we're not disputing the principle at all but merely arguing over the degrees to which it should be applied. QED.
Cool! It'd be interesting to see those CRDT implementations added to Kevin Jahns' CRDT Benchmarks page[1]. The LogootSplit paper looks interesting. It looks like xray is abandoned, and I'm not sure about teletype. Though teletype's CRDT looks to be entirely implemented in javascript[2]? If the authors are around I'd love to see some benchmarks so we can compare approaches and learn what actually works well.

And I'm not surprised these techniques have been invented before. Realising a tree is an appropriate data structure here is a pretty obvious step if you have a mind for data structures.

To name it, I often find myself feeling defensive when people read my work and respond with a bunch of links to academic papers. Its probably totally unfair and a complete projection from my side, but I hear a voice in my head reword your comment to instead say something awful like: "Cool, but everything you did was done before. Even if they didn't make any of their work practical, usable or good they still published first and you obviously didn't do a good enough literature review if you didn't know that." And I feel an unfair defensiveness arise in me as a result that wants to find excuses to dismiss the work, even if the work might be otherwise interesting.

Its hard to compare their benchmark results because they used synthetic randomized editing traces, which always have different performance profiles than real edits for this stuff. Their own university gathered some great real world data in an earlier study. It would have been much more instructive if that data set was used here. At a glance their RAM usage looks to be about 2 orders of magnitude worse than diamond-types or yjs. And their CPU usage... ?? I can't tell because they have no tables of results. Just some hard to read charts with log scales, so you can't even really eyeball the figures. So its really hard to tell if their work ends up performance-competitive without spending a couple days getting their enterprise style java code running with a better data set. Do you think thats worth doing?

[1] https://github.com/dmonad/crdt-benchmarks

[2] https://github.com/atom/teletype-crdt
Point of order: there is no evidence. It's a conspiracy theory without the theory.