skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are pushing fud about not having typing systems at all... they are valuable to automated systems for introspection to some degree.

However you are talking about typing as if all typing is static - static typing has little value beyond warm and fuzzies on the developers part, dynamic typed systems are able to perform just as well. At which point, the dynamic part can allow you to mostly drop the types.

statically typed systems, you will note, tend to come with ecosystems dedicated to using the static bits as little as possible. And they provide no guarantee of correctness.

Yes, new devs might be able to latch onto some specific typing a bit better, but I don't care if you have all the automated refactors and a hundred new employees, if your codebase sucks and is incorrect, your static analysis is worth didly squat.
We have huge expanding battery capacity and construction. That is literally a thing right now. And confidently saying we’re too late on global warming is an absolutely absurd claim.
I imagine this goes for most skilled trades jobs. The lack of generalizability becomes apparent every time I undertake a DIY project that doesn’t go as planned
We believe we actually enable the community aspect within each workspace but also within each company we work with.
We are an additional distribution channel for our space partners. For our business clients, we are a new way to enable their workforce to be more productive while saving overheads on their fixed leases.
I don’t think programmers have contempt for the skills of the workers

What they have is edge case blindness

They literally don’t know what they don’t know
(Speaking from US perspective) You want to minimize quick job jumps on your resume. It’s not terrible to jump after one year but two or more one-year stints in a row raises a red flag for me.
I’d say if you do jump, prepare to stay at the next place for three-plus years.

Also it’s tough to make a case for someone with your experience getting 20% more when they could hire a fresh graduate for cheaper.
Here is the full transcript if you would like to decide for yourself: https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/gensler-aspen-secu...
> Yeah, we pretty much have...

"Pretty much". heh, there are 6 distinct levels of car automation for a reason.

> it just hasn't been widely adopted yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjztvddhZmI

Now try this in Wisconsin in January with 8 inches of snow on the ground. I consider Wisconsin wide adoption, do you?
Contrast with: https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/mob-morality-and-th...

> the Covid-unvaxxed, who are being portrayed as walking cesspools of germs who might contaminate the Sanctified Brethren (the vaccinated).
Where does your perspective differ from what I said above?
> No matter what you do, some websites will only be fixed a long time after very obvious warnings are displayed.

Okay, let's try another angle. Does the Chrome team have any stats at all about how many developers were informed about this change and were able to adapt to it before it went live?

You're right, some people are going to slip through the cracks, that's inevitable. How many people? How does the Chrome team determine if they're doing a good enough job with communication, what metrics for developer uptake are even being measured here? Is the Chrome team watching any public spaces like Twitter or Reddit to see whether or not changes are actually being seen and disseminated in developer communities?

You're phrasing this as if it's just a subset of developers who didn't realize what was going on. I would surprised if that's the case, I suspect the vast majority of developers did not realize what was going on.

> I've seen a lot of very interesting publications just not getting any traction on those are they're boring in nature or cater to experts mainly. They're also read only by a fraction of users.

Also can't stress this enough, still more users than read the mailing lists. They will still get more traction than Chrome's existing announcements. You don't have to stop posting to the mailing lists, just put a little bit of effort into going into communities where developers actually spend time.

We know that developers don't read the mailing lists. So let's try to find out what they do read.

> Unfortunately, if you're hit by any issue, you shouldn't be only asking what others should do for you, but also what you can do to catch those issues in the future yourself.

Definitely, but this is a really tone-deaf response to people telling the Chrome team that they have a problem with communication.

This is also one of my evergreen complaints about how breaking changes work in Chrome -- it always ends up being phrased as either the developers fault or an unsolveable problem. The best we can get is "all sides can maybe do better at broadcasting information". Yes, we have to treat Chrome like it might break our stuff randomly. We have to constantly be engaged in the web standards process, even when it's exhausting, even when it means we're drinking a firehose of information. Yes, we need to set up automated testing for all of our projects, we can't put sites up online and expect them to keep working.

We do our best to mitigate the problems that the Chrome team is causing by refusing to proactively reach out, by refusing to do anything beyond just posting their changes and giving people time to read them. And we don't get any indication that the process is ever going to improve.

Please meet us halfway.

Or at least the Chrome team could take your own advice and ask itself what it can do to make messaging more effective, rather than "only asking what developers should do for them" to make breaking changes go more smoothly.
I was mostly adding some context to the quote that seemed to be taken out of it.
The article mentions many current companies in R&D regarding 3D concrete printing. What is it about brick laying that makes it more difficult or less likely to be pursued?
Pnpassist: A “Smart” Build Platform for Manual PCB Assembly
Here is the full transcript: https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/gensler-aspen-secu...

This is also a different take on his statements from the forum: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nakamoto-s-innovation-is-real...
Thanks. Both Chris and I are actually originally from Europe and we have it in mind for our global expansion plans.
Exactly right. I disagree with antivaxxers. There is little argument against getting vaccinated. But to advocate for this. This is just unbelievable. As you said, it's a fawning embrace of authoritarianism just because you agree on position. Yeah, I agree on getting vaccinated, but I don't agree with these despotic measures.
> email subscriptions to RSS for example, or perhaps even the other way around

There's actually quite a few powerful services to do this. I made a service called http://feedsub.com to do this a couple years ago. I'd also recommend http://mailbrew.com which has a nice digest format.

I think there's a lot of value in RSS as an underlying data layer for the web, and I think it's criminally underused on the consumption side nowadays.

For example, I'd very much like to see blogrings make a comeback, and there's probably room for a website community driven entirely by mailing lists and one of these RSS-to-email tools.
First job out of uni I worked for a company who had software that output pure HP PCL5, and yeah, you just netcat it directly to the printer IP (or configure an LP queue with no filtering to do it for you). Fun days.
> By definition, wages can't exist in a communist system, because there's no currency in communism.

There is always currency and there is always an exchange of currency for services, regardless of what you want to call the system humans are operating under.

ie In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
I'm interested why you say the relationship with your employer is a 1 to 1 relationship. In the vast majority of cases (i.e. if you don't work for a 2 person company) wouldn't that be a many to 1 relationship?

As a follow up, why do you not want your relationship be a "1 to many" relationship. To pick up the OP original question, why do you have an issue for with your employment being a 1 to many, but not the dealings after a car accident?
A lot of CUPS defenders in here, but they're all talking about the usefulness of CUPS in more complicated situations.

It seems far more friendly to mention that netcat is an option to the average home linux user.
It doesn’t make any sense to graph something like gdp or economic output on a scale of thousands of years. The world looks nothing like it did 2000 years ago, and 2000 years from now, by the authors own admission, it will look entirely different.

IMO the graphs the author uses are like graphing something like baking a cake. Y axis is “how much is this thing a cake” and x axis is time. It’s zero pretty much the whole time, then you stick it in the oven and it rapidly becomes a cake. Funny thought experiment I guess, but it provides no value.
Let's become pictograms with Pose detection Tokyo2020
P1 has been leading the pack here. Most of the guidance mentioned in this guide has been coming from the CSO's office [0] for a while. We're using OPA extensively for not just container level policies but blocking column/cell level access in queries. We have multiple roles [1] to help Kessel Run, Space CAMP, and other software factories with this.

[0] https://software.af.mil/dsop/documents/
[1] https://boards.greenhouse.io/raft
Thanks for raising this.
In our target markets (SG, HK, Asia) this has not been an issue as majority of people are not aware of this.
But we will take this into account as we expand down the road.
I have never worked for a union but recently spoke with a friend who was very upset with with his union because they didn't feel like it represented their interests.

It represents all the workers at his firm, including desk engineers and field technicians. The desk workers wanted to work from home and management was on board but the union killed it. The union leadership wanted all workers to work from home 2 days a week or none at all. Management said that is crazy because the literal job of field workers requires to be in the field.
Printing brick roads actually sounds like a pretty interesting step forward even though it isn't the most obvious use of bricks. The drainage is much better than asphalt and that could make a difference in many cities that are dealing with increased flooding. Not so great for snow-plows, though. Before I saw that machine I never would have thought it would be a scalable solution to the problem, though.
> email subscriptions to RSS for example

Feedbin does this, FWIW. You mentioned you had used Feedbin before, maybe they introduced the feature after you left? It's super useful, and justifies the cost of the subscription all by itself for me. All my newsletter subscriptions go into my Feedbin feed, and my email inbox stays nice and clean (and my real email address stays nice and private).
>I'd expect the only way to protect an apple from that fate, would be to trademark the name, and the rightsholder only licenses the name to apples from cultivars that breed for taste and don't sacrifice taste for looks.

>This might be a case where IP rights might be used for good.

Arent they doing that with the cosmic crisp?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Crisp
pessimists don't get promoted, but more importantly the most important skill is convincing your boss and the boss's boss that your course of action is the best path forward.
There are many interesting quotes, but for me this is the one that explains everything:

"Indeed, the 'Action/Decision' for Archegos was for CRM to 'notify of any changes with the counterparty and revisit the counterparty at afuture meeting.' CPOC did not set a deadline for remediating Archegos’s limit breaches, for moving Archegos to dynamic margining with add-ons, or even for reporting back or revisiting the status of Archegos at a futuremeeting."

The Archeos situation was escalated as far up as possible, up to this CPOC committee, where the Chief Risk Officer of the Investment Bank was a member. Instead of the CRO breathing down their neck until the situation was remediated, they got away with a bullet point in some minutes, without even a set deadline.

It appears that Credit Swiss replaced their CRO though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-29/credit-su...
Yes. For example, see this video of a Continuous Tamping Machine in operating, tamping railway ballast:

https://fb.watch/79KwlAt2Fz/

You probably wouldn't have to go too far back to find people sceptical about the possibility of automating that.
People who want a house built want to build their house. Cookie cutter is for subdivisions and apartments, which those folks are often trying to escape.
I'm a little over 20 and I have used RSS and did not continue. I just don't see why I would want RSS over something like hacker news or visiting my local news website directly. Subscribing to blogs directly creates a huge firehose of mostly boring content while sites like HN sort content vaguely by how interesting it is.

As well as the fact that most of the time, the actual content of the article is less interesting than the discussion it starts in the comments. I imagine most people checking reddit or HN are not there to read a long post but instead looking to discuss various opinions in the comments which RSS does not support.
Buying a printer to ensure access is a plan.
Does that include the part about the female employee committing suicide after pictures of her genitals were shared?

I don't see it in that list.
Some Suggestions if I was having this problem:

1. Get a standing desk, so you can alternate between sitting and standing.

2. Learn to use a mouse with both left and right hand. And/or ball wheel mouse.

3. Try Speech to text software

4. Try an Ergo keyboard. Logitech makes an ergonomic keyboard (Ergo k860)

5. Get up and Stretch every hour

6. Go the the bathroom as much as you're allowed to

7. Go for a Walk during your lunch break

8. Go for a walk after work

9. Do some yoga. It's totally free.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN2FPlvg9r-LnUyepH9IaQ
100kb is a lot in the context of making one specific component work. If it's just one thing you could do it will far less overhead. Maybe preact or a native web component or something. If I'm not misunderstanding, then it does seem like how people would include jQuery just to select a few elements and change their classes or make an ajax call.
Woah! This is awesome!
Perhaps surprisingly, Consolas. Slashed zero, great readability at small and large sizes, good hinting for both low and high DPI screens, easy to read/scan in large blocks, very wide support.
What does "the economy" count, precisely, and furthermore why do we believe that it is likely that whatever "the economy" counts is going to continue to be an important thing to count?
> The issue is does increasing economic output, require increasing energy use? The answer is no.

The article addresses that by arguing that it would imply energy became arbitrarily cheap, while being scarce and finite. That means someone could buy the whole supply and wipe out their competitors. That contradicts it being arbitrarily cheap, so energy would be a limiting factor.
>But as Uber created the transaction between the two parties, it also seems reasonable that Uber should be responsible for getting recompense from the carjacker

In other words, the party facilitating the transaction should also provide escrow/insurance? I'd agree it's nice if the facilitator did that, but absent any explicit guarantees by the facilitator, I'm not sure why that would create a legal obligation for them to do that.

>Even if that’s not the law today, I think a legal framework that allowed you to get compensated from a broker responsible for your interaction would place the incentives in the right places.

I'm failing to see how this actually prevents cases like this. Is the passenger a serial carjacker or something? Is uber refusing to cooperate with police? To me this feels less "place the incentives in the right places" and more "pass the buck to uber because they're big and bad".
People have mentioned Workflowy which is very nice.

Another nice system is Checkvist (the v is formatted like a check mark in their logo).

Go to https://checkvist.com and press Enter to go to the demo/overview page.

You can nest hierarchical lists, and you zoom in on a sublist, and most every feature seems to have a keyboard shortcut.
I would expect to see it done at places like stadiums or other events where you have a crowd of 100k who all want to eat at the same time and the expected quality if near zero.
There are a number of fun ways to consume RSS.

NextCloud has an RSS reader app. Thunderbird has a whole RSS subscriptions area. AntennaPod for podcasts. Those are just a few.
That's a new one to me - thank you very much for linking it. I always hated the dotted zero source code pro has, so this might become a new favourite.
> This is why partial robotic systems don't really exist; either it's a nifty tool that speeds up a small repeatable process of your work, or it's building the entire house.

I think I understand your overall point, but what you said isn't exactly true. Isn't "speed up a repeatable process" essentially a partial robotic system?

Just look at a modern car manufacturing plant - it's essentially one big chain of robotics with human overseers. There aren't that many exceptions to car manufacturing once the set car variants are establish (LX, CX, blah blah model variants). I would consider that whole system a "partial robotic system".
Real estate and job listings, for one.
crypto/blockchain or global war. Not the most nuanced of opinions ;)
Didn't happen with Visual Basic, has not happened with JavaScript.

Domain experts are all using Excel, not any other automated tool.
Huh, TIL. I suppose I'd recommend a report to Webcompat.
There is no limit with side projects if you pick the right one.
IRC is dead in the sense that it is in a late stage of decline that can not be reversed anymore. The death of freenode was a huge hit as well. It seems like there were efforts to fix IRC with IRCv3 but I don't recall any major support from clients and servers and it was too little too late.

I just checked wikipedia and it is coming up on a decade since v3 was started and yet no major network supports it. And v3 was only the bare minimum required to modernize IRC and misses so many other important features people demand like inline images/files and a mobile friendly protocol.

Of course it will never be dead in the sense that literally no one uses it. Almost nothing ever dies that way.
A simple Pomodoro timer for a terminal
It might be because you're a physicist that you find the argument tiring! You already understand and accept the underlying assumptions. I think it's meant to be applied when someone really stands their philosophical ground on exponential growth continuing forever.
Does this all work for symmetric wing cross sections?
It looks like he has contempt for the people trying to automate something. He doesn't realize how hard they are actually working, nor they insight they have into the problem. From his perspective he thinks they are wrong for thinking they are taking on an easy job.
The context was software developers, so yes, that’s what’s relevant. The problems 1 through 5 are basic word problems and if you can’t reliably figure those out at 15, you aren’t going to be any good at software development. (I think, for problem 6, given a dysfunctional education system, you could excuse ignorance of what “average speed” means.) And businesses are looking for intelligence in other roles, too. That’s what gives you an advantage. Especially basic stuff like, being able to answer what is the smallest number in a chart.
That's focusing too much on pure definition of words and terminologies.

China, CCP, East Germany, USSR -- all were communist from the conventional meaning of the word as we use it.

There exists no "pure communism". Doesn't mean we can't use the word "communist" to indicate anyone historical or present.
I know I’ve considered applying to law school because I want someone to fight these damn lockdowns.

I’m curious how much of this is really a combination of more study time and people seeing value in law. Between election cases, lockdowns, etc law has been the center of a lot of the last year.
https://archive.is/os1We
Just to add to my post above: I'm a rich man. This will not be a burden to me or to any of my peers. I oppose this out of belief about how our society should treat people, not because of some personal inconvenience. I can still do whatever I want, as can most readers here I expect. Like any authoritarian laws, this only really impacts groups that society didnt like anyway. It is the most unfair possible kind of idea. It amazes me that in one breath we hear ridiculous ideas about equity, and in another, we hear things like this that promote "hard" unfairness. All authoritarianism is hypocritical, but this is blatantly so.
> Well, many people have had issues with unions creating an environment where most employees 'soldier' (work slowly and uncreatively), by protecting the unproductive, and preventing the productive from being rewarded.

> Another issue is that unions seem to 'strangle' marginal, unprotected (by tariff) industries; they drive up the employer's costs, which can kill a business if prices can not be adjusted to compensate (because of foreign competition). In cases where domestic companies are protected, the unions tend to try acting as a cartel and raising the whole industry's cost structure (e.g. auto manufacturing 1940-1970).

Regarding the question of raising the industries cost structure, isn't this the same as software engineers currently asking for very high salaries? Why should workers not use their bargening power to negotiate higher salaries?

> Lastly, unions have been known to use violence and intimidation, generally in one-on-one situations (against managers and anti-union employees) rather than the large scale that the Pinkertons (and the like) were known for.

So what is your take on corporations?
Blogs and websites that generate lots of content are akin to News. You don't subscribe to them, and have HN to let you know of something important happens.

RSS is for the long tail of blogs that don't post very frequently, but when they do, its worth your while.

The ideal entry in my RSS feed is one that has new addition once per week or less. This way, I can follow a very wide array of people without getting overwhelmed, nor having to miss if their post don't make it to HN front.
From the thread link:

> Experts attribute the crush of applications to a number of factors, particularly the slowdown in the entry-level job market caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Law school and other graduate programs historically become more popular when jobs are tougher to come by in slow economies. Law school applicants shot up nearly 18% in 2002, amid the bursting of the so-called dot-com bubble. The number of people applying also climbed nearly 4% in 2009, amid the Great Recession.

> But current events separate from the economy also prompted more people to consider a law degree this cycle, said Susan Krinsky, the council’s executive vice president for operations. The death of George Floyd, the national reckoning over systemic racism and inequality, and the death of iconic U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg all focused attention on the rule of law and the role lawyers play in pushing for a more equitable society. Election years also tend to yield more law school applicants, she noted.
"Crypto offers the middle class a chance to evade taxes as well" - how?
https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html
For the civil libertarians, is it absolute? What if it was ebola? What if the mortality rate was 5 or 10%? If not, where, exactly, is the line?