skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. We managed before mass production and we will manage again.

It's either the inevitable collapse of civilization or a deliberate controlled ramp down, globally. There will not be some magic technology to fix this and we clearly are not going to be able to finesse this.

It's time to start considering and planning for a global slowdown of production and a radical shift in the way we live.

If we don't do it the biosphere is going to do it for us.
Pretty interesting that a YC person would come out and label this "indignation + sensationalism".

It is neither. It's someone (me) sharing an experience and a personal decision while --if you actually read my post-- praising YC for all the good they do.

My only intent is to perhaps shed some light on the plight of older engineers in the technology ecosystem.

Change the subject if you want. I could not care less. How about "Done with YC: A personal perspective".

Frankly, I find your comment insulting.
Everything is pattern matching (or memorization). You can use this approach to half-automate the solution to a known existing class of problems, but how do you come up with anything new? How did Paul Cohen came up with the forcing technique? Who figured out probabilistic proofs as a possible vector of attack?

"Both these properties, predictability and stability, are special to integrable systems... Since classical mechanics has dealt exclusively with integrable systems for so many years, we have been left with wrong ideas about causality. The mathematical truth, coming from non-integrable systems, is that everything is the cause of everything else: to predict what will happen tomorrow, we must take into account everything that is happening today.

Except in very special cases, there is no clear-cut "causality chain," relating successive events, where each one is the (only) cause of the next in line. Integrable systems are such special cases, and they have led to a view of the world as a juxtaposition of causal chains, running parallel to each other with little or no interference."

- Ivar Ekeland
If an app can accumulate 500MB of cache without pain to the app developer, I suspect cache management programming will remain a practice&skill mostly only for only systems programmers and the more bespoke backend programmers.

I assume Insta invests in engineering for whatever cache expiration they do. And if there's 500MB cache, probably it's a conscious engineering decision.

But maybe the majority app developers, if they could fill up cache, probably aren't thinking that far ahead -- not thinking about that non-visual, non-customer-story aspects. So most wouldn't have occasion to learn how to do cache management sufficiently well that they don't cause stability or performance problems.
It doesn't embrittle aluminum at normal temperatures and stainless steel is significantly less affected. I agree it is hard to work with, but think the reason it isn't used in this sort of application is more due to economics than inherent properties of hydrogen.
Propellers are lift devices. The lift vector is parallel to the axis of rotation.

It all works the same downwind, and the crazy fast boats like the AC72s do in fact sail faster than the wind when running away from the wind.
>> Ignoring the return value from a non-void method.

Beginners might also write a method/function with a return parameter they don't care about (or that they sometimes don't care about) but that has some desirable side-effect.
Given the way modern IDEs work, unrestricted compile time evaluation would make it dangerous to even open potentially malicious code.
The purpose is to "raise fear"? I think that the purpose is to spread exciting lies, and collect information.

>"[Bramante] says that he does not publicly share the information of those who credulously submit snitching reports, but maintains a database with their details."

I could think of all sorts of ways to use this information, if I were a chaos-is-a-ladder right-winger. People who were willing to "snitch" on their neighbours would surely make juicy targets for the useful idiots at some later date. Just make some shit up, and set your followers loose -- Bramante is already willing to do the first part.

>"The website’s “About” page claims the site was set up by a “Dr. Jonathan Morse” and “Professor Brad Webber” who received funding of $7.5 million with the aim of creating “the leading for-profit United States ‘anti-vax’ registry for the government.”

>But both the names and the attached pictures were generated by artificial intelligence, Bramante told VICE News. Morse and Webber are “100% not real.” "
> voluntarily

In the US, that is currently where we've drawn the line.

They can cooperate, but it has to be voluntarily and the private party can't be government-by-another-name (e.g. not NCMEC which has a special legislative permission to handle child porn and is overwhelmingly funded by the government), but an actual private party.
Right, so presumably you’d agree that the people who are saying that CSAM detection is a problem because China might abuse it are just being silly, right?

As for the US government having access to the backups, that’s required by law.

You can always make the paranoid case that Apple wants to do this because they are somehow lying about their values, or you can make the case that their hand has been forced.

You could also note that they promised to implement e2e backups but haven’t yet, and this is rumored to be because the FBI asked them not to.

If you assume that Apple is doing this stuff because they want to, then of course you’ll see this next move as just another bad thing they are doing.

If on the other hand you consider that they don’t want to do these things but are being forced to until they have a better option, then you can look at this move as a way to get out of a double bind.

Now they can turn on e2e without being accused of creating a safe haven for pedophiles.

Both pathways are plausible, but given the investment in privacy Apple has been making and the consistency with which they state their values and boundaries, I don’t think they want to be creating backdoors.
> betting

> intelligence

thats not how natural selection works

some mutant blew its load into the wind and the mutant spawns survived, thats the whole story until we find a communication or same generation reaction mechanism that leads to different future adaptations
I think it's a fair question to ask.

The author also brings up the difficulty in finding a job in the industry as he gets older. There are a number of people on here that have witnessed similar age-related or suspected age-related issues in this industry, to the point that this issue seems to be a common discussion point [1]. It would be different if they were writing a major editorial hit piece without hard facts. Perhaps this question will lead to YC releasing diversity stats and the reasoning behind the age question.

1. https://moguldom.com/9158/coding-while-old-race-and-sex-aren...
What's the lamp model?
What is beautiful or poetic about that?
Cloud waste has double whammy effect
Not just increased cloud bills, it also impacts company valuation because of higher gross margin. A strong reason why waste removal should be a priority in Cloud.

https://cloudoptimize.io/3-reasons-why-cloud-optimization-matters/
Does the expression "anecdotal evidence" ring a bell to you?

I am glad that you got lucky. I had both a Galaxy S4 and Note 4 and both were completely awful on idle battery life; both barely lasted a day in the office with 30 minute commutes in both directions, and no more than 2h of active screen time, if even that. And I had like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr installed at the time. And Gmail. That was literally all I had installed on top of the stock ROM.

I don't get why are you coming here insisting that your experience somehow nullifies mine. That is what I'd call not arguing in good faith. I didn't do anything more except share my bad experience with Android (which is now severely outdated because it ended in 2017) and never claimed anything more than that.

What's your goal here?
Nope. I don’t have numbers but according to Elon Musk (who we probably at least agree on has a grasp of the basic principles) “space is easy, orbit is hard”.
Meaningless thought terminating cliche you have there.

I'm talking about a global change. And if we don't do it the biosphere will do it for us.
Democracy provides an inherent advantage to an "energetic leader" who can manipulate people at scale, because that's how you win elections.
Good to know! I actually had fig trees in mind when I asked the question, so good analogy. To bad then. Hopefully they've done something to propagate it in the past.
Older engineers are far less likely to be able to team-up with college buddies to go off into startup-land.

Most everyone I know can't drop everything they are doing, their families and responsibilities to launch a startup. Entrepreneurship is very hard. Some of us have lived the life all of our lives. Others have jobs and they would like to keep it that way. Not judging, it's just the way it is.
> OOP's focus is mutating state.

But please, do not assume I haven't read your arguments.
However, the Andromeda Strain should also teach to not so quickly use fire.
I'd recommend a Zebralight one (I like the H600Fc), as they're small, light, and much brighter than most headlamps you'll find. I've also had good luck with Armytek (Wizard Pro Nichia), though people say their reliability is lower.
MacOS personally looks nice and functions in a logical way - so I consider MacBooks good. It’s a personal choice while weighing negatives like how MacOS is not ‘free software’ that anyone can fork, change, and sell on their own.
Here in the (quite safe) city I live in, in the SF bay area (strongly anti gun), there was an incident last year where someone came up to a couples house in the middle of the night, knocking on their door asking to use their phone because their car broke down. Luckily the couple had a decent security camera on the front porch, because almost out of frame was another person waiting.

It turns out that person (visible later in the video) had what appeared to be a AK-47 with a drum magazine on it. Both illegal in this state.

The couple luckily checked the camera and called the police, and the police actually showed up (though the two people had already left), and those people didn’t try to break the door down or force their way in before the police showed up.

Because criminals tend to not follow laws, and these things are not that hard to get ahold
of if someone wants one - and doesn’t care if it is legal or not.

And if those two people had been a bit more aggressive, the only thing that would have been useful is something like an AK-47 with a drum mag or better, or a ton of luck.
Several questions:

I want to start a business in Europe

- Is there a unified 300mil market available for me to launch in? Meaning that it's mostly the same jurisdiction and laws or will I have to special case everything?

- Is there a supply of top caliber talent available?

- Are there investors willing to invest in a pre-revenue business.
> Even humans are only probably approximately correct.

This is very true, more true than we realize. Notice how much more "could you repeat that?" we have with masks on. It's not JUST the mild muffling of the speaker's voice, it's not seeing their lips move. We're all lip readers to a small degree, and it helps inform our decoding to see the lips. Fff and th sound similar but look very different.

Even without that, think if your life, ever said "Waht was that? Oh, right..." then reply. At first you missed part of what they said (for various reasons), but you were able to "interpolate" the missing part from the context, and most of the time you get it right.

Our communication modes are lossy, and our brains make up for that to a large degree. That's the hole in natural language decoding, figuring out the hinting needed for an engine, because we're not totally aware of how we do it ourselves.
You will experience an apparent headwind when sailing on a broad reach faster than the wind, yes. But the jibe involves turning downwind (thus losing lift), as well as bringing the sails across (which will temporarily de-power them). It's been a while since I've been sailing, but I don't think most boats can maintain an apparent headwind through the entire maneuver, even if they are capable of faster-than-wind speed.

Some can, which is why I mentioned downwind tacking for high-performance boats, but I think it takes a pretty fast boat to manage it.
> Decoupling these activities from emissions is what this entire thread is talking about;

And my entire point, is that after 30+ years of trying to reduce emissions by adding renewables we have failed to see this happen. There is no evidence that we are getting any closer now. If any global fossil fuel usage had decline, we could say it might be being replaced with renewables, but all evidence we have shows that renewables just supplement our existing and growing needs for energy.

To go with your metaphor, we've been asking everyone to be quiet for 30+ years and the room is getting louder. If we need that room quiet or we'll get kicked out of the house for good, it's getting time to ask people to leave.
I get what you're saying but quite a few of my neighbors have dogs that they leave to roam the garden during the day whilst they're out... And said dogs will bark at everyone and everything, which causes me stress (noise pollution). Please only get a dog that you can spend a lot of time with.
Yeah, fair cop to all of those. But OTOH not obliging others to share their changes to something that they got for free has the potential to not benefit even more other people, so on the whole I think it's usually and on the whole a net loss of freedom. (And in practice, I think the over-permissiveness of the ancestor BSD license is what made Linux, not BSD, the dominant open OS. Had BSD been able to use the GPL [I guess that was legally impossible, right?] it might very well, IMO, have been the other way around.)

But I'm just armchair quarterbacking; I haven't contributed anything at all (yet? Hopefully!) besides kvetching like this, so hats off to you!
They could have done that any time because their code is proprietary, their hardware closed & won't boot code not signed by apple + they gate keep all third party apps from their walled garden.

It would be much harder for them to pull of if the system was open with user actually in control.
Terrence Howard proves the rationality of root 2
Superb, thanks for sharing!
What breed of dog? How much is the insurance?
What is the point of your first paragraph?
IPCC Atlas: see how much temperatures will rise in your region
Okay, what’s the alternative scenario and how do we ensure that doesn’t happen?
What might be useful for the next generation of prosumer cameras is being able to capture depth data (which is probably the main differentiator allowing computational photography to work on smartphones), with editing tools like Photoshop eventually supporting it.
A fifty five year old has more track record upon which to form a judgement.

A twenty year old who can't find cofounders is more likely to be a positive outlier than a fifty five year old who can't. There are another thirty-five years of adult people skills there. If a person knows a cofounder would help but eschews finding one, it's not a strong positive signal.
I don’t know where you are getting data for ruminants in North America. Historical estimates for bison are 60 million prior to systematic extermination, at least 10 million for elk, 50-100 million for deer, plus pronghorn, moose, etc in the many millions each.

Bison may not rebound very quickly but something needs to fill the bison niche in the ecosystem. It is well-understood that several other native species undergo population declines and reducing biodiversity when beef herds are moved out of a region long-term. Cattle and bison are very substitutable for this purpose (and are related species). Deer fill in much faster than most other species of ruminants in North America, usually detrimentally.
No. I am saying "my, or anyone's evaluation of whether or not this thing today is bad is utterly meaningless, because history shows that law enforcement type powers literally never respect limits like these."

Again, your "tech knowledge" will not help you here. The lines you percieve between this "not-bad" thing and a future actually bad thing don't meaningfully exist.

Better to resort to simpler principles, go with the 4th amendment, slightly modified to include the tech companies. If the FBI wants to be in my stuff, they need a warrant, and that's it.
Custom fit earplugs that even allow sleeping on your side.
They don't pop out by themselves and greatly reduce traffic noise (and fan noise during hot summer nights).
The Soviets also had more tanks, though.
Shoot - I've never been very good at the "cool" part. Wish they taught a class on coolness in school. Would have helped a lot.
Bingo. Rapid temperature changes of only a few degrees can become mass extinction events. Of course, the natural world has eventually recovered from every mass extinction - but it can take millions of years to get back to the same level of biodiversity as before the extinction.
The problem with that is that the threshold is unknown, so it could be 2 or 3.
The altitude thing makes it a little more complicated than that, but… yes, essentially:

1. any flight that could be a train journey, make it so; if anything, luxury high-speed train is so much more enjoyable that whatever flying allows at the same cost; there will be electric short-distance planes soon, but we probably want to use those for over-seas journeys;

2. no matter what source of CO2 will remain after we address ICE cars, coal, red meat, dairy, cement and much more, we will need to go negative to restore sanity to the climate, so pulling CO2 will be essential.

The message is: all hands on deck, starting by the big stuff. Flying isn’t huge, but it needs addressing.
I think GP means that if you are stationary relative to the ground (such as on a space elevator or a rocket going straight up), 35786 km up is the only height which is a stable orbit. If you let go of the elevator too early, you'll fall to the ground; too high and you'll fly off into space.
> I get all my work done on time, but always feel guilty and incapable for taking so many breaks.

You get all your work done on time? Then don't feel guilty. You could be calling in magical fairies to write your code, and they do it because they owe you for that one time you saved their kingdom. Doesn't matter. You're getting done what they pay you to get done. If you take 7 hours of breaks and get the work done in one hour, you got it done when they asked you to. You did the work, you take the pay.

You sound like you're feeling guilty for not doing more. But you're doing what you can, and it's enough.

[Edit: Looking at your reply to ksnape, you're not only getting your work done, you're one of the few who do? You're outperforming almost everyone else. Route that guilt to /dev/null, take the breaks you need, and keep delivering.]
I can't really blame them for their new webapp. They've built a great product that doesn't really need any further maintenance. It'd be pretty weird after they finish YNAB4 to just say, "Ok we're done, let's disband the company".
Also, given how much mass transit the average person in Japan is likely to use and the higher population density on average, it seems like a pretty big mistake to conclude that masks are useless.
A lot more delta-v to get a transfer to the sun, then you have to deal with the thermal problems which are pretty difficult to overcome. If you're close enough to the sun to be in its atmosphere, it's going to be pretty hot.
This clearly wasn't a reddit "Kill it with fire!!!" post.

There was a whole 2nd graph talking about consideration of how a kill-it-with-fire decision would affect other living things, non-human even. Clearly more thought than a reddit post would have given. Seeing how reddit is deem such low class on this esteemed and high class board.
Is that a bad thing? Warns pedestrians...
They're not sure how old it is. The best guess range is 2,000 to 4,000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_tree_of_Vouves
Those are examples of shocking conspiracies that got uncovered. Illegal wiretapping and Guantanamo Bay ended up in the news and we're still talking about them now.
"Is learning math useful to be a good computer scientist?"

If you work at science, engineering, or other intensive industry - sure.

If you're like 75%+ of developers that work at some boring company doing CRUD - no.
Thanks to open nature PCs had better capabilities for many years before Next even came out, and cheaper too.

October 1986 https://books.google.com/books?id=mzwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&ots=...

Multiple 1024x768@16 cards in $2-3K range, and an absolute steal - $3K Number Nine 1280 1280x1024@256.

In 1988 you could buy 1664x1200 PC card + 19 inch monitor $2400 combo https://books.google.com/books?id=Cj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53&dq=Si... or ~$1K 15 inch 1mpix version.
Can you fix transitive dependencies in npm natively yet? That's why I switched to yarn.
You'd likely run into the same problem of politicians and local companies lobbying against such a rule, in the name of "don't hurt businesses" etc.
I completely agree with the leisure air travel scenario for airships. It would be incredible anywhere. Massive windows, tons of interior space, and quiet. Here is a deck I prepared luxury airships and opportunities for hydrogen airships:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r6CPFJ1AX1ZULacguTf6...
downvote this one at will:

to be extinct in a decade because no one is taking fresh IPCC report, AR6 WP1, seriously. and not giving long to endemic plants in this context.
I see absolutely no reason to upgrade. I don't have any problems with npm7 right now and I fail to see why I'd need to change all these things and learn a new tool. Maybe the patch thing.

But to say that you eliminated node_modules and then introduce a new folder which will have the same files inside it... sounds like madness to me.

No thanks.
My experience is that Yarn v2 works great as long as you stick with the `node_modules` linker. It's the "Plug 'n Play" functionality that is great in theory but still rough in practice.

I've been using Yarn v2 on a decent-sized mixed-codebase JS app since the fall, and we just switched over to using it for both of the Redux Toolkit and React-Redux repos.
> I don't want this crap being sent to my children

You can always not buy your child a device.

Parents will recoil in horror at the suggestion, being told what to do and limiting their child’s freedom ! Indeed, welcome to our world, where we suffer huge affronts on our freedom and privacy in the name of “the children”.
I thought you just congratulated yourself on a good answer to why climb a mountain. But seriously though, the answer was a question itself, albeit rhetorical. But then you answered it lol...
So... we're committing dependencies now, like Go before dep?
Just a reminder. The title of your post is: "Done with YC: Age Discrimination"
If that. Yarn 2 still has a bunch of issues, and they've already released Yarn 3. So now we have this fragmented scenario where tons of people are still on Yarn 1 because of compatibility issues, Yarn 2 can still be a pain to work with, and now there's a Yarn 3...

Whereas Bundler just works (generally speaking).
CDC Contingency Plans for COVID-19 Camps (a.k.a. Shielding)
It's so someone can use it as a coding challenge in a technical interview, of course.