skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I care about something and I want others to care about it too, I frame it in a way that would help them do that. For example the two main ways I’ve seen newspapers argue in favour of changes are data driven (538) or human interest angle (NYT). Each approach appeals to a different demographic. I’ll use the approach that appeals to my audience, not the one that I personally find most compelling. That doesn’t make me dishonest, just sensitive to the preferences of people listening to me.

Will a change in this law make it easier for Amazon to staff warehouses and teams working on defence contracts? Yes. And are they convincing people with language most likely to work? Also yes. I don’t see the issue.
That data can be sold to anyone else around the world, or used to remotely mess with your life. You don’t have to physically be in the country where your data is compromised to experience bad effects. Data brokers don’t care where their customers are physically located as long as they have the cash.
Sure, but I think the analogy is more appreciating the difference between the best orchestra playing a piece and a more average one. Or why one Bach composition is "better" than another one. I like classical well enough, but I wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars for good seats to hear a specific soloist in a specific theater.
Mr Rogers never sounded condescending to me. I think it helps that he really owned it. I’d say he came off as a little boring but nice and caring.
We could always make sure there isn't more of this sort of research being done right now. Firing anyone who was involved (as opposed to, say, giving them regular interview slots on CNN) also seems wise.
No, they love his Facebook thing but they want his bumblefuck ass gone so the company can be professionally managed.
So, the USD, which has been inflated every time they expanded the empire over the last XXX years, but their citizenship/working class feels it's deflationary, so they keep chasing it as fast as they possibly can...?
You can transfer your chat history if you back it up on Google Drive and pull it from the new device.

I suppose you don't want to do that, maybe because it gives a third party access to your history (although it should be E2EE), but I am writing this for readers who may stumble upon this
On Abortion and the Debt Limit
In fact, the whole existence of the Soviet Union and everything that was done inside it was merely a propaganda stunt stretched into 67 years, that had no other purpose except showing the greatness of the Soviet Union as an actual country (while in reality, of course, it was but a humongous film set, with a propagandistic theatre play being performed on it).

Man, that was a fun paragraph to write.
> In a controlled environment, the variation between most software engineers is much more modest.

I have a feeling the writing has never worked with 10x developers. You know, everyone knows, that there's a galactic difference between the average team member vs that 10x in the corner crafting code like an artist chiseling into a block of marble.

... and then there's that awe inspiring, humbling privilege when you score getting onto a team where everyone are 10x-er.

The variation between most software engineers isn't modest, it's a Mariana Trench of a difference.
Yeah I don't think Amazon cares at all about "communities of color" or anything related to social good. They want more ways to make profit and if they can sell weed on their website, they're going to push for it.
How far will global population rise? Researchers can’t agree
>Unless you have monopoly/strongly cartelized employers, wages will reflect worker productivity.

This was more or less the case until 1981 when Reagan bust the ATC union (followed by multiple private sector union busting attempts).

Worker productivity only puts a ceiling on wages. The actual wage is determined by workers' leverage, of which productivity is just one component.

This is how Denmark can have lower overall productivity and still have $22 / hr wages. McDs just isnt as profitable there.
> They did have to stop using though

That is kinda the point. At this point I'm very accustomed to not getting drug tested for jobs, and I'm not willing to give that up. I don't even smoke that much; I'd be willing to give it up for the right reason, but defense contractor clearance wouldn't cut it.
Feel free to post your own estimate. Please include your reasoning.
Cost. Isn't the process to extract thc content and turn it into an edible rather intensive? Not to mention spoilage issues.
I know a lot of pothead security clearance holders. Hasn't really been a restriction in over a decade.
You are spot on. It is not a bad thing, I believe.

It is a brand (Michelin) with their taste. If you agree with their taste it can open similar recommendations. Like music recommendations from Pitchfork or NME. It can also work as a reverse-recommendation: avoiding movies that won an Oscar, or from a certain Director, or that your cousin loves ;).

If somebody likes the imperfections of vinyl, or of traditional firm photography, good for them. It does not need to be a hipster thing.
From the future work aspect the author might consider adding an IMU to the device. It could mimic dice behavior or change state based on motion. Also a great opportunity to learn about dynamics and signal processing.
A few towns in my area have been experimenting with "road diets" -- taking streets originally designed with only car traffic in mind, and reconfiguring them (without building new infrastructure) to reduce the primacy of cars and make other modes of transport more appealing -- with varying degrees of success. In one case, there was an observed impact of trip times _decreasing_ despite losing a lane of traffic in each direction -- the change in configuration reduced congestion at intersections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet
Reading charitably does not mean ignoring the plain words in the text.

To reiterate, the article declares objectivity and rigor to be "harmful research practices" without qualification. It then goes on to define these terms in a narrow, unreasonable way in the passages you quote, or to make unsubstantiated claims unsupported by any reasonable definition. (For example, contra the article, objectivity does not "enable" researchers to claim that they are unbiased if they are in fact enacting bias. If I claim that stealing is legal, the concept of legality is not to blame for my erroneous claim.) These unsubstantiated definitions and claims are used to justify the original declaration that objectivity and rigor are harmful research practices.

The text could be rewritten to make its underlying valid points in a less ridiculous way, but the text as written is still ridiculous. And it's part of a much larger academic body of work in which positive values like objectivity and rigor are redefined in a narrow, negative way so that they can be disparaged as racist.

The arch example of redefining objectivity in order to disparage it as racist is Tema Okun's critique of "white supremacy culture" [1]. This critique has countless descendants in academia, and now, in organizational diversity trainings across the country.

This article is not just awkwardly written. It's reinforcing the Okun concept of anti-racism. And within that concept is a relentless, Orwellian broadside against the language we use to articulate traditional intellectual and moral values. It has never been nuanced, and it is many years past the point of deserving charitable reading.

[1] https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/preserve/museums/fil...
> kind of full stack developer I'd like to be

Same. It's really fun to mix high level software with hardware.
Worked on a project where if our product exceeds a power consumption threshold, we would be penalised financially. x dollars per kilowatt per month per instance.
It adds up fast!
I often feel that all of these “personal responsibility” initiatives are distractions from passing a carbon tax as well. Polluters have a long history of campaigning for personal responsibility solutions so they can continue polluting (going back to the “Crying Indian” ad in the 70s). Of course I think everyone should lower their carbon footprint, but we’re never going to come close without carbon tax and border adjustments. Of course if you’re writing your legislators regularly to advocate for a carbon tax and writing Green Software or eating vegan or whatever, then great, but by far the best use of your time is contacting your politicians.

Similarly, I suspect polluters love the Democrats’ climate policy or even the Green New Deal which would have tax-payers spend trillions on programs that are tenuously related to climate (“climate justice”) rather than inhibiting polluters or making them foot the bill. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the Republicans would do better, but it’s really hard to see us spend trillions and not take climate seriously, all the whole smugly bragging about how we’re the ones who believe scientists.
Not in this case since we're talking about atmospheric bolite explosions, and not ocean impacts from larger asteroids - which on the scale in question - are far less likely.
I agree 100%.

Reading through this thread has me damn well convinced that most folks have zero idea how much power things in their homes use.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-NsgOa42VE

Here is your world of underground freeway biking btw
Real-cancellable-promise – JavaScript/TypeScript library
A similarly amusing Wikipedia page is the one on recursive islands and lakes [0], where you can find such curiosities as a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes
JLC offers SMD assembly and it's cheap. But maybe they didn't stock the LEDs he wanted to use.
This is kind of ironic. This tweet is taking an article about the importance of context in research out of context.
The point of the article is not whether 10x factors have been observed, the point is that (in all cases the author has seen) they are dependent on circumstances/environment and not the individual.

Implicitly, he invites readers to re-evaluate their experiences.

To me, this rings true for most mundane organizations (not id software).
Well now that cannabis legalization is useful to our corporate masters with their lobbying tentacles deep in the digestive and reproductive tracts of our elected and appointed officials then it's a fait accompli.
If Facebook is a Delaware Corp, the General Assembly has the authority to revoke their charter and kill Facebook dead.
The average time between two events, is not the same as taking a window just barely including two data points.
Watch the FDA presentation on boosters. Then watch project veritas undercover investigation. This is the deadliest vax in human history.
Have you watched Joe Rogan? What makes someone a "real intellectual"?
> To be honest most of the fascination with pot is the fact that it's illegal and you are not supposed to smoke it.

This is easily disproven by looking at domestic marijuana usage in states where it is legal -- reported past marijuana use has increased year after year in every such state.

> Governments around the world should think long and hard before legalizing it because as soon as they do, people will move to the next thing.

This view is myopic. What about societal benefits? Shouldn't governments also think about: tax revenue increases, fewer people in jail, more people employed, lower use of opiates, etc? (Not to mention personal liberty and giving citizens the right to grow a plant whose effects are clearly less harmful than alcohol in the aggregate.)

> The way I see it , alcohol is the layer0 . People use it to lower their own inhibitions and also groups as a whole to lower the group's inhibitions.

People also use alcohol and then commit domestic abuse or kill people with automobiles or kill themselves, while their "inhibitions are lowered". Sounds great for society.

(On re-reading, I see you are not necessarily arguing for alcohol to be legal -- you seem to be saying that there will be a slow ramp-up of legalizing all drugs because people want to "one-up each other". I find this claim strange and it doesn't resonate with me -- I know plenty of people that like alcohol and not weed, and vice versa. There's no hierarchy of drugs.)
> Where is the world of underground illegal cycling on freeways?

The underground culture of illegal street racing is alive and well though.

Cycling is not a social activity in the sense that has constraints to socialization both during the activity as well as before/after.

Street racing isn't that social of an activity either but it exists and thriving. The Fast saga made 15B from it. Drug consumption on a night out is the social activity by definition, it trumps street racing.
> Then there are ultramarathons

and then there's Mauro Prosperi
DIY Kubernetes-based platform building – part 2
Yeah, I don't really want to argue this side because I think the drone strikes are reprehensible but in the U.S. there will likely be at a minimum internal investigations, quite possibly congressional hearings, etc. I doubt the same could be said if China did something similar.
"I get the sense that the people who would make up those audiences probably have better things to do ..."

This 1000%.
Hi HN!

I'm Matt, author of Framer Motion and Popmotion. Today I'm launching my new side-project, Motion One.

It's a new animation library built on the Web Animations API (WAAPI). I actually started this project as a book, but repeatedly found myself explaining some odd concepts (like fill mode) that I felt quite strongly that users shouldn't have to care about. I also discovered the state of WAAPI's implementation is very inconsistent across browsers despite green lights across caniuse [1].

Motion One smooths over these inconsistencies and adds an opinionated API that makes it easier to use [2]. In addition, it adds all the features you'd want from a modern animation library, like a timeline, independent transform animations, and soon, springs.

Being built on WAAPI means you also get hardware accelerated animations in a bundlesize thats around half that of Anime.js and a fifth of Greensock [3].

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

[1] https://caniuse.com/web-animation
[2] https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements
[3] https://motion.dev/guides/feature-comparison
In particular, there are all sorts of incentives for adtech to burn CPU on the _client_, which doesn't cost them anything. It's entirely possible to burn 0.1cent of electricity to earn 0.001cent of ad revenue.
That's a really interesting product/website. I just looked at:

https://lowimpact.organicbasics.com/eur/collections/all-mens...

You have to click on the images to actually see the real clothes you'd like to buy. I understand green/eco but I wonder who would ever use a website like this to buy any kind of (physical) goods? It kills entirely the UX and obviously it saves the company money in terms of cpu/memory/bandwidth used.

What about the costs of me having to go back and forth to see all the items one by one, therefore triggering more pages views? What about the mobile experience?
I wonder if the people commenting "I want one" would still agree if they knew how much it would cost to produce and assemble in small quantities. Would 1000€/piece even be enough to cover costs?
That simply reflects the fact that 5.5 billion is 55,000 times larger than 100,000.

Anything you do to have even the tiniest effect on the consumption of nearly the entire world's population is going to have a large impact.
> it smashed 7000 buildings across 6 cities

This is extremely hyperbolic. Breaking a window is not "smashed".
> I very much doubt all but a tiny, tiny fraction of them have any use case at all.

Well, right.

That's why all of the trading volume.

Bunch of no-nothings trying to figure out technological value via herd mentality!
Yes and no. I'd had my bags packed for years. I was sticking around, to make sure that my team was treated as well as possible, on the way out.
It's something substantive and clearly newsworthy that happened as a matter of public record over a month ago without any media attention. That's pretty much the definition of "quiet" in the context of a notable news event.

For comparison's sake, it's extremely common for those who file lawsuits of this type and magnitude to announce that they are doing it. These plaintiffs did not and that's a relevant detail in the narrative.
It's a great write up, but is it really worth asking for free PCBs that would cost ~$5 for a project whose cost is >$100?
Did they realise that you must be high to be willing to work for them?
But the burden of their unfinished work most likely falls to you and colleagues.

That’s fine for a while, but what if it intrudes in personal life? What if the work doesn’t get done, say a power outage, sanitation issues, it can impact many people?

If that’s your colleague, what’s the recourse?
The waterfall method (which is what is being invoked when "comprehensive requirements spec" is stated) was, and is, always a fictional story told by people both during and after the project. The entire difficulty of a software project lies in figuring out what needs to be done. Well that and fighting with the tools and modules ;)
I think there's something missing here. In how we operate applications.

It's not unusual to run an application on a server where that server is using only 25% of its resources (e.g., ram and/or cpu). Then, there are many different servers running many applications all of which are under utilized.

There are more efficient ways to operate these applications that drive up power efficiency. Google brags about the power efficiency of their data centers[1]. They do a bunch of things worth copying.

There are ways to operate software better... not just develop the apps themselves.

[1] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/

edited to add missing link
And while there’s nothing wrong with people choosing to do that, there’s absolutely everything wrong with organisations that expect it.
Even a desktop only runs about 100w unless you're doing something like gaming. Admittedly, a desktop guarantees you're using another screen, so tack on 60w for the external monitor.

You'd still be better off turning off the lights in a single room, in most cases, or simply toggling the AC up literally 1 to 2 degrees.
I love devices like this, buying a Behringer Neutron completely opened my eyes to the possibilities of patching on a bigger level than just music.

I do have to wonder who would buy this though. Analog computers like this are virtually useless unless you have some particularly applied use-case for them. I'd be interested to hear some user testimony if anyone owns one of these!
You are right of cause. I wrote "without any reason" bcs the reasonable cause for termination can be very loose. Bad fit, competence not needed etc. are enough. Unless the true reason is an illegal one like pregnancy and so on.
This is always the issue, no institutional buy-in.

One thing I learned a long time ago is that a "bad" process that is followed universally by everyone (dev, pjm, pm) will always out perform a "great" process with only token buy-in and constant exceptions.
Edibles and other forms of consumption often don't have all the same compounds in them. Marijuana has a lot of stuff in it and many of these compounds aren't fully understood yet.

In college, I liked smoking up from time to time if someone offered. I'd get incredibly high and have a great time. Now that it's legal here in Canada I thought "why not try some THC chocolate?". I ordered it online, had a piece and waited.

It sucked. The bar contained THC and a little bit of CBD and nothing else. I didn't really get the kind of high I remember enjoying in college, just a light buzz and felt sleepy. Honestly the best part was the chocolate, which was super high quality.

I still haven't tried smoking pot again. But I suspect I would have a much better time if I did.
Hollywood Myths about Sprinklers
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think saving energy is the wrong overall way to go. Better is to be 100% renewable (or otherwise "green") when generating energy, so that consumption ceases to be an issue.
I don't think FaceBook is going to be able to pull this off. While Zuckerberg is clearly a talented individual, the area he has consistently shown himself to be most lacking in is self awareness. Unfortunately for him and Facebook, this is perhaps the most critical ability one needs when defending one's image.
The agile envirionments I've worked in have been preferable, and I'm for whatever gets things done. The manifesto and resulting method showed a clear understanding of the problem they were solving, what I don't think they understood is why waterfall "worked" and what "worked" meant.

Not sure if they have a word for it now, but I call it The Fold, above which, the organization is not agile, and still operates on a dynamic narrative of representations, impressions, commitments and dates without anything concrete, and to people above it, that is a feature.

The concreteness of agile becomes a set of forcing functions on people whose job is to sustain options ("optionality") and not be subject to be forcing functions, but rather, to issue them.

I'm all for the agile anti-governance to make things, but what an enterprise business really is is a governance layer extacting value from capital in an as-abstracted and generic way as possible, where products, people, infrastructure, are interchangeable black boxes in balancing that capital management equation. Making "things" doesn't matter in an enterprise, as the whole business is just a narrative over abstractions of those things.

The flow of the factors and the yield on that capital is directed by the attention and narrative at the executive level between organizations - not by making stuff. What agile practitioners miss is that sometimes, a general sends a platoon on a (career) suicide mission because that's just what's necessary to sustain this yielding narrative that steers the organization. Agile was designed to preclude those missions, which are a key tool in an executive playbook.

That's just in enterprise. I have stumped a couple of agile coach friends with the startup puzzle, "for the company to survive, we need to get another round of investment. To get that, we need prestige customer X in our pipeline because the investors say they are in if this customer is. Customer X wants this feature because their contract with our competitor is coming up, and we have this short window to close this and replace them. It means we need an un-agile date commitment with some tech debt to demonstrate we can execute, or we run out of money. Agile me this."

Most of the answers are counterfactual, where it's "well, you shouldn't have got into that situation." I even agree, where personally, I wouldn't have got into that disadvantaged relationship with just one customer in the first place because I know how that works, but I have watched a few execs die on that hill, and this is a common pattern that happens when sales gets ahead of PMF - you're going to get snookered in front of a date. I'd argue that any method that depends on its own purity is really just a model or an ideology, and not a solution.

What McKinsey will need to do is create the connecting glue between agile production and the narrative business atmosphere, so I'd say agile is not dead, it's being integrated.
That road has a sidewalk, that isn't a freeway.
I used to like Rogan years ago. He was sort of like a cross between Art Bell and Howard Stern, but with less of a penchant for bringing on wild-ass cranks than Art Bell. I found Art Bell entertaining but didn't buy 90% of the stuff on there.

A real intellectual is someone with a deep understanding of their field. It's usually someone actually working in their field, not a media personality. Actually doing things generally leaves one with little time to talk about doing them, especially to the degree that is required to build a big audience.