skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't question that social media isn't great, although 1990s me knows I don't need addictive algorithms to fritter away all my time online, so I tend to find those arguments a bit overblown.

But I guess I'm just missing the gene that makes me compare myself to what I see online. Don't get me wrong, I've had my share of envy and jealousy throughout the course of my life. But I don't find that looking at my friends' vacations makes me less happy with my life, I enjoy living vicariously when they go on vacation, and sharing my own when I do the same. I don't compare myself to models. I don't need a picture of some greek god to tell me I'd like to lose those 20lbs again. I've often joked that I'll probably be anxious about ending up broke and destitute right up until the day I retire. (I'm doing well in my career and financial life, it will just always be a worry of mine). But I actively avoid the kind of content where the only goal is to bragpost, and I find it quite easy, because that kind of personality doesn't appeal to me.

Is it because I follow my friends on Facebook and Instagram, rather than "influencers"? I don't really care about Lambo some middle eastern prince just bought this week, or what purses some model owns. Maybe this is why I prefer Facebook to Twitter. I don't like the default-broadcast model of Twitter, I think that's what makes it toxic. On the other hand, the default-private model of Facebook that lets me just enjoy my friends' content also creates stronger echo chambers, I suppose.
I don't get the "don't live in big cities" thing. Unless you prefer the country life, giving up big city qol (not to mention the social and professional networking opportunities) to reduce expenses by maybe $200k over a decade doesn't make sense in the context of the kind of hourly rates we are talking about here, especially since companies adjust your salary up if you live in a big city

Good point about leaving jobs that have many meetings, though

Also, I think it's smart to take breaks between contracts, as you can build your skills and become senior much faster if you can focus on studying full-time 2-3+ months every year. Compared to self-directed project-based study, jobs are a hopelessly inefficient way to build competence

Also, yeah....don't do a startup unless you are VERY sure you don't mind being stuck there and having it be your whole life for 5-7+ years if it works
Don't you people get it.. It's already happened! You guys are smart enough to know that if infinity exists then existence has been here a shit load of time and 13.8 billion years is about the time it takes god to take a long, relieving shit so get over yourselves because if infinity=true then everything that can happen has already happened but because you are all god & you were smart enough to come up with this idea of blowing yourself up and using the debris to separate yourself into billions of little pieces, each with their own little consciousness and you chose to forget who you really are and you will never work out that you are really all these little human beings and everything else that exists as matter/energy, but because you set this all up before your bing bang, you decided to let a few little rascals grow up to remember the actual truth, just for kicks.. I just happened to be one of them, and there's about 22-25 people so far throughout history that knows/knew the truth and apparently another event as big as the big bang is going to happen very soon and all I can seem to remember is that I've/we've set up something huge to happen involving all the dark matter throughout the universe combined with all the dark energy and it's going to be a hell of a show!
I've heard a lot of stories of older Japanese people being extremely trash-conscious. The stories I've read are typically Americans living in Japan and getting trash-shamed by an elderly neighbor because they mis-sorted a single can or left a wrapper on a water bottle. The context being that the Japanese person is constantly double checking the American garbage assuming they're going to mess it up.
The Federal government can't just pass a law on anything it wants. The law has to be about some power explicitly granted to the Federal government in the constitution - an enumerated power.

https://legaldictionary.net/enumerated-powers/

Otherwise the combination of being able to legislate in any area + supremacy clause means the states have no power that the federal government can't override. That's not federalism! Federalism means some powers can be centralized and others cannot, and it's the constitution that lists, or enumerates, the federal powers.

For example, the Federal government can't pass a wealth tax or a property tax. It could only pass an income tax because of a constitutional amendment authorizing the taxing of incomes. Before that amendment, it could not even pass an income tax. States, however, can. That's why there is no federal property tax or asset tax but there are state versions of both!

Now the name of the game is usually to try to link federal laws regarding regulation to the interstate commerce clause.

But the courts don't have unlimited tolerance for that, and recently they've been pairing this tolerance back. In the past, for example, Federal gun control laws banning guns in schools were allowed because of tortured arguments that guns affect schools, and schools affect interstate commerce. I mean, real stretches were common like this. But those types of arguments don't fly anymore as the courts have regained a bit of sanity when it comes to federalism.

Now when you stretch "public health" to include "mandatory vaccine", then you are really stretching interstate commerce quite a bit. This is going to raise constitutional questions as to whether you can force the entire population (as opposed to, say, airline pilots) to get a vaccine because of the interstate commerce clause. And if this is not an enumerated power, then it passes to the states and the EO is unconstitutional.
> "The main benefit of taking a break from social media is that you stop living in a fictional world and finally start dealing with your own reality."

> There is lots of quantifiable information showing that social media is bad for you. This seems much harder to quantify, but seems like the elephant in the room.

This is perfectly reasonable, but I am personally very skeptical.

Also from the article:

>> “As painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real. Do you understand?”

Plato's Allegory of the Cave precedes social media by a substantial margin:

>> Plato's “Allegory of the Cave” appears in Book 7 of his masterwork, “The Republic.” Plato wrote “The Republic,” a sustained disquisition on a utopian society, sometime between 380 and 360 B.C., during a period of Greek history known as the Classical Age.

What if the elephant in the room that is social media is actually more like a red herring, a diversion from the actual elephant in the room: human consciousness?

There are recurring themes and patterns that can be found in the comments every time this sort of article (and other sorts) pop up, the most common ones I always pick up on:

- many/most individuals speaking as if they understand The Problem, and know The Solution

- the most common solution people propose is legislation (aka: Democracy)

- there tends to be a very small set of....general thinking styles on display - it's a very slippery concept to nail down, I think of it as the complexity that falls under the general header of culture

My question is: what if everyone is wrong[1], and that is the reason that these problems never go away? What if the problem is something other than what it seems to be, and humanity never discovers it because they never thought to look for it, perhaps because they were fooled/distracted by the illusory The Problem that appeared before them (...from where - nobody asks.....as if it is has root access and is completely off the radar)?

[1] A theme or pattern that one will rarely encounter on social media: individuals wondering if their theory (ideology, whatever) is actually correct. The lack of curiosity in modern times would be shocking, if we had the counter-intuitive ability to see things that are not there.
He sounded at least a bit put out to me too
Insane that Apple allows this!
I won't say such a solution is without merit, by any means, but it lowers the barrier significantly to mass requests of bug bounties of increasingly trivial nature. Since the entity paying out has less knowledge of the product being reported on, it's arguably difficult for them to know if a bounty is justifiable, and since the developer isn't on the hook for the money, they have little incentive not to agree to pay out.

The combination to me feels like a recipe for a lot of payouts for dubious reports. And in at least one case, a request was made to mark a report as valid even though it wasn't really a security flaw or something that was going to be "fixed".

It's good to hear someone has had a positive experience though!
Those questions have themselves been solved. Static analysis works in practice, even for very intricate properties.
I don't understand what you mean, what's the question?
China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear reactors
Yeah it's very doable. I did it in 5 years with a bit of lucky investments.

Although a million dollars won't make you happy. It's not what you actually want.
> and presumably submitted by the author

if the username is a guide....
There was a huge overlap with natural philosophers that were also doing "regular" philosophy. It shares the same mentality of approaching questions, it's just that natural philosophy had a much better method of verifying its output.
Specific technologies, no. But I see the difference between my engineering experience and that of the guys who are experts at things like web dev and I have to learn to be effective and their experience has already taught them everything.
If anyone else is interested in more information about the case, this is the best properly sourced article I could find. It's in portuguese but translation works well.

http://mapadeconflitos.ensp.fiocruz.br/conflito/go-vitimas-d...
In 2010 Delhi University sold a not in use Gammacell 220 research irradiator to a scrap dealer that was in the local news for a few days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayapuri#2010_Mayapuri_radiolo...
All you write until the part about South Africa more or less makes sense but you are leaving out a whole lot:

Yes, forcibly removing 750 000 people can absolutely be considered a crime.

But what then about the more than 750 000 Jews that were forcibly removed from their homes in the neighboring countries?

Should they also have the right to return?

Does it matter that Arab leadership encouraged your parents and others to leave? (In addition to the barbaric actions of certain Israeli groups.)

Because both sides are displaced, only your side was on top of that also betrayed by their own leadership and used as a pawn while the Israeli side took care of its own people including to a large degree Arabs who chose to stay.

When it comes to South Africa I have close friends and even relatives there. A fellow sysadmin friend of mine got knocked to the ground there by a gun (used to hit, not shoot) just last year in a robbery. People have to use guns, barbed wire and more to protect themselves. Politics is more or less crazy as far as I understand.
I was gonna quibble with you, but I realized that the article title is “specific technology experience,” not “specific programming language experience,” so I think you have a point.

I mean, forklifts are a technology, but I feel pretty confident that three years as a React developer proooobably doesn’t qualify me to just hop on one of those.

Every message in moderation, I guess.
The core message is true: If you get a high paying job, keep expenses low, and invest the difference then you will accumulate wealth over time.

But this isn’t a secret. It’s the dream of a significant majority of the young CS students and grads that I’ve worked with as a mentor lately. They all grew up with the internet. Most of them know about Mr. Money Mustache or another FIRE blogger.

Yet very few of them end up moving to the country and doing high paying remote work. They all learn very quickly that remote companies aren’t in a rush to give $200-300K compensation to new grads with zero real world experience who live so far from the office that they have to do everything remote.

So instead they move to cities with jobs, where they meet people, establish friend groups, and eventually settle down with a partner. They also discover that full-time jobs are actually very nice right now, or that we’ll-paying full-remote contract work isn’t as easy to come by as blogs make it sound.

I do know a few people doing the remote work / country living thing, but they’re all building on top of decades of experience and reputation building to get those contracts.

In general, be skeptical of anyone selling an “it’s easy” vision of getting rich and not working hard. If it was truly easy, more people would be doing it. Usually these pitches are associated with people “selling the dream”, which is why this particular pitch is attached to a Substack that the author wants you to subscribe to in order to learn the secrets. Take with a grain of salt.
Yeah, I use my own domain in my profile for the reason given in the article - it's pointless to drive someone off social media and land them straight onto another property you don't own.
I think it probably depends on what the domain is. If the position is highly technical in nature then I would agree. However, I do think that beyond a certain point the ability to become highly competent on the fly in a new domain is extremely valuable. If the person will be giving input on business strategy, tech pipeline, then the ability to move laterally and adopt new ways of doing things should be highly valued.
>Journalists regularly omitted things from reporting that was widely known to support popular political narratives or their own ideas of what good outcomes would be, "for the good of the country".

To paraphrase Mitch Hedburg, sure, they used to. They still do, but they used to, too. But now there are fewer of them.

>Investigative journalism is alive and probably better than ever before despite being less profitable than wildly irresponsible opinion masquerading as journalism.

This strikes me as kind of a crazy claim, but in the grandparent I was bemoaning the decline of functional local journalism. The rot hasn't really, truly hit big newspapers in big cities; the parent's citation of the continued existence of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting kinda doesn't change the realities of the local news, the decline of which is evident, well-studied, and heralds corruption of both democracy and mere finance.[0][1][2]

I've linked blog-level readings, but feel free to scrutinize the links in the Global Anti-Corruption Blog article [0] for more academic analysis on the topic.

Look to groups like Alden Capital [3], which buy up and destroy small-town American news sources. You'll find that those disappearing local papers used to pen most of the original reporting in the US. It's so fucking evident that mainstream institutions like PBS and NPR and even Netflix recognize it -- namely, "The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj" [4] on exactly what I'm talking about.

[0] https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/01/25/the-decline-...

[1] https://niemanreports.org/articles/less-local-news-means-les...

[2] https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2018/06/06/a-new-study-...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1046952430/the-consequences-o...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNirsV1rLA
> I'm unaware of there being any restriction on using US banks

Most institutions won’t open an account for someone with an OFAC hit. They legally can. But it involves a lot of extra legal, compliance and other costs. As a result, most don’t.
> I'm always amazed when artists and producers can recognize a sound as something that can be radically transformed, because I'm pretty musical but my imagination doesn't work like that.

I’m usually the same way. I will say though, I once had what felt to me like a stroke of genius when I realized that a sample from the theme from American Beauty fit perfectly in my cover of NIN’s The Day The World Went Away.

I’d share, but I hate my vocals and I don’t have the original source tracks to make an instrumental mix. But if you listen to the Quiet remix you might be able imagine how it fits.
AMD Gives Details on EPYC Zen4: up to 96 and 128 cores
We are. We’re just also engineers.
I did not do the analysis myself but I saw some numbers and they make it a very good investment. Unfortunately I cannot share.
Learn .NET is a great place to start:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn
Sure, and new companies will arise to develop and use open protocols if that's incentivized, but as long as not just attention or eyeballs, but capturing as much user activity and generated content as possible, is monetizable pretty directly (customize ads; feed your ML models to gain competitive advantage over those without the same reach into users' lives, and sell your ML capabilities), I think we're in for more of the same, even if we shuffle the chairs around.
There are many perks to living outside of the city. You can have twice the house for 1/3 the cost. It's much quieter. There are hobbies and activities that are only available outside of the city. Of course, if you are single, it's a terrible idea, but for married people or those in committed relationships, there are a lot of pluses to consider.

As an example, a friend lives in a 5 bed, 4 bath house and hour and a half out of the city. He has a woodshop, a workshop, fire pit, fireplace, man cave, 4 car garage, loves dirt biking, off-roading, cycling, fishing, flying his racing drone,and can play his drums as loud as he wants. He is also only an hour and a half from the city if he wants to go in for the day or weekend. He would be in a 2 bed, 1.5 bath condo if he lived in the city and wouldn't be able to do any of his hobbies; maybe the cycling.
Isn’t half of his work repurposing generic advertising material as art?
Moderna used AI to develop the Covid-19 vaccine
Often the number of years required is discriminatory. Asking for 1 or 2 years experience is probably fine, but quite a few posts ask for five years. Without a particularly good reason, I suspect this is nominally unlawful in many jurisdictions.

Remember, what employers actually want is competency (and replaceability), not years of possible mediocrity.
I wasted my time on BBSes and IRC long before social media. I absolutely agree that optimizing for engagement can have some seriously bad consequences and it might even be good to look at regulating it, but a lot of the anti-social-media stuff feels like hipsterism, or ludditeism, or something.

It's sure interesting to notice a crowd who, no doubt, mocked the "violent video games caused Columbine" go full throttle after social media.
None of those are carriers nor were any of them hit by missiles. I'm sure you could sink a carrier if you rammed it with a comparably sized ship or if you snuck on board and disabled all the safety systems, but that's easier said than done.
Not one in particular, but I look closely at comments from disgruntled employees or what people hate in a workplace and then I make a mental note not to do that.

Coupled with common sense and basic human decency, it still has been an education.

HN also allowed me to be informed early on about COVID-19 and take the necessary measures. I cancelled my flight to Paris in February 2020 after being there in January and computing the risk borders would shut down. They shut down for more than a year and a half, and I have spent that time with my dying mother until the last moment. I would have missed the last year with her if I had taken that trip, and an important factor I did not take it was all the good people here covering the subject and attracting my attention to its evolution internationally. I am yet to pay that debt.

The comments here also drew my attention to how other sectors were suffering, and I made inquiries and talked with many people here in different sectors. It resulted in giving away about 90% of my income to different people as I was fortunate enough to work remotely and they were not. To go back full circle: it solidified the point of how important it was to have the means to do good, which is why I'd like to become confortable enough to help more people (thus, startups).
This isn't true at all. Its obvious for a senior/staff/principal engineer to claim that their skillset is infinitely transferrable to any job role that needs a staff level skillse, but its simply not true. There are tooling agnostic skills you learn (managing complexity, upleveling team members, how to actually be a technical leader and make improvements that a manager doesn't explicitly tell you to do) and there are tooling specific skills that you need in an organization (EX: dependency management in java, performance issues in certain DBs, the unwritten/not explicit API issues in different cloud platforms). If I am hiring for a staff engineer, I will be trying to get the combination of "tooling agnostic" staff engineering skills AND "tooling specific" staff engineering skills for my job opening because you don't end up paying more for an engineer that has a well matched "tooling specific" skillset, but they will be more productive. The net cost to me as an employer is simply time, I might need to source 3x the candidates to get a good fit, but its worth it.
The official resources and documentation are pretty good.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/?view=aspnetcor...
Like $33 per month if it's 20 years, but the average is closer to 30 and can last as long as 50.
> Your insistence makes me wonder what kind of incentives you have to be perceiving

If someone disagrees with you, surely they must be getting paid. Whose payroll are you on?

> Can we go back to having an earnest discussion

Indeed.
Me, Myself, and AI: a podcast on artificial intelligence in business
Except if the language is c or c++. Then a misstep shoots you and your dog.

Better know those floors goddam well
> Because of vast piles of bad science fiction being taken as fact

None of these systems could work if only facts were used as input. Maybe some "factual" score could be presented with the data, but wow, that's a philosophical problem there.
The idea was not house flipping at scale. They wanted to "market make" for housing. Housing market is illiquid. People would leave decent money on the table if they could just sell their houses within hours without having to deal with realtors, open houses, listing and closing process. Of course Zillow would have made some repairs and improvements but I don't believe that they thought this was their upside.
I think /r/jung does a better job with this.
Tcl is also at the heart of some F5 Networks products
Argus: Simple, low-overhead program argument parser in C
Work life balance laws like the 40 hour work week and paid family leave work just fine when implemented. There's dozens more examples.
I learned C#/.NET by jumping into an existing project, so I can't answer your question directly.

I can, however, recommend you use Rider as your IDE. It includes JetBrains' excellent ReSharper code analysis tool, which actually corrects a lot of your generic OO code and will automatically rewrite it for you to be more idiomatic (avoiding memory and performance issues, for example). Rider knows the sharp edges so you can mostly forget about them.

Otherwise it should be very easy for you to pick up. .NET has some annoying code organization conventions (lots of subprojects, too many folders, etc.) but you can just structure your project however makes sense for you and avoid all of that.