skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I draw the line at whether the subject of the discussion is an idea, a concept, or what someone said vs the person who said it.

It's the difference between "The good news is, it's unlikely that the OP got any damage from the fumes" vs. "The OP sounds like a hypochondriac".

"That's an expected risk of of using modern devices, there's no reason to complain" might be an unpopular opinion; "the OP is paranoid and probably lying" is a needless attack.

The above are examples from this thread.

You were correct when you said that I'm the kind to take apart things that were said. I'm avoiding taking apart people.

"Everything you said is incorrect" is fair game, "you are an idiot" is not.

I'm putting my name here on things that I say, and you can see that my opinions are, at the very least, not uncontroversial.

I've been told to shut up several times in this thread alone; my favorite was someone telling me that I have said "more bits than I have a right to". Those comments are welcome; it's an admission of defeat (frustration with their own inability to mount a response that expresses more than a downvote).

What's not welcome is comments about what I/the OP/another people in the thread are — because publicly expressing such opinions is an action that you do towards other people in the discussion.

Even positive comments about others aren't great. If you told me that I'm intelligent / awesome / fantastic / etc, I'd just ignore it: you don't know me, you can't know that. I might as well be an awful and stupid person.

But the things that I say are out there to be picked apart. The opinions about them can have a basis.

Like, here, we can discuss the issue of echo cancellation, validity of advice to get super expensive headphones (as well as who should be given such advice) till the cows go home. It's OK to say that the OP was completely off the mark there.

It's the implication that he's not a good engineer and that his words aren't worth reading that I had an issue with.

Hope that clarifies where I'm coming from, and thanks for interesting food for thought :)

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TL;DR: ad hominem = bad.

Having and expressing controversial opinions is great — as long the people your talking with aren't the subject of the discussion (and your opinion isn't about them).
I run a US-based startup with a relatively small budget and hire developers in "low-cost" countries. I expect to pay $70k-$100k for a regular competent developer and more for a solid self-motivated developer. If the company is legitimate, they can afford $90k++. Try to speak directly with whoever would be your manager - if you can demonstrate to them that you're a) good b) excited to work on their problems, and c) require zero babysitting (as a senior person), they'll override whatever silly numbers HR put on the form.

$45k is beyond silly; it's disrespectful for senior talent, regardless of where they live. If the manager holds the same line as HR, consider yourself lucky as that company is not where you'd want to work.
I agree with this. Either it’s true that they can’t increase the offered salary, or it’s not. The only way to find out is to be willing to walk away.
I'm sure there are some optimizations that can be done on the process but yeah, it isn't new. I don't think the NOx issue is significant because you can sequester them, but it does add to the expense and lower the efficiency(unless you have a source of animal urine and can use the urea maybe?).

Is the efficiency difference between it and the Haber-Bosch process small enough to be made up by the lack of transportation?

I wonder if the nitric acid is a benefit in places with alkaline soil and water chemistries?
That’s not ls’s fault. That’s just your terminal's colour scheme.
> But if Omicron happens to be benign enough

Here's my speculation on the reason that the virus is seeming benignish so far... omicron requires fewer ACE2 receptors to bind to in order for it to infect a host(because of the incredible reproduction rate over delta once it takes hold). The younger are generally not taking as many precautions as the elderly did(elderly have more ACE2 receptors but have mostly been vaccinated or died already). so as the pool of eligible candidates for infection trend younger (fewer ACE2 required moves the bar of easy infection down younger) you have younger people generally having a better time with the infection because their immune system is slightly more robust. and that tracks with younger people (generally) during the delta wave and original variant; younger people tended to have fewer really bad outcomes.
> sysadmin would write the tooling to ensure the payment code could work

Uhh if by tooling you mean a bash script to deploy ssh keys to prevent team A from accessing a machine owned by team B.

You really have no idea what you're saying.
PaaS is easier and I prefer it for personal projects. I don’t want to use the terminal or shell at all and have minimal yaml files.

For work though kubernetes means portability and not having the rug pulled from under you, you can move clouds more easily if necessary.
Why is the delta graph blocky and the omicron one smooth?
Well yeah, it's a trade off. Maybe mentioning the mortality thing distracted from my point;

The Point is that in the short term there's an increase in the number of people who have trouble socializing, but in the long term society develops better support systems and tools to help people who have trouble socializing, because there's an increased need. These tools help both people who developed problems as a result of the pandemic, And people who would Normally have problems socializing not just now but in the future as well.
Perhaps so. I’m just on the lookout for good news, and it seems the good news is always wrapped up in caution tape. Maybe I’m just bitter.
The explanation of superdeterminism she gives here isn’t a “full” superdeterministic theory (nothing actually happens over time, there are no physics, the universe is just a movie being played back, etc) and she does say it only applies at the quantum level. So there’s still room for science.
I grew up having unlimited access to candy

Unlimited meaning whatever I could find in the house

My wife on the other side grew up not having unlimited access to candy

Guess who of the two of us as adult now can control their candy consumption and who if there is candy in the house will eat every last bit of it with 2/3 days?

Forced limiting of anything won’t teach a person how to deal with it…quite the opposite
And this is where Internet Explorer idea was born and IE was deemed to dominate internet for decades to come until Google and Chrome came. Idk why Microsoft didn't make proper internet search engine because Archie and WAIS were bad and if Microsoft did it Google wouldn't probably even exist meaning bigger revenue and market cap for Microsoft.
> Can Rust import and use C header files?

Yes, after piping them through rust-bindgen, any binary can be statically of dynamically linked. I did this, it's nice that it's possible, but the PAC route others have described here is way better.
Was it Pinky or Brain's cell though?
I like the idea! Maybe it shouldn't be only college or nothing else but rather a mix of college + an industry specific bootcamp OR more co-op or shadowing programs that could bridge the gap.

I think the solution might lie in teaching people the process of learning what they don't know on their own. Some people are just naturally "scrappy" or want something so bad they'll go out of their way to figure it out without connections. Maybe if we can deconstruct that into a course it could help people chart their own path rather than rely on other people to tell them what to do.
> The YAML (or heaven forbid, jsonnet) does not help. TBH, I'm convinced if the IaC bits were done in a regular Java/Go/Rust SDK style instead of mixing and matching YAML glued together via labels and tags, I would have had a much easier time.

I have mixed feelings about this. I've seen some absolutely atrocious Python and JavaScript code, and i wouldn't want to use either of them, and the flexibility ( to shoot yourself in the foot) they provide. Go is better. On the other hand, YAML is just terrible.

I think DSLs such as HCL are better than either option, as long as they're flexible enough while staying limit in order not to get illegible/unmaintainable.
> pay the immense costs required

I’m not trying in any way to change your mind but I want to say that this is only an opinion.

If you are ready to have kids, those costs are pretty easy to support. As you said, you are biologically programmed to support them (the costs).

I would die without a fear if my son’s life depended on it, and still I’m far from suicidal.

It’s just that, your brain naturally accepts the costs. Even if we are only talking about not being able to go that random party you would never miss before. You will be annoyed, for sure, but you’ll be granted with what you’ll live instead.

But I do think there is something that triggers in your brain starting from the moment when you want a child and it looks like it’s lasting a lifetime.

However, I would never recommend having children to anyone who don’t want them for any reason. Chances are that it turns out to be nice. But I wouldn’t take the risk. I see a lot of children whose treatment by their parents makes me really sad for them. The last thing a toddler want is to feel like a burden. So, better not create yourself this burden.
> Policy should only be made in response to actual outcomes

the problem with that kind of lagging reaction to policy is that if you wait for the results of the variant you may have a situation where you are unable to contain or curtail the virus enough to not overwhelm the hospital systems. deaths and hospitalizations are a very lagging indicator of the effects
For some reason the focus still seems to be largely on case counts instead of actual outcomes.

The reason seems obvious - it’s been only 25 days since the discovery of the first case. There haven’t been many outcomes yet to focus on - as far as I remember, the average time between symptom onset and hospitalisation is something like 10 days, depending on the age group.
Fair enough, though the suggestion that Google engineers take up farming was probably not very serious. However, the idea that we have a choice between no ads or the most pernicious ads imaginable is certainly a false one.
> end federally backed student loans

I agree, the government should have no place in this whatsoever.

> and make the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy

Toss personal responsibility out the window? No, sorry, someone who wasn't financially prudent and _chose_ to attend a college that was obscenely expensive should be putting in 15 hour days until their loans are paid back in full. Why should society or the banks bear any responsibility here?
The US won't lose it's global reserve status because anyone that could, doesn't want to. Certainly not China especially.
> ... who feels little attraction to the truth-claims of the world’s ancient religions, except insofar as they sometimes serve as prophylactics against newer and now even more virulent religions?

The intuition behind this is appealing (that a lack of religion invites a void that is filled by crazier things), but the current evidence seems to indicate that this is incorrect. Mainstream religions aren't a "prophylactic" against newer craziness like QAnon.

In fact, the reality is the opposite. QAnon is most effective in converting people who already believe in Christianity.

You could also look at partisanship. Countries with less religion aren't really any more partisan.
Every so often you hear about asphyxiation deaths from nitrous oxide abuse because it is being used in an enclosed space, such as a vehicle with the windows closed because it is heavier than air, it displaces the air, thus there is a danger of asphyxiation. But you probably won't get hepatitis or AIDS from sharing a cream dispenser, nor develop lung cancer or emphysema, nor will it make your heart explode or cause heart disease. But tinnitus is probably maddening, as well as the realization one has caused their own chronic symptoms due to poor judgement. But N2O is of vital importance to medicine as the most harmless and effective anesthetic known when properly administered with proper amounts of O2.
"… who’s happiest when telling the truth for the cause of social justice … but who, if told to lie for the cause of social justice, will probably choose silence or even, if pushed hard enough, truth?"

Does everyone lie for the social justice cause because the truth never matches a pure ideological idea?

Is silence accepting the lie here empowering social justice or by not fully supporting the lie are you cast out of the movement and seen as working for the man or for power?
Or any CS field for that matter.
Agreed, and he's programming like I do with pointers; no clue, just add/remove * and & until it compiles! Xo

My question is, how does he record the display?!

Also user->name for the love of god!
How do you ride a dirt bike in a half pipe? I think you're mixing up terminology here. And he must be very big for his age if he can ride a full-size dirt bike.

> My job as a parent is not to manipulate him into the life I think he should live

That happens to be exactly what your job is. Children don't know what's best for them, that's why they have parents.
"The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world, built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this." [reveals 1000W PSU and row of graphics cards]
Yeah, that goes against everything Wayland.
Could you please not post flamewar comments to HN? Several (I'm not saying all of them) of your comments in this thread have been doing that. This is not what this site is for.

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Movies/series: I read IMDb user reviews, a page or two of them, and read between the lines. The numerical rating alone means very little. Also, if a movie is rated 7, I know that of two movies — one with all reviews 7 stars, another with half 4 stars, and half 10 stars — I will like the second infinitely more, and the first will be mediocre. There are a few 'external reviewers' I mostly trust: Roger Ebert, Moria, Louise Keller.
Many customers would probably pay extra if they would get a phone that's as tough as a wrist watch but does not require a case.

Which is why I have a phone sold by Caterpillar, Inc.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVPku-xItv8
There's an indie-hacker I follow building this: https://chartbrew.com/

From what I understand, it's more like an easier-to-use grafana, where you can build charts/graphs from different data sources.
Tangentially. As someone who has only read the old Signet version of Les Mis, I find it interesting that you think it isn't as good. When I read it, I was very impressed with Hugo's prose (or at least, filtered through the translated lens). It was not like reading anything I had ever previously read. Sounds like I need to check out the new one then too :)
Some places are starting to introduce it, but it's very rare. However the standard work day is 7 hours.
It's been weeks since the variant started to spread. If outcomes were noticeably worse than Delta, it would be evident by now. It being milder or the same is better supported by the evidence.

You can think of any hypothetical worst case and make irrational policy on the basis. Maybe next year's flu strain will cause any who catch it to die one year from infection?
At a time when the country is cutting off its nose to spite its face -- e.g. making it so nobody can take Algebra "early" because it wouldn't be "equitable" -- should we be judging people based on whether they agree with us about abortion and the sexual revolution?

Maybe a bigger tent coalition is needed to restore sanity on basic things, such as "kids should be allowed to learn so they can function in a technological society"?
That's fair, it sounds like you have a path forward!

I can see how it would feel weird venting in a forum like this. I think one of the benefits of a therapist is that you also develop a sort of relationship; they have a better grasp of your context and history over time and that allows for more targeted support than whatever offhand/generic wisdom people on a forum might provide.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Well, that's true of every day except one, the day you die.

The question is what do you want to do? What's important to you? All knowledge will be obsolete or obvious. The question is what do you want out of life?

I'm blessed to be doing fun stuff with amazing people. Definitely grateful for this amazing life even though it's short. We're all going to be dead much longer than we're going to be alive. Think about what is important to you and go after it.
One time I was working in a co-working space with terrible internet (<5mbps). It was OK until I had to order lunch from Sweetgreens - their site was so CSS/JS heavy that I couldn't even load the page to order my salad. Made me laugh at how ridiculous it was.
These things are not comparable.

Flutter and Dart are used on a plethora of platforms, including Android which has a far larger market share than iOS alone, and Windows, which takes the cake on the desktop.

Swift is used only on Apple platforms, and mostly for iOS. The use of Swift on macOS, watchOS or server-side development is negligible.
> A lot of people are quite happy working, quite happy with their local environment, and feel no need to take a vacation

I love my current job, the people, the work, the challenges. I still need an occasional break, and I still like seeing different things.
Sorry. I said it partially tongue-in-cheek.

What would be an appropriate response to someone who's posted several comments to the same top-level post, all of which are grossly misleading and/or complete strawmen?

Obviously I don't have evidence of "abuse" (is this even abuse? obviously people can be trolls without being big-co/gov funded) but I'd like to point out the above fact to other commenters who might not have noticed it otherwise.
Everyone seems to be joking about this, but doesn’t this result indicate that human neurones have a better learning algorithm than the ones we are using to train AI?

It’s interesting that this is evident in even small clumps of human brain tissue.

Really interested to know how this might work.
Stocks underperforming cash for three years is hardly a black swan event; it happens in about a fifth of 3-year periods.
Not OP but I have a thought here:

For engineers early in their career, I'd say you probably want to focus on tech that is adopted but not generally viewed as heading towards obsolescence (React or Java are in this category, for example).

Mid to late career it can be smart to latch onto tech in its growth phase if you believe in it. For example if you were early on the Kubernetes train and managed to build those skills well you're worth a lot of money right now. Actually making that kind of judgment call probably isn't smart when you're junior because you're unlikely to have the kind of experience and instincts to consistently pick winners.
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And $8B to cure world hunger
In the context of Bell’s Theorem, statistical independence is understood to mean that, if extant, hidden variables are not correlated with how measurements are being performed.

Bell’s Theorem is only correct if this assumption holds. Hossenfelder is arguing that the assumption is incorrect: that Bell’s Theorem is incorrect precisely because there ARE hidden variables and that these ARE correlated with measurement settings.

She also argues that all mentions of free will in all related discussions are meaningless red herrings that have distracted physicists from properly interpreting Bell’s Theorem and observed violation of Bell’s Inequality.

Superdeterminism, arguably misnamed, simply argues that QM is deterministic, where Bell and others have argued it is not.
Everyone hides behind Majority rules right up until the Majority wants something they don't agree with.

Be careful what you wish for hombre. You just might get it.
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Could you say that for all engineering graduates at the majority of universities (even the bottom 50%)? I know plenty of people who had internships and were effectively employed a year before graduating, but I can't say the majority of people are in that position.

If education is just 2k euros rather than the 15k (public) or 60k (private) in the US, I agree it's much less of an issue for sure because much less is at stake.
I’m curious how well you knew Rust prior to starting? I’m learning Rust at a very slow pace. I finished a language specific course, going through advent, and I’m planning on going through an embedded Rust book next. I can imagine attempting to jump straight into embedded Rust could be very challenging.
With "Evangelion" being in the (Hacker) news recently, I hope to remind people of this one scene...

An advanced AI named "The Three Magi" (which are 3-programs which vote for strategic effects) exists in the show. Without going too much into details, a problem occurs in the AI, so the lead scientist Ritsuko steps into the machine to check things out.

She comes with a circular saw. She cuts open one computer (the one named "Caspar") ... revealing to the audience that inside is a living brain, hooked up to a bunch of wires: https://imgur.com/MTZ7pzU

This is the first point where the audience probably starts to wonder about the ethics of the main characters. The later reveals of their bio-engineering / morals are more horrifying. But this is perhaps the audience's first look into the inner-workings of the NERV organization / science that they do.
Organizations did (do?) allow it because it's easy. It's also a way to test/debug production problems with actual production data instead of spending time trying to make up data that you hope covers all the actual use cases.
Apparently we've standardized on Windows apps as the standard binary format for games and other software, irrespective of the underlying OS kernel.