skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and the people who work on "progressing" this technology are helping to make the nooses better and also putting them on their own necks. (I've used that analogy before. I think it's a great one.)
I think the idea is that there are entities like facebook/ meta who believe that the metaverse is going to be a big thing, so if a "metaverse" is going to exist and see adoption, most people would much rather have it not be under the sole control of a corporation like facebook like most of the services on the web right now. Similarly, digital currencies are going to eventually become mainstream, and there are similar concerns about how central banks will implement them. In cases like these, having an second option that isn't controlled by some powerful institution could help democratize how they get implemented and used. If you dismiss it, then you are just leaving it to these large institutions to make the rules like they previously have, they have the power and resources to out compete, buy or snuff out any traditional competition.
I wanted to tell people to take zinc as well (it has a small positive effect only if taken ahead of time) but unfortunately many brands aren't actually bioavailable and just give you the worst nausea you've ever had.
This fellow has explained it better than I ever could.
> You already sort of see this with messaging apps, where a few (eg. signal) are mobile-only.

Signal has clients for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux.
I genuinely love the rise of performative work culture.

I am someone who spent years frustrated by the performative BS at my workplaces. Actually being proactive was not as important as achieving some superficial engineering task that didn't actually solve anything.

So, I flipped the script and leveraged this silliness into a 7 figure salary by working multiple remote jobs. I work 4 SWE jobs, spend about 10-15 hours per week per job, act like I'm "working" for the rest of that time, get paid. Works for me, works for them!
Oh it doesn't, I haven't found any value in web3 yet. I may just be missing something, but I still don't get what problem web3 can solve that isn't solved easier with web1 or web2 technologies.
I think that a more detailed question on the problem you're facing with context and what you've been thinking about could lead to more replies.
You've risen to (or rather, descended to) mentioning Godwin's law - which specifically implies Nazi & Hitler comparisons, and "white nationalist and or Fascist". That's plenty enough. I know what you meant, you know what you meant, everybody knows what you meant. Own up to it.
In real time..
about 120 million light years away..
Value-based engineering vs. the Silicon Valley Zeitgeist
No, this is what you said:

> Psychiatric medication often simply numbs your brain so it stops being worried about things that legitimately and truly torment it. It reduces your sensitivity, it knocks off your normal brain chemicals balance, and it turns you into a robot. I've had a family member go through this a long time ago. It was soul-crushing watching them when I visited. They were almost turned to vegetables with chemical means.

See, the problem with acting like you were trying to be reasonable and you "didn't mean it like that" is that I can go back to your post quote what you said.

I didn't "misunderstand" and I did not "only see what I want."

I am not going to accept your attempt to backpedal.

You said what I pasted above. I thought it was an ignorant thing to say. I responded.

> I'm not your enemy here

You absolutely are. I care about what is TRUE. You lie and say ignorant things that conveniently align with your values and try to pass them off as wisdom.

> get off my back already.

I will leave you alone after this final response.
Does Computrace even work if you're not running Windows? Does it have a Linux/MacOS/etc. payload now?

(Reversed much of it a long time ago --- and remembered it was specifically coded with Windows in mind, with certain assumptions about various things.)
> Those terms are used in relation to dependencies and who consumes what.

I think your response exactly illustrates the point of the post: if upstream and downstream had clearer names, you wouldn't need to define them. And if they indeed mean what you say, wouldn't producer and consumer be clearer?

> I don't really see the point it's trying to make - we use technical terms not to be human friendly but to be technical.

I don't think I can agree that technical terms aren't meant to be human friendly. After all, languages exist to convery ideas to other humans; words aren't opcodes intended to be executed by machines.

If technical terms aren't meant to be human friendly, why did humans invent them at all? And if they are intended to be human friendly, why not optimize them for clarity and precision?
The efficacy and tolerability of cures for alcohol-induced hangover
> 1. Nobody's talking about that.

Yes, they are. Every election winter, or so, some performative artist shows up to Congress with a bag of ice, and announces in front of cameras something along the lines of "Checkmate, scientists, if global warming is real, why is it snowing in my congressional riding?"
I doubt it.

In my entire career I've got away with just relying on a "gut feeling" about whether a query needs a select/prefetch_related and it has yet to fail me. Yes, you're going to have a handful of stray queries here and there that could technically be avoided, but is the extra developer effort worth it? Hardware is very cheap (well if you know where to look, definitely don't look in the clouds), take advantage of that.

Unless you're programming purely for the sake of programming, what matters is the end result and the problem your application is solving. Your code doesn't have to be 100% perfect (otherwise why are you using a dynamically-typed, interpreted language?), it just has to work well enough to solve the business problem - other tools such as monitoring will quickly tell you if you've made a mistake and you can go back to the drawing board and add that extra select/prefetch_related you missed the first time.
Ah, I think I see the distinction now! :-)

I was thinking more in terms of skills that translate between different projects, such as the large degree of software engineering skills that help in every ML project. I realise that this is a relatively narrow definition of 'T,' and yours is much, much larger.

Science is definitely benefiting from all types of researchers; I was just observing that some hiring committees ignore non-core aspects of research in CVs, focusing only on the publication output.

> I imagine a T-shaped person excels in wet-lab experiments to generate quality data as well as in analysis/modeling skills to put the data into a quantitative framework.

Couldn't agree more! And often, at least in my observation, it's better to have someone who is a 'jack of some trades' here...

> I also want to make it clear that I don't consider "I" or "T" any better than the others. We need both in science to progress. Perhaps our definitions of "I" and "T" differ slightly.

Absolutely :-) And thanks for pointing out these differences in definition! Goes to show that I am living in my own little bubble...
Pretty much actually. Most layman regard Web3 as a joke at best, and more often a scam. Most of those same people know little, if anything, about Web3 beyond a general association with crypto, regardless of whether that association is merited.
A bit clickbaity - the article hardly mentioned Thatcher!
The "mechanism to compel you to do so" will be in the form of remote attestation, as some of the other comments here have mentioned.
True - but since the tool is strictly opt-in only, are we a bit too critical of the tool? Personally I don't use any such av tools or have any stakes in cryptocurrencies. But in a way they are providing an option for less tech savvy people to mine cryptocurrency right? Would've been better if the crypto component was not installed by default, but still. As many mentioned, there's also the question of the education component to the users - how much good a job the tool does in providing proper awareness to people who go opt-in to the tool, on what they're getting into. Personally if I were to use such a tool, I'd prefer that.
In addition to the sibling comments, Rizon, for some specialized usages. Yes, some stuff there I won't endorse, but it's also home to my favorite and most tight-knit group of online friends.
> How often do you find that when you disagree with management, the answer is almost always "management vs engineer, management wins"?

Management only "wins" sometimes, though I don't really view it through a win/loss lens. Usually there's quite a bit of give and take, as we try to figure out what's best.

I can remember engineers being hard-overruled exactly once. A large customer felt we were giving them poor service. Management upended our roadmap to prioritize things to keep the customer happy. Engineers were unhappy about the sudden change of plans, but we did end up keeping the customer. As much as I personally disliked the whole episode, management was probably right to overrule us.

> When are you ever to get management to do anything you need (or want) from them, or is it always on their own terms?

It's a two-way street, but you're correct they ask more of us than we do of them.
I’m not sure where you read outrage in my comment, but talking about the quality of online discussions right after accusing me of projecting did make me very emotional. I laughed right out loud.
Agreed. There's a new platform called TrueCut Motion [0] for handling this sort of thing, which I can see becoming big. There were some examples of it at CES this year [1]

[0]: https://www.pixelworks.com/en/truecut
[1]: https://twitter.com/Vincent_Teoh/status/1479507421546622977
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I figured that would get downvoted by one of the liberals on here. Unfortunately civilised society doesn’t work to ideals and thus sometimes you need to impose boundaries rather than work entirely on faith (hence why we have laws).

It’s one of those things you realise once you are responsible for kids of your own (and no, pets don’t count). Much as you cringe setting the same boundaries you hated growing up, you realise you realise they exist for a reason.
> You can't claim to be pro-science and then false-ly claim that psychiatric medication does nothing.

I didn't see anyone claiming to be "pro-science", and I also didn't see anyone claiming that medication "does nothing".

It looks like to me that you completely misunderstood or deliberately misrepresented the comment (I can't tell which one), and then got angry with the misrepresentation.

Another recent, worrying, trend (not unique to your comment) is that people don't see nuance and don't accept thoughts that don't match theirs. According to these people, you're either "pro-science" (and agree with them), or you are dangerous "anti-science" person spouting misinformation (how dare you see the world differently than me! Grrr).
There are people for whom PhD is worth. If you are those people don't read this. It's easily knowable if you are or not.

Now for people like me:

Give me at least a million USD to invest in next PhD in CS. The most BS form of PhD is PhD in CS. It chirps your life away, with no clear benefits. It doesn't scale well enough in a field where innovation is rapidly progressing. Also when you are being underpaid while working for someone else's vision. You can't do what you want, because "supervisor" may not like it.

And once you come out of your PhD, who is going to hire you? Industry or academia? Well even in academia, there are tons of PhD already, so goodluck competing that.

And in industry goodluck finding that sweet industry that requires research.

I was always sold by the dream that PhD gives time and opportunity to involve in high leverage problems. Turns out it is a just another churn. What value does this paper bring? Nothing.

When most of valuable work is being done in industry and groups collaborating across nations. And to be in such group, you have to have background. (People whom I mentioned earlier)

Instead of wasting 5 yrs on CS Phd, invest on one single company. That will bring value x10 than stupid PhD.
I would be less than "definitely sure" about that. I know lots of folks firsthand whose primary motivation were that. This is obviously very country-dependent. If you are in a country with presence of say FAANG offices, sure you'd go for L1 or EB1C. Not everyone is that privileged. Not to mention during the Trump era, F1 visa was one of the only exempted ways to get your foot in the door for various countries.

(There's also OPT, btw, which is critical in the process, and H1B lottery chance, assuming a US Masters degree, was more than 50% last time I looked at it a couple years ago. O1 (and even EB1A/B) are not that rare for well-published PhDs, and EB2-NIW is quite easy for any PhD worth their salt, I'd say.)
That might justify giving a warning, not refusing to print. And it then would make far more sense to offer a setting where you can indicate your typical humidity, not assume humidity based on huge regions and that people won't move.
The show clip which is mentioned at the beginning of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOQmxNPTJwc
The points made are relevant. However, they are much more political/social points rather than technological. Technology could help to facilitate such social or political change but it is the smaller part.

Somehow the web3/crypto etc discussions tend to vastly overestimate the role of technology vs the role of societal choices.
Watch her TV series. It is better at illustrating how her principle works in real life. A lot of Americans have hoarding problem. This is relatively an American phenomenon where they own big abode and higher purchasing power than the rest. It is quite good assuming you have and realize hoarding problem. Otherwise, as the saying goes, she can only explain it to you but can't understand for you.
Wow. I haven't used Matrix, as it brings no value to me over XMPP. Can't you delete the server/account from the client?
This depends heavily on the university employing the professor. At least in the UK there are universities where one can progress to the highest academic rank by excellence in teaching. Given that such universities draw the majority of their income from students, this makes economical sense.

Whether the economisation of higher education is a good thing is a different question, of course. But in the UK there seems to be a strong drive towards separating teching and research. And to be honest, it becomes increasingly difficult to be good at teaching and research at the same time. If done properly, either is a full time job.
I’m all for hyperlinks but I also think there’s something crucially valuable about presenting some kind of ordered, intelligible, linear narrative structure. The idea of organizing a program as a sequence of chapters is to me the core of literate programming. I do it by simply ordering my files with numbers. You can start reading at file 1, or you can skip the first chapters and jump to a more substantial chapter where the key concepts are already established… Feel free to start reading at the very end; this is also a good strategy for prose, see Adler’s “How To Read a Book.” Actually I think Adler’s framework would be very interesting to apply to programs. Literature isn’t just novels, it’s also monographs and anthologies and textbooks.
> I don't see why your database table needs to encapsulate the app's name.

Because Django assumes that in most cases your DB will be primarily (only?) be used by the Django app. In my experience that is true of most startups and early-stage projects, and the default names have never been a blocker even when you start giving others access to that database (hopefully with a read-only user account).

> Most apps get rewritten at some point but databases can live for centuries.

You can rename tables when this becomes needed. I don't think it's worth wasting time doing so at the beginning (you could equally argue that whatever name you pick manually isn't going to be suitable in the future either, so a rename will be needed either way).

> Why couple code with your data?

Renaming tables doesn't realistically address that coupling by any means.
The whole of ferret's source code is in a single org-mode file, following the literate programming style: https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret/blob/master/ferret.org
Code as it is written today is not literature, but Knuth's idea was to make it readable like literature, because you would be mostly reading words, formulas, and algorithm descriptions, and code itself would be an incidental detail.

Peter Siebel is right. However, he is talking about code as it is written today.
There's a difference between slacking off and being forced to always be "productive"
More like you're not allowed to use patented genestock that pollinated your own non-Monsanto crop.
> How does this compare to the 'man on the moon' projects of China?

I don’t think space research has to be a zero sum game with one prescribed approach. The nature of research is that we need a multiple pronged approach into the unknown. If CNSA wants to pursue ‘Man on the Moon’ or JAXA wants to study asteroids, I see this as a win for humanity.
https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/

Another clone
I was speaking generally not to any one authoritarian. I can't imagine many, if any, authoritarian leaders would be using the "it's easier and cheaper" argument when grabbing more power, but its a very common argument used in more general and philosophical debates.

Look into any of the writings that led to the USSR and you'll find it all over. The goal was total government control would be the best way to optimize resource allocation. They were making the case that Soviet communism would win out against fascism because they could make everything faster and cheaper.
>I've always found the idea "ip laws encourage innovation" to be tenuous; if only because we have very few case studies of societies where ip laws aren't as strong as they are today (so, in scientific method terms, there is no control group). If anything, China may be one of these case studies, and while its certainly a highly debatable topic, I think its reasonable to say that they're doing alright (certainly not by western IP laws standards, but that's the point).

Actually we have a pretty good case study. Patent laws for pharmaceuticals. Before much of the world-wide "harmonisation" of patent law, different countries allowed for very different patentability of pharmaceutical "recipes". In all of Europe and Switzerland up to the 1930s (or possibly even later) therapeutical agents were excluded from patenting (although companies tried to get around this in various ways), in the US on the other hand no such provision existed. However, the vast majority of innovation/inventions came from Europe, also the investment in R&D was much higher in Europe than in the US.

All this to support your assertion that the idea that "ip laws encourage innovation" is tenuous.
Yes, just directly buying is easier than their description:

https://mobilecoin.com/news/how-to-buy-mob-in-the-us
I've seen /r/HermanCainAward/ - of course they're a threat, they'll post "own the lib" memes on your Facebook page. And it's a bummer when you have to support their widow.
Fauci's infamous quote was: “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is."

I not sure it can be considered a lie though. Wrong, but at the time the precedent was pandemic flus and SARS-1, and there isn't much presymptomatic transmission of either. Quarantining once you have symptoms will do the job. SARS-2 is freakish in just how much it replicates in the nose for a couple days before symptoms. It was another 3 weeks before enough data coming out of China established there was likely an appreciable degree of presymptomatic transmission occuring and the CDC guideline was changed.

That said, he definitely should have expressed the reason he was making a stand either way, i.e. that healthcare workers needed the supplies more than folks in the street.

A better example of a lie was when he said he was titering up the number for what is required for herd immunity based on what he thinks will be publicly palatable, while that's dodgy imo it is kinda small potatoes.
I’m kind of a stickler for comments like this. The more context and rationale that can be provided at a glance the faster future contributors can understand the current state.
so I'm not totally sure what the use case is.

That seems to be true for a lot of RFCs; a small number of them are so important and widely used that I've memorised their numbers (768, 791, 793, 821, 959, 1081, 2616, etc.) but then there's plenty of others which seem to have been merely "someone thought it was a good idea".
What you describe is not particular to CS. It's the same in every field.

However, most people don't view PhDs as a money-making endeavor. IMO, that's a good thing. And no, most of the important work does not happen exclusively in the industry. Academia is very valuable, just not for the same kind of stuff.
What is a good app for mountain bike navigation? turn by turn?
Why should the non-important activities be done at all?

If I delegate something urgent and non-important to another, doesn’t that:

1. Urgently interrupt someone else?

2. Set them up to urgently ask me questions about something unimportant.

3. Burn some of their trust in me when they complete it and I’m not grateful.

?

—————

It seems the bottom two should be:

Urgent & Not Important: Drop

Non Urgent & Not Important: Maybe Play
Literally your entire brain functions on trading of chemicals. There is no such thing as “a thought” without the chemicals in your brain producing it. What you describe as “numbness” seems to be your discomfort with a person’s personality changing in front of you… _for their benefit_.

As someone who’s long differed from anxiety and depression, I had your mindset at one point. It wasn’t until I started trying medication that I could start evaluating my life in a more objective manner, without the chemicals in my brain discoloring every thought. Now I don’t even need medication, but I am certainly a different person. Medication helped me choose a better life for myself.
When the message needs to be reduced to a headline in order to get seen, you’ll never pack the whole truth into it.
John Deere doesn't have any data that the farmer wouldn't have.

Sure they do. They have the data from all the farms that use their service. The farmer only has data from their own farm. Deere can tell who's doing better.