skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, in one sense, a significant amount of philosophy is "some other person's work but with a twist." "All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato." and all that.

But sure, Bentham is a huge influence here; Deleuze is moving forward Foucault's "disciplinary society" concept into the "control society" concept presented here, and Foucault's use of the panopticon is such a meme that even folks who aren't particularly into this stuff often know that it exists.

My sibling commentor has it exactly right:

> disciplinary societies create compliance through the threat (if not the execution) of punishment, while control societies create compliance through nudges and dark patterns.

There's like, a thousand different reasons that this essay meant something to me at the time, but one of them was that I happened to come across this at the time that the industry was getting really into gamification.

To continue to piggyback off of nomadpenguin:

> in control societies, power is decentralized -- both everywhere and nowhere at once (algorithms, workplace encouraged education and health initiatives, etc).

I didn't really appreciate the increasing amount (in both number and degree) of algorithmic control over our lives until reading this essay. I mean, on some level I saw it happening, but I really, truly started seeing it after this.
"Customer contact is always treated as a cost center."

"How can we provide the minimum acceptable level of service, at the lowest possible cost?"

Not with all products. Some companies understand, that good support keeps the people loyal to their products. But they are usually in a higher price segment.
i think a possible startup idea would be to start a "Github for science" (replace "science" with any academic or interest area really).
Encourage folks to post their papers in latex or markdown. Post their data, code, mechanical and electrical drawings, videos and pictures of their experimental setup, videos explaining their research, videos performing the experiment?, and so on. Allow others to comment on research with questions, concerns, suggestions for enhancement, or link it to their own supporting work, etc. Allow other researchers to fork people's research (but all forks link back to the original to give full attribution). The core focus is open up access to academic papers and research, foster better communication between people, and set a higher bar for communication of research.

Going the non-profit route: I think it would be cool for the site to be federated/distributed so universities & countries could host replicated nodes. It would be best if somehow the software system development and hosting costs could be underwritten by governments and universities.

Going the for-profit route:
The site could have an inexpensive PRO account to help support the site and software development. The site could be add supported, but zero tracker, with adds that would be small and content-based purely on the content of the paper topic.

Add Examples:
Reading an article on Julia numerical programming... maybe show an add for the upcoming JuliaCon or Julia Computing

Reading a metallurgy analysis paper... maybe show a small add for an x-ray fluorescent system for metal composition analysis or advertise an upcoming metallurgy conference

... the idea being that these adds are (1) not targeted at users, just targeted at content, (2)small, dismiss-able, and not annoying (3) hopefully actually useful and interesting to the reader.

The site could also sell "advanced API access" to interested parties for knowledge management/search on fast trending research and topical areas, research community graph analysis (maybe for recruiting?)... kind of the LinkedIn layer of the site.
Another alternative I've been using for some time: https://grammica.com
> Election misinformation is covered by free speech.

In the same way as yelling “fire” in a theater.
Maybe a little OT, but, I'd rather it be called "computing science." Computers are just the tool. I believe it was Dijkstra who famously objected to it being called "computer science," because they don't call astronomy "telescope science," or something to that effect.
> It's possible to have different takes without it being ascribed to malice or deliberate misrepresentation.

Which I did not do. I don't think you are doing it deliberately or I would have ended the conversation long ago.

> You seem to imply risk understanding occurs in an objective vacuum and I disagree.

Not at all, where do I imply that? It is actually the opposite. I am arguing against your position that risk assements should happen in a vacuum and be based purely on standards with no need or room for subjective reasoning.

> again, there was no discussion of risk in that post, you shoehorned that into your interpretation

While the top comment did not explicitly mention "risk", the comment or did reply to you saying:

>> Isn't that by definition what good enough means? That on safety critical code "good enough" is a very different level than on a throwaway-script?

> That's why I think subjective determination of good enough falls short in some scenarios.

I've repeatedly said that subjective risk assessment is usually not enough:

>> Standards and outside analysis are important, even in non-safety critical systems, but they are no substitute for a developer making careful assements of if code is good enough.

>I'm not sure if you've been so focused on being right that you've ignored that central point, or if I'm just not communicating it effectively

I think your communication issues or on the listening side as you keep projecting a strawman onto people rather than actually listening to what people are saying.

But since we both appear to feel that the other one is not listening, that is probably a clue this conversation should end. I do encourage you to take some time carefully re-reading the thread to see if you can figure out why you seem to misinterpret so much of what people say.
I got a new manager in Q1 2021 and she was super toxic. She was a terrible communicator and made me feel so bad about myself. Nothing was ever good enough. I never sent her something and received a "This looks great. Good job" - Everything was nitpicked. Why put forth effort when she will just tear down anything I create and tell me to rebuild it? Mind you, I am aware when I make mistakes, but the final straw was when I went above and beyond, did a super great job creating some documentation for her, and excitedly sent it to her thinking "She's gonna love this! I killed it!". She sent me back a huge wall of text essentially telling me to redo it (with a ton of comments added to the original MS Word document).

I resigned in December with no new job lined up. I got tired of crying before my biweekly '1 on 1' meetings with her. It's crazy because before she came, I was doing great. Our previous manager was excellent. She was run off by a toxic co-worker in my department who was the most experienced (He would make her life a living hell through small bits of periodic sabotage).

This was my first job out of college (Information Security Analyst). The work I was doing was extremely tedious and didn't require any skill whatsoever - It was basically data entry & sending emails. I understand that the newbies have to earn their stripes, but I was approaching 2 years with this company, and I felt like I was crippling myself as each day passed. Shouldn't I have been performing risk assessments and reviews, and LEARNING? I have to grow so I can support the company, right?

The rest of my team (with more seniority) were working on projects with a lot of depth. Meanwhile, I'm sending emails to people for 30 hours per week (access reviews performed manually by sending hand crafted AD group reports for a company with 3,000 employees...). My technical skills (Networking, Linux/UNIX, Cybersecurity) were starting to atrophy due to lack of use. The company I worked at payed EXTREMELY WELL, but I looked to the future and didn't like the idea of being handcuffed to this one company due to my lack of growth.

I also believe one of my co-workers was trying to sabotage my work. He would feed me bad information (at critical moments) which would completely derail my project down the line eventually (despite him specializing in his role for 20 years) - I sometimes wonder if he was threatened by me (or maybe I'm just full of myself?).

Either way, it was a great experience for a while. But then it was awful.
House prices are increasing by >5% a year in a lot of the world.
Rather than look for another job I retired at 63.5. My job was long hours, high stress, high visibility, continuous deadlines and changes that never ended at a large non FAANG company. Compensation was OK (not FAANG but OK for where I am). Everything I or my team shipped worked great; but lots of things with these challenges never shipped for political/idiotic reasons. So much budget was wasted on Exec whims and fantasy. I just grew tired of the frustration. If I were younger I would have left and gone to the local competition or even moved somewhere. But enough was enough after almost 6 years here.

I still write code but now its just for me to support my generative art. I still hear stories from my former team; not missing the nightmare at all.
There was an article about China reaching quantum supremacy some time ago, so I suppose we achieved something.
It depends. In the general case a superposition is a probability field with infinitely many options once the waveform collapses, but the specifics of the experiment might discretize that practically into two options.
I am glad most of us agree change is not good!
voice from the 90s - M$ft took "multimedia" sales titles that were both Mac and PC, and used the stats on those sales, only in the PC side of the graphs. The sales are now "overwhelmingly" windows.. later they were caught and it was even publicized.. didnt matter
I’m surprised nobody has proposed tuition caps, with the consequence of not being allowed to give out loans if total costs exceed some amount.
Every state I've lived in has official curricula required by state governments, and the AP courses that are typically recommended to college-track students are standardized across the entire country.
You can answer this with a little more nuance as a manager. I'd say "Let's talk about that, and also talk about what might be bothering you about working here". As others have said, for some people it's about money (need more or you are way underpaid), or you have things you hate about your job.

When you've got 10 or 15 years exp as a dev in the big tech cities, in my experience you expect to be paid market rates as an automatic thing but also you accumulate money over your career so it gets to be less important; I at least far more want more interesting work and no shitty work relationships wrt boss or time expectations. Being paid market rate is just the start, and that's easier to clarify. It's much much harder to know about the work situations you will be going into. I'm currently thinking of quitting my job after my 1 year stock comes in. My company is way over-working me and although I'm well paid in a sense at market rates, the job is not what I thought I was getting when I came there. I really struggled with how to answer my peers when they ask me about working there. I gave a mostly neutral recommendation.
I left my last job partly because my role didn't match my responsibilities or my compensation, and they played games with a promotion. That wasn't a dealbreaker all on its own, the other part was that I was bored and nothing I was working on or leading really felt like it was worth it, it was just work for the sake of work.

To be honest, as soon as I realised that I was mentally checked out, the writing was on the wall. Neither a pay rise or a promotion would have kept me there for much longer because I would still have been carrying the legacy around with me.

There was no counter offer when I resigned. I suppose I'm grateful that we skipped the bullshit there.
> unless you have golden handcuffs and you don't think that can be beat elsewhere

Luckily this is becoming less likely now that more companies are allowing remote work. I live in a relatively small city and have interviewed at every local company that interests me. My previous employer was by far the highest paying of all of them. I was able to find a remote job that broke my golden handcuffs by almost 2x.
The ends justify the means is right out of the Machiavelli's The Prince. All sorts of bad things have happened for a greater good. With that logic you can pretty much justify anything.
You don’t think the pandemic has anything to do with it?
> I'm coming to the conclusion "security" is an illusion and always has been, so I'm trying to take a different approach towards money moving into 2022.

Interesting that you put it that way - a few years back, when I was sort of floating in space the book "The Wisdom of Insecurity" by spiritual-entertainer Alan Watts, though a bit dated, was helpful for me on a personal level.
I think this is naive and ignores the long-term big picture [1]. Russia is being surrounded by NATO weaponry and having their former sphere of influence slowly peeled away from them and it also disregards the general geographic problem that I mentioned before. Until the interests are aligned, all of this will continue. The geopolitical is the core of what's going on here and unification is the only way to stop it [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Not aware of other more secure readers. Suggestions welcome.
As a fellow scientist I would say go for it. I know people who had a vast amount of citations (>2000) for a paper accompanying a code/program release that they made at an opportune moment (they released a code for designing/analysing photonic crystals just when the field was taking off).

Now in the vast majority of cases you will only get a couple of people looking at your code (my experience so far), but still I think it's worth it. The question is, clean up the code or not. Ideally you would, because it increases the chance of someone using it by a lot. On the other hand with the realities of academic work, this is largely underappreciated.

So I recommend to find a balance, clean up enough so it is reasonably straight forward to run the code. Write a good readme that points to the paper and gives the appropriate citation.
Until proven otherwise, assume every socmed account is a bot.
I personally prefer the abstract to jumping straight into a full paper, especially since it's quite rich (not one of those two line entries like some arXiv paper abstracts). After reading the abstract I did end up opening the PDF.. but I'm hesitant to pay the PDF tax early. Is this one of those "original source" type decisions?
>Left isn't particularly powerful in the US

There's always the mistake of assuming the person means the US Left as opposed to another country's Left movement, but the Left as understood within the US is quite powerful. It seems really as if both movements divide the country in two.
That's a good quote, thank you.

About the use of "calm down" as an instruction: while your sentiment is good (to reduce another person's anxiety), it's not always possible for someone to follow that when it is received as an instruction. It's tricky to estimate other people's emotional state based on text, and for them to infer your tone. I'm overexplaining and sure that you probably understand all that; but it feels worth mentioning.
Yeah, they really jumped the shark with that release. The meta has been changing drastically, and I don't know if the dev team really is interested in patching it back up.
I do not know the answer but here is another place where people might be able to help you out: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/
>Pensions are not relevant anymore.

Stated as fact without evidence. Many people are still paying into pensions and many more would like too. Think blue collar and gig workers who scrape by on a small fraction of what many outspoken people here take home.

>I see no reason to pay a defined benefit pension fund’s employees and expenses when I can simply buy VOO or a target date fund at one of many brokerages for basically free.

Because you’re highly compensated and have the buying power of X median income households. Median income households need to retire too. What’s your solution for them if not pensions.

>And I get to avoid the risk of a corrupt employee of the employer messing with it, or to risk the employer not being around 50 years later.

Pensions are supposed to legally outlast employers. Judicial failure to enforce that is evidence of a corrupt and politicized judicial branch that is actively waging class war against those with lower economic status.

>The other parts of the post have so many factors that contribute that it is not related to employer employee social contracts. Birth rates, relative developed-ness of other countries, supply and demand of labor, automation, political winds, societal changes, etc.

All of these factors you mentioned have been politicized and exploited to manufacture consent in the American public to vote against their own interests as bought and paid for politicians, judges, journalists, prosecutors, and lawyers sell out their own economic cohort to, for the sake of brevity, make the rich, richer.

I’m happy to flesh out how each factor you named has been weaponized if you’re genuinely curious.
I picked it up and played with it. I mostly liked what I found. I do web dev and the story there is less compelling than other languages if you're looking for something more than Jester. I may be misremembering, but even though the frameworks are async (some with that atrocious "{.async.}" pragma) the db libs were not.
I guess step 1 is 'if search_term == "waterproof" and description.contains("no-waterproof"): exclude from search results'.
To examine this a different way: I have not ever gone a year in this industry without having to deal with some bullshit that made me annoyed / frustrated for multiple weeks.

But when my pay is good, I am much more likely to push through the bullshit and get back to the good stuff. When the pay is bad, I start thinking about touching up the resume and sending it around.

The corollary is that if I know I’m severely underpaid, I’ll probably be out the door within a year even if I am mostly content with the job. I’m 7 years into my career and this corollary has proven correct for 3 job changes now.
> But the poster in question opened with a salvo just denigrating all the other options without any information in defense of his view.
That is true and untrue. He did not repeat himself but he made potent arguments (or links to external resources) (in fact much better ones than anyone else on this page) in other threads.
I was heavily involved with programming in the 70's on many of the large systems of the time (including analog computing). If there were women programmers, I never met one. I worked in the aircraft manufacturing industry in engineering. I suspect that women could have been programming in other industries, but I never really made note of it at the time.
Well, no sane people wants to activate literally all the warnings on those large compilers. Some are very niche, and some are pretty bad and only kept for backwards compatibility.

But I agree that the name is misleading. Worse is that nowadays it's the "standard name", and it's widely known to mean "most", so changing it would be confusing.
My last job was a dead end: small software group which had survived many mergers and lived inside a mining/valve manufacturer. The only interest upper-level management had in our group was cutting costs. This caused a lot of dysfunction in our group, which lead to stagnation of the product and any learning/challenges. Plus I was underpaid.

A buddy had approached me a year or so prior to quitting with an idea and we developed and won an SBIR grant from NASA which ran the second half of 2021. The results weren't quite strong enough for commercialization, in my opinion. So I will be on the market in a month after more studying.
it sounds like the same reason why AOL + Time Warner merged, or whatever it is Yahoo has been doing in the last 20 years...
"And you talk about all other jobs like they’re beneath you."

Source? I haven't said any jobs are beneath me.

"only make it easier for you"

Basically what I'm saying - I don't suck at interviewing etc. There aren't many high paying jobs in my area. I do just generally suck.
I write code with speech to text, and it's nothing like this.

Anything that's can be templated is. There's natural language integration with LSP. I use Vim mode "naturally" etc...

It's not like reading what's on your screen word by word. It's less input than typing.
Frankly, people who succumb to social pressure are weak. Unless there is an acute barrier to something, if you want to do it, you just should. I relish any opportunity to do things I like that others dislike- making this comment for example.
Personally, it was more about company culture and flexibility. But unfortunately, many firms have not moved on from the legacy view of the worker. Although, from my perspective, it is the most significant driver for the mass exudes we are seeing, it doesn't all seem to be about money. But, for the most part, it sure as hell is critical to pay people what they are worth.
True for me in one situation. Worked for a large corporation and could not find any lateral movement within, either. Had to leave the entire company because I was growing frustrated (after too long - 1.5 years) with my manager appeasing his bosses at the expense of focusing on the career growth (learning, responsibility, impact) of his direct reports.
I just left my job at one FAANG for another FAANG. I felt like I was under-compensated and talked to my manager, they said "well, go get another offer and show you're worth more". I went and got an offer that was nearly 60% higher and at a higher ladder level. My manager and director tried to retain me, but upper management "did not want to play that game", which I guess is a nice way of saying I'm not worth that much to the company. I did get a nice raise and a big bonus and a big refresher but it wasn't anything near the other offer.

Now, I kinda liked my job and team - but TBH it wasn't the most amazing role ever - let's say it was 7.5/10. If all things were equal or the difference was insignificant I would have stayed probably. I wonder how much I would need to love my job to have stayed regardless of having such a higher offer.
left my job the first fall of the pandemic, no new job in hand, because CTO and I had disagreements over tech and he did not trust my technical decisions for stupid reasons (I think he wanted control and could not handle giving it up, which you have to figure out how to do in a growing startup). Found a new job pretty quickly, been there for a year and change. Love the new job, but I might make a jump because I am being courted by a company that will maybe make possible a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - making the transition from coder to astronaut.
Negotiating courses often refer to this as the BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement). Considering what that scenario is and having it as your bottom line is the best piece of advice they impart.
Most of what I said was available at the time (not Omicron, of course). The US agencies chose not to take non-US data seriously, similarly to when the CDC acted like Delta would magically stop at the border after it was causing huge problems in the UK & India.
Any art you could share? I'm really interested.
Atlas Obscura now available as an App
Perhaps @lordnacho couldn't decide between ARE-Evil ('A@r-'i:v@L) and REEvil (r'i:v@L), so @3np suggested REvil (r'Ev'Il). J/k, I'm just showing off `eSpeak -x`'s output, which as a non-native English speaker I've found quite valuable on occasion.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://spotifyopenletter.word...

Let the list of names be part of the public record "forever".
Haiku OS works well on them, too.