skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead of giving people money to chase goods stuck in ports the government should have spent that money on building up infrastructure and have people out doors away from covid.

This statement makes no sense: even (most? all?) construction was shut down during (pre-vaccine) 2020 for periods of time to reduce the spread of COVID. At least it was where I was.

Further, the people staying at home were often in the service sector: retail, restaurants, etc.

Even when the restrictions were lifted a bit, you can't simply take random people who were doing one job and throw them onto a construction site and expect them to be useful (never mind productive/efficient). The number of companies and people available at any given time to do this is at any particular instant of time is finite, and most were probably on a contract. Certainly over time people can shift careers, but that is not instantaneous change.

Depending on the "infrastructure" you want to do/build, you need lead time to actually design what you want to build, do surveys, get permits, and order materials. And because of global supply chain issues, a lot of materials were in short supply: lumber being the most publicized, but shipping pallets were an issue as well (there was a good Odd Lots podcast episode on them), as were the obscure things such as truss plates.

Maintaining infrastructure is a great idea, but you don't "just" do it. Outside of 'simply' tarmac repaving the surface of a road, most everything else takes a few months of planning.
I can’t comment on google’s offerings, but I loved my shield tablet back in the day and would love to see more spiritual successors. Sure it was less speedy than most comparable iPads, but I quite enjoyed being able to run emulators, software from f-droid, etc. If Google wants to carry on that torch sounds good to me.
Top Google search result on climate issues is a Climate Change Conspiracy blog
I was trying to find a thoughtful ranking of the top climate changes issues by searching Google "top environmental issues"

Instead, the snippet took me to this blog post: https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/top-25-environmental-concerns.php

And as I scrolled, I noticed that the blog frequently pushes false content on Global Warming being a hoax, as can be seen here (and linked in the above blog post): https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/top-10-unbelievable-reasons-that-prove-global-warming-might-be-hoax.php

It's saddening that Google is actively pushing fringe conspiratorial content for such common searches. While I know I'm not the first to stumble on this problem, this particular instance really took me by surprise.
Again, think of ant colonies, it's not far off
Release the BATs (block level access control in IPFS)
> I wouldn't be able to answer such a question honestly in front of a stranger.

For me it is even easier to be honest to a stranger.

"You may or may not find it as rewarding to work here as I have- of course it is a rollercoaster but I wouldnt still be here if I didnt like somethings about it but it is a job like any other."
Appeals court upholds California’s net neutrality law
I am currently in my perfect job (scaleup, market leading tech product with two big moats, about to close series B.)

I know this lot are keepers because, this time around, I had the chance to come onsite (!) for the final round of negotiation and I got to meet two VPs, the chief architect, the managers of three other teams adjacent to the ones I was joining, another candidate (different role :), my upcoming manager (who had interviewed me, but this was much less formal) the lead partner engineer and the CTO.

Some of these were formal meetings but a lot of them were ad hoc 5 minute 1:1s I had while being shown around the building, being introduced to people. Everyone was open to talking about the company and I went armed with a laundry list of questions about the product to drive the conversations, mostly just letting them talk about engineering stuff.

This was all in addition to a phone screen with the longest serving engineer (an initial “sell” really, more than a screen) two rounds of interviews (pre- and post- take home test) where I also met two other managers and a future team mate. In total that’s something like a dozen meaningful interactions with employees from all parts of the tech org.

My top tips: make a point of finding out the roles of everyone you meet and insist your final on-site be scheduled around lunchtime with a tour of the office included.

The meta point being you can make the highest signal decision only once you’ve met as many potential colleagues as possible. It’s the people that make up a company culture.
This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software.

> Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time.

Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the Play Store, but this won't be the last time I hear about Google giving no reason to terminate or de-monetize someone's account other than 'ToS violation' without pointing what was 'violated'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30117423
If you look from business perspective AWS consultant is as opaque as any SysAdmin with bare metal servers.

You don't even know if Sys Admin is doing any backups at all.

From perspective of a person that does not know anything about administering systems tweaking stuff in AWS is I would say a lot easier than setting up a server properly.

So people that know nothing about administering systems pay more because they don't have the knowledge.

If you have the knowledge then yes it is cheaper to run your own sever but what is obvious or easy for one person is not really true for someone else.
The author makes a good point but for me personally those numbers are off.

I have a suspicion that the amount of healthy and productive work depends much on the work environment, the agency and social relationships one has there.

If you’re a well paid wage slave then you have different engagement than an autonomous, respected worker. Excuse the platitude but you get the drift.

Discipline is freedom and empathy is purpose.
Why I keep saying that the US, Canada are the least racist countries in the world, in that order, IMO.
Any thoughts on this? Viability, Feasibility, Desirability?
I think it's naive to say that 6 TRILLION dollars of stimulus and a sharp rise in inflation that followed it is unrelated
This looks exactly like what I’m looking for. Thank you!
What’s the point of earning the money?
F-Droid is cool in theory, but it is largely unmaintaned and understaffed. If you upload a new build it may take weeks to get distributed to users.
Play over 2k+ online and 20 offline games in one app to save your storage space
>completely-dynamically-rendered web app slathered in frameworks for A/B testing, feature flags, analytics & tracking, cookie permissions, media middleware, localization, theming and browser compatibility

Getting you to click on ads does not take that. The only point in the list that makes money is spying I mean "analytics and tracking" but that doesn't take dozens of megabytes of js diarrhea and a thousand frameworks calculating DOM diffs and whatnot
> I sometimes tasked myself with projects for work, but they were almost always ignored by my company, and that hurt.

Experienced this on multiple occasions especially recently and it does indeed hurt - especially when you know what a difference it could make to users or fellow developers and it’s ignored or ignored and then some higher up miraculously suddenly invents an identical idea several months down the line.

Bonus points if it’s a whole team effort for almost two years that gets more or less scrapped despite the obvious need for it as a dependency for multiple teams.
You do know that there are different keyboard layouts?
`|>` is <AltGr> + <w> + <y> (no reason to lift the right thumb from <AltGr>) for me
The headline makes it sound like a new policy to bring in 400,000 people and then stop, but the German immigration system does not work on quotas.

Anyone from an EU country has equal rights to a German citizen, any job that can't be adequately filled by an EU applicant can be given to someone from outside the EU.
If you have infinite time to recover, there is no problem, but you could also design something perfect using that infinite time.

A bit of thinking about design and architecture can save you a lot of time. Start with the wrong data structures and maybe you'll have to patch a lot of thing or just redesign everything from scratch.

Be an architecture astronaut and you may never release whatever you're suppose to develop.

It's all about trade-offs.
This started out interesting but strayed into rant territory pretty quickly.

"Tesla will be reporting earnings just as this article goes to publication today. But in my view, any “fundamental” news coming from Tesla’s earnings is rather meaningless. Why? Because we’re talking about a company completely divorced from any semblance of fundamental value."

Author: complains that investors are ignoring fundamentals

Also Author: ignores fundamentals
Is watching broadcast TV that common anymore? I honestly have no idea if it is.
I don't think anyone is saying Neil Young or Joni Mitchell shouldn't be allowed to do this.

In fact most people on Rogan's side are cheering them on to get their music removed.

People are just saying they are hysterical and childish, and it's ironic how these people were the icons of counter culture 30-40 years ago and now are doing the bidding of the powerful.

People generally don't like hypocrites, and like to point out hypocrisy. That's all.
> but this part is not captured well in total war

If you can rout the enemy force in TW, it then becomes massively easier to destroy them completely. Soldiers that are running away can't do much damage to their pursuers. As soon as you turn your back on your enemy, your chances of being killed increase dramatically.

If you rout your enemy in TW, you are offered the choice to accept a victory, or to continue fighting. Unless I'm bored, I always run them down; I don't want them retrained and reinforced, to come back later with added experience points.

In Napoleon TW, the best units for running down routed enemy troops are light cavalry. I suspect that's what lancers were really for.
MD job candidate: diagnose this patient for free.
That's unfortunate. Luckily there's still the package in F-Droid.
None in mine. His plot modules conveniently put him at other houses when my hobbits are in trouble. I did have an attack box named "Sting" however.
Yep. Anyone claiming to be working more than 40 hrs is implicitly revealing that their job doesn't require much thinking.

It is possible in crunch time to work harder on difficult problems, but not for longer than a few weeks at a time followed by a few weeks of rest. Regardless how you account for the time.
It's not "baiting for a debate", your explanation of gender, while reasonable on its own, is simply not what I asked for. I specifically wondered about a concept of gender completely independent of sex, because I'm not sure how that'd work. At the very least I imagine it has to be something radically different from the usual mainstream conceptions of gender.

But seeing as you had to trot out the generic, condescending 'go educate yourself', I'll just assume you simply don't know.
Less well known, there was also internment of Alaska Natives in inhumane conditions. One camp had a mortality rate above 10 percent.

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/haunted-by-world-war-ii-...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-forcibly-detain...
If deemed high-risk, Google already asks for proof of identity whe registering a developer account
You make a good point, and this is why people claiming English is so much easier than Latin because it lacks noun cases is a pet peeve of mine — the word order conventions that we use instead of cases to convey information is grammar that has to be learned too!

As far as I know there is no one-dimensional metric that would let you say any language is uniformly easier than another.
> it’s been damaged way too much already

Why? It's one of the most comfortable languages for me.

Some parts of it are objectively bad, sure, but why even touch those parts when the language constantly gets updated and modernized... I'm saying this as a developer who mainly writes C# and Go these days.

With JS, without dabbling in wasm wizardry, I can open a console in the browser and directly get an environment with crazy interaction possibilities.

If I'm writing something for the long run, I can use a lighter compile-to-JS language like Typescript (my fav) and when there's an error, I can directly map what's going on to actual source code without even using source-maps. In addition to that, admittedly like many other languages, I can write 2 lines of it in a file, double click the file, and have a web server running! It's amazing that JS gets more and more love, and there are many of us caring for it.

The whole rhetoric that "JS is bad" is getting old. People talk down JS then start using others where white space count matters... Yeah it's all preference but that is my point as well. If you don't like JS direction, you can use your favorite lang via WASM, and let JS get developed in a faster pace as well.

So TL;DR: Why not think the other way around the issue!
But if you're there, you're working. You can't spend that time out at a stadium watching a ballgame, or hiking through a forest, or catching up with old friends over coffee, or fixing that stubborn door on your house, or with your family. You're at work, in work mode and your time and energy are alloted to that.

If you work for an agency, and sales is having a tough time closing a deal so there's no work for you today, but you have to be there anyway, ready to work or finding other things to do, maybe upgrading your tools, practicing/learning, then that's still work time. It's not leisure time.

Just because you don't achieve 100% uptime cranking out widgets non-stop at full productivity doesn't mean you're not working. We're people, not industrial factory machines.

You can say 'people are pretending' or 'that's not actually work', but it is. And saying that it's not is just denying reality by casting a moral judgment on it like that.
> keep bringing in new employees that are rude (the "strong woman" template),

I've been working professionally for decades and I don't think I've seen this 'template' at all.

And to be honest I'm wondering if this is a case of the 'same behavior is perceived as ruder in women than in men' effect.
(For context, I'm not from the US and I'm not coming from a background of belief in the US system particularly.)

> Free speech is not an end goal. It's a tool that serves a purpose.

You seem to hold that view that each legal right granted to people is a tool for a purpose. But some things are held, by some, to be worthwhile for their own sake. They are regarded as intrinsically worthwhile.

Consider:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed [...]"

That famous text talks about noble ideas such as life, freedom and justice as intrinsically worthwhile. They are not being granted as tools to provide some other social utility. They are the goals themselves.

It doesn't say life is protected because it makes society better, or that freedom is granted because it makes society more efficient or something.

It's the other way around. Within that framework for thinking about values, society and government are the tools; and life, freedom and happiness are the worthy goals.

Is it such a stretch to consider that free speech is part of personal freedom itself, therefore free speech is an intrinsically worthwhile goal to protect in and of itself?

If you do believe free speech is intrinsically worth protecting as part of life, freedom and happiness, you will surely butt up against the hard reality that it causes injustice and misery in some contexts by its effects. Speech has effects which deprive other people of these same intrinsically worthwhile things, including depriving other people of meaningful free speech. Ethical dilemmas do exist around free speech. Nonetheless, if you believe that it's intrinsically worthwhile because freedom is, you will surely make every effort to resolve ethical dilemmas in a way that keeps free speech as an elevated, worthwhile goal in and of itself, without it needing to be justified as a tool for any other purpose.
I can say from experience that skilled migrants are wanted only in very specific domains like IT, engineering and some areas of medicine, etc. If you’re not active in those domains, you will not get a job according to your qualifications even with good German skills.

I have many acquaintances that work e.g. in IT and while they don’t have problems finding a job, their spouses are facing serious difficulties leading to e.g. changing fields (with the associated loss of experience/earning potential), spending years getting another college diploma or settling for less. And I’m talking mainly about Europeans here, with already recognised diplomas and full rights on the labour market.

With that out of the way, I’m puzzled by the premise of the article. How do countries become unable to satisfy local demand through local supply? Something must be fundamentally wrong with the market. In medical care for example the conditions are bad and the salaries aren’t good.

And while in IT the average salary’s good compared to many other countries, it’s nowhere near what one can get in e.g. Zurich, London or the US. Software developer is just another middle class job. This lack of applicants seems to be at least partly driven by insufficient remuneration. Not surprising that the politicians and companies would rather import labour rather than developing the local market and motivating the locals.
How to become a pragmatic programmer in 10 simple steps
Decisions, decisions.

On one hand, having a pipe is real nice. Some flows are better represented like thwt. On the other, this example doesn't make sense to me.

const y = h(g(f(x)));

const y = x |> f(%) |> g(%) |> h(%)

How is the hack pipe easier on the eyes and mind? Also went through the rest of the article and I have to say things don't get better in terms of readability.

That said, it's arbitrary. I have no doubt many would disagree with me given how often I see people writing code as if it's unthinkable to have more than a handful of symbols on a row.
It's not a license, it's rule #2, where "This _network_ has three rules: [...]"
With an open system/engine, you can train your own personal speech model. For kaldi-active-grammar (https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar), you can do so without all that much difficulty, although the process/documentation could certainly use improvement.

I bootstrapped my personal speech model by retaining the commands from me using WSR. My voice is quite abnormal, and it took only 10 hours of speech data to train a model orders of magnitude more accurate than any generic model I've ever used. And of course, I retain much of my usage now with Kaldi, so my model improves more and more over time. A virtuous flywheel!
People need to stop bringing up F-Droid in response to Google supsending accounts. F-Droid does the exact same thing. If the distributor - whoever they are - don't like you, they will ban you. Your only option is self-hosting APKs (Android only).

https://old.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/ceyzuz/the_fdroid_d...
Yeah there is that too - some of the most dysfunctional human beings I’ve ever encountered.
I don't think you understand how the maths works.

The EROEI of nuclear is 106, by the link I previously provided. The very best solar installations have an EROEI of 7. That means nuclear gives 106/7 = 15x more energy output than solar, for a given amount of manufacturing energy input.

It's a simple ratio calculation, I'm not sure why you decided to subtract the reciprocals of the two numbers.

> Once EROI is high enough

The EROI of solar is 7, which means you get 7 units of energy output for every unit of energy expended in manufacturing. That is a terrible return. In no way is that "high enough". In fact, we shouldn't be bothering with it at all.
Most people use Artstation now.

https://www.artstation.com
On Africa and Global Digital Money
How about making all ELF binaries symbol processing/retrieving faster?
The gnu hashmap is very much obscolete and should be replaced by Swisstable.
Key observations like this will keep being ignored for the decades to come.
I envy people who enjoy and make a living from social interaction or physical work.

I may be wrong, but looking from the outside it looks to me like they are improving themselves as a person and earning a living at the same time.

I need to set aside time to improve my social and physical well being, outside of working time.

Don’t get me wrong I work with interesting people that I love, but we don’t improve our social abilities together
It's not esoteric if you are a functional programmer.
With admin type duties, people in tech can work at least as many hours. That is probably the closest analogy.
I’d just shake it off, shake it off.
Yep this so much. It is not that code is brittle but problem space is hard. What seems like an obvious fix may break other vendors that depend on same behavior etc.

Having said all of that. Modesty is a thing and many engineers wouldn't word things the way Manish worded in aforementioned blog.
Some of it is capitalism. Here’s a nice introduction to private equity in radiology.

https://www.benwhite.com/medicine/the-private-equity-model-i...

Now with surgery? Again there’s some capitalism but also surgery is hard. Extremely hard. Here’s a link to a common surgery for orthopedics for example. They have to memorize these procedure steps and be very quick. Time on the table for the patient matters for money and for anesthesia (more dangerous for longer GA cases).

https://www.orthobullets.com/knee-and-sports/12234/acl-recon...

Anyways you can be mad about moats and artificial supply constraints for things like dermatology but for surgery and family practice? Not really.

Another factor is geography. Can you imagine doing 12-14 years of school and low paid training, have 250-500k in debt and then move out to a rural area to practice? Many doctors don’t want to do that, so the ones that do are paid well but are usually extremely busy.

Anyways, there’s just a lot of factors that limit supply, it’s not the nefarious doctors union trying to squeeze every last drop.
Yeah, it's difficult for non-specialist in psychology that isn't dedicated to do major soul-search and change their entire life to do something here. It's better to have a guidance of gestalt psychologist or so, they can try to figure out the underlying problem and make a proper personalized plan to fix this. Even if such advice seems kind of demeaning on surface, it's not, and it's definitely better than trying to blindly solve it by yourself or using superficial measures.
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