skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author posits that people won't do inconvenient things whose benefit massively outweighs the cost.

It's certainly true that making anything easier to use helps adoption of whatever the thing is.

I'm less convinced by his arguments that different communities of correctness think the others don't care about correctness. They may believe theirs is better, more useful or easier to adopt, but I don't think I've heard TDD people say formal methods people don't care about correctness!
But there is no connection between fascism and occultism like Adorno wrongly implied. The merge is coincidental. Fascism and communism both opposed it, fascist maybe a bit less to take advantage of adherents. If he were here today, I think he would adapt some statements.

You deliver a great example how the anticolonialism is indeed revanchist in case for India. For good reason one might think. Same can be true for occultist currents.

Similarly superstition and fantasy can also be. Still, you need to look at the motivation. Homeopathy is different from painting yourself with some old nordic runes because of nationalistic ambitions. A generalization here is wrong.
Agreed. That is similar to my example regarding a history of visited sites. And features like that a very helpful in my opinion.
Keeping everything up to date in not usually required. But then comes a program with "bug fixes and performance improvments" which does not work with libxlst-2.67.45.35.77.so.2 and needs libxlst-2.67.45.35.78.so.4. And this lib needs another one and so on. Only if people would think a bit before releasing something the world would be a better place.
That's why i like Patrick. He tries hard to make a stable release even during times when "if compiles, ship it" is the mantra.
Yikes.

In what world is this a working class uprising? It has no meaningful ties to any labour movement, and it’s stated goal seems to be to force Trudeau to over rule provincial — not federal — mask mandates. All because this disorganized, disruptive and aimless rabble believe wearing a piece of cloth on your face is the deeply offensive and tyrannical.

Has anyone actually been squeezed off online platforms for saying they are against mask mandates? I’d be SHOCKED if you could find any evidence to back that up. People HAVE been denied access to PRIVATELY OWNED social media companies because they spread hate, unfounded political conspiracies and worryingly misleading medical misinformation.

Surely you’re not saying that there’s significant overlap between these two groups?
More poetry, less demo: School for poetic computation
> If you solved the vision system problems, you could probably build a pick-and-place out of Legos.

Someone made one, and it’s amazing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LHsl9jSOO6M
Well it's a bullshit claim to justify them taking 30%. Not sure why you've taken it seriously...
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum along with cryptographically randomized frequency hopping, you would not be able to figure out when there is an actual signal rather than noise.
When I was buying my first PC back in mid 90's I had only one requirement: it had to be abele to run Linux. I was picking out the components for which I was sure that they will work with Linux. My first distribution was Slackware. I've moved away from sys admin jobs some 15 years ago but it is nice to see that Slackware is still around.
At least everywhere I have worked, deadlines generally come down from on high, often with no real developer input. If you are lucky, your manager will be successful in fighting for more time. If you somewhat lucky, the missed deadline will be ignored. If you are unlucky, the deadline will approach and people will suddenly disappear.
Software is already eating the bottom end of IT jobs. Making basic websites is not the reliable career it once was; cloud is eating a lot of internal IT and dedicated sysadmin or DBA positions. High average salaries is not evidence that the industry is not being automated; it might even be the opposite - when you replace 5 on-prem sysadmins with one cloud SRE, average salary goes up even as the number of jobs goes down.

And speaking as a well-paid, high-level developer: it would be better both for me and for society if I could get paid at all while writing an open-source library once instead of getting paid by five different companies to write the same library five times for each of them in turn. I limit how much work I do for free, which means I haven't made many open-source contributions lately. I'd love to have a path to cover my living expenses while doing more open-source work. Currently I jump through the hoops needed to get paid, so it's not like I'm demanding others step in to save me. But looking for ways things could be better is not a cop-out.
> Making 200k at 24 is impressive to no one, and is instead met with disdain

I think your bubble is showing. Making $200k at 24 is well out of reach for most Americans in their 20s.
> But things also get complicated in Go when you start to use concurrency.

Things always get complicated when concurrency is involved. And Go handles this much better than most other languages, with language primitives (go, select, chan) dedicated to the task, and CSP being much easier to handle than memory sharing.

> event driven concurrency with callback functions (as in nodejs) is easier to wrap your head around then channels.

How so?

The code becomes non-linear, what bit of code is executed when and how its synchronized is suddenly up to the event loop, and entire libraries suddenly have to be written around a concept (cooperative multitasking) which OS design abandoned in the early 90s for good reason.

And this isn't even taking into account that the whole show is now much harder to scale horizontally, or that it is only suitable for io intensive tasks.
they've abandoned the content acquisition strategy. that went out the boat a long time ago. netflix is a content creation company now, competing with HBO, NBC, etc.
I'm not doubting what you're saying, but given the choice between China and Thailand, I'll take made in Thailand anyday. But, that's just me.
>> Whatever they can do to not get started on a career. And its completely rational

That was completely rational for me when I was a good enough coder in 2004 to leave America and get on the road. I had a career. It's not rational for them. They don't want to be chained to a desk but they aren't actually qualified to do anything.

Money printing had already destroyed the currency. That started in the 70s. Having value in the workplace lets you stay even with inflation.

You just have to actually work or do something, not sit around "not getting a career" while you wait for one to magically come along because you're so fucking special.

>> Making 200k at 24 is impressive to no one

Really? It's very impressive to me. I think outside of SFBA it would be impressive to almost anyone in America, and certainly anyone outside the first world.
No, they don’t. You won’t get a reply. There were BLM protests across Canada, but they were widely considered to be peaceful, and the turnouts were minuscule compared to Those in the us.
If anything the oppression of the Uyghurs probably peaked around 2008 with multiple riots, terror attacks and counter-terror attacks occuring at that time. However back then the Chinese effort was alligned with US efforts in Afghanistan and thus did not get much play in western media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Uyghur_unrest
Same story for me. First Red Hat 5 and then Slackware 7.
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_connect.asp

There's nothing similar in this CSS example, unless I missed it. (I do believe it can be done, the idea is "there" - you need to invent a syntax to declare connection details, error handling, etc; and then you can indeed argue that the .js part is just the "driver")
https://archive.md/UGmhy
You can look up the average salaries for Amazon folks on sites like glassdoor. They're known for being competitive but not particularly larger or better than any other tech company. They pay well enough to live in a high cost of living area like Seattle but that's about it. Someone who spends a couple years at amazon is not going to be 'insanely rich'.
Amazon has an android app store, there's the f-droid one, all the companies selling android phones in china have their own, I think. Samsung has/had something, IIRC (maybe that was just for Gear VR though). Not a huge reason to have 6 on one phone though.

On PC, there's Microsoft's store. Amazon sells software downloads online, and I don't think they're the only ones. Lots of game stores of course. You can also buy software in actual stores, although that's less common, and sometimes it's just a big box with a download code.

But yeah, your take on sideloading seems reasonable. You don't need to do it. I ran a windows phone for years, it's fine to not have apps (and it's less fine to not have a good browser, but if Safari lingers enough, it'd be nice if you could sideload something else)
> But was also scarring, I have huge trust issues with management now

This is the normal approach. You are experienced and wise now.
>Pretty much all Apple has to do to keep apps in App Store in the face of competition is drop their fees to less than 10% for all apps and drop bullshit like "you can't even link to your website if it lets users pay from there", and almost everyone except the most brazen will stay on App Store.

Exactly. Apple would have to actually... compete. I suppose I can understand why this fills them with dread, but they have a clear path to retaining developers: compete!
Im at an age when people talk of my age group like that, and my age group talk of young adults like that. I started working at 14 carrying furnitures on the weekend and im a pampered millenial :D

In fact, I read a little essay wrote during the 18th century by a grumpy old guy that, if modernized a little bit, could pass for your little essay.

I think your reaction is an effect of aging more than an objective view of the world. It's probably very similar to what a pre WWII adult would say of the pampered boomers born around the 40s: children are treasured by their parents, fathers want their child to surpass them and parents are disappointed by the new path their offsprings carved, on average.

Basically, your comment is as useless to trigger change in the youth as it is interesting to study aging. Instead of wondering how to whip the youth into aging faster, I d ask you: how to comfort the elders into aging slower ?
"Oh, those grapes were probably sour anyway!"

Some people work a short period to get a taste of the tech stack and pace of a FAANG while other people post to HN about upcoming interviews at Meta and how they may hate the company's morality but want that big fat comp package. Everyone has their own reasons for taking a particular job and sometimes that calculation needs include the cost of associating your work history with the brand of the company you are working for, but if you think that what you are doing and the impact it has on the rest of the world is important then that warm and fuzzy feeling is a part of the compensation you are maximizing. In the long run no one will care, so anyone who is not maximizing compensation is probably a fool.
Python needs to be put on PIP :)
I have no problem with more respect being paid to trades. I have a problem with blaming people for doing the thing you’re supposed to do to succeed. Until good jobs stop generally requiring a degree, college will always be an enticing gamble on your future - one that from an individual standpoint makes sense to go for (for most people). On a societal level, it’d be great to offer people other bets they can make, like apprenticeship programs, and make those bets more appealing (both financially and in their societal respectability)
Agreed. As soon as you have to defend your “peaceful protest movement” with the statement: “we’re not ALL nazis,” you’ve lost the plot.
Typesafe SQL, typesafe template (or just useful template, not the ones in the stdlib which sucks tremendously), model metaprogramming, etc...
>Incidentally, I have never understood why they didn't do exactly this; ZFS was superior to anything Linux had at the time, and Oracle would have benefited enormously from shipping ZFS as a first-class feature on OEL

I've always figured it's at least partially because someone was too stubborn to give up their work creating btrfs. Though relicensing it to proprietary is Oracle.
A big part of this is that they are ruthless with cutting products that don't perform well. A good chunk of those ~4000 sku's are dedicated to items that are available for very short periods as they are tested.

I think a big part of Trader Joe's success is that they have a good core of staples that people are willing to come in for, and then they have a big selection of new and interesting items that people are willing to try, since they're already there. The quality of the staples allows them to fly under the radar with the rotating stuff, which is in reality pretty hit or miss. But this symbiotic relationship between the core and the experimental sides allows them to quickly iterate through the experimental stuff to find more popular items.
In this specific instance I wouldn't call it a problem.
Yep, that's what I've heard from friends who have tried to do even decent-sized projects on their houses. And I've personally taught myself to do things like patch and paint-match drywall because I know it'll be near impossible to get someone out to do jobs like that.
> These days no popular language, not even scripting ones, interprets byte code upon execution.

Python does. At least, the CPython implementation does, and that’s what 99% of Python code runs on.
That first post, is that the acceptance speech for a Nobel prize?
> here’s a gulf of difference between accepting that scientific opinion is divided; and thinking experts cannot be trusted.

In contemporary culture I see people trying to ban diverging opinions. There is no depth to it. So nuance is not permitted. I don't see people blankly refuse or forbid statements of experts. There is not a rift between the closed and opened minded people. If so, both sides must be close minded.

> Confirm what?

That any scientific discovery must hold against scrutiny, it is as simple as that.

> If people have a medical reason not to be vaccinated

There is a huge political component. I am vaccinated but have called an anti-vaxxer because I don't support mandates, which are now pretty much off the table anyway. People that called for it should be glad most people are not that reactionary to refuse any further discussion. Really glad.

> I don’t trust the science

Nobody is saying anything like that.

> I can and I did. ;)

That is pretty unscientific of you as a the diagnostics of hate speech.
Let’s just leave it to health insurance providers to raise your premiums, then. If you believe in personal responsibility, that’s how the consequences of your decision will play out should you need hospitalization for your future immune-escaping variant infection.

Consider if your first impulse is to deny the possibility of that last point. You’re probably not an evolutionary virologist, so the truth is you have no idea which mutations are next. Perhaps you think T-cell immunity will save you, but omicron already escapes >50% of T-cell antibody types in 21% of vaccinated or infected people. Will we develop better cross-neutralizing antibodies from omicron or will antigen imprinting doom us to suffering wave after wave of new variants, due to maintaining variant-specific immunity only?

I bet that feeling of self-righteousness is satisfying, isn’t it? Perhaps that’s because blaming other humans subconsciously lets you continue the illusion that humans were ever in control of the pandemic in the first place or that a real risk ever existed for you. Anger is a lot more comfortable than existential anxiety.

But the truth is, it’s not “the man” who’s keeping you down at all — the pandemic limitations you feel right now are the libertarian equivalent to your fist being restrained from meeting your neighbor’s nose.
Golang JavaScript and other langauge tutorials
> Since it is performance review season at Amazon, he quickly sent me into a dev plan (PIP)

I think the lesson of this story is to apply for another role after the performance review season.
There's no excuse for silencing voices, even Nazis ones as every inconvenient voice would be labeled a Nazi one easily! I'd rather know who has Nazis views and who has Marxist ones than live among people like in Iran where truths and genuine opinions are only shared at home. It was the same back in Communist Bulgaria up to 1989, so, please, ask people who've been through such a silencing-for-their-own-good regime - there are plenty of them around the globe!
Steam Deck: GPU Settings Fully Customizable
The software (OpenOCD) is free and open source.

Alternatively you could use a programmer that doesn’t require any software and just exposes a GDB server over a tty: https://1bitsquared.com/products/black-magic-probe
Those all mostly work out of the box these days. Even devices that don't get driver support on newer Windows anymore.
What if the deadline is fundamentally impossible? No room for leeway here?
Are we really at the point where having a button to disable personalization makes you a "power user"? I'm by no means a twitter power user, but I do want to just make my timeline chronological and remove all the "tweets you might be interested in" garbage.
Eh, last place I rented in Portland was $1300. I can hit the gas pedal and make $250k a year if I want, but last year I laid low and tucked in under $100k, took time off, still managed to save a bunch of cash. My GF is a massage therapist and makes $50-60k a year. We've got multiple cars and houses. We're both self-employed so we each pay for our own health insurance out of pocket.

This is the dream to a lot of people... in the third world. The truth is we're both relatively lazy and could easily double our income in this country, tomorrow, if we wanted to.

BUT NOT AS LAZY AS GENERATION TIKTOK.
> It's only famously "non-lucrative" because it is to the benefit of those in that profession to say so.

I have several teachers in my extended family and circle of friends, and they would definitely disagree with that statement.

> Median household income in the U.S. is $67K, so jobs that pay 56K are very good.

Only if you have more than one person in the household working. I know that's a lot more common than it was 50 years ago, but is it a majority these days? If not, I would not consider making below median to be "very good".

Of course, picking teachers as the poster child for this argument that university-educated jobs don't pay that much is a bit silly; there are plenty of jobs that required a degree that pay much better than a teaching job.
https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/

This is what the Earth looks like from a geostationary orbit
HR at Amazon is a shit show. I had $100 of pizza stolen from the fridge at Amazon and I mentioned it casually to HR, as something notable but not too important. And HR then decided to tell my manager without my knowledge. The manager then berated me over communicating about a "trivial matter." So yeah, wouldn't put much stock in HR at Amazon.
(dare I ask what a dev plan (pip) is?) quick google check...

Development plan is a regular plan which you do with your manager, where you are focusing on your career progress. You focus on your strengths and weaknesses. Based on this plan you will get tasks which will utilize skills you are good at and also help you to improve skills you want to have improved.

PIP is a plan which is assigned to employees with unsatisfactory results. It's a few months long plan where you got assigned some tasks you should complete. If you are not able to complete them in time, you are fired.
That’s a pretty large bubble.
How convenient for China if no one can critize them before everything is perfect at home... (PS I am not American, but by looking at my previous comments you can maybe figure out where I am from, and find some issue in my country which should stop also my critisism of China.)
One thing I've never seen explained in a way that makes sense to me is how UBI wouldn't immediately result in inflation that eats through most of the grant for lower income households. A lot of countries already have housing demand outstrip the supply by a significant margin so injecting money into the system on the demand side would result in rents (and house/apartment prices) going up even quicker, with UBI covering less and less of actual costs.
Can you show some examples? Perhaps even take all of their fact checks for a particular month and review it with the benefit of hindsight?
No popular language is interpreted these days outside of some specific domains where you might have an embedded scripting environment. But for all the major runtimes, even the JIT languages are now compiled.

This has been true for as long as Go has existed too.
To add to this comment, a lot of times we didn't even care what the solution was, only that it existed, was unique, or was bounded by some constant (and we didn't usually care about the value either). The more you advance into pure mathematics, the less you care about specific functions or values.
I would love to see some "plug and play" user account management. Like handling registration (with confirmation emails), updating/deleting data, build in handling of changing password to increase complexity over time (or forcing change when some leak happen), some protection from login attacks, account levels (and simple adding new level over time), feature toggles, build in multitenancy (so I don't need to code it later when page grow and need it, something like [1]), using ULID (or something similar) instead simple incremental number for ID, build in login history, some login security features (like email on each login, block account login if someone try login from predefined/differen country and email user about that with unblock/allow access link) and more high level stuff (like account anonymising instead of deleting for reporting). So all the stuff that is good to have when you need it but you don't have time to work on it when you focus on business logic.

[1]: https://blog.checklyhq.com/building-a-multi-tenant-saas-data...
On the other hand, to those who did need them, they were potentially invaluable.
Compared to say Rails/Django, there’s very little magic in the Go ecosystem. You end up rewriting a lot of boilerplate. People would often recommend that you start with bare bones net/http, database/sql, etc., not even a minimal framework like Gin/Echo. This is okay for building performant microservices, but it does get annoying when you’re just trying to spin up your twentieth boring CRUD backend quickly.
IBM and Microsoft used to do that a little bit more than a decade ago. Not surprisingly it turnes out that counting LOC leads to shitty spaghettincode and copy paste all over the place and complete ignore of DRY principle
I wouldn't be so quick to judge.

Big companies are actually like a conglomeration of small companies under an umbrella company. The culture is 20% upper management, 80% local management, and so your experience will differ greatly from department to department.

Bad managers exist in most companies. They can and do target people for personal reasons, and usually the targeted person doesn't have the protection or political clout to defend themselves, so they're killed off and life goes on.

I had a similar experience at Canonical of all places, which was a real drag because they were one of the few fully remote companies at the time, and I like the company.