skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What makes you think engineers are anti-intellectual?

FWIW, I’ve encountered the thing I call anti-intellectualism here among experimental physicists as well, and even in some theorists and mathematicians as well, to varying degrees. I don’t mean being stupid or not using your brain for work; I’m sure some of the people I’m thinking of here are much smarter than me and/or have contributed much more to society than I ever will. I’m not thinking of all engineering or science people, either; the maths teacher I had in high school is perhaps the strongest counterexample of this stereotype I know.

What I mean is a certain lack of wonder and ... suspension of disbelief(?) when it comes to other kinds of intellectual pursuits (sciences, arts, humanities, philosophy, mathematics), like a feeling you’re doing Real Work while those other quacks do pointless things to amuse themselves, and are not even particularly successful at that. “Shut up and calculate”, if brought out among people who are past the basic level of understanding of the subject in question, is a manifestation of this (even though the originator of the saying in the context of quantum mechanics, David Mermin, is now a proponent of the “quantum Bayesianism” school of philosophical thought). Lest it seem that I’m dunking on physicists here, the “Two cultures” essay and Hardy’s “Apology” also contain some of this.

If you’ve read the book, the shortest definition is perhaps to say that my “anti-intellectualism” is the opposite of The Glass Bead Game, even if Hesse intended it as his anti-Enligtenment manifesto.

And I cannot say this sort of skepticism is always wrong—that way lies Fashionable Nonsense and New Age mysticism, and epistemic relativism scares me like little else. We do owe some advances in quantum foundations to New Age people, though, so sneering in that direction might not be right either.

(If you think that this anti-intellectualism thing and the negation of the hacker spirit seem remarkably similar, you’re getting it.)
I've always liked this video, where one of the Dyalog developers effortlessly writes a Sudoku solver in APL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs
I think I get the point. Advertising has merits, so does being a first adopter. It's possible to make it without advertising or being a first adopter, it's also possible to get swept under the rug.

I think the goal from the artists perspective is to reach the most people while reducing advertising costs.

The goal for the consumer is to be able to easily get the music they like at low costs. This is getting met, but I'd like to see the costs lowered. (consumer bias)

Currently the environment is benefiting early entreprenuers of streaming platforms. The costs are lowering for artist which is also good.

I'd like to see the balance to continue to shift more to the artists, but not to the point where one artist can dominate over another.
Thanks. I lost my access to the standard itself a few months ago.
Okay, you got me thinking about this more generally, and it seems like this sort of proof can disprove all sorts of checkers:

function HasPropertyX(A: (S: string) => void, S: string): boolean;

function Q(S: string): void {
if(HasPropertyX(Q, S)) {
AvoidHavingX();
} else {
HaveX();
}
}

For example, no program can exist that checks whether another program raises an exception on some argument (pseudocode, since I don't really know typescript):

function RaisesException(A: (S: string) => void, S: string): boolean;

function Q(S: string): void {
if(RaisesException(Q, S)) {
pass;
} else {
raise Exception;
}
}

and no program can exist that determines whether a given bit of code blows up the planet:

function BlowsUpThePlanet(A: (S: string) => void, S: string): boolean;

function Q(S: string): void {
if(BlowsUpThePlanet(Q, S)) {
pass;
} else {
HitTheBigRedButtonAndGoKaboom();
}
}

and you can't even test whether f(x) is true:

function ReturnsTrue(A: (S: string) => boolean, S: string): boolean;

function Q(S: string): boolean {
return not ReturnsTrue(Q,S);
}

It seems like it any property you can exhibit in HaveX cannot be checked for, leading me to think that this is a proof that you can't definitively check for pretty much anything in programs, but that seems too far.

Am I getting this right? How far does this go? Is there a deeper theorem about the limitations of program checking that brings this all together?
The quote talks about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness.
How will we teach other animals to stop eating other animals?
This is textbook example of a bad manager. These kind of people are the reason why employees leave. The person should be removed from that position and made into an individual contributor.
This is a great idea, then menus could be organised by their topological equivalences, instead of arbitrary entree, etc. So donuts and coffee would be in the one section as nature intended.
I wonder what the USA would look like if zoning laws were defined as: Issue building permits until people can afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive of work without traffic
OP says the lignin is "a waste product from the paper industry" and "majority of lignin is burnt". So it sounds like: currently, grow tree (pulling carbon from the atmosphere), process for paper industry, burn the resulting lignin, carbon returns to atmosphere. With this process: grow tree, process for paper industry, embed lignin in road material. If the lignin remains in the road more-or-less permanently (I asked about this in a separate comment), that sounds like legit removal; the carbon started out in the air and ends up in the road.
When the moving cost is 1/100th of the hospital bill. really? this baffles you? it's an investment.
> I literally cannot think of any other comparable size and age mysql user who has not successfully sharded long ago and avoided outages of this magnitude.

How about a little humility? You have no idea who else has similar problems out there. I'm sure Percona and other DB consulting companies would tell you otherwise, as would PlanetScale. (If this weren't true, they wouldn't be viable businesses.)

> github is a 14 year old company, with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions USD

You're making the classic mistake of thinking that having money means you can just wave your hand and hire whoever you want with whatever talent you need to solve your problems. The world just doesn't work that way.

As for the "hand-wavy" excuses, well, the people who know the issues don't need to disclose the dirty details in a public forum, nor are they often able to because of NDAs and other legal encumbrances. And it can be a career-limiting move to throw your colleagues under the bus.

You can choose to assume people are incompetent, or instead choose to assume that people are working as best they can under the constraints placed on them. I think it's better to assume the latter.
They’ll also eat at Applebee’s less. This exec seems really out of touch with who the typical Applebee’s customer is and how much money they earn.
Baby cut, which is all the article talks about
IMO, you should seriously consider seeing a doctor. I had a very similar thing for years and it turns out that my actual problem is sleep apnea and ADHD. Working on those two problems has made a world of difference to my ability to function.
This sounds to me like they want to be able to provide for a SO?
I recommend reading the papers when you get the chance. The author did a great job digging through and summarizing the historical record to help explain how Quantum Mechanics was born at the turn of the 20th century, along with her own contributions.

In short:
Indeed there are hidden variables in the equations that comprise the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.

1. Planck’s energy equation has a hidden time variable. The equation should be E=htf where h is an energy constant, not an action constant. This implies that each wavelength of light has mass h/c^2 (and therefore momentum), and the fine structure constant has units [cycle x seconds].

2. Planck’s famous black body paper had an undeveloped hypothesis in it that nearly went forgotten. The author calls this the resonance hypothesis. The upshot is that E=Kb x T is missing a term that describes the resonant energy of the system. The equation relating energy directly to temperature via Boltzmann’s constant is in turn only describing the unorderly energy in the system and should be considered a lower bound of the energy of a system of molecules.
Any font rendering looks amazing on HiDPI panels. Have you ever used macOS on a normal monitor? The text looks worse than anything else.
Exposure to x-rays is harmful every time. In contrast, basejumping, skateboard tricks, etc. only pose a risk of harm.

Edit: why the downvotes?
Because I can eat them straight out of the bag without any need to rinse, peel, or cut them. They are ready to eat, in perfectly sized bites.
Everybody is giving you theoretical answers, but I am literal minded.

According to some website, Miami, FL is the most expensive real estate market in the country, and Florida has a fairly low minimum wage currently. So, I'll work with that.

I assume that a 1 hour drive without traffic puts you at most around 55 miles (freeways are faster, city streets are slower, but this is an estimate).

That could put you in places like Belle Glade, Florida, where the 1 bedroom apartment listings are between $400 and $650 per month.

But, it could also put you in the much nicer West Palm Beach, Florida, where (according to Zillow Fair Market Rent for ZIP Code 33401) the average rental for a 1 bedroom apartment is $1274 per month.

Divided between two people, that's $637 per month. If we go with the rule that 1/3 of your wages should go to housing, that means you'd need to make $1911 per month to afford that apartment. If you worked 40 hours a week, and there are (on average) 4.3 weeks per month, that means you'd need to make $11.11 per hour to afford that apartment.

According to this other random website, the average hourly wage in Miami is $21 per hour. The minimum wage in Florida is currently $8.65 per hour.

In summary, if they took the least generous interpretation of your rule set (the Belle Glade case) they could safely lower the minimum wage. If they took the most generous (the West Palm Beach case) they would need to raise it by about $2.50 per hour.

The average wage across the U.S. is about $27, and 2/3rds of people make "at least" above $15/hour, so it may not affect most people at all, ceteris paribus, and making the assumption that the example region is a useful example.

This is all very hand-wavey and back of the envelop, of course.
you're right about the hidden costs not mentioned in the article. He stayed at the hospital for 2 days, consulted with doctors, and received medication. this is why the bill is so high.

however, an x-ray should cost around $200. there's no need for an "expert" medical billing administrator here, $200 is double or triple the price of an x-ray in many european countries, and many facilities in america (where the youtuber lives) will charge less than $1000.
Makes you wonder if that’s where the whole “don’t sit too close to the TV” thing came from
I don’t think commute should factor into this discussion at all. People choose to live in expensive urban cities, why not move to a cheaper place? The point of opportunity is that everyone has it, but people that take advantage of it and succeed get chastised while other people who don’t wish to apply themselves get angry. Then add children on top of it and you have people with multiple kids living on minimum wage who feel entitled to earn more money because of their poor choices and family planning.
That's just sophistry which doesn't add anything to the discussion. Given that the vast majority (99.98%) of humans do end up either male or female [1] it is a fact that humans are sexually dimorphic with male and female phenotypes with the exceptions being just that: exceptions.

[1] the prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022449020955213...
I develop GTK3 apps. Theme breakage is generally a very real concern, as it usually points towards an issue with either

a. The usage/implementation of widgets in the application

or

b. The stylesheet the end user is implimenting

In either instance, the solution is very simple and within arms reach. It will always make more sense to encourage robust development practices over building fragile application stacks.
Sorry, meant companies not countries.
I had this happen to me a few years ago. The point of the newsletter spam was to try to hide a confirmation e-mail from online order using my account on an online store. The attacker gained access to the my account at the store using a password from an old data breach. They signed up for hundreds of newsletters in the span of a few minutes, then placed an order using the stolen credentials. The confirmation e-mail was buried in a mountain of spam, making it almost impossible to discover that the attacker had placed an order using my account. Fortunately, I hadn’t used that store in ages, so all of the billing info they had on file was out of date and the order was cancelled automatically. Try searching your email for “order” or something similar and see if anything came in during the newsletter bomb.
OK. I don't care much for your sympathy.
This rationale is always based on the fact that a "teenager" doesn't need a livable wage. The problem with this, is that not every fry cook is a teenager that doesn't need to pay for food and shelter. Fast food is a $300bn industry in the US. It doesn't need to be subsidized by parents.
I'm not knocking the use of antibiotics, but you never get a GP telling you to take a copper supplement after course do you?

Getting the diet right in the first place can also help enormously with prevention.

And I find some medical tests can actually qualify me with a disease just from taking some supplements, like taking creatine and then my estimated glomular filtration rate shows high levels of creatinine which is used to indicate some stage of kidney disease all because the test cant factor in creatine supplementation.

Or I could take above RDA amounts of B6 which will increase my immune system response but the test could also indicate me with a different type of disease, and its not until we are several tests later do the medical experts start enquiry about my diet? We dont live in the 1990's or earlier when vitamin and mineral supplementation was a novelty, its fairly wide spread now.
There is a whole genre of hate reads... I think some of them were originally unintentional, but more recently I think writers (like FB) have realized that lots of people will read stuff just to get angry.
The only reason this new story became a problem for Applebees was the suggestion to exploit high gas prices. But the suggestion to hire people at lower wages is par for the course, unfortunately.
The don't theme my app people were complaining about their bug trackers being full of theme-related issues. Instead of just setting up a filter rule in their tracker so they could ignore those issues, they decided to go super draconian and remove theming for the entire desktop.

That disproportionate response to what comes down to an organizational shortcoming on their end made people upset, I'm not sure what they expected.
Yes I'm aware of it
You can't get any more arrogant than this.
There isn't much ideas today that are applicable mainly as desktop applications.
> That said, the real brand name stuff that westerners would recognize and prize was not cheaper.

I'll just say that unless you speak Vietnamese or have locals who show you where to shop, a month isn't long enough to develop the inside scoops. =)

> nicely shilled site

Reminds me of Hamilton Shirts in Houston.
Ex Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA
Yes this would also help solve some of the tech displacement problem. But in clown world if this ever happened it would just be the subject of corporate capture.
Gitlab had continuing problems with people using the free CI service for crypto mining.
It seems to be the bane of all services that offer any kind of free tier for any compute.
The real estate industry would need significant overhauls before tying it to UBI. A minimum wage increase based on inflation would be vastly easier to get done politically in the US and even that bare minimum still hasn't happened yet.
It was a little joke about rooting around inside a blackhole discovering things from the past. ;-)
It's available as an ebook too, from at least Amazon and Kobo.
How People Think
You don't have any contact information in your profile :)
DIY orthodontics is interesting but also horrifying if it goes wrong (there are pictures, I will not link them)
Wow, that's definitely something. Implying that tinkering with the low level aspects of a system are acceptable, but don't you dare apply a different stylesheet, because adjusting colors is delicate work that shouldn't ever be done by anybody but the developer.
Checks are good, definitely. And they help to limit the damage caused by stuff like fraud. You were right about that stuff.

The point I think folks were contesting was the tone some may've inferred from [this comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30787447 ), which may sound a bit like downplaying the damage caused by fraud under the premise that reproduction ought to catch such things anyway.

For a computing analogy, TCP uses mechanisms that enable it to tolerate packet-loss. But packet-loss still slows things down, limiting bandwidth and increasing latency, until a connection would be impractical. For a connection with many hops, even a small packet-loss-rate along each hop would be a huge problem, even though TCP actively checks for packet-loss and tries to fix it.

Likewise, science-with-replication presumably ought to be able to fix a lot of fraud and errors -- but those problems take a heavy, debilitating toll on scientific progress; it's not a small problem that replication-studies alone could satisfactorily rectify.
Sure.

Here's someone developing an engine capable of rendering infinite, fractal worlds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1MjZbGbi4I

Here's someone developing an engine with hyperbolic geometry (though dressed in mundane setting):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYfWfrk5P7w

Mirror Drop is an abstract art puzzle game that's kind of difficult to define:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1zHgYUE9HY

Here's a game where the speed of light is simulated and variable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7jA8EHi_0

The primary point of my argument is that we don't have things in mind that current rendering engines can't handle, precisely because our current engines are so hell-bent on replicating reality. Why dream of what your tools can't make?
Disclaimer: this comment ticked me off a bit.

If you really, honestly believe that multiple human opinions and a consensus process is a requirement for hiring, I think you shouldn't be asking people to do work samples, because you're not serious about them. You're asking people to do work --- probably uncompensated --- to demonstrate their ability to solve problems. But then you're asking your team to override what the work sample says, mooting some (or all) of the work you asked candidates to do. This is why people hate work sample processes. It's why we go way out of our way not to have processes that work this way.

We've done group discussions about candidates before, too. But we do them to build a rubric, so that we can lock in a consistent set of guidelines about what technically qualifies a candidate. The goal of spending the effort (and inviting the nondeterminism and bias) of having a group process is to get to a point where you can stop doing that, so your engineering team learns, and locks in a consistent decision process --- so that you can then communicate that decision process to candidates and not have them worry if you're going to jerk them around because a cranky backend engineer forgets their coffee before the group vote.

I don't so much care whether you use consensus processes to evaluate "culture fit", beyond that I think "culture fit" is a terrible idea that mostly serves to ensure you're hiring people with the same opinion on Elden Ring vs. HFW. But if you're using consensus to judge a work sample, as was said upthread, I think you're misusing work samples.

You can also not hire people with work samples. We've hired people that way! There are people our team has worked with for years that we've picked up, and there are people we picked up for other reasons (like doing neat stuff with our platform). In none of these cases did we ever take a vote.

(If I had my way, we'd work sample everyone, if only to collect the data on how people we're confident about do against our rubric, so we can tune the rubric. But I'm just one person here.)

Finally: a rubric doesn't mean "scored by machines". I just got finished saying, you build a rubric so that a person can go evaluate it. I've never managed to get to a point where I could just run a script to make a decision, and I've never been tempted to try.

I'll add: I'm not just making this stuff up. This is how I've run hiring processes for about 12 year, not at crazy scale but "a dozen a year" easily? It's also how we hire at our current company. I object, strongly, to the idea that we have a culture of "machines", and not just because if they were machines I'd get my way more often in engineering debates. We have one of the best and most human cultures I've ever worked at here, and we reject idea that lack of team votes is a red flag.
By raising prices and further cementing inflation across the board, which will be passed on to other people and other business to persist the effect even further if they don’t lose customers because of the price increases.

It sounds so simple to just raise prices, but if it were that simple it would have happened long before. Especially on the lower end of the consumer goods and services market the price sensitivity of people is sky high. In grocery stores companies chose to shrink their products and hope people didn’t notice rather than increases prices for that exact reason.

It gets passed along somewhere and in the end the more people who decide to “just raise prices” the worse the problem gets.
Coffeine is increasing chance of dissociation happening without outside stimuli, increasing likely hood of non substance addiction hundreds of times.....
not worth risk.
combined with most games and tv shows that are "casino like " yeah,
you lose money long term drinking coffeee / tea.
Do not forget to buy energy drinks to your teenagers for long term effecs, having affecting them sooner in their lives!

More space / money / profit for non drinking people.
>> !important really was a mistake and should only be used to counteract other uses of !important you don't have control over.

That's mainly when I use it. Mostly to override colors Bootstrap CSS has defined with it.

For example a nav background color set in the Bootstrap file "/scss/mixins/_background-variant.scss":

.bg-light {
background-color: #f8f9fa!important;
}

By default I use that, but I also let users select a CSS file to override that with a color they chose from a list of "themes" I've made.

My themes only change a small bit of what Bootstrap CSS has described in their themes. It wouldn't make any sense for me to do anything more than that because it works works and it's easy for me to implement the change.
Yeah, the new GTK4 UI looks like a clone of Apple’s UIKit with a worse font. Shame that Gnome is following the trend of flat and boring UIs.
```
const users = await sql`
select
name,
age
from users
where age > ${ age }
`
```

Do template literals like this in JS work differently than just straight up string interpolation? As a rails dev this set off alarm bells.
That sounds more like intellectual snobbery and scientism rather than anti-intellectualism.

This is especially evident towards fields one knows little about, towards the so-called "soft sciences" and the humanities.