skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find writing to be a useful means of self reflection or reflection on a particular topic.

Sometimes I like what I’ve written enough to want to share it with the world.
I did not assume you are an idiot, perhaps you are projecting? Had I assumed you were one, I'd have pressed the downvote and ignored your comment because I would not have considered the discussion worthwhile.

The image that you portrayed of yourself is that of a vain person, one that limits themselves to appearances instead of inner qualities such as a person's inner world, beliefs and views. You chose to express that your filter is first and foremost a superficial one, you chose to express that people who have corrections to their DNA for example are somehow less of a __real__ human here:

> I should in future expect to have to differentiate between real people and synthetically and genetically enhanced such?

The immediate implication of this position is that correcting a person's genes due to a slight error, e.g. androgen insensitivity due to AR mutations, makes them less of a human ergo do not deserve the same treatment and rights as everyone else. In contrast, correcting for such issues would reduce the probability of cancer in this case, enable the people to have children and avoid a whole class of DSD.

You painted that portrait all the way through, nobody else.

Perhaps the inability to grasp the consequences of such positions is an argument as to why I should not have bothered.
"Helped by unparalleled moments of cool at the height of the
pandemic.... winning the battle for the “sweet spot” of social media
users, those in the 18- to 25-year-old demographic.... becoming
increasingly addictive. Despite the platform supposedly being
restricted to those aged 13 and over.... Meta’s tactics aim to exploit
the suspicion...."

What will historians 200 years in the future make of this? Will they
understand the sub-texts of the article celebrating addiction, youth
anomie, and struggle of grubby tech drug-lords for the most precious
years our children's lives sucked into the mindless, involuted
phenomena it describes?
Or more likely, pay someone to verify it for you!
Their vaccine is not very effective against omicron, and they have far less hospital beds per capita than the west. So a 'flatten the curve' strategy will cause a lot more deads than it has in Europe and the USA.
I feel that this kind of stuff is always a matter of what OS you are used to. When I need to use MacOS there are numerous things that I find hopelessly broken, because I am used to them working differently on Linux. And I'm sure the same will happen to Mac people trying to use Linux.
Apple owns the hardware and MS managed to get HW vendors to adjust everything to Windows.

IMHO, owning the Hardware or agreeing on one existing HW among devs is a good approach. These come to mind:

Dell XPS notebooks, which specifically support Ubuntu or

https://system76.com/ They build or assemble hardware specifically for their Linux distribution Pop! OS

No personal experience with neither, but a colleague uses XPS with OpenSuse and talks about a seamstress experience.
To people commenting how "well if you install Linux the right way on the right hardware like this here purpose-built laptop, it also 'just works'", what the OP is trying to underline isn't just the technical aspect of the OS booting flawlessly and recognizing its periphery, but also the whole experience that comes after. One special part of this, which is easily overseen, is the fact that Apple has poured hundreds of thousands of man-hours and millions upon millions of dollars into HIG (human interface guidelines) studies, which is something no other vendor has bothered themselves with.
Ask HN: I am studying economics and want to work in Tech. How?
I am in second year studying Economics and am looking into options for when I graduate. The typical roles for Economics tend to be in banking, finance and consulting. However, I think that I could develop a better career and be far happier in the tech industry. I am not that interested in going down a super technical route involving software development so this post is me trying to work out what other options are available.

So far I have really enjoyed microeconomics, marketing, environmental economics, finance (I like the concepts, not the idea of the finance industry), statistics, data science and policy issues. I know this is quite broad, but this is why I am trying to explore different options.

I would be very interested in hearing peoples experiences, and seeing what roles are out there for a non-technical role at large, medium and start-up companies.

What are my options?

edited:

Thank you for your comments so far. I may have been misunderstood but I am not interested in a Computer Science based role. I am thinking more along the lines of marketing, analytics, sales, business development, corporate finance etc. or other roles that I may not have heard of.
Agree appeal to nature can be misplaced, but this is not your run-of-the-mill such. We are talking about (or at least what I am talking about) changing the genetic makeup of humans in order to allow a longer lifespan. It is actually one of the cases where appeal to nature is rational, and not a fallacy. It is not the same as saying men and women are "designed" by nature to mate with each other, therefore only men and women can have sex (nature has plenty of evidence that same-sex-sex btw, so appeal to nature in that case is a actually double fallacy).

You final line is puzzling. How could I possibly "oppress those who disagree"? Because I assume you can't mean that I should simply shut up? As for saving lives, I'm all for saving people from dying before their time is up. But it is probably time to accept that we can't go on curing people forever.

Just like a tree falls over and goes back to the ecosystem after a set number of years (give or take), we as humans are not constructed to live much longer than 100 years (give or take), and that is not a tragedy. It is life.
I do believe it was - and it also betrays the critique: there is a wealth of discourse on what "real" art is - and that discourse has largely moved beyond "art as representative of real world phenomena". That attitude is a component of a larger set of reactionary positions which try to reject modern and post-modern developments in the artistic world as misguided - an orientation which often tries to justify itself through an appeal to the "old masters" and a failure of some modern caste of charlatan art-theorists who've usurped the true intelligentsia.

NFT art is art - probably more-so on an accidental level than by any intention of the original creator. There is a perversity to the context in which it is created, and that contributes to its artistic footprint orthogonal to its actual aesthetic value.

The same is true of this AI generated art. It's a different artistic fingerprint than - say - Dali, but that doesn't mark it as "bad". If anything, the fact that it's created by a machine puts it in a league entirely of its own. There's a great opportunity here for interrogation of art in a machine created context, and I'm excited to see how the dialog around it evolves.
So that you can call it in different threads or in a signal without clobbering another invocation's state.
Fedora and Ubuntu are quite turnkey ready, for what I recall.
My friend is trying to escape Shanghai to go back home but apparently it's very hard to get to the airport.
I reloaded a few times and got past it. Load lag? Site overwhelmed. Unsure.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
You are not actually answering him, because you know that if you are planning a surprise party and you just answered yes, you would have ruined the party.

The truth is that not every lie is a problem.
I think about lying a lot. I practice Buddhism and take the fourth precept "abstain from false speech" very seriously. I don't lie to my kids, I don't lie to my wife, I don't lie to my parents. If my wife asks "does this shirt make me look good?" I tell her the honest truth. Of all the things in Buddhism, this is probably the one that's had the most clear impact on improving my life. I suggest it for everyone.

I think "false speech" is a better term than lying. False speech means you intend to mislead someone. You can sometimes do it by telling the truth (double-speak) or by not saying anything at all. Those aren't "lies" technically, but they are false speech as it's designed to mislead the listener.

You can also tell "lies" that are not false speech in the case of jokes or stories. As long as you're sincerely not trying to mislead the listener it's ok to not be literally true.
I've made the switch and yeah, the compensation easily covers those and more.
Zero Covid policy, their own vaccine isnt very good and many people especially in high risk categories havent been vaccinated and not much natural immunity in the population. But primarily the Zero Covid policy.
MacOS doesn't "just work" if you install it on non-Apple hardware. Most of the time it won't even boot.
Nuff said.
Building Real-Time Serverless Web Applications with API Gateway WebSockets
The bit on detecting support for truecolor is clever.

I really appreciate the list of terminal support and wish more pages did similar. I've been knee deep in ansi commands for the past week writing a library for interactive terminal applications when I can't reliably assume stty/termcap/terminfo is available to query and trying to figure out how to fall back gracefully is tough.

One huge frustration was discovering SRM mode (CSI 12 h / CSI 12 l) which disables/enables local echoing of input only to discover that many common terminals don't actually implement this mode and rely on you to toggle that sort of behaviour out of band via a syscall.
Anitta fans gamed Spotify to help make her Brazil’s top artist
I randomize the order at work so people can't infer how fast/slowly we're growing :D
I usually blog for myself, usually. Either it's some technical topic that I want to note down somewhere and happen to structure in a way that might make it usable to others, or it's something that I find myself having to write again and again so I figure I might as well sit down and clarify my thoughts on it, so I don't have to come up with new metaphors or reasoning on the fly. In the process I sometimes find that my strongly-held positions don't actually have as much evidence as I'd like to back them!
I didn’t try to assume anything about the blog post author. But it’s irrelevant — I was commenting on the comment calling people in general soulless for maximizing compensation.

I agree there’s a point which that moral inflection point occurs, but I think the number is complex to come up to.

I’ll give an example. I make a pretty obscene salary that falls within your definition of “needing to care”.

But I live in a VHCOL city. I would love to move and work remote, but my partner has a career that’s in tech, but much less remote friendly.

I’m into personal finance, so here’s my projection. Assuming I want to own a home and have kids in this VHCOL region, I will need to work about 20-30 years to achieve this goal. And it’s 1 poorly timed recession from derailing. You know what I really wanted to do in life? Teach high school chemistry and own a cafe.

Am I better off than many many people? Yes. Do I have enough to take 30% pay cut to work at <arbitrary good place>? Are we saying I don’t deserve to live in the region I grew up in, and I should have to move to the Midwest, for the good of society? Force my partner to give up their dream career? Should I give up my dreams of an early retirement from tech into a field that “does good”?

My parents have nothing saved up. 2008 made sure of that. Should I sacrifice the planned war chest I want to build for my parents’ eventual long term care?

And finally, if I do all of this, how much does the world improve by me doing this? Will <evil corp> collapse because I’m not there? Will my wage be distributed to the service workers or Will they go to the next eager applicant? Will my CEO pay more taxes or lose money because I’m not there?
Also, the development environment is nothing like prod, and there are ethical constraints on making them too similar.
Wow, lots of disappointing answers.

Easy: Apple hires TEAMS of designers, UX-experts/engineers [...].

The reward incentives in open source environments are not aligned with the required workload. People who seriously compare any modern linux desktop environment to the UX that macOS delivers must be lost in tunnel-vision/confirmation bias, it's not even close.

Also, like some said, as Apple provides their own hardware, they don't have to deliver general solutions.
As many are already saying, it pretty much depends on hardware. If you carefully select it, you won't have much issues at all with a distribution like Ubuntu, which actually lists "certified" hardware here:

https://ubuntu.com/certified

I recently installed Ubuntu on a certified Dell Precision and was impressed how smooth that went, even with stuff like full disc encryption, secure boot, docking station support, NVidia Optimus, etc. It's not perfect, but neither is Windows. With a bit of fiddling you'll even get features that are unavailable on Windows (like proper S3 sleep instead of "modern standby", which is driving me absolutely bonkers). Even notoriously problematic stuff like fractional scaling on external monitors really worked well. Installing the NVidia drivers instead of Noveau is trivial, even Dell firmware updates for the docking station can be directly installed from the Ubuntu software center.

So while there surely is a lot to criticize about Ubuntu from a poweruser's perspective (like the snap stuff), I must say that I was pleasantly surprised how much better the experience has become over the years.
He was a rich nobleman that tried to pass some discoveries of one of the Bernoulli brothers as his own, in exchange for cold, hard cash. He was partially successful. Despite this fact becoming broadly known in the math world, a important rule in calculus is still known by his name. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27H%C3%B4pital%27s_rule and https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teaching/math1a_2011/...
Ubuntu has just worked for me for a long time, though I always have to do some tweaks to get it exactly how I like it (Mac keyboard layout, Quake-style terminal, etc.) I've recently installed Cinnamon (Mint's desktop) on it and I really like it better than any other Linux desktop I've tried so far. The only thing I ever really have issues with is Bluetooth stuff and sometimes sleep/hibernation issues.

I think Neal Stephenson's analogy still mostly holds true: Windows is a suburban minivan, MacOS is a Lambo with the hood welded shut, Linux is a tank that can also fly but the instrument panel is correspondingly tricky.

On the other hand... ChromeOS and Android are, by and large, slightly tweaked Linux, and they "just work" for millions of people, so I guess it comes down to what you're willing to put up with as a trade for simplicity.
They dont seem to be able to organise a lockdown properly do they?
Ubuntu on Lenovo laptops have been just that many years. I've used 3 different X1 carbon laptops with ubuntu for many years now. Worry free, no tinkering. Just works.
Not sure about him, but I notice 2 issues with external monitors:

* Only 2 hardware-rendered displays maximum. I use 3, so the 3rd one has to be software-rendered.

* There's a delay when switching my KVM to the Mac and it emitting a video signal, that's longer than the delay when switching to Linux and activating the same monitors.
> Everything external display I’ve plugged my M1 Mac into has worked well.

Ever tried 1440p? It looks like crap. There's a reason BetterDummy is a thing.
They can sue in the U.S.
Then just record a video.

Presenting an interactive experience and then taking away all control from the user and replacing it with an extremely frustrating navigation mode (hint, not everyone is using a phone/tablet or laptop touchpad - try to scroll that much with a mouse!) is just stupid and completely wasting the potential of the medium.
It’s bloody awful. From start to now it’s been a clown show. It seems like no one learned anything in the past two years except that medical staff are much better at treating COVID. Thus zero deaths with more than 13,000 positive infected. A large majority are asymptomatic.
I have some old machines for retro purposes, including some Pentium 2s running Windows 98. Things take longer to load, that's for granted, but once something runs it just feels infinitely more snappy than a modern desktop. This is not rose-tinted glasses misremembering how things were like 20 years ago; this is actually turning that machine on in the current decade and observing how an older version of the same software behaves on that machine vs on a modern Windows 10 machine.
No need to fear! Use --dry-run to confirm your command line before making the changes. It's documented in that very man page!
If they’re old enough to ask that question, they’re old enough to know a honest answer.

“You remember how Mommy used to be in so much pain? That was her (name of sickness). It can no longer hurt her, and the pain is finally over for her. The sad part is that Mommy’s body lost the struggle with (name of sickness). That’s why she is no longer with us now.“

“So, is Mommy dead?”

“Yes, my dear. The (name of sickness) was just too strong in the end. The doctors worked so hard and did everything they could. In the end, even they weren’t able to help Mommy. We’re going to be very sad for a long time and that’s going to be tough for us. But you’re not alone, we’re going to get help wherever we can, and we’ll be pulling through that sad time together.”
Why did hong kong have such a high death rate?
try to run it on a average persons notebook or a students chromebook, you'll quickly learn that even things like the new reddit design dont run well.
> Lambda isn't single threaded. You get a core for every gig of ram that you allocate up to 16GB.

That's not exactly true.

As per AWS, with AWS Lambda you only get a second core if you provision more than 1769MB of RAM.

The number of cores can grow up to a max of 6 with provisions of over 10GB of RAM albeit AWS does not specify how that's supposed to be mapped.

There are some empirical and highly unofficial tests on AWS Lambdas that indicate that more than 1 vCPU are allocated with provisions of over 800MB of RAM, but each of those vCPUs are capped at 50% of a CPU core.

The key factor here, and what makes AWS Lambda's nodejs runtime the absolute best runtime and the de facto standard for lambdas, is that nodejs's single-threaded event loop already buys you the ability to execute code concurrently without having to rake up a large bill and resort to arcane tricks to reign that under control.

I'd add that AWS Lambda's blog post on parallel processing in Python starts off by making it clear that nodejs is the way to go.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/parallel-processing-in-...
> macOS only runs on compatible hardware

You’re not even wrong, but fortunately we don’t have to run on bare metal, although we can do that too. Running modern, up-to-date macOS on bare metal x86 is possible. I know because I’ve done it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh

https://khronokernel.github.io/apple/silicon/2021/01/17/QEMU...

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/

https://hackintosh.com/
Because covid running rampant poses an unacceptable risk to social stability and therefore to the CCP’s grip on power. This is a function of propaganda they have been pumping out of the last 2 years wrt the effectiveness of the Chinese response & domestic vaccines. The policy response they have been touting as evidence for the superiority of the social contract they impose on citizens (lack of rights in favour of stability and growth) is now shown to be as susceptible as every other countries to the unescapable biological facts/reality of viral spread. This directly calls in to question the CCP’s credibility. Also Xi, needs to maintain the status quo until Q3 when he is up for re-election… It is a horrible situation for the Chinese people.
> I couldn't verify whether the claim was correct because I wasn't provided with a copy of the original copyrighted material

> GitHubs process around the DMCA did not fill me with joy.

It sounds like Githubs DMCA process works exactly as legally mandated, and you have completely unreasonable expectations

Github is in no position to demand a copy of the original material from the complainant. That’s just not how it works.
It needs very unreasonable amount of scrolling.
Could easily achieve this in Clojure with spec and rcf or spec and pre/post

Everytime I inject new code into the running application I can check the static and runtime shape of things with a specification language

In fact there's a choice of specification languages spec is just the in-built one some people prefer maili

I could share those specifications into Clojurescript or in some cases over the wire

Clojure has an assistant checking for mistakes too in clj-kondo they're just not coupled together by default
This reminds me of Encarta. Encyclopedia on a cd-rom, with audio, video and images on many subjects, all clickable.
The prefix seems better to me because you read it first, and also the x is a more clear marker than h because it’s at the opposite end of the alphabet to the rest of the hexadecimal digits.
Highjacking your comment to add a functional answer to ops question: because the reward incentives in open source environments are simply not aligned with the required workload. Prove me wrong, go coordinate a deep ux-strategy in git issues, let's see how far you get until you grasp the absurdity of the idea.
Link that doesn't suck: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3318.3320
Because information is not censored to the same degree.
Most governments have this problem. I've thought about this a lot in the Australian context and think the best way of solving the problem would be to hire on a 5 year contract that doesn't auto renew by default so you have to stay in shape for the job or look around for new options at year 4 - 4.5 and plan your exit.

In addition to this, I would also reform certain benefits that government employee's get such as long service leave after 10 years. I'd make it available at a pro-rata rate from 2.5 years onwards so people can either bank it up or start using it earlier.

I feel like these two things alone would create a lot of flexibility for government agencies and departments that would allow them to take people on for serious work, over serious timelines but not be burdened by the threat of a bad hire that will stick around forever.