skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US already produces too many scientists measured by people with PhDs. As someone who finished their PhD during the pandemic and faced a bad job market for research jobs, I feel that without increasing the federal science budget, the current generation of US PhD graduates will have to compete with more experienced Russian scientists entering the US job market. From what I understand exactly that happened during the early 90s and many new PhD graduates found themselves without a job related to their degree.

I don't recommend to anyone to get a PhD these days.
It is also worth understanding when you situation is far more stable than most people. If you've got a stable job and considerable assets then you can basically self insure. Yes, if you surprise need $40,000 and the market is down it will suck to sell a bunch of investments from your taxable brokerage account or rapidly get a HELOC but that case is rare enough that you are willing to eat the loss in that case for additional expected growth.

Almost nobody has this. The r/personalfinance memes exist largely as "the very basics for people who don't have the first idea how to plan for their financial future."

This is just another one of those benefits of being wealthy. On average, self-insuring saves money. But for a lot of people an emergency fund is a critical thing because they don't have access to liquid assets without gargantuan 401k penalties.
There was a local culture of assuming Java programmers could learn any language.

Lots of positions would say “seeking Java programmers” but not involve actual Java.

I think this was because there was a surplus of Java people.
People weren't buying laptops for everything during the PowerPC transition. They were buying desktops. No one doing "serious" work bought laptops in 1994. Not for coding, not for photo manipulation, or even gaming.

It wasn't until the 20-teens (2013 - 2015) that Macs for coding caught on. Apple transitioning to PowerPC made perfect sense for graphics workstations.
> I’m really curious why people love working at startups when big companies pay 2-5x more and have less stress.

It's simple. If you want to shape something and grow it from the ground up, doing it at a startup is one of the most likely ways you can do it. Because the team is small, you have to get your hands in a lot of things. Because things are moving quickly, stopping to gold plate things can be dangerous. Because sharing a stressful situation with people can build trust and lifelong relationship.

I've launched new products at established companies and every person has a role and every job has an assignee. If you step out of/beyond your role, you're stepping on someone else and could be ticking off the wrong person. That said, once your piece of the job is done, you can ignore the rest and "failure" isn't on you.

Startups or big companies aren't for everyone but each has benefits and tradeoffs.
No it doesn’t. An old man may well be less likely to want to spend a decade defending against litigation than a young one.
In particular my main mechanical keyboard is a 35g electro capacitive one, so I'm been pretty adjusted to lower key weights. The new Macbook keyboards are just too stiff and have
too much travel for me to type fast/not get fatigued.

I think even if one is accustomed to heavier keys, all things being equal, if they learned to type on lighter/shorter travel they can get faster at typing.
I'm not sure if we want Russia without smart people. Then it's a criminal on top, a bunch of gullible people at the bottom, controlling 3500 nuclear weapons.
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The same reason an mls listing is not a contract.
> expensive tracks

Trams and trains are incredibly energy efficient even with heavy loads because of that.

In the long term their TCO wins.

> Tracks are also dangerous for bicycles, and slippery for cars and trams

Not really. Besides, bicycles should have their lanes anyways.
It was my understanding that the second chip and component set was there purely as a backup before they decided they needed the extra compute that was essentially wasted.

Wonder if they only nixed it from cars ordered without FSD at checkout.
Yeah but their guess shouldn't be wrong 50% of the time as again that means that they can’t have picked the 95th percentile result! Because it’s 50:50 I’ll assume that they are assigning people scoring higher than average the “under 60” category - which is obviously incorrect. Otherwise how do they pick the cut off?

To explain with another example - let's say that I have a dataset of 100 people's scores at golf (no handicaps) and I know that 5% of them are pro-players and others are 'advanced amateurs'. Because of this I might take the top 5 scores and guess that they are pro's and assign the others the guess of 'advanced amateur'.

Now let's say that there was actually no correlation between people's scores at golf and their 'pro' status - what accuracy would I expect in the above experiment? The answer is actually closer to 90% 'accurate guesses' than 50%! (Although obviously - that's 90% accurate based on random chance).

Now if someone told me they got 50% of the guesses wrong at this task, that implies that they guessed that the top 50% of those golfers were pro rather than picking the top 5% of scores, and I would question the methodology.

This % is similar to the dataset in the webpage - I downloaded it, filtered out exclusions and c4% of the valid responses are 60 or over.

If I inherently pick a small population (i.e. over 60's are c4% in this dataset) and I am guessing wrong 50% of the time, it means that my cut-off is incorrectly calibrated. Their score cut-off should, at worst, be picking the wrong 4% and missing another 4%.

Am I going crazy? It seems logical to me, but to be open maths isn't my strong point. I just know that if I designed the guessing rule, I would be getting more than 50% (my algorithm would be 'if the users average score across the three tests is less than -1.5, assign 'over 60' and that would get c95% accurate guesses, albeit it would still not prove anything and I agree with the authors overall premise!).
Is it really a good idea to take all the brains out of Russia? What would be left? Criminals and nuclear weapons? Is this a good outcome?
> (I can't imagine the swift compilers performance scaling up to large code bases at this point.)

It struggles on medium sized code bases.

And Xcode becomes flaky too, on medium code bases.

Works absolutely brilliantly on the small examples that are used to market it.

I have been using it for two years, and fundamental bugs in the system have not been fixed in that time. (The code inspection tools in the debugger are close to useless)

The last time I updated it my computer spent over three hours with the installer running at 100%. What on Earth was it doing? Mining bitcoin?

A whole lot of things are clearly going very wrong behind the scenes
Try vyvanse/dexedrine and then if that doesn't work desoxyn/methamphetamine.
Both are anti-anxiety for me. Adderall is the worst.
See also the original blog page: https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/

And wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfolk
I'm convinced that these kinds of sites are why the internet was created. The fact that they are so rare shows that we are not fully deserving of the internet. Since we have subverted the intended use of the internet and made things like Facebook, we should be sent to our rooms without supper and have our internet priveleges removed for 2-weeks so we can think about the decisions we've made.
I agree the reliability was a massive problem. I had to replace the keyboard (and thus logic board) for every one of those macbooks I owned until I started using a keyboard cover to prevent the issue (which Apple actually recommends against). No doubt after the 1 year warranty the keyboard would have failed again had I not upgraded on an annual basis.
I agree with the author. I think one thing to try and do is hunt for cheap outsourcing of these non core items like marketing sales can be done via ffiliate marketing.
People who like this might also like Welcome to Night Vale [0], a podcast with a similar vibe that takes place in the American Southwest.
[0]: https://www.welcometonightvale.com/
> 1) Parent post never accepted an offer to sell their house to you.

Neither did the old man. So, case closed?
> He’s lucky to get 1% return on a high yield savings

To match inflation, all one has to do is to buy nonperishable components of the CPI: fuel, real estate (through a REIT), food, commodities, and so on.

If banking can't keep up with that, it speaks volumes about the competence of the financial system.
Uhm... wouldn't that rather be "more noise/television makes you more likely to notice your child's autism"? An overstimulated autistic person has a much harder time masking their autism. Seems likely to me that a child raised in a quiet environment may not get diagnosed until adulthood, while the same child raised in noise may have a hard time fitting in already. Most of "symptoms of autism" that people notice are actually how autistic people react to distress when they can't mask anymore, and overstimulation definitely causes such distress.

Also, I'd say that modern children programming that's optimized for grabbing as much attention as possible isn't exactly autism friendly; I find older cartoons with their slower pacing much more comfortable to watch.

"White noise causes autism" is a pretty weird conclusion to get from all of that and would require extraordinary evidence to support it.
There will ALWAYS be a long list of things to do.

You have to prioritize on what will a) move the business forward or b) unlock other people/opportunities that will move the business forward.

That could mean improving features, sales funnel, marketing, hiring, or a ton of other things. It really matters on what the risks/opportunities are at any given moment.
We don't care. We're the government.
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain
Sure. What’s a feedback?
> From few experiments I made Rust is not any faster in this department. Rather the opposite.

Rust uses more generics in its idiomatic code than C++. If you're careful to split out your generic type impls to avoid excess code monomorphization, compile times can be manageable. Macro use brings similar concerns, but it's probably rarer unless you're relying on popular crates that need it such as serde.
One major problem React solves is HTML injection. It used to be an interview question to work at our place, and since React, developers don’t often realize that old frameworks like Freemarker didn’t escape HTML. By default.
It looks beautiful from the pictures I've seen. I'd love to own one, but cannot justify the price. I didn't have a Speccy but a C64 as a kid, so I went with the cheaper (and more cheaply built) TheC64 from RetroGames Ltd. It's just a working keyboard C64 lookalike with an ARM inside running an old version of VICE.

The Next looks like a much more premium thing. I'd really like one ;)
As a developer, I completely understand this.

loop:

Manager: how long will this feature take?

SWE: By lunchtime, tops

3 weeks later:

Manager: feature complete, right?

SWE (sweating bullets): We're just testing the final bits

goto loop
> The magic mouse you could not use while charging

Do you think this just slipped past everyone at Apple?
"assisted suicide only costs the taxpayer $2,327 per ‘case’."

That seems absurdly expensive.

I have family in medicine in the US. They have seen other doctors basically over medicate people until they slowly slip away in the name of "compassionate care". They don't trust have little trust in the system and recommend against DNR/living will other than to name a trusted family member to make medical decisions for you. My wife's grandmother had a stoke and a living will. She was showing signs of getting better after the stoke but that quickly turned downhill since they weren't feeding her since she wasn't passing the swallow test and the living will didn't allow for a feeding tube. And of course the doctors had her pretty drugged up too, so she wasn't coherent.
This post generated so much heat it delayed the start of JWST's science mission.
Masters of the Userverse
If I list my house for $20, then realize it might be too low and raise the asking price to $100k, that doesn’t suddenly mean I’m forced to accept the first offer that comes in.
Being fat is entirely different to being short. You can't willpower yourself out of being short.
So I don't want to take too much away from what you're saying, because I think it's important to have reality checks from time to time, and you're right.

At the same time, there's a numbers game that can be played with this.

For example, worldwide refugee status has exploded over the last few decades. People don't become displaced because things are going great. Life expectancy has increased worldwide, but in some places like the US, it's started to decrease again, and birthrate is now below replacement rate. Do we even need to cite environmental statistics? Sure, they're maybe better in the US than in the early 70s but in terms of global effects they're probably worse than in the early 70s. It also seems strange to be talking about genocide given what's going on in Ukraine and other places in the world lately.

Things like life expectancy and child mortality are strange too. They were in the better direction circa 1930s-40s and that didn't stop WWII. Sure, things are better than that now but my point is that these discussions are a bit difficult because we as a society don't have a good handle on statistics that matter. As much as I get annoyed with Taleb, I think he has a point that sometimes these kinds of political discussions have a flavor of "look things are great if you just accept my model of the world," ignoring whether the model is correct.

I wouldn't say I've lost my faith in humanity; what I would say is that I've been surprised good and bad over the course of my life by how good and bad people can be in general. I also think that it's easy to forget that as good as one person's experience of life has been, so too can someone else's experience be equally bad. Average experiences are somewhat meaningless at some level; I don't think a good life makes a bad life acceptable.
"gain for them".. which side does your "them" refer to?

because I could see gains for both US and Putin. US obviously gains with more smart people here working for the US and paying taxes. Putin gains because he remove smart people from Russia, making it easier to keep hold on power.
DXX-Rebirth Is a Source Port of the Descent Engines for Windows, Mac OS, Linux
You mean like democratically elected Hitler's Nazi party government?
Prince Humperdinck: Surrender.

Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.
Whats wrong with the pty-forwarding approach used by SSH?
We use a pretty jank framework at my professional gig, and are thankfully finally beginning to plan a migration to the much better documented framework it rips off. A full rewrite is almost never worth it, but between the already poor and now mostly out of date documentation, and the apparently diminishing community, there's not really a better route.

All that said, every other framework I've ever used in my personal projects has fine documentation and community support, including their peripheral deployment tooling. My experience at work seems like an outlier to other tools I see. Comments like the original post and OP make me think everyone is working in legacy systems based on aged tech from the cowboy era.
I would say that if a web dev can articulate http verbs, their uses, and how to design a cohesive naming strategy and documentation scheme, that's all they need to be competent. There is no need to read the HTTP RFS for most design tasks. I can understand those requirements for Google, AWS, Facebook devs, but 90% of the work out there doesn't need that level of understanding to make something decently performant.
> Those times never existed for the vast majority of people. Minorities, single women, most men...... None of them had this rose colored past.

I don't know about that. My minority, immigrant, non-English speaking grandparents and their siblings (several are still alive and in their 90's) all own their homes and are still collecting pensions from their blue-collar private sector jobs. Some of them worked in factories sewing ladies undergarments, purses, and shoes. Some of them worked on road construction crews. And one was a janitor in an office building.
What they "called out as flawed" was the impossibility to declare any such rule with SQL as it stood. What they were "criticizing" was precisely the fact that a data language that was supposed to be "expressively complete" was *unable* to express such a rule. You can't claim "expressive completeness" for a language if there is demonstrably a case where said language's expressiveness fails to meet the mark. It's not the "behaviour of the language" they were criticizing in all/any of those use cases that were supported by the language as it stood. They were criticizing the fact that there was a use case [and a relatively reasonable one on the face of it] that the language couldn't support.
They're aware of them but don't find the workspace somewhere for silly games?

How can you trust their code, maybe, look at their code?
Operation Osoaviakhim in reverse
>I'm at the point that I now see the benefits of react, but only by doing it this way could I possibly learn why.

That's why I feel bad for the new generation of developers. When I started developing in 2000s it was enough to know low level abstractions, some design patterns, etc. Along the way I've seen the context in which for eg. MVC was revolutionary, and all the latest frameworks actually solved a lot of real problems (SQL query in PHP garbage all over the place on backend, jQuery/MooTools/ExtJS/Coffescript/AngularJS, supporting IE6, etc.)

A lot of modern tools make sense to me because I know the context they came out of. I feel we've done a shit job of preserving this context and lesions that lead to current frameworks - this will eventually lead people to rediscover all the mistakes that were hit in past, but also saddle us with legacy burden because it's hard to distinguish what's relevant and what's a result of historic constraints.
Not at present. We could possibly display something like that, but the problem with such changes is that their downside is a lot less obvious than their upside.
Why people insist on not using ISO 8601 (or a subset of it) is beyond me.
Tuxedo is a good example of this type of system. Code interacting with Tuxedo generally written in Cobol but libraries would be available in other languages like C.

To start to understand this, think of a world where

* http and webservers do not exist

* sql and databases do not exist

* ram is measured in kilobytes

* storage measured in megabytes

* there is network connectivity but tcp/ip is not pervasive and there is no dns

* files exist and there are myriad wonderful binary data storage formats

There are so many other weird things but best just to dig into the docs:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E72452_01/tuxedo/docs1222/pcb/pbi...
Well I guess it depends on what you consider the average programmer to be. In my circles your introduction to programming is usually SICP so Lisp (Scheme) would actually be the first language you learn
There is a rule, never swear in a foreign language, or meow at a cat, you just don't know exactly what you are saying.
Saying fuck is very context dependent. It can make you seem familiar, in a formal context that would be unwelcome (ie, we are not friends so don't talk to me as if we were pals (eg: tu, vs vous in french))
It could be a sign of directness and frankness. It can be somewhat comedy, or it can be crass, or it can be ignorant and uneducated (ie, no other way to Express yourself without cursing, a limited vocabulary)
It also depends on how often one curses and hears them. High schoolers curse every other sentence, but when their (teacher, parent etc) curses once and for the first time in years, it means seriousness and is powerful. So something like "you little fuck" can be all the way from endearing, to the most serious of threats
I'm a big fan of the LG Gram 17. It's the lightest laptop with a 17 inch screen ever made, even lighter than a Macbook Air. It's not the most performant machine so I wouldn't buy it if you need the best performance, but it's certainly good enough for software development. Just get a anti-glare screen protector with it since the screen is very reflective.
Don’t have to get every single one right to still play the role. The man was effective, not infallible.
> having the option to charge it and use it at the same time would sure be handy

That’s the theory. In practice, charging it whilst getting a coffee gives it enough battery life to finish the day. Sure, you need to remember to charge it then. But you never have to chose between using it or charging it for more than a couple of minutes in the real life.
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One thing that is more inappropriate and offensive than using the word "fuck" is suggesting that someone is mentally ill because they're not comfortable doing so.
If reading RFCs is a gate, then it is a pretty bad one. They are public, free, well known, and generally well written.
It is a fundamental mistake to think those things will come in the future.
They are already there, simply not prescribed for those uses. They will never be prescribed for those uses, the FDA has simply far too much inertia to allow progress in prediction practices.
The good news is everything I have mentionned is accessible OTC today.
Also do not mix random dopaminergic things with your methylphenidate unless your study the interactions and monitor your heart and has acess to beta blockers/benzos.
If you don't tolerate vyvanse I would advise you serdexmethylphenidate.
4-fmph would probably work well for you but it is more abusable than methylphenidate and possibly more cardiotoxic. For me I couldn't sleep on it and had minor tachychardia but I am generally intolerant to stimulants (I probably have a non-diagnosed cardiac issue).
Selegiline low dose or moclobemide potentiate the duration and effect of your stimulant so you should try that but as I said very careful with the effect on your cardiac rythm. titrate doses very very slowly and study the half lifes.

What are your other issues with methylphen?
QL and Beyond – Rick Dickinson Photos from Sinclair Research
True or untrue in the same way as saying 90% of art is not new. Or many things.

Almost everything humans do isn't actually novel. It's remixing things we've done before, overwhelmingly in almost-but-not-quite-exactly the same way as many others.

tbh I think that's fine. But it can be a bit depressing when you first realize it about something you care about.
But then it works both ways: you cannot cite a couple of failures under Cook to say that Jobs was irreplaceable.
can you give more details? My understanding is the node + express is really low level providing almost nothing except a set of chainable functions based on routes. To get any actual functionality (storing to databases, authentication, users, sys admin, etc requires writing everything yourself.

The reason I like batteries included frameworks is I get all that for free and ideally it's already following best practices so I don't have to worry about security, about account recovery, about versioning new data/features, about scaling, etc
> Jump also very well knows that 50k for a domain like that is a steal

I'm not up on domain name pricing. What would you estimate the fair price to be?