skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this will increase, not decrease the anxiety of applicants.

I wonder if they actually think this will help with anxiety, and are wrong, or are just being duplicitous.

If the goal is merit based admission then the measured of merit should be transparent and accurate as possible.

This seems like “we’re going to stop publishing salary info to decrease anxiety of applicants” for companies.
You acknowledge the imperfection of the private sector, including wasteful spending. Now imagine that except with the power to waste even more money by sending an IRS agent to take your money at gunpoint and without being constrained by (at least if 'turtledove' word to be take) a ' profit motive'.
I love this. This is the future
You have a limited cognitive capacity. If the domain you are working on is hard and the semantics of the language is hard you are getting closer to cognitive overload with the symptoms of: slow development, features not implemented, the very hard to solve bugs caused because of mismatch between the application domain and the application (e.g. those NPEs are usually shallow!)

You might get past this by using the facilities of Rust such as macro expansion to create a DSL in which you can build out the application quickly.
Nixon shock/move to fiat standard instead of gold convertibility.
Doesn't work at all for me! Most of my good work is on internal repositories for the companies I have worked for, or private projects on gitlab cloud. My personal GitHub (and bitbucket and gitlab) account has very little activity, and most of that is "clone some project and submit a 2 line fix" 5 years ago.
this is really powerful stuff when working with a CISO “the data itself defines who may access it”
Why? What does that have to do with being able to "deliver value and work well as part of a team"?
Education is broken, and it’s attempts to self repair are so bad it needs a complete shutdown and restarting it from scratch.
Re: food bank to UN aid camps.

Just had a conversation with a nurse about healthy young people in US not willing to work and living off unemployment and food stamps simply because they can. I assure you at those UN camps there are thousands of people who do not have that attitude, and who would resume being productive members of society with a little help.

So in that context my answer would be "yes", I'd rather my taxes went there.
I plead the 5th.

We have it as a backlog item to take pictures of all the recipes as made in our kitchen, we just haven't gotten around to making a good lighting set up.
I like this idea very much. Shameless plug and I don't want to be the Rust fanboy, but I've played with something similar in Rust:

https://github.com/julienr/liveboard-rs

Basically it uses actix for the backend and yew (Vue-like rust frontend framework) for the frontend. This enables one to share types (and helper functions) between both, which is great:

https://github.com/julienr/liveboard-rs/blob/master/shared/s...

That being said, I think maturity-wise, Typescript is probably a better bet for this right now, so I'll definitely look at trpc for $dayjob.
That's because the risk of fragility is typically not priced in.

If risks werent treated as an externality this failure mode would be taken care of. Of course some unanticipated failure modes would always come and surprise us. I would be one happy person if the failures we see around us were all of this 'inconceivable' variety. Very few are, except when one buries one head in the sand and refuses to consider the fairly obvious risks.
I only use Twitter on the web, so no experience in the app. I have it set to display my feed in chronological order. Recently it reverted to the default algorithm feed without me knowing. I was seeing all sorts of toxic and hateful posts. Most were from followers of followers without the tweet being liked or retweeted.

I hated it. It took me a while to realize I was no longer in chronological mode. Once I switched back, all the bullshit disappeared. This confirmed for me that algorithms on social media are slowly destroying society.
> People used to walk labyrinths for hours and hours, just to kill time.

I walk and ride bicycle just to kill time to this days
*Idly checks out where it's at*

:(

Last modified March 2014: https://github.com/rebol/rebol

And that's still just REBOL/Core, not REBOL/View.
The mechanism of https://www.beeminder.com/ is unreasonably effective at limiting this kind of thing.
I'm not following. It's not the same at all. The apology is right there.
This is the sole reason I use reddit on my phone. I keep a tab for AskReddit, open something for later if the title seems interesting enough, and at least skim the thread within a few days. No app, no login, old-style UI.

Since my brain is usually disengaged when lifting (gotta save those calories for what matters), I rarely bother with anything 'deep' between sets.

One potential upside of this is that the threads are usually a few hours or days old before I actually read them, which means that I can expect no new content from them once I have my fill of a thread.
I've read that the decline of religion also plays a role here. Aside from the religious aspect, the sense of community and regularity you get meeting the same people on a regular basis is lost.

It's kind of the mix of a loss of "third place" (institutions, coffee shops, etc.) and the increase of social media bubbles that pushes us to be more polarized, I think.
Breakthrough Discovery of the One-Way Superconductor
Paper:

"The field-free Josephson diode in a van der Waals heterostructure"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04504-8
Western Europe population is only 2.5% of the total world population
Relatedly, an ABA committee has recommended that the ABA make the Law School Admissions Test optional for law school admissions: https://www.law.com/2022/05/06/aba-considering-eliminating-s...

I have little confidence there will be transparency or uniformity in how students who submit applications without LSAT scores will be evaluated.
Good for him. Sounds worthwhile. I'd be more inclined to watch him or recommend him based on that instead of learning of his existence by him yelling "I told you so!" in reaction to the kind of thing that happens every day in large software projects.
> There is very very little gaming demand for these cards at 2-3x MSRP

Anecdotally, I know 10 or so people that paid 2x+ for RTX3000 series cards and zero that are mining. A lot of people my age (about 40) got back into PC games for something to do during the pandemic.
sounds you're bored on that level (be it frontend or what, just coding). Change the level (does not mean going management ; things like say, language design, or, team/culture-leading/building, or mentorship are another levels/dimensions).

Or switch into completely another job/geo/culture/.. for a while.. or find a hobby that can use your thinking skills, but in another way..

But yeah,.. change. While still in control.
> Purdue (#20)

Ah, you fell for the trap. Notice how the course description you link is hosted on purdueglobal.edu? Purdue Global (formerly Kaplan) is totally unrelated to the main campus. Basically they took a garbage online college and slapped the Purdue name on it. The “real” Purdue of course has an MS in CS program, though AFAIK it’s only full-time and in-person.
I actually tried to get something working in COBOL, but my lack of familiarity with it made it a struggle. Would happily take a contribution at https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-examples
I'm currently doing one with Arizona State University and so far it has been pretty decent. Would recommend checking it out. It does match most of the requirements you are looking for.
> If every house is overvalued by some metric, then maybe the metric is wrong.

We're seeing people moving, and supply limits are influencing both rental prices and purchase prices. It's a weird housing market.

The question of the rationality of the valuation is:

1. Do you expect these migration patterns to continue?
2. If so, when do you expect new construction to pick up the slack for demand?
3. How bad of a recession is the Fed going to cause to break inflation?

> housing that should depreciate over time.

It does, amusingly. Housing stock ages and units you build now will generally be worth less in 10-20 years. Land is the thing that can appreciate in value.
All the filesystem APIs return Results rather than panicking, since like you said it's expected for those to fail sometimes and for the program to handle those failures. It's possible for a library to convert those Results into panics by calling .unwrap() on them, but that would usually be considered a bad design (ok for tests and tiny programs though). So I think you have an important point here, which is that if your application is calling into a library that you worry might have some bad design decisions in it, you do have to worry about it bringing down your process. And maybe it could make sense in some rare cases to try to isolate that library with catch_unwind. But I think most Rust programmers would prefer to just fix the dependency. The fact that you can visibly spot a lot of these conversions in the code is helpful for auditing.

I'm not super up to speed on JS, but I might draw an analogy to Python. Handling a result in Rust is similar to catching an exception of a known type in Python, a very common thing to do. On the other hand, catch_unwind is (loosely) similar to writing a bare except clause that catches every conceivable exception. You can do that, and sometimes it's correct to do that, but in most cases it's a bad idea. You don't want to accidentally suppress errors that indicate a bug in your program.
> … what we call "tolerance" … hardly applicable to societies that practiced slavery…

Both monotheistic and polytheistic.

> … didn't even have writing…

Greece. Rome.

> When I use the term ["forward"] it mostly just represents the arrow of time, with no further valuation.

Except that the term you used was "a big step forward" which certainly suggests more than "the arrow of time".
"The reason why I write so frequently about monetary policy is because it is so important."

It isn't important. It's been made important by financiers.

What the last 50 years have shown is that trying to manage an economy by trying to influence the amount of credit is a fool's errand.

Instead we should set that ship free - and leave it up to the private sector to determine interest rates amongst themselves. That means anchoring monetary policy at zero base rates.

Instead we should be rationing firms access to labour by pushing for higher wages with a much higher minimum wage and preferably a guaranteed job for all at the higher minimum wage.

What we need to make firms efficient is reassuringly expensive labour. That way they will use the cheap access to capital to borrow, invest in technology and drive forward productivity - solely so they can use less of the expensive labour.

It's time to get banks, lending, and finance out of the prime path. As the Chinese have.
I think that is entirely the point. It makes it much harder to claim discrimination by any particular group if there aren't any hard stats to compare to.
Every time I start with Graphql in surprised that I'm writing all the routes and middleware I'd need with with a restful api in express. I feel like I'm missing the point.
Augury: Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers to Leak Data at Rest [Apple CPU]
Can you tell me why the fence, known as Chesterton's Fence, was ever constructed?
I recall life before smart phones either feeling bored or being looked at strangely for sitting on a laptop at a bus stop, not that I cared.
What a fun post!

The one thing I'd try to add or note is that, in a more public environment, I'd love to see more ability to signal how baked we think our shit is. A lot of being online is just fun & merry making & not heavy, is apt for spitballing & play & exploration, but that mixes in with so many serious, real, important shares in the mileau. Just having a knob, high or low bakedness, seriousness, doneness: this kind of information or annotation or metadata could help us better navigate our information spaces so much more clearly.

Some bloggers have adopted attaching epistemic status to their posts. Gwern for example has a write-up on his blog's use of "status"[1], which is to inform the reader essentially of how far they've gotten diving into the topic.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/About#confidence-tags
No. I had a time in my career where I was the guy who finished projects that other people started and couldn't finish.

Some coders really don't have discipline and projects never get done because they don't think things throw and keep sending half-baked patches that get sent back by test or the customer.

The role of management is to get those people working for their competitor and then have the "fixer" move in.
I think that girls are particularly susceptible to self-criticism like "Wow, I have a phone but nobody calls me, harumph, I guess they don't like me / I guess I'm not worth anything to anybody."

Discords are a kind of panacea to these kinds of self-harmful thoughts, since joining a Discord says "Hey I want to talk" and now the burden is on the other participants; if they are not in the Discord, clearly they don't want to talk.
> Change the incentives and people learn quickly.

Not necessarily, I definitely got slower at learning new stuff at 40+ than when I was younger. My memory just doesn't work as good as it used to, and I also have less of "mental energy" to get into the zone and stay there digging until I figure things out. I don't know is it my age, or life style, or health and genetics, or just having a lot more other things going on now than before (wife, kids, running business, etc.). However I'm positive it's not a technophobia, first because I love tech and learning new stuff just as much as I used to, and also because I see this in other, non-technical, areas like with learning a foreign language. And if it's (a lack of) incentives then again it's an external limitation of my capacities to motivate myself which I can't solve and I feel it has to do with the age too.
What Software Architecture Should Look Like • Dave Farley
This is one of the best things about typescript. You can do this kind of thing without much special tooling at all - https://www.evantahler.com/blog/post/2020-10-16-typescript-f...
This is me in a nutshell. I am fried from building things that make no difference. If these things were never built the world wouldn't notice. A life of purpose is the cure for burn out. I have not found it yet but let me know if you do.
I have a stronger responsibility to my friends, family and community than to people I have much weaker links to. I also have pragmatic concerns about neglecting improving conditions in first world countries in terms of long term solutions to poverty and global health. EA has one very specific literal understanding of “effective” that makes a lot of controversial assumptions that they often don’t do a great job of justifying.
Verizon buries Skyward, its drone company
i know relationships don’t typically have props in a store like neo4j, and moreover you can reproduce that in something like postgres with a foreign key

we had a challenge like what you describe though, and were able to avoid new queries by representing the relationships as objects. in so doing, we leverage row level security and jwt claims, which is an approach to authorization which has high epistemical legibility.
Same here :(. I understand the consequence, but still I spend all my time watching useless news, reddit & hackernews. IDK why I am getting so much addicted on internet... And, I believe this is also why I haven't been able to achieve great things in my life.
So you live in a world where there's a fixed number of built-in types hard-coded into your library?

I'm afraid that doesn't cut it in a modern programming context.
> Half life of knowledge in our profession is more or less a year and a half.

Only if you define your profession as knowing the latest front-end frameworks. In terms of concrete technical knowledge that half-life lengthens as you go down the stack. But beyond knowledge of existing tools and frameworks, there is also the understanding of systems and how they interact with the real world. This is what you need to understand to really give yourself a life-long career. It can still be hard tech (distributed systems, scalability, etc), or it can be a little softer (UX, maintainability, collaboration, etc), but these skills will give you the ability to dwarf the actual business impact of the 25 year-old who has maximized knowledge of the latest tools.
Backing Up Canonical's LXD Instances with Lxmin
Thought provoking write up. I think with GPT-3/Co-pilot and DALL-E 2 we're seeing the advent of a new computing interface and information paradigm. We're very early.

The old/existing way is: humans produce content (writing, images, videos, music) using software and then use the internet to host and distribute the content. As the volume of information increased, aggregators of content became more important. Google helps you find anything, but primarily text and images, YouTube indexes and recommends medium length videos, etc.

A very common problem pattern is that you find multiple sources that are _nearly_ what you want, but not quite. For example you combine two stock photos in photoshop (with some editing) to produce a final image.

The future way is: large foundational models that act as the aggregators of information _and_ the editing tools. Co-pilot is the best current example we have. Once the performance of Co-pilot becomes good enough, I will never have to leave VSCode + Co-pilot, replacing the previous pattern of Google + documentation + Stackoverflow. The indexers and aggregators will be made obsolete. This is exacerbated by the fact that Co-pilot is able to do more than just aggregating the correct Stackoverflow examples. Co-pilot can do the customization and translation of the code examples into your specific use case.

These large/foundational models are nowhere near perfect yet. Once the performance is good enough to make existing workflows easier, we'll see rapid adoption in every domain. Recommendation algorithms will look entirely different in 10 years time. The 2030 version of YouTube won't be serving users the closest match video from its library, it will be generating custom edits on-the-fly tailored to the user.
It's ok. I accept, it's just a simple PDF that I wrote, nothing more, nothing less. I don't expect anything from it, I don't plan to sell it, I'm not even crypto enthusiast or fan. I just wrote that while educating myself
I think the challenge here is that efficiency is always relative to the position the observer is measuring it from.

In the case of Gloria, she should have some amount of slack to figure out how to do the big picture items of her job better, which include how better to help Tony.

Where things get tricky is when looking at the whole organization there's been a long tendency to see "slack" as "fat" that's to be trimmed. So, if a organization has two Glorias who both have some slack time, the argument is the organization would be more efficient and profitable having one Gloria with less or no slack time.

This has worked for corporate profits, but it leads to the humans in these positions unable to have the slack time needed to improve those positions.

Sometimes, this is fine and you can build a very profitable business off of it. For example, McDonald's isn't looking for their frontline staff to do any thinking.

In general, if a position can exist and doesn't need "slack" time, it is probably a position that should be automated as soon as it's cost effective.

If you really need a human to do it though, you should stop trying to treat it like machine and realize the importance of slack time and build it in to the schedule.
Watch this Honeypot documentation about GraphQL. Listen to what the developers tell which problems they had to solve when they invented GraphQL.
You likely do not have any of these problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783ccP__No8&t=875s&ab_channe...
Play to earn is a scam, similar to Ponzi schemes. It only appears to work as long as gullible suckers keep putting in money. A sucker is born every minute, but (morality aside) companies still can't build a sustainable business model out of scamming them. Eventually they either run out of money, or catch on to the scam. Governments in some countries will probably also ban or restrict such schemes, thus making it difficult for them to operate within the legitimate economy.
I have worked with dev's and researchers who have a very sensitive "bullshit meter" which is good a lot of the time, but often prevented me from bringing my half-baked ideas to the table. I would wait until I knew I had something solid.
When I was a kid my parents had a big physical encyclopaedia set. I used to lose myself in those things just as much as I scroll through stuff now. Just because in both instances, it’s “interesting”.

But my brain doesn’t necessarily discern between “good” interesting and “bad” interesting without me trying to work it out and guiding it.

Which I normally fail at.
I agree with this. Not to mention that being idle still involves complex thought processes, like treating traumas and understanding concepts.
I'll say that many systems programmers are less effective at their jobs because they don't understand applications programming.

You see it in frameworks like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, etc.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-price-of-admission/ gives additional context and speculation on this move.
Don't do it if you want people other than yourself visiting the blog.
I agree with your train of thought on most of your post. Though disagree with the below segment.

>And even today left-handed people encounter some discrimination or bias (intentional or not) in their daily lives. Utensils may still be needlessly tailored to right-handed people or left-handed alternatives may be unavailable simply because nobody considered the need for them or left-handed people are just expected to make do because they're a minority and shouldn't cause a fuss (and they can just try to use their right hand anway, right?).

Right handed people are roughly 90% of the world population. So, as a business owner, why would you cater half your production to something that only 10% of the population finds appealing? Which brings me back to my original point. Why over represent people so drastically?
Why do you think you know that? If an Italian noble finds a marble head when digging out a wine cellar on his own property and keeps it for himself, is that looting? That depends entirely on what the local laws said about such artifacts at the time. You don't know who first found it. You don't know where it was found, and when. You don't even know it was buried in the first place; it might have been privately owned the entire time since it was originally carved, passed along for two thousand years through innumerable legitimate private sales.

Here are some things you could know, if you bothered to read up on the matter: Ludwig I never invaded Italy, never sacked Rome, but did visit Italy as was the fashion of anybody in Europe who had the means to do so. He is known to have purchased numerous artifacts and works of art from wealthy Italian collectors and dealers, which might include this bust.