skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote you complain about obviously can't be about racial diversity. He introduces a problem with diversity, and then links it to problems which, he says, and emphasizes in TFA, have increased very sharply since 2010-14. But racial diversity has been rising steadily for decades with no inflection point near 2014. Furthermore, he goes on to explain how social media leads to a fracturing of cliques and a tendency to maintain parallel lives. It's clear from this context that the "diversity" he's talking about must be a sort of diversity of perspectives and not of heredity or anything else like that.
I'm curious: how do the "weird ones" do? The outsiders, contrarians, the ones who don't quite fit in and who might even take pleasure in not caring about social media?
There’s an element of that, but you may not have seen real assholes in action.

I have an admin, and people who treat her poorly pop up all of the time. She’s a trusted person who can wield whatever authority I have in many scenarios. Treating her poorly is rude and gross, but also self-destructive (hint: who actually manages the budget?). Plus, she won’t be an admin forever, and it’s a small world.

I worked in retail sales in college and encountered all sorts of people. You get a sense of people when you work with the public. When somebody chooses to exert power over someone where that person lacks agency to respond, that’s a character trait worthy of future consideration.
Or alternatively, sounds like being informed about the current state of things and future prospects.
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking.

There are countless formal and informal mechanisms societies use for building consensus on various topics. Even this discussion is one of them.

For example, people generally believe that hotels are useful. Because somebody must clean the rooms between the visits but it's not reasonable to expect the guests to do it, the society has decided that hotel housekeeping is a useful job. However, if we leave it to the market, housekeeping does not pay enough to support a good life. Because there is a permanent need for housekeeping, we as a society must make a choice. Either we choose that some hardworking people do not deserve a good life, or we try building mechanisms that aim to fix the deficiencies of the market. Universal basic income could be one of those mechanisms, but because they are means rather than goals, it's better to leave them to experts.
even accepting that, that isn't sufficient for it to be the CDC's proper role to make such a dictate?
I think the point remains. The Chinese seem to grok that social media and everything that comes with it can be severe net negatives, and so they've gone the (predictably) authoritarian route of heavily restricting its use.
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Thank you for the whole transcript. I find the whole transcript very problematic. Especially the “shared gods” and “shared blood” part, does Professor Haidt really think this country was held together by “shared blood”? Is he that ignorant of America’s history?
> What is he saying, the issue is, this is a multi-faith, multi-ethnic country?

He is not. Please don't post bad faith arguments. If you really think that is what he's saying, please work on your reading comprehension.
The problem is that you're thinking in absolutes. That's not how life works. The driver doean't need to be a formal part of the hiring process that everyone rigorously goes through. There's variation and difference for every candidate. That's just because hiring is a human process.

In this case just knowing the driver well enough to ask them "Was that person nice to you?" when they drop a candidate off gets you another very useful signal when the response isn't neutral. A lot of the time it'll be "they were OK", but occasionally you'll get a positive "they treated me like a human being" or a negative "no, they were rude".

If you just get an "OK" then you're back to hiring as normal, without the extra data. If you get a positive or negative signal that can amplify what you see in the rest of the hiring process. For me, a tick in the "nice to people you don't have to be nice to" box is a good thing. I like to work with people who have that trait. If I can find a signal that indicates a person has it then I'm going to use it when I'm hiring.
It doesn’t matter what Boeing loses. Uncle Sam will backstop. This isn’t a nightmare. It’s just life. The idea that the US would allow any poor outcome for Boeing is like believing PG&E will go bust.
Heartwarming, sincere, self-taught, intense tradition: Absolute magic. Cherished repair is what the world needs more of --- to appreciate craft and the people who make it happen. It would take a while before Shima Seki can hack that, if ever.
Is MXE accessible anymore (not-so-legally, I mean)?

Last I heard online everybody in the RC scene was super bummed that they couldn't get it anymore. And there were a lot of sellers around selling other chemicals as MXE.
> How can we build/market PureOS as a credible alternative for other app developers to start building on top of it?

Start by convincing paying customers that cyber security and/or their privacy are important.
I know. I was so disappointed when I found out I wasn't the first person who deduced this from Everett. I still reserve the right to explain it in my own off-brand way.

The part about fewer paths going forward, and what that implies about longevity and loneliness, is mine. I didn't get into my corollary, which is that the limitation of (un)consciousness in future dead paths must exert a reverse time pressure on present events.
Ugh - I got the password reset email w silly password complexity - never a good sign.
I think right here, right now, you are engaging in the exact same behaviour you are accusing me of engaging in – where is your "immediate sharing and understanding of emotions in a moment" in the context of this conversation? Are you considering my emotions at all in your interaction with me?

Also, you weren't actually there, so you don't know exactly what I said or what she said–I mentioned the gist of the message, but no details on exactly how it was conveyed–which obviously makes a significant difference. You are drawing a lot of conclusions based on very limited information.

> Empathy is a skill high-functioning people on the spectrum can learn.

Have you actually learned that skill? Of course it would be unfair to judge you on the basis of a single interaction – but you aren't demonstrating any of that skill here.

> Speaking how you speak to others, but to you. As a narrative decision.

I don't go around calling other people "dicks" or "assholes", especially not directly addressed to them, but to be honest I don't even use that kind of language in the third person. (I suppose I did suggest that maybe your abusive language directed at me could possibly be better applied to you, but I said that more in the hope that you would see the contradiction and withdraw it, rather than because I think you actually deserve to be called that). Nor am I prone to draw conclusions about other people, such that they have a "total lack of empathy", based on their brief descriptions of social interactions which I didn't personally witness, and hence couldn't possibly have a complete picture of. I think the way you and I speak is actually quite different, and a lot of the flaws which you are accusing me of having, your own behaviour actually exhibits them much more than my own.

I have the sense things I have said have triggered an emotional reaction on your part, and a lot of what you are saying is really more about your own emotions than about anything I have said.
Eh, I would happily go for it.

I get that "the interview is stressful", but if you do enough of them, they're not that stressful.

And in my experience, stuff like this is really good at identifying some assholes. I can't find references, but it is based on research, and is applied in other scenarios. It is in fact often recommended you do a version of this prior to marrying someone: Usually some physical activity is picked that both of you suck at, and the goal is not to achieve it, but to see how well you work together in unfamiliar terrain. It's not a great sign if failure to succeed results in a nasty argument ("We could have solved this if you'd done it my way!")

As always, the cost of a toxic hire is much greater than missing out on a good engineer. If this has even a 50% success rate at detecting jerks, it's worth it.
Anyone know or used this?

search: >microsoft:'AI Content Moderation'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=microsoft:'AI Content Mo...>
It's been four years since I graduated high school, but my experience was that even if you were not on a given social media platform, at least one of your friends definitely was. It is very hard to ignore or stop caring about.
Social media definitely amplifies it, but consider the economic and social environment that teenagers have lived through their entire lives. Multiple major recessions, a global pandemic, rising inflation, housing and education getting more expensive by the day, prospect of a mountain of debt right after graduation, climate that will be unlivable in a few decades, political extremism becoming the norm, and massive government gridlock that has made fixing any of this impossible. Can't really shield kids from this reality anymore when all of it is one click away. Teens are aware that they are going to inherit a pretty terrible world, and are powerless to do anything about it.
Unfortunately, the only footguns I see talked about in C are memory safety. Well, tbh I do see then occasional discussion of undefined behavior also. I think these are the main areas people are getting bothered over with Hare too.

A huge potion of the criticism at this point towards Hare has been summed into three points: no ‘generics’, no memory safety, and small stdlib combined with no package management.

But, I can imagine that if Hare had generics using template metaprogramming then people would complain about how language design has shown that templates are not good enough, so it needs to be not just a way to have compile time type specialization of data structure, but enable ad hoc polymorphism as well and of course that needs traits or typeclasses.

Further, if Hare used testing and fuzzing and modeling, then claimed to be within the bounds of some error percentage ‘safe’ from leaks, use-after and double free, out of memory conditions; the counter claim would be that you can not be safe, for ANY usage of the word unless you have ownership and borrow checking.

And finally, without a centralized, language committee backed and certified web based way to store and access libraries Hare will never be able to make usable and fit for purpose software, so a package manager is a must have to be worth even considering.

All that said, I don’t think it is exclusively users/promoters of Rust that are complaining/disparaging Hare’s very existence. But it certainly seems like many, many people seem to be convinced that their use case/product goals/preferences are the only considerations for any individual of group making engineering decisions.
I can buy this, but it might practically be a distinction without a difference. If social media is an amplifier, we have to be careful what we're amplifying. Most people have no regular practice for the cultivation of wholesome solace. The result seems unsurprising.
htmx hits a sweet spot of being unintrusive. react creates a virtual dom and managing state. my database manages state, i just want ajax so the whole page doesn't refresh.
maybe the best solution is if the browser does the diff and only updates what is required across response
> Now at 32, I see my peers all married with families and personal lives.

Most people I know, if they are even married, are having kids around 35 after getting married in early 30s.
I take photos of good looking meals but never to post them elsewhere. They are just going into the memory bank of photos for later reminiscing.
> a positive "they treated me like a human being" or a negative "no, they were rude"

That's the whole range eh?
Quake remastered. The new episodes are pretty good.
Matrix seems promising in that regard.
Episode 5 of The Human Operator is out now. It's a serialized action thriller. It's a serialized action thriller about a private intelligence contractor who gets on the wrong side of the intelligence she creates. Written by a pro screenwriter. Always free.

https://juliebush.substack.com/p/the-human-operator-4fc?s=w
How does this compare (in terms of efficiency and energy loss) to just using the electricity directly in a battery electric vehicle?
> Apple is hiring and has relatively low-bullshit interviews (depending on the team).

I agree. I passed interviews for a Systems Software Engineer position at Apple two months ago, and I can attest that the interview process was very down to Earth. No LeetCode questions. Instead, the interviews were mostly system design and and simple programming exercises where finding a solution was less important than the discussion with the interviewers.

If anyone is interested, Apple is still hiring - https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=systems%20enginee...
Working for Facebook/Meta, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. is today's equivalent of working for a tobacco company.
The leak itself is enough to shape legal precedent, it's made clear that the majority of the court believes that "Roe was deeply flawed". The only way for this to change would be for the court to explicitly rebuke the arguments in the leaked draft in the new majority opinion.
Why not just make electric tractors? The energy efficiency of converting wind -> electricity -> fuel -> mechanical power has to be less efficient than wind -> electricity -> mechanical power right?
It does give you more access to information but also allows young impressionable brains to be influenced in a negative way by misguided "influencers".

The distribution channel isn't the main issue, it is that the role of a parent is more complicated than it ever was and parents are not keeping up.

In the past you had to ensure that your kid doesn't pick up negative influences from the kids around them. Today you need to be more proactive in ensuring that they don't pick up negative influences from the multitudes of misguided people unrestricted by geography who's half-formed views are propagated as long as they are interesting and make people feel good about themselves in the short term.
They probably can't articulate a positive vision because humanity is fucked. That's not social media, that's a fact.
There is, in fact, plenty of copper. You don't need nickel or silver to make or place solar panels. Prices are still falling fast. Nowadays they don't even bother to tilt them to match latitude, so mounting has got very, very cheap.

The price of electricity is variable, sometimes negative. You would not need to produce at levelized cost, but only when the sun is shining.
What are some good Heroku alternatives these days?
There is a chart in the link that shows the problem is equal no matter your ancestry or cultural background.
It’s a token of appreciation.

When a salesman gives you a squeeze ball or a bottle of scotch, it’s not a “bribe”. It’s an artifact that provides an excuse to talk, and perhaps anchor the conversation positively.

Likewise, the store policy of providing a discount is intended leave you with a positive memory that reinforces your action.

“Wow. I made a mistake, caught it, and the nice lady at the counter thanked me and gave me a discount.” That’s a powerful feeling.
I grew up on 4chan, it’s nice to be a total flaming fuckface every now and then. Even on this website I throwaway accounts after a while.

Anonymity is an escape from the drudgery of this pseudo “real life” created by social media. You associate your real anything and you will pay the price.

Whether it be a photo or video, saying something that someone somewhere might find offensive—you end with all hurt and pain with nothing to gain.
It's actually kind of a tough problem.

A reserved fan ebug is a no go for reasons you stated and others.

An extra roster spot might work, but that's potentially someone playing not very much hockey. OTOH, we already have that scenario since it's a 23 person roster.

The thing is, this latest ebug appearance was kind of an important game. Goalies seem to get hurt more often now (someone just got hurt tonight), and as good as these stories are, you probably don't want to see an ebug when it matters.

Maybe just add the roster spot after the trade deadline or something
At least they finally got it so text shows up, for me, eventually.
Reading this was like holding up a mirror. I’m also 32 and recently realized i need to learn how to spend a healthy amount of time away from a screen.

Getting stuck in “career” mode consumed the majority of the last decade. Self taught is not an easy path, but my life is much better than it would have been had i continued what i was doing before getting into tech.

Now i just want to play an instrument and sit outside. :)
> I wasn't an engineer for that long but my impression is that programming today is a lot easier. Dev tools, compilers and linters are very good.

What sticks out to me when I'm looking at some older code editors/IDEs, is how crazily spartan they are - to the point where they are just inconvenient to use.
The more your app can run client-side, the lower your bills server-side.
Employees are inherently a service contract, without the upfront cost. You are renting the robot I your analogy.

Humans do have upfront costs too, but those are on individuals to pay. Generally the manufacturers of those parents (parents). It is not the responsibility of an employer or others to reimburse for those costs. Humans also have maintenance costs and personal desires, but those are not the responsibility of the employer either. The only responsibility is to pay an agreed upon price.

People are entitled to nothing from others beyond being free from direct harm.
> One of the core benefits of C++ is that it is a high level language that's still super close to the hardware.

This is also the main selling point of Rust, IMO.
Pretty sure caution was what was advised with no opinion one way or the other. Being extra cautious about preliminary psych findings is only sensible. It might be considered batshit crazy to do anything else given the issues we've found out about in that field. Does it reproduce? Is the right question to ask.
> weird or obscure tests.

I'm a bit relieved to hear this: one of the weirdest professional experiences I have ever had was at an AWS interview. I've often wondered which parts of that day were a psych test or simply human error.

Timing of the interview was shortly before the HQ2 announcement (2017 I think), and the interview was in the outskirts of DC. I was told specifically not to bring a phone, which I thought was odd, but I didn't think I'd need one for the day since I'd be on site. So, per the instructions, I left it in the hotel, walked to the site, and checked in at the front desk. Unfortunately, they texted me 15 minutes before the start time that the schedule had shifted 2h later. The front desk did not get the message. So I sat in the lobby, repeatedly checked in every so often, had polite conversations with a random assortment of people, drank some coffee, and waited. That was the best part of the day. Each part of the remainder of the actual interview process had a similar "this seems a bit off" feature.
You can see working version on app.mailsnag.com. I will try to make a sample project out of it and put on GitHub tomorrow and share the link.
“If you’re bored, you’re not paying attention.”
One thing I never got was the afterglow. The next day was always shitty. I felt hot, moderately malaised and foggy.

OTOH a lot of people complain about intense nausea and itching which I never got no matter the dose.
Not ominous, in mid 2020 the whole of America realized the country wasn’t treating millions of its citizens fairly and started adopting policies to improve equity and diversity, and that upset Professor Haidt. Here he was among the protestors when a school district tried to enroll more minority students in a program.

https://nypost.com/2018/12/04/angry-parents-lash-out-at-doe-...
My friend kids were doing sports and dancing at very serious level. Before pandemic, then lockdown started and they were forced to stop. Now they do not want to invest time in something like that again!

It is easy to blaim "social media", but it is adults who create this toxic culture. Kids need stability and current "doom" culture does not help.
Looking at local (EU) gas price structure, ~50% is the actual cost of fuel and the rest is excise tax, VAT, and expenses/profit. So $3/gal bulk cost would fit a $6/gal = 1.6 eur/litre retail price including all taxes, which would be competitive even without any subsidies that a CO2-neutral fuel might justify.
Relevant thread - question asked by Ramez Naam on the feasibility of Prometheus:

https://twitter.com/ramez/status/1516199169911713794?s=21&t=...
Meh, it depends, but you're generally right. If you waste your 20s on inane technical achievement and ladder climbing, then you haven't spent time figuring out how to form healthy personal connections, or on the extreme end, you might be a total asshole and nobody's told you because they couldn't care less to burden themselves with someone who only cares about their job. If I didn't have a few different relationship experiences, I wouldn't be in a healthy one now. If you get it right the first time, you're very lucky. So you better start now, otherwise the prospect of starting a family might literally be out of reach within 5 to 10 years, though the marriage thing, if you want that, is always possible.

At the moment, I'm a bit younger than 32, but I almost consider relentless tech grinding to represent a silly sort of immaturity, or at least a bit confusing. As in "You seriously haven't found something else to do with the little spare time you have?", not that I'd say that.
I've been wanting to self-host a podcast service. This might be a really stupid question, but how do you download the podcasts to your server? I'm guessing it's like an RSS thing, but how do you the feeds?
Current capture is $600/ton. They point out they don't need to perform the expensive part of that.
Sure. We'll fix it tomorrow. In the meantime, let's keep doing what we're doing until someone fixes it for us. Later.
anti-american? As far as I see it responding to a government entity's request is pro-american.

Anti-Human, yes. But Google is the American dream
It's interesting seeing this conception of post-modernism 20 years down the track. I think the article almost gets at the point, but overshoots and ends up in navel-gazing territory with:

"Look at the big picture. Don't focus in on two or three things to the exclusion of other things. Keep everything in context. Don't go out of your way to justify stuff that's obviously cool. Don't ridicule ideas merely because they're not the latest and greatest. Pick your own fashions. Don't let someone else tell you what you should like. 'Tsall good."

Post-modernism is not so much about picking-and-choosing and going-your-own-way, but it is about looking at the big picture and keeping everything in context. Importantly it's not about the total rejection of assumption and consistency, but about critically challenging and analysing them.

I think a lot of folks unfortunately continue to approach it in this same way, but in 202X we often make the additional mistake of assuming that the "modernism" that "post-modernism" is rebelling against is our contemporary "modern" society. That often gets misrepresented as a rejection of the enlightenment or some other extreme sounding position, but it's much better understood as a challenge of epistemic certainty and an attempt to break down and understand our ideological assumptions.
Literally the same purpose it always did? Unless I missed something, Keybase hasn't actually been shut down.