skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The population rate of increase has been pretty constant since 1945. The seventies being flat is the exception.
> probably input from people who have never worked in the field is of pretty limited value in how to resolve the hard part, and will not do much

This is the story of hacker news. And of most other online forums. And of most meetings. Let’s bikeshed. Hi, I’m on the Internet and I read the whole post title. Let me share my thoughts.

People are stupid, lazy, and uninformed in the general case. People writing in an 8 line comment fields on mobile aren’t going to be the exception.

There is no need to be frustrated. Unless you enjoy that feeling. Then by all means embrace it.

Try this? Dip into the comments with right expectation. These are off the cuff uniformed thoughts of the masses. Maybe they make you laugh or cry or maybe something inspires you. Maybe there’s a gem buried here somewhere.

Don’t expect HN commenters to know anything deep. If you are in the mood for a deeper thought, go to the library.
I cant use Instagram app anymore, combining ads and "because you watched ping you may like this pong" videos 30-40% content is irrelevant.
In fact I have a home built aquaponics system and have worms in the grow beds. Because the oxygen content of the water stays pretty high, the earthworms do just fine submerged at all times.
If this is a reference to the Perl submissions I would guess it has to do with the link submitted being the APEX domain rather than a link to the article itself. I am just guessing though. It would be best to email the moderators to know for certain. hn at ycombinator.com
Question: How often have you seen Quanta Magazine write a disclaimer that their latest story is from a school of superstring theorists? It’s PR, this is just how it is.

I do wish Sabine would state the axiom “reality is real” up front though, because I think people should be trusted to consider that one on their own.
Sounds like sprinter is the fastest class of train in Germany. (Fun?) side fact: As a neighbor (Dutchman), sprinter is a euphemism for the slowest class of trains here. They rebranded it from "stoptrein" (a train that stops at every station it comes through) to "sprinter" for marketing reasons. (The new generation doesn't know better and started using the word; for me I think it'll always remain a euphemism -- in NL specifically of course.)
Meanwhile graduates from these institutions lament how employers only want A-list schools
Classic "tell me you have never been a teacher without telling me you have never been a teacher". Are there bad teachers? Of course. There are bad employees in all industries. But teaching is an extremely difficult job that underpays so most people are in the profession because they want to help kids.

Some things to understand about teaching. You must always teach at the middle kid in terms of ability and intelligence. By default this already means that some kids will be lost and some kids will be bored. This is made worse by conflating age with competence. Additionally, teachers have no understanding of what the kids are going through at home. Say you have a kid that never does homework? Is that the teacher's fault? Is it because the kid is lazy and just plays fortnight at home? Or is it because the parent's only job is night shift and the kids is a de facto parent watching two other kids? Or is it because the parent has a substance abuse problem and the kid hides out at playgrounds until late at night after everyone is passed out and it is safe to come "home"? Statistically, kids with problems at home also tend to be lower on competence scales. The real problem here is social help for the parents but we don't have the political will for this. Do you have any idea how often a teacher has had a student's parent come to a conference to discuss concerns about the kid falling behind just to be told that "It is YOUR job to teach my kid, not mine!" Tell me how testing teachers fixes that? And these are the same teachers that must buy paper/pens/supplies with the other salary because we ration school supplies.

We have some similar problems at the collegiate level. I worked full time while carrying 12+ credits paying my own way through college. I had to cut corners and ration my time. This meant lower grades for some classes but luckily I have the aptitude to get away with it. We also are sending kids to college that shouldn't be there. They don't have a real desire for a professional career outside of something like Social Media Manager. Of course they are going to cheat and use all the tools they have at their disposal having grown up digital. They aren't interested in the subject matter they just want to check the boxes and get through it. There is an issue here that needs solved at the institution level that kids will always be better at tech than the teachers but that is silly to lay at the feet of the teachers. In the end they are trying to lay a foundation of knowledge but the students have to care. Most college classes don't take attendance, is that the teacher's fault too?

Having the best software engineers doesn't mean anyone will use the product. Having the best doctors doesn't mean patients will do what they are told. Having the best trainers doesn't mean people will workout on their own. Having the best therapists doesn't mean anyone will use the techniques suggested in their daily lives.
The only real application I can see of AR is to have face recognition that would show a person's real name and other information about them as you see them.

Privacy aside, I don't think that would really take off either as I just don't think most people are that interested in people they don't know.
It looks to me more like a rebellion against rather than a misunderstanding of vanishing points. That tree...
This was handled very very poorly by the professor. Their first mistake was putting policy before education. It simply does not matter that students violated a school policy or that the school process required forms. If you cheat in Candyland you have to remember it's still Candyland, don't get so full of yourself that you think your academic bubble and its processes matter.

Secondly they delayed what really mattered, pointing out that students were putting in a lot of effort to accomplish something just as farcical as what the teacher was doing. Passing a course without learning anything. Because of the self importance off professors and institutions students are given the impression that grades matter. Then they do stuff like this.

Instead the Prof could have immediately said holy crap everyone I just realized I've been logged into chat all year, most of you have been cheating badly, and some of you are getting nothing from this course.

So now we're going to talk about online privacy, security hygiene, and time effort tradeoffs. My goal is for you to be less stupid and better informed when you leave this class.

Then they could go back and find the students who hadn't done any work (other than cheating) and drop them from the class.

FFS teach kids don't play games.
If that were true, there would be no first class, because paying 3x as much to shave at most 2% of the journey time doesn't add up.

Instead, some people who can afford it buy a nicer experience. By extension, people are also willing to add some time to a journey for a nicer experience.

Taking the train from Brussels to London is neither cheaper nor faster, but I can't even imagine choosing the plane unless I was desperately skint or it was an emergency where two hours matters (somehow).
Lots of economic sense in being able travel while you work or sleep, and also lots ethical and economic sense in not bringing on the worse scenarios of global warming by unnecessary use of fossil fuels.
> Worse - the skill they've learned best is gaming the system and hiding their incompetence.

So they're ideally qualified for a career in politics.
Alternatively, if you want slightly better syntax (something like `(display (factorial 10))`, just like a "normal" lisp), use this regex in a function called `tokenize` and you're half-way to making your own lisp:

[\s,]*(~@|[\[\]{}()'`~^@]|"(?:\\.|[^\\"])*"?|;.*|[^\s\[\]{}('"`,;)]*)

Stolen from https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md#s...
The reviews on that one seem to consistently say it’s not a great first book and is a bit much for an undergraduate. Mathematically I’m effectively at the high school to undergraduate level at best.
HFOs are third generation refrigerants, replacing HFCs, which in turn replaced CFCs.

In 1985, CFCs were recognized as destroying the ozone layer, so they were banned in 1989 and replaced them with HFCs that didn't do that.

The problem with HFCs was that they have 5,000-10,000x greenhouse warming potential relative to CO2. So in 2006 the EU mandated that cars replace HFCs with less potent substances. After 10 years of development and testing, HFOs were finally phased into usage, with most cars using HFOs in their air conditioning.

Heat pumps and HVAC units seem like they're a decade behind autos, but their HFCs should likely be replaced with HFOs, too.

The TFA comes from atmospheric degradation of these HFOs. Scaremongering about TFA without the counterbalancing story of why TFA is showing up and the decades of social, political, and technical work behind HFOs, pisses me off to no end.
Fair enough; it's not a perfect analogy. The main point is the nature of the metrics.

Getting into law school is the first part of the "interview." If you don't have the LSAT score, you won't get into a prestigious law school, full stop. If you aren't in a prestigious school, then a huge swath of elite positions are permanently closed to you. (In general -- yes there are a sprinkling of exceptions.) The bar exam has nothing to do with it -- everyone has to pass that, no matter what you do.

The second part of the interview is law school grades and certain extra curricular signals. You're right, there is only one "interview." But the analogy still holds up, with respect to the nature of the intelligence and memory tests.
64% of US adults wear eyeglasses.

Heat exists.

We're already basically at the limits of physics for making CPUs faster and heat dissipation is a huge issue even for products that you don't have pressed against your face and eyes all the time.

Humans interact chiefly via sight.

But it has still been "obvious for ages" that wearable displays are going to be some big inevitable hit? No it hasn't.

And why on earth would Apple have made this tech a priority ten years before it was viable as a consumer product?

P.S. No, Apple's desktop computer operation has not been "neglected" lately; they actually have been giving the Mac a lot of care and feeding, as evidenced by the really nice new MacBook Pro re-design, and the Mac Studio. The opposite of what you said is true.
https://youtu.be/DHR-ggwafO8
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What you've described is most business travelers, which is essentially what keeps most of the airline and hotel industry alive, as I understand it.
Alexandr Wang becomes the youngest self-made billionaire with Scale AI
Are the toilets free where you live? I have never seen a homeless person waste 50 cents on a toilet visit.
I would be interested in reading more of what you are reading.
> But you should need a batchelor degree if if you want to be a high level specialist, programmer or architect

I'd like to ask, how are any of these specialties technically related to a bachelors degree?

One does not learn how to be a successful software architect in a semester or two of university. Neither does a bachelors degree make you anything more than a beginner in any specialized topic. While the definition of what's a "good" programmer is up for discussion, universities definitely do not produce them in any dependable capacity.

From my personal experience, at this point in time, major part of the students that complete a bachelors degree are in it just because programming is viewed as a well paying job and are about as worthless as a person that completed a 6 month bootcamp. The only difference being that the person with bootcamp experience might actually end up with an exact match of knowledge an employer wants, which hasn't had time to slowly evaporate over 4 years of "study".

Lastly to bring up another one of your points, I'd argue that learning from YouTube videos is not the same as going to a bootcamp. I do not view either highly, but I'd say that learning on your own deserves some level of commendation as it's the most crucial skill in a field that's constantly shifting and changing.
> ... governments regulated something like if your code touches important data, it must either be written in a verified safe language like Rust?

You are making a strawman.

Having a professional body that people could be ejected from makes a lot of sense in case of egregious misconduct and malice.

In events like Boeing 747 MAX, the car emission defeat device, backdoors & spyware, engineers should have safe channels to report wrongdoing, and get legal protection, but also face expulsion if they say nothing and.
The Anti-Instagram App Promising to Make Us Feel Good
Uh, I guess they claim this?
What I don't understand about this example with Hyperion is

a) Wouldn't Hyperion's orientation be influenced much more by Saturn and its many moons on their many orbits than by dust and photons?

b) Wouldn't it then boil down to "just" an n-body problem (for which we know no closed form predictions exist -- yet is still perfectly "classical" in nature)?

In other words, why involve dust and photons and wave functions and entanglement when the answer could simply be "it's an n body problem so we simply can't predict its orientation"?
Inviting Users to Total Cookie Protection in Standard Mode
I assume/presume this with all public figures. I email and call all of them. Some of them even reply and not their assistant. It's a rare treat and a fun practice.
Yep, that's what Java (and Java IDEs) do.
I'm a garbage collector, at least when coding in C.
"The Annotated Constitution" is that more full version you refer to: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan

Kindof a look inside the sausage.
AI is only in fashion for technology once it isn't bleeding edge. Also, MuZero (the latest in similar game engines that were started from AlphaGo) can learn the game by itself without knowing the rules or having any opening books or Go data which is very different than how traditional Chess engines operate.
M1 Max only puts up ~ 1/4th of the GPU compute power of a 3080. If these specs are true, the M1 Max may well be ~7-8x slower in the GPU department when compared to a 4080.

Different tools for different jobs. None of this neccesarily looks "not good"
Was it really the 00-s?

I had two jobs at the turn of the decade and they were conversations about topics such as “where would I go to find authoritative information on x” (google is not the answer) and approaches to troubleshooting.

Granted, I’m a script monkey (sysadmin) but some level of automation has always been part of the job.

I’ve had precisely 1 leet-code style interview (2hours for 16 problems) and I couldn’t tolerate the pressure.

The interview I had at google was much more humane than what people are attempting to cargo cult.
Great article! It articulates a lot of the frustrating trends I've noticed, which is an utter contempt for building the infrastructure we need to have a productive society from a dominant voting demographic, with a lot of insights I'd not noticed before.
That's a good point, thank you. I wasn't aware of it, or at least didn't actively remember the fact. But it makes sense and circles on the same thing. Curve grading only makes sense when the cohort being evaluated is large and varied enough.

> Whole stack ranking is just weird. Either the people are good enough to do the work or not.

Even at the risk of veering quite far from the thread topic, I am not sure that's the only angle to look at things. In my experience, pretty much anyone who is genuinely curious and has the discipline to work at understanding how/why a ${THING} functions, is going to be good at their job. Some people just don't find what their thing is, and surprisingly many are in jobs where they are not even allowed to figure it out.
The real loss here has been the AV referendum in 2011. It blows my mind how dense the electorate was for keeping the FPTP system.

Now the Tories have realized that they can spew bullshit lies and win an election with minimal consequences. They also have discovered how much easier it is to game the damn failing electoral system. (e.g. in Cam I have seen Tory pamphlets pushing for Lib Dems or Labour just to split the left vote).

It was a travesty that No won the AV referendum.
I see the main problem with wearables in the type of media we like to consume. Text and images are almost always rectangular and 2D. It makes a lot more sense to present that on rectangular devices which you can touch (key to the success of the iphone). Wearable glasses have advantanges for 3d media but those really just make up for a fraction of the media consumed.
> Evidence please.

You are asking for evidence for something which hasn't happened yet. Obviously nobody can provide that evidence. How could they? The comment you are responding to was obviously worded as a speculation about a future event.

Latter on the thread you are asking for something else. Evidence for some other example.

> Why don't you cite the specific example then and we can discuss it.

Your wish is my command. Let me catch you up on the specifics:

https://www.transparency.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf/publ...

Page 20:
"In total, we count at least 73 contracts relating to the
COVID-19 response between February and November
2020, worth over £3.7 billion, whose awards merit further
investigation. Mapping all of these contracts against data
from TED, we notice that by volume and value, most of
the questionable contracts were awarded during the same
heightened period of activity between March and June
2020 as mentioned above (see Graph 5). The majority
of these by volume (65) and by value (£2.9 billion) were
contracts for PPE equipment; 24 of which worth £1.6
billion went to those with known political connections
to the party of government in Westminster. A further
three contracts worth £536 million also went to politically
connected companies for testing related services. We
note there are additional contracts awarded to politically
connected companies relating to communications and
research services, although these were published after our
last data extraction from TED on 30 November 2020."

To avoid confusion, and because it seems you are naïve to the UK political situation I would like to mention that when the report says "political connections to the party of government in Westminster" that refers to the Tory party. Just mentioning because clearly you are not up to date on the recent events.
I've been at companies where we receive hundreds of applications per role posted, and one where we receive 10s. I've posted about this before but in both cases the pipeline was the same - initial pass eliminates about 70-80% of the candidates because they're just not worth following up on - think things like IT staff applying for mid level development jobs with no experience, education or anything to indicate they could write any code. Of the remaining we end up filtering out based on comparing applications - this bit sucks, but pretty much stack ranking the resumes and picking out the top 20 or so[0]. At that point, everyone gets a phone screen with a set of questions picked from a list and we proceed through that. The same process works mostly because the size of your interviewing group scales with the number of engineers you hire.

[0] side note - I work in games where we're often filtering resumes for specific roles, e.g. a gameplay programmer or an online programmer. The filtering here is most of the time bucketing candidates based on their experience and sorting that way.
Great analogy. I think the rub is I wouldn't want to study for and take the LSAT before every interview, and especially not after working in the field for 10 or more years.

Especially if the interviewers make comments like "um how much do you actually practice law?" if you stumble on one of their pet quiz questions.
Klarna Chief Defends Handling of Staff Cuts in Call That Angers Some Employees
I tried Google's text-to-image AI and was shocked by the results
> I don't think your vision of "most of us" is at all connected to reality.

No, in fact, your idea of “reality” is completely disconnected from the actual real world.

A billion people were lifted out of extreme poverty over the last generation. The share of extreme poverty worldwide has declined. Most of the rest are expected to be lifted until 2030. [1]

Even comparing your life to your parents, you have access to better medical drugs, more information, better technology, and depending on where you live, also bigger and better apartments and cheaper transport.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty#is-the-world-on-t...
Not everything is racist. Just another bullshit article from ‘vice’.
Yes, it was about the Perl Data Language. I see, thank you.
New Labour mined the anti-foreigner vote? Are you actually from the UK? New Labour was famously pro open borders. They deliberately opened the immigration floodgates as much as possible, for instance, one reason there was so much immigration from eastern Europe to the UK when Poland etc joined the EU is because the UK was one of only two countries that didn't immediately utilize the 'transitional controls' mechanism to keep immigration restrictions in place. Despite the EU's rhetoric about open borders and such at the time, in reality most countries didn't want to be flooded with cheap ex-eastern bloc labour. UK under the self-proclaimed Labour party did.

Notoriously, a few years ago a former advisor to Blair went on record to say that New Labour deliberately encouraged as much immigration as possible in order to "rub the Right's nose in diversity", and:

"He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/641845...

It's really difficult to reconcile this history with the ideas you're expressing above. Far from "carefully mining the anti foreigner vote for decades" they were explicitly undermining it by hiding the true extent of what they were doing.
> as long as everyone is wearing a helmet

Sounds like a good solution for a low probability situation. Eye visibility for normal humans is much more practical than issuing every human a VR system and requiring they wear it at all times to maintain the illusion.
Lessons from 31 Years
Cool, but they need better props. Where are the guns? Surely someone in Poland owns a pickup truck. They also look far too healthy.

Canada has a thriving American larping community too: Alberta. Also Vancouver, but that is mostly US celebs pretending to still be in america, which is cheating imho.
This is exactly what I needed. However, the tooling around IDEs and the go packages driver still isn't up to scratch. For example, I can't get code lens to use Bazel for testing individual functions.

I think I agree that Bazel is poor for Go code, sadly it's what our SREs decided to use for our monorepo.
What game is the skeleton image from? It’s tremendously better as a painting than Sierra’s usual standard for these AGI games.

I recall the Manhunter games used AGI for some really impressive graphics (for 1988/89 anyway). Those games used lots of closeups and other cinematic angles which was also very unusual compared to Sierra’s usual flat third-person aesthetic. Maybe that’s where the skulls are from?