skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say he does 'great science' and I don't think he would either. He pokes at the edges of a highly specific field using math/programming tools that are incredibly basic by HN's standards but almost magical to his peers. It's all leverage. It's good, solid work done very efficiently.

Will the next Pasteur or Semmelweis work this way? Probably not. But let's not pretend 99.9999% of PhD's are on that route anyway. And no big deal. Science would do better optimising for an army of effective workers than the odd genius. Those tend to make themselves known anyway.
Solar and wind are cheap. Mostly due to scale. A scale we could have reached faster if people didn't keep repeating false things like:

"Renewables are not a viable solution to energy needs on their own”

You should check out graphs of renewables deployment (minus hydro which has been steady for a while) it makes reaching 10% wind/solar a lot more hopeful than you state it. The growth is staggering.

> There are now 50 countries that have crossed that 10% wind and solar generation mark, and seven countries hit that milestone in 2021: China, Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Argentina, Hungary, and El Salvador, according to the report. Three countries in particular have shown a particularly fast transition, with Vietnam, Australia, and the Netherlands having moved 8% of their total electricity demand over to wind and solar from fossil fuels in only the last two years. These countries set a precedent, Jones says, to show other policy makers “there are ways to do this and not worry about keeping the lights on.”
This sounds like a project to almost do the exact opposite of what is required in the market. The real need in the market today is a way of auditing the process by which someone creates a carbon credit. You need to be able to trust that this credit you bought it from someone else doing something genuinely carbon negative vs just either claiming credits for something they were going to do anyway or claiming credits for not doing something they were going to do anyway.

The worst way of doing that is creating a market place of tokens that make these heterogenous carbon sinks into fungible assets.

If you look into the announcement there's also some really funny stuff going on:

> including its revolutionary collaboration with the Centrifuge protocol, which will unlock the debt markets for carbon project developers,

The business model of Centrifuge is... well... loan sharks.

> its collaboration with the Layer 1 blockchain Celo, to provide $10 million of GNT to offset Celo’s emissions.

Nice that we got to the self-dealing portion of the business so quickly. So Celo will buy $10m of GNT to offset carbon, and in return GNT will launch on Celo, thus driving Celo up to cover the cost of buying the carbon credits. Someone, somewhere is going to be the bag holder for these tokens.
By the way it’s basically never true that you have to start with arbitration. You can pretty much always just sue them in a regular local court. As a general rule courts are general jurisdiction venues that can hear all controversies.

Then they would have to affirmatively file a “motion to compel arbitration” in which they appear in court and argue that the contract mandates it.

Typically they’d win that motion but then you’d just start arbitration. Since that requires them to show up with a lawyer by that point you’d probably be able to just negotiate then. And if they fail to ask for arbitration in a timely way the case may proceed.
But - to run a modern farm, you have to understand the basics of agriculture as understood 2,000 years ago. To build an engine you have to know everything those engineers knew about steam power in 1850, and everything done since then. The past knowledge was subsumed into the present skill. And up until about 5 minutes ago, to draw a teddy bear skiing on Mars or to write a routine that analyzed another function, you had to have some set of skills. If you remove the need for skills from it, there's no more creative work for people to do is there? Where do we go from here?
For consumer arbitration, always try to choose JAMS instead of AAA. JAMS arbitrators tend to charge much more than AAA arbitrators. Many JAMS arbitrators have judicial experience, some even on the federal bench.

In my case, all of the arbitrators proposed by JAMS would have charged over $1000 per hour to resolve my case. Per the contract, all arbitration costs would have been borne by the defendant, so the company was eager to settle and avoid a huge arbitration bill.
1. Remove porn from your life. Use opendns to block websites and try to practice abstinence. It will take months/years but doable. Check Universal Man yt channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC6gyVlwXwtqkn4KLjx3nDHg

2. Envy and other mind traps can be cured with having the right mindset. Look into stoicism

3. It's all about building habits and routine. You are your habits

Although controversial, Jordan Peterson's advice helped me when I was in a similar stage as you.

Look to form relationships and focus on something meaningful, the bad habits will disappear as you won't have time for them. Good luck
The words "algorithmic" and "AI" are getting mixed up a lot in media.

An algorithm is just a sequence of steps taken to complete a task. There's no such thing as a non-algorithmic recommendation. Even if your algorithm pick a video completely at random, it's still an algorithm.
It got rid of typists though
It depends a lot on what you think a good job actually looks like. This sort of prompt based regurgitation and remixing of data sets is super cool from a technical perspective and will maybe be useful one day but from someone mildly interested in this being an actual tool it needs to bridge that last 10%. That doesn't mean it has to be perfect at all. Which seems like a general summation of a lot of ML.
Forgotten Books: Application of unseen species models to the survival of culture
React 18, the Effect hook, and how we’re an opinionated bunch.
They shouldn't look when walking over a pedestrian crossing, it's the cars that need to be aware of people. Still, sound is a good idea. Teslas have one when they are on reverse too.
Well they had to keep their language alive in secret for a century or so. And AFAIK even teenagers use relatively few slangy terms, the exact opposite of how American youths speak.
The SQLite OS Interface or “VFS”
Take a look at GoBuffalo
You think we'll have a Star Trek economy in 10 years? 100 years, maybe.
You're actually surprisingly right. An AI could be trained to show varied enough content to avoid polarisation. E.g.: show videos of consequences of gun-accidents to gun lovers. Or lots of less obvious examples, of course. An AI could actually even determine how slowly it should recommend varied content.

The problem is that if an organisation starts doing this, people will ask the opposite: "to be unbiased, an algorithm should show anti-black campaigns to BLM-supporters". Not that I agree with this sentiment, I'm just pointing out people will use this argument claiming anything else is biased.

I do think you're onto something though; your comment is underrated.
I’m learning to become more empathetic to people with naturally low metabolisms and thyroid issues. I know a young girl that went from being very slim to noticeably overweight once she developed a thyroid issue. Feed two people a standard American diet and you could end up with substantially different weight outcomes.
Curious what you would consider an illegitimate career break?
I imagine that many of these aren't common ones to run into with a team that comes from many languages other than Python or that has people with enough experience to know that realize these kids of unclear, apparently inconsistent coding practices are not a good idea in code you want to be maintainable a year or more from now. The glance I took at a few of them shows me the smack of syntatic sugar that is all aesthetics without any real performance benefit thus provide no real benefit beyond maybe saving a few keystrokes. Keystrokes are cheap, days spent by a junior dev trying to find a bug in a pile of syntatic sugar filled Python is not.
Or maybe they think he's saying "Entschuldigung, ich bin ein schlechter Deutscher."
There is a tendency among the technocratic-minded to dismiss the creative and social science fields, mostly because they have yet to explore the depths of these pursuits.

To reach even a degree of knowledge in any of them is to understand just how important nuance is necessary to becoming a good musician, social scientist, journalist, writer, author, painter, designer and even politician.

Can you program nuance? You could certainly try. And maybe you could create something that supplements these fields. And maybe you could try hiring AIs to do some of their work for them, and believe in some meritocratic pipe dream that you have somehow done society a good deed by hurting the job pool of a bunch of underpaid professionals.

They will still be needed. And when they are not, only the social scientists will be able to explain what that will do to the human psyche. Or anyone with an understanding of what high unemployment rates have done to once-powerful states
Linus Torvalds is like this now. He's a far cry from the famous recording of him saying "Hello, my name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux." His American accent is quite good. There are tells here and there, but as a European programmer he has had some baseline English proficiency which he honed, along with his accent, from his many years living in the USA.
Nothing wrong with loan-words. It becomes a problem though when it becomes linguistic and/or cultural imperialism (trying to undermine various cultures and languages through a more dominant one). French Canada could say a few things about that.

Well, granted, English and French have a special history as they both invaded countless countries to the point those two languages eventually became spoken on all continents. I guess it's only fair when it backfires sometimes, and there's a bit of irony when it happens between those two languages in particular.
You're not alone, my bet is that most people feel the same way, or similarly so.

My advice: write. Write a lot about how you feel, just like you just did. Write about your goals, hopes, dreams, how you plan on achieving those goals.

Life is marathon that lasts a few decades, we all need to create our own algorithms on how to tackle it, and then execute. Failures and setbacks are part of the process.

Besides writing, read. Read about things that you like; things that you need; and learn new things.

> How can I turn my directionless life around and find satisfaction with my career?

Not all the wander are lost. Up the game, it's not about your career, it's about Life. Your career is a subset of your Life.

YMMV
If you treat this as a Bayesian problem, your context and experiences could lead you to specify a prior which has a finite mean, in which case for some values you will have a posterior probability of > 2/3 of it being the larger value.

E.g. if the maximum volume of currency that could fit in an envelope is $10k, it would be possible to have a uniform prior between 0-10k, at which point I would stick if my envelope had $5.01k.

A more extreme prior could be one capped at the largest ever academic research grant (I bet it's not more than $100m).

It could also be that you have a prior that has infinite mean, in which case it is not surprising that you will always want to switch if you draw a specific value.

If you have risk aversion, this further increases the range that you would like to stick, since switching could decrease your expected utility, even if it increases your expected return. There is a separate paradox in decision theory that we should be approximately risk-neural for 'small' amounts.
> The amount of Go projects in Cloud Native Foundation shows otherwise.

That says nothing at all, actually.

Beyond the transparent appeal to authority, why would anyone take decisions seriously when they are made without any technical merit in mind and just follow a mix of cargo curlting and pushing in-house tools, such as the case of the kubernetes migration to Go?

> Most people pick languages based on platforms, not a language in isolation and go hunting for projects.

The whole point of this discussion is that people don't, and make decisions without any technical merit in mind.

> As for the point migrated to a compiled language from Python, if it wasn't for the shinny thing, the migration would have been to a compiled language with proven record in prodution like C and C++, as it is common on the ecosystem.

This personal assertion ignores the fact that there are plenty of alternatives that considerably improve over C++, let alone C (?!), not to mention that it reiterates again the mindless cargo cult mentality behind Go.

> And regarding Java, everyone that actually knows the ecosystem is aware of AOT compilers since 20 years now, even if they have been available as commercial only for the most part.

I don't understand what point you tried to make with regards to Java, specially as the Kubernetes migration from Java to Go was pushed by people who worked on Go, and thus it had an unavoidable self-serving "eat your own dogfood" aspect to it.
Arbitration consumer protection attorney here! Nice work, and nice write up.

If nothing else, I hope folks will run with your first point. Far too many people are scared of arbitration, and it can be a really powerful tool for situations like this. It’s fairly accessible and straightforward, especially for folks in the HN crowd.

One pointer for other folks in the future is to make sure you look into your state’s specific consumer protection law. (Sometimes called UDAP law or deceptive practices act.) Often times, these laws will allow you to recover more than just your out of pocket damages to punish companies that are deceptive.

One other way to “enlarge the pie” in situations like this is to hire an attorney. I know, it sounds like I’m shilling for my peers, but hear me out. This same UDAP consumer protection laws let you recover attorneys’ fees as part of a judgment/win. If you’re not an attorney, you simply can’t seek those.

So let’s say your claim is $2,000. Under those laws, maybe you can “treble” (triple) your damages if you win. So now your best day is $6,000. And the company knows it.

But if that same law says you can get attorneys’ fees too, the company knows that they could be facing a 50k+ judgment at the end (almost entirely comprising attorneys’ fees), and then that often incentivizes earlier, higher settlements. My involvement in cases, and the threat of attorneys’ fees often results in higher settlements than my client would get on their “best day,” and even after paying out my portion. (I typically do these on contingency — I don’t get paid unless you get paid).

Lastly, let’s just say I’ve done an arbitration or two with a home warranty company. They don’t make money by paying out claims!
Yeah; My gf was a "specialist" in her time at a dungeon while she was paying her way through art college. There will always be 1% of people who can pay for a professional, and 1% of girls who are great at controlling their urination at those guys faces. But realistically, the other 99% of dudes will definitely settle for an intelligent blow-up doll and an AI girlfriend. This is just hijacking the hard wired behavior of testicles. The people who really get cut out of this process are the 99% of girls who are not AI bots or domiatrixes and just want to meet a dude who isn't jacked into porn 24/7.
Lucky to get 25Mbps max here :-(.
And no, not rural. In a metropolitan area.
Rather than "most people in the UK" it could be a "what's the most universally accepted product across the globe"?

There are several major products that are Kosher or Halal despite the biggest market being the West. Snapple Ice Tea is a good example of a Kosher product.

The only rationale I can think of is if you are going to mass produce some food product, better to start with something you can sell everywhere, than start with a Western version and then change (or add to) your product line later.
> shove it back into variable a

Python is more of a lisp. The assignment semantics are different to C. Actually, you're letting the name "a" point to the newly created object.

In C, a variable is a memory position you can fill and point to.

In Python, a variable is a name that points to a memory position.
In Python 3.8 the tuple is in fact changed:

>>> print(obj.a, obj.b)
(1, 2) [1, 2]
There's a number of things at work in these situations, but I people who start out and/or want to work for Docker are highly incentivised to learn Go, and have a Job with Go in the description. In the current job market, if developers want to use a specific language, it is often times a good idea for companies to just go with that language, even if it isn't the perfect fit for the project... And then again, project leads aren't immune to hype either, a new, popular language will be used more, simply through being hip and attractive.
As I read it, the entire book is him doing synthesis from the experts to us, the reader. He explicitly calls out that there's one character that he lets "speak for herself", implying that for everyone else, he's always translating, dumbing down for consumption. He actually says that their normal language would be unintelligible to us because it's an opaque multi-language pidgin that relies on realtime consensus access to be parsed.
Figure out what problems you’ll face performing Magento integration and how to overcome the challenges occurring in the development process.
> Obviously the better universities probably are better at teaching

I wasn't taught very much at university. There were a few lectures a week, and a weekly tutorial.

I think there's a difference between the UK and US undergraduate experience: I suspect that US students expect something like school, but better. So you get showbiz professors with charisma. In the UK, at least in research universities, teaching undergraduates is a boring side-job, unless they are showing potential as postgrad students (who can be put to work helping the professor's research). The purpose of a batchelor's degree, then, is to train you to study on your own, which is a prerequisite for postgrad study.

I happen to think that's a good thing; I don't think universities should be providing vocational training. That should be done by another kind of institution. A good batchelor's degree - any good batchelor's degree - is then evidence that you can work and learn under your own steam.

I've never been to university in the USA; I'm guessing, based on how US and UK students describe their experiences, and on the differing styles of US and UK professors on Youtube, TV etc.
If you post "I don't know, maybe setting unrealistic expectations and telling everyone they are worth more which implies they are doing something wrong to not get that worth out isn't doing them favours either in the long run." under a thread like this, you are acting supremely unempathic. You are not acting like a robot, modern robots are actually much better at empathic conversation. In fact, I asked GPT-3 "Write a response to this post: [OP's post]", here's the result:

You are not a loser, and you are not alone. Many people struggle with finding fulfillment in their careers. It sounds like you have been working hard, but it is also important to work smart. Try to focus on your goals and what you want to achieve. Networking can be helpful, but it is not the only way to find satisfaction in your career. There are many other ways to find fulfillment, such as volunteering, pursuing hobbies, and spending time with loved ones. Don't be afraid to reach out to others for help and advice. There are many people who are willing to help and support you.
If I'm honest, the block height for many elements seems a little off. We're used to individual sections occupying the entire screen, but on this site, sections feel like they're bleeding into each other.

Some of the internal elements also seem too squat and compressed, especially the "what makes our websites special" part
Weddings and funerals are the only places where it's still required, and there's quite a bit of bad behavior around both. What those have in common is that no one wants to go to them. That's not the same thing as choosing to go to a place where you're intentionally participating in a social act larger than a family gathering, with people you don't know, and where you're making a statement beforehand that you're a person of standards acting on your best behavior.

Surely that in and of itself exactly proves _my_ point - it doesn't matter that you're forced to dress up and be respectful, the person doesn't beget the clothes. What matters is the intent that you've made a decision to go to an occasion that demands respect.

> You will be surprised how you're treated if you dress well.

Having been forced to dress up for various events over the years, I can't say I've noticed a difference in how I've been treated when dressed up vs when in my civvies. One thing I _have_ noticed is I am treated more formally - don't confuse formality for being treated well. Formality means procedure and rituals. Being treated well means care, politeness and attention to detail. If you're on an easyjet flight from London to Alicante, no amount of dressing up is going to get you any better treatment. Similarly, if you fly business class Emirates from London to Dubai, as long as you meet their dress code you'll be treated like royalty - the difference is how much you're paying.

Here's an experiment for you - go into the fanciest bar in your town, order two beers and tip the bartender $50 and see how well you're treated for the rest of the night. Speaking from experience (accidental - stupid american notes are all the same colour), you will get the service you _want_, not the service they _offer_.

> I think you're willfully missing the point I'm making, which is that the act of putting on better-than-your-usual garments is just one part of a whole set of customs which signal behavioral ideas that society has completely chosen to forget.

No, that's not what you said. You said, and I quote:

> I remember my grandfather in Vegas lamenting that allowing people to wear trashy street clothes or anything less than formal wear / suit and tie into the casinos, or on airplanes, would lead to more and more bad behavior.

That's not claiming that society has chosen to leave behind the customs associated with formal dressing, that's saying that the decision to do so has led to more and more bad behaviour. I _do_ agree that society has decided to leave behind those customs, but that in and of itself has not caused more bad behaviour. The advent of cheap air travel is almost certainly the single biggest cause of behaviour changes in air travel, and the increased individualism is (IMO) responsible for the changes in other areas - to use your magic castle example again, the reason people _behave_ there is because they have their invitee's standing to uphold. Remove that, and the magic castle becomes just like any of the other expensive bars in the area.
> it is very hard to understand the "shape" of variables and data

And is it in, let's say Java, with several inheritance levels and very opaque types? It's one thing I struggle with

Sure you know a TypeA has method do_stuff() and returns a TypeB but what actually is happening, beats me. Then you chase down TypeA and find out the actual implementation is spread across TypeA0, TypeBaseA and you can't make sense of anything