skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they're not.

You go to different places and different people, every single day. That's 100% less repetitive compared to sitting at home or going to the office to see the same people.

As for the tasks themselves, it was merely an example, but even for this example I disagree. My brother-in-law basically does all of these things, both for private citizens and industry and comes across a wide array of different situations.

I'm not saying it's absolute perfection, no job is. But I stand by my point that it has a series of very meaningful advantages: far healthier, more social, direct impact of your work, no cognitive overload, no politics.
Did you miss the part where he said he was in his 60s? You make it sound like he’s a trust fund kid, when it’s likely that he just worked his whole life and is now retired.
If this is even close to 90% efficient, it is great technology. It could be used for mass transportation purposes immediately.
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I see some downsides to the normalization of insults, abuse, slander etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/13/smithsbur...
We did the same thing. We were fairly early and heavy users of the pagerduty API. We'd been using it for over a year and had integrated it fairly deeply into our SRE stack. When the renewal came up (we had a 3 year contract), they wanted to massively up the price due to our API usage. IIRC, it was more than 5x more. Our CTO had us port all of the tooling to opsgenie and we've never looked back.

I'm generally not a fan of Atlassian anything, but Opsgenie was really good before Atlassian purchased them and they're still really good.
The idea of revising a language for consistency of vocabulary is aesthetically appealing. There have been cases where communities deliberately created modern vocabulary rather than adopting loanwords. The two most notable examples I can think of are 19th(?) century Russian and modern Israeli Hebrew. There have clearly been attempts at English over the centuries. I wonder why that and other cases failed where others succeeded? Maybe it is due to the determination of the culture at large rather than any linguistic features.
What where your performance requirements, what where some issues that you ran into, and what did you do to improve?
> Amazon is to delivery what Apple is to hardware

That's a key point. Amazon isn't an ecomm company. It's a logistics / fulfillment company. It markets, sells and delivers commodities.

It's magic is execution.

Which is a lesson for all of us. That is, average idea...world beating execution.
Once we have a system capable of Darwinian evolution, yes. The problem is getting to such a system. This is the Great Handwave we see so often in discussions of origin of life.
The article is also hitting on the fact that your skill premium as an engineer has a cap, and so does your willingness to burn the midnight oil on a project. This means that as time goes on, as an engineer you'll face the following

- A younger engineer will have the same value to your employer as you do.

- A younger engineer will work harder than you are willing to.

These two items are inevitable given the current rate of change in the industry. While some engineers will find next level differentiated work to engage in such as leading a core piece of infrastructure which defines the changing field... Many will not. If the rug gets pulled on this core piece of infrastructure.. then it's often the case that the engineers are not particularly more skilled than others on brand new projects.
> they relied on so much detailed information about the environment being attacked

A disgruntled, previous employee may easily have access to such information, but nothing else because their credentials had been disabled.
> Congress would have given the FDIC a blank check if they needed

Congress already did this. The FDIC reserve fund is mostly an accounting and accountability thing. The act creating the FDIC gives it the explicit backing of the United States’ “full faith and credit.”
A wealth tax doesn't just affect multi-billionaires, it guts all accumulations of wealth. If anything, billionaires are most able to shrug off a wealth tax. Your average Financial Independence strategy (pursue a high income to accumulate a sizeable warchest of assets quickly, then passively live off the illiquid assets slowly) is severely gutted by a substantial wealth tax that aggressively drains saved assets.
Thank you for clarification. :)
> Why not have two, or three smaller schools, evenly distributed?

Money. A lot of it would be required.
What a load of politically-charged bollocks. "If he didn't, somebody else would have" - citation?

Less than 25% of millionaires were born into money. Your defeatist world-view is entirely wrong.
This sounds like the list of side effects you'll get with almost any immune suppression drug. Odds are good that you'll never see any of those side effects, but when you take a sledge hammer to something so foundational to how your body works to try to beat it into a different shape, you can expect the possibility for unpleasant things to happen.

I was on an injection for a different disease with a similar side effect profile (sans high cholesterol and a few of the others) and (fortunately) didn't have a single side effect other than some swelling at the site of the first injection.

Then again, I was taking it for something possibly degenerative (psoriasis with signs of psoriatic arthritis). I stopped around COVID time out of an abundance of caution, and the joint pain hasn't come back, so I haven't started up again.

On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't risk it for something like hair loss. Getting a wig and some therapy (or even skipping the wig!) is a whole lot safer than potentially permanently upending your immune system. I hate how insensitive that sounds, but doctors really shouldn't be treating vanity with drugs like this.
Which, some believe, is where the idea for Bitcoin ultimately originated from.
Does this imply the existence of a Podman that can run on stock Android?
Knowing how to build a bone saw is a completely different skill set than surgery. Building a hash table is a job for a software engineer even if not every engineer does it frequently. Still my analogy wasn’t great.

Analogies aside, hashmaps (in one implementation or another), arrays, vectors/lists, strings and arguably sets are very very common data structures in most modern languages. I don’t expect someone to be able to build a hashmap from scratch but I do expect an experienced engineer to have some basic idea of the pieces that go into building it as well as it’s properties (not necessarily ordered, O(1)ish sets/gets, collisions, etc). Knowing this kind of thing helps you understand when to use an object in JavaScript vs a map. Or how dictionaries differ between python 2 and 3. If you understand the underlying data structure, then you know what questions to ask.

* in python 2, a dictionary’s keys are not guaranteed to have consistent order. In more recent versions of python 3, they ARE guaranteed to have consistent ordering. This has ramifications for the code you write, and it’s especially confusing if you don’t understand hashmaps because 99% of the time, the order will be maintained in python 2 even though it isn’t guaranteed. But relying on things that are true most of the time is a very bad way to write production code :)
I think a lot more people persevere past the point of salvation than persevere against long odds and succeed. There's no clear cut answer to determining 100% of the time, in the moment, if failure is a foregone conclusion, but that doesn't mean you should stick it out until the bitter end. Since most startups fail anyway, if you're already near failure mode then the bias should be in needing an extremely compelling reason-- beyond blind perserverence-- to keep going. Otherwise just salvage anything that might be salvaged and try something else with the new benefit of experience.

"What would you do differently" is easily answered with "anything but the thing that just failed."
A little interactivity helps to keep the kid engaged. It is amazing to see how much fun emulating a simple desk calculator in HTML can be.
Why would you ever run a company at this stage so close to the edge that a 10% reduction in payroll makes a meaningful difference to your bottom line even after adjusting for the immense morale and PR hit? Seems so wildly irresponsible. Did they really fail to plan for such an obviously plausible scenario as what we are experiencing now? Or was the explicit plan always "eh, we'll just throw some people overboard"?

Not to mention, what the fuck are you doing if you're not in an obsolete industry but each extra employee is not making you money?
I don't think the metaphor works well here. The argument that the ship of Theseus is the same is because even though each component has been replaced, it has been replaced by something pretty much indistinguishable from the original. One plank or rope or sail is much like another. I don't think anyone would claim it's still the ship of Theseus if you took all the wood and build something else out of it that wasn't even a ship anymore.
But in any case I don't see how invoking the metaphor in any way supports the op's argument.
Wow. How to they get their score in benchmarks? You can't "temporarily overclock" your cpu for too long right?
Great analogy actually. The founders own the lottery ticket, but they pay employees cold hard cash despite the fact that the lottery ticket will likely be worthless. When the founder lose the lottery, and lose all of the unpaid hours and resources they personally put into buying the ticket, they don't demand employees reimburse them and share in the losses. But on the rare chance that they win the lottery, we have to have conversations like this about how "unfair" it is that they owned the ticket, despite paying everyone what they agreed to be paid.

So the point that the parent was making was "go buy your own ticket," not "go win the lottery."
AWS has 33% of the cloud market share, I wouldn't exactly call that a monopoly.

https://www.channele2e.com/news/cloud-market-share-amazon-aw...
There have been other studies with similar results but the main drawback of these population analyses is that glucosamine use is more likely in people with healthy lifestyles.

Other supplements have shown benefits in these sorts of studies without standing up to more exacting experiment design.

So potentially interesting results but nothing worth getting invested in.
>This elevation of personal empowerment over all other factors is indistinguishable from an apologia for the status quo — a system can be corrupt without limit and it still applies. Even if 99.999% fail, it's true that for the 0.001% who succeed, a sense of personal empowerment was almost certainly "one of the most important if not the most important in determining outcomes".

It is not an apologia, it is a condemnation of the status quo. If 99.999% fail due to lack of personal empowerment, that is still a failure of the system, not the individual.

I am saying this is a significant problem, it is not the fault of the individual, and the system should work on a policy response to address it.

I don't think we can continue if you keep attacking a straw man position I am not making.

I don't think we can continue if you disagree that hopelessness, despair, and feelings of worthlessness are problematic.
It would be cool if someone made a dashboard of studies complete with their listed interventions to find out which were the most effective for preventing cancer and reducing cancer mortality.
Still wondering if you have the same concerns about the long-term effects of iron intake as you do about medications, or if you're somewhat selective about which long-term effects of chemicals in the body terrify you.

But yes, I do think the benefits for my mental health very clearly outweigh the theoretical risks you posit. So even if I agreed with what you're saying (which I don't), a subtle hammer tap to the soul is still very clearly and obviously better than the sledgehammer to the soul that is sleep deprivation (something that I concretely know would impact my brain function as I age and that I concretely know makes me less of myself). If that causes you to raise your eyebrows, then I'm not sure what to say other than that you're bad at risk analysis.
sovereignty is not surrendered by respecting the condition of avoiding all military bloc alliances, under which such sovereignty was granted initially [1]: "The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention to become a permanently neutral state in the future, which does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three non-nuclear principles: not to accept, produce or acquire nuclear weapons."

[1] https://zakon-rada-gov-ua.translate.goog/laws/show/55-12?_x_...
If you zoom in time scales it’s kinda what happens? Sure in 1,10,20 years it isn’t good. I don’t agree we need few companies controlling everything but when you disrupt something as pervasive as retail what do you expect to have happen? I wonder what Ford thought when he put horses and livery out of business… I wonder what the local grocery store thought when they killed the butcher shop. It probably takes a while for the “next” thing to come along that displaces amazon. I guess my point is evolution happens. It’s our job as individuals to find ourselves on the right side of these changes. It’s not the governments job to make sure I’m treated fairly and it’s certainly not bezos or fords job to make sure they don’t disrupt the status quo. The market votes and we all casted ours votes.

I do believe in capitalism so maybe we disagree on a few things but I’d be curious how you see innovation without some value transfer proportional to that innovation. Amazon and I guess the “problem” is obvious but how do you get one without the other. Genuinely interested in your views.
This is why we need land taxes.
Really? I'll let my work know.
I used to work with an ex paypal employee who carried around a block of salt for Elon Musk. I never did get the full story. You could see the hate-lines coming off of the guy any time you accidentally mentioned the two in the same sentence.

On the Starship front, I don't doubt that he's moved the needle, but I think people are also glossing over that whole, "Send up multiple ships, have them all transfer fuel to another ship in zero G" bit. It's presented as a 2:1 thing but does the math work out for that, or is it three ships combining fuel into a single vessel?
The Stock Market at the End of the World
Here’s a simple mitigation — don’t have your encryption depend on 2022 + 23823 being compared to 2022 + 24436.

The idea that a cpu frequency change (based on cpu load) could be detected, and if detected — that it could lead to any useful information by an attacker is laughably preposterous.

The only theoretical vulnerability is if someone in a shared data center was able to gain control over a system on dedicated hardware that had nothing else running on it — exploit some code on it that triggers and expected frequency — open the cage and case, detects the frequency (by turning off all other hardware in the vicinity — meaning you already know which machine it is) and then by exploiting the machine you already control (and have already isolated) you can then physically identify the machine you have exploited.
Celsius and stETH – A Lesson on (il)Liquidity
> several years of dealing with horrific Flask / Django projects.

I think you misspelled "beautiful"
> and complete failure of FSLIC. Multiple banks

The S&L crisis involved S&Ls [1]. Not banks [2]. That was the problem. People making up non-bank “banks” and then blowing them up in the exact way the banking regulations they were looking to escape were written to avoid. Sound familiar?

S&Ls were covered by FSLIC. It differs from the FDIC in an important way: it was not backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. That makes it more like Sallie Mae than the FDIC. (Indeed, it comes out of

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_association

[2] Banks also failed. But they were resolved in an orderly way by the FDIC. Nothing there threatened to go systemic. https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/history/3_85.pdf
> If I would be young now, I'd say fuck it and go install solar panels or heat pumps

Amen. For me the advice I give the young—-go for a trade. HVAC (especially if you live where it’s hot) and plumbing to me are the most future and recession proof jobs there are. Literally by the time other folks are graduating with CS degrees and massive college debt, you have been making 70k a year for 3 years and are about to clip 6 figures for the rest of the time you want to work.

One day a computer will be able to write its own code (and that’s not that far off now), but no robot or computer in this world will be able to come to your house and fix a clogged toilet, or replace a blown capacitor in your heat pump and people will always be willing to pay nearly anything to get those two problems replaced.
I don't think you can delete a posting once submitted. You can resubmit.

Things end up under /ask if they have text rather than a link.
How are Target and Wal-Mart's online stores not competition for Amazon?
> History has shown time and again that massive inequality is a huge barrier to maximizing the productivity of all of a society's members.

Has it? Restricting what opportunities individual people are permitted to follow would I assume both reduce productivity and increase inequality, but that doesn't have the inequality being the cause of the lower than theoretically possible productivity.
> The paper the article links doesn't seem to address inflationary trickle-down economics.

Inflationary trickle-down (AKA supply side) economic policy is exactly what we've had since the 1980s (even from the parties on the left), so I don't know what else it would be addressing. Before that we had inflationary demand side economics.

We've not had a significant deflationary period in the US, but Japan has, due in no small to their historical resistance to allowing immigration. It's not clear that the US can or should follow their model.
Amazon didn't have that cash cow for the first 15 years or so they existed.
That was really fun to read! Nice work digging into the root cause.

The issue where boxing State#state.partition copies the entire stage object is very counter-intuitive and would have got me as well. I would expect it to only store the partition value.
Oof… this just told me I just crossed 50% of the way through my life. I am going to choose to reject this prediction.
Shilling, pumping, dumping, pulling rugs, laundering money, insider trading, etc.
I program in JS/TS primarily. I’m quite proficient. There are a few little nitpicks I could offer here, but in good conscience I just can’t bring myself to do it. Because I can’t in good conscience recommend anyone start with JS in the current state of its ecosystem.

Part of the reason I’m so proficient in JS is because I’m really stubborn about learning why things break, and have had decades of practice to hone skills around that. But if I were new to programming today and started with web tech, I would have just given up. The amount of shit you have to know just to even start debugging a problem in a common setup is plain bonkers.

I’ll add one more thing to your “good luck” part: good luck building a mental model of client/server. Even if you’re just targeting client, you’re SOL because everything assumes you’re also running Node. Even the stuff that’s ostensibly compatible is either subtly not or built on additional complexities like polyfills with their own respective set of caveats.

I’m even pretty enthusiastic about the direction the ecosystem is going, I think these things are likely to get better over time. But I can’t imagine throwing someone into its current state and expecting anything but sadness and defeat.
> deeper roots that the hyperinflation or some temporary unemployment.

Oh, and about this part, I think you underestimate the hyperinflation in 22-23 in Germany. Over a period of about 2-3 years, people who had been comfortably part of the upper middle class would lose EVERYTHING, and in many cases end up starving to death. That's not "temporary unemployment".

Read this quote:

- One particularly arresting story is that of Maximilian Bern, a man of literary education exemplary of Germany’s formerly middle-class Bildungsbürgertum. In 1923, writes Taylor

- "[he] withdrew all his savings—100,000 marks, formerly sufficient to support a modestly comfortable retirement—and purchased all it would buy by that time: a subway ticket. The old gentleman took a last ride around the city, then went back to his apartment and locked himself in."

- If you are like me, you probably assumed the next sentence would conclude with suicide. No. “There he died of hunger.” I had to linger over that sentence to fully grasp the reality: starvation in a society that had recently been among the most technologically and commercially advanced of any on earth.

https://fee.org/articles/how-hyperinflation-shattered-german...

For the Germans, this left an impression that resembled the Shoah for the jews.

Imagine seeing former affluent tech workers starving to death in San Francisco in 2029, looking like the corpses of Bergen-Belson prisoners. What would that do to the survivors?

They say that, of all causes of death, hunger is the most horrible.
According to a google search, "the only natural food sources are shellfish shells from shrimp, lobster and crabs". So I wonder if you can see a significant effect in people who eat a lot of shrimp.
or, in the world
If you can physically manage it I'll be impressed (it's not easy to get to, and I hope you'll understand I'm not going to doxx myself by giving details). Don't damage anything, don't make noise after 10PM, leave it as you found it. Other than that knock yourself out. Wouldn't be surprised if some of the local kids already do tbh.
It also requires having access to continuously "challenge", for many hours, a server which seemingly has no other processing to do but running this one crypto algorithm in an otherwise noise-free environment.
But cloud computing?
You got help here? I guess you’re a “best” loser now.lol
This logic is nonsense; no one is allowed to criticize capitalism's flaws?

It's like a movie critic cannot criticize a movie, since the film-maker can just state "why don't you just make a better movie?"; A diner cannot criticize the chef because chef can say "why don't just prepare a better meal?", etc..

Bringing the personal into it is unrealistic since not everyone is equipped to be a movie maker, chef or entrepreneur but that doesn't mean those jobs are immune from criticism.

Even Warren Buffet has spoken about the excesses of capitalism and pointed-out that the rich are taxed too little as just one example of capitalism's flaws.

Capitalism is still the best system but that doesn't mean it's perfect or can no longer be improved.
Same here. I just can't get worked up about these anymore. It was a while before Spectre and Meltdown were fully mitigated in most OSes, and I imagine there are a lot of appliance-like devices out there that aren't fixed and will never get fixed. And yet where's the news of all the active exploits floating around, being used to ruin people's day? Sure, no evidence doesn't mean evidence of nothing, but I think we have a lot more to worry about than stuff like this. Especially given that Hertzbleed's target for their research was SIKE, which... I'd barely heard of it until now.
Hey Luca, any chance you might add other front end frameworks in addition to Preact?
Why is it the relevant question?
So this is a troll account. Got it.
Luckily, considering they brought the menubar to iOS (you can open it on most apps if you have an external keyboard connected and hold CMD), I'd say that Apple is at least somewhat committed to it!