skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? Are we not all to be treated equally under the law? It doesn't matter that higher income earners are able to pay more in taxes. The government is required to treat all individuals equally.

Fix the problems that exacerbate wealth inequality.

Remove regulations that inhibit competition.

No business is too big to fail. (Most big banks would have been destroyed in 2008)

Stop manipulating the currency to the benefit of the investor class.
For the casually interested, the most interesting part is the last one, on Arc vs Zip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXCd2EATSo
I miss the version of the NY Times that could write this article without a single social justice angle.
You seem to believe you need to teach a beginner every small detail from the start. You don't. You don't need to teach npm, yarn, pnpm, esm, cjs, transpilers, execution models, webpack, vite, snowpack. None of it.

Start with: console.log('hello')
Things That Are Overrated
Medical racism and sexism are very real.

One in four residents believe blacks have thicker skin than whites: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1516047113
Check his youtube channel for real, it's amazing
The biggest corporate holder of Bitcoin is facing a reckoning
No sir! I'm no DYKWIA. However, I do know something about airlines.
"You shouldn't feel bad about eating an octopus alive or boiling a lobster alive. It's tastier and they don't feel pain anyway."
Simply watching ‘Dragon’s Den’ will reveal how ludicrously passionate people are about some of the worst ideas.

I don’t really agree with the article, though. If it’s not achieving the results you want, it doesn’t inherently mean it’s a bad idea.
On the other hand, if the team works well together, maybe they would actually be good at building something different?

It seems like this will vary significantly depending on the team and the new plan. How valuable is it, really, to keep this team together?
McDonald’s isn’t much different.
> Have you ever interacted with HR?

Plenty of times. Some that are really smart, some that are not. Some that are cold and "corporate", some that are getting way too personal. (As in a "metoo" moment.)

Politically, I've met at least one that was secretly a eugenicist and others that are pretty far left.

All of them individuals, but several of them collectivists.
I think it depends, bigger and stockier guys seem to pull it off pretty well.

I don't think I could pull it off though, at least right now. I have a taller, lankier statue and I worry I'd look like a skinhead.

I've seen some smaller guys pull it off as well, but they're usually shorter. Most guys that go clean shaven with my kinda build end up looking goofy.

On the flip side, long hair on bigger guys always looks odd to me.
He obviously meant Tesla’s
> As I suspected, it counts dollars.

What do you mean? It counts ownership stakes & stocks as well.

> I imagine we could arrive at 60%. But it doesn't mean what you think it means.

It means exactly what I think it means - if you get bequeathed $1 million dollars and get 8% returns from investing this, it doesn't mean you "self-made" $3.66 million more 20 years later.
Am I missing something?? This deck is 170 slides to say management 101 - coordination gets harder as you get bigger.

There is no mention of the value that an effective manager can provide. High Output Management by Andy Grove is a much better guide to fighting complexity and inertia.
If they didn't tell you about the risks and you got hacked, you'd also be asking why.
I don't know anything about this group, but I lost all faith in fact checkers some time ago.

I see this too often:

Fact checkers take a valid claim add some false exaggeration to it, debunk the false exaggeration and pretend that the kernel of truth was also debunked.

They also do a lot worse.

We lack neutral observers. The best we can do is have both biased sides fight it out in a neutral arena and allow the public to judge. But we don't even have that.
Didn't you see how US state politicians danced to get the new Amazon offices located in their state?
If you don’t want people to pay rent then you reject the concept of a societal meta-organism. The only problem with that is that another country will lean into the meta organism concept and become much stronger than everyone who doesn’t. Which will result in the economic or military destruction of those people.
> we don't all run ECC RAM either

...because Intel placed profit above user's needs and choose not to allow ECC on desktops.

Similarly, many other things have been made insecure by plain greed.
US marshal used cell phone location service to illegally access data
>The only reason I can see why anyone would prefer it is because it looks "cleaner", but that cleanness is artificial and gets in the way when trying to parse and use the software.

That's... your opinion, though. I don't particularly feel any friction when trying to navigate or use modern macOS, at least from a usability perspective.

Even the example everyone throws about - the settings redesign - I fundamentally don't find to be that bad. It follows modern UI trends so I can intuit how it works, thus if I needed to poke around to find something I'm not really left wondering how to do so.

On top of that, it's not a tool you're in constantly, and as long as there's a search box, you're probably going to use that anyway as a power user. I don't even think I've tried stumbling around the mess that's System Preferences recently, I just straight up head for the search bar.

>We use our computers daily, and even imperceptible improvements to cognitive load and the amount of time it takes to perform actions make a difference over time.

I've been using macOS since... Leopard or Snow Leopard, ish. The adjustments over the years haven't ever thrown me for more than a few minutes. I preferred the skeuomorphic UI trend for a variety of reasons (of which nostalgia is included at this point) but I think modern macOS/iOS has found a decent line to ride.
In Europe you have guaranteed minimum wage, can't be fired without good reason, healthcare, all sorts of other help if you lose your job, public transport/cheap means of getting around. It's not even close for the typical worker.
As a Sri Lankan affected by the crisis, been part of the Galle Face Green movement mentioned in the article, and know Watchdog and Wijerathne, this is a good story and a summary of their work.

A few weeks ago, most of the hospitals in Sri Lanka ran out of medicine because imports were restricted due to regulations and lack of foreign reserves. Watchdog quickly setup tooling and infrastructure for hospitals to request the medications they need, and for providers to arrange them. To make the picture more clear, almost entirety of the population relies on free healthcare provided by the government, but poor management and years of politics that lead to this crisis had left hospitals having to ration their medication available.

The Galle Face movement, a series of peaceful protests that started several protests throughout the country, was attacked by a group of civilian mobs. This is widely believed to be lead by Mahinda Rajapaksha, the former president and prime minister. The current president is a younger brother of him; Mahinda's son is an MP, and there are several positions held by Rajapaksha family, including in parliament, the state airline, and more. Mahinda had to step down from his role as PM because of the massive backlash from the public following his violence against the Galle Face protestors.

Watchdog was one of the only unbiased organizations to actively track and document the incidents by aggregating all social media and news after verifying them properly.

Very impressive work by the team Watch Dog.
>. If you're running a cloud provider, it's a much bigger deal. Call it "high severity" issue for those use cases. No objection to that, better safe than sorry.

It's odd, because this agrees with what I wrote, and the parent to your comment says they "fully concur", yet they are arguing that I'm incorrect. I did a poor job in communicating.

As an attempt to better clarify what I wrote: I agree with you that for the vast majority of people this specific attack is a non-issue. But, there are plenty of different timing attacks, and some of those may affect some people. It would follow then that some timing attacks should not be abruptly dismissed simply because it's classified as a timing attack.

However, my initial comment was replying to someone who wrote off the entire class of vulnerabilities, asserting that no timing attack of any variety has been used successfully. I find this a naive approach to vulnerability management. Instead of dismissing all attacks that are classified as timing attacks, vulnerabilities should be assessed for what they can do, the ease of doing it, and the potential impact of a successful attack.
"Crypto" is just egold with extra steps.
My son, also 13, just went through a program at school where they built a basic website from scratch, then did some python, then some java. They had some kind of teaching environment, a bit like a code.org or Swift Playground. When I would look over his shoulder to help, he was certainly coding an answer, but the way it was set up was so contrived that I can't really say he learned any of those languages. He learned a set of contrived functions nominally using those languages that he assembled in order to get the right answers.

I share this as preamble to why I recommend Swift Playground...it will get them going and be somewhat self directed. They will feel like they are actually achieving a goal rather than just typing text. And, if they take it to the next level they will be able to transfer their knowledge into "real" apps.

Second to this would be Python, because it's a great teaching language. That said, I think it's about the curriculum you put in front of them even more than the language.
Recent discussion, 600+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31721584
You can also lose face by doing what article suggests, which is "quitting". investors want a return on their money. They believe in your idea and management can make it happen. If management is no longer on board, what's to prevent investors from finding new management? Of course, easier said than done and depends on company stage. The downside (some risk capital) is small for an investor compared to the upside they're looking for, or that you're promising.
I think this submission meant to link below, not to the home page.

RSS in Markdown Syntax - https://startseite.neocities.org/zettelkasten/rss.html#a1904...
when you say strongly disagree - why would it not? why shouldn't it be that how people treating money around you affect how you treat money? it would be nonsensical to imply there was no correlation.
It's total clickbait. Also, the article mentions they bought 4000 acres in 2 years. The vast majority of this is rural, where farmland runs 5-20k per acre. Let's be generous and say they spent 50k per acre. That's $200mm dollars. Absolutely nothing to amazon.
In case it wasn't obvious, there are social contracts between folks that are established outside of the written contract. Things like, "you should try to give 2 weeks notice when possible" and "you should not hire and change your mind in a matter of months, before the person has worked for you, but after they had already turned down other hard-won options."

Folks who violate social contract are called assholes. You don't go to jail for being an asshole but some folks won't want to work with you and that's okay.
I don't see any problem with people selling their work / art however they want. Looks like he's sold a few for $20~ each, that's a bit different to the dumb cartoon monkey fad.

IMO being completely anti-crypto is a waste of energy
> Many software engineers are in the global 1% richest.

I mean, some are, yes, but … I'm not, and I know many SWEs who aren't.

> According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute, you need a net worth of $871,320

(https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/how-much-money-you-need-to-b...)

I miss that cutoff. But if you narrow to my country, the requirement for being in the top 1% jumps to $11M.
Oh wow that is absolute madness. That covers your costs for pretty much everything, right?
yeah,true, typo on my part, I was just reading about Bezos in another post and about the Amazon rainforest in an article about the meeting. Too late to edit it now.
Sony responds to inflation with $3,700 gold-plated 'Walkman'
And maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing. How many of us are doing things that in a broad sense serve to benefit humanity, and how many are basically pushing ads and social-media addiction?
> I feel like it's the opposite - that, historically, many people (regardless of profession) always generally assumed that certain living things did not feel pain or otherwise suffer for some definition of suffering.

I'm not sure that's the case. Most people believe dogs feel pain by observing them, for example. Indeed, it is the most immediate common sense conclusion one can make based on observation. It wasn't until modern philosophy, specifically Descartes, characterized animals as zombie meat machines (pure res extensa). Aristotle, by contrast, did not deny non-human animals sensation or pain, as is evident in De Anima in which he reasons that sensation is in fact necessary for animals (this occurs in the context of determining the necessary faculties entailed by the nutritive soul, the sensitive soul, and the intellectual soul).
The implication is (I think) that the punning just got more and more annoying that people got fed up.
Good luck getting competing countries to agree on banning billionaires in one fowl swoop.

This is a very idealistic and impossible to ever implement take
My point was that denying mixed use is what creates the American suburbanization mess. Most cities have limits on delivery hours anyway, making the parent comments concern moot.
And with all the regulation around healthcare in the US, male genital mutilation is not only perfectly legal, but also legal to be done by some with no medical certifications, outside of a medical setting, and it is legal for them to suck the blood from the mutilated area with their mouth, increasing risk of disease for the infant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohel

Can you imagine a new cult starting today that behaved that way? How fast would everyone jump on them for child abuse?
Yeah but parking above ground is probably cheaper than building out apartments. I've lived in buildings where the first 6 or 8 floors were parking. And a parking space rented for several hundred a month, on top of your apartment rent.
> I'm confused by this post. Do you believe that quote is some unique
"East" perspective, or that there aren't people in the "West" doing
the same thing?

Sorry, I think the brevity of my offhand post has let it be
misunderstood. The other commenters seem to think I am talking about
the OSINT concept, Bellingcat and the like. I do not mean that.

What "we in the West" can learn, as ordinary citizens, is to care more
about the machinery that increasingly affects our day to day lives and
politics, its ownership, function, explicit and implicit values.

Although single issue taglines like "privacy", "e-waste" or "right to
repair" are gaining visibility I think, at least in Anglophone
countries, US/UK/CA/AUS etc, we are complacent. Countries impacted by
more severe political crises seem quicker to catch on that it's
technology behind the machinations, and are more ready to question it.
You should always be prepared for your job to be pulled out from under you. There is no major city in the US where a software engineer with experience shouldn’t be in the top quartile of income earners for their location and have a 3-6 months emergency fund.

You should always have an updated resume, career document, be interview ready and have an active network.
2 and 3 are "browse in private mode", to make thing simple.
You vs. A Billionaire: compare your income
> With complex marks it is ambiguous what is a data point and what is a series.

I sort of agree with you. I've implemented the Grammar of Graphics from the ground up four times professionally (!), twice in collaboration with Leland, all in different products.

The main reason why it might be finicky to work with directly is that the point vs. series vs. series-of-series distinction can run arbitrarily deep, so there's some mental gymnastics involved on the part of the library's user how to refactor the data and present it correctly so that the library can do its thing.

Tableau, which is also a GoG system, sort of deals with this by having slots for "Dimensions", "Pages", "Color", etc. as proxies for multi-level aggregation ("group/slice/dice" in BI terms). So even though it's not immediately apparent to new users how to present data correctly to the rendering system to get the kind of vis they want, at least it's pretty low-friction UX to shuffle variables between those slots till satisfied.

With programmatic use, that shuffling-around gets cumbersome because now you have write code to munge data into submission.

Tableau introduced the "Show Me" feature precisely for this reason - most new users would rather get stuff done quickly than figure out how the GoG can best solve their vis problem.
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Biochemist -> SWE -> SE -> SWE -> Product

If you value career growth, SE can be an accelerator in the early part of your career. But can be a major blocker to high impact/leverage projects and career progression later in your career.

But if you don't value career growth and high leverage/impact work (products/services)...SE is predictable and boring role with good job security.

I recommend thinking of SE as a short tour of duty. Not a final career path. There are too many older (and wiser) SEs who basically work the same 5-6 hours a day and get paid half as much as their SWE counter parts, and can't transition out because they are pigeon-holed.

Re: Sales/SE Manager. EMs are often assigned more interesting higher leverage projects, and get paid way more with less pay variability.

Also, don't let sales people (including CEOs) sell you on Sales/SE. They are very charismatic. Message me anytime if you need a voice of reason.
Very interesting writeup.
Distributed systems problem solving is always a very interesting process. It very frequently uncovers areas ripe for instrumentation improvement.

The Erlang Ecosystem seemed very mature and iterated. It almost seemed like the "rails of distributed system" with things like Mnesia.

The one downside to that seemed to be that while I was working on grokking the system, the limits and observability of some of these built-in solutions was not so clear. What happens when a mailbox exceeds it's limit? Does the data get dropped? Or, how to recover from a network segmentation? These proved somewhat challenging to reproduce and troubleshoot (as distributed problems can be).

There are answers for all of these interesting scenarios, but in some cases it almost would have been simpler to use an external technology (redis/etc) with established scalability/observability.

I do say this knowing that there was plenty I did not get time to learn about the ecosystem in the depth that I desired, but was curious how more experienced Erlang engineers viewed the problem.
Just as a heads up: I created an account and got logged in as someone else.

https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a906f02ad7a70017ed0d07

Pretty sure I tried to sign up with "pkulak".
Jeff Bezos owns a ton of land personally in and around Van Horn as well. Between him and Gates, it's staggering how much land these billionaires are buying.
This isnt little red riding hood. It's a crips (US/NATO) vs. bloods (Russia) turf war with Ukraine trying to join the crips for protection and beat off the bloods using nazi paramilitaries.

Geopolitics aint no fairy tale. It's gang warfare writ large.
i reminds more of gnome tbh

post big-sur, at least dark-theme, the overall ui looks very much like gnome in many ways...
> A deficit of personal empowerment IS a structural and environmental factor. Not the only one, but it is one of the most important if not the most important in determining outcomes.

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".

> If you take a poor, abused, and neglected child and teach them they can not and will not amount to anything because of the material conditions of their birth, you are actively damaging their outcomes.

And if you actively damage their outcomes, by e.g. refusing under any circumstances to even discuss the role that the cost of housing has on homelessness let alone contemplate a policy response, you are actively damaging their outcomes.

Dial up the cost of housing, get more homelessness. It's as if an sudden epidemic of "lacking personal empowerment" bolts through the population!
>I have significant doubts that it is possible to continue to advance [as a worker under capitalism] (...), be a good spouse, parent, and friend, and not run myself into the ground with physical/mental issues.

It's heartbreaking how much human suffering is entirely avoidable in a post scarcity society where it is still artificially enforced to avoid the "moral hazard" of commoners daring not to toil or worry every waking hour
What people don’t get about this inflation spike
Can it be Evil?
Mmm. I think @m_ou_se is probably the most entertaining at least if we consider that both Saturday Night Live and Nightmare On Elm Street is entertainment.

For example, Rust deliberately doesn't have the tertiary operator, and random other types don't get silently coerced as booleans - so you can't write a = x ? 1 : -1; however you can write a = if x != 0 { 1 } else { -1 }; with the same effect. But Mara isn't satisfied with this verbose yet sensible answer, and proposes you could instead, for example:

a = x.count_ones().count_ones().count_ones().count_ones() as i32 * 2 - 1;

Hilarious? Or maybe terrifying? Entertaining certainly. https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1404034056405368833?lang=...

Aria is more informative but I'm not going to end up choking and spilling my beverage all over the desk.
I second this recommendation. I've been using Pop!_OS for about half a year now, it just works out of the box, and configurable where I want it.
No one is expecting a run on USDC

Given that their business is just a “buy sell” platform, they are trimming around to get just that

They have lots of other features like “NFTs, lending” etc and other investments in their UX (separating out to currency vs smart contracts vs defi) I’m sure all that A/B testing to get that will be squeezed now too
And the quack.
Especially since social awkwardness usually leads to more issues in finding a partner. So it's actually a really good explanation.
Achuthan: Forecast says double-dip recession is imminent (2011)
He did post them! They're available here:
https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary?tab=collection