skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I think the bigger you get, the larger the company,
> the more time you’re at it, that tends to get deluded over time,
> [...]

This quote made me stop and think. Not the quote itself, but the mistake the article's author made in transcribing, and the implications it has for how much the author truly understands the meaning of what they're reporting on.

First, is it just me, or have I already read this article? Maybe not the exact arrangement here (there's a recent date at the top), but the content seems the same as every management-oriented "how to build an engineering team". There's a type of online writer who functions as a human GPT-3, and given a prompt like [[ team culture tech ]] will produce text by paraphrasing and re-synthesizing from the ~decades of prior art on the same topic. This process does not involve understanding, there's no comprehension necessary, so mistakes like 'deluded' instead of 'diluted' aren't (can't) be noticed.

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Second, there's an interesting bit of sophistry at the very start which I'm not sure the author understands the implications of:

> Technology work has moved far past the idea of the code monkey
> or button pusher. If we are truly knowledge workers, then tech
> work should be as much about communication as code.

Is that the choice for tech workers? Between (1) a "code monkey" who merely transcribes someone else's ideas, or (2) talking about doing things instead of actually doing them?

There's some set of people who would say yes. They view software development as primarily taking place in team discussions, project proposals, email threads, and so on. For them, once the team has agreed on what to build, the actual building -- the writing of code (or copying it from Stack Overflow) -- is almost an afterthought, like a novelist dictating their great works to a minimum-wage typist.

In this worldview, it is true that "tech work" used to be left up to the "code monkeys" for some incomprehensible reason. Nowadays, it is safely handled by people who can't read an RFC but have strong opinions on email etiquette.

However, there is a different way of thinking about tech work, which places the programmer in the role of a skilled artisan. The design of software takes place in an IDE, as code, which embodies both the canonical design and the proof of feasibility. Project outcomes are largely determined by individual skill and experience of the programmers, with communication and team culture taking more of a backseat role.

What does it mean for this article -- supposedly about organization of tech teams -- that the author ignores (or is unaware of) this fundamental disagreement? Have they never been part of an engineering team before? Do they have any insight into the topic that couldn't be convincingly faked? Or is this article the HN equivalent of a highschooler writing a last-minute book report after reading the Wikipedia article?
A big issue on reddit is 'powermods' and how if your sub gets popular enough the admins will install their own mods. Everything ends up feeling incredibly similar.
Problem is there are open source projects where PRs with multiple commits are not allowed. Not much choice but to rebase in that case. I struggled with it a lot at first but haven't had any issues more recently. But personally I'd rather not use it, and don't on other repos I work on.
Btw I'd say if you've never had issues with git it's because you've never been forced to do a shallow clone (due to networking issues) or run out of disk space while using it. Had to blow away and reclone repos many times in both cases, but only after hours struggling with cryptic and unpredictable error messages.
There are two meanings to reason. We are indeed here due to reproduction and evolution not selecting out us, but that is an explanation for the cause.

The other meaning you want to use necessarily require intelligent design - there is no higher level goal to a human’s life in itself, as that would require something designing it for such. Though sure it depends on religious interpretation as well, but then higher level goals are usually claimed - so decide whether you mean the biological cause for our existence which is simply a side effect of a population that grows and is fit to their environment, or some chosen Deity’s higher level goals for an individual. None of those makes us primitive replica generators.
I use the app Joey on Android, works great. I still use old.reddit.com on desktop, and probably always will.
The original, left-justified version is not only more readable overall but makes it much easier to parse the content directory.
If the dish washer can put the dishes away after they are washed, then yes. If the self driving car can drive without any driver/handler ready to take over, then yes.
You somehow assume exploits never happen.

There’s no MITM involved. Just another hop (potentially with an interactive go/no decision.
Due to this same feeling of losing control to my phone, I spent the most I've ever spent on Daywise [0] to manage my notifications.

I'm not checking my phone one quarter of what I was before.

Notifications throughout the day except for the very important things/people I deem are grouped for later viewing if I want to--I find at the end of the day I almost always dismiss most of them.

0 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.synapse.al...
Can also check if twitter/reddit/yt/fb/+ socials of the domain is used?

Also, on each domain page, carry over all its data from the table to be seen again.
It almost doesn’t matter what the subject matter of his straight line mission videos happens to be (although it’s fascinating subject matter in its own right). There is a stunningly high level of craft readily apparent in those videos. He and his team (if there’s a team) are clearly very talented storytellers and filmmakers.
3D Diagrams of London Underground Stations
The mental image of somebody bothering to click a downvote button is hilarious.
> Any secrets it generated would have been already public and compromised.

Two things..

1. This is not some vigilante hacking groups you are talking about. This is MS - a humongous corp. They know doing this is wrong. So it shouldn't matter. It is still illegal and making a proprietary software product is exactly the reason why these things exist. Don't you think?

2. Already public unintentionally. AFAIK, any code that I produce is automatically copyrighted to me. This means if I write something in public and not provide a license, IT IS LEGALLY under the copyright protection provided to me by my country. At least that is the case in US and India which are home to a huge portion of OSS. Do correct me if I am wrong. Putting it like that in public would be just plain stupid for sure. But legally it is still mine. Reproducing it and remixing my work would be illegal. It is just my PITA now to prove that in court is all.

> Whether doing so violates the licenses is probably up for courts to decide.

I am yet to see any attribution to ANY OSS code that it is trained on. The PII and secrets is enough to find out the license of a repo which would make it easier to prove whether they violated it or not. Don't tell me all OSS that copilot has trained on is only public domain stuff. Even ISC license needs attribution.

> Human programmers can do this with search engines.

OK. CAN. And that is wrong too. So when they do, we should incriminate them as well if evidence is out there or if a matter such as this comes to light. How does that change anything I mentioned? Very curious.
While those were both issues. There was a lot more quality text discussion on the site during that era.
Reddit works fine for me. In R/W mode I use only /r/diypedals and /r/guitarpedals and for daily dose of doom and gloom in R/O mode I use /r/news and /r/worldnews. I access it only via RSS reader and it navigates me directly to compact version which loads instantly and works well on mobile.
Why did the pins stay in place once they have been pushed into the correct position with the lockpick in the first example (for the old regular lock). I didn’t understand that and would assume that those pins fall back down once the lockpick moves to the next one?
Each station should have two melodies - one for the inner circle and one for the outer circle. Is there a way to access both of them on this website?
No, xer right it's a cesspit of self-proclaimed wokensheep
I don't understand people's trouble with Strings. They're not any more difficult than what's in C++ and they have a lot fewer footguns comparatively.
You haven't convinced me with that at all, honestly.

You can also have the spell on the wand and require n mana to be put into it for activation (argument), now warrior type goblins won't be able to use it either.

There is no "correct way" with OOP: There are as many ways as you've got the energy to think about and all of them are leaky somewhere. You can still write maintainable code with it, but making it sound clear and obvious where what should go is just wrong.
It heavily depends on a multitude of factors and can get nauseatingly complex at times
Every time you read general emergency "no time left", TINA, you read "someone want to impose something with an excuse". Yes climate change and that's a disaster, NOTHING we will right now will have ANY significant effect in less than 100+ years and the Green New Deal have nothing to do with the environment preservation, at least for the public and advertised parts.

Air and water means flexibility, when the climate change migration happen, flood happen, permafrost melt etc so we need something that can evolve as needed depending on the kind of change, so far only air and water can. Railroads roads can't be moved quickly nor can't evolve in general beside the fact that in environmental terms are no more friendly than a plane, despite what's advertised.

Similar cities can't adapt, especially dense one, we need spread people avoiding being too spread to have still economy of scale and social proximity.
They added CharSequence interface to address this, both StringBuilder and String implement it.
Its not widely used though.
As a Mexican mid-class bald, I can confirm we are seen with some kind of disrespect.

You have to get money, attitude or being smart to get some authority.
This view will stand only until you are effected directly. Which is a very careless way to look at it.
What is your evidence? Especially machine learning is done a lot in industry and I think nobody has even heard of Julia outside academic circles.
> Everyone believes that the start of human life is a core issue.

Yes, the core issue is here. Though no-one seriously argues that a foetus is not human, nor alive: the issue is "is it a person (yet)?". Is it something, or someone? Answering that question - not an easy one - makes one swing one way or another of the issue.
Huh, maybe the violence is the problem. Maybe officers SHOULD be a little soft
Those don’t seem hard answers to come up with. You could potentially have infinite depth on details.
This seems to describe an egotistical person. If we're using genius in the sense of "Mensa people" then it probably a pretty accurate statement of how they view things.

If you're considering genius as someone who not only has higher than normal cognitive functions, but also is able to leverage that in to actual understanding it would be different.

People are not blind, they just cannot see over the fence. They just aren't held to any expectations. Without expectations people will never grow to see over the fence or find something to stand on to see. Instead we construct a system in which we convince people they are blind, and most people want to accept the reality that they are presented.

The world is not in slow motion at all. It's fast, too fast. People act to quickly, knee jerk reactions for things where they lack sufficient information to make a reasonable decision. The world moves slow only to those who have yet to comprehend there are things they still do not know.

This happens because of the above 2 points. Hubris in that if only people would listen to MY genius ideas and if they all weren't so blind and slow I would no longer be depressed. Consider how that reads. Very sophomoric view of things.

As genius I would disagree with all of your points. Those are the views of an egotist.

Constant wonder and amazement.

That's how life is as a genius. There are infinite puzzles to solve. There is complexity in the smallest things we can find.
I have heard the rumors about Costa Rica.

You'll know I make it there, if I stop posting here.
If it's supposed to be some sort of last-mile "packet switching" thing akin the per-factory spurs I suppose that is fine and interesting, but I'm very unsure from the website whether there is that sort of intent.

Swiss in general have their shit very together on system integration so fingers cross they are doing it, and not importing American shiny-new-thing fetishization and dysfunction.
Great summary, I had a similar experience to yours, including the epic Freeport run, dungeon mob trains, waiting for the right named mob to spawn in Guk for that epic + strength belt for my pally. What a magical time. I remember being so new to the online experience, and the social aspect of it, that my first interaction with anybody in the game was my pally in the newbie zone in Freeport attempting a conversation with a mage's elemental without realizing that was a NPC. Lots of rats and bats were slain that day.

I always wondered why I could never ride the dragon again with anything that came since. Was it because I was much younger when I played EQ for the first time, so nothing to do with the game, but all to do with me? Was it the kind alternatives on the market for gaming experiences? But I think you're right, it likely was about the comparative undersaturation with social experiences on the Internet of 1999. The best I had going on for me sociall online were a couple of friends I had added on IRC from my months of playing Myth The Fallen Lords online. What an era.
I think centralization is just a byproduct of the ease of setting up a community on such sites/apps. I lurk in a few subreddits these days, but I almost never feel the pull to chime in or contribute because it kind of feels like my contribution just goes out into a vast universe, and I just think 'why bother?'. I feel like the days of personalized forums truly felt like a little tight community in the very wide web.
It is even closer to the design I published a year ago: https://github.com/espadrine/lock-designs/blob/main/commitme...

I don’t see how this patent has any legs to stand on.
What about elder scrolls online. I really liked that game.
Do also find someone clicking an upvote hilarious? I don't get why upvote or downvote button would either be hilarious? Isn't that already normalized from Reddit, YouTube, etc.. ?
There's an old Justice League Graphic Novel by Alan Moore (I think) I read about 20 years ago. I don't remember the plot, but I remember a scene where most of the heroes - excepting Batman - are in the Pentagon addressing some threat. J'onn J'onzz (Martian Man Hunter) notices Batman lurking in a shadow somewhere who wanted to see what was going on without interference. MMH asks him how he got in. Batman replies that it's just another lock, just a different kind of barrier to get through.

While that's fantasy of course, I find the premise of an "unpickable" lock to be inherently faulty. I acknowledge that the design makes sense in terms of be unable to pick it by nature, but I can't help but think that the correct pick hasn't been invented or the appropriate technique hasn't been discovered. At the end of the day, it's just another lock, a different kind of barrier.

I also want to say that lock picking seems mostly to have become a parlor trick, and a genuine nefarious attacker approaches the problem by going around the lock...
I remember seeing my first guy with a flaming sword, likely the only one on the Mithaniel Marr server at the time, in that improvised shouting market in Freeport, that was such a thrill.
Since when would a beginner be hitting file paths that aren't valid Unicode? The only systems that aren't Unicode are old legacy systems. (Or is even now Windows still broken?)
If a state voted to enslave a certain subset of the population, when would you say that shouldn't be allowed? So at some point you probably think the federal government needs to prevent the erosion of us citizens rights in favor of states autonomy. Get it?

If you do not have bodily autonomy due to the enforcement of religious stupidity by the state, you are not considered a full human being by the state.

Acting like women, and men who care about women should just accept this shit because it's "the will of the people" is not logical, and I might add is not going to happen.

The states that banned this medical procedure are gerrymandered and at least in Texas I have witnessed first hand the extreme measures they are taking to prevent people from voting out the unpopular and corrupt leaders who are endorsing these measures no one wants, except the religious minority. So please tell me more about how this democratic process is what's happening. They rigged the game and now women are going to die and suffer because of it, and nothing is going to change. They will still pay for their mistresses abortions in "free" states and the poors get ground into the dirt even further. Same song different day.
this is a reddit comment and I have been noticing them much more frequently
In a hypothetical perfect lock, they would fall back down. But in real life, every lock has slight imperfections, like not all of the pins being exactly the same diameter, and not all of the pin chambers being perfectly lined up. It's these imperfections that let previous pins bind and stay up when you move on to picking other ones.
You'd own the copyright for the whole program, but not for implementations of some functions.
There is still a humongous amount of good discussion there. Perhaps the problem is you need to remove some bad subreddits? Some of those have definitely gotten worse, but there are plenty of good ones to find.
Forget angered mob. How would you feel if the left wing grabs control of SCOTUS and bans all personal ownership of guns (ie go back to text literalism for the 2nd amendment)?

This is literally the first time the court has taken away a right after it’s granted. It sets seriously damaging precedent to the fabric of US society. Heck, even if SCOTUS had moved slower but this is literally the first chance they took. Even Robertson didn’t think they should have overturned it that fast. Robertson is one of the most conservative SCOTUSes ever. He’s who they put up after the embarrassment of Bush’s personal lawyer embarrassment (or genius political maneuvering because he knew Dems would blow their wads on Hanrietta Meyers).

This is the justification for SCOTUS to be packed hyper partisan going forward. In the past when it got this unbalanced justices would bend back to the center to mediate the court. That mediation instinct is now totally gone. Watch for court expansion to be much more seriously discussed for the first time in more than 100 years. This is a serious crises for their legitimacy (something which didn’t happen once they actually passed Roe v Wade).

The conservatives are 100% right that the original reasoning was totally bullshit about when the right to an abortion ends. It was meant to strike a political balance to not cause too much social strife while expanding a basic right of women. The only data driven position on abortion is abortion without any government restriction (modulo making it a safe process, mediating access control so the offices could only be credible, etc). The reason is that late term abortions basically only happen when the only business the state has is to shield the privacy and dignity of the people involved. People don’t take them on a whim at all. Rich people can provide this for their families but poor people need the government’s protection here. Abortion equalized Women’s healthcare access in a way never before or since. The failure to come to a compromise of any kind this time around on a socially hot topic where all the science supports the opposite conclusion that the courts came to, yes this is quite shocking.
I somewhat agree, but note that I qualified point 2 with “Aristotelian”. The alternative “prototypical” view (which is what most want to use inheritance for) is unsuited.

Regarding the link, I remember Eric Lippert’s series of blog posts and his struggle to (initially) model a prototypical type problem using inheritance. I remember thinking at the time that he was limited in his object modeling experience to only the constructs provided by the C# language. There are no language constructs that specifically deal with rules relating to (optionally) collaborating objects, as he discovered.
Why do you think he attempted to download all of JSTOR?
One of my current projects at $DAYJOB is teaching literal rocket scientists how to use git effectively.
I think Reddit is fantastic. So much interesting and useful content. It’s amazing to me that it isn’t full of spam if you think about how much of that there is on the internet these days so personally I think the mods are doing a really good job.
This deserves its own hackernews thread :)
I actually enjoyed the extremely straight-to-the-point argument and how the article was clearly divided into small sections that each motivate the next.

If this was done by AI, I have to say AI may offer something better than human in terms of putting forward an argument than people, if not now, in the near future (this article may be just an early example?).

I hope that we see more of this "clearer argumentation" without fluff on many topics we care about... maybe we can see things we just couldn't before.
I thought this was a clever joke at first that parodied how reddit forces their app on mobile users in various insidious ways... but it turns out Medium does the same.

You want to know why the web is so bad? Because it's slowly become acceptable to treat your users with complete contempt by interrupting and "nudging" them into being surveillance cattle.
This could be prevented SO EASILY if the text message also described the action that will happen as soon as verification is completed, rather than just the verification code. Sheesh. So many banks and merchants, and no one puts that in there? Is it because of the 140 character limit (another dumb limit these days)?
No it didn’t. I’ve been there since 2008/9 and the conversation has always been left leaning.
> Finally, it is also likely that CPUs will become faster over time and that tooling around reducing TTFX will improve.

I don't agree with this as a mitigation. This line of reasoning is why despite steady hardware improvements over the past few decades, responsiveness of (PC) programs and websites have stagnated or regressed.

To the main TTFX issue - I won't consider Julia until this is taken seriously.
People loitering at a bus stop ... reminds me of something I read once, maybe it was:

https://www.abhmuseum.org/black-teens-arrested-while-waiting...
The people you speak of cannot learn and grow out of their false paradigms unless they are given the chance to fail.

Silencing them is a recipe for a chain reaction / cascade of failures. It is not a winning strategy.
Ted Chiang is among my top three speculative fiction [0] authors. Others are Stefen Baxter and Robert Charles Wilson.

[0] at parties, it sounds better than SF
Infinity is good and on F-Droid unlike other mentioned options
Can you be more specific about what you mean by "woke"?
Woke refers to an ideology that, among other things, uses manipulative arguments, framing and emotional appeals to hide the fact that it is intellectual quicksand, serving people who want to morally elevate themselves without substance.

Exactly like you just did.
If I said “no”, would you believe me?