skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand why one would want go full Frankenstein and build a dangerous pathogen from scratch.

Especially after failing dramatically in early 2020.
Narratives has had some really interesting people on to discuss Georgism recently. Vitalik is very much in favor of it, looks like he was convinced by Lars Doucet's series on the topic at ACX. He's probably right in arguing that the real issue is the fact that it's a pretty hard sell in the places that need it most, since that is where landownership and rent-seeking is most entrenched.

Can't say I agree about quadratic voting being superior to approval or range voting, though. Simplicity is a virtue in electoral systems, particularly in a relatively low-trust society like the US- and that's ignoring implementation.
Consider disabling HTTPS auto redirects
GH/RockBand scene??

...links? =]
> It's worth noting out bigger movies often need to target non English speaking audiences.

> So any complex dialogue or nuance is off the table.

What a bad take! Do you seriously think complex thoughts can only be expressed in English and cannot be translated?
"But it's illegal in 13 states right now."

You have to define what is actually illegal and how the data would be used. Most of the laws are about performing an abortion in the state. I'm not up to date on everything, but generally state jurisdiction ends at the state line. For example, someone in CA can look up high capacity magazines and buy them in another state without ever bringing them back into CA. They can't prosecute you for touching a 30rd mag in a different state.
What you're saying here is that sanctions don't work, which is clearly false. I think economically strangling red states into the stone age unless they adopt a few basic liberal policies that are only opposed due to religious extremism is an entirely reasonable approach.
Unless it's Evil Corp, where the USB ports are epoxy'd, and/or software protects against anything "non-standard" being plugged in :-/
> there was a general concern of the fact that the data collected might be used against be in some unknown way in the future

I think this is a reasonable concern. But I think this is where it differs from the concern people have with sharing abortion data.

In the NSA case, the concern is in a possible future, the information they've gathered could be used against you in some way.

In the current abortion data case, the concern is:

1. That there are states with laws on the books that would punish you if this information came to light.

2. There are companies with this information in hand that have no legal obligation to keep it private.

3. These companies refuse to make any sort of agreement or promise to keep this data away from those that would use it against you, or destroy the data.

4. These companies are within the legal jurisdiction of the aforementioned states.

The threat here is much more concrete.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying that the mass collection of data by the NSA is harmless. Rather, I understand why people are more concerned about the abortion data collection, because the threat is more concrete. The full consequence that NSA data collection poses haven't actualized, but depending on how things go, could be much, much worse than this.
> as long as Tiangolo doesn’t bother allowing the community to improve it.

I don't see it that way. I see a rapidly growing library still in pre-1.0 and a BDFL trying to wade through a mountain of "contributions", a lot of them garbage, trying to keep code quality high in one of the most pristine and readable source code repos I've ever seen.

Also they have crowdsourced 17 languages for documentation translation. And it's up to date. That's bonkers. You're lucky if english documentation is accurate and up to date in many open source codebases.
sadly, this is my experience as well...

...but it's also true that all-superstar teams rarely win vs teams composed on superstars and supporting staff [1], and thus you can't afford to hose the supporting staff.

[1] sorry I don't have a better reference - https://www.google.com/search?q=all-superstar+teams+vs+super...
The one unwavering thing about technology is that it doesn't stop advancing, and we can't use it responsibly.

The good news is that we've been going through rapid, rapid tech advancements the past 50 years and we're still here.
For any biohackers out there with electronics and sensor skills, there is another easier, cheaper viable way to continuously monitor blood pressure: earlobe

There have been some academic experiments with good results but apparently manufacturers don't believe consumers would accept it. Athletes and elderly sure would.
Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use
Why did Google then release the complex Kubernetes to the world than their simpler internal tools?
"The average starting wage of $18 an hour will be effective in regions where labor markets are tight, while the company will continue to pay a minimum wage of $15 an hour, said Dave Bozeman, vice president of delivery services at Amazon."

So "lie" is a bit strong here.
That is interesting! I've never come across the second definition before. Wikipedia suggests that usage become common following CNN misusing the original Norman Mailer meaning during broadcasts in the eighties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
It's so easy to conflate "top performers" with "people like me".

Take someone who points out flaws in a system, things that need to be addressed before they become a problem. The exact same words from two different people can be interpreted differently. For example:

- "X is a top performer who anticipates problems with their deep understanding of the system"; and

- "Y is negative and simply points out problems rather than offering solutions."

The difference? Whether or not that person is liked, which really comes down to them being like me. That's literally all it is.

Take your example of "fun" days. Personally I hate that kind of faux team bonding. I mean if it works for you and your team then great. But don't be fooled. You haven't found the formula for "top performers". You've just found people like you.
Amazing. This is asking for a lot, but it would be amazing to have multi-room capabilities. My apartment has in-ceiling speakers and this would be a nice hack, but if I need a Symfonisk per room, I much rather have them just sitting on a shelf somewhere.
I think it really depends.

I've seen junior devs getting promotions in several cases because they were that good. On the other hand, I've seen several less performant junior devs that are treated as completely replaceable. This was in companies where mentoring actually happened.
I remember my friends and I laughing as we left the theater about it being a modeling shoot for Ryan Gosling. We expected something with the feel of Baby Driver - it was nothing like that.
> You can also run windows95 in Electron, in a virtual X server, in a JavaScript VNC client, in a Kubernetes workspace.

It's turtles all the way down
> Microsoft does this because they're security scanning / checking all links in every Outlook email for known phishing and malware attacks

The problem with that is that the logic is broken. Microsoft cannot possibly know all phishing sites, especially for smaller things. By obfuscating the link the user can no longer verify it by themselves without clicking, but Microsoft will say it's safe. So the user is left with a false sense of security and are worse off.

It only works for huge sites ( e.g. mytwitter.lol phishing for twitter and similar), but drastically lowers the chance of less high profile phishing being caught.
Sounds like you need type aliases, or simpler abstractions.
The article talks about the protective phenotypes hypothesis, which basically says that animals with physical or chemical traits that confer protection (e.g. armor, spines, shells, or venom) have slower aging and live longer (compared to other animals their size).

The thinking is that these protective mechanisms can reduce mortality rate (you're not getting eaten by others), so you're likely to live longer, which exerts pressure to age more slowly.

Biggest support for the protective phenotype hypothesis is in turtles.
The public transit is fine but could be leagues better. Wish the CTA would finally create the Circle Line - going to the Loop and back out to get to disparate parts of the city is so inefficient. The bus system is pretty good tho.
The most frustrating thing about these debates is that the pro-union side are so hostile to anyone who questions anything, as though they assume that anyone who doubts the union must be a business owner.

The same exact thing happens on the other side; those vehemently against unions assume you want to usher in a new age of communism and start implementing mass killings all in the name of progress and equality.
I think that's an unfair characterisation, I doubt most people making the statement are arguing that people are stupid, but more often that they have been lied to/duped by people seeking to use their support for policies they might otherwise disagree with or vice versa. E.g. people who rail against Obamacare in one sentence and praise the affordable care act in the next are not inherently stupid, they have more likely just been repeatedly lied to/misled
Paranoid much? That would never happen!

Oh wait - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
Just go to Amsterdam where you can relieve yourself in a 'Krul':

https://embrace-yourself-embrace-the-world.com/2018/05/24/al...

While made for men they can also be used by women equipped with either extraordinary dexterity or one of those rubber extension things.
> Easy code reuse? No.

It is hard to argue against the Java ecosystem of libraries.
I suspect it depends on age and class.

My 5 year old struggled and needed a whole bunch of support.

my 8 year old was able to work on her own, but still didn't get anywhere near as good learning outcome as being in class.

Now, the reason why my kids didn't fail utterly, was because my wife wasn't working and could, just about support their learning. Until it sapped her will to live.

This is roughly analogous to junior employees. They need special attention, and providing that over remote is a challenge to scale. Not impossible, but a challenge.

You also need to factor in that Junior employees are more likely to have shit accommodation.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851373
Fun fact: an "Americano" also means an espresso with water added
Scientists Found a Way to Make Infrared Light Visible to Humans
From the HN Guidelines:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

I don't think a personal attack is most generous interpretation of their post.

I would add some nuance. I've increasingly come to the conclusion that initiative is one of the best qualities in an employee. It's natural to see how having initiative will lend itself well to both in-person and remote work, but I suspect the effect is even more prominent in asynchronous work where there's less oversight and less opportunities for someone to spell things out.

Relating to the article, junior employees are often at a disadvantage regarding taking initiative because they simply lack the tacit organizational knowledge to run with a task. They may not know who to contact or the full context of problem areas. This makes them more reliant on mentorship, which can be more difficult in remote work.
It might be, as some have alluded to, the fact that we don't have these kinds of films with broad, blockbuster appeal anymore. They still get made, but very few pieces of mass media break through to the mass market "water cooler" chat.
Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food in Complete Darkness
Parliament could remove the Supreme Court just as it created it. The “supreme” in Supreme Court is inaccurate. In theory at least, Parliament is supreme. Although getting rid of the Supreme Court might be politically awkward.
I'm in the interview loop with two places atm (one is Google) and they're both remote. Last time I was frantically looking hard in 2019 I couldn't find any remote positions, so it's still a lot easier from my pov.

Also I've found that submitting job applications through LinkedIn's 'easy apply' thing is rarely successful. It doesn't seem like recruiters often check that. I've had the most replies from going through the company job posting websites. I know it's a pain in the ass but shrug
Very much agreed. It just results in a terrible UX when 98% of other websites have a standard scrolling mechanism
The new Angular which is based on Typescript is not
On that topic, no, I am referring to observing my own children learning from a laptop. I could not have been more skeptical of this approach at first. I was wrong - the approach has worked well so far.

EDIT: I definitely should have mentioned that my children are learning from a laptop WITH very close guidance from my wife who is raising them full-time and with intense dedication!
Wait, you guys get three monitors? I only get the one that I had to find in the closet-of-beige-machines.
If information is published publicly by users LEO should be invited to scrub it from public facing services themselves. Why should companies provide any help surveil its users?
I don't believe Heinlein was a fascist at all, but he's hard to pigeon hole. He was a radical libertarian, yet believed that a benign military world government was possible and even desirable. Well, a military world government sounds petty close to fascism, but he somehow thought that this would be the best way to guarantee individual liberties.

So his goals were libertarian, but I can't help thinking his intended means to achieve them would wind up, er, not doing so at all even slightly.
>Engineers are expensive; I'd rather quickly cobble up something with chinesium parts that somewhat rolls and gets 50MPG with a terrible safety record

You should read about JB Straubel's experience hacking together some of the first Tesla prototypes in the garage.

You're not really saving on engineering costs. Parts you intend to break, sure, but it's not easy to cobble together.
Doesn't matter. Never trust the client - it's outside of your control, it can be patched, it can be hacked, it can be spoofed, etc.
Cameo in the list just did layoffs
Does it run Age of Empires I?
What about nft-based camera recording?
I'm not sure I agree with "it doesn't scale". It scales just as well as writing code by hand does!

PlantUML/mermaidjs do hit a sweet spot IMO, of having the chart defined as plaintext but rendering a pretty picture. The only way these could be improved IMO is if the ascii "code" for the diagram was also an actual diagram you could understand without running it through the parser.
Linux Foundation's new podcast requires DRM
Sounds like we both survived the pandemic with young kids at home. I for one won't be getting the t-shirt.
This is not true. Either that it’s 50% at 80 or that it is flat after 80. Here’s an actuarial table: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Annual chance of dying is 5% at 80 and continues rising every year (9% by 85, 16% by 90, 25% by 95, 35% by 100).
> Programming well is difficult and takes time and effort to get good at, but it's worth it.

I agree very much with parts 1 and 2 of your assertion. At 51, with a decent brag list of successes, I think I’ve even achieved some measure of it.

The part I’m not sure about is the “worth it.” I used to think that, I’ve become less sure of late.

What makes it worth to you? I’m honestly curious. I used to have various things that made it worth it to me, and of late they’ve become less valued.
Thanks for trying it out and sharing your feedback! I will fix this issue and also create a Dockerfile for easy testing.
A few of the decisions made over the last few years are questionable, imo, but on the whole, most of the changes have been very very welcome, and I just don't use the parts I don't like.

For example, the changes to TypedDict in 3.11 might actually get me to try them out again.
Chicken vs Egg? Maybe the turnover is high because juniors aren't getting the support and mentoring they need to feel like it's worth sticking around. Is there evidence turnover has increased in the last decade or so? It's always been pretty high in the IT world anyway.
Well, the WASM binary format uses variable-length integer encoding. You can see this as an enhanced version of near and far pointers.
I learned largely via laptop until Grade 8 (am 25 currently). I wasn't behind when I transitioned to regular school.

I suspect it works for readers, not audio consumers.
The same one that's in the topic - the US.

https://johnfbakerlaw.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-g...
Welp, we don't have the political capital, guess we can't fix anything, only thing left to do is beat the shit out of poor people in the streets. Society!
Ha this gave me a chuckle! The supply chain shortages go much further than just chips sadly :(
I love how, even for men, life expectancy doesn't fall below one year until age 113.
That's one point of contact per day. I was able to continuously be aware of anyone struggling before. I can't continuously ping them throughout the day. Even 4 times a day seems much too high contact to not be patronizing, and that still leaves them to stew for up to two hours at a time
Episode 9 of Cowboy Bebop features an abandoned military satellite that becomes lonely and starts drawing geoglyphs with its constellation of laser weapons.

https://cowboybebop.fandom.com/wiki/MPU
The general issue with the largest employers in the neoliberalized countries (Amazon, Walmart) relative to the outsourced sectors (manufacturing mainly) is that wages are now much lower for the blue-collar worker, who is now doing service/shipping (~$15/hr -> ~$30k/yr) rather than manufacturing (~$30/hr -> ~$60k/yr).

Amazon employs about one million people in the United States, and unionization and collective bargaining could easily result in a doubling of their labor costs. This would certainly benefit the local economies surrounding Amazon warehouse locations, but would mean profits and dividends would fall. This is a significant number, an increase in labor costs by about $30B per year.

Amazon's gross profits vary year-to-year, but are on the order of $150B, so they can clearly afford to pay their workers a wage that would allow them to move up to respectable middle-class status - and this would also likely result in less employee turnover as well. The investors and executives would have to absorb the costs, but isn't that reasonable?
Hello, so occasionally you might get this white screen that prevents you from being able to stop, restart, or reset.
I'm shocked that no one else running Windows 95 noticed this problem.
Have you considered not hiring children?
> Given the option of working from home, most people will choose WFH.

most people who think like you will choose WFH. As the post clearly describes, they found the lack of human contact during the day hard to cope with.

The key thing here is that people need choice.
I have tried several times over the past few years to install Kubernetes on bare metal, and it has never worked.

I don't mean installing it on VMs on a laptop, I mean on a real linux cluster of 8 to 32 nodes, with real networks and real switches.

Managing bare metal machines is a cakewalk compared to getting Kubernetes running in-house, at least in my experience.

Obviously the cloud providers do it, so it's possible. But IMO it is something you do only if you have a full-time admin team available to set it up and manage it. It's not by any stretch of the imagination something you install and forget about.
I wonder if avoiding the wires has anything to do with magnetic field lines? I know some birds can see the earth's magnetic field, maybe the wires appear larger to their magnetic senses compared to other bird species?
> What if the update is a security patch?

Even a security fix is unlikely to affect every downstream user of a library except in egregious cases. But, if so, yes you update them all. (I'd say this is much less frequent than, I don't know, OpenSSL or log4j having a bug that makes us do this. The specific concern of an internal library having such a broad vulnerability is negligible in influencing our CI design.)

> What happens when they inevitably do want a new feature, and have to fast-forward through months or years of interface updates all at once?

You do it.

> What happens when a developer wants to work on a feature that cuts across systems, and now has to re-learn the "old" way of doing things?

You do it.

I didn't say "it has no associated costs." But you need to weigh those costs against the other costs of a monorepo, and other costs in your CI/CD design generally. "Take longer to update a really old project once a year" is a much lower cost for us than "have a dedicated CI team to wrangle the tooling we need for automatic downstream pushes / a monorepo."
fwiw: the App Store also prohibits JITed code or in general code pulled in after app publishing. I guess the idea is that (at least in theory) that Apple sees all code that an app runs.
The WASM VM can only communicate with the outside world through what is essentially a jump table of "Javascript FFI functions" (or native functions for WASM VMs that run outside the browser), and those functions can only have simple arguments and return values like integers and floats (no pointers, no strings, no structs, no object references, etc...).

Creating a Javascript object on the "JS side" requires a mapping of the Javascript object to a simple WASM integer type (usually this is performed by the JS shim by storing the object in a dictionary with the integer handle as key). The integer handle is then passed back to the WASM side. Whenever WASM wants to call a Javascript API function involving a JS object, it passes the integer handle back to the Javascript shim, which looks up the associated JS object in the dictionary, and so on and so forth...

One proposed improvement is to be able to directly tunnel Javascript object references as "opaque handles" through WASM, so that the object dictionary housekeeping code wouldn't be necessary.

The whole thing seems terribly convoluted, but its not much different than FFI mechanisms where a very high level language needs to call into C APIs (just reversed).
It uses WSL2 on windows.
The worst mistake I think you can make with people is believing in an objective reality.

Take onboarding a team member. You see a bunch of different approaches to this. Some people like to simply throw someone in the deep end. Sink or Swim. This is an easy trap to fall into because it requires less effort. It becomes incredibly easy to write people off with no investment. This is often couched in language of like "top performers will thrive".

Another approach is more hands-on. Small tasks to begin with. Tasks with a theme built to acumulate knowledge and experience so someone can ultimately take ownership of something. This requires more effort but (IME) works way more than the "sink or swim" approach.

The problem with remote work is that it becomes easier to fall into the "sink or swim" trap. Remote employees more easily become abandonware.

You can write this off and say it's a failing of remote work but really it's a failure in leadership.
It's not a fight, it's a discussion.

The magic stuff actually has (or had) sort of a background explanation based in "science" so overall I would say it's more sci-fi.

In many cases I would even argue genres like sci-fi and fantasy don't involve the plot at all. These genres exclusively refer to the setting.
Interesting that someone would define code being copied more broadly than it is intended to as the "death of open source". I'm not saying that licence violations are a good thing, but this is a weird take.
Is website documentation not good enough? It looks very thorough. Actually I’d say that it’s rare to encounter so verbose and full documentation nowadays. May be it’s even too deep, but I enjoyed reading it.