skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worked for someone almost as cynical as this. We always had mixed in more senior people to keep things under control, but lots of newly grads. Tbf though, the client will also ok these people on the project, but they often have no clue about IT qualifications and only see the cheaper price tag compared to the more experienced. My company also tried to avoid such projects, but sometimes the money was too good or a strategic partner comes along.
Not that I'd advocate anything, but there are several orders of magnitude more normal people than moneyed interest people. There's a fix available.

As for hedging - I'm fairly certain that, for people living affluent outside the tropics or high latitudes means that the effects that'll really get them are largely systemic. There's not much hedging to be done. (Sure, some areas will have slightly milder climate extremes, but food's still gonna be scarce. Pandemic and war will still be felt. Civil war is an option almost everywhere. Migration will still heavily impact local economies.)

That's why I asked the counter-question - to highlight that this is really, if we want to or not, either a collective undertaking or certain misery. Isolation, or even anything but very basic hedging, is not really feasible for most people on this site.
Why do most Go framework websites look like they were made by uni students for their side projects?

https://gin-gonic.com/

https://echo.labstack.com/

https://gobuffalo.io/

Compare that to Laravel for example: https://laravel.com/
We don't have to live like this. Don't listen to any of the trolls in this thread that will try to argue that "these deaths are acceptable because driving in cars is great." These tragedies are a result of the choices we've made in developing out transportation infrastructure. Comparable countries, like the UK, France, and Germany have dramatically fewer deaths, because they chose different priorities in developing their transit systems.
It’s not popular to talk positively about the F35 yet. You need to pretend that the US’s military spending is entirely negative and the world would be better off if it had zero standing army.
That's not a garage, that's better equipped than many hacker spaces where people pool money to finance shared equipment. This is not like an ordinary thing everyone can just do if they want to, at least not if it's not part of a business plan to manufacture a particular thing with it.
Is it? Shipbuilding is mostly China and Korea, with a smaller amount in Japan and Europe. Is there any non-military, non-pleasure boat construction in the US?

Australia no longer has car production. I don’t there is any in the Americas south of Mexico.

Etc. The principle of comparative advantage has wiped out a lot of mid tier industry.
It’s interesting seeing the “why won’t my doctor run the tests I want” combined with “it’s shocking how expensive insurance is now!”
I love fixing bugs. Sometimes more than writing new things. Seeing the system health increase as I delete old code, add new tests, and increase performance is very satisfying.
This doesn't look like I remember, but this sounds right.

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/disruptor.html#_de...

The basic idea is that you maintain two atomically incremented counters. You increment one to allocate some buffer space to write your message into, and you increment the other once the message is written in. There's some tricky details to get right when multiple producers have messages staged up at the same time.
I sort of doubt that. That could eb the case if they were moved to the advanced track where they would be challenged. I don't think lowering their score would be beneficial.
Also, they’re paying millions a year just for the license. Nobody would do that if the product wasn’t best in class right?
> (and rust's structure definitions/etc I just find needlessly verbose for the way I use C structures)

Do you have an example? What's verbose about Rust struct syntax?
He isn’t listed on the MS website, and I think I remember him stepping down.
(voluntarily) reducing my standard of living.

increasing my oil independent food production

acquiring skills to make and or fix things i need.
San Francisco has public toilets but they’re used to shoot up so you still get shit on the streets.
But the accident won't be "your fault" if you're hit from behind and that's what matters more in the minds of those people. It's the Principal Skinner "everyone else is wrong" attitude in real life.

As someone who used to drive a very slow commercial vehicle I absolutely cringe at the people who voluntarily fail to keep up with traffic. It's just not safe and if you're looking in your mirrors you can see all sorts of stupid happen in real time. All sorts of people cutting each other off and getting in each other's way happens as they merge to pass you. All those interactions are potential for something dumb to happen and they are needless.
Sadly, there’s a lot of truth in that!
I use a mac and a thinkpad for two clients. Great machines.

I had an XPS for 1.5 years, with terrible chassis issues that got worse and worse until typing would cause it to freeze.

I use a Framework for my daily driver and I couldn't be happier! I do have the occasional issue with a WD-SN850 that causes freezing, but that isn't due to Framework specifically.
Saying "I love the smell of old books" is not compatible with my basic assumptions about a reader, like that they have been around a lot of old books.

Ordinary mold/mildew is not a good smell, triggers allergies, and nobody in their right mind "loves" it. Books get stored in places that get high humidity or flooded, and the results are horrible and toxic. If you order random used books off the internet these days there's a good chance they have a trace of mold smell.

On the other hand, non ordinary book odors vary widely, may be from decay, or the binding glue, (the glue decaying?) or who knows what, so how could you generically love them all even if you have arbitrarily peculiar preferences?

I admit that the above is mostly not based on memories of bookstores, but of a household full of books.
You guys have garages? That would be the #1 issue for people in my circles. I get that the thread has that as a premise, but to assume that it's larger than the size of the vehicle you need to house in it surprises me. Also, where does the vehicle go? is what I've always wondered when hearing of american garage startups.

Edit: just re-read the OP, they do mention 2-car specifically actually
Apple has become a lobbying powerhouse amid growing antitrust scrutiny
DARPA should sponsor an urban toilet competition.
I seem to recall an article or video about Umberto Eco saying something like "The value of a library lies in the unread books"
Arxiv?
> Also one must be ruthless with those who ask, “What is the most expensive book you’ve got here?” Often it is the male of the species trying to impress the female.

That's wild to me. What a weird thing. Is this primarily an Americanism? One of the things I miss the most about the UK is the bookshops, the second-hand bookshops, the weird one-pound-per-book barns in random villages, the book festivals, the charity shops where every book is a pound.

The idea of caring about, or wanting, a _book_ because of how expensive it is, is just so genuinely alien to me that I've gotten stuck on that sentence.
Sure, but that's not really a "survival strategy".

Will people migrate over time? Yes. Does migrating now vs. later make a difference? Much less certain - because those people migrating later? They're probably going to the same places the "migrate now" people have moved to. And at that point, it's going to be wholly unpleasant for both groups.

I mean, yes. Don't buy farm real estate in Arizona, or waterfront property in Miami.
the "t" at the end of "fact" implies past tense. if a materialized view is
a statement of fact then you are safe to deploy in a relational schema, i claim. think about it.

https://www.protechtraining.com/blog/post/the-value-of-value...
Chuckled when I read this in a Stefon from SNL voice.
>considering experimenting with developing automated sentries

You'll likely be even harder hit by climate change in prison
That is roughly what happened with Doug Tompkins.
Another interesting factor. PhD stipends are getting gobbled up by inflation. I wonder how many people will forgo starting a research career because they want to be able to pay rent.
Good. Companies and politicians that favor the vocal few over the masses should face consequences for their actions.

The public gets what it wants. Even if what the public is stupid.
Leibniz's notation for calculus didn't start out as creative breakage, it meant what it said on the tin, dy/dx is an infinitesimal fraction. By comparison the modern notion of a derivative is that of a higher order function of type (R -> R) -> (R -> R). Something that was only made clear with the advent of types in the turn of the last century.

Creative breakage is a bug which tells you to think harder about what you're doing.
Even just capping all road worthy vehicles to 80 would probably save a lot of lives.
If your car crashes, you'll be the one who'll pay for it, either directly or indirectly through insurance.
> However, OpenAI launched a new beta version yesterday that enables commercialization rights for creators who generate images
Splay trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree recently searched items are always near the top.
> As a fun aside, the fatality rate on the unrestricted German Autobahn is about half the fatality rate across all US highways

Germany has fanatically strict traffic enforcement, licensing rules, and vehicle inspections, compared to the US. You can't point to just the Autobahn without any further context.
I don't think number of commits is a meaningful metric.

They billed two hours. It sounds like it's a one-line change, but getting it to play nice with CI is a little more complicated. It was very similar to this change, so two hours felt reasonable:

https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/745
Well here's one potential reason: Lobbying.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/07/21/apple-has-become-...
Good point. That could be tricky when it crosses the boundaries of schema changes and data migrations.
That imaginary VC quote is one of the funniest and most astute things I've read in a very long time. Thank you!
10 versions later: "It's on the road map."
In general, anything that's at the bleeding edge of theoretical understanding and intersects with commercial interest or draws social/media hype has a relatively low probability of standing the test of time. Whether that's replicability, applicability, or just validity.

The most exciting hypotheses tend to go one of two ways. They are rapidly supported with independent evidence, by being applied or replicated. Or they draw a lot of attention and money which helps them persist in spite of, or in the absence of, evidence.

Charlatans, purveyors of snake oil, and (most often) people who for whatever reason don't want to be seen to be wrong - they exist in every walk of life. Science is the same. The incentives in the system strongly select for these people in the 'leading hypotheses' space.
> Yep I believe that is a pretty well established cognitive bias called Illusion of Control

It is not an illusion that the car driver is in control of the car and their decisions.

It is an euphemism to call car crashes "accidents" because the vast majority were not an accident that simply randomly happened, it was an event the driver could have avoided by making better choices (e.g. call that cab instead of driving drunk, etc).
How do you do the double >>
> That is very expansive, for a $100 a lot of teenagers could make it

These are the $4 devs. Look, a teen coder can hack up a storm. But I distinctly remember a brilliant friend of mine taking a gig in college and not understanding why the small business who contracted him was pissed he’d rebuilt their site in Silverlight. He wouldn’t make that mistake now. But he doesn’t charge what he billed then either.
I’m experiencing nostalgia from your story of a childhood I never had. Thank you for the vivid picture you painted.

It does bring to mind (to me anyway) the fantastic and charming movie about an old school booksellers running up against modernity, “You’ve Got Mail”. (1998)
Hmm. What’s a better solution then?
disgusting.
It's nice if you only consider the end state. Since it's such a good deal, a lot of employees want it. The price execs paid to get there was to play corporate politics for 20 years.

I'll take an uncertain payoff as an entrepreneur or job as a developer over that - thanks for reminding me.
If he's buying one for an employee he probably bought it on the company dime.
India has an extradition treaty with the U.S. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/12873-India... sooner or later he'd be back in an orange jump suit
Given the security checks are done by facial recognition, this seems like action-movie level stuff.
Your post describes exactly what I have been through. For me, it went away when I built more confidence and got a few friends.
I worked in a lab doing research based on that amyloid hypothesis (working on other projects). The only thing that got out of it were molecules that were really good at messing up the assays used but had 0 biological effect in vivo. So in the end the lab optimized the protein and cell assays to make them were more sensitive to artifacts. This wasn't made on purpose, just a combination of human and institutional factors that combined as a perfect storm. Several dozens of academic papers were published on that... That's what happens when you have isolated labs in a university that doesn't favor and nurture collaborations but focuses instead on political and economical aspects. Now all the people that took the wrong decisions have either retired or got fancy positions elsewhere.
I’m pretty much convinced you can replace any consulting firm (of any size/developer count) with 4-6 competent in-house developers and have a better product at the end of the year.

Regardless of what your project is.
Thoughtworks also screwed me like that. They gave me a take-home assignment which took few hours. At the end, their feedback was - my code is not cloud scalable and their were some values that I used directly and not from a configuration :-).

How can those people claim to be interviewers?
Google being what it is these days, I’m finding it difficult to track down the study that was performed a decade after British Columbia reduced the BAC limit and instituted severe penalties for DWI offences, so you’ll have to trust me when I say that there was a significant and long-lasting reduction in DWI cases and automobile accident rates.

Our BAC limit is 0.05, except for new drivers, where it is 0.0.

http://www.dui.ca/bc.php
Just spent 3 months traveling across the United States and then 3 months traveling across Europe and now I’m super curious what part of Europe you visited and what part of the US you are from?
This isn't a Macbook Air, though. This is a workstation laptop with serious IO, serious repairability considerations and serious x86 performance. If you're the sort of person who doesn't know/care about that stuff, you'd probably be better off with an iPad anyways.

In any case, these machines are not even remotely as close as people paint them to be. That Macbook Air won't have a 32-gig (or 64 gig) option for memory, much less a fully replaceable and upgradable mainboard with swappable NVMe drives. Plus, it's only got a paltry 2 ports of IO, one of which will be occupied by the charger (the other presumably plugged into the SINGLE DISPLAY that the Air supports).

They're different devices for different people. I think the Framework is surprisingly cheap for what it offers, and I'll happily pick one up when the Alder Lake models get stocked.
Creating jobs is not a goal. Might as well just pay those people salaries to do whatever they feel like doing.
I've had LOTS of students who've got almost 100% despite not studying too hard and taking the hardest classes on offer. (I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned this.) Maybe that means our grading systems are a bit weird, but it doesn't reflect badly on the students in any way.
Only if allocating resources to in-house data centers does not take away resources from the product.

If you're Google sure throw a 100 people at a project that might get pivoted or axed. It won't matter. But a Government IT initiative? They have to be more efficient.
AEM is the biggest piece of shit software I have ever had the misfortune of using.

90% of the functionality they claimed to support did not work. It was way way harder to use than anything else I've seen.

--

Going into consulting: I will never go back. The problem is that all of the good devs leave once they realize the clients are assholes and are in complete control. Then you are left with people who are ambivalent to what they are making, or too bad at their job to make it anywhere else.

I've never experienced such micromanagement, rudeness, sabotage, and meanness in my entire life. And it doesn't even pay that well!
It's a perfectly appropriate description. To take abortion as an example, most people are in the middle ground where abortion up to a certain point (~12 weeks iirc) is ok with abortion until birth allowed in extreme cases. This is also how things are in a lot of other countries. Yet the rhetoric is dominated by the extreme positions of either no abortions or abortions until birth because not properly addressing the issue is convenient for politicians (after all, they had 50 years to codify Roe v Wade rather than leaving it to legal precedent).
Senate Bill to Federally Legalize Marijuana
Arxiv, and it's various follow-ons - I think I was one of the first submissions to medRxiv, are excellent as far as they go, but if we take the COVID-19 pandemic as a stress test, they still have a long way to go.

Beyond that, their curation is...lackluster at best, even if we're not talking about gatekeeping, filtering, etc. but just "What if I want to do something other than key word search?"

I find unexpectedly interesting articles all the time reading journals. I have yet to do so for a preprint server unless someone sends it my way, or it ends up on my Twitter feed.
You have to have some sort of scope for comparison. Here we're talking about engineeringy careers that the same person might want to do. So cleaner and sports star aren't relevant even if their pay is much lower or higher.
I guess you could hide the bad UX behind a facade of ‘strong security takes time’
> Chairwoman Rosenworcel and other FCC staff get these calls too. As she said during one of the Commission’s monthly meetings: “I’m a consumer, too. I receive robocalls at home, in my office, on my landline, on my mobile. I’ve even received multiple robocalls sitting here on this dais. I want it to stop.”

This makes me wonder...if the robocallers had installed a dais filter, would they be in this much trouble today?

https://www.fcc.gov/spoofed-robocalls
Google in Indian Court: 'Right to Be Forgotten' Has Various Shades
> Are you a good enough driver to save yourself in this situation?

> https://litter.catbox.moe/ed5an4.webm

No. Nothing the camera car driver could've done to see or avoid that one.

But surely you realize that's not a very common scenario crash. Watch the endless youtube dashcam videos of crashes, the vast majority are simple scenarios where the driver could've done something smarter than what they did.
For that sort of money, he should've been putting his foot down. He got screwed at every step and could've been aggressively querying every invoice.
Normally I dislike these kinds of quippy follow-up comments, but I think they're pretty prescient in this context. I'm tired of obviously bad things being presented with an 'and that's a good thing!' suffix.
Some people believe we're actually not looking at global warming coming up but rather re-entry to a mini ice age. See "Vostok Ice Core" samples out of Russia and what people infer from that.

I'm not endorsing this viewpoint btw, just trying to very very briefly explain it to you.
> Interestingly, there was a lot of speculation and misinformation. So even on Hacker News, this topic is still only vaguely understood.

This is not a new revelation, and a similar vulnerability is discussed in Mastering Bitcoin: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch06...

> The way I understand it, it makes it completely impossible to use Bitcoin in a trustless way. Even with an air gapped hardware wallet, you are always at the mercy of the wallet manufacturer and the delivery chain that gets the wallet to you. If it gets swapped out on the way to you, you are at the mercy of whoever swapped it out.

Bitcoin's threat model assumes assumes your client software follows specifications. Airgapped hardware wallets aren't designed to eliminate "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Assuming your scenario, the attack can be tested in a similar way to that outlined in "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling" (https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/).
Under a better defined threat model, a construction can be made to effectively prove any data exfiltration scenario to be false.

In conclusion the issue your proposing is not an issue with bitcoin, but with computation in general. The word trustless in the context of cryptocurrencies has slowly been taken out of the context "trusted third parties" and evolved into an epistemological rather than pragmatic issue.
Strange, they never reply...
Those things are not mutually exclusive: I'm sure they intended to do good work from the start and they were scared of a bad review after they botched the job. When you terminated the contract they obviously wanted to minimize the damage.
>There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody.

I'm sure there are people who are working jobs with truly awful sub-minimum wage pay (under the table work, undocumented folks, etc) but I imagine the vast, vast majority of people working "below the minimum wage" are tipped workers who nominally make $2.13/hr but who simply do not report their tips.

Edit: based on the BLS tables that accounts for maybe 61% of those below minimum wage. But the data doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There are 63,000 workers in "management, professional, and related occupations" making less than minimum wage, and aside from CEOs taking $0 paychecks I can't imagine where those jobs are.
Sounds similar to the behavior of Guava's LoadingCache. If you try to fetch a key that's not in the cache, the supplied callback is used to fetch it. While the value is being loaded, other threads can access the cache concurrently, but if a second thread asks for the same key, it will wait for the first load to complete instead of redundantly fetching the same value.
Here's the thing I don't get. Did you not have some guarantee of completed work? When they quoted you the $7k, I could see building timeline flexibility into that quote, but I have a hard time imagining building so much flex into the contract in terms of budget that they can hold your work hostage to where you sign the retainer contract. It seems like you should have had some sort of legal recourse to hold them accountable to delivering the promised work in a reasonable time frame before you went the retainer route and found yourself on the hook for an extra $40k. Was there not?

Also, I was surprised by how much you let Isaac get away with. He admitted he badly mismanaged the project, and made decisions that lead to that mismanagement with out consulting you. He badly blew his estimates for you, and was pretty clear that it was his fault. I would have pushed him to eat much more of the losses than he did.