skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with DALLE-2 and Copilot makes me think we are quite far off from AI being able to perform software dev on it's own. Both tools need a lot of oversight to pick out usable pieces from the gibberish that gets spit out most of the time.

That said, copilot is a great tool for generating boilerplate code, like writing a model class for a parsed JWT token or adding tedious annotations somewhere. I've used GPT-3 to generate javadoc headers for a codebase before with decent success. It gets way more fragile when there's an actual problem to be solved though, and is basically unusable about 100% of the time on complex areas of code.

From my experience, the real result will be that AI might replace interns and some people who are only doing the tedious data modeling parts of coding, but there's a very, very long way to go before it will be able to be more than just a tool for developers to code slightly faster.
> several founding members of Rocky were responsible for starting CentOS in the first place.

The "several" part is false. Greg is the only one with any claim at all to the early days of CentOS. He created the Caos Foundation, which is where CentOS was started. He believes that makes him the CentOS founder, despite others disputing that claim. None of the other early CentOS folks are working on Rocky.
10 years ago if you were building a secure hardened browser, would you have included the Flash plugin?
> This effective backlash/education-campaign has not already happened despite there already being significant problems with this kind of thing

I think it could be claimed that we're clearly in the process of learning to distrust. People distrust media more now than ever [1], because they've demonstrated, again and again, that they can't be trusted. Trust in institutions are down to new lows [2], because they've also shown that they're untrustworthy and/or incompetent. Everyone is shouting "disinformation", "misinformation", and "fake news" constantly, because nobody trusts anything anymore, and rightfully so in many cases.

1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/355526/americans-trust-media-di...

2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-...
Blue and white is boring as shit, goddamn
The article focuses on trains, but the same thing could be said for autonomous vehicles. When one crashes it is national news because they are so rare. People who say autonomous vehicles won't be viable until the crash rate is zero are setting the bar far too high. The threshold should be fewer accidents and/or fewer fatalities per million miles driven than human drivers. In theory system improvements on the autonomous cars could further reduce those figures, while reducing the accidents involving human factors is very difficult. You can't change people that much. Most of the foreseeable improvements are basically the same ones you would need for autonomous vehicles anyway, like better sensors around the car to detect obstacles.
Geez, sorry to be harsh, but it's so not ready. I clicked "Explore" and it said "Coming soon". So much for "showing" us something.
Depends a lot on what government you're dealing with. A few years ago some conservationists bid on and won some mineral rights but the government invalidated their bid when they realized they weren't going to be extracting it.
IMO, things like the ability to work remotely, set up a flexible schedule and get a nice amount of paid time off are part of the compensation as much as the salary.

Some people just want money; hoard it like a dragon, invest, retire early. Others are perfectly fine with earning less if they can live better lives in exchange. After all, what's a huge pay check worth if you can't enjoy your hard-earned money in the prime of your life? Or perhaps the dev has a family and prefers spending time with their kids? You can still make money later in life, but your kids' life milestones are irreplaceable.

Posting a lower salary position may attract different people (i.e. people who value their private life more than the money) but that's not necessarily a bad thing. With enough experience, someone can always get more money elsewhere; their employment may only last until the second a better job offer comes in. People who value the additional benefits more are less likely to get them at other companies, as the market is aimed at making the most money right now, so I'd expect them to stick around longer and have more of a vested interest in the success of your company.

You may miss out on top players who want to see their money's worth, but if your package is as good as you say it is, I don't see why you wouldn't post your salary ranges. Focus the ad on what makes the job great and add the range for transparency and I'm sure you'll find the right people.
SendGrid was/is profitable (I've since moved on). It was a perl and python shop that turned to a go shop; a fantastic decision that greatly improved developer productivity. One team was rails and it turned out to be a trash fire before going to Go.

I'm now at an elixir place. I'm not convinced it is the right tool for what we do but it was chosen to leverage the BEAM arch. Headcount growth is the only thing in the way of being profitable at this juncture.

In short, I disagree with your thesis.
Thanks to scroll wheels and trackpads I don't need to awkwardly click and drag a scrollbar, and 99% of the time where I am in the scroll is irrelevant to me, so I very much prefer the disappearing scrollbar and the fact that the only people I see who turn it back on are a small percentage of developers it is fairly clear most users don't really miss it either.

That being said I would love if it was easier to add an overflow indicator using just CSS for situations where it is less apparent that a sub-element of a page can scroll.
>Miners can absolutely interfere with the expected function of the network, because it's entirely them who determine what the expected function is in the first place

Like I said, the coordination required to interfere with the expected function is implausible and/or prohibitively expensive. You have given no reason to think this isn't true. There's a common argument that goes like: "X can easily happen, all we need is for everyone to do Y". Call this the fallacy of implausible coordination. "We can break the two-party system, we just all need to vote third party". Your comment reads like this.

>Both bitcoin (in 2013) and ethereum (in 2016) have reverted transactions that the miners didn't agree with

I'm aware of the DAO hack and transaction reversal for ethereum, but what exactly are you referring to for bitcoin? In the case of ethereum, they reversed the transaction because the miners did agree with it. But technically, the transaction wasn't reversed, the network was forked. The original network still operates as ethereum classic. If you get enough people together you can change the past on your alternate chain. But that is not an example of a transaction being reversed.

And please, keep any further replies to focused arguments and free of ranting.
I think you might be underestimating the complexity of the JWST. A publicly funded project of this complexity will almost always have budget overruns and delays.
Surely the one thing that would have made the moon landing better is if it had been a truly cooperative international effort.
It's amazing how they already had tabs on this guy and just waited for him to leave but without arresting him sooner

if you think you broke the law and want to avoid arrest, stay away from the airport.

anyone who buys a ticket they get your full info and then the arrest is as easy as picking you up at the gate, nowhere to hide.
On android: fennec(firefox fork) + uBlockOrogin, NoScript, PrivacyBadger and Decentraleyes.

I only had de reject all cookies prompt.

With firefox you can aldo use the reade mode, that extracts the main taxt and displays it plainly.
Lol, your comment made me smile. I was simply interested in the concept, that's why I asked!
Amazon doesn't want to push slower deliveries, since fast delivery is one of the main selling points of Prime (which generates tons of revenue).
Well they know they've done an awful job, you know it too, but they happily kept the $45K. If they were as honest as you say, they would have refunded some of it.
Huh, that also explains how the trans movement grew so quickly out of nowhere.

Regardless of whether you agree with it or not, pushing such a big change onto an entire country is a huge endeavor!

Claims of trans pharma companies doing all the pushing seemed far fetched to me since it didn't seem like that would be enough to account for all the support it's gotten.

But if this allows the culture warfare to continue while keeping the working class distracted away from the elite, suddenly you have many more donors who'd be happy to support your cause.
I would normally be skeptical of an article that starts with a description of epicycles because it probably means that whatever is going to be described next is totally bullshit.

In this case I’m not so sure. As a plebeian normie, it seems like the “rational actor” model of economics has a lot of problems.

Now I do believe that All people are All of the time trying to achieve their goals and meet their needs as can best be achieved in the given situation and in the way that they best know how.

But this includes a junkie digging through trash for things to sell, a housewife poisoning her abusive husband, and a schizophrenic blowing up mailboxes to stop an international plot against her. It includes a recent widower staying in bed for two weeks. It certainly includes your exclusion of an entire neighborhood and its thousands of inhabitants from your care due to some harrowing experiences.

As I understand it, most economists, and certainly the ones that influence policy, are not really thinking of these things as “rational”. To them rational means “increasing your own wealth or exchanging your money in the most efficient and expedient way possible”. And that’s very good because this is the way that corporations and rich people that hire people to manage their money effectively operate. But it doesn’t really work for normal people in normal situations. Our lack of information about our surroundings and our incredibly wide array of emotional states doesnt leave a lot of room for rationality.

I won’t really expound on it because this is already so long, but having a single definition of rationality also excludes any possibility of having an informed multicultural viewpoint.
You should expect service to your door. The main reason why I pay for delivery is to avoid the 1000’ walk to the street. Of course no delivery drivers want to do this.. which is why I hire my own and pay outside an app.
Known distribution doesn't mean extremely predictable.

For example, if your water consumption is log-Cauchy, I will have a very hard time predicting it because the variance is infinite.
This is what everyone says. "we know our salary is competitive because we benchmark it against the market". Most benchmarks for tech companies are dogshit though.
> There are some really good (free) AI logo generators out there you can use to generate logos very similar (perhaps even better) than this.

How have I never heard of these. Which ones are good though? I couldn't find any free ones
What I meant was auto-hiding scrollbars.

Do you think having visible scroll-bars does anything if Microsoft just re-enables those settings when you update windows?
often the feds will surveil someone for a long time and just wait until they try to leave the country . it makes it much easier than trying to do the arrest elsewhere. it's all electronic . You buy a ticket, show your ID/passposrt, and your info will go out.
Write in Lisp and Markdown, publish to multiple formats
Human response is never in actual proportion to reality. For example, veterans have a suicide rate lower than farmers, fisherman, construction workers, maintenance workers, and engineers.
The problem is that looking at journal quality is the best quick way to evaluate how good a paper is, when you aren't an expert on the topic. And a lot of employment and funding decisions are made by people who aren't experts.

Nowadays a journal provides essentially no distribution, but there's no good alternative to journals as a "stamp of quality".
That's a fair criticism, and I likely overreacted to the article. I concede that I should and would delete it, but I can't any more.

I bristled at the central theme of the article being based on the premise of a verifiably false narrative that "unvaccinated" as a term or vaccine-hesitant or refusal was something novel to COVID. Of course it is not as repeated measles outbreaks clearly demonstrate.

This is exacerbated for me by the repeated use of the term "medical apartheid" which seeks to liken what I personally perceive as minor medical choices and inconveniences with institutionalized racial oppression.

Much of the rhetorical analysis is based on the medical premise that getting vaccinated has no individual or contagion reduction efficacy. Politics aside, this was simply not true (though thanks to variants may be true today). We will never know now if specific variants could have been avoided if people got promptly vaccinated. Models of herd immunity and studies of actual pockets of measles outbreaks clearly demonstrate the "unvaccinated are in fact a dangerous minority" contrary to what the article seems to assert.

Given that the author does more than review the rhetoric for efficacy but seems to take a medical opinion of ground truth, I still feel that the author is not academically qualified to write a piece like this. They are of course free to write whatever opinion pieces they like but opinion pieces have little place in a scholarly journal.
Don't be a zombie. Don't feed the zombies. Knowing the price range the company can afford tells me if this is a zombie company (a company that is dead if it has to pay the going rate but stays 'alive' by hiring people willing to settle for less (students getting experience, self taught people, exploited desperate people, etc)). I have worked at plenty of zombie companies, from ones that thought they were startups, ones using the motivation of making the world better, ones exploiting excon's whose POs require them to have a job as a probation condition with the threat of prison. Every single one EXPLOITs you somehow (using FOMO, passion, compassion, the threat of your freedom). Do not go to work for a zombie company, and let legit businesses know they present themselves as a zombie business when they fail to publish salary ranges.
I've been doing this recently, posting a lot more and looking back at my posts to see what was upvoted. This persons conclusions line up pretty well with my predictions based on analyzing my own highest upvoted comments on HN and reddit.

The biggest thing I learned is don't play devil's advocate. Even if it's sincere, don't try to empathize with the other side of the argument. Try to figure out what the "average" (internet points-voter) thinks and say it loud, say it proud. One of my biggest upvotes was on r/politics post, where I posted a direct, forceful and unbeknowingesty satirical support of socialism/socialist policies.

If you're on a media subreddit for a TV show. If there's an obvious character to quote or show trope that people like in response to a post, post that quote/trope.

Some of my biggest downvotes were explaining to a person who asked in a neoliberal subreddit "Why do leftist politicians" say things they know aren't true or can't justify, and pointing out that they are incentivized to exaggerate, precisely because they don't have political power. I guess I figured out later it was a rhetorical question.

And alot of this is in good faith. I'm honestly interested in understanding and discussing the realities of peoples political motivations over and above my own beliefs about them.
Related tangent: You can tell when a website has been built and tested exclusively on Macs by the messed up layout due to the reserved scrollbar space on other OSs.

Even big, 'reputable' companies do this.
Work Life Balance is purely subjective & depends on personal preferences. Your balance in life != mine.

It also depends on :

1. How creative/smart we are in achieving outcomes with less work.

2. Would my company provides a platform to accelerate this?
If a contractor told me to "get lost" over a $15k contract for a three-page rework + redesign; I'd just respond "gladly".

That is a dead simple ask and something that could easily be handled by one front-end dev + one designer in 1-2 weeks of half-time work. That easily covers their salaries (in LA, at least) + 30-50% overhead. You would probably pad that out to a month for other jobs + unknowables; but I would be absolutely shocked if an agency quoted anyone any more time than that for such a basic and trivial task. For a first time contract, that's a pretty good deal to entice word of mouth referrals + potential future work.

This isn't work that needs discovery or intricate scoping. It's basic work that anyone with web development experience can scope out and that a shop focused on that definitely has extensive experience on. Better than that, if you review his original scope guidelines, he makes it clear he specifically doesn't want any more work done than those three pages. All of the complicated work (logo redo + rebranding) he was talked into by the agency, along with random things like additional color palettes, extended page attributes, etc.
I wrote a PhD dissertation that made this point in 2013, and proposed a new "helocentric" economic model.

The key shift is to move the utility function from evaluating a future state of the world to evaluating the utility of an opportunity for attention in the present moment.

All the "cognitive errors" that we humans make are with respect to predicting the future. But we all know what we find appealing in the present moment.

And when we look at economics from this new perspective of the present, we get an economics of attention. We can measure, and model, for the first time, how we choose how to allocate the scarce resource of the internet age: human attention.

I dropped out of academia as soon as I finished this work, and never publicized it broadly within academia, but I still believe it has great potential impact for economics, and it would be great to get the word out.

https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation.html
Investment? If we are looking for ROI an understanding of the universe with images will never return us anything even if it increases our understanding there is no tangible ROI. Yes it gives us knowledge but is it usable to help us in anyway that would have been useful to Neanderthals millennia ago?
The ROI of NASA is extremely high:

> For every dollar invested by the government the American economy and other countries economies have seen $7 to $14 in new revenue, all from spinoffs and licensing arrangements.

https://www.21stcentech.com/money-spent-nasa-not-waste/ (more reading: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/library/find/bibliographies/...)

This suggests that we're under-investing in NASA, since the ROI of the marginal government dollar is surely nowhere near that high. Basically to first approximation, we should start at the bottom of "ROI per marginal dollar" in the federal budget and reallocate those dollars into NASA and other basic research. I suspect agricultural subsidies and military spending are two places where you will find extremely low ROI at the margins.

(In other words I don't think we should be trading off between "big" vs. "small" science.)
Wouldn't that be a civil lawsuit, and therefore it's a bit different? UK at least i believe the bar is much lower. In criminal proceedings, you need to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. But in civil proceedings, the bar to clear is merely balance of probabilities.

More so, in civil proceedings, it might be the defendant who has to prove innocence. For example if A and B sign a contract, B agrees to pay A under certain conditions, then doesn't pay claiming conditions were not met, and A sues B, the B has to prove payment isn't due as conditions weren't met. Give or take...

Defamation is usually, AFAIK, a civil affair.
If I recall, for the doctor setting, all that was required for compliance was the patient sign a consent form permitting the care-giver's use of the Google Glass device which they kept on file. In addition, the doctor would ask the patient at the time of each encounter if they consented for video to be turned on for that session. The doctor then turned on the Glass only after the patient consented.

One of the early problems in the doctor's office setting was the battery charge especially when the doctors run busy schedules with back-to-back appointments. I believe this was solved by providing them with an additional battery pack they could clip to their waist while the other pack was charging.

source: I worked with a startup in this space several years ago.
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From reading through their stuff a bit, it sounds like you can get fake/internal non-DMCA strikes first, and then, usually, you can choose to escalate to require them to do an actual DMCA thing if you disagree hard enough, which seems sort of reasonable.
Something about the mikado method that makes it one of my favorite tools is that you can often get partial credit for an idea that doesn’t completely pan out.

I’m building a prototype for switching the framework we use to another one. In the process of trying to reach feature parity, I’ve been pulling out bits of logic that are coupled with the old framework and putting them into other libraries. At the end of this we’ll have better feature parity between services even if I end up abandoning the framework change. By moving the code around I may find solutions to the functionality we need that the framework makes very difficult to implement.