skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for Walmart, as stocker, at the height of the anti-walmart (which amazon has now seemed to replace) rhetoric,

While walmart was not perfect, and some middle managers could make life hell for some workers, as a company most of the crap I saw on the news was just rhetoric or things taken out of context by union organizers for the purposes for try to get a union installed.

Having lived through that, I see alot of that being echo'ed in the amazon debate. Unions look to gain ALOT of revenue from unionizing these companies, I am not sure why everyone always assumes the motivation of the union is altruistic and the motivations of the company is always evil

The world is much more Gray than the employee vs management dynamic people seem to subscribe
I’d argue that the incrrasing neuroticism and mental health issues of each succeeding generation after the Millennials is precisely because the lack of this kind of autonomy combined with usage of social medial.

Life is risky. Our job as parents are not to keep a child from any and all risk, but to curate environments where risks are not catastrophic. It’s this ability to freely explore that a child would exercise initiative and independent thinking.

It is this ability that allows a generation to know what they can do for leading society when you and I and every preceding generation are gone, and they have their own kids to raise.
I feel like this sort of stuff is useful if you renounce the world and sit in an ashram reflecting everyone's questions back towards them, but carries very little applicable use that can make a difference in someone's life.

If someone has these sorts of questions, what is the point in my life etc, I recommend something much more actionable such as CBT. It will start having results right away, and save you have to work out metaphysical riddles first.
Some time ago I watched a Not Just Bikes (bear with me) video where Jason mentioned how ridiculous the oversight expectations were in US/Canada. He mentioned a Vancouver parent that was "fighting police for the right to send his kids to school alone on public transit" or something. I thought that was ridiculous, it can't possibly be true. I guess its not ridiculous after all.
Anecdote, much? I ran around with other kids in the neighborhood without direct adult supervision all the time as a child. I now make well north of your 250k USD with a loving wife and a house.

Neither story means anything in the general case.
yah, to me, spacers and extra non-semantic elements smell like a hack, so i try to refactor those out. sometimes you can't do that with the current state of css (which thankfully is now changing, albeit still slowly), but most of the time, it's possible to remove those extraneous elements.
I'm not a social scientist, so please help me understand this. The way you have defined nudge it seems like a very broad category. Some passive nudge (defaults) and some active (red lights) and a whole lot others.

If a category has such a broad number of phenomenon then shouldn't we be analysing individual phenomenon instead of the category as a whole? For example; defaults may work and red-light thing may not work. Why place them both under the same bucket at all? Why not study them in isolation?
They'll pay for it on the other end. If you hire junior overseas developers, and give them minimal product guidance and have no foundation technical leadership, it goes without saying what the quality of the deliverable will be. (To be clear, you could do all of this in the US with the same outcome too, though you'd have spent more money in the process). The applications blow over like a house of cards and the overseas developers don't last long what little business context (institutional knowledge) was adequately communicated isn't being transferred between the rotating staff. There are no free lunches.
Where I live (Canada) those are only for disabled children or those attending a school more than 1.5 km away from where they live. And after the age of 10, they take public transit.

This thread is making me realize how variable different locales are on this.
I never made the claim that people should not get vaccinated. What I said was—vaccines and boosters do not prevent you from catching it or getting sick. I also said that it does not appear that we know for sure that the vaccines and boosters actually make the disease milder because we don’t seem to have statistics that show an effective control group of non-vaccinated, first time sufferers of Covid 19 reactions to the existing variants.

A year ago, we were being told by the same people telling us now that the vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease…that the same vaccines prevent people from catching Covid. We also know that these same people have intentionally misled, emphasized problematic studies that supported their POV, and downplayed good studies that did not support their POV. They have played politics with science and that is bad.

So it’s important to look at this pragmatically. If the experts are telling us that their advice has evolved as their understanding of the disease has improved, it’s reasonable to assume their current advice is as problematic as their past advice.
The linked study (and the Merten's study it's built ontop of) classifies defaults as "structural" interventions. In the linked meta-analysis, after stripping out estimates of publication basis, structural interventions have the most "robust" evidence left (95% CI of 0.00-0.43), and as their paper text says "whereas the evidence is undecided for “structure” interventions". Other structural interventions include, making it easier to select the desired outcome (or make it harder to switch away from desired out come), changing the range of options to facilitate evaluation, or trying to compensate for biases and loss aversion in choice structure. As you can see, this is a broad range of interventions.

A little bit further they say "However, all intervention categories and domains apart from “finance” show evidence for heterogeneity, which implies that some nudges might be effective, even when there is evidence against the mean effect", which makes sense. People understand stakes generally, and will likely apply different care/effort in different context, modifying the context specific effect of any given intervention.

I think the paper makes a reasonable argument:

1. There is significant publication bias in nudging studies
2. The effect of providing additional information at time of selection, or providing reminders/affirmations for self control is basically non-existent
3. The effect of modifying choice structure is indecisive. Likely we'll find that some structural modifications have strong effects in some context, but others have little or no effect is other context.
Also fair to recognise google also pays Apple to not make or promote a competitor that may offer far more competition.

Id say this is a large part of the reason Gmail, Android and Chrome exist.
Yes, but that's not really relevant to what I was asking -- why would using any of those give an AI an advantage over, say, generating Python or C code?
> One day she came to our house with our daughter in tow

So she's grabbing other people's kids off the street? She sounds unhinged. I'd do everything I could to get a restraining order.
Well I'm fed up with being belted & whipped by the moral police who are so easily misled & duped into excessively strict moral punishment. Especially when 20 years later the moral police look like conservative uncles who call themselves father's but we all know they should be called uncles... For hitting us with the 'moral stick' & traditional soap in mouth.... Lol uncles...
I don't know much about the other solutions that people are mentioning in the comments, but I have to say... this looks elegant! Great job!
> Sounds similar to Boeing where accounting for personal gain (promotions / raises) of upper managers and executives took effect over the long term advantage of the company.

Executive pay is out of control in general in the USA, and performance is equally trash.
Or Google is using the search bar as a pretense for paying Apple for something else.
And it all seems fine until people you don't like from the other side get elected.

I'm not some ultra-crunchy libertarian, but I sure wish people would stop to imagine "what if an asshole has the keys?" when they think about what they want their government to be able to do.
There are only two sources of water that are "free" (as in not already heavily taxed for human use) and that would really move the needle on the Southwest's water supply: the Canadian Pacific Northwest (Yukon & McKenzie River Watersheds) or, even more quixotic, the Mississippi.

To move that water, in either case, you have to maintain a sufficient drop in your canals/pipes to keep water flowing and prevent sediment buildup. This means that building a flat tunnel across 1000 miles, including through mountains (already an obscenely expensive proposition) is out of the question--you have to pump water up to allow it to flow downward. The energy costs--to speak of nothing else--would be incomprehensible. IIRC, damming up every possible spot in North America wouldn't suffice to provide the energy required.

More to the point, we've already put way more water in the desert than was ever there naturally, and we've irrigated perhaps 10% of it. People always want more. We've already surpassed the long-term carrying capacity of all watersheds within 500+ miles. If we pump more water in from elsewhere, we're just kicking the real problem down the road and making it worse for a future generation. There will never be enough water.

I highly recommend reading Cadillac Desert, it really clarifies this issue.
Sorry, I should I have linked some in the article.

- Alternative docker frontends - https://matt-rickard.com/building-a-new-dockerfile-frontend/ (https://github.com/r2d4/mockerfile)

- Docker merge - https://matt-rickard.com/docker-merge/ (https://github.com/r2d4/docker-merge)
Wow you are incredibly clever, would you like a cookie? The best you could do is sometime, somewhere, people get injured a ski lift. The same could be said for people walking up a mountain. AT least I provided some data, including a study that showed injuries.
You can find in Italy for sure.
I just found lot of offer on Linkedin for Junior developer at 25k€/years.
I don't know, I'm not the one making the claim. You want me to just believe you with no evidence but I should scrutinize researches intensely?
The horrible thing is that it is slow, hard to debug and develop on. I personally think it is a bad tradeoff and will make developers hate their day.
Just like we love to say “cheap Chinese” for physical goods, we say “subpar Indian outsourcing…” for digital goods/tech support.

Even though most of what we use, cheap or not, comes from China. And many devs, talented or not, are from India.

I recall a tenured professor at a well known university who liked to bring the Indian accent along (he’s a white dude) when explaining “how bad India is at writing software”….
You mean the problems are with people who bought their homes because of XYZ, which you now want to change out from under them, even though a PROMISE was made to those people by the Government in the form of the zoning rules in place. But rules that destroy what made a person's MOST VALUABLE asset VALUABLE to them shouldn't matter if that gets in the way of what YOU WANT, right? Their entire lives should be able to be disrupted, they should be forced from their home, because you no longer want to keep the promise made when they invested THEIR ENTIRE LIFE into their home. You want to move in and change the rules, just like the guy who guy who buys the house next to the airport then tries to get the airport shut down. You do know that you can, like, move to Manhattan, right?

Sorry the little people are getting in the way of this great leap forward you wish to make at their expense.

EDIT: Anyone who wants to force high density housing on others should ONLY be allowed to take vacations on community loving cruise ships. I mean, there is no valid reason to not want to vacation on cruise ships, and by putting all vacationers together it improves efficient, maximizes space, and reduced impact, right? That is the only acceptable vacation.
Keyence, Consultant to the World’s Factories
I don't think any tech funding is premised on boundless growth. It's usually a 20x-1000x factor of growth for a tiny part of the existing economy.

This is important because the difference between boundless growth and a certain factor of growth is literally infinite, and has huge implications for reasoning about the future
The company has for decades been helping manufacturers get the most out of their factories with sensors and robotics. Its clients include giants from just about every industry, from aerospace (Boeing) to semiconductors (Samsung and TSMC)... It is Japan’s fourth-most-valuable company.

The audio URL works even if you’re not logged in:

https://www.economist.com/media-assets/audio/071%20Business%...
In my town, if you live within a mile of the school, you don’t get bus service. It’s assumed you will walk
Spot on in your observations. Staff churn and significantly decreased product quality were two notable outcomes I've seen as well. Income growth is easier in markets that are industrializing, so it's even easier to jump ship than it is here. You can trip into a new role that might pay 20% more. So, the staff don't last long.
Nothing happens to children when they walk down roads alone. Almost all kidnappings are a result of people the child knows, trusts, and is otherwise close to.
I don't see how the translation is easy. If anything, accurate and precise requirements gathering is one of the hardest parts of software. How many times do you 100% correctly interpret client needs. Better yet, how many times does the client even interpret their own needs correctly and then communicate that?
Why pay 300k in Bay Area when you can pay much less in India or Turkey? Those guys are also more productive as well.

It's not like these are slave farms or sweatshops. Those much smaller salaries can buy a much better standard of living because they don't have to enrich greedy Bay Area landlords.
> Most of the developers are just translators from business requirements into react code.

This is where the real software engineering practice takes place, understanding what the business needs while staying within scope and being able to deliver a solution that's functional and maintainable long term.

I see a world in the not-too-distant future where new apps are built entirely by AI, but there will always be a need for people to translate non-technical business requirements into action items and software decisions. And legacy apps developed entirely by AI? Maybe we'll see it my lifetime but I kind of doubt it.
TikTok has a lot of creative content on flexagons:

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/flexagon

It’s also not intended for long-form content, which is fine. If someone is super interested in the topic, related math, etc — easy to find information elsewhere using search engine and the short videos are much more likely to get someone’s attention.
> That sounds pretty fucking great to me. Why wouldn't you want people to live their life how they were born to?

People have an inherent, fundamental Right to their own body, to mold it into the image that they choose. If they want to take your magic pill? They have every Right to, good on 'em. But if they want their body to be a certain way, they have that Right too.
Basically all women have facial hair, unless they've done something to remove it. I'm not sure if this technique would work on it though, it tends to be difficult to see clearly from a distance.
Disclosure: I am a NIMBY.

There is definitely a cultural gap here. Most immigrants value stable housing they can own and like minded community. Diversity occurs between different communities and not expected between every individual we interact with..

Social status is important. This is the Old World. Most immigrants start out as stateless or on uncertain visas with far away homes. The psychological need to own a home where it is your castle is very deep. Immigrants are almost always NIMBYs in America.

I have examined the reasons why I am a NIMBY. And I am ok with it. Moving to another country and culture for economic reasons is rewarding on one hand but requires painful sacrifices.

I have tried to explain this to Americans and those who didn’t have to leave their home countries and rebuild their identity and lives…some say they understand, but most don’t get it.

That’s ok. There is nothing wrong with being YIMBY or NIMBY. Market forces will decide. I have also observed that most self declared YIMBYs become NIMBYs when they sign their first 30 year mortgage. The weight of a mortgage is heavy. Home ownership is not for everyone and it’s not a walk in the park. Those who willingly bear it will hedge their bets and fight for their investment. This is normal.
A single self-reported datapoint is not a "source." Sounds like you don't know what you might have been missing and don't care to find out. Good for you, I guess?

Edit: parent's dead reply is an incredibly clear illustration of how such an isolated, unenriched childhood can impact social development. My kid's out playing in our neighborhood, thanks.
Why would it be slow? Docker is just as fast as running native on Linux.

Unless you're talking about running it on Windows or Mac. In which case, don't do that. You don't want your developers developing on a different OS than your CI & deployment environment anyway.
Yes but competent developers are not stupid, why would they work for a cheap outsourcing agency. If you want cheap you won’t get competent developers anywhere.
> You absolutely need quaternions,

You absolutely do not. Quaternions are (usually) the best solution, but they're not the only one.

> And they probably shouldn't have

Geometric algebra may or may not be better in certain low-dimensional applications like CG, but there's a whole lot more to linear algebra than that.
Even if it isn't "amazingly beneficial", who the fuck cares? Chewing bubblegum or playing a gameboy isn't "amazingly beneficial" but we still let kids do that. What he hell kind of standard is that?

Edit: Wew this thread went from bizarre to disturbing in record time. No parting rage-quit response for me? I feel left out...
> The code was also...interesting to look at. Talk about unmaintainable lol.

I've seen outsourced code where some logic was spread over 800 lines of copy/pasta horror for what should have been about three functions and two for loops.

When you look at the GNAFAM, for all that is wrong at these companies, they're ruling the software world and they must doing something right. Apparently outsourcing wasn't exactly the reason for these to become successful.
I feel like there’s something weird with the dataset. It’s says the average US salary is $110k. That’s seems incredibly low.
I use https://github.com/CodyMcCodington/AutoCookieOptout, it works on some of the more common sites.
all students in the same grade learn the same material (atleast till tenth grade, after which they can choose their stream and now add math as an additional even in non stem sections)
https://archive.ph/eRoby
“What I said was—vaccines and boosters do not prevent you from catching it or getting sick. ”

We knew this a year ago.

I’m pretty sure from the current studies that we do know, or at least strongly believe, that the vaccines, etc do reduce hospitalizations and death.

That would explain why they are recommended.

However, if more data comes in, please update us.
That's just refusing to be convinced by evidence, though. It's good to have hunches, but it's good to let them go after you've done the experiments. Come up with a new hunch and a new experiment that shows why the expected effects weren't seen, and you're right back in there.
Yeah exactly. The impending apocalypse that will make software developers redundant has been just around the corner for 20 years, during which time the number of people employed in software has increased exponentially and software developer salaries are some of the highest you can get for non-managerial work.
Also, due to muscle memory, etc, a smallest move solve might not even necessarily be the fastest solve by time.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but I've seen this happen inadvertently due to "responsive design" - mobile views of the same page will display less detail. It's kind of a bad practice, but I see in the wild all the time.
Yes, but you too can be a part of that 1% if only for a few weeks.
Right. The impact of different cultures and worldviews cannot be overstated. Mental interpretation of general directives varies wildly enough between Americans of different backgrounds, different ages, different neurodivergences to create problems even with them all sharing the same language and culture. The further you go the less you can rely on everybody being on the same page.
Indeed. We now have dev teams trying to tinker around with infra layer and more often shooting themselves in the foot because the UI makes it easy to play around. We often read horror stories of a one person startup accidentally running up $1MM AWS bills.

That said, we will continue to have a need for dedicated dev-ops team. Just that instead of say 10 people team it'd require 2 person team. But you still need a person dedicated (maybe part time) baby-sitting infrastructure. Don't let every dev get their hands on infra.
so what you're saying is they are not only copying the good parts of Tesla (Electrification) but also the bad parts (lying about future production?).

Ford made 30k electric vehicles in 2021, 600k means a growth rate of %1900 in the span of 2 1/2 years (They need to be at the run rate in 2026)?

Battery packs were a problem to Tesla in 2018 and now they've moved onto the bigger problem that no one is talking about.... There isn't enough lithium and nickel production to even make this possible.

That's why Tesla launched its own mining operations in Nevada.

Also, its not like Elon hasn't been screaming about lack of nickel and lithium production since like 2018, just no one seems to be paying attention.
Latency is absolutely killer with tapes, but bandwidth is still a major issue. The current generation LTO-9 is only capable of 400MB/s in throughput. That's still slower than a SATA3 drive.

Last time I used tape in earnest was a while back though (2005ish), LTO-2 ruled the roost at a whopping 40MB/s, with LTO-3 just making an appearance. Around the time I left the company they were building out a disk storage array as a backup target, and shifting tape further and further away from the main backup path. Data production and storage needs across the industry had long been growing at a greater rate than tape capacity and performance.
I'd love to read more about this. Do you have examples?
We use GitHub Enterprise where I work now. I do sometimes do stacked PRs but GHE does not make it easy. The rebasing and merge conflict resolution can be a headache although git rebase —onto helps a lot.

I previously worked somewhere that used Phabricator. Its “stacked diffs” worked great. I’d use it all the time when working on complex, multipart changes.
related:

https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9781944686109?invi...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1231396190/tri-hexa-flexa-coder...
I was leaving the house alone by 5 and 6. I'd go hours in the local forest, down by the lake, through the neighborhood, and to the city. My mom made sure I understood landmarks and what places that could help me looked like. Of all the trauma I experienced in my early life, none of it was from those activities. If anything they taught me a lot about getting along on my own.