skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a dutch politician that took that idea and ran with it, he's promoting the most outrageous stuff, entirely made up and people lap it up.

Judging by what is happening there: Trump made up plenty of stuff as well and people lapped it up, they don't necessarily need a particular enemy to point at the audience is so gullible that if one isn't readily available it won't make a huge difference. But if one is then that's just a lubricant, something to focus all the hate on.

Finally: Scott Adams is also operating from that playbook, he's not just praising Donald Trump, he's borrowing the principle and even some of the subjects, either because he's lost the plot or because he's so cynical he doesn't care about the consequences. Either way it doesn't look good.
Thank you! It's really fun! The HiFutureSelf app is more focused on day to day future messages (motivational quotes, reminders, etc) rather than emails far off into the future. Although it can be used for that as well.

Let me know what you think of the app!
Love this quote:

> When times change, the wisdom from that past era tends to stay around for a longer while.
Currently a 3rd year student after several years as a SWE. I have found the process to be extremely challenging. All of your income and free time are taken away and replaced by endless studying in an environment that is (comparatively) infantilizing. You are about 9 years away from being an attending physician - 2 years of full time effort just to create a competitive application, 4 years of med school, and 3+ years of residency. Nothing is guaranteed and each step in the process has significant filters. I still feel like I made the right choice. I am looking for personal growth and being challenged along many dimensions.
The quality of results is drastically better than craiyon, but of course you need access and might have to pay for DALL-E. Takes only a few seconds. Also has an editing mode where you can fine tune parts of the image or find variations.
There's code review, and there's "code review" where there's a deadline and someone says "can you click approve on this real quick," which is essentially a direct contribution with a compliance dance. I've seen it at large companies like these on several occasions.
Chip manufacturing is probably the most value added industry in the world, while simultaneously being absurdly automated. If you can't make them in the US because of costs there is nothing you can make in the US.
'Engineered' experiences, huh? To what end?

At least the article 'tuned in' to Shulgin. More on Sasha and Ann's prolonged studies, along with a big bibliography, here (Web 1) [https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/shulgin_alexander/...]
Or the 2010's.
>If the borrower defaults, and thus cedes the collateral to the lender, does the borrower also get to default on their tax obligations now that the shares aren’t theirs? Or is that added to their debt mountain?

They are taxed for the sale yes.
Oscilloscope Music – Floating Eye of Death
Ah man, I do like what Dall-E is doing right now, i'm curious about the possibilities, even thinking of using it as a start for digital art and then manipulating the output in photoshop, i'm fairly good/creative at that manipulation side and I like what I can do there but I am a terrible artist, so this is good to get the starting point.

However as it gets better, even that won't be needed and I'm concerned then what that means for the average person, or for me trying to get my skills up so i can increase income, only for it to get wiped out by AI at some point in the future.
There's official docs on how to do that here https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/wireguard/overview/
Not to mention they are screwed if congress passes legislation to ban selling order flow to firms like Citidel.
This is like asking for a study to prove you really love your children.

Anyone asking either doesn't have any or needs help.
I too was caught on the heavily mixed metaphor of bees... blossoming... into butterflies... what?
Yeah. Thank you!
Why not cut pay across the board?

I know this is not the cultural norm, but I am curious how long this norm can persist.

Without the ability to cut pay, layoffs are the only option for companies burning cash and losing altitude. That locks pay increases at the same inflated point that the bubble supported but which reality does not.

To go one step further, is there a single advanced economy in which pay cuts, rather than layoffs, are the norm?
Used to be pay and upward mobility potential. Now it's stability, work life balance, not on call, and other intangibles.
SQLite is almost always the answer
I know you are quoting from your source, but this blew my mind:

> underrepresented racial groups, including Blacks, Latinos and women

Women are not an underrepresented racial group, and in fact make up the majority of students at the University of California. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-...
Raspberry Pi 4 expands 3D potential with Vulkan update
Good. Problem is, fewer of those vultures means even bigger one survive. Just can't win.
This is an interesting question. The emission of radiation is proportional to the absolute temperature to the fourth power. So, the hotter something gets the faster it radiates energy out. Its nonlinear so theres definitely some winning strategy.

Energy in is constant, but energy out could vary. I think the way to maximize the energy leaving the planet is to not rotate at all. The energy input would be concentrated and you would have one side very hot — and the hot side would dump the most energy back into space.
I like the headline and live by it. Though I’d argue “twice” is not enough. Personally, I don’t buy anything unless I have enough assets that I could technically buy it ten times.
Biggest mark of utter management failure is making too small a layoff in April (9%) and needing to do another round today.

Combined that’s a 30% headcount reduction since Q1-2022
I'm going to be looking to leave in the next couple of months.
This is absolutely the future, but it's not going to be obscure. You won't have a job if it isn't this or physical.

AIs are going to replace entry level creatives, and experienced users with taste will largely perform selection and the development of good starts to mature designs. And I mean all creatives. Engineers, architects, mathematicians, programmers.
If only there were some natural plant-based material that could be used as a straw... perhaps a byproduct of cereal cultivation.
I spent many years at FB, but no longer there, but that doesn’t even sound like a ‘special case’? Every engineer at Fb has access to pretty much all the code, and after an internal code review for your code change, you can get it committed to the internal repos.
For open source things, something syncs the external and internal changes ocassionaly I think. I imagine the problem here was that now external people can’t comment on internal PRs etc.

I even remember some of my internal commits making it into FBs open source code on GitHub, even though at the time I had no idea that this specific area of FBs codebase is open source.
Yep, talk is cheap. Of course he's responsible, whether he admits it or not.

If not willing to step down, then give up pay.
Which people did that?
Engineers with good track record and interviewing skills will have no problem getting US salary in Canada.

In fact Google pays Canadian similar to their non-premiun US locations like Raleigh.
Ah I see, thanks for the tips!
Oh we will be getting locked down again in the fall I am sure of that. Canada didn’t upgrade it’s definition of fully vaccinated for no reason. Come fall those “fully vaccinated” will be allowed to enter restaurants and work while those who oppose further shots will be told stay home
You've comfortably defined away any means of debate so you have to be right.

Lemme know what you think after the actual recession hits in 6-24 months and if it feels or looks any worse.
We ran Presto directly on Github (I think it still does), so everything went directly to the project without a private internal review first. We designed it this way, so that everyone in the community could participate in the full process.
Furries. You gotta love 'em.
Can someone explain "planetary boundary" in this context? What does the first sentence mean?
Please take a look further down the list. For your use case, a Power System E980 may just be enough or too small. :-)
Where can I get an invite?
Absolutely not. You can purchase a system with 1TB of ram, and some decent CPUs etc for ~25k.
My lab just did this. That's far overpriced.
133k is closer to what you would spend if you used the machine with 1tb "in the cloud".
The joke is unambiguously not a comment on the fluidity of racial identity.
De-growth shouldn't significantly lower average life expectancy - after all in developed nations a high percentage of deaths are due to lifestyle decisions that are only possible because of our high use of technology and exogenous energy sources. As long as we still retain the knowledge on how to treat most diseases, and the physical infrastructure of our health-care systems, there's good reason to suppose average human health/life expectancy might well improve with the right sort and amount of de-growth.
"Quality of life" is much harder to judge. It would definitely feel like a step down for many people used to just having everything and anything they want delivered to their door at the click of a mouse button. And it's true there's no good example that I know of a large population smoothly transitioning into a lifestyle with a significantly lower material standard of living. But I'm not convinced it couldn't be achieved in such a way that most people would come to accept that we've gained more than we've lost.
Because then you'd still have more people than you need, except now everyone is poorly motivated, and your best people will just leave.

Germany does actually have a model called "Kurzarbeit" (literally "short work") to reduce hours across the board while some of the wage losses are being offset by payment from the unemployment insurance system. The idea is to avoid layoffs during times of recession etc. which would allow the companies to bounce back more quickly once the situation has picked up again.
You do it a few times and move on with your life. The Beatles famously only did it a handful of times during their most productive period and stopped all together eventually.
Unless you're going to do it for living and really invest hard into educating yourself, I don't think you should also take the investment advice from people who have been doing it for more than a decade, unless the advice is "buy index funds and HODL" (I maybe exaggerate a bit, but boiled down to the essence that'd be it). For a common person that doesn't plan to make a career out of it and spend a lot of time honing one's skills, daytrading is rarely going to pay off, IMHO. You can do it for fun, there are more expensive hobbies probably, but as a means to support yourself in the old age... well, you might get lucky. Or not.
If you crash a company against the wall resulting in such a disaster and having to cut so much staff, resigning isn't enough. CEO's should have to pay back big parts of their compensation.
The very concept of "library" would take a while to evolve. The first ones were literally libraries: you'd come, browse to find code for the algorithm you need, and reuse that code - by manually copying it.

Algol-60 itself didn't really have any separate compilation facilities, either, and some language semantics (e.g. call-by-name) complicate matters if you try to tack it on.
Yeah, my first thought was "Ok, but you are going to need to involve a graphical artist to actually really make use of that logo". Like you probably want a vector version and you definitely need simplified versions for smaller sizes but then I stopped and realized how amazing this actually is. It "saved" (I know, it cost $30 but that's a steal for something like this) all the time and money you would have paid for iteration after iteration and let the author quickly hone in on what they wanted.

As someone who is incredibly terrible at graphic design but knows what they like this could be a game changer as iterations of this technology progress. I can imagine going further than images and having AI/ML generate full HTML layouts in this iterative way where you start to define your vision for a website or app even and it spits out ideas/concepts that you can "lock" parts of it you like and let it regenerate the rest.

I'm not downplaying designers role at all, I'd still go to one of them for the final design but to be able to wireframe using words/phrases and take a good idea of what I want would be amazing, especially for freelance/side-projects.
Our industry summarized:

Hardware engineers are pushing the absolute physical limits of getting state (memory/storage) as close as possible to compute. A monumental accomplishment as impactful as the invention of agriculture and the industrial revolution.

Software engineers: let's completely undo all that engineering by moving everything apart as far as possible. Hmmm, still too fast. Let's next add virtualization and software stacks with shitty abstractions.

Fast and powerful browser? Let's completely ignore 20 years of performance engineering and reinvent...rendering. Hmm, sucks a bit. Let's add back server rendering. Wait, now we have to render twice. Ah well, let's just call it a "best practice".

The mouse that I'm using right now (an expensive one) has a 2GB desktop Electron app that seems to want to update itself twice a week.

The state of us, the absolute garbage that we put out, and the creative ways in which we try to justify it. It's like a mind virus.

I want my downvotes now.
If we're using association with the KKK, then note that your favored organization the ACLU also has backed the Nazis and KKK on many occasions [0]. It's almost as if association with the KKK is not enough to impugn a policy.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-em-defends-kkks-rig...
Taking responsibility would mean returning a significant portion of that compensation.
I can believe that monoliths have a lower theoretical complexity floor than microservice architectures, but I don't think any shops are coming close to that theoretical complexity floor irrespective of their architecture, so we need to think about the actual, practical complexity of applications in each architecture.

Specifically, I think the strong boundaries between components better facilitates maintainability--as with dynamic typing, the absence of rails allows people to more easily make bad decisions. In the case of monoliths, this usually looks like an inexperienced developer (especially at the bequest of an unscrupulous manager who swears that we will definitely not do this again and will fix in a subsequent release) taking a dependency on another system's private internals. In other words, I assert that given a good architect and an average team, a microservice architecture will be less complex than a monolith despite marshaling data over a network. In order to have a well-engineered monolith, you need good architects and a good team (no unscrupulous managers who are empowered to compromise the architecture in the name of expedience).

> no guaranteed data consistency, no global commit guarantees

You don't get these for free with monoliths either. I've seen a lot of monoliths choc full of race conditions which don't manifest during development (small contrived test cases running on unburdened systems). Paradoxically, because microservices have to marshal data over a network, these consistency issues are more likely to appear. Moreover, people who work on microservices are more likely to think about race conditions precisely because the system is distributed (indeed, the architects think about this stuff when they lay out the interfaces).
There are talks of "late stage capitalism" all over the place - I think CEO compensation is one of the biggest hallmarks of it. Capitalism is supposed to naturally reward value creation to incentivize further value creation - somehow we've found ourselves in a situation where folks on the bottom of the pyramid aren't going to get incentivized for efficient labour no matter how much value they create - while folks at the top will be gloriously celebrated for even the most abject failures.

Most people are doing their best to be productive and most of their managers are trying to reward these efforts with recognition beyond a "thanks" but it becomes more difficult to do when we have an insane wealth sink at the top of our economy.
These are brilliant! I can imagine each of these taking off as Telegram Bots or TikTok games/fads. I wonder if you can automatically generate bots out of these and track the engagement as some kind of a feedback loop.
> I work for a US company but I'm a contractor for this reason. It works for me but if you don't have extended health through your partner or don't want to deal with the tax implications of being "self employed", it can be less attractive.

It's extremely easy to be self employed in Canada with a foreign corporation. You just start getting your money wired through Wise or whatever service and declare it on your income taxes. As you work for a foreign corporation, no need to charge sales tax. That's it, no separate entity or incorporation needed. You can still expense your tools expenses, part of your housing, etc.

Sure if you want to incorporate, it becomes more complicated. But you wouldn't be incorporated either if you had a salaried job for a tech company locally.
So what would you say then is “the Costco of programming languages”?
I realize it's not something that happens, but I would say "taking responsibility" would mean taking, oh, I dunno, $50M of that $800M in compensation in 2021, and distributing it to those laid off?

(How the hell is your life different with $750M instead of $800M anyway?)
Plus sane failure domains: go has had preemptively scheduled green threads from day one but failure domains are really not a thing in go.
Sorry, I should have given some examples.

I'm talking about the secondary work that goes into software, things like environment setup, building artifacts, producing ancillary tooling, and deployment.

I know these might be considered disparate, and I'm intentionally omitting topics that I know are studied, such as formal verification and fuzzing.

I was joking with my spouse, who is a methodologist in medicine, about making a group of researchers set up environments for working on various large open source projects as an example.

Perhaps all of this crosses into operations research?
Honestly, I feel this tool will allow bad designers such as myself to create bad designs.
the #1 use case by far is as a pyramidal pump-and-dump scheme. it may not be what anyone considers a legitimate/palatable use case, but it is objectively what cryptocurrencies are being enthusiastically used for, and they work well for the purpose. the people who got in early have typically gotten rich off it, and the people who have not either play the (necessary) role of the sucker, or catch on and try to start their own coin where they are in at the start.
Oh you can publish innumerable things whose content is nothing to show for, yet you publish something :)
Short answer: your best employees will leave
If only it were that easy. It took ages to find the new name. There is a Google doc somewhere with pages of bad names.
The worst I've ever seen was when i was a kid we went camping near Rabbitkettle Hot Springs in Nunavut. I swear, every time you clapped your hand, you would kill 7 mosquitos

As a canadian, let me assure you, we do have some nice less mosquito filled places :)
That stood out to me as well, and then I realized it is the same exercise as the title maneuver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

"Planetary boundaries is a concept highlighting human-caused perturbations of Earth systems making them relevant in a way not accommodated by the environmental boundaries separating the three ages within the Holocene epoch."
> eugenics were accepted as science

This is exactly my point.

By your definition, the “progressive” view is the one that doesn’t try to keep society the same. At some point, eugenics came around, and the world now thought this was a good way to progress. Opposing this adoption at the time, according to your definitions, would make someone a conservative.

My point is that opposing certain directions that society may be moving toward doesn’t need to be viewed as “conservative” or “anti progress.” There are certain things, like eugenics, that we can preemptively say, or should have potentially said are not a good idea. We don’t need change for its own sake.
Somehow I feel that all these VC backed firms just add employees for the sake of adding employees.

I use Tastyworks - another free online brokerage that it almost at feature parity with Robinhood. They have stocks, options, futures and even some selective crypto. They also make money using PFOF just like Robinhood.

However on Linkedin, their employee count is less than 100 (99 to be precise) On the other hand, Robinhood was at almost 4000 employees at the start of the year. I think they still have about 80% more employees than where they need to be.
All of this has already happened. Just look at the stocks of all the pandemic companies. Peleton, Teledoc, Zoom, Docusign and on and on. Pretty much all down 80%+ from their highs.
Replace "people" with "features" and my comment still holds. As software, features, and organizations become more complex the core feature data becomes a smaller and smaller proportion of the overall state and that's when microservices and separate data stores become necessary.
Not that simple for startups/small businesses. Dealing with labor law is no joke. I've been unable to hire FTE Canadians due to the legal burden that was going to come with setting up those operations. Larger corps can take advantage while small businesses sometimes can't deal with the paperwork overhead.
"Planetary boundaries is a concept highlighting human-caused perturbations of Earth systems [...] The framework is based on scientific evidence that human actions, especially those of industrialized societies since the Industrial Revolution, have become the main driver of global environmental change. According to the framework, "transgressing one or more planetary boundaries may be deleterious or even catastrophic due to the risk of crossing thresholds that will trigger non-linear, abrupt environmental change within continental-scale to planetary-scale systems."[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

The first sentence suggests that the study's authors are concerned that PFAS and its similar cousins represent a non-linear, large-scale environmental threat.
> with the exception of Iraq, afghanistan, korea, cuba, and vietnam at no real point in these battles was our technological sophistication or "firepower" a decisive capability that led to a victory.

So? In Iraq, at least, it led to the rapid collapse of the Iraqi government and military and execution of its leaders. North Korea doesn't care if the US ultimately succeeds in meeting its goals, it cares if the North Korean state is defeated.

> the Taliban had a blackhawk helicopter over the city as a command presence in less than a day.

So? The real question is: is it still flying?

IIRC, the US backed government of Afghanistan had trouble keeping its own aircraft flying without support from Western maintenance contractors. I highly doubt the Taliban will do better, especially since it's cut off from a supply of spare parts.
Yeah, pretty much every integer enum I write has `UNKNOWN` or `INVALID` as the zero value. It adds either a `case` or a `default` to every switch and a clause or a `_` to every `match`, but it saves my ass even in non-security-sensitive settings.