skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to heavily discount these types of studies. What makes an expert? What was the sample size of experts? What was the non-expert tool? Etc.

There is such a thing as having common sense based on thoughtful life experience. Checklists and regressions help, but human beings are very capable of deep expertise and to pretend otherwise is silly. I expect a musician to be able to identify a violin from a viola.
Oops, you're right. Did they also support user+somestring@gmail.com to be equal to user@gmail.com as well?
I have been taking Rapamycin for 19 weeks and NR and Metformin (for anti-aging) for much longer and I can't see any difference. I'm 50+. I generally, however, feel excellent, as well as I remember when I was younger so long as I have gotten lots of sleep and don't have a cold. When I'm sick or tired I feel much worse than I did, however.
We've been through "the death of art as we know it" so many times throughout history already and art has always continued to grow and flourish. I fail to see why this time should be any different.
Whenever I read the actual article, it's pretty clear from both the prose and the actual content that they're either just regurgitating the stuff they heard from Uncle Bob, or they're just making up what they think sounds like a good engineer to them, without ever checking if their headcanon lines up with reality.

Not that there's a big difference between the two ;)
From wikipedia: "A capitonym is a word that changes its meaning (and sometimes pronunciation) when it is capitalized."
> Same thing would have happened if they had put all that cash on a boat, and accidentally sunk it.

Are you saying that it is impossible to get valuables out of a boat that sunk?

"Treasure trove of gold and jewels recovered from a 366-year-old shipwreck in the Bahamas"

https://www.livescience.com/bahamas-shipwreck-gold-jewels
Most people are average-ish by definition (either somewhat below or somewhat above average), chances are you are average-ish too.
Unfortunately, you're correct that they are not that common.

In fact, my last job was at a place where the salesman told me to not fix a bug I found until a customer ran into that bug so that "they'll remember why they need us." I was appalled.

I'm glad there are more programmers like me out there though. Thank you. :)
Lenovo's New ThinkPad X1 Fold Goes Bigger
Iranian athletes have been dealing with this nightmare: if in an international competition they face a competitor from Israel, they will be told that they have to avoid competing.

This is part of Iran's Islamic government's symbolic gesture to show that they do not recognize a country by that name, and so their representatives do not compete against them.

This has caused a huge amount of damage on these athletes' professional lives. Imagine an Olympic competition, you might be in the right shape to compete in the Olympic only once, and you miss that not by your chance.

No officials in Iran take the responsibility of this decision, no one knows what institute forces athletes to abandon their competition, but this continues.

Many of top athletes migrate to other countries (usually just stay in the country they are for the competition as refugees, and do not come back with the team, then they move to another country) for a chance to compete free from this restriction.
Obviously the creation was not worthless for many people, they enjoyed the picture very much. Perhaps it's an indication (or a reminder!) that for most people the worth of a piece of art does not depend on the skill or the process of creation, but mostly on the esthetics of the outcome; it's the death of a specific aspect of art which is the focus of art critics and some of the artists, but can be ignored by the 'art consumers'.
How does this compare to KeystoneJS, another TypeScript CMS? https://keystonejs.com/
It doesn't necessarily take a great developer to identify the characteristics of great developers. Does a football coach need to be a great football player?
> Meta’s infrastructure plays an important role in supporting our products and services.
If that human took found objects and newspaper prints and pasted them to a canvas would anyone consider that human to be the artist?
Under no circumstance would I apply to any job that required me to record videos of myself as part of the application process.

I’m curious how many people feel the same way.
> That's too bad. In the area around where I live I have yet to encounter a suburb that doesn't have sidewalks!

It’s often linked to ugly history: when we were shopping around here in the DC area, there were tons of suburban houses with no sidewalks and transit-hostile road design which were built right after the major civil rights wins, when the thinking was that most black people couldn’t afford cars.

> I understand what you meant by "walkability". I also don't think it's fun or practical.

My thinking is that it’s less about fun than barriers to activity and car-centricity. If exercise is something which requires traveling elsewhere or you have to do on will-power an awful lot of people won’t do it very much, especially over time (maybe they walk the exercise trail when they first move in but lose interest over time because there’s only one route and that gets monotonous, etc.). Having kids is eye-opening that way when you’re seeing where they can go safely and under their own power, not to mention parents realizing how long they’ll be playing chauffeur.

The car centric point I mentioned is related: cars are expensive ($11k/year on average in 2019) so when your household has purchased one per adult you typically end up treating them as your default mode of transportation, which over time degrades your body and conditions you to think of being outside of air conditioning as outliers, and cars are dangerous which further reduces your options. Kids are driven to parks 3 blocks away because their parents are worried they’ll get hit by a car; pedestrian routes are hot, noisy, and extra long; etc.

Obviously they’re useful too but I don’t think it’s coincidence that obesity has been going up as an increasingly large fraction of people live in environments designed to be used while sitting sedentary in a machine.

City living isn’t without its own problems but when you get 10k steps without even making an effort to exercise it helps.
And people forgetting caps lock down for their passwords is so common that many UIs actually show a little caps lock icon in there to warn you
great developers are busy making $$$$$ they are not trying to persuade others they are great developers by writing blogs.
The permissions management (user/group but with cloud roles) is what I miss most. NFS style approaches assume that I will give every user an unprivileged user on their local machine and deny root access so they can't just create a user with a different ID. S3 style ACLs per-object are just very confusing and no one is going to set those. S3 access policies per role are obviously not a solution because that requires centralizing lists of what the permissions are. I just want to be able to assign a chmod and a chown on a file for a cloud user and group... And don't forget about how fantastic the group tooling was.

I also miss being able to write files with /ttl=72h/ anywhere in the path and knowing they will be cleaned up automatically without me doing any more work. In contrast S3 just rots. Need to find an intern to write an SQS pipeline to schedule file deletions :)
Absolutely! IMHO, new engineers start with "What technology should we use to do this?", while experienced engineers start with "Assume we've already done this successfully with some (i.e. any) technology, what will the impact be?"

And yes, if you have a hierarchical eng org then there's different job responsibilities at different levels. But at some point, new engineers end up making their own calls, and they usually don't pay enough attention to the forest.

Some technically complex things just aren't worth doing, and some simple things are incredibly valuable to do.

E.g. Porting the fundamentals of an MMU + append optimizations into a distributed storage system: not theoretically groundbreaking. But the impact for its users was!
> would anyone consider that human to be the artist?

Yes. This has happened frequently across the history of art.
Yeah, but they counted money for even longer time
There's plenty of victim blaming on technical topics too.

Any negative impact of tech on people will have comments saying “well they should have just..."
Releasing chips behind the competition has the same effect
join me on the outside - startup land is great!
I always reach for the non-ratcheting screwdriver when working on electronics. I find the ratcheting mechanism on all drivers I've used to have too much resistance and just start screwing the screw back in rendering it useless and bulky. A bit drive with an end cap that rotates seems to work best for me.

For automotive it's a different story, but then I'd use a ratchet wrench anyway, and fixed screwdrivers in the engine bay as the bits like to fall off in the worst places.
An abstraction that happens to harm performance is rarely a long-term problem. Eventually the hardware catches up. More software has been retired due to crappy abstractions than poor performance.
It looks like a nice image of concept art you would see on Deviantart or maybe the cover for a sci-fi book. I typically consider images used to sell other products "content" and not "art". In this case it was intended as "art" so it's therefore art.

That said, I think it's uninspired and derivative and does nothing for me. It does seems "skilled" in the sense that there's a decent use of anatomy, lighting, and composition. So on first glance it's a pretty image which might be all someone wants and to each their own.

I would love to see the high-res image though to see if it holds up in the actual details. AI tools seem to have a hard time with actually making sense in the details and has a really hard grasp on things like hands (which are difficult for humans).
its definitely true? a lot of leftist groups claim to be anti-zionist but end up discriminating against jews (in the US). many proclaimed anti-zionists end up parroting the same tropes used by antisemites. and then you blame it on some kind of jewish conspiracy?
that says nothing if you don't know the size of the input and the problem at hand. Sometimes the best you can do is N^2.
> This isnt true at all.

I just gave numerous examples that I've seen personally. Centrists who don't care one way or the other about Zionism certainly aren't the ones beating up Jews on the streets of London when Israel does something bad.
Perhaps he’s implying that apple is pulling the strings and arm is doing this because of some pressure from apple? Outside that I can’t imagine how this comment makes any sense.
That would not surprise me to see from some blue chip artist at all - it's not exactly uncommon for artworks to be created by someone else based on more-or-less precise instructions.
Right. I'm just saying that there would have to be laws punishing providers who falsely label porn as PG-13 or something. Or punishing providers who label their open, unmoderated forums as PG when in fact it has lots of obscene content on it.
There is an interesting audiobook about the place by the founders son (who worked there). It’s obviously biased, but does not turn a blind eye to all of the issues, I found it pretty interesting and certainly a fascinating story:

https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=0593214315&source_code=ASSOR...
That John Smith left his paperclip maximizer running will be cold comfort while we're all getting reconfigured into paperclips by a particularly deviously formulated by AI bacterium.

Sometimes, there are good reasons to just not build a thing. Takes a while for the idea to become apparent, but once you start thinking in terms of actually being responsible for second order and higher outcomes, it becomes much easier.
Moxie experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars
What is your take on the similarity to the advent of photography? It was mentioned in the article that photography was similarly criticized for removing much of the work involved in painting by hand.
>That isn't to say you shouldn't make things safer but you have to take into account is your change a net positive over all.

This is hard to do in a world where people have fundamentally incompatible belief systems.
Is he actually doing the work? Is just copying code from OSS projects and does not actually understand it? Not only will this cause legal liability, but when the team is under stress will he just disappear or be able to solve an issue?

He already lied once. Why not lie more?
And then promptly got fined for it, but no word about the race being thrown.
I can’t see how this would be effectively enforced - what’s to prevent them from spinning up an arm’s-length subsidiary (i.e. controlled through trustworthy middlemen) outside of US jurisdiction and using that to sell to prohibited markets? Like, exactly what, for instance, crocs are doing with Russia - or Tetley’s did with Teapigs (for different reasons).
Google is wealthy enough to create a G-rated version of its service that doesn't have the privacy issues. Or a startup could tackle the problem.
A virtual army of impish cartoon pooches is waging war on Russia
"According to the data on business failures, you should have never started this business"
Russian oil executive dies in fall from Moscow hospital window
It's hard to explain people in US but in Central Europe Java is like 70% of software jobs, the rest is Node and .Net and everything else is really niche outside of their domains.
You mean by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven? :)

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2014/11/01/did-marcel-ducham...
I cant find it at the moment (thanks censorship!), but I believe the worst short-term side effects are 12hrs - 7 days. At least that’s when the fatalities occur, then risk drops dramatically.

That said, in the paper I linked, that’s also when Pfizer stopped monitoring or at least didn’t share their data. We only have observational evidence from the cdc (ie no controlled clinical trial).

Random article says 12-48 hrs https://www.verywellhealth.com/when-to-expect-covid-19-vacci...

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere (and is relatively well known) when you see myocarditis in youngish people, that likely means long-term heart damage. We don’t have any of that data because Pfizer and moderna haven’t released that data. Further, they basically scrapped their trial by giving the control group the vaccine. So any new trial has to start over.
First: CEPH is the closest I've seen. And it is pretty damned good.

Two reasons:

1. Colossus is extremely dependent on other Google Tech to work and be cool. Implementing 'just colossus' without the rest of the tech stack would require developing quite a diverse set of other tools first.

2. Part of what makes it cool is that everybody is mandated to use it, and hardware, kernel and so forth improvements are made to make it better.
Sure, but the article did not make this argument at all. It made zero effort to examine the current state of things and the various reasons and purposes behind it. It merely advocated for blowing it all up. If you want to make a convincing argument then you need to do more than ask for a return to a previous state totally ignoring the reasons we got to the current state.

It suggested no methods of preserving safety while also removing unnecessary roadblocks. It just suggested we should live with the "discomfort". I don't even think the author necessarily intended that. It reads to me as a combination of tunnel vision and poor communication. But the result is that the article comes off as mis-informed.
Flann O'Brien invented the NFT in 1942
Fair, but those arguments only come up when you've lost the ability to compete at the main activity (which, since the AI won, seems to be the case).

You could probably retroactively disqualify this person from the contest, but it has a lot of implications for the art world outside of state fair competitions.
Steve seems to struggle a bit in this video. The strategy is too complicated, and it's based more on speculation than hard data.

Also, that quote about how "the best marketing is education"... the opposite seems to apply nowadays: "if you have to explain it, you've already lost".*

I still watch this with nothing but admiration though.

* https://www.fathom.pro/blog/2014/12/if-you-have-to-explain-y...?
> There is a big difference between candidates who care about working with us in particular vs just someone who just needs a way to pay their mortgage.

I strongly disagree. We work for a living, not the other way round. Do you service your customers because these specific customers are especially deserving of your service or do you service them to make money?
"What if we only hire them if they are already trained?"
> There is always a loser to any change — even when it’s an otherwise overwhelming net positive.

What an insidious argument. It makes the "loser" sounds like someone randomly selected by bad luck, but we all know that when there is lack of regulation, especially in these cases (construction, industry, etc.), who gets the short end of the stick.
the palestinian leadership enables the abuse. they actually like it, since it means they can garner more international support to siphon aid for themselves. they do little to help the people and instead opt to act as proxies for Iran to conduct terrorist attacks against israeli civilians. if the palestinian people want freedom, they need new leadership since what they operate under is clearly not even close to a democracy.
Interviewed a guy that wrote a JavaScript book. Don’t recall which one.

We were all excited to talk to a him.
He failed the interview, badly.
He was really good at writing. Just not programming.
/Getting/Ferrin/
could this be a name conflict with this
https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/VELOX ?
And what about voyeurs hiding in the bushes?
Coincidence that it's released right at the September price change? I'm definitely going to play around with GPT-3 more now that it's cheaper.

Idea: prepend something like "(The interviewee who was hired provided the following answer:)"
Weird how during the one tiny era in human history where we've had explosive exponential growth in {technological progress,wealth,etc} we destroyed both human cultures and biodiversity on a scale unprecedented except for the rare natural disasters our paleontologists call "mass extinction events", and created like arguably 2-4 looming existential risks to our species we have yet to figure out how to solve. Sometimes a bias for slower, more considered decisions might be... warranted? Just spitballin' here

Moving fast and building whatever you want on a small scale is probably more feasible than it ever has been. You can go get a 3D printer, use super advanced tools you can get relatively cheap on amazon to build physical things, and even write really crazy complex computer programs on consumer-grade machines that are considered "cheap and dinky". If you own some land that's not around a whole bunch of other people, you can probably build all sorts of fun structures and get away with it. Once that stuff starts scaling such that it affects other people, said other people are bound to care about and try to impose limitations on what you can build. That's called civilization, and it's done a lot more to help large-scale stuff get done eventually than it's done to impede it overall
I'd totally buy a copy of it explicitly because it made a bunch of art judges look like fools.
When "Zionism" only means that Jews have a right to live in those lands, that's fine because Jews are indeed one of the "indigenous" inhabitants of them.

When "Zionism" also means that Jews can create a "Jewish State" that discriminates against non-Jewish indigenous inhabitants (e.g. through a racist "law of return") - this is a big problem.

That land must be shared..
I like and approve of analogue photography. I don't really like digital. It makes most images now. But large format photography is a challenge and requires a lot of skill, you have to get it right there at the moment of capture. There's something real about having been in a place, and done a physical thing to record a moment in a way. Digital just...everything's filtered... nothing feels real. And whilst you can do a LOT of darkroom tricks like slicing two negatives together and using filters to highlight things, there's a limit.

But again, It's what I like. Some will agree, some will not. I'm happy with what I like and see stacks of digital art I just find myself more drawn to non digital stuff.
It perhaps is a side effect of working with tech all day.
It's honestly like 99% marketing and 1% skill. The other day I saw a Vlog from a YouTube developer advocating to avoid else statements completely because it leads to 'cleaner code.' It will 'force you to make all your intentions clear.' But it also means duplicating a negative expression for every boolean that is to have an else which is tedious, unnecessary, and just ridiculous. This is the kind of garbage being given out for advice.

Most of the stuff I see is really just fortune cookie style bs that sounds useful but isn't. Blogs are actually a horrible source to learn from because they lack a systematized comprehensive framework for knowledge. I still love books or trying things out myself.
The Chinese would be the ones to sink American vessels first. You don't simply declare a blockade, you enforce it. By sinking American ships that don't accept your blockade.
"Some feared that painters would forever become obsolete with the advent of color photography. In some applications, photography replaced more laborious illustration methods (such as engraving), but human fine art painters are still around today."

Very tough business to make a living in now, though.
If you've used code/assets they've povided you, most likely not as they are the company's property by default (unless amongst then there is a license somewhere that states you can share, like MIT for code, or CC-BY for artwork).

You can however remove any such assets, replace then with your own, and as long as it has no trace of the provided content (nothing, not one line of code or a pixel, in the files, caches, or git history whatsoever) then it's your work and you can do whatever you want with it.

If they provided you nothing apart from instructions and you did everything from scratch then again, it's yours.

Unless you signed a commercial contract or NDA they can't claim ownership on that even if it was something they requested you to do.
Even though is intentionally deceiving, he didn't broke any rule.
> It's very very dumb legislation, and I think derives from a very odd facet of belief found in some American Protestant belief systems - that for Jesus to come back, the State of Israel has to exist.

Protestants and the Israeli lobby have always had a very symbiotic relationship.
> Are you prepared to do some very very fancy statistics?

I'd extend this with "... while understanding what you're doing?"

I've seen it so many times already, someone does some A/B-test and then presents a very fancy looking slide-deck with all kinds of crazy-looking math. But if you start to ask questions, it's all very obvious that they didn't really understood what they were doing and that very often it doesn't really matter to them in the first place; it's all about reaching a decision using some pseudo-scienty method that nobody dares to question because 'data' and 'science', without having to take responsibility.
On the contrary, I loved this video going into the details of the process.

I'm an engineer, and a huge nerd though, and I've always hated ratcheting screwdrivers with a passion for the poor quality.

I can't wait to try out one of these, if for nothing more than to pay for the LTT entertainment/content I enjoy.