skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd previously bought into the meritocracy argument, but was eventually convinced to update those beliefs when presented with a new perspective. If you only look at the end-result, then meritocracy makes sense. But the trajectory which each person takes in order to arrive at that destination can vary wildly depending on how priviledged of a lifestyle you were born into.

It's entirely possible to pick up and develop the required skills while on the job in many cases. Companies ultimately end up benefiting from this by spreading out the responsibility of training people, which results in a stronger more robust workforce.
Yes, if you buy a framework today it should come with the new hinges.
I agree there are many other factors in play, but the question is how do those factors compare with population? We can answer this objectively, or at least as objectively as equating GDP with economy, allows us to do. This [1] is a list of countries by their GDP per capita. It's quite surprising how closely all countries tend to fall together. The difference between Greece and the US in terms of economic output per person is less than a factor of 4.

With China having well over 4x the population of the US, this sets a more visual benchmark: should China achieve the aggregate output/capita of Greece, they will have overcome the US economy. Of course the catch is we're speaking in nominal terms. Looking at something like the GDP per capita, in PPP terms [2], can help indicate how difficult a journey this will entail. A country like South Korea has a low GDP but is likely hitting closer to the tail end of their rapid growth phase. In spite of having a very low nominal GDP, they have a very strong domestic economy with an output/capita rivaling the West, in terms of local spending power. There is less low hanging fruit, for them to pick, than their GDP would suggest.

But China is in a different bucket. Their economic output remains low per capita in both PPP and nominal terms. They have substantial room for rapid upward growth and continue to go in that direction. They will certainly overcome the US, and in the longer term picture they will likely end up with a larger economy than the US and EU combined. I'm anything but a cheerleader for this outcome, but I don't see any realistic scenario where this isn't the case.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
“Non-imperialist”? What?
> Apple devices as a whole makes me feel like someone who I’d hate to become.

Definitely reason enough to avoid them. I sometimes feel nostalgic for the look/sound/vibe of early personal computing. Yesterday I watched this and briefly contemplated how it would be if computing today looked more like AppleWorks and chonky keyboards instead of black mirrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xtBspMixHk

> But I would love for my phone to just be a concrete brick that can spit out thermal printed slips of paper with messages on it as text messaging and emails. And if only voice calls were a distributed mesh of Solo cups and strings.

Not quite what you're describing, but this brings Brazil to mind for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU
This has been bugging me more and more recently - the assumption that if I've copied a few words from one app then pasted it into another it means I want to preserve all the formatting is wrong 99% of the time, yet there are now popular web-based apps (Confluence being one example from memory) that don't even support "paste as plain text". Actually what I typically want is "smart paste" which implies preserving changes in the formatting, and supporting e.g. hyperlinks etc., but ignoring whatever formatting attributes happened to be active at the beginning of the selection. But I'd rather lose support for rich text paste entirely over the situation we have now.
sorry, how did you draw this/
Rogue individuals can come to any website and post death threats. How the moderation team reacts historically or in the present has no bearing on that. The reason why it hasnt happened to HN is simply because no one started a targeted campaign to shut it down yet.
Why downvotes? That's true. Note how carefully the woke steer away from the topic of hereditary wealth.
My laptop before frame.work was a Dell 7480 with more ports than the frame.work.

But on my Dell two of those ports the USB-C and the RJ45 no longer work anymore and I can't fix them ...

Something that won't happen (at least not as fast) on my frame.work.
Where, in deep russia ?

3kW is typical kitchen power.
This yeah, and the Thinkpad has a better keyboard and great matte displays. The latter is a must-have for me. Even the versions with touch are matte!
I don’t see why there is so much emphasis on years. I have 15 years experience myself but I’ve met people with 5 years that were clearly superior to me at leading large scale engineering efforts.
For me it's getting to the point of it feeling like a grind.

Yes, all things considered, my current pay is good. Looking around the market, it is on par with some more niche roles and around MAANG level here in London.

The closer I get to top pay possible for the skillset as an IC, the less I'm interested in yet another role doing exactly the same.
Can someone explain to a novice how “AI” is used here? Is the person in the IG image being correlated to a security camera time stamp with face recognition or similar?
Which drive are you currently using? I bought the external Archgon drive but never got to the flashing part.
Hopefully no, and good riddance.

As edifices, they are better suited to being campuses for any number of other things, and the sooner we get out of the habit of creating endless ziggurats for mindless bland LCD consumerism the better.

I'm all for the model of town/city planning that actually builds communities and neighborhoods; use the building for affordable art studios, performing spaces, community centers, small business incubation, etc. Pure feckless retail doesn't cut it.
A "senior" title often equates to a pay range in companies. This can lead to employees that want/need to get paid more (and leadership wanting to retain/hire them) getting a senior title without the expected experience.
The above comment seems to be making a distinction that braking force comes from the tires or the brakes. That is not how it works.

The brakes provide friction to resist the spinning of the wheel, but of course only to the point that the tire can provide grip (friction) against the road surface.

Picture trying to brake with slick tires on wet ice. Nearly zero tire grip equals nearly zero braking force. Doesn't matter what kind of brake components are on the car. No grip = no grip.

If you want to be able to stop quickly to avoid accidents you need to maximize grip a the tire-road contact patch and you need to have a braking system powerful enough to fully take advantage of that grip.

Every car sold for decades now already has the latter (unless something is broken, obviously), so the variable you need to control is tire grip.

Thus: Buy the grippiest tires you can afford to run (if you want optimal braking to avoid accidents, that is).
Except that if you started that old CPU 40 years ago a modern CPU would be developed years later and then started, then woild quickly overtake the depth to which your old CPU could have ground the problem to. Yes you can learn anything given time, but you will die before that.
Switzerland is not a member of the EU
I'm not getting that implication. They are saying that, on occasion, HR tries to shove a resume down his throat on the basis of race/sexuality when the applicant is lacking experience. That, in no way, leads me to extrapolate any kind of volume one way or another.
Berlin might be considered bike friendly but it's very far from being a good city to bike in, I regularly travel there with my bike and can compare with other European cities:
- You can get around but bike paths on sidewalks are very badly maintained
- Bike paths across major streets (such as the lanes on Skalitzer Straße, Karl-Marx Straße, etc.) suck balls.
- Cars are often stopped on the bike lane as it's not separated from the road like in the Netherlands, and Germany being so car-centric it's allowed to stop over bike lanes.
- There are many cobblestones streets to rattle you around, no separate bike lanes on sidewalks for those.
- Often, bike lanes on sidewalks are very bumpy due to tree roots' undergrowth.
- Bike lanes in general are very poorly separated from other traffic even though the city has quite a lot of space to properly separate pedestrians, bikes and cars.

I do enjoy Berlin to bike as it's extremely flat but the infrastructure is not even close to good. In Stockholm I have some issues with maintenance and some bike lanes in the center but its infrastructure is much more inviting to biking than Berlin. Sharing a 50-60km/h road with cars just separated by a painted line is not great.
I can see the point of one, maybe two expansion slots. But not the way they did it with four and only four ports.

Edit: Also, this ethernet expansion card this thread is about also physically hangs off the laptop.
True diversity would mean having to accept, even welcome, a MAGA wearing redneck onto the board of a black university. Therefore diversity discussions (almost always) are not about "diversity for everyone", but instead it's social cudgel for one side to use against another.
My mirrors are practically useless at night because there's always some idiot with their highs on shining right in them.

You should see an eye doctor about that. My mother had the same issue and it turned out to be a serious problem.
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At least one USB-C should be standard (not modular) though. That way you can always charge it easily without the modules installed.
'Were'

That's the thing with decline... Something WAS good until it wasn't.
It sort of turns the age old philosophical question on its head.

Instead of asking "Would you let the AI out of the box?" we need to start worrying about "Would someone even bother to put the AI in the box to begin with?".

The temptation from now on will always be to think "Well, the previous AI wasn't dangerous when we gave it access to the internet, so why should we be paranoid about this new one, which only has a couple of extra optimisations...".
I don't understand how sex orientation plays a pivotal role in job performance. Oh well, that thought alone puts me in alt-right group, I guess.
> triple HDMI, double Ethernet, or triple MicroSD readers

Is that really the niche that Framework is targeting? I thought it was meant to be a generally appealing laptop with expansion options like laptops used to have.

How much physical space does 1TB of NAND really take up anyway?
Brand stores also seem very popular, just look at Apple. Maybe you will buy your $1K phone on-line but you may want to take a look at it somewhere.

Many people goes to a shop to look at products and then buy them on-line. That is not sustainable as the shop has the high-cost of physical presence but it is losing business to on-line.

Alibaba is not going to open big stores for people to peruse around nor is Amazon. So, the only ones interested in showing product for free to users are the makers of that products.

Even with very generous return policies is a pain in the ass to buy things and return them back again and again because they are not exactly what you wanted. To go to the store and browse all products in one sit is not only more efficient but many people enjoys the experience.
Shelve shipped with mercurial 2.8 in 2013. Prior to that there were several third party extensions that did similar.

But it’s a good example of why mercurial was better. It’s more ergonomic. All of the parameters on shelve match what you’d see on other hg commands and to shelve and unshelve you use those commands, not pop and push. You can also give short names to shelves for use in the ui, not just the message or sha.
If you want to convince someone of something, absolutely it does.
That must be why it's a coincidence, then, because it's a date in the year that surely some people must have birthdays, anniversaries, etc. on. I didn't think that was unusual for dates, though.
Why unsending might be useful for anybody?
P4 was just plainly inferior architecture, this is not that. "Just" outdated one
> The police will quickly come to the determination that it's safer for their members to actually put through the legal system as offenders than walking free on the street.

I don't think that's how this scenario would turn out. Policing would just move explicitly to counter insurgency operations. Laws would change as necessary to give authorities whatever tools they need to do it.
> I’ve had little luck of going for roles that do not directly correlate with my current experience. It seems that recruiters have very little interest in talking about any roles other than ones that fit my current stack exactly (node/react/python).

Yes! so frustrating! this is the reason why I left SF Bay Area circa 2016. No one wanted to talk about what I wanted to do next and my prof interests. Only about past experience and existing skills that I could immediately contribute.

I started my career as a fullstack dev doing crud at startups. Eventually I got interested in FP and learned Haskell in my free time. Then little bit of Scala. After I got laid off from a startup, I knew that FP and/or large scale systems was what I wanted to work on next and wasn't willing to compromise.

Eventually a F500 company with an office in Portland OR agreed to hire me as a contractor because they were looking for strong FPers to program in Scala and local programmer market was almost non-existent.

That's how I pivoted to working on distributed systems and products with millions of users, and never looked back.

Generalized advice: learn a skill with a high barrier to entry that is also in demand.
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> I leave as an exercise to the reader considering why the Democrat party does not support the above policies, while the Republican party does.

Simple, because these policies don’t threaten the status quo.
Beside the rudeness of your comment

I don't see anything rude about it, but YMMV.

it is already implemented for different reasons in professional sports

Yes, I'm quite aware. The thing is, athletes who choose to, say, play in the NFL voluntarily accept the terms of the agreement between the NFL and the NFLPA. If they don't like it, they can get a job doing something else.

I was just extending this concept for all professionals

And that's the problem. Who's going to tell someone what their universal "salary cap" is - and what possible standing could they have to make such an assertion? Who has any standing to tell me I can't negotiate whatever terms I can reach with a prospective employer? Or maybe I do purely service based work where the more hours I work, the more $$$ I make. Who can tell me that there's a limit (other than that imposed by physical reality) to how many hours I can work?

will somehow discourage people from running this rat race and accumulating so much wealth.

Maybe some people like the rat race? Or at least find the prospective reward sufficiently motivating so as to justify participation. As long as its voluntary, it's really no one else's business.

It will inevitably put in every person mind the idea of work and personal life balance.

Great. But for me, that's my decision to make, not yours, or anyone else's. This is my life and I'm the one in control. Likewise I have no standing to dictate the terms of how you live your life.
USB-C / Thunderbolt dongles are modular, that's why this seems sort of silly.
If you're a professional programmer, it would be the same as asking you as a full stack developer to develop a monolith in a datacenter using java on Windows this year and then next year asking you to develop microservices in Python using linux on Kubernetes.

The high level skills are similar, but the details are all different.
A lot of people are getting really hung up on this. "Modern Rust" is just current Rust. Once Rust moves on, that will be modern Rust and what we once called modern will no longer be modern. Like all things. You might as well get upset that somebody said something will happen "tomorrow" because in 24 hours it won't be "tomorrow" anymore.
I'm not an expert in this field, but I had never heard of this as a standard ontological structure. I can't find any solid description of it either, are there any references you can share?

I thought that it gets complicated because you can have concepts of concepts, and you can have both categories of concepts and concepts of categories etc etc. It ends up being more than 3 layers, and you get layer violations and loops etc.
At least in my experience, SFP-form-factor ports have been ridiculous in terms of the heat that they generate. They're flexible, yes, but power and thermal demands make them impractical for anything that isn't wired to A/C and blowing lots of air.
I pay ~$500/month for "pretty good" health insurance, and my employer pays roughly the same (a "benefit" that the employer pays 'half'! /s )

And then you have to pay small fees when you go visit a doctor ($25-ish each time), pay for medications (expensive). Emergency room swipes your credit card before a doctor even sees you ($150 co-pay for my plan). Pay thousands for an MRI (that the insurance company has graciously negotiated down 95%!)
> I have nothing but respect for the talent it takes to create something that is valuable on its own (contrast with modern art, not valuable without of the context of its social network)

All art is only valuable within the context of its social network. If you leave the Mona Lisa in the woods, the only real "value" it will hold is as a shelter for bugs.

I think what really bothers you here is about which social networks define the value for certain kinds of art. High technical skill art in service of mass media artifacts like videogames and films is sort of the most "democratic" of uses of art. Almost everyone can perceive its value and it asks little of the consumer in return.

Contemporary art, the kind of stuff people here on HN hate, is different. It is deliberately created to provide value only to the small set of people with the context to appreciate it. It's sort of a continuation of a very long conversation that if you haven't been on the inside of, you miss out on. That leads naturally to valid claims of elitism. (The fact that it's also used as a large scale money laundering enterprise by the very rich certainly doesn't help.)

The unfortunate part is that the collateral damage this inflicts on the general idea of niche art. Anyone who has ever created can tell you that the more specific of an audience you target, the more deeply your art can move them. If you're trying to write a song that a billion people will like, it can only be about the most banal of platitudes. Now write a song about what it's like to lose one's spouse to alcoholism and turn to drinking to deal with it. Few people can relate to it, but the ones who can, well, you can pierce their soul.

The idea that you need context to understand a piece of art is totally valid and one of the most important tools an artist has at their disposal. Likewise, it's not a failing when a piece of art only aims for a small targeted audience. Don't let the snobbery and elitist trash of the contemporary art scene taint those concepts.
> And frankly I'd rather have the black woman on the team to offer that perspective, especially for product decisions, because they might have interesting things to say.

Doesn't this seem like a weird thing to say? How do you know that? Isn't this the definition of stereotyping? Is every question going to be of the form "as a black woman, what do you think about X?" And why is it okay to assume that white people don't have interesting things to say?
> I think you're missing the point.

No, I just think it's a quote that (if true) is easy to misinterpret, e.g.:

1. The best managers may have been reluctant managers, but that doesn't mean all reluctant managers are the best or even good.

2. The changes that reluctant manager may want to implement may not actually be good ones, because of concerns outside of their previous lower-level scope.

3. A reluctant manager may not actually have the personality for being a manager, and may become mediocre to terrible because what they have to do to be a manager is a heavier burden on them than it would be on other people.
I see the same thing in Intel vs AMD servers, AMDs are like 3x the power on idle
I can rattle some off, I guess? Institutional DEI can be elitist, furthering the interests of well-off credentialed people at the expense of those it claims to help; performative; a way of short-circuiting real debates about values that are uncomfortable or that cut against elite interests; largely defined in terms relevant to competing groups of rich white people; a surreptitious way of laundering policy arguments that have nothing to do with righting past injustices ("equity-washing"); counterproductive, in the sense of organizing and motivating opposition to social justice by adopting the language least persuasive to those who need to be persuaded, and, further, by reducing the effectiveness of organizations that would otherwise naturally work to reduce inequality. I'm sure there's a bunch more.

You're asking that question, I assume, as a bid for a show of good faith that I'm not just knee-jerking anything that opposes "diversity" efforts. That's fair enough! I don't know that we want to litigate the whole concept, though; I'm just here to point out a really bad argument.
While I do run a separate business on the side (brewing drinks), it does not help if the "job that makes the money" has close to no excitement.

Getting through work hours is just that much harder.
> Your first paragraph sounds like you're talking about cars.

Every single person no matter how old, poor, or disabled can utilize roads meant for vehicles year round. There is no "public transportation" for bike lanes.

Every single person no matter how old, poor, or disabled can utilize sidewalks even if that means assistive devices like wheelchairs.

This is not true of bike lanes at all. My grandmother even with a try-wheel and fully electric would still be unable to use the bike lane. People seem to forget that one of the ways people can become disabled as they age is balance.

Infrastructure that accommodates bikes is a good thing, dedicated infrastructure for them isn't.
I actually think this is resonance they talk about in the last section rather than the hinges themselves. The angle at the bottom of the screen doesn't change, it's the top that flexes back and forward. Coupled with the reflective screen it makes focusing on the monitor really hard when it's on a mount to be at eye height (my Thinkpad and a Dell have no problems on the same mount).
[Casinos] don't have the intent to aid in these activities though, which is why they are allowed to operate.

Casinos are allowed to operate because not only do they not have the intent to aid these activities, they happily track and report everything they're required which is just as much as a bank is required. They aren't the hotbed of money laundering you seem to think they are.

https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidan...

https://casinogrounds.com/blog/know-your-customer-gambling/
This strategy can lead to career stagnation. Good software engineers should be willing to accept unpleasant assignments, like analyzing and fixing bugs under pressure. Fixing bugs in other people’s code be difficult and stressful, especially if there is a critical failure in code that is already in production. If you are consistently being asked to perform emergency fixes on code you did not write, then the company has a big problem. If management doesn’t have a plan to fix the fundamental problems then you should find a new job, or you will wake up one day and realize that you just spent the last three years fixing other people’s mistakes.