skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can't deny that a black woman has had a vastly difference life experience than a white man

No. But two white men could also have vastly different life experiences, possibly even more different than between one white man and a black woman, depending on who they are.

If your primary goal is to increase intellectual diversity than you need to look at more than just race, gender, and sexual identity. And I don't think that would be a bad thing. But that's not to say that there aren't other goals of DEI, such as trying to offset the disadvantages faced by certain groups of people.
How can we counteract quiet quitting? Perhaps if an employee is fired due to performance that doesn’t match their peers they can be liable to pay back certain amount of wages from the past few weeks?
Any examples of that happening?
Haha, this reminds me, I used to work at a startup social network and I kept hearing from various people there that "people over 30 don't understand tech"; buddy, who do you think built the computer you're using and all of your software tools? :p
It's genuinely a fascinating case study in how a homogeneous mainstream media wields near-total control over public discourse. If they want to push a specific topic at a certain angle, by god they're going to do it, and unfortunately a lot of people are going to accept it mostly uncritically.
This feels like an attempt to shift public opinion in favor of return-to-work companies by attributing "laziness" to their employees. If you demonize workers as "lazy" you can treat them much worse then if they are viewed as the bread-winners.
People seem to be conflating "quiet quitting" with not doing the job/wanting to get fired (as can be seen from the Office Space example in the article), whereas the term refers to not going above and beyond at your job.

Quiet quitting = I am paid to do X, so I will do exactly X, not X + Δ needed for a promotion. If you want me to do more then pay me more.

The fact that people choosing to do this is newsworthy shows just how much corporate culture and corporate propaganda has taken over our society in the last few generations.
I agree. I think the answer to automotive safety is not more technology or more car. Instead, we need less car and more driver responsibility. Too many people take driving for granted and don't seem aware they're piloting a two-ton death machine through a shared space.

I drive a 28-year-old Saturn with zero gadgets and great rear visibility. I keep my lights on all the time to be seen, but nearly every week somebody tries to change lanes on top of me. I'm not sure if people are relying on their gadgets to tell them I'm in their blind spot, or if they just don't look where they're going, but I'm getting a louder horn before I end up wedged underneath an F250.
>Criminals are still required to pay taxes, they just aren't required to list its source

>they can't get then for the failure to register

A criminal filing an 8300 would be effectively "registering" their illegally owned money, including the source from who the money is received.
>However some of the conversations on the use of cannabis recently have changed from “it’s a drug, but it isn’t that bad” to “it is completely harmless”.

Or even worse, "it's nothing but beneficial!". And yes, I'm a semi-regular "user"
Awesome work! I love the care and attention that people put into understanding these devices.

I'm currently in the middle of a vintage synthesiser hacking project as well. Last year I made a fully annotated disassembly of the Yamaha DX7 firmware, and did some other technical analysis of the synth. Since then, I've been waiting for a chance to put this knowledge to good use. I found a DX9 on a local trading site, and I'm in the process of hacking its firmware to remove the 4-operator restriction that made it such an unpopular synth.
Weed is bad for you, what a shocker. Like all drugs you have to weigh the positive effects with the negative. Generally it's bad to do most rec drugs if pregnant or around kids.
I think it depends on what we mean for individualism. One can have a strong sense of individualism and still function well in society. An individual can still want to do their part. I think it's mostly a lack of honor or integrity - they'd rather put their name on a project and get credit for the work of others, or get a free ride on the bus.

For example, the boy scouts teach integrity, teamwork, and also self-reliance (individualism).
“ 6 exposures (unplanned pregnancy; maternal alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco use early in pregnancy; pregnancy complications; and birth complications) independently associated with significant but small increases in CBCL total score. Among these 6, none increased the odds of crossing the threshold for clinically significant symptoms by itself. However, odds of exceeding this threshold became significant with 2 exposures (OR = 1.86, 95% CI 1.47–2.36), and increased linearly with each level of exposure (OR = 1.39, 95% CI 1.31–1.47), up to 3.53-fold for ≥4 exposures versus none”
So all the people who die in the winter from exposure due to power failure in their homes are “just doing it wrong?” I can see that, you have to be pretty prepared to live below freezing for an extended period of time: eat lots of calories, avoid sweating, lots of clothing, etc. and most people don’t know any of that unless they’ve lived in the elements (like you and I, apparently). Convincing my family to live like that and training them to survive below-freezing temps inside their own house which is capable of keeping them warm with the push of a button … very unlikely.
I think the real problem- and something I'm hoping more research can help with- is that marijuana is a medicine for a lot of people. It prevents seizures, reduces or stops migraines, and (this one is really important considering the context) reduces nausea. Sometimes people have to balance between a bunch of crappy options.

This isn't always the case, of course, but it's hard to judge what someone is going through from the outside so I tend to just give the benefit of the doubt. What would be nice would be if we could figure out why cannabis helps with these issues and provide a more direct treatment.
They aren’t being arrested for being anti-monarchy though.

They are being arrested for being rude about it.

Was the fella on radio 4 who stated to the entire nation that ‘King Charles and his family should be put in a council house and that the Monarchy should be abolished’ arrested? No.

If you are going to attend a funeral, any funeral, be it the Queen’s or anyone else’s and hurl abuse or hold up signs with obscenities, you will be arrested.

There were arrests in which the arrestee has been unarrested, when the police made a mistake. Like the fella who stated that ‘we didn’t vote for him’ when King Charles was pronounced King.

You can, quite legally, protest the Monarchy. Being a dick about it and trying to upset people mourning will however be considered a breach of the peace or some other public order offence.
Consuming weed during pregnancy is against Tupac's Thug Life principles.
You can clock down a 7950x to 105W and it will be 37% faster than a 5950x
Prisma – Next-Generation Node.js and TypeScript ORM
I like this. These are good points.

I think it's worth noting that your position is not the same as GP's, however.

One small objection: I assume you lead with "of course" in your first sentence because that value is intuitive to you. It's intuitive to me, too, but I don't have an argument for why it's moral.
Certainly, the last two decades prove that raw metrics win advertising because the complicated world of benchmarks just don't sway many people.
Yet another fucking term to attempt to shovel the blame for disinterest onto the worker, rather than the management and executives who have done every single thing they can to optimize the worker to the cheapest point they could and cut them out of the decision process.
Somewhere around HN there is a guy that did just this for the 25G internet to his home, full talk with slide deck and all. I think he wrote some custom Go code to simplify running it as well.

In general though unless you need >10G you'll come behind on (good) COTS offerings in price and performance. Particularly if you need features like NAT or firewalling where software starts adding latency or performance cliffs at certain intervals while things like a low end Fortigate have high levels of hardware offload.
To be fair, in the 70s it was much harder to be productive as an engineer. You weren't writing javascript, you were writing fotran, or cobol, or assembly code, or C. Everything was much less "standard" than it was today, from processor instruction sets to compilers to system calls to source control, etc. It took A LOT of work to understand all the arcane knowledge and become productive. Nowadays, you can read some books, deploy your code to AWS where it runs with 99.99999999% x-platform consistency. The benchmark of being a senior engineer is not "p85 engineer" its "has demonstrated ability to deliver value at specified scope" and its just takes less time to learn everything you need to do that now. Can a person with 3 years XP be a senior? No, they can be a sophomore (think they know it all but mess everything up), but do you need 15 years experience to be a true senior, no you do not.
https://twitter.com/Caucasuswar/status/1569442525190180864 : MLRS barrage by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on Armenian positions
Completely agree I've been experimenting with an Img2Img workflow for rendering drawings https://twitter.com/P_Galbraith/status/1564940095777431552?t...
I’m beginning to learn. I believe I offended someone when I included the term “conservative” when describing my wife’s director.

I suppose that is unavoidable these days.
Like I already said, I picked a speed that completely falls within the stopping distance. So people couldn't claim they need it because they need to see an extra 200 feet to make up for the 25 or so in stopping distance.

Also, wouldn't the opposite be true? If I feel fine driving with my lows on all the time because I can see fine, then my vision is still acceptable. Whereas if one needs 50,000 lumen ultra-high intensity high beams to travel down a well-lit boulevard, maybe those people shouldn't be driving at night.
> You can't simultaneously argue that unsafe languages are categorically bad and also use unsafe rust as an argument against rust's limitations. Unsafe is either bad or it isn't.

Why not? Rust has unsafe programming as opt-in; and the unsafe stuff is delimited with language constructs.

A nuanced argument is possible like that situation is better than unsafe computation with no opt-out, requiring very careful programming plus ad hoc tooling.
The context is that of an early stage startup.

At that point most products are basic enough for developers to test the product themselves.

And if the codebase is undergoing lots of churn and heavy refactoring then tests unquestionably will slow you down.

Maybe it is better to only begin automated tests when you reach product-market-fit.
>I am not going to try to define art, but sometimes we refer to art as illustration, or stock images (what SD puts in danger) and some as broad modern art.

A note here, the term "modern art" is usually used to define a period of art produced sometime between 1860-1960. When discussing artwork created today (or since about 1950), most would define that as "contemporary art".
> we are standing on the shoulders of giants, those who have built and battle-tested it, and brought it to its current mature state

I would rewrite this maybe to:

> we are making Google's internal problems into everyone's problems

There are benefits to an IDL in the abstract, but an IDL for everyone should be built with the benefit of hindsight looking at the lessons of protobuf, ion, thrift, etc. Not just baking Google's internal backwards compatibility obligations into a formal spec everyone should follow.

I think any time google takes an internal tool and flips the "open source" bit on it, it turns out to be a bad match for the rest of the world. When they instead take the time to build a new system that learns from the internal tool, like Kubernetes learned from Borg, I think the end result is significantly more valuable.
Please read prior comment

"and that you couldn't pay that tax without registering"
An ATM isn't a dog either.

Executing code isn't free speech. The code may be. The execution not so much.
How much that productivity has increased due to automatization of laborous tasks ?

> Data are for compensation (wages and benefits) of production/nonsupervisory workers in the private sector and net productivity of the total economy.

Why pay more when a machine can do the same cheaper ? Its pure capitalism.
"Sadly, the research also confirms a large-scale loss of our planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems, particularly in the tropical rainforests."

Single species trees planted for paper is not the same as native trees and ecosystems that existed for 1000s years and that we keep destroying for some IKEA furniture
Cannabis is a vasodilator, among many other things.
I think the idea is that timber is a lot less labor intensive. Agriculture almost certainly produces more $ per M^2, but it takes a lot of work planting, fertilizing, and harvesting every year. Timber plantings, judging by what the above commenter wrote, probably consists of planting saplings from a tree nursery then waiting a decade or two for them to mature.
The actual title is "Shikitega - New stealthy malware targeting Linux"

Please don't editorialize, per Hacker News guidelines.
morning sickness, the alternatives such as zofran come with their own complications
> They aren’t being arrested for being anti-monarchy though.

> They are being arrested for being rude about it.

Got it. Arrested for poor taste.

Hard to see the justification for that in a democracy?
A lot of medications need to be discontinued during pregnancy.

All of the women I know who are bipolar absolutely do not want to become pregnant because they would need to stop taking all of their medication.
It's about 5% of pregnant women, while about 14% of women report smoking cannabis, and the rate is significantly higher under age 55:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/284135/percentage-americans-smo...

So probably about 20% of women who may become pregnant smoke marijuana, and 75% of them stop when pregnant, before adjusting for whether they are aware of the pregnancy. There are usually a few irresponsible individuals in any group.
"You’re still performing your duties but you’re no longer subscribing to hustle culture"

Why is it called quitting at all? That's just... doing your job. Work-to-rule is a form of sabotage where one in fact doesn't adequately perform while maintaining formal obligations, but the idea of "quiet quitting" is as I understand it from this article is to perform your duties in good faith, just not more. I thought it was called work-life balance.
It is the intolerable conditions that need fixing.

You make a tired stereotypical argument that better pay attracts and retains better people: the idea that money can fix all problems is a thoughtless crutch.

Better pay retains those people that despite the intolerable working conditions, people who slavishly force themselves to remain. Why presume there is a correlation between teaching ability and slavishness?

The argument that better pay attracts better people makes little sense for jobs that people desire regardless of pay: becoming a teacher is often a calling. the great teachers I know are not necessarily academic (high GPA) achievers, instead they have a passion for teaching children, and they learn skills that are not testable by written exams.

You yourself even point out that money is not the issue: “young college graduates [leave] the profession within the first five years because of how stifling the bureaucracy [is]”.

Most private preschool teachers in New Zealand work for nearly minimum wage, and I have friends who are teaching preschoolers (under 5 year old). These are smart, motivated, dedicated women working long hours and they remain in the profession earning little: even those that move up the preschool career ladder earn well below equivalent jobs in other industries.

In New Zealand teachers of 5+ year olds get paid a more reasonable salary. I have many friends that remain teachers for decades mostly because of the joy and satisfaction they get from the job, not because they are tied to the job by money or lack of opportunity.

Fix the conditions, not the pay.

Edited: improved writing.
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I'll give you a case where this is true if you're prototyping something new and need to keep changing fundamental things like the data model.

I have nearly 100% unit test coverage for a couple of the base libraries I've created, but yeah, writing tests was slowing me down significantly for the rest.

Once I have something where chunks of the application aren't being scrapped every other week, I'll start adding unit tests to it too.
This is a backlash from anti-cannabis disinformation. People were told lies about how dangerous it is for decades, and now people don't know what to believe.
I’m all for this. My compensation is very performance based and the highest performers get the biggest payout. When people do this is makes it much easier for me to get a bigger chunk of their bonus.

It’s cynical, but it’s honest.
I saw a man with a device similar to a gameboy, it was a M8 Tracker.
He showed a little and talked about music trackers. As a person far from music production, my mind was blown away. All week I searched on youtube everything about: Music Trackers(M8, Renoise, Milky Tracker, SunVox), Ableton, VSTs, Pure Data, Touch Designer, Synthesizers, etc I don't know what to do with this information, but it seems I will have a new hobby.
That's not accurate.

You said you knew of lots of good criticisms against a position, and I asked you what they were.

I'm saying that I can't make out what it is about article's position that you're saying is bad. Since you mentioned opposition who are animated by the author's position, I'm asking: "Who are the opposition? What does animate them?"[1] The fact that I don't know and couldn't figure out what you're referring to is the premise of the subthread. (And not false premise—like a contrived exercise.) Asking me to "come up" with arguments is different from asking you to say what you already have on your mind. Asking for me to come up with them when premise is that I've already articulated an inability to make sense of what's presented so far is another level removed from that, still.

1. It's actually not even different from the first question—just two different sets, and me asking, what are the sets' members? since you alluded to knowledge of them.
“ We created and use Growthflags to implement feature flags. ”
As the article mentions, I fail to see why this is even a thing.

The only reasonable explanation is the meme was birthed by TikTok and then self-justified by traditional media repeating it enough. Thus, it is no surprise that it doesn’t reflect reality.
Power consumption doubled at least even on mainstream and keep increasing gen over gen.

1070 vs 3070 is +52٪ average (145 vs 220w) and +66% (154 vs 250w) sustained.

2070 vs 3070 is +10% (195) or +24% (203) sustained.

Even the 3060 you defend draws power as older flagships and 500w arent enough even for mainstream gaming.

And it keeps getting worse both on gpu and cpu size.

We aren't technologists but consumers, and reality is that x86 and gpus are in near duopolys so the 3 companies involved have little reasons to do a better job and it's clear Apple socs or more and more cloud moving into arm have not been enough of wake up calls.
Well, you may be killed but that's incidental to whatever speech you're practicing; you'll just be killed for your wallet.
Quiet quitting == millennials so detached from reality they post things on social media instead of grabbing their manager for 1-1 about work/life balance and mutual expectations.
This is nonsense. The NoI advocates genocide, committed the Hanfai massacare, and numerous other atrocities.
Cost of an ebike:

Ebike (amortized over 5 year): $2000/(5*12) = $33.33
$150/year maintenance
$20/year electricity (made this number up... it's small whatever it is)

Which works out to about $47/month.

Cost of a car:

Car payment: $300/month
Insurance: $1500/12 = $125/month
Gas: $62/month (your estimate)
Maintenance: $500/year (again just spitballing - this is low from my experience but idk what the average is)

Comes to: $529/month

The difference $529-47 = $482. Now, idk where you live, but the cost of living a 30min bike ride out from downtown vs a 30min drive is definitely not 10x that $500ish monthly cost. For most people in most areas it's going to be in the range of 1x to 5x. You can quibble with my numbers if you like, but I'm definitely somewhere in the ballpark for most people. You might spend a little less on the car and more on maintenance, or more on the car and less on repairs, etc.

And of course none of this takes into account your time. I've always tried my best to live under 20min commute from work, with my best being 5min, and to me saving that time has always been worth the smaller living spaces I've had to accept to get that. When you're talking about dense cities, that last 10-20min of your driving-commute is usually related to traffic and parking - which you can bypass freely by riding. I suspect if you live 20min drive out and 20min cycle out you're talking about the same distance.
This is also the fundamental problem hiring managers/directors/recruiters face. Engineers are good at identifying patterns and patterns in different apps across different industries like CRUD apps is one of them. Once an engineer realizes many of these companies are doing similar things, there aren’t really compelling reasons to leave. Sure there are “mission” values of a company but really when it comes down to it as long as its not that industry (which will vary per personal experience) then as long as people are treated decently why leave?
Yeah, Twine devs definitely treat it like their own baby. Not a bad thing per se but act accordingly.
There are huge geopolitical forces fighting to preserve the Amazon. The cost of deforestation is quantified and states pay millions if not billions (I forget the numbers) to people in order to leave it untouched.

Of course, it's political and 'we're not doing enough,' etc. but individuals have more influence over the Amazon than most things.

Great podcast on the subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-i-mostly-admire...
The Kawai K5 I used to have was also 8096 based.
My favorite example is differentiating between blueberry muffins and chihuahuas. :)
This, 100%.

Of course, to get a specialization you have to become an expert. No one is going to pay you for that. There are more ways in than just out of university, but they typically require a lot of additional work/effort.

A buddy of mine always wanted to make games. He's done it successfully... after several years working on "normal" software in Big Tech, he successfully transitioned to the games industry and is now a graphics engine expert. Victory! But it took a long time to get there: he had to learn a LOT in his spare time, and then it's been ~10 years of crappy underpaid jobs (with multiple layoffs!) for him to finally build up enough industry cred to where he can do the work he loves and get paid well for it.
Fat is an essential macronutrient.