skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I experienced this playing freeorion while listening to Carbon Based Lifeforms as a kid.

A few ambient tracks from CBL made me tear up: they used field recordings of the world (birds, children, trees, cities), woven through low frequency drones and rifts. It would sort of create a distance between the recording samples, and then, through sound, you zoom out, glide, become ephemeral in the face of the planet, like a cloud.

Freeorion primed my mind to think in some detail about a reduced form of state-level strategy (as 4x games tend to do). I realized that the first 10 rounds were highly predictive of success for the next 100 rounds, and so forth, so I understood that my actions could have the same non-linearity and influence (and the predictive power of that influence was based on my model of the world, which is easy in a 4x game but difficult in meatspace).

Combined, I saw in detail the cybernetic flows around the world… i was a world systems thinker. it’s taken some work not to pop my head out of frustration.

Now that part of me is applied to more localized systems and small things: seeds around me that grow via the world into things i may never witness directly, and putting out small fires around me that I hope to never witness as big fires. Memes, basically (or anti-memetic memes? Not so sure).
You seem to be confused. There is zero doubt that the two parents understand that one is legal and the other illegal, hence they are quite clearly discussing the topic from a moral standpoint.

Anyway, surely you don't think legal discrimination necessarily moral discrimination? After all, Jim Crow was perfectly legal.
Sure, but it’s usually not like that though. All the people who get into med-school are talented even though the selection process was unfair in this regard.

Like I said, this can be an overall good. For example, let’s say I run a small software shop where everybody is male. Now, it’s not likely that a woman would accept a job offer because of the environment. So if I were the boss I’d hold off on hiring until I can get three people at the same time and work hard to make all of them women, to the point I wouldn’t look at male applicants. After that the workplace would hopefully be more balanced and for the next hire gender wouldn’t matter.

Is this unfair towards the men applying? It absolutely is, and that’s why I would only consider this as a one-time thing for a clear and specific goal.

This is in the context of a small private company, I believe nationwide policies need specific goals and targets infinitely more.
Okay, let's play the silly analogies game.

Some people from group A enjoy running and can run fast, therefore join marathons and are good at it.

Some people from group B enjoy playing table tennis and have great reflexes, therefore join table tennis tournaments and are good at it.

Some other people realise that marathons have way more A people than B people, and since marathons are prestigious they force equal ratio of A/B people in marathons, effectively reducing the overall quality of marathons and keeping A people (who would thrive) out of them.

Everyone is unhappy, except the ones who forced the outcome and the ones who got into the prestigious sport without deserving it.
You utterly misunderstand, but you’re not alone. Cars will store energy in the form of electricity instead of storing gasoline. Whether they give some back to the grid or not, this represents a huge storage of energy.

Your refill takes you 5 minutes but my refill takes me 5 seconds. Which is faster?
A tail of nice marble runs
And you think racism has nothing to do with that being the case? Meaning why do you think a country as successful as Japan is not filled with a diversity of immigrants from other races?
Unesco List of Libraries and Archives Destroyed in the 20th Century (1996) [pdf]
Whilst it uses a lot of Latin words (mostly via French), English is actually a Germanic language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek
>I’ve never had a background check for any US job I’ve had

How would you know? That said, I suspect I have not as the first one was out of school and the few other jobs I've had were all from people I knew.
If you want to copy stuff from Vim, it's better to use "+y .
Specifically in software, hiring is still not particularly objective, despite a decade+ of trying now. We still aren’t good at making truly objective interviews - it’s really hard, I’ve been involved in hiring at many companies and it’s just not an exact science.
Ironically, the most objective hiring practices are the most hated(including by me) - lowest-common-denominator leetcode style formulaic questions with defined answers with little interpretation required by the interviewer
What guys? Did they ever exist? Can you name a prominent “prescriptivist linguist”?

I’m pretty sure there was never a “prescriptivist school” of linguistics, or if there was it was never mainstream. There have been prescriptive grammarians of course but AFAIK they never called themselves “linguists”.
That’s not how citations work. Can’t prove a negative. It’s on YOU to provide proof because you’re the one making the assertion that future racial discrimination fixes past injustice (which I wholeheartedly disagree with).
Fortunately, we don't need to explain why no one is buying ThinkPads, because people still are. My laptop is specced at 64GB and 4TB, fwiw.

I'm content with explaining why they aren't as popular, since they so clearly remain a good choice for a smaller group of developers. I don't know anyone using a ThinkPad who isn't enthusiastic about it.
And yet GPS trackers people can slap on cars have been a thing for over 2 decades. My point in the second paragraph is that regardless of how good or bad the safeguards the big company implements are, someone will be able to either abuse it or repurpose/reimplement the technology to perform malicious acts.
I actually meant to include a note at the end...

- There's no group I've seen of that say git isn't powerful

- The group that doesn't want to use a CLI at all doesn't generally participate in this conversation (about the CLI), because they'd rather see a visual tool build on top of it that. (I know a lot of people in this group; I'm not, but I respect where they're coming from)
Max Tegmark on why there's now a 1-in-6 chance of an imminent global Nuclear War
Not even remotely comparable.

- PayPal is trying to be a wallet for online payments
- Stripe is payment infrastructure for the world
i mean, that's actually a lot more praise worthy than accidentally killing a patient or exploding yourself in a chemistry lab.

if your web app is so efficient it solves a handful of their problems effectively in a timely manner, you are giving other people more time to allot on their hobbies passions friends families and lovers. that alone is impact itself.
What an astounding string of assertions. Maybe you should heed your own advice?
> It’s been discussed on HN before...

Yes, it has been used on HN as a bludgeon but the reality is a little different!

Yes, the ancient caste system still exists in India. But today it is only relevant when it comes to politics and marriage. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-no...
> Tracking behaviour is useful to ensure the site is working

If that's the only way you can tell the site is working, then something's obviously wrong.

> There is nothing wrong with that

Indeed, there's nothing wrong with that, except that I'm not OK with cookies that are served by third-parties, or by some framework or analytics script that you've thrown onto the site.
This entire comment section seems to have gone down the drain to Reddit-tier exchanges. People giving their own false commentary on broad topics just for the sake of it without even trying to understand contexts, this is totally not expected on HN.
There's no way that it would be a good idea to choose a system (ranked choice) that has more complex rules while having known defects over an alternative, simpler system (approval voting) that apparently (based on Wikipedia's short discussion) lacks those defects and has an overall favorable performance when it comes to resistance against tactical voting. FWIW reading the decision rules for ranked choice puts me off.

Purely in theory, one would probably prefer a system where all voters have to rank all the candidates; in practice, however, all of voting, validating, counting, applying the rules, and understanding the rules is significantly more difficult than approval voting where a candidate's points is simply the number of times a voter has marked their name on the ballot. You can (generally or for more important decisions) amend approval voting with a quorum, minimum percentage of approval, or minimal distance between first and second places without damaging the system with too much complexity, something I cannot even fathom how to achieve with ranked choice.
Well, I learned it by watching HBO, so it can't be that hard...
> how tiny each satellite is

That's true for v1 satellites, but the v2 (to be launched with Starship) are huge.

> it's just a conspiracy theory

Its open knowledge that SpaceX is building these custom military satellites for the military (Space Development Agency). Not a secret at all.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
I suspect the divide is more between product managers and developers ;)
Unfortunately not hiring married women with kids or asking women about their plan to have kids, not hiring older candidates or candidates with sick family members is a common practice in India. Glad that these evil companies are being called out in other parts of the world
From personal experience, I've heard plenty of caste-based insults when I was there a decade or so ago, as well as other forms of prejudice. This manifests most explicitly when it comes to marriages I think, but it would be naïve to assume nepotism, and by extension caste-based discrimination, doesn't proliferate to other aspects of life.
Hyperogue is another great one with hyperbolic geometry. It really drives home the point of how much more area there can be within a given distance on a hyperbolic plane. It's quite easy to get lost and be unable to retrace your steps in just a few moves.
The difference between stable diffusion and GPT-3 is the former is open source, meaning you don't have to pay tributes to one party.

The barrier entry to developing apps on top of Diffusion is higher because you have to setup GPU instances. It's quite expensive, compared to OpenAI's GPT-3 where you can just use their API.
I feel like I am the only one in the world not liking typescript. It is not that I don't like types, it is what those types do to the readability of the codebase in terms of verbosity. My original programming language was Java but I switched to Node.js because I liked the simplicity of the code written in it. Nowadays every Javascript project seems worse than a Java project in terms of verbosity.

My main gripe with projects becoming verbose is that the code becomes hard to understand at a glance. Functions that usually could be 10 lines are now 15 lines becomes of the formatter and each line looks more gibberish because everything has a type. You have to manually filter out that noise. The best way I can describe it is that entropy is increased in order to get type safety.
I still believe with proper discipline, the go to book for learning how to program should be How to Design Programs at https://htdp.org/

There are two courses by UBC's Gregor Kiczales based on this book on edX. You can do both simultaneously.
This is one of the culture differences between the US and EU for alot of people (though this is changing in the US)

Personally I value my "work". That is not to say I value my efforts for my employer which makes this hard to explain.

I do not find value is laying around, vacationing, sports, or any other traditional "leisure" activity. I like to work

So even when I am not "working" for pay for my employer, I am still working. I am going a personal coding project, or working on my home, or working on my car, or working in some other way.

I work... weather it is for pay, for my own personal pleasure.
I think I first found out about the site in 2015. It look me 2 1/2 years to get an invite, and I visited it every day, and frequently contributed links. I belive at some point I was among the top 10 users, but I was kicked out because the main admin had some grudge against me, so when I wrote a controversial comment he banned me. Fair enough, his site. Retroactively I think this was for the better, as the climate was getting worse and worse. I have met some of the most dishonest people on that site and had some of the most frustrating discussions I can recall. In this respect, HN is preferable. What is sad is that I don't think this was always the case, and is it Lobste.rs that deteriorated over time. There was a long thread on this last year: https://lobste.rs/s/zp4ofg/lobster_burntsushi_has_left_site.

When I was banned, I sent a message to the administrators whether I could get a machine readable file of all my comments. I thought to myself, if I had already spent all that time commenting, I might as well repost them on my own site. But the administrators all refused to even discuss this with me. I sent them SQL queries and everything, but they didn't even regard me worthy of a response. This was very disappointing and unprofessional.

So what I want to say to the sibling comments who are looking for invites, consider it twice. There are annoying people everywhere, and I haven't found a website format that can prevent these from popping up.
that's funny considering how someone else here is arguing that labor protection in austria is worse than other european countries.
> ...any collective action is basically soviet style socialism hence out of question.

Ironically, the set of interlocking directorships, foundation seats, advisorships, consulting arrangements, share holdings, etc. among politicians, C-suite and EVP layers is every bit as collectivist as an old Soviet farm or modern workers' union. I personally model it as the strongest union out there because it doesn't need to operate by open rules relying upon legislation but is instead an acculturated reinforcement mechanism amongst its members that flexibly adapts to its host socioeconomic framework, making it harder than any conventional union to bust up or influence.
sorry what extra work? you know the company is able to hire more people right?
Yes, the interface is bad.

But the paradigm also is:

- it's made for multiple remote first (e.g: manual syncing is assumed by everything) despite the fact most projects have one

- it forces you to craft your commit index to commit instead of letting you commit all changes by default, and optionally craft things

- rebase exist, and is used a lot

- you have to chose between easy merge and a clean history

- it's hard to get a lock, a big file, a ticket or a todo list in sync in this repo. It's not made for that at all, and requires additional services or apps.

Fossil seems to fix all those.
How about just taking the best candidate, and be done with it?

I live in a former socialist state, and a combination of grades and standardized testing is calculated into a score in that score determines if you get accepted to a college or not. Colleges have no idea who you are, until you get an e-mail that you're accepted and come to sign in.
> They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager.

What do you mean by this? That they refuse to work with women based on their gender?

"India has more women STEM grads than US, UK or France". And I see way way more women employees in software companies in India compared to US.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-more-wom...
What do you mean by Latin based language?

Or what are the other "Latin based languages" that you are comparing it to?
We can do better with version control for sure. Git hands down, even for some experienced developers, causes consternation whenever you have to go off the beaten path. Committing, merging, rebasing (in the happy path) and a few others are not so bad. Everything else starts getting more difficult, especially because the mental model of git is not intuitive.

I don't personally run into problems, but I've sure seen many, many other people struggle learning and using the git cli.
Russia is world’s last colonial empire. The two reasons to allow it to keep its colonies (ie most of the territory east of Moscow) was to keep it as a force stabilizing the region and to prevent them from being claimed by China. Now it’s no longer useful in the former role, as evidenced by conflict in Armenia, and if China pivoted to the West - given that Russia is a clear loser - it might not make sense to pursue the latter.
My company quickly realized that outsourcing to an offshore Indian company was a mistake. We tried giving them new projects, but it was useless. We still use them, but only for very simple support work. My project was outsourced to them for support. The transition of our mature project to them took about a year. They wanted to replace our 10-12 person team with about 19 of their people. They also needed some of the people onshore due to regulations. So much for cost savings. And as soon as someone got good, they left the team/company because they could get a better job anywhere else.

My company also outsourced onshore to another Indian company to modernize an area of our business (same area as rhe above example). It's a mess. They're behind schedule by years. They promised they had an ML system to handle this type of business case, but it's not working. They're also telling people to only record 40 hours on their time sheet even if they're working 50-60 hours. They've had so many people leave that they're throwing money at the remaining expert people to stay.
> A fair criticism of this post would be that I spent no time on optimizing my prompts, which has been shown to make a big difference in the quality of the output

How long before someone lists "DALL-E Prompt Optimization" as a skill on LinkedIn?
On the other hand, it sounds like it might be viable to have a kid there. Two parents working full-time in the US struggle when they have a kid, due to the loss of income. Our system worked a lot better when both parents were not expected to work, it's kind of broken now.
Won't monitors as big as TVs be much more expensive than TVs?
I would look at larger companies.

Tbh you are severely underpaid. If you are down to do some work and prep for interviews, you can certainly double that income with a remote job.

Like others said, first get an offer. Your runway is too short for someone with 2 kids and wife.
But then you have a lazy employee which doesn't wash the spoon properly, a patron gets intoxicated, or worse, dies (peanut allergy) and sues for $5 mil damage.

This unbounded liability in US law is the cause of a lot of bad things...
For a note taking app, Notion's accessibility is hilariously bad.
To err on the side of being as polite as possible: In some grim scenarios, diversity led to certain situations that gave rise to big innovations.
I’ve never ever ever seen a PIP used in a positive way. It’s almost always been a way for petty toxic management that resented an employee not tolerating an abusive environment.
The glens in the Cairngorms have quite a lot of old shielings - where people would live with their livestock in the summers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shieling
So, I have only my own limited, American, anecdotal experience, but I did work for Infosys for a little while, so I suppose I should share that here. We were a team of less than a dozen developers, and we had a woman, who as I recall was a mother, as one of our devs.

Not saying this means it didn't happen elsewhere in Infosys.
I'm very much a linux guy, I'm even teaching git.

I hate it.

I'm glad it exists. It helps me more than not having it.

But it forces me to think about the tool instead of the task I'm trying to solve.
The implication might be obvious because that might be the most immediate solution to an evident problem. Just because the analogy works and you don't like the (obvious) solution it doesn't mean we should throw out the baby with the bathwater in the process.
My idea is that there is a market for community-curated spaced repetition decks. Many people want to learn the same things such as a foreign language or a programming language.

The difficult part is creating a deck and crafting the answers and questions. Because usually this is a time-consuming process. So if it was a community-effort then it would be a win-win.

This is probably not an original idea and if anyone knows already where to find such decks, that would be cool.
The elephant in the room is that if you lead a fulfilling life, smartphone addiction is easy to cast off unlike most legal or illegal physiological drugs.

I agree that the disingenuous mindset you are alluding to is a problem. The technological environment we are in has its own logic, and we can't simply ignore that in favor of a fairy-tale about personal responsibility. However, a person that is generally engaged in compelling activities will still not be drawn to the smartphone even in an environment that encourages it. In a sense, the fact that we adopted the smartphone so quickly is a testament to how unsatisfied we collectively were.
The article mentions he was a remote worker up front. I think his job was telemarketing.
It’s a false equivalence as the potable, drinkable water extracted from this process is used for far more than just cleaning the spoon.
Hm, C language (itself) hasn't got much major changes since ANSI standardization. I would say that one is able to grasp changes relevant to him, by whipping through the changelog for 10-15 minutes

Edit: If you are critizing K&R for not teaching how to write safest code then, well, you are right. It is simply not meant to do that
Because of course we can mine the whole Earth crust. It’s a good thing our ability to effectively mine in not limited to a few kilometres and our ability to actually find ores is so amazing. I’m such a fool, sorry.

More seriously, I’m done with sarcasms. We actually need to recycle aluminium. Smelting is far more energy intensive than extraction and depletion is a very real problem. First, viable gisements are not that common. Second, as we extract the best, we are faced by poorer and poorer quality of ores which mean the cost of smelting gets worse and worse. Aluminium is definitely not endless as someone would have you believe in a reply.
Tom Scott did a video about this topic in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY
Notice the critical phrasing "posted in error".

Not that it isn't happening or that it was a mistake, just that posting it in that place in that particular instant was an error. They meant to do it when nobody would notice.
If asked this over 20 years ago, the list would be long, but with my age, I would say 3 maybe 4. The others are a distant memory.

Sadly I still cannot grok OO, but not an issue for me. These days and maybe for the past 10 years, OO is a must for people. :(
Buy Blueray movies
FWIW, typical US professional job, and especially Software Engineering jobs, also include the perks you listed. The “free education” doesn’t include higher educations, but all the other benefits you listed do very much exist and are commonplace in US. We might compare levels of coverage, and i would be interested to do that just out of my curiosity, but, overall, professional Americans mostly enjoy very similar welfare benefits as Europeans, while making more money, especially if you consider taxes (taxation is much more progressive in US than in Europe, and the wealthy bear the most weight of taxation, unlike in Europe, where it is middle class that pays most taxes).
has this happened?