skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So at will employment meaning at will charging bs prices to employees- got it.
> ...studied the disconnect between the excitement with which kindergartners and first graders greet learning and the boredom and disaffection that seems to overtake many by high school

It seems myopic to search for the answer to this discrepancy purely within teaching styles. In high school, coincident with the onset of puberty, many students simply become more interested in achieving social goals than academic learning.
I know your example is just a toy, but it definitely reminds me of heavy handed over-refactoring into tiny one-line functions.

There are two problems with that approach:

The first is when you're trying to understand what a single function does. If it's 20 lines long but has self-contained logic, that's often easier to understand than referring back to the tiny pieces it's assembled from (even if they're supposedly so self contained you don't need to look at them individually - that's rarely true in practice). On balance, even if a function is a slightly too long, that's usually less bad than one that's in slightly too many little pieces.

The second is when you're looking at the file level. When faced with a file with dozens of tiny functions, it's much harder to get a top level understanding than if it has a smaller number of longer functions.

The second one is the bigger problem, because understanding a project at the file (and higher) level is typically much harder than understanding what a single function does. Even if breaking up a function into smaller pieces does actually make it easier to understand, but makes the overall project harder to parse, then that's usually a loss overall. Of course, it depends very much on the specifics of the situation though, and certainly a long function broken down into logical pieces can actually make the overall project easier to understand.
Does that mean these groups are no longer marginalized and should be ignored, because it seems like you can get a lot done by accusing someone of rape or racism.
I’ve already done the math about how hard it is to chuck a relativistic rock. Assuming solar output, you could arguably maybe do it as a Kardashev I, but it’s more a Kadashev II thing. It gets harder if you find yourself born around a common red dwarf.

If Zaphod Beeblebrox is chucking asteroids for lolz, while he waits for Slartibartfast to finish building a new pleasure planet (with space blackjack, and three boobed Martian hookers from Total Recall no doubt), we’re dealing with residents of Mount Olympus, with Zaphod playing the role of Zeus.

Come to think of it. That would certainly make the ancient alien conspiracies more entertaining —- and more terrifying.
Again, what you're saying is in reference to traveling for your employer. Being a "digital nomad" is traveling for yourself.
The body isn't positively charged on net. The interior of most cells is negatively charges and the surrounding fluid is OFTEN slightly positively charged which is part of the normal mechanism for material crossing cell boundaries. The whole thing on net is basically neutral. If you're starting from a different position, then the whole idea is baseless out of the gate.

If you had any net charge you'd discharge that into the environment if negatively charged, or vice versa. Usually there's enough humidity in the air to do the trick, but in extremely dry environments static electricity builds up until you touch something like a metal door knob.

If you just wanted some electrons, then generating some static electricity on a rug would be even better.

Even still the amount of current flowing between a person and the earth will be at best minuscule, almost unmeasurable[1]. The idea that "electrons going into your body" this way has any effect on your health is frankly not something that should be taken seriously.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241473/
> Obviously everyone wants to cut all costs all the time

Why would this be obvious? I've worked in companies whose revenue grew so quickly that no one could be bothered to cut existing costs. It literally wouldn't be cost effective to do anything but grow revenue.

Cutting costs is just one half of the equation.
A very common adaptation among insects is producing large amounts of polyhydroxy alcohols like glycerol in the hemolymph that acts as anti-freeze or cryoprotectant depending on the species.
My father, who is an expert in matters relating to early wireless, was asked by the National Geographic to recreate the SOS message sent by the Titanic. This has historical significance as it was the first time that the SOS was used. In order to make it as authentic as possible, he used an ancient brass Morse code key wired to a spark transmitter. The spark signal was picked up by an old radio he had wired up to a tape recorder.

Caveat: I may have got a few details wrong. It’s been a long time since he shared the story.
https://nitter.net/TalbertSwan/status/1581103527585120257
Fake JBL speaker to steal a car (Toyota and Lexus)
Early Kanye West brought a lot of attention to social issues through his music and was one of the first hip-hop artists to publicly advocate for acceptance of gay folks in hip-hop culture at a time when gay slurs were very common. His first album was downright wholesome as far as hip-hop and there's a reason he was so beloved.

He's been on a long, slow, downward trajectory with his mental health since the death of his mother and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anybody looking out for him anymore. It's really sad to watch at this point.

This is an interview from 2005 where Kanye defended gay people when it wasn't exactly popular. Trigger warning for gay slurs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp45-dQvqPo
PAGNI is basically a form of Shift Left. https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/what-is-shift-left-and-w... https://devopedia.org/shift-left
Well they are about the well being of the employees. That’s just not the ultimate justification for it—rested employees mean safe flights.
I don't know if false hope is helping anyone.
Why even bother calling it a bonus?
> Certainly any economic system has problems

Sure, but there's a huge gap between "X has problems" and "X is _the_ problem", i.e. if only we removed X, everything would be fine. It's absurd.
Then again, the reason it’s toxic is because of how we put rockstars on pedestals and perpetuate company cultures where plateaus are grounds for PIPs and terminations. Sometimes finding a mentor is hard when you feel like your coworkers and superiors resent your employment as a result of a supply-side shortage of “betters” engineers.
Can someone provide an explanation on what value this app brings do the flight attendants and what would mean for them to not have it anymore?
2. How is their employer not providing this functionality?

I'll tell you how. It's because the app doesn't exist under the regime of a CIO and multiple layers of project managers, program managers, extensive regulatory requirements, fiefdoms, competing internal political interests, and the other various "enterprisy" crap that will kill off any entrepreneurial spirit.

That's why.
Tracking is a terrible idea. To make it work effectively you need very efficient remedial teaching for the students who fall off of the "advanced/gifted" track, and that's antithetical to the whole "students should all be learning their math by themselves, not via rote instruction" schtick that's increasingly being pushed in elite "education" degree programs.
My words were "a wide range of topics" not "all the topics".

Personally I can think of a meaningful debate that can be had from talking about "genocide" but I'm pretty sure that people that would hold this opinion in truth are a little beyond what would be considered a "good faith" discussion.
The US federal government should start a GoFundMe to pay the IOUs from all the times it raided discretionary spending on science, the arts and social security
Except the PEC goes to political candidates and this money would materially help someone each year. Every person in the country could use the PEC and candidates would still need to court donations from PACs and other groups. $300k to a set number of families? We could write articles about them each year to see how this changed their lives. Even if the recipients are already wealthy it would turn into an interesting story.
I wonder how they will monetize. They are publishing their models for free right now.

That said, it worked extremely well as an advertisement (even got me to try it, without a GPU).
A celebrity says some things that make sense, and some things that don't, and it's nasty profiteering to report on the former? That really seems a bit extreme to me.
So just change the words and suddenly it looks like all the other taxation theft they are already doing. Got it.
An app with millions of users, that everyone in this thread knows about, is worth $0?
If that qualifies then surely symbolic notation itself is also a visualisation. It's not as if it's just a syntax tree, quite a few properties (associativity, distributivity, symmetry) are suggested purely by the way we denote sums and multiplication.

If you wants things to be even more visual you could use Penrose diagrams [0], though I don't find them particularly intuitive.

[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation
I’m not a runner but pushing yourself to your limits is the point of many sports. Humans like seeing how close they can get to death without succeeding.
> What would I start with? Something more like the MS Office software of the 1980s, only automated. I would have real-world applications that, wait for it, perform work so I don't have to. AKA automation.

But that's what Stable Diffusion et al is: automation. It's just not automation for what you spend your time on, but it is automation for what a countless amount of people spend their time on, doing stock photos/drawings/clip art for endless amount of articles and other generic videos.

I also think that the current "creative automation" comes from a perspective where many people have said for a long time that computers will of course be able to do boring, repeatable jobs like counting numbers and what not, but it will never be able to do the job of an "artist". But now, it seems like at least a subset of "artists" will be out of job unless they find a way to work with the new tools rather than against them.
They don't even check your passport?
seriously? you don't need to be "young" to know this. unless by old you mean 60+. then perhaps i can understand it
Embassytown by China Mieville. Great world-building and thought provoking. Humanity has created an embassy on a planet of giant mantis-like aliens who have a unique perspective on language. Their language is tied to their thoughts in a way where they cannot think anything that cannot be directly expressed in Language, and are unable to lie. There is no barrier between thought and word. To the point where they will orchestrate events deliberately to add to their own vocabulary of thought. Crazy.
As Tether goes, so goes the entire crypto eco-system.

Tether underwrites the entire crypto marketplace. It is involved in more than half of all crypto trades. And it's unlimited supply is totally controlled by crypto market makers with every incentive to use it to manipulate the crypto market.

It's like giving NASDAQ and the NYSE control over the Federal Reserve. No possible conflict of interest there, right?

https://www.theverge.com/22620464/tether-backing-cryptocurre...
Not OP, but looking at the source it looks like it's Gatsby. Not sure about the theme used.
No depression treatment is anything close to a happy pill. Those would be more like opiates and perhaps uppers.
"easier to trace than paper money".... and that was always the point.

You wouldn't be able to track and trace everyone's interactions without it! It's essential for technocracy.
Actually a lot of today's realities can be traced curiously back to 1971 or the year before or after that. Consider the following:

* End of Bretton Woods System - "On 15 August 1971, the United States terminated convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency" [0]

* The Global War on Drugs - "The initiative includes a set of drug policies that are intended to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of psychoactive drugs that the participating governments and the United Nations have made illegal. The term was popularized by the media shortly after a press conference given on June 18, 1971" [1]

* Nixon's Southern Strategy that shifted the Republican base to the South 1970-1971 [2]

* Nixon' Visit to China and the Chinese economic reform, which resulted in China being the major economic power it is today, visit planned on July 15, 1971, visit in early 1972 [3]

* The Defunding of the Apollo program - "In August 1971, just after conclusion of the Apollo 15 mission, President Richard Nixon proposed canceling the two remaining lunar landing missions, Apollo 16 and 17." The two remaining already planned missions were completed, but the program ended in 1972 thereafter. [4]

Now you might say, correctly, that every presidential term has major, world-shifting elements that are consequential. However, something happened specifically in 1971 and 1972 across a very broad set of circumstances to global economics, trade policy, criminalization, space race, politics, and more, not to mention the Watergate affair which was during the 1972 campaign. These years were absolutely pivotal to where we are today.

Further follow-on actions to the above included the devaluing of the dollar in 1972, vetoing of US National Child-care (1972), continuation of the Vietnam war, Phase I and Phase II price freezes for wages and costs (1971, 1972), Economic Stablization Act of 1971[5], Revenue Act of 1971 [6], and more. 1971 was a hot year indeed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_visit_by_Richard_Nixon_to...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1971
According to Wikipedia:

“ The panels were used to check the usage of the processing nodes, and to run diagnostics.”
IIRC Trump wouldn't join Parler unless it agreed (among other things) to censor his critics. This seems to be a pattern with Trump: he demands that people be more loyal to him personally than to any abstract principle (including free speech absolutism).
It is a fool's errand to try to evaluate the net societal impact of a particular technology, even with perfect predictive power.

Looking back, what technology would you have retroactively stopped? Tetraethyl lead? Perhaps. Nuclear? Cable TV? ANNs? The Internet? Drones?

Also, the financial incentives aren't aligned. Certainly it makes sense to hold back technology to avoid embarrassment if you're a trillion dollar company; you have more to lose than gain. However, if you're a scrappy startup, it makes way more sense to roll the dice.
Canada definitely cares. Driving into Canada, every vehicle has to stop for an interview. If anything is off, they will send you off to the side for more intense scrutiny.
IMHO, How to build software like an SRE:

1. Let us know when something is broken. If a curl fails, log it. We want more logs not less.

2. Make the code configuration file free. Use ENV vars. If an ENV var is missing crash and say why. The environment will determine how the app acts.

3. Build process and Deploy process should be different. Github actions is great for the Build process, Jenkins is great for deployments.
I plainly remember mechanics using an optical headlight alignment tool during inspections in Texas back in the 80's. I haven't seen one in a shop in decades though. All these requirements still exist, they are just completely ignored by everybody.
Slowest/fastest blocks in the last decade:

Couple ~2 hour blocks in recent years, but seems like timing isn't precise enough for meaningful fastest blocks:

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/77783/shortest-a...

Ethereum has very consistent fast blocks post-merge:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/xgn4n7/heres_a_be...
stoicism is useful to properly function in your life.

For example, I was homeless as a teenager. Should I have just laid down and shown my belly to the world, or stand up on my own two feet and move forward with my life?

It sucks, but at some point people have to be made of sterner stuff or they'll never accomplish anything. That doesn't mean the bad things that happen are ok, or that they shouldn't deal with them, but if you roll over and show your belly every time something bad happens to you then you're depending on other people for your success.
These innovations aren't really pointless though? They may not be relevant to your interests, but they have practical applications and Stable Diffusion especially is already seeing a lot of interest from artists and people who need art but don't need something 'custom' enough to pay for a human. In both cases they are saving lots of 'basic' work that might have either been done by a human before or not done at all.

Plus, these are the things we hear about because they look flashy. There is plenty of work behind the scenes on applying these innovations to more 'practical' matters like automation.
When the subject of Robot + lethal force are combined, people think of Robocop, specifically the ED-209, not the cyborg. That's the implication. An autonomous robot which carries out "justice."

It would be appropriate to call it by it's modifier, a remote-controlled robot.
There's a reason why lots of HFT firms have massive amounts of RAM. It's easier to get the code out first, and handle leaks with a reboot later.
I personally bear more risk crossing the roads during my stay here. Would you advise to stop doing so, to reduce the potential burden on the medical services?

As it is, I have private medical insurance, they're a business, I pay them, they provision their services, and provide that service.

As such, to my eye, even if I was taking significant risk, which I am not, it would not be an ethical matter, and even this is without any consideration to the benefits of writing about what's going on.
How do you verify someone's IRL identity without a government issued ID card in a scalable way?

I don't mean some idea that could work at some arbitrary point in the future (decentralized whatever...). If a social media platform were to do this, right now, how would they do it without verifying a government issued ID?
Everyone knows it's the USA

- US officials repeatedly said they'll shut down the pipeline no matter what

- Biden confirmed it would be shut down; "we will bring an end to it", "i promise you, we'll be able to do it" when asked how by the journalist [1]

So everyone can see, obvious threats from the USA, but what's even more obvious is Sweden refusing to investigate [2]

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/biden-sai...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-wont-share-nord-...
And now we know the 787 runs on Windows.
People with bipolar disorder aren't capable of making rational decisions?

And Elon is just a completely normal guy?
Maestro: The easiest way to automate UI testing for your mobile app
I've totally asked that many, many times. But sometimes the answer is actually quite simple: no one was ever paying attention to the outputs of that piece of the system.
You need algebra to make things. Lots of machining involves algebra and geometry. Maybe it isn't taught that well, and maybe kids would learn it better if they were motivated by practical examples, but it's far from useless. Besides reading and addition, algebra is probably the most useful thing kids learn in school.
I got an Amiga A1200 as a kid at Christmas. The first one was a dud, so slightly disappointed. But my dad came home with a replacement from Dixons a couple days later. I didn't have high hopes of it doing anything, but we put a disk in and powered it up. I distinctly remember that moment the a strange synth pitch bending sound started playing, causing mild alarm, followed by this parallel scrolling scene [1]. There were a few of us there, our collective jaws dropped.

I spent many years after that dabbling with electronic painting on Deluxe Paint IV, which had a terrific balance between being fun for someone who had no clue, but also opened up so many advanced features if you dug a bit (animation, morphing, colour cycling, brushes, gradient fills), and I've struggled to find something similarly joyous for my kids. I learnt to make music on Octamed. And I have so many fond memories of all the games I played; the little worlds we created in our heads where computer characters existed.

Partly as a result, I have enjoyed playing computer games with my kids. I join in with them playing Zelda BOTW, and minecraft. I know that they will look back fondly on these imaginary worlds. However, I do wish I could get them more interested in the creative side of digital art. Maybe that will come later.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdkhNi3RwUY
i think thats because, noone has been aggreiviated,[harmed enough enough to want to do it].

if it became common usage to strap a firearm to a drone of some sort, then that looks like a contemporary use, and perhaps private citizens would commonly use armed drones to patrol property and provide a personal bodyguard.
It would be entirely reasonable to limit such a requirement with "for all transactions under $X". Similarly it would be reasonable to put in a clause about using banknotes for whole dollar parts of the total due.

As for the burden: if taking money is a burden, why are you in business to begin with?
Kanye had tons of collabs as a producer and a huge influence on hip-hop artists to follow. It's not just about streams.
The Era of NFT Reservations and Paywalled Restaurants Is Upon Us
>An employer is just the employee of next the customer up the chain

Well that customer must be a real moron to pay so much money for a CEO, which apparently they pay more money than they spend on whatever the actual product is.
For me personally, I classify myself (whether it's valid or not!) as an experiential learner. I have a very hard time learning abstract things in purely abstract ways. I can read a book about a branch of mathematics and try intently to learn from it and totally fail. But give me one practical, real-world problem which demands some knowledge of that type of mathematics, and I might pick up the bulk of the same subject matter quickly, to the degree necessitated by the project. Whatever my conscious intentions may be, my brain throws a toddler tantrum about it and is like "Prove to me that I can use this for real or I'm not investing in it".
In our old config management, we would indeed go ahead and parse configuration files and check values within the configuration files - even values entirely unrelated to the test at hand. Then you'd go ahead and change some default value in the config management because now you understand the system more and a whole bunch of unrelated tests would start failing.

By now, we mostly do a quick syntax check of the config and the rest is usually handled by smoke-testing the application. The config files are usually only parsed if they contain some non-trivial degree of dynamic computation.
You shouldn't log as many things as you can. You should only log useful things, when they're needed, along with context. Otherwise you have too much noise and not enough signal, and it's easier to leak PII.

Applications should have a logging interface that can identify and conceal sensitive information, and data stored in the app/database/etc should have a type that can be denoted as sensitive. You will eventually also want to reduce the amount of logs you generate, so it's useful to have logging levels the same way operating systems do.