skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the first part, knowledge as a collection of facts is subjective, so the statement "the most subjective academic fields" is already false. The humanities long ago realized that the meaning of statements like "line A intersects line B" depend heavily on implicit assumptions about what you mean by 'lines' and 'intersect'. And even when the math used is unambiguous, the communication and interpretation of it is always done by a human with cultural biases that are liable to make "straight Euclidean line" the unspoken default. The only time it's objective is when the expert is communicating to other experts with the same contextual biases.

To the second part, the humanities are fond of condemning a system that perpetuates systemic violence. That rich white men benefit from
and created it is a historical - and in the most abstract discussions, coincidental - fact. It's only human nature to be uncomfortable with criticism of a system that's done you no harm or done you well. But the political humanities are concerned with you to the degree that you refuse to acknowledge or take action against this system. The white male is the byproduct of a historical examination, not the starting point.
Grokking Diffusion Models
A Department of Disinformation is totally different. We're not trying to define what truth is, we're trying to define what it isn't, which is absolutely not equivalent. If you say it is equivalent, you will be banned for spreading disinformation.
Oh, forgot about a funny thing found when created the project. For many of the top accounts, their favorite users (i.e. the most liked) are actually themselves:).
Examples are https://cvitter.com/elonmusk, https://cvitter.com/justinbieber etc.
I have a hunch, The past 10-15 years has seen a large slew of mergers in all industries, (tech, telecoms, pharma, food, grocery, etc) that have created shared monopolies in most sectors of the economy. Given that news, monopolies function is not to deliver productivity for productivity's sake, but to extract profits from inside that sector. Most of these companies are sprawling behemoths where managers are encouraged to grow headcount(as it makes them look more important) while still keeping the profit machines flowing. I'm not the least bit surprised as if we had a country where smaller players were duking it out in their respective sectors, you would get faster innovation.

Bottom line, more competition is good for end customers, and good for productivity as well.
Obligatory:

https://imgur.com/gallery/XS5LK
> I've read that doctors now spend as much as 50% of their time documenting their work. Companies such as Epic, which provide the software that hospitals use to build databases of patient data, have been big winners in the new world of hospitals-depending-on-software. But did the doctors become more productive? By almost any measure, they became less productive.

I don't think "by almost any measure" is right. I think in a very narrow sense they've become less productive (they see fewer patients), but by your own admission they're building databases of patient data, which you seem to suppose are only useful to the likes of Epic, but obviously Epic has customers--notably healthcare researchers use this data to improve patient care, develop new medicines, and to precisely identify which medicines are likely to help on a particular patient (and which medicines may even harm them!). This is stuff clearly benefits society, and doctors' role in this should be counted as "productive", although we can quibble about the relative value of facilitating healthcare research versus seeing more patients.

Note that this isn't meant to vouch for Epic--I work for a company that consumes their data and anyone who has to integrate with them has nothing good to say about the software, but the role it plays is still incredibly important.
The difficult part of it is: for some people it is literally nothing. We had it now for the fourth time since 2020 even though we’re properly vaccinated and careful as much as life permits.

It’s a bit worse than a cold but much better for than the flu. So, yes, for us life just goes on with COVID. No need to change anything.
$125 is steep, but $10 sounds very doable (for the US).

Good point on the "publisher" linking caveat though. I don't know much that matters in this day and age? Would be useful to learn from some published authors.
With maybe a few exceptions that I'm unaware of, all integrated terminals are optional features that can be disabled. I agree that editor-specific run configurations are over the top and bad form, however an integrated terminal is a very useful feature that I use all the time, especially when working with Go.

Edit: And that said, if I'm paying money for a product it better have features that I'm going to need, and if I don't need them it better have a way to disable them.
Branching in RCS and CVS was rather confusing.
30 years ago was DOS computers - usb certainly wasn’t widespread even if it was out, and many of the video drivers at the time were “load palette here, copy memory there” type things.
Have you considered creating a new account for the business and transferring aws resources to it instead?

I'm not an expert at this, but my coworkers claim to have moved production systems to new accounts when dealing with changes of project stewardship, funding, or accounting.
> wow, 185k, that's awesome" & they'll figure it out that the company was willing to pay upto 350k for the same work.

I’m nowhere near the Bay Area, I know what Bay Area salaries are by looking at publicly available sites.

I also know while I never made above $160K until starting at my first “FAANG” two years ago working remotely, there is no way in hell I would accept less than $250K - $300K to ever give up my big house in the burbs in a much lower cost of living area and that’s only because my kids have already graduated and my wife and I could stay in a smaller place and not worry about the school system.

Well I personally would never work a job where I had to go into an office again.
It's 20 bucks not 5 bucks.
Thanks for building this. Me and my team have been driving it for the last few days, and it is a pleasure to use.

Those law documents - that is probably us :)

Can you comment a bit on fine-tuning options available at the user-level. There were cases (~15%) where it summarized is exactly on the wrong end of the spectrum (disclose within 3 days for example, came out as disclose post-3-days).
> to the people who want to argue this: show me a body of work which has been more influential on western society.

A potential competitor would be Ancient Greek Philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle). Though it is hard to measure.

> What people seem to identify as 'western' values are largely just judeo christian values.

Nope, 'Judeo-Christian values' is a horrible Christian-Americanism that seems to erase the vast differences in Jewish and Christian experiences.

Judaism is a tribal religion with a huge focus on commandments given to said tribe and understanding the texts. Christianity is a religion concerned with the beliefs of all people, including non-Christians. The structure of their societies are quite different and historically Christian countries did not treat Jews well.

So I would add 'Judeo-Christian values' to the list of absurd and completely ahistoric ideas.
You update the toml file once (e.g if you have a release step), and then don't touch it again. Its more powerful than Heroku, so with that it gives you the option of adding additional config options.

I mean it even creates the basic file for you, I'm not sure what the issue is?
Passed by the California legislature and signed into law by the governor like all laws? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Labor_Code#History
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that businesses run on skeleton crews these days, and stretching a low number of employees thin decreases their productivity. I'm sure that employees say the same thing if they were directly asked.

That and being forced back into offices after working remotely for 2 years.
A note about the world before GIT:

Before coming into contact with CVS or GIT, the method I used when I was unsure a change would be productive was to simply copy the block, comment out the copy, then make modifications, along with notes about what was different, and when

There were lots of lines like

; moved xxx 92-02-01 MAW
yeah we work on linters, tooling and the like highly specific single page, highly similar code.

you can't get around it. We have pretty low boilerplate in all the codebases I happen to manage but the sad part is there is no getting around porting of specific rules, setting up better metric analysis and reporting systems and such.

If you have been involved in programming professionally for a while, you would know you just can't get around the chore like works sometimes. Ofc it's not a long term goal to keep going this way but we needed a solution to simplify our challenges as we move on.
Elizabeth Bathory
Yeah I re-read it later and was like.. ok, fine, I should put "easily" in quotes ;-)

Still, it's entirely feasible.
Ah an individual data point, the crème de la crème of evidence.
> A knowledge worker's productivity can easily (and provably ) range from -10x to +1000x.

this is a variation of the 10x engineer BS meme. statistically this is not possible, and realistically you'll see the companies using that line of arguments for obfuscating salary information are also doing it to comply maliciously. In fact, using a far outlier case to justify your average base case is the definition of operating in bad faith.

Also, sure if you see an actual superstar nobody is stopping you from hiring him for a different role and paying him 10x or whatever. anecdotally speaking in my many years in silicon valley I have seen very few cases for such high performance engineers and you need a lot more than tech expertise to not just produce 10x more personally but also keep your team productive & all that is not easy to judge in an interview.
From the article:

Russell quotes a Goldman Sachs analysis which found that “without question increased funds flowing into commodities has boosted prices” (even in a time of global abundance).

And then shows charts of steadily increasing food supply, with contrasting huge ups and downs in prices.
Very interesting read
We did start off with just Go. After doing a bunch of infrastructural work, we added another, Ruby. We've just finished generalizing this, in a way that both more 1st- and 3rd-party extensions can be created. To date though, we've only gotten to Rust and Swift.
Since when is LaTeX is a "lightweight markup language"?

* It's not at all lightweight, I'm pretty sure it's Turing complete up the wazoo.

* You can reprogram the f'ing grammar, down to the interpretation of individual input characters...

* In fact, I'm not sure you can even call it a markup language. It's a macro-based programmable system on top of a typesetter.
You can't prove those measurements are not refraction of light on a surface. The wavelength of light changes when it passes through anything.

In other words, even background radiation and redshift are not provable as NOT being caused by, for instance, the surface of a bubble refracting light in a closed system. That would also explain why there is light going in every direction, aka "everything is moving away from each other" heat death religion.

That's not science, but guesswork built on basic assumptions that are not provable, it's all measurements in a void. If the universe was proven to be a closed system, all that science and your whole cosmology goes in the bin.
Did you even bother to click on the article before typing your opinion of what happened?

Their chart shows we are far below any sort of pre-pandemic baseline.
> When the authors tested a drive that existed at the time Gutmann wrote that paper in optimal conditions there was only a 92% chance of recovering a bit correctly. The chance to successfully recover exponentially decays with the number of bits you want to recover.

That's still a non-zero probability. For folks whose tolerance for data exfiltration is "zero", anything non-zero, no matter how infinitesimally small, is non-acceptable - hence: physical destruction rather than relying on overwriting.

Thankfully, as mentioned previously, said folks are a pretty tiny minority of the total hard drive market, and are typically the folks encrypting everything at rest anyway. A random pass or two over encrypted data is more than enough to ensure that even if an attacker is able to accurately recover old bits, there's no telling whether or not those old bits are actually data.

> We were talking about HDDs. SSDs are out of scope.

If we're going to adjust our expectations for "overwriting is sufficient for data destruction" based on changes in technology, then SSDs are absolutely in scope - and indeed have their own set of implications when it comes to data retention after overwrite (like TRIM, as mentioned before, or the general case of two writes to the "same" block not necessarily being written to the exact same set of cells).
It's also because it's enterprise software. Which actually isn't software, it's more of a platform. You have to do so much implementation detail that the GUI is just the result of some form-builder type module. Everything I've ever encountered that was enterprise software, felt like it's GUI was not made by humans at all. I don't actually know how they get built but they're almost never optimized for humans or the usage they're meant to benefit.
who the heck western power do you think i was talking about???
"explained open source to her, but I think she just let me slide cause she liked me"

I think she let you return it because she didn't want to hear anymore about open source.
I don't understand why so many people celebrate when Elon treats his underlings like trash. Is it because people hate Twitter and think if you work there you deserve this? Is it because they want to have Elon's level of power and fame where the rules don't apply to them? Something else?
By definition, writing down specific current examples would be a terrible idea.

Historically, I might suggest the song "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols, or the book "Lady Chatterly's Lover", or poem "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name", given the effect they had on "polite society".
We should just get rid of section 230.
I don't know the legality of doing something like this is but as a worker in NY I just wouldn't apply. Going forward I'll likely only apply to a position where the low end is an acceptable amount and if I can get more that's great. How realistic this will be I have no idea.
If you look at licensed code, then write new code, do you also bring in those licenses?

It's been proved in court that AI does not infringe on copyright or licenses since it generates things from an understanding of the whole, instead of directly stealing, just like the human brain does.
> the obtuse licensing for Satellite

Out of curiosity, which aspect of the subscription terms do you find obtuse? Simply put, any system managed by Satellite needs to have a Smart Management subscription. You can get these individually, or bundled with a RHEL purchase as the add-on. For consumers of the public cloud marketplace RHEL images, they include the client-side aspect of Smart Management (no Satellite infra, but you can request this) so you don't need extra subscriptions to cover those.
Calling their ad platform "auxiliary" when it's their core business is hilarious. You are completely out of your element here.
> I don't think the Biden admin would do that as its flatly unconstitutional.

It's important to recognize this as a religious belief.
If you directly asked me I would probably say: "Well, working from home the temptation to watch YouTube and stuff on my second monitor is much higher and sometimes I find I've wasted a lot of time procrastinating my tasks because there are essentially no consequences for doing so"
Isn't this testing the elasticity of rent prices? Some of what's going on inflation wise is that companies are finding their prices to be more elastic than they previously thought. It seems that we are entering the edge of elasticity with the potential that the whole thing might snap.
This makes it extremely easy to make low quality content that looks just like high quality content, with the only difference being that it's more likely to be found out to be wrong information. And it doesn't seem like we can reliably punish news organizations for constantly putting out bad news, so what's their motivation to do the high quality version?
> never replace a terminal based app, with a GUI based app and expect productivity gains

I can imagine this being true. It seems that almost the whole software industry has failed to grasp the distinction between an appliance and a tool. An appliance you expect almost anyone to be able to use without training. A tool, well you are expected to learn how to use it, and after that, you are much more productive than before. And most software seems to be moving towards appliance.
Fully understand and “completely able/worth my time to fix” are not identical. I can understand how an alternator works and still throw it away when it dies rather than rebuild it.
I don't get it. If they are struggling to pay rent, can't they just get a second business?
So, basically, OS support for the kind of things that Chrome and Firefox have been doing for a while?

Having been (a minor) part of the Firefox effort, that was a real pain to implement, so sounds like a very useful component.
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I just tried downloading it from https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos and it looks like the scan doesn't detect it. I am asking our developer how quickly we can add it to the mac scan tool.
While you are correct that LOC is not a full measure of productivity, and there are many factors to consider, it would be nonsense to say that merging code has no bearing on productivity. All things equal (and disregarding engineers whose job isn’t coding per se), submitted code is the essential deliverable of a software engineer.
Seconded. That quote may be a description of a markup language that is easy for programs to work with, not one that's easy for people to work with.
Imagine if it turns out sentience can arise in stars, gas, dust, or minerals. Maybe they won't be advanced civilizations, more like animals we can't recognize as creatures even when they're in front of us. We might even start mining them, as eyelash mites mine us without comprehending us.
... and codetermination. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
> It is important to realize that even as we disagreed, we still used to agree on basic facts and then fought over what best to do next.

What are these basic facts that people used to agree on, but now don't agree on anymore?
So, do you think this NYC law is likely to get cut back by the courts, or would it be incumbent on another municipality to pass a contradictory law first?
Anyone that has revenue has salespeople. Twitter’s (and every tech company’s) sales staff convince large companies to spend money paying for Twitter ads. A good salesperson will be mostly paid on commission for bringing huge clients who spend millions of dollars per year on advertising. Their comp is high specifically because they can sell many multiples of that comp.

A salesperson that has the ability to call the head of an advertising agency and get them to answer the phone is maybe the most valuable possible employee in any ad-supported business.
Anecdote:

I'm a midwesterner and half of my siblings, most of my wife's siblings, and some of my friends' siblings are in their late 20s, have no jobs (or <10 hrs a week), and live with their parents.

From the outside, they look nervous / afraid to try to get into the job market or to date people. Men & women, but it leans men. The ones in poorer families stay home all day and play video games, and the richer ones venture out to spend their parent's money at restaurants or on trips but otherwise do the same. Half of them were doing minimum-wage work and left at the start of the pandemic and the other half have never had jobs.

I could just be in a local pocket of people like this, but I'm worried about how many people must have fallen off of the wagon and will never get back on.

Trying to get a skilled entry-level job after having done literally nothing for 5 years is hard for a lot of reasons. One being the mental hurdle you have to get over: you know you'll face a lot of rejection, you're out of practice, and your work peers will be a lot younger.

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Controversial opinion:
The whole thing has burnt me on UBI. I am afraid that the average American doesn't have the discipline to be productive if we introduce too much free income / free state of subsistence.

A great counter-argument is "well why does someone have to be productive? why should anyone have to work?". I don't know anything, but I suspect that we get to ask that question because of how dominant/rich the US is, and that is bound to end if we aren't more than competitive against countries that work their asses off.

Another counter is something like: exceptional people are responsible for the 10x-1000x outcomes that carry the economy, but those individuals are only the catalyst and do it on the backs of the rest of us. Takes all parts to make the machine work.

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Back on topic. Here's some graphs:

FRED Graphs:

Hours worked by full-time and part-time employees by year:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B4701C0A222NBEA

US Pop:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POPTOTUSA647NWDB

Median weekly real earnings:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Employment-Population Ratio - 25-54 Yrs.:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

Real gross domestic product per capita
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
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US Employment rate by age 2000-2021:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/217899/us-employment-rat...
CodeEdit for macOS
It’s kinda what business analysts do.. white about the future of businesses. Ben writes about tech companies every day (4 a week?) and one article a week is free to non-subscribers. He’s smart enough to know which ones to give away. My guess is that it’s probs good for business to give away the flashy ones that get people talking.
For a grading analogy, an area like that is level 4 minus, but "coast-to-coast" is level 4 plus. You don't need coast to coast to be "real". If they manage to cover 90% of a metro area, I'd be happy to call it a "real" level 4 service. Right now I'd want an explanation for why they're not adding blocks all the time.
Ham radio is the place to look. Also come from a small town and everyone with a tech bent has a radio licence (and an interest in explosives and homebrew and free sources of energy!).
Bulletin board systems?
How about you don't try to take away my inalienable, God-given right to read whatever I desire. I don't need some nanny-state commissar telling me to pay up extra taxes for daring to view unapproved opinions
Regression, Fire, and Dangerous Things(2021)
Yep. It’s not that there was ever a Church that was ever fit for the task, but there were people who formed a Church which were powerful enough to impose their own truth. No human institution will ever be fit for the task, but we can maintain the process by maintaining a competitive information environment.
I, for one, am glad that you can't smell things through high resolution photographs on the Internet.
AWS Copilot https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/

And it's a nightmare compared to fly.io