skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your first point ignores one of the fundamental insights of the Fermi Paradox, which is that while space on an astronomical scale is massive, so is time. The milky way galaxy is ~100,000 light years across. So traveling at 1% of the speed of light, you could go end to end in 10,000,000 years. That sounds like a long time, but it's really not.

The earth is ~4.5 billion years old. So we can say with certainty that it's possible (not guaranteed) to become a space faring race (although not a galaxy crossing one) in 4.54 billion years. If we tack the amount of time it takes to cross the whole galaxy end to end we get 4.55 billion years. The milky way galaxy is 13.61 billion years old. That means the galaxy had 9.06 billion years worth of chances to churn out a another planet that could have expanded across the galaxy from edge to edge and been here waiting when humans arrived on the scene. Planets with Earth like conditions are certainly rare but my, admittedly limited, understanding is that they're not "1 in 9.06 billion years" rare.

There are obviously other constraints here. I think your second point about wealthy technological races potentially stabilizing at zero population growth is totally reasonable. But I think the fact that space's apparent scale doesn't actually matter is the whole reason the Fermi Paradox was such an "ah-ha!" moment for many people. The reason it's a paradox is that, given all of our assumptions for variable values in the Drake Equation at the time, it really seemed like we should have met some aliens. The point was that if distance wasn't the hurdle we thought it was in the equation as currently defined, then we were either missing some relevant variables, or we had made some bad assumptions for the ones we had.
If you are a VP of a mobile operator who has KPI's of "integrate AI", "drive automation", and "stable headcount" then that page pretty much says take-my-money.
Debt that cannot be paid well is a problem no matter where it is. The US government is the best place for US debt - they are most equipped to pay it. I'm actually all for how it's being handled here. The debt is a problem in general, no matter the form it takes.

The fact the balance is forced to be off as a result of Chinese policy and our failure to counter it in the name of free trade is the problem.

It forces the US national debt up because if it wasn't the national debt it would be in far more harmful places, so our politicians have no choice. Increase debt or lose your job next election.
The part about 'was awarded academic positions based on that' is debatable, e.g. this claim was investigated by a newspaper (article below is titled 'Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren's rise in law'):

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claim...
My understanding is that he is a very talented and valuable programmer and contributor, and it's a loss for everyone if he has to waste hours and days on arguing. I'm not saying I have the solution or anything, just saying I do think he has a point.
Sounds like modern startup devops-without-devops culture
Jeff Duntemann's book on Turbo Pascal is still one of my favorite texts of all time. He combined his enthusiasm for the subject with a deft hand at explaining concepts intuitively.

And of course, there was Peter Norton's Guide to the IBM PC. The bible, back then.
> static analysis tooling (eg LSP server) was really slow. Compiling small programs was also rather slow, and it generated large binaries.

Compile times have taken a nose dive in the last couple versions, but I’m not sure about the binary size. I’ve never looked honestly.
world peace is achieved by teaching everyone how to be a better person, one friend at a time. only education can really help here. what this article proposes, assumes that people actually care about the truth. but in reality most people care about their personal well-being more than anything else. so a supposedly unjust government that lets their people prosper will get supported by its people and independent news is not going to stop that.

the idea of the article that the world would be better if all the bad things that happen were just visible to everyone is a pipe dream. media are reporting about corruption and injustice in their own countries without being able to change much, if anything at all.

no, we need to teach our friends that our own well-being is tied to the well-being of everyone else on this planet, and we won't have a better life unless we starts working on creating a better life for everyone else.

how do we teach them? through modelling and friendship. i care about you, and i try to motivate you to care about others. this needs to spread until it becomes viral and reaches the whole world.
You seem to assume this will work by censorship, but I haven't seen anything to substantiate that. So as far as I can tell, there will be more information and how is that a bad thing?
Insurance is part of it, but not all of it. Government regulation is also a big part. EHR mandates under the Obama administration (? who I was generally supportive of, so not a criticism of his presidency in general) created a kind of "false pressure" to move to EHR immediately, rather than "naturally" adopt it at an organic pace, adopting whatever is most beneficial due to demand. I'm not anti EHR, but the way those systems were adopted were definitely forced onto providers top-down, rather than bottom-up like traditional hospital record systems. Hospitals scrambled to implement them in time for deadlines, and there was no room for pushback against poorly implemented structures that were pushed on hospitals essentially.

More recently in my field I've seen additional layers of documentation requirements that have nothing to do with insurance, that are entirely state law.

I have no doubt in my mind that if EHR rules didn't exist, they would have been adopted much more gradually, and selection would have been dictated by the ability of EHRs to supply features in demand. More competition would have existed and it would have cost less. Maybe some government regulation would have been needed in terms of interoperability standards but it could have been rolled out much much much better.

I don't think people fully comprehend the cost overruns associated with adoption of EHRs under government mandates, or how big of a shift there was from records being in-house flexible, and provider and patient-driven, to out-of-house inflexible, and IT-corporation-driven.
The CA law on the books was that they had to answer a question about salary bands during an interview, but not in the job posting itself. CA only recently passed a law requiring salary in the job posting itself which I think goes live on Jan 1.
Yes the readme contains the exact same referential description as this post. I looked at the examples, I don't know the language and its purpose is not immediately obvious to me.
If I missed some explanation in the repo, please enlighten me.
God forbid anyone should have their time wasted. Purveyors of Prior Restraint are thieves of our natural rights and should be treated accordingly.
To keep up the charade with all the customers they already sold it to? It's like MLM or a ponzi scheme but dumber. If they admit they can't deliver it at all they have an existing number of drivers that essentially get an instant and "easy" class action lawsuit.
If we're at that level I will have already switched to marauding with guns.
Recruiters typically get paid a commission based on the final salary, so it’s in their interest to get you as high a salary as possible.
The hypothetical you're using has a long and troubled history, if you're in favor of restrictions on speech, I suggest you use a different one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
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That seems like a reasonable assertion to me. Not that it can be done by a machine today or in ten years but eventually.
I see just the opposite. The Mac was the last outlier in Apple’s integration. From the software side, Swift UI is bringing all of their software development together.
I love e-scooters. They're fun to ride around on and, when there are enough of them in an urban area, you can just rely on them being there for transit. I've been so disappointed by the public's reaction to scooters, though. They don't see how cars are significantly worse, in terms of the personal cost, public safety and destruction of urban spaces.

Like, just to put this in perspective, I did a bit of digging behind the Atlanta ban. It happened right after (and as a direct result of) these events:

- A 34 year old woman on an e-scooter was murdered* by a driver of a car, in a hit-and-run. [1]

- A 20 year old man on an e-scooter was killed by a negligent driver of an SUV who was charged with 2nd degree homicide. [2]

- A 37 year old man was killed by the driver of a bus who did not see him. Passengers on the bus say he was banging on the bus to alert the driver as he was crushed to death. I'm not able to find out if the bus driver was ever charged for this death. [3]

- A homeless man (of unknown age?) on an e-scooter was killed by a truck. In this case, it does look like the e-scooter ran a red light and the driver was not at fault. [4]

So in 2 out of 4 cases, clearly the car was at fault. The city reached first for not limiting cars in any way, but rather limiting scooters. I mean, I get it. There was no structure for doing anything to cars or the system that causes people to drive everywhere. And to be fair to Atlanta, the ban on scooters was only at night.

We know there are ways to structure cities and traffic laws to make safer spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. Bad saldy, here in America, we are so reluctant to reach for those options. We have so many parking lots, so many stroads, so few walkable spaces. Whenever there's conflict between cars and people, we blame people. And then build extra lanes and extra parking lots and it just gets worse.

By the way, this problem with cars happens here in San Francisco too: My friends and I have all seen an explosion of bad behavior by drivers, including a friend of mine who struck last year in a hit-and-run, breaking his femur. This is not just anecdote: Pedestrian deaths are on the rise here, while citations plummet. [5]

1. * I am not sure if "murder" is legally applicable in this case, but to me, if you strike and kill someone in your car and then run, you're a murderer. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/scooter-rider-hit-k...

2. https://www.bikelaw.com/2019/06/driver-charged-in-death-of-e...

3. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/scooter-rider-hit-k...

4. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/south-fulton-county/man-on-...

5. https://sfbayca.com/2022/07/05/traffic-deaths-in-san-francis...
One other option would be a decent collapsible helmet, which would remove the bulk issue.

For people to actually carry one, it would probably need to pack up to the size of a tote umbrella.
Where is prior restraint being suggested?
ASML is a bigger single point of failure, since they make the machine most critical to any modern fab from Intel, TSMC, or Samsung.
It's almost as if not wanting to use coal is not the same as having an alternative to coal
> help him cool down a bit

> geohot
Doesn't work. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
I am completely unqualified to answer this question, but it seems to me the CEO should be handling this.

You, as a VP of Engineering handling this could put the CTO on major defense, as it'll make you look like you're vying for their job.
It is hard to convince someone they are wrong when their salary depends on being right. But I'm going to try. I've done hiring myself as a founder, so I have some experience here.

> The fact is that many employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone.

Then they need better data. A great way to get that would be looking at all the other job listings with salary ranges if they don't already have access to back channel data.

> It is also true that a single job ad might be aiming to employ a number of people at various positions of seniority and experience.

Then it should be multiple listings with different requirements, even if the only difference is years of experience.

> So it does not surprise me that governments would legislate to require job ads to do the same - essentially because of ignorance about how the world works.

The way the government does it is more equitable, so it makes sense that they are trying to legislate that to the private sector.

> If it makes you mad that job ads do not list salary, then there are good reasons and you will just have to get over or it not apply for that job.
It's that easy - if the ad doesn't specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don't get angry, just don't apply.

This is exactly the problem. If they aren't required to list it, they won't. And this is harmful to people who aren't good negotiators. And also harmful to women and minorities, as countless studies have shown they are chronically underpaid in large part because they aren't willing or able to negotiate.

That's why there is a push to force companies to list the salaries.

> Far more important is to know the salary target that you are aiming for.

You're right! The best way for me to know what salary to target is with lots of data about how much similar jobs pay. A great way to get that is job listings with salary ranges, since I don't have access to data like the person offering the job does.
> just because it's easier to consume fake news now doesn't mean we need a radically new solution.

Your arguments don’t seem to support this conclusion, why not? Methods change when technology changes.
Yikes, I did read it wrong! OK, that would be insane, but I'm still curious if (a) that's not a pretty gross exaggeration or (b) if there some sort of job titling that's making the ratios look weird, e.g. "product manager" doesn't actually manage any people, or the way everyone who works in a bank is a "VP".
NDAs/non-disparagement being required to receive severance is very common. Common enough I assume it must be legal.
Which article are you reading?
Is it? It's entirely possible to both use something due to (perceived) necessity while still hating it.

In certain contexts that distinction may not matter - a user is a user, right, who cares how much they hate you? But if a large enough percentage of your users hate your service, it should at least in theory reduce whatever moat you've built that keeps them captive.
The dark times were 2012-17, only just recently in the past 3 years have they gotten off their ass in price to performance. They are now steadily improving.
Yes it is the perfect post, no one can disagree with it!
Those being laid off for cause are the 3 senior level executives (the old CEO, the lead counsel, and the content policy head). Those 3 had a 100+ million cumulative severance package which they are now no longer eligible to receive, although none of them are strapped for cash.
> There is more criticism to be aimed at the "common" truck driver who really has no business using a truck as their daily driver.

The 1% trips that need the truck are enough to use it as a daily driver. The fixed costs of owning a truck (for the 1% trip) and a second car for everything else are so much that almost nobody has enough income to afford that.

Every time I say the above someone says "but you can rent", but when I look into it I discover the hassles, cost, and restrictions on renting makes me decide I can't.
Yes but people also aren’t expected to walk on roads with cars except at certain outlined points
I was curious how this performed server-side versus protobufjs. (what we're currently using) I hastily wired it up to protobufjs's benchmark suite. (https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/tree/master/bench) The suite is pretty ancient so getting buf-compiled esm added was a challenge.

Granted, the benchmark is created for protobufjs and they probably optimize against it. Protobuf-ES was about 5.1x slower than protobufjs for encoding and 14.8x slower than protobufjs for decoding.

This was run on my M1 with node 16.14; not particularly scientific, etc, etc.
Firing 25% of the workforce "for cause" looks like a very hard sell to me, and would open up Twitter for a barrage of lawsuits - and rightly so.

Even laying off 25% of the workers would be hard to justify at this point. I'm certainly curious where this all is going.
> I don't want to assume that assaulting people is just the cost of free speech

Is it? Are there more assaults in countries with more freedom of expression?
The oldest one would probably be the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic [1] which went into exile in 1919 and unlike similar bodies from other ex-Soviet republics remained apart after 1991.

1. https://www.radabnr.org/english
Software bugs are a problem for ICE cars, too [1]. A modern car has a dozen controllers strewn about, including a hard-realtime one that controls the injection of fuel into cylinders; without its software / firmware, the car just won't go.

That software may be more mature than EV's software, but not necessarily so.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apples-wozniak-toyota-has-softw...
Any suggestions to help steel-man this?
The US has to have debt in some form. We chose for it to be in government debt because that's the least harmful place for it.

It is a problem not because it's government debt, it's a problem because of the lost jobs. It's a problem because of our dependence on China for goods. It's a problem because it's inherently unsustainable debt no matter what form it takes.
If you're Musk and you truly believes that the company is bloated with underperforming employees, what is the alternative?
The reason for anything large and complicated is very nuanced and probably has a lot of small causes that we might all disagree on, but I'd say that the overarching reason for this social malaise might be that a lot of people are feeling a lack of hope for their future.

If you think you're working towards something good: a family, home ownership, kids, a reasonable amount of life enjoyment in terms of leisure, a stable society, and a pleasant retirement where you can enjoy seeing your grandkids and participate in some hobbies for a decade or so before your mind or body collapse....you might be willing to push yourself to achieve as much as you possibly can, even if you're a lowly cashier or janitor.

But who wants to go the extra mile for this degenerate and hopeless society where your money is being destroyed and you have grave concerns about many things? Whether rightly or wrongly, everybody is seeing fucked up things in the world and many people are feeling much greater concern about the future than we've ever seen before. This isn't a recipe for going the extra mile at work or harnessing the energy of society to achieve something great.
It's not ironic, you are twisting words. They're pinpointing a specific set of entities who should be very careful about making certain discussions not included in these entities are individual citizens. If a case has been decided that indicates a specific set of actions are civil rights violations, then I'm not sure what you are suggesting, its ok to violate precedent over and over again without consequence?
> The fact is that many employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone. Until they have met them, assessed them, heard what they salary target is and weighed it up against their skills and experience and calibrated it against the team.

One of the reasons I want to know the salary range upfront is that it tells me the bare minimum they are paying for that position. Companies love lowballing candidates, so I usually don't apply for an offer that doesn't pay at least the minimum I'm looking for.

> Far more important is to know the salary target that you are aiming for.

It's also important to know the company's budget. I don't enjoy working at places that can't afford a $200/year IDE license, to name a common example. Fat salaries often come with fat budgets.
It isn't just Russia and China though, the US Army has four psychological operations divisions alone.
Not surprising. I would imagine a bunch of current spies (from a whole host of nations, including the US, Israel, China, etc...) are working day jobs at every major tech company.

It's kind of naive to think otherwise.
> Perhaps by communicating only fair and factual information

No one is unbiased. The order and depth to which you present facts can itself be biased. Also, the extent to which you leave out or don’t throughly investigate “unimportant” facts can be biased.

For example, some networks and politicians try to “flood the zone”, with more information than can reasonably be covered. Even without bad intentions, it’s impossible to know all the facts about the war in Ukraine, let alone trying to also make time to learn facts about the economy, classified documents and Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The common refrain I hear from communities like HN seems to be that the way to fight disinformation is through education. However, what that looks like is never really explained in practical details. Is this just new curriculum that is taught to middle and high school students? Is there some course that all citizens have to take? If it is only taught to school age kids, what are we supposed to do for the next 30 or 40 years that the country is run by people who haven't had this training? What are we supposed to do when this disinformation education is corrupted by people who themselves have already fallen victim to disinformation because they haven't been educated properly?

I just don't see any practical solution that doesn't involve some type of restriction on disinformation.
The explore page is only featured members since it’s the first page people see and I didn’t want people abusing that with spam. Search “*” (without quotes) and it’ll show you posts from everybody. You were complaining the other day that there was no explore page, so I make one and you’re still complaining - to me it looks like you just want to complain. To each their own I wish you all the best; can’t please everybody.
I think this is exactly what parent meant. "How much is made" doesn't strictly mean "profit" in terms of a for-profit institution. The net output of a non-profit is directed somewhere, either internal or external to the entity, and that can loosely be considered "making money", or at least in the sense I believe parent meant.
> HN, for example, is already taken over. There are nationalistic and politically-inclined shill groups

Evidence?
So, how much money changes hands off of how much workers work?
> Covid tests are paid for by government, but testing for all the other viruses costs hundreds of dollars? What a farce.

Could you imagine if there was some test that showed you all the viruses that are circulating in your system at any given moment? If we applied the same rules as we do for covid to such a test, people would literally never be able to leave their house...
I was on gruvbox dark for a while but recently moved to melange (https://github.com/savq/melange) - I find the colors are a bit more toned down and pleasant to look at.
I am not sure why this is called disinformation, and why folks think this is a new concept. It's called propaganda, and it's been a tool of war since ever. We do need to defend against propaganda, free europe and US. There are actors out there leveraging the reach of the internet to spread propaganda in their favor, much as the SU did and any actor before or during it.
War is good, buy bonds