skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn’t explain the concept of a set point very well.

Your body’s set point is a weight that it wants to go back to. The set point can change, but not without great effort. Small efforts will simply result in temporary weight gain/loss and eventual reversion to the set point weight. Great efforts (long term changes in diet and lifestyle, not just a 7 day juice fast) are required to re-set your set point higher or lower.

Think of a hamster crawling up a giant mixing bowl or something, set on a particular spot on the kitchen floor. The hamster can walk forwards up the side of the bowl, but the bowl has not moved and since the sides of the bowl are very steep, the hamster will slide back down to the middle of the bowl where he started. If he wants to get to a different part of the kitchen, he will have to really slam his body against the side of the bowl, or work hard in a different way, to “nudge” the whole bowl across the floor so it’s now sitting at a different “set point”
I know where the real Amazon talent is at there. However I won't say. Most of the talent isn't great and just fills the void of too much work for one person to do so that the amazing talent can have a weekend.
I am better than what you're accusing me of. It's too bad that you either can't see it or purposefully ignoring it. I suspect what you're doing is arguing in bad faith but accusing me of it first to shield yourself from critique.

> You misunderstand.

No, I didn't. I understood and got at the core of the argument. You've responded to it with the argument you actually wanted to make, not the one you did make in the parent response.

So your argument now is not that it's dogmatic but that the implementation and rollout is/would be too disruptive.

I disagree. I think we're seeing people have mixed fiat currency and cryptocurrency and it seems clear that cryptocurrency can further integrate itself into everyday operations without causing the disruption you're thinking of.

> ... like we need to be able for a world-wide payment system to be able to scale and not destroy the planet and eat up a large portion of our energy resources if and when it is trying to do so.

These are all things that Bitcoin possibly can mitigate and work around. I'm willing to admit that this might not be possible. You refuse to engage in the idea.

> ... looking for evidence for something you already believe and discarding that which does not fit is something that is extremely harmful to society ...

Again, my argument is to have a reasoned critique, not a shouting match. Critique is important. Bullying doesn't help.

I am aware of the shortcomings. I don't want to ignore the problems but I also don't want to let let them overshadow the benefits, especially if the benefits outweigh the problems. I urge you to do the same.

> Evolution does not mean better ...

This was a response to your earlier point that Bitcoin was created from dogma. There might be bias in terms of which economic or political model is best (by Satoshi Nakamoto and other proponents) but my point was that Bitcoin was a logical progression of ideas to fix critical flaws in earlier attempts.

The commonly held political definition of Capitalism is "A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital." You're describing what you believe to be the effects of capitalism. Maybe that implies what you're talking about but that's not obvious to me and I suspect it's far from the truth. Shooting from the hip, I can already tell you that things like solar energy exist which are in the other direction of where you're pointing to for resources.

Moving capital from people with little power to people continuing to consolidate power is progressing just fine without cryptocurrency [1]. Though I'm not sure if the sources can be trusted or that the interpretation is correct, there's at least some evidence that cryptocurrency is being used for one of its intended, altruistic, use cases [2] [3] [4].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capitalism

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

[2] https://ripple.com/insights/broadening-financial-inclusion-i...

[3] https://cointelegraph.com/news/africa-s-crypto-market-has-gr...

[4] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/africas-grassroots-cryp...
It's generally perceived as awkward to not eat when you're with others in a place that's specifically for eating
> Something about this cycle and these cuts feels I dunno, manufactured or something.

It's absolutely manufactured to the extent that the Fed is intentionally trying to slow demand (aka: cause a recession) in order to stop inflation. The problem is, a large portion of inflation (some indicators are half) is simple price gouging, which Fed measures won't impact, and another large portion is simple ongoing supply chain problems, which the Fed also can't really fix. All they can do is force a recession.
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Some of their product teams are massive and they don't need to be. Some product teams are so large it just adds too much feature creep putting development teams into development hell. One of the various reasons I left Amazon.
Would companies who make cycling airbags/protection be useful?

See helmets[0]
or for hip guards [1]

[0] https://hovding.com/

[1] https://en.helite.com/hipguard/
Sure. There are OS APIs for these things and other toolkits for it. Browsers are fine and all but I don’t think they’re the only reasonable option in town for cross platform development.
What makes you think there will be slack to take up? We're heading into a recession-maybe-depression and collapse of the global ecosystem. We're going to lose generations of knowledge due to population decline and bit-rot. There probably won't be a "manufacturing superpower" after China because maintaining coherent societies at that scale, without the food, technology, education and infrastructure necessary to underpin it, will no longer be possible.
Is anyone using something like pocketbase with LiteFS or Litestream? I love pocketbase as a management tool (and the go interface is really nice when you need a bit of extra customization).
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There's an easy solution to this: They can offer you some amount of money not to work for those competitors for 6-12 months, and you can accept it, deny it, or renegotiate it.
> because it would mean relinquishing control - commercial anathema for him

Also, like, the forced carrier apps on every generic phone before the iPhone either ruined or crippled the experience of using the phone, locking you into their shitty ad-laden applications or forcing you through their terrible browsers and web portals.

To me, and several people I knew at the time - It was one of the big appeals of the iPhone that Apple had drawn a hard line at not allowing any of this.

It was 100% actually better for the consumer.
I call it "depth-first" vs "breadth-first" learning.

In the first case to learn a thing you learn all its dependencies and you understand everything about X once you learn it (but you take a long time before you can connect the dots, it's frustrating cause you wait long for the feedback, an it's harder to learn dependencies without understanding what they will come useful for later).

In the other case you skip the details and learn the general idea, then (if you have time) - you make another pass going into more details, and so on. The good thing is that you have general idea about everything quickly and you know more or less where to look for more details if you need them. The bad thing is that you don't really understand most things, you just think in leaky black boxes until you're forced by the debugging to learn the details.

This is the difference between my wife's (a math teacher) and my (a programmer) learning styles, and we had it very hard to overcome these differences when learning together at university :)
The lack of financial freedom.
If we had regulations to ensure jobs and roles. Obligated a company to give a four month parachute if laid off or fired it would making companies hire better talent as to avoid too much loss.

Prevent artificial unavailability of jobs. When you release 17k people into the work force you can be sure Amazon will be slow to fill the gap it created. So it holds up hiring. Then those 17k people are going to flock to whatever available role can be acquired. This will extend the interviewing processes and make it harder.

Tech companies and unfair hiring practices are what are leading to our financial collapse.
I haven't tried that!

I don't drink to get good sleep; quite the opposite. I discovered that my sleep quality tanks if I drink too much too soon.
I have an MBA and I actually agree. I currently only have some anecdata to back it up ( most of my younger coworkers have a more combative if not ronin-like approach to employers ). Personally, I get it. I had company decide to close doors in our state and I was forced to looks elsewhere, but the management there did make a difference ( acceptable severance based on seniority, help with finding new jobs and so on ) and certainly did see some uncool behavior in my career.

That said, I had some minor hopes for the current post-Covid world, because it, however briefly, looked like employees understood what standing together meant and that WFH is something that can easily be done in some positions ( and is artificially dosed as a reward to special ones ).

For better or worse, the coming recession will confirm whether I had hoped for too much.

FWIW, I am staying mostly remote ( as is most of my team now ). I already told no HR once. I am getting more and more comfortable daily with more otherwise uncomfortable situations despite clearly changing winds and better corporate propaganda ( they did learn from initial fiascos ).
> It's more like a bunch of people trying to show who has the biggest e-penis (ratio, highest upload, etc.

Literally nobody cares about that stuff anymore, most members have been on these sites for so long that things like ratios have become utterly meaningless.
Music is a great hobby and a terrible career.

I love playing mandolin, and i'm taking up fiddle now. Someday I hope to learn piano. It's is all in good fun.

My day job is programming. I'm lucky that I enjoy it as well, but there is only so much time I can write code in a day, and that is less than 8 hours (i'm glad for meetings for this reason, they prevent burn out) I get paid well for it.
If they are actually going to pay for your time, why just don't take the job? Riding the latest trends is very normal for media personalities or entrepreneurs, if trends change so do they. If they fail to do that, they will perish.

Obviously, don't do the unethical stuff but if they were somewhat lucky in the crypto boom it would be nice to have that money redirected to ML.

I don't know if its possible to make people talk to their friends using GPT models but sounds like something that people can actually pay for.

If they don't have the dataset, building one or acquiring one can be added to the todo list.
What’s the benefit of trading one awful language for another?
Why bother?
I wonder if we can turn this around and somehow scam these people of their crypto?

"This is an excellent idea and I would be happy to get started on it. Please send me X BTC to this address as a downpayment."
First experience with the US immigration process, eh?
I was a lifeguard at one point and we had to practice CPR a lot. I can’t remember the exact stats but the survival rate for someone in cardiac arrest with just CPR is absolutely dire. I think it was like less than 10% or maybe even less than 5% chance of it being successful. A defibrillator increases the chances of success dramatically but the odds still aren’t great and you need to get the defibrillator on them as rapidly as possible. If ten to fifteen minutes go by they’re probably fucked and they almost certainly are if 20 minutes have gone by.

Also, ironically, the BPM of another one bites the dust by queen matches the compression rate for CPR perfectly and now you know that you probably won’t ever forget it, though you might get some funny looks if you started singing it out loud during the procedure!
At Amazon practically everything that’s not AWS falls under “retail”. Including things like prime video and alexa.
RIP. Creative is a brand I'll love forever, having come into PC gaming in the 90's (Sound Blaster). My desktop speakers are still Creative.
Semmle (now GitHub CodeQL)

ShiftLeft

Oversecured

etc.

There are a few companies doing this.
> Trying to making this a us vs them is pretty much meaningless as it’s completely ineffective in solving the problem.

i don’t mean this as confrontational as it’s going to come across, but this is nonsense. it isn’t ineffective at all.

would you mind expanding on what you mean?
> We are seeing a bit of a market downturn - but it hasn’t hit Amazon pocketbook now, has it? Are they in danger of running out of money? What happened to “people are our most important resource”?

People are an important resource, certainly for a company like Amazon, and probably the most expensive too. But I don't understand the argument -- you don't just throw money around like that on any other resource.

Certainly up until this year it was a seller's market in tech and I saw a lot of movement to chase bigger salaries (which is fine and people should try to get what they want while the getting's good).

> And this brings me to my main point - I think years of this has had an unexpected side-effect the companies never signed up for: people started treating companies they way companies treating people and we are starting to see the results - quiet quitting, oft bemoaned lack of loyalty, job hopping, etc. Now I am not saying it’s all new, but at least in my observation it’s peaking now and my thesis is these things are connected.

I'm not sure it is, and I'm not sure if you can assign the "blame" (if there is any) to one side.

I think as I said the workers have had a red hot run for quite a few years and it was those peaking conditions that drove the peak in their dissatisfaction. Conditions are going the other way now and people will try to hold their jobs a bit more I expect.

And what started the trend from people being lifetime company men to almost no loyalty? I doubt the ruling class one day got together and decided they'd stop treating workers well. It's surely a lot of factors on all sides. People have far more generational wealth including the investment in education, than in the early 1900s, and there are at least some social safety nets, so job loss might be considered less risky. It has become increasingly easier to advertise, search, apply, recruit for jobs outside the local region with telephone, fax, then internet, email.

I'm not sure what you'd prefer. Certainly people shouldn't be tied down to companies. Should corporations be made to keep people on long after they're costing more than they're producing? When you look at government and places with undue union power (police comes to mind), you get a lot of incompetence, corruption, and just poor organizations where crap floats to the top and they could never compete without enforced monopolies. Unfortunately it never turns places into egalitarian utopias.
In the 1700s, the new world was the hot new thing leading to the south seas bubble. In the 1850s people bandwagoned rail and steam power, leading to the rail bubble. In the 1920s it was radio technology. In 1970s it was polaroid. In 2000 it was dotcom.

Every bubble busts, but the end result has left us with rail lines, the United States, radio, television, digital cameras, and fiber optic lines.

The overall direction is upwards. EVs will probably be the long term outcome of the last bubble. AI still has a long way to go.

Crypto will probably go the way of the less useful bubbles (beanie babies and tulips)
3000 kcals of salad is huge in terms of volume, so getting obese is practically impossible on such a diet unless it was drowned in dressing. Bodybuilders that are on a cutting phase actually consume higher volume / lower calories foods to still feel satiated.
> communal libraries where enthusiasts

No, it's private libraries closed to the broader community. The millions of Indians in the aforementioned comment are precisely the people who'd benefit most from free flow of information, but they're excluded. This is like setting up a premium subscription library to keep poor people out - the "slums" are precisely the people who benefit from a public library the most. Tagging and removal of duplicates can be done without making a tracker private.

Public torrents have been plenty fast enough for me, I'm not sure why people are complaining. Maybe they're not sophisticated enough to up the connection limits on their torrent software, which is why slow peers are hampering their speeds.
And any jurisdiction that loosens zoning restrictions can benefit from the investments that will expand availability instead of being harmed by the consumption of a scarce resource. Potential for a win-win situation.
I had one. I crashed and destroyed it before completing a single rotation!
I'm not even sure depreciation matters with these anyway! Idk how much of a resale market there is. You might just run it into the ground and then scrap it.
Yes, I totally agree. The whisper quiet vans driving safely and unhurriedly up and down the street where my kids play are a much better solution. I hope that your plans to legislate the status quo into permanence are successful.
It's called an aging libido. Your social circle never expected much
from you, but it takes all of your 20s and 30s for the little brain
to relent to being average.
Factors in infection risk (Vaccine increses infection risk)
Can you elaborate, as someone with little AWS experience? Are OIDC based creds just more scoped? What makes them special?
McLuhan's idea of being discorporeal, or without a body, being only a representation or a symbol pretty much sums up the culture right now. As neutrally as I can manage, that sums up the divide that makes political differences so irreconcilable. More than just being reduced to symbols to each other, the polarization is between people who believe symbols and the represented are the real, and those who believe there exists a real independent of the represented or experienced. We're in the power vacuum created by this discorporeal existence McLuhan predicted, and filling that vaccum is the source of the conflict.

I'd take it a step further where the conservative mind is defined by belief in a real (the real) where pursuit and alignment to truth is the highest good, and whereas the progressive understanding is that the real is whatever one represents or experiences it to be over the substrate of a power struggle. They're right about the power struggle, but only because to them everything is a power struggle and we all just happen to be in one caused by this discorporeality from tech. Sort of a stopped-clock waiting for a Marxist moment. Personally, I think it's a materialist understanding that has no belief at all, and it substitutes a system of criticism for the physical experience that produces a sustainable morality. However, while I don't expect them to care, I am very interested in the problem of how to diffuse these conflicts I believe are the roots of the kind of cyclical and generational genocial wars for which our species seems about due.

McLuhan was right about a lot of things, and probably was more concrete and useful than the more fashionable ideas of Baudrillard and the other post modernists. McLuhan was also a fairly devout catholic, which might explain how he could riff on the same broad critical themes as the atheistic critical theorists, but with a more right handedness instead of left hand perspective. His conservatism is probably what ultimately caused him to fall out of academic fashion, not unlike Rene Girard, where they both had an almost scientific level of predictive power, but the post-hoc explanatory power of the marxist theorists was ultimately more seductive to undergrad minds. These latter ones asked, "who needs all these other abstract things like good, truth, stability, freedom, when you can just seize the power?" And so we have a generation of politically activated adults who are organizing to rule over the ashes of civilization.

A bit abstract for HN, but you post Marshall McLuhan, this is about par. I have a book of his essays on my shelf I thought about revisiting, but it's a bit like reading an engineering manual after the ship has struck the iceberg, where if you're only reading it now, it's probably too late. :)
He wil be missed!
The oldest evidence for humans swimming is from 100k years ago
We already have it - you can buy Semaglutide easily on the clear net as it’s relatively easy / cheap to manufacture. r/peptides has more info.

Disclaimer: I’m not advocating this - just sharing info.
> You have to hold your weight at a point for something like 3-5 years before your body relents enough that the setpoint moves.

Is there any evidence of this? I've never seen any evidence the setpoint ever moves down.
And yet they built and put to orbit their own Space Station

I don't know where these journalists get their info, either incorrect translation or some non-official quotes

The official line was always to send people to the moon by 2030
Seeding sustainability is contradictory in a lot of private trackers. The mandatory seed ratios is such that I often create new accounts just to download the torrents seeded by my main account to keep my ratio up. It's super easy to screw yourself by downloading a torrent nobody else wants to download, and thus lowering your seed ratio.
What if you found out that willpower wasn’t genetic, but a learned skill like riding a bike? Would that change your opinion at all?
> Going up 2 pages up in the browser? The left shift pressed twice (Shift Shift) gives me 2 PageUp.

Is this on a device with a tiny keyboard, or is it really something you do so often you want it on the main area instead of pressing PageUp twice?
> This is like setting up a premium subscription library to keep poor people out - the "slums" are precisely the people who benefit from a public library the most

With those people come automated abuse reports and law firms trying to collect money from downloaders.

> Public torrents have been plenty fast enough for me, I'm not sure why people are complaining. Maybe they're not sophisticated enough to up the connection limits on their torrent software, which is why slow peers are hampering their speeds.

Are you using a gigabit connection? If not, it’s not too surprising that you would not notice this.
Gimp eh? Well we're not going to put that in the article. We're serious people.
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Yup, same with sports. "You're gonna thank me later" they said.

"You're gonna understand when you grow up" they said.

NOPE
It's best not to think of it as a Programming Language, and more a grand social experiment in YOU GET A CAR! AND YOU GET A CAR!
I assume what they meant is having AWS accept short-lived OIDC tokens from Circle's OIDC provider, which in turn would generate them on demand when the CI is actually run. There'd be no secrets at rest and the attack surface would be (in principle) smaller.
Is Boom’s new supersonic engine plan for real?