skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the opinion (that their reduced opportunities / economic bargaining position mean they _should_ be paid orders of magnitude less) that's colonialist, rather than you as a person. By 'colonialist' I of course mean to imply "regressive and repugnant". It is not an immutable economic fact that wages should be where they are relative to each other.
Literally the third sentence says

> Their skill isn’t in programming, it’s in reducing ambiguity rapidly and advancing efforts through complexity rapidly

You should make a top-level comment if you plan on ignoring context.
Condom use has also declined over the past decade or so.
It seems like there should be a control group of a non-medical person googling the questions.

That would defeat the purpose of the career advancement though that this type of "research" is designed for. It is just a smart move by the authors, many citations incoming.
I kinda remember these same kinds of parties at a similar age and honestly I don't think you need 20 acres for it either. Just a someone's backyard (or neighborhood) or a community center - I remember all of those fondly.

I have a feeling this post-pandemic period will be uncertain for a while but will swing back into more social in a year or two.
Just read it as 10X better rather than 10X faster, and the implied linearity in results goes away.

A 10X better engineer can do things others can not do.
Note that insurance will likely only cover it for on-label use.
The stdlib can use some nightly features in stable. Not a big issue.
> The classic one I've seen like 5 times is "how would you design a social media feed?" I still do not know the "correct" answer to this question.

There is no "correct" answer to it. It is an investigation into how you break the problem down and approach it. When presented with a challenge to it, how do you then look at it and consider how to solve it.

The Codeless Code - Case 83
Consequences http://thecodelesscode.com/case/83?topic=interviews
But what does a "reasonable person" standard say when it comes to specialist knowledge? Why would a reasonable person not expect that an armorer who is responsible for ensuring the proper state of the gun is sufficient "due caution and circumspection"?
Thats bs. 10-50 times higher is for unskilled labor. You should try comparing a someone with an academic background in Lagos versus someone in Cairo .
All valid points!
> Reynolds says he watched at least 10 of DxE’s clips from its investigation, and they left him disturbed for days. “I’ve actually seen a lot of horrible videos. This is the worst I’ve ever seen,” he says. “I’m not eating pork from the United States anymore until somebody fixes these problems.”

What a hopelessly optimistic statement. As if a different kind of meat, or different country of origin, would be any better?
I think that's a pretty good observation. The real trouble is finding a common interest when cultural boundaries are incredibly fluid. And there's plenty of competition for your attention span (including the attention span required for the prep/commitment involved with parties).

I've considered going to DEFCON or that one quirky convention at CMU to network in my niche.
May be because this paper was generated by ChatGPT :-)
That's easy. You watch a few FortNite videos on YouTube and slowly but surely end up with a small motorcycle collection.

You're going to want to work on your own bikes and eventually fabricate your ow-- basically, you need the space for your $250,000 CNC machine anyhow, so..
There's a truly excellent, open-source Mastodon client called Ice Cubes which hit the App Store yesterday. The very first thing I did was donate the maximum possible IAP.
> Nobody can make you feel anything.

This in 2023, when people feel offended by anything, sounds pretty off...
Sounds about expected even in current conditions.

If you are fairly skilled programmer, somewhat senior. These layoffs don’t matter.

I assure you that you won’t die of hunger if you quit/are laid off. Plenty of demand for non-coasters.
just want to mention, maybe I don't hang around the right people, but in my experience, where oral sex is common, use of rubber barrier methods during oral sex is very uncommon, and yes, you can catch the clap that way. https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/the-clap/

I just don't think "we" are realistically going to convince a lot of people to start using plastic prophylactics in many cases. Of course, I sincerely and oh so genuinely urge you and everyone to.
https://archive.ph/9Idne
This reads like a big barrel of flamebait, but here's a European perspective that might be informative for some. I do agree that overt and unambiguous remembrance of totalitarian atrocities is important and beneficial. I have been badly surprised to discover the room that exists in the Anglosphere to casually joke about these things (or maybe existed some years back). I mean people shouldn't also be casually joking about massacres that happened on the American soil.

That being said, there is a difference between: (A) Nazi Germany, where a party rose to power in the modern world that recognized universal human rights and tried to preserve peace (League of Nations), with the official platform of nihilism, cult of strength, imperial conquest and murdering people (B) the long road of the USA from what was essentially pre-modern brutality and Mongol Empire-style conquest and colonialism. This a difference between difficulty of changing society once it's grown into bad ways for centuries (USA) and actively conspiring to destroy a relatively sane social contract (Germany). Both are instances of evil in the world, but fully equating them does harm to our understanding of history.

There is further nuance here. Hannah Arendt theorized that totalitarianism was partly importing colonial atrocities to Europe. The Confederate ideology was somewhat Nazi-like in that it was a new concoction of reactionary ideas that wouldn't fly on the public scene in the age of Enlightenment. But I think the simplistic way of talking about these topics that's in vogue now is often just an excuse for fanaticism and self-righteousness, with care for what happened coming second.
As somone that use to write a lot of functional-style code (in ruby), and generally prefers functional style, and have created many many many "pipelines" like that in ruby code - I've actually started to "regress" to "status-quo" (as the article puts it) mostly because I work with developers that don't understand functional style and it just becomes point of contention in review that I just don't care about getting into anymore. I can see this same kind of thing happening with this operator in JS-land (I may be wrong, haven't written any significant javascript in years, but people tend to be stubborn).

I just write things as stupidly as possible now, and just do the second one even though there are nicer "ruby-ways" to do them - maybe this is "bad" but I find it easy to read and grok...and it doesn't cause arguments during review <.<
> the compiler can guess the implementation of the function [...] guaranteed to be correct on a type level

I'm curious about this. Can you provide some examples, please? Which languages can do this?
Should make it an async function, and await the bake step. ;-)
> I'd happily donate 10x more to Ivory as an open source project than you'd make from selling it to me as a closed source app

Tweetbot apparently cost $6/year, so are you saying you would donate $60/year if they released an open source Mastodon client? Are there other open source apps you donate to?

I'm genuinely curious how people approach payment/donations for open source software, I'm not trying to pull some gotcha on you. I don't donate to any open source projects, but I feel that I probably should.
Honestly based on this comment you clearly need therapy. You're making a toooon of assumptions about me without knowing anything about me. Literally talking like my actually mentally ill ex. Dismissing my trauma while playing up your own. You're probably not even self aware of your own issues.
> Reminds me of how Microsoft dumped Atom (and then fauxpen-sourced VSCode before dumping the last remnants of Atom).

I'm confused by this. Microsoft released the VS Code source in 2015, long before they acquired GitHub in 2018 and sunset Atom in 2022.
The first one is going into Lincoln County Wyoming in the city of Kemmerer. The city, county and state are all excited to get this reactor. They have the full support of the state. This state has a very diverse power production profile and provides power to most of the western states.

The only people not so happy are the coal miners that are soon to be out of work. Kemmerer is also a coal mining city. Some of them have already started relocating.
There's some differences as well: GitHub gives a year lead-time, Slack gave two months. IRC and XMPP are a fundamentally different workflows from that horrible web UI, subversion (for basic commands) is not all that different than git (alias svn=git can almost work).
A part of me is curious what would happen if all of these 3rd party clients banded together to create their own separate backend - surely it wouldn't be that hard to get a clone of Twitter going. There's likely a strong correlation with people who use 3rd party clients and people who are power users, so you'd have a strong social network from the start.
Good place to start would be in college towns where you could easily siphon off new grads.

Problem is getting money to a place like that. Investors hate travel if its not to the same 3 cities
Yeah, close to the November election, it felt like Google stopped filtering election spam email suddenly.
Police unions are a special case that deserve special attention. They have a unique position that essentially makes them lawless organizations. They can hold the rest of the system hostage or just decide not to enforce certain laws.
He also complained pretty bad about the "algorithmic" feed when he was in the process of acquiring Twitter. In the past the Twitter website would periodically switch you to it, with some kind of backoff, presumably hoping deeply that you would not notice. Now, it doesn't do that... there is just no URL that goes to the latest feed, you need to select it every time you load the page.

I'm not really a Twitter user, but I can only assume that he thought "I'm going to do things right" until seeing the balance sheet.
> That would enable this, from my example:

So the same thing except more verbose.

> while also enabling something like this:

Enable for what? A pipeline threads a value through a sequence of operation, there is no second parameter.

> ...whereas just sticking with the single `%` means you _can't_ disambiguate

Which doesn't matter because there is nothing to disambiguate.

> Having unique "magic scope variables" at least allows you the flexibility to handle non-unary use-cases.

Which do not and can not exist.

And even if they did (which, again, they don't), you could do exactly what Clojure does with its lambda shorthand: %1, %2, %3, %4.

> Either way, this is another case of "every lexer/parser has to be riddled with special cases" to handle "is this `%` a fancy-pipeline-identifier, or is it an operator?"

There is no special case, having the same character be a unary and binary operator is a standard feature of pretty much every parser. Javascript certainly has multiple, as well as operators which are both pre and post-fix.
The feeling of asking a question and realizing you've reached the edge of human understanding is very fun
The specific number ten is tricky because in a healthy environment, the effect tends to dilute. The difference often appears when a team penetrates into the jungle of a new technology. Some people are much better trail blazers than others and in that situation 10x or even higher multipliers are not unusual.

But once the mechanics are known and the pitfalls are spotted, the difference should be much smaller, provided knowledge is properly transmitted through documentation, pairing or whatever.

Actually, a wise boss won't put the 10x programmer to work in parallel with the rest, but some weeks ahead, as a minesweeper.

Edit: another area in which some programmers are much better than others is bug hunting. But again, there's a moment when every evil schrödinger-ish bug is fixed.
If you want a more purely academic/economic perspective on the larger issue I recommend "The End of the Everything Bubble" by Alasdair Nairn. As implied by the title, it doesn't focus exclusively on tech but on the asset bubble as a whole.
I've never seen anyone directly make this case. Most people seem to want their colleagues (many of whom are friends) to keep their jobs more than they want the stock price to go up.
It’s not like people didn’t speak out for the moderators or employees, just that Musk didn’t listen. If you’re looking for Nazi Germany analogies, perhaps Blitzkrieg is better - quickly destroying its entire userbase.
If you're not paying attention to Mastodon now, a think to know about Tapbots and Ivory, their new ActivityPub client, is that their TestFlight betas, which they release in batches of a thousand or so at a time, last for just a couple minutes before they're all snapped up; there seems to be pretty huge demand for it.

With a decent client (I've bounced around a couple of them so far), even in a beta state, the experience of writing and interacting with people on "Mastodon" is better than it was on Twitter. I'm bummed out when I have to talk on Twitter now.
> I wanted to announce this on April Fool's Day, but just couldn't make the timing work.

Thank you for not doing that. Releasing a wacky feature on April 1 is funny. Discontinuing a service that people might rely on is distinctly un-funny.
I think that depends on the context. Are all intermediate results of the application of multiple procedures relevant and need a name? Or are we only interested in the result after applying all the procedures? Why polute our namespace with names, which are never again used, except for the next step of the pipeline? Then in other cases one does need some intermediate results.
Android has a 48.2% mobile OS market share in the US as of November 2022: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

Claiming "next to no one uses Android" is just plain wrong even in the US.
I like this 'exponent' argument.

Bill Joy used to say that the # of smart, effective people in an organization = log (total # of people at organization), AND the only thing Management can do is slightly adjust the base of that logarithm.
> Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead

Probably thousands of airline and US government employees have had access to this list over the years. Yet neither you nor me can see anything on it, here in January 2023.
It's not quite as safe, since with apt or rpm the package can be signed by the distribution a (presumably) safer system, instead of being signed on-the-fly by an outward-facing webserver.

But it's still pretty damn safe.
>" median age of female's first marriage "
Are you sure you didn't overlook the "try another way" button?
> Meanwhile, profits have been massive for many companies in spite of inflation. The in site of part is somewhat sarcastic, because a lot of it is driven purely by corporate greed next to macro economic factors.

This is not a good explanation because you have to explain why it went up at time X rather than earlier, and of course why it goes down sometimes. Do they just stop being greedy?

And it's empirically not true: https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/economic-review/how-m...

> We're moving money toward the rich at a crazy rate, causing regular people to be able to afford less and less.

Also not true, wealth inequality has been flat in the US since 2013 and has declined since 2020.

People just love saying negative stuff!
Gosh. I used to have pretty good night vision and recognise what you mean about "see based on the noise floor" - but I never had an experience like seeing the stovetop heat. Remarkable. I wonder how much variation there is between people? Unfortunately mine's faded with age so I don't think it's worth my trying to see if I can see that myself now...
How the Largest Whales Got So Big May Be Explained by Four Key Genes
I had exactly this yesterday, only the email address was my own Gmail with a dot at the end so when I opened the email the name was "McAfeeSecurity" with my own email address and profile picture.

I reported it as spam and Gmail helpfully asked if I'm sure because I communicate with this person a lot and when confirmed said it will block the sender. Unsure if this will have any impact on the emails I send out myself now.

Rather worrying that Gmail addresses can be spoofed.
did you check in which conditions and countries your shoes, t-shirts, pants, etc are manufactured?
Having worked with many PR/Marketing/Media brand teams I do not know of one group that utilized twitter client in any of their workflows -- they all used a mix of third party clients for reading and other integrations/clients for posting and managing conversations and ad work. Sure much of the API surface area for latter still works but there was a goodly portion of impacted folks on these clients that were the same people that were on the same teams that impact ad spend and brand usage.
I've been on twitter since 2009 and have 100k+ tweet. Since they've killed all third-party clients I've basically stopped using twitter, and have no intention of using the (bad) official client. Good job Elon!
> "specifically ones produced by Sony that are sometimes sold to law enforcement for hidden camera surveillance"

This statement from the article does not mean:

> Not generally available to civilians

There are very few pieces of technology a regular person can't get their hands on. A camera is not a controlled device or something.

People who make IoT devices regularly use similar cameras and hand-soldered batteries, etc. The setup from the article wouldn't even raise an eyebrow over at HackADay or similar.
I'd love to hear from someone who's still using SVN professionally and can explain why they prefers it to Git.

I used SVN very early in my career. I think the only good thing I can say about it is that it's easier to learn. It's quite easy to teach a junior dev how to use SVN. Git takes much longer to master.
City will impose strict water restrictions and call problem solved.
The smoothest way to get your data from any service or app into After Effects. Awesome support team, too :)
I really wonder if Musk has thought this through. For years it's been a casual habit to use Tweetbot. Now I doubt if I'll download official twitter or go to the website - the platform is essentially dead to me.
This is fantastic but I can't see myself using it simply because it uses Electron.
>Wonder if anyone will dare to do the math.

Warning! Madness this way lies.

I'm thinking back to the movie Real Genius during one of the montage scenes where they're cramming for finals in a common area when one student just stands up from his material and starts screaming in madness before fleeing. Everyone else, just behaves as if this is normal as someone takes the now vacant place at the table.

That guy screaming in madness? That's me after just thinking of doing the math without even grabbing a pencil.
Man, to stumble upon this, at this time in my life, of all times.

I literally just sent an email to HR, talking about how my new boss is horrible - I've only had him for 2 months and now I'm home on sick leave from stress.

I'm hoping he gets the boot - still in his trial period, even! But truth be told, the experience burned me so much that I think I'll just leave for something different.

I can definitely relate to having the mental snot beat out of you. I began to doubt my own skills, because I basically haven't been allowed to do anything technical since late November.

Yesterday, I had an interview with the CTO of a super exciting, fast growing company with an awesome product. The interview was scheduled for 1 hour, but we went 2.5 hours because there was just so much interesting stuff to talk about. I felt like I was myself again. I still got it baby!

What I guess I'm saying is, I can relate, it's fucking tough, and it's fucking awesome that you've moved on! Congratulations. Now make sure you heal.
>figured out what they wanted to do and took the serious steps to do that with a record of setting ambitious but reasonable goals for themselves and hitting them

What would this actually look like to you on a resume?
Sounds like this one is different.

> We have invested in research to understand which techniques cause the least pain and stress to the animals and to their handlers. For pigs weighing less than 65 pounds, we use either carbon dioxide (CO2), which causes painless loss of consciousness and death, or a device called a nonpenetrating captive bolt gun, which administers a controlled blow to the head without breaking the skin, instantaneously rendering the animal insensible and causing a quick death. For pigs larger than 65 pounds, we use a penetrating captive bolt gun that fires a retractable metal bolt into the brain, resulting in insensibility and death.

https://www.smithfieldfoods.com/animal-care (near the bottom is a section labelled "Humane Euthanasia and Slaughter")
JavaScript continues on its eternal and unavoidable march from a small quirky language towards a huge quirky language.
The problem with lobbying is the money. Those with the capital will always have more to spend than the workers.
Where will she jump to?
>If it truly is such a blunder of a move, build your own Twitter-like service and allow API access for 3rd party clients. You'll dominate Twitter in no time!

it already exist, its called Mastodon.
That is concise, readable, and does not have any room at all for error handling. If this was Rust, it could at least be turned into something which returned the right Err for what was happening.

Without something like that, trying to add error handling to the things which may blow up would instantly turn it into gibberish. Every single function here can fail (the HTTP request could fail, the data returned could be unparseable as JSON, or not have the right format). We should be trying to make our languages encourage us to write code which can handle those errors naturally, rather than encouraging us to write fragile code.
I’m sure. All of these companies use the same criteria and went on a hiring binge, partially to deny employees to competitors. It’s a like a gas station pump war.

End of the day, when growth slows, it’s hard to justify some of these salaries, becuase you can’t raise prices forever. I lost an employee who is getting paid $450k by AWS to do customer engineer type work. It’s just not worth that to me, and we hired a replacement recent graduate who went to a school that FANG companies will bin him for. The replacement makes $125k, is great, and will probably be with us for 3-4 years.
This is what the meat industry lobbies for laws to prevent people from knowing. Everyone has the right to eat meat just as everyone has the right to know where it really comes from when they make that decision.
The writing has been on the wall for 3rd party clients since Twitter restricted API access the first dozen times pre-Elon.
> With that level of customization and personalized media, I wonder if we will feel even more fragmented culturally as we lose these common narratives and touch points.

The thing is, people like having these common narratives. They like talking with their friends about ongoing stories, they like telling their friends about new interesting things that they're watching. I don't think any sort of system without that would work. I just don't think it's what people want out of their media.