skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of bureaucrats and legislators are instead just disorganized, technically clueless, and listen to the loudest and most organized group. Which tends to be intelligence or law enforcement.

I agree with you. We are too dumb, to selfish, to humans to be able to run a a New World Order, with decades-long plans in silence. For sure one stupid member would do a tiktok video while using their funny clothes
That's also how you get into a bubble. If you are a true seeker, what you want is authentic and original thinking which challenges your beliefs.
I think you need to consciously and continuously figure out where your time is best spent. There is a spectrum between situations where you can afford to let them make mistakes while figuring things out vs. situations where you need the team to execute to your own standards. You can evaluate this in multiple dimensions: productivity, system robustness, code quality, etc.

Think in terms of interfaces, assertions, and consistency checks. How can you be more hands off in the areas where the bar can be lower? What does your involvement need to be when you need the bar to be higher? Is the bar high enough that they will tend to improve over time?

If you are a perfectionist, you will simply end up doing more work than if you had done everything yourself. If you can create a structure that allows you to relax in some areas while helping the team grow their skills, then you will be more productive.
Unfortunately you will either need to change your attitude or change teams. In your position, the expectation is that you are mostly a working through others and acting as a force multiplier of their work. So doing stuff like:

* figuring out what motivate your juniors and trying to align that with what needs done

* giving them work which stretches their abilities but doesn't overwhelm them

* giving them some space to fail but not too much

* grooming your juniors to be leaders themselves so they can do some of this mentorship

And in general, there are two ways to go. The first is to accept the fact that many senior engineering and most staff engineering gigs are more about this kind of mentorship approach than actually doing work. And basically accept that the prime "getting shit done" years of your career are done and you will mostly be working in this new way now.

The second is to change jobs where you are back in the driver seat. As a senior engineer, these positions DO exist even at FAANG (over on my team, I am the most junior with 12 years of experience). However, the more senior you get, the harder it is to find a role like this, especially in big tech - its the rare exception. Startups and consulting gigs probably better align with wanting to be hands on keyboard, but at the price of a paycut.
> It recommended we upgrade our requirement for closed shoes to include steel toe caps.

Are you sure that's a good idea when you work near high powered microwave equipment?
Note that I said "a lot", not a majority.

Combination of the freedom to run around like those of us who grew up a decade or two earlier being given to them later with that freedom more likely to coincide with getting a phone or at least being near in time.

E.g. someone getting a phone at 10 in 2003 would be 30 this year already had a substantial likelihood of having had less freedom to run around at 10 in 2003 than I had at 8 in 1983, or indeed at 6-7. (I'm by no means suggesting every 10 year old in 2003 were getting phones).

It's very possible that the number is smaller than I'm imagining. It was merely a casual observation that we're now also increasingly starting to come across parents who grew up either being watched or being reachable, so the notion of kids being able to not just roam freely but roam freely without at least being able to call to say where they were is getting stranger to more and more people.
Could you request a multi-year payment plan for the 2022 tax owed balance?
OP asserted without evidence: "Obviously these agencies are vital."

GP questioned, and made a contrary assertion without evidence: "Are they? Seems that they do more harm than good."

Seems unfair to call out GP for not providing evidence, but not OP, especially since GP's claim was more moderate).
Conformity in Japan
What happens when it is 4am and you are still waking up to add more?
That's definitely what I've seen happen most.

It is a silly school of thought though. The same school of thought can also be found recommending to not give raises to their most loyal employees.
What are we talking about here?
You can power trip (literally and figuratively) as much as you are able. Some countries are good for that.
That doesn't make those countries "freer" as parent comment suggests.
I started this discussion after hearing about this from my CPA, who works for a large, multi-state firm.

My other business has a different CPA that I am waiting to hear from in terms of their advice/interpretation of this.

The articles I linked in the OP is from a multi-national CPA firm.

I am basically here hoping someone else has professional advice from a CPA that contradicts what I've been told since I would love for this to be completely not how this is working.

So I just want to make sure, are you saying you heard from your CPA/tax attorney that this is not how this works? Or are you just basing that on your read of it?
Vent aka. Ventrilo was a group voice chat application from about 20 years ago. You'd log into a server and have different "chat rooms" to be in, and it was voice-centric (and text to speech and many other features).
I guess it was "fixed" so that you had to hit them in the body or above, because a body shot with the AWP would kill someone instantly in 1.6, if I remember correctly.
> Even if I’m wrong about that, I’m very confident that low quality, biased, and flat out incorrect web content was already a problem before LLMs.

Definitely, and I believe the post admits as much. The point he's making is that it's going to get exponentially worse, until the web is useless (the "tipping point" you mention).

What are the "new tools that we already needed" though? I think I'm too pessimistic in my outlook on these things, and would be interested to hear your optimistic future scenarios.

Right now, my view is that as that as long as something is profitable, it'll continue. A glimmer of hope is that once the web is completely useless, people will stop using it, and we can rebuild.
>He was a nice guy if he knew you, but he was also brash and arrogant.

This is how most humans are. My tribe:friends, Everybody else: enemies, let kill them.

It's Jekyll/Hyde.
I had no idea prepayment meters existed for gas in homes. There's a case in The Great Ace Attorney revolving around gas in 1900s London, and I had assumed the meter in it was entirely fiction!
Could tools that detect AI (like this one https://gptzero.substack.com/) be used as it consumes data and discard anything that gets flagged? I guess probably a cat and mouse game as more models get built though.
In organizations that have separate management and IC tracks, there tend to be two ways that the IC track is interpreted as you become more senior:

1) You spend just as much time as you did before in development, only working on harder stuff.

2) You become more like an architect or an attending physician, where you're spending some time in development and some time teaching or consulting more junior devs.

I think most senior ICs would prefer #1, but in reality #2 is more common.
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Shocking when you realize places like Amazon will be one L6 and ten inexperienced devs. The L6 will just absolutely micromanage the low yoe devs. So come up with a design for the whole team, break it into pieces, and then grill them on their small designs. The CRs go under the microscope. Sprint planning with some absurdly short estimate. This is how modern software development is done. And its unfortunate that for non critical services, you actually dont need that many experienced engineers.

This is why ageism is rampant, some 35 year old would never agree to this setup.

Either do it, or move to a critical service team where theres actual adults
> My 1:1 meetings has not happened for last few months.

What do you mean is "hasn't happened"? You didn't ask for it? Or your manager ignored your requests for several months?

If it's the former you should grow some balls and ask for one, if it's the latter you should GTFO right now
I draw a distinction that you don't here. Development is not about the expansion of knowledge, it's about producing things. Science is about the expansion of knowledge.

As a society, we very often conflate the two, but they're really very different things.
No mention that 64bit ntp time will roll over in the year 2036, 32bit unix time will overflow in 2038 and the next GPS week rollover is in 2038.

The year 2038 is fifteen years from now.
> The fact that you couldn't find it reported in another "reputed news organization" doesn't mean it didn't happen.

But that's not the standard for good journalism! You appear to be saying we should believe this story in Reason despite the long delay from the events, uncorroborated evidence, and clear bias of the author... because we can't prove it's false?

No, that's wrong. The correct way to interpret the data is that this is a suspect piece of writing that someone should try to verify before trusting.
A single senator and an entire political party

OP is right. Manchin gets the blame but 50 others voted against it as well, many who would be willing to cross the aisle but for the toxic partisan environment in this country.
You're not part of the target market, then.
Think of it like any other recurring service, e.g., pickup/drop off laundry. It costs way more than doing laundry at the neighborhood laundromat and doesn't save very much time, maybe a couple hours a week. But, if you don't enjoy doing laundry, and you don't have an in-unit washer dryer, it may be worth it.

If you really don't like using your brain to write, then why not spend a bit of money to offload some thinking to this service?
Yes. Lisp code is only a small fraction of the code I edit, and trying to get my fingers to switch between paredit and not-paredit mode is not something I've been successful at. Adjust-parens lets me use line-oriented editing commands to structurally manipulate the lisp code, so it's much easier to context switch between lisp and not-lisp code.
The US probably has more rights for corporations than anywhere else in the world. That's not all bad for the US. It means with most global industries the corporate HQ and a lot of the money ends up in the US.
Yeah, I can't help but feel anytime a police officer stops me on the highway for 8 mph over the speed limit that they're really keeping all the crime away.

That's why people stop speeding, cause they get a ticket once and after that they never do it again.
Yeah, these things are usually just mouthpieces for western foreign policy. In the West we consider a president with 30% approval one of the most delivery states, while we consider one party states with 90% approval recorded by Western research institutions, to not be democratic. I completely agree with you; substantive democracy is in outcome, not in procedure.
This is insane. People aren't going to use chatGPT to think, they are going to use it for the opposite. That chatGPT doesn't even know when it's wrong is why this is a problem. The vast majority of projects I've seen purport to replace your needs for other things (developers, lawyers, etc) but not being a domain expert, any such user is not going to be aware of the significant flaws chatGPT has in its answers. Heck, someone posted a chatGPT bot that is supposed to digest and make understandable legal contracts, but the bot couldn't get the basics of the ycombinator SAFE right and had the directionality of the share assignment completely opposite what it should be. This is a fatal mistake that a layman wont realize.
Not at all:

The idea with this "Ask HN" here, is that people brainstorm and share knowledge on projects and technologies that would enable a platform as described to be built. Rather than just be provided "as a service", it should be instead end user-controlled.

Quick Examples:

+ Switch off bot reply censorship;

+ Instead of cloud-based MS Office, something like OpenOffice;
"The Web 2.0 changed the way we related to that information by making it interactive."

Web 2.0 was about users generating content on shared platforms (social networks). It wasn't about making it interactive — that is just a feature. The benefit of 2.0 was scaling-up businesses was easier than ever with new web tech. This spiralled directly into the start-up boom of the last decade.

Not sure I can take an article seriously that doesn't even understand its basic premises.
Rampant wall-banging on scoutknivez until people call you a hacker was my personal fave.
That's definitely an interesting one. Not shared in my group, nor would i understand what "the left" would have against Jews, especially in a religious context. They seem rather innocuous when compared to the more vocal and physical religions.

Do you honestly believe most left leaning individuals have something against the Jews?
That happens, I'd do it, and at least tomorrow there'll be fewer items to add.
Ventrillo, a voice chat program popular for gamers. I guess sort of 2002 era Discord.
> You only pay taxes on profit.

That's the question isn't it? What is considered your profit depends on what costs you must amortize vs. expense in year one. I'm not super familiar with this legislation but the concern is that it shifts development costs that were previously expensed to now be amortized.
It's not even that the best debug stories boil down to understanding and using tcpdump, but there's a real, giant divide between people who know how to troubleshoot and those who don't. Slinging code is relatively easy if you know the language, but odds are your app talks to a database, or makes a web call, or uses memory, and knowing how you interact at that layer is the difference between good and bad experiences, and uptime or not when things fail. I'm no electrician, but I know how to check my circuit box when something in my house won't power on, and then how to swap power cables, etc.
Totally agree. Hitler's gestapo, Stalin's NKVD and East German Stasi would have loved the surveillance infrastructure and technology we are building up right now.
Playbook: Build your first GPT-3 product
I have been following all the hype around GPT-3 and many products being built with it. After learning and research for almost 3 months, I have put together this guide for anyone to understand the basics of GPT-3 and how to build you first product with no-code.

What would you build as your first GPT-3 product?
Synopsis: 's/are so hostile to new ideas/are so hostile to supposedly-revolutionary bullsh*t ideas/'

My reaction to the title: Scientists have seen the University Press Office turn their little study on a slightly-improved method to sterilize medical lab culture dishes into "RADICAL NEW CANCER CURE!", or something they did with an old glow-in-the-dark radium watch dial into "COLD FUSION CONFIRMED!!", or...
I think that's the point they're making...
That'll filter for content that's popular or acceptable to your inner bubble. We already have that and it's becoming a more massive problem every day. "My friends trust it / like it " is not the same as"this is objectively true ". It's a fantasy of hyper democratic good-actor utopia that's not born by reality - whether extreme politics or pseudoscience or racism or intolerance religion or whatever will likely massively out vote any voices trying to determine facts.

Put it other way, today you already have an option to go to sources which are as scientific or objective or factual as possible. Most people choose otherwise.
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It’s interesting, I ran similar experiments not too long ago after seeing a tweet from Marc Andreessen (I’ll try to find it) in which he suggested this was going on. The results surprised me too.

As a now conservative but former Marxist-Leninist who happens to be black, I think this is dangerous (I don’t use this word lightly).

When I was a leftist stuck in my far-leftist bubble, I didn’t realize just how unreasonable/unrealistic some of my positions were until I was challenged by my more conservative friends, colleagues, etc. Social networks like Facebook made it even harder to see anything outside of my existing views by primarily reinforcing content and folks who held similar views. It’s been years now since I’ve had an active social network account, and in hindsight, it’s amazing just how much these social networks have helped turn so many of us into ideologues. To now see a world where the same thing is going to happen via these GPT-based AI’s is scary to me.

Even more unfortunate is knowing that these biases will only get stronger as they’re further reinforced, especially in an industry that’s so biased to the left. While so many folks/companies claim to value “diversity,” in my experience, it’s almost never actual diversity (i.e., diversity of thought), but instead, a bunch of folks who believe the same things and think the same but look different (sometimes, they don’t even look different — *facepalm*). It’s always hilarious the reactions I get from folks who claim to value “diversity” when they find out I’m not a liberal, because, you know, as a black person, I must be a leftist!
My friend married a guy who ended up becoming a cop. Within weeks of him starting training she sends me a snapchat about how "When we go places he always wants to sit facing the exit" and another of him quite literally playing with one of his service weapons, like a damn nerf toy.

Police training is garbage, and the police community is pathetic.
Society tends to develop and outgrow its mythology — lots of religious texts contain practices that no modern society would engage in (see: the Old Testament).

Nobody that's actually raised in modern mainstream Hindu society is conditioned to accept drug consumption or polyamory. The only way one might draw a contrary conclusion is if they were from the outside looking in, merely studying the mythology and totally ignoring what modern Hindu society has looked like in the last 100 years leading up to today.

I was raised in an extremely orthodox Hindu household, worshipping all of the Gods of Hinduism. Polyamory/polygamy is unheard of — if anyone in one's local temple engaged in it, they would be the subject of everyone's gossip. Ditto drug use...
This is a brilliant analogy
> my days are quite frustrating because I'm in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff

I have no experience at all with these companies, but isn't this one of the main reasons they hire someone like you?
> In the context of democracy, size is everything. Like, by definition.

But (a) not in the context of lobbying, and (b) that still demonstrates a preference for dead children over lower gun sales.

> Do you think that people should never campaign for what they believe in? That people should not participate in the democratic process? Or do you only think that when the people in question disagree with you?

You're putting words in my mouth there.

They're free to campaign for things that I'm free to denounce as dangerous and myopic.
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Seems to me like ChatGPT could assist you in the "thinking deeply" part just as much (or more) as it could help you do rote typing tasks. Or do you think your creativity is beyond its abilities?
Are there any modern games that recapture the same magic of CS 1.6 custom maps?

It feels like custom maps aren't as big a part of gaming now days for some reason
I dont understand why or when I would need this? What is an app server is the first place?
My favorite at the beginning of the game is "get in position and wait for my go" B-)
Also it sounds like there is a need to be more aggressive with managing your calendar. At some point you have to organize your time into blocks where you can actually do work and manage when you are in "teaching mode".
As I understand it, the figure quoted in the Bay 12 update is after Steam and Kitfox took their cut from the sales.
I'm literally responding to your post about grocery prices.
The same as what would have happened have we not invented them.

We don't have reliable ways to project predict the future, or to predict the present based on past conditions.
I can think of a lot of (historically) recent changes in the American environment that are more alienating than cars.
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Always missing in this argument is the logic of how to go from "undefined" to "can never happen". If the spec did not want it to happen they would have said "can not happen/illegal". but no, it is undefined by the spec. The spec knows that it can and will happen they just did not want to pin down the behavior of the compiler. So the compiler optimization team saying "we can assume this will never happen" is a blind almost maliciously complaint viewpoint.
Except that section 174 was fine until Republicans under Trump controlled every aspect of congress and passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017.

That act changed section 174 in this stupid and extremely detrimental way.

So no. It was exactly "one party" (the Republican party) whose fault this is.
Yeah, I guess it's as black and white as you state. There's no in-between like keeping the per state allotments while still having that allotment be chosen by the people instead of adding another layer in between that is "voting for the people", which I provide in quotes because who actually believes that is happening? "voting on behalf of their supporters", at best.
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It may indicate that it was written by someone who is relatively young. The teenagers I know (including my own) all say "coding", never say "programming". I suspect the latter sounds "old" to them. Since the young tend to be amateurs, I whole heartedly agree that it sounds amateurish. It probably is, and we're probably getting old.
Elixir doesn't have blocks as a separate concept like Ruby. The "blocks" are just syntax sugar for passing keyword lists of code to macros.

What do you mean by "symbolic significance for brackets?"