skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People aren't anti-science, no one cares about a bunch of papers saying vaccines are / aren't effective, people care that you aren't allowed to go to a restaurant without you're vaccination papers or mask, that's not science, that's politics / policy.

Also, it turns out that many of the risks of the vaccine were understated or unknown. That's also not science. And it's especially not science when the "anti-science" people proposed a theory that turned out to be right. Namely, that the risks of the vaccine are not known / being understated.

And yes, a lot of the anti-vax activists also publish a whole bunch of non-scientific bs.

I like vaccines, I got vaccinated, and it pisses me off that the anti-vax people we're right about the risks being unknown / understated. I dunno if I'm still pro-COVID vaccine, but I never thought it was right that people who didn't want the vaccine couldn't enjoy the same rights as those who did. My thoughts were I'm vaccinated, I'm protected, if you want to get COVID without a vaccine, that's your business.
I noticed this when I reinstalled macOS. At some point they stopped including a ~/Sites folder but if you create one now it will give you the special Sites folder icon in the main Finder window. Oddly though they did not update the small version of the icon so it shows up in the sidebar as a regular folder.
Record high credit card balances, record low personal savings, 40 year high inflation, rising interest rates and no sign of the fed stopping. Housing affordability at its lowest point since the real estate bubble and crash of 07/08. You are on some very good copium if you believe the economy is in good shape.
It's hard to reconcile their statements when they are building Starshield for this purpose, which I believe will run on the same constellations.
> I bet people like that drift into voluntary unpaid overtime.

Drift? I think you mean Sprint.
> the public health institution is naturally going to grieve that loss

As well as the loss of a lot of lives.
GitHub is also going fully remote (zero offices, current offices will close at end of lease) and reducing headcount by 10% :(

Statement will be coming out shortly I guess. I wonder if they knew Gitlab were going to be doing layoffs too and so waited them out.
I've seen an "AI governance" narrative advanced elsewhere. By this they meant that AI would govern, centrally plan or act as an intermediary in disputes. This is distinct from the other meaning of the phrase pertaining to ethical use of ML models.

It isn't hard to imagine a world where answers from ML models are the standard of truthiness, much like Wikipedia is for many.
Psst... xonsh!

Relatively terse, and quite readable scripts (they are mostly Python!)
LOTS of small companies only sell locally.
> Thunderbird is literally a bunch of code running on top of Firefox. All the tabs and sections you see in our applications are just browser tabs with a custom user interface.

There's no such thing as applications. There's just us, and browsers. That's it!
Actually, the "Five Stages of Grief" thing has been debunked. Or did you mean that as another example of bunk science?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/five-fallacies-of...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/supersurvivors/20170...
Yup, this is it for GitLab. They've never been profitable. I'm honestly surprised they went this long without layoffs.
Do you know what the scientific method is, when you have no idea what to do? You try things until something sticks. I fully agree this is not palatable when your life depends on it, but as with this pandemic, people didn't know much at the beginning so they tried things. Some didn't work, indeed, but what was the alternative? Wait and let God sort them out? You had to "move fast and break things" because there was simply no alternative approach.
they can pat themselves on the back that they insisted on coding interviews for years, thereby losing 80% of experienced engineers who could have prevented this
> I don't know what my parents would come back to the US for?

Sure. Once you have a community in another country, there are very few reasons to return back. But not everyone can build a lasting community. For them, returning back is still an option.

That said, I agree that even hospice and LTC is cheaper in other countries. Just take your money and live there in peace.
Incidentally I like this because it makes it easy for American companies to give me money (I do not live in the US). Though I also have to give an accountant more money to deal with SS/public pension contributions and US/Irish totalization agreements.
Babe, I live in ruby-red Texas. You're barking up the wrong tree with that "surrounded by alike-thought" nonsense. If you don't find that life has a liberal bias, then you haven't lived enough of it. And - for the record - that's not even a "progressive" jab; it's a reference to a complaint by a conservative. It's not like this is a partisan opinion; this is something conservative think-tanks constantly whine about.

In any case, the thing you ommitted from your quote - where the guy said DEI isn't important (because he "treats students equally") - is the problem area. Just like it would be if you said "Oh, I don't need to keep my gun unloaded. I practice trigger safety." It's not that trigger safety is bad; but any gun enthusiast would be very unsatisfied with that answer.
I’m not sure “uproot and move” is an acceptable solution to wanting to opt out of parts of a society. You certainly wouldn’t give this suggestion as a solution to just about any other problem people have. Especially when the places you can move probably make up like 1% of the earth.

I don’t understand your logic. You claim that the “services” offered to you by your government are worth the taxes you pay. But you don’t want them to be opt-in. Aren’t you tipping your hand a bit? Seems like you might not be so confident that the services are worth it, and that a ton of people wouldn’t opt out.
IT industry has benefited the most from COVID along with drug companies, due to that, many if not all of them over hired by like 20% or much more, that's the main reason they're cutting ~10% across the board now when COVID goes away, it's a normal business boom and bust cycle decision to me.

Even though the macro economy are not bad or just fine, that still can't justify the crazy hiring those companies did in the last 3 years, thus the lay-offs.

On top of that, we have been in booming cycle since 2008, which is a long stretch, some adjustment is due.
This is exactly what I dream of. Expressivity and flexibility of TypeScript, but with built in pattern matching.
Not sure if you have seen this? https://layoffs.fyi/
No I have it installed here as I used to own an Android phone. Maybe you should consider being quiet about Google Photos yourself since, three comments in, you can’t provide any details about why this little regarded photo app is so remarkable?

> Given it had over 1B active users back in 2019, my bet would be on "a lot".

Those are mostly Android users, or ex-Android users as discussed. You are the first human being I have ever met that has specifically praised Google photos over the competition and you can't tell me why, so I'm not inclined to change my mind about that.

> YouTube and Search, that doesn't make them part of Android.

That's true. But people specifically choose YouTube (acquired 2006) and Search (launched 1997) over competitors, as discussed. I'd be surprised if Settings or the Android lock screen didn't have a billion users. That doesn't make them significant.

So yes: Google haven’t released a major product in fifteen years.
Yeah but in the book he's literally having to ration his drones because he can't figure out how to kill a gorilla any way except suicidally ramming them head-on.
I'm not sure that will be the way it's going to go. These companies and their respective lobby groups have a lot of power. The public is dependent on them, not the other way around.
> Queues like Kafka

Kafka is a distributed log. A sibling comment to this mentions this as well, but I'm repeating it because I actually think that's were most people using kafka go wrong. You _can_ use kafka as a queue, but it'll would feel like using a drill to hammer a nail, would kind of work but would make you think the tool just sucks.

> The justification is usually a sort of handwave about scaling, but I tend to be skeptical of that argument.

Kafka does help with scaling in so far as you can independently scale the number of producers and consumers but I find kafka the most useful in its ability to allow multiple consumers to process the same message(s) at different rates.

For example let's say you have an app that's producing messages like "{foo: 1, bar: 2 }" and you need to count how many foos there are and how many bars there are. You could queue the messages, then have 1 service that does both, or you could use kafka and have a FooCounter and BarCounter service. They each process the same message(s) but ignore the part of the payload they don't care about.

While this is really trivial example, I've used, and have seen this pattern used for processing actual logs for example.
Pretty sure it’s another dumb, obviously-false moral panic article. Or maybe it’s a tongue-in-cheek essay poking fun at people who write dumb stuff like that.

But who knows? I’m on mobile and the whole thing is covered by an un-closeable popup that wants me to hire this writer who won’t let me read their presumable nonsense (or clever satire).
> If Putin wanted to shut down Nordstream, he'd just stop sending gas.

Putin's concern would be the home front.
Or, equivalently, "people like that are paid a lot and are engrossed in their careers."

When someone makes $500k+, what does "unpaid overtime" even mean?
>It's an open invitation to move your position to the lowest cost country that outputs quality that is acceptable.

We tried that before, outsourcing was a huge trend maybe 20-30 years ago?

The problem is the second part of your sentence. There's a reason that particular business practice settled into a niche of call centers.

It turned out that good workers want to be paid what they are worth, regardless of location. Everything, including labor, is priced based on what people will pay for it - not what it costs to produce.
All of that looks good but the current rate is at 4.5% with expectation to continue to rise.

That is the true underpinning of the economy right there. If everything else remained the same but rate is at 2% steady there is probably going to be a hiring crunch like we had in 2021.
I think you should be able to make some money by offering your services to corporations. They don't know that everything runs on the browser, but they will like and pay for the idea of adding this capability to their website (pdftools.acmecorp.com). Start with lawyers, I think they are prime customers (pdfux.biglaw.com). Once you explain to their IT that you are only leveraging the clien-side processing, they'll leave you alone. All they would do is give you access to a vps or a vm in their hypervisor, or heck you could dockerize and sell it branded to them(biglaw inc all over the place). I do believe that's called.. bespoke service!! lol.. and of course.. the annual support income.
This is why initiatives to reform our healthcare system fail. People disillusioned with what it entails. They see taxes. They see money going to waste or worse, to people who don't deserve their support. Like the elderly. Or the sick. I'm not sick, why should I have to pay for you? American Greed Inc.
People love to starve the beast then point to the starving beast and say "Look its dying, this was always going to happen".
Why is it unreasonable?
Biologically we're hardwired to want to live.
Next is Netflix style "have to he connected to the registered adrdress to work". Or take our 0.01¢/minute subscription to be able to print 10 pages in one more location in additional to your registered address every month.
I don't get a lot of tax optimisation (my home country makes it really hard to do anything useful) but I DO have a much easier time getting better-paid work from the US. Otherwise I'd need to go through something like oysterhr.com, boundlesshq, etc.
I've provided evidence to support the claims I made about the article. I have no particular interest in whether DEI - as implemented - is productive for academia. I do, however, have an interest in determining what is and what is not propaganda (for myself), and sharing the relevant information with my peers so that interested parties may dig in, for themselves.
My father is slowly declining in an assisted living facility. It costs a fortune because we have to provide 24-hr a day sitters to be with him. The last time I saw him I don't think he knew who I was.
vice's motherboard seems desparate at rendering content. needs more cpu and ram.
People need to understand transactions are irreversable. They can't seem to wrap their mind around that and it's not a prerequisite to using crypto. You can be as glib as you want but there's many reasons bitcoin has still failed to be useful as a day-to-day transactional currency; that being one.
They’re not doing a full rewrite from scratch, but an incremental replacement.
I've been using xonsh professionally since around 2018 - in both Windows and Linux. Love it. Getting it to run existing bash scripts was a pain earlier on, but has gotten much better.

The one thing I don't do is make it my official shell in Linux. I keep bash/zsh as my shell, but the first thing I do in any shell is launch xonsh. Occasionally it does crash and it's nice to end up in a "backup" shell in case I need to recover anything.
> Ok, it's 2/3 times cheaper but the reliability is clunky as it's hosted on a single device.

Is it? One of those boxes have been running continuously for 5+ years, according to my monitoring that checks the status every 30 seconds. You can snapshot at your own leisure and it's setup with RAID to resist drive failures.

Or do you actually have something that points to it having troubles with reliability?

Having problems with OVH I don't know what has to do with Hetzner, they are separate companies...
Data as a Product vs. Data as a Service
> "It doesn’t matter where you work, as long as you get the work done."

I think what I'm seeing is that this isn't quite true. It's not where you work, but it is when.

I worked in-office for the first part of my career, then in 2020 went remote (coincidentally, right before the pandemic started). My 2c:

- overall, no major differences.

- casual chatter / schmoozing is easier. I can DM people async instead of popping over to their office or meeting randomly at the watercooler.

- Meetings are ~same effectiveness. Main note is that zoom makes it easier for less traditionally social aggressive people to get a word in - between the chat function, raising hand function (which is a lot less weird than doing the same physically), zoom eliminating height differences and evening out voice volumes (imo big effect here for women especially, it levels out soft-spoken people with the big booming aggro types).

- Coding is the same. I've always had a private office (except for a brief transitional stint in an open plan which I hated) so it's not like people were tapping my shoulder anyway.

People seem to mostly handwave towards some mystical "innovation" rate that arises from people being crammed together. I don't buy it.

The big thing that does hurt is when getting some sync communication time is hard. I've had no problem working with people with ~3 hours of timezone difference and 5 hours of overlap. It gets fucky when that overlap becomes 1 to 0 hours (so e.g. working from pacific US coast and trying to talk to Ireland/UK/etc).

On-site and remote are not so different, I think, once you stop writing critical business stuff on physical paper and whiteboards. Sync-possible vs Sync-difficult is where the big difference is and you need a fundamentally different social and organizational structure to how you work.
No, just AI fatigue fatigue.
Well, I mean, you can be both. I'm amazed by how right ChatGPT can be despite how often it's wrong.

> I've seen ChatGPT make up fake links and fake citations that look superficially real but don't really point to anything.

I tried asking it the other day for free software that would transcribe video. It gave me five pieces of software, four of which didn't exist and one of which was not free.
ChatGPT AI Has Been Jailbroken to Be More Reckless
> Flagging exists for a reason, doesn't it?

Yes, but in my mind that reason is to call the moderator's attention to an article and force a conscious decision. It's not to automatically allow some tiny percentage of participants to decide what the majority are allowed to read. Probably most of the time, the flaggers are right, discussion would be unproductive, and the article should be removed.

But some of the time, some of the flaggers are ideologically driven to prevent discussion that will damage their ideology. The moderator's goal should be to distinguish these cases. Making it tricky, it's not always a binary whether an article is worthy of discussion or not. Sometimes a good discussion can be created if and only if the moderator has time to spare on guiding the discussion, and sometimes the same article is flagged for different reasons.

A good discussion on a bad article is a great outcome, and bad discussion on a good article is a poor outcome. The "illusory truth effect" is a danger, but failing to properly challenge a false narrative is a danger too. I feel like Dan usually does a good job of trying to weigh these factors, based on the amount of time he is willing to spend babysitting the thread to avoid the worst outcomes, and based on his intuition on what sort of discussion will result.
My IoT VLAN is one way only (main VLAN can talk to it, and it can talk back BUT it cannot talk to any other VLAN on its own accord). No issues with mDNS or multicast. I redirect all DNS request as well to nextDNS with masquerading. I have probably 30 devices on it? Zero issues with home assistant and HomeKit
Cynically, aren’t corporate blub languages like Java and Go kind of built on the same notion? That is, they intentionally limit the amount of complexity possible so that there is a low ceiling for mastery and workers are interchangeable.
> “Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?”

If it works...
How we learned about coffee delivery
I recall seeing a demo of a similar setup at Burning Man about 5-6 years ago. Same people?
You could also end up with some serious illness when you're young and in need of special care without which you don't have any opportunity to build that income you're talking about.
Each additional person being able to contribute means another person has contributed to your economic wellbeing and a egalitarian society where people's opportunity is not lost do to bad luck.

I would argue taxation is only theft if the money is spend on extremely bad, costly and possibly corrupt policy decisions like US wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan or even the war on drugs. Probably a lot of these policy decisions are influenced by lobbying from various industries and special interest groups. Follow the money.
I'll take this over an Electron app any day :) love FF
to take that further, whenever you see a dichotomy like this, it should be a signal to turn your brain on, not to conform to a side, which is turning your brain off. it's crucial for democracy that we do so.

the best response to a dichotomy is rarely centrism (taking the middle position). that's just implicitly accepting the framework of the dichotomy. critical thinking requires moving laterally among multiple dimensions to uncover the crux of the dichotomy itself (the power interests that form the dichotomy) and to reason yourself into a better framing.

with respect to DEI, the term DEI itself is now political, so that slides us right into the false dichotomy. if we want to talk reasonably about the issue, we should probably leave that term aside.
Yes. It's the pain and the suffering that makes people maybe want to let go. But that does not equal wanting to die.
Found where I heard it: <https://youtu.be/JS5hCjueqQ0?t=4054>
Someone should convert this into a web app where you can drag and drop an icon.
Jeff Lawson falls short even by your preferred metrics.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/cash-f...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWLO/twilio/cash-f...
You don't need a submarine to blow up a pipeline at 300ft below the surface lol. A master driver or cheap underwater drone, and access to some explosives, will do.
Look, "Go Daddy" itself is pretty weird and creepy as a name. The thing that really soured me on it and pulled my clients who were there was the fact that the "daddy" in question was out shooting elephants. Family environment is great and all, and I suppose some villagers got to eat an elephant, but I'll be damned if I'll let anyone I know pay that guy for domain registration.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/daddy-ceo-bob-parsons-africa...
As is usually the case, things are not so simple.

Say you are deciding who gets into a college. To simplify say you have only one metric, GPA/test scores. What do you do?

- You might have a student from a wealthy family, comfortable upbringing, two loving parents invested in his well-being and education, with money to spend on extracurriculars, and a nice school with all the trimmings. He has 3.8/4 GPA.

- You might have another student from a lower-class family, with, say, trouble at home, parents shouting, no money for extracurriculars like music or sport, studying in a shitty dilapidated school. He has 3.5/4 GPA.

Whom do you choose? It's definitely not so simple! In fact, remember that you are choosing people to come to college: an environment where they will all have equal access to resources, including professors, study materials, facilities, etc. I argue that you should choose the student which is more likely to make the most out of those resources.

In this situation, wouldn't a better predictor of success in higher education be, instead of overall GPA, the difference in GPA compared to students in the same cohort? Wouldn't that be (a) a better measure of "merit" and (b) a better practical investment in someone who is more likely to excel and make the best out of the resources/opportunity invested?

Just an example to illustrate that one dismissive sentence cannot possible solve this issue.
Why should treating students equally be unsatisfactory? That was the goal for decades after the civil rights until recently when DEI became all the rage, and all of a sudden now equality isn't enough. You have to be pro-equity, which seems to be outcome-based instead of opportunity-based. Which is a very different idea of equality. It's ideological, and I don't see why university professors need to be making statements in it's favor.
I find it just a little surprising that the former Twitter COVID 'misinformation' policy prohibited sharing details concerning the different vulnerabilities between the young and the old. I'd think that an analysis of what information this 'misinformation' policy disallowed would figure into discussions of how the social media sites can aggressively pursue an anti-science through prohibiting the transmission of scientific information.
Own it
The US Gov has signed up for Starshield, a dedicated service without the same restrictions. The agreement with Ukraine had certain constraints on usage that everyone is aware of. This is an enforcement of those rules, not a new rule
It's called being transfinancial. You feel like a rich person but are born in the body of a poor one.
What better way to trade valuable bearer tokens than by meeting strangers off the internet!
I saw that in one place I was working - macroeconomic environment was always tough for them. Like 2014-2016 was not global depression and it was long past 2008 but somehow they were still in depression.