skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting comments. I will say that I still think my point about our linguistic frame regarding belief (and our beliefs about our own beliefs) as opposed to an action-oriented frame is confusing to me.

Without pragmatic grounding what are we ever even talking about, our untested ideals? Action in the present moment is the important bottleneck to consider in my opinion.

Your comments reminds me how recently I sort of made a triadic taxonomy of "types of values" (value in general, like a replicating bias). I think it was (1) parasitic values, (2) self-sacrificial values, and (3) circular (stable) values.

But again using the principle of thinking of things not through any singularity sort the frame but allowing extension and similar concepts we can seem some interesting properties about this dynamic.

Let think of things as a stratified hierarchy of values having tendency that higher up strata mean a larger spatiotemporal perspective (I guess once space and time are completely abstracted then the hierarchy is more about scaling in semantic space in general.)

Parasitic values are biased toward limiting or even eliminating the replication of other lower level values. I guess this is analogous to a neuronal group acting as an inhibitory module.

In the example of antinatalism the specific value of antinatalism is oriented toward limited or stopping what we could call the self-preservation or Darwinian value (a biological value, aka instinct). Of course it depends if one wants humanity totally extinct or just down to a small number. I would agree that a degree of this inhibition is good (maybe "parasitic" is too negatively connoted a term to use)

This is interesting because the value is stratified on top of the self-preservation value and so if it succeeds in any large degree in becomes self-undermining. This is like human's killing off their ecosystem on which they are stratified.

This is really the extent of my thought on this (you probably can complete the analogy with (2) and (3)). Also it will be interesting to think through the implications of feedback from the higher strata to the lower.
I see spikes as user stories that instead of a deliverable as their output, their output is the answer to a question.
Not surprised. Looking at the polls as to why they're considering going back the vast majority of reasons are financial (even the top voted "Personal reasons" I'd speculate is code for "I didn't plan well enough for retirement and I'm embarrassed").

As a generation, the top 50% of US baby boomer households control 98% of that generation's wealth. That leaves half of the largest generation in American history that likely doesn't have adequate retirement savings.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2019/10/16/the-distr...
The obvious options if targeted recommendations are found not to be protected is to only use them with curated content (Netflix) or not use them (reddit).
If you boost the money supply without increasing production, prices will rise. If they don't, there will be shortages as people buy more at the old prices than there are goods available.
Caveat to that, IMO, your DevOps guy needs to make it so it can easily be understood and run by other people in case they get hit by a bus.

The last thing you need is for the new guy to come in and rewrite everything because it only really worked for the previous guy.
FWIW setup was pretty easy, but I got an RPC error halfway through my build. Not sure what happened here, though it looks like things were definitely building quicker!

Error: failed to receive status: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = closing transport due to: connection error: desc = "error reading from server: EOF", received prior goaway: code: NO_ERROR
Error: failed with: Error: failed to receive status: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = closing transport due to: connection error: desc = "error reading from server: EOF", received prior goaway: code: NO_ERROR

I didn't have a chance to clean up the hacks yet but I'll give that a shot and see if it clears up the error. It might just be how intense the Rust build process is for this project.
Are there MOND theories that attempt to account for dark energy too? Or only dark matter?
I'm a map geek and I often stare at that super weird border right through Tierra del Fuego, cutting it in half in a nonsensical way, and clearly drawn in some faraway place without much regard for practical life down there. Does that border affect local life? Is it a hard border, or is it one of those borders that exists mostly on paper but locals act as if it isn't really there? Do people on either side "feel" Argentinian or Chilean, or do they mostly feel like "Tierra del Fuego" locals (I can't help notice that your comment does not include which side you live on)?
Eggs would, presumably, get 5x expensive because the cost to produce the eggs cost has gone up 5x. However, it obviously has not if there are record-setting profits.

More than likely the cost to produce an egg has only gone up 1.4x and the greedy corporations have raised prices 5x and stoked a media narrative that costs have increased 5x.
I do integrate API sometimes into my products. My latest API integration as well as API redistribution is at https://trackmybot.com which is using the POST method.

Before this, I'd built https://bunnyapi.com which used a purely GET method.

Once you learn how to build an API, it's straightforward and not a pain at all. I use https://curlconverter.com/ to do the API which returns it in any language you need it in.

Then just read in the request, check the key if you have one, along with all the other instructions.
Its not even necessarily that you know k8s. Its more that you know and understand the underlying ops principles / components. K8s is just a formalized layer of putting those together. So, if you can do all teh things in AWS that k8s provides for you, e.g. know when/why to setup a load balancer, or blob storage, or network storage, or domain routing, etc, then k8s lets you do those things in a more efficient way.

Bonus points if you wrap it with something like pulumi, because now as a solo dev you can massively leverage your knowledge to be able to handle a massive amount of ops while keeping up with app development.
FWIW, the Supreme Court doesn't need to understand the Internet to do its job.

A judge's job is to understand the law. It is the job of the lawyers to bring facts and argumentation before the judges to pursuade them that the law should be interpreted one way or the other. The expertise is expected to live with the lawyers, not the judges (and the ability to find expert witnesses and spin up on the details of what they're advocating is a lawyer skill).
Until recently Jysk was called Dänisches Bettenlager (danish bed warehouse), probably because Jysk doesn't exactly roll off the tongue for German speakers.
This is a much better link than the GH repo - it contains examples and the docs. https://motioncanvas.io/
> It's more that Rust is just difficult for many to actually work with. I don't mean 'learn' in the absolute beginner sense. There's no shortage of excellent and generously accessible materials (the Rust Book amongst others). They're not that difficult to get through.

This is something that I noted when I first picked up the language: The rationale and explanations made sense, I could "learn" the rules, but in practice it was much harder, because I hadn't internalized the rules, nor fully grasped the consequences of those rules.

Having said that, I wish someone had told me ".clone() early, .clone() often" and "only return borrows if they are borrowing from an argument, otherwise use owned values" for the first 3 to 6 months. Having to learn the intricacies of borrowed values and a whole FP-inspired systems language at the same time is a lot.
Then why are exactly the same workers in Poland being paid much less?

SV employees are overpaid. They are being paid to work in SV. Because no sane person would want to live in San Francisco, Menlo Park, Cupertino, or Mountain View.

And the people doing the exact same work in Warsaw, with the exact same skills and performance, are being underpaid.

I have no sympathy for the people on the SV side of this equation.
Your physician will be automated before your nurse.
Yeah tech stocks need to compete. These companies sell ads. They don’t need teams working on bullshit like optimizing talent acquisition pipelines or whatever.
Your strange breakfast has increased in price by 150%. If this were happening across meals, that would mean that a family who formerly spent $400 a month on groceries is now spending $1000 a month on groceries.

edit: assuming a total 20% tax rate and a $15 minimum wage, that $600 represents 50 additional hours of work a month.
Foetus itself does not have agency, and thus cannot be detained.
And born child would probably stay with its mother anyway.
as we used to say in grad school: publishing in nature is a pretty strong signal your results are wrong, but sexy.
Presently, the political arguments are ultimately just pointing out the absurd inequity of the current regime, so that people stop believing in and following these laws that the content cartels bought and will continue to buy. The only way to overcome thoroughly entrenched corruption is through mass disobedience, like the "drug war". The summary of what I really think about the combination of copyright, DMCA anti-circumvention and summary takedown, restrictions created from computational complexity, and monopolistic app stores, etc is "do what you want 'cause a pirate is free".

The path to real progress is getting the masses to self actualize and use self-representing computing technology, rather than falling for the siren song of advertising dollars promising fallacious convenience. These monopolist-makes-arbitrary-problematic-decision stories are mostly irrelevant once you've escaped their proprietary locked down world. Sure, it's less good that I can't just type "angry birds" into Aurora Store and have the game magically appear, but if I cared that much about it I should have kept a copy when I first installed it. But even though I didn't I can probably find it in some android torrent anyway - similar to every other orphaned work.
grew up in a rural area w no tech opportunities, so i was really banking on a trade job like welding or locksmithing being my reality. but moved a lil ways out to city on a whim and managed to get a jr development position thanks to a strong github
I think by the logic of "either you're a neutral party or you are not" no provider, big or small, is a neutral party, but I don't think this would produce the best outcome. It's a very good thing if we have lots of sites making different editorial decisions about what is and isn't allowed from users in a community—whether it's a search engine, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc—and let the competition of different rulesets in a market determine who gets traffic, attention, and revenue.

But making editorial decisions downstream—what it chooses to show to users first vs last—doesn't change what people contribute, and this is where Section 230 is trying to provide a balance. People can contribute whatever great or terrible things they contribute, and Section 230s stance is, the provider just has to remove it if it's actually out of bounds. That allows sites to have their own editorial decision-making downstream while allowing user-generated content to flourish upstream, so those decisions matter at all. If the burden of moderation is moved farther upstream, to the point at which people contribute, you've increased the barrier to creating content entirely, you've turned every social network into a newspaper, and you get none of the benefits of the scale, low barrier to entry, and low marginal cost of the Internet to content creation.

In my view, an algorithm is no different than the downstream moderation decisions every website makes with or without an algorithm. Of course an algorithm has values. That's the point! They should have values, and people should choose which sites to use based on how well those design decisions translate into value for the user. Rather than the existence of out-of-bounds content in their systems at all, we should be judging YouTube and others on how well they identify and how quickly they remove that content and how quickly they update their policies (which is just another word for algorithm) to reflect those new values. This is explicitly a tradeoff for making mistakes in the interest of making progress versus safety, because what I'm advocating here does mean you get terrible stuff posted to places where it can get a lot of reach, and it's more likely to get that reach than with a system that moderates farther upstream. Where I think we should be coming down stronger is in regulating reach, not access (at least not entirely). The speed of the stream—the speed of virility—should be slowed to allow for reason to re-enter the conversation. That's where I think regulating content on the Internet needs updating, but not so far upstream that you stop it from getting any kind of reach at all.

The practical framework for regulation that I'd suggest is, if something hits a threshold of reach, it gets moderated more heavily and judged more heavily by authorities.

Related: Deciding on what counts as "out of bounds" content is also extremely hard, but we can put that side for a second, because I think the main issues here are 1) if a moderation decision is required, and 2) where the moderation decision occurs.
There is tons of different types of programming out there.
Yes, so professional to have company staff plan your wedding
It's also survivorship bias.
> If your DevOps guy can deploy kubernetes into AWS managed with GitOps designed by GitHub copilot and ChatGPT in terraform in 40 minutes and manage without waking up in the middle of the night...that's fine.

So your bus factor is one ?

I think it's good to have articles like these. I see overzealous intelligent people over engineering things so often.

Just recently I saw a project where silly overgeneralization made development and testing way harder than it needed to be for MVP, it stretched development by a few months, by the time they launched they missed the investment window (last year with market contracting). If they launched garbage code that worked for MVP they would have had enough users and caught the next investment round to fund whatever refactoring they needed.
We have tests that measure schizophrenic like behavior in rodents. We've found that drugs that induce schizophrenic like symptoms in people induce these behaviors in rodents. We've also found that drugs that treat schizophrenia in people also treat these behaviors in rodents.
The differential nutrient contents are not significant and come in higher quantities in other foods that we all have cheap access to.

That's a fact that gets so often overlooked. Some food you eat just because you want a particular nutrient.

Anyway, there's a huge difference in taste. We had chickens when I was a child and later we bought from others that also fed weed to the chickens.
Plus, the required amount could be adjusted based on origin country. $0.10 for you, $20 for that guy.
It's a proxy for capitalism vs socialism.
> Layoffs aren't a bad thing.

This very much depends on whose perspective you're looking at them from. They are very much a bad thing for all the workers getting let go.
> The typical meme is that modern movies suck, but they're being made that way to pander to "the masses." But the numbers don't support this! When you see headlines like record breaking sales, it's measured in gross revenue. When you actually look at tickets sold, movies have been dying for decades.

Alternative read: the industry is dying so they double down on pandering in an ultimately futile attempt to bail out the sinking ship.

Consider anime: It has been a dying art ever since Japan's economic stagnation/recession in the early 90s. So the anime industry (generally, with some exceptions) turned hard into pandering to their most base fans, lonely dudes. Lots of waifu characters designed to sell body pillows and trash like that. This hasn't improved quality and sales continue to slump, but they're still trying.
Nothing improves morale more than the uncertainty of being randomly fired!
Yup. The company prefers people in the US in general, and SV in particular. That's why it "bribes" people to move there to work.

If you leave, then of course you should no longer be bribed to work there.
The Hype and Future of Chat GPT and Open AI
I remember back when iPhone was just starting to take off, and a lot of the wide-eyed techno-futurists generally had some pithy retort to fans of the latest AAA console game of the form 'You can have your $40 console game, and I'll buy 40 $1 games and we'll see who has more fun'. Well, now the console games cost $70, but the mobile games are 'free'. In this case, 'free' evaluates to somewhere between $100,000 and $'Your Soul'.
Exactly, that’s why the Apple Newton didn’t work out - wrong timing.
Google decides what emails go in the gmail inbox vs spam folder vs rejected outright. Should they be legally responsible if an offensive email lands in your inbox?
None. This started after we started going to kindergarden. Before that my grandparents came over to fill in.
Or it's an effort to show that a fetus is not automatically a person from conception.

I think almost every reasonable person would agree that any fetus who can survive outside a mother is a person, and that personhood starts at some point before that viability test; I think there is a lot of room to discuss a question of personhood in the first few weeks of development.

My personal view is that personhood requires a mind, and here on our physical earth, a mind requires a brain with some level of development. My personal view is that level of development is not reached in the first trimester. You are perfectly free to disagree with me on this! I am not trying to unduly influence anyone's point of view. I cannot say you are wrong if you disagree!

I would like to gently point out that there are facts in this discussion, but there are also opinions, deeply held beliefs and analysis. Only the facts can be fact checked. The opinions, beliefs and analysis require some kind of framework for discussion.
Let's set aside that it's Meta for a moment. Any company with multiple rounds of layoffs is unhealthy. Think Chrysler in the 70's pre Iacocca. They face troubles that leadership is incapable of handling. Companies like that get sold and broken out for parts. Or, some have major shakeups with leadership and come back as something else.

Meta, of course, is different. Leadership made a few mistakes, sure, but they're more than ready to cope with changes to social media in the face of tools like ChatGPT available to everyone. Facebook and Instagram will continue to provide excellent paths for advertisers to target consumers. And you can be sure they're innovating behind the scenes. Surely we'll see powerful new products and innovations in the coming months and years.
> I agree - but have seen many families have to make this choice, as having too big a gap in your CV (to look after their kids) will impact there employability down the line.

This is true, but does raise a couple of obvious points.

First, if there are implied future earnings returns from working with young child, those ought to be factored into the calculations for returns to work in the OP (with appropriate caveats about possible cashflow problems).

Secondly, should it be affecting future employability?
The few career paths where absolute commitment to work and track record of continuous improvement and networking seem absolutely necessary signals (like trying to make partner at an accountancy or law firm) tend to pay pretty well anyway. Other career paths should - in theory at least - be less contingent on continuity, or even offer realistic opportunities to continue to work or use work related skills part time and remotely.
> Slavery was already institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia,[5] which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution.[6] Slavery was widespread in the ancient world in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa.[7][8][4] It became less common throughout Europe during the Early Middle Ages, although it continued to be practiced in some areas. Both Christians and Muslims captured and enslaved each other during centuries of warfare in the Mediterranean and Europe.[9] Islamic slavery encompassed mainly Western and Central Asia, Northern and Eastern Africa, India, and Europe from the 7th to the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
Interesting fact. The version they unlisted is not only remake of original one, it's their latest (or at least one of the latest) released Angry Bird games. It was released in 2022. The other games they want you to play instead are technically older. When making this remake they could have included whatever modern monetization schemes they wanted (as long as it doesn't require too much changes to gameplay itself). Actual original one was removed in 2019. Removing their latest(remake) because it's too popular, make the whole thing more funny than removing actual original version which would be ~14 years old at this point.
The Netflix Games you can get for being a subscriber are decent quality with no ads. I imagine that will get cut at some point unless they've got a way to measure how much this benefits their subscription numbers.

The Amazon Underground thing they used to incentivize their app store was pretty great also, the "Actually Free" games let you unlock everything in the App. That was discontinued in 2019.

It's interesting how much more effective advertising is than word-of-mouth. Maybe its because I'm not an "active gamer", but it's been hard to find honest recommendations for good paid games by small developers. Trying to research through the Play Store is very difficult though not completely impossible. The store credits from "Google Rewards" certainly lubricate the process of trying things out.
Their costs are higher as it is more expensive to raise chickens using their methods. So one would expect these eggs to be more expensive.
What would a non-harmful or less harmful (than what?) recommendation system look like? What's the end goal of a recommendation system?
I do mostly agree. I'm speaking in broad terms here. Most effective software developmwnt for moat of software development history has probably run off some bespoke to the organisation hybrid of something resembling waterfall in some cases and resembling agile in others.
How does that lead to the 10x increase in profits (not revenue) cited by OP?
Totally. Most companies will never need k8s. But tons of companies deployed it when they shouldn't have.

Now we're on the MongoDB side of the hype-curve, so people are realizing that k8s is a bad fit for managing 10 servers and a DB in the cloud.
The evidence is that I am a subject matter expert and there is a very big difference between a derivative (ie half) node and full node. If you want to learn more about full vs half nodes, I would start with google.
And you really believe that at face value? What drives the algorithm is profits. If it profits from pushing you into a bubble at the cost of shaping your world view, it will.
Sure, but if optimizing algorithms for engagement has negative societal effects, I still think these platforms can be partly held responsible for it. It's their decision what to optimize for right?
Exactly. Its a larger upfront cost but thats mostly a static chunk (and to be fair in terms of apples to apples, the vast majority of startups are not running an equivalent system without k8s). I would not recommend managing the control plane however, just bite the bullet and go with a managed offering.
The pros have transparent mode, so wearing them in that mode is not an issue.