skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there were more Republicans working as professors, we’d probably balance out this line of inquiry with papers asking whether rising levels of shootings and homicides also contribute to racial disparities in mental health. But there aren't. So even when all the research being done is good, we primarily see research looking at the questions that progressives think are interesting.

A study was conducted examining exactly this question. It turns out the bias is even worse: Not only are the 'wrong' questions unlikely to be asked, studies get rejected if they get the wrong results:

The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. - https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...
Perhaps those barriers are higher than they should be but for something this critical it's a good thing there's process, training, and regulation. Safety and reliability are more important than speed.

Software engineering could probably use a few barriers. There's some exceedingly shitty software out there getting pumped out by people who hop in to make quick money and get hired by companies who don't care and just want to pay people less.

The world needs to catch up to how critical software is and course correct away from it becoming a race to the bottom.
No that's cheating. You get a 6.5x1.75x1.75m block of granite and a small chisel, that's it
You make it an employee owned cooperative and not a for-profit company and have opt-in to the data collection with profits going to employees and data providers instead of investors.
It's really is temporary for many readers here though. Assume a FANG engineer salary of $400k+/yr (with a large portion in stock) for someone who chooses to live unassumingly. If they're able to save $200/yr with some stock market trickery, during boom years, that's only 5 years to become a 1 millionaire. Which isn't enough to FIRE in the bay area, but a few more years of that, and a move to a lower CoL place, and, maybe you're still not "ruling class", but you need not work another day in your life.

The only question then is just how common are those kinds of salaries amongst readers here. I'll bet the distribution would be surprising. The only public forum I could see as having a higher percentage is Blind.
Please stop calling electricity "renewable energy".
It's a lot for a preindustrial society that has a very low surplus economic output that can be collected and diverted into a military by taxes.

Also, the logistics of keeping the legion fed and quartered when it is resting, or campaigning look a lot like 'it eats the countryside bare, and the peasants unlucky enough to be in its path starve'.

Even in an industrialized society, how many families do you know that would be able to quarter and feed, say, three to six soldiers for the four months break that they take from winter campaigning?
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You genuinely don’t know the correct answer to such a facile dilemma?

What about an even simpler one?

Your house is burning down. You can either save your infant child, or your Nintendo Switch, but not both. Which do you choose?

Do you genuinely believe there’s not an obviously correct answer to the above?
I assume someone cracks a “waiting for” joke every time there are is any update from them.
I wish I could use ChatGPT like that, so finely tuned
> No shit smart people are studying coding instead.

Unless you are playing the long game. With the advance of AI… 20 years from now he’ll have a stable job in a severe Electrician shortage, while the Silicon Valley teams will have replaced themselves and be out jobs.

I think that is closer than SV wants to admit. Outsourcing is getting higher quality, economic downturns are already hitting SV with layoffs, low-code is getting better… and ChatGPT, doing programming in 20 years? Seems pretty dang certain to me.
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This video suggests a great many US used car dealers are going to go under soon.

https://youtu.be/rGWZSEPGt1E

Higher interest rates for dealers and buyers, decreasing price market adjustments coupled with increasing interest rates on held inventory which aren't selling.

American Car Center went bust last week.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-25/subprime-...

It will be harder to sell EV startup products in a down economy especially if lavish public fund (ie your tax money) subsidizations of purchase are removed.
> How is watching a stream with ads, albeit on VLC instead of the Pluto app, piracy?

Surveillance capitalists starve when you cut out their invasive trackers.
They won't manufacture something secondary such as a modem on cutting edge super expensive silicon.

Pretty sure I've read on Macrumors that they are developing their modem on TSMC 6nm.
The difference is that Tesla isn't claiming to be open about AI.
Yes it is. But anyone publicly commenting on this is wading into the biggest political cesspool ever, so you aren't going to get a clear answer.
Notice there are a lot of negative comments about the USA. Most of us find plenty of faults with the United States, but we keep some perspective too, realizing on the Chinese internet such criticisms wouldn't last long before removal.
How does AirBNB track the romantic relationship status of every single one of it's customers?
Are there any companies like Docker? They feel like such a Black Swan to me; namely -- "billions" + very useful + pretty much "not evil" at all. I literally can't think of any others.

I don't mean "literally evil" of course, I personally acknowledge the need to make money et al, but I mean it even seems like your most Stallman-esque types wouldn't have too much of a problem with Docker?
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, because its true. Qualcomm is one of the main things holding Android devices back, and their driver policy is shitty.
Yes but that isn't fraud.
And by the time you reach that point, you have a broken back and a shitty attitude.
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FWIW, it appears it's a free read for those of us who have never visited before.

It's a very thought-provoking article and one that deserves more time than just might lunch break to ponder. In particular, this quote at the end of the article articulates an increasing discomfort I've been feeling around conversations about harm:

> I am increasingly convinced that there are tremendously negative long-term consequences, especially to young people, coming from this reliance on the language of harm and accusations that things one finds offensive are “deeply problematic” or event violent. Just about everything researchers understand about resilience and mental well-being suggests that people who feel like they are the chief architects of their own life — to mix metaphors, that they captain their own ship, not that they are simply being tossed around by an uncontrollable ocean — are vastly better off than people whose default position is victimization, hurt, and a sense that life simply happens to them and they have no control over their response. That isn’t to say that people who experience victimization or trauma should just muscle through it, or that any individual can bootstraps their way into wellbeing. It is to say, though, that in some circumstances, it is a choice to process feelings of discomfort or even offense through the language of deep emotional, spiritual, or even physical wound, and choosing to do so may make you worse off. Leaning into the language of “harm” creates and reinforces feelings of harm, and while using that language may give a person some short-term power in progressive spaces, it’s pretty bad for most people’s long-term ability to regulate their emotions, to manage inevitable adversity, and to navigate a complicated world.
The optimism reminds me of all of the "In the year 2000, cars will fly!" of yore.
Climate change seems to disagree.
This seems to be changing a bit. I have two children in a US public elementary school. The teachers use various apps to have children review mathematics facts. The apps allow children to move at their own pace and also incorporates some spaced repetition. (Though teachers seem to pick whatever app they like and the apps are of varying quality.)
I can't provide a citation for my 20% stat, but as I remember it, it was for car owners. If you live in NYC in an apartment and ride the subway, you don't count. I wonder how many of those EU apartment dwellers are car owners.
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This is almost definitely not true. I don't particularly like Airbnb but I would be very surprised if most hotels don't use services that do the exact thing described in this article.

15 year old article about hotels using a centralized datamining blacklist service: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25243594

Hyatt banning hate groups: https://skift.com/2018/09/27/hyatt-ceo-says-hotels-will-ban-...
> There were no federal student loans.

This is a hilarious one to include on your list because it shows you are missing the forest for the trees. Federal student loans didn't exist because they didn't need to exist as college was cheaper, living a middle class life didn't require college, and low paying jobs still paid a high enough percentage of living costs to allow people to pay their way through college by working. Today college is more of a requirement, most young people and families can't afford tuition so they need to take out loans, and low paying jobs do not pay enough to get out in front of that loan debt. The current situation is objectively worse.
I've heard this one before
> The alternative to hard work is doing nothing and that certainly will get you no where at all.

This is a false dichotomy. I put in a solid 40-50 hours at work. If I have to put in double that just to stand a shot -- not get, but have a shot at -- the lifestyle that my parent's had while only putting in 40 hours a week, then the system has failed me.

And that was 40 hours a week with one person working and the other staying at home.

No one is suggesting you get to have stuff for free, but it is painfully clear that even with dual incomes the average American is failing to maintain their parents' standard of living.

It's a broken system, and the Zoomers can easily see that -- they've had smartphones since they were like 8.
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I hear a lot of talk about older electricians but I believe we need a new generation to join and usher in the era of CAT cables for lighting. There is no reason to not be using CAT cables for lighting.
> In many cases we have replaced those personal obligations (e.g. to take care of elders) with abstract government funded systems.

I can almost guarantee that young people don't have social security on the top of their minds. It's school school school internship work, that's it. Those bars are raised each year. Leisure time is social media and video games. All that got amplified in 2020. Not hard to see why they're depressed.

[Edit] I was standard college undergrad class of 2018, and right on the cutoff for gen Z. Our high school and college class was clearly more studious than class of 2016, and clearly less than class of 2020. I was also right there when childhood became virtual, starting with the iPhone and Facebook in middle school.
I ended up leaving with a couple of generations of x terminals, my favorite which could pxe-boot and had a compactflash-like slot on it.

the weirder was an Apollo we had for an internal auction, strangest unix system I've ever run. but the b&w screen was very high resolution for the time and quite crisp.
Not surprising highlighting has low impact. I never understood how people could thing that just putting color over something would help in anyway. Also that was one of the feature my former lab used to promote in its learning software and happily wrote cringe research papers about. I understand why: it's both easy to implement and track, which makes it a good feature for low-effort papers.
People said Twitter needs those bad and superfluous engineers that Muskman cleaned out and here we are everything is fine... oh.
Isn't life expectancy going down in the United States?
I have been using linux for over 20 years and reliable hardware acceleration has always been more "miss" than "hit." This goes all the way back to having to disable hardware cursors on my very first linux setup. I hear the amdgpu driver is pretty solid, and the i915 driver I use on my laptop is great. Nvidia is just a mess (nouveau and the nvidia binary drivers are differently buggy) and the radeon driver is complete garbage.
I love bullet, but I am 100% it has worsened my rapid/classical game. It has improved my time management though.
Is it monolithic SoC or advanced packaging? There's no reason you can't have the processor at 3nm and the modem at 6nm with chiplets
> The truth of the matter is that 99% of real world applications run just fine, and it doesn't pay off to invest in shaving milliseconds here or there.

You're taking deep quaffs of the Kool-Aid and so are most of the people commenting on this story. General software responsiveness and reliability (i.e., usefulness) has been in decline for decades. This is an objective fact.

Writing objective reality off as mere "milliseconds", "edge-cases", or only relevant for "toy problems" exemplifies the arrogance and severe incompetence of most programmers. People are seriously trying to talk down to Casey Muratori when in all likelihood they haven't accomplished even 1% as much as him as programmers.

I get it—no one wants to leave fantasy-land as long as the easy money is flowing. But sooner or later the glittering carriage turns back into a pumpkin.
You can throw out Reddit guy words all you want but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I didn't exclude any discipline I said it extends to all of them. That's not how "no true scotsman" works. I gave you sources to back that up. Also, gender studies is not really classified as a social science and I did Google "replication crisis gender studies" and didn't find much--I'm not sure how a replication crisis can extend to a largely theoretical discipline that doesn't really conduct classical scientific studies? You just said you don't classify the field as a science so clearly it wouldn't. I was supporting my first point which you seem to have misunderstood.

"Anectdotal non sequitur" no, I'm qualifying a larger trend I have observed. It's not a non-sequitur, it's based on the article you shared which covers a project that critiques academic structures like journals. You're the one who started this discussion about your own feelings towards the field--you just didn't qualify your comment as subjective, which it is.

"It's an activist community masquerading as an academic discipline."

If I were you I'd say strawman :-)
In GA there is an annual EV tax applied that is meant to replace the fuel tax when you re-register your vehicle.
I would tend to agree with this with the addition of the fact that labor rights have degenerated too.

The relationship between working people and let's say "capital" used to be more tenuous. This had ramifications for political stability in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but by the middle of the century we had a decent balance of power between laborers and companies, mediated by the government.

Union membership + secret societies were a huge building block of everyday life. If you haven't ever walked through a graveyard, I encourage you to do so. Look at the headstones of people who died before the 1980s. A huge number belong to a secret society or trade union group (for the sake of simplicity let's ignore the uncomfortable racial aspects many of these organizations may have had, they were still pillars of community even if they were racist pillars of community)

Contrasted with up until very recently where the norm was about bragging how hard you work (for someone else). Rugged individualism, not collectivism, is what some would consider to be the highest virtue today. Not to say this is a root cause, but just an example of change that can be analyzed in some weighted equation.
Well, the Anarchist Cookbook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook) was deemed legal here in the US. Then again, you didn't ask about legality, but liability, and, here in the US, anybody can sue anyone else for any reason.

However, I would think that the person performing the act would be the culpable party, not you.

For what it's worth, I think that this is a great learning tool! After all, what drew me into computers was the realization that I could make it do stuff that I wanted it to do, and that's what your cards demonstrate.
Even if English is the lingua franca of the world, people master it to varying degrees. Also, it seems like 'quitted' was the more common form up until the ~late 1930s [1], so it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that, if this person learned with some vintage material or they read classics, they've seen 'quitted' more often.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=had+quitted%2C...
I don't follow your argument. I've lived in various major European cities and it was always easy enough to find a discount supermarket (Lidl, Aldi etc.) within walking distance, and if not, maybe within 5 minutes of cycling. There would've rarely been a need to use the (more expensive, but certainly not 50%) corner grocery store. Everyone can afford this — quite the contrary: people often ignore the hundreds of Euros they spend on a car, because it's just a given for them. (That said, I know there are lots of people who depend on the car for getting to a work location because of lack of public transport.)

I don't know about the building you're talking about and can't weigh in on this.
Startups can boost growth and de-risk innovation in the current climate
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You're not wrong, but existential threats and possible extinction is in the future; maybe ten-fifteen years away if we're lucky.

Meanwhile, we don't get to play with their models right now. Obviously that's what we should be concerned about.
That’s not what it meant though
I feel like lower level languages like Rust make it more obvious when you're doing something that isn't great for performance and often have a standard library that helps abstract away the details of doing things in a performant way.
That goes both ways. Many right wing states are currently trying to ban drag shows.
I think we have fifteen years left, at most, before climate change starts making much of the planet uninhabitable
In Iowa I have to pay an extra EV fee with my yearly vehicle registration/tags. I'm honestly not sure what that fee goes to in Iowa, but I imagine such a thing could be adopted to pay for an EV's share of the fuel tax.

Edit: looks like it does in fact act as the fuel tax for EVs.

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Maybe the few that can afford to. Wealthy nation ≠ wealthy people.
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They tried test taking with tests of a very different format than the final examination, still worked.
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But that requires turning ‘multiplication by a constant’ into a bitwise trick in exactly the same way that this is doing for division by a constant (albeit without the fuzziness about rounding).
All of the history of programming has been magnifying the value of programmers by automating more of programming.

Automation doesn't replace automators (it makes their work more abstract and productibe, but that just increases the application space and quantity of output consumed.)