skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 8 years old in the 90s I was already worried about climate change. But I did read a lot more than most kids so I probably was kind of weird.
I've heard much of that but I tend to disagree.

I think her take on life and suffering was similar to others that have extreme hardship. Like this quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about his time in the Gulag

It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good.

In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel.

In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor.

In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments.

It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. . . .

That is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me:

“Bless you, prison!”

I . . . have served enough time there.

I nourished my soul there, and I say without hesitation: “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!”

—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Volume 2, pp. 615-617.
No, it was more a case that the whatsapp client was exceptionally lightweight - especially in 2012 when WhatsApp was basically free global SMS

The email client was much clunkier, presumably because it had to support all the other usage patterns of email.

Worth noting this was a phone that didn't have a touch screen and I was inputting via the numpad
That could happen. There are plenty of game (UX) designers that claim to know what works better than their players. Ironically, this makes them blind to feedback and improvement, which then makes them really bad at intuiting what works. These people harm some products a lot.

But it’s more likely that the UX will be refined during production as all elements of the game are.

Like I said, it is not reasonable to expect feature or quality parity between a sequel in early production and the completed original. The sequel in this case is built from scratch.
Honesty it’s just a sweet pleasure seeing a sign with a phone number without area code.
On the other hand, it will leave most of the atmosphere within a second and has the kinetic energy of the Empire State Building traveling at ~60 miles an hour (40mwh+ if its ~200 pounds). And maybe the nuke's radiation moved some air out of the way?

Yeah, that is a problem for a high energy physicist.

But intuitively... even if it "exploded," the metal fragments may have still made it to space?
When I was 16 I played video games the entire time I was visiting my friends too and yet I didn't have these issues. So I suspect video games are not really problem. If anything, socializing while gaming is pretty healthy.
I am the author of that document.

I think the document speaks for itself. USB mics are a mistake, in general. If they do duplex (record & playback), they are sufficiently less of a mistake to maybe warrant no concern. Manufacturer's took the easy path ("easy! just plug it in!") when they should have been encouraging people to stick to the existing path ("not that easy, but not hard either!")
Hi there, I'm a blind accessibility specialist and now a senior native mobile accessibility coach with Deque. Knowing how to use the assistive technology is one thing, but you'll need to know WCAG and the applicable criteria for native apps if you want to start testing. I highly recommend you check out https://dequeuniversity.com in order to gain functional and in-depth knowledge of the ADA WCAG, Section 508 standards, and international accessibility standards. I learned my tech skills at the Lighthouse in SF years ago after I suddenly went blind in 2014, so they are a good resource for learning skills and getting connected with focus and research studies for local tech companies, but definitely go through Deque University as a priority.
CNN v Fox News is probably a fairer comparison. NYT is a newspaper after all.
> It was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen, and the people around me did not notice or care.

This reminds me of a flight I was on a few months ago. There was a new flight attendant on board, and amazingly it was also her first time traveling in an airplane. She was looking out the window and commented to another flight attendant about how astonishing it was that you could see the snow-capped Sierra Nevadas or the canyons in Utah from that vantage point. Then she paused, looked around the cabin, and asked "Why does everyone have their window shade down? This view is breathtaking." The other flight attendant laughed and replied, "They're all desensitized to it by now."
I believe some people now seek body modifications which match the outputs of the filtered images. When it comes to "duck lips" and buccal fat removal, I can't explain it any other way.

If you see reinforcing imagery to match surgically modified state visible in the mirror, I guess it's reinforcing.

It's understood that body image and fashion or style now meets self desire, and is not for others to judge. In that context, the functional mismatch between what people say attracts them if asked, what causes heightened engagement if exposed to it, and what people react to publicly is pretty disjoint. How people self modify their image and ultimately themselves seems to be in a feedback loop of bad outcome, in my entirely subjective opinion.

In the end, it's personal choice. If it goes to mental health, it might be personal choice with negative outcome.
Why this is important:

If successful, this contributes towards the reduction of national security risk around rare earth supplies and supply chain located in a possibly unfriendly nation state (major deposits are in Russia and China) and also means you don’t have to establish rare earth mines or supply chains in your own countries (capital and environmental concerns). It’s a big deal!

Also, just as newer battery chemistries moved away from cobalt (a conflict mineral), this too is progress in countering arguments against EVs due to their material sourcing.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
I must live in a different universe to the usual crowd here (I don't work in tech) because mass firing over zoom seems impossibly cruel and callous to me.
Why were depression rates so low in the 90s/00s then? It doesn't really add up
Mine is:

Music school -> food service -> massage therapy -> software.
I didn't set up an IPFS gateway I set up an Ethereum Gateway where the rest of your comment doesn't apply.
Before smart phones the only thing young people did on phones was text. It's not really comparable.
You can say the same thing about BeReal. It's easy to just cover the camera and post a black screen, yet no one does it.
As an Australian who visited Iceland and drove a lot there, I was very impressed with Iceland’s roads. They face some similar challenges to Australia: geographic distribution requires a lot of road for not many people. (https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Transport/Hi... Iceland has ~45km of highway per 1k people, Australia has ~43km of highway per 1k. Canada is the only other country above 40km/1k people. America is representative of the top 10% at 16th with ~23km/1k, 80% of countries have less than 10km/1k, and 50% of countries have less than 5km/1k. The bottom extreme of 1km/1k or less is also interesting - you see expected places like Singapore and Hong Kong but also oddities like Egypt and China. I would be curious to get reports from Canadians and Estonians on their opinions of their country’s roads.)

Of course, Iceland has added constraints of deep freeze / unfreeze cycle and heavy snowfall. They performed admirably well. I particularly enjoyed their solution to the river crossing issue - Iceland has a ‘ring road’ that aims to connect essentially the entire country, and this road has to cross many rivers. Like, SO many rivers, it feels like once every dozen kilometers or something. Their efficient solution was one-lane bridges - sometimes you have to wait for oncoming traffic to vacate the bridge before you can cross.
made an account just to comment. i commute in from the highlands to rino about 3/4 of the year and do a bunch of trips to littleton or golden when not work commuting. used this program last year to get an e-bike and have been absolutely loving it (when there isn't ice or snow on the ground).

most full on pedestrian trails are genuinely great, especially when helped by higher traffic. i do, however, avoid my most direct route into work at night. on the south platte trail from cuernavaca park to 29th is legitimately a scary stretch. mind you i'm a 6'1 225lbs guy..

denver really is trying, and they've come a long way! i'd love to see some improvements on vehicle calming and better cycling right of way on the neighborhood bikeways, but the highest priority issue has to be biking trail connectivity.

that was a very long winded way to give you a single half mile stretch answer..
So I will note I’ve never done a JavaScript server project. My experience is entirely related to building for the web.

However even if we exclude that I don’t like the way dependencies are handled. I much prefer Maven’s single repository instead of having a node_modules folder in every project.

I know a lot of people hate XML but it’s not that bad. And it was the popular thing in 2004, JSON and YAML were extremely new on didn’t have mindshare yet.
Never. Comments should clarify what code does or why it does what it does. Nothing else.
I understand Musou black has it beat: https://takemy.money/musou-black-the-new-blackest-paint-in-t...!

And the blackest (non-acrylic) paint is Vantablack, the carbon-nanotube-based paint that is infamously only available to Anish Kapoor.
Being old is one of those preexisting conditions insurance probably doesn't like.
Yeah, it's kinda funny how we simultaneously expect the ideal AI to have human intelligence, but also not to make human mistakes. Guess what? If you build a perfect replica of a human brain, it will make human
errors, because that's what human brains do.

And incidentally, it's the consequences of those errors that teach us not to repeat them... which is the same feedback loop we use to train AI in the first place!
“Even if it weren't in many cases the exact same pundits offering the nearly-identical praise while disappearing their previous plaudits down a memory hole…”

Laurie Voss, one of the focusses of the article, is not one of these people.

So can you give an example of one of the “many people” who did this?

If not then your post reduces to a claim that two people who have never met and may disagree in good faith are gaslighting a third person if they work in the same industry. Which seems like a stretch.
The chart plateaus at 2014 but we see an increase in depression continue well past that. It seems unlikely there would be an 8 year lag in effects (studies seem to find more like a mere 2 weeks!)
I’d be down, but with an actual war, we can punt Hong Kong around for a millennia. As long as someone is addicted to something, amirite
That is impressive, the idea of dissembling cobol is beyond comprehension.....its syntax reads like someone shouting at the computer under duress.

I'm not actually doing this, its joke. Sometimes the level of obscure projects and heated discussions for and against clean code on this site is funny to me.

Hypothetically I suppose its possible in simple form because neural nets are pretty old. Maybe it should be done............ If so I will name my variables very well, my code will be so explicit and clean anyone can maintain it.
In a mature product, you would apply heuristics to help you provide the most useful feedback to the user while optimizing the time it takes to do so.

Users love consolidated, efficient feedback without having to peel back errors one at a time. It’s a distinguishing feature when you can find a way to do it that suits your input, and specifically so because it can be a hard problem to solve well!
I was told degree to FANG wasn't a common path and you had to "cut your teeth." lol
If you resign during a fixed term contract can they force you to work til the end? No because that's indentured servitude. The idea of the asymmetry you propose is equally untenable.
this piece reminded me of the way i sometimes regarded the world, maybe specifically the natrual world, as a child; that is, i felt that every piece of it was just bursting with meaning for its uniqueness. e.g. a tiny sun-speckled piece of ground under a pine, covered in needles and maybe some bugs, was sacred merely for being singular in its configuration in space and time. and the world felt so, so huge then because every bit if of it was overflowing with information. it would be impossible even in a lifetime to make it from here to the edge of town and know everything about all of it.

within the last couple years i've been occassionally trying to cultivate that sense again, but with only blips of success.
Then join a book club or knitting circle.
My company just had a round of layoffs. Preceding the actual announcement was an email strongly encouraging everyone to appear for that day (WFH still predominant norm).

All I could think, "Am I going to wake-up early and deal with traffic just so they can fire me to my face?"
Sure! I didn't blog about it, but it is in the issue tracker of e.g. https://github.com/crypto101/book.
"We want remote work!"

"Wait, not that kind of remote work"
Yeah, GP is shooting the messenger. If the GP is reading this, here is the address of the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency:

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There are tradeoffs for everything. Companies are more profitable when they cut labor costs through hiring people from countries that will work for less. Why should the owners of these companies (including everyone who owns stock in EA) pay above market value for this labor?

There are consequences to this, of course. One big consequence that I can think of is that it evens out the inequalities among laborers across national labor markets. This has very serious consequences for lower skilled Americans/westerners who have relied on the wealth of their countries to trickle down to them.

There are many ways to address this, like reducing labor market competition in the American labor market from less wealthy countries, increasing wealth redistribution, investing in the education/training of lesser skilled workers in the American labor market, and so on. Both left and right parties have solutions to this problem, and I personally don't really care about the chosen solution, but I hope our political parties stop forgetting about poor Americans who have been left behind for a long, long time.

I hope we can all have a healthier discussion about this problem, too. We need less polarizing figures in politics and we should start treating each other in America respectfully, whether you're liberal, conservative, transgender, evangelical, poor, rich, whatever.
perhaps it can be looked at as a function of bodily resource consumption. taking in new ideas and updating your priors is very, very energy intensive and I would guess requires the use of expensive bodily nutrients to build the pathways

since I'm guessing about the nutrient usage, I'm less comfortable including it in a hypothesis, but perhaps low NFC and high dogmatism are related to low maximum energy output or poor energy efficiency in the brain.

in my own personal experience, when I'm energy-tired, or ill, or depressed, I'm much less willing to approach new ideas, new experiences, or really anything that doesn't just follow pre-existing pathways
DBA or sysadmin, I would imagine. So more “never wrote application code” than “never wrote a single line of code for anything ever.”
Yes. The author is referring to Mobileye's proposed definition of autonomous driving levels [1], which are somewhat different from the traditional SAE ones. At the hands-off + eyes-off level you don't need to pay attention at all and can do whatever you want.

[1] https://ojoyoshidareport.com/eyes-on-mobileyes-eyes-off-driv...
> Some compilers tokenize while parsing, but for a different reason: it's faster and uses less memory

Rather legit reasons.. The one I'm writing does this. It seems akin to natural language processing. You'd interrupt a speaker early if you can't make sense of his uttering.

> Most compilers try not to fail when they encounter a syntax error, they try to "recover" and parse the remaining document

This seems ardous for you'd maybe have to keep parallel explanations of what you read ?
"...It's been years since the UI update and it's always been amazingly buggy"

Being buggy is only one aspect, the other was the annoying change of UI that presents apps in rows of large, gawky icons instead of the previous efficient rows of title text each headed by a small icon (as say in Windows 'List' mode).

Unfortunately, this leaves me stuck on ancient version F-Droid 0.102.3.

When looking for an app this new large-icons mode is much less efficient, especially so if one's in a hurry and doesn't know what the icon represents (as one would expect with a new program).

I'd have thought the large-icon disease would have remained quarantined within the Microsoft and Apple worlds but unfortunately the contagion's now spread to Linux and even infected the F-Droid app on Android. It ought to be resisted on the grounds that there are so many new icons about that their once great benefit has been deprecated (text again conveying a deeper understanding).

I've no objection to those who find large icons an acceptable work framework but developers shouldn't change UIs just on a whim. If they so desire a change let them provide it as an option—i.e. a UI revamp should allow users to select the old one as an option (we've all seen this UI nonsense before with MS Windows, the F-Droid app is about the last place I'd have expected to get infected).
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In my (Canadian) view my data going to the US is a lot worse.

From a physical safety perspective, I'm unlikely to ever go to China, but I do sometimes have to fly in to or through the US. In doing so I risk being held in solidarity confinement and extradited to a another country to be tortured (see Maher Arar). Or perhaps held in some prison with no rights because it's just slightly outside the US, and again tortured depending on the daily definition of what's not actually torture. That I haven't actually done anything doesn't seem to matter very much.

Plus a large amount of my data already passes through the US, where it's collected. Because I'm not an American I'm not even afforded the little bit of privacy protection of this data. For example it's not easy to use my Canadian voip provider without the traffic being routing through the US.

The US is also a much larger threat to country's sovereignty than China is. For example they've basically forced my government to hand over Canadian bank account data unless citizens explicitly decree that they're not from the US. They've forced through ridiculous DRM and drug laws.
That's interesting, most women I know were heavily encouraged and incentivized to go into computer science and engineering from university. Do you not live in a western country? I would expect similar incentives and pushes all over.

I don't really know about the background of the (few) women I know in my industry now though, except for the Indian ones who do seem to have a higher represenation and do I think seem to have engineering/cs degrees.

It sounds like the incentivization in the west is not working then, it is not getting to the right people or not going about things the right way. It actually doesn't surprise me if it does become a disincentivization for many women. It does seem pretty patronizing, shallow, and tone-deaf IMO, more likely designed by and for the political and grievance industries rather than actually being honest about women in technology and working to remove real barriers they face.
> On multiple first dates I got asked about my TTC.

When you respond, asking them what theirs is first before you'll share yours... how does that go? :)
Arbitration, by the way, not arbitrage.

Arbitrage is done by arbitrageurs.
What the hell does "wiping out all value in the universe" mean... it's such a weird phrasing, like "A series of critical missteps by Alameda wiped out all the value of FTT and therefore FTX"
> if the company was not profitable, stocks/options don't really seem that valuable. if the company folds, there's 0 value to them. so it's not like they "lost" anything.

Plenty of unprofitable startups have worthwhile acquihire-style exits. But it requires the leadership actually doing their jobs in marketing the company to potential buyers and getting some competing offers. Just because you're unprofitable doesn't mean there's nothing of value. Are there patents? Is the team proven to work well together and ship state of the art product? Are there any customers?

The conversation in this thread makes it sound like argo.ai was basically functioning like a Ford business unit already. If I were an argo.ai team member with stock/options that became worthless when the company's funding dried up, then Ford conveniently shows up to hire everyone after their stakes are worthless, I'd not be a happy camper and would be seriously questioning if argo.ai leadership acted in good faith on behalf of the employees/shareholders.

But I know nothing of what went on here. Just what I'm seeing here on HN...
Is a collection of balls falling down a galton board into bins to form a normal distribution a form of processing? How is it materially different than a ball rolling down a hill?
> but provides little help if you're writing for a broad audience and want to minimize blowback

Does writing a guide or policing language that causes blowback provide help? If you're speaking to a room full of people and half favor this language and half don't then you've only shifted the grievances from one side of the room to the other.

There's no easy answers here, but I don't think writing language guides or policing peoples language actually accomplishes much.
Is it a nice source tarball?
They can't hire people who prefer to work in the US for higher salaries though, which is the point.
There’s something to be said for knowing a product’s limitations and sticking to it.

It might seem absurd there is no option to pay a bunch of money for “more”, but we also don’t really know what guaranteeing that more work cost. Could be quite a bit of the sheets infrastructure is built expecting those limitations?
A quick look on levels.fyi doesn't really support this. What are you basing that on?
used and self financed costs out a majority of those costs
Much like an Insurance policy, it isnt a bad thing if you dont use it.
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