skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It speaks strongly to how hostile capitalism is to human happiness that the thought of making work easier and faster scares us.

Future benefits of technology will primarily be enjoyed by the 1% with the other 99% becoming poorer and working (hours wise) more.
> And things like Tailwind/CSS-in-JS are quickly making traditional CSS skills obsolete

This statement literally makes no sense.
> Um, ok, here's a tip: if you want to be understood, maybe try using words like everyone else uses them, instead of repurposing existing words with your own private definitions?

Referring to the law standard of living is the common usage of the term "third world country." Nobody is referring to alignment vis-a-vis NATO and the USSR.

> In other words, we're doing a lot right, otherwise we wouldn't attract so many immigrants, and thus our culture isn't as bad as it's portrayed by, ironically, immigrants.

We immigrated to the America of Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. The country is still riding the inertia of that. Moreover, immigrants are generally insulated from the larger culture. Affluent, educated immigrants can count on joining the top quantile, where as the article observes marriage norms remain strong. And whether affluent or not, immigrants have their own communities with their own social structures. Rampant divorce in Oregon doesn't affect Bangladeshis in Queens.

> I'm a lifelong Midwesterner. There's a very strong, deep rooted progressive streak in the Midwest, for example in Wisconsin and Minnesota, notably, which both have large populations of German ancestry.

Yes, but it's mainly a collectivist form of economic progressivism. As we saw with 2012-2016 shifts, when cultural issues predominate, the alignment runs in the other direction.

> A major reason why divorce rates have increased in the past 50+ years is that over this time period, women have achieved a great deal of financial independence from men.

Except the women who have the most potential for independence have the highest marriage rates. The marriage rate of people in the top quantile is the same today as it was in 1979: https://www.brookings.edu/research/middle-class-marriage-is-.... Marriage rates for women with a bachelor's degree were pretty close to those without a high school disagree in 1968: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/08.... Today, marriage rates in the former group have dropped about 10 percentage points, but have been stable since the mid 1980s. (If you account for the fact that way more people have bachelors degrees today, there might not be much real change at all.) Meanwhile, marriage rates for the other groups have dropped 20-30 points and are still declining.

The data supports an alternative hypothesis. Social norms around marriage and taboos against divorce function as guard-rails that encourage normal people to do something that's good for them--getting and staying married. High-IQ, high impulse control people (the folks who go to college and end up in the top 20%) don't need those social guard rails, and have done fine without them. That is consistent with other social trends too--for example, college educated people are far less likely to be obese than everyone else.
Would this count as an AI Injection attack, and if so, would it be the first? Or does the previous jailbreaks count as the original?
90% of frontend development is gathering the requirements. The other 90% is trying to get CSS to center a div.
So it sounds to me like you have a urban sprawl and people problem not a truck problem.
Just to be sure: You are being sarcastic, right?
The "standard line" has been, "go to college so you can get a job"

And that's what's chured out record levels of student debt, pointless degrees, and infantilized "adults"
Overload is the only game that has ever made me motion sick in VR.
It really depends on the position, but if I were doing the hiring I would say this is a great start. And then I would use it to continue the conversation. What happens after the text gets in the browser? What does a server do? What does REST mean to you? What happens after you hit the ENTER key and the page refreshes.

I've honestly interviewed developer candidates that didn't know what an operating system was. I asked this person what their favorite OS was and they answered "MS Excel". I politely asked them if that was an operating system and they declined to change their answer. Sure, at some point you might consider Excel an "OS" but I don't think they were thinking that deeply. Yes, the pool is that shallow, or at least it was back in the late 90's.
But the thing that did SVB in was, overwhelmingly, Treasury bonds, due to duration risk and interest rates going up, nothing to do with the bank's more exotic practices.
>"If Russia decides to start selling nuclear material again, the US will buy it. Again. "

I do not think Russia will sell it to the US as the whole point of such exercise would be some form of strategic nuclear alliance with other countries. This way they can be protected from being bombed / invaded into "democracy" / "petrodollar" / whatever else.
you are right, but the argument itself is flawed in the first place.

CEOs are not the rich class, they are elite but they are employees. Plenty of CEOs get fired for doing bad job, or get softly pushed out.

Argument that labor union keep CEOs from getting rich is absurd because CEOs are part of labor force.

it is shareholders who get rich by squeezing profit, so I dont get why bring up CEOs. A CEO maybe get paid $10 mln a year. But shareholders get dividends/buybacks in order of hundreds of mils/blns

My argument was that labor unions lead to piss poor quality due to mediocrity (example: US automakers).

the japanese automakers have factories in the US and produce much higher quality cars without labor unions. How come???
Why? You should absolutely expect this behavior from America. Russia has a smaller prison population than America and spends much less than America on policing and prisons. America has more prisoners than than any other country in the world, and they aren't all there for good reasons. A lot of people are actually as a consequence of scenarios similar to this story, where police overextend their authority, intentionally create a "resisting arrest" or "obstructing official police business" scenario, and then trump up an arrest charge.

I mean, the biggest story about Russian prisons recently was that they had falsely imprisoned an American celebrity athlete over a trumped up marijuana charge. She is now free after a prisoner swap. And yet, there are tens of thousands of Americans in prison today for similarly trumped up marijuana offenses. You should absolutely expect this behavior in America, and if you don't it's time for a wakeup call.

Edit: I just checked and the most recent stats are better for America, we are now tied for top prison population with China, and we are now the 6th highest in rate. We no longer have a rate worse than such bastions of freedom as El Salvador, Rwanda, and Turkmenistan. Unfortunately we are still behind the rest of the first, second, and third worlds. Progress, but still more people in American prisons/jails than most countries.
In case you arent aware, you are able to enroll in COBRA retroactively. Meaning you dont need to be enrolled at the point that you need it. It makes sense to not enroll unless needed and save that expenditure, but keep in mind that I think you need to pay the previous premiums in the case you do elect to enroll (i.e. if you enroll in month 2 you need to also pay month 1 premium when you enroll).
It's not precise, but it's pretty close when you look at the number of management and support positions to individual contributors in many techinal organizations.

It's beyond the scope of this conversation, but the short is that it seems to become a network effect problem. Every team does not work with every other team, but it does end up in a hub-and-spoke system with matrixes over the system. Oversight (ops, security, PMO) do not scale linearly because the competing priorities make scheduling more difficult.

I've read others who have spoken about it, but I'd have to go back and find it.
What was their ESG score?

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2023/03/15/svb...

> As pointed out in the Bloomberg piece, SVB was rated highly as a pro ESG stock by the ESG rating agencies. MSCI rated SVB an “A” stock in terms of ESG. Blackrock appears to own SVB under its Article 8 funds (“green” as per the EU labeling regime).
The irony of these riskmeister VC types failing to manage a Treasury Bond portfolio is pretty thick.

It also seems like they should have made some credible loans instead of buying bonds - that whole "reinvest in the community" thing. Although they might be required to keep some low-risk (when managed by adults) assets.
Why bother learning violin or creating video games when AI does it much better and faster?
He outlines a number of anomalies but one of the larger points is that it deviates from its expected trajectory, leading to the possibility it’s a light sail. But I don’t recall if he addresses any specific studies.

I didn’t get the impression that he’s married to the idea that it’s a buoy. My main takeaway from the book is that he wants the establishment to at least be open to the idea of it being a of extraterrestrial origin rather than immediately dismissing the idea. He outlines some of the perverse incentives in academia that prevents many from seriously considering that idea.
I think it's fair to call that a conspiracy theory.
Great, just like gardening, I get enjoyment out of doing the thing. Happy to share what I produce, but couldn't care less if no one else uses it.
Yes the planet's climate has always been in flux, but never has it warmed this quickly without disastrous results for it's inhabitants.
I have great pleasure when using docopt in Python.

I see docopts is ‘the same’ implementation but for shell, have never tried it though.

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docopt helps you:

- define the interface for your command-line app, and
- automatically generate a parser for it.
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http://docopt.org/

https://github.com/docopt/docopts
The tech COVID boom looked sustainable to me because it was a mostly caused by money shifting from offline to online. The losers were brick and motor businesses and drive-time radio ad purveyors.
It's a big part of the "comfort" rating that Oculus has in their store. Some games have a lot of movement (e.g. a table tennis simulator), but as long as the movement matches up there's minimal risk of motion sickness.

I even can't handle first person shooters where the camera moves around using a control stick (the sensation of movement is unpleasant). Some games solve this with a mode where you sort of "snap" from one position to another rather than "moving".
I do agree with you that the bank will likely not collapse with help from the big banks. But business wise it is not in a great position with lots of low interest rate loans. Still, I would expect some recovery in the stock price.
There's also the Golden Lane estate, and various other individual residential buildings.
At some point, the fed is going to have to take some accountability for the fact that hiking rates by 4% in one year (from literally 0%) was going to have some unintended consequences. People at SVB and other banks likely only modeled for rate hikes of 25 bps, which would have meant a limit on the interest rate delta of 2%/year. Everyone knew the fed was going to hike, but I doubt most of them modeled for the tail risk of the fed hiking that fast.
You need to get a little perspective, I got hired at Amazon in Nov of 2001 after the tech bubble burst and post-9/11. There was no AWS. Amazon was purely a retailer, it was losing money every single quarter, there was no confidence that e-commerce would ultimately be competitive with brick-and-mortar.

If you're worried about ChatGPT taking your job you weren't doing much. We're still going to need humans to find the horrible bugs in codebases caused by humans copypasting ChatGPT output into production code. You need to become an actual expert in something. Pick a system that is critical to your employer and get good at it.
I grew up on the Peninsula and my parents were not paying for any of this stuff. Public school parents organized soccer games and park days and other times we just road cheap bicycles around and went to each others houses and occasionally caused trouble.
This jokes only works if you never used flex.
Tax the undesired behavior. Using housing as an _investment_ should be heavily taxed based on the behavior's negative impact to society.

Live somewhere for at least 35% of a year (more than 1/3rd), then most of that tax goes away since it's a 'primary residence'. (35% to allow for moving as well as possible 'sunbird' / 'winter/summer homes', while still catching anyone who treats housing as an 'investment' (a tax upon the poor))
You won't learn linear algebra or programming on the job. Those things need to be learned prior to working.

On the job training only works for certain types of skills
Well yeah, but that's kind of like doctors saying that malpractice insurance reduces their profits in cases where it ends up not being needed.

Having a hedge and not needing it is kind of a good problem to have, assuming they didn't overleverage on that hedge. But if the hedge is overleveraged, I am not sure if it can be called a hedge anymore. Because that would make the position it was supposed to offset the hedge position instead.
"The mission of the Federal Reserve System is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation's monetary, financial, and payment systems so as to promote optimal macroeconomic performance."

At least someone at the fed feels their mandate is a bit more broad.
The kicker is that Musk himself clarifies Poop Emoji = "BS".

So press@twitter.com official's, automatic response is... fake news? A pre-emptive dismissal of criticism or questions with 'it must be bullshit'?

There's a tacit endorsement of raw power here - the strong do what they can (lol! poop emoji!), the weak endure what they must (I guess the powerful can just send us poop emojis in response to questions now...)

Another public square is destroyed. Another means of organization co-opted.

We are in trouble.
do you like communism, where everyone gets equal outcome? (true equity)

Like in Cuba, Russia/Soviet Union, DPRK, or Campuchia during Pol Pot's time?
This right here is the right strategy, make a new framework and wait for the model to be re-trained with a corpus large enough for it to be correct. Rinse and repeat.
> We've had a massive influx of new tech talent over the last few years

Very true, colleges have been seeing double-digit growth in applicants of CS majors every year in the past 10+ years, and this year the number of applicants is at least 2x more than last year. That said, I'm not sure about the growth rate of qualified talent. At least 8 out 10 senior engineers who I interviewed could only throw some terms around and draw a few boxes. "Experts" of Apache Beam can't write a simple word count using even pseudo code of Beam's APIs. The team leads from FAANG could talk only about team coordination but not specifics of the tech stacks of their systems. ML experts could throw terms like BERT around but could not explain simple things like the difference between layer normalization and batch normalization, let alone coming up with models to solve specific problems. Experts of distribute system couldn't design a simple stateful system or articulate any distributed algorithm. The list can go on and on.

Given such shortage of true talent, I'd rather worry about whether there will be growth in IT the industry. Without growth opportunities, investment will drop, so will the demand of talent.
Thinking out loud:

- Ask for 90% of the buildings to be less than 120% of the average price.

- Have lottery system for lot allocation

- Make it easy for groups and communities to buy lots

- Cap the lot prices per sqf

- Evaluate the projects on the community impacts vs $$$

See also this to understand how capitalist architecture makes everyone miserable: https://youtu.be/VoYZlyBHyQM
If you're looking for disagreement... you're not getting it from me :)
If you were to mix ChatGPT with premade blocks and a WYSIWYG editor you could get very far. It would be quite a lot of upfront work if you were actually intending on automating the full site creation rather than a general wireframe, still doable.

But, nobody really has a job like this in the front end. They were all replaced by Squarespace/Wix/Webflow/etc years ago. Which seems to confuse people who aren't really in web development, and where Josh Comeau is mainly making the argument from (against the social media idea that "front end is dead").
Server side filtering isn't relevant. A user editing or removing things from their photo does not expect that data to exist on the image uploaded to a server.
LOLOL I wasted $900 on a "high end" Acer laptop once. _Never_ again will I trust them.

Anyone foolish enough to buy from Acer something where defects & cheap design can injure you deserves to, well, at least, lose the $$$ they fork over. They don't deserve the myriad injuries they will get though.

IOW: personal injury lawyers, start your engines!
On the other hand, the privileged spec is also designed to provide process isolation and other security features. It may not seem as drastic as if a core instruction were misinterpreted, but this is IMO not the layer you want unexpected deviations from spec in.
What's with:

# [ <-- needed because of Argbash

There's also this bit:

The square brackets in your script have to match (i.e. every opening square bracket [ has to be followed at some point by a closing square bracket ]).

There is a workaround — if you need constructs s.a. red=$'\e[0;91m', you can put the matching square bracket behind a comment, i.e. red=$'\e[0;91m' # match square bracket: ].

That kind of kludginess is a turn-off.
>>> I'm not sure how it can be much easier: b"".decode("utf8") and "".encode("utf8") are quite clear to me.

They look arcane and unclear to me. Which direction is encode and which is decode? What does decode and encode actually mean? There should be some hint in the function name.

Here is a question for you…. for the example you give, what are all the possible permutations of every possible component of each command?

What happens if you prefix encode with b? What if you don’t prefix decode with b? What other possible values can go in the brackets? Can I encode and decode all types of input?
Just ask GPT-4 to write a vscode plugin for itself.
There is this movie called Idiocracy. When I saw it the first time I thought it was hilarious. But over time I've stopped laughing and I now more or less realize that the makers may well have intended something funny but accidentally ended up making a prophesy. Or maybe they intended that from the get-go but they dressed it up as something funny for budget reasons.

It's scary how many of the things that are in that movie as caricatures you can now find IRL.
What will these typical investments be? Consider capital gains taxation versus dividend taxation in your analysis.
Sirens and garbage trucks going all night are loud.
Pretty good point actually.
Tt could be much longer than decades. Japan has had falling births for 50+ years and no indication of stopping.

It is unclear how a country stabilizes birth rates once they start falling, because no modern country has successfully done it.

Some countries supplement or offset their population losses with immigration, which comes with its own challenges.
Please note that the person making this claim lost all of their equity in Signature Bank.

Do you believe Sam Bankman Fraud’s claims about FTX? If not, then you shouldn’t believe Barney Frank about SBNY either.
Hey but don't worry, it has great documentation, in the form of question posts from 2006 on "MacOSXHints" that may or may not have been answered!

Also don't worry, you can write AppleScript in JavaScript syntax too! Too bad 100% of the code samples out there to help you are in the "other" syntax :D
bigger issue is that it takes more time and skill to become hireable, in the early days of the web there were plenty of people buying a book on HTML and getting hired in a few weeks. That isn't happening in a world where AI can do all but the most complicated programming tasks
Yes, and looking at the number of flags my comments have, quite a lot of you wonderful cyclists really don't have a steady grasp on reality either!

But again, I already knew this
> The End of Front-End *Web* Development

T,FTFY
VR sickness is still the largest barrier to large scale adoption. I've been following research by Meta/Reality labs closely but despite them investing billions in VR they seem to have not bothered investigating VR sickness at all.
This isnt the truth. 10% of their portfolio was worthless VC loans.
The current ruling for AI generated images is that they cannot have copyright by anyone because copyright only covers human-generated works.

If a human didn't create it, it can't have a copyright.
> People are not discussing how incestuous

I think everyone would be served by a frank examination and critical review of buddy-buddy networks and "incestuous" relationships in the finance industry generally. Not just SVB and VCs.
I have been listening a good deal to Rob Kristoffersen's excellent "Our Strange Skies" podcast [1] and it just highlights a lot of the seemingly arbitrary nonsense that so-called UFO's get up to once they land. The kind of planetary science we can get up to with a orbiting probe seems to be much more cost effective than the reports of ten little guys landing in the middle of some rural road and getting out to look at rocks and sticks.

[1] - Our Strange Skies - https://www.deezer.com/en/show/2120722
> The fact that you are insinuating that this has anything to do with the current inflation problem is misleading. In 2023 we are dealing with the fallback of Covid fiscal policies, not defense spending.

No. I'm stating that medicare+defense spending is far larger than either covid relief or student loan forgiveness. By an order of magnitude per year.

The fact that you don't think the thing that's 10x bigger can cause inflation, but you think the minor foonote that is covid spending can, shows that this is 100% ideology-driven and not fact-driven.

Even basic back of the envelope economics shows you're completely off.
Mexico has some strong unions, one of them is the SINDICATO NACIONAL DE TRABAJADORES DE LA INDUSTRIA. AUTOMOTRIZ (auto maker/manufactring union). Still, there are lots of cars manufactured in Mexico which are of quite high quality[1]:

Audi Q5
BMW Serie 3
BMW Serie 2 coupé
Honda HR-V
Hyundai Accent
Infiniti QX50
Infiniti QX55
Jeep Compass
KIA Rio
KIA Forte
Mazda CX-30
Mazda2
Mazda3
Mercedes-Benz GLB
Nissan Kicks
Nissan Versa
Nissan NP300
Nissan Sentra
Nissan March
Nissan NV 200 Cargo
Toyota Tacoma
VW Tiguan
VW Taos
VW Jetta

There is indeed a stigma that American cars (Ford, GM, Chevrolet) are trash, but I think that has more to do with a company policy, more than with Unions and manufacturing employees.

[1] https://www.motorpasion.com.mx/industria/autos-produccion-me...
"but do you really think a jury would convict?"

I have no doubt they would (assuming survival).