skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it comes down to the definition of "love".

There are limits to how far you can redefine what it means to "love" a particular person in your life because we all have a natural intuition of what it is like to live harmoniously with someone in love. People can sense when you're actually acting out of self interest because they can relate to the same temptation. However, there's no way analogous way to call bullshit when you try to redefine "love" for humanity as a whole because it's not even clear what that means. Longtermists have defined loving humanity as a whole as wanting to maximize a metric of how many people exists across the universe, but seeing "loving" humanity that way isn't really a shared experience. There are so many alternate metrics you can come up with about "loving" humanity (spreading democracy and "freedom" or eliminating prejudice get talked about the same way).

The problem is in mixing up the metaphor with the real thing. Especially with media technologies it's tempting to hold up loving humanity above loving other people because it seems so much bigger and more universal, but ironically this is exactly backwards. Love of humanity is just a simulacra of loving real people.

A relevant quote that came to mind from Brothers Karamazov:

I love humanity ... but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In my dreams ... I have often come to making enthusiastic schemes for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually have faced crucifixion if it had been suddenly necessary; and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with any one for two days together, as I know by experience. As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self‐complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty‐four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me.

...

Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.
That's not what I meant, but I suppose there's also a correlation there.

I was referring more to the fact that coastal software engineers tend to be testosterone-deficient as a group, which strongly affects political alignment. E.g. https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/155441/version/V... or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6717495/
Yep - hobbies and exercise is huge. I added weights and it has made a lot of difference. Also have to be more aware of my posture and eye/head position to avoid back/neck strain (a standing desk helps a lot)
There are several things that make this difficult. Much of the difficulty relates to the device changing it's network address. Seamless transition requires that the application can:

- Find the new address; i.e. Cell provider vs. Residential/Business ISP
- Associate the new address with the same flow
- Duplicate packets and reassemble them, or change to "better" path interface.
> Offloading some cognitive load does not suddenly make people stupider. It just means that their focus can go elsewhere. Nor do tools that abstract away some processes.

Agreed, but so much depends on where that focus goes instead. Whatever you do instead of writing is going to be what you improve at, while those other skills atrophy. That thing you spend focus on could be thinking deeply about abstract concepts, or composing sonnets, but it could also be mindlessly scrolling TikTok. Whether you ultimately buy Graham's thesis here depends on what you think the most likely outcome is.
Not to speak for the OP, but I believe their problem with the "blue-hairs" isn't that they exist, as you seem to imply, but that they come into the workplace and try to force everyone else to conform to their world view, or at minimum be forced to engage in a discussion of their world view. The government / military related industries still follow a strict viewpoint on leaving politics at home and not bringing it to work, not the least of which because government employees work for the government regardless of who is currently in charge in the white house. This used to be a more general viewpoint in American workplaces, that you kept some topics like politics, religion, and sex (sexuality) out of the work place. This is no longer the case, because "blue-hairs" "bring their whole self to work" and create conversations that other people often cannot choose to not be involved in.

You can absolutely hold a viewpoint that work is about work, and that politics, religion, and sex aren't proper workplace conversations, or important things to align on to work together, without being opposed to the viewpoints outside of work of the people who try to force those conversations. At least for my part, I find it very annoying when someone at work tries to force me to discuss something with them that doesn't involve work, is contentious, and might cause me personal or professional consequences. I'd rather just keep my trap shut and not be exposed to the conversation at all. Just like hearing about the sexual escapades of a coworker over the weekend could create a hostile work environment for some people, it creates a hostile work environment for some people to be forced into an uncomfortable and unnecessary political conversation, yet somehow there's a lot of folks who otherwise think not creating a hostile work environment is important that think it's acceptable to do so when it relates to politics. Politics is not an acceptable justification for creating a hostile work environment.

I say all of the above as someone that probably politically aligns with "blue-hairs" more than the OP, but still doesn't want to talk about it at work. If you're a coworker and want to discuss these topics with me, we can do it after work as a social conversation, not in the workplace.
I'm no economist, but I think these arguments conflate the financial well-being of an industry with that of its workers. Automation increases any given industry's financial well-being but it's not evenly distributed.

Many software developers seem so accustomed to a disproportionately high labor value that they: a) incorrectly assume they can easily pivot their capability into something else, and b) have entirely lost touch with the realities of most labor markets. Even if its not tomorrow, I think this is going to be a rude awakening for many people in software.
notice the article claims the opposite

> The polling organisation Metropoll predicted late last month that İnce voters would predominantly give their votes to Erdoğan’s AKP, the CHP, with some also going to the far-right Nationalist Movement party and the nationalist IYI (Good party) in the parliamentary race.

polls are all over the place for this election, other than telling that it will be contested.

https://twitter.com/ozersencar1/status/1652771126714482689?s...
Yes, distribution has legal risks. Use does not, it only has the risk that they are unable to get ZFS distributed.
In the vast majority of cases, the startup will not succeed, and the investor will lose their investment, while the founder will make $100,000 less than the engineer and lose credibility as a founder in the process. The engineer loses nothing other than the potential future income they might have received if the company had succeeded, and they will likely just find another job.
That would run into the FAA; there are a number of things that happen on flights that are mandated by the FAA, I suspect restrooms (and the drinks) are some of them for health reasons.
sure, buddy.
For 99% of the projects the chance of getting new customers being mentioned here should be much higher than the chance to lose a single customer because a copy cat actually stealing one.
It's concerning that there are no references to scispacy (from allenAI) in the paper. Scispacy is a bit dated in it's core tech, but it's still one of the easier ways of getting quick NER results on text.

This paper is extremely similar in domain (same corpus, etc - but that's not surprising since everyone uses these) but they're leaning heavily on the pretraining allowing capabilities towards few and zero shot, which is already well understood.
Ultimately I think it's a good resource to use for the code, and if the API ends up being easier to change some of the internals on compared to the many options out there such as scispacy, or any of the pipelines used to achieve Pubtator, then it's a welcome addition.

My assessment is that this is a useful alternative where there are many solutions, but mostly an engineering product, and quite far away from any scientific contribution.
It’s definitely awesome for that, but for me, on side projects even in languages I’m familiar with, getting ChatGPT to write the boring annoying stuff, or things that would require a bit of referencing (like a library I’ve not completely memorized), I’ve still found it to be pretty useful.
You can look at Venus as an example
Wildfire smoke from Australia fueled three-year “super La Niña”
I'm in complete agreement there; I've seen a number of those. I like to ask simple questions about what they like about programming to catch some of those issues and look for a certain amount of self-understanding.
That's not really how it works
If you define a .__getattr__ method, then "self.y" is no longer simple.
My understanding of friendships is that they are non-material investments. True friendship can't be materially transactional and needs to exclude material opportunism. But it somehow has to be emotionally transactional. Like making emotional deposits without expecting anything in return but if you choose to whom you gave yours right, paradoxically it pays off plenty.

Also true friendship celebrates other's success as you want to see true friends celebrating yours (genuine admiration, the opposite of masqueraded envy).

So it has to start from a place of abundance and generosity and set the example and organically evolve.

Also, the most technical piece of information I've got on how to detect very early potential for good/deep friendships, sort of "good friend radar algorithm" comes from an idea by St Augustine: genuine friendship comes from same likes and same dislikes.

It doesn't matter the culture or history or age, it can be from another galaxy for the matter, if in the deep psychology you share values that you like and share values that you dislike, there is a fertile foundation for good friendship to bloom. A space for a natural emotional alliance.
Did you see https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/blob/main/docs/arena.md#h... ?
I liked Erasmus, it was the easiest way to get girls as a uni student by far.
İ mean does it work well with multiple users collaborating on the same thing?
Unless we're earlier than we think. Someone has to be first.
Are all the foot guns described described in 2021 been fixed?

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...
Maybe we should start by nuking the city where you live. Imagine how it will look like in 70 years? It will be so much better than it is today.
I am a little skeptical as well, but I do think there is a lot of areas for improvement beyond the changes going in mainline. Note that while Mojo intends to support all of python, they never claimed that it will still be fast if you make heavy use of all the dynamic features. The real limiting factors are how often those dynamic features are used, and how frequently the code needs to be checking whether they are used.

The fast CPython changes are still very much interpreter-centric, and are checking whether assumptions have changed on every small operation. It seems to me that if you are able to JIT large chunks of code, and then push all the JIT invalidation checks into the dynamic features that break your assumptions rather than in the happy path that is using the assumptions, you ought to be able to get much closer to to Javascript levels of performance when dynamic features aren't being used.

Then support for those dynamic features becomes a fallback way of having a huge ecosystem from day one, even if it is only modestly faster than CPython.
For "Advanced" Web Programming, I don't really feel like you're hitting the mark by sticking with PHP. Sure, it works, and will probably get the job done for most web projects any of your students will ever work on, but if you want to get people excited while making them employable, it's important to teach new tools and frameworks. Unless the "Advanced" part is more about the techniques and patterns and less about the language, I think you're doing them a disservice by not branching out. And, of course, you can teach patterns and techniques in any modern language.

I'd expect to see some discussion of async job processing and front-end web frameworks in any advanced web programming course, high-school or college level. Honestly, just teaching the usual react stack with a typical node backend would probably be ideal since JS is approachable, react is still "cool", and you still only need to use one language.
Larger monitors? I worked off a laptop for 15 years. I was a lot more mobile, and the laptop was my primary display.

2020, with travel stopped, I got a desktop and couple of large monitors (32"). I still don't feel terribly more 'productive' with multiple monitors (years of experience on single monitor only!) but the large monitors help a lot. Separately, since I primarily work on a desktop, it's harder to just 'work' whenever/wherever I am, so there's more of a "I'm done now" aspect at the end of a day. I still have laptop, and can do stuff on it when I need to, but over the last couple of years, that's been far far less than it was 10 years ago.

I use glasses, but for driving only.
Free Software is a commune but why?
> Wow, what a terrible marketing video.

I thought it was great. Full of excitement, showed useful results after joining sub-queries. That's exactly what people need to know.
Too early to spike the football over that, OpenAI got outfoxed on Dall-E illustratively and ChatGPT's best chance for monetization remains as a feature for MSFT services, not an independent entity.
No, tests such as Raven's progressive matrices, which is the predominant method nowadays, don't require any more knowledge then what a normal baby is born with.

They were in fact designed to avoid the testing problems arising from varying cultures, prior knowledge, etc...
OP was comparing Ruby and PHP.
You responded to my comment in like 8 seconds so you obviously didn't even glance at either study.
Skipping the Good Days
Mean Well’s power supplies are by far the best I’ve used. Apart from working really well, they also seem to be constructed better than others I’ve used.

My 3d printer, grow lights, hydroponic automation hardware, and a little CNC project are all run on Mean Well power supplies now.
> that's never been how labor is valued

Unless you're a professional sportsball player, C-suite executive, actor, etc...

There's a number of labor jobs who haven't put capital into the business yet who receive compensation in line with the value they bring to the companies.

What we're lacking to receive the same is leverage, because unions have been defanged and discredited in our current times.
If I invest my life savings into founding a startup and it fails, I lose my life savings. The engineer I hired to help build the company loses nothing.
How do you know for sure your body stopped producing Vitamin D?

Not who you are asking, but most folks find out with blood tests. It is also pretty common for folks to produce less as they age, and it isn't a small difference.

Are you going out in the morning? That's when your get vitamin D, almost nothing in the afternoon.

This just isn't true. How much you get is going to depend on the angle and strength of the sunlight, the amount you get, the amount of skin exposed, and the color of your skin. (dark skin produces less than light skin, and makes it difficult to produce enough the further north/south you are).
“Spam spamifications” as in, notifications?

Good luck building a competitive direct messaging client without “spam spamifications”.

PWAs aren’t ideal, but building to a single platform with different screen sizes is far more efficient and achievable for upstarts than building multiple separate apps in different languages targeting multiple platforms. Arbitrarily limiting features like “spam spamifications” just gives an arbitrary advantage to the well funded over the independent and bootstrapped.
I really wish Apple’s ObjC went more into the self/smalltalk route in its language and IDE rather than invent swift as a replacement.
Why does this seem so common in niche projects like this one?

I often see GitHub repos that seem very interesting and even quite liked but as a newcomer you're just supposed to figure everything out blindly by yourself.

P.S: Thanks for saving me the time to download and try out Pharo.
Hi Doreen, hope this doesn't come across as creepy as I'm neurodiverse and have a hard time understanding sometimes.

But, I've read your comments over the years, and have a lot of respect for you. I'm also sick, and also struggle with employment sometimes (unemployed currently) and it's a really tough lot. Your consistent positivity is something I've noticed and really appreciate. Your realistic takes are a wonderful balance to the ivory tower bs coming from "academics".
TIL:

> During a dispute within the Internet community, Vint Cerf performed a striptease in a three-piece suit at the 1992 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting, revealing a T-shirt emblazoned with "IP on Everything"; according to Cerf, his intention was to reiterate that a goal of the Internet Architecture Board was to run IP on every underlying transmission medium.
What PG said: solve hard problems. Since you don't need the money, make it OSS.
According to the study it includes hours spent logged on waiting for jobs, which I think is a correct and meaningful way to measure it. I guess this is mostly people trying to top up their primary income.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/business-schoo...
It’s very difficult for me to wrap my head around people that aren’t blown away by both this and generative image AIs, and I tend to be in the skeptical side when it comes to fancy tech adoption.
Except those who don’t eat out?
That’s genius. Now I want to get one just out of curiosity. Looking at the cost though, I think I’m going to have to pass this one
You don’t want me to find it funny that you worship a guy sooo insecure about himself that he can’t get over a throw away comment made about his hands decades ago (the full quote was small fingered vulgarian and it was made nearly 40 years ago)? It’s either find it funny or sad - has nothing to do with political beliefs.
pharo, like other smalltalks, doesn't really have much of a text editor - that's not how you write smalltalk code. instead, you use the browser, which has a text pane, to change/add things to classes (or indeed to objects). you have to think a bit different. and how do you expect to learn anything if you won't read or watch a tutorial?
Sure!

Here's a gist to the script: https://gist.github.com/sklarsa/845152721ee9292eb01f70756b89...

As for gitea, I'm just hosting it using Docker and orchestrating using a simple docker-compose file that maps the gitea data directory to a Volume on the synology: https://gist.github.com/sklarsa/0dd6d6094dac6bf6e7bf61df9ca5...

It's all hosted on my private network at home.
This is why I keep a motorcycle for most of my daily usage. I like how dumb it is.
> You would have to be paid more than you value that time for it to make sense.

Why would you take any job where you don't get paid more than you value your time?
Preach! Been a self employed game developer for almost 10 years now. I think a lot of people fail to realize how incredibly hard it is to make a product (even a great one) and make a reasonable profit from it.

It takes a lot of patience, learning and failure. Even after 10 years I still feel like there's so much more to learn to get to where I want to go.
Fifteen Minutes of Fame: What is the 15-minute city?
they are sort ordered by popularity, but yeah that is a terribly unclear sentence

https://twitter.com/ozersencar1/status/1652771126714482689?s...
Bill(Engineerguy) reveals the long-lost methods used by Medieval engineers to design stone cathedrals. Methods that required no science, mathematics, or literacy, yet which reveal the engineering method.
No, it sounds more like you are being served your burrito with a cocktail, even though you are trying to quit cold turkey.

On another note, I find it highly offending that somebody tries to shove something down my throat, even though I explicitly refused it. No, I do not want shorts on the home screen, or anywhere else. Let me own my screen real estate, after all, this is supposed to be a premium service?
Note that this is only a subsection of Anu Dudhia's full set of rowing-related pages. The top of the tree is here:

http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/physics/index.ht...

And includes the basic physics of rowing machines (ergometers/ergs/ergos in the rowing world) for those confined to gyms & land training:

http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/physics/index.ht...

I've leaned on Anu's work many times in my rowing experience. I even raced him once!
This is very cool. I remember during my PhD I briefly investigated using these 3D models for synthetic data generation, but there was no straightforward, non-shady way of going about it.
IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX
I'm in the same situation. I was told that this is a relatively common symptom if you have ADHD and it's close to auditory processing disorder. Basically you just get deeply distracted by loud sounds and can't focus on anything auditory.
I've never actually seen its equal anywhere else.
See? Found one.
Ruby is a beautifully-designed, concise language. PHP is the opposite. If you like Java-style verbosity you may like PHP. I don't.
yes. that's why we have so many written records from western europe at that time <sarcasm>. it's called dark ages for a reason: the paucity of written records from that period. And there is a reason for that!
We have far more in common with blue-collar workers living paycheck to paycheck than we have with an socialite whose inheritance grows faster than his or her ability to spend it.

Fundamentally, almost all of us are N missed paychecks away from bankruptcy. For a lot of people, that N is 1, for some, it's 2 or 3, or even higher if you managed to save wisely. But we all have some number N. And the fact that we have that number should unite us against the few people on the far side of the derivative curve whose N is infinite. Tech workers had their relatively brief moment in the sun where their N was maybe 10-20, it got to our heads a little, and we started thinking we were "very different than a blue-collar worker".
Serious question: Can you create medium-size to large applications without a text editor?
LLMs can't replace most developers, not yet. If they get much better, maybe. But they have limited context. They make up APIs that don't exist.

For me, it's a great starting point that reduces carpal tunnel, but not much more.
I'm early 40s. I can't think of any specific communities for 50+, or even 40+.

There's the subreddit /r/ExperiencedDevs, but that's less social and more Q and A.

It might be worth checking into Discord servers to see if there are any that cater to more experienced devs. If you find one, let me know.
The antifa organizer I am talking about had blue hair.
I haven't Indexed It in my Memex or anything, but look into the work of Paul Mason or Ray Peat (to look into "pro-cholesterol" thought generally)

https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/cholesterol-longevity....