skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a world built entirely of people who were technical for the love of it. Those who were fascinated with computers and the internet before there was real money in it as a career. When no one cared about computers and left us alone the community built by a largely neurodiverse group had rational rules that made people that would fall into the inneagram 8 category feel comfortable. Not just neurodiverse either, despite the stereotype of the neckbeard with pocket protector women were better represented in the 70s and 80s computing community than later on. We may have surpassed that mark now though, I haven't compared numbers recently.

Edit: I used the term neurodiverse and then implied we all fell into one category of personality. That seems to conflict, but what I meant was that we didn't differ much in the way that we differed. It was a gatekept community of a certain category of people where the gatekeeper was just interest in the subject absent any monetary motivation.
It appears to me that recent trends include a lot of titles that seem more click-baity and often have quality of content that matches low effort, attention grabbing titles.

I don’t think it’s necessarily a HN problem, but instead a trending style in publishing articles. I still find gems here and there, but overall I find leisurely consumption of the media online less and less appealing. Fun tech dives or thoughtful articles are less common (or drowned out by the fodder). I remember a time (maybe 10+ years ago) when I would read 10+ of the top 30 posts. Now it’s more like 2 or 3 and I don’t have the heart to load up another 30.

Then again, maybe it’s just me becoming an old curmudgeon failing to adjust to the times.
I agree. I was suggesting something even worse: they have internal disagreement and guilt and are regulating others based on that. Any discourse makes them feel worse about it, so they regulate that too.
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Stock options are basically worth $0 statistically. But the fact remains that if you look at compensation at most companies outside of the major tech companies, these numbers look realistic.

As an anecdote, I use to live in Atlanta and every time I looked for a job, Delta airlines came on my radar.

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/delta-air-lines/salaries

This is accurate and in the same range other companies in Atlanta pay like Home Depot, Coke, etc.
It’s a metaphor, intended to mean “we have no way of knowing with confidence what will come after”. Not “an omnipresencient being has no way of knowing what will come after”. In other words: just because there’s probably _something_ beyond the event horizon of a black hole doesn’t mean I’d want myself (or, in this case, all of human civilization) to enter one.

In light of this, would you recant this point?
Does anyone know how I can contact the creators of Txti? I've looked around and can't seem to find any contact information.

As a long-time user I value what they've done and would like to help. Ideally, if it's just a problem of it being too much work for them to secure against bad actors, I'd just take over the website and organize that work myself. No promises, though, I'd need to understand the problem better before committing to solving it. :)

I suspect the authors and I have a lot of values in common.

Alternatively, the authors can contact me at [removed].

EDIT: Found an email!
A member of the rust committe (Uber for C) well known for their histryonics makes a hystrionic blogpost about another rust community member acting hystrionic. The comments divide into two camps among US political lines and spend the rest of the time debating woke culture. No tech is discussed.
And for Islam, I recommend Karen Armstrong’s “Islam: A Short History”. This book gives context to Muhammad as a Man in addition to the influential religion he adapted/created (for most major religions are adaptations, “modernizations” of what came before.)
Good to know you wouldn’t want to work with anyone autistic or on the spectrum.

Which is the case here.

The thing is that the people on here taking about “being adults” are the least tolerant or understanding that people experience things and express things differently.
Oh, boy... they do have bigger problems than that.
I don't think "bad actors" is referring to any of those in this case.
Yes, it's in the high range, but I have 20+ years of software development experience, C++ and quantitative finance although I only do the former now because I was getting the same money as doing just development and working twice , with the latter being particularly nasty stuff. Also Java and lately Kotlin (Android).

The €60k are on local employment contract. Besides that I get the odd remote freelance contract, usually because of my trading and quant finance domain knowledge.
Illegal immigrants take good paying jobs away from Americans. Employers seek illegal immigrants to lower their labor costs which is good for them but bad for the economy. It’s also morally wrong for 2 reasons: immigration is motivated by white genocide, and 2, it is a substitute for slavery by exploiting immigrants for their cheap manual labor. Green energy might be good for the long term but it is crushing the economy right now during the homelessness crisis.
> You can be an effective leader with bad optics. See Elon musk.

I'd argue part of what made Musk's companies so successful was the optics - he was seen as a visionary, building the future - ergo customers and engineers alike wanted to associate with him.

Since the decline in his optics over the last few years, has he been an effective leader? Twitter does not seem to support that notion.
Seems like the clickbait is to call those zero-days rather than 'previously discovered issues that have been patched upstream'
Blame automated A/B testing.

Even the New York Times is guilty of this.

I will see an article in the dead tree edition that I want to share with my wife while she's at work, but the title in print doesn't match the A/B-tested internet-optimized online title, making it hard to find.
At least for the orthogonality thesis, it is a base assumption. It's a claim that cov(intelligence, goodness) = 0. For the instrumental convergence thesis, it assumes rational agentic behavior, which assumes AI behaves like an agent. While this may be reasonable, it's certainly an unjustified assumption.
+1 The HP laserjet that I bought 5 years ago turned out to be a piece of junk. The software was also awful, it would often randomly crash, reboot itself and make lots of noise. Using a Canon Maxify inkjet now, much better machine and much cheaper to run.
110%. Any organization that lacks transparency in decision-making and accountability (that is, attribution of decisions to specific people) devolves into a shadow-hierarchy.

Which is even worse than an explicit hierarchy, because it provides more gray area for people with power to do things anonymously.
Vim was a fork of the Amiga port of Stevie which was first released in 1987.
The best response I saw there was that it's simply become fashion. Apps change for the sake of changing. The same is true for cars so that people can tell that the older model is older and the newer one is different. It's also in Apple's designs, square edges -> rounded -> sharp edges, thin wedge, slab, etc.
An important distinction on their moderation style:

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It's not censorship, it's lack of resources.

We're volunteers. When it's too much work to moderate a thread, we just nuke it from orbit.

-- matthieum @ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13tsmht/jt_why_i_left...
I highly recommend everything by Karen Armstrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong

She has published all kinds of different work: comprehensive surveys, biographies of key figures, memoir, the works. She’s so prolific, clear, and consistent that you can just follow your nose to whichever entry point strikes your fancy.
How do long cohabitating folks handle it? What if they comingle funds?
I agree. I’ve wondered at times if the extreme space constraints on animals evolved to be problem solvers/explorers/migratory, regardless of sentience, could cause brain circuitry to go totally haywire.

All these impulses to navigate the environment and nothing to do with it. I believe consciousness and sentience likely extends to all creatures to unknown degrees (not scientific, I know), such that keeping any animals in enclosures is likely to cause some type of psychosis. It would be hard for us to tell because we aren’t geared to identify how other animals go crazy.
"The Source" by James Michener is fun historical fiction on the subject.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(novel)

I'm also a big fan of the Cartoon History of the Universe series.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cartoon_History_of_the_U...
Also discussed today:

China’s first domestically made passenger plane completes maiden flight (apnews.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102998 (31 comments)
The God Delusion gives a good overview of many aspects.
Have you ever been the victim of losing a position because you weren't white? Have you even been turned down for a loan because you weren't white or straight or were “different”. That's why it's a big deal. It isn't everything, but it is a factor all over in America. I seriously don't believe anyone who says it isn't also an issue in other places as well. I lived in Europe for a year in various parts and heard racist talk just as surely as I have as an American, so don't tell me that it's not an issue in other countries, I know it is. Racism is just a subset of ethnic discrimination. It was a little more subtle in most cases, but it was there.
I think it gets skewed by the business / data population, which is a bunch of “engineers” wrapping simple Java and Python to massage data fro multiple databases into some common form for a data lake or whatever. This sub field hires like mad and is filled with relatively niche and mid to low skilled roles - but lots and lots and lots of them, most medium to large companies hire these roles. Higher end engineering is fairly rarified and under represented.

I also looked at the salaries and was baffled - I’ve not worked in companies with those sort of bands since 1995. At most FAANG and big tech orgs that are serious those averages are under entry level and have been for decades. At one bank I worked at new hires were being offered $250k out of college - 15 years ago.

So these numbers represent the iceberg roles - not visible if you’re in high end jobs and companies, likely even startups, but where most engineers are actually working.
"Living off the land" in the context of this document means using readily available command line tools and utilities on infected devices?
I, for one, would love to see compile-time reflection in Rust and I'm genuinely curious how somebody exploring the feasibility of that feature could make anybody feel uncomfortable.

As a minority, I've been subject to firm decisions made on the basis of extremely dubious reasoning before. Is it bias? Who knows, it's never clear-cut in any specific example. But when it just seems to keep happening and nobody can explain why, it certainly feels fishy.

And of course, being on hiring panels and hearing comments like "I don't like how she talks" or "I don't trust men who wear scarves" or "I don't think he'll fit the culture (which is mostly white)" made about candidates, and "I don't see any problem with hiring based on attractiveness" as a "joke" after a hiring decision was made in favor of a conventionally attractive woman... and later hearing comments like "I've never discriminated against anybody" come out of the same mouths? I don't buy it. I don't think I'm unbiased. I don't know how anybody could possibly think that about themselves.
Well, it is not just the English that dismantled it, it had already gotten weak if you look at India's output to science and research by the time they came. They did very well manipulate the system to be advantageous to them and make it easier for them to rule, which was what most colonisers were doing.
You're kind of falling into the fallacy this point is criticizing. You can't assume anything about communication between entities that are orders of magnitude apart in intelligence.

I have a profound understanding of my puppy's psychology, motivations, and capabilities; I even exercise complete control over her physical environment, and yet she ate my fitbit strap (again, goddamit!) as I was typing this very comment.
There's a lot of nuance to all of this, but the general important trend is clear: expect less, for now.

I was laid off at the start of the month. But I've been paid so well for so long that I'm not really planning to go back to work until the end of summer- I've got enough set aside. Still, I've been looking around and getting some feelers out and the stark reality is in not likely to make the same salary that I was making again for a few years at least.

Things have changed.
levels shows 2022 comp as down on previous year which rings more true to me. https://www.levels.fyi/2022/
The original fear of terrorism was very real, but they sacrificed theirs and their childrens freedoms for temporary security. The cowards let the terrorists win.

We live in the most information accessible time in history and in the US most people can read and write and are capable of researching topics on the internet. If someone is falling for fake information, it is not the media's fault, they can fact check any media themselves. It is because their ears are hearing the lies they crave. Even when you debate with people these days on many political topics they basically plug their ears and scream "fake news". They are more interested in winning culture wars than the truth. The immigrant family down the streer driving down home prices or having to attend diversity meetings at work is a greater concern than the FBI monitoring all their comms.

There have always been media and politicians that want to use fear to control the people. Why is now and why is the US special?
I think you could apply to product manager roles within your speciality and do very well… for instance at a sales saas tool
Some important context that's missing from your summary (and something I wasn't aware of until I dug into it more) is that the author was a member of Rust's core team [0] and the interim leadership group responsible for designing Rust's new governance structure [1]. They were the one who posted the new RFC on project governance [2].

This isn't a case of one person who was powerless to stop what happened and felt that making a big stink on the internet was the only solution—this was one of the primary decision makers shaping the future of Rust. I think there's a lot of context missing from this blog post about why they felt the need to resign rather than use their position to improve decision making.

For now I'm withholding judgement on who will turn out to be in the right.

[0] Still listed here: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core

[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/10/06/governance...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3392
And it works perfectly for those websites, your friends and family websites don't need anything fancy!
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You're right. It's just that the only people who click to comment on stupid articles like this are the "electrosensitive" mentally ill and RF engineers. And there's more mentally ill than RF engineers. In the past they'd be obsessing over ghosts or something but now radio is the invisible thing people don't understand and latch on to.

There's no non-thermal mechanism confirmed in any reputable journal and the user above is not going to provide anything other than hand waving about two photon effects (laughable) or "gap junctions" and extracellular potential woo-woo.
I also tend toward surrogate keys, and would also point out that the overhead concerns frequently weigh in favor of them as well (though not always).

If your natural key is bigger than the appropriately sized surrogate key, and it will be referenced across the database in other tables, the overhead of referencing it everywhere (and indexing it in those places -- potentially in much larger tables) can easily outweigh the overhead of the extra bytes on the original table.

Additionally, surrogate keys can realize much better performance WRT cache locality.
I’m curious, what specific beliefs come to mind?
Not necessarily. The differences between DMCA 512 takedowns, cease and desist letters, YouTube Content ID matches, and side-eyed glances between nominal competitors in the games space, are very subtle. It's very easy to confuse the two and people do it all the time, because the end result is exactly the same: something you made is removed from the Internet because someone else says you didn't make it.
I would like to help rebuild txti.es if you are interested. I'm developing an identity system - with reputation - to keep bad people out. No cost, easy to use. Makes it increasingly hard to get a burner identity. Not finished but probably be usable. Micro-billing - so you can charge 0.10 {cents,euros,marks,francs or dracmas} per month/week/etc, is also in the work. email to arthurgarbanzo at gmail.com if interested. I will do the work as I am trying prove the concept.
Currently there are hundreds of thousands of tech workers (some with 10+ years of experience) who are being laid off. It's possibly the worst time in the last 10 years to make this transition.

You have a lot of other things working against you when competing for jobs, too. You might be able to beat your current salary in the US, where programmers are paid much better and there are more tech companies, but I doubt you'd do better in Europe.

Also looking at that list, the highest-paying jobs aren't high-paying because of the technology. It's because of what you're doing with that technology. All of the top things are adjacent to infrastructure engineering, managing massive amounts of data, etc. I'd guess that a lot of those salaries are coming from places like Netflix or Google.

You can learn Go (and should, it's very easy), but understanding how to configure, automate, and maintain things like MapReduce, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes in a real production environment is not going to happen soon. Some of that stuff is so frustrating and complicated that most programmers don't want to touch it. You have to know a ton about a lot of different domains.
> DALL-E — “A photograph of meat in the shape of a key on a solid background”

I feel like I'm now reading Matrix code where we can do away with the image itself and just keep the prompt.
Minton Beddoes was one of 133 invitees to the 63rd Bilderberg conference
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Does this still happen with current printers or is it one of those ancient memes about printers which don't disappear?

When I turn the Epson one off, it audibly parks the head. I would suppose it is parked onto a gasket which would prevent it from drying out.

Personally, I don't buy laser printers because I cannot imagine that toner dust isn't unhealthy, and I would be scared of it leaking into the air I breathe.

Feel free to prove me wrong with studies, I would appreciate being less scared about it for my next printer in case the Epson does die some day.
Compensation doubtless has a lot to do with it. It's also the only place in the US with basically a Mediterranean climate and pretty accessible beautiful natural areas. I don't live there but I see the attraction when I visit.
Yea, we basically use urgent care for everything, since it seems very few in-network doctors want any more patients, and the ones who do have no availability for months. So we're in this weird position where we have no "primary care doctor".
Go ping some Angel and VC investors.

Tell them you’ve proven the hypothesis and achieved product market fit by showing the data from this one city and say you’re raising capital to take it to the next step.

Good luck!!
So unmarried father's have less financial responsibility than married ones? Is this because of alimony assuming mothers will reap less income to care for the kids?
The context is he meant it for Indians, which is true.
It's not directly answering the question, but I really appreciated "The heart of Christianity", which offers an interesting philosophical analysis of the three "interpretations" of Christianity, and which I would think is applicable to a lot of religions.
Don't think of it as an active act of creating exclusion, but of a state that just happened. Doesn't matter how, it could be completely natural, unintentional, and just how growth happened.

It is also almost certainly the case that nobody is being actively excluded (well except maybe from a keynote). But appearances matter, and why have a poor appearance that could come from a bad place when a better one is possible?
Stating facts != outrage.
I know for a fact there has been 4 or 5 occurrences at C++ conferences within the past two years.
I was surprised at how interested I got in “the history of god”, which covers the 3 big Abrahamic religions.

It’s very informative, I’ve actually learnt a lot of useful things to understand cultural stuff I’m actually encountering often (what does the trinity _means_? Whats do the ancient greeks have to do with Christianity? What’s mysticism? What are Sufis?).
I understand State Farm independent agents have a lot of latitude. Maybe that is what is happening.
Try putting "I'd like someone willing to sacrifice a lot of ego and choose to give up a lot of freedom and self" into Tinder and see how it goes. And as bad as the dating apps are, I never got the impression that people were evaluating each other on much more than superficial metrics in the old school dating world anyway.
The primary usecase for no color, in my opinion, is for running software on CI/CD and other automated systems. Sometimes you want to track logs or alert on certain output and you don't want a bunch of garbage characters that can't be displayed on those systems.
Life is unfair and some people will use anything they can, whether it be race or whatever, to get ahead. I did the same thing when I was younger: I wrote a book at age 15 and marketed it as being written by a teenager to get sales. In this case, I played into my age rather than race, but the idea is the same.
Here’s one example: https://twitter.com/arictoler/status/1656712316669378568?s=4...
Yes and no -- learning news skills is a good start, but is not how you get hired. Applying the learned skills and showing that you know how to solve problems with them... that is what will get you hired.

Your experience likewise won't directly help you to switch careers, but it probably gives you a ton of insights into ways things could be done better.

So learn skills, think about problems and solutions, and make some simple projects to show what you are capable of. If you can do that, you can probably get hired.
Salaries by location are only so useful without some sort of cost of living adjustment. Silicon Valley has high salaries, but it's also one of the most expensive places to live.

Also what exactly constitutes "Silicon Valley" in these stats? The rest of these are cities or at least metro areas with two cities. Is "New York" the five boroughs or the greater metro area including parts of NJ and CT?
I have this issue too. I decided to have 2 go pros and bunch of stands and batteries that just watches our family from third person view usually in time warp mode.
Ruby certainly has had it's own trials and tribulations. Linux had that whole code of conduct fiasco, but it does seem that rust has those trumped when it comes to internal politics.
“ You don’t understand. The incentives are all wrong. There is absolutely zero benefit for a bureaucracy to make itself more efficient and require less money each year. No one is incentivized to ensure money is being spent well.”

I would argue this extends to big tech as well. You don’t get the promo without building some useless shit to show “impact”.