skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you. But hear me when I say: you would be wrong for doing so. It's one of HN's strengths that it doesn't just not punish contrarian views, but actively encourages them. It's an attitude that resonates strongly with me, and a value that is rare and precious. And, I was careful to say "suggestive", which is an appropriately weak statement.

What's more, is we see evidence of how views like yours, to crush dissent by force, leads to weakness. Every strongman that surrounds himself with yes-men are weakened by the practice. They become detached from reality, coddled by delusion, and ultimately less effective in the world.

That's not to say that all criticism is good - it's not. Plenty of bad faith criticism exists, too: rooted in lies, or envy, or sadism, designed to harm, to demoralize, to weaken. In some cases because someone is paying you, and often because you don't really know what you're doing. Sometimes because you're having a bad day.

How does one distinguish one type of input from another? I think 90% of the time it's easy - when someone speaks in absolutes, when they demonstrate no self-restraint, when they go down the path of "everything bad said about you is true, everything good is false", they have become a zealous enemy, and yes, in that case I think I would seek to ban them. We would all pursue defamation cases against anyone who would attack us in this way (but don't because it's just too bloody expensive).

With my comment, was I doing this? No, clearly not. I may be factually wrong, but I don't think so and I wrote the comment in good faith; it accurately reflects the appearance of a situation. And I know from experience how easily people can grant themselves exceptions to their own rules when it is convenient, and I see it as a gesture of respect to point out the appearance of it. They can take it, and I have faith that they won't punish me for saying so. It feels like...safety. And you would take it away, not just from me, but from others who share these values!
People are ok with Uranium being controlled because they know that in a concentrated form it is hazardous and they have no use for it in their daily lives. Oil and gas are the complete opposite, they're safe enough for anyone to handle and they are incredibly useful for just about everything you do in your life. If you just tear those away from people without replacing them with something better then at best those people will vote you out or just leave the area you govern for somewhere else. If you make it so they can't do either of those then congratulations you've just created a totalitarian police state with unelected leaders and guards at the borders that shoot you if you try to leave.
Climate change from anthropogenic green house gas emissions is an example of "fiddling with systemic parameters" and hoping that all response is linear.

Its not just CO2 and friends. Any shifting around of systemic chemical compositions (whether in air, water or soil) has similar potential for difficult to predict (and hard to reverse) damage.

Given our role and abilities fiddling with these types of systemic abundances does not lead to immediate feedback loops. It takes generations to move the needle. But tipping points are real in any complex system. The biosphere is not a static something that can be tuned at the service of homo sapiens. It will rebalance. And the new equilibrium might not be to our liking.

Surviving this "slow cooking of the frog" phenomenon will require us to develop behaviors that we have never before contemplated. Developing a web of trust, objectivity and sense of responsibility not only among all living individuals but also all future generations.
It was there, just buried. Equivalent of uploading all your songs to YT and listening to them there. Screw that, I wouldn't call it "hosting".
Oh hey, another piece of EOL software I can add to our pile when explaining to management that running stuff that hasn't received security updates in months (or even years in our case) is a bad idea.
>it wasn't the hospital but the billing department that was shut down. Rest of the hospital was fine. So in theory the hospital could have operated but they couldnt bill insurers or government entities.

Distinction without difference
Well, to be honest, this step was very uncharacteristic from Google. I thought they will just axe it and throw everything to /dev/null with a 30 days advance notice, as they usually do.
How is adding an option for other people to use messing with their thing? They have no obligation to use it
When they were happening, everyone noticed the changes regarding the ozone hole. Whether they believe those changes were impactful is a different matter.
Not to mention the fact that the risk of developing a serious heart condition after getting Covid is massively higher than for getting the vaccine—including myocarditis. Though I would like to know what that comparison looks like if were only considering young, healthy people. That data still seems difficult to come across. But, I don't think there's any reason at this point to think that the relative risk of vaccine induced myocarditis vs covid induced myocarditis is significantly different in that demographic than any other.
It's interesting that most do not seem to be much worried about the insane vulnerabilities and general lack of security in a lot of our critical infrastructure. You'd think people should be happy about ransomware attacks exposing how weak it all is, because that's concerning and needs to be worked on. These guys are financially incentivized to pen test even companies and institutions who don't take security seriously. Which includes a lot of public ones too.

What a Russian ransomware firm can do, sophisticated state actors manage with ease.
> quitting social media is a lot easier

I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. It is just impossible that the only beeps it does is from GSM/CDMA activity (calls and sms) and there is no even one Telegram group who use to send you some news. I used to mute all Telegram notifications and delete all Telegram groups and what happened is that some coolhackers used to add their spam groups (very similar to real group I was involved in) into my group list and everytime my smartphone has a connection to Telegram servers it just filled itself with some groups. Only abandoning smartphone with really clear signal to every single friend of mine that the only way to access me is phone for sound and email for text - did the job.

I also quit smoking and that was way easier for me that quit using smartphone. At least nobody argues that I must to return to smoking.
I got the account in like 2005. It's not that I trust them, its just that it's hard to move off.
Who are these people who have a bank card to use with a crypto exchange, yet do not have access to international banking?

Oh, yes! Of course. Criminals.
If you work at a for-profit corporation, your job will be pointless, because the only reason it exists is to generate profits. It's as simple as that.

We all need to make a living, so pick something you're reasonably good at, absolutely do not invest yourself emotionally into it, and use the proceeds to do what you really want to do. Exploit your employer every chance you get, because that is their default approach towards you.
Spez, the CEO, was a mod.

Moderation is a hierarchy and the CEO is the head of a company.

A CEO moderator is THE HEAD moderator.

Your attempt to quibble over meaning instead of acknowledging that the most powerful position in the company took on a powerful position of moderation…

… for /r/jailbait …

There’s no amount of spin you can put on this to make what I said any less correct or damning.
Reddit was only “good” at those topics in that it was easy to find niches. Not that there was any measurable quality in the discussions. I cannot think of a single interest of mine where Reddit trumped dedicated forums. From Dakkadakka to geekhack to BladeForums, it really wasn’t overly beneficial. Easier to keep track of topics, maybe, but any subreddit of decent size was mostly advertising/memes anyway, not true discussion.

The only aspect I can truly say Reddit was good for me was the basics of archiving, personal finances, cooking, and frugality. And I’m sure there’s even better forums dedicated to those topics.
I don't ack their point. They'd get one warning and then they'd be kicked out and it would be justified.
Same experience here for the most part. We're working on migrating away from an internal tool which has a lot of problems: flags can change in the middle of user sessions, limited targeting criteria, changes to flags require changes to code, no distinction between feature flags and experiments, experiments often target populations that vary greatly, experiments are "running" for months and in some cases years...

Our approach to fixing these problems starts with having a golden path for running an experiment which essentially fits the OP. It's still going to take some work to educate everyone but the whole "golden path" culture makes it easier.
Thank you. I was trying to find the words for why it seems so addictive and this captures it. I am now playing ruthless ( ssf hc btw ) and even though I keep getting smacked down, I keep trying to get back up. The mode forces you to work with what you have and optimize at all times.
> These days "open source" is virtue signaling and expected "to be cool". That people then grump about not being paid shows that they are not particularly interested in the concept of open source.

Most of the time when I see people grumping about getting paid for open source, it isn't the actual developer. It's someone who thinks the developer should get paid more. Usually it's a blog post to a, "Did you know critical package x is maintained by some 70 year old dude in Dubuque, Iowa... and he's on VACATION RIGHT NOW?"

That said, the article is a pretty good summary.
> Fault isolation, too, is a baked-in benefit of this process model

I wouldn't call it baked in, it's the entire purpose of the process model. The other benefits of the process model are secondary.
The number of people like you is too small to care about.
The trouble with throw away accounts is that there is technology to link the accounts by comparing your writing style to other accounts. Hacker news had a good demonstration of that awhile back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
SOC II and other audits tend to come with the same baggage- they want strict roles and separation of duties between operations and engineering.
> “devops” has literally no meaning. I’m only 6 years or so into my career, but I can count on a single hand the amount of devops engineers I’ve worked with that can actually “dev” - and by dev, I mean do stuff like dig into application code and suggest modifications for the infrastructure, or write their own full fledged libraries.

To me that is simply not DevOps. That's just Operations. Businesses are throwing around the title without a care for the word
If people aren't willing (or able) to move, then we're back to the WFH vs office argument. We're also damaging the real estate market as people won't necessarily up sticks and move for a job anymore. After much pain, I've come to the realization that one only buys when job switches don't require a move or into retirement.

Does this mean that much of the country won't have tech jobs? Or, will they be where the WFH people relocate to have space to breath. Some people like the city, but not everybody.
Not sure I'm following. Fission reactors split uranium into smaller atoms like barium and krypton. The remaining energy that comes out as afterglow heat in the repository is a small fraction of what already came out during fission. less than 1% remains an hour after fissioning.
>That's also the reason why any recipe you find on the internet is buried at the bottom of the page.

I thought this was to game the metrics Google uses to see if a click out was useful. If you see a recipe and then bounce in 5s Google treats that as bad. If you scroll down for 10s looking for the recipe and then bounce after 5 it's not as bad.
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How interesting, I was just reading about this in the context of nuclear semiotics and how to pass down warnings about the danger of nuclear waste. (This is a really interesting topic without much in the way of clear answers, depending on what you're optimising for. Highly recommend reading the Wikipedia page[0] at a minimum.)

There's apparently a documentary on this project, "Into Eternity," released in 2010, which has been on my list since earlier this morning (i.e., since I read about its existence).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
> I used to think that the older I got, the easier it would be to knuckle down and get an hour or two of meaningless work done

You’re thinking about it wrong. The trick is to do less and less of the shit you don’t like doing as you age, sorry I mean as you gain experience. Leverage your career capital into doing more of the work that fires you up and less of the work that doesn’t.

There’s always things you just “have to” do, but you’d be surprised how many of those are optional. A lot of the stuff that bores you to tears, is boring because nobody cares about it getting done. High chance that nobody will even notice if you don’t.
> There are Reddit users waiting in the wings, wringing their hands ready to jump at the 'oppurtunity' to moderate established subreddits and will happily devote their time to custodial duties.

Either those people will be bad mods who will shepherd their communities into further decline, or many of them will eventually come around to the position that Reddit's changes are bad for mods.

There's nothing magic about the current batch of mods other than that they got there first. The same things that affected their perspective will affect the perspective of their replacements.
> Programming is about identifying a goal for a program, and iterating on code to achieve it regardless of what bugs you encounter. More than that, programming is about harnessing the computer to express yourself creatively, systematizing the contents of your imagination until they come alive in the real world

I don’t think this is a useful definition of programming in general, but perhaps a good way to frame it for an intro class.

The way he described his curriculum touched on something that always bothered me (and made me a D-F student for most of high school)

It sounds like the course was a series of projects, like “learn to do X in Python”

That’s how geometry and algebra and chemistry were for me, it was just “memorize this formula” and be able to solve problems with it on this test, then make sure you can also solve it on another test at some point in the future (midterm or final.)

It was never explained what the actual purpose of these algorithms were used, why they are significant. Not just “how am I going to use this?” But “how is this used by people in the world I live in?”

And because of that, it was impossible to motivate myself to learn any of it. I just didn’t care. I think a more holistic view would have been helpful for me. But other students got through it just fine.

But I taught myself web development during the same time because I wanted to learn to make websites. Because the applications of programming are so broad, maybe it makes more sense to design a curriculum where instead of forcing students to do every project, you have a list of projects that after a certain point students can pick to pursue themselves (or if they are high performers, they can propose their own)

It sounds like he was writing custom libraries for these projects too. Why not encourage the use of open source libraries instead?

And is Python really the best language to use for this stuff? I’m not sure. I know the syntax is more simple but I think teaching JS (a simple subset obviously not every language feature) would be more realistic and give more flexibility into the types of projects that can be done?
You could well be right, as it sounds like the trust between the mods and admins is gone. The main mod of r/apple has quit at least.
sounds like the foundation of iran-contra 2
I’ve never created an account on Reddit, but in general, I’m surprised to hear they even allow editing older content. Most discussion-based/social media sites have logic that locks the comment after so much time (often some timespan less than 1 day), and only allow deletion after that point.

I would also be surprised if Reddit didn’t add such logic if they figure out this (editing older content to replace it with gibberish) is happening. It seems like reasonable logic to have in place anyway.

To be clear, I’m not siding with Reddit on this. Just saying it seems odd they even allow it in the first place, especially for comments — the top level post may make sense to allow edits, but even then there’s usually a publicly visible edit history.
"Pick the wrong thing and then retract, losing some work" is as close to optimal as you can get. Iterate.

The much worse outcome is "pick a thing, fiercely defend it whether it helps the ship to float or to sink".
Never thought of it that way, but you might very well be right. Something like "my ear isn't shaking, the camera isn't shaking, must be real" ;-)

I wonder if maybe their implementation "fills in the blanks" in the 3D space in the same way our brain does, so it looks "properly 3D" because it's what we're expecting it to look like already?
Yes. Honestly it generally looks like low quality wrappers around AWS that don't save anyone any time.
This is easy to solve,

mkdir ~/mail/empty
mkdir ~/mail/empty/{cur,new,tmp}

and then start with

mutt -f ~/mail/empty

Operating System is the same; OpenBSD (though noisy at boot from the dmesg) launches to a completely blank screen for me, and I have to run voctana or whatever to get some xterms up.

Do not much use what you call browsers, so nothing to fix there. w3m does not need a blank start screen, and amfora is most often launched with some URL so does not show the default screen.
> Edit: You'll never get all the kids to leave the class loving CS, but you can usually get all of them to leave the class not feeling frustrated by it.

I'm not a teacher but I think this is probably true of most subjects. I wish my high school math teachers had applied this idea in their teaching.
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Yeah, you could reprocess spent fuel but one of the byproducts would be plutonium. So we'd rather bury everything than using the plutonium for other projects because of fear that we can't handle nuclear byproducts.
It's not my old work I want to read, it's that of others. Comments are a frequently valuable shared annotation system for discussion on a post. Frequently I will search reddit for answers to questions I have and find a useful result in a comment.

Other times I want to get a summary of a new topic so I will find an applicable subreddit and sort by top from the last year to get an idea of what is interesting for this community.
Apple's perennial lack of interest in truly fixing Finder shows in the fact that they've left this ridiculous bug in there for 20+ years, despite yet another "ground-up rewrite" that was supposed to (or did) happen at some point in the 2010s.

My other favorite Apple filesystem cock-up is the inclusion of a "Contents" directory in every bundle, which never has any siblings. I mean... what kind of ass thinks that a directory needs a subdirectory to hold the contents of itself?

The one thing Apple fixed in Finder that annoyed the living #$%! out of me for all previous years was that you couldn't sort files WITH FOLDERS AT THE TOP. Of course the fix was incomplete, broken in some places at first, including your Desktop directory. But that did get fixed surprisingly quickly.
I’ve found channels like a NileRed to be incredibly interesting and pique my interest in chemistry years too late.

But I hated HS chemistry class. Of course we never did any sort of cool experiments, most of what I remember is tediously drawing models of different atoms.
Not a substack, I think it’s hashnode or ghost or something custom made, but https://unzip.dev.

Quick and dirty summaries of interesting stuff I don’t really dive into. Guy’s clearly a talented dev and has a knack for drawing diagrams that make sense
Is upper management's once-a-week in the office a perk or a chore? While some of them hunker down and work, there's a whole lot of "do as I say, not as I do" going on...
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Damn you all are all in on victim blaming. Don't get me wrong, they clearly should have invested more in security, backups, etc, but a fucking hospital is closing come on.
Leaving teaching to run a startup seems indicative of a societal problem. This person seemed genuinely invested in getting kids interested in coding... and from their perspective the best way to do that was to start a business instead of teaching them directly. It's no wonder why the public school system seems to be falling apart.
This is only a hard deadline if you have to wait until the end of the project before any money happens.

This is the problem with the word "project" and, more generally, with formal project management: it attempts to divide the timeline into "Before Delivery" and "After Delivery" and often it doesn't care what the world looks like other than as a bag of deliverables.

That's not the only way to do it, of course, but it's the mental trap you set for yourself by thinking about things as Projects with a capital P.
>what good does it really do to prevent him from being able to function on the outside?

From whose perspective?

Part of the problem is that some powerful groups are incentived to keep people coming back to prison. Private prisons reap profits, politicians get an easy way to drive fear in their constituents, telcos can charge an arm and a leg for phone calls, commissaries clean up by charging exorbitant prices for toothpaste and ramen, etc.

Until we start connecting positive outcomes for those groups to positive outcomes for the prisoners, it'll always be an uphill battle.

As Upton Sinclair used to say, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
When you're criticizing something, you must present an alternative for your criticisms to hold any weight. If you're unable to say "let's build that" after shouting "let's tear this down" it tells me you don't understand the situation well enough to speak about it to others.
That 3.7mm per year is dubious. But, yeah sure I'll even give you that, and it's easily manageable over that time frame. More from your source: "" If global warming is limited to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F), then sea level rise does not accelerate, but it would still amount to 2–3 m (7–10 ft) over the next 2000 years, while 19–22 metres (62–72 ft) would occur if the warming peaks at 5 °C (9.0 °F)
Imo platform engineering is basically that but putting web ui and apis on top so that it’s easier for devs to do it themselves
It could be stopped but it would require a majority fraction of the earths crust and shell to be thrown off into space.

The only source of such huge amounts of energy would probably require converting more mass to energy than is easily obtainable in a few millennia of continuous mining and filtering for nukes etc.
Not emulation, virtualization. That would be easier than emulation or dual booting, if it worked well. Surely virtualization must be getting pretty good given it's ubiquitous use in the cloud. In fact, I was hoping that one day we'd see games distributed in a fully containerized manner so that the OS becomes irrelevant. That's probably just a pipe dream though...