skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Members colluding with each other

This is it in a nutshell.

The main primitive a government deals with is disputes. The main unit of corruption is loyalty.

Conservative spectrum ideologies are about systems of loyalty and therefore concern a dominance hierarchy.

Liberal spectrum ideologies are about choosing a set of values that are more important than loyalty including loyalty to oneself. Liberal spectrum ideologies require dominance of values, which requires making responsible (another word for self-sacrificial) choices and "cancelling" those who violate core values.

Most people who believe in human rights don't know they are dirty globalists. To believe in human rights is to believe human rights should be protected, which implies an entity capable of protecting those rights or solving disputes about those rights. Most people who are anti-"being the world police", haven't fully contemplated what it means if we leave a vacuum and China decides they are the world police.

War, more than anything else, is about choosing which legal framework governs a given territory. The Ukraine war is about whether Russian law or Ukrainian law binds the territory of Ukraine. War determines who's police have authority. War determines who's system of justice provides it.

People that want freedom need to stop thinking about fighting power, and think about becoming power. Power is amoral, it is neither good nor bad, it is a tool to be used for good or for bad. Anarchists should focus on tools of power, which are institutions. Unions are this institution, becoming a police officer and providing a counter balance to "those who burn crosses who join forces" does more to further anarchy's goals than anything else.

One has a very simple choice. Wield power or be subject to it.
I remember when Twitter links were useful...
Some are born with goals, some find their own goals, and some have goals thrust upon them.

Being a smart kid can be hard. Parents, teachers and peers see that mythical attribute "potential" and push you in directions to reach it.

Get A's in school? Gotta be a doctor or lawyer. (OK, that ages me, today they'd be pushing for programmer.)

Graduating college with a degree you never wanted must be depressing for the person who sees it as a work-prison and a life sentence. Better to fail, to drop out, to disappointed all, to get a chance to start over.

The very lucky few, and I count myself among them, have both potential and the freedom to find their own path - the thing that provides pleasure - where people pay you to do what you love. And adults around you who accept that, even if it's not a high-prestige occupation. (Programming in the 80s wasn't the career choice it is today.)

Ivy league students don't get there by themselves. A life-time of adults help you, pay for you, drive you around, push you. To those whom much is given, much is expected. And the weight of expectation can sit very heavy.
It is a common thing among those who grow up being praised for their intelligence. If one comes to base their self-worth on their intelligence and believe it is a static quality they were born with, struggling and/or failing could demonstrate that perhaps they weren't as smart as people gave them credit for and thus decrease their inherent self-worth. They quit things if they don't immediately excel at them or just adopt the "slacker" role and put in minimal effort, brushing off their failures as merely the result of not really caring about whatever it was they were attempting. "Eh, I could have been good at [x], but it bored me" or whatever
Very interesting concept!

I'm left wondering if you could also use this to document or clean up machine generated code. Eg, some process generates a huge wad of bytecode, or autogenerated Java; a GPT tool cleans it up so you can actually do some things with it as a regularly skilled human.
Climate change increases the number and severity of extreme weather events in a given year. That is well documented by now. So you can’t attribute all heat wave deaths to climate change, but you you can have a high confidence in attributing some of them. You can also quantify the contribution of individual companies to historical CO2 emissions. As long as the court follows that basic logic (and courts in other countries have done so) I don’t see a problem.
$90/hr * 40 hrs/wk* 52 wks/yr = $187,200/yr
I have also become known for what I do, in the last minutes of odd hours, to the neglect of my responsabilities. While I do "make time", and could probably do so more effectively[1], I certainly do not have "plenty" after 40 hours.

1: One needs downtime, and can't expect perfect utilization even after planning for rest.
Unless you are in prison. You think I'm BSing then read the 13th amendment.
Yeah it absolutely does!
I'm somewhat sympathetic to this because oil companies suppressed research, but society has known about this risk for a long time and benefited from oil. I put more of the fault with consumers, voters, and lawmakers. Oil companies just produced when they asked for.
For regular users, this has been expected. Uploading content broke (or was disabled?) late last year I believe? So nothing new has been uploaded since then, but the company never said anything or responded to reports or questions
That site has a nice minimal design, sadly it's so minimal it doesn't market the software at all.

Some screenshots and a short explanation of what Dust3d offers over other applications would go a long way.
> Just because something is difficult to automate doesn't mean it's not worth doing.

Sometimes it does mean that.

The number of updates to product listings is large and the proportion of updates that are scams is low. That means you need to be thorough enough to not have false positives or your false positives will outweigh actual scams by a big margin. Which means high cost per inspection. But then you have to apply the high cost inspection to all the updates that aren't scams.

It's completely plausible that the cost of doing this could exceed the cost of the scams, i.e. doing it isn't worth it.

To prevent this you need actual criminal penalties, because going to jail is a deterrent in a way that having your account closed when you can just turn around and sign up for another one is not.
If gravitational waves come from several sources, then are there rogue gravitational waves like in the ocean?

Another source described the ordinary gravitational waves as
"deafening", so the rogue gravitational waves should be even louder.
Did you mean to respond to me? Nobody is going to jail in the systems i mentioned
Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs (2012)
> Is it right to ignore the cost of the evacuation of Tokyo, merely because an unplanned flow of water saved us? What if we assume the maximum cost of a nuclear event is not $1 trillion for the Fukushima we lived, but $10 trillion for the Fukushima we escaped

This continued focus on cost rather than cost-benefit must be some sort of cognitive bias because it makes no sense. Even if there is risk of a $10 trillion disaster, once assessing the upside nuclear is still going to be a contender for the best possible form of energy.

As might have been predicted, Japan struggled for a few years then admitted that having electricity justifies taking some rational risks and is working to undo the damage caused by post-Fukushima overreaction.

The western powers are facing a serious energy crisis because as a body politic there was an insistence on choosing technology ideologically rather than using practical concerns. It is unfortunate that there was a decision make to test how much stress the margins of society can take rather than making a break for cheap energy in the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s.

Maybe renewables can do it now in the 20s, but the experience in places like Germany is that they are cheaper but also less effective at maintaining a comfortable society. And that 40 years delay was still foolish regardless.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-pm-call-dev...
You’re right on the money but I think what you’re missing is people are using lambda functions not just to run some image resizing function, but as their entire backend.

That’s the part that’s being critiqued.
I don't know you or your friend, but thinking how dreadful some hiring process can be, I would defer changing my job as much as possible..
$90/hour * 40 hours/week * 50 weeks/year (2 weeks vacation!) = $180,000/year.

The point the commenter is making is that they asked for $120,000/year, but the recruiter thought that was too much hearing "120" as a per-hour rate, so countered with $90/hour. Hilarity ensues. The OP got more than they were asking for because of the ambiguity.
That's not even the problem. The Stack Overflow guy wrote a very informative response to people claiming they could clone SO in a weekend (I can't find it now)

The core of the problem is not even the quality of the code but rather the thousands of things the site does besides letting you post a tweet and displaying it to other people.

Spam protection and protection from people falsely claiming spam on posts they don't like is already enough for me to laugh off the "clone in a weekend" camp.
Right now everyone on Bluesky is on centralized instances run by the devs, and are subject to widespread censorship by same.

I know of no way at this time
to run one's own instance or federate.
> keyword bullet lists

You mean a definition list like the HTML native one?
The rules should let them fine Amazon instead, this way law enforcement resources won't be spent going after every supplement seller that sets up shop somewhere...
I just quit a company that was unable to negotiate.

I had an offer from a Silicon Valley company that would have paid a lot better, but it wasn't full remote (or even hybrid) and I would have had to relocate. So I went into the less well paid no-name with full remote. I tried to negotiate at the beginning with the very real argument of a better paid offer, but they denied. Well, whatever I guess, I tried and full remote was more important to me (still is).

1.5 years later, I realized the environment was a bit too dysfunctional and toxic for my liking and I learned all I wanted there. Fished a new job quite easily a couple weeks ago (several offers), with a bit better pay and a nicer project where I think I can make a better impact and have a nicer environment.

Before I quit I talked with some people and tried to see if they may offer me a better salary. They wanted to keep me and were not happy about me quitting at all, but they were absolutely unable to offer me even just 10k more. What was a bit shocking to me is that HR tried to blame the workers and pointed to a "broken market" for SWEs. I was so taken aback by this delusion that I had no regrets quitting after and I will care even less about "doing it for the team" and I will certainly consider hopping more often again.

So, it highly depends on the company if you can negotiate. However, if you cannot even get the smallest of gestures towards your direction, then that's a pretty big red flag. I don't have regrets. With just 2 years of experience, I'm happy I learn these lessons early on.

My ultimate goal is to start my own company and I'm actively working on that on the side, so hopefully this farce of pretending to care making profits for other people will end soon.
> There is no sustainable way to increase costs without increasing prices.

This is beyond ridiculous. Any company pulling in 3.2 billion in profit can easily increase costs without increasing prices just by accepting a little less profit. Hell, they could increase costs and lower prices and still be both highly profitable and sustainable by any sane definition of those words.
> What the US is using NATO for now that the USSR is no more and what is the EU getting out of it are actually very valid questions.

Countries still need protecting from the remnants of the USSR's aggression, mainly Russian aggression.

If NATO didn't exist you can be sure that Russias ambition would not stop at countries like Ukraine.
The word “critical” used in this sentence suggests there is no way to produce or distribute food or other commodities without fossil fuels, which is plainly, obviously false.
Ordinary folk self sabotage as well, you don't have to be an over achieving ivy league student to be that way. No one likes failure and many people understand their societal worth is bound to their status/career and not to who they are as a person; hence the status anxiety and the (sometimes) self sabotaging behavior.
"if you're a journalist and you're still covering it, then I do think you're a piece of *"

If there's something interesting in the conclusion of the story why get so hot and bothered if someone reports on it? Your reaction is strange to a story that many found interesting and may have follow up details.
I may have replied to your comment as though it was an adjacent one.
Thanks for your good work.
This is terrible advice imo. It entirely hinges on being able to work ridiculous hours, which most people just can't do either due to burnout, family, or both.
I wouldn’t put this as an absolute truth, over the last decade or so I’ve spent most of my time un-fucking projects that haven fucked by people making bad decision. Overengineering - nonexistent senior coders - poor infrastructure - I’ve seen the lot.
There's no perfect way to compare. The hourly job was a contract so no PTO, holidays, benefits, ect but also zero overtime. The way I laid it out valued the offer at a $165k equivalent salary at the job I was leaving.
Besides, how can you ascertain that CO2 causes GW? It’s been shown in a small-scale model, absolutely, but can a 2m3 box model be used in court to demonstrate Earth-sized climate changes? Are petrol companies responsible for all weather events starting from now? And for how long? Are they non-responsible when we come back to 400ppm of CO2?
Why is this a problem? If a seller want to sell you something or buy something from you, do they need to dig thru your safe and whatever secrets you have in order to make the transactions? The only concern is USA couldnt gauge how much of economic weaponry they need to unleash on China to destroy it. Japan did that in the 70s-90s and basically economically subservient to America. Same goes with EU. Russia, China and India not doing that to give American wallstreet vultures any advantage of raids.
If your toolchain does something silly like eval some output from git, cloning and then triggering that interaction (probably cding in) could be enough.

I made a little test repo for this a while back https://github.com/abathur/LittleGaryGitles :)
This is an emotionally and politically charged topic that can be hard to discuss with any clarity. The Skeptoid episode What the Oil Companies Really Knew, part 2 of which can be found here: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4877, can be a good starting point because it is at least an attempt to try and provide a fair and factual overview.

I think this passage is particularly relevant:

> The message received from actually reading all of these documents is not — as is commonly reported — that oil executives' own scientists were warning them of the true nature of climate change. Instead, what they indicate is a broad pattern of scientists who were either outside their discipline or among the outliers who were unconcerned with the anthropogenic portion of CO2 buildup, advising those executives that no action was currently warranted. They were wrong, make no mistake; but that's what they were saying, and that's the information the oil companies were acting upon, at least through the end of the 20th century.

> There's a point I've tried to make any number of times on Skeptoid, and that's if you want your argument to be robust and persuasive, don't include any bad evidence. Include only strong evidence that has been proven to survive scrutiny. If you present cherrypicked quotes, like the authors of so many of these articles have been doing, it is very easy for your opponents to discover that; and when they do, the only point you will have made is that your argument is weak and easily countered — and thus probably false. It's a bad time in human history to harm the cause of educating people about global warming.
You misunderstand, the entire article is about ego it is just not framed as such. They have a debilitating ego problem preventing them from doing anything that migh result in a hit to it.
Is this the philanthropic "I can't be racist! I have Black friends!" reply?
Are you suggesting Elon found out the true culprit the hard way?
> Why shouldn’t they want to have opinions and goals and have needs that aren’t compatible with what they do for a living just like everyone else?

The article is about people who say they want these things, but act in a way that ensures they won’t get what they claim to want.

If they’re lying and don’t actually want the achievements they claim to want, that’s hard to tell from outside. Best we can do is take their word. But you are right that revealed preferences win in the end. You are what you do.
Realistically, how much data is it practical to stash inside these continuations? It seems like it could get out of hand quite quickly for non-toy examples.

If you were propagating e.g. game state, you'd still want to stick that in a db, so the continuation would just be a session id?
Why does this constantly come up as some kind of gotcha? The protocol is under active development, and Bluesky serves as a reference implementation.
I'd love to hear more about your experience, because it contradicts what the JS Framework Benchmarks[0] suggests.

Leptos and Dioxus, Rust/WASM frameworks, are competitive with SolidJS, and right out destroy React, when it comes to manipulating the DOM!

So I'd love to hear, if possible, about when was it that you evaluated your WASM based solution, what language and framework you used, etc.

[0] https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2023/table...
Created a new account to share openly since this so resonated with me…

I was told non stop growing up how gifted I was by my parents and teachers. When I didn’t get into my dream college it was earth shattering for someone receiving that level of praise. It was a personal failure.

I started smoking weed, but quickly progressed to other substances. One time I’d smoked DMT right before a final. I’d rack up lines of coke to study (with a little whiskey to take the edge off). I kept not fully applying myself for the exact reasons in the article.

It took almost a decade for me to understand having a growth mindset and I still honestly struggle with it. My big lesson here is to focus more on the process and less on the outcome.
The wonders of US legal system. Most of the lawsuits would be laugh out of court in most jurisdictions across the globe.
What you said is correct from the policy/public perspective.

This thread is talking about, from employee's perspective, it is hard to jump ship.
Start applying for remote jobs outside of your area. When you have a better offer, go to your employer with it. If they don't want to keep you, then you can just move on to the new job.
Feels like an oversimplification. My peers at Stanford felt like they were genuinely grappling with issues like imposter syndrome.
Like I said earlier, a very silly, out of touch argument.

It's perfectly fine to provide constructive criticism for the bus and advocate for positive change.

Aside from that, we clearly disagree, so I really wish you would stop replying to me since this discussion isn't going to go anywhere.
Thank you, I knew something was off about it
Everything is an accident waiting to happen. That's what an accident is.

Driving to work, that's an accident waiting to happen. Consider all the poorly signed roads, drivers of various states of sobriety and rage.

The sub was in use for years, they did well to engineer within their budget. There's always someone pointing out something wrong, nothing would get done if you actioned every single 'concern'
I passed a 5 round mostly behavioral interview loop at AWS (cloud consulting), I could answer any of these questions except 6 (I’ve never been a manager) and 15 and 16 (they are new) based on my prior experience.

https://managementconsulted.com/amazon-leadership-principles...

While they are grouped by the Amazon LPs, they are more or less standard soft skill behavioral questions. Almost all of these questions have been relevant during the latter part of my career as the dev lead (2 jobs ago), the de facto cloud/enterprise architect (my last job) and my current job (cloud consulting department).

These are also the standard type of skills you need in most senior dev positions where they are filtering on “scope” and “impact”.

My last three jobs since 2014 before my current one have all been based on my ability to navigate behavioral questions and just have conversations like adults to the hiring manager (department head, IT director, CTO) where we talked about their real world problems and how I would solve them.
Better be careful or the attorneys could end up like Steven Donziger, an attorney who won a huge settlement from Cheveron, and has been fighting them in court ever since.
You know who thought he knew what was a "bullshit job"? Paul Bremer, that's who. That worked out well.

Edit: Maybe the clusterf*ck was Rumsfeld's idea.

"all public sector employees affiliated with the Ba'ath Party were to be removed from their positions and be banned from any future employment in the public sector... When the CPA turned over enforcement of de-Ba'athification to Iraqi politicians, however, these rules were broadly expanded and used to punish political opponents, including nearly 11,000 teachers who were dismissed from the party and removed from government"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bremer
as long as there's any cost and no one else willing to support we'll have these services disappearing
Sounds like you live in a bubble where nobody needs immigration sponsorship.
Then surely you must blame investors?

Let's say Shell suspended all dividends indefinitely. What would your advice to your pension fund be? Sell Shell and buy BP? Would Shell's ability to function exist if they became a non-profit and a share price of 0?

Does Saudia-Arabia pay for the clean-up of say Australia? Does the US pay for the clean-up of Uraguay? Does the explorer, producer or consumer bear the clean-up responsibility?
Always has been.

Guile is absolutely amazing these days: it has a JIT for speed, superb POSIX support, plus you can dynamic-link in any functionality you need from a C library.
I know at my work they purposefully did not hire an ivy league grad with a masters because they figured they wouldn't stick around long.
There were tens of millions of bison freely roaming America before we absolutely purposefully decimated them all. They existed "without oil". Grazing, pooping, making some of the most fertile soil in the entire world.

Maybe if we had built a society around respecting, honoring, and preserving an incredible evolutionary product we'd be just fine.
It comes up because right now Bluesky functions exactly like a worse Twitter (also centralized).

It has to be better somehow, and the whole selling point is decentralization to sidestep the possibility of recreating the current Twitter fiasco.

That goal is not yet achieved, which means it's below parity.
No they did not, they invoiced for the oil, not the externalities of its use. Saving a life is an externality just as someone dying from a heat wave.