skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, all successful (even temporarily) anarchist groups grow a state apparatus.

Which is inherently fine, states are a tool of class warfare. The capitalist ruling class uses state power for its own ends, a successful worker ruling class needs to do the same.

I just wish the anarchists were honest about it.
This comprises 40% of all global Tor users. I'm not sure it's reasonable to assume they all wouldn't have the budget for Mullvad.
> And every two weeks during my 1:1 discussions with each engineer, I would also pull up that individual’s personal velocity chart (...) And if their chart is on a downward trend or significantly lagging behind their teammates, I would ask them what I can do to unblock them and help them achieve their full potential

> In fact, when discussing velocity metrics in 1:1 conversations, you should explicitly avoid comparing them against one another

These sentences are in 2 subsequent paragraphs. Compare people against each other, but you should explicitly avoid comparing them against one another. Sure thing.

> Ultimately, using lines of code, commit counts, or pull requests, to quantify engineering performance is a fool’s errand. All it does is create a culture where dishonest people write bad code to get ahead, and those with integrity are penalized and eventually quit in frustration.

But somehow velocity, which is an abstract, imprecise, and very error-prone measurement should be used as a primary metric for both team- and individual-based performance?

This article is such a mixed bag. There are great points like "don't estimate time", but then the author throws things like the quotes above. It feels like one of these "you're so close to getting it right" situations.

Also, as another commenter here mentioned – this can be gamified, because 5-point complex new feature is surely more time consuming and difficult than 5x1-point cosmetic changes. Hence, everyone should aim to take as many small tasks as possible in order to have higher individual velocity than other team members.
> My claim as that we don't need to cover math before we tackle cryptography

I’ll just be blunt here. This is incredibly nitpicky to the point where I’m not even sure what you’re trying to accomplish or add here.
What we need is a betting system. Each engineer will do a hidden bet where they'll bet the least amount of points they are willing to work on for a given task. The engineer with least points will get the task. It will be done until all engineer's capacity for the sprint is supposedly filled.

I'm kidding of course, but it's a fun thought.
You are completely right. The underlying theme here is that the requirements matter.

The requirement for Markdown is to be simple and easy. It's intended for use by people who are going to ignore whatever specs and documentation there are. They'll write a little comment, a bug ticket, or a readme and they might need things like links, bold, italic, etc. And the job is to turn that into some legible HTML. So most of its features are simple and easy to remember. Just add a blank line for a new paragraph, prefix your bullets with a -. and so on.

Markdown is undeniably simple and easy to learn. Which is why it got so popular. It has edge cases but they don't really matter. It has obscure features (e.g. tables) most people don't use, so those don't matter either. And there's a wide range of things it can't do that also don't matter. The job never was being a drop in replacement for more complex tools. It was removing the need to use those for the simple use cases and be simply good enough.

The alternatives each chase requirements that are important to their creators but not to most casual users, or indeed the people that integrate markup tools. And of course the more these alternatives differ from Markdown, the harder of a sell it becomes. And the more there are, the less likely it is for any of them to become more popular than markdown. At this point, markdown is a common default in things like issue trackers, readme's on Github/Gitlab, etc. Any tool integrating some kind of markup language support in their content management is more likely to be using markdown than anything else at this point.

The reason is simply that using something else breaks the principle of the least amount of surprise for the user. Markdown is the largest common denominator. It's good enough and easy enough to deal with. So, most new things would favor using that over anything else. It's a self re-enforcing thing.
No the IP blocks are very effective. I don't believe that I have any obligation whatsoever to allow criminal groups on the other side of the world to spam burp suite scans over Tor against my websites nonstop.
Most hard ideas can't be practically decomposed. That's why they're hard. We don't have routine solutions for the hard stuff.

Also how do you quantify tasks? If one dev hammers out 20 widgets in a day is that comparable to another dev who spent all day hunting down a bug or coming up with an optimization that improved the performance of the app?
Perhaps Twitter Has Not Been DDoSing Itself
A good thread here explaining a more likely scenario for Twitter with very detailed descriptions of how expert teams prevent catastrophic system failure.
They are past the point of no return. By the time everyone realized what was going on the fraud was a critical portion of their revenue (silicon valley syndrome). The only things that could possibly stop this are competition that wins by not doing it, or government intervention (or Yellowstone blowing its top).
This was a really fantastic course, good intro to the principles of recursion and fundamentals of CS
> We are talking about sub-Sakharan Africa [...] the land of racial segregation, endless wars, genocides and hyperinflation on wheelbarrows-of-banknotes scale.

Citation needed.
There's a "no-code" web-based editor called Pulp that can create tile based games, something like the first NES Zelda.
Unless it straight up kills the other 50%.
Altered composition of gut fungi in children and adolescents with depression
There is plenty of good journalism these days, but it is increasingly difficult to find.

This was a problem long before AI.
I wonder why. GPT-3 could do brainfuck just fine:

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/0cd6a652ed1f7811192db...

(though worse, for complex cases, to one of the compared systems - see figure 2) (oops, fully disclosure: the system in question is my PhD work).
I don’t understand why this talking point keeps surfacing. LLMs are in significant usage already in many production environments and are already improving peoples’ lives and productivity. I can have a dig for more examples but I’d urge you to do a bit of research and try out the gpt-4 API for yourself. Or make some more qualified statements with specific bugbears. Equating it all to homeopathy is so confusing.

- Image descriptions eg. Be My Eyes: https://www.bemyeyes.com/

- Summarisation and content distillation, question answering Etc: literally everywhere. This is now a solved problem (to the point of it being dull) thanks to LLMs.

- Customer service chat triage.

- helping students learn- eg khan academy, tutor Lily

- Helping create and debug software. If you don’t think is happening then you’re either living under a rock or just close to believe people are lying about how they’ve used it?
But then you couldnt sell tons of knock-off crap.
Agreed. There should be some uptick as a new employee gains experience, but eventually things should more or less level off.
If you really want I can qualify my earlier statement, I thought it was obvious:

GP wrote:

> Enough so that I, given such a situation, would wait around a little bit to see how things played out before jumping ship.

That means "nobody" is talking about the group of people who have the option of "waiting around a little bit to see how things played out before jumping ship". H1B visa holders aren't included in that earlier group, so I didn't think a further qualification is necessary.
Is this another ‘optimize away this extra 5ms step on the worst phone in existence’ article? I need some rough numbers before I’ll pay any attention to something like this.
Well why not? There are no consequences! Fines? Cost of doing business. Already factored into the operating expenses.
It would be much helpful if you could provide one or two reasons why the number could be wrong.... or maybe make some comments on the methodology, etc..

Just question about the accuracy without any context or reasons are not contributing to the argument.
So drop shipping is illegal then?
Unnecessary and unusual defined by whom? It’s okay to talk about anything on social media. It’s an important topic that he is shedding light on.
Can this be considered a modern version of SICP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...
>One reason I haven't heard yet is that the work gets harder.

This happened to me after breezing through a Top 100 US high school [sober] and then sleeping through most of my Top 20 US private undergrad [full scholarship, not sober]. Graduate school...

>This can be a shock. People react in different ways, and one reaction is to not try.

I left medical school in awe of money never being able to compensate for the sacrifices made matriculating into [let alone completing] such rigorous studies. Had fun, was shocked, fifteen years later I still read a lot...
Only on my mobile data. They’re not actually 18+ sites though, for example someone’s blog that was posted here is blocked and it seems the Tor site is too

But I think that’s a Vodaphone thing rather than a UK thing
The inline-in-html trick looks very nice indeed! We have a low-ish amount of different svg icons (as JSX) used in many places (potentially 1000s). This should help reduce the DOM size quite significantly at no downside (that I can see). Thanks!
But having those points systems there will also promote getting this certain task done asap, without consideration for future ease of development or maintainability.

E.g. you could build this new form field for 2 story points, but you could put in 4 story points, to make it a 1 story point task in the future.
The earliest version of this that I am aware of was called ThirdVoice [1][2]. There have been many iterations since. They do not last long because of the free form comments. People fill them with spam, links to illegal content, threats, defamation and worse. There is also the issue of scalability. Hosting comments for "all the things" gets big really fast. The voting would get gamed almost immediately. There is also the issue of privacy if your addon reacts real time with sites that people visit vs. having to push a button to fetch comments/stats. This same issue crops up with OCSP and DoH.

Less of a problem today is DDoS. You could probably get Cloudflare to absorb some of the vitriol from your enemies. It's also easier today to build a legal team for internet companies now vs early 00's.

If you are doing this I would be curious to see the stats on comments total, comments on average per domain and how much time either you or automation have to spend removing comments and adjusting votes that were submitted by bots. Are you planning on building a public stats page?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice

[2] - https://www.wired.com/2001/04/third-voice-trails-off/
It’s quite an interesting spike, though I doubt that such an operation would be so obviously.
This is the obvious answer.

If I was your employee I'd be suiting up in tactical gear and buying business-suit-piercing rounds.
sure it does. good riddance kids these days
I wonder how many concepts that are so complicated for our brain to formalize or even process.
That's why it's a good idea to live outside any major capital city.
I don't disagree that these substances are known triggers for those with predispositions, but be careful with your logic - that's exactly the same format as autism/vax conspiracy folks use, when in reality the common cause is age. Symptoms of autism can start to manifest around the time childhood vaccines are being given, just like schizophrenia and related conditions manifest in teenagers and young adults (also groups known to try drugs). In the latter case we do also have evidence that psychedelics are associated with increased risk/earlier onset, but you wouldn't be able to tell from the timing anecdote.
I meant in 5 year intervals. Granted the first 5 year interval is Covid, but in 5 year intervals for much of the major countries the data is terrifying.
I used to use this window-mounted model from PuriFresh: http://www.purifresh.com/erv.html Having fresh indoor air in the winter was amazing.

Unfortunately my current home has non-standard windows so it doesn't fit anywhere. If you are in the Boston area I'd be glad to gift it to you.
No - the law that may end up requiring that is a proposal that is at least several months from being enacted [0], although it's been gaining momentum for several years - so unfortunately is looking like it might actually happen

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-6606560
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I have a personal bias because I'm from Argentina and I see the world becoming more like my country. Countries printing money like there's no consequences or tomorrow.

Argentina's public debt has been pretty stable and on GDP terms it was quite low. But even then, on low public debt, a country can totally wreck the whole economy.

Because we print pesos, ARS, like there's no tomorrow and then people get surprised when we get inflation and a total wreched economy. Then populists start blaming the usual suspects: IMF, USA, EU, the f weather.

People confuse public debt with private credit. The general idea in Argentina, including Ministers of Finance and Central Bank officials, say that ARS credit is not real debt.

Move forward 20 years and you get Argentina.

Edit
In Argentina, private credit ARS bonds are called LEBAC and LELIQ for those who are interested.
Is unguided random sampling more likely to find a solution than in-order enumeration?
There is, because it's a botnet
Forget Bob Woodward. These Are the Political Books You Want to Read
They didnt. World census data shows 340000 less jewish people existing after ww2. And the gas chamber was fiction, it(the supposed inatallation) wouldnt have worked and no chemival traces.

Hitler had a jewiah biological father who was related to a Large banking system.
Successful launch of 36 OneWeb Satellites with ISRO/NSIL marks key milestone
What is the best modern email provider?
> I've also tried my fair share of psychedelics and find it completely laughable that people try to raise them up as these spiritual or therapeutic tools. Just because they make you hallucinate does not mean they "open up your mind" or make you think any more critically than alcohol or other drugs.

"I didn't have the experience some people talk about so I will ridicule and discount all those perspectives"

Cool. Great contribution, thanks. It's too bad you didn't have those experiences people talk about because maybe it would have helped check your ego.
ActivityPub suffers from many of the same issues around public likes and such, no?

There should be a decentralized social communication protocol that is more fit to reflect how people communicate: more ephemeral and less of a permanent record. I remember LitePub/Pleroma did some work in that direction, and it's mostly compatible with ActivityPub too I think
If the request immediately returns an error then this would just call it in a loop with no delay
This is a rehashing of Taylor's time and movement atrocity. Some people really want to have a production line of developers hammering away boxes of value then can capitalize on, but developing software is the process of learning about a domain.

I'll say it again: software developers assist organizational learning. They don't produce things.
It really depends I suppose. If you consider the accused to to be in an unearned place of power, it might feel like an acceptable thing to do (albeit still quite icky and pedesterian). But if the situation is very different and/or you are not sure if your PoV is fully justified, this can absolutely be the most toxic low-effort thing one can do when thrown at someone who's already fighting an uphill battle. Without going to specifics this is something I've experienced myself, and have also seen happen close to me in a very toxic calculated way. So these kinds of comments are IMHO overally very unconstructive.
That site doesn't seem to have any stories about Germany
Sellers routinely ship large items in their original packaging. Things like air conditioners. Amazon does not allow any mention of shipping or packaging in the reviews. So consumers that continually receive damaged items can't warn other buyers about the high likelyhood of receiving the item damaged because it wasn't packaged properly. The seller knows they don't have to respond to complaints because of the enormous hurdle of sending the items back. The customers just bang the sheet metal back in place, replace any broken components, and install it to avoid anymore hassle (hey! We'll send you a new damaged one!).
>Sailor Moon VHS archive

Why would you watch a VHS rip over a higher quality encode of the series? Was the VHS a fansub or something? What is the benefit of all those VHS glitches and muddy muted colors and that blur on the bottom of the edges?
It might be a surprise to you, but people who don't live in the USA have no idea of what the holidays in the USA are!
There are no rules on hacker news. There are, however, guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Quite a few of those imply that the OP's comment was a bit out of line.
So what though? They existed before and they'll continue to exist, they didn't magically appear 'because Musk.'
> it helps engineers comply with regulations regarding their designs

This one, I should had frame it better.

> I've never heard of the former case

I don't think the CAD software itself is a point of a regulations, but there are definitely some standards and regs regarding how it should be done. A quick search yielded [0] which is a nice example of how it could be done by a hand, yet it would help immensely if the CAD software would aid and do the things by itself, saving both the time and man-hours.

[0] https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/design-and-construction/comp...
Maybe we disagree on what constitutes self-made financial success, but it seems to me that most wealthy people have not done great work at all. It's entirely possible, and fairly common, to become financially independent by grinding away at mediocrity or even actively being shitty.
You should NOT attempt addition while smoking weed.

2 + 2 /= 4
Uh, the Marine Corps is not the entire military. The Navy buys a significantly higher number and they're ramping up production by about 6x over the next few years. Other countries buy them too - UK and soon Canada, Australia, Japan and the Netherlands.
This makes parsing and rendering easier, but writing harder. Given the widespread adoption of Markdown I suspect this project to go absolutely nowhere, since it focuses on precisely the opposite thing that makes Markdown popular.
Writing a journal or articles is a lot like rubber-ducking. It gives you time and space to think about the subject more deeply, reach new conclusions, and compartmentalize a topic. Thinking about something also makes you learn it better and connect it with more concepts in your head.

There are very few people who regularly write as an exercise in thinking, though. But there are very few who would not benefit from it.

At the risk of being rude, what you're saying from some perspectives may read like "exercise this...", "exercise that..." and how no one dares to speak out against physical exercise. Well... that may be because it's mostly universally good for people (with definite exceptions). Writing is like exercise for the mind. Are there other ways to achieve most things than exercising your body or your mind? Yeah, I would say so - there are many paths to success, knowledge, wisdom, balance, expertise, wealth, and so on. But is exercise of the mind bad or detrimental? Generally, no. And that's why few people speak out against it.
In case the author reads this: "use `sudo su`" - this is unnecessary. Sudo already gives you root here. You can use `sudo -i` to get a login shell directly.
Indeed:l the argument was they should both be kept away from minors, not banned. It seems to be you who is cherry picking while lacking an argument, frankly.
It's almost as if Amazon is inventivized to make money...
I just get "Something went wrong. Try reloading." when trying to view this tweet
I love this condescending and infantilising tone of yours, regarding African governments as some gullible, uneducated bunches of toddlers that anyone can just walk in and take advantage of - as if they weren’t perfectly capable of signing their own deals.

Fitting such casual “Africa dumb” and “China evil” sentiments in one nonchalant comment seems like such a weird specialty of this brainwashing and propaganda that we have going on in the West.
Yeah there is a suspicious lack of performance numbers in the article
That makes sense, thanks for sharing. I definitely get the thing about not wanting to let people down. And I do wonder if that's how a lot of the people remaining at Twitter feel.
Doctors get 200k minimum in almost any community which is why the profession is coveted. You basically never see a poor doctor in the USA. This is because of intense regulation of residency spots.

Honestly, if you are a smart American kid who likes research get an MD and/or an MD/PhD. That way you aren't competing with the foreign grad student labor pool. The MD is the golden ticket. Of course if you hate medicine it isn't.

Lawyers are more variable and a lot of the work is rote contracts.

Programming is more of the wild west since you can practice without a license as they say.
If it is an LLC, then each employee would have to be a member to exercise control and have the legal standing to request profits from the company. An LLC does NOT have a requirement to maximize shareholder profit because there are no shareholders, just members. An LLC has a max number of members and members are required to maintain their portion of tax liability (this means they will owe a % of tax due or receive a % of tax refunds). This overwhelmingly means employees are NOT part of the LLC, as all it would take is one employee not paying their taxes for the entire LLC to be at risk (also this is why investors will run like the wind from an LLC raising money). An LLC CAN have an employment contract where they offer paper shares, which can translate to profit sharing but they are called paper shares because they are unsecured debts and are literally worth nothing in the event of bankruptcy.

They could be a C corp (could also be an S corp but that comes with a 100 share holder limit), but then they have a duty to maximize profit to the shareholders. In a private corporation, the shareholders may be less inclined to sue, but the option is still there and as such the CEO must work to ensure the company is profitable. If they decide to share all profits with the employees, and the employees are majority shareholders, then this likely falls within the sphere of maximize profits.

There are things like a publicly-traded LLP which allows employees to own a portion of the company while offloading tax liabilities to the shareholder, but that is usually limited to companies which depend on depleting natural resources (think oil, gas, coal, lithium, etc)
How would you know if they are legitimate if you block them.