skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a much more relaxing way to work. I don’t have to worry about if I am checking all the boxes to get a promotion

I work at BigTech and I am just as relaxed. But I took another route.

I fell into a BigTech role (cloud consulting department) late into my career (46) without really even trying.

I had no previous consulting experience and had only opened the AWS console two years prior for the first time when I also fell into a role as the de facto “cloud architect” responsible for leading “application modernization” at a startup.

I had made a good life for myself and had the big house in the burbs in the good school system as a journeyman enterprise C# developer.

I got the job, started down the road of working toward getting a promotion to an L6 from an L5 (mid level) and then a year in realized that I didn’t care about a promotion, I didn’t want the headache of worrying about “increasing scope and impact” and hated the entire politics and self promotion of trying to get there. I could see that my expenses not only weren’t going up, they would go down in the next couple of years. I work remotely.

I told my manager my goal was to “improve at my current level”.

By the end of my four year initial offer, I will probably be looking to go back to small to midsize companies and most likely will take a cut in compensation to do it.
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Sam Altman is testifying in Congress. Elon Musk is retweeting culture war BS all day. Tens of thousands of tech jobs are being slashed by CEOs as the cheap money tap gets turned off.

Why would things not be getting political?
I recently read "Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket" about Jack Parsons and the birth of JPL — it surprised me how "hip" communism was among the U.S. educated elite in the 1940's.

Oppenheimer's very communist brother is mentioned frequently in the book. I was not surprised to see Robert also painted with communist suspicions — it seemed not to be unusual for "thinking people" of that time.

There was though a whiff of, "Hey guys, I know we all made it, but we're the thinkers of society so what kind of government can we embrace that will help elevate the average Joe-down-the-street? Communism seems like a logical idea!"

Remarkable how suddenly it seemed no one was a Communist beginning in the 1950's. Even the JPL folks scrubbed their own histories — diminished their involvement to "was it a communist party meeting? I was only there for the drinks."
> They have also developed a way of ensuring the kangaroo xenografts are not rejected after transplant. The key to this is what he describes as “the special sauce”, and it is a closely guarded secret that has already been patented.

PATENTS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

Anyway this appears to be it:

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2019014698A1/en?oq=20179...
?? Dunkirk is imo the best one of his non-linear narratives, with 3 storylines intertwining: one taking place in the span of one week, one in one day and the last one (the plane) in one hour.
> We fucked up economy pretty badly and still seeing the results of it,

Still? We've only just begun dealing with this fallout. It will be effecting us for a generation.
This really makes sense. I think I'll try to adopt something like this.

Part of what I nostalgically yearn for was that feeling of, "my homework is done, it's a Friday night, there's no hockey tomorrow morning. I have a Pentium 2 in my room, summer breeze through the window, the world is asleep, there's a distant train rumbling quietly by, and I'm about to spend an hour reading up on every detail of Baldur's Gate while it installs."

This is probably gone. There's so many parts of this that don't work anymore. But I guess I really cherish that it happened. Those were absolutely magical nights.
Tailwind before tailwind.

It's strange, I never saw the point of it, however I saw the value in tailwind almost straight away.

I think that might be the difference in examples. The tachyon examples always look uninspiring.
Several counter points:

- singling out electrical vehicles is a bit disingenuous; there are lots of other consumers of rare earths. E.g. combustion engines have lots of exotic things on board and cobalt is used in oil refining. Lots of other industries use exotic minerals.

- A lot of this stuff can be recycled and already is. Especially valuable commodities used in batteries.

- There are alternate battery chemistries already being used in electric cars that have a lot less exotic materials. LFP batteries use no cobalt. Sodium ion batteries use no cobalt or lithium. Likewise, Tesla announced new engines that don't depend on rare earths a few montsh ago.
> Two previous games, Divinity: Original Sin and Original Sin II, “worth of tech and institutional knowledge to draw from”;

Divinity: Original Sin was one of the best games I've ever played. I don't game much these days but that one sucked me in hard.

I tried playing other CRPGs (Divinity was my introduction to them) to fill the void but they didn't have the fun combat that Divinity did (Path of Exile) or were very story focused (Planescape: Torment, I would have def loved this one if I was younger and had the time).
Absolute worst spec I've ever seen. Google needs to be loaded into a cannon and fired into the sun.

> How does this affect browser modifications and extensions?

> Web Environment Integrity attests the legitimacy of the underlying hardware and software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality: E.g. if the browser allows extensions, the user may use extensions; if a browser is modified, the modified browser can still request Web Environment Integrity attestation.

Then what's the point? I can make modified bot browser that commits ad fraud as long as I don't use a rooted Android phone?

I don't believe they're being honest with how this will be used. We need to legally regulate remote attestation.

> As new browsers are introduced, they would need to demonstrate to attesters (a relatively small group) that they pass the bar, but they wouldn't need to convince all the websites in the world.

It speaks for itself. Horrid.
I'd like a sequel but based around Ernest Lawrence set on the same timeline.
I’m interested in how this editorial got written. It’s not attributed to anyone and the language and perspective seem to me to be CCP talking points.

“Sustainability, equity and security are all at risk in the rush to break China’s dominance over their production.”

- I can think of one entity which wouldn’t want China’s dominance of rare earth production broken and it’s not the DRC.

“China’s ascendancy is the result of forward thinking by the country’s leadership”

- Seems strangely flattering since it doesn’t seem like it adds anything to the arguments or the context.

“it is not in the interests of any nation to partner with just one other country or group of countries”

- I believe this is explicitly a CCP talking point (link below for reference). Obviously, other people might say it but it seems sort of… suspect? Like the article purports to make a moralistic claim about exploitation and then goes into pure realpolitik. In my opinion that’s the sort of thing you’d only say if you were wearing social justice as a mask and didn’t actually believe in it yourself.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_1102...
I like it and I don’t. I mean

<b>bold</b>

is a little simpler than

<div class=“b”>bold</b>

Certainly designers have struggled to think systematically enough to define a set of classes that are basically semantic even though, when they do it puts their skills on wheels because they can design it and other people can knock out pages consistent with the design.

Things like this make me think CSS needs namespaces though, just the other day I found out there was more than one library in an application I am working on that declares properties of “.dropdown” which could be a problem.

More generally you really ought to be able to pull some HTML out of page A and transcode it into page B and that means copying the styles and a lack of namespaces for id(s) and class(es) gets in the way of that. In principle you could have syntactic macros for HTML or frameworks that work on the DOM more imaginatively than React does but you run headlong into the “macro hygiene” problem.
My personal chip developed when—almost overnight—gathering in large groups went from something reckless akin to drunk driving to an essential activity.

Do what you want, everything has tradeoff and risks. But don’t pretend science is normative until it becomes inconvenient.
Setting up IPv6 on my home network was fun and exciting now it's just boring. The only time I've noticed it was was once when IPv4 broke (dhcp server issue) and another time when IPv6 itself broke (radvd issue).

All that said I do sort of wonder when or if we'll ever move off dual stack. I think there's a strong argument that running two protocols at once is riskier then the combined risks of the two.
I think the lockdown concept as implemented in 2020 was a great illustration of the problem of scale.

This is not a popular opinion but I think the fundamental mistake of lockdowns, at least in North America, was starting from a top-down approach instead of bottom-up. People are going to act like selfish assholes. We ordered them not to. I think instead of threats, we should have aligned their selfish interests with the public good by making it easy to sue someone for infecting you. Could you prove that in court? 99% of the time absolutely not. But the fear that killing other people might hit them in the pocket book would, in my opinion, have made a lot of the assholes put on a mask or skip that concert.
Its also an all-or-nothing service since there are a lot of compliance things that need to be done.

No, it's not an all-or-nothing service.

Lots of small business owners handle the compliance issues themselves. Others outsource them to their CPA.

Providing simple quarterly/annual (940/941) summation reports to assist in this effort is not rocket science.
I purchased TidyCal through Sumo's specials.

$29 lifetime access as long as Sumo stays in business.
who is going to fund that? it's not just education its subsidized day care, and "it gets done when it gets done" is going to either result in a lot of 20 year old Seniors -- who are still on taxpayer funded schooling -- or else the bar gets lowered to push these kids through fast albeit at their own fast pace.
I tried to buy one, but once I worked out what the exact model number was that had VPro I couldn't find one in stock anywhere. It should really be a standard feature, but I guess Intel didn't want to cannibalize server sales?
thanks for this. I love the _idea_ of lazygit but I've never managed to work it into my workflow. git-fuzzy looks _much_ more inline with something that I'd be likely to keep using and I'm definitely going to give it a shot. I've got something similar for fuzzy picking branches and it's been great.
Occasionally.... for me it I seem to get more hooked on a good story line than any specific gameplay. It's more like reading a good book with an awesome plot. The last game I spent a long time on was God of War - PC.

Also, getting older and having more responsibility typically means you become wiser. I no longer want to waste that much time gaming. I'm good with a few hours a week. There are so many better uses of time that I have. I've got outdoor hobbies like mountain biking that take priority over screen time. I spend 40hrs a week doing work on a screen and have a hard time feeling good about MORE screen time when I get home.
If hospitals said "we're about to run out of room and stop treating everyone" then I would go with whatever prevents that scenario.

edit: COVID placed a 20x burden on hospitals versus the flu even with lockdowns. That's without counting the increased difficulty of treating a novel disease, and increased time in hospitals for covid vs flu.
For me it is the opposite, tailwind makes me immediately feel ill, Tachyon looks like fun.
Chances are, your browser or OS language is in Chinese?
Similar things happened in Québec. There was a curfew, unless you had to walk the dog. You couldn't buy certain products, but the stores were as much as crowded.

If it was that deadly and every knew someone who died, they wouldn't go outside.
In the end, we can only rely on anecdotal evidence, but my experience is that it doesn't work on NixOS and the issues are also mostly full of people who encounter multiple problems [1, 2, 3].

[1]: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app/issues/110

[2]: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app/issues/109

[3]: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app/issues/96
I saw someone refer to that at 1.5FA, and I agree with them. It's still multiple factors if the weakest link is the websites you are using your passwords on. If your password gets leaked they still need the password manager vault to get a 2fa code. However if your vault gets compromised then it's not 2FA
It is! But like New York City, if you live in the built-up urban area, a car is often more of a hindrance than a benefit. Ridiculous parking rates, a good transit system, a mostly-flat city with an okay cycling network, dealing with car ownership isn't worth it.

I lived in Toronto for 14 years, sold the car I arrived with after two years, and bought a car a couple years before the pandemic after we moved into a less central, but still urban, neighbourhood. Neither car had dedicated parking, we had a street parking permit which meant I could usually park within a block of home.

I did know people with cars, but I knew a lot more people without.

The main reason we bought a car in 2018 was that Car2Go, which offered one-way car share trips in Smart cars, pulled out of the city.

On the other hand, if you live in the suburbs, you virtually have to have a car. The 401 at rush hour is filled with people coming in and out of the city core.
Thanks for heads up. Good grief.

Not only do I not understand, I never want to understand.

Our BBS era offline mail readers had twit filters in the '80s. So simple.
While it would be nice if everyone could use a bicycle instead, unfortunately people are really stubborn about hanging on to their cars.
These traits do seem to bring more success which often comes from exploiting others and being socially predatory.

However, there is no free lunch, so these traits themselves must also be exploitable.

What psychological profile would be most effective at exploiting and preying on narcissists?

In a world of snakes, how can you be an effective mongoose?
afaik, and certainly nowhere around where I live (Montana), there were no UK-style lockdowns in the US. Here we had: schools closed, theaters closed, and restaurants closed for indoors dining, and we had quarantine rules for people moving from out of state (that were not enforced). No restrictions on leaving your home, shopping, etc. No enforcement/fines.
If they are so bad, or talentless as you say, shareholders can vote them out.
I think you may have misunderstood the OP and actually agree with him. He's saying that AAA studios (sometimes) spend more money to produce lower quality products, and that claims from some AAA studio devs that you shouldn't use BG3 as a new standard are just them trying to excuse their own mediocre offerings.
I think a lot of people would agree 2 parties are nearly as bad as 1.

The rise in alternative voting methods I think is because people really want a third-party to do well but if we have A,B,C and you prefer C > A > B but A,B are most likely to win in a first-past-the-post scenario then by voting for C you're indirectly helping B (you're least favorite) win as opposed to voting for A where you're helping your second favorite.
First time I've seen something like this discussed so honestly. I suspect it won't be the last time. Hopefully to the benefit of consumers.
From what I gathered from the article abstract I posted above, this is unique because it's a protocol for healing a fully severed ACL, where the MCL heals much more readily than the ACL apparently for reasons of blood supply and positioning.

I love it when doctors can use conservative treatment to avoid the need for surgery though, very exciting when a natural process can do the work.

If you have any anecdotal discussion from your wife's experience I'd be interested to hear more about it - I haven't banged up my knees yet but it's just a matter of time, already down some functionality in an ankle.
zUck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_central_vowel

bOOk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_rounded_vowel
Wait, async is multithreaded by default in Rust? For me the whole point of using async in JavaScript or Python (originally with Twisted's @inlineCallbacks) was to get concurrency without threads.

Imagine writing code for a computer game bot: move left, wait for enemy, attack enemy... You normally can't write it like this because it would block the rest of your program. Async allows you to go from "program sequential" to "bot sequential" for lack of better terms. If you are IO bound there is no need for threads. I often like to use one network thread and one GUI thread to keep things separate, and to prevent the occasional blocking in one to cause latency in the other. You just need to have a method to post calls to the other event loop. Works well in Python, as well with Qt-based apps.

C# on the other hand made the same "mistake" of being very general. I think you can even have a coroutine suspend on one thread and wake on another. It looks like you switch threads in the middle of a function.

I guess that is useful when you want to write performant multithreaded servers. I just want to write easy sequential code without worrying about locks or state machines.
Not all games in the genre are AAA "billion"-dollar games. In fact, most games in this genre are AA at best. And the majority of honest commentary around this centers around that. That's the worry.

Some people have said "Oh, we don't judge like that" but no, I've seen the commentary around non-AAA games being judged. They do make those comparisons.
Tailwind was great because it made it obvious how the classes connected to the configuration. Tachyons was very much was marketed as a "bootstrap" sort of thing where it wanted you to use their configuration and that's it.
This is a very solid attitude. Couldn’t say how many CRPG titles I have dropped due to endless quests and dialog that are immediately forgotten in the larger story arc. It’s one thing to build a world with side quests, another to have the savior of said world be required to do fetch quests for 50% of their journey.
It wasn’t even entirely that, although it certainly was in the seattle area at the beginning and in New York when refrigerated trucks were filling up fast. It was to “flatten the curve,” which was to allow for effective treatments and buy time for vaccine development.

Unlike in the 1950’s, we knew early on we could produce an effective vaccine. The vaccines that were eventually developed were designed within weeks of the viral genome being sequenced.

However we also didn’t know how to stop people from dying from covid at the beginning. It took some time discover pronation and other treatments that’s improved mortality.

Finally I would note that the articles celebration of a five times worse outcome as some sort of victory is survivor bias at its worse. “See, everyone who didn’t die didn’t die!”

I think there will be plenty of review of what was effective and wasn’t. Maybe lockdowns lasted too long. Maybe they didn’t. But this article is less than convincing.

Their metrics are also off. In 1959 the US had a population of 159m. In 2020 it has a population of 331m, a 208% increase. However in the pandemic 1.14m Americans died. They quote 0.119m deaths. How they come to the conclusion of “with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020,” it’s hard to tell.

Of course, the source isn’t exactly unbiased.
> Python is a tool for people from diverse backgrounds to work together with code.

Where did you get that idea? Python is a programming language. That some find it more accessible than others is orthogonal to the work needed to master it.
This is an unnecessarily uncharitable take.
Beazley is one of the masters and his other books are great. My nitpick here is that, as in any other language, the basics are there forever and the advanced features/techniques get old and replaced every now and then.
TLDR: depending on states, 25 to 40% of the US population is obese.
They had various forms of lockdowns all the way back to the pyramids...
Yes-but watching tv is a social~ish event, i.e with your SO. It’s really not my personal time.
Kind of off-topic but this movie was shot in 70mm IMAX (and similar) film, and some scenes are shot in the first-ever 65mm black and white film, and it has no CGI effects. It's only playing in 70mm IMAX in 30 theatres globally[1], most of them in the US. Normally IMAX feature releases only play for a few weeks, so if you are a film nerd at all it's worth checking if this version is playing near you.
I am dual stack at home. While my xbox will happily display its ipv6 address my traffic logs still show it heavily preferring ipv4 when actually doing anything.
Smoking in airplanes continued all the way to the 1980s, fwiw.
I mean there are companies which can be described as having much more resources yet performing much worse.
Smart strategy discussed very openly. Best of luck.
- Minerals aside, petrochemicals seem to have caused/enabled an awful lot of bad behavior
I deeply appreciate comments like this. It's frustrating when a tool sounds like the perfect tool for a job, you sink a bunch of time into it, only to discover this kind of scenario. Sometimes there are early indications, but often not. Thanks for sharing your lived experience.
Highly recommend Wasteland 3 for a similar experience, also if you never played through Original Sin II it is the original but better.
I'm lucky enough to have a 9 to 4, but I do freelancing on the side as well. I've gotten lowball offers after sending contracts over, one in the past week that was 35% below my rate, which I already thought was low to begin with. If nothing can be worked out I'm able to politely refuse, but I'd be pretty sad if I wasn't financially secure to begin with and had to barter with these types.

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but one other idea is equity, whether it's with the company or ownership of IP/software. At the moment I have a client who has offered that I have all rights to the software I'm creating for them, in exchange for a rate of about 50% less. Of course this may or may not make sense depending on the company/project, but just thought I would mention it. Good luck to you and your wife.
The question to me from the data is, have new institutions formed in the last 20 years that people trust more? The 'large technology companies' entry is indicative, but not a strong signal to me.

Platforms are institutions. You likely trust your ISPs (but not phone companies), and you absolutely trust some of the platforms you use, even if that trust is tragically misplaced. Networks formed from conferences are defacto shadow institutions (defcon/BH, CCC, burning man, SXSW, WEF, etc). It suggests that new institutions can form pretty spontaneously. You just have to want them.
So how do you describe a 400 person team? Mid-level?
Im a big baldures gate fan from the beginning. I cant even count the time i spend in BG2. I bought BG3 on EA start and by now have about 130h playtime already. Even tho some things are different compared to the old BG parts, i for myself can say its an unbelievable good game already in EA. If the full game is just as good as the EA part its definatly a new Standard for CRPG same as BG2 set back than.
:'( Looks at schedule What TV?