skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's it. It's just that some people see the world of business, particularly in the West, as the main mechanism for pay rises.

If there's a relatively open market, non-onerous regulation, and some money to be made, then businesses will spring up and the best engine of salary-raising, other employers, will work without intervention.

It's not a perfect solution, but it also requires paying close to zero taxes to work. Every regulation is more cost paid in tax by employers to central and regional government, and also within every business as they have to employ more people to ensure they stay compliant. This is all money that could go to salaries / lower prices / higher quality elsewhere / dividend payments. It's not free.

And so you don't need to be a Fountainhead-quoting 17 year old to question this stuff. It's a fundamental lever on how economies and productivity work.
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Principal software engineer positions and above frequently reach $1M per year.
Yes. Also, the yeast strains are much less pure and will probably die sooner.
Hilarious, but utterly pigheaded.

Unsustainable doesn't mean "Great thunberg is sad". It means our way of life stops, with an iron certainty. What tf do you think rising food prices are? They are a crisis of not enough resource. Using less of one resource (gas for fertilizer) necessarily means more of another (land). Same for housing. Same for electricity. There's not enough of anything.

The more "reasonable" people fail to acknowledge that, the more likely your midnight scenario ACTUALLY HAPPENS, because the people who will acknowledge it aren't reasonable, they're looking for targets, and History is just as certain they'll find some. Pretty much every European country has seen a big alt-right swing, and blaming Twitter for that is weak.

Economists need to acknowledge reality, magic beans will not always save us. We escaped once, by burning a hundred million years' of resource in one hundred and eating 70% of the land area of the planet on the way. There is no planet B.
HN isn't a good place for discussion in my opinion due to the (explicitly allowed) practice of downvoting comments you don't agree with.

If you'll be penalized for saying something people disagree with, you won't say it, or you'll say it and I'll be downvoted until it's hidden. This leads to HN threads usually being dominated with a few majority opinions and any real discussion being killed-off or buried.

This is basically the same as Reddit. If you want real discussion you often need to sort by controversial.
An employer cannot retaliate if you're running for office or have whatever political beliefs you may have. This is from the California Labor Code, but if I remember correctly, every State has this protection in place:

> Labor Code section 1101 prohibits an employer from preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or preventing employees from becoming candidates for public office.
> What's the point of that?

Forces the non-AWS units to compete without cheap capital.

> solves none of the concerns raised by the FTC

Sure. So far, I will reflect care for their concerns inasmuch the courts do. (“Pressuring sellers” and merely “setting prices” isn’t illegal under current law. Maybe it should be! But that isn’t the FTC’s job when it brings enforcement.)
How good is generative data (synthetic data)?
5% average increase in F1 score
67% increase in Data richness
100% anonymized data set

so one of the users on my tool milkstraw.ai just sent me this and i am really excited about the power of the tool i built and wanted to share it here
Also more importantly how do you all feeling about synthetic data, I started this as a fun project and its turning into a full blown startup. I love seeing some of the users send me results they are getting like this.
Ah, didn't catch that. The references to living in Utah in some places on his website should have tipped me off, too.
Based on the large discrepancy with levels.fyi, I'm betting that person either put down their total comp as salary, or they are a very specialized researcher in an extremely hot area (probably AI).
I think it's the same type of soft plastic - I've seen both the RedCycle and NZ Soft Plastic recycling scheme logos on some products sold in both Australia and New Zealand.
Reading between the lines of that report, it sounds more like 'mismanagement' was the problem rather than economics.
Their point was that the "superpowers" and mythology of Lisp come from a time (the 80s) in which C was the primary alternative, popular language. Standard ML came later and the further MLs in OCaml and F# came much, much later. Erlang was proprietary. Prolog was around but misunderstood and remains so. Smalltalk was there and super powerful (maybe moreso?), but as far as I understand, kept to certain machines.

But now we have Elixir, Erlang, F#, OCaml, Scala, Racket, Chez Scheme, Gerbil Scheme, Chicken Scheme, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Pharo, etc. all competing with the standardized Lisp in Common Lisp.

I love Lisp, or rather Scheme and its ilk, but the point is that its mythology comes from the 80s and early 90s in which it did sort of set the standard for modern languages. It's really a fantastic family of languages, but there doesn't seem to be one that really stands out as pragmatic, industrial alternatives to the other languages it has heavily inspired. It seems Clojure and Racket come close, and Common Lisp is just too "hardcore" for pragmatic use, in my opinion.
The first (iirc) Connections follows this and the changes that come from the introduction of coffeehouses (buzz vs blitz) through to the present (at least, 1970's) day.
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I don't take much issue with personal boycotts but perhaps publishing the list would irk some people?
From before the internet was so overwhelmed by late stage capitalism that it's almost impossible to conceive of something not based on sales and/or advertising. "Those were the days."
> > Indeed a 0.5% ABV drink can be branded alcohol free (at least in the UK).

> Er, no! Perhaps in Ireland? In the UK the term "alcohol-free" can only be used if the drink has no more than 0.05% alcohol.

The government says the threshold is 1.2%.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-alcohol-descr...
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> So I would expect that a lightly fermented beer would be much closer to a sweet drink than to what we expect under the name "beer"

this is not a good expectation. Yeast will consume all available sugar till the alcohol %age gets too high for them (depends on the yeast but even the hardiest cultured strains poop out at around 16%. But they can only consume what sugar is in there, so if you ferment starting with something with little sugar, it will not arrive at a high alcohol level.

Our ancestors did not have access to lots of sugar, even their fruits (therefore juices) were less sweet.

to your point about insanely sweet starter, wine grapes are also insanely sweet, so sweet we don't want to eat them. Table grapes like you buy at the grocery, sweet as they are, are much less sweet than wine grapes. So, starting from the ultra sweet grapejuice, average wine gets to 12% alcohol.
The world economy is a pyramid scheme:

"Increased economic prosperity and all economic models supported by governments and global competitors are based on having more young people, workers, than older people," Chu said. "Two schemes come to mind. One is the pyramid scheme. The other is the Ponzi scheme. I’m not going to explain them both to you, you can look it up. But it’s based on growth, in various forms." - Steven Chu

Healthy young workers pay the health care costs for aging workers and retirees, the former energy secretary said, a scheme that requires increasing numbers of young workers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/04/05/the-worl...
I thought the article would be more about how (warning speculation:) recycled plastic materials leech way more microplastics into the environment (compared to burning them), how people often use multiple products from recycled plastic (bags, clothes) because the recycled ones are worse and don't last as long or how we spend a lot of our CO2e budget on recycling plastics when we should be more worried about that.

This is just an article about how dumb people are. Boring
I have a favorite speciality beer that comes in around 13%. They used to sell it only in 22oz bottles and that was it for the night. If I decided to open one, I knew that was my one drink for the evening.

They recently started selling it in 12oz bottles, so it’s no longer a commitment but rather a choice.
OpenBSD mostly operates on a hobbyist's idea of security, where they just make up attacks to defend against rather than being systematic or actually keeping up with the outside world. (https://isopenbsdsecu.re)

Although professional security people are also rather bad at this and like to eg stack multiple cool-looking mitigations even if they break each other. (https://siguza.github.io/PAN/)
Sensors could be huge I think, even with a material that's a total dud in terms of the superconductor power revolution. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a range of novel sensor approaches that haven't really been explored due to the practicality threshold of low temperature superconductivity.
> Actually, my impression is that the main driver of that "alcohol free beer taste" is the absence of the taste of alcohol.

I think it depends on the style. For hoppy ales Athletic Brewing in the US makes really good beers, you can hardly tell there is no alcohol. As far as I heard they don't really remove alcohol, but I don't know how they brew it. (Might be a secret process.)

Regarding German beers, this is also what I find near me now, and they are all decent, but you can definitely tell they don't have alcohol.
> It is probably better to burn it instead of doing landfills with it waiting for some miracle bacteria.

Still releases fossil-origin CO2, we can't afford that for global warming reasons. In a landfill the CO2 remains trapped.

Agree on your reduction point, that is long overdue but will only happen with significant governmental regulations.
Danger pay is a thing for a reason. Contracting pay vs salaried pay is a thing for a reason.

Or mathematically, the long term expected return from a volatile employment situation should be equal to the long term expected return from a stable employment situation.
It clicked for me when I learned that the plant the colour is named after was itself named after a Dr. Fuchs. So now I remember the name, and tack "-ia" on the end. In German, Fuchs sounds something like "fooks", so it's "fooks-ee-ah".
Sure but if you never hire them then you don't have to worry about it.
dance monkey, dance!

anyone can plagiarise a github or a blog. you still need to speak to the person. you're just adding even more steps to what is already an insufferably bad experience.

but adding more steps is something we love to do. every solution creating 10 new problems.
Negativity bias is pretty well researched and supported.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652533/
The best hikes are the ones that end at a pub :). There's something magical about that first beer after a long hike that makes even the cheapest/worst lager enjoyable.
Thermodynamics doesn't pose a fundamental limit on economic value. The planetary energy budget is even less of an issue.

For the latter, we have fission, fusion and we can grow into space.

For the former: in principle you can create arbitrarily large economic value on arbitrarily small energy budgets (if you have enough time). Getting a bit philosophical and speculative:

Assume computation is one way to create economic value. Eg either because computation is just useful for humans, like today, or because in the future you'll be able to simulate human beings (or other economic actors) directly via computation. Landauer's Principle [0] gives us a physical lower limit on the amount of energy we need to do a single bit operation:

E >= k * T * ln 2

(where k is the Boltzmann constant).

Stripping away all the constants, this tells us that as the universe expands and cools off, computation gets cheaper. The absolute minimum cost of computation is proportional to the ambient temperature of the universe.

As a simple example, you can get an infinite amount of computation out of a single Joule, if you wait for the temperature to half between each operation.

Of course, in practice we are far, far away from the Landauer limit being relevant. And we are far, far away from more conventional limits to economic activity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

> On the sociology side, this article doesn't even question the assumption of "our belief in abundance", a thing that I doubt you'll find much of in places like Izmir, Dhaka and Guayaquil.

İzmir is in Turkey which has seen an enormous increase in welfare over the past 200 years thanks to the Industrial Revolution. In about the last ten years mismanagement has damaged the economy of Turkey. Such a short episode in history might damage people's belief in abundance, but we can hardly blame people who are in dire straits at the moment for holding short-sighted beliefs.

Many people in countries that are doing just fine, like eg the US, also like to engage in gloom and doom mongering.
Your blog, open source contributions, or conference talks are often the thing that gets you to the interview, but I’ve never been asked about them directly during an interview.
Find; URL and local first client side actions for the browser's Omnibox
Browser address-bar/omnibox enhancement, to "interpret and route" user queries.
One time I was helping build a house in summer. I drank 5L of watery low-sugar tea apart from about 1,5L other liquids and peed maybe three times that day. I had dry clothes but very visible traces of salt on them. Other time I drank 7L of beer in a night, but peed like every 20min.
How about pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete 7 times in quick succession?

This is an actual thing. Systemd was a mistake.
Yes of course, this is also how people get around ageism (you're simply "not a good fit"). All in all, it still doesn't make it right.
> because the browser has zero idea where these bytes can go after they hit the socket

The attestation uses a secure enclave in your processor with a secret key you can't access to verify that secure boot is on, you booted a signed OS, the OS is in locked-down mode, etc.
Please explain the loop version.
I'm arguing that you've made a pointless contribution by commenting on something you won't have in your home on principle; it speaks to a lack of experience and/or an evangelistic dismissal that disqualifies you from a reasonably impartial assessment. That you are also technically wrong is secondary.
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It would hurt them a lot. I mean a lot a lot. But maybe not in the way some think it will.

Look back historically at when AWS details were suddenly included in the market earnings around 2015. I encourage you to draw your own conclusions, but I'm convinced they made such a move to keep investors happy despite the economic reality of razor thin profit margins in retail.

Then there's how much of Amazon retail is actually powered by AWS.
"lawlessness" <> "outside of society"

The clear implication of your original statement was that it is possible to not owe society anything by not taking anything from others. To do that requires a level of self-sufficiency that only a very small fraction of people possess.
Of course. But I bet many are quietly influenced by something like this, especially smaller employers who don't want to lose an employee and have to rehire.
You can consider tools that are helpful to you without obsessing about productivity.

ChatGPT can give you quick answers better than SEO-infested search results.

This preserves your energy for any purpose you see fit, not just productivity.
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Main reason I can think of is you are a kernel developer and you have broken your own kernel in such a way that the regular reboot hangs.
I don't like writing the obvious things that everybody always says, but here we are, nobody has said it yet:

there was a book or paper out like 25 years ago that speculated that as the Age of Enlightenment coincided with the start of European tea and coffee drinking, the general uptick in the usage of stimulants instead of alcohol must have contributed to the intellectual flowering through to the Renaissance, at least for the literate classes.

So that's when one group of people stopped being drunk all the time.
I think the fundamental disconnect here between people who appreciate abstraction and those who are seemingly in perpetual fear of it is that we rarely guide engineers on how to make good abstractions.

You hear complaints ad nauseam about how abstractions are always leaky, they are confusing, etc. And yet here I am typing this into a text box displayed in a web browser running on top of an operating system and countless libraries, rendered from a mix of content of HTML, Javascript, and CSS source which was delivered over TLS-wrapped HTTP using TCP sockets routed over an IPv4 connection which was repeatedly translated back and forth into Ethernet frames, all on a machine which schedules the execution of binary blobs compiled from a multitude of languages to the AArch64 instruction set onto any number of virtual cores while carefully managing resources like permanent storage, processor cache, random-access memory, guided by electrical signals from a keyboard which are decoded into meaningful glyphs according to my configured layout and character set, all displayed upon an OLED film based upon an HDMI-encoded signal transmitted over a bundle of wires.

Which is to say we spend every day comfortably resting upon a truly mind-boggling tower of abstraction layers which—for the most part—work pretty well. So not only clearly can it be done, but it also must be done in order to provide anything like the computing experiences we expect and rely on in day to day life.

Rather than shy from abstraction because bad abstractions are bad, we should spend more effort on learning how to design and promote good abstractions, since they are something upon which our entire profession is inescapably built.
> If you can drink water safely from the tap, it helps.

It's worth remembering that alcohol sterilizes many otherwise dangerous things. Being drunk all the time can easily be better than being sick all the time.
by this logic its "easy" to become a champion bodybuilder, an accomplished mathmetician, top of pretty much any sport, and many other things. After all, it just needs sustained focus and effort over a peroid of years, as well as the humility to learn.

Turns out that the ability, support network & lack of distractions to do this is very rare.
I got that, all the same it seemed like as good a thread branch as any to emphasis that the OP research article really stresses an excess of waste as the primary issue before hitting the break down of how to deal with that.

I might suggest that very likely the USofA has a mush higher "waste generated per capita" than many other counries .. and that a number of countries are having to deal with mountains of waste shipped onto their shores by the USofA (and a few other first world offenders).

I have no argument with you, we seem to be on a similar page here :)
> I don't ask my plumber to show me their blog posts.

Yes, but you probably read his reviews online, compared his quotes with competitors in the space to pick one with a good reputation, and otherwise sought signals of competence. Blog posts are the very same thing, quickly verifiable, albeit potentially wrong, signals of skill and competence.

> Just hire people that can do the job you're paying them for

Speaking bluntly, this is what hiring people that can do the job looks like. Attacking those that take the effort to show they have that experience because others wouldn’t is tall poppy syndrome, and it neither improves the quality of the field nor actually helps those struggling that need more support so they can operate at the same level as others.
Despite all the challenges ahead 400K (critical temperature) is mind boggling.
Ok, but that’s an extreme example and you only consumed 3.8L. 4.5L is a LOT. Even the 8 glasses a day of water suggestion is considered on the high side and that’s only 1.9L.
I can only speak from interviewing candidates at a big corp, but generally HR shortlists a bunch of candidates, schedules interviews then send me the resume about 16hr before the actual interview.

I’ve never come across a candidate where anyone has dug into someone’s online presence prior to an interview.

And to be honest, I’d rather speak to the person that read something they wrote.

But again, that’s big corp so obviously other companies might do it differently.
I'd also like to highlight "non-hostile" as a reason why folks might prefer ChatGPT.

Stack Overflow has a lot of stridently opinionated jerks contributing to it, and if I can just ask ChatGPT a question and get an answer that works rather than having to deal with being belittled by those people, then I'm probably having a much better day as a result.
>The filesystem is a crappy database. Its purely hierarchical nature

You realize the first databases were hierarchical, not relational, right? Filesystems do well enough in this regard. They're not meant to store tons of metadata, which varies depending on your application.

>requires dirty compromises for things like music libraries, where songs should be indexed both by song name and by album.

What about songs that aren't on albums? What about live performances? What about cover songs? Who gets the credit, the performer or the composer? People's opinions about these things keep changing, which is why the original MP3 tag format was so bad, and had to be replaced by a newer format. Imagine if we were all stuck, forever, with what some clueless people in 1995 thought was good enough for MP3 tag info, for all digital music.

And why should this info be in a filesystem anyway? Most files are not digital music.

>A Postgres instance will never be a first class citizen on Unix, so I can’t “cd” into a sql table in my terminal, or use sql queries to query procfs or /etc.

Right, because then the OS would have had to be designed for that kind of thing from the start, and you'd never be able to change it afterwards. This is why we keep things minimal at the lower levels, because then you can change things easily at the higher levels later on as needs change. Postgres itself has changed a lot in the last 10 years, adding lots of capabilities; if that were baked into the OS, that wouldn't have been so easy. And what if you decide you want something different from SQL? Sorry, you're stuck with it because it's baked into the OS, so now someone else is going to complain about how our ecosystem could evolve in a different way if we adopted some other type of database paradigm.

The benefits you claim just aren't worth the cost. It's easy enough to implement a database on top of a modern OS, and then use tools and applications designed for it to interact with it.
I have provided evidence to support my claims, based on facts and reality.

You haven't.

Keep on dreaming, but that day will never come.
Is that true at 0.5%?