skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the schools teach about economics :-/

Please don’t attempt to educate me on the idea that “poor people can move.” My parents were poor immigrants and moved twice, across two continents, with nothing in their pockets, to try and make a better life.

That does not mean they could do that today. The economy has changed. Cost of living has gone up dramatically. There is no more “western frontier” where one can luck out and find gold. It is much much harder to move now than ever before.

And that’s before you get to the fact that my parents were here illegally for almost 30 years, but had SSNs, paid taxes, handled all their debt, did not take government handouts/subsidies, never got in trouble, and so on. They were able to do that because paperwork back then was … paper, and they could find people to make it work. Today they’d be deported.

With all due respect, your point of view is marred by the fact that you’ve had success. Spend some time actually talking to some poor people, before you start to tell them why they are poor.

As for “That's the result of choices the person made,” this is a dumb argument. Condoms break. Abortion is illegal in many states. Divorces happen because of things that are not entirely in someone’s control, even after years of happy marriage (i.e. someone cheats). Full custody is something only courts can grant, not your own choices. If you can’t get it, you can’t leave the state, or you don’t get to see your kid again. That has nothing to do with your choice to get married to the love of your life and have a child with them.

The logical conclusion of your argument is “well you can choose to leave your kid behind” which is nonsense.

Please consider that your perspective may be biased by not having actually spoken to anyone in the situations you purport to know so much about.
Microsoft is a known entity. I know (or expect) that my outlook.com account is heavily datamined to the fullest extent of the most permissive interpretation of the law.

Google was supposed to be not that, and so it's not that I trust Google less, it's that I don't know how much they can/can't be trusted in general.
I agree Feynman was often smug. It's annoying but I forgive him because I too am smug from time to time. Perhaps he was aware of it within himself as well.
This is actually pretty great. I tried to approach it as if I was in therapy, and it was surprisingly good until it started being agreeable about suicide. But even that seemed pretty balanced compared to how I've seen therapists react.

My life was ruined by a psychiatrist that only wanted to push pills, but was also happy to pretend to be a good psychotherapist. I blindly trusted her because she was a professional and I didn't have any frame of reference. Talking to other mental health professionals about my experience, what that psychiatrist told me has been called bad advice, unethical, and even malpractice.

I think for front-line mental health counseling AI chatbots will be better that lots human therapists. Especially once non-verbal communication starts being monitored (body poses, microexpressions, etc).

There may always be a need for human experts to intervene, as with all fields that will be impacted by AI. But a good AI may be better than a bad human therapist. I wish I had used this chatbot years ago instead of seeing a random psychiatrist. I'd have made better life choices, and saved a ton of money on therapy.
I don't know how anyone could trust Microsoft to do anything after the two biggest security blunders I've ever seen for someone of this scale:

https://www.wiz.io/blog/bingbang

https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key...
Little Snitch and Lulu on Mac are reasonably user friendly. I am pretty sure there are equivalents on Linux, though not entirely certain about Windows.
The Firefox addon Sponsorblock blocks almost 100% of those ads. Together with uBlock Origin, I have an almost ad-free Youtube experience.
> In interviews they often tell you their real opinions or how they construct their character.

But that's exactly what Adams does.

> In fact, there's no way to tell real opinion from flamebait with the people under discussion.

Sure there is. If it's of the form "there is a valid argument against this, but it's inconvenient for partisans to make that argument" then it's flamebait.
Also worth discussing: once you start interviewing, what can you do to get an offer?

Personal anecdote: I was laid off ~4 months ago. It wasn't that hard to get interviews. But then I bombed the coding interviews for several appealing positions.

I'm a very experienced developer, but I didn't realize just how much my programming-during-an-interview skills had atrophied. IMHO those coding tests were properly weeding me out, because it really looked like I couldn't program.

I'm now making time to work on practice problems, and I think they're really helping. I expect future coding interviews to go much better.
Pretty common in “DevOps” teams, in my experience. Some people are working on some autoscaling CI runner server initiative, some are working on writing code, some are fixing issues in CI pipelines, some are hardening the security of kubernetes clusters, etc. Their goals are completely unrelated to the others but is all work that falls under their team’s umbrella, and needs doing.

Equally common in operations roles for the same reasons. Lots of servers and networking gear. You might be changing failed hard drives in a RAID array while someone else is patching servers while somebody else is upgrading some 20 year old Cisco firewall. None of these three people rely on the work the other is doing. Especially if they’re working in different server cabinets.
Remains of an underwater hospital and cemetery at Dry Tortugas
James Gleick's "Chaos: Making a new science" will answer your questions and is a fun read!
The idea of something with ten solar masses moving so fast still terrifies me. It's just mind-boggling to think about something at that scale completing an orbit in the blink of an eye.

I am reminded of Randall Monroe taking about the sheer energy of a supernova:

> Which of the following would be brighter, in terms of the amount of energy delivered to your retina:

> A supernova, seen from as far away as the Sun is from the Earth, or

> The detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?

> Applying the physicist rule of thumb suggests that the supernova is brighter. And indeed, it is ... by nine orders of magnitude.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
I must be incredibly lucky, because every job I've gotten the past years have been through the "normal" channels, meaning that I found the job listing on some rather huge classifieds website. I then just typed up a honest job application, updated my resume, and applied for the jobs. Always got a reply, and eventually a job interview.

Should be mentioned that I live rather rural, and have experience (analysis and engineering) which makes me stand out from most other applicants.

Since 2004, I've sent out under 20 job applications. The past 5 years I've switched work twice (better jobs and higher salary) - so I don't know if I'm a good representation of the job market.

But most of my ex-colleagues that work as devs seem to get their interviews through their network. Usually goes something like this:

1) Company needs something fixed, or increase their headcount to meet goals

2) Dev: "I know this one guy/gal, I've seen his work and we worked briefly on a project"

3) Manager: "Great! Reach out to them and see if they're interested!"
… I mean, unlikely. For some people, perhaps, but I’d imagine it would always be very niche. Most people would presumably just, well, have sex.
It’s amazing to me what percentage replied with “Notepad++”.

To be fair, I haven’t tried it in like 15 years…
As far as I know, no one has proved that it doesn't change behavior in any scenario that matters, including the proposal makers.

Have you proved it?
The big confounding variable is being an island. Yes I'm aware Australia isn't technically an island. Technically SK isn't either, but it might as well be

Look at the stats for the US. The state of Hawaii has absolutely astoundingly low COVID deaths. The island of Alameda (note: this is not the same as Alameda county) has extremely low COVID deaths.
Indexing and fingerprinting your browser history locally in Chrome, to generate a set of demographic and special-interest identifier tags, that are then attached to your Google account; where the special-interests are used by Google Ads to personalize the ad auctions, and the demos are used by Google Ads to price your CPMs.
> there are plenty of nice places where the houses are 60K.

Citation super needed. Where in the US can I buy a house for $60,000? Does it have a roof?
Are things like Pug or Slim/Plim, etc. really worth the added complexity, dependencies?
Show HN: RepoGPT – question answering over repos using contextual chunking
Hello! RepoGPT is a tool I created that allows you to perform question answering over code repositories using contextual chunking. The backstory to this is I was trying out LangChain's demo for question answering over code repositories and it would often produce incorrect responses because the code chunks that files were getting split into were lacking context. For example, if there is a particularly long method implemented in a file, that method might be split across multiple code chunks. If the question being asked required the LLM to understand that method then all of those chunks need to be returned by the vector store - this might not necessarily happen if the query does not have a high enough semantic similarity to each chunk. Also even if the correct chunks are given to the LLM, it might not understand how they fit together. RepoGPT tries to fix this by adding contextual information to each chunk, including the file it came from, the line numbers the chunk spans, and most importantly the classes and methods that the chunk may be part of. The latter was done using python ast's for python code and py-tree-sitter for other types of files (languages other than python have not been tested much though). After playing around with it, it seems to be performing pretty well - particularly with gpt-4. It's really cool to see how the LLM is able understand entire methods that are split across multiple chunks based on the contextual information added. I really think this allows LLMs to answer a wider array of questions across repos. Please play around with it, instructions are in the README. I've tried adding local LLM's as well but those are very experimental right now.
My own search has been on LinkedIn, as well as sites like Otta. The key for me to get more callbacks has been to personalize my resume for each job description (I even made a tool to do it for me [0]) and then to follow up with the hiring managers for the job.

Out of the stacks of resumes that get submitted to the black hole, it really does feel like a grind, but the little bit extra by reaching out to the recruiters/hiring managers seems to make the boost to at least get to the first round screen.

[0] https://resgen.app
One of the sad things about the massive increase in popularity of engineered quartz countertops has been the massive increase in 20-something year olds getting silicosis and needing lung transplants.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810008/
Intel CEO Voices Concerns About Chips Funds, Export Controls
I am absolutely Google's customer. I give them money, they give me services. They don't sell ads to me. I even have a phone number I can call.

It doesn't make them magically trustworthy or not.
At this point I just believe anything i see written on these platforms is from someone mentally unstable until they prove otherwise.

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
If you go back enough, Microsoft was the scrappy upstart, sort of. They were this small software company loved by most, the creators of Windows and Excel and all that.

The amount of fuckery going on the background never saw the light of day back then. People seemed to be happy with them bundling more and more crap in their products, a move that killed most of their competition.

They haven’t given up on that, to the point where they still bundle up apps that only play nice to each other.

Google may be terrible, I won’t argue otherwise. But Microsoft has and will always try to control the entirety of the stack, from hardware to servers to operating systems to applications, in a way that would make any Apple exec salivate thinking about vertical integration.
Except the cargo cult religions weren't trying to get cargo to return in any meaningful sense. It was a religious ritual like anyother. If we were watching Christian practices from the outside and not knowing any of the nuances of their beliefs we would probably interpret that "they're trying to get this guy named Jesus to return by eating crackers and wine".

Feynman's speech is interesting and all but like so many similar gifted scientists who then go on to explore into other domains, they stumble into a field and ignore whole bodies of research into the philosophy and sociology of how science is produced.

Thomas Kuhn had already established some solid insight into the social and organizational aspects of "scientific revolution", and showed that despite most people's ardent belief that science is somehow immune to it, there is a significant amount of social hierarchies and ritualistic beliefs that dictate what is considered "acceptable" science.

Believing in science as this perfect immutable meritocracy is pretty much its own ritualistic cult, as if you can just pretend away human bias and insular beliefs by thinking really-really hard.
This explanation infers a hidden variable, which is not how quantum entanglement works.

IE - it sounds like the damage occurs at the time of impact, and you just decided to look at a later point in time. But that isn’t what happens with quantum entangled particles. The particles will have opposite spin when the entangled state collapses, but measurement will affect the angle of the spin in a way that proves spin is not preselected when the particles were initially entangled and local to one another.

In your story, looking at your own car would have an observable effect on the entangled car, even though it is far away. But you also cannot even tell it was entangled with the other car without comparing the two over more traditional channels!

Edit: Since a graphic was requested, I found this image hosted by JPL, which shows a related phenomenon (quantum teleportation) to what I described, and hopefully dispels the car crash explanation which doesn’t imply “spooky action at a distance”.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/researchers-advance-quantum-te...
This. And they should.

In our (mostly) capitalist economy a company not making money will course-correct or fail.
I worked for an attorney that had a few doz old+active mesothelioma cases on the shelf. About every third year, each would get a check for ~$12.
> Unstoppable

Use a PiHole?
Its a standard. People trust it to work. That is Very different than trust in the overall ecosystem that is foisted upon them. Ask anyone how much they trust any EULA.
Experimental Superposition of Time Directions (2022)
Yep, a lot of the time it’s as simple as overriding the src and version of a given package -though if the package has patches to build on Nix it can be more work.
the top one is... kinda crazy, the second one is very-plausible:
`if (name && age) {saveUser()}`.
duo was renamed to meet. the original meet was originally named hangouts meet, which was distinct from hangouts the consumer product, but not from hangouts the business product, which hangouts meet (later "meet" and now "meet original") was part of along with hangouts chat (different from "classic" hangouts which continued the discontinued google+ hangouts) which is now google chat (not gchat aka gtalk, which got merged into hangouts).

in 2019, google announced gsuite hangouts users would be migrated to google chat and google meet (that's meet original) and consumer hangouts would be discontinued. in 2020 for obvious reasons the original hangouts cancellation and the other hangouts cancellation were both cancelled. eventually google launched google chat (for consumers) and google meet, and finally discontinued the last consumer hangouts. at this point i think all users of all of google's hangoutses have been migrated to one of the google chats or meets, or back to the google voice app (for voice customers). but if you're still using meet original you're supposed to migrate to meet (originally duo).
I often take a quick 20-30 min nap in the afternoon if i feel like it, and i always feel super refreshed, and ready to do some focused work again for a couple of hours.

So i would say yes, if you feel sleepy or drowsy a short power nap can work wonders.

Of course since I am working from home most of the time i can just jump on the couch. In an office this is not really possible.
I think its a bit harsh to condemn all of the people working at google. its one of the few places left that has corners of real work going on. but yeah, I worked there very briefly, and the degree of whitewashing is really stunning
Do you have any sources or evidence to support this claim?
Note that you shouldn't be groggy if you limit your naps to less than 20 minutes.
Just buy an Apple, Samsung or whatever device. It's good to have choices. Everything does not have to be made for the same market segment.
I recognize that my initial example may have been ill-chosen since the Calflora range tool stops at the border, despite having data beyond it. However, the actual known data does support my point.

In the Calflora database, six percent of the Xylococcus Bicolor observations extend beyond the border. Most of these are dated, and the plants may no longer exist. Filtering for observations that are more recent than 1990, the number falls closer to two percent beyond the border.

Local researchers are aware of this issue, and I've come across it in various research papers on Xylococcus Bicolor.

This thesis on the region's ethnobotany frequently cites the border as a cutoff or dividing line in research. https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/pds/ceqa/JVR/...

If you're truly curious the author of that thesis expanded his work into the book "Kumeyaay Ethnobotany: Shared Heritage of the Californias" that looks more closely at these issues.
> Google search has become nearly unusable

This is a weird meme given how many billions of searches Google handles daily.
Corporate has data about people. For example, if you plan a holiday, Google, Meta, and others know it. If your wife suffers from a serious condition, Google, Meta, and others know it. Corporate has extensive databases and every person is potentially profiled with a lot of detail.

Advertisers don't usually receive detailed information, instead they are promised that their advertisements are targeted correctly. To do that the data about people is used.

But with this data Corporate gets too much power. Corporate needs to follow Human Rights, like states. One aspect is that there is no due process in case of conflicts, like someone being wrongly excluded from using a Corporate service. We also need transparency about how this data is used exactly and who else gets views.

Europe is trying to establish transparency with the GDPR, however is foiled by malicious compliance by Corporate. It does not help that Europe is clumsy.
Workaround:

1. Install ServiceWorker.

2. Save data to LocalStorage/IndexedDB/ServiceWorker Cache/ServiceWorker Memory.

3. Wait for devtools to be closed, enabling internet access, send data from ServiceWorker.
I pointed out upthread the willingness to take risk. Nothing is guaranteed. But you can tilt the odds very much in your favor.

BTW, AMZN had far, far better odds than any lottery.
it’s bs because they have elected to not maintain cli compatibility on many areas. not because they “haven’t gotten there yet” but because they don’t agree with docker. they converted into technological amish that think the one true cli is not the current one.
You know those preinstalled-but-not-really app ads that are in the Start Menu, for Candy Crush and the like? How much do you think those are worth — what's the right CPM for them? (And yes, these are adspace, with CPM costs — even if you never click+install Candy Crush from the start menu, you're still being reminded of its existence every time you open the start menu, so the impressions are valuable, not just the conversions.)

Microsoft knows the right CPM for these, because of their telemetry about start-menu usage. And while Microsoft isn't selling that information, per se, they are giving it to partners who consider running one of those ads.
>No amount of debunking seems to move the needle.

Because it is hard to debunk something that is objectively true and backed up by thousands of years of history.
Seriously, this is audiophile content for web nerds. No one cares what gold-plated setup you listen to Phish albums on; divert all that energy you're spending on software gardening into improving the content of your website.
I've said this before, and until I said it the first time I thought the oldies who said it were just being curmudgeonly boomer types ...

It's all cyclic. One generations hero is the next's villain, and as we all move away from the villain we find new heros, those become villains as old heroes re-invent and we all move zigzag into the future.

Just look at what happened with compiled / static vs dynamic / "productive" languages from the 90s to 2030s. It's been less of a roller coaster and more of a pendulum.
This is a real problem. Realistically, a well researched flat earth scientist could destroy the average nasa scientist in a debate. You only need to lie about or misrepresent a few facts to undermine a whole field, and to an outside observer it looks like science got conclusively btfo. Of course, given enough time the nasa scientist will be able to piece things together, but they might never be able to recover some people.

While there are legitimate concerns about the scientific method being too strict, I think it's necessary to help us keep faith in a field. That's why I dislike fields that lean into methodological anarchy, like critical theory. They really have no business claiming any sort of authority.
Oh yes, dev containers work wherever docker and vs code work. If the production environment is Kubernetes, though, I prefer to develop with Kubernetes or minikube, to better align with production behavior.
You keep talking about "philosophy of mathematics" and I'm talking about programming.

You made a specific claim that calculus was discovered but that monads are invented. Are you walking back that claim? Fine.

It just isn't useful to write programs with an arbitrary albatross around your neck because someone else is obsessed with philosophy and set theory.

I've tried to engage with you in good faith but now it appears that you're just concern trolling. The article is an educational piece about monad transformers. Nowhere is it implied that you, specifically, need to use Haskell in your work. If you can't see why monads are useful, why not ask about that?
Same as it is in javascript, python and julia: 0.30000000000000004, but I fear I'm stepping into quicksand by answering.
We have agency in that we could choose to renounce careers in tech. That’s it.

There is a price/quality tradeoff in every housing market; all complaints about price can be interpreted as insufficient willingness to compromise on quality. A cardboard box under a bridge is free! “You’re actually obscenely wealthy because you don’t live in a basement and drive 6 hours to work” is not the argument you think it is. Tech workers are telling you how they feel about Bay Area weather, schools, and transportation every time they complain about RTO. We all want nothing more than to get the fuck away from here. Nothing more except, perhaps, to do the work we were meant to do.