skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my limited number of anthropology courses, I can assure you that the suspicion between the anthropology and economics departments is often mutual.

You know the joke about how physics is the study of spherical cows of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum? That's because intro level physics makes lots of simplifying assumptions. And if a physicist tried to use those assumptions to lecture a dairy farmer, the farmer might assume the physicist was a fool.

Anthropology tends to assume that too many economists study "spherical humans of uniform density in a frictionless market," basically. One of my anthropology professors actually covered these disputes, including specific cases where U Chicago economics professors attempted to advise governments around the world, and wound up totally misunderstanding particular situations.

Now, anthropology has its blind spots, too. Cultural anthropology has been a bit too willing to believe research describing exotic social structures. Archaeology is fairly sound on the nuts and bolts of pre-historical goods and food sources, but it is sometimes blind to how ideology shapes culture. (Which is a safely conservative stance to take when working with pre-historical cultures, to be fair.)

The factors Graeber describes aren't totally surprising. Lots of real world economies run on complicated webs of personal relationships and favors—just look at investors, for example. Or look at the pre-modern property rights described in Seeing Like a State. Land ownership and harvesting rights in a medieval village could be ridiculously complex. Or the customary payments and "gifts" that people made. For another modern example, consider office politics in a large corporation.

I think Graeber's basic case is plausible: complex debts and obligations seem to underly many band-level and village-level societies, especially when central state power is weak. These arrangements can seem bizarre: I remember a video of an interview with a pig farmer, probably about 60 years old, who was organizing a gift of hundreds of pigs to a neighboring village. This was apparently some kind of competitive gesture designed to elevate the status of the giver. And the farmer was really into this. He was complaining that kids these days were shockingly lazy, and that they had no appetite for hard work, and that they had no hope of putting together a proper gift of pigs. And how can you get anywhere in life if you can't embarrass a neighboring village by giving them more pigs than they gave you? It was a status display, similar to throwing conspicuously expensive parties to outdo your social circle.

The anthropology literature contains a ton of odd behavior around debts, obligations, and complex traditional rights. In a pre-modern community of 60 to 5,000 people, only a fraction of the economy seems to involve currencies or direct barter. Currency is a fantastic simplifying technology. And as Graeber points out, complex traditional webs of debt can be pretty brutal towards people who don't fit in.
Patterns for personal web sites (2003)
The first game was good. This one is not. I don’t understand how a big game like this could have you just walking around doing nearly nothing for several hours straight. Every puzzle and lock solution is basically on a sticky note next to it in game removing the minimum challenge the game presents. Movies are more engaging.

As for the story, it’s just Alan Wake 1 retold but louder and in your face about it.
For those learning other languages (works best for European languages), my open source tool VocabSieve [1] does something quite similar (it is a lemmatizing tool unlike many common tools such as LingQ), with more advanced features like auto-mining words and using highlights from ereaders. It's also a local-first tool that does not require internet access if you use downloaded resources and does not connect to any central server I control. It has no mobile support though.

[1] https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve
Notes on Developer Efficiency
Was Bing called after Chandler Bing?
Climate change may make Bordeaux red wines stronger and tastier
Oh, even better. Thanks :)
The elephants died of sepsis related to Pasteurella bacteria, the same bacteria which killed 200,000 antelopes in Kazakhstan.

The bacteria is normally commensurate in the pharynx/tonsils however a virulence factor or increased infectiousness was gained somehow (possibly ambient temperature related).
They haven’t acted like it. They are discontinuing the plug in crosstrek and their only electric vehicle is a Toyota.
Contracts I've signed stipulate that the bonus can only be owed back if fired for cause.
> I read a book in 91 about Bill Gates and how he hacked DOS together

Book of fiction then. They bought DOS, and actually had to get a contractor(Tim Paterson from SCP) to come in to port it to the IBM PC.
(Background: I'm currently using Fly for some hobby apps. I like it.)

It is still wildly unstable right now because they're basically still building the platform and figuring out how to run a business. Earlier this year there was a migration to their "Apps V2" platform [0] which was supposed to be simple but it was extremely poorly communicated which led to a lot of users hitting issues along the way and being forced to make forum posts to try and desperately figure out how to keep their production apps up. None of the migrations worked for me either, I didn't complain as a freeloader - but seeing the support requests from paying customers painted a really bad picture.

[0] https://community.fly.io/t/get-in-losers-were-getting-off-no...
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They're certainly allowed to ask. Now whether they are likely to enforce the terms in court, and whether the court would side with them, and whether they would recoup more than the cost of pursuing the claim, well, that's a different matter. [edit] Not to mention the risk of negative PR, and the consequences for their recruitment pipeline.

I suspect if you just said "nope" a bunch, they would come back to you and accept a compromise. They're going to get pennies on the dollar if they send the account to collections.

If this were me I'd probably start by saying "I'll give you back 33% if you sign a document disclaiming your interest in the remaining 67%" and kick off the negotiation there. IANAL of course, lol, and this kind of thing I'd want to run by a professional. This is just my gut instinct.
> this book is meant for the audience who can read and write proofs

It seems like the opposite is true:

"It is intended for a student who, while not yet very familiar with abstract reasoning, is willing to study more [than a] "cookbook style" calculus type course."

(from the link).

If your point is one can't learn linear algebra before learning "abstract [mathematical] reasoning"...don't think you're the main target audience of a subject as practical as linear algebra.
Because it's a click bait title and many, myself included hate them
That’s very rare though. Unless you’re Shopify, location doesn’t really matter
> grease derived from marrow bones

that's metal, thinking about processing marrow kind of gives me the creeps though
He provided the source documents for clear first amendment breaches. The story corroborates it further with facebook as well as twitter. How's google doing?

Perhaps you think the first amendment is rubbish, should be abolished and so systemic violations not worth reporting on? You're entitled to that opinion but the story is not nothing whatever your opinion on that. It happened and probably continues.

I doubt the "nothingburger" "Taibbi is Elon PR" "Grift the right" shooting the messenger can hold. Too many Democrat leaning people don't like it when they see the original docs.

Of course most Republicans really do cock an eyebrow when they find out the "disinformation laptop" was table-top wargamed by the fbi with social media companies prior to the suppression and blatant crude censorship of the story when it came out. Literally wargamed a "disinformation laptop." It's now well acknowledged by the Bidens that the laptop has nothing to do with russia, is real and the contents genuine. Lot of people who hate trump and republicans might not like that much.

It's worth reading in the original and worth checking your pulse if you just swap out Republican for every Democrat and vice versa. Shouldn't matter but partisan loyalty & loathing seems to be a really good cover for appalling crappy behaviour nowadays.

https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/the-censorship-industria...

You're still allowed to hate the "Insane Clown President" and Jared, Ivanka and all the crooked cronies. That's completely allowed. Just imagine if Ivanka got paid by Ukranian oligarchs! Laptop full of skeletons censored. How would you feel about it? You'd think that's fine? Well not me.
People prefer vacuum tubes because of their particular non-linearities during amplification. A vacuum tube is just a very simple particle (electron beam) accelerator.
I spent some time on core services within amazon. I think theres just no upside in major rewrites when the system is working. Any major outage with cloudfront is a huge liability for the company, and so AWS decides to just pay their engineers a ton of money to sit there and hammer out operational issues day by day. This is really the secret sauce of AWS, industry leading operations/stability/backward compatibility.

On some teams, the work is actually not SWE work, even though people think it is. Its really an on call rotation, with some product related work to keep people busy while they recover from on-call. Managers will never admit it though.

There will be good SWE work, but some guy who has been in that same org for 6+ years will quickly snatch the best parts. Less tenured engineers will slog
> Poor, working class countries have an almost non-existent rate of suicide and psychological issues.

Instead they have sky high alcoholism, substance abuse, and domestic violence.

Also lol about non-existent “psychological issues” - I am sure they also “don’t have gays”. If that’s too indirect - associating societal stigma makes all kinds of issues “almost non-existent”.
Nowhere in that text does it say "server grade"
> people like us complaining about how our lives are so stressful as weak and embarrassing

The biologically correct way to deal with stress is to punch your boss in the face. Back in the day, a family member has done it, broke the guy's0 nose, says it was one his best days.

These days we cant do that, corporate culture has us by the balls

> Poor, working class countries have an almost non-existent rate of suicide

That's fantasy - it's like saying that in year 1000 noone dies of cancer. They did, there jusy werent any doctors around to diagnose the problem and no statisticians to record it.

I lived in a poor country, noone ever goes to a psycologist, they hide issues, and, if someone kills themselves, they will record it as something else to avoid the shame
I totally grant that the nix system is good at making sure that a given git commit produces a given result. They do a fantastic job at everything from miles 2-10. They just skip the first mile of integrity, which is also one of the easiest to tamper with.

9/10 popular package developers I audit have SMS as a backup account recovery method on their email accounts. Easy to see when I try to reset their email passwords and it says "sms sent to ....". One sim swap and I have the account of a popular package maintainer.

Or, even easier, developers often use custom email domains. Right now there are -thousands- of custom email domains used by package maintainers in NPM for instance, that are expired. Buy domain, and you buy access to contribute commits to an unpopular unnoticed package that a popular package depends on.

Supply chain attacks are my core area of research, and they are easy to do. They are hard to defend against unless you have reproducible builds already. It is crazy NixOS has done so much good work for supply chain integrity and refuses to do the first mile almost every other popular linux distro already makes at least some attempt at.

As for PGP key theft, most people that use PGP today keep the keys on personal HSMs, like a yubikey or nitrokey, such that the private key never comes in contact with the memory of an internet connected computer. Stealing one in most cases would require keylogging the pin, and physically stealing the key.

If you got malware on someones machine, you could still manipulate them at that point in time, though this still will require timing your attack so that they are online and tricking them to tap their key, which dramatically increases attack complexity.

Next level once people sign commits though, is signing code reviews. Then you have removed all single points of failure from your software supply chain.
hive mind is like 40 years out, we’ll all live to see it, we’re watching early stages happen in real-time. once we’re all truly connected there won’t be war
>I cannot fathom how a social media app company would need this many employees to function.

I'm sure they're growing as fast as they can, for the sake of their investors and to outflank competitors.

You're probably just not familiar enough with TikTok. "Teens sharing short videos" is just the tip of the iceberg. It does video, like YouTube. It has livestreaming of events and gaming, like YouTube and Twitch. It has a music streaming app, like Spotify. It is an e-commerce platform with live video shopping, like... Facebook Live, I guess? It sells advertising space like Facebook does. I'm sure there's more. Disclaimer: I have never actually used TikTok myself.
> if you're not comfortable with the basics of mathematical proofs, then you're not ready for the subject of linear algebra

That's quite far from what the author of the book you're discussing wrote:

> [this book/course] is also supposed to be a first course introducing a student to rigorous proof, formal definitions
Thank you, yes I mean infringement.

Say big Hooli company builds product/platform “A” and charges arm and foot for usage. Having tried the platform I personally find it ridiculous anybody is paying for this because I successfully (lone developer) hack together a trimmed down working clone of the core system *in under a week*. Furthermore, core aspects of Product/Platform “A” are open-source technology, in non trivial ways (like I’m not saying “oh they use YML for config files”, I’m saying “core engine component they’re using is explicitly open source”).

If I decide to open source my clone, am I asking for trouble?

This is all hypothetical, I’m not soliciting actual legal advice.
Imo projects are company details, products are what your users see.

The split between project manager and product owner seems clearest.

A project manager is running the team. Who does what and when? How do we plan the work?

A product owner is kind of like the representative stakeholder. What should this do? How important is launching now Vs fixing these bugs?

How Vs what.

Good people in these roles are incredible. I've been fortunate to work with some.
This isn't "an arduino." It's merely made by Arduino.

This thing is an i.mx8 SoC running some shitty arduino distro, combined with an STM32. It has nothing in common with the arduino boards most people typically use.
Apologies. Yes, big tech == overrated, Vercel tech == underrated
Lest you disregard this as completely useless superstructure, note that basically the entirety of the theory of stochastic processes, starting with Brownian motion, is positively infested with continuous everywhere nondifferentiable functions; while the existence of a nonconstant infinitely smooth function with an identically zero Taylor series is what permits the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition to exist. So while the weird animals of elementary real analysis are perhaps not the most important thing in the world, they are far from irrelevant to it.
Fucking hell, if you don't like ads then just don't use YouTube.

Everyone bitches about this sort of stuff and then refuses to boycott.

Look at the fucking shitshow Twitter has become under ol Musky...and have people left? Yeah, some for sure, but not very many at all.

The problem isn't just these companies, we can't act like the problem isn't us as well.

Pay for their services, or stop using them. If enough people did this simple thing, they'd have to react to it. Twitter would already be dead if everyone had _actually_ left.
I must be missing something. In the example of using a sailboat with constant wind and distance, wouldn’t sailing against the wind (let’s call it any constant oppositional force), cause us to get a circle, just shifted from the origin? Not an ellipsis?
Before "Friends," when Matthew Perry was just 18, he starred in a forgotten sitcom called "Second Chance."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1X8UK3L8z4

It's kind of bittersweet to watch his snappy delivery, when he was young and starting his career with his whole future still ahead of him...
I hate the terms "content creators" and "influencers" both. Scorsese isn't a content creator, he is a film maker. The idea of a content creator is just so... dystopian. What they make doesn't matter, its not art, its just content.
All code is tech debt
All code will translate to tech debt sooner or later. The more code you write, the more bogged down in tech debt you will find yourself in the future.

Therefore, when starting a new project, you must ruthlessly prioritize building stuff that you're highly confident will help you make money. Much of the time, you will be wrong anyway, and you'll accumulate unproductive tech even if you try not to.

The worst thing you can do when you're starting a business is letting yourself invest in features that require many lines of code and have zero chance of making the company more money.

My contention is that if you do this as an entrepreneur, you will almost certainly kill your business.

If you want to get paid well as a software engineer, you should at least recognize when you're working on a product that will go nowhere. Don't work for a loser.
That GPU came out almost 7 years ago, it's only natural its lack of modern features starts being apparent.
I still remember not being able to run new games once Shader Model 3 became standard, it's sad but what can you do?
It's supposed to be the introduction to rigorous proof, so it is supposed to be "the first book on [formal] mathematics" for its audience.
That's quite facile.

"Elephants of all ages and both sexes were affected, with many walking in circles before dying suddenly, collapsing on their faces."

"Other things experts tested for included cyanide, which some people use to poison elephants"

That's quite traumatic.

Skip the click - really?
> Wrap that in the http server of your choice in about fifty lines of code and you're done.
> Or, you use something like Express inside Lambda with Serverless and adapting it to a long running server is literally just deleting the fifty lines of code that export your lambda handler. It couldn't be more simple.

...which is all extra setup that you need to do compared to if you weren't using lambda, in which case you'd already be set up using something like express. To be fair, it doesn't like it'd be too much work to do the conversion. But it would still be extra work compared to say moving something running on express and deployed in a container to another VPS and/or container hosting provider which would likely require no application changes at all.
The free tier gets 100k requests per day, not month. And then for $5 you get 10M or 1M free a month depending on your settings and then you get charged for additional usage.
Another true entitlement is adblock users complaining that YouTube is greedy, etcetera, now that they're actually kicking said users off their site. You (in the general sense) are certainly not responsible for making YouTube's business work, but by a similar token they are certainly not under any obligation to continue serving data to users who don't generate any revenue.
The estimation wasn't 3 minutes a call, but that each patient would take an average of 3 minutes of time in this communication channel. I imagine most patients wouldn't want to email their doctor every year, and that those that ask too many questions would be directed to appointments. I can think of a handful of times in my life that emailing a doctor/nurse would have been the most efficient use of time. Mostly the questions would revolve around "I'm having these symptoms, should I come in for a visit or should I stay at home."

I've (acting in the role of senior developer) directly addressed support tickets that were generated by user support emails and have even directly communicated with users in phone calls as standard level support. Not at Amazon, Google, or Facebook but in Fortune 500 companies and in B2C.

If you aren't talking to your users, how do you maintain empathy?
Most certainly, yes.
Navigating and driving the car are two very obviously distinct tasks that regular people and rally drivers split up.
Games are a different medium then movies. When was the last time you spent twenty hours watching a movie? My library is full of games I have spent a hundred hours or more on. So yeah, I expect a game to be good the day I buy it. But I also like when teams update a game after launch.
> They're going to get pennies on the dollar if they send the account to collections

Collections fees are not that much FWIW. Especially since the debtor often pays fees.
Thank you! Exactly what I was hoping to hear, unless it was actually good. Thanks for saving us from disappointment.
horse ownership? that was after european contact, right?
This is mostly a rhetorical question. But why does the man have to be taller?

My only two long term relationships (and marriages) were with short women. I have never gone after taller women and I only had any type of romantic chemistry with one person that was taller than I was. We were in the same friend group at the gym I taught at and she was going through a divorce. By the time things finalized and the opportunity made itself available, I was dating my now wife.

But was that romantic or rebound?
All of these assume your background metric is Euclidean.

If your background 2D metric is a projection of a warped 3D space, you can make π as big as you want by tugging on the centre of the circle.
And totally unrealistic
Something being wrong does not mean it is the exact opposite of what is the truth.
Could be both, and/or vary over time. ;)
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For me personally, I find myself reaching for go + html/template + sqlite unless requirements lead me towards something else. It is simple and straightforward, and gives me decent velocity. In the past I might have said express + react, but the number of dependencies those pull in just gives me an uneasy feeling. I like sticking to the standard library as much as possible. At work where I’m in Visual Studio most of the time, asp.net core + entity framework core is easy to work with too.
I would be surprised if that was the case, especially in the hypothetical where she knows what she's missing.
Holy shit he died a few days ago, TIL. Sad stuff :(
As more and more people are convinced to put money in it, the price goes up. That's the only business model.

When new people stop pumping money into it, the business side mostly stops working.
Doesn't the same apply to YouTube then? People who want to block ads are entitled imo. Those people outright refuse to pay or to simply not use the service if they don't like ads. And it enrages so many people when this is pointed out.

Google made a mistake in offering free drive, gmail, Google docs, etc etc. Imagine telling someone in the 90s all the shit we get for free with a couple ads/our data being sold.

People have free will, they should use it, and stop using these services if they don't like ads or want their data sold.

Pay for email instead of your Gmail. Everyone refuses to do this, they'd rather shake hands with a devil and then cry when their soul is taken.