skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of sounding glib, in "startup world" (the sector of the tech industry characterized mostly by companies between 100-1000 people large) there are two career tracks:

(1) The track you get on by demonstrating viability in roles of escalating seniority, such as by leaving a Sr. Manager job for a Director job.

(2) The track you get on by having an easily observable or articulable track record of getting important (or at least interesting) things done.

Ruthlessly working "track 1" may rule out "serving" a team (and at the same time rationalizing that by avoiding that "trap" you're "serving" the broader company mission), but that mindset practically rules out progression on "track 2".
One of the optimizations that is employed to make the whole thing possible is reducing flywheel rotational speed whenever possible. Otherwise, as the video says, the reaction wheels get saturated and you lose control over that saturated axis rotation.
What exactly do you mean by "continuity"? The concept of "truth" has already been discussed widely, to the point of the term "post-truth world" being coined. Why learn, why reason from published facts, how are these necessary?

People can learn from one another without any written instructions, which is how tacit knowledge is often transferred; why would one need to read to learn how something works if they can just get trained by someone else?

Why do we need a global skill to read in order for the progress of centuries to be globally available? As long as some people, let's say a "caste" of those being able to read, retain the skill of doing so, why wouldn't we be fine with the rest of people consuming television and YouTube?
>For a typical job there were four or five interviews: an initial interview with a recruiter, an interview with a hiring manager, one or two technical interviews (either live coding, or going through a take-home assignment). There could also be an interview with a product manager, and/or one with a CTO or founder. All in all, quite a time commitment.

This is not news at this point, but it is pretty crazy.
But wasn't that also the case in antiquity/middle ages? People not experiencing Alzheimer's because they did not live long enough?
>why do you even need to be able to read?

Worker drones indeed don't need to be able to read beyond a level needed to follow instructions and consume the products needed to be consumed to keep the money flowing.

If you want to advance the state of your civilization and society you need a large pool of people who are able to read and understand long complex passages.

One cannot learn what needs to be learned in order to cure a disease or build a rocket through the consumption of memes, videos, and simplified ad copy.

The deeper the pool is the better.
I also self-host NextCloud, and if we're honest, its image hosting is pretty underwhelming in comparison. I moved it to Immich. If those issues are critical to you, however, that is a valid concern, but I'd venture to say they aren't critical to most self-hosters, whereas good mobile sync, AI integration (intelligent search and facial recognition), and ease of use are. Immich excels at all three.
I agree phones and Covid play a big part in reading ability decline. But the last reason mentioned is a big one too. Curriculums have moved away from proven teaching techniques into psuedo science at the same time public schools focus less and less on teaching, and more on being social institutions. Moving away from phonics, dumbing down math, practically ignoring science.

Coupled with the increasingly common practice of grade inflation, kids are hitting college woefully unprepared.

The best decision my wife and I have made in our lives was to get our kids into private school 18 months ago. The difference is like night and day.
Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse
I spent many days trying to troubleshoot some HP/GL2 plotter code in the distant past. I eventually concluded that the real problem was with the implementation--I was working with code that was written by others and went a little crazy with coordinate transforms. Oops--worked as expected on one non-HP plotter. Drew the image inverted on a HP plotter. The HP implementation appeared to break if you flipped the world too many times. That was a *long* time ago, my memory is fuzzy by now.

(And in later days I saw a firmware update for a laser printer cause it to spew gibberish when fed embedded HP/GL2 code. This was in the era where there were still DOS programs running under Windows and somebody didn't check that it still worked right.)
> No assets, no (official) income, or plenty of legal excuses to delay and defer actually doing what they were supposed to do

And that would be easy to see when you ask them for proof of revenue before renting to them...
Right, so the premise of the article is an inquiry into whether there is something neuroprotective about the lifestyle or environment of premodern civilization.
Its not an article but here are some books:

Strengths finder 2.0
Rework
Deep work
Rick Rubins book
Start with why
https://archive.ph/3eENm
I think this is much more the case of an aging population that sees a clearly sensationalistic article with little to no context, from a source that has routinely made clear their bias and recklessness, and then decides that all people under 30 have somehow gone wrong and soft.
> I'll add a fourth country, which I haven't visited. The image of the United States in Israel, while complex, includes a great deal of admiration. As a country with security always top of mind, overall Israel broadly admires the United States' extensive defense capability and power. I doubt most Israelis would describe the US as 'loudmouth'.

I'm from Amsterdam and most people there adore the US as well. Our culture is heavily influenced by it as most people on the street now speak a curious mixture of Dutch and American English. The country became strongly neoliberal as a result too (which hurt me as a socialist personally) and even got caught up in the Trumpist outcry over things perceived as "woke". 24% voted for Wilders who is basically a mixture of Trump-style populism and fascism in the last election. The country is really messed up now.

But, the police is not militarised as it is in the US and I'm really glad for that. Even though gangs do have a lot of guns. They're not easy to come by in Holland but we have an unmonitored border with Belgium where they are freely available in criminal circles. We still have some 'common sense' in police approach, at least for now.
>The MIT license allows re-licensing, so not in this case.

That's absolutely NOT true, you can "sub-license" it, but not re-license.
If a contributor wrote a file you cannot change the license from the file:

https://opensource.org/license/mit/

>>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

>>including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software
Incorrect. Perl (5.x) has seen 10 stable releases in as many years, IOW since 2014.
Is AV presentation worse at presenting facts? I've learned a lot through watching videos on science and history on Youtube. Probably some of it is incorrect, but that's also true of written media.

And is AV presentation better at emotional manipulation than writing? Lots of emotionally charged ideas spread through writing.
Using a Mechanic's Workbench in the Kitchen
Hm I’m not sure if the numbers pencil out there, daycare can be $2k/mo or more, especially in cities. If we wanted parents to have 80% subsidized daycare, assuming $1k/mo cost and $20/mo per adult, we’re looking at 40 adults per young kid. Not sure if that’s enough. Maybe not too far off, though? And could play with the percentage subsidy, even much less would be far better than it is now.

I think it’s worth it from a societal standpoint, though.
That’s at the end where it is trivial to skip.
This is very cool. I wonder how much of Ruby was actually implemented. Obviously a few things work, but I'm pretty sure you'd never get regex and hashtables and all the other piles of complex stuff in the standard lib working under those constraints.
>Languages

>TypeScript 50.9%

>Dart 28.4%

>Svelte 16.2%

Seems like the mobile app is flutter and the website is js? That actually makes sense as flutter web isn't there yet in terms of performance. I wonder if they will switch when wasmgc is supported by major browsers.
reading is far faster than video, there's no way it goes away.

Instead I suspect the issue is more due to kids being taught not to think too deeply on things. I doubt the professor is saying many kids literally can't read, but that they can't comprehend any sort of nuance.

Of course they can't given the world today.
Interesting... I had the exact opposite impression. The codebase is big but very easy to understand and their SPIs[1] enable to customise Keycloak's behaviour quite easily.

For the statefulness using terraform[2] solves the problem for me.

[1] - https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_development/#_pr...
[2] - https://github.com/mrparkers/terraform-provider-keycloak
Lack of faith in the author doesn't affect whether it's rude to barge in to someone's thing, a thing that put zero impositions on you and you had to go out of your way to reach, just to ignore the simple rules and make a mess of it.

I don't understand why you wouldn't see how that's rude.
Calling a Mac Studio equipped with 192GB of RAM "consumer grade" is a big stretch.

"Consumer ${thing}" to me is somewhere =< $3000.
If you sleep on weekends during the day, you won’t do stuff during the day. So overall it will be less participating in economy.

On top of that, sticking to your circadian rhythm is important too.
Eek. 1) I use JS/TS every day. 2) There are a great many people who are familiar with multiple languages, their ecosystems & culture, their history, and finally how they compare to each other.

To imply that if you are critical of JS, you must be "on the other team", is a false dichotomy.
That's a pipedream. Our current intermediary run cellular networks pretty much replaced all our previous infrastructure in that space because there are far fewer compromises to end user experience. Secondly, your phone doesn't have any long range antennas in it.

Do some research on VHF/UHF amateur radio. That'll give you a primer on why this is hard. Think line of sight, repeaters, traffic management.

Our current infra, even if it is paid, is cheap and miraculous.

Edit: I had a ham license once (probably still do), built VHF transceiver, only had asshats to talk to on it (locality related not technical).
Do you suspect a higher percentage of those of the Tsimane who died young would have developed dementia after 65 (which seems to be the cutoff they're using)? That would be an interesting result, but unless there's some reason to think it, it's just one of many potential hypotheses.
It's unfortunately not that simple. For most parts you can get breakout boards or dev kits that implement the chip and all its support circuitry. You can drop those into a simple PCB or just a breadboard and get going pretty quick. This is appallingly expensive for more than a handful of prototypes, but it does work. IME, this is how software people approach electronics.

The real trouble comes during the next step. You have to integrate all these disparate boards into one unit. You can copy schematics and layouts from the dev boards, but that takes a lot of time. Once you've done that, you need to re-validate your entire stack, electronics, firmware, and software. You will inevitably find that you've missed a connection or the routing introduced some noise or you got this component value wrong. So you spin a new board, wait a week, and do it all over again several more times.

Debugging electronics is a lot like debugging software. Except that the code is physical objects and the bugs are emergent properties of the whole system and are inherently chaotic. You (generally) can't step through the system like you would with code, you can only observe a small number of nodes in the system at any one time.

It's harder than you expect because you're dealing with invisible forces and effects of the fundamental laws of physics. It requires either very deep knowledge or a lot of time in iterations to solve some of these problems.
You can give talks without do anything. That works just as well.
the idea of continuity is well understood, I suggest you go do your own research.
Malthusianism is from the late 1700s. Another example would be Paul Ehrlich who wrote 'The Population Bomb' in the 1960s with the quote:

> The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.

Smart people make predictions about the future all the time. The problem is the future is hard to predict. The mere fact that birth rates in developed nations are falling below sustainment level calls into question any sort of extrapolation of when or if overpopulation will happen. That's not to say the Earth can support an infinite number of people because it can't; but that doesn't imply any specific trends we see right now will continue into the future.
At this point he might as well have an interview with the Janitor the too
That is not true. Machines can do things better only in strict environment.

Self driving car in Las Vegas is relatively easy. How about tight curvy streets of Rome?

And what about medical machines or sex machines. I doubt they are better then human.
Even the devil wouldn’t advocate the direction you’re taking this.
Ask HN: Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure Options?
There are a bunch of run-ai-in-the-cloud services like Replicate and RunPod, but what are my options if I have data compliance needs like HIPAA?

If my data can't leave my network, what are my options to self-host AI models like fine-tuned LLama2? Is this a solved problem?
really so beautiful. the writeup really revved up my imagination, thinking about how the wheels slow and reverse direction to change and then maintain equilibrium, and thinking about how wheels like this control the orientation of the hubble and jwst.
In my experience the web layer is (or should be) pretty thin, so a framework in this layer shouldn't change too much in the overall application architecture.
This was quite disappointing. It would be interesting to see what are actually the loudest cities (via measuring sound at various spots), but this doesn't do that. It doesn't even tell you if European or American cities are louder.
Time and care from capable parents are more effective than money. However many people who are poor do not have those skill. Upper middle class just prefer to use money instead of time. The upper class does not outsource parenting lightly.
If I understand your logic correctly, then impairing the ability to read would be a force against advancing the state of a given civilization and society. The article mentions book bans as a conscious political effort and the prevalence of modern mobile media as a side effect of technology evolution; if I understand correctly, then both contribute towards a grim outlook that is mentioned in the comments to my post.
Chatgpt 3.5 actually gave a pretty good answer on what the code does:
https://chat.openai.com/share/1d55622a-c9cc-4daf-97de-d766e2...
Author here. I do know about VMs. Is it too lazy for me to write that article and not bother to install a VM with Mojo (and Rust and Julia, to benchmark in the same environment)? Maybe. If this was for my work I certainly would have felt compelled to.

On the other hand, the fact that Mojo doesn't run on Windows and most Linux distros is a point in itself. And also, would the blog post really be substantially improved if I had gotten the number of milliseconds right for the Mojo implementation on my computer? Of course not. It should be clear that the implementations are incomparable, and that a similar Julia implementation is very fast which implies that the reason the original Mojo implementation allegedly beat Rust is not because Mojo is faster. It's just a different program.
Such an interesting article because there are two main reasons I never thought to apply at GitLab:

* Even in the USA the col based pay made them non competitive compared to what I could get elsewhere.

* Incidents like the database backups, and others, lead me to believe they weren't executing at a high enough level.
Reading was necessary because it's a highly evolved and compressed way to convey information, which refines, distills, and focuses thought, and gives access to millenia of civilizational expression, wisdom, and experience.

The video-centric world of 21st century is a Beavis and Butthead vision of culture, where we regress to stream-of-consciousness communication.

We don't gain oral communication (we always had that alongside texts). We lose reading.
I use https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay for this purpose.

the advantage of that is that it's all on-demand. no need to set up sonarr/radarr.
Just set up a bunch of trackers to search from and pick from them on demand.
We have lost candidates at my company which we had pretty much already decided were a fit after 1-2 interviews but we're still forced to go through the rigmarole of these extra interviews over several weeks. It's not just crazy it's also a waste of time and resources.
They certainly do. But not enough to do it themselves.
You can't relicense the original material, true.

But you can create a new version with changes and a different license. The new license only applies to the new changes, but if users use the software as a whole, users must comply with the new license (as well as the MIT license, which continues to apply to the unchanged parts).

As an oversimplification, if you combine 2 components with 2 different licenses into 1 work, the recipients have to comply with both licenses. MIT has few requirements and I believe the AGPL includes all of them. So while technically the MIT license still applies to the old code that did not change, from the point of view of a recipient of the combination, the results looks like a relicense.
Your answer is reasonable but I don't agree that it is a "strange comment" as you say.

Is it not possible to see yourself as having thought too much about maximizing your companys success without thinking about your own needs?

I wouldnt qualify this as toxic. And they can go alongside if you make it clear for yourself and your manager.
Now think about being the people doing the recruiting, offering to 1% of the candidates they interview and still failing 30% of them during their trial period.

Hiring is a huge time sink for all people involved. The best people are hard to find and the best jobs are hard to get.
The scenario imagined in the article is more the less the “The Button” sequence from Yes Minister; when _do_ you initiate a full-blown nuclear war? You probably don’t.
Apparently EY or KPMG are not aware of that, yet they make the rules
I'm not a lawyer, I just read the copyright lawyers who post here, but I don't think this is all that complicated? Once a literal, specific, concrete file is released MIT, you can't "take it back". That specific file will always be MIT. But you can, on a forward-moving basis, license all your own changes to that file however you'd like. The changes (and the changed versions of the file) have, absent some binding contract that says otherwise, their own copyright status.

This is why there is, for instance, OpenSSH: it's the version of SSH that started when the SSH company decided to use a restrictive license on a forward-moving basis. The community just forked at the last permissive version and took over development themselves.

That's how it's supposed to work?
There's a small park in Cleveland, OH (Wade Oval?) that convinced me of the value of elevation in creating urban quiet.

From memory, it's a bowl approximately 3m or so below street level at the lowest.

Yet despite the modest depth, it was impressively quiet inside.
It makes me wonder if there's a better shape than a cube for this. You'd want to be non-circular to walk up things, but you'd want a circular edge for rolling down them. I'm imagining something like two hoops forming a sphere: rotate 90 degrees to switch between roll mode and walk mode.
Some people can balance without legs.
MIT license is permissive; that's the whole point of it. You can use MIT-licensed code to create AGPLv3-licensed derivative works same as how you can use MIT code in proprietary software.
Try the Platform Engineering Slack[0]

Unless you want to build really low-level infrastructure components, platform engineering is where you will find most of the current pain points.

https://platformengineering.org
Got a concrete link? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity gives me a disambiguation page with most sublinks being math, science, entertainment; the "other links" section doesn't seem to have anything suitable here.
Which came first: black holes or galaxies?
It's weird I have to say this, but from what I wrote it of course does NOT follow that ANYTHING that makes economic sense for a company cannot be discriminatory. That would be a dystopian rule straight out of an Ayn Rand novel.
That explains why a garden near me shows as 'quiet' - it's a lovely garden, but it's next to two busy roads, so it's definitely not quiet.
I lived in that apartment for about a year after that.
Galileo was like an employee who publicly and loudly called the CEO of the most powerful NGO in his country and that his company got rules and procedures from, in the parlance of our times, a fucking idiot. Bigotry wasn’t the issue.
> one of my biggest pet peeves is when people take a Config object, which represents the configuration of an entire system, and pass it around mutably.

How do you create immutable structs in Go? I didn't think you could, which makes this more a Go problem than a `passing around Config object` problem.

(One of my pet peeves, coming to Go from C, is how little of stronger typing there actually is. In C, I pass and return const objects everywhere I can, my enums are not just ints because the compiler can warn when I forget one in a switch statement, etc).
At some point there should stop being turtles (questions and justifications) all the way down, and we should agree on some basic shared assumptions/wisdom/reality.

If we have to ask "why is factual information required for living in the contemporary world" something is very wrong with us or with this "contemporary world".

Might as well ask "Why do people need to survive, period? Why not just have them all go and off themselves?".