skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose. I have old friends who are pretty up there. One of them (a very best friend and childhood friend) in a family that’s very wealthy. Think Waltons.

Never once did I lever this relationship or any others I have. I think the network thing is overrated. Wealthy and connected people mostly want to be left alone and very rarely do favors for people not independently at their level.

Also I’m trying to think how many close friends I kept from college or even in contact with. I think maybe 5 and none of them were well off or connected.

But yes, that is part of what is sold as well. Or at least the idea of it. There’s no question about that.
Passive Investing in a Warming World
I didn't see any mention of Robert Conquest's 3 laws of bureaucracy:

1 Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

2 Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

3 The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies
This is fascinating.
I was a Gnome/Linux user at the time, and just remember everyone hating Gnome 3. I don't remember ever hearing anything about the background. Had more people known about this, it would have at least helped users sympathize.
if you have hobbies it’s much more fun to spend time on that.
> unless the top billion stops whining and starts doing something.

The most vocal whiners I know still drive a giant 4Runner and get new skis every year.

> We're a bunch of spoiled brats that think 10% inflation and the end of the world are calamities of similar magnitude.

What's the point of this statement? What solution are you suggesting that will directly lead to inflation? Reduced employment? Carbon taxes?

> fucked. fucked. fucked?

Lay off the John Oliver.
Great book. I learned from its Wikipedia page that the author (John Gall) pitched 30 different publishers, got rejected by all of them, and then published it himself. It got discussed in academic papers and then the New York Times picked it up. And we're still talking about it 50 years later. Given that the central theme of the book is "systems barely work" I very much like to imagine Gall taking all of the rejections in stride because he was able to view the publishers as just another system that has its own goals and perhaps isn't really working as it should.
Most of the cost is borne by Medicaid because people exhaust their insurance and assets.

It’s a nasty business, the operators extract money through various means and labor costs are high. The facilities “lose” money but the owners make money through kickbacks from rehab, OT and other providers, who get better reimbursements from Medicare.

The way to lower cost is in-home care. A modern, well run operation providing at home care, rehab and other value ad services deliver higher quality care at lower cost and higher margins.
One of the big problems with plastic recycling is that people read "plastic recycling is a scam" but internalize "recycling is a scam". Some types of recycling are massively successful and efficient, like the recycling of vehicle lead acid batteries or post industrial steel recycling.
So it's good and bad, whereas we only hear the bad part of climate change. As in there's nothing good coming from climate change. Which is a bit misleading. It is a big problem, but some good does come from it in terms of plant growth.
If these groups were doing their job, those bad guys you mentioned should be gone by now, right? They used to make the history books with their accomplishments. What have they done for you lately?
I agree with this. However, the flip side is, a great company can get bought out by a horrible one. A great boss who appreciates the good stuff you did might leave for a another job. (though maybe you can follow them). Things can change quickly. Public sector is different. Its far more long-term. Which is great. Although, OTOH things that are wrong with it remain the same for a long time. Ironically, the reverse is true. I know someone that worked for a company that was horrible and he thought about leaving, then it got bought out by a decent one.
dating app -> drugged -> robbed..

I recall at least 3 stories around Nashville with this M.O. the past couple years or so.. I remember at least 2 stories from around Miami that I've seen in the news.

I'm sure there have been many more, just seen a few actual stories when not looking for them..

I've seen an interesting revenge video made with one of the Columbia situations - and it's apparently gotten to be such a common thing that the state department has recently warned people (https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/21/world/colombia-dating-app-war... ) not to use dating apps when going there.
I love the level of details of this write-up.

It assumes nothing and tries really hard to avoid you any papercuts. I wish I had found when I tried to learn Lisp. Between learning the language and all the papercuts I just gave up like I did for so many other niche things that caught my interest.
Honest props to you for managing to do that, you're a much stronger person than I am.
> firmware, where we follow the SPAGHETTI method

I used to write GPU device drivers. Electronic Engineers had a great understanding of the hardware, but tended to write sloppy spaghetti code. CS graduates, on the other hand, had a loose grasp of the hardware but we're better at writing solid maintainable code. Most teams ended up with a healthy mixture of the two, which worked great.

I once ran into a hiring manager that only wanted to hire people like himself, with the same skills and philosophy. I tried explaining why we needed people with a more diverse set of skills and strengths, but he wouldn't bulge. Unsurprisingly his team didn't deliver much value to the company.
French sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote of the supposedly "anti-racist" French NGO "SOS Racisme":

> Every society must designate an enemy, but it must not seek to exterminate it. This was the fatal error of Fascism and the Terror, but it is also the error of the soft, democratic Terror, which is in the process of eliminating the Other even more surely than the Holocaust. The operation that consisted in hypostasizing a race and perpetuating it through internal reproduction, which we stigmatize as a racist abjection, is now being carried out at the level of individuals, in the very name of man's right to control his own process genetically and in all its forms. SOS-Racism. SOS-whales. Ambiguity: in one case, it's to denounce racism, in the other, it's to save whales. What if, in the first case, it's also a subliminal call to save racism, and thus the anti-racist struggle as the last vestige of political passions, and thus a virtually doomed species?
https://castlesy.com/ has a big list of "castles" in the US.
Hi! Last year, Retool introduced differentiated pricing for end users (viewers) and standard users (editors) to make these kinds of use cases much more palatable[0]. We also rolled out support for building customer-facing apps through letting you whitelabel and ship apps to people outside your organization [1].

Would be more than happy to talk through your use case; feel free to reach out at antony[at]retool[dot]com.

[0] https://retool.com/pricing
[1] https://retool.com/products/portals
Most often I do

var_that_might_be_nil.presence || default

reads better imo
If we can, we should, but you probably want to consider most plastic wrappers as temporally displaced fossil fuel that will be burned for heat in a specialized kiln. The logo that designates plastic types should be changed to match local conditions, from the three circling arrows to a flame—with the same numbers. I believe that using those logos requires a license, but I doubt that it pays for the recycling of most of it. Most of it isn’t recycled anyway. You definitely want garbage collection and processing to be paid for by companies printing that logo. We definitely should include the cost of extracting and storing or processing carbon in there, too.

That might convince people to use paper bags or only certain types of plastic.
That's a thoughtful and well-written post.

TL;DR: there are no shortcuts.
I thought this was going to be an article about the Agile Industrial Complex or Clean Architecture.
This is 100% accurate to my experience working as a software developer for the US federal government.

Important humanitarian mission (I worked in the asylum and refugee org) filled with true believers, dedicated civil servants with a heart for service, managed by career middle managers.

18F, USDS, interesting smaller contractors, and all the "innovation" orgs direct hiring software devs like me were aimed at supporting the mission, but it felt like they were never going to win over the system of 9 digit contacts to support the status quo.
IBM Selectric Typewriters Get DIY Typeballs (2023)
Yes, it's somewhat similar to the 2B model as it uses the same vocabulary size.
Did you meant to write “pretty close to GNOME 2”?

Either way, it doesn't really matter. RHEL 6 was released in 2010 with a traditional menu for starting applications, long after the alleged cutoff date that, according to the article, should have made this impossible.
A system where it's not profitable to solve problems won't do much problem solving.
How do you feel about Crystal-lang?
I go on about leadership and you instead construe that I have disdain for the people. That's an interesting substitution to make.
Institutions are composed of people who expect to continue to get paid and therefore their incentives are aligned. If changing jobs was less costly it might alleviate the problem somewhat.
I guess the principal "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" can apply to almost anything though, as really it is talking about "incentives"?
It doesn’t help that politicians continue to propose dead-in-the-water alternatives. The last round of “Medicare for All” included a lot of provisions that were very unpopular when you asked people about them directly, such as taking away people’s existing private insurance.

This a common theme in politics: Actually solving the problem might remove enthusiasm for your candidate or party, so instead they propose things with no realistic chance of passing. Their business is being front and center in public discourse, not quietly fixing things.

EDIT: I’m getting downvoted because a comment below is denying this part of the bill, so I’m adding the exact text here:

> SEC. 107. PROHIBITION AGAINST DUPLICATING COVERAGE. (a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning on the effective date described in section 106(a), it shall be unlawful for— (1) a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act; or (2) an employer to provide benefits for an employee, former employee, or the dependents of an employee or former employee that duplicate the benefits provided under this Act.

The comment below is incorrect. The bill would have made people’s existing insurance plans illegal to offer.
Would Mermaid[1] suffice?

[1]: https://mermaid.js.org/
Very likely. For context im 33 and mostly hang around people from 28 to 38 range. Although I also notice a different attitude with the new devs that we hire who are 24 to 26.
but there's nonetheless a difference

surely not in principle because anything that's been written may be read out and spoken (and viceversa, anything is potentially transcribe-able)

nonetheless, when push comes to shove there's a real difference: written stuff (text) is readily usable as evidence but things only ever spoken are not.
I loved C++ for years, but the more I learned about it the less I wanted to deal with it anymore. The past year or two, Go increasingly tries to repeat that experience. Should have just stuck with Common Lisp I guess.
HiGHS – high performance open source software for linear optimization
> Google also took llama.cpp and used it in one of their Github repos without giving credit. Again, not cool.

They said it was inspired by llama

>This is inspired by vertically-integrated model implementations such as ggml, llama.c, and llama.rs.

from https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp
It's mind boggling to ponder a world without any plastic products though, isn't it? I work in ag irrigation, and the degree to which plastic has taken over irrigation implements in the last 20+ years is mind boggling. I sometimes wonder what it would mean for our company and industry in general if plastic suddenly became toxic.
Yes but I would guess plastic makes up the majority of items. Paper/cardboard too which is also a scam to recycle in most systems.
Illich talked about this. That’s what Medical Nemesis was all about, and Deschooling Society.
Aluminum isn’t transparent and can’t handle certain chemicals, but it’s not that expensive—if it’s recycled consistently.

It’s routinely replaced by steel for, say, cans because that ends up being cheaper (with thinner walls), but steel is also cheaply and effectively recycled. It also often has a thin plastic layer when holding acids (like Coca-Cola), so it’s not a complete replacement.
How can it be vaporware if it's already been released?
My initial impressions of mixtral (not mistral) are quite good. It runs fairly well on my PC, using ollama.
Jetbrains IDEs can generate a diagram of your code...https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/class-diagram.html

I've never really understood the value of this, but it's there.
Or aluminum recycling, crazy efficient compared to making new aluminum.
I love PicoCSS as well, only combined with Svelte. My only complaint is that I also like OpenProps, and I truly wish OpenProps and PicoCSS would join forces with a common CSS variable API. It would help to bridge the gap between basic personal project and something noticeably bigger.
Anything is better than a laptop mic. It’s amazing how some people don’t seem to get the hint after years of remote. I bought a $30 Razer desktop mic and it’s already and order of magnitude better and pretty sturdy compared to the $10 lapel mics or laptop mics
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
I tested it too—no, it sucks.
Pop media doesn’t really do nuance. If we have to frame climate change as good or bad, it’s clearly bad.

The fact that nuances make it good for some plants, for some people, is true and there for those who want details. The problem is that mitigating details are often used to rebut the first order problem. As the brilliant marketing people in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes put it, “giant tomatoes mean bigger pizzas!”
> The stated purpose of a king is to rule a country, but in reality they spend a lot of time fighting off usurpers.

This quote applies to more than the people at the top. I thought office backstabbing and power plays happened at the senior management level when I was young, which left me unprepared for how much subterfuge and infighting came from ICs trying to be king of their little circle within a company. Recognizing and getting away from the people who compete by putting others down is a valuable skill in the workplace for anyone, not just the king.
Huh! An accidental orbit is an interpretation which - almost - makes it work. It wasn't one I'd thought of, and I don't think it would be the first thing most people think of, so... I'd still cut the line. It's really cool, though, to see how readers interpret things differently than a writer expects.

That's happened a few times with creative work I've presented to the public: once was an occasion for horrified revision, and another was a tremendous moment of "Wow! Maybe this is better than I'd thought". That's fun, and those experiences killed for me critical theories which rely on authorial intent: more always exists than was (consciously) intended.

Your comment, and the other complimentary one to which you replied, have kept this idea rolling around in my head for the last couple of days. I keep trying out different phrases to myself.

"Circling sense, but never setting down" is the best I've got right now. I like the alliteration. I dig the aviation image, although it's a bit abstruse. "Sense" isn't as strong as "meaning", but "meaning" ruins both the alliteration and the rhythm. I'll take it - it's better than the other one - but I'm not completely satisfied.

I adore good writing, and have written some things which I think are good. We see lots of posts on this board explaining the process of writing good code, and the level of detailed thought that requires. I've seized your comment(s) as an opportunity to demonstrate the process behind crafting good prose, which I think is mysterious to most. Thank you for that, even if you and I are the only people who will read this far down the thread.

I'm glad you enjoyed the original expression, and honored that you'll remember it - but please don't forget that it's a turd!
Everyone knows about the dropout billionaires (Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.), but nobody knows about the many people who dropped out to make a startup and failed. The majority of people who try startups fail.

Unless you have a time-sensitive breakthrough idea, I think it’s better to take a pragmatic approach and at least finish college so you have a backup, or at least work on a startup in college, and then drop out if you become successful, not before.
If it's not cheesy, it's not power metal. Eventually you just realize that you're a cheesy person yourself and embrace it.
The author seems like a reasonable person. IMO the best response is something like: "I don't remember the acronym specifically, remind me of the principles and I'll tell you which I feel are the most and least important."

Interviewers aren't perfect. Most are happy to be asked clarifying questions.
I think Benjamin Chiang and his very new startup Volar are kind of trying to accomplish something along the lines of what you're describing. I think the way it works is you have a conversation with a chatbot about many topics. That generates a sort of "AI representation" of yourself. Then, that "AI representation" has conversations with "AI representations" of other people. If it finds people who it thinks are compatible, a transcript of that "conversation" is sent to both parties for review and then they can decide to interact for real if they want.

https://www.volardating.com/

Here's an interview with the founder. (You have to fast-forward to the 10-minute mark.)
https://abc7news.com/14425374/

Also this:
https://abc7news.com/14426891/
> I guess that sort of response begs the question of if there is even anything greater to which humans owe some moral obligation

Nobody can prove that there is. Lots of people have faith in a higher power of some kind, or objective morality. Nobody can provide scientific evidence for it. Far as a I can tell, natural is amoral and doesn't care. And humans have never agreed as a whole on what that something greater is.
Good point, let's hope Polio is not coming back though and it gets eradicated completely eventually.
If Mixtral isn't outperforming chatgpt 3 you're configuring it wrong. It gives somewhat terse answers by default, but you can prompt it to spit out wordy answers of the sort chatgpt has been aligned to prefer easily enough.
thinking about how this works, it just astounds me how clever and creative it is from the industry standpoint. capture a word, then redefine it to conform to an existing effort.

Modern recycling transfers plastic waste away from capitalisms best consumers (the west) and burdens it upon its least visible (the third world.) Its like a black hole for all the immediate problems of the indelible hell you've created. in electronics recycling has an added bonus for elites as it generates scavenging jobs for children and adults alike, further cementing their class status through subsistence poverty.

the cult of recycling will continue just as long it continues to ensure plastic detritus doesnt impinge upon elites, and this is evidenced by things like plastic bag bans which exist predominantly in affluent western cities. Once no one wanted to "recycle" the bags anymore, (or consumers couldnt be counted on to behave properly and accept "recycling") the bags were just banned or taxed.

perhaps the most damning impact to recycling in the 21st century has been Chinas realization that it is a garbage shipping scheme and promptly banning waste import from the west. That certainly sent "recyclers" scrambling for a new "partner" for a time.

the only way to stop "recycling" is to do something akin to that which Germany does: emburden the capitalist with their waste and allow shoppers to return the various detritus directly to them. we do this to a limited extent in the USA, forcing electronics stores and auto repair shops to accept waste oils, batteries, and electronics, but it pales in contrast to what some european countries force their profiteers to acquiesce.
It came after the first wave of SPAs and if we listed every SPA framework (or "library") we'd be here all day.
Is there no value in merely separating and gathering this material, even if it's all dumped in a "plastics only" landfill, as opposed to one containing other types of trash?

Isn't keeping different types of waste sorted inherently useful in other ways?
Happy to hear you landed somewhere after Amazon.
Not sure I understand your point. Are you saying product roadmaps are incompatible with agile?
Dutch defense industry struggling to get bank funding despite pressure scale up
Yeah the whole “I know someone whose panic is not sufficiently data-based to satisfy me, therefore there is no reason to panic” is not a particularly strong (or data-backed) argument.
You can very easily define symbols that match what is on collection boxes. That’s not difficult: the current standard is a series of numbers with three chasing arrows. Obviously, you want to challenge the arrows because they were intentionally picked to look like the recycling logo, but if you need a complex system (and we don’t) numbers are fine.

A better system is to consign containers and have the collection machine do the sorting.
Bold claim, bold claim. Any proof of that? Other than Israel's "Trust me, bro"?
10^5 particles per liter, not 105
To me it was the PC as he alluded to. But maybe for a different reason.

When PCs came out, first we had Basic (free) then Pascal and c came along. All were cheap compared to other languages. I do not know about APL, but IIRC, FORTRAN and COBOL both cost over $1000, the others were either free or could be found for under $200.

So, price won the day. I found Zortech c v1 (not c++) for $99 for my 286. That is where I ended up, and compared to Microsoft c I had at work later on, I thought it was just as good and in some cases better (disp_* libs).

When I went to Linux, back then it was c/c++. For some reason at the time, to me it seemed GNU had issues with providing APL and COBOL. I think that was due to academic snobbery. Now we have GNU APL and COBOL, but too little to late.