skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily necessities being locked up is evidence that petty crime like shoplifting may be up. People shoplift necessities when they can't afford them. Nobody is stealing socks for meth money, they're stealing because their feet are cold and they don't have the money to pay.

And why, you might ask, is shoplifting up? Might have something to do with the historically horrific levels of income inequality in the US.
Not really? I live in a small city of no note. When I go to the store, nothing of note is locked up behind glass. I never get screamed at or hassled by street people, have to avoid taking a 'bad' street, etc. Nobody here has ever told me to leave my doors unlocked so thieves won't break my windows like that's a normal and OK thing. Nobody has suggested I carry a fake wallet for when I'm robbed. These are real things I've been suggested when visiting a 'real city.'

I guess it's a frame of reference thing, or Stockholm Syndrome. Yeah you can point to FBI stats showing less people are murdering each other, that's a fair point. But to an outsider they don't feel anything resembling safe or normal.
I would be more nuanced than that.

First, things like murders are not exactly ethical problems: they are criminal problems. They fall in a different category in that you can go to the police. Try to go to the police to complain about surveillance capitalism and you'll see the difference. There are fully honest people who contribute to unethical stuff Big Tech does (ask an engineer working in AI with a BigTech salary if they ever think about ethics: they get a ton of money to have fun, why should they care?).

Second, because they are not the worst guys does not mean that they are not bad guys. Still worth improving.

And third, BigTech is dangerous. If you don't see the problem with surveillance capitalism (now moving to a new level with LLMs), then you are missing something.
You can gaslight people but unfortunately for you a lot of us have years/decades of first hand experience from living in said cities. And some of us have even lived in places that don’t have similar problems to contrast! Whether it’s a “conservative” talking point or not is irrelevant.
Lets hope Jevons paradox does not take effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
San Francisco is not safe.
Google "Profits from Pirated Textbooks" Publishers' Lawsuit Claims
Employees are willing to give up serdipitous in-office collaboration while CEOs, who are struggling to navigate any of this, refuse to accept that this aspect of work life is going away.

I want the old in-office comraderie and collaboration but I'm not willing to give up WFH benefits.

My company went so far as to remodel huge new office for me. I thought it be great but then a four day onsite rule popped out of nowhere that applies to people with offices. I'm seriously considering leaving.
> most cherry picked of statistics

Isn't it true that another big talking point that lots of "petty" crime is now decriminalised so we're not comparing apples to apples if "progressive" leaders are massaging the stats.
FYI AeroSpace is nice but can't handle apps with tabs, like Finder. This is a non-starter issue for me at least.
Are they not extremely correlated?
A Cost Analysis of Replication vs S3 Express One Zone
Plants aren't that efficient, there's just a lot of them. You could cover the requisite 764 GW with about 3000 km^2 of solar cells (assuming 250 W/m^2). That's a bit over the land area of Luxembourg. Minuscule compared to the amount of area on Earth taken up by plants, and sunlight that falls on those plants.
Posted yesterday and discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620955
Reputational risk can lead to security risk if researchers think Apple is not paying bounties anymore.
Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
I don't get your point. High turnover means unnecessary costs. And especially in senior positions it might take years to get the necessary experience to get equally productive. So unless you really aim at the very bottom, you should care about employee retention.
> If you Google a few words you'll find the original source and context.

Fair enough. Searching leads me to:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LfGnzX7wm6j8MGWfT/unpacking-...

discussing:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

from which the text you quote is sourced. Curiously, the relevant paragraph starts with Eliezer saying:

> The concrete example I usually use here is nanotech, because there's been pretty detailed analysis of what definitely look like physically attainable lower bounds on what should be possible with nanotech, and those lower bounds are sufficient to carry the point. My lower-bound model (...)

I highlight that because here Eliezer explicitly states his belief that this is very much physically possible under the rules as we know it today, whereas you accuse him of being "anti-physics and rely on the world as we know it to operate under vastly different principles than we think right now". In this "yes so" / "not so" contest, I'm inclined to take Eliezer's side, since every living thing demonstrates similar capabilities all the time.

> Viruses don't replicate without host cells, there's no "nano factory" involved

That's literally what a cell is, though. A nano-factory. Biology is the one existing example of molecular nanotech.

> and ... do tell me how to implement an accurate timekeeping mechanism inside a virus.

IDK, plagiarize the mechanism by which any one of the countless biological counters works? Not to mention, the "on a timer" part was possibly the least relevant and most replaceable piece of the scenario.

(If anything, the biggest problem in this scenario is human immune system, which is ridiculously good at dealing with nanoscale threats. This makes the best bet for any rogue actor, whether AGI or human, to repurpose one of the pathogens that has been already tuned by natural selection to work on us.)

BTW. the first link omits this part of the quote, which I find humorously relevant:

> (Back when I was first deploying this visualization, the wise-sounding critics said "Ah, but how do you know even a superintelligence could solve the protein folding problem, if it didn't already have planet-sized supercomputers?" but one hears less of this after the advent of AlphaFold 2, for some odd reason.)

> Just to clarify: Do you have deep expertise in biotech?

Deep? No. Undergraduate-level in biomedical engineering, yes, plus some books and courses on genetics, because molecular biology is a topic I very much enjoy learning about.
It was *very* hard to decode what this article is about when it started off with "quickly forgot about their support for “Women in STEM”", which (after 3 reads of the first 2 paragraphs and then closing the page) has nothing to do with anything, but makes it sound as if the article is about identity politics, which it isn't.
> Therefore it really mucks up the compiler’s ability to pipeline instructions. And, that cancels out the performance benefits for short snippets of assembly.

This seems very untrue. Compiler shouldn't pipeline anything. Pipelining is baked into the architecture. You can write only ASM and the pipeline will be used.

The reason we don't use assembly is that it tends to perform worse than optimized C code, and C is more user friendly. Weirdly this can be true even for very small code snips, that will perform better via optimization; a lesson from computer engineering class.

An additional problem is the bugs caused by not following the programming manual. You technically don't need to "mark" registers, unless you want to tie into your C variables (and there are other ways like parameter passing to ASM functions). You can simply keep it clean for the rest of the C code with the stack.

C code gets turned into ASM. Typically, you can follow the same rules, and everything will always be fine. Many compilers have extended assembly syntax, but I'm wary of it. Seems like some of the modern embedded compilers don't use it, and/or it's not entirely reliable.

P.S. I'm not even sure how true the thing about optimization is, since there ARE asm optimizations. In this day and age, asking for help making your asm more efficient seems silly tho.

Really should only be used to dip into hardware, which rarely has performance considerations.
They used a capital C, so could be talking about the tories and not small-c conservativism
You're much more likely to be seriously injured or killed in an auto accident than you are as the victim of a random violent crime.
San Vitale Challenge: Automatic Reconstruction of Ancient Glass Fragments
you get off by running in the opposite direction and jump :D

I am only slightly exaggerating
I'm still surprised they did not get away from Nginx at that point and did something like Cloudflare.
A compiler for what? Some languages are easier than others.
Related:

Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite [1]

Mainline Linux on Qualcomm SoCs, are we here now ? [2] (Good talk)

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

[2] https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1707-main...
TableTool – Effortless CSV Browser
You've never heard that phrase? Its pretty common.
Welcome to the Era of Garbage Film and Television Streaming
Summary of Situational Awareness – The Decade Ahead
I have a very tough time finding any discussion of the topic before the late 1980s.

Here's one from 1989, at https://archive.org/details/homefamilyguidep0000unse/page/20... , recommending "Refuse plastic bags when shopping. Take along your own cloth or string bag or a backpack."

Here's another from 1989, at https://archive.org/details/envisioningsusta0000lest/page/26... , saying "Not only do plastic bags utilize a nonrenewable resource that is better used for other purposes, but people cast them into nature, marring the landscape for many years."

Archive.org has few materials from Mother Earth News. None of the handful have anything about the plastic-or-paper bag topic.

I did find this 1984 Mother Earth News piece at https://archive.org/details/livingonless00hend/page/234/mode... which suggests the reader audience is not that into plastic:

"A young mother on a West Virginia homestead felt that in her environmentally committed life there was no place for nonessential plastic. It seemed right to her that her firstborn should be delivered naturally, thrive on mother's milk, and wear plain cotton diapers. The baby's dresses were fashioned from simple patterns and natural fibers. Everything about this little one seemed part of a larger harmony— everything except the plastic pants that had to be used over her diapers."

In any case, you said you got "lectures in school from people who called themselves environmental activists", which seems very unlikely given my memories of the 1970s of only having paper bags available.

Your overall point is that 'the same people are saying the exact opposite; without ever having been "wrong" somehow' but now it looks like you are specifically talking about 'the very flakiest of the cutting edge of progressive thought'?

Why would you expect anything else from flakiness?
My usual burnout post; much of burnout is really chronic fatigue (ME/CFS) and much of chronic fatigue is from a genetic predisposition and a trigger. hEDS/HSD appears to be the most common genetic predisposition.

This stuff occurs in smart people more than it should, usually with some sort of anxiety disorder or ADHD. Some of the best public info on this is from Dr Jessica Eccles who examines the relationship between cognition, emotions, and the autonomic nervous system. This stuff shows up in a lot of stats, eg a huge portion of people with long Covid have some sort of hypermobility.

There are effective psychopharmacological treatments for dysautonomia which is usually the underlying mechanism.
Paper Talk: Topology-guided accelerated vector field streamline visualization
> repeated exposure to it will desensitize you to it

Not necessarily, as someone who has a difficult anxiety that I have to deal with very often, being exposed to the situation doesn't make me any less fearful of it.
It's not a ChatGPT's mistake. In fact, it never is.
C# differs quite a bit from Java particularly in surrounding libraries, and there is a learning curve to things...the expectation that it's another Java ends up misleading many people :)

I'm sure MapStruct would also require you to handle differences in data presentation, in a similar way you would have to do with Automapper (or Mapperly). .NET generally puts more emphasis on "boilerplate-free happy path + predictable behavior" so you don't have autowire, but also don't have to troubleshoot autowire issues, and M.E.DI is straightforward to use, as an example. In terms of JSON (with System.Text.Json), you can annotate schema (if it's code-first) with attributes and nullability, so that the request for OrderDetails returns only what is available per given access rights scope. In either case different scopes of access to the same data and presentation of such is a complex topic.

Single-layer case might be a bit extreme - I did use it in a microservice-based architecture as PTSD coping strategy after being hard burned by a poor team environment that insisted on misusing DDD and heavy layering for logic that fits into a single Program.cs, doing a huge disservice to the platform.

Another popular mapping library is Mapster: https://github.com/MapsterMapper/Mapster, it is more focused on convenience compared to Mapperly at some performance tradeoff, but is still decently fast (unlike AutoMapper which is just terrible).

For fast DTO declaration, you can also use positional records e.g. record User(string Name, DateOnly DoB); but you may already be aware of those, noting this for completeness mostly.

Overall, it's a tradeoff between following suboptimal practices of the past and taking much harder stance on enforcing simplicity that may clash with the culture in a specific team.
gatekeeping?
> Which is not the case, speaking from experience.

Of course not. A company does not have "intentions" or "feelings". A company is just a big profit maximization machine, and people at every level contribute to it.

But I think we can say that the result is that BigTech results in unethical stuff (starting with surveillance capitalism). Without blaming individuals, it's possible to recognize it and search for solutions.
I guess because Twitter used to be the place where all the tech people were hanging out and so there was an incentive to make it work properly while now is a bit of a cesspool in free fall and people have moved on to other platforms?

That’s my guess.
Random people will die form time to time. thus if you are an exec you need to ensure all employees (including you) are replaceable. As such if you need to reduce headcount just counting on a few random people to quit and not replacing them (or replacing them by moving someone out of a position you wanted cut into theirs) is good enough.

Of course people are never this substituteable in the real world. however you need to do your best to make them so.
The rise and fall of Koo, India's once-thriving Twitter alternative
"... the old interface ..." is at https://old.reddit.com
It's about rule and control. Some people see employees as "less than equals" and they need a thumb on them at all times. Others are steeped in Right-Wing Bullshit and are willing to burn it all to the ground for one more profitable quarter.
Sort of. It caused a kerfuffle, and so it was decided to continue with 5.x until there's a big enough change to make the jump (and who knows if any such change will ever come). Quote:

"At some point in the future, the PSC may decide that the set of features, taken together, represent a big enough step forward to justify a new baseline for Perl. If that happens, then the version will be bumped to 7.0."

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-pe...
Perhaps they prefer docile to senior.
There’s a lot more there in the mix for customers oursourcing their business than a mere productivity measure. What stops them from outsourcing your business, the Fridays in the office?
> You are not going to solve a hard math problem with average IQ no matter how much persistence you throw at it.

I'm inclined to disagree, but there's an important piece here that I've found when solving problems that were at least hard for me: sometimes I can get hung up on making a particular approach work when it's not going to and what I need to do is back up and find a different angle of attack.

For example if you're solving a hard math problem with little math knowledge and average IQ, if you're really passionate and persistent about it, then you'd realize you first need to learn more math to build your understanding of the domain. IQ/persistence in this case is not really about the problem itself, but more about the problem-solving process itself.
Agreed. I'm chuckling because I was wrestling with this exact same bug on a FastAPI project last night. I caught it because I have a habit of submitting API endpoints multiple times with the same data to see how the database reacts. Got a key collision when I tried to submit the endpoint the second time and figured out that setup didn't create a new UUID each time.

Unit tests are good, yes. Monitoring is also good. But just taking 30 seconds to do some manual testing will catch a LOT of unexpected behavior.
Cooking shouldn't be that hard. Bœuf Bourguignon is a very low effort dish. Slow cooking meat in wine and stock.

I am going to assume you were not exposed enough to parents and family cooking while growing up. And therefore you haven't built much intuition around it.

Happy cooking!
I take that as a no to my question lol.

Not a great comparison because work is a deal in exchange for money and tooth brushing isn’t a deal you make with anyone.

With employment, the outcome you want is likely continued employment and/or some sort of increase in power/pay/responsibilities/etc.

Can’t really tell which it is on behalf of someone else, but in the programming case, the company agreed to pay for work. Unless people were being fired left and right whose job it was to do the thing that was left undone then the company was satisfied with their output. You can tell because they kept paying them.

With teeth brushing the outcome you likely want is healthy teeth and gums and fresh breath. Brushing once a year the night before the dentist won’t likely get you to that outcome (but if it does then it is good enough).
Crime, especially violent crime, has been going down for decades now. SF and LA has the homeless, Portland did a number on itself legalizing all drugs, and NY has a few hundred repeat offenders shoplifting in pharmacies. While unpleasant situations, hardly a hell scape Fox News makes it out to be, considering that the places scoffing at all this actually have higher occurrences of violent crime, gun crime, and mass shootings (the latter of which these cities have none).
My claim was it is not a symbol of white power. And the article you linked provided 0 evidence to support the claim that it is associated with white power. It did associate it with the 3 percenters, who do not seem to be a white supremecist group.

Instead you seem to be claiming that right-wingers use the symbol, ergo it is racist or white power affiliated. That claim is false. Just because someone is a republican, doesnt make them a racist.
>historically horrific levels of income inequality in the US.

You can have high inequality and low % of extreme poverty
If you’re a security researcher who potentially falls under OFAC sanctions. Everyone else will likely still get paid.
> Do you have any evidence that this is the case for everyone at every company no matter what?

Of course not, you are asking for the impossible.

But we have evidences that 4 day weeks boost productivity at least in some settings. If you are interested in the topic, look up "4 day week productivity" on a web search engine, or "4 day week" / "4 day workweek" on HN [1,2] if you want previous discussions about this. The topic is not new here. You'll find many posts where companies think it works.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Let me guess: Sandra Rivera
Wow, what niche are you in that developers aren't just swapped out like spark plugs at the whims of {,product} managers? Literally didn't know this hadn't happened everywhere yet. I thought this attitude of treating programmers as real professionals died with the dot com crash.
I strongly believe that engineers should have mandatory ethics classes. Then when they accept a BigTech salary, at least they would know that they trade their ethics for their salary.

I find it alarming how many engineers just don't ever think about the impact technology has on the world.
Lie Theory for the Roboticist (2020) [video]
Could you give an account of how it started and how are you dealing with it?
'The new era of AI'? Sounds like the universe in general to me. You must be new here. Enjoy your stay. Avoid Florida if you can.
Looking back, it was kind of weird how both apple and google used webkit for separate proprietary browsers for so long.
It's foolish because, you don't have to be on the extremes of being against or for.

We face huge coal free electrification targets in short timeframes to save the planet. A rational administrator would focus on the larger goal, and decide on a project basis.

Being explicitly anti nuclear, in today's situation, that too for a young technological party (without the 75 year old past that greens have no choice but to cling on to) — is a red flag / potential sign of hidden administrative irrationality.
The same thing happens in a Walmart on 5th Avenue. You would need statistics.
So if a tree is shaken by the wind, they attack it?

And if you stand still they avoid you as if you were a tree trunk?
Sounds like someone got drunk on power on day one.
Maybe it would help if BigTech was not as big in the first place?
My concern is, are GPL-family licenses good enough to let contributors involve with this project? Because I heard that GPL licenses are like viruses and someone hates them.

Or maybe dual licenses are good enough if one of them is Apache License (for personal use only)? This is what VGG License 2.0 does.
I think "comfort turn signal" is a feature all newer (2000+) cars should have. I haven't found one from that age that didn't have this feature.
Not only that, the rate of change is increasing or speeding up. Brains are not really capable of handling constant change.

There is much more to learn. There are more unknowns. And there is much more competition.

If you take competitive sports and look at size of support stuff its ridiculous these days compared to 20 years back. There is coach, physio, shrink, nutritionist, biz manager, social media manager etc

So now extrapolate and imagine what things will look like 10 years or 20 years from now on the that trend line. Its just not sustainable.

People have to think about rate of change in the environment that surrounds us.
I disagree partially. With enough practice you will be good in leetcode, though if you knew also math it would probably be easier for you.

But as far as I am I don't believe there is any math in algorithms such as bubble sort.
> empathy and suffering are human qualities that don't exist in the corporate structure

Corporations are run by real humans, as far as I know. They are the definition of human qualities but they give a pretty good mask to the guys doing the job, so they unleash their full humanity.
Or a video introduction if you prefer:
https://youtu.be/E0Pp63gsdZI?si=yJCX-CS1T6zsYiLY
Adapted from the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01537
and they have an interesting C++ library https://github.com/artivis/manif

(I am not affiliated with this)
It's a travesty that Google hasn't been slapped harde for that kind of behavior.