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The rules state you need to stay on topic. Your reply violates that requirement. If you want to discuss politics instead of the technology of the post, feel free to engage other social media networks, Reddit would be a much better fit for the kind of discussion you are directing people to engage in.

In the interests of fostering better quality dialogue, I think you could have replied something like, “Democrats did (X in relation to technology) where Republicans have done (Y in relation to technology). It would have accomplished the same thing and at least stayed in relation to the topic.

> The first usage was to cache the result of an external API call to lookup geolocation of users, so that the service in question could process location requests quicker, and also run cheaper.

BAAAHHH HAAHA HA HA HA HHHAA. Ok, look. Just because it's in Redis does not disqualify the clause in the geo service's license that you NOT permanently store the data. The author did not say that's what they were doing but a very similar thing came up in a previous work place for me and we chose to call the service for every lookup the way the service company expected their customers to do. I recall the suggestion in using a caching database as a workaround and it was not made by the engineering team. Sorry, I'm still chuckling at this one...

> you dig into your existing tried & true toolkit to get the job done

Haha. Yes. But when the c-suite is made up of top level management pushed out of the s&p 500, they always assume it’s their tried and true toolkit from another company. Believe me, it’s never the hammer the current engineering staff is holding. I’m slow clapping so hard for the business school graduates right now…

Eliminating both the creator AND the customer? It’s an almost perfect business model.

> down from 231 last year

I have no idea what you’re talking about. Oh wait, are you referring to the news media? Noted I guess. I’ve seen scaremongering on both sides, especially when dealing with change.

Anyway, for context, because the first thing I wondered that the linked article completely delivered on was, out of how many passengers?

TY: 3,834,806 vs. LY: 3,303,727 and that’s a single days ridership in the city. That’s more than the population of many states. While it’s good news that the number of crimes decreased from 231 to 147, isn’t it also impressive that the number is so low considering the amount of people that take the subway? I’m frankly impressed with the safety of the New York subway system. Brilliant work by everyone involved. I had no idea it was that good, not being exposed to that volume, I simply didn’t have a frame of reference. Just wow.

> how an intelligent person can still think this

Cognitive neuroscience

“qualia”

Ray Kurzweil

I’ll take “things OP doesn’t know about that an intelligent person does” for 800 Alex.

If you’re enamored with LLMs and can’t see the inherent problems, you don’t actually know about AI and machine learning.

I follow the thread and can agree in large parts. But given multiple news anchors, news programs, both traditional and online, in combination with social media, content creators and late night TV, I am wholly exhausted by Trump somehow being a magical monster responsible for (just as you’ve demonstrated) in some way every ill in modern society.

If he is a narcissist and we are aware narcissists feed on attention and drama and starve in the absence of those things, shouldn’t the best version of activism against him be to deny him mention or attribution? Regardless of how cathartic it might be to openly complain? Imagine getting to the end of this next 4 years and despite what he does, nothing of note can be said about the man. Despite all the EOs, nothing interesting could be discussed. His presidency could be a footnote in history, except for the “activists” going emotionally boneless and apoplectic at every word he says.

TBF, it’s not Trump that exhausts me, it’s this. The maniacal blaming for every problem. The incessant injection of Trump and secondarily politics into every conversation and every facet of life. This…neo-activism is as caustic of a solution as the disease it attempts to inoculate. It’s as if everyone has forgetten how to problem solve in the face of adversity. A social fragility whose only method of communication is abject outrage.

Ugh.

Do we really want this? As soon as possible, employers will fire software engineers and replace them with AI. I’m positive they will not care about what AI can do, only how many salaries they can eliminate and still achieve the same results. You and I will not be the inheritors of AI.

> predominantly White

So, the ones that commit suicide at the highest rate. But I agree, this is not a good study and little if any meaningful information comes from it. Perhaps its failure can bolster some actual research into the issue?

> Twitter has lost 85% to 90% of its revenues.

Do you mean from when Musk purchased it?

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

Looking at the revenue growth, does anyone know why it increased in value to the degree it did leading up to its sale? I recall there was some discussion around the amount of bots (not the existence, the degree).

Pre-sale:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/04/09/bots-in-the-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/04/19/qa-how-pe...

During the process:

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/we-checked-elon-m...

I wonder to what degree bots are still influence the platform. For that matter, it would be nice to know how bad the problem is on Reddit.

> Then, they'll track your eyes and require you to watch the screen :)

Check out the recent controversy over Activision and Call of Duty. Evidently the game code requires access to your webcam and the company has patents on using your gameplay to train a bot that play like you do, then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away. This bulks up the pool of players ensuring you are matched with people resulting in a good experience for you. There's also a patent detecting your emotional state while you view their in game store, possibly for adjusting price to influence you to buy or spend more.

> useless executives

Thank you for saying it. After decades in software, I've developed the perspective the people at the top (of medium to large companies, not small ones) are actually bottom feeders and most software companies could function without having a c-suite.

In all the years of this profession, it's as if software engineers cannot be optimized enough. Yet, when has a company taken a look at middle to upper management and tried to optimize that? They don't, or do it in name only. Those people are the financial and emotional ticks of an organization.

Depends.

For the insecure, yes, but in a way you take on a mantle of parent or mentor where you repeatedly compliment and reassure them, allowing them to fail and seeing its not about them or their character but just another problem to solve. It helps when they see you fail publicly and handle it with grace. This often takes years, but it can work. But sometimes it doesn't, as if the psychological damage is well outside the workplace.

For the grandiose, I've never had that experience. It could be they have narcissistic, sociopathic, or psychopathic tendencies. It could also be from some other neurodivergent influence, in which case all you can do is work around them, not with them. If you are put in a position where you are the sacrificial goat, quit. Leave. There be dragons.

Thanks for the information. It helps. People like me just don't know.

> breaking the NIH is not going to fix wealth disparity in the US

I didn't say or imply that. I'm sorry if that's how it sounded. I've traveled for work both paid and not, both with implicit and explicit frugality. I'm not seeing how a pause on paying for travel, as the norm quoted within the article, is an egregious practice, nor how it could break the NIH. Especially given it appears to be a norm when administrations turn over.

Thanks for the information. It helps. People like me just don't know.

> a few classes

You must be working with very good product owners then. The ones I've worked with love to specify the hell out of every possible detail. Like a web form is their personal HGTV renovation. I tried tailwind once and the classes ended up being an order of magnitude more than the markup. It got hard to read, quickly.

I'm with you. Tailwind would be great if it could be SASS'd but Tailwind is a post processor and it would be silly to build a post-post processor just to make tailwind reusable. It simply isn't a good tool for large enterprise applications. Toys, home projects, sure. But then, why learn CSS twice for occasional use? Until they solve the post processor problem, I'll stick with bootstrap. But if they do, I would definitely switch. That would be the best of both worlds.

The author is from China. There are many MANY great things about China and the work they do. But, there is also significant fraud and IP theft, not to mention the policy of accelerationism the CCP has taken against the US. These things suggest a myriad of possible bad faith motivations.

> $47.4 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

$47.4B is a significant amount of money. I don't know whether their expenditures are appropriate. I don't see that in the article either. Unless someone does know that can comment, the $47.4B is unaccounted for in coloquial dialog, is it not?

> The hiring freeze is governmentwide

> pause on communications and travel ... Such pauses are not unprecedented when a new administration comes in.

Hmm, seem like the author is fomenting malice by using ‘devastating’ in the title. Perhaps building a character judgement that might not actually be there, helping to draw anger and hate from people already opposed to the new administration?

> NIH travel chief Glenda Conroy sent an email to senior agency officials early today notifying them of an “immediate and indefinite” suspension of all travel throughout HHS with few exceptions, such as currently traveling employees returning home. Researchers who planned to present their work at meetings must cancel their trips, as must NIH officials promoting agency programs off site or visiting distant branches of the agency. “Future travel requests for any reason are not authorized and should not be approved,” the memo said.

I guess someone needs to ask the question, how exactly is the NIH going to prevent people from "going home"? Does that mean simply that they will not be paying for their travel? Or for that matter, researchers who want to present their work must do it at their own cost or from approved unpaid time off?

I feel like someone is forgetting how hard the MAJORITY of US citizens have it. Inflation has hit non-wealthy people the most. They don't have jobs where they get paid travel or paid time off. While I don't mean to inject some form of class into the discussion, I do wonder what exactly are the things to be fearful of in this scenario. I'm just not seeing a worrying concern here given reality. Unless, there's a more rampant amount of fragility in the well paid health community? I'm sorry. I just don't get it.

They were being sarcastic with no reasoning or explanation and there's no logical reason it ought to be the top comment in this thread.

I want to add something I noticed about coloring diffuse light. In an older home, the "white" walls may have yellowed a bit and bouncing light off them will color what is diffused. This sameness has a backrooms kind of feel to me. But, repainting with fresh and more-white white paint, I can bounce yellow or warm colored light and it ends up being pleasing.

If you say I’m missing the point…then go on to solution just like I predicted, then it’s you who missed the point. I’m sure you’ll have great ideas, and I’m also sure it won’t matter and does nothing beyond making you feel like you are more right than someone you don’t know on the internet.

If you need a direct call to action, and why wouldn’t you as a good little techie, then call or write your representatives and officials with your solutions.

At least when I commented I read the entire article, quoted a piece of it, then referred to other sections. Ya know, kinda following the rules.

> Today our horticultural firebreaks are gone, strawberry fields are now aging suburbs, and the quest for beach fronts, mountain view lots and big trees has created fire hazards that were once unimaginable.

Being posted in a tech community with an ideology of constant improvement, I’m positive there will be a preponderance of solutioning in response. I grew very tired of the repetitive nature of the writing. I also noticed amongst its supposed specificity, none of the actual causes of the fires were given. For example, I recall the fire that burned part of Redding was from multiple fires burning together caused by both arson and a trailer chain left dragging against the pavement. I think some of use are aware of the arsonists caught in the current LA county fires. We can point to failures of leadership and forest management. But the author calls the behavior of mankind believing we can tame nature perverse. What a disappointing perspective. Were that true then we have no business ever exploring space, the ocean, or housing anyone for any reason on the Earth’s polar ice caps. The fact is we can and do tame nature in many MANY ways. Anyone that drives a car can understand this. So it’s not a matter of whether we do or not, but to what extent are we trying. That is not a perverse belief, as I’m sure you may know of will read in other replies. We, or those in leadership positions, know what can be done to mitigate destruction and loss of life. The challenge is, and as the history in this article suggests, is doing it.

> "designing a whole new system around one pet peeve"

BAHHAHAH! So…you mean React. If I hear the word hook as if it alone can solve complexity in web dev one more time I’ll…eh, I’ll do nothing actually. But my point still stands. React solves asynchronous event driven behavior well, but that’s all. Everything else in React projects is, well, everything else.

Our company has a no AI use policy. The assumption is zero trust. We simply can’t know whether a model or its framework could or would send proprietary code outside the network. So it’s best to assume all LLMs/AI is or will send code or fragments of code. While I applaud the incredible work by their creators, I’m not sure how a responsible enterprise class company could rely on “trust us bro” EULAs or repo readmes.

When exactly will world leaders realize that this new wave of military research is risky enough to destroy them in their wealthy gated communities? Do they actually have to die and take a percentage of life on this planet with them before they can agree to some form of of altruistic peace agreement? Even if they have escape islands, I think too many people have seen Mad Max and that never ends well for the leaders.

“Neo Geo[a] is a brand of video game hardware developed by SNK.

It was launched with the Neo Geo, an arcade system (called MVS) with a home console counterpart (AES). Games on the Neo Geo (MVS and AES) were well received and it spawned several long-running and critically acclaimed series, mostly 2D fighters. Later, SNK released the Neo Geo CD, a more cost-effective console with games released on compact discs, which was met with limited success. A new arcade system, Hyper Neo Geo 64, was released in 1997, but it did not fare well. SNK also released a handheld console under the brand, the Neo Geo Pocket, which was quickly succeeded by the Neo Geo Pocket Color, which have been given praise despite its short lifetime.

SNK encountered various legal and financial issues resulting in a sale of the company in 2001. Despite that, the original Neo Geo arcade and console continued receiving new games under new ownership until 2004. The Neo Geo brand was revived in 2012 with the release of the Neo Geo X[1] handheld. Since then, a number of other Neo Geo products have been released based on the original Neo Geo.”

— Wikipedia

Seems to be from about 30 years ago in the 1990s.

In which case, and I know this is the antithesis of far left ycombonator, maybe everyone ought to be paying their own way and bearing the cost of their own choices. I’m not the person you replied to but I share their outlook on this specific viewpoint.

The fact you call that opinion outrageous is outrageous itself. Here you have people getting cosmetic surgery which sets them up for risk and yet it’s shocking to you that someone has a different opinion than you? That they’d prefer the money they are forced to contribute NOT go to people who intentionally do risky surgeries? The fact you can’t even see the reasonable difference is insane to me.

I think they were referring to the degree of speed up.