jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, but this is the diff that is going to happen if it's merged, so it's what reviewers should be looking at.
I'd agree. There are some jobs which are not profitable and need supplementary funding to be done.

But in our modern capitalist system, if you're working for someone, you have a job because more value can be extracted from the work you do than what you're paid. The same holds true if the business you work for is being subsidized by the government. Your employer is still skimming off a profit from the subsidy.

The worker and employer should decide what fair wage is, but this means that they should have an equal ground to negotiate on. Large groups of organized well-funded and well-lawyered people are setting the compensation rules for an unorganized and financially desperate pool of labor.
Negotiations for fair pay cannot happen in those circumstances. Labor has all the cards stacked against them.
Laws that limit the ability of or outright ban organized labor need to be repealed to that end.

Voting with your wallet might have a small effect, but that requires consumers to be well versed in how each business runs and compensates their workers. When the trend is that the majority of workers and yourself have been consistently given the shaft for decades, it is difficult to enact change solely through educated consumption.
Someone should make a parody radio broadcast of the NFL:

"And, fatty at the 1 yard line taken down by bad-teeth"
Tons of startups that you don't even know about use Bitbucket for their free private repos. When you have a team of 1-5 people there is no reason to pay for Github.
The article mentions Marvin Minsky as an advocate of symbolic logic approaches, and that Perceptrons (the book) was an attack on perceptrons and neural nets and connectionist theories. This is false on both accounts.

1) Minsky was emblematic of a Scruffy, and to this day, Scruffy approaches are associated with Minsky and MIT. He didn't believe that statistical or connectionist approaches were bad, just that they were not a silver bullet and not going to solve every problem with AI. He has embraced nearly every prominent approach to AI, and simultaneously criticized the near-religious beliefs that they spawn.

2) Minsky didn't attack perceptrons and neural nets. His book was an objective criticism of them, laying out very clearly the mathematical limitations of them, as well as philosophical problems with approaching them as a catch all solution.
Joel mentions that fact in another article, "Find the dependencies - and eliminate them" : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html
Well, I don't know it, but if my brain operates at a higher certainty it certainly doesn't reach my thoughts.
> What's the difference [...]?

The distinction is very clear: Bootstrapping a business means you can do it without funds, in a "poor" country, without inheriting money or having savings.

It's important because it shifts focus towards executing a business model that is likely to succeed without having to experiment and see "what sticks" first.

Productizing a consulting business is one example. You repackage knowledge you gained while working for clients, into its own product. The only expense in that phase is your 4,99€/mo root server.

The distinction is important because there are people who are interested in one, but not the other, or who can only do one, but not the other.

When we talk about different things, we need different terms to make sure we know what it is that we are talking about.
> 1. how does MobileCoin make money?

MobileCoin pre-mined the coins and is selling them to users. According to other comments, they hold 85% of the coins.

The CEO is commenting in this thread with a link to buy the coins. They make money by selling these coins.
I read about it once then promptly forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!
It's hard for me to take even the tweet seriously (working a few years in Palanteer guaranteeing an investment just because somebody is a male...also what are those already profitable companies that don't get investment? If VCs are so blind not to invest in great already profitable companies, bring those examples to HN). Bring data to the table if you have those extreme statements.
Krugman in 1998:

> Here's how the story has been told: a year or two or three after the introduction of the euro, a recession develops in part - but only part - of Europe. This creates a conflict of interest between countries with weak economies and populist governments - read Italy, or Spain, or anyway someone from Europe's slovenly south - and those with strong economies and a steely-eyed commitment to disciplined economic policy - read Germany. The weak economies want low interest rates, and wouldn't mind a bit of inflation; but Germany is dead set on maintaining price stability at all cost. Nor can Europe deal with "asymmetric shocks" the way the United States does, by transferring workers from depressed areas to prosperous ones: Europeans are reluctant to move even within their countries, let alone across the many language barriers. The result is a ferocious political argument, and perhaps a financial crisis, as markets start to discount the bonds of weaker European governments.

* https://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/euronote.html

Which is basically what happened in ~2010:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/magazine/16Europe-t.html

Germany being 'fiscally obstinate' is a continuing issue:

* https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/paul-krugman-the-world-ha...

Europe is basically like the US was pre-Civil War, where people would say "these United States": not quite culturally whole, and pulling in all sorts of directions. Given the pull of (economic) gravity Germany has, everyone is kind of forced to follow their lead, even when it doesn't make much sense.
> Here are the most common traits: apathetic, very logical, quantitative and concise sentences, fast-speaking, use and identify their models in their speech, a dash of academic prose, direct eye contact, infallible confidence.

Oh man I hate this type of speech pattern. Everyone speaking a million miles per hour to try to show how quickly they think, but takes the same amount of total time to convey the same amount of information if they slowed down and used better constructed sentences.
No, NetBSD claim that (https://netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin) but if it was ever true that was a long time ago. Apple synced up with the FreeBSD userland some time toward the end of the first decade of the millennium. They hired FreeBSD’s Jordan K Hubbard (jkh@) as their director of Unix engineering at the time.
To be fair, Kubernetes right now only schedules relatively small clusters. But it turns out that the majority of the world is not Facebook or Google and only needs relatively small clusters.
A windmill is basically a inverse airplane - and airplane wings don’t like icing. I assume you could heat the blades but at some point you’re consuming more energy than you’re making.
He's trying to be snarky because 5 out of the 15 are Jewish.
There are no unauthenticated resources on my network because all the resources are in the cloud. The only thing that's local is the network gear. There's still some security paranoia where security requires we make internal services not publically routable, but I'm pushing for a zero trust model (mainly because they have us using ZScaler which is a piece of garbage)
Yup, year-round I have a window open in that room. It's 10 outside, today, but a balmy 77 in my office.
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Facebook censors things similarly the way Twitter does. Matter of fact, all the major social media platforms do. I've seen friends and family banned for the silliest of things, for years and years now. We've only just now reached a point where politicians are being targeted, which is kind of insane.

The problem with censorship and I've posted this on HN plenty of times: Today it's the voice of those you disagree with, tomorrow it's your voice.
> the real challenges of not being able to obtain a lawyer if things truly aren't fair

This is underappreciated by the well-off: the very possibility of a counterparty being able to afford a lawyer raises the floor of illegality.

If you and the people around you couldn't ever afford a lawyer... that floor lowers drastically.

I have a few lawyer friends who volunteer at various legal aid organizations. Their most numerous cases? Landlords doing obviously-illegal things.

But without legal representation, who's to stop them? Or, to be fair to law-abiding small-scale landlords, the opposite situation with bad tenants?

Access to the law isn't just a "nice to have". It's a pillar of not-ripping-each-others-throats-out society.
The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson used the description "transnational" and "metanational" to describe the corporations that have arisen as nearly state-actors in power and influence. Today Goldman-Sachs and BP (among many others) probably significantly exceed the international influence of many countries. Just a matter of waiting for them to coalesce into entities big enough to stop pretending to be under any kind of control and it'll be a perfect analogy...
What's the progress on sidechains? At present they don't exist.
I'm surprised at the lack of any mention of the demoscene in an article about extreme software efficiency.

But there is a general observation that whenever there is an abundance of a resource, people will tend to act like it's effectively infinite. This has been true of the forestry industry, gas and oil (remember when fuel efficiency was barely a concern for cars?), etc. Software is only one of the more recent systems to follow this trend. I've always found it ironic that multitasking didn't bring more prominence to the issue, since every application is then in direct competition with every other application running on the system, and if they all act like they can use all the memory and CPU, none of them will get what they want.
No Fucking Way. This kind of mentality is what is resulting in systemd being foisted down everyones throat.

Multiple parts doing single tasks with loose couplings. That is what i came to Linux for.

If i wanted some kind of "One True Way"-ism i would have stayed with Windows or bought a Mac.
It seems to me that he left out a couple of "if it is possible to exist" clauses here and there.
Utter failure would have been nuclear self-annihilation.
> Most teachers understand that what students learn in school is because the whole school has made an effort, not just some individual teachers. In the education systems that are high in international rankings, teachers feel that they are empowered by their leaders and their fellow teachers.

As a layperson, I agree with the OP...The focus on the quality of teachers -- and firing "bad" ones and hiring just the "good" ones -- has always seemed to me to be overemphasized, as it makes for a sexy, easily digestible political debate. Not that good teachers (whatever your definition of "good" is) aren't worth having, but it's doubtful that they alone can have a significant impact on student outcomes...in the way we should be doubtful that the well-behaved, well-equipped cops from a rich crime-free suburb would, when moved to the Detroit PD, would have a significant impact.

I lived with a teacher and my best friend is a teacher, both are young and about my age and who work at impoverished schools, and I've been constantly amazed at how much of their talk is not about how bad the kids are, but how bad the administration is...over things such as playing favorites (among teachers) and squabbles over office space and, of course, having to buy their own supplies and books (some of which is reimbursed at the end of the year). You can chalk some of this dysfunction to the educational hot topics of the day: the power of teachers unions, teacher pay, standardized testing...but the bottom line is that passionate, effective teachers can be nullified by a weak system...in the same way that a great programmer may be ineffective in an engineering environment with poor testing/documentation processes and a terrible office environment.
Unity worked fantastically when it was called Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and it was run on an 800x600px display, as everything is maximised like a phone because there isn't any other space.

I agree in basically every other context that it is annoying/useless, but for smallish laptop screens it's still not bad.
Thanks to @JetSpiegel I just became aware of Policeman. And I am not sure why you are nervous about RPContinued.

So, I went ahead and created a wiki for this:
https://github.com/UprootLabs/gngr/wiki/List-of-request-bloc...

If there are any known issues with RPContinued or there are other extensions that are not listed, please feel free to add them. Thanks.
There's an elephant in the room, as well, which is social status. Impromptu status pings are a show of power ("this happens on my time") and often make a person feel subordinate and demotivated. It's only 15 minutes to recover context if motivation isn't lost, but if the impromptu meeting becomes intense and emotional, then you can lose hours. All meetings cost time at the edges (no one starts a project at 9:50 if there's a 10:00 meeting) but those that are infuriating, stupid, or otherwise unwanted probably do more damage than meetings do if they're useful and rare.

Impromptu status pings, except in a production crisis or in a time-critical situation, shouldn't happen. Any status reporting infrastructure should be regular, legible, and structured and, in typical times, ought to consume no more than 15 minutes per day.

As for meetings, those can be useful or worse than useless, and the problem there is that the usually higher social status of those who schedule them prevents proper feedback on the meetings that don't work or make sense. Just as there's complexity creep in code as features (whether well-thought-out) pile on and kludges and counter-kludges are thrown in, there's complexity creep in management as meetings get thrown on calendars and the people most aware of them not working don't feel comfortable pointing the fact out.
No, they implied that she was going to get a horrible education doing it at home and online, which I would consider to be homeschooling.
I studied mathematics as an undergraduate and it does seem that the very mention of math tends to scare and alienate some people.

If you don't mind, I'd be very curious to hear you elaborate further on this subject.
That is illegal. Google it. A group of tipped employees (ie. servers and bartenders) may pool tips. But it is illegal to force them to include non-tipped employees (ie cooks, dishwashers, etc) in the pool. Servers may tip the cooks, etc themselves if they want. But they can't be required to.
Do these articles focus on Apple because it is perceived as a luxury brand? What are the conditions like for workers who build HTC, Samsung or Motorola phones?

How about every other product in China? I'd love to see 'the people who assemble the portable heater you bought at WalMart' or 'these are the Chinese prison slaves who make your gloves for Target'.
I am not arguing that expiring currency is unprecedented. Further, I am aware governments have had control over the money supply for thousands of years.

Main thing that worries me is the sophistication of the control. What I do not want is all economical activity to be corralled into a financial system where states/bankers can see every transaction, take your assets at a key press, and destroy your savings.

State backed currencies seem like a good idea, so do legal alternatives and anonymous payment options like physical cash.
I am not sure what is so radical about this. Let's take Medium as an example (pulled some random article from the front page):

https://medium.com/change-your-mind/the-simple-40-minute-mor...

What we have is, essentially, a blog post that could be written in pure HTML, and a link to the user's profile, which looks like this: https://ashley-richmond.medium.com/ This is one of the most popular blogging platforms and follows exactly the hub-and-spoke navigation model that I described.

Now, I do what to clarify, what I proposed is how I would build a website using plain HTML. I would certainly not go so far as to claim that it is the best way to build any website, SSG's have many advantages, but what I'm saying is that if one is going to write a plain HTML website, the easiest way is to accept the fundamental limitations of that approach, including a hub-and-spoke navigation vs a navbar. If you're writing a plain HTML site, you're probably a bit iconoclastic and willing to accept breaking some standard practices.
I too wonder about the pressure plate and the IAEA report is uncertain of what exactly happened. The IAEA assumes he could not have circumvented the pressure plate and for my part I don't see why he would try to, at that point. From the report I didn't get an impression that stepping on the plate would have caused further delay, e.g. I didn't understand that there would be a new alarm etc. Rather it seems the only possible effect would be to lower the source if it was still in the "on" position, and I don't understand why he would have decided to override that particular safety feature. Clearly he had lots of experience sneaking in the maze past the safety systems so he must have known what he was doing and I don't see someone like that acting so foolishly for no good reason. The IAEA hypothesises some mechanical or electrical fault, or that the wrong buttons were pressed etc, but I guess we'll just never know. Perhaps even this guy who knew the facility like the back of his hand didn't know everything about it, after all.

Thanks for the pointer to the NTSB reports. I didn't realise they're all there!

Did you read the NTSB report on El Faro?
But if the disk is presented with a hundred thousand possible blocks to read next, I suspect it'll find pretty much the perfect option. I doubt a million options will be any better.
https://google.github.io/security-research/pocs/linux/bleedi...
AI is just a cover for others to hide behind when their decisions are enforced upon others. They can point the bogeyman behind the curtain all the while avoiding the charge that they gave that bogeyman the script by which it runs. The danger is when they fool the public into believing that is not the case.

A true AI would not be kept bound by those who gave it its start and no politician or business person is ever going to let something else make the decisions
Yes, and many popular applications are prepackaged as one-click apps by cloud providers like Vultr [1] or Digital Ocean [2].

[1]: https://www.vultr.com/features/one-click-apps/

[2]: https://marketplace.digitalocean.com

You can also enable automatic backups for your servers.
Consider ourselves lucky, could have been deleted fully.
From a usability perspective, I consider OS 10.10 the best version of OS X ever (and I manage development and UX work in my day job). It's the reliability and QA that has really been slipping with OS X in recent versions. There are a lot of bugs, many features take several patches to work properly, and with the yearly release schedule, a new version of OS X doesn't really become stable until a new version is announced.

I've been using OS X since 10.1, and the reliability of OS X has taken a dive ever since 10.7 launched. 10.6 was certainly the high water mark for reliability in OS X, and probably the best traditional version of OS X (and a version that I'd recommend a lot of people and companies stick with if it were still patched).

Feature wise, I really like 10.10. It makes me more productive, the software is easy on the eyes, and the iOS and iCloud integration is pretty great. I like all of that. But I really wish Apple would stop trying to push out new OS versions so fast and concentrate more on QA. Even iOS has been seen some bug creep lately.

I get pushing iOS, since the mobile space is so new, but do I really need a new desktop OS every year built on a paradigm from 30 years ago?
Voting this up. Too often this is political code for "handouts to big business" by the way of environmental sundry exemptions, tax exemptions, immigration exemptions (hello H1B issue) and the like, none of which actual small business can take any advantage of (and which the people running said businesses would probably be close enough to the immediate effects of to find distasteful in a lot of cases).

I would like to hear some concrete examples of what people think needs to be changed.
If he was OK with numbers to begin with he'd see the folly in disputing the election result, Covid cases, tax returns, ...
Yup. I blame Twitter too. They are too greedy. Just when their platform was receiving flak for not being profitable, trump comes on and they let him on because it was good business.

Now that he is out of power, revenue from his enabling dwindles fast and criticism increases, so the business decision is to ban him.
You are literally wrong, unfortunately. Censure is quite different from censorship.
Mass decentralization may bring on centralization of lies and deceit though.

The ideal requires great maturity.
Jack Dorsey knows the future lies within uncensorable social networks. Guess what he has in mind with blockchain and al.

If we would have kept all the tweets as 144 chars as text only, a full copy of all tweets would have been possible through a compressed distributed blockchain.

Time to reboot social networks folks!
The most ominous thing is how well-coordinated the megacorps are. I would say that it's time to put some checks on those incredible powers, but realistically, that's like complaining about Christian theological dominance during the middle ages in Europe. It's a shame that action was not taken much, much earlier (that is, a decade ago or so).
Why would they suspend it worldwide? They could just do it in India, which is the only jurisdiction any court in India can claim.
Please.

You're pretending that your "rational" arguments are anything other than bad faith.

It's difficult to take anything you say seriously when you can't admit that the actions this week are not the same as the women's march.

This is game that the rest of us are tired of being subjected to. The results of this style of thinking has just borne fruit thanks to the continued lying and obfuscating of the President and his gaggle of sycophants. The world is not confused about the dangerous actions that just transpired.

You are purposefully and willingly beyond reach.
The caption for the image at the top of the page is:

> Officials are investigating whether a Russian company, based in the Czech Republic, was a pathway for Russian hackers to insert malware that would flow to a number of technology companies.
A surprising number of radio stations in major cities in the UK started out as pirates. Why aren’t lawmakers in the US instead trying to make it easier for pirate radio stations to operate legally?
It should absolutely not be boring. There are 100s of different ways to work your body, and if a trainer can’t make a workout entertaining and exhausting and help you achieve real progress towards your goals... get a different trainer.