skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dene-Yeniseian is a bit smaller but much more widely accepted proposed family. Pretty neat to see evidence of a link going back to the ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C3%A9%E2%80%93Yeniseian_la...
Of course it's not, it's a Disney product, an advertiser who uses Google's platform to advertise. Just like when you use Google's search you get adverts for other people's products at the top.

Google are not generally known for providing free promotional content for other large commercial companies, so whilst you can choose to believe that it was unpaid that, combined with the fact that both news articles referenced and users whe received it referred to it as an advert, would suggest to me that on the balance of probabilities, you are incorrect.
Oh? I won't claim to be an expert (or even close), but it seems to me that remove the vast majority of the overhead of the current web of social programs with a far more simple "Has this person gotten their $X" would free up a bunch of money, even if $X is given to vastly more people. (And I believe that most social programs are relatively efficiently run - those that disagree would consider the benefit of closing the programs to be greater)

That said, theorycrafting isn't numbers.

Today the US population is roughly 350 million, and we spend 927 billion on social programs between state and federal. That works out to $2800 and change spent per person. (assuming my numbers are correct) That's, as you say, not nearly enough.

Okay, perhaps we can say some large portion of that population is children that would cost less. also families can benefit from shared housing. So let's switch to a theoretical family of four model. For ease of calculations, let's assume large families and small families balance out: $11,200 per (theoretical) family of 4...which isn't the individual poverty line.

So....yeah, you seem to be totally correct. Which makes me wonder what numbers those libertarians in favor of UBI are using?
Oh look, he used the word stupid. Obviously he must be right. I mean, such a well reason argument can't be ignored can it?
I'm not sure that training our competitors is the best idea...
Yeah, but Hollywood tends to make money back from their films, which allows them to spend money like that...
I think from Thiels' capitalist view, he's totally correct on this point.

But, you could also say, from a virus' view, to reproduce and monopolize a body is also a correct point of view.

However, what Thiel ignores is the world is not just capitalist domain, it has living organisms which those monopolies can make life miserable or worse kill. Just like the virus though, he isn't considering the whole body his views are infecting.
> What jobs did the teens from affluent families get instead of fast food service?

Probably either none or things (paid or not) connected with their career plans and aspirations, often through personal networks jump started from their parents networks. Same as teens and young adults from affluent families now.
I've use Ghost on Digital Ocean for a few years now. $5/month is pretty cheap. No issues so far.
"You can't keep paying people more to solve the problem, it doesn't work. No one aspires to earn 30k a year anyway"

No!

The average income for the USA in 2008 was $28K!

That's the average - meaning that for every person earning $75K (not that much) there are a dozen people earning $20K.

90% of people don't work as an 'aspiration'. The don't have 'careers' they have 'jobs'. And 90% of jobs in this world are not very exciting. Stocking shelves, pushing paper etc..

It's crazy to suggest that 'almost all of our jobs are crap and boring and nobody wants to do them but desperate illegal migrants who'll work for crap pay'.

If you pay reasonable wages, people will do regular jobs - that's how almost the entire world works.

If there as no negative social stigma doing things like 'stocking shelves' - and BTW it's a very new phenom - then things would work just fine.
A proof-of-concept of a vulnerability in custom shell prompt scripts
> cannot start a paxos instance for a new log entry until all prior instances have been resolved

It's wrong. In Grydka (Single-decree Paxos) all the keys are independent so it's possible to update them at the same time without blocking.

Grydka's throughput is comparable to Etcd on the same type of machines (4720 vs 5227 rps) and I never optimized for it (my goal was to fit 500 lines) so it's also wrong that it's "non-trivial to achieve the same level of throughput" - I did it by accident.

So I don't understand why Raft is a better base to build a fast high-throughput consensus protocol.
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>the kid

We're talking about millions of people. When you get to scale that large, you are talking about society and culture, not individual choices. To have millions of people change their behavior is to change the society and culture.
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I'd say that largely depends upon the content. For the content in the original post, I'd generally agree that there isn't likely a huge audience. For some niche (often technical) topics/articles however, the content can be a very valuable resource to interested readers.

Additionally, writing blogs/or blog like articles on one's own site doesn't necessarily have to be directed at growing an audience. I personally think that adding some formality to writing (which might not exist in a diary) and publishing it can produce some useful notes for the author to reflect upon later. If nothing else writing short articles can serve as useful practice in writing down and expressing ideas. Of course there is still plenty to be said about the benefits of pen and paper which people do seem to overlook.
This is probably off-topic, but this proposal seems dystopic and anti-disruptive. The ability to mine coins is proportional to current ownership of capital (i.e., ability to calculate proof-of-work). You "eliminate" spam by allowing the richest to send you emails. You charge for DDoS attacks. Uber and Lyft get traffic signal priority over individual drivers, and that's assuming that Uber and Lyft could even get started in a world where taxi medallion holders could just buy all the green lights and resell them to everyone other than Uber and Lyft. And if you can bid on computing capacity itself with proof-of-work, you're well on your way to a Yudkowskian horror story of sentient Ethereum smart contracts buying computer factories for themselves.

If I'm trying to write open source outside the confines of traditional capitalism, the last thing I want to do is require that people's usage of it is proportional to their riches.
To add on to what Manish said, it's important to us that the core docs remain free and accessible, which is one of the reasons why it was great to work with NoStarch; they're super happy to keep the book 100% open source. Win-win.

In addition, the plan is to donate the proceeds to OpenHatch.
Adventures in Incompleteness – Harvey Friedman (March 1, 2017)
> Are you aware that the name "Oracle" comes from the original CIA contract?

I'm not saying that companies should shun the CIA, so that's irrelevant. The distinction I was making was between providing generic products which can be used to implement a policy and products specifically designed to that policy's business requirements. My understanding is Palantir produces the later, and if the policy in question is problematic then they are more culpable than if they developed something generic.

Also, your link doesn't really support your characterization that Oracle Database was developed for the CIA:

> Ampex was developing a giant database for the CIA, and Ellison was assigned to the project, along with Bob Miner and Ed Oates. The CIA's codename for the project was Oracle. The project was something of a disaster, but it led eventually to the formation of Oracle Corporation and its current hugely successful range of databases.

If you pay attention, it says Ampex was the company with the CIA contract, and that project inspired Ellison to found Oracle.
Trisolarans anyone?
Walking around handing out business cards in a bad neighborhood is not effective recruiting. Nor is the wine industry that important. It's good to see wages rising, though.

Machine picking is taking over. Every crop which can be machine harvested already is. All the staple crops were mechanized decades ago. Fruits and vegetables are mostly mechanized. Orange picking has been mechanized.[1] (The mechanism is brutal, but over 10 years, production isn't affected.) There's a newer, more gentle mechanism.[2] The orange picking machine is a big version of a grape harvester.[3]

Very few kinds of produce require full robotic picking. Apples to be sold whole do, and robotic apple picking exists, but is still experimental.[4] Robotic strawberry picking machines are available.[5]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyI6-jKIfoo
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av17eM1Ruyo
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXTnd90XFWE
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT351pQHfI
> A human controls the secret key and has the option to either unlock the AI itself (releasing it on the world) or just individual predictions the AI makes (seems safer).

Huh, wouldn't the superintelligence simply communicate to the human whatever would convince the human to release it? Which the superintelligence would know how to do because it's a superintelligence?

Homomorphic encryption is neat. But I don't see how this provides any meaningful AI safety.
It's actually spelled "cue", not "que" in that context. "que" is not even a word in English, unless you're abbreviating Quebec.
Thanks. But for me, I am NOT looking for any external validation. Except my users, whom I deeply care about. My situation (being in a Developing country) is a little different from your IMHO.
> Yes, but if they wanted the jobs, they'd come to CA for them.

CA is facing a mass exodus right now. Why on Earth would anyone willingly move there with costs being what they are?

I left 10 years ago and will never go back. I can earn just as much with a cost of living being half of that in any number of states.

> Most people in California—who are, after all, themsleves outside of Silicon Valley, which is a small piece of the state—are well aware of that.

I grew up there and no they aren't aware of it. SV isn't a small part of the state. Its the entire middle of it since hardly anyone who works there can live there. They have to commute for hours from all around.

The other half is in LA county with the same delusions. The populace out side of those areas is tiny in comparison.
I don't because Lain became steadily more outgoing with each episode.
The best case would be if your internet connection ITSELF whitelisted out porn/viruses. Apart from massive government intrusion--and criminal penalties from circumventing your assigned whitelist--the best you can do is fix your modem/ISP connectivity (anything device side is trivial to circumvent).

It SHOULD be trivial to have a whitelist operating via a hardpoint like your modem or your ISP. But sadly, the market does not offer such options--and enabling your ISP to block any particular traffic means they have to sniff it ALL out.

But the reality is: you can just buy a different modem or ISP.

And if that isn't the case, you can just stare at women in bikinis at the beach or the nearby pool... or the slightly short/tight skirt or loose blouse of your co-worker... or the professionally dressed news caster on TV... or pictures of Mother Theresa in her habit.

Well, maybe if you wean yourself down to nuns in habits, I suppose you might be cured.

But the reality is that you are under a spell, and you don't quite realize it. Call it sin, call it "not a struggle against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities," call it addiction, call it some psychological/emotional disorder....

No matter what, you are under a spell, a trance, a stupor... like the spell the King of Rohan was under by Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings. It IS poison that you drink daily, but you haven't really woken up to the fact.

The power of addiction is that it convinces you that it isn't really there, or that it really isn't self destructive. And everytime you go back to it, it gets to keep whispering its lies and pouring its poison into your ears while you sleep, and while you stumble half-awake otherwise.

So... you either need to so fully suffer a tragedy so immense that it snaps you back into full consciousness and gets you seriously down the road of recovery, or you need to get maximally aggressive in getting away from it so you can CLEAR YOUR HEAD.

What I had to do? Get rid of my computer and internet access altogether, except under extremely controlled settings in public with accountability.

It's hard to imagine surviving without the computer and IoT, but humans managed to do without it for 50K to 6.5K years (depending on your faith).

That's the realization I had to get to, and from what I read, my "addiction" was about as light and controlled as yours. Still, at this point, I can see how it was continually poisoning my mind, clouding my thoughts, lulling my senses, turning all consciousness into a constant search for the next hit from the slightest curve or cleavage.

F' that man! There's so many more wonderful/terrible/thrilling things to notice and experience in the world.

Very few escape our sexuality and primal/primary drives, but we don't have to be slaves to them!

Do whatever is necessary to get completely clear for 30-90 days to let your brain start to rewire. You will notice a huge change after just a week!

P.S. Video games are a big problem too. Get clear of the junk.
This is true, but comes at the cost of not being able to preserve linearity across arbitrary keys, and you are still limited by the throughput on updates to a single key.
I'm the same way.

1 - Terrible. Good Lord, who thought making this was a good idea?

2 - Poor. Would not watch again

3 - Fair. Neither for or against. Unlikely to watch again, but I don't grudge the time spent.

4 - Good. I enjoyed it. I would probably watch again.

5 - Exceptional. Probably in my top 10 now, and foresee enjoying watching for years to come.

3 and 4 are used a lot. 2 is used occasionally. 1 and 5 are rare.
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There is absolutely nothing unpleasant about working in food services.

What makes it 'unpleasant' is the destruction of the social contract that valued 'regular work', and the fulfillment of specific jobs by illegal migrants which creates a negative 'social class signalling' dynamic to the work.

It's socially destructive, and irreversible - and I believe it adds considerably to inequality.
Why is the first instinct of every Democrat/Liberal to have Government subsidize everything? If the wages and cost of living were there people would come. Solve the problem, don't subsidize it and create more problems. Absolutely insane.
After reading Blood Meridian, I needed to read a book to explain to me what Blood Meridian was really all about.
Also, to piggyback: does anyone know if In-N-Out has a Disney-type dress/grooming code? Every time I go (about once a year, so I'm a bit fuzzy) I get the impression that everyone is cleancut.
"For him to be a viable non-technical cofounder, he'd need to stop being a water consultant, and start being a cofounder. "

This part I completely agree with you. If you're splitting equality (relatively) equally. He should be as committed as you are, if he's not, than you need to be compensated extra for it.
I suspect many people who claim to be libertarians just haven't discovered classical liberalism.
On Win32, this has been abstracted into the critical section API, which lives entirely in user-space and is a lightweight mutex. Many of the functionality implemented in the article are already part of the API (spin-aquire, etc.).

Though from what I've read, on Linux, pthreads implements its mutexes in user-space (futex) as well and are fairly cheap to use.
That's exactly what Chinese ISPs have been doing. They occasionally insert an HTML snippet to HTTP responses to create pop-up ads.

(Scanning the data is done on government level so I won't even bother to mention it)
This post directly compliments the original one
http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2017/02/bitnext-lock-f...
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A group should not be able to exclude the individual if he/she doesn't want to be part of the union. Period.
Maybe not IBM :o) I think they learned their lesson last time they sold tech to help doorkickers round up undesirables
difficult is not impossible, and the customer was memorable.
Such is the "human in the loop" problem. There are some theories that tools like HE could remedy, but it's a bit harder.

I think it's better to think about this approach like a "Box with Gloves" in a dangerous bio-weapons lab. It won't prevent an outbreak by itself but it's a useful part of a system that could.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887428

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13815764

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519761
Why I dissented
idonethis ?
You're linking to articles half a decade old. Have any new data, you since the economy picked up?
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Worrying about both is appropriate: in both cases, folks are acting like amoral jerks, mentally divorcing their actions from the amount of suffering they directly or indirectly cause.

I think the long term question is: how can we make these choices less okay and less profitable?
And not most voters that voted in the democratic primaries, obviously.
There's a solo RPG titled after the phenomenon that, I feel, pretty well captures he idea and feeling of being a hiki. It's a kind of 'week in the life' game, where the narrative occurs entirely in the form of journal entries that you write to make sense of your rolls. Very chilling, in some playthroughs.

http://dsg.neko-machi.com/hikikomori.pdf
I am someone completely removed from the scene, and have never attempted a startup let alone applied to YC, but I do get the image that the ideal YC start up is one comprised of the following: 2 to 4 smart, young, and hungry developers that really just need food and rent money for three months so they can dedicate themselves 100% to hacking on their project.

That seemed to be the idea early at least. Now they're expanding and investing in larger startups who get more value from the alumni network and the face time with the YC crew. At the end of the day though, they don't want people to have the fallback plan of just letting their startup fizzle while they continue to work their day job. I don't blame them to be honest.
" I still wouldn't work for 16 bucks an hour in the hot sun around dangerous chemicals with no benefits in the middle of nowhere."

You wouldn't work for what is about 20% above the national wage, to feed yourself, put a roof over your head?

If most people share your sentiment - then America is finished. You're done. It's over. I hope that's not the case.
There are plenty of white teenagers who work at every In-N-Out I've ever been to--because they pay better. Otherwise those kids, in nicer areas like you point to, have better alternatives for minimum wage like retail. The reason the jobs you describe are being replaced by immigrants is because the wages have been stagnant or not kept up with inflation. Unskilled immigrants take labor jobs that Americans aren't really willing to do, like being a janitor or emptying septic tanks or pouring concrete in Bakersfield.
I wish every reporter ever interviewing people like this would just reply "can I see your browser history then? Right now? Why not?"
> try to imagine a world with no patent or copyright laws

I'm not a big fan of the laws as we have them, but sure, i'll play along:

> How would Lockheed Martin, GE, Disney, etc. look?

...I'm not sure they'd look substantially different. LM would still only be in competition with a few others because of high barriers to entry. GE...I lack even passing knowledge to speculate. Disney would lose out on a lot of merchandizing money, but once someone in a field like animation or entertainment got ahead, they'd have an easier time attracting both customer AND talent, which provide a feedback loop to their benefit.

> how would Comcast look?

...of my many, MANY complaints about Comcast, I don't know that copyright or patent issues show up. Comcast isn't what they are via govt monopoly (so far as I know, though they have of course abused govt power) but because the cost of entry is so high that there are few competitors. Even when there ARE competitors, they choose not to compete (see recent admission that comcast and time-warner don't even compete pre-merger).

> Look into the concept of regulatory capture

Not qualified to even speculate - let's just say I have some skepticism but don't reject your claims.

All in all, it seems like you are arguing that the govt creates monopolies. I won't argue against that. BUT my claim is that you have MORE monopolies in (certain) unregulated markets. I can very well be wrong...do you have any evidence to that point?
That's a fair point, but I think calling the headline "misleading" goes too far. My own reaction to reading the title was not to assume the subject was to blame for its own troubles: that's certainly a possibility, but it could just as well be some "lack" in the environment, as turned out to be the case. Perhaps it says more about the mindset of the reader than the headline in itself.

As the article illustrates, our languages are full of ambiguities. Human communication is limited in bandwidth and which features are preserved when we use lossy compression to shrink an article to a summary or title depends on priorities. For example, your suggestion:

> Legislators drafted ambiguous statute and company's interpretation lost out

emphasizes who is at fault, business or government, but loses what the dispute was (overtime pay), where the case was located (Maine), why there was ambiguity (the Oxford comma or lack thereof), and how much was at stake (millions of dollars). There's also something to be said about making it sound catchy (like the alliteration with "Maine" and "millions").

You could put all that back in, of course, but at the cost of more bandwidth consumption. And since everyone has different priorities (for example, someone else might want to know that the company was in the dairy business), there's always more to add until we reach the point where we're just reading the entire article.

So yeah, that's a good insight, but the top HN comment shouldn't be that the article's headline could be interpreted differently.
Not a chance.

This is one of the richest areas in the US and the overwhelming sentiment is, "we need people to stop moving here". You can actually get votes here by making it harder for companies to hire, on the theory that traffic, pollution, etc. won't be that bad.

It's unlike any other place in the US. Truly one-of-a-kind.
Kind of half-right, half-wrong, on both counts. The cotton gin, for example, was a product of industry that expanded production in the slaveholding South.

The problem with your analogy is that cash crops tend to command higher margins than foodstuffs like those grown in California. Margins are very low in agriculture, and it's a lot of hard, backbreaking, thankless work. That's before factoring in losses from climate conditions, insects, malformed food that nobody will buy and has to be thrown away...

So it's no surprise that wages are pitiful and labor supply remains low or relegated to immigrants who find toiling in the California sunshine preferable to the dangers and destitution found south of the border.