skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you should stick strictly to coffee or wine before 10am. ;)
Being fascinated by some aspects of a foreign culture is not the same as supporting the political regime itself.
There no support for the Communist Government, only a vibrant tech community.
> Economic rents benefit owners of entrenched corporations, but they don't make them more efficient.

Efficient at extracting rents and higher profits, yes.

> And you haven't addressed the difference in public service efficiency since 10% in scale is not nearly large enough to explain order-unity inefficiencies in the US public sector. (And in absolute terms the US is larger, anyways.)

Wait, you do know how good social services are in Germany and Switzerland, and how bad they are in the US, right?

If I had to rate social services in DE and CH, I'd give, let's say, an 8 and a 9.

Now in the US, well, maybe a 4 if you're lucky.

And they cost about the same per capita.
This reads like an ad for Textio.
That makes me think that their probable prime implementation isn't that great or else that they're losing a ton of efficiency to the Javascript interpreter.

$ time python -c 'import gmpy; gmpy.next_prime(2**2500)'

real	0m0.443s

Was it taking a lot longer than that for you?

Edit: I can see that there is an element of luck in terms of how many candidates you have to look at, but I'm still seeing everything in this size range take under 2 seconds. Maybe it's a question of what probability of error you're accepting from the test?
> I run Linux as my desktop, and I've been using Linux on a daily basis since the mid 90s. The amount of work that it does for its user now compared to then isn't even comparable.

And here i sit, yelling at the screen any time any of those automagical daemons and signal buses break.

Because they make fixing the problem once and for all a royal pain!

And i moved away from Windows to get away from that crap.

It used to be we had software A read or write a file (optionally one in /dev), and output some results. Maybe those results were piped to another program that drew something within X11.

But now there is daemon A talking to daemon B over signal bus C, that again talk to program D over either bus C or E, or maybe even Z, that then many go on to draw something (likely just an eternally spinning widget because something got lost in the game of telephone).
You can get married without sharing assets. In fact in my country this is now the default option. Everything you owned before marriage will remain yours.
To me, he didn't seem to be supporting China - he seemed to be shopping in Shenzhen. He didn't make a single positive comment about the regime, and in fact spent a lot of the article complaining about the hassles caused by the Great Firewall.
A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg (2011)
There were a few internal projects/hackweeks at Twitter that were effectively this (of course billed as a way for companies to serve their customer better, not a public shaming device) but none of them ever made it into production.
No they use the charities as a way to do business deals. Want the deal with the billionaires company...better give to his kid's charity etc.
How CIOs Can Manage Customer Expectations?
By that logic Free Software wouldn't exist, not to mention codecs like Vorbis.

The logic of software patents systematically underestimates the existing incentive structures. That's because of the simplifications economists usually make. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assume_a_can_opener)

The assumptions underlying patents become less justifiable as

1) the pace of innovation in an industry increases, compounding first-mover advantage;

2) complexity increases, because integration of an invention into a viable product becomes much more difficult--often such that copyright and other IP protections alone are more than sufficient to provide a moat;

3) as financing becomes cheaper and potential markets larger the time horizon for and amount of ROI demanded by investors diminishes;

Those are especially applicable to many modern high-technology industries, software (Silicon Valley) and industrial (SpaceX).

Other industries have proven to be able to thrive without strong patent protections or even copyright protections for myriad other reasons. The fashion industry has thrived without strong patent or copyright protections, largely based on trademark and marketing. Likewise for the beverage industry and consumer foodstuffs more generally. Major automakers had poor copyright protections, and while they had stronger patent protections, as safety regulations increased they shifted to a market segmentation model such that the big auto manufacturers often freely license patents among each other long before the patent expires.

Economists, especially conservative economists, often argue against anti-trust, reasoning that as markets become larger (finance markets, consumer markets, etc), the typical lifetime of a monopoly become shorter--often shorter than the typical lifetime of anti-trust litigation.

I would argue that as markets grow larger and more fluid they're far more capable of discovering and leveraging sufficient incentives to support innovation in the absence of government-imposed monopolies. Especially in the realm of software, the circumstances where there's a legitimate market failure requiring patents are so uncommon that there's no reason to even entertain the notion of a software patent system.

In the absence of _manifest_, _systemic_ market failures, patent advocates make the same mistake Communists make--an inability to imagine how a market can support an endeavor is not evidence that a market is incapable of supporting that endeavor; it's merely evidence of one's own lack of information and imagination. And the surest way to introduce market failure is by dangling the prospect of government-imposed monopoly rents, artificially increasing the opportunity costs of discovering and leveraging all the non-obvious incentives that naturally exist or could evolve.
Shenzhen is a Special Economic Zone and Hong Kong is a semi-autonomous Special Administrative Region under "one country, two systems". There may be more economic freedom that the US but still less freedom of speech and press.
First, it doesn't feel unpleasant as I do it. There are a few reasons why it might look that way.

I have very little practice at this point, especially considering I'm still changing my grammars regularly, so the editing video there is more a technical demo of the software's performance in spite of my own awkwardness while learning. That was my first and only take. I'm basically learning to type again, with cache misses as I try to remember commands and keep track of my position (like trying to remember where keys are, or the next note in a song as you pluck it out).

It's also possible the most accurate form of voice input does not sound like natural language. Finally, it's a different mental exercise to copy text that is already written versus writing and editing my own code, so I'm triply out of my element when recording these early videos.

Compare to Tavis Rudd's video from 2013, where he pauses between every command: https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI?t=1050

I've recorded my own version of his demo today for comparison: https://youtu.be/wt4PR5j7vBE
Sorry for the late reply. Chromatic aberrations primarily originate from glasses with a low Abbe number, which ROUGHLY (_but not strictly!_ RARE [and expensive] exceptions exist!) correlates with glasses with a high refractive index. Get glasses with a high Abbe number (which you'll likely find in glasses with a low refractive index) and the chromatic ab(b)errations will disappear. The price you have to pay: They'll end up heavier. But only slightly, thanks to modern organic glass polymers whose surface we, via surface treatment, can make harder than mineralic glass nowadays. A capability that has only appeared in the last few years.

As for the rest, the advice given in the other reply to your comment seems sound.
How to screw up a Product Hunt launch
In the US, buying anything with Bitcoin is a taxable event. You might get away with buying the odd coffee but I suspect buying large items like houses and cars will start to attract attention if you didn’t report the capital gains for it.
One's (monetary) value isn't defined by one's amount or intensity of labor, but rather by the value lost should one be removed from the equation. Factory workers can be replaced by virtually anyone else (and often by machines) while Hedge Fund traders / managers often cannot.

While algorithms are increasingly prevalent in Wall Street, at the end of the day there's a human who either writes them or reads their output before making a decision, and that person is not easily replaceable.

Beyond that, for every successful Hedge Fund there are countless that failed catastrophically, so any analysis of "how much a Hedge Fund manager makes" is subject to severe survivorship bias. [0]

The disparity between the CEO of a public company and its hordes of workers is even clearer. Very few people possess the combination of skills that make a high-caliber CEO successful, which is why very few people are rewarded like them. LeBron James also doesn't work 1,000 times harder than a factory worker.

Finally, it's worth remembering that 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and a stunning 90% by the third. [1] I wouldn't lose any sleep over rich kids who feel troubled about their "entitlement".

[0] https://xkcd.com/1827/

[1] http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/
There's no way Shenzhen is more free than US. I'm not sure you're more misguided towards US or China though.
Measuring the Bubble
Thanks a lot for pointing this out. I wish there was a way of surfacing these connections for other authors, media personalities, founders, etc.
https://github.com/konamacona/cardproxy
From the article:

> Meanwhile, few who make the “I did it all myself” argument question the absurdity of seeing earnings as a measure of grit and moral worth. Does anyone really think that a CEO, whose pay is on average 271 times greater than that of his typical worker, works 271 times harder than his employees, who might actually be doing strenuous physical labor?
It's the old site if you load the flash.
Considering the impact vs risk, yes. Definitely. Source: I'm running one of the clinical labs that's flogging the machines to run the tests for all the sick people. I see the data before the providers do, and have MPHs and epidemiologists tracking it.
I thought the first version of the course was amazing but this version unlocked a new level of brilliance. Specially, the fastai library. I'm counting the days to part 2. Thank you so much! You're making a huge difference around the world! This is education at its finest
My experience, having dealt with successful people who were also born rich, is that they often legitimately feel that they are self-made. Because the truth is that no matter how privileged you are, you do still have to put the work in if you want to be successful. It is true that rich people have much better safety nets, but being successful will always take at least some level of hard work.

It's difficult to have the perspective it takes to admit that your success may be more due to a privileged starting position and luck than solely the hard work, especially when it's so easy to claim all your success is self-made and the hero worship of self made people in the United States
And more garbage from all their packaging to fill the ocean gyres and to pay third-world nations to fill their landfills with.
I saw Travis K. give a talk a few years back at Failcon in San Francisco about his previous startup Red Swoosh. What I remember about that talk is how he persevered through some serious s* which was the opposite of easy & fun. I'd add that while deciding when to jump, you should honestly assess whether you're really willing to go shopping for a fire extinguisher while simultaneously being burned alive.
this has led to some interesting observations for me in linux when I've had really large log files that were still in use and were "deleted" but the file was still in use. (I think cat /dev/nul > file will do this). Tools like du now cannot find where the disk usage actually is. Only on restart of the app does usage show correctly again. Kinda hard to troubleshoot if you were not aware this was what happened.
Well if you look at the scenario you described, I don't believe the parent folder can be deleted while the child is pending deletion. And if the system crashes, I'd expect the file to be there (but haven't tested). So the path components do have to be kept around somewhere...
Understanding Deep Architectures by Interpretable Visual Summaries
Correct - way too late to edit.
What kind of economics would allow a solar panel manufacturer to spend $301 worth of energy to produce a panel which sells for $300?
You're mixing free market and laissez faire. Any market without monopolistic forces and where prices are set freely by the balance of supply and demand and competitive forces is essentially a free market.
Somehow I knew you were going to lean on theism, I should have put that in my comment, oh well.

Nuts to that. I live in the real world.

The actual action of morality can have no basis except consensus. Biology is morality free as is physics. Even if you insist there's a "pure" moral law somewhere you still have to enforce it or it's a toothless theory. Then to enforce it you really have to get down to brass tacks and democracy.
It's not just Americans. When I was working in Italy, some of my Italian colleagues would put an entire sugar packet into a single shot of espresso.
It depends on your level of cognitive development. Construct aware thinkers realize that meaning undeniably exists, even if it is seen to be empty of basis.
Interest very much.

Really need a tutorial to get someone to start to investigate it as a programmer, AI modeler and a go player.

But this is a very good or excellent start.
I attended a talk hosted by a wealthy founder who was born into privilege, and he said something like this: "Startups are really hard. You need to use every card that you've been dealt in order to succeed."
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>>> ending up with a modern, easily-maintained system instead of an arcane mess.

This ending never happened, ever.

I think I agree about the resource aspect you mention. A lot of the software I've seen was about as good as it could get with the resources that were allocated to it.
Why President Donald Trump Is Good for the VPN Industry
Diversity vs. Equality
First step would be to stop public funding of 0day purchase and development in NSA and co. People believe that more 'cyberweapons' would be good against cyberthreats from 'others' but meanwhile all use the same systems. If these systems do not get fixed because the NSA wants to use its purchased 0days then everybody has a problem. What is needed is joint effort for secure open source solutions.

Also, for computer security programmers need to overcome convenience practices and start behaving responsible, but also people in management/politics should not make technical decisions if they can't understand the implications.
Usually coke zero though :)
1. If by trade secret you mean Coke's branding, marketing and historical dominance.
I think it does. Whether it's the subhead about linking work and reward or Johannes Siegrist's study of "unfair compensation: “effort/reward imbalance” (ERI)"

The implication is clear that some people are rewarded less for the same effort. Well not all effort is equally valuable. Anyone can sweep a floor, so the effort of doing so isn't worth much.
It seems common for "personal" charities to have really high overhead. A typical cause would be that highly paid executives are actually family members with little commitment to the stated purposes of the charities.
It's true that NT won't let you remove a directory if a child has a handle open. But I suspect you are getting the reasoning backwards. The directory is not empty as long as that delete pending file is there. Remove this ill-conceived implementation detail (and it is that) then this and other problems go away.

There is also an API that retrieves a filename from a handle. I don't think it guarantees the name be usable though.

It's easy to imagine a system that works the way I would have it, because it exists: Unix. You can unlink and keep descriptors open. NT is very close to being there too, except for these goofy quirks which are kind of artificial.
I agree that they're worth keeping, but patent income isn't the only way to fund this research. It's just been one of the easier ways to fund it up to now.

Also note that I never claimed that the patent income wasn't being put to good use by funding research. I was arguing that many of the patents themselves were bullshit, and that many of the companies that own them had acquired them from universities on slightly-too-friendly terms because of the MPEG cartel.
If my skill is common, it doesn't matter how much physical energy I expend, I probably won't make much because the supply of labor is high.

If it was easy to be a hedge fund manager, more people would do it. It's easy to cherry pick these professions that seem overpaid, but in a free market, people tend to make what the market values them at.

You could say that teachers are so important that they should be paid more and in a free market education system they might be paid differently than they are now.
I do like the coreboot + lightweight payload (such as u-boot or grub) approach, and simply can't see any benefit of jamming a Linux kernel in; Simplicity is itself value.

Even if I were to find their approach appealing (I don't), Linux's monolithic design with no driver APIs doesn't even seem like a good fit for this; NetBSD's kernel size (and its cleaner design, and the RUMP kernels feature), Minix3 (high assurance, unlike Linux) or even Genode are far better suited.

But, seriously, we need less, simpler, cleaner code, and this "jam Linux into everything" approach seems nothing less than the old "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" problem.
I think you've identified one of the hardest intellectual problems for believers the problem of evil. If a perfect God exist that created everything how is there evil? It's one of the more difficult ideas to wrestle with. Far deeper than most of the arguments most people make against the existence of God. I'm a Christian myself but I've not come up with a satisfactory answer for me.

I think there is some merit in this argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga%27s_free_will_...

But as I say I've not come up with a satisfactory answer for myself.

It is a very interesting problem to think about it. Can a perfect God create a cosmos where evil exists.
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64-bit games still use the win32 api.
Hong Kong is not and never has been a Special Economic Zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_Chin...
I've met my share of "self made" people who when self-classifying as such, ignore things like:

* Well-off parents who funded their education, allowing them to start off without the huge debt ball-and-chain most of us start off with.

* Well-off family who can act as a safety net / backstop for failed risk-taking. Baseball is easy if you can keep swinging until you hit the ball.

* Well-connected family or friends who helped with that critical first job, which often can set an entire career's trajectory.

* Pre-populated contact list of well-off or well-connected people, drawn from family or Ivy league classmates.

I don't think you can honestly call yourself self-made with these advantages.
I'm really impressed by RAIBlocks, and trying to decide what to think about it. There are no fees or printing.
Can you explain the top number (2^4 + 4 - 1)?
I understand the bottom number 4 is probably because you're choosing 4 values out of the set of numbers from the top, but not sure how you got 2^4 + 4 - 1.
> So yes, the US CAN claim moral superiority in many areas.

Oh really?

The biggest patriot of the US is forced to live in Russia because he pointed out, that the US has built an apparatus for mass surveillance. That man is Edward Snowden. If he would go back home he would be killed, legally, that is, because your highly moral superior nation allows to sentence people to death (just like China, which is such a worse place to be).

In general people that speak against the US are threatened. The US actually goes out of their way to try and silence these voices. Even as far as bullying other countries into their crap. Look at Julian Assange, who is forced to live in a tiny room for years now, because the US made sure to catch and extradite him as soon as he leaves the embassy in London. Which by the ruling of the United Nations in against basic human rights, yet Assange is sentenced to death in the embassy (just like dissidents in China).

North Korea is bullyied by the world (on behalf of the US) because they have not opened to capitalism and they have a nuclear bomb. Which by the way the US has, yet the US arsenal is not only one bomb but more like one hundred bombs per country of the world. To be honest, I am more afraid of the lunatic in the white house to launch one of those bombs than the fatty in North Korea.

The US always points at the free press and free speech, yet they created such an environment of leftist propaganda, that Sam Altman feels more safe to say things in China than in the Valley. The free press is so damn broken that they spent the last year talking about Russians manipulating their elections that Donald Trump can slip everything he wants into congress without anyone actually noticing.
And while NYT, WashPo, LATimes, etc. keep talking about the bad Russians your nation turns into shit.

Oh and I did not even mention the broken capitalism and lobbyists yet... I could do this for hours. The point is, nope moral high ground is long gone for you guys, in fact I think after Hiroshima you never had it.
I’m a construct-aware thinker. So it means something different to me now than it would to my previous nihilistic stage.

Here is a nice model of human cognitive development beyond the meaninglessness of nihilism:

http://newpossibilitiesassociates.com/uploads/9_levels_of_in...

Also see David Chapman’s writings on Robert Keegan’s models - https://vividness.live/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-...
His words, not mine. I agree with you.
In many areas, engineers need to get paid to innovate. Dating back to at least the standardization of CD-ROM, that was mediated through the use of patents. Note that until recently, there was almost no open source development of media codecs.

Today, there is an advertising and entertainment industry generating huge surpluses that can also bankroll engineers to develop codecs. I’m not convinced that this is a better model.
That's true but governments can only add friction to digital assets (e.g. eliminate exchanges) but cannot destroy them. Also, I think at least now they have some ideas about the volume of black markets. Even with blockchains like Monero you have an idea of usage.
pretty sure 'giving money to the China's economy' is the same as supporting China. doubt China cares about emotional support.
I think the point is that there's a difference between simply "doing hard-work" and "self-made". The first is about what you did, the latter is what you think others did for/with you.
>The Linux Foundation

I guess that explains why they're trying to jam Linux into the firmware.
Well our domestic terrorists aren't that successful or competent either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

Most news organizations report on foreign and domestic terror differently. When the average American thinks of a terrorist it isn't a white guy with a U-Haul.