skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An article with a title like this, people are only responding to the question (which is rhetorical anyway). The OP submission has only been up 1 hour at the time of this comment and the vast majority of the 100+ comments here are addressing only the title question or reactions to it. None mention Polanyi and few discuss the author's most salient points at the end of the article.
It's all about the dedicated room for me.

https://i.imgur.com/ehJKHJ9.jpg

Aeron chair, 4k monitor, some storage. I shut the door when the kids are home, I know which cafe I'd head to if the internet goes down, but it doesn't.
If by "state capitalism" you mean the New Deal, Mussolini's fascism, or postwar UK then I'd agree with you entirely.
Common Knowledge Revisited (1995) [pdf]
So did it make you work less than 8+ hours a day?
Here I thought this was going to be something like finding the next power of two[1].

Like a few other posters have mentioned, this is all basic bit manipulation stuff that you'd see in any perf sensitive/memory constrained codebase.

[1] https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#RoundUp...
If I didn’t have twelve other things going on right now, I would totally file a PR for that.

But there are so many flavors of CSV file to choose from. So I’d have to make that pluggable too.
Like $100k is enough to build social network, lol. You can't even hire 3 developers for that money.
Another way that I like to express that is "create a desert of profitability around you".

I once had a strategy professor define the Google business model somewhat like that, where "Google tries to make every other business around it free or irrelevant". It results in a few different effects:

- By reducing the cost of other links of the value chain, there is more money available to spend on the links you actually generate revenue on. This shifts profits along the value chain to that link. One example is dramatically reducing the cost of phones and internet access, thus allowing customers to spend more time and money online, which generates revenue and profits for Google

- By making the other links free or irrelevant, you reduce the odds that a competitor in those links will strengthen their position and will extract more profits from the rest of the value chain. One example is using Android to prevent a monopoly on the smartphone side. If Apple had a monopoly or near monopoly, it would be able to extract larger economic profits from the other links on the value chain, including Google

A desert of profitability shifts consumers to you, and keeps competitors away.
I've been working from home (basement office) for about 4 years. I've recently concluded that in order to minimize sound-related distractions I need to finish my basement office with full-blown soundproofing.

The alternative is to impose a really onerous burden on my wife and kids to be quiet, which is particularly difficult during summer vacation.

Unfortunately the project isn't cheap. In the end I'm probably looking at $15-20k for the final result.
The problem here of cause is that economic freedom being linked to real world property is a limited good that can be owned and inherited.

And if a good can be owned and inherited it can be used restrict other peoples access to said good, And if economic freedom can be used to restrict freedom it can be a tool of oppression.

When Marx talked about how property was the inevitable bane of Smiths ideals he was not just hallucinating but basing his critique on the failed attempt to create equality and freedom through capitalism he was living in.

The problem is of cause that while Marx got the criticism right Engels failed to get the solution right.
This comment breaks the site rule against calling names in arguments. Please follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html when posting to HN.
I'd argue that Amazon commoditized shipping... That's really where they made their name and entrenched their brand recognition.
Everyone is different. I work alone every day and have not had any difficulty mentally or otherwise. This is probably because I prefer quiet to begin with with and could never stand the office environment.
Yep - easy to have a visceral response to this change (how dare they cut down on my civil liberties!) but what sort of above board thing would you need to hand $10,000 over for?

The only real example I can think of is buying a car, and even then, that's not that likely, that you'll use cash.

Also how do you even get out $10,000? Most ATMs and banks have fairly low withdrawal limits.
There is also a strange jump at 6.3.0
How long does it take to set up a business?
Frankly I don't know if Go passes any barometer for "important". I don't think it's significantly disrupting any particular space, so if that's the measure of a language's importance, I don't think Go's quite meeting that. I find it unlikely it ever will.

I don't think it was ever intended to be important in those terms, however. It was designed primarily to solve specific sets of problems at Google, but I don't think any sights were set on the C, Java or other related language worlds at large. From that perspective, I would argue that Go's actually been fairly successful.

I'd argue the Rust team is much more eager to be a real disrupter. I think in that sense, they're succeeding in ways and have not yet achieved success in others.
It's an interesting question, and it's commonly debated in the US whether voting should be mandatory. It's been debated since the 1700s whether all eligible voters should be forced to vote.

But there are systems in place where voting is mandatory. Wouldn't studying the political knowledge of these countries in comparison to countries with similar socioeconomic demographics allow you to determine if mandatory voting leads to more effective democracies?
IMO, the reason this is rare and stands out is because these types of people tend to already be running their own show, and don’t need to interview or audition.
192.168.1.1 Login
How to talk to your tech lead and fix your communication glitches
Exactly. I’m not sure I believe this, and definitely don’t have any evidence to back it up.

If kids are safer because they are staying at home, then we can’t criticise parents for not letting them out to play by themselves. That would be like saying Donald Trump doesn’t need bodyguards since very few presidents have been attacked.
> When competition is allowed to enter the market, we eventually have an equilibrium where the right number of competitors is producing a good or a service at the best price and highest quality possible. That is capitalism.

No, that's a highly theoretical model that doesn't exist in the real world.

> When concentrations of wealth are leveraged into political power, you have cronyism in the government. That's not a fault of capitalism itself.

No True Capitalism eh? Why would a capitalist not use their capital in whichever fashion would lead to gaining even more wealth? Whether that be monopoly, collusion, or political power?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as well as Godel, Escher, Bach.

Helped me see the limitations of rationality, rigor, and measurement.
> But clearly you can see an unhealthy degree of commingling of big government and big business, in a way that is damaging to society at large. But to my mind:

> a. that's corruption, not capitalism

I can swear there is a name 19th Century critics came up for the politico-economic system then dominant in the developed West where the State, starting with the system of property rights and extending throughout all of its functions, is organized to serve the interests of and reinforce the power of the owners of the means of production, and it wasn't “corruption” (though that would have been a decent name, too.)
For distractions, my office is on the basement level, separate from everything else in the house. There is a baby gate at the top of the stairs to prevent the kids from entering. My wife is very good about not interrupting unnecessarily. Guests may come over during my workday, but the most that I will do is say hi and then go back to work.

I built a standing desk out of a solid wood door and stainless steel pipe. It is at the perfect height for my wrists to rest correctly when typing. I mostly stand on a rubber mat, but I also have a bar stool I can rest on occasionally.

I have 3 external monitors (2 wqhd and 1 1080p) as well as my laptop screen. The externals are at the perfect height. The laptop screen is a little low, so I just use it for supplemental things that I don't have to look at for long.

I've used my phone maybe 4 times in the past year, so for that I just used my cell phone. I use WebEx, HipChat Video, and Google Hangouts to videoconference with my coworkers. I use a Kingston HyperX gaming headset, which works phenomenally well.

I follow the exact same routine every day. Drop the kids off at school. Start work at 9am. Pick kids up in the middle of the day, go back to work. Sign off by 5pm.

I use GTD, implemented using a Filofax organizer, with a custom set of inserts. For me, it is essential that my task management system be paper based. It's easy to reference, and unlike phone/computer based task systems, it doesn't set me up to be interrupted/distracted. I also use a kitchen timer and the pomodoro method when I need to be most productive.

At a minimum I go on an hour long hike with my kids every evening, but I also supplement that by going to CrossFit one or two times per week. When I am able to go for multiple short walks during the day and do some meditative prayer, that's when I'm most likely to be at peak productivity.
To be honest most of those are covered at a good-enough level in the sophomore and junior years of a math undergrad. You don't need measures, differential geometry, or even epsilon-delta analysis to do ML which pins the calculus requirements pretty much to whatever proper multivariable calc class one takes in their sophomore year

Edit: if my school wasn't so obsessed with teaching CS majors diffeq (probably just as a gpa filter...), they could already fit in the requisite math for a solid ML understanding
Dat and IPFS are decentralized file systems. Instead, blockstack is a network for decentralized application. It offers identity, storage and a way to transfer tokens. With blockstack you can easily create apps where users can sign-in in seconds and store all their data where they want.
Nvidia Hitting on All GPU Cylinders
> Somewhere between a third and a half of all the people on Earth see enough value in social networks to use one regularly.

That's a logical fallacy. You cannot possibly interpret the reasons why people use the social networks. They very well may feel forced to use them in order to get a job or otherwise be socially accepted. You call that "value" perhaps - they use it to get a job, therefore providing value. But that is an intentionally misleading line of thought and leaves the reader less informed than when they started reading.

The situation is a lot more complex than "providing value". People use social networks because they have been artificially forced into society as a near-necessity. Our society does not actually need them. But because we have them, people must use them. That they use them does not mean they derive value from them. They may not see it that way (I don't), and in aggregate, it does not seem to provide value to society at all. I would even argue that social networks have provided detrimental effects to society overall, and produced negative value.
You highlighted in this comparison why I hate exception handling in OOP languages, and just generally the common practices prescribed for handling errors.
This has not been my experience recently (YMMV). I recently had issues with my account, and sent a chat message to their support team. They called me within an hour, verifying the issue and proceeding to get it handled by their manager. They called back the next day to make sure it was confirmed, and sent a confirmation email after we spoke summarizing the issue. I was blown away how effective and efficient they were.
I remember when I first moved to Sydney those treads totally bowled me over. I haven't been back in years. Sad that they're no longer in service but glad something was done with them.
Or ActivityPub (https://activitypub.rocks/), a W3C recommended spec:

https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6785
You're right, it's not any different.

But that's the unfortunate consequence of these systems being built for a perfect world filled with entirely rational beings that only do what's in the interest of the common good. Everything from economics systems like Capitalism and Communism to political ones like Democracy have this very same issue; they work fine in theory then completely collapse in the real world due to human selfishness and irrationality.

But I'm not sure what the answer is that problem.
> end up doing the corruption better than an alternative system would?

Because the same people who advocated free markets also thought long and hard about the problems of corruption.

Lets remember that scottish enlightment thinkers are not just responsable for many of these ideas but also many of the ideas about how to design parlaments and politics in general.

The reason a govenrment in a mostly capitalist state can be resistant is because it can be keeped relativly small and focused a small number of task. There are a large number of safeguards that can be built into the governemnt as long as the government has a limited scope. I also think that as long as government focus on the essentials, a large part of the population will agree that what the government does is good.

The mechanism however to not scale having a government that needs to fight massive wars and plan the economy.

In his book 'Road to Serfdom' Hayek goes into details about the tention between powerful government action and democratic institutions.
No such thing as anarcho-capitalists. Just Neo-Feudalists. The State no longer controls the means of violence, those with the most money become de facto lords capable of hiring their own mercenary protectors and creating small states. Everything becomes monopolies through consolidation or destruction of competition using stronger economic force by exploiting the lack of regulation. The 1300's come back in vogue.
This argument seems to subtly imply that the only efficacious means to "level an uneven playing field" is government regulation, and not some other, non-government process such as boycotts.

Government regulation is, ultimately, only one item in the civic toolbox of society. If it turns out this is flawed, and will in the long run generate more negative outcomes than positive ones, abandoning the tool does not mean abandoning the final goal. Instead, we must utilize alternate means of achieving the same ends... or accept that corruption as the price of our chosen path.
Reselling your digital games will soon be a reality, but what does that mean?
Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16961726
While that is a clever hack if you're looking for performance(which is where I've used these before) the float to int conversion normally hoses your pipeline(depending on platform obviously) and the solution below is much faster on any system I've worked with.
What you wrote is the stock conservative answer, but I'd encourage you to think more closely about the question.

In the US, the "it's big government's fault!!!11" line of thought starts with the slaveholders in the South and their penchant for a lawless aristocracy.

It was picked up, especially in the 1940s-1970s, by conservatives opposing the left-leaning segments of society. They played to the Southerners and their longing for the old slave system, and they merged it with a corporatism with fascist tendencies.

Both the pro-slavery and corporatist/fascist wings ultimately mean the same thing when they complain about big government: they believe that the government should not infringe the right of the wealthy to wield power absolutely over the rest of society.

This is the sense in which Libertarianism and democracy are at odds. Peter Thiel has said the same thing, but he lands on the side of capitalism. Others, like apparently the New Yorker, are asking the same question and presumably land on the side of Democracy.

So ultimately the question is: do citizens have a right to influence the laws that govern them? If so, then Libertarianism and laissez-faire capitalism can't be adopted because they explicitly limit the ability of the people to enact laws. Conversely, if laissez-faire capitalism is adopted, then democracy suffers because the wealthy insist that the unwashed masses cannot enact certain laws to protect the majority of people from a tyrannical minority.
The assumptions of monarchy-ish corporatism have gone deep enough at this point that we are starting to see ourselves as monarchies of one, rather than equals in some kind of community. That's where you get these sovereign citizen people and also the point of view that every employee is a contractor.
Same here. And it's so annoying that I'm scared of resetting my Android phone just so that I don't have to hit cookie consent everywhere...

Anyway, now with GDPR consent buttons on their way (at least in Europe), there's a fresh new opportunity for black hats to click jack their whole population of visitors all over again.
I didn’t know I needed this to exist in the world until you said it. I think we found our new Steve Jobs. How do you feel about working with Jony Ive?
Sounds great! Lack of HTTP 2.0 support in hyper has been the major hang-up for me.
Transparent PNG Images
Has to be an easier way.Noise cancelling head phones? White noise machine? Even some sort of cheap sound dampening material applied to the ceiling etc should make a meaningful difference no?
Report: Bitcoin money laundering suspect spared from prison poison plot
Uhm, how is "everyone is looking for a child whole night" not problem? You have inconvenienced multiple people a lot. Not just the kid. This happen twice and the kid is not going out alone next year.

Similar with bullying and worry about potential bad influence group.
I get almost no spam calls now, Google has call spam blocking built into Pixel phones and I went from a few spam calls a week to maybe 1 or 2 a month. And those 1 or 2 calls ring with a red warning that they're potential spam calls.

For reference, I've had the same New Jersey mobile number since 2001.
Facebook Plans to Create Its Own Cryptocurrency
Google Employees Are Wrong: Drones Are Not Evil
This is because Ajit Pai, along with his party, value corporate profit above service to the public.
Quick question, do you really think $100k is enough money to build a social network?
If so, how much time and people is needed for such task?

P.S. I'm convinced it's not enough money. It will take over a year just to have something working and usable and it will take more than 5 people to do that.
I WFH and I move around a lot, so I’m constantly re-setting up my office and trying tweaking my current location to be productive.

I need a room separate from the bedroom or other living spaces that’s very quiet. This helps me separate work and life and keep me in the work zone when I’m “at work.”

I’m off-limits to friends and family during work hours. I keep a strict work/life schedule. This can be truly awkward since popping in or asking for a quick favor seems like no big deal from their perspective, but is productivity destroying from mine. No kids, and I honestly don’t know how anyone can have their office in the same house as children.

Comfortable ergonomics. I’ve stashed a few folding plastic desks(the kind you can get from wal-mart) in various locales, along with office chairs I find comfortable. I also don’t hesitate to buy another $90 external display when I need one. My bluetooth keyboard comes with me since I find it’s too much of an interruption to adjust to a new key layout.

Excellent headphones, non-isolating for calls. Being able to understand people in a conference room is a huge plus. I used to use pricey open-backed Grado headphones (the frequency response seemed to be well matched to voice), but I’ve been recently trying to use cheap earbuds from ali express that have good hifi audio recommendations and that seems to be almost as good(Monk VE at the moment).

The laptop comes with me, but my SO has been using Amazon Workspaces (a hosted workstation) which seems promising from a security and redundancy standpoint. Laptop bites it? Just dust off a backup machine and log back into the server.

2 or 3 levels of internet connection backups. I prefer to use a wired connection for my primary. I always have at least one LTE network as a secondary and usually a second on another carrier. I use google voice so if the cell network goes down I can still receive VOIP calls to my business line.

Put yourself close to your hobbies. Since you don’t have to be commuting distance to the office anymore, make sure there’s something you love nearby, preferably right outside your door so there’s a very low barrier to entry. Surfing lunch break? Morning Hike? Afternoon cycle? There will always be WFH downsides, so set yourself up to enjoy the upsides.

Keep your people nearby. WFH is isolating, so don’t isolate yourself. SO and I spend most of the year within 10 minutes of family. We’re planning on spending a month near friends later this summer.
You can also supplement training with physical barriers as necessary. :)
There's an open position at Facebook to work on GHC. If you're into Haskell and want to make it better, here's your opportunity: https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000MoVjBUAV/
People have the equipment thing down, and the separate office thing has been mentioned already so I'll try to add something new.

Open up your /etc/hosts file, think of EVERY website that's not work-related that you visit regularly. And redirect it to 127.0.0.1.

Once you get working, you'll forget its there... but especially if you use this computer for non-work things, it can be hard to get the engine started.

Another thing, I dual boot my computer. Windows for fun, linux for work.
Reading (or even writing!) rust code, you can get increasingly far without knowing what level of indirection you're operating on. I don't enjoy that. I don't personally feel like the notational burden for explicitness is enormous.

For field access/method calls, autoderef is a bigger convenience because we don't have the C++ -> operator, but I think I'd have preferred a syntax change here over the current behavior.
Why is that odd worry and what it has to do with the device?
Looks to me from far away that in these disunited states of Amerigo Vespucci, when white people have guns, they're the salt of the earth and your president is behind them proud, and when black people have guns, they're to be hounded.
Sad!
A deme was (and is) just a small municipality. There were plenty of powerful people who were members of and essentially ran a deme.
I wonder if I'm the only one irked by the arts crowd's efforts to skim off STEM-education funding by claiming it should be STEAM.