skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'll be willing to admit that SV's interest in China is the good old capitalistic rule "rational actors will make deals that most benefit them" coupled with the fact that publicly traded businesses are generally targeted at profit for shareholders.

You'd need quite a few obstacles/penalties to make a rationally acting company not jump on the more money bandwagon. Whether that's shareholders with that inclination and enough power to block such actions, blow back from other parts of the company(customers boycott/supplier not supplying/workers walkout) to lower the value of Chinese deals, or laws and regulations that make dealing with China while disregarding ethical issues less profitable.

In that non exhaustive list on making companies behave ethically the first two are "vote with your wallet" the last is "vote with your vote".

Both the left and right vote with their wallet on these issues, but when it comes to the laws and regulations it is fair to say that the right has a more laissez faire approach than not to adding regulations and laws. It's also arguably this one that is most effective with very large or monopolistic companies (as there are more barriers to voting with your wallet).

Thus the left blaming the right for not coming to the party on regulations that would stop or regulate this. I'll point out that this is just one viewpoint on why those more to the right can be blamed for this and ofcourse it misses the underpinnings of why the right to left spectrum differ on their views to the spectrum of regulation. I'd expect that those underpinnings would be part of why you feel changing your mind on the connection would be climbing Everest. Still, I'd hope you agree that it's not straight "Blaming it on people who are not even proximal" as regulations do change company behaviour.
I don't know your situation, but can empathize. In my state, you have to see a pain specialist and jump through the hoops on a regular basis. For me, opioids dulled the pain at night enough to sleep, but, they won't regularly prescribe it for my condition because, "it doesn't work."

I eventually found a doctor that prescribed low-dose naltrexone[1] (not a controlled substance) in 2mg/night doses and the pain has dropped from a nightly 8-9.9 to about a 6 or 7 except when there's a flare-up, and the next day I'm not in as much pain until later in the day. Still sucks, but I can eventually get to sleep. I have no idea how long it will work (I've found many pain meds eventually stop working for me) but for now, one day at a time...

1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3962576/
That's both untrue and irrelevant to this discussion.
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It won't be convenient, but nearly anyone with the internet, a laptop, and a lot of time and perseverance can get a well paying job today.
For some reason, several addresses have their first transaction for the equivalent of a few cents USD. Some also leave change when cashing out. I wish they cleaned up properly, because if the address is disposable, those fractions of btc are lost forever.
"Scoot" is absolutely fine on hills. Drove it from Pier 1 to Golden Gate park on California and back with zero problems on hills. Of course, BMWs will make it a point to shoot by you to show their superiority, but you won't be holding up traffic up hills.

I do wonder what would have happened if my phone died before I parked the Scoot. Seems like it would be a pain in the ass.
> You are using a disconnected (from the Internet) laptop on the beach in the Carribean. When you reconnect, your system it should be able to re validate its cache, pick up notification of changes in the Web you are interested in, and potentially post forms you've filled out.

This would be somewhat impressive.
I read the subtext as OP being concerned that the same degree of dystopian data collection and race-to-the-bottom work culture eventually may occur in their own backyard. That's also a pretty common human fear.

It's also tricky territory, however, as it's actually an economic imperialist perspective. Ie, pining for a Western quality-of-life reminiscent of the 195X-2008 period all but guarantees that, somewhere else on the planet, swathes of your fellow man will be systematically fucked over to facilitate your bubble.
Because C has big flaws (signed/unsigned automatic conversion, arrays without length) that Rust doesn't have.
That said, you're right that I find Rust "story" that you should wrap unsafe operation behind safe APIs as something easier said than done.
>The only way to mediate between them is by discussing non-objective things

Wrong.

Both the fish and the electricity need to be considered in a long term utilitarian framework.

The only reason you seem to have two conflicting objective truths is because your time window is too short.
What matters from an environmental point of view is average device longevity, and for that Apple devices are through the roof. Only a tiny minority of computers are ever upgraded, us geeks are a slim demographic.
Is the unlock code unique, or the same for that specific bluetooth serial number?
So... your opinion (hell, I even share it) is that Acosta was in violation of the established norms of presidential journalism.

And your conclusion is apparently that it's OK to fabricate evidence to accuse the guy of assault ("placing his hands on a young woman")? Do I take that right?
Definitely,

But with diminishing returns. After 8-10 years. Any additional “years” of experience doesn’t matter. What you have done does.

I’ve officially been developing for over 20 years, but my first 12 years might as well been 3 years + 1 year doing the same thing 9 times.

Job hopping over the past 10 years has helped me make a lot more money but more importantly helped me learn a lot.

And by “consultant”, I mean the buzzwordy “implementation consultant”, “digital transformation consultant”, etc.

Yes I die a little every time I say it.
>Something similar is happening with "mental health", as in "we should be concerned about mental health", where "mental illness" would seem to be a more accurate term.

Wait, what? That's like saying "You're not concerned with employee health, you're concerned with whether employees are sick".
What is wrong with that? It keeps minds focused on what should happen at work: work.
It may not have much value in a coal mine, but I suspect it is highly valuable even from a purely commercial/competitive perspective in industries and workplaces that are creating/maintaining products or services for a large or broad audience.

> you're forming up an artificial construct that ultimately results in poorer overall performance (since you had to reject a number of candidates that likely were more qualified for the position in order to reach your equal distribution goals).

That's precisely where I disagree. Again, in a coal mine you might just want to hire for simple traits that can be easily evaluated per individual (like physical strength). But on the types of teams I mentioned, the diversity of experiences and opinions across the team probably matters as much or even more than the sum of every individual's "talents." I would guess that this diversity becomes more important the larger the team gets and the larger the audience for their products/services gets.

To be clear, I also suspect that more diverse teams are more difficult to hire and manage effectively, and that's probably a big reason that some companies either don't care about diversity or actively resist the suggestion to increase their diversity.
Cord cutting won't save money? I've seen this said multiple places, but it seems inane. A BASIC cable TV subscription costs over $100/mo. Streaming services are typically $10/mo or so. And they offer radically more content, at radically higher quality, with radically higher convenience, etc. Who out there is in need of 10 simultaneous streaming subscriptions?

You are right, though, that Cox, Comcast, etc will likely bundle together Netflix, Hulu, Facebook Video, YouTube, etc and try to "sell" it, while aggressively throttling data usage. The fact that distribution of content is now worthless, and distribution is the primary value proposition of their business model won't stop them from making money so long as the government is on their side.
> I want to be able to put my phone into that slot, dock it, and use the screen of my phone as the mouse pad for the laptop.

Minus the hole, that is one of the many features of kdeconnect: Use your android device as a wireless touchpad and keyboard.
Software pioneering happened at the late 50's to the early 70's. Does the guy look like he was an adult at the early 70's?
> just to publish something

Every blogger knows there is no money in "content mill" style writing. they publish this pseudo-self help stuff to generate leads for their ebooks and training seminars.
NOTE: v1 is fully maintained and supported. We will only announce a deprecation date once we have ensured all our customers workloads are migrated and the tooling is in place for a smooth transition.[0]

Based on that, it seems to me like I will have to migrate to Now 2.0 eventually.

[0] https://zeit.co/docs/v2/platform/upgrade-to-2-0
A couple of years, there was another article on how holocaust survivors passed their stress 'genes' to their progeny.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-hol...

Then, some doubts about it:
https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/.premium-doubts-a...
> Novel computational concepts have often been demonstrated on very old hardware

What are some examples of this?
Cause that's where the truth comes from ladies and gentlemen, the gut.
Drawing the grid of the conversation is also valuable -- that we shape our political opinions around gun policy or healthcare or taxes rather than species extinction or food security.
Why can't work just be a polite exchange of (various forms of) labor for money? I've been in consulting shops where the liquor flowed. I get it, it's fun but you can't run a large bureaucracy like you can a small tribe. Is that 20% of cases worth the presence of alcohol? Who would leave over removing alcohol from the office? Could that be for the better?

Lastly, I'm not an alcoholic but I have friends who've struggled with it and my heart really goes out to them. Alcohol is everywhere at work functions and I think it's really insensitive. I could live the rest of my life and never have drinks be part of a professional function and be just fine.
No, the problem is it's mis-titled. It should probably say something like "What I say to people who are looking for a job in tech" or something.
My favorite part of Antifragile was where the author defines the 'Soviet-Harvard delusion' as "the unscientific overestimation of the reach of scientific knowledge".

Let us know when you find formal proofs for human values or systems of morality. That's almost certainly Nobel Prize-worthy.
All of the major clouds now have (or will release soon) the ability to run a Docker container and get an endpoint, with auto-scaling.
Sorry but this is nonsense. There's a whole field of study of hard realtime garbage collection, and several implementations. Also it's easy even in ordinary GCs to determine when a resource will be freed in the cases when you need that, eg by providing a socket.close() method.
That's a Chrome OS device.

So what is preventing OEMs from releasing a Chrome OS phone which runs both Android apps and desktop Linux apps out of the box without this Dex/Canonical vendor-specific solution?
I cannot answer for the parent poster (actually, I cannot answer at all :P ), but the author of TFA posits that the mind is created -- or co-evolved with -- not by the brain alone, but also by the body, the environment and even by society itself.

It's an argument against the brain-in-a-jar trope, and I think it's an empirical argument, unlike Russell's teapot.
It's not impossible, but it's unrealistic to expect that everybody who can poke their finger on an app button will do this.

If scooters require knowledge, thought, and skill to ride well on a sidewalk, then the two obvious answers are a) require training and a road test, or b) ban them on sidewalks. I don't much care which we go with, but having recently almost gotten flattened by some rental e-scooter idiot on the sidewalk, I think we need to pick one.
10%? I don't think any scooter (via a share company) will have the torque needed to get up at a reasonable speed.

It appears the Xiomi M365 had a rated motor of 250W with a max of 500W.

I cycle with a power meter, and going up a 10% grade requires 300 or so watts. Bear in mind the bike has gears that allow going up hills with lower torque. The scooters have a single ratio.
Both of these are troubling to me from a legal perspective, it concerns me that these citizen's due process rights were waived, particularly in secret, with secret justifications.

It does not trouble me at all from a moral position that these individual were targeted and killed, however. If they were not US citizens, i'd consider this an excellent example of a great use of drones. Do you disagree and if so why?
That first one is a twister. If police police police police, who police police police?

POLICE police police police police police. I seriously can't stop laughing at these, they are hilarious. The fish-and-chips one, my god, what a brilliant thing.
Sadly this thread didn't pick up much but I found this https://www.cogini.com/blog/benchmarking-phoenix-on-digital-...
I tend to dislike cost-based optimizers because they add a layer of uncertainty when you're attempting to optimize database queries. I know what I want the optimizer to do. The problem is that when I run test queries against a local database or even a staging database, the statistics used to calculate costs differ. This means production can do something totally undesirable.
That would have a different answer based on whether you rounded or truncated. It would be 3.141.59.26 if you truncated.
Specific samsung phones, with special docks
(I tried it )
You'd also have to take into account the reduction in life expectancy from the stress of driving and additional time being sedentary.
> In fact, if we’d told the Japanese we would let them keep their emperor, they almost certainly would have surrendered. The Soviets had just entered the war in the Pacific

Er, no.

The nuclear bombs were dropped on August 6 and August 9. The USSR announced it's declaration of war at 11pm Trans-Baikal time August 8, and began invasion at 12:01am August 9. So, at the commencement of the atomic bombing, the Soviets had not just entered the war.

> and we wanted to end it before they captured much territory.

So, what you are saying is that he Soviet entry into the war, absent the nuclear bombings, would put pressure on the US to grant Japan more lenient peace terms. Maybe that's true, but I'm not sure how that's an argument against the bombings.
I absolutely love long articles like this. This is full of brilliant information. Fantastic.
You think it is unethical to accidentally kill a single child in the fight against international terrorism?
> Do we value keeping fish alive more than keeping old people alive via power-hungry air conditioning?

Consider the towns and cities by bodies of water that have either dried up or been polluted. It's financially ruinous because it either/or kills tourism and/or fishing industry; the salty dust left behind by water causes horrible health problems; there's natural brain/brawn drain that leaves only the older and sickly behind to either fend for themselves or be on gov pay check. Just off the top of my head. I can easily think up a lot more effed up scenarios that have already happened in the world (see Aral Sea).
Yes. The argument is logically equivalent to "nothing can ever happen for the first time."
> and China to be more oppressive until its workers protested.

No such product launched, so no enabling has occurred. You might be confusing Google with Apple here, but Apple's workers haven't protested, as far as we've heard.
Yes, for example Solomonoff induction (SI) requires infinite computational capacity. If SI is representative of the human mind, then the human mind cannot be physical.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "ham radio".
Here's a tiny surface mount transmitter that is barely more than a gram and operates on amateur frequencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMkaN21K5S0

Gerber file, bill of materials, etc are freely available. I'm looking at modifying the design into a beacon for a rocket radiolocation project.
> Plus, surface diversity is much easier to measure; and you optimize for your metrics.

I think this is key. Until "diversity" becomes so absolutely fragmented that you get back down to the level of the individual (e.g.you need a non-Hispanic Latino coder, who is Christian but not Catholic, was born poor but still got into an Ivy League, must be over 6 feet tall, and her name must begin with "A"), we will continue to burn resources, mental energy, and time on ensuring that we can't get sued.
+1 it’s like managed hosting but you have no control over the server since it ”doesn’t exist”
Can someone with more domain expertise tell me how much of this is marketing spin vs accurate representation of reality.
I can remember watching new reports of people smashing up Japanese electronics in front of the White House. And people were really concerned about all the US property being bought up by the Japanese.

It was the beginning of America's decline everyone thought.

It didn't turn out that way at all.
Quite the mis-aligned incentive. At the very least hard core simulator time to initially train the reflexes and some real 'stunt' flight hours in actual air to overcome the fear when real forces are involved seems to be in order.
For "legacy" space, meaning anything predating ARIN (before 1997-ish), no fees are required unless you chose to sign the registration services agreement. I refused to sign it and my /24 has remained free for the past 25 years.
Older phones require the Dex Dock or Pad (which adds HDMI and other ports). With the Note9, you can plug a USB-C to HDMI cable right into it.
IQ is valuable insofar as it is a proxy for g. I think that your parent poster was suggesting that while IQ is in general correlated with g, there are cases where it is not.
Given that history is often written by the victor, saying "We Will Win Because History Is On Our Side" seems a tad presumptuous.
How come there are still unallocated spaces with the lack of free IPV4 addresses?
Nice quote!

Wasn't there an assertion, mentioned several times here on HN, that researchers have found that with AI the seemingly hard becomes easy (e.g. playing chess) and the seemingly easy becomes hard (e.g. walking or... becoming bored with chess)? It now seems qualitatively harder to design a program capable of boredom than one capable of being a chess master.
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> I take issue with your stance that the burden of evidence lies with the 'let's not shoot missiles crowd', though. While we don't have specific evidence on the specific efficacy of individual drone strikes, I'd argue that the intelligence community's track record (or what's been declassified or widely known) does not inspire the greatest confidence in their ability to make nuanced, apolitical judgment.

Well, we've elected people (who've then appointed people) to make those judgments on our behalf. Someone has to make them. If you have evidence that they're being made poorly, then that's something worth hearing. But what is that evidence? If you don't have such evidence...then are you arguing that nobody should be making decisions like that at all, ever?
Windows 10 Pro suddenly not activated
This was definitely still happening as late as 2011, I had a friend who spent two weeks basically nodding off because of the amount of opioids they were given after a routine wisdom tooth removal.
I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder, and have suffered several completely debilitating panic attacks[1] during my adult life. I can tell you now, it is NOT an asset, no where close. Without my daily drug regimen, I cannot function normally; the mere thought of anything stressful will completely push me over the edge.

What you are calling anxiety is not anxiety, it's merely being hyper-aware, helped along with a small dose of Adrenalin.

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[1] real ones, where you curl up into a ball, shaking, crying and wishing you were dead, whilst simultaneously completely believing you are dying.
That's my thought as well. It's not a glamour job, but I have a hard time seeing us creating machines that have the problem solving, troubleshooting and manual dexterity of a skilled tradesman.
> It is extremely concerning to me how these tech executives are so enamored with Chinas working conditions

That's handy! You could read the article linked above, which presents the opposite picture.

“I’m not worried so much about my portfolio companies not working as hard as the Chinese companies,” said Mr. Chan, now a partner at Felicis Ventures. “I’ll worry when they’re less creative and less efficient.”
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The part on how they reverse engineered the cache directory is especially interesting.

Consider this, they build an eviction algorithm [1] that just worked. And by varying it on different threads you basically get to understand (a) it is inclusive for private and shared cache lines and (b) the cache replacement policies (private gets kicked out first).

I find it quite cool since eviction algorithms are normally used for evict + reload attacks, but no! They can also be used for reverse engineering cache behaviors in CPUs :D

[1] an eviction algorithm is an algorithm designed to kick out all the other entries in the cache (of a particular cache set that is).
It's from October 2007.
Let's try and give your picture a new frame. It may change your opinion on seatbelt laws! :)

From what I've been told and have read, the fines for not wearing a seatbelt are less about preventing people from making a potentially life threatening decision and more about preventing people from making a really bloody mess that tax payers then have to pay to clean up. A dead body strapped inside of a car is a lot easier to clean up than a dead body thrown 60 feet down the road and torn into who knows how many pieces in the process. Not to mention that what is the equivalent to a human cannonball can cause further damage to property and people who are unfortunate enough to be in the way.

Thinking of the fine as "Increasing Cost to Society" instead of "Preventing you from endangering yourself" makes it more agreeable to me - as I think we agree on the stance that laws that prevent people from doing stupid things to themselves aren't good laws. Laws that reduce wasteful costs to society so that funding can be put into less wasteful things, in my opinion at least, are good laws though.

Since most laws against preventing people from doing stupid things to themselves saves wasteful spending - I agree with them within that framing of the picture.
With the ongoing catalogue of update disasters, am I the only one questioning whether Windows can be considered an operating system suitable for production use? Could you run your business on this with all the implied risk? Most small and medium businesses will not be running Enterprise, they will be using the licence provided with the systems when they were bought, which will be Pro or even Home.
Justice Is Overrated
You should actually read David Irving, and you will see that he is right about many things, and the violent thugs who are against him are liars.

(Disclosure: my name is Alex Libman, and I am Jewish.)