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>Personally, I haven't found any good, reasoned way to argue about those metaphysical issues. I have personal preferences, and I know which things rub me the wrong way more than others. But in the end it seems like a matter of taste, so I'm not even sure it's worth trying to persuade others.

One approach is to try and adopt a system that has a minimal amount of assumptions and inconsistencies. This is the approach taken by economics. The core idea is that, if somebody is willing to exchange their labour/product of their labour for something, then they demonstrably value that thing more at that time than all other possible things for which they could have exchanged their labour/product of their labour. A surprisingly large body of reasoning is built upon this and little else.

This is why most economists, mainstream or otherwise, support immigration. The immigrant wants it, their employer wants it and their landlord wants it, otherwise none of them would have agreed to it, so preventing this arrangement prevents them from realising their top preferences at that time, forcing them to settle for a less desired outcomes. What about the fact it might put a local out of a job? That argument requires some kind of assumptions that how much somebody "deserves" a job depends on where they're born; it's hard to justify without adding extra axioms, and certainly not self-evident (many people argue it's unjust to descriminate based on place of birth). Similarly, what about the argument that immigration destroys cultural homogeneity? This requires some kind of assumptions to justify why cultural homogeneity is desirable, which are hard to even specify, as it requires first clearly defining the concept of culture.
I tend to agree. This study has some pretty serious methodology problems that the article ignores completely. It seems like somebody with an agenda decided to fund some science and skip the rigor.
it's an order-dependent logic error caused by lack of synchronization

what would you call it if not a race?
I hope your not including India in your list as an example of ethnic uniformity, are you even aware of the vast number of different cultures and languages spoken in India? India stands as the original melting pot since ancient times. Oh and it also has the one of the largest immigrant population in the modern world.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/03/india-is-a-...
Can we hook this to an api GET request ?
I guess i could API -> download JSON -> Ananas, but you know..:)
People have same opinion about Azure. Microsoft didn't change it. Ananas is still not that bad.
98% of Americans(USA) are non-natives.

I would like to know if any of 2% natives made it to fortune 500.

Anyone?
> [OOP] never came out of a proper research institution (in contrast with Haskell/FP).

"Out with systems; in with formal languages!"

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Incommensurability.pdf

> I do not consider Xerox or another enterprise to be a “proper research institution”.

"Also, I don't consider a paper on systems to be publishable!"
If you don’t mind, which company do you work for, and how did you find them? Please feel free to respond by email. Thanks!
Yup, I can not push my commit.
"It is those other rich people's fault." While the specifics of what you wrote are certainly true, it's the capitalists that are the problem. It is a class of people. High earners, for example executives of corporations, are oftentimes the same people as the property owners.
This tool is based on a brief [1] which is basically an update of a study [2] they released in 2011. Neither goes into much detail on methodology but the original study at least has an appendix identifying the immigrant founder(s).

[1] https://research.newamericaneconomy.org/report/new-american-...

[2] https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
I think his family had to do a great deal of adapting when their whole life was turned upside down. From his Wikipedia Biography:

> When he was eight, the Nazis occupied Hungary and deported nearly 500,000 Jews to concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Its commandant, Rudolf Höss, said at his trial that he killed 400,000 Hungarian Jews in three months.[9] To avoid being arrested, Grove and his mother took on false identities and were sheltered by friends.[7] His father, however, was arrested and taken to an Eastern Labor Camp to do forced labor, and was reunited with his family only after the war.[10]

> During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when he was 20, he left his home and family and escaped across the border into Austria. Penniless and barely able to speak English, in 1957 he eventually made his way to the United States. He later changed his name to the anglicized Andrew S. Grove.[1][11] Grove summarized his first twenty years of life in Hungary in his memoirs:

> By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising that was put down at gunpoint... [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.[1]
So is there any kind of device able to use A2 cards at the rated performance yet? I can't get anything better on my Mac with multiple readers (USB 3.0 and 3.1), and I'm guessing if I tried on the reader in my 1 year old Dell XPS, I'd get the same.

What good is a performance designation (A2) if no device in the real world supports it?
Popularity can only be faked via shills and poll rigging. Perhaps you mean something else?
Isn't it already the case? Blender is somehow popular with indie developers.
Writing, music, and art are like other businesses. You have to actively find customers and a market fit that works for you, rather than putting something out there and hoping someone notices.

There's much less information on how to make this happen than there is on on creating the work. And success can depend as much on chutzpah and on working out how to bypass the usual selection processes as on talent.

Unlike software, they're extreme power law businesses. A handful of extremely successful people earn ridiculous money, a slightly larger number are comfortably professional, and an absolutely gigantic ocean of dabblers, wannabes, and part-timers earn little or nothing.

You can a completely mediocre developer and do just fine. It's not easy, but it is possible.

You can't be a completely mediocre creative. You have to stand out in multiple ways, through confidence and charisma, talent, originality, timeliness, presentation, and/or self-promotion. The ability to do that is - by definition - not mediocre.
A little off topic but what great names the Greeks had. If Anaxagoras was running for president I'd be tempted to vote for him just based on his name.
Also, it was aborted "due to abundance of caution."
Did Microsoft switch GitHub to AGI as part of the OpenAI deal?
It's the facts that aren't reported, and the facts that are overemphasized or out of context.
Which happens to this day in modern democracies, except swap exiled for ostracised.
Rpi1-3 definitely have an MMC controller.
They need to prove it's safe for society before releasing it. If they don't believe it is then not releasing it is of course the smart thing to do. Furthermore, anyone else in the future who creates something they think might be dangerous now has a better argument, because they can point to OpenAI playing it safe and say "I'm just doing the same thing"
I wonder if they were the dream team back then or just promising young researchers.

I think the interesting take away is that they (seem to have) expected to solve the major problems of AI (language, common sense etc) over a summer with a small stipend.
Increasing wages obviously would help. The other workers at Facebook (i.e., these people’s coworkers) who make six figures are able to live comfortably.

I agree with you that our economic model for housing and land ownership needs to change though.
you dont need qubits to simulate proteins even if they require QM. Also, most people generally believe that to predict protein folds can be done just fine with classic force field approximations, and the data seems to support that.
> It depends not just on whether you think AGI is possible, but whether you think "safe" AGI is possible.

That's unfortunately something that cannot be known.
Today, in SF, you have more power in wage negotiations than local housing politics. It's reasonable to work towards what appears to be the more likely solution to your problem.
Well, gee... my cat leans into my hand when I give him a scratch.
Just came here to post this. I was reading through the css-modules docs[1] and am now stuck. I can't see anything other than the main README. Anyone know of a mirror?

[1]: https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
Rather than leaving tech to turn to writing, perhaps you could find opportunities in your current job to write. Even something as seemingly benign as documentation is something! (And in truth, we need more good writers and editors working on documentation. It’s not sexy but it impacts so many people and often the difference between good and bad documentation is the ability of the writer/editor.)

Great advice! I'd take it a step further: we need more good writers working on the documentation that's needed before the code is written. Call it Business Requirements, Functional Specs, Technical Specs, Stories, or whatever, almost everyone sucks at it and almost every project suffers by the lack of it. No one reads documentation written after the fact (it's not sexy), but projects are saved and careers are made by those who can write anything that helps the people actually building the software. I may be a little weird, but I think that's very sexy.
GitHub Ooops 500 Error this morning
At ~500k/unit, neither municipal nor state government can afford to build public housing in any meaningful quantity. We just had a huge electoral battle over a measure that raises taxes for only a few thousand units (Prop C). Millions of them would be required. Rent control expansion is both popular and technically doable, but would require repealing Costa-Hawkins, which survived this year's challenge.

You will never see a left-leaning activist group representing the working class in California support a "let the market work" sort of policy like more for-profit development permits. Those ideas - public housing, rent control, increased supply - are pretty much the policy levers, and none are going to happen at scale within this set of voter preferences.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085970 from 4 years ago, "Most high tech companies are founded by founded by First/2nd gen immigrants" and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11306290 from 3 years ago, "Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups".

Some of the same analysis questions bring brought up now were also brought up in those earlier threads.
The slightly wider width is a game changer; if this catches on, I'd happily spring for middle seats for that alone.
Alchemy wasn't entirely wrong; it is indeed possible to turn lead into gold, it was just beyond the technology of the time: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-l....
For me best solution is: paper and pad to take notes, and then any todo/note app to make a list in the cloud, so I can refer to it at home, the next day etc.
As a user of the open source version of Fathom, I'm a little concerned by the lag in publishing this update to the community edition. I assumed development work was happening in the open on Github, but I guess that's not the case?
Brings into perspective how essential git is for my workflow - I am waiting for `scp` to transfer my files from my laptop to work computer and can't push anything into the CI/CD pipeline.
Kids may prefer YouTube over space for a career – but don’t call it art
Show HN: StoryScroll – Turn web pages into scrolling videos for Instagram
Yep we expected anything but Github issue ;)
I found the main problem was at the interface with other people. I never got org's iOS app working properly and generally missed the multimedia flexibility of Notes (nothing beats scanning PDFs and instantly having them show up in your document, ready to share with others from your phone). It's messy, but in practice it's actually lower friction. I ended up generally dropping org mode and just using LaTeX to-do lists based on a template I wrote.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, but this is spiritual book for people who don't really like spirituality
The API data source is a great idea! You can create a feature request on our github. (Otherwise we will create it ) We will try to put that into following releases.
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> considering that we ourselves are pure hardware/software

I also supect this, but let's be honest that we as a species are not close to understanding consciousness in it's entirity yet so I'd refrain from making such absolute statements
"suspicious is understandable from the users side when so much commercial money is involved."

OpenAI is a commercial entity. They restructured from a non-profit.

This is a completely commercial deal to help Azure catch up with Google and Amazon in AI. OpenAI will adopt and make Azure their preferred platform. And Microsoft and Azure will jointly "develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies", which I assume is advancing their FGPA-based deep learning offering.

Google has a lead with TensorFlow + TPUs and this is a move to "buy their way in", which is a very Microsoft thing to do.
Increasing wages will not help as they will be captured by rising rents.

Easy enough to say, from where you sit.

Your salary is again -- what multiple of theirs, exactly?
The what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_air_control_actuator
Just when it was time for beergarden. Thank you!
Q: Can it automatically reject bad code or would that be impossible because of the halting problem?
Refusing to take the bait may be useless as they might need to arm themselves in order to be successful, if success is even in the cards for them absent a foreign intervention.
I was thinking the same thing, for like IoT monitoring sensors, etc - but it is open source; grab it (once GH is back online), add the new "source", and issue a PR - that'd be the way to do it I think...
Ok, so this means it’s costing them less than $5/person, So I assume this still means they are turning a per-person profit for accumulating and failing to protect user data.
There are way more people interested in a housing policy solution than employees of facebook wanting a pay raise.
I actually think your prices are pretty reasonable for business use, but I wonder if you've considered a "personal" plan of, say, $6/month for up to 10k hits, non-commercial use only.

I've been looking for a privacy-first tracker for some personal sites for a while, but nobody is offering pricing that makes sense at the lower end.
San Francisco city council wants to solve this problem by banning corporate cafeterias:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-city-leaders-push-to-ban-company...
Forbes is really shit for a while now. They have become Ad spam heaven. Also a fun fact to share. We used to have an article on forbes linking back to our SAAS product which used to send us good traffic. Forbes funnily got into a similar business and guess what they did. They deleted the entire article lol. Granted they can do whatever they want with their articles but to me this was really shitty.
One of my cats loves having his tummy stroked. The other one hates it and will scratch anyone who tries.

I don't tell visitors which is which.
git is distributed, so no worries
TypeScript vs. Clojure Spec
Anyone (apart from Apple and Snowflake) using FoundationDB in production? What are your use cases?

Seems to me like FoundationDB can be a good replacement to Zookeeper or etcd. Is that correct?
The Psychology of Prediction
I'm just wrapping up the work to migrate my company away from Gitlab to Github and this happens. I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability / uptime than Gitlab. Someone joked that as soon as the migration is done Github will have some major downtime.

sigh
"There are no tricks or rules that you can follow to guarantee you will write good software. As Alex Stepanov said, 'think, and then the code will be good.'"

Excellent conclusion, can't think of anything else. I don't know how many times I've seen programmers apply latest patterns and use trendy libraries only to make a terrible mess out of thing.

I literary heard a guy say last week "we should use MongoDb, it is better than SQL". No context, no arguments, just read a blog entry or I don't know what.

There are no golden bullets, think, and then the code will be good :)
It's not the land owners at all. It's the legislators who restrict zoning. You may argue that the land owners "push" for legislation, but ultimately it's the choices of our Elected Officials.
I'm also a Dropbox on Linux user, are there other cloud storage services with better Linux client support? I was considering Google Drive but it doesn't seem to support Linux at all.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20499070 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498983
Kinda irritating when a binary you need is only hosted on github (...together with the files to build from source).
see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498983
Amazon customer representatives report 24 hour shifts
So what you're saying basically is -- because (some of) the restaurant industry pays even worse than tech --

That the tech industry's pay levels are, ergo, no problem at all?
Congrats on the fundraise Greg and team!

Does this mean that OpenAI may not disclose progress, papers with details, and/or open source code as much as in the past? In other words, what proprietary advantage will Microsoft gain when licensing new tech from OpenAI?

I understand that keeping some innovations private may help commercialization, which may help raise more funds for OpenAI, getting us to AGI faster, so my opinion is that could plausibly make sense.
Gitpocalypse
Need some privacy? Just get in the car
Sure, but as as tech worker, I don't think I could make it living there, at least not with the lifestyle I'm used to in the Seattle area. Vancouver is also one of the cities to get hit big whenever Asia has a cold, it took their real estate market more than a decade to recover from Japan. In the late 90s they would advertise condos for $150k or so.

When China's bubble finally pops, it will be Japan 2.0+ for Vancouver.
Perhaps for Blender 2.7. With 2.8 I am able to accidentally/organically discover functionality that I was looking for. Tooltips are also vastly improved so that if I am unsure how to use a tool if gives at minimum the things I need to look it up.
push/pull seems to be working for me. Getting 500 server error while trying to browse repositories on the website
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
Oh, crap. I skipped proof-reading this one comment, thinking "what's the worst that can happen?" Apparently I can forget to mention that I'm linking to my own page!

I'm very glad you puzzled together the domain name and my username, to make this more transparent. I'm also terribly sorry you had to do what was my job in the first place. Thank you.
Equifax Agrees to Pay Nearly $700m over Data Breach
Perhaps it is naturally occurring and not artificially reproducible (or possible for US to reproduce). Why should we assume that it is? Because we have reproduced other things? That doesn't necessitate our ability to create everything conceivable.
My point is that mobile had mostly positive effect on availability of tools for the masses. It pushes the boundaries in quantity, a lot more people now actually can record video at all.

At the same time the number of people who can create wacky websites has not decreased, all of the tools are still out there. Phones may have simplified interfaces but they did not make the complex programs disappear.
I had the same moment of confusion, especially when there were two (uber) Ludwig documentation tabs open next to it.
I never really understood why sites like GitHub use a "fun image" and quirky message do display error codes. On the other hand, at least they bothered to display a proper error code instead of some abomination like this[0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/cherrikissu/status/972524442600558594
That explains a sudden access error when I tried to open an issue in a repo.
I'm a little weirded out cause I can't view any of the files or download, either it's a bug you found on GitHub (ha!) or it's a permissions thing? I came here for code, and got bugs... hah
A community funded project could end up with someone like Linus Torvalds or Fabrice Bellard working on it, whereas a company like AutoDesk wouldn't pay enough to hire someone of that calibre.
In terms of intelligence, there isn’t. What prevents us from actually building a uber-insect is miniaturization, self sustaining energy production of some kind and reproduction in an artificially built system. I guess it would be possible to demonstrate insect level intelligence by actually replacing an insect brain with an artificial one.
But, think tanks exist to explore specific issues within their realm of concern.

An "economic think tank" that did a bunch of research into, and then published a study on, immigration, would then be an "economic and immigration think tank."

Frankly I'm annoyed that an organization can't declare itself "concerned with" a subject without people leveling claims of bias. Why would they do the study if they didn't care about studying immigration?

If there's an issue with the research, find it and argue against it. But "they're biased," nah, I don't bite.
> landowners are not creating economic value. ... They are leaching off the productivity of the city.

I think this is the nub of it. Whilst increasing rents might look good in the context of an economist's "perfect" model, the reality sucks ass for actual human beings trying to make a living and have a decent quality of life. And I cannot overstate the importance of the latter.

I don't pretend to know what the answer is here, particularly not in the context of a US economic and legal milieu (I'm from the UK), but it certainly seems like there's a strong disparity in power between landlords and tenants (possibly fostered by the legislative environment) that needs to be addressed.
I feel like this whole year has served as one big reminder of how fragile the internet really is...
The US has a federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr. This isn't a comparison with the 3rd world, this is a comparison with civilised, livable and comfortable lifestyles in other US cities.

It is obvious that the cost of living is a relevant factor. The question is why are the costs of living higher in California than elsewhere? It isn't because rich people exist. It is because California doesn't have enough houses for the marginal house-hunter.

Paying the marginal buyer more isn't going to create more houses. If there wasn't a place for them to rent before, there still won't be when you pay them more. If it were possible to create more houses, the current prices would already be making it happen.
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For what it's worth, the "D" in "Distributed Version Control System" is useful here. You can `git init --bare foo` on your work computer, `git remote add workcomp username@hostname:path/to/foo` on your laptop, and `git push workcomp master` to push everything over using pure Git. (And the first steps only have to happen once for these two machines.)

(This creates a bare repo on your work computer, meaning there's no associated working directory -- you'd probably want to add that same repo as a remote from whichever existing repository on your work computer you have. The bare repo, in this scenario, is just a means of passing commits from your laptop to your work computer in a Git semantically-meaningful way.)