skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with you. The average eight hour office worker probably only does do four hours of work a day. But I think the problem is that that nearly everyone has internalized that cadence.

If every office worker had their schedule cut to a 20 hours a week, I strongly suspect that only 10 hours of work would actually get done. It's just too much of the low efficiency is culturally ingrained on every level from the cultural to the organizational. It would probably take a generation for things to change.
If you are on a cell phone or a cellular hot spot, data caps are still a thing. I pay $10/GB for my hotspot bandwidth ($5/GB when it is on sale).

40 minutes of streaming music at 4 Mbps is 1.2GB, so up to $12 for me.
But you can't buy time.
Hey, you should see how they do it in Japan (there are about 20 containers for recycling, everything must be disassembled). And...people actually do it.
Inject a GUI into Another One
Handshake is another DNS on blockchain project that's taking a different approach — it's aiming to decentralize the root zone (TLDs) instead of domains, because the root zone is where the centralization happens.

This MIT Tech Review article gives a good overview of Handshake's goals: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613446/the-ambitious-plan...
My recollection from civics was that the college is to prevent populist candidates from winning. Someone very popular only in densely populated areas may have an agenda that hurts rural ones (eg, noting that federal taxes disproportionately go to rural areas for things like maintaining highways, make it “fair” and leave rural people with shit roads and diminished services).
Which were also predominantly rural. There was no country on earth with a majority urban population until well into the 20th century.
Yeah flashbacks from econ 101.. Was referring to the coherence issue of moving away from known quantities/dimensions.
The stories mentioned at the start are just horrible. The panic button does seem like a decent idea (why are Lyft so slow to add it) but when a passenger is heavily intoxicated (ie. passed out) its effectiveness is almost zero.
With coders, that's clearly not the case right? Coding requires immersion. Same person working on same thing 60 hours per week will make a lot more progress per hour than if he worked 20 hours.

In the freelance world, this is name of the game: recruiters want people to work as much per week as possible for this reason, freelancers want to work as little as possible (that improves their skills quicker by working on many things at same time, plus provides job security of having 3-4 clients at same time so they are unlikely to all fire at same time).
It would provide pretty useful evidence in court at the least. It’s also a potential deterrent.
There are certainly cases of weird degenerate solutions to optimization problems. Lots of examples in machine learning (one classic at https://openai.com/blog/faulty-reward-functions/).

In more old-school convex optimization the closest thing is probably insufficiently constrained problems. If you don't say the amount of each food you eat has to be greater than zero, you can get all your dietary needs satisfied for the low low price of minus infinity dollars!

From another perspective, though, perhaps there's a "No True Scotsman" side of this. Is a utility monster a sign of a badly-specified problem, or are they a definitive sign of one? If the former, it stands to reason it's not a "concern" for modellers -- it's a dream!
Then why do I hate cooking?
Ignoring the deterrence factor, cameras in the car could presumably document consent (or lack thereof.)
To make it more concrete, I strongly suspect that pre-industrial people did not have any leisure equivalent activity to the five hours a day that the average American spends watching TV.
But two minutes is still a lot of time to wait for a build, especially if you’re doing gamedev and want to prototype something fast.

It seems nalgebra is the culprit here: because Rust doesn’t yet support const generics, it has to use some hacky type-level metaprogramming to represent numbers, and that will definitely destroy build times.
As I've said many times before, I only use Google services without alternatives. Fortunate, most of their stuff has even better alternatives today. For example, video chat is times worse than Microsoft Teams. Outlook is better than Gmail already. Airtable and Coda - better than Google Sheets. And so on. Their cloud computing offering is also lagging behind. In general, does Google do anything decently outside of hardware and spying on people and selling them out?!
Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software (2012) [pdf]
Most people are minorities in at least one aspect that they hold dear to their identity. Under tyranny of the majority, they risk finding that aspect made illegal.
It wouldn't solve every issue. Nothing will. But hopefully cameras could prevent the situations that I've heard about directly from people, where drivers wouldn't let them out the car and we asking for their number, or were asking for dates/propositioning them, etc.

And who knows, if the situations you quoted there began with a driver forcing them into his place, or following the rider into her house, then a camera could also have prevented them - or have been clear evidence.
Oh wait, you're serious.
Let me laugh even harder.
The freedom here is... weird.

There is much more freedom of speech than in China, or compared to other SEA countries (maybe except for Thailand, but that has a military coup every 2 years in average).

There is no censorship of foreign media, internet is basically free. You can say whatever you want and nobody cares, people complain about party and officials on Facebook constantly.

On the other hand, they keep arresting people for public protests (google “formosa protests vietnam”), for crazy numbers of years (10, 20 years for protesting). And there are rumors censorship of internet is coming - they made a new law just this January that will allow them to censor Facebook or Google unless they host data here and give data about citizens to the government. It is a question how will they proceed; the party is similarly opaque to Chinese party.

All in all though, it’s around better than other countries in region on average or China but worse than Europe, US, or even Taiwan

You can complain about Party, but once you start actually organizing protests, they will come knocking. But since the economy is growing so crazy, people are generally happy.

and of course as a white expat you are put on a pedestal here and a bit untouchable. It’s bad but that’s how it is.
Well you got RSUs at Splunk + salary bump which is like ok deal?

Granted - your payout at acquisition didn’t work to your expectations - and it’s typical in SV - but after dust settled you been offered something not that bad in a company that is really not a lagger after all...
It's pretty obvious it was designed for a smartphone just by seeing the word "tap" as soon as you open it.

Viewing it on desktop was an awful experience, mainly because of the background videos taking up the whole browser window and no ability to adjust the volume
He got a judge.
Winner take all is not in the constitution. When states started arranging their elections this way in the early 1800s, the chief creators of the Electoral College Madison and Hamilton, called it an abomination and sued, and when that failed, tried to amend the constitution to get rid of winner-take-all.

The constitution says that states can apportion their votes however they want. If they want to give them to the national popular winner, that's their prerogative.
Tensil founder here: we take fully trained models, training doesn't happen on our chips. The model architecture is hardened but the parameters can be reprogrammed.
It’s worth noting that Yubikeys, the most prevalent WebAuthn device at the moment, do not support either biometrics or PINs for FIDO2 auth.

So while yes, ideally you’d use a hardware-secured key, which unlocked that key using a biometric or PIN, that’s not the most common workflow.

The exception is devices like the Google Pixel where it’s using a built-in hardware security device.
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It uses its fricking lasers, obviously!
How do you audit without IDs? Like, why not just find some dead person who is still registered, and vote in their stead?

And how do they verify citizenship, or other elligibility requirements? Can you just specify a bugus address so they don't catch you?
Stability? Guarantee that the api will continue to work and that no one will wake up one morning and left-pad the entire ecosystem?
There's a cost to discovering the consensus choices that I think inclusion in a standard lib minimizes. But there may be other similarly good ways to accomplish this. If I'm remembering correctly, doesn't Rust have a set of libraries that aren't in the standard library but are somehow vouched for? Maybe that's a similarly good approach to solve the discovery problem, I'm not sure.
Note to anyone confused: The docker concept of '--privileged' is separate from what the LXD folks are refering to as 'privileged containers'. The LXD folks are talking about mapping UID 0 into the container, whereas (IIRC) the docker flag disables dropping capabilities and the seccomp syscall filters (and maybe some other things? I can't remember off the top of my head).

The equivalent docker functionality is userns-remap or sometimes just "user namespaces".
The pact is necessary because whoever changes the system first loses out on influence. You never hear of presidential candidates appealing to Maine or Nebraska. It only works if everyone does it together.
Interesting thought. Thanks for the feedback.
> One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil. This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries. The comparison conjures up the dreary life of medieval peasants, toiling steadily from dawn to dusk. We are asked to imagine the journeyman artisan in a cold, damp garret, rising even before the sun, laboring by candlelight late into the night.

Hours spent working is hardly the same thing as quantifying human toll. Most people in agrarian society subsisted on a near-starvation diet, to the point where most women would not get their period until their late teens and early 20s. If you go to a civil war museum you might be surprised at how small the uniforms are - lower diets pushed average heights down by several inches. Antibiotics were non-existent so infections were lethal at drastically higher rates than they are today. Mortality between the ages of 0-20 averaged ~50%, and life expectancy at 20 was usually in the 40s or 50s. Due to this high mortality rate, the births per woman required to form the replacement rate was 6-8 (this is counted of the women that survive to adulthood, raw BPW is about half that). This meant that women effectively had to spend most of their adult lives bearing and caring for children, a big reason why agrarian societies are overwhelmingly patriarchal. Rates of literacy and education did vary, and were as high as 40% in some agrarian societies, but were still far lower than the >90% rate we see in most countries today. And I'm not even going to dig into the can of worms that is the amount of slavery that occurred in agrarian society that was displaced by industrialization.

Capitalism may have a higher demand in terms of hours worked in explicit employment, but I doubt many today would genuinely trade life in a capitalist country for life in a pre-industrial society.
Thanks for the shout out for Tensil! Let me know if you're interested in chatting about it tom@tensil.ai
Asian companies undercut all the domestic recyclers, putting them out of business. This is why you might not want to trust say Chinese companies with prices that are too good to be true (because they are probably cutting huge corners somewhere). The same thing happened with rare earths (very dirty to refine, but China didn’t really care about their environment giving them a huge price advantage that shut everyone in the developed world down).
Odd.. I tried to set this up with AWS and it either wasn't supported or works as I was saying. Will have to look again.
Why do you think that tyranny of the minority is better?
I'm not sure an ORM adds much in the way of casting data or preventing malicious input. Both of those features are readily available in Postgres itself. As far as formatting, the usual drivers (e.g. node-postgres) return rows as simple arrays of objects with keys corresponding to column names. That format seems easy enough to work with.

RE: number-crunching, I was referring to the fact that leaning more heavily on Postgres allows you to skip the number crunching altogether and just output the end results (e.g. using aggregates, window functions, CTEs, lateral joins, etc.).
Interesting.

The article says the standard is 4' 8", and the South mostly used 5' 6". 8" variation seems like not that much when you're dealing with something as imprecise as a wagon wheel.

I don't know though. Thanks for the link.
> you cannot give someone physical evidence of how their vote was cast, because it makes voter coercion feasible

Some countries try to solve this with an extended voting period and by making votes repudiable / changeable up until the end of the election.

Another solution is generous whistleblower rewards and significant criminal penalties.

There are tools outside the ballot box to prevent crime, and extortion is a crime regardless of whether there's an election going on or not.

(If you bake deniability into your system, you lose the ability to let voters prove to others that their vote was miscounted, so receipts lose a key feature at that point.)
That’s how you get mouth cancer.
Hmm, really? Maximin = maximizing the minimum, right? Seems like it could also lead to "Find the people with the most difficult-to-cure genetic conditions and/or abusive upbringings that make them extremely unhappy, and enslave the rest of humanity to try to find cures for them." Unless pumping such people with dopamine or whatever is considered a solution. (Or killing them.)
I doubt there's a single solution, so I think trying to get people in many, many fields to coordinate will just slow down improvement. If anything, I think the drive to centralize and homogenize, which is part of managerialism, is a big part of some of the prominent problems in academia.
I don't understand what you're saying at all. From your link, Option 3:

> Option 3: If you don't have ID

lays it out pretty clearly:

> You can still vote if you declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and who is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.

No ID needed, anywhere in Canada, ever, to vote. Period.

And I made no assumptions whatsoever in my post. It is your graphic that is full of false assumptions.
The "natural" distribution of manufacturing capacity roughly mirrors the population distribution, and Africa is definitely under-provisioned in this respect.

Respect for property rights and political stability is definitely a downside, though. The first industrialists that manage to build out after the last land war or socio-political upheaval are going to get some really nice returns, though.
But it then over time it lowers your resting blood pressure. Not sure nicotine would since most users constantly use it (and it may not with occasional use either, I'm not sure).
> Manorial records from fourteenth-century England indicate an extremely short working year -- 175 days -- for servile laborers. Later evidence for farmer-miners, a group with control over their worktime, indicates they worked only 180 days a year.

I think the point the above poster is making is that "working hours" logged in these sources are very vague. Does the "175 days" in the English manor mean that these people had free time for the rest of the year? Or did the go and work second or third jobs to get by? Remember, only have the manor's records.
Can I use this across all my projects and machines and have shared, cached compilation of Rust crates?
Well, if we're talking of why electoral college was designed to be this way, then we should read the intention of the founders.

> As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” The point of the Electoral College is to preserve “the sense of the people,” while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen “by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.” [0]

Firstly, that has nothing to do with a "blend", and secondly that purpose was far from served. I rest my case.

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-reason-for-the-elector...
This was a pretty good read. I use containers quite a lot on my server at home at maintain a bunch of utilities. Mostly I'm using systemd-nspawn.

> User namespaces have been around since the 3.12 kernel, but few other container management systems use the feature to isolate their containers. Part of the reason for that is the difficulty in sharing files between containers because of the UID mapping. LXD is currently using shiftfs on Ubuntu systems to translate UIDs between containers and the parts of the host filesystem that are shared with it. Shiftfs is not upstream, however; there are hopes to add similar functionality to the new mount API before long.

This is exactly the problem I've run into. If you're trying to share files between containers or between the host and a container (e.g. with systemd-nspawn's "--bind" option), it's much harder to have your permissions set properly and still access them from in the container if you're using user namespacing.

There's also the issue of creating the container in the first place. If you follow the instructions for creating a container on the Arch Wiki[1], the files will end up owned by the host's root (mostly), which is a problem when you then try to boot the container as a different (namespaced) user. I don't know of a straightforward way to create a namespaced container with systemd-nspawn, and I don't think there's any way to convert an existing container to a namespaced container.

Yet another problem that sometimes arises is that various distributions have user namespacing disabled (it has to be enabled when the kernel is built) - notably Arch [2], though this may have recently changed. This is apparently due to concerns that the namespacing code is buggy and can itself lead to privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-nspawn#Examples

[2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36969
Most libc's added an insecure version of memset_s, doing only the above discussed compiler-barrier, but not a memory-barrier, which is needed for Spectre, broken HW. The default memset should do the compiler-barrier. But unfortunately you cannot talk with libc maintainers about security. Too much arrogance. Thanks to this Redhat article for supporting the user-base on this.

You can use my safeclib, which implements the Annex K extensions.
Hopefully someone will hack the machines so you can only vote No.
Because, without embarrassment at the facetiousness of the straightforward answer, it's a tyranny i.e. it (possibly) restricts or removes the liberty of individuals, sometimes with a big dollop of direct harm like violence.

Do you disagree?
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Working on a side project to scratch your own itch feels very emotionally different than working for someone else.

And in the same way washing clothes or making dinner doesn't feel stressful in the way working for someone else does.
Can new AI algorithm detect cloud formations that lead to storms?
This guy is a witch. We should burn him. All those in favor?
And why do you think that tyranny of the minority is better?
>if a girl does want a purely sexual relationship [...] that usually means they have some emotional issues

Sorry what the hell are you talking about
Not quite -- if a single poor chap starts off with Very Bad torture, maximin will perscribe that everyone else have Medium Bad torture as long as the single worst-off person does a little better.
Somehow I feel this will lead to folks who don't have extra money will lose that money through this vehicle and flashy marketing helping SB get out of their deals. Direct line to the "next greater fool" if you will.
While it still needs work for performance and other things, Podman already supports rootless containers using user namespaces. It's actually pretty easy to setup too, especially on Arch:

https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md
Great! Enjoy! :)

I'd love to hear your feedback or any suggestions for improving the roadmap.
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"Certain areas within parts of the brain linked to attachment, nurturing, empathy and the ability to interpret and react appropriately to a baby’s behavior had more gray and white matter between 12 and 16 weeks than they did between two and four weeks."

For you father-programmers out there: did you notice any changes in your programming/work abilities around the 12-16 week mark?
Poverty is usually measured relatively to the perceived average of your environment’s wealth because that is how poverty affects your life.

You can be 100 times as rich as some poor soul in a third world country and still be so poor in your own society that you are constantly struggling, fighting for survival, skipping meals and inheriting that struggle to your kids who are born into them without much chances of getting out.

This could be because the poor soul can maybe life decently within their society off a hundreth of the cost you have (sometimes you even just need to be a good hunter and be able to build some shelter).

The average societal wealth definition of poor used in sociology is not without critics of course, but you can ask yourself if 30 times the income buys 30 times as much rent today and helps you to sustain 30 times as many families (all costs and benefits considered). The income gap between rich and poor is higher today than it ever was under any industrial rule — I wish I’d be able to share your optimism, but considering the average top manager’s salery (including bonuses for failing upwards and fucking shit up) my optimism about the altruistic nature of today’s wealth distribution seems to vanish just a little too quickly..
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> All over Vietnam, people are making babies in huge numbers. There is a lot of family pressure to do so. They may only have 100m people now, but every single shack and house has 2-3 babies in it. It will be very interesting to see what happens to all these humans over the next 20 years as this country grows at a rapid pace.

This statement isn't really supported by the population data. Vietnam's population is projected to peak in 2055, https://www.populationpyramid.net/viet-nam/2017/ . Thats about 20-25 years out from China's peak, but still nothing like the absolute population explosion predicted for Africa.
This site has good responses for that question here: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/section_9.5
Besides chrisseaton's answer, not only is C++/CLI already compatible with C++17, it will be part of .NET Core Windows variant, because it was yet another reason why we wouldn't migrate away from .NET Framework.

WASM in its current form is still quite limited forcing language runtimes to bring along features that other battlefield proven solutions support out of the box.

Hardly a synonym for unmodified.