skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole article is essentially about this not being the case, such that it's surprising when it is. To summarize: Not all translations can be to words whose referents are one-to-one mappings with referents in the source language, because not all cultures embodied by ethnolinguistic enclaves have the same "knowledge-base" of referents to attach words to.

There are languages (e.g. historical Japanese) with no single word meaning "blue" or "green", only a word meaning "blue-green." In my made-up notation, that'd be:

en["blue"].referent ≭ en["blue"].translate(ja).referent

...and that's, to be clear, because:

en["blue"] ≭ en["blue"].translate(ja).translate["en"]

Instead, you'd be able to make these assertions:

en["blue"].referent ⊂ ja["青"].referent
en["green"].referent ⊂ ja["青"].referent

en["blue"] ⊂ ψ(ja["青"].translate(en))
en["green"] ⊂ ψ(ja["青"].translate(en))

(i.e., the Japanese ao ('青') has a referent containing both the referents for the English 'blue' and 'green'; and translating 青 back into English gets you a word that's kind of "in superposition" between being English 'blue' and 'green'—a probability density function containing both possibilities—such that a translation AI—or a human—would likely be using context to decide what the correct translation of the word is.
I’m confused. I did a bit of Googling, and it appears that Pano Logic used Xilinx FPGAs. I’m guessing the Pano G1/G2 contains a board that the Xilinx FPGA is housed on?

At first, I was extremely impressed that a 50 employee company could design their own FPGA chip.
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That article seems to harp on the fact that it is "not-com bubble", basically that the companies are getting punished because they are not "pure tech/software companies". Quite a way to miss the point, IMO.

As if delivering pure software was a sign that the company is worth investing in. Just look at all the cryptocurrency/blockchain startups from about two years ago. Most of them literally didn't have anything else but a whitepaper and some hacked up "coin" - a derivative of the open source Ethereum code. And 99.9% of them has gone bust already, disappearing with all the investor's money.

This is about investors finally wising up that a start-up with no path to profitability is not a viable business, regardless of the explosive growth fueled by cheap VC dollars and undercutting the competition ("disrupting the market") by ignoring existing laws (Uber, ...).

At least not for public investors - it is still immensely profitable for the founders and early investors of those "unicorns".

However, their goal is not to make a profitable company but to grow fast, attract a lot of VC money and then recoup the investment in an inflated IPO when the entire Potemkin village gets sold off to a lot of naive suckers who end up footing the bill once the house of cards finally collapses.

This is what needs to called out, not some BS talk about "not-com" bubbles.
I found a lot I could resonate with in that post. My father was in the Air Force and retired at 40 after 20 years in the service. It seemed to me like he had a great deal, a retirement check to cover expenses and time to do what he wanted to do[1]. I wanted to do something like that as well so I resolved to retire at 40 :-). But what I was missing was the understanding of skills that would be useful while "retired."

Thinking about that only came later and so I have spent time (and money) on creating space for lots of exploratory activity. The result is a fairly complete lab where I can work on things and learn new stuff. The goal being a space that is fun and engaging to work in until I die[2]. It wasn't what I expected I would be working toward when I was a kid.

[1] I later learned that money was pretty tight during that period but as a kid I didn't have any visibility into that.

[2] EDIT: It goes without saying that the lab has a low cost to operate so it isn't a drain on my funds over time. My wife commented "You're life's work is to build a fun play room eh?" Which isn't too far from the truth :-)
> Only regret, it cannot be used as an external monitor.

You should check out Luna Display. In the wake of being "Sherlocked" by Apple's new iPad Sidecar feature, they've added support for using Macs as external displays.

https://lunadisplay.com/pages/meet-mac-to-mac-mode
I would like to know which mainstream economists blame trade deals. Ideally stuff that was published more than 5 years ago.
For anyone doing US <-> Australia flights, and assuming you have a few extra days up your sleeve, look in to doing a stop over in Honolulu.

On four separate occasions i've stopped in HNL for 2 or 3 nights for little (less than $150) to no additional cost to the airfare (you have to sort out your own hotel and food, obviously), and what there's no better place to spend a few days killing time and smoothing out the jet lag.
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> And so what if different jobs are created for those that are lost? The article itself admits those jobs will either be lower paying or require more advanced education

And even this will only last so long. With ever more advanced robotics and AI, there will be fewer and fewer possible lower paying jobs as well as advanced jobs that average Joe could even be educated for. Humans have finite muscle power and brain capacity. Is it not obvious that as technology becomes more potent, we'll reach a point where it just doesn't make sense anymore to make the masses spend their days working bullshit jobs?
We are considering 12-15 people a "small team" now? I've worked on large enterprise applications and I've never worked on a team that big!
Automatic updates increase the value of software by:

1. allowing companies to charge monthly for 'always fresh' software / services

2. adding free baseline features to OSes and open libraries, and fixing bugs. These improvements are bundled into paid products or used directly to increase productivity or standard of living.
Perhaps it would be imperative to tag paywalled or registration-walled links' titles?
But I don't care about any of that. I don't even care if the rest of the app is what keeps the lights on. Everyone* who visits imgur does so following an image link, they want to view that single image, and will not click anywhere else on the page. Optimizing for another use case seems crazy.

*There is set of users who browse imgur or otherwise use imgur as a kind of "web application", I'm disregarding that part of their userbase for the sake of this discussion. It would surprise me a lot to learn they are more than 1% of users .
I wonder what the source of those articles and the "dystopian" sentiment is. Do people reach these conclusions on their own and go out to feverishly write about it, or are they told to do so by funding/larger agendas who feel the emotional reaction from such headlines will benefit them (in the presidential race)?
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This article brings up an interesting question...

What other cheap hardware products contain FPGA's that are potentially user accessible?

I started a new message chain for this:

Ask HN: What other cheap hardware products contain FPGA's?

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=21305355
"no real package manager" [MacPorts has existed nearly as long as the public OS][0] and was even hosted by Apple until a few years ago.

(And there's the App Store, which is effectively a non-technically-inclined-user's "package manager".)

[0]:https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory
Yeah. I feel the same as you. On a macro scale distributing funds to middle and lower class is a net gain for the economy since I don't believe the trickle down effect works and those groups will spend the money and keep it flowing through the economy. It just makes sense to me that the economy is stimulated by demand instead of supply.

However, I agree UBI seems to be going to people who may not need it. However, I like the simplicity of it.

If you start into differing requirements down the line those will accumulate and you hit a slippery slope and it devolves into our current tax code nightmare with thousand pages of what it takes to be qualified for UBI.

So it's heavy handed but simple, which I like.
Because men and women still marry and still chose each other as partners?

And the more men and women wait for that moment to chose the right person, the more the probability of making the right choice increases.

As long as I support women rights, I don't see what's wrong if an eterosexual man talks about choosing the right woman for him.

Should men not chose carefully their partners?
It displays better on some systems then others, but I like 'Liberation Mono'.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
It has been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team

But if you are that skilled, funded, and organized, there are probably better ways to make money.
In no way did I mean to defend those actions. You are absolutely right. I merely tried to explain my ignorance towards them.
> How would it be possible for 8-bit machines to successfully emulate a game that used twin 68000 cpus and custom sprite scaling hardware? these conversions were just a marketing gimmick, targeting the wallets of the poor consumers.

I think you misunderstand my point. I don't expect a perfect conversion of a much larger arcade game. These games sucked because they were crap games with the licence tied to them built to deadlines so US Gold could shovel them onto unsuspecting punters. Compare the unpolished turd that is the Outrun ZX Spectrum port to ZZKJ's Super Hang On port or Enduro Racer. That's what I'm talking about.
Still, using tor will help prevent yet one more data point from being used to construct a character profile of you.

Between privacy and less privacy, I think the answer is always privacy.
So I guess this means that Stephen Hawking was wrong as well?
You are talking down to me in your technical explanations. I know how it worked.

My point is the cooperative model was an approximation of what you get with preemption. Eventually something yields. A casual user and even many programmers would most certainly not notice a huge difference outside of extraordinary circumstances. In many instances you write code the same way. In many instances a user sees more or less the same thing.

A busy loop without a yield or a hanging program is one of those exceptional circumstances. It didn't happen even a majority of the time.

If the model were radically different, then Win32 would look way more different than Win16 than it did. But you can change the model without throwing out most APIs. If it were anything like the joke "come from" proposals, that wouldn't be the case.
If you want something that works, and with little downtime, go for a Dell XPS laptop. Way better than every other manufacturer I can think of.

Next business day on-site repair is usually included, so if something goes wrong then it will be fixed very quickly as a technician will be sent to you with the necessary parts.

I love it when companies actually stands behind their products.
> Debatable. A poorly written software will generate as much cost as a manual labor if not more.

Debatable. There's lots of poorly written and buggy software out there that still saves people time. Fixing it might not be worth the cost.

And, on the other hand, for some company, fixing bugs is generating them money. Broken window fallacy much? Yeah, someone has to pay.

It's sad to see that in our industry, selling pristine and flawless windows is difficult once the party who has to pay sees its cost. Turns out it's often much easier to sell a cheap window made by duck taping pieces of broken glass, nevermind if there are some gaps and holes in it.
Man Uses His Heat-Seeking Drone to Find Missing Child
Refer me a friend – if we become friends, you'll both get $20
Right.

Here are the internals of the G2:
https://tomverbeure.github.io/pano/logic/2018/12/02/Pano-Log...
I could understand if they questioned universal basic income or whether Yang's 1k/m will do any good, but plainly denying what is happening before your very eyes indicates a hack or a hit job. Also, focusing on manufacturing jobs alone is simply misleading.
I agree w.r.t. TB16. While it works (unlike TB15) it's very loud (fan is enabled 90% of time).

Generally I'm not fond of XPS 13 (9350) but later firmwares got rid of most issues (except extremely long boot time).

On the other hand Dell is contributing to several Linux projects (such as fwupd) and all of XPS hardware (including touch screen) worked out of the box.
This guy ran Linux on an ARM emulator on an ATmega. A similar feat should be possible on a Z80.

http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit
See also: Comic Shanns

https://github.com/shannpersand/comic-shanns
Skilled immigration is an economic home run, those opposed to it are similar to the NIMBY’s in the Bay Area that vote down all new housing so their home values rise.

IMHO, there is no conspiratorial reason politicians pushed the program, it was common sense. H1B is a flawed half measure of a program because of upper middle class voters.
Sorry but if someone thinks that throwing money at a software company with equally poor business fundamentals would work then they are completely deluded too.

Even software companies fail and don't make much profit to speak of. Just look at all that cryptocurrency/blockchain nonsense.

If your business is losing money and, worse, has no meaningful way to stop losing money, it makes no difference whether you are selling software, services or renting office space or running a taxi business. It will fail.
Here are some pictures of the seats in economy class:

https://www.businessinsider.com/qantas-longest-flight-new-yo...

It must be awful.
This is short and excellent. Thanks for sharing.

I wish Mr. Stoller took more time on this:

> The Federal Aviation Administration, having outsourced much of its own regulatory capacity to Boeing, didn’t know what was going on, and Boeing didn’t tell airlines and pilots about the new and crucial safety procedures.

This seems like big deal to me.
Tor also gives you the option to use a variety of pluggable transports, which are purpose-built to circumvent DPI boxes and such. Pretty sure obfs4 (based on [1]) works against the GFW.

[1] https://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/wpes2013.pdf
Yes, much better. I have tried not eating high caloric/sweet foods to be more healthy, but then the winter months just became pure hell. If I eat the food, I'm able to get things done and be functional.
Because they don't have the people of Palo Alto who refuse to acknowledge that the train tracks preceded their town, and think they have the right to prevent new rail development through it.
Then why does it need an app?
Thinkpad or Dell XPS with a nice Linux distro is the ultimate developer combo
Seems like incredibly bad luck. I run an IT department with hundreds of macbooks, and they're at least as reliable as standard Lenovos -- and thanks to macos tend to work longer without software trouble.

I also have personally owned several, and have faced no problems. Could be that I have incredibly good luck :) As further anecdote, I've ran Linux on my computers for almost 2 decades now, and I'm really enjoying macbooks and imacs as a replacement for them.
Yes, self-driving cars and trucks will very quickly unemploy 3.5 million truck drivers (US only), 3 million Uber drivers, 1.4 million Lyft drivers.

And that's just one area.

I agree on retraining. An average driver will not become a surgeon or a programmer (or whatever other hard-to-automate jobs are left).
Could you please specify where exactly there is comment about phone numbers?
> Sydney time is NYC time minus 9h

It's 10 hours in July, 8 in December. Right now, Sydney sprung ahead, but NYC hasn't fallen back.

This does make me wonder how airlines deal with time changes like this, or are long-haul flights planned with enough extra time in the schedule that a few hours won't make a difference?
California is terrible at managing infrastructure projects.
That's not an uncommon nor unheard of tactic in business. Fuel growth, and capture the market for your brand, by selling at a loss.

The trick is always the transition to profitability. Generally, this comes through layoffs and maybe price increases.
Trying to force introverts into pro-longed extroversion is exhausting. It is not how we are built. I think oftentimes people view introverts as anti-social, which is not always the case. We are just differently social.

Instead of trying to force introverts to be more like extroverts, encourage them to share their skills/talents in a positive way. This is where you will see us shine and you might even forget that we are introverts.

Throwing us into a party with 100 strangers and expecting us to thrive, is not gonna do it. Asking us to teach a large group of strangers something valuable or lead a project that we know a lot about will energize us like nothing else. This is how we connect with people and how we make our mark in society.

A lot of introverts are quiet leaders and have a way of making a huge impact in ways that extroverts just don't understand. Don't get me wrong, I love the extroverts in my life, but I don't want to be like them :)
I have a portfolio of things that I’ve found work for me. Provided I do any 2 each day, I’m in good shape.

- Regular long distance runs (5-10miles),
- morning pages,
- meditation,
- zinc, magnesium, fish oil,
- professional help.
I should have said "yet another architecture of control".

Call it the opposite of defense-in-depth. Device manufacturers who aren't thorough might allow a class of "attacks" by way of using DNS. Having ubiquitous DoH takes away that "attack" vector.

I'm not arguing device manufacturers need DoH to be jerks. Having it available just enables the less sophisticated ones to be jerky more easily. DNS-over-TLS does the same thing, it's just marginally less frustrating because it can be blocked at the network layer, at least.

I understand that allowing owners of devices to do what they want on their own networks runs counter to the whole "protect the public from bad network operators" / "protect the public from bad people" narrative. I'm in the minority. It's just damned frustrating. It's sucking all the fun out of computing and networking. It's irrational and self-serving, but dammit it makes me angry.
2 annoying things that Coke has done:

1) their hourglass bottles use more plastic per 2L bottle than other 2L bottles

2) They reduced their 591mL bottles to 500. Ugh.
The Reddit post is a rambling mess that I can't make any sense of, but seems to have no relation to the title of the HN submission ("Discord is deactivating accounts without phone numbers now "). Is there a better source for the claim about phone numbers?
My point was that there was a difference between your quotation of the article's title, and the article's actual title. You put quote-marks around 'red'; the article itself did not. This is a use-mention distinction: when writers—but journalists especially—talk about (i.e. mention) words, they put them in quotation marks. When writers use them to refer to their referents, they don't.

This is important because news articles themselves get translated to other languages. Consider what the title of the article would be if the article were translated to another language. If they were attempting to mention the English word 'red', you'd still see the quoted English word 'red' in the translated title! Whereas, if they were attempting to refer to the semantic category, the title would just say, translated the destination language, "why [local red-equivalent color word] is [local red-equivalent color word] in every language."

My point was to clarify that you were making a very different argument by asserting that the article never clarified "why 'red' is 'red'..." than you'd make by asserting that the article never clarified "why red is red...".

> Fourthly, the assertion that 'red' does match bijectively across "almost every language"

Again, be careful: that's not the claim the article is making, but it is the claim you appear to be making by putting 'red' in quotes like that :) You have to be explicit when speaking of semiotics!

> Fifthly, there is no information in the article that affirms the why of any semantic matching (or mismatching) occurs across languages

Well, that's just moving the goalposts; nobody was claiming that the article backed up its claims. It's just one of an innumerable number of these science-journalism blurbs about the weird color-category finding. For another one, see: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/21121...
> Bill Gates created a program that was considered a prerequisite for turning on a computer.

Stopped reading right there! I turn on my Arch Linux computer without any help from Bill Gates Micro$oft WinBlows, thankyouverymuch
I don't think I'm wise honestly, but I know I'm not a rapist and am not overly sensitive

There are 7.7 billions people in the world, even if every American chose to not talk to me, there will still be 7.4 billion people to talk to.

Fortunately most of us don't live in the US and people are not creepy weirdos who stop talking to you for stupid reasons.
At the risk of continuing the non-conversation here, I feel like it's important to consider countervailing long-term trends. I was listening to a fascinating episode of the Macro Musings podcast with Alex Tabarrok of George Mason and he brought up a very thought provoking point: the largest single group of workers was the Baby Boom generation, the next largest is (broadly speaking) their children, the Millenials. The number of Americans in the workforce is currently at its peak for about the next hundred years simply by number of people in their prime working years. This means that unless automation vastly outstrips the decline in the number of prime age workers, this problem won't directly be nearly as bad as people are saying. This is further reinforced by the demographic trends among the changing generations of workers -- Millenials aren't going into trucking or welding or other not-currently-automated jobs at nearly the rate their parents did.

The obvious followup to that whole point is "what are the comparative effect sizes of all of these various causal phenomena?" I don't happen to have the answer to that, but I feel like it's worth pointing to at least some mitigating factors.
Surprised nobody has mentioned PragmataPro

https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

Probably the most complete and polished programming font I've seen. If you like Iosevka, you'll love PragmataPro.

I've been spoiled by Iosevka and PragmataPro's narrow characters, so now I can never go back to "normal" programming fonts...
FYI If you just want to change the 'monospace' font in Chrome, you can do that from chrome://settings/fonts and don't need an extension (I changed it from Courier New to something nicer as well).
It's more like you divide the time in business class by two to get the equivalent time in coach.
Off-topic: this is the first time I've seen a page with two stacked popups, with the close button of the first not working because the other blocks it.

Pure ad blocking really doesn't cut it anymore.
> Public broadcasting isn’t exactly producing great content.

I frankly don't know if our experiences differ that much or if your mind is clouded by ideology.

> Do you really want broadcasting to be controlled by the government?

Of course not, that would be even worse than private broadcasting is.

> What happens when the “other party” is in power?

I don't understand the question. Which "other party" do you mean? There are many.

> China didn’t “work” until they started allowing private ownership and profit.

China didn't have an economy at all? That's news to me. Maoism must be even more stupid than I thought.
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I saw no discussion of this in earlier H1B policy discussion (saw plenty of it on the net, or course). It’s pretty hard to keep something like that a “hidden agenda” given the statistical data bases.