skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Boeing is pursuing profit at the expense of human lives

To play devil's advocate, this isn't a moral statement. The author is saying this is true based on actual events.
Was I talking to anyone in particular?
My employer provided me an X1 Extreme. Overall it's a great laptop - only real complaint is that it includes a dedicated GPU and I'd rather have integrated graphics. Sure, you can boot with just the Intel GPU with PopOS - but that comes with certain trade-offs like not being able to use the HDMI port.

Keyboard is great.
Trackpoint is great.
Trackpad is OK.
Screen is great (I have the 4k and just run it at 1080p to simplify my life) - but the colors and brightness are amazing.
Performance is great.
Forget something. For the i I l L | !, don't forget numeral one 1.
Ah, but that wasn't the title, precisely. They weren't talking about 'red' (the word) at all, but rather red—the semantic concept that the English word 'red' points to. The mysterious assertion being followed up on is, in other words, not:

en["red"] ≡ en["red"].translate(other_lang)

(i.e. "other languages also have a word 'red', that is the translation for the English word 'red'"), but rather:

en["red"].referent ≡ en["red"].translate(other_lang).referent

(i.e. other languages have a word eqivalent in referent to the English word 'red'), or even:

∃other_lang, ∀color_word: en[colorWord].referent ≡ en[colorWord].translate(other_lang).referent

(i.e. there are other languages that share a complete set of color-words referents with English, such that you can bijectively map each English color-word to an equivalent color-word in that other language.)

...which is the topic of the body of the article.
> > To this day, industry insiders still joke, “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.”

> That's commonly said about the Apple-NeXT acquisition too — NeXT paid a negative $429 million to take over Apple. (...)

I guess that is why it is considered a joke. It sounds like the management teams of NeXT / McDonnell Douglas benefited much more (in the long term) than the investors of their defunct, purchased companies. Benefiting through greater compensation and clout without really taking over (i.e. owning) the purchasor's company.
I've had one of these running since the first week evilsocket put the source out. With $50 in parts from Amazon I was up and running with a battery powered unit within a few hours, that I ended up taking with me on vacation. The new build process is extremely simple though, and I'm excited to see where this project goes.
> mouse acceleration

Maybe it's the gamer in me, but who uses this? It's just going to make your mouse movements way less accurate.

If you haven't tried it yet pwsh integration with C# is amazing, I wish there was something like it for the JVM.
It may well be a demand-side issue. I'm not sure how many guys want to get surgery, however minor, to do that (especially given the sensitivity of the region.) Even if it's safe, there's a somewhat visceral impulse to shrink away at the thought of getting cut open down there. The rate of vasectomies is half that of Canada or England, so it seems a lot of Americans agree and don't want that. I certainly wouldn't.
I'm 100% in the Iosevka camp, especially the serif version with Iosevka Slab.

Looks amazing on a Retina screen, and it's quite compact on the horizontal axis, many programming fonts are far too wide for my tastes.
Note two contradictory popular trends:
1. AI is going to replace cheap labor
2. Engineering companies are outsourcing because of cheap labor

The reality is that trend #2 is orders of magnitude larger. Any reversal of that by ‘AI’ would be the biggest jobs boom in decades for western nations, and according to this article, would increase quality and therefore trade balance as well.

The other reality is that manufacturing automation with ‘AI’ is hard, takes a lot of human effort, and is a huge part of a company’s value (e.g. Tesla). Outsourcing is often selling off this value at a negative price. It is done because Wall St analysts don’t know how to price this asset.

Like it or love it, it is investment analysts that determine company culture. The good thing is that they are greedy; they may be misinformed, but they are predictable. Everything above liquidation value is held in the heads of the employees of the company. Its actually not that hard to compute, and if business schools taught this, corporate behavior would change.
"The current Western psychiatric wisdom states that suicide is the result of mental disorder in 98% (1) or even 100% (2) of cases. However, a number of recent studies (3–5) have reported that, in Asian countries, mental disorder has been found in less than 50% of those who completed suicide.

In the late 19th century, Emil Durkheim, a sociologist, published (6) important observations. Durkheim found that suicide was primarily a function of social circumstances; he stated that people suicide when they are not supported by or well integrated into the society, and that mental disorder was relatively less important. The majority of his observations have been supported: for example, he found that marital breakdown frequently led to suicide, particularly among males, and this has been repeatedly demonstrated (7)."
Source -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431736/
For reference: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=syd-jfk
Discord is deactivating accounts without phone numbers now
Ok. Then why not just add a simple remote to do that. What advantage does an app have for that feature over a simple remote driven UI.
> Another similar experience I have with mobile sites is Reddit, its intentionally throttling the site and tries to turn you towards their app.

That's why I use the .compact version of reddit on mobile. It's as ugly and clunky as it's snappy.
Alienation is a critical and central part of Marxist critique. To miss it is to misunderstand Marxism.

Marxists could not call it a day after nationalizing Amazon because the people who make the goods that Amazon sells would still be alienated from the goods they produce, and Amazon's workers would still be alienated from the products of their own labor.
Earth's limited resources might well be the primary reason to explore other planets.
> I'm going to die eventually, so is it futile to exercise everyday, to learn, to try and be a better person?

Many repetitive activities end up having a practical purpose: as someone who does strength training I know about sets and reps and lifting heavy things. But that gives me strength for everyday things.

But the point of giving Sisyphus that task is precisely because it is pointless. Sisyphus isn't doing anything with his existence except that task.
I've never seen an ad in pwsh or on my desktop. I do agree the automatic installs are terrible.
> And forget American trucks, even a VW Transporter or a Ford Galaxy feels way more comfortable imo.

I've had all three and the most comfortable car (IMO) I've ever owned was a Scion xB toaster -- tiny car with lots of head/leg room since it was designed with tons of vertical space in the passenger compartment.

I've always wondered why they didn't make a hybrid version with the Prius drivetrain, it just seems to make perfect sense?
I've flown 15+ hour flights, and yes, I recline my seat. So does most everybody else. To expect someone to sit straight up for that duration, makes you the inconsiderate party.
Nationalization isn't the only type of worker control.

What if Boeing's CEO was elected by people who work for the company, instead of by rich board members with profit interest and no expertise? (making this kind of worker-democracy corporate governance the norm is a long-term goal of the Sanders plan)
>>Learning languages and libraries is easy. But new paradigms, domains, and entire new ways of thinking? It takes time to master.

Here's why I think this is sometimes a false dichotomy: going from Ruby to Python will be relatively easy. Going from Ruby to Haskell, on the other hand, will involve not just learning Haskell the language (syntax etc.) but also new paradigms and entire new ways of thinking.
scoop is also an alternative for your package manager.

https://scoop.sh/
Letter to My Fellow Software Engineers
I remember seeing it on Panasonic (I think?) laptops many moons ago. Don't really care who did it first, it is useful (dare I say it, but perhaps a "pro" feature? very useful when traveling around and going in and out of a bag.... shame it is so heavy!)
Chrome.... definitely has more people working on it than that. It's absolutely ludicrous to try to say Google only pays 23 people to work on chrome. Perhaps that quora answer is being pedantic and saying only 23 people work on the closed source, non chromium bits?

Regardless, 15 engineers to make a webapp and mobile apps with all of the features mentioned for a site that gets "lots" of views (not sure how many but I'd guess we are counting in hundreds of millions of clicks a day at this point) seems pretty efficient to me?
I don't think it's unfair, when 99% of users don't want any of those features. By that logic, any and every possible feature is fair game, and beyond criticism, simply by existing.
The hoops people are going through to justify this are crazy to me. The comparison is not no-JS vs a business-capable website. They could serve a static image tag that would load quickly, and then load the comments/content around it. Progressive enhancement has been a well-known development pattern on the web for a very, very long time.

The comparison here is, "serving your content, and then doing whatever the heck you want", and "dynamically fetching all of your core content on the fly after synchronously downloading and executing all of the auxiliary content that >85% of your users do not care about."

I think Youtube is overengineered as well, but at least Youtube has the good sense to prioritize loading the video first, and the recommendations/comments second.

It is surreal to jump from a thread with a Google dev telling me that user-agent scraping is necessary because progressive feature detection would require shipping unnecessary polyfills to modern browsers, to a conversation with an Imgur dev telling me that because 5% of their users need a special feature, everyone should wait twice as long to get core content served to them.

I realize these aren't the same people, and the web development community is diverse, but... I don't know how to reconcile those perspectives. We will jump through so many crazy, horrifying engineering hoops to get bundle sizes down: using statistics/user-behavior to calculate dynamic bundles on the fly, user-agent sniffing, compiling Javascript frameworks, prefetching URLs, HTTP2. But serving an img tag with our core HTML is a bridge too far?
Slack's stock price chart has a "down and to the right" appearance.
What's your intention here? Just want to get more users, looking for help, trying to make money, etc.
Good to learn me some F#, looks like Elixir.
I wanted to dip back into Linux, and found a ThinkPad x230t for around $70. I'm amazed by how much I like it. I'm running mostly vanilla Gnome on Arch. Every piece of hardware just works. You can take the entire thing apart with just a normal screwdriver. Tablet mode has been great for reading papers and articles on the couch. It's a common enough linux machine that there are tons of setup instructions and suggestions written specifically for it. With an SSD and 8-16GB RAM, it's plenty fast.

It's bulkier. the screen is non-retina and a worse aspect ratio. The fan is noisier. Turns out none of these things bother me anywhere close to what I expected. Hardware-wise, the only annoying thing has been the terrible speakers. Then again, I'm usually on headphones. I miss USB-C ports and USB-C charging, but not too badly.

On the other hand, I had almost forgotten what a good laptop keyboard felt like, and after getting used to the trackpoint, I like it a lot.

I still use a Mac for work, but as a lot of my favorite Mac software has gone subscription-only or subscription-preferred, I've gradually moved more toward open-source options: password-store from 1Password, org-agenda from OmniFocus, etc. So the change wasn't as big or as hard as I was expecting. Decoupling from iCloud will definitely be a thing (photos, iTunes Match, etc.), but I'll figure it out.

edit: Forgot to mention matte screen! Don't know why all the manufacturers thought glossy was the way to go, but it's nice not having to stare at a reflection of the room around me all the time.
You can't critique Yang from the right.

The idea of a UBI as a solution completely ignores the reality of the US: giving more money to the private sector only increases prices with no other benefits.

Apart from Sanders no one is willing to nationalize the health care sector and reduce costs there. Same is true for higher education, food stamps, housing, transportation, power, ISPs and the rest of the commanding heights of the economy.

For the people who are unemployed we already had a system that worked. That was abolished because people with precarious lives make for more docile workers.
I just wasted seven minutes of my life reading this article. That was a click bait title and weak argument. ‪@JHWeissmann and @Slate should be ashamed of themselves. Somebody with a twitter account should send them some angry @commentiquette messages. If they have a Warren agenda and want another senior citizen for president they should just say so. Agreed with a few of you, this seemed payed for.
Stable Memory with Unstable Synapses
> either made the US better off or worse off.

It's very hard (meaning impossible) to make such an assessment for the US as a whole. Some groups net benefited from globalization and trade liberalization, others net lost, for many it was a wash.

Remarkably, this is one of the predictions of mainstream economists (MSEs) that is empirically true. What they should have stressed more, therefore, is the distributional aspect of trade liberalization: that the gains from trade must be distributed to compensate the losers. The gains are so large that this could have been done and still leave something over for the natural beneficiaries of free trade.

What Yang is saying, and I TOTALLY agree on this point, is that automation or progress in AI is like that only ten times worse. We all know that tech is full of natural monopolies, while the economic gains are HUGE because they are aggregated over so many people/transactions/etc. and marginal costs are low.

Therefore we should think about reorienting our economies (talking globally here, not just US) to ensure that we don't see the same that happened with trade now with automation and AI. Namely huge segments of the population left behind "because market" and all the gains accruing to a handful of data oligarchs.
I’ve read that politicians pushed the H1B program to drive down wages in the STEM fields, in order to reduce perceived wage inequality. The top 1/10 of 1% can remain hidden if the bottom 50% aren’t seeing the much more visible top 10% driving their BMWs around.
I think it’s primarily a public acknowledgment that they’re as important, maybe even more important, for such a mature company. The kinds of people who qualify, are the kinds of people who dream of being a CEO, and don’t want to roll up to someone else. They would likely go somewhere they could easily be CEO without the bump.
How to Find a Data Science Job
I don’t think I’ve ever agreed more with an HN comment.
> There's no real package manager

I like Homebrew -- is it not adequate enough for your needs?
How to create a 1-page growth strategy for your startup
It's retroactively true with knowledge current events, but does not answer the question 'Why did Boeing buy McDonnell-Douglas?' at that point in history with respect to "at the expense of human lives"
An interesting fact is that there were a couple of 19th century economists who predicted everything here. The Soviet Union took their works for-granted by abusing them, and the United States took their works for-granted by ignoring them. The world might be better off to just not take those works for-granted at all.
My comment is being misread — I said they don’t make decisions with the intent to compromise safety. I am not defending the decisions, but they aren’t actively trying to make unsafe planes in order to save money. It isn’t like they are doing what some car makers did where they judged the expense of a recall as cheaper than the litigation from deaths.
Bottle/can deposits predated curbside recycling, and vestigial regulations don't just disappear. Some large liquor stores specialize in making returning cans as easy as possible, to attract business from alcoholics.

FWIW have you done the math on the actual money you get back, divided by the time spent managing an extra waste stream? Unless you're a heavy bottle user, I personally don't see how it makes sense to not just ignore the deposit and recycle via modern means.
In defense of movies’ ham-handed portrayals of computer code
I am moderately happy with XPS-13. My main problem is touchpad ergonomy http://lambda-files.crocodile.org/2019/01/dell-xps-13-touchp... which I was able to alleviate a bit by "moving furniture in my home" per your analogy.
I think this depends on whether you embrace the philosophy of "everything is an object" or not.

For me its been leagues easier to learn than bash and 20 other non-portable utilities. It feels like a regular programming language.
The part about stock prices for non-tech and tech isn't entirely true, what about stocks like PD? Here's a company that's trying to posture itself as an enterprise grade ops system, stock is in the gutter
Has anyone used this one? https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Toughbook-i5-7300U-Windows-...

This series looks rugged, haven't heard it mentioned here (as far as I can remember)
This complaint about robots and AI taking all our jobs is hundreds of years old. Still hasn't happened. US is at record levels of employment. Humans are terrible at predicting the future. Let's just wait and see and react when it actually happens. My guess... there will be plenty of jobs for humans for thousands of years to come.

Ever since the industrial revolution jobs have gone by the wayside. We no longer have wagon wheel makers, or people cutting pins from long spools of wire. If you just look at the jobs going away, you're missing the other side of the picture, the jobs being created.

Jobs are essentially just things that humans do to improve our lives. If you imagine that you were infinitely rich, what kinds of things might you want someone to do that isn't getting done? I've got tons of housework and yardwork, construction work, programming ideas, hell my brain is overflowing with stuff that will never get done. Too many jobs. All those things are jobs. Most of them cannot be automated anytime soon.
How would one do this though? Should I find these people on LinkedIn and message them? Should I try to find their email? I’m applying rn and I’ve heard this advice before, I just don’t know how it could be implemented in practice.
A tesla's battery pack is about 1000 pounds. The gasoline that would get a car to travel the same distance weighs about 100 pounds. For long haul, the fuel/battery weight would dominate engine weight, so unfortunately, I don't think planes will be using batteries for a while.
> airline used this test trip to explore ways to reduce its inevitable downside: Soul-crushing, body-buckling jet lag.

Our soul can't travel as fast as a plane, that's why we feel weird while waiting for it to catch up with us.

edit: eh, finally saw the day a reference to Gibson is down voted on HN ^^
While I always remain skeptical, they said that they asked 15 and 10/15 wouldn't fly on it.
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Node (like browsers now) have Worker Threads though I haven't used the Node ones myself.
This is such a fatalistic and sad attitude...”Why should I wear clothes anywhere if my doctor sees me naked?”

Apple, Google, and Amazon encrypt their data in transit, I have an ongoing customer relationship with them and I keep abreast of their privacy policies. I’m not happy, but I generally know what they’re doing with my data.

Not so with my flippin’ toaster or my computer monitor. And TV manufacturers have a very bad reputation when it comes to shipping everything they can get unencrypted back to home base.
I’m using a Chromebook. For programming tasks, I’ve been using web IDEs. When I need something from Windows, I fire up an instance of it in a cloud provider and access it via RDP. No problems so far :)
Not everyone has access to Enterprise version so this is a non-starter argument.

Even better is the LTSC versions of Windows 10 but let's assume we are not pirating windows, and going to purchase a copy of windows, the users are left with a horrendous breach of privacy and a complete disregard to the user experience.

Also, I loving Microsoft Teams is a different argument than having it pushed to your PC without asking.
Notably, jobs in China are and will be automated away just the same as in the US and everywhere else. Technology and science are universal, you can't just put a border in and think you're insulated. Apart from why one would even try to obstruct progress?
uber needs to shift to self driving taxis quickly
Think of it as a hedge against possible extinction.

Being a multi-planterary species means that an existential threat on earth (I.e. asteroid, super bug, etc.) doesn’t wipe out all of humanity.
US inequality is up but global inequality is down.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
Actually Qantas still uses QF74 (a 747B) doing non stop routes between SFO & SYD. LA to Sydney is done by A380. Other carriers use 2 engined dreamliners.
There are different kinds of outsourcing. One is where a subcontractor has an existing and superior product, which incurs integration cost, but results in a superior product. The other is exporting a core competence to an inexperienced subcontractor for less cost, which incurs training costs, integration costs, loss of intellectual capital, logistics loss, and results in an inferior product.
I think the best summary of Yang's view of UBI comes from his own FAQ [1]:

> We are experiencing the greatest economic and technological shift in human history, and our institutions can’t keep up. Without the Freedom Dividend, we will see opportunities shrink as more and more work gets performed by software, AI, and robots. Markets don’t work well when people don’t have any money to spend. The Freedom Dividend is a vital step to helping society transform through the greatest automation wave in human history.

[1] https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
And yet, despite all that, bottle deposits get people to recycle.
Thank you so much for the detailed answer! Such an inspiring story and told with such humbleness. You are inspiring.

Your note on "fear" holding you back rings a bell. As I have aged (and I have not aged that much!) I have noticed the same. And I feel like it gets worse every year. I haven't found a better solution than just jumping in outside my comfort zones, but alas, this is so hard that I find myself barely doing it.

But people like you remind me that it can be done! And this is very important because knowing that someone else did it cancels some portion of that internal discourse of "You can't do it.".

Thanks again.
How Silicon Valley broke the economy.
NY->Melbourne would be fantastic. Right now the flight there is a 24+ hour trip with at least one layover in HK or LA/SF.

What I noticed is after about 3 or 4 hours (for me), I decompress and start feeling like a child on a road trip again. Time is kinda of just going by, you distract yourself. They serve food at good intervals and you eventually get of the plane.

To say the California->Australia part is actually not as annoying as the domestic short haul flights from NY->LA which is like being jam packed like a sardine with few amenities. International, even in the cheap section, was comfy enough and I even had leg room!
You’d assume so, but this is in fact false. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_la...