skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you could argue this was predictive for certain facets (look at music, for example), it definitely is wrong in others.

Since the founding of Facebook (arbitrarily chosen because of the comment establishing this as the moment innovation died), we have advanced robots on the moon and Mars. We have quantum competition where even amateurs can contribute from the comfort of their own homes. We have deep <learning,fakes,etc> that are accessible from powerful computers fit in our jean pockets. We have Raspberry Pi and other SBCs connecting to a gamut of high technologies like e-paper, clustering, Google Voice, etc. We have autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. We have bitcoin.

It would be easy to go on and on listing the innovations that have appeared since "cyberspace" became a thing. But the innovations I listed are because of cyberspace, and not in spite of it.

While culturally the world is starting to blur, it definitely cannot be said that innovation is suffering in any way. Cyberspace essentially hit the fast-forward button on innovation.
TBH, at this point I think you just described Fedora. I’ve been using it everyday for three years and the total set of customizations I’ve needed to make, outside of my developer stuff, has been...remapping a few keys, really.

The absolute worst, edge-case-est thing I’ve hit: I did have to install a COPR to install (with zero configuration) Bumblebee to be able to completely disable my discrete GPU to save battery life when I was on vacation, and multi-monitor with Bumblebee sucks, so when I got back I uninstalled Bumblebee and Nouveau took back over.
used consolas so far, tried Iosevka but felt like something was off, this Agave thing is great!! Thanks!
You have to be fantastically greedy to work so hard and for so much time to get an unfathomable quantity of money and keep going. I suppose there is nothing intrinsically wrong, but there is no need of Freud to tell us that greed is a very strong motivation to him.
> Why did Boeing buy McDonnell-Douglas? Because the airplane manufacturing industry is consolidating, and Boeing is pursuing profit at the expense of human lives.

Was it really necessary to add the second part to explain why the merger occured? 'industry is consolidating' seems reason enough. The mixing of explanation with moralism in every sentence is grating. Put the moralism and ethics in it's own paragraph so we can understand the explanation first. If it's all mixed up, then I have to evaluate every claim in the article as if it might be ethical statements by the author instead of focusing on understanding first, and then considering the ethical outcome after having attained the understanding.
I read the whole thing. It’s not so much that Yang is wrong but that the automation-is-taking-all-the-jobs mantra is incomplete and that outsourcing to places like China is a substantial part of it. From what I can tell from Yang-like arguments outsourcing could be seen as a form of automation. The general idea is that companies are incentivized to reduce labor costs so whether it’s outsourcing or automation the end result is the same. Presumably if we restrict outsourcing then just more investment into automation will take place. It’s inevitable.
And whether they are “unprofitable” or not doesn’t mean they don’t either seek to become profitable or get bought out - ie your livelihood is still based on capitalism.
How is it a dumb tv when it requires a App to function?
You can also run PowerShell on Linux now.
It’s tricky to nail down how much revenue loss each switch to ad-free will cost because you’re splitting your demographics. If you’re playing ads in the paid version, it’s by definition not ad-free; it’s some kind of hybrid that I haven’t thought enough about to address.

If enough viewers that actually buy things move over to your ad-free product, you tank the value per impression that advertisers are willing to pay. Thus you lose not only the impressions of people who pay, but also the lower the value of each ad you’re still showing.

I suspect that this will cause most providers to be either primarily subscription or primarily advertising, to the extent that the less-popular choice doesn’t have enough customers to be worth keeping around.
There’s another often unwritten element here around companies basing their valuation on false markets. For example, if I sell $2 for $1 that’s a false market. Of course I can grow like crazy and gobble up lots of customers. I could even “disrupt” existing players like those stodgy old companies (banks) that sell $2 for $2.15 (a loan).

The VC subsidies for some of these companies are so high that they are basically selling $2 for $1 in some cases (WeWork was basically losing nearly $1 for every $1 of revenue!)

Ride share companies grew fast when they sold VC subsidized rides but have struggled to maintain that market share dominance without subsidies (lots of other players quickly move in). MoviePass sold lots of subsidized movie tickets until the money ran out.

Thus the fallacy of the whole “it’s ok that we’re unprofitable because look at how fast we’re growing” is that in many cases these companies were only growing BECAUSE they were grossly unprofitable in the form of their investors massively subsidizing purchases.
You're not confused. I think you're right that both cljs/go and js/async blocks are giving a 'procedural way' to basically create an asynchronous processing/state machine.

It would be interesting to see a fully-baked out analysis of async/await vs go and Promises vs channels.

I do think Clojure still has the win on simplicity if for the main reason that core.async is just a library [2] and Javascript implements async/await via syntax with the actual implementation at a subterranean level.

Clojure's version (core.async) can be macroexpanded/unwound -- i.e., the 'magic' you speak of is not magic at all and can be examined and implemented directly w/in ClojureScript itself.

From the channels vs Promise perspective I think there is more to argue. Channels are quite a simple concept when weighed against the Promise spec [3]; of course this is arguable and arguments welcome.

Also worht considering David Nolen's takes, one of them here: [4]

[1] https://clojure.github.io/core.async/

[2] https://clojure.org/news/2013/06/28/clojure-clore-async-chan...

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[4] https://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/23/make-no-promises

Edits: typos/cosmetic.
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I've been on networks where everything had to go through a proxy, where browsers were told how to act via WPAD/proxy.pac and you set an HTTPS_PROXY env for wget/cURL to work.
The Michigan Daily is more like an alt weekly than a traditional local newspaper, it’s just that the traditional newspaper in Ann Arbor went under, erasing a lot of this contrast.
In a 2018 paper, UC–Berkeley sociologist Steve Viscelli suggested that in the most likely scenario, long-haul truckers, who tend to make middle-class wages, will be replaced by poorly paid drivers tasked with steering autonomous vehicles through tricky city streets, which onboard navigation systems handle less well than highways. That’s not all jobs disappearing. It’s jobs changing.

I'm not sure if the author is claiming that the job displacement will be 1:1. Does anyone honestly think it would be 1:1? I don't think so. And if more jobs are disappearing than are being created, there is a net job loss; also the author agrees that the new jobs would be lower pay. Whether jobs will be created in entirely and unpredictably new industries is besides the point. Yang's point is that everyday people are inadequately prepared to make that transition to new jobs. He frequently cites data that the US federal government sucks at job retraining.

IF various tech companies are successful in their endeavors (and yes, that's a big if), it will be true that a lot of people will need to transition to something new. And given recent demos by various tech companies for voice AI tech (yeah, Google's really was impressive when it came out, and it will probably get better until it's commercialized one day), self-driving tech (I'm a skeptic for the short-term, but it will probably happen in the long-term), and etc, I think the subject is ignored at the working population's peril. Never mind self-checkout, which is already a reality and steadily gaining ground.
"How dare you disrespect my reproductive autonomy!"
> Following the debate, a “fact check” by the AP claimed that Yang was right... “Economists mostly blame [manufacturing] job losses on automation and robots, not trade deals,” it stated. But this was incorrect. No such consensus exists

So they claim AP and Yang are incorrect but also state there is no consensus. This piece seems more like it is trying to justify the warren gaffe in the last debate by muddying the waters. The truth is be it automation or outsourcing our economy is changing and we need to be prepared for it.
Without the janitors there would be no profit either.
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Why shouldn't government use a tax to influence health? Tax the things you don't want - tobacco, unhealthy food, carbon emissions and tax breaks on the things you do.

It worked very well cutting smoking in the UK, in tandem with advertising and shop display restrictions.
How much of that bigness is devoted to exfiltrating data?

If it's non-zero then you must compare to an IMG element design that can also efficiently exfiltrate the same amount of user data. Otherwise you're comparing apples to oranges.
I stopped reading after the author mentioned that Yang thinks that Ubi will solve issues. Have you actually read into some of the things he said, Ying explicitly says he does not think it will solve everything. Rather it gives people a bit of leeway in the short-term to focus on other things. With the hope that it will lead to more entrepreneurial things, but knows more likely it will go towards random things in each individual's life
well, my wording. i’m asking for alternative services.
I think you looked at Fira Sans, the Fira Mono typeface is below that.
Has anyone considered that the MCAS bug was just simply nasty and difficult to detect in their simulator?

It’s easy to look back with retrospect and make sweeping judgements about the entire company and the FAA.

But fundamentally this was all over, as the author mentions, a single software bug and a lack of backup sensors to offset the risk.

In addition it was the technical pilots who asked for the stick to be harder than it was, which added to the difficulty in that unique situation.

The MAX was otherwise a very safe plane was it not?

There will always be limits to how effective regulatory oversight can be.
Is there a substantive difference between something like the cheapo TCL with integrated Roku and a dumb / unconfigured smart TV with an external Roku?

Genuine question—I mean, is TCL+Roku likely to share different telemetry due to manufacturer requirements or pricing constraints?
>> There are no monitors in the 50+ range though, unless you go for commercial screens

4k TVs look nice and are cheaper than monitors of similar width.
I agree. I don't have a mobile telephone, so this television would not be an option for me.
> vastly better

Until three years later when the app isn't being updated anymore, or the vendor removed all the functionality you used (hello Sonos)
The ends do not the justify the means, and the means is the government saying that poor people get one set of freedoms, and rich people get another.
Oh, and your design should also be equally extensible. If I want to add ambient light readings to the data set it should be essentially free to ship the change to the img element design across all browsers.
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I have both MBP and Surface Laptop 2. I personally like the Suface much better. And most importantly the entire Office stack on Windows is superior to anything on Mac or Google things.

The keyboard on Surface Laptop is also superior, and I never liked the touchpad. Big touch screen fan!

What feels less nice is the screen attachment, it seems less stable. The MBP has a nicer mechanism for locking in I think.
I sold my MacBook and went to an XPS 13 about 3 years ago. I have enjoyed the machine and Windows just fine. I dont know anything about configs and launchers and Ubuntu - I just use the machine to run my company and spend 99% of my time in Excel, Chrome, and Mailbird. The Dell is an excellent machine except the battery life is terrible.
Having a default vs needing to understand all of this?

Do you believe you are selecting the path of least resistance?

How many defaults in systems do you use today so you aren't configuring the dials and knobs of a spaceship everytime you power on.

Using Cloudflare as a default vs the ISP's defaults.

If you care you can learn and change them the same way we operate today.

The browser is a product, UX wins. How do I make my product easy to use while still maintaining a security forward stance? Defaults.
You might be looking at the non monospaced variant in the Fira font family.
Have been working on Windows machines (C# ftw) for a while now.

I hate it. Everything.

Kafkaesque configuration UIs, horrible window management, mouse acceleration is off, font rendering is atrocious, the updates make me unreasonably angry, mixed design systems leave me confused, File Explorer isn’t even trying, many apps are downright insulting, and the entire thing just reeks of PMs in ill-fitting suits prodding things this way and that with their doughy fingers.

And I need to install a linux subsystem to make it just about usable.

It’s a shame, because I do like the look of their Surface line.
This is the opposite of a dumb tv.

A dumb tv has a remote and no app.

This TV has no remote but has an app.
Even in China labor is getting more and more expensive. So sure there was some loss of manufacturing jobs to China in the 2000s but now even China is losing it to automation and outsourcing as labor rates go up.
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Clipper had SOUNDEX function, which was used to search in flat-file databases for descriptive names. SEEK SOUNDEX("Smith") and SEEK SOUNDEX("Smythe") would return the same result. https://www.itlnet.net/programming/program/Reference/c53g01c...

But Harbour, an open-source implementation of Clipper superseded it with Metaphone - https://harbour.github.io/doc/hbnf.html#ft_metaph
If you are a business, and a buildout to get fiber is in the thousands, and a 5G contract is the same monthly rate as a wire, maybe you want the flexibility to switch carriers more often without additional fiber buildouts.

A better use case is SD-WAN. You already have fiber to your building, and you want a supplementary connection in the event the fiber line gets severed, to ensure business continuity and no outages. At the right price its a no brainier to replace SD-WAN 4G modems with 5G modems.

5G is coming for dsl/cable/fiber, not to get everyone to replace their phone.
Sentence one of your link’s abstract agrees with me :-)

> The mechanism of memory remains one of the great unsolved problems of biology.
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I've really been enjoying the Overpass fonts from RedHat - https://overpassfont.org
I agree that all those places are options. I need some convincing that they are better options than San Francisco. Your gas cost and mileage are about what I used

I used $4 for California. But nobody in Orlando is saying "3.89 what a deal".[1] California's high gas prices exacerbate the problem of distance. In the east $100 provides more range in addition to go along with more options. Even $2.00/gallon wouldn't get you across the all deserts and mountains between SF and Denver. It wouldn't even get you to El Paso where there's nearly 1000 miles of Texas still left.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=gas...
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This approach is rooted in the theory that language is not “representative” of the world, but significantly constitutive of it. In this view, language is not something that mechanically “points to” things, but is the system through which consciousness develops and allows us to reason about sense-impressions in a way that is uniquely human (or at least sapient). Pragmatically, sense-impressions are organized into “things we can talk about” and, having named them, we now use those names and concepts to organize the world we perceive. The flip side is that we’re less likely to develop new names for and new reason-abouts things if they comfortably fit within our existing nominal categories, unless we have good practical reason to do so. Thus a visual designer will have a great many names for gradations in color that a non-designer might not be able to reason about (“It’s all just blue, right?”), because he or she has a practical need to distinguish colors and think about them at a much finer level of granularity. This also has the interesting derivation that societies can only reason about what they can talk about, which has profound implications for how inter-group communicative discourse works — from politics to intra-corporate coordination to literature. If you’re interested in this, I’d recommend any synoptic overview of Pragmatic and New Pragmatic thought, and the linguistic work of Searle.
I like Fira Code but it has too much flare for me. Microsoft recently came out with Cascadia Code which fits my bill. I don't know if it fits yours. It looks like you've already found your solution but I thought I'd pass this along anyway.

https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases
I'm not a Yang supporter but this article is total garbage. Slate has been very disappointing lately.

The key takeaway seems to be while Yang says automation has displaced jobs there's a lack of academic consensus on the weight placed between trade policy and technology improvements; but everyone agrees both have had a significant effect.

Ok... so we shouldn't be coming up with a plan for how to address economic changes due to technology based on "it's historic effect has possibly been outweighed by other factors" even though we all agree it will continue to have an effect in the future?

Also just want to point out that anyone using the reported federal unemployment rate as a measure of overall employment health has already lost all credibility to write on the topic.
But what if accumulating wealth is a side effect, not the main motivation?
Righto and while you’re setting all of this up (which usually takes months) your business is going to competition who just spun up a few nodes with a couple lines or terraform (or just autoscaled to demand). Also 10g link is hilarious - you will get x30 that on gcp for this many cores.
It was simply bad systems engineering. Using software to compensate for hardware like that is like coding "subtract one" when two plus two yields five.

In software this hack is explicit, so perhaps Boeing engineers can be forgiven for not seeing it when it straddles hardware and software.
It’s a hyperbolic statement. Boeing employees and engineers also fly on those planes with their families. It isn’t like they are making decisions with the intent of compromising safety.
Drive to your local Walmart.
Are we modeling AI on the wrong brain?
Don't be in the bay area, that's how. That's why they pay bay area peeps the big bucks: the standard of skill is higher here, because of the community and other factors.
"[...] Long-haul truckers, who tend to make middle-class wages, will be replaced by poorly paid drivers tasked with steering autonomous vehicles through tricky city streets, which onboard navigation systems handle less well than highways. That’s not all jobs disappearing. It’s jobs changing."

Uhm, that's halfway decent careers turning into far fewer and shittier jobs. That's jobs disappearing. And it ignores that eventually someone will automate even that part away, it'll just take a bit longer.

The article just seems to just be a series of quibbles that don't show Yang to be wrong in any meaningful sense.
I don't think Yang is claiming the _only_ thing causing job loss is automation. It's just one major factor, which will continue to rise into the future.

I also don't think he believes it will put everyone in those industries out of a job. I can see how the sound bites from the debate sound that way, but unfortunately he probably has to use the worse-case scenario type examples.
The technique has been effective in India, AIUI. It appears to actually work.

Our current regulatory apparatus is way too risk averse: look up horror stories surrounding IRB approval in biomedical research. (You need oversight for having people fill out a survey!)

I understand the urge to protect people from various specific harms, but slow scientific progress is a harm all its own.
> Framing it in the light of "They are blocking [all] recycling efforts" is dishonest.

But that's not the title. That's a much stronger statement than the article. If you choose such creative ways to interpret people's words then you can make anyone sound dishonest or stupid.
The bug is a symptom of bad architecture. Bad architecture is an outcome of taming loud engineers in sake of short term business outcomes.
I don't really like their mono font but the others look pretty good, just not for coding. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about them.
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Silly corporations, pursuing profit instead of the good of everyone. Why would we expect any corporation to cut corners to improve profits, which is definitely not what private for-profit corporations are explicitly organized to accomplish? What a weird thing that nobody could have predicted.

Really tickles my nose.

Makes me want to sneeze actually.

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that was a weird one, sorry. I'm gonna go get a tissue.
Going to put a blanket warning about buying battery replacements on Amazon. I bought a replacement battery on Amazon that was a Chinese knock-off. It barely holds a charge and started swelling within a few months. I don't think it would be safe to bring on a plane.
That's when you cheat and use a TrueType version of the bitmap font :)
Thinkpad X-series is the alternative with a more durable build and a comparable pointing device. I would recommend any Thinkpad, but the X series is absolutely fantastic.
Unfortunately sin taxes are always regressive, and it's pretty easy to make the case that they mostly just punish the poor for their own circumstances. Sin taxes are rarely, if ever levied against the sins of society's upper crust.
I like this question because I'm in a similar situation with my MacBook Pro 2015 despite having bought a MBP 2019, because i was not convinced of the quality... Unfortunately i did not find a real alternative for now...

My thoughts about alternatives are:

# Software / OS:

- Hackintosh - I don't want to bug around with hackish scripts or repeating the whole procedure on upgrades, so I refuse to do this.

- Elementary OS - Linux with UI similar to MacOS (at least kind of) including Apps for the most common Tasks like mail, calendar, etc.

- Manjaro Linux - Rising star of the distros, presentations i saw looked pretty good. Based on archlinux - so there is some things to learn ;)

- Ubuntu / Xubuntu / Mint - well, i know them but working with them for mee feels by far not as good as with MacOS.

# Hardware:

- Lenovo Thinkpad T4X0S - Good value, great linux support, business quality

- Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon - Pretty expensive but high end and man what a display

- CLEVO N141CU (https://clevo-computer.com/en/laptops-configurator/purpose/b...) - a colleague recommended this manufacturer, i don't have any clue if this is a good value thing, but it looks very similar to a MBP with all the connectors you can think of
The original, though the full films are highly recommended:

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