skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is one of the challenges the fact that you have too many options at your disposal? I've found when I want to learn something I frequently go collect 5-10 books/videos on the subject, but I have a theory that this is opposite of what I should be doing. Instead of collecting lots of different choices (which motivates inefficient switching), I theorize it is more beneficial to choose one path and work on it until it is completed. Then, move on to another.
I like how dota2 gameplay was featured on there!
Best advice is just to be born wealthy so you can use your parents "connections," and then go to a top-tier business school to make more "connections." The startup scene is so boring because there's no diversity of thought when everyone comes from the same basic background.
Notably the UK spends a smaller amount per person of tax money than the US. Because of how poorly the US healthcare system is regulated, Medicare and Medicaid - which only covers a small proportion of the population - costs more per taxpayer than universal healthcare costs UK taxpayers.

Americans pay twice: Once over the tax bill for a system that aims to provide some coverage, and then again for private insurance.

If the US regulated healthcare properly, they could extend Medicare and Medicaid to most of the population without increasing taxes as a starting point.

Part of the problem is absolutely ludicrous limitations such as actively restricting Medicare from using its market power to negotiate drug prices the way the NHS does, for example.

It's massive corporate welfare.

EDIT: Here's a factcheck on a claim relating to prohibition for government to negotiate for a small part of Medicare as an illustration of the kind of messed up policies that drive up these costs: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jan/17/tammy-bald...
I've tested Resilio Sync on my iOS devices and SyncThing on my Android devices to get my photos and videos to my home NAS. PhotoStructure (running in a docker image, but there are other ways to install it) then imports the new files and shows them in my library.

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of PhotoStructure, details in my profile)

Correction from the original post: I've tested Resilio on iOS and Android. SyncThing doesn't have an iOS port.
> Or you think they would just become reliable if they would get paid more?

Quite possible. "Good morals start with a full pantry" and all. Comfortable circumstances may encourage better behavior, or put another way: treat your employees like shit, and don't be surprised if they behave shittily.
Fair. In my experience, the fact that NFS is both pervasive and often broken, for something like a system-wide log manager you can't always assume that your root fs is reliable.

Is dot-file locking a compile- or run-time option?
You're a chump lol
Is the South African government doing enough to empower businesses in townships?
That my skills keep me at a computer screen all day.
> Only that’s not just Amazon, it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done

This type of business practice is a big threat to capitalism. Bottom-line thinking is over-optimization w.r.t. to revenue that doesn’t even consider those who generate the revenue. It’s a local maximum that makes crummy business people look smarter than they are. Conscientious capitalism is not a socialist concept, it’s a human concept. If the leaders have no empathy, people will leave, revenue will go down.
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I would imagine they know the difference between a team full of "ideas" people who answer the question of "how will you solve this problem" by saying "easy, we don't need to code, were "business people" we will higher an offshore team in India for cents on the dollar to code this for us overnight."

Where software development is just an example of one of the skills you would need

Vs.

"We prototyped this ourselves based on our experience coding with best in class teams for scalability, performance and optimizing cost savings for scaling (lets say web platform?) web platform, and we have a working MVP with some customers onboarded and seem to be growing faster than we can handle due to demand, and even though we are all pretty good at running this platform ourselves, we know some key people we want to hire to take over the scaling our existing backend devops teams so we can focus on the UX/UI and feature development to respond to specific asks from our current customers because we know these will keep them on board with us vs our current competitors."

In general, they are looking for people who are realistically engaged with the resources it needs to implement the solution to the problem where many people have the attitude of "I have the idea, I will hire minions to do it for me, I just need $5million from you to do that so I can hand out tshirts and take credit for their work at conferences while my minions do the work, duh".

You may think this does not happen. It happens quite alot....
That would be a welcome improvement in my workspace. A glass cube would grant me a little extra space, a bit more peace and quiet, and protect me from all of my neighbours breathing on me constantly.
Relevant book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
Because the S3 API has become a more popular standard.
> Suppose our current theory of relativity was wrong in some specific way

There aren't many ways in which relativity can be wrong. Relativity follows logically from the assumption that the laws of electrodynamics are independent of the observer's state of motion. The evidence that this is true is overwhelming. To overturn this part of physics would be comparable to showing that the earth is in fact flat.
It could be any. All FAANGs have their subcultures.
> We can’t take a close look at all of that chatter before deciding.

Yes you can. For example, if there's a lot of chatter in favor of reopening, you could find a thorough summary of arguments in favor of reopening - much like the article you're complaining about! - and do your best to evaluate it on merits.

> I don’t know if he’s evaluating the data correctly, or if he’s ignoring other relevant data that doesn’t support his conclusion.

Then you'll have the same problem with writings by experts. They have written plenty of articles with basic mistakes, see for example the Santa Clara serology study [1] and the takedown by Gelman [2]. Knowing a bit of math, I rechecked the calculations and figured out that Gelman is correct, even though he isn't an epidemiologist. If you use "context" and "motivations" and "heuristics" as excuses to avoid evaluating the argument on merits, maybe you should rethink what you're doing.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...

[2] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Build a craft with a cold fusion power plant, an EM-Drive propulsion system, one of these babies for lift, and an Alcubierre drive for once it breaks orbit you'd really have something.
It's especially ironic in that people are regularly ruined by health or mortgage issues even with insurance and a steady job. Once you realize this, it becomes a lot easier to look at your situation with clear eyes. More Americans should be walking away from their jobs, because it would make it easier to improve the conditions people work under if they held a credible threat to corporate stability.
I still had many problems with writes not making it out of syncthing before the laptop/phone would go to sleep - thus creating lots of conflicts to resolve all the time.

It was a frustrating experience, because basically ~once a day I'd have to manually fix diffs on each side.
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We’re talking no power grid for months or years. Most portable electronics would be technically fine, but unable to operate for any significant period of time because of the lack of power.

Your best bet might be to stash a solar panel some place shielded, and then use that to charge the batteries after the CME has passed.
I think you dramatically underestimate how hard change is for people.

Sure, rationally it's easier to quit. But humans are not perfectly rational spherical volumes. Quitting means not having a place to go every day, not seeing the tribe you're used to spending most of your day with, not knowing what "normal" will look like tomorrow, and signing yourself up for making a series of very difficult, stressful executive decisions around what to do next.
The functionality to gracefully end long running background processes has been a part of standard killall, pkill, etc. for quite some time.

Even then, yes, the functionality of using ps and kill together has existed for 20+ years. Those tools are already implemented, providing the functionality for decades.

In no universe is logind considered robust, and basic scripts from middling UNIX admins have provided this functionality for decades, untouched. Even the "janky" ones.
Virtually nobody is using multi-seat and none should.

For most cases you would get better results by networking n cheap boxes rather than trying to buy a single beefy box to support n users on every dimension including perhaps even power usage if you used low power devices.

Contention for io is a problem. Everyone wanting to say decode video simultaneously is a problem. Browsers high ram usage is a problem.
I was obviously being slightly sarcastic. I wouldn't want to personally work that way. I do believe that might be quite an effective strategy if one's goal were climbint the corporate ladder.
What they seem to not realise is that they already pay more for other peoples healthcare than people in places like the UK - Medicare and Medicaid costs more per tax payer than the NHS does in the UK despite covering a small proportion of the population...

What the right really does in the US is protect massive wealth transfers from tax payers to corporations by restricting Medicare and Medicaid in ways that makes it impossible to make them cost effective.
The post makes a number of claims that I disagree with generally, like the idea that a person who is not a formal expert on a subject has no business offering evidence-based opinions on the subject.

I think a link to the original paper would help me better judge where the author is coming from and whether, in context, he/she is making good points here.
So at least in the U.S, yes and no. This can get complex to do legally, properly and to not be seen as a sham by the courts. Nothing I am saying is tax or legal advice, just some generic statements that you would need to have legal and tax help on in your state etc.

But generally, yes, you personally can own the rights to things your company uses, and you can take "royalty" or "license" payments from the business for those, which is a different type of income versus salary. Much like you can rent office space to your company and that is also treated differently tax wise. To be clear though, most of the time you don't want to own the technology behind the business because if it is deemed faulty and causes a major problem or has a major security bug etc a client can sue not just the business but you personally for all your assets since it is your direct property and that will move forward in court, you will get no personal protection. The corporation is there to protect your personal assets, you get none of that protection if you own the assets the corporation uses, in fact you make yourself a target instead.

At the extreme end, if the company is but a shell and you own everything personally the courts could rule your corporation is invalid and not the true legal entity and so they could strip the company and you of the protections. There are a ton of rules around this that a competent, experienced business attorney needs to advise you on.

Frankly if you are not even in business yet and aren't making money you are worrying about the wrong problem, get customers, get business, make something, then optimize corporate structure once things are really moving and you have income coming through the door. Because until the company is making more then it is losing no one is generally going to sue and spend money on attorneys to get nothing in return. They might sue to get the assets but even then that is really rare, and usually most larger businesses will force you to vault your product anyway in case you go under as their protection so they don't need to sue.
I also have a 13" from 2018. No issues with it, keyboard works fine and used daily, having a shitty no name 40 Euro 9 USB port dongle, no errors, maybe 3 reboots in all this time. Love it for the portability and somehow like the keyboard. I also have a 16" at home, more powerful, love the screen on it, might seem weird, but I'm not sure which keyboard I like more at this point, I kind of got used with the butterfly. The only issue I had and it's a bit frustrating is with the sound since upgrading to Catalina, after a while it goes wild and connects and reconnects the sound device, especially with headphones.

As a long time user of a Dell XPS, I would never go back to that (poor bluetooth and WiFi support after 2-3 years, battery sucks after a while).
I didn't include mention of the disclaimer because it wasn't in place when I saw the article in question, and I didn't link to the article because I don't think it deserves any more visibility.

Also, just looking at the comments on the original article, I don't think the author is open-minded or pliable, but that's just my .02.
Watch a video from a Harvard prof and then one from a directional state school. The Harvard guy usually expects a lot more out of his students, but he's also a million times better at explaining the course content.
The aversion to testing by the American government is how we know that we live in dark times. I look forward to see what Silicon Valley finds in their testing of people that died in november.
Everyone always says team without elaborating on what that means. It seems to me it’s generally a shorthand for how many of your founders/employees went to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc. You can’t say pedigree these days because that doesn’t fit with the current Bay Area politics.
This is just extemporizing to deny a strong point...and in any case, it is easier to give up on an income of you have a lot in the bank.
A friend of mine has furnished his garage, and is renting it out as a private working space in his neighborhood.
>the premiums would go up because it's no longer a group policy, and I would have to pay for it with post-tax income.

But there would be no premiums.
For backups, mapping one file to one object rarely works well. Tools that use this strategy come with a long list of scenarios requiring expensive operations. For instance renaming a directory or changing a few bytes in a large file.

On the other hand tools that don't view the object storage as a file system have way less gotchas.

In my experience B2 + restic works really well.
Yeah, I don't like the butterfly keys, but the touchbar seems neutral to me. I've never accidentally hit the touchbar while typing. And while it has always seemed a bit gimmicky, I do appreciate some of the controls (sound, brightness, etc.).
Note that this article was originally published on April 7th. Since then, Hokkaido had to reinstate the lockdown because they reopened too early and were slammed by the virus again [1], they had the highest number of deaths in a single day [2], they've had to expand the state of emergency to cover all of Japan [3] and they've struggled to provide adequate testing.

[1] https://time.com/5826918/hokkaido-coronavirus-lockdown/

[2] https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/04/74cadc7b150c-japa...

[3] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200417_01/
Mainly I meant that I no longer see it recommended on the Arch wiki, which I think is where I first learned it. But it looks like that might be because Arch now compiles systemd with lingering on by default (or something similar to that, I'm probably using the wrong term).
I dig into this a little bit recently and as far as I can tell, Dr. Pais is a real person and has given at least one interview. I suspect this is an elaborate disinformation hoax.
Internally accusing people of bad faith can be a mechanism for dealing with cognitive dissonance. Publicly accusing people of bad faith, with no evidence or justification, can be a rhetorical tactic.
Microsoft SQL Server has the same clause in their license, unfortunately.

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-...

So, you wouldn't be considering any commercial SQL offering, basically.
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But small capitalists are a bigger problem in someways than bigger capitalists, since the difficulties their workers face are harder to be brought into public attention, because of the small localised scale of them. Large businesses have to face regularly oversight and scurutiny on a much more wider scale.

So there is a strain of left-wing thought that see smaller businesses as a bigger evil that big businesses.

From the article:

"In reality, small business promotion is mostly a bad idea. Small businesses pay lower wages, provide worse benefits, are often exempt from important worker protections, and are incompatible with the way unionization works in the US."
New to me. Thanks. A jumping off point https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/331567/alternative-...
>Very few people would have the courage to walk away from big sums of money purely on principle.

Some people are wise enough to understand that having 20 million vs 10 million does not actually do much to improve your quality of life.
if he’s so against capitalism he should donate his considerable net worth to amazon workers instead of pointless virtue signaling.

but somehow think that won’t happen :)
Did capitalism itself write this comment or something?
This. I stopped trying to play the game of getting eyeballs because it would of meant writing crappy listicles instead of the things I actually wanted to write. Instead I focus on building a repository of interesting ideas, projects and the occasional recipe. In this way the blog becomes more of a journal.
The silver lining of the "Apple Tax" is that machines retain value for an absurdly long time, even those which are verging on "obsolete".
"For example, when evaluating claims in a high-stakes, high-uncertainty, high-complexity area, like the public policy approach to COVID-19, a good heuristic might be “does this person have expertise or experience in a relevant field?"

Ironically, the author of this blog post doesn't exhibit expertise or experience in any relevant field.
But at least it was added.

In the meanwhile, your own article doesn't mention this addition in anyway, because I suppose it weakens your narrative ?
Cool concept but the license seems kind of weird to me. 20 bucks for six months? Will anything change in that time? You might want to add a bit of info on what the license gets you.
Unless they’re in on the joke and the goal is to fool foreign governments into chasing down pseudoscientific rabbit holes.
Cumulus is a great complement to their earlier Mellanox acquisition. I'm hoping for good things to come from this.

... that is, if nVidia doesn't force their bad open source habits down on either of these 2 companies. But there is no indication they will.
There are a few commenters on the blog page essentially arguing that the supposed experiment has value as a metaphor which outweighs the negative value of its non-factuality. Some even attack the "religion of science". A rather interesting contrast to the scientifically minded commentary I'm used to.
I'm using the Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th generation and I feel like with the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS it's finally at the level of usability I want in a Linux laptop. Everything works out of the box, including the speakers, camera, microphone, wifi & bluetooth, and fingerprint reader. I can even use my fingerprint for sudo! (I did have to run one or two commands to get that working though). The trackpad is also great, if a little small. Probably comparable to the Dell's. Also haven't got a chance to test real-world power consumption because I'm stuck at home lately (thank COVID for that) but it seems to be okay.
Isn't this down to the rise of angel investors, though? I feel like that concept has exploded in the last decade, and established VC's have moved "up market" in response to it--hence their first look is now more like a Series A than a seed.

Has available seed capital declined overall or is it just coming from different places now?
Would be interesting to see a comparison of Amazon's tactics and Walmart's. Traditionally Walmart has gotten a lot of bad press for its working conditions and its destruction of small businesses across the US. Amazon has thusfar had far less scrutiny.
1. It would need to be a _very_ stupid adversary.
Sounds reasonable that it had that effect, but citation needed on the intention.
One of the benefits of the design being open-source, according to the linked site, is that it can be adapted locally to meet end users requirements, in this case labs in Tanzania and Kenya.

That would be more difficult with pre-manufactured parts.
,,the author is a software engineer, not economist or epidemologist''

Great! I have tried economist math test for university students, and it was a joke. I wouldn't trust any economist being able to analyze data, as they don't have the scientific background. I would invite any economist to try to solve my computer science calculus university test in 45 minutes.
That's exactly how I started as well: documenting a project I was doing so the information I gathered was in one place. Just yesterday, I was writing a Makefile, and I referenced my own blog post on the topic to refresh my memory.

It really helps to have your own personal knowledge store, and writing in a way that can be published publicly helps me write clearly. Future me benefits and so do readers who I never expected would stumble onto on my writing.
This article was from the
Jacobin, perhaps the foremost Left-wing publication in the USA presently. Jacobin is essentially the Pravda in English.
Yea this something I realized recently with the VP guy leaving. As a upper-middle elitist working engineering/ML/management how do you reconcile the cognitive dissonance? I have been considering a career changing and one of the things is studying for interviews at the FAANGS and I have trouble working for the "man" as it is and this whole affair is just turning me off more.
Thanks for sharing, knew there had to be something easier than hot-gluing stuff on the laptop!

That said, I would choose physical keys over a touch bar myself.
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Edit: Thank you! Everything else below this is now no longer needed.

I think your lack of mention of his disclaimer in your article even with the context that it was added after the fact is irresponsible.

As I stated here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23069773

Unless I missed it on reading your article you knew about this when you wrote it and didn't mention it even in passing in your article. I only found out by spending 20-30 minutes reading the original and then comments on it. I basically lucked into that information.

I don't agree that we should open up right now but your representation of this article lost credibility when I found that one thing. I'd suggest you do as the author did and add your own disclaimer reference.
I got this error.
Hmmm...can’t reach this page
Make sure you’ve got the right web address: http://themixtapeproj.com
This would be shittiest Star Trek knock off series ever. I’m imagining the “aliens” would be the weirder residents of SoCal?