skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first point aside, Republicans have been trying to privatize the USPS for decades (though it's definitely the case that many Democrats are in favor of this too for whatever reason). The White House has been actively rejecting the idea of providing aid to the USPS over the last month or two despite the fact that the situation has demolished their revenues.

I think it's at least quite plausible that the WH could try to do this since it aligns with their priorities, and that McConnell would be fine with it. The House, probably not.
does it do anything to change/fix Emacs shitting itself on large buffers?

last time i gave it a try opening a large file would completely kill performance, and iirc in particular really long lines (ex. 1000+ chars) would make the thing chug even if the actual file wasn't super big or anything.
It's already happened in the freelancing / lower-level software work, time tracking apps and the like are common on upwork.
> what is the value add then of paying to physically go to college?

If you can tell from a resume someone attended in-person, it gives their degree more academic integrity. Not that you can't cheat if you attend in-person, but it's a whole lot harder to pay someone to take the exam for you.
That's the spirit! Books are super cheap knowledge. When your done with those, email me and I can point you towards more for your new questions that will come up.

Do you happen to be monetizing an OSS project?
Well it is also worth mentioning, the "we" can be used as a way to give a paper a conversational tone whilst still remaining formal. The "we" in that kind of case is the other domain experts reading the paper the author is assuming they are speaking to.
Have you considered publishing posts in both English and your native language? Since the software dev world tends to be rather English-centric, it could be a breath of fresh air for peers who share your language to be able to read posts not in English.
it is. you guys just keep contorting the definition to avoid any critiques
The disclaimer was added after the fact.

So you're saying that the guy is open to criticism of his work and correcting it.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I don't see how it's irresponsible to work hard at being a more informed citizen and helping to pass that information on to others.
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Libpython.clj allows python interop. So you have the entire ecosystem of python and Java at your hands. I would argue that this should suffice to go far beyond educational purposes.
Basecamp is pretty good for the stand-up perspective as well. There is a free version for personal accounts.
EDIT: Wait a second, I wasn't able to read TFA originally since it was overloaded with traffic. It's back up now, and I can see that Tim Bray was a VP.. This will probably have some impact on him getting more jobs as a VP at FAANG corps, haha. I doubt he'll have trouble finding ethical employment and/or starting his own company though...

> It also potentially damages Tim's ability to get hired in the future

Can confirm that it'll have zero effect. I know a guy who, when he left Amazon, sent an e-mail to about 5,000 people parodying the scene from Half Baked where the guy curses out his coworkers and quits. Amazon's HR was furious with him, but all that came of it was that they didn't give him severance pay. He didn't have any higher purpose in quitting either, he just wanted more money and to work on something more interesting somewhere else.

Apparently he's on some sort of blacklist within Amazon, but he's been doing fine at another FAANG company for years.
It is indeed this GR.

I might be misinterpreting the result, but "Systemd but we support exploring alternatives" means, to me, that there is some unhappiness here. To begin with, I believe the GR would not have happened if there was no issue to be discussed?
>R&B music bumping

One wonders what this characterization is meant to imply.
Take a look at: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-deaths/

There are certainly some deaths being incorrectly attributed to COVID-19, but I think the data conclusively rejects the hypothesis that there is rampant COVID-19 over-reporting.
You're saying that, in principle, new physics could allow for FTL travel that nevertheless does not permit time travel and the grandfather paradox etc, right?
That's great to hear! I'll definitely be reaching out.
Coming from MySQL to Postgres a few years back the transactional DDL statements were a joy to work with - I've had to claw a legacy into the modern era and utilizing them has allowed me to execute live migrations from legacy into shims and then from shims into modern.

I also really appreciate the transactional TRUNCATE - I pretty much never use it but at least in Postgres I never have to worry about someone else trying to run one and wiping state unexpectedly.
I agree with this. I would much prefer if there was a freeform query mode, where I could just type the queries without the buttons or hints.
But now you know, you could easily add an edit and an "This wasn't originally there but after being outted the author added it."

No I'm not saying link the paper, I was saying your HN link that's all.
I guess there must be some agreement to talk meaningfully.

"you guys"?
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I'm not sure why you're quoting me here. My argument is that the assumption that societies which suppress truth end badly may be valid, but "covid-19 5g lizard people" is so far outside the realm of what is possibly true that it isn't relevant to such arguments.

You can socially suppress the obviously wrong without any danger. The marketplace of ideas doesn't need to make an effort to hold on to cranks.
Why is this story flagged? I think it's as reasonable to be on HN as the original.
I use both the 16" and the 2020 Air, the keyboards feel identical to me.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this person doesn't appear to be an epistemologist or even any kind of trained philosopher. I'm not sure why he thinks that any of us should listen to the advice about who we should listen to the advice about covid-19 from someone who isn't an expert in a relevant field.
If it matters, hire a lawyer experienced in this sort of thing. I'm not a lawyer, if I were cowboying the legal structure myself, I would form a pass through entity for the assets. Maybe an LP with an LLC as the general partner and with the LLC under my control.The LP would license the IP to the SAAS company. The LLC would control the LP and I would control the LLC. Again, if it matters, talk to a lawyer. If it's not worth spending money on a lawyer, then it does not matter all that much.
I agree on the overall theory (dominance in a sector tends to shift internal incentives in such a way that the result is an ossified development structure), but I think Jobs' terminology is imprecise. Larry Ellison is not really a product guy first and foremost, he's the definition of a tough salesman. The "bad guys" are a more generic variety of "corporate type" who can materialize in any department, really. Typically they power themselves up the ladder with "cost efficiencies". The most recent Oracle CEOs (Hurd and Catz) fit that profile to a T.

En passant: another big name that suffered from this phenomenon was Nokia.
maybe I'm arguing against a strawman, but the first paragraph is addressing the situation where insurance is decoupled from my employer, but nothing else changes (ie, I select and pay for a private insurance policy). all this does is delete a tax exemption and group bargaining leverage. maybe I was supposed to understand from context that this isn't what "decoupling" means?
Arm it with N-ray emitters too!
> And when the newspaper goes out of business, will the aggregators just sprout newsrooms to replace their free sources of information? I doubt it.

Well that's the longer term problem. Eventually because they run out of real news sources, they have to start regurgitating -some- form of content.

You see it with some of the 'news' sites for tech, especially the 'older' ones. At some point (usually after original owners have left, as they were the ones with a passion for actual journalism) you see the content goes from investigative and genuinely curious to a state where you can tell that just about every article was a regurgitated PR.

IOW in the long term this is a bad thing, as it means that you'll see more 'sponsored' news in the future.
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They have endowments.

The colleges/universities that aren't managed by complete idiots use those endowments to hedge exactly this sort of risk.

There were a lot of articles over the past few years about various teeny tiny colleges investing their entire endowment in funds and yelling from the rooftops that they out-performed Harvard's endowment.

The bill is going to come due. Over the next two years, a lot of small colleges that were investing for annual returns instead of for ensuring institutional survival are going to collapse under the quadruple whammy of refunds, lawsuits, decreased enrollment, and decimated endowment.
Just when I thought I know enough compsci to understand everything on a sufficiently high level, this guy totally lost me starting from LIMPLE
if anything i’d expect them to go out of their way to fire some white men to avoid lawsuits
> In fact, no coronavirus to date has had a vaccine developed for it.

A small nitpick that doesn't take away from your overall point, just mentioning it because it's interesting: we've developed two widely-used coronavirus vaccines to date.

They aren't used in humans, though. They target feline and bovine coronaviruses.
I would expect someone at the patent office to be familiar with the basics of modern physics, including the "cosmic speed limit" imposed by the speed of light. I would not necessarily expect them to know why nothing can move faster than c, but I would expect them to know that nothing can and to reject a patent for something that moves faster than c on those grounds.

There is actually a specific rule for this sort of thing:

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/10/11/the-patent-law-of-perp...

It is generally applied to perpetual motion machines.
Are you opening it in fundamental mode? Without actually doing profiling, I'd guess it's syntax highlighting that's the real issue there. I've opened 100+ MB files without an issue, but that was on a box with an absolute ton of RAM.
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That changes wildly from team to team. I worked for one team where there was a set WFH day of the week. I had another team where 11am standup meetings were held everyday, and this was mostly for the benefit of the people manage who was very technically disinterested in what’s going on but wanted to enforce “coherence”, needless to say WFH was impossible. In another team, manager wasn’t comfortable allowing WFH because “it would create inequality between engineers” i.e he was just afraid of making a judgement call. Finally, had a team where manager would WFH 1-3 times a week himself and was actually the best manager of all in terms of being on top of things.

The sentiment that this is heavily dependent on manager competence is correct IMHO.
The project name is the answer to your question:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexure

From https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/

> Optomechanics is a crucial part of any microscope; when working at high magnification, it is absolutely crucial to keep the sample steady and to be able to bring it into focus precisely. Accurate motion control is extremely difficult using printed mechanical parts, as good linear motion typically requires tight tolerances and a smooth surface finish.

> This design for a 3D printed microscope stage uses plastic flexures, meaning its motion is free from friction and vibration. It achieves steps well below 100 nanometers when driven with miniature stepper motors, and is stable to within a few microns over several days.
Therein lies the problem. As the machine scales larger and larger, the cogs at the bottom have worse and worse conditions. Almost as if 'software is eating the world' is not the key to unlock Utopia, as techno-optimists would have you believe.
The intention is good, but if the NHS needs more money (which it almost certainly does), for wages or otherwise, increased taxation seems like the better choice.
I agree that the subtext of the parent comment makes it seem a lot like concern trolling. Even if it is sincere, the qualifications riddled throughout the comment totally undercut any message of support the author may have intended.
I think referring to your direct offspring as "the community" is a bit disingenuous.
This is.. a bit historical. While the passive voice was recommended in the past, most journals and advisors recommend using active voice in papers now.
Unless you have self washing surfaces, filtered air systems and a single office for each of the employees I don't see how this would help for something like the current virus.
They're all most likely going to eat in the same areas, use the same bathrooms, doors, elevators, meeting rooms, use public transports to come to the office, &c.

You know what's a good way to prevent disease spread ? Paid sick leaves
In what was does the Nintendo Switch break the standard?
Surprised this hasn’t been posted here yet: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/trolls-will-always-win/

Kathy Sierra on online harassment, betrayal by her own community, and why “don’t feed the troll” is not only ineffective, but a slap in the face to those who face this kind of abuse.
>Someone will mention the Java libraries, but at that point you are not really writing Clojure.

Uh, Clojure was literally written from day one on the founding principle of Java interop? Using Java libraries from a functional lisp is literally the reason Clojure exists.
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If international superpowers consistently put technical expertise over the whims of bureaucrats, the Challenger disaster and Chernobyl would have never happened. The US wasted a lot of effort during the Cold War investigating parapsychology and remote viewing.
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I appreciate the point, but surely both are possible!?
IF the patent were not a fraud or disinformation (it certainly is one of these), then it would not "follow trivially", it would be the biggest discovery in physics in 50-100 years. It would be monumental.

Unfortunately, it is either fraud or some kind of disinformation.
Why is it easy to dismiss HQ organizing? One of the biggest obstacles to warehouse workers organizing is the tacit acceptance of their mistreatment by those at HQ. Were that calculus to change, HQ employees organize in solidarity with them, I’m not sure how much execs could do to stop them.
Do you automate your process somehow? I'm trying to develop a strategy where if I open my laptop after a certain time it backups in the background. My go to for this kind of thing was hammerspoon but it won't execute the shell task in the background thread and completely locks my machine. I guess I could cron it?
Pre-2008 Google was like that. I had the pleasure to work there at those times. We couldn't imagine how lucky we were to be able to work there. Sadly it changed a lot with the aggressive growth of number of employees compared to the slightly slower revenue growth.
It might make certain large organizations reluctant to bring him on board, but I imagine those organizations wouldn't be places he'd like to work. I think there will be other large organizations that would be more inclined to hire him; if nothing else, this makes hiring him a good branding exercise with other employees.

Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I'd like to think at least when you are talented enough, sticking true to your nature probably serves you better than to do otherwise.
I am not concerned if the NSA knows my SSN.
They are on the lower end of big tech salaries. And the vast majority of their employees are warehouse workers, and they are paid very poorly.
> Also, be prepared to deal with the cultish obsession of the community. They have very strong opinions but will never elaborate.

I'm curious to know what "cultish obsession" you are referring to. Also, what strong opinions have you been unable to get elaboration on?
I've already been in a forest of bash scripts and I would not go back there again. I have no comment on systemd's implementation but the implementation you're talking about is also incorrect. It has never been safe to kill random processes using a bash script running in the background, on most Unixes (and Linux) it is 100% impossible to do that without race conditions due to the limitations of procfs. Doing "ps | grep" and "killall" is a footgun. You would need to implement this in C for it to have a chance of being safe at all, and even then, you would need to rely on system-specific functionality because there is no portable way in POSIX to actually do this.
So I can use you patent to send the patent back in time, generating prior art, which caused your patent to never exist.
Absolutely the best part of moving from Oracle to PG is never worrying about licensing ever again.

PG does 99% of what Oracle does. If you have one of the 1% cases, that will be a remarkable circumstance.

Always test a move from Oracle to PG, see how it performs.
i’d think it would make you unemployable at another big company.

but startups might still be interested
far more likely it's a grift (e.g. to the stars academy, remote viewing companies like SRI Int'l in the 60s-80s, etc)
Guessing he was able to leave because he is financially stable.
> Closed timelike curves

Those are not the same as FTL signaling. CTCs don't by themselves produce causal paradoxes. FTL signaling does.
As the article and comments mention, writing forces you to understand your material really well. I'll offer another perspective: it's useful to approach topics from a less knowledgeable perspective.

The beginner's perspective exposes a lack of information on the topic, especially if the topic is usually covered only by experienced folks. It's also a great way to gather feedback from others who know more about the topic, aiding both you and anyone who reads the resulting discussion/follow ups.

The key is to be transparent with knowing about the topic and explicitly soliciting feedback in areas where you have low confidence. This is the part many armchair experts miss.
It seems hard to find an ethical, large tech company. Amazon? Mistreats warehouse workers. Microsoft? Antitrust, baked-in telemetry. Facebook? Privacy, cambridge analytica. Capital One / credit card companies? Profiting off financial illiteracy / people in need. Apple? Anti-competitive app store practices. Google? Ban people with no visible justification or reasoning, no customer support, benefits off lack of privacy for ads. Oracle? Sleazy vendor lock-in. Comcast? Too many to list.
Print? Forget 3d printing, if you want a cheep medical microscope you can 2d-print and the fold one out of paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldscope

Foldscopes illustrate an interesting reality when it comes medical testing: more often than not a general-purpose medical microscope is total overkill. For medical testing, seeing if some pathogen is present or not, you do not need massive optics creating large fields of view. Answers can be found using extreemly small optics of, literally, disposable microscopes. The problems of foldscopes largely surround issue of contamination and testing methodology, not the limitations of the optics.
> 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.

What about those of us that have a job?
Yes- I used to maintain an open source imap library and looked into this when they first made the announcement. Microsoft is also planning on doing the same thing.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/end-of-su...
It’s not just that. Where’s the tactile escape key? I’ve had my 2019 for a couple of months and this is the most frustrating change over my glorious 2015 mbp
>I wonder if some individuals working in the government helped it "go viral"

He did the walk in support of NHS Charities Together, an umbrella organisation of independent charities that support the NHS, and their publicity team contacted the media.
The problem is essentially spam filtering with much higher stakes. A priori the source of an unusual paper might be one of:

- a genuine innovation from a polymath outside the field or undiscovered talent (Ramanujan)

- someone outside the field applying a well-understood technique from their own field in a new area (used to be common in bioinformatics back when it was done with Perl)

- someone in a non-first-world country much closer to the problem or with a connection to traditional relevant knowledge

Then there are the ones which turn out to be wrong:

- respected but crank-ish behaviour within the field: someone well respected who is extremely enthsiastic about an idea beyond all evidence, such as Linus Pauling's enthusiasm for vitamin C

- respected but ideological behaviour within the field: e.g. the warring schools of economics

- novices who are bad at checking their work: students who believe they've solved a famous conjecture but left out a minus sign on page 65. Most senior academics deal with a lot of these routinely.

- field outsiders getting cranky in another field: William Shockley's opinions on biology

- freelance not-for-profit cranks: outsiders who are wrong, but simply because of error and not malice

- for-profit cranks: this is where it starts getting genuinely dangerous, as these people can be high-output and are aimed at the public. All manner of quacks are in this category, such as the "miracle mineral solution" people who have been trying to get people to inject bleach.

- culture war cranks: The Alex Jones and David Ikes of the world. Even more dangerous as they are not afraid to libel people and destroy those who cross them.

It is no more possible to submit every paper you see to rigorous review and replication than it is to do your spam filtering by sending money to every Nigerian prince who asks for it and seeing which ones send it back. They will destroy you because their capacity to waste your time and effort exceeds yours. You have to go Bayesian; look for red flags that indicate that it falls into one of those categories above.
Backblaze is also the founding member of Bandwidth Alliance, meaning getting those B2 via Cloudflare is essentially free.

So you are only paying for Storage. ( Correct me if I am on this one )

I wonder why doesn't ALL non HyperScale Cloud Vendors, like Linode and DO provide one click third party backup to B2. You should always store offsite backup somewhere. And B2 is perfect.
It's a little silly to talk about unvested RSUs as "leaving money on the table" when they are analogous to future unearned salary, which everyone by definition gives up when they quit a job. If you don't have any RSUs but you make $100k a year, and an actuarial table says you can expect to live for 50 more years, then you're theoretically "leaving $5 million on the table" when you quit your job, but no one describes it that way.
So the original paper is sophistry because:

>the author linked to many research papers by experts

>wove an argument together out of all that research

>The tone was authoritative and confident

>it’s fairly long and comprehensive

>it’s well-organized

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. The paper is bad because it is good.

The author of the original paper was more thoughtful than this one's. A good post would have investigated the original paper's claims and responded to them. This is a low-effort take.