skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Giving people computers

Better is simply giving people money which they can use for their highest priorities, which may not be computers.

> Access to broadband

Competitive internet is available in larger metropolitan areas. If there's a mandate for some or all companies to provide access in rural areas, that must be subsidized by increased prices in metropolitan areas. This was accepted in the US for the bulk of the 20th century for the phone system, and resulted in amazing scientific discoveries from Bell Labs.

One alternative to a rural internet bandwidth subsidy would be subsidizing relocation. Rather than encouraging people to continue to live where jobs are scarce and services are expensive, we could encourage them to move to where labor is scarce and services are competitively priced.

> governments can nudge them into the WFH model

What's the transition cost for switching from in-office to at-home employees? If it's not an issue of transition cost, I don't think the government should be in the business of subsidizing in-home employment on an ongoing basis. It would distort the market, discouraging jobs from hair dresser to dental assistant, thereby making those services more expensive (relatively).
Yeah I don't either anymore. However, ArtStor does let you create credentials independent of a school account (once you've logged in with a school account through the library). Thus, if you have someone who does have university access you can have them make you an account without them having to share their full university credentials with you.
This is electron by another name, Microsoft is forcing us into a web sandbox.

If electron is Chrome and Edge is Chrome and Microsoft uses Edge for this - then its all chrome in all directions. Native is much faster and more powerful - WE MUST RESIST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p6tvs-qjpA
While I wouldn't claim a special case for us over machines as a foundation for consciousness, plenty of logical and rational people consider a reduction of cognition ("AGI") to algorithms to be a naive but understandable approach in early decades. There has been zero success with it in creating a sentient being in all that time, so who's fooling themselves?

And that's just cognition; not consciousness which is a different matter, and still not even understood on a philosophical level, let alone scientific - physics, computing or other.

You should consider the possibility this is a gap in your understanding, rather than a privileged access to rational and intelligent thought over others.
No need to wait, the ESP32-S2 has a RISC-V as its low-power core.
Maybe you're the one "not organic"?

Do you think it's a good way to debate to judge people with different opinion than yours to be bots or russians?
"Moving the goalposts" is only something we talk about when two ideological camps disagree about something.

Ideology and beliefs aside, I think it's absolutely fine to change one's definition of something when one learns more. I think we all can benefit from better definitions in our thoughts and conversations.

What you may call "moving goalposts" may actually be incremental refinement of an idea -- or a belief that is increasing in sophistication (or absurdity in some cases!) as more is understood.
Effortless Concurrency with Python’s Concurrent.futures – Red’s Digressions
Welcome to group 3 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160511). There are dozens of us!
7 years of being a digital nomad, and signing every document digitally, and I never ran into this. TIL.
Dermatology is real medicine with real consequences. Even Jerry Seinfeld found out the hard way: https://youtu.be/EmzM0bz3PWc
I had a thought on this but it's alot of work for one person and IDK if anyone would use my language for that.

I agree tho. I been learning SIMD and the operations it supports are pretty neat
Wouldn't it have been more concise then to just state that you "needed a framework that supported rendering to a window that isn't owned by the UI being rendered or created by the framework"? I guess now I'm even more confused about what Electron supports...

EDIT: Ok I see now, you listed your requirements and just stated that Electron doesn't satisfy them. The construct is confusing to me because the way it's worded seems to suggest Electron doesn't satisfy any of them, but I understand now.
Is this true? React native for ios and android draw with native widgets, not a DOM.
Remapping Python Opcodes – Tenable TechBlog – Medium
Perhaps it's relative to the application's current working directory?
An interesting alternative to linear algebra is geometric algebra. I recommend googling around a bit for geometric algebra and trying out my implementation https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
Touching DOM is an expensive operation. Think about the virtual DOM as a double buffer.
That sounds like yet another wealth transfer from metro areas to rural areas. I understand that the US government is structured that way, by the creation of the Senate, but as a city-dweller, I'm not a fan.

I'd rather pay for people to move, perhaps subsidizing housing where other services have competition and jobs are plentiful.
Well, as long as going to the office is still an option this is a positive change. However the worst deal is when you are the only one working remote, so I guess the situation will depend on what the majority team preference will be in the end.
I've been following along while building an armv7a kernel and I really like how you go back and refactor old parts to match newer rust features like your change to using cargo instead of a makefile and inlining asm files into the rust binary.

My only criticism is that sometimes there's parts in your tutorial that are missing but present in your os. When going through chapter 3/4 I think you skipped over explaining your kmalloc implementation. It's fine that you do since I feel your tutorial should be more about navigating embedded rust than learning os basics, but a note about this task being implemented at some point would've helped.
I hear you bro then we can call ourselves a professional team -- don't even stop there! Let's dress as a team and wear a uniform too I mean that with no hint of sarcasm most people can't draw the line between casual and toxic but it's obvious to anyone with any real professional experience outside of the silicon valley bubble
The trouble is that (assuming sufficient computational power) if we can't simulate it then we don't really understand it. It's one thing to say "that's computationally intractable", but entirely another to say "for some reason our computationally tractable model doesn't work, and we don't know why".

Present day ANNs may well be inspired by biological systems but (as you noted) they're not even remotely similar in practice. The reality is that for a biological system the wiring diagram is just the tip of the iceberg - there's lots of other significant chemical things going on under the hood.

I don't mean to detract from the usefulness of present day ML, just to agree with and elaborate on the original point that was raised (ie that "we have a neural wiring diagram" doesn't actually mean that we have a complete schematic).
I didn't see it mentioned in the linked article, but there is a very watchable 2005 dramatization called "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman."
No, this was in March. No one was closed yet except Santa Clara county. The restaurants were open but their reservations dropped off a cliff.
Twitter encourages wfh. Let's do as much as we can from home.
> There should be a Rural Broadbandification Project set into motion so everybody gets fiber. This also has the advantage that it requires lots of labor like digging ditches.

I’m not very convinced by this. 100 years ago you could employ a lot of people to dig a ditch because labour and spades were cheap. Today, I think you can’t realistically give people spades and I worry the large efficient digging machines would be too expensive or in short supply to start a massive campaign of ditch digging. They also require training. But maybe I’m wrong.

> It also has the advantage that it would allow some of these high earners to move from turbo-high cost of living areas to much lower ones.

I generally find these arguments compelling but I just looked and I can’t find much evidence of a significant benefit. Partly I think this could be a lack of studies or me misreading the data, or that it is just difficult to measure (and there are different things to measure too, eg the FTC defines broadband as >= 200kbps, which is I think not generally what is referred to when people talk about improving rural broadband). Do you know of any studies into whether improving rural broadband actually has these beneficial effects?
Not only is this differentially private, it's locally differentially private, which is an even stronger privacy definition. It's "local" because the user adds randomness themselves. Generic differential privacy is a weaker definition because it lets whoever's running the algorithm collect raw data and then add randomness somewhere in the computation pipeline to produce privatized outputs.

This kind of example also predates the definition of differential privacy by about 40 years [1], although the motivation is pretty much the same.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2283137?seq=1
You have no idea if you live in a world of zombies who just say they perceive qualia, who just give the appearance of seeing red.

I don't see it as a real problem. If a program or machine asserts that it perceives qualia, who are we to argue it's wrong? We are in no better a position to prove the qualia of our subjective conscious experience other than our physical resemblance to our interlocutor.

Maybe qualia is what it's like for matter to be in a feedback loop with physical interaction. Panpsychism is pretty much my position.
That list has some rather notable omissions. Stanford isn’t on there, nor is CMU, nor any of the Ivies besides UPenn.

This frustrates me because ABET degrees are required for a bunch of government jobs (and the patent bar). While it might make sense for certain fields, it’s silly to gate CS jobs on a credential that the field evidentially doesn’t take seriously.
Could you get a little more into this? I never had to do anything like that since all my workplaces only used 1 language + js
Yeah, that and all of the defunct malls would field a good distribution channel in dense areas.

I don`t personally shop on the popular Chinese aggregate retail sites, but consumers going direct to the manufacturer may become a phenomenon here in the States as retail goes thru its next cycle.

Amazon giving customers a reason to let them broker every transaction for a fee has worked well up to now, but ordering direct has taken off with farm-to-door sales during the shelter in place orders.
Whats next?

I haven`t switched gears after reading this article yesterday, but cutting out the middle-corporation/man for larger retail purchases to capture additional saving is the level of loyalty Amazon is working with.

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-how-much-buying-the-cheapest-ne...
The scarlet focusrites entry level are pretty cheap you can get the solo for £100 less than a nice mechanical keyboard and a decent mouse.

I went for the next level up the Clarret 2pre but I do use that for my dnd streams and want to process my voice and to mix in audio.

Main problem with entry level class compliant usb is your at the mercy of Apple and Microsoft making your interface obsolete and you cant change your microphone to suit.
> Not sure what the advantage here is over Electron.

You can customize per-platform to provide a better experience than the web can offer.
"there are plenty of other data" -- would you be able to educate with some sources? I've been digging in deep and trying to keep an impartial opinion, but have not seen solid evidence that this is true -- or, as you say "there is a study for every truth", I've seen no study to indicate "it is hardly dangerous" (which also feels subjective in those words)

> Also, so many deaths are being counted as covid when the patient already had a severe condition

Yes... as many scientists talk about, COVID-19 has a much more severe effect in people with underlying conditions. Here is where Dr. Fauci, or the CDC as a whole talks specifically about underlying issues:
https://www.cdc.gov/.../hcp/underlying-conditions.html

"the numbers are way inflated" is using generalized language for something that might be true, but even if you take a _very_ conservative view and consider 50% of the reports are false (and I've seen nowhere claiming it's anywhere near that high), the 50% of remaining deaths and complications are significantly high enough that it's far worse than the flu, and far worse if lockdown wasn't in play where some basic math indicates it would be 10x worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg
I love the idea and the article. My only criticism of the podcast is that I wish there was a sample episode available.
> It's not like they can get Phoenix sorted out and then start building systems that are intended to operate outside Phoenix

Um... Yes it's absolutely like that. They're using phoenix because it very little rain, so they can get cars that work ignoring bad weather

Afterwards they can scale out to other good weather cities and focus harder on expanding the weather they can drive in
> Imagine if a single mother working for $20k a year at an office could do that work from home?

Imagine if we applied this same kind of get-it-done thinking to wondering why there were so many women raising children on their own without support from the child's father?
And he has a radio show on Apple Music. ;-)

(And the late great Avicii famously used FL Studio to great effect. These are amazing and affordable tools that are good enough for everything from podcasts to bedroom recordings to multiplatinum albums to film scores.)
There was a community effort[1] with similar goal on macOS. I was a tiny bit disappointed that they stopped working on it when Apple announced Project Catalyst. It's good to have MS carrying the touch on this topic.

[1] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos
Is it possible for something to be sold "speculatively" and not being a security?

Also, can profit be measured not only in money? If so, can something that does not exist be bought to be brought to existence and be profitable and not in money?

For me, TON is an alternative to something like Libra, as I said elsewhere. It is basically same PBFT as Libra (thus - close to realtime operation) but it does not have many Libra flaws.

And I think that is the point the judge missed.
The nuts and bolts of animal emotion
It is not.

Here's the GitHub for the Windows implementation: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

And here's the fork of React Native for the Mac one (it doesn't seem to be as polished as the Windows one yet):
https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos
And you've argued in bad faith by using an emotionally charged procedure as "evidence" for your argument.
Don’t Build Push Notifications Yourself
Are you really naive enough to think that American standards are global standards? You should really get out of the country more, read books by non-American authors, and most especially -- befriend non-Americans.
The athletes they and their victims are thinking of when spouting that shitty metaphor make a minimum of a million dollars a year, enough to carry them through the hardships of constantly fighting for their position.
Great to see Netflix hasn't shun meritocratic values.
Can this be done client side so the PDF does not need to be uploaded anywhere?
Definitely a classic. One of my all-time favorite talks that we show all new team members.

His other talks are great too.
https://ifunny.co/picture/how-to-find-kentucky-on-a-map-hat-...
I think there is merit to the point that the "forced" social interaction (of the office) is what makes (a lot of) people even have social interactions at all. For example, it was easier to make friends in school and college because of forced interaction; similarly, anecdotally I see a lot of friendships made among coworkers of mine, some of them became groomsmen/bridesmaids for each other at their weddings.

Having said that, I'm not one of those folks, and I actually agree with your points and I am 100% for remote. I am at a remote role right now and could not be happier.
Why I made a new content publishing platform
He was twice on the Joe Rogan Podcast, also recommended!

https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-1035...

https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-1385...
Probably because it's COCKroachlabs.com

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
"Competitive internet is available in larger metropolitan areas." I'd debate the competitive qualifier.
Windows Forms was released on 2002 and is still supported by Microsoft. How long do you think Flutter will be supported by Google? For dev technology, Microsoft has a well-deserved reputation for supporting products for a long time.
you can checkout the code here https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos. It still being actively developed and not yet ready for release.
I don't know how often a project dies because it has planned obsolescence vs. people stop using and updating it, but for the latter case I think https://2019.stateofjs.com/ is pretty great.
I do not know if its my non traditional background (no degree in computer science, big emphasis in history and philosophy since middle school) but I'm baffled by how politically naive many people in software can be. I understand why you might not like it but in pretending politics do not matter or won't affect you, you are letting other people decide and most importantly, think for you.

How many people think tech companies are just completely well-intentioned in everything they do? Curb your enthusiasm, a healthy chug of skepticism is needed.
Um... was it a good presentation? Or just a load of brainwashing horseshit?
When I taught Calculus, I taught understanding over memorizing steps to arrive at a solution for a particular type of problem.

The very best students loved it, but most of the people didn't like it at all.

With mathematics, like with gym, you gain when you put in effort. Most people don't enjoy either.
Note: This video starts out as a very interesting (and fairly technical) talk about the 1989 crash of United Airlines Flight 232, but at the end, the lessons learned from the incident are applied to the management of software development teams.
Unusually high number of openly abusive schools and parents.

90% of my class cheated in some form on regular exams until 10th grade. This was known by the management and teachers often hide it. They also increased marks of students by changing their answers lol. Discouraging environment for actual students.

Why?

Because education is a business. Metrics such as 90 percentile scored so and so drives admission rates.

why cheat?

Because lack of good parenting, teachers and dysfunctional infra.
Most teachers outside of few top schools are "failures" (not literally) in private schools where they are spending their time trying to crack exams for government jobs or getting another degree. They don't care or aren't paid enough.

Parents won't help their kids or take much interest in what they like. They will be pretty thorough when investigating report cards and standardized bullshit metrics that indian schools make (outside of board) but shallow when empathising with their kids.

Tuition is a widely common practice in india which is similar to daycare in practice, I guess. It gives off an effect of your kid working... Whenever someone gets a bad grade, the first thing to do is increase their tuition time. My previous schools had same teachers taking tuition at home and an after school program. You will get questions and stuff that will come in exam by going there. It was public knowledge too. Most schools are shady. I can't remember one where I didn't see some bs going on like messing with paperwork for tax fraud (openly), messing with report cards, exams, board requirements, etc.

Big chunk of parents are not educated or live in poverty. Their kids will come to school and disrupt it for others but what can you do about it?

Separate them and put them into low cost classrooms? Yeah, that happens. Though it usually starts from 8th grade onwards. Until then, everyone is in the same classroom.

I think the biggest problem is we start investing in kids at a later age than we should. All their junior years, no one sets a good bar for them. They won't suddenly change as drastically as some people hope.
I think you miss the scale of the topic. He’s not just talking about politics, but our entire culture.
I tried some of SiFive's evaluation cores. They limit you quite a bit unless you pay. Furthermore, many of the FPGAs worth their salt were quite expensive. The K210 in the MaixBit form is only $20, and it comes with a camera and LCD. For hobbyists, I think it's a good compromise.

I looked at the Xilinx FPGAs--the ones SiFive recommends, but they're quite pricey.

Which FPGAs had you had luck with?
> the old school pizza/chinese delivery places are more efficient in terms of deliveries per driver per hour

Precisely this! It's amazingly inefficient to dedicate an entire person (and their 1000kg car) for the delivery of a single 2kg takeaway meal.

Uber tries to "solve" the problem by giving drivers two orders at the same time, but their implementation is terrible:

1. Sometimes the restaurant doesn't have both orders ready at the same time, so one of the orders is growing cold and soggy.

2. Uber's dispatch system has such a strong preference for batching deliveries together that a driver will often get assigned two orders that are going in opposite directions from the restaurant!

3. The high-volume restaurants (like McDonald's) have managed to exempt themselves from the double-delivery system [for the obvious reason that customers hate getting cold food!].
> The advantage of this approach is you can see a diff, and use standard tooling like git / pr reviews to approve changes in day to day, and when the world is on fire, someone can break the glass and run it locally.

sounds sweet. imagine applying gerrit to infra

> there is a reason things like ITIL exist, and we should learn from them

spot on.

That said, I am unsure if most people here are ITIL aware/certified.

TBH, the primary reason why I am familiar with ITIL is our clients from Accenture days requires certification to win contracts.
True. Some large metros are effectively owned by a monopoly. I'm lucky to live in a city with competitive broadband.