skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about the moral / "common sense" space. If you want to get into the legal space, the FCC's finding in Google's case is that it can't be considered "wiretapping" to observe and record publicly-broadcast, unencrypted data.

Discussion on the topic:

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/

The relevant section of law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511

"It shall not be unlawful under this chapter or chapter 121 of this title for any person... to intercept or access an electronic communication made through an electronic communication system that is configured so that such electronic communication is readily accessible to the general public." The FCC interpreted unencrypted broadcast wifi to be such signals.

... and at least when I was a young hacker, learning at my mentor's knee, the expectation was to assume that if one neighbor could do it, an army of drones could. After all, we didn't put firewalls on our home routers because our neighbors could access our poorly-configured Windows defaults to back-door our machines; we did it because such machines would be co-opted into a bot-net by random anonymous hackers.

Data being dumped out of your house into the street is in the commons. If one doesn't like that, one should probably take the most basic measures to stop doing that. It's naive to expect either the law or society to step in and stop people from picking it up; there's a whole radio hobby around what a person can hear with an antenna and a bit of quartz crystal, and both American law and American culture have been extremely consistent that it's not the listener's fault if they pick up something interesting.
What On Earth are you talking about??
People act like government adding a zero to everyone's bank account will help us weather the storm. News: it won't. The pandemic makes blindingly clear what people only loosely have to countenance during prosperous times: any of the things we enjoy are made. No magic! If people can't produce things (government prohibition on work) - we won't have things!
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They aren't beefy Xeons - look more like desktop-like E3's with some HBM. Still nice, though.

Never saw one of these, but they may present themselves as one or more computers the same way a Xeon Phi coprocessor did.
>> you don't even know if there's gold on that land, but you're promising your investors that there is

I think it's very clear in this case that there was definitely gold on that land. The only thing which was unclear was how much gold... But is there such a thing as an enterprise without uncertainty?

The only enterprise that exists without uncertainty in the US is ironically the Federal Reserve Bank. It is the only institution in the world which can print as much money as it wants and give it to whoever it wants. Who is running the real fraud?
"Remote work" is globalization of white collar jobs. It is baffling to me highly paid tech workers do not see it.

"Work from home" is the first step. If a company embraces work from home, it embraces completely asynchronous communication. As soon as that becomes an acceptable way of solving problems, Vlad making $50k/year in Ukraine who will do 65 hours a week will become a contender to replace Jackson in SF, who is making $250k/year and refuses to work more than 40 hours a week because of work/life balance.
Indeed. I think compliance will be really interesting to see, especially in comparison to states that allow small relaxations in the coming weeks. At some point, if they don't feel like progress is happening, people will get fed up with the current situation and begin to socialize without precautions. Meanwhile, if you allow people to do a little socializing, they may end up being more compliant overall.
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>By now I would have thought that all hell would break loose in Florida but it doesn’t seem to be happening.

How long ago did Florida open everything back up? If I remember correctly it was just May 4th?

That's only 8 days. This thing lags by two weeks. Put a note on your calendar to check again in 7 days.
Don't Rewrite Your App, Unless You Have To
When you say, “draw the line”, my gut reaction is “curves beat lines.” Cliff thresholds often lead to bad behavior. I think in all cases, not just with Bezos, the following tax policies should be under consideration. What the precise points should be is more a matter for experts. With the below in place, I don’t see too much harm with being a billionaire in stock in the company one founded.

- Significantly higher marginal tax rates further up the income ladder. US high end marginal tax rates are historically and relatively low; at the same time the US runs an incredible deficit. It’s crazy.

- Increasing tax rates on dividend earnings for individuals, so that they converge to the income tax rates based on some income/earnings thresholds. Large share holders like Bezos can make millions via dividends, and get a far better tax rate than you or I. It doesn’t make any sense. For mutual funds and companies, etc., dividend taxation could be treated as now without much negative impact.

- Increasing tax rates on capital gains when realized. If Bezos wants to sell $10M of stock to buy a fancy new house and car, great, but at some level of capital gains it makes sense for the rates to rise as it otherwise becomes another kind of income tax dodge.

- Inheritance taxes increasing steeply with the amount of the estate. Sam Walton worked his ass off; his kids didn’t. It’s perfectly normal to want to leave your kids something, but after a certain point it seems rather a social anti-pattern to have a trust fund class, especially at extreme amounts of wealth (which is what we are talking here).

- Limits on loss depreciation for individuals. Perhaps not quite as important but also subject to a lot of abuse.

Of course, I also think there’s much that needs to be done with campaign finance reform, lowering corporate tax rates, automatic antitrust provisions that come into play when a company becomes relatively too big, and increased penalties for corporate externalities (like privacy violations, pollution, etc.).

Hope this helps. What do you think we should do?
Thanks! It's been a long time since I tried APL. All I could remember was ⍳ and right-to-left evaluation. The rest was through monkeying around with Rosetta Code examples.

As to your "why" question - I'm assuming to make a neat demo. Something like:

>>> from math import cos, sin
>>> [s for i in range(50) if i&1 and cos(s:=i*i) < sin(i)]
[1, 9, 49, 225, 361, 441, 625, 1089, 1521, 1681, 2025, 2209]

seems more difficult to pull off in a pipeline API.
Ugly t-shirt makes you invisible to facial recognition tech
How horrifically inappropriate your entire story was, and how worse off we all are having read it. You had that one in the bag waiting for “crematorium” to be contextual, I’m sure, but I’m only left saddened about human experience arriving at the end of your story without a shred of hesitation at making light of someone’s indignity in such spectacular fashion. And, on top of it, you plopped “unfortunately” behind someone... talking to you, then co-opted their horrible story to share with all of us here.

I feel like I need a shower and I didn’t expect to read “that one time a worker annoyed me with a story about a fat person being removed from an oven half-cremated” on an article about Linux in Azure. Jesus Christ.
We would have a lot more clarity here if the following hadn't occurred:

1. Google sniffed the packets

2. Google stonewalled the investigation (receiving a $25k fine for doing so)

3. Google ignored the recommendation to have counsel review the design

But those things did occur, so I believe it is a leap of faith to simply accept their word that 2 years of wardriving people's wifi traffic was "an accident."
Serious question: How is a computer supposed to become conscious if it cannot even solve the halting problem?
I'm mainly thinking of elite institutions. I'd first invert the question and ask what problem places like Harvard, Yale, MIT are currently solving. (This small set of elite universities is absorbing the vast majority of donations.)

As the number of student has exploded over the decades around them they've kept their student numbers the same as before even as they collect more and more money which they hoard with no concern for opportunity-cost-of-capital whatsoever. This has created an intensifying zero-sum battle for the admissions slots in these universities. Meanwhile the state systems are increasingly overwhelmed and sketchy private universities are increasingly scamming students on the edges.

By keeping their numbers so low, the Ivy League retains comfortably small classes, no major change in their overall mission and professorial lifestyle. At the student level they function to perpetuate privilege across the generations, especially via legacy admissions which seems like a gilded age concept I can hardly believe is still a thing in 2020.

I'm saying if the Ivy League were to change its mission to serve America and the world as much as they could instead, it would do a great deal to help the vast mass of striving students who are barely not making the cut, as well as the economy over the long run, and even reduce tensions in American democracy. And that change of mission probably can only happen if they start to ignore what their biggest donors think they should focus on.
The goal is to stabilize the infection rate and boost healthcare capacity so that some semblance of normality can be resumed without overwhelming the healthcare system.

> a lockdown for such a long time is crazy.

And people will rebel, and the infection rate will spike yet again, and people will die, and the lockdowns will be imposed with force.

Better to listen and understand than to disobey and risk worse. What's the expression? Regulations are written with blood?
I am very interested in the book you mention, simply out of passion. How do you find it?
I'm making a tool to easily create your own RPG's. In true MVP sense, my old version was missing combat. This didn't stop my users (mainly teenagers) to create their own games, which of course were more or less 'Iyashikei' because of this missing feature.

For example one of those games is Baby Quest, where you are a baby that can explore the town (https://rpgplayground.com/most-played/). You can find plenty more of such games on my website.

But since I support combat now, most of the newer games are not like this anymore, although there are exceptions.

My engine is https://rpgplayground.com
This is all a bit premature. A single physical neuron is equivalent to an entire artificial neural network.

We are orders of magnitude away from anything nearly complex enough to start asking whether it it could be conscious at even the most primitive level.
I graduate in 2009 ( BE - EIE ). But I got my first software company job in 2015. It was hard for me. And during college days I love reading CS books and playing with computer. After doing Non technical job including Call center and printing machine service engineer finally I got a job. I learned programming myself.
but we do not live in glass houses[1] and privacy is not defined in such specific terms.

I am told that I am no good at making analogies, but I will try my best. Assume I am cursed with the magical ability of seeing through walls. I can freely spend my time staring at my neighbors an spy all of their domestic lives. This is clearly different than if a non-magical me were to install spy-cams in their houses, but we agree that I should not _stare_. Given the hypothetical and magical nature of the situation it is impossible to say whether this would be illegal or not, but soft-anonimity is an important social concept.

[1] off topic: I caught myself pondering about how the thickness of walls/ceilings necessary to build a stable house out of glass (especially considering seismic areas) would probably make the walls quite opaque.
From the article:

> ... with the take-up of its TraceTogether app hovering at too low a level to make enough of a difference ... From today, May 12, Singapore’s SafeEntry goes fully operational. Anyone visiting a wide range of locations will need to check-in with either a national form of ID or by scanning a QR code on their smartphones. Those locations include workplaces, schools, stores, hotels and healthcare facilities. Businesses failing to check-in visitors or customers risk penalties. There are even moves to include check-in processes inside taxis and on other transit systems. “Deployment will be made mandatory for places where individuals are likely to be in close proximity for prolonged periods or in enclosed spaces” ..
> Using the informal "du" over "Sie" is not anywhere near using the n-word in english.

I can't comment on the German, but "the n word" is "nigger" or "negro" , not "nigga". "Nigga" is a reclamation used informally between friends (typically two black friends, but on very rare occasion I've heard it used by others as well).
Long time ago I read some idea (probably on reddit) from some guy, that was quite similar to this. The idea being is that essentially you can't die. There is no death. If universe is infinitely large and also it keeps restarting itself with big bang and some universe death all over. Then at some point. Right after you die, something exactly as you will be reborn somewhere else. Even if it takes unimaginable amount of time for that to happen. To you, that's irrelevant, you will just be immediately reborn and start again after death. Your copy might not be alive anywhere else at this moment, but it will be at some point. And well if it's exactly like you, then it's you. I found this pretty intriguing, even though I am not into any non-rational stuff. I wonder if this idea has any holes.
There are US traders that trade in HK. They maintain HK hours. Money apparently is good.
This friction as you call it, is happening again during the current crisis, again between southern european countries and mostly Netherlands and Germany, specifically on the topic of coronabonds which has been widely debated and made lots of headlines. The way the euro works the main direct benefits go to the largest exporting economies, with the weaker ones pretty much losing out. Then the idea is that this is offset by the stronger economies helping the weaker ones in the form of EU grants but there's always a big push back as these direct funds are seen as handouts while the benefits of the common currency are dismissed. This pressure is seen clearly in demands for harsher and harsher austerity. It doesn't help that some officials from northern economies keep showing how they really feel about the situation, going as far as providing quotes like southern countries "spending all their money on women and wine" and the whole PIIGs designation. It's a tough thing to try and rationalise for someone who largely believes in the EU project but who is originally from one of these southern countries and has felt the direct effects of the whole post-2008 period.
That is pretty funny. An easy way to catch a junior TeXnician.
How are you so sure people will stop complying? Is the risk of opening everything up just to shut it down again really worth it?

I think people are smarter and more accepting of the status quo than those who are making the most noise. As for those who are overburdened by the lockdown (i.e. lost jobs), its on the governments to provide the safety net until we have everything under control.
You could always pipe commands, there just weren’t any worthwhile to pipe to. I often consulted this site often twenty years ago:

https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-redirection.html

And half the time you’d have to use the “for” cli monstrosity. I looked up the instructions every single time I used it for decades, that’s how bad it was/is.
Yeah, but ignoring all that... what do the big shareholders think of this?
LA beaches are set to reopen for some activity.
Right, my point was that that's a React abstraction, not a Next.js abstraction.
Obviously revolution is terrible because of the enormous amounts of human suffering.

But if we're trying to compare the impact on rich vs poor we should probably use per capita numbers because there are far more poor than rich.
Florida, or Japan (with March photos of crowds enjoying cherry blossoms), or Sweden.
I think part of their shucking issue was from the floods in Thailand in 2011 that put a huge constraint on OEM drives. There were plenty of external drives in the channel so BackBlaze ordered a ton and shucked them. While the shucked drives might not have had the warranties or even the specs of OEM drives they might have ordered the aggregate nature of their storage meant they were a good replacement.
> the lockdowns will be imposed with force.

"Comply or be killed" will be an interesting order, I look forward to seeing that one go out.
Python, all the well known places that Guido worked for that served as "X uses Python".

Ruby, mostly unknown until Rails.

Perl, got integrated early on on UNIX as the standard IT tool.
I wonder how much money would be saved by governments encouraging remote work. Less road repairs and widening highways for commuters, less concentration of consumer spending in cities that double in population during daytime.

My small city's trying to revitalize itself, but the small number of well-paying jobs is starving new businesses of customers.

The problem is, my small city would only benefit if it can convince outside corps to offer remote. But what leverage would my city have?
Not all food apps suck! I use https://www.eatnyc.org/ since I live in NYC. They help customers order direct and don't take any commission.
> Imagine if the registry had a schema with embedded documentation, foreign key relationships

So a database then?
I hate to tell you, but the only reason Google “ate the world” during the times you describe (which I’m skeptical of, but that’s a separate discussion) was that they figured out they could sell ads against their search results. Almost everything else seemed exactly like what you’re describing: a bunch of ICs with no managers building cool stuff that didn’t affect the bottom line, had bad usability, didn’t have a clear use case, overlapped the work of other teams, or all of the above.

The Google of today is different: multiple billion dollar business units, all well-staffed with managers.
I think without knowing how much it costs Apple to maintain and update Logic it's hard to know. How do I way value versus cost without knowing costs? As far as Logic vs Avid; Logic locks a user into the Apple ecosystem, that is one difference.
Most of what you are talking about was implemented in DCE, and there were ports to Linux but it never became popular. Microsoft certainly lifted a fair amount of this code.

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

Interestingly, SMB is about to switch to Google's QUIC UDP, which is a great improvement.
I'll take a look at it, but as someone who mostly uses a PC with a keyboard, having convenient keybindings would be critical for me - I don't want to do too much with the mouse.

But certainly, for the times when I'm not near a computer, it's nice to be able to access via the phone, etc.
Can you solve it? Are you conscious?
I've worked with one of these people. Never attended a single off-site work event, even when it took place during work hours. And then he was shocked when he went for a promotion and it didn't happen. It was a topic of discussion among the management team and a big con on his pro/con list. Since it was a small company (25 people), it was decidedly weird he refused to take part in culture.

That said, culture shouldn't be forced. I think employees should be given multiple ways to participate to find a way that is most comfortable to them.
What about giving them a high potential but making their actual salary a function of approval rating? In order to maximize how much you make you have to work to unify your constituents.

I don't think you'd want this to be linear either. My feeling is you'd want the pay to stay pretty low anywhere below a 50% support level and climb pretty steeply above that, which discourages the split people down the middle mess the US is in. You'd probably accept that a small portion of people are nutcases so the salary would approach the max at around 85-90% support.

There are some potential exploits that you'd have to try to address but it's a thought.
The problem with Logic and other DAWs is that they focus too much on sampling and beat making and not enough of tonality.

I'm launching an IDE for MIDI soon http://ngrid.io.
You don't have to pay for anything to learn the Microsoft stack.

- Visual Studio Community Edition is full featured and free

- SQL Server Express is free

- You really don't need IIS but it is free. With C# you can run on top of Kestral.
"Let's be real: Bezos is not "organizing" Amazon so much as he organizes a cabinet of Executives who do the same recursively until some worker does the actual work."

Organizing a cabinet of executives (who then organize recursively down the hierarchy) is also very difficult and stressful, so I'm not sure what the point is here? Again, it seems clear that this role is necessary and important, otherwise we should see lots of big and successful companies running without CEOs or executives.

"So the federal government, which must coordinate the efforts of over 2 million employees across a more broad spectrum of activities and labor than Amazon does, doesn't count?"

While I don't think anyone would point to the US government as a model of efficiency and innovation, I'll grant that they do organize a lot of labor, but it primarily concerns the responsibilities of governing that we have specifically decided are special cases that the state should take care of (in spite of whatever inefficiencies it may cause). When states have tried to organize labor more generally, in order to do things like extract resources, grow food, build stuff in factories, set prices, etc., it has not gone well in most cases.

"And is the job so hard as to mean hundreds of billions? Or is that just want the market will pay to keep Bezos around? I could understand that part, as it means the market believes Bezos current activities are worth that much. But does that mean he deserves it? I should hardly think those arguments are the same."

What someone "deserves" is subjective. My point is just that it seems we do need to provide entrepreneurs and managers some kind of incentive if we want people to create and manage businesses, since doing so is hard work that requires unique skills. How strong that incentive should be is debatable, but if you have one, there will always be people who put way more energy into pursuing it than others, and so are much wealthier than others.
Ding ding, we have a winner now for the remaining 99.9% of corporations to follow suit and society will be positively impacted.

Remote working as a norm is the breakthrough that society needs.

Time spent with family, commuting cancelled, train, roads, busses, tubes reduced - if it doesn’t happen now, the next pandemic will.
Is there an SF version?
So much of the reaction to this is emotional/political.

I had a friend tell me he yelled at someone entering a closed park. I said its probably safer in a giant closed park than in my own backyard. He said: well, if I'm not allowed to go to the bar then he can't go to the park.
As much as cops may like to escalate right to the shooting at times, there are a lot of possible levels of force before being shot.

Civil tickets. Revocation of business licenses. Fines. Arrests. Tear gas.
Interesting question! I don't know but I'll ask the dev team.

*Edit -> asked around here's whats up -> we do currently stream some logs/data off the device but we also like it to be written to disk - there's something about having multiple copies that we like ;-)