skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You only get to keep your power if you "bribe" your workers enough to help you.

This is largely a misunderstanding of historical systems of discipline. When the enclosures started to happen, serfs were booted from their land, and were coerced into working for early capitalists at threat of subjective violence (branding, beating, &c., if caught begging) or objective violence (starvation).

It's understood that the states armed bodies of men, under feudalism and neofeudalism, don't care about you. So what is to stop a reversion to the level of subjugation seen by English serfs many centuries ago? You're free to go look up cops wearing, "I CAN breathe," t-shirts and take from that what you will.

These bribes you mention, although an accurate retelling of American history through westward expansion and imperial expansion, are directly threatened by the faltering american hegemony.
Ask HN: How do you prepare your Resume?
1. How many pages is it ?
2. What tools / sites do you use to prepare it ?
3. What tricks do you use to make important contributions stand out ?
4. What are some items to exclude to keep the resume short and to the point ?
5. What's the opinion on just using just export LinkedIn version of resume ?
> No one wants things to be shut down until we have a vaccine, they want it to be shut down until we have a test and trace infrastructure in place.

Speak for yourself. The US doesn't have a vaccine, enough testing or tracing.

Wishing doesn't make it so. End the lockdown now.
What do you mean "games that don't exist"? Are these fake games, demo games or unreleased games?
+1 on the mix-with-SHA or something like it paragraph.

Re: Entropy; in a system RNG design, entropy is typically considered relative to an attacker. In some very real sense, the "total entropy" of the system is only the unpredictability of the generator to the most knowledgeable attacker.
Even Google doesn't need it that much: back when I was there, each Borg cluster had something like 10,000+ cores. Large enough to run a typical SV startup wholescale. The ratio of "cluster management work" vs. "actual work being done on it" was not that high.

These days, some people are like "Dude, if you don't have one cluster per AWS availability zone per each environment, you're doing it wrong." Why, just why.
Army Deploys Videogames to Reach Recruits Amid Pandemic
Improving the Secure Boot user experience
I did not leave out quantum computing which is nowhere near practical right now and maybe never will be.

GPS is a good technology. Autonomous vehicles work fine for the 90% use case, but will likely never reach that last 10%.
Not so much "genuine", but rather celebrity polymath. There are plenty of polymaths who have no interest in fame and fortune, and simply keep to themselves.
Yes, I have seen that in American sitcoms and films. In Europe, as you say, they come in cardboard boxes. The pharmacist will cut out and keep the barcode in the case of prescription drugs.
He's not "forcing" anyone to come in IIRC. Workers can remain furloughed if they'd like. It's just that out in the real world, people need to work in order to survive.
Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada is trying to make the students do this for exams this year.
What you are describing sounds a lot like git-annex[1] with the IPFS remote[2]. There is also a bittorrent remote[3] but it doesn't handle uploading content; you have to create the .torrent file or magnet link yourself and add it to the repo, at which point git-annex will download the content automatically on checkout.

[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
[2] https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ipfs/
[3] https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/bittorrent/
That's the same assessments for property taxes work now except that they are looking at the value of improvements in addition to the value of the unimproved land.
This is because the shadow government is looking to force The Jesus to return.

Not kidding here.
I'm not convinced. I forgot the exact numbers but when I was trying to look at studies 5G alarmists cite* with an open mind some Energy Densities in question (being applied to animal subjects) were stronger than standing in front of one of those enormous ballistic missile tracking phased arrays (Which given the subject of this thread are also used for tracking satellites)

* My absolute favourite one was "Sleeping next to a mobile phone is correlated with lack of sleep" hmmm I wonder why
What does “native” even mean?

Put a <button/> in an HTML page and you get a platform-provided UI widget.
That's brilliant.

When I was around 20, my mother was visiting and I was listening to some Deep Purple. She sang along with one of the verses and then looked at me quizzically and said, "Funny... you hated that song when you were a baby." She was floored when I told her it heavily influenced my guitar playing.

To this day we wonder if being exposed to it as a baby, liked or otherwise, triggered a subconscious recognition that resulted in me liking, and actually being influenced by the music afterall.
Because Japan’s approach to testing, focusing on clusters, results in an undercounting of total cases in favor of the most dangerous set of cases. Cluster-squashing is about identifying and grounding to a halt circumstances where things can grow out of control quickly. They devote most of their resources to this and don’t have mass, on-demand testing like Korea. This results in their undercounting cases (arguably less serious cases, but again we’ll have to see the comparative efficacy long-term between the two countries).
I like the idea of the time machine and it’s very interesting to see how history plays out in HN stories. Looking forward to a future time machine with updated technology.
This kind of speculation is cryptically racist. My observations are anecdotal, but walking around in public areas such as parks where mask wearing is asked for I see east Asians ignoring the requests as much as non east Asians (I'm of east asian extraction myself)
You mean the who's been obeying us dissident locator apps. What could possibly go wrong?
> This is not really accurate. Qt relies on a lower level windowing system (X Window, Wayland, Cocoa, win32 etc. etc.).

Qt also supports rendering directly on the GPU (or with software rendering on the framebuffer) without any windowing system such as X11 or Wayland - that's likely how it is most commonly used in the wild, as that's one of the main way to use it on embedded devices.
The "problem" is how long it takes to get up to speed in various fields, now that most have decades or centuries of depth.

Accelerated learning tech will open the polymath doors again.
Hmm. Then gangs that charge protection money are basically neofeudalist. That seems both plausible and interesting.
Funny you mention Minecraft. My son LOVES Minecraft.
Hopefully we'll have better plans in place, and leaders willing to act on them for COVID-20. My point about T&T was that it doesn't work when you have 1M infections. It's ideal when an epidemic/pandemic first starts to show up. But for now, it's useless health theater.
They should be paying wages. Which will the be used to fund other businesses, increasing the value of the land they use.
Is there a sample questionnaire online ? What about someone using Wolfram Alpha etc. ?
One day after https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12617475806665523... can’t be a coincidence right
You were sold a lie. You don't own land today if you buy it.

Consider what the government would do if a huge oil deposit was found under your house.
Why are you so sure? They're using the same protocols they did for the Shanghai gigafactory.
I don’t know, I think they did mean that.

You write an app for the Mac... how do you ship on Windows as well?
Many of them will stay for the amenities that a vibrant city offers them, or the ability for both spouses to maintain careers there, or to be near friends and families.

Those who do leave will likely be replaced by others seeking those things.
http://voterfraudfacts.com/ has a pretty extensive list of sources and explanations.
"Come in or lose your unemployment benefits" isn't a choice in any sense of the word. It's a shame we've done so poorly at managing this virus and have provided so little support for people who choose to prioritize their health.
What's your alternative proposal? I'm optimistic Tesla can manage it, but I'm not sure what it implies if they can't - do you think we should just keep factories closed forever?
These systems of discipline were indeed quite real, but they were strongly associated with the mercantile system which was pre industrial revolution. ISTM that parent comment is still correct wrt. industrial and even more so wrt. post-industrial (service-based, contemporary) economies.
> The DMCA requires a complainant to declare, under penalty of perjury, that he is authorized to represent the copyright holder, and that he has a good-faith belief that the use is infringing.

You're citing ambiguous language in a case that wasn't actually about perjury to begin with.

Possible valid reading of that sentence: "The DMCA requires a complainant to declare that he has a good-faith belief that the use is infringing, and under penalty of perjury, that he is authorized to represent the copyright holder."

> Hughes v. Benjamin, Dist. Court, SD New York 2020

This is a district court case which means it isn't binding precedent for other courts, and likewise doesn't appear to be a perjury case.

It would be nice if people got charged with perjury for making false DMCA claims. I still haven't seen any evidence of that happening.
US and UK 'lead push against global patent pool for Covid-19 drugs'
The SSPL is probably the strongest copyleft license in existence. The GPL was viewed much the same way the SSPL is now. I think the common consensus on the SSPL is utterly incorrect, and MongoDB was right to use it.
That requirement has now been delayed until Oct 2021.
No horse in the race just sharing info: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna12...

Also, to be fair, their approach seems to be in accordance with the law as workers that do not return should be reported to unemployment boards, from my understanding.

Not arguing if it’s right or wrong.
IIRC MADV_FREE doesn't actually let the kernel avoid shootdowns. From the man page (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html):

MADV_FREE (since Linux 4.5)
The application no longer requires the pages in the range
specified by addr and len. The kernel can thus free these
pages, but the freeing could be delayed until memory pressure
occurs. For each of the pages that has been marked to be
freed but has not yet been freed, the free operation will be
canceled if the caller writes into the page. (...)

The problem is with this bit about a write to the page canceling the free... This side effect needs to be implemented in a page fault. But if the page is still in the TLB, then writes to it won't fault. So... you need a TLB shootdown. :(

I do wonder why there isn't an API for "lazy munmap()"... it would behave exactly like munmap(), except that the pages might remain accessible in other threads until the end of their timeslices, when the kernel can apply queued TLB flushes. It seems to me likely that 99.9% of uses of munmap() could be switched to this lazy operation without introducing any bugs. I'm not a kernel programmer, though. Maybe there's some reason this doesn't work, or maybe the performance improvements aren't worth the effort?
The direct pandemic response was delayed by at least a month, and basically consisted of telling everyone to stay home and not much else. Now we're getting bored of it, so it's ending. That doesn't seem so powerful to me.

Meanwhile the financial response of cutting interest rates started two weeks earlier, which certainly seems like the state trying to appease capital.
What gives the newspapers special status here that changes it from being apples to apples? Why do newspapers get to use broadcast media to influence the public but others aren’t allowed or at least should be looked at negatively?
As alexandros said, there is nothing special about the Tesla factory operating as opposed to any other company's.

The only difference is that Alameda County opposed the factory reopening. Not the city of Fremont, not the state of California, not the federal government. It was the county that held its reopening up.
Mandatory masks orders for enclosed spaces, but not for outdoors, which is presumably what is meant by "universal".
Snark aside, agree that identity is a complex problem- and compartmentalizing it into components with well-known lifecycles that have known failure modes is the right solution.

The alternative- a single monolithic identity system? No, thanks.

Note- large governmental IT systems underlying programs like Medicare and Medicaid are not operated by government employees, they are operated on a contractual basis by large IT shops. You just don't know who the operator is. That's arguably suboptimal- but a different conversation.

To the specific question- what happens in this model when an identity provider goes into bankruptcy- the same thing that happens when any entity providing critical services goes into bankruptcy.

When a consumer-facing bank fails (for instance), the bank's customers

a) don't lose their money
b) don't lose access to banking services

Their accounts are taken over by a comparable entity operating in the same geographical area.

When a critical insurance provider fails, the other entities providing comparable insurance in the operating areas have to take those contracts (even if they are terrible contracts, which they likely are, because they caused the provider to fail).

It doesn't always seem like it, but this kind of market partitioning and supervision is something that in the US both federal and most states do quite well. We should have more of it.

Cheers.
FWIW, the Windows 10 RNG includes (one-time) personalization data that is non-random but maybe unique during initialization. (They don't call it that, but it's the same idea.)

Low-entropy random sources don't hurt but there's not really much point using them unless you have no better options (i.e., jitter entropy for initial seeding on embedded systems).

Better to just use the biased source directly than to make up an ad-hoc de-biasing algorithm. I'm know there are mathy ways to combine imperfect sources and get perfect entropy out, but it adds complexity, which is a risk.

Respect where it is due to DJB, but if Intel wants to compromise your system, it's already got the SMM/IME backdoor; it doesn't need to poison RDRAND. There is sometimes a disconnect between cryptography researchers and cryptography practitioners. I enjoyed and would recommend JPA et al's RWC paper, Too Much Crypto: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf
Over time I've tried quite a few popular text editors, Notepad, Emacs, Vim, UltraEdit, Sublime Text, and of course VSCode.

VSCode is surprisingly good for a Microsoft product and they had to do some crazy smart engineering work to make it not sucks while being built on top of Electron.

That said, it still quite slow and memory hungry, I've gone back to Sublime 3 a few weeks ago and I am not coming back to VSCode.
I guess this is a semantics thing, but WinUI/React Native is not “web based”. It is JavaScript building “native UIs”.
Love this idea. Found myself reading several of the interviews. Only feedback is I wish they were longer, more detailed.
The risk when extrapolating from Manhattan is when extrapolating to places significantly unlike Manhattan. When Central Park was started, Manhattan already had a population density in excess of 10,000 people per km^2. Even Boston today is little more than half that. Munich, less than half. San Jose little more than one fifth.

Central Park worked because the existing density was already high and there was no way for Manhattan to grow outward (dredging excepted).
That's a bit of whataboutism in my opinion. A vote isn't a lethal weapon.

If the underlying intent of requiring an ID for a firearm purchase from a gun dealer was to limit or discourage minorities from buying, then yes it would be racist.
The point here is that it's easy to mistake understanding in the moment for durable learning. It's not ideal, and I won't say it's intentional, but I expect the repeated, spaced exposure process of reading, lecture, homework, exams and finals to yield a little more durable result than a focused video only curriculum with zero testing for retention. Students are notoriously bad at self-evaluation, conflating mastery in the moment with learning.

However, I think if someone tried to partner video lectures with a spaced repetition tool like Anki they _might_ be able to outperform the college treatment group. It's a tool I've been exploring, both personally and professionally. In my youth, I had learned the US state capitals (as many do) and Anki proved pretty quickly I had forgotten that; the same goes for say, bone names, constellations, reading music, foreign languages studied, etc.
Pretty much all the jobs I've had as a software engineer have been working on desktop apps.

There's tonnes of random enterprise applications that look like they're straight out of 2005 out there still.
I'm not sure what "power law" you are referring to, although I suspect it's something like "the power of law". That's not the power law being referenced. Re: pareto principle.
The idea that the Pareto principle can be up-ended or flattened is fantasy. All you can do is change the logarithmic scale or how you measure.
I honestly have never seen this line of argumentation anywhere. My impression is that people close to Christianity support such measures, while its opponents claim that it is racist.
I read the introduction to the series, and then the introduction to the first part, and I’m still not sure exactly what Kafka is, or why I (as part of ”every software engineer”) need to know anything about it. The title suggests that the article(s) will convey some concepts that are useful in a broad sense, but from a skim, this looks like a lot of details about some database-ish product, which probably are good to know if you use that product, but not so much otherwise.
Speaking for myself only, I haven’t changed my preference, I’ve just given up hoping that any company gives a shit about my preference.
thanks for the feedback and glad you like the site.

that's the next step - Quarantine has given me more time to invest in this idea so I'm going to be amping up the quality of these interviews.
that's like saying pain medication isn't very effective if you just hurt again afterwards.

it is somewhat ironic that you have to remember to take something that helps you remember to do things.
What's your use-case?

I work for an indirect competitor backed by the same commercial geometry kernel (Parasolid) and it did not do well with our models (which, granted, are pretty different from typical mechanical CAD models).
> But a coop can't compete with a VC backed startup that will use every legal, illegal, ethical and unethical trick in the book it can get away with to, to destroy its competitors.

Yes, and I think aspect of capitalism is under-discussed. The conventional narrative is that it doesn't matter how much wealth somebody else (or some other company) has. You can compete on your own merit.

But companies like Uber and other VC-backed "unicorns" show otherwise. They can afford to give away their product for free on the back of money that they didn't earn in any meaningful way. And it completely breaks the model.
Not sure, but I would imagine it's less than you'd think.

The spaceplane was originally a NASA project that DoD picked up after most development was done, and it launches from commercial rockets (eg they've used SpaceX rockets to launch these before).

I would assume that the payload (experimental sensors and components, most likely) are more expensive than the amortized-per-mission cost of the vehicle.
> I'm not convinced. I forgot the exact numbers but when I was trying to look at studies 5G alarmists cite* with an open mind some Energy Densities in question (being applied to animal subjects) were stronger than standing in front of one of those enormous ballistic missile tracking phased arrays (Which given the subject of this thread are also used for tracking satellites)

Thank you for implicitly putting me in the company of 5G alarmists.

We're not talking about 5G here.
Someone hacked my computer - it looks like the president of the United States of America is posting some kind of ironic meme video about himself on Twitter.
Interestingly, there is exactly one top-level comment right now on HN. (Now there are two.) That comment, and the ensuing thread is about buying pseudoephedrine. How does this relate to fraudulent unemployment insurance claims?
The string concatenation issue was that if you do a ++ b ++ c... When that got to about 6 variables that single line alone took a minute to compile. Go to 10 variables and just give up on ever seeing a result. I used to try it in online Swift REPLs and it was still happening with whatever was most recent a bit over a year ago.
Looking at the original Apollo 12 code listing
Be that as it may, the fundamental fact of the situation is that money does not grow on trees and unemployment benefits don't really work if you have double digit percentage of the unemployed. It especially doesn't work if, by closing the factory, you're putting all of its supply chain out of work as well. Also, in order for there to be stuff, someone has to make stuff.
> The feudal-to-capitalist transition happened in the first place because the ruling class of capitalism was able to so steadily erode the economic, social, and even military relevance of the landed nobility

I think you're overlooking the role of military technology in unseating the feudal power base. Mounted knights were no match for pike squares, and cannons rendered castles obsolete.

Centralised standing armies of cheap soldiers proved more effective than the much more expensive mounted and armoured knight.

Unless something undermines the military and security apparatus of the modern nation-state it's not going away.
A lot of ATM machines and POs systems are glorified web apps. Not sure why a web app can’t be rock solid. Certainly easier to go native since you only have one platform, but I don’t see it being required
> If health care workers can't avoid getting themselves infected, even though they have expertise and training, there is no way that Tesla will be able to prevent the virus from spreading within the factory.

Health workers are literally hands on infected people coughing in their face. They also have infected people literally delivered to them. It’s apples and oranges.
WASM cannot touch the DOM so C or any other HLL (besides JS) in Electron is strictly limited to the backend. That's not useless but it's certainly a limitation. For the amount of energy one would have to expend to make an Electron app reasonably performant and less of a resource pig, you might as well just write a native app. After all isn't the whole point of Electron to get to MVP the quickest? Electron is a great prototyping tool, but it's a lousy delivery platform.
I noticed the same thing in one of Aristotle's books, where he tries to catalog his encyclopedic knowledge of natural phenomena. It might just be a sign of an earlier intellectual era.
or have good reason to think that if you hold onto it for another year, it will be worth a lot more.

There were years, under Prop 13, when many people's houses -- that is, their land -- rose in value by more than their gross salary. Not their savings, but their gross wages!

And Prop 13 keeps taxes artificially low, driving the prices up. Normal turnover doesn't happen, so retirees stay in family-sized homes close to jobs they no longer fill, and young families are forced to "drive until they qualify" for a mortgage, and every workday thereafter.
Given the choice between a native desktop app available on my OS (linux) and webapp of similar quality, I'll almost always choose the desktop app.