skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fedualism he described can happen even if China and Poland are coming along.

First off this kind of 'Feudalism' may be happening at a national scale even more greatly in China than elsewhere.

Second, property is still a huge differentiator between classes. In a time of cheap interest rates, one of the greatest drivers of inequality is home ownership. Those with the most massvive homes are able to leverage even greater. In Canada, people's 'retirement plan' is literally their home.

--> The average home increased last year in value more than the average worker's income. Just contemplate that for a moment. Society is valuing the arbitrary ownership of a non-value creating entity - a plot of land - more than literally an entire year's worth of average labour. In fact much more, due to taxation. Another way of saying this is that there is in fact massive inflation going on, but it's in housing.

Over the last 20 years, the ratio of income to house prices has risen quite rapidly, indicating very real inflation for most people - the less leverage they have, the worse the inflation.

The Feudalism actually makes sense in the context of globalism - it makes huge sense for Sweden to 'back IKEA' instead of regulating them to try to create 'more competition among furniture makers in Sweden' for very obvious reasons.

Instead of 100 different national economic pyramids, we're converging into one big massive pyramid where it's 'winner takes all' so it's a big fight for global ownership.

I think the essay is definitely fodder for thought at very least.
It does rely on having a "homemaker" who is not working and stays at home to cook; in many other countries that's not really an option for the majority of workers as both spouse and mom (if not very old) would be working.
> Sending energy from orbit to earth sufficiently strong to kill someone would need something like thousands of gigawatts as a point source I think

It doesn't need to kill people to have utility as a weapon.

Just look at how the unexplained alleged "sonic attacks" on the US embassy in Cuba played out.

I also presume there's potential for damaging sensitive electronics.

I'm not in objection of any of this, it's a military mission in nature. It just seems obvious to me that anything capable of beaming useful amounts of energy from space to power drones or anything portable on earth also has potential for direct use as a weapon. The energy density must be relatively high for things having such limited area to collect it.
I don't think anyone has ever said that it was universally available. What we tend to hope is true, is that the percentage of our population it applies to is growing, not shrinking.
The people of Iraq got better leadership and look how that turned out.
Pardon my ignorance: Could someone explain to me why this is under the purview of the Secret Service?
This makes me wonder if there are any old school, ASCII or DOS era stock trading games out there..
Really like the curiosity and thought behind this article. Couple of thoughts:

>probably upwards of 80% of my time is spent on things I wouldn’t need to do if it weren’t distributed.

Sure. Do it on one giant machine. Then you'll be spending 80% of your time doing things you wouldn't need to do if it weren't monolithic.

At the end of the day, if your customer is on the other end of the internet, then all of those complaints apply. If you solve that by running an app on their device, then oh boy are you going to have fun testing.

I prefer scaling out. The stackoverflow peeps prefer scaling up. There are some great write-ups about how they scale. I found this [1] one after some quick googling, but I am certain there are more. So it's really about choose your poison.

>I think people should be more willing to try and write performance-sensitive code as a (potentially multi-threaded) process on one machine in a fast language if it’ll fit rather than try and distribute a slower implementation over multiple machines.

Sure. I once replaced a system that ran on 10 32-core machines with one that ran on one with four cores on one machine and did the work in the same time. Another time I had 96 cores, more threads, and I replaced it with one that had three threads and was faster.

But both of those solutions were evolutionary dead-ends. The tasks were very specific, and not subject to change. The first one was a single C file. The latter was actually java, but with hand-rolled hash tables and optimistic locks. The first one I doubt I could follow it now.

My point is, you can have understandable systems that good people (as opposed to geniuses) can work on, evolve and adapt, and that have well understood failure modes and scaling cliffs. Or you can have bonkers code that everyone is afraid to touch, and which fails in production when it hit a cliff you didn't know about and now your site is dead for eight days.

If you can strike a good balance, then you'll probably have some combination of distributed, and brute force.

[1] http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture
I don't run a German website, so I can't give you exact numbers, but in my experience, software can often default to something like 'en-US' in a variety of cases where you might not expect it to.
This is especially common in poorly localized tools. For example, a poorly implemented browser component inside some other tool or phone app might not properly set this value, and instead default to en-US.

Switching to the proposed method might fix the author's problem, but create a bunch of problems for other users in other scenarios.
Keep in mind that YC is very visible. As a result, complaints about VC behavior in general will accumulate to YC, since they’re often the public face of startups and startup culture. That might not be fair or ever correct, but it’s how people work.

Personally, YC’s involvement in AirBnB is my biggest complaint with the company. I’m not sure how it looked from the inside before hand, but in retrospect AirBnB is one of the poster children of VC backed companies extracting profits at the cost of society, and I suspect that they probably should’ve known better.
There's been widespread claims of dropping quality in iOS updates nearly as long as iOS has been around. I don't doubt that there's been issues with software quality (that'll be true in any organization), but I suspect there's a great deal of recency bias with these claims.
Did they ask for a photo of your laptop? Particularly behind the lid? That’s the one place your webcam can’t see so it seems like it would be the ideal spot to hide or mount a cheat sheet.
I don't think "copyright" is the right way to think about a private collection of physical objects.
I've rejected multiple interview requests for FAANG jobs because I do not wish to study strange-toy-programming-quiz-tricks for three months just to be able to say I work at Hooley-Soft.
For comparison, I just opened up an org-mode file in Aquamacs (Emacs with macOS native GUI) and it weighs in at 105MB, which is actually lower than I would have guessed.
So being "gifted" should factor in? What if I and many others care about character and empathy much more than any intellectual capacity?

It's always been the idea and should be that those who do right,act honest and work hard even if they don't work smart, should have upward mobility, as in regardless of birth you can enter the lower mid-class tier. Obviously your talent and skill should and would determine your mobility to upper and upper-middle class.
Sure, but the criticisms mostly don't apply to companies in the seed stage. YC is somewhat removed from the mainstream critiques of startups mostly by sitting at the part of the process where startups are most startup-like, ironically enough.
> However i don’t know if states rights and separation of duties screws this up.

The history of the US shows that such things matter only when there is no bipartisan support.

See for example the Commerce Clause that explicitly grants the Congress the power to regulate interstate trade, yet it is used as a basis to justify intrastate regulations (e.g. drug prohibition).
Could be worse....every few months, my corporate VPN decides I am at HQ in Switzerland, even though I am still in the US. Ich spreche kein Deutsch.
As long as generational money exists capitalism never ends.
How is it any harder for a publisher to embed a display ad than do what John Gruber does and have a weekly sponsor in his RSS feed? It's easy to insert ads into any RSS feed. The publisher/advertising argument for the death of RSS doesn't hold water. Folks prefer Twitter and Facebook to get a feed of news. The majority of people don't want to do the work of manually curating their feed. RSS just didn't win on the merits as a feature. I still love RSS and use it every day, but it wasn't "killed by publishers."
G Suite does this and never saves my preferences! I'm in Tunisia and the business language is French. My PC and my browser are both set to English. Yet, Google insists on showing me the Arabic page!

Not only that, but their translation is terrible. Plus, since Arabic is not the business language here, most of the terms used on their site are quite ambiguous to most Tunisian users.

Ugh.
But we dont that is my point. HN wants to believe that. It is not true.
Although there are popular theories of the mind which include both free will and consciousness, the two aren't the same thing.

There is no reason why, in principle, you can't have a deterministic thought process and a consciousness that observes and experiences these thoughts from the outside.

There's also no reason why you couldn't have a deterministic form of consciousness that is a part of a deterministic thought process.
It seems like a kid should be more important than being the best worker imo. Seems like sensible priorities. I don't have a kid though.
Honestly, as weird as it might sound, to me it's even weirder to claim that consciousness somehow is just a manifestation of effect that we are already familiar with.

Saying things like "Consciousness is emergent" or "Consciousness is just a side effect of information processing" seems to miss the point. I'm definitely comfortable saying that consciousness is correlated with complexity and information processing, but claiming that it is fully explainable in some mechanistic way sounds suspect to me.

It would sort of be like saying that since large electric charges have only been observed in nuclei with proportionally large mass, then somehow charge is just a manifestation of mass. When we go further it turns out that charge is fundamentally distinct from mass, in fact so distinct that we have to add an entirely new attribute to fundamental particles. The same story goes with spin. Once you have spin and electric charge you get magnetic moments. Ultimately the reason why a magnet is magnetic is because all of these subatomic particles conspire in just the right way to have a macroscopic effect. Of course, not all materials have the property of being magnetic even though they all are made from protons and electrons, but some materials are.

To me, trying to say that consciousness is just something emergent is like saying that electric charge is emergent from mass. I would not be surprised if some type of proto consciousness would be needed in order to understand how macroscopic objects like human brains are self aware, have sensations, etc.
Parts of the right.

The more libertarian parts are terrified at the idea of a database of Americans.
What are the issues with the community?
Being right on average isn't that useful for intellectuals. Much harder to be right even once about something important that others are very wrong about. It's easy to be right on average by always following the prevailing consensus.

People like Leonardo and Newton are valuable thinkers because they once in a while produce a really good idea, and it doesn't really matter if they know themselves which ideas are good or bad. This is a really bad trait for a leader or a trader though.
It's a bit of a historical oddity, but the Secret Service is responsible for policing counterfeiting and wire fraud. When the USSS was founded in 1865 there was no federal police agency (other than USPIS I believe), so they handled that particular crime and no one has taken the jurisdiction away from them.

https://www.secretservice.gov/investigation/
A separate broadcast makes much more sense on the complexity front... if it were tied to the cache, the TLB wouldn't really care about anything other than specific transitions. It doesn't need the cacheline contents, and one cacheline would generally hold 8 or 16 PTEs (depending on PTE and cacheline size.) You'd also necessarily be binding to the PTE's physical address since page table walks occur on physical addresses.

With a broadcast, on the other hand, you get the specific transition event you need, and you can choose whether to broadcast the physical PTE, physical data or virtual (+ASID) address, or both. You can also have an acknowledgement returned if needed.
The people who created the Internet vs the people who created the Web is a recurring theme in Alan Kay's presentations.

Of course you can read a lot more into it, just look at the current state of affairs.
I regard it casually because it's statistically negligible. I usually post this link in threads about vote-by-mail where people bring up fraud, but it applies here too:

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2017/09...

The (elected, republican) secretary of state audited the 2016 election and found 54 cases -- out of 2+ million votes cast -- of what's generally called "voter fraud," most of which were people voting in Oregon and in another state.

Oregon is entirely vote-by-mail, so there's no way to show an ID.

Remember, how you voted is anonymous, but who voted is known to the government agencies. They can and do analyze that. Voter fraud is not a meaningful problem.
I am not justifying it, I am asking you to prove that this is actually happening. Any person asked for any reason to return to a workplace that is either unsafe in general, or unsafe for them personally, does not jeopardize their entitlement to unemployment benefits in any way by refusing to return. The CA EDD specifically state this on their website.

You are asserting that CA EDD is in fact not following this policy. You have not provided any actual concrete claims to support this. You have not described a single way in which the standards of the CA EDD are insufficient, or a single instance of their delinquency in following this policy. As far as I can tell, you believe the CA EDD to be delinquent as some sort of perfectly obvious self-evident truth. Which leads me to believe that you in fact do not have any specific criticism to offer at all, and that you have absolutely nothing to offer a conversation on this topic.
You can tell that this guy has never had support systems in 30 different countries. UTC From a security perspective is almost a requirement. Date time offsets can dramatically increased amount of time that a root cause analysis of a compromised system. If you are a small business in one time zone sending things to local time is fine. But if you were a large multinational setting time to anything but UTC is a disaster waiting to happen.
Not sure about German-speaking countries, but in Francophone countries, everything is in French. Even if the default is English, the user would insist on switching to the French version.
There's a new feature which does a better job of spreading Pods without blocking scheduling quite as badly: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-topol...
The other thing is that I trust the web browser sandbox. If I have to install something I’m a lot more paranoid about who wrote and whether it’s riddled with viruses.
https://dlang.org/blog/2020/05/14/lomutos-comeback/ gives a 404 error. And archive.org ( http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=https://dlang.org/... ) is also getting nothing but 404s, so it's not a problem on my end. I'm not really sure what's wrong with this site, since other commenters seem not to have noticed a problem.
Not anymore, the security model for native applications is broken, OS does not sandbox applications as effectively as browsers do. Pre Web 2.0 you constantly had all sorts of installed in your system because of installers just doing as they pleased, Applications like Adobe CC abuse the root rights have critical security flaws because of this, run many system services, mess up registry, Oracle put adware on the JRE installers. Large and small companies constantly abused this. 5-6 months you would reinstall your OS just to get a clean base, the performance boost on a fresh install was always strange experience, you felt happy on the boost but you also sad will not last even few weeks.

While there are high performance and graphics heavy tools and niche products that still require native apps , with tech like WebGL , WASM , WebAssembly this limitation is also going away. Unless your application falls into this category where the gap between Browsers and native is still very big, do your users a favour and build a non native application.
> Maybe you're saying that R < 1 almost everywhere in Japan, and they're disproportionately identifying the few places where it's > 1 ("circumstances where things can grow out of control") and intervening

From what I understand, this is the thinking guiding the Japanese government’s response and their zoned lockdowns. Whether or not this is true, or will continue to be true, is unclear, but as you’ve pointed out, they’re roughly on track with South Korea thus far.

To your second point: no one really knows. Looking at the example of other countries, universal, correct use of masks does seem to be an important mitigating factor. This was not practiced in NYC until well into the outbreak and social distancing measures were slow to be adopted as well (either by people taking it upon themselves or by government decree).
I think it's condescending to point out to people what their real interests are. People have agency.
I've curated some of the articles that I found interesting and thought-provoking over the month of May - tech and non-tech topics! Some are from hacker news itself, and others out of the blue haha. Share with you! Hope you enjoy it!

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-14-first-half-of-m...
Very simple. Whatever I learn, I share on my blog. The advantages are multi folds: first, you are making your self accountable in front of others by sharing your knowledge, which makes you to go a bit deep while learning. Second, you will be considered authority, even if you are not. Third, you are helping others to get out of the situation you faced earlier and last but not least, you get jobs and gigs.

I got what all I mentioned above.
I'm pretty sure that when you render just a <button> in at least Safari, the browser will render a native Cocoa button control. If you set a CSS property like background colour or change the border, then it will "fall back" to a custom rendered control that isn't from the OS UI.

I did a small bit of research into this, and found plenty of "anecdotal" evidence, but nothing confirming for sure. I'm looking and interacting with the controls and they seem pretty native - if they're a recreation than that's pretty impressive :)
On Mac, VSCode does a better job than many apps at emulating the Cocoa text input systems but, like every electron app, it misses some of the obscure corners of cocoa text input system that I use frequently.

If we’re going to use JavaScript to write native apps, I’d really like to see things like React Native take off: with a good set of components implemented, it would be a first class environment.
Test everyone over 80 every day!
> Sure. Do it on one giant machine. Then you'll be spending 80% of your time doing things you wouldn't need to do if it weren't monolithic.

Deeply false equivalence.
I believe there may have been a plan to allow checks during runtime at some point; although this feature is no longer necessary since https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/descheduler#removeduplica... can do it.
More is being discussed here at mailing list thread https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2020/05/02/msg0...
Grapes in the summer? That's your sensory experience, not that of an electron -- not the hypothesis being entertained. Some people are seriously considering that quantum choices might be governed by an extremely minimal, 1 qubit, consciousness. And the status is they're looking for a testable hypothesis. I'm not coming close to saying it's true: I asked if OP could prove the claim they asserted.
Is there a way to find the newest items in the thread?
Is chrome not consistent across operating systems?
That was just one example, but yes, I’d certainly hope that being particularly gifted in some dimension of life would factor in to outcomes. Maybe that’s having a cannon of a pitching arm, outstanding musical or singing ability, or particularly strong academic performance.

Society benefits when the best scientists are working on science, the best mathematicians at math, the best musicians are performing, and even when the best athletes are playing pro sports. I’d like these talented people to be able to develop, showcase, and benefit from their talents without regard to who their parents are.
I’ve turned down feelers (politely) because I like where I live and don’t want to be forced to move to $expensiveBigCity.
Recently I browsed http://www.indieretronews.com/. This is a site with information about new games for old computers like Commodore 64, Amiga and so on, and also for retro styled indie games for modern systems. I even posted it to HN.
Wow...there is a lot unsaid here.

Like Max Mosley..."former racing motor boss"...okay, that is what he is known for :)

But we should probably call it what it is: corruption. For someone that is supposedly assisting the govt, they seem to employ a hell of a lot of civil servants from that inefficient govt...wonder why?

(This kind of corruption has completely exploded in the UK. It actually isn't politicians either, it is mostly civil servants...as in, the "Nudge Unit" that was spun out of govt and then won lots of contracts to do the exact same work for double the price).
My comment had nothing to do with your parents. But your comment about your parents is simply not accurate.
I see absolutely no evidence or suggestion that consciousness is anything else other than the summation of changes that happened in our brain in combination with the input devices we naturally have. You have decades worth of changes that occurred to get you to the point now and it's very clear and easy to see how much _less_ conscious you were when you were younger.
Maybe many people do not use multiple tabs within one site/app

I'm thinking this may be the crux of the problem. I figured since G Suite did it, it would be common enough and fine, but maybe not.

There's probably some research out there

Everything I found was about how some people never close tabs and how to deal with hundreds of open tabs. This is also part of what led to me assume that people are comfortable with the concept of tabs.

look and feel too different from a browser or other tabbed environment. Does it clearly communicate where a new tab is opened

I'm personally biased towards this answer. Maybe it works for G Suite because people understand "documents" as being self-contained in separate screens and that does not intuitively carry over to other things. Leveraging browser tabs is so powerful and useful, so I'm hoping some extra communication effort will solve it.