skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the opinion of the author of the article would have been if the collider had to be built in the US and not in the EU
It does. If the vi that shipped with Linux distros had that TUI, a lot fewer people would hate vi.
Some (a lot?) people unaware they had the virus have later been found to have lung damage.
The Muddle Machine: Confessions of a Textbook Editor (2004)
Get people to pay you first if possible that will help motivate and focus you.
Is it just me or does it seem incorrect to refer to the “peak of the pandemic” in the US as being in the past? While there was certainly a peak in the northeast, which has now greatly reduced, the rest of the country has had more of a slow simmer which is now accelerating.
Seems like countries importing skilled immigrants works out rather well. Importing the the 3rd world's losers really doesnt work.
Windows98 Running in the Browser
American universities sell out their limit capacities to foreign students for huge amounts of money. This forces out huge numbers of American students from attaining the educations they need to get the jobs many H1B workers take.

Space at top American universities is currently a zero sum game by design. Many top universities could easily afford to expand. They choose not to for purely unethical reasons.

And then American tech companies hire these (and more) foreign citizens to avoid the expense of investing in the American education system as well as directly drive salaries and increase employee retention.

And that's not even the worst part. The fact is that big tech companies are almost never using the H1B as intended. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and all of them are hiring (using the H1B) for roles that could in 99% of cases be filled by Americans. It would just drive up costs significantly if foreign workers were not added to the labor pool. The data is all public and plain for anyone to see.

The price of real estate in the Bay Area is also currently a zero sum game.

American tech companies and universities, in conspiracy with corrupt politicians, have betrayed the country that made their existence possible.

Just as all American organizations have an ethical duty to pay taxes, they also have an ethical duty to benefit American citizens above foreign citizens when there is a conflict in their interests.

There is nothing wrong with an ethically oriented "America first" policy. Putting your family first above strangers is perfectly reasonable and good.

And yes, I agree Trump is an unethical incompetent. But his nose for unethical scams is what makes the H1B scam so transparent to him. He has also exploited the H1B scam himself and probably laughed about it with his fellow assholes.
Hasn't this already been addressed by US's new deal with the UN?
This is why you write Lisp in Emacs. :)
Challenges In Building Smarter Systems: A look at the intelligence in devices
BinaryLane in Australia have VPC across datacenters
I’m not American.

It’s interesting to note that America has a foreign born pop of 46.6million (~14% of total pop)

The next biggest is Germany, with 12 Million (~15%)
Hmm it appears that the cost figures cited are operational costs only and do not including the cost of capital and the cost of debt. If your operation just breaks even on operational costs, it does not have a long term future.

Look at all the big shale producers, their stock prices are top left to bottom right. Burning capital. This is not going to last and can only continue in the short term because of near-zero interest rates. Zero rates allow you to kick the can down the road .. for a while.

My model of these companies is that the product they are producing is not oil but the false promise of profits, sold to gullible stock buyers. Along the way some of the money is siphoned off as executive salaries and bonuses.

Reminiscent of many of the dot.com / dot.scam outfits back in the 1990s.
STOP THAT. Just stop that STUPIDITY.
I find the non-zero-sum arguments often lacking imagination. Outside of simple mechanic table games, in most of reality, resources and energy are finite and basic human needs are fundamentally shared.

Most scenarios claiming to be non-zero-sum often lack imagination or pursue academic dishonesty by isolating systems to a few components to project the scenario as being positive sum, when in the fact the goal is to sell zero sum or net negative sum game by outside players or those on the other side with much to gain.
How about America stop poaching the best minds from all other countries and making those countries poorer.
> Almost no one cares about C on mainframes beyond porting some POSIX stuff, or running Aix/Linux on an hypervisor.

I think, with Metal C, that's less true than it used to be.

My understanding is that, for brand new z/OS components (e.g. Zowe, z/OSMF), IBM prefers Metal C to PL/X. It is also seeing increasing use by mainframe ISVs as a replacement for assembly and PL/X.
Almost like Affirmative Action is a shit program or something. Even when it "works" as intended it just creates more problems.
IMO Emacs is better at being Vim than Vim
It's also in the article title. The problem is that positive sum games are very hard to understand and internalize - I've tried to explain it in-person multiple times and have been met with zero-sum questions.
A ton of users here will be working with markdown in their repositories (docs, README, etc), and probably have the [thing](down)
Indeed. Distributional effects are opportunistically elided.

The substance of the piece is not much better than the headline in terms of addressing this.
Software is not always designed to last. Take video games that use servers, the video game company can take down the servers and the video game no longer works. You'd have to set up your own server to emulate what the video game company's server did.

All those mobile games that require a server, once the server goes down the game no longer works.

In the old days you set up Doom as a server on your PC networked to other PCs for multiplayer. Those can last and be remade for new platforms.
Advanced Feature Engineering – Feature Encoding (2019)
See also: https://github.com/jsdf/pce
Effects of CPU Task Migration with C++ Async
Hey @awillen, thanks for reading!

The "Head of X" idea is an interesting one that I've seen gain traction recently for the reasons you've described. As with all things, at least half the battle is just managing expectations well.
Overly simplistic comment ignoring personal agency.
Just because something is subjective doesn’t mean it doesn’t have merit.

Most things in the world outside of pure mathematics are subjective. If you’re looking to do nothing if it involves subjective decision making, nothing would ever get done.

All around us, all day every day, we look at a problem, we take the best info and expertise available to us, and we make a judgement call.

The fact that almost always some level of subjectivity exists doesn’t mean we do nothing.
Postal service is much like internet transit, normally you are happy to deliver other people's stuff as long as they deliver yours.

This breaks down when one of the parties starts sending a lot more than they receive.
I spend most of my smartphone use reading text, maybe with a few images, or listening to mp3s with the screen off. You can fit those uses just fine into a hundred megabytes of ram and a slow processor.
Wow sitting at an outdoor dining table and just opened the link, looked like staring at an actual newspaper! Good work.
How to get any udemy course for free
get udemy course for free

http://virtualsanpo.blogspot.com/2020/06/how-to-get-any-udemy-course-for-free.html
Tried it but it felt sluggish. Maybe the lua bits are slowing things down?
Yeah, check it out!

https://youtu.be/nSG5IkRA9BE
“Nounical programming” is only not a word because it’s called “object-oriented” instead.
If reality is zero sum as you say, why did we evolve cooperation?
no offense, but i thought i would take to heart your tips about my abysmal format. falls under the category of "release early, release often." kinda like the borg, but without nanoprobes.
UCSF forced to pay more than $1M ransom to perpetrators of malware attack
Peter Stein, Boss of the Beach in NYC
Yeah the doctors were all like, yeah this happens all the time don’t worry about it, but it’s hard to not worry about it when your father is having a psychotic break.
Maybe try https://listenbox.app/
Awesome reference! Looks like someone took notes over a nice span of time and compiled them into a tech guide for WiFi.
Yes, the problem is not with immigration itself but with who reaps the benefits of it.

The immigrants obviously massively benefit because they're in a more productive environment. But after that, capitalists and landowners gain far more than they deserve.

Expanded immigration combined with more aggressive redistribution will leave everyone better off.
The generational structure of status contests
Increasing the size of the economy is in the interests of many people if wealth is widely distributed and in the interests of few if narrowly distributed?
What are your thoughts on where OSS fits into this?
Ask HN: Would you use an app that optimizes nutrition and minimizes cost?
I'm making an app which finds the cheapest recipe to buy based on current grocery store prices near you and what food you have already. It can also optimize nutrition, and I have plans to support keto, diabetic, pre-diabetic, vegan, vegetarian, and many more types of diets.

Optimizing nutrition in this context means to optimally choose foods which satisfy your macros (i.e. the Stiegler diet), but it can also include choosing where proteins are derived (e.g. from a chicken instead of canned vegetables) or avoiding certain ingredients or ingredients with undesirable subcomponents (e.g. starches.)

Purely optimizing nutrition means that the food is somewhat bland, but choosing the cheapest recipe could be more tasty.

Would you use this app? If so, would you pay to use it?
The authors are making the very popular claim that the "lump of labor fallacy" and that migration is not "zero-sum" conclusively demonstrate that any permissive migration scheme is undoubtedly beneficial for everyone in any country at any time ("In short, immigration creates more economic opportunities for everyone: a win-win scenario").

It is true that there isn't a "lump of labor" (the amount of work is not fixed) and that migration isn't "zero-sum" (where each participant's gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants).

But those are very narrow claims. It doesn't follow every conceivable permissive migration scheme is beneficial for every receiving country and it certainly doesn't follow that nobody is harmed by any permissive migration scheme.

The H1B scheme, a topical example here, is restricted to a small number of professions by statute (and in practice is 70% software people) so the arguments about migration generally and the economy broadly shouldn't be applied without further consideration.

It is easy to imagine if you had a profession that has some limitation to demand and narrowly allowed migration for that profession only that given a sufficient number of migrants you would displace some current residents from the profession and preclude some number of current residents from joining that profession and lower salaries of the profession.
Belief in infinite growth stems from an inability to understand how the exponential function works.

There is no such thing as indefinite growth, there is logistic growth between steady states. Pretending that immigration is always good is like pretending that drinking water is always good. Useful when you're in the Sahara, less so when you're drowning.

The US is currently in a situation where the labor market has an oversupply of people which is why real per hour worked wages are still at the level they were in '72. Adding more immigration now will only lower the living standards of the people already here, this will be the case until we increase the carrying capacity of the US economy with better labor laws, more government spending on fundamentals and better targeted research.
Based on some of your work (thanks) I've got 4xPi4-4gb booting from a fifth Pi4-2gb that is running dnsmasq (PXE only) and NFS for / and /boot. Boot order is 0xf412 - network, SD, Usb, repeat. The /nfs/tftpboot/<host_serial> is a soft link to the boot directory inside /nfs/<imagename>-<hostname> Each host gets its own directory - haven't looked into a CoW filesystem yet.
I've got a hacky Ansible script that will reboot a specific host from network, dd a fresh Raspios image onto the sd card, mount the root filesystem, copy over the ssh keys, reboot the pi, do the usual apt update/upgrade and a couple other tweaks, reboot from the network, dd the sd card back to an image and finally run Pishrink.sh on it. It's fascinating to watch in a Rube Goldberg kinda way.
I would add that net bandwidth seems quite respectable though not USB3 speeds. One issue i've run into is that K3S does not start - mostly likely due latencies with networked disks
ICU Psychosis/Delerium is a really real thing [0]. And it is not fun, especially for pediatric patients or otherwise mentally atypical people.

One of the ways SV is trying to help with this is via AR/VR. The research is slow going, but there may be some promise. If you can use VR/AR to lessen some depression/pain medication dosages, you can open up a lot of other drugs for use.

Maybe you can let long term patients out to a VR beach for a few hours or go back home or to church. Maybe let them game/socialize for a bit while partially mobilized. Every little thing helps (maybe, send more grants).

[0] https://www.medicinenet.com/icu_psychosis/article.htm
To exploit the plebs? In the article they are selling us women joining the labour force in the 1970s as a net positive ("millions of jobs created"). In return we got caught in the two-income trap because childcare became an expense and real estate went up disproportionately in price. Anyone who isn't discussing this has an agenda, they are probably a capitalist who finds reserve labour useful to have around.
Preparing to Become Infected with Covid-19
Because two people cooperating can kill one person who isn't and end up with 1/3rd more resources each.
> Also, was the PS/2 keyboard/mouse interface any less proprietary than Apple Desktop Bus at time of initial release?

Not really. They were both proprietary. ADB was Apple's solution, and PS/2 was IBM's solution.

ADB was rather nifty from a technical perspective -- it was a multidrop bus which could support multiple devices, as opposed to PS/2 which could only support a single device per port. It was common for mice to be chained off of keyboards, for example, and there were a number of third-party peripherals which could be connected to ADB as well, like graphics tablets.
Resources and energy and the ability to meet basic human needs are, in fact, almost entirely NOT zero sum.

Virtually every resource we have, whether oil, minerals, food, shelter, entertainment, education, etc, is drastically expanded and in many cases is only possible by living in a society with many other people. There's vastly more oil, copper, food, shelter, entertainment, and education now than at any other time in history. That's because human ingenuity and economies of scale are fundamentally positive-sum.

Imagine you killed half of all people. Will your lot improve?

Let's say 99.9% of people are killed. I am certain that your life would rapidly become extremely difficult and would remain that way for the rest of your life.

There can be no industrial civilization without economies of scale. To pick a very Hacker News example, think about Moore's Law. It has only been able to be continued because the market for computing has continually expanded. If the revenue remains flat for semiconductors, there's not enough capital to be able to invest in the next generation of equipment that is yet more expensive. You need more people buying these chips in order to justify that greater investment.
When I said mobile phone operators, I meant more Apple and Google, not the telecom operators. I haven't worked at telecom operators but I wouldn't be surprised if that world is wildly different - IT is generally considered a cost center rather than as way to remove costs in other parts of the org.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook all build everything from source. Source: I worked at 3 of those & have friends coworkers at the rest. For cloud users I don't have as good a knowledge of that space. I imagine the majority of them use off-the-shelf prebuilt libraries that come with the OS they run on.
Reddit has huge moderation and organized shill issues. It's not uncommon to open up a contentious thread and see an ocean of [deleted] posts that were heavily upvoted.

Some of the power mods are, in my opinion, working for or are owned by advertising/PR/political agencies. Some power mods regularly violate their own subreddit rules to post hyper-partisan news (/r/worldnews for example explicitly forbids internal US news and politics but its mods regularly post such material).
Totally agree with this, I’m baffled that people can convince themselves it’s the opposite.
Indefinite parabolic growth (at least, for billions of years) is possible.
Hanging in thank you for asking.
Oh yes, that's right. To me a business is successful when they are big enough in their domain that a new tech doesn't suddenly wipe them out. And they have enough money to pivot and adapt and still remain in business. That didn't happen for Apple when they were making Macs, they were same as HTC or Blackberry. Microsoft is a true success, they failed completely at Mobile market and yet here they are, doing just fine.

> Apple also has a market cap of $1.5 Trillion, with a T, so there's that.

The stock market hasn't been representative of real world for a long time now.
One brainhack I like to use on myself is to think of them as "Side Quests!" rather than "Side Projects."

My main quest is my day-to-day life. When I'm feeling bored, bogged down, and tired of the daily grind -- I head out in search of a side quest.

A side quest can be easy (1 hour), or hard (14 days). But the goal of a side quest is to distract me from my daily grind, and help keep me learning and motivated.

While this difference in perspective is subtle, I feel like it's enough to give me the headspace to stay more deeply engaged with interesting topics I'm trying to learn or understand.

I wrote a related blog post last week on related thoughts, if you're interested: https://jakedahn.com/2020/06/23/its-not-a-side-project-its-a...
Your child, I assume, can solve algebraic equations. He/she may need help translating the words into equations. You may want to check out the worksheets available here: https://kiddymath.com/worksheets/translating-problems-into-e...
I'm not American so I'm probably just used to other systems, but does a public service need to be profitable?

Think of it like a "cost centre" in a business, does the utility outweigh the price?
Given the size of the Universe, I would guess this as well 10/10, but so far we have zero evidence.

I wonder if we're all destined to stay within our own solar systems due to the light speed barrier, or if we'll ever figure out how to do FTL or bend space. It's frustrating that we can't seem to break out of our tiny bubble.

Maybe there is a prime directive that has nothing to do with a species achieving warp, but instead attempts to see if a species can work together on a planetary scale to tackle disease, hunger, energy, climate...etc? If so, we're doing a poor job, but are making progress.
I would highly recommend you shift your thinking & consider even something as basic as threads as a distributed systems problem. The distributed systems field has a much richer successful history of how to design robust systems at scale (not just in terms of compute resources but also in terms of # of people working on the problem & number of components). Sharing memory is actually not a simple & solved problem but distributed systems problem generally have lots of formal methods & tools for dealing with unreliability of any given component.

That's also ignoring that measuring the distributed cost of a component is fundamentally simpler than measuring it for a library mapped into 50 million processes.

Shared libraries can be useful but their value is often vastly overstated.
> Had Microsoft created good Mobile OS around 2008-09 iPhone wouldn't have seen much success IMO.

It sounds like you're not giving Apple enough credit for good hardware. iOS isn't the reason to get an iPhone, the physical device, the actual phone, is the reason.

If Apple allowed people to install Windows Mobile on iPhone, I think I'd still get an iPhone, and maybe would install Windows on it.
Certainly it's up to the vagaries of fate and such, but when I was in school I worked in a lab that for several years got fairly reliable DARPA funding for NLP work, and while they never built the department around it or anything it was nice to have that consistent year over year assumption that one or two projects would be interesting to the DARPA folks.

For them (us?) it was more a matter of "well this doesn't necessarily merit or reach the requirements for quote-unquote 'real' research, but it's really interesting and you know some investigation couldn't hurt". Those got pitched to DARPA, they asked "can you do it with Arabic and Chinese too?" and we said "no" and they funded us anyway a few times out of ten. Not bad, really.
RealClearPolitics links to TFA, and just below links to this story as well, “Where are all the deaths?”

https://spectator.us/where-deaths-coronavirus-wave/

They both overstate their respective cases.

I also would toss this one into the mix, “CDC Now Estimates there have been over 20 million Coronavirus cases”;

https://outkick.com/cdc-now-estimates-there-have-been-over-2...

The upshot is that this article could more accurately be titled Where’s the tragedy of the new Coronavirus spikes?. Strip away the politics and we have a huge uptick in case with in some cases the lowest death rates we’ve seen since March.

The media keeps loosing the message in the midst of the disaster porn and political finger-pointing. We need the economy to be open to the absolute greatest extent possible while hospital capacity remains near maximum. The long-term damage (in dollars and lives) in over-regulating the extent of the lockdown could exceed the damage of COVID by an order magnitude.

Needless to say, the more cases we can shift forward into summer and fall, versus having to deal with those cases in winter concomitant with flu season is how we prevent the disaster of a second wave. Hospitals in winter can be overwhelmed by a bad flu season alone, and COVID didn’t go exponential until after flu had tapered this year. We do not want to see them peaking together in vulnerable populations.

This drumbeat of articles like this just totally miss the point entirely, as if we could just keep handing out trillions of dollars a month indefinitely until a half billion doses of vaccine are ready to go, and as if even if we did that we’re not inadvertently causing hundreds of thousands of death due to side effects of quarantine and things like canceled elective procedures.

A lot has changed over the last couple months, but the media is still “reporting” like it’s February.