skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it could’ve happened earlier too.

There were reports that suggested Mao wrote a letter to FDR or Truman, to combine American financial capital with Chinese labor. The Chinese would mass produce all the consumer goods needed by the western world.

Granted, a lot of the source of that American financial capital came from the illicit smuggling of opium into China, during the prior century.

But, the American side was too stuck on politics, that this wasn’t even a consideration. Then, the two got stalemated in the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Until Nixon finally relented, and changed directions for America.
Your tone is completely inappropriate. You're making a lot of assumptions about what people are thinking and what position they are taking in the debate. I can discuss the topic with you when you are feeling better.
Minority Report is more than just the movie or the book or the pre-production scripts. The whole 'telling' of the world, and it's many versions, are interesting to look at. The history of the story provides a great, if navel gazing, look at free will and the future in general: many possibilities.

The interactions of how empathy for the characters are created in the audience via the book and/or pre-production script vs. the movie are a great look into how us humans deal with these issues of 'free will'. It's largely emotional, not logical. How these various 'tellings' deal with that issue honestly shows the genius of Spielberg's approach to stories. Why does free will elicit such an emotional response in us?

The 'world' of Minority Report is, largely, the antagonist of these tellings/stories. It's not just a place where characters interact that has cool stuff and whizz-bang technology. Here, it's a character itself. In doing that, it demonstrates this 'free will' issue again. The world interacts with the audience and has the audience 'buy into' the (fictional) world. It's oppressiveness and thrilling nature is felt by the audience. But why? Where does free will reside in this interaction of 'story' and audience? Why are stories gripping in a world with/out free will?

The use of water's distortions of light are a big theme in the movie too. I'm not sure how it relates to free will, but, thematically, it was a really cool feature that comes up all over the film.

The movie really is a good one. The great Michael Tucker has a fantastic essay on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbMPjas_rRU
The copying was so weirdly precise, too; like down to the table layouts, T-shirts and lanyards. It’s as if they couldn’t pinpoint what made Apple stores successful and were afraid to change any detail in their copies.
Firefox Send, SendSafely, and Magic Wormhole are all end-to-end encrypted.

https://send.firefox.com/

https://www.sendsafely.com/

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

https://webwormhole.io/ (magic wormhole over WebRTC!)

This seems like table-stakes for a modern file transfer system. Accepting unencrypted files and storing them temporarily in the clear on your own servers seems like it only introduces tons of additional risks without much gain.
i have two choices in my area. ATT DSL or Comcast cable. the phone line system is so old in my neighborhood. it just barely better than dial up so i'm left with Comcast as the only option for high speed.

i'm hoping Elon Musk's Starlink will give us the high speed that we hope for that is not control by monopoly like Comcast and ATT.
So, I left a tenured position. The linked piece resonates with me.

I'm actually not so sure it's that common relative to the number of people who actually leave. After I left my position I started learning about other tenured faculty who left their positions also, some of whom I respected quite a bit and who I never imagined would have any reason to leave their position. One place interviewed me for a faculty position later, the primary problem being that they had multiple tenured faculty leave and had holes to fill. None of these individuals who left their positions wrote about it.

I do think you're right in the sense that it's this thing that no one knows what to do with. You've built up these relationships, your colleagues are all in academics, and many of them are happy. So they don't understand. You're kind of a glitch in the matrix, and no one knows how to approach it because it's not supposed to happen. I've been told everything from that I'm a total badass to crazy and insane. I myself haven't figured out which is more accurate yet. Maybe both.

The fact that these experiences compel some kind of cathartic explanation speaks volumes about the problems in academics though. It's like there's the commonly agreed-upon story in academics, the face being presented, and then there's reality, and they don't line up, so people just kind of pretend the glitches don't exist.

Not too long ago on HN there was a blog piece going through one person's (an economist?) exploration of whether or not biomedical research was in crisis. (I've tried to find it but can't.) It was frustrating to me because so much of what they detailed was true, but in the end they just decided something like "oh well, it's obvious this field is in crisis, but research is getting done in the end so it doesn't matter." It's like this ship in flames, where people are burning and there's emergency sirens going off, and as long as the individuals in power are happy, and there's a good narrative being presented to the public, with results in the media to talk about, no one cares.

I just can't tell where this is headed: if the ship is going to finally sink so far that it becomes something you can't hide, or if it's just going to keep on like this indefinitely, or if it's going to get fixed, or what. Universities have survived much worse than current circumstances, so it seems implausible to me anything will fundamentally change.
You can’t import old emails
> His administration will work with the police to “help eliminate racism in policing”, the seaside city’s first male African-American mayor said on his Facebook page, following a vote on Tuesday evening.

Inconvenient fact:

The only way to eliminate racism
in policing is to eliminate human beings doing the policing.

All humans have inherent bias. Racism, sexism, classism, and a whole host of other -isms will always be present in policing conducted by humans. Any solution that does not inherently account for this, expect this, and have well defined and widely known processes for detecting and remediating this is a non-solution.

Every human being has racial biases.
Predictive policing is an idea gone totally wrong (predictably).

Data can tell us what, when and where to keep an eye at, it can help us highlight roots of criminal activity (social inequality, bad schools, unsustainable business practices, pollution[1,2,3], non-restorative penal system, police corruption, etc). but it can never rightfully justify treating any given person as a dangerous criminal or even a suspect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565624

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21193609

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9140942
Your source (a blog with a pretty transparent agenda) didn't mention that the neighborhoods commit them at a fairly consistent rate, it only said that Chance The Rapper said that he saw people at Millennium Park not social distancing. Chance omitted that police broke up the crowd at Millennium Park as well:

> Monday protesters in Millennium Park were dispersed by police after gathering too closely as well.

- https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-police-officers-injure...

Your blog post did say that our mayor (who is herself black and lesbian--for those who find these identities more credible--and who has been very consistently outspoken about her concerns about racially disparate outcomes with respect to COVID) denied disproportionate enforcement in black communities:

> The reality is the Chicago Police Department is active and engaged all over the city and doing it with an eye toward equity, and I would have it no other way as mayor of this city,” Lightfoot said. “I can tell you, based upon the statistics we’ve been keeping for weeks, those dispersal orders are happening all over the city — and yes, in white areas, in Latinx areas, in moneyed areas of the city.

As for disparities in the number of arrests, if this isn't driven by an increase in quantity, size, or density of gatherings in minority neighborhoods, it's probably driven by an increase in brandished firearms, gunshots, etc: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-police-officers-injure....

Anyway, this is all anecdata from late March which was very early days for the whole COVID debacle.
What are concrete advantages of micronaut vs modern spring boot?
Did anybody benchmarck startup time vs spring boot With lazy beans instanciation?

Micronaut marketing must really address the rational fear that everybody should have: how much does micronaut (by trying to do more at compile time) slow down compilé time???
slowing compile time and making a LSP unresponsive is order of magnitude worse than slowing down startup time!!

Also, a la Grails I would like to be able to use micronaut in combination with a spring lib (with spring boot application context) such as their rsocket integration or spring data / messaging
This is the same company that told guests to pound sand when they found hidden cameras in their bedrooms (until they went to the press and the story blew up), or when they fell victims to scammers who operate on the platform with total impunity.

Good riddance.
yep, https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
Ah that's interesting. I hope the 2008 Mac Pro can be stretched to run all Intel macOSes like this :)
If you price like for like sure. My issue is usually that I almost never do. I usually fall into needing something akin to a mac mini but slightly bigger. The last mac pro I bought was a dual-G4 model when the gap between the mac pro and lower end models didn't seem so severe. (Although I obviously do not represent a sizeable demographic of the market).

For Apple, not catering to every particular consumer whim/need out there is just smart business. But for the consumer, that is just another weakness of the mac ecosystem.
That depends on who you assign the professor to teach. If they're teaching and training new PhDs and researchers that need to know the latest knowledge in the field, then that's a reasonable use of the professor's research time. It could be this professor is one of dozens of people around the world actually qualified to teach and interpret the results of ongoing research. If they're being assigned to teach undergrads Chem 101 than that's a waste of valuable time.

Universities should be bifurcated into research organizations and public education organizations. Research organizations should still teach, but to an audience of trainee researchers. Public education organizations can focus their time teaching the majority of students using polished pedagogical skills and collating key results from research organizations into more accessible formats.
> Fear is what brought us the inane toilet paper shortage a few months ago.

FWIW, evidence is that the toilet paper shortage wasn't caused by hoarding. Rather, it was a combination of two supply-chain quirks:

1.) Toilet paper is bulky and low-margin, which means that supermarkets largely stock it just-in-time and keep low inventories of it in storerooms. This exacerbates any problems in the supply chain because existing inventories run out quickly and there's no buffer.

2.) The supply chains for consumer toilet paper (used in homes) and commercial toilet paper (used in businesses & public places) are almost completely different. They use different raw materials (commercial has higher recycled paper content), different manufacturing processes (commercial is usually single-ply), and of course different warehouses, transportation infrastructure, and procurement processes. When everybody stays home for 8+ hours that were previously spent at work and in public places, that causes a dramatic shift in demand from commercial to consumer toilet paper. The commercial stuff can't really be sold in supermarkets; even if you could fix the procurement and distribution processes, it's packaged in ways that won't fit on (or sell from) a retail rack.

Taken together, that resulted in large shortages of consumer toilet paper and large oversupplies of commercial toilet paper, all of which get exacerbated by the small inventories kept by supermarkets. There may have been some hoarding too, but there's no good evidence for it, and a lot of reasons (eg. purchase maximums, inability to carry more than 1 48-pack) to believe it wasn't a major factor.
Viruses can absolutely damage and destroy human cells. That alone can trigger a pain response.
In the UK, I have a "full fibre" provider (Hyperoptic) which pretty much exclusively serve apartment blocks. They run fibre to a switch they install in the building, and then ethernet cabling from that switch to every apartment. Targetting dense buildings I suspect gives them a really good cost/customer upfront ratio (in some cities they own their own fibre, in others they use other commercial providers, including Openreach which was spun out of the former state monopoly BT and has to provide fair rates to competitors). The latter seems like a reasonable trade off of government regulation and free market to encourage competition, I suspect the lobbying culture in the US wouldn't allow it though.
He's actually got a really cool story, I happened to recognize him from this Indie Hackers interview: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/site-builder-report-f...
What are the counter arguments?
No offense, but some quick googling will answer those questions.

https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/
Our Blue Planet – Protecting the Ocean
And other users can make an account easily enough to not bother fixing it.

Probably on the balance, considering everyone's costs and risks it would be better to make IP edits private. But the decision to do this is made by Wikipedians, and considering just their costs, favours not doing it more strongly.
Many folks, especially those in academia, really seem to value academic positions, but I'm not really sure where that comes from. Teaching isn't often the greatest part (though I recognize that not every professor has to teach, much), the success of much of your work is at the whimsy of a small handful of reviewers who typically aren't held accountable for the quality of their reviews, and the schedule can be very demanding pre-tenure, at least. Of course, many annoyances also exist outside academia, I'm just saying that academic jobs are no panacea, and I'm not sure why so many people value them so highly

I have a PhD but ended up working in "The Industry" and it's been awesome - good salary, interesting problems, smart co-workers, real-world impact.
Libvirt KVM Setup Walkthrough
Any good resources for using Powershell? Is there ever a reason not to use powershell? Coming from OSX it doesn't really make sense to me that there are two terminals installed by default, and I end up just using WSL ubuntu. Also I don't really know the commands so it feels crippled to me (no ssh (still? idk), not many tools, etc)
Not going to happen so long as self-appointed kings decide what gets to stay. Exhaustive list of Pokemon? Sure thing. "Non-notable" programming language? Not worthy.
From Wikipedia: Fabs require many expensive devices to function. Estimates put the cost of building a new fab over one billion U.S. dollars with values as high as $3–4 billion not being uncommon. TSMC invested $9.3 billion in its Fab15 300 mm wafer manufacturing facility in Taiwan.[1] The same company estimations suggest that their future fab might cost $20 billion.[2]

So the total amount of this bill would be enough to build a new fab (in theory, not in practice). Still, I think you're right that, short of nationalizing US fabs and building a new one outright, this isn't going to bring the US back on par with other countries.
I wonder if this is after years of being called a Mexican... that kinda tends to piss most people off.
"catch[ing] more criminals" was a quote from above. But I used it when discussing murder, not jaywalking.

I agree that being locked up once surely makes going straight harder (because employers are wary) and going crooked easier (as you now have more contacts). This is a real problem we should try to address. But I'm not convinced that looking the other way at violent crime is at all the right approach.

However, there is no way this is the main causal link between policing & crime. It's like suggesting that the birth rate is caused by hiring more schoolteachers in a neighborhood, ignoring the obvious fact that the city hires them (largely) based on observed need.
>> If you are a grumpy HN troll

I guess I am, since I expect a new company with a confusing value proposition to show me why they're better than 50+ years of proven RDBMS technology vs. an "OK Boomer" watch a video and "serious questions only".

And you WORK for this company? Better develop a thicker skin...
Ah ok, thanks for pointing that out. I was under that assumption.
If you believe you require privacy in your contributions, you can create multiple accounts pursuant to the policy on sockpuppetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Legiti.... In these cases, you "must not use alternative accounts to mislead, deceive, disrupt, or undermine consensus". It is also recommended to "notify a checkuser or members of the arbitration committee if they believe editing will attract scrutiny".
Ask HN: Hiring Ethics of a Fringe Tech Stack?
The small startup where I now lead engineering is planning more engineering hiring, as well as picking stack for some major new development. And our stack might be a key factor in being able to hire high-powered people -- despite not having FAANG money and prestige, and despite no unicorn strategy lottery ticket.

One of our stack options, to be nimble, and to be very attractive to hiring candidates, is to use one of those tools that's not popular, yet is beloved disproportionately by engineering-as-a-passion developers. I'm thinking, in languages for example, things like CL, Scheme, Haskell, OCaml, Smalltalk, Erlang (though that's more popular), etc.

The biggest question on my mind at the moment is -- given the current industry emphasis on always keeping the latest most popular stack buzzwords on one's resume -- the ethics of hiring people to put a few years of a fringe stack on their resume. Would it be doing the hires a disservice, in a way that recent grad developers might not realize?

In addition the fact that they probably won't be able to get a job with that stack if they move, there also seems to be a lot of sterotyping and stigmatizing in hiring interviews right now. Like one article of clothing in an otherwise fashionable wardrobe, at a mean-kids school, is, "like, so 2019, loser."

Though I think an aspiration to provide potentially lifetime great working situation and career opportunity to everyone is a helpful guide, we shouldn't plan that we'll be able to do that forever, for everyone. And the norm is for developers to move every couple/few years, so we should also be guided by that reality, and how we can be good for people's careers if they do move in a few/several years.

Summary: Can we attract some of the best developers using the fringe tools they really want to use, without doing them a disservice? I hope the answer is yes, and want to pick HN's brains on this.
Why didn't they think "Oh geez, our idea isn't that revolutionary and anyone, including companies such as lyft or Uber with giant pockets can come in and swoop our lunch?" That should be the first day conversation. I am sure they had that, it would be stupid to not have, but the stupid part is about unsustainable growth whilst ignoring the competitive landscape with delusion.

I know retrospectives are always easy to do and criticize, but these types of ultra-fast reckless growth companies do not pause for a second and think about their risks. They're smoking that drug of % growth and VC funds pouring in. I live in SV and this type of thinking is everywhere. Flail without foundation. Why not think about building something that no one can just easily come in and render you completely useless? That means that the business idea wasn't strong enough and it was mostly scaffolding - there was no foundation. IP was thin ice. This is pretty common with these delivery businesses.

Build something that no one can easily replicate or compete with you. Build it so good that even if a competitor emerges, they have a lot of catch up to do. Build it slow, methodically and strategically. Unfortunately, growth hacking and bullshit pitches to the investors take precedence in SV from what I've seen. Not all companies are like that, but a lot of these hot bottle rocket companies die because of many aspects that were not thought out. Risk taking is great, reckless risk taking is not. A solid business is like a diesel engine than a hot bottle rocket. It is unstoppable once it picks up.

I love companies like Boston Dynamics. Took forever to grow. They spun off from the MIT Leg Laboratory in the 90's, built real IP, not some VC backed presentation with fancy graphics. Zero expenditures on marketing, all in on R&D and engineering until now. They're unstoppable and they haven't even started yet. I know a delivery business is very different from BD, just trying to make a general point about building IP. Any amount of money that Microsoft + Apple + Google all combined can throw billions and billions on this but they won't be able to compete with BD immediately. It takes time and throwing money at it doesn't help at all. That's the best hedge you can have!
I can believe that. What sort of support did the non-mac systems mainly need compared to the mac systems?
I would strongly encourage you to run for local office. You're on the right track, and the path to success is more leverage.
Kerala undertook market liberalization in the 1990s. Today, the debate is over privatizing state owned industries like water, railroads, and local hospitals (which are publicly owned in many western countries).

Vietnam is also technically still a communist country, but is in practice one of the pro-market countries in the world.
> We turn complex conversations and topics into their most extreme forms and so we can actually discuss them

As an outsider watching all this going on, it seems the last thing anyone seems to want is a discussion; you're either on board or a racist. It's all very odd.
My e-mail problem has been sorted for years now with a combination of rules and not signing up to crap. The only e-mails that land in my inbox are those which actually require my attention and/or response, and there's at most a handful of those per day.

The Hey workflow would actually be worse for me, and the lack of custom domains support is a dealbreaker anyway.
Oh, definitely agreed – just trying to illustrate that we have to design a society that accounts for the inevitable failures in enforcement as well.
That does work, unless you're someone like Snowden, who is targeted by the strong surveillance apparatus.

Do you believe >300M Americans already have malware on their phones which runs when they hit Airplane mode, and tricks them in to believing all radios are off, when it is in fact still pinging NSA servers with telemetry data?

I don't. Such technology surely exists, but it is not massively deployed, because doing so would spoil its usefulness. Basically, "We're not that important."
This article is missing many key details, such as how they determined which areas had which demographic, where did the data come from, how was the study carried out? At its basic level this article says Uber and Lyft cost more to go to certain areas of a city, then it makes the leap that it's because of racism.
I figured the increase to over 100k is when non-technical people started doing it. They hire people to make their MVP instead of the founders themselves. Or am I wrong about that?