skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think saying poverty is the issue is heading in the right direction, but I would even go further and say that poverty is not the issue, but that conditions not improving over time is the issue.

Most humans (except maybe Buddhists and Daoists) are on a hedonic treadmill. So long as their condition today is better than it was yesterday, they generally derive greater contentment than being better off in absolute terms and then plateauing.

This "most people were better off over time" is the stuff stable societies are made of. It's why post WWII America did so well. It's why China has been doing well for 20-30 years now. When most everyone is doing better today than yesterday and believes they will be doing better tomorrow than today, they are content.

Even poverty is tolerable if things are improving over time because you adjust your expectations.

The lack of improvement over time is what makes prisons for example such an awful punishment. You're placed in a state where your conditions are not only worse in absolute terms but there is no prospect of it really improving until your really.
Egypt at that was one of the most developed areas in the world, unlike Congo.
Yes, the Police and Border Guard has an online tool to check. They also supposedly contacted all the people with bad chips (my card was not vulnerable, so I can’t verify that).
There's a book or two by Vernor Vinge where a character is a hobbyist "software archaeologist"; the character traces back one of the most basic programs -- I think it was the time//clock program -- and [re?]discovers the Unix Epoch of 1-Jan-1970. Because space-faring humanity in the far future runs on some flavor of Unix. The character concludes that that specific date was chosen because that was when humanity first walked on the moon.

The point being to reiterate yours -- there's a decent chance the code you write will survive in some form far longer than initially told or intended.
Even my $160 "Chuwi" laptop has a 1920x1080 IPS screen, so really there is no excuse for any laptop not to have it, cost can't be an issue anymore.

In fact its display is remarkably good.. Much better than the 1366x768 TN crap of my company Thinkpad. Embarassingly for Lenovo.
What’s in a number: how Big Sur could break code
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My argument (or question) isn't that Lightning is useless or that I don't need it, but that charging shouldn't require a lot of complex communication. I don't understand what it is about charging that requires both ends to have microcontrollers
>Is there a number for the "real resources" you note? What is the limit and who's keeping track?

Why do you ask? I was just making (what should be) an uncontroversial point that there's a bound at all, because someone was dismissing all concerns of affordability of any program on the grounds that:

>>>Federal spending doesn't come from money laying around, in the first place, it comes from money the government decides to have because it wants to spend it.

i.e. trivializing those concerns the federal government can (in several senses) print money. So why the extreme scrutiny and demand for rigor? Is it that bad to concede this very minor point? Remember, it allows that we could have plenty of slack to cover situations like this, just that you can't totally dismiss the concern because of a complex variant of "lol money printer go brr".

>Also maybe the issue is the sad state of low-income jobs, and the lack of hazard pay continuing to encourage people to risk their lives.

I think I addressed that:

>>And, to be sure, that may be the desired outcome, that people stay away from work while receiving some income, so as to mitigate the epidemic risk, while preserving financial security. That's a fair argument to make.

But either way, we shouldn't be creating situations in a position where working more reduces your net pay.
I doubt this was even considered by him. 4 years is not enough time to make a meaningful impact on this issue. It matters to the party, but not the candidate.
I don't really agree. Coke maintains its domination because it signs so many vendor agreements that keep out competition (Pepsi does the same,) and they are really good at it. I think a lot of ad spending that is all "brand" is largely a waste. There isn't really much good data to support it works if you're already massive, I think it's just something that has stuck with the industry, and since they can't really improve their margins anymore...throwing a few million at advertising is a business expense they can write off and it might have -some- effect does make sense. But, you could easily shift that budget to community outreach or whatever and it would probably have almost no negatives. I've worked with so many companies that get towards the end of the quarter and say "well, we have all this ad money, we've got to spend it before the quarter runs out!" They sometimes don't even care how it's spent, it just has to be spent. I really don't think brand advertising itself is the main driver of recognition once you reach a certain point. To be clear, I'm talking about brand only advertising. Product ads are different.
This explains the process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_challenge
Artificial waits are still a thing all over the place, because people trust results more when they seem to take some work to produce:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3061519/the-ux-secret-that-will-...
Curious question: Does the companies in S&P 500 remain constant or do they change? If they change -- is it periodical or continuous?
I felt like that left more questions than answers as to how this played out exactly. Who chose to participate, what did hey know, how do they feel about their experience, why?

It seems like an extraordinary system like that should involve ... a bit of elaboration.

The article seems to question more than just the quality of the film but the treatment of the actors, and other topics, but doing so without understanding how such a strange film was actually made seems off...
Late reply, but yes I am aware of Indigo Ag. Will see if they can deliver on their goals. I am dubious
When was profitability added to governments' remit?
He is taxed, anytime he wants to move any of those stocks he pays the capital gains tax.

And depending on your role at amazon, you get equity.
I messed up my custom ublock filters and my fbook feed is literally blank (every post is blocked, autoloader is blocked).

I don't think I miss anything much
> assuming that our government has enough money lying around to pay everyone this much all of the time (we don’t, this is actually very expensive for the taxpayers).

If you want to learn more about why this statement is completely wrong, read Stephanie Kelton's new book.

Even based on your own assumptions about "paying for it", the COVID unemployment increases/extensions have a negative cost, meaning they saved Americans more money than they cost. Thanks, Keynes.
Have you ever looked at beaglebones? TI's support is pretty nice in my experience, and the hardware is a LOT more solid and reliable. Certainly the USB stack has been a weak point on the RPi, which is problematic since the ethernet adapter is USB.

For most embedded work which needs to be reliable, the RPi is to much designed to a price, with enough tradeoffs making it an unattractive and ultimately more expensive option. In a PoC we did, we had to replace RPi's weekly in the field, racking up intervention costs. This completely disappeared the moment we switched to beaglebones.

I quite like the RPi for what it is, a cheap & fun platform offering a lot of possibilities to the masses, but I wouldn't consider it to be a serious embedded platform to target you can depend on. But I've used it as a video/slideshow player in real-world situations, where if they'd drop out, there aren't any real consequences (which most of the time were cards failing, and yes, the root-fs was read-only...)
You are probably thinking in today's terms. Back then it was unlikely there was separate test environment. For application... probably, but not for what is a static website and HTTP server.
I came to go from C++ and was so glad about how few sharp objects were lying around, working in software with just one allocator, just one string type. I’m possibly damaged by previous experiences but ultimately I’m also glad not to have to pretend I’m clever. I just go brrr and solve the problem with for loops and go home to my loved ones at 5:30 exactly.

Like proper enums might be nice I guess, but really what I love are all the other things which are not there. Lack of enums has not hurt me deeply. What hurt me was languages where someone might conceivably express the COM apartment model and also think it was a good idea.
To quote Monty Python "This isn't an argument, this is just contradiction!"
Well said, all of that.

>it amplifies all of the biases and other imperfections in all of the events that fed into the creation of that data set.

A common retort is "well then, fix the data set, or correct for the bias."

But a further problem, to riff off what you said, is it's not just this one data set, it's all data sets. And while a researcher or engineer may be able to make choices about their own data sets, they won't be able to control all data sets.

This problem is also embedded amongst other problems such as the tendency for people to "trust the computer," which sounds naive, but is sometimes restated, amongst smug people who think they aren't naive, as "trust the algorithm."
This money ends in July (or has to be renegotiated), so the moral hazard maybe could apply to a few weeks during re-opening (a rounding error). Or maybe it saves a ton of money for these businesses if re-opening goes south and we have to retreat. If you care about moral hazard you should be frying bigger fish imho.

Also may this finally dispel the myth that servers get made whole with tips. This owner is putting out the numbers, 2400/month is 15/hr, the servers would be making 50%/66% of that so 7.50 to 10 an hour. Minimum wage is $11 in maryland.
No offense to apeace but this is the far better argument. A conversation in a bar is public already; you have no idea if the person sitting across the room might have a microphone trained on you and recording the conversation, because you are speaking in a group within a larger group with no protections. There is no expectation of privacy so there is no argument for privacy in that analogy.

It's far better to ask why we should have encryption (for our safety, our security, and yes, our personal privacy) rather than whether we should have it. The government, with this bill, is debating whether we should have it, when it's obvious to the people that we definitely should. Turn that around on the senators proposing it; ask them if they want to build in back doors into our digital lives, can we as their employers and electors do the same thing to them?
Amazon was founded in 1994, more than 25 years ago. You are talking about Amazon in 2020. There were many points throughout those 26 years were it could have gone down. The risk he took was building the company from zero, hiring people and paying them a salary. Amazon now employs over 800000 people. If you think that has no merit and Bezos took no risk, then you really don't understand how things work.
I think the standard counter argument to this is essentially:

1. Governments are ultimately responsible for this.

2. These social safety nets are funded by taxes

3. The specific man in this specific story runs a company that as recently as a few months ago was labelled the worst offender for tax avoidance. [1]

4. Jeff is now wealthier as a result of avoiding taxes on both a company and personal level

5. People who otherwise might have had a hot meal and a roof over their heads now don't.

There is a whole separate counter argument to what I have just said about how it wasn't technically illegal to avoid the taxes using the specific loopholes that he has used. My original comment about people are ultimately responsible for the kind of society they want to live in speaks directly to this.

Should we maybe think about closing some of those loopholes and getting a lot more serious about tax avoidance among the top 0.1% of companies and people in the world?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/02/new-study-d...
Rent control saved me $300,000 over 7 years. If I wanted to stay in SF for the rest of my life, you think I’d move out for $500,000? The lifetime value of rent control is more than $500,000.
Very late reply...But if you want to hear an admitedly biased (towards negative) source, go read the crop comments on agweb.com
I think the argument against would be pragmatic: the cost and time it takes to run a new election, and the mad scramble for new candidates, presumably leaving the incumbent in office in the interim. (For more local elections, where running unopposed is not uncommon, there's also an interesting conundrum: should that candidate be rejected if they only receive a plurality, ie under 50%? What if literally no one else wants the job?)

At any rate, I'm very much in agreement, I think it's a sound policy across the board, even in the context of FPTP. One thing our election system fails to do is disambiguate between voter apathy, and the implicit protest vote of staying home (Australia's mandatory voting being another solution, albeit lacking the teeth of a "None of the Above" reboot).
The econometric term for what this paper lacks is "identification strategy" -- a way for assessing the impact of x (downloads on sci-hub) on y (citations) which _identifies_ a source of variation in x that is independent of y.

A randomized controlled trial would be ideal. Second-best would be something that, say, suddenly caused some papers to be available or not available on Sci-Hub, or a "plausibly exogenous" (to y) cutoff around which papers would be either available on Sci-Hub or not.

This paper offers nothing. I think we can say the relationship is "not identified." Doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong, just that this paper doesn't produce meaningful evidence on the question.

For more see Angrist and Krueger (2001) https://economics.mit.edu/files/18

(In Pearl/DAG language, the underlying quality or appeal of the paper is, as others have noted, an obvious confound/backdoor path).
IVF shouldn't cost six figures. When we did it, it was about $12K.
Living Computers: Museum and Labs is closing for now
The underground market has one thing legitimate business doesn't have: product that sells itself.
The Agile HR Department
Interesting fella, Henry Martyn Robert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martyn_Robert

https://www.usace.army.mil/About/History/Historical-Vignette...
Any readers understand how the pump out effect works?

In my imagination, it seems like the less paste you have between whatever is emitting heat, and the heat sink, the better- so long as there aren't air gaps.

I see there are many forum posts where people show that it does not, but it feels like the closer proximity of the heat sink to the hot object should _improve_ conduction!
Netflix has a comedy about a programmer getting into drug trade called How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
Back in 2000, it was the wildwest. You actually did run tests on production and editing production code was not as insane of an idea as it is today.

I don't think anyone (at least no one I worked for at the time) ran staging or dev servers.

It was always stupid, yes. But back then we didn't have the tools and testing suites that we have today. CI/CD setups didn't exist. Git wasn't even built until 2005. The only version control solution was SVN at the time, which was released in 2001. But it was clunky and immature.

Back in 2000, launching a site update meant someone would log into the server via FTP, drag the files over, and try to "be careful" while they did it. Using passwords that were written on a sticky note, stuck to the CRT monitor's screen (password managers weren't a thing).

It is easy to forget how immature and primitive the world of web development was at this time.

Also, the internet was still so new, that every C-level executive had built their careers by running businesses in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Back before you built websites or relied on them for any significant impact on your bottom line. So to tell an executive from that era that your website broke when you poked at it, their solution would be to stop poking at it. Security wasn't really a major concern like today, and having a website was still mostly a novelty in the eyes of most executives.
No its not constant, the S&P 500 index is re-balanced quarterly
Lurking here is the main problem, not only of python but of so many langs: Dependency on the C-ABI.

EVERY interfacing with C sucks, even made on C!

Hopefully web assembly become good enough to change that...
I don't understand yet I know the uncertainty principle, would you mind to explain?
OnePlus launches new TVs in India
Twitch breaks records again in Q2, topping 5B total hours watched
That’s just an artifact of a mass selling event right. If he had instead given more stock to employees as they worked for him over the years and helped him build the company, then the wealth would be spread around less unequally. It’s not just a given that he should be worth this much.
I see, it does make perfect sense, thank you.

I also think that too much information or mis-informations, or simply bias or selective information can damage the way you perceive if thinks are getting better or worse, but that's another topic.
Donate it to a charity, go buy Stuff from the local economy, not amazon. Support small time business, buy gift cards to use later.

Lots of useful ways they could prop up the economy.
Do you think the government will get paid back for buying junk bonds from companies likely to go bankrupt?
Most stuff is still not saved though. Sure, we might have a semi complete archive but it's not possible to archive the complete experience of e.g. old youtube.
Yeah that sounds like a classic American move - who cares if they're on vacation, just make them work! Glad your employer stood up for you all (or that the law forced him/her to)!
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Maybe, maybe not. I am architect on a system that gets by on 16 but cpus with no cache. Or we did until they went out of production, I'm hired to duplicate what was working on something more modern (32 bit) . I don't worry about l1 cache because no matter how bad I am to the cache I know the code used to work on a cpu much slower.

Of course that is just one of my domains. I have other systems that are pushing bounds of what 64 bit systems can do, and there I'm more worried about how can I avoid synchronizing the cache between the cores without a race condition. I don't have to worry about the servers hundreds of miles away though, that is a different architect.
The 2 largest numbers on their balance sheet are:

Reserve Bank credit: 7,009,664

Securities held outright[1]: 6,115,130

[1] Includes securities lent to dealers under the overnight securities lending facility (when people talk about JPow money printer go brrr...this is what they are talking about and nearly every night for 2 months after the FED got the $4T overnight the markets would skyrocket)
Sure, scammers are abound and the bad to good ratio is pretty high but due to the population size, the number of good developers is high as well.
Similarly Substack. I've been trying out Zotero and notice that even if you take snapshots of Medium or Substack articles and try to later access those snapshots, they'll briefly flash some content on the page and then it disappears. (Bizarrely, the replacement text for Medium pages says 404.)

If you dig through the HTML, the article content is all there, and it could be fixed with changes to Zotero's Medium and Substack translators[1], but that it should even been necessary to do what amounts to a site-specific hack is a problem in itself.

1. https://www.zotero.org/support/translators
It needs to be understood that any kind of new engineering project has a risk of failure, often quite high. For example, in software, there's the infamous CHAOS report from the Standish Group that comes out every couple of years. A casual Google for the 2018 results has this quote from someone with a copy (https://hennyportman.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/review-chaos-r...)

> "The Standish Group started with a traditional metrics of success by looking at: “on time, on budget, and on target”. This means in this CHAOS Report 2018 for the year 2017: successful: 36%, challenged: 45%, failed: 19%. If they use their “modern” definition of success: “on time, on budget, with a satisfactory result.” You get almost the same results (33%, 48%, 19%)."

So, about 1/3 of IT projects are successful, including being on-time and on budget, and about 1/5 are total losses that fail to deliver any value at all. Not great odds and I'd expect the numbers are likely to be broadly similar in other engineering fields.

The decision on whether or not to embark on an engineering project (and whether to do it in-house or hire a third party) is among the most challenging duties executives have.
I think something that translates to the proper native language is a better goal. Something like c2rust[1] but for Java. There is some PoC[2][3] that can convert basic Java constructs to Rust. It can be taken as a base and improved.

[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

[2] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/java-to-rust-converter-for-ted...

[3] https://github.com/aschoerk/converter-page
Sounds like African automobile tariffs when you put it that way
Nextjs wants to talk with you xd
Amidst a mobile app ban against China, border tussles, and grassroots activism about boycotting Chinese products, a rather big splash by the China-owned electronics giant.
True, but the quote was "signed by Apple" so the real question is how much malware is signed by Apple? I have no idea what the actual figure is, so I am mildly curious, but my hunch is not much (if any).
> get a job in IT security. It pays better, comes with zero stress.

I beg to differ. All IT jobs have stress, but security by definition stresses you about things that haven't happened yet. If you have zero stress doing IT security, you're doing it wrong. Still immensely better than crime, though.
This has nothing to do with what software they're running internally though, and again as I said even if you can audit and build your own version of the Google DNS infrastructure there's nothing guaranteeing that it's exactly what's running internally.

The problem is that ultimately there is a conflict of interest - Google is an advertising company that benefits from knowing as much as possible about people for ad targeting purposes, and as such some people (like me) might not be willing to trust them.
Would depend on the form Nextdoor racism takes. If they talk needlessly about it after the initial report like about how they've been "seeing too many of those lately" it could work. If, however, Nextdoor racism is users just reporting black people who aren't doing anything suspicious, I suspect they'd just switch to specifying race for everyone except black people.
These companies have no penalty for firing people after receiving bailout money.
I used this site as teaching Material for young adults the concept of A Webpage that is not an app.

Also Space jam has « style » to be compared to « wikipedia » that is « pure html text »