skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so sure about that. I know plenty offices in Stockholm with free food, drinks and entertainment for employees.
Question Around Economic Systems
Long time lurker, first time poster. How do we engineers feel about the economic literature right now? If we look at capitalism as a system to be improved from an engineering perspective, what could we do?
This is correct, thank you for this reply.
Unfortunately, it appears that a significant chunk of people are not interested in taking the vaccine. [1] If only half of Americans are going to get the vaccine (that figure is from May polling, referenced below), we can't pin all of our hopes on it.

I should note that I'm not saying it's unreasonable of people to be hesitant to take this particular vaccine, given how it is being rushed. Even scientists have said that there is not currently enough evidence of safety/efficacy that they would feel comfortable taking it or giving it to their families. [2]

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/sunday/coronaviru...
I’m curious what those negative beliefs are? The article seemed pretty pro-government orgs in the way I interpreted it.
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If Covid has taught me anything, it's to stop assuming a best case scenario.

Even if a vaccine is approved in Q'21, due to manufacturing, supply chain and just general operations issues, it's going to be a while before a large part of the population is vaccinated.

I assume they'll prioritize medical workers and the elderly, then start working through the rest of the population. It wouldn't surprise me if it takes another 6 months to vaccinate less than 50% of the population (which, to be fair, may be enough).

We're probably looking at end of 2021 for enough vaccinations to happen for things to go back to "normal".

That's another year.
I use vmdk’s

Seriously I don’t know how long it’ll last but a zip file into a fat32 disk image in a vmdk got through just fine.

The bonus is that 7zip can extract from vmdk.
What would be the cost of not having a "failed policy"? Panic when hospitals start refusing patients?
This hit home: I worked over a decade at IBM.

> When you are in a work situation where you are respected and admired, that is often its own reward. If you don’t have that, the components of your job that give you a sense of value and satisfaction are all connected directly to the career ladder. What is your title? What is the prestige value of your projects?

My current official job title is "Code Contributor". I was quite proud of coming up with something that would be evergreen even if as my projects changed, yet emphasized what I consider key.

But it seems to confuse people that it doesn't have "Senior", "Lead", "Chair", or "Manager" in it. Maybe I should just stick all those at the end? :)
it would indeed, as it posits spurious claims and is factually inaccurate, ER doctor or not.

The fact is, over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war, so there's no real minimizing such a figure.

It's likely precisely due to a failure to contain the spread of the causative virus, precisely due to waffling around lockdown.
I am not sure preferences are as inscrutable as you imply when you can monitor every conversation, every social media interaction, every email exchange, every Baidu search. In fact I am pretty sure they aren't.
>the german gdp is down over 10 percent. A decade of growth is gone because of this failed policy.

The swedish GDP is down 9% despite them (according to the article which is misrepresenting a lot of things) not locking down at all. Even if Germany took a completely different approach (which would have led to a New York Style situation in the whole country) there would basically not be a difference in gdp numbers.
Unless you're a micromanager that's the way it should be. She see issues opening and closing and estimates on it. If those estimates blow up/linger on and on then the PM is needed to pull together resources and get it finished off. I don't see how it's a big deal. I've used it both as group lead and as a programmer and didn't have many issues with it either way. Sure it's a bit laggy but it's not that bad. It would be a lot nicer if they'd made a native client that has better queuing/caching of tasks to let you do many things at once.
If that happens, and in the event that Trump loses, he will forever blame his loss on the media and the Democrats.
Which is hilarious to me as someone that has hired devs from Europe for a while now.

Why compete with FAANG trying to pay new grads $300k when you can pay an experienced developer from Europe $100k? I honestly never understood it.
The author doesn't state (and I don't know the real-time info) about whether the country is locked down and social distancing/masks, etc.

If so, it's not like their laissez-faire attitude (the previous months) is the success he's making it out to be. They only have stabilized because they adopted the recommended measures finally, if that's true.
But when you pull it, it's just `docker pull postgres:12`, not `docker pull _/postgres:12`.
I share your opinion, but I think the digital change leads to more data-driven decision-making which in turn tends to highlight where nothing is actually getting done. In effect, digital change exposes the people who like big titles but don't actually like doing anything. In my personal opinion, this is also why those people prefer voice chats over written or recorded communication. When proof of work is open and transparent, it becomes glaringly obvious when your record is empty.
> The United States has not been in a state of war since 1945

There has not been a formal declaration of war by Congress since WWII, but I believe there are plenty of court decisions holding that conflicts like Korea, Vietnam, the first and second Gulf wars, and what the US has been doing in Afghanistan since 2001 are wars in the sense that matters for treason, since Congress passed resolutions authorizing the use of US military force, even though they weren't called declarations of war.

Also, a person can "levy war" against the United States even if the United States does not formally recognize what is going on as a war. "Levying" war is broader than "fighting against in a formally declared war".

And, finally, the other clause in the definition can apply at any time, even if there is no US military action going on at all.
Okay, but how its default components look and how rich the default component set is is how you sell the benefits of such a component creation system. As it is, it makes it look like you can only make limited, badly designed components.
How can access to the legal system's documents cost money? Why are taxes not paying for this?
I suspect once it's generally available you'll see it required at many schools, workplaces, etc. Assuming it's available next year, expect this to be a massive controversy that doesn't fall along the usual political battle lines.
Developing countries are developing at a two digit percentage a year, same in the few top cities.

If a company has had somebody stagnant for years (many years), they're not going to be replaced for cheaper. The crash might cancel the last couple years of inflation at most.

Also, the employee is much more experienced now (could go from junior to senior over 5 years). Will the replacement be equally experienced or starting from scratch again? A fresh experienced hire is certainly more expensive than what the employee was originally earning.
I loved this too. Some writing really does speak to you and you see parts of yourself reflected in it.
I know what you mean, but no. It wasn't that she had done something wrong, it was just amazing (to her manager) that she had done something so (apparently) brave as reaching out to the FBI. The point of the essay is -- some people are brave in this way, and some aren't.

I'm not sure if it's a good essay, but what I loved was the way she described connecting people as "just" doing her job. She didn't see it as brave. I'm not sure what degree I would need to take, or what job title I would have to have, to see "making connections" as my job.
Trump doesn't want to reopen too fast

Hasn't Trump been the one flippantly saying "it's not a big deal" and "we'll be back to normal quickly" and "we'll get the kids back to school shortly"?

How could anyone view his behavior as "not wanting to reopen too fast"? It seems the exact opposite to me.
bad time to buy a house just about anywhere unless you get some insane deal on it and know you can flip it quickly.
Yes, I was noticing this too -- author doesn't state whether the country is locked down and social distancing/masks, etc. now.

If so, they've only stabilized because they adopted the recommended measures finally.
um yes, it would be very good.
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lots of strong words but not a lot of reasoning in your comment
Same for me. I feel like the essay makes some good points about the type of people who gravitate towards middle management, but I'm unable to make the connections myself because the essay jumps around. I'm still confused -- is Matt Cutts the "idiot running my engineering org"?
Maybe Bloomberg should hire you rather than write this drivel. It's not my burden to provide evidence for something I am pointing the logical failures and wild claims of a rag magazine. Thank you for the link though it's informative
I can't speak for the medical health advisors or their motivations. I think it would be very scary to be one of the medical folks in charge, and if I were them I would probably err on the side of medical caution. It is not their job, nor is it their expertise, to weigh medical costs against economic costs.

I don't know that Dems would all have to reach this result on their own — it's pretty clear that the Democratic party line right now (and since the beginning) has been "lock it down". Once that was established, it would have taken quite a bit of courage of convictions for a Democrat to have come out in favor of opening.
> "they" in the USA is much more democratic (though clearly it is not perfect)

I thought the elected executives in all levels of the government have enormous power over many aspects of the society. And for the most part, elected executives do operate independently under the framework of law, without directly involving democracy process.

> "they" in the CCP is almost exclusively a small number of mostly unchecked elites such as Xi

Same here, Xi was mostly appointed through some shadow power committee embedded inside the CCP higher power circle.

After "elected", they also operate largely independently, within the structure of law.

Of course, Chinese laws are obviously given more power to the government at all levels.

But I feel so puzzled about people's idea that a few individuals can actually exert their will in so large a nation like China. That's simply beyond the human capability (both mental and physical).
We use a hybrid of ref-counting for many things but Lua still needs to do sweep phases in its GC that cannot be amortized across multiple frames. While we do most of Lua's GC asynchronously some of the phases take so long that they can stall the main thread that wants to execute some bytecode.

Here's an older tweet with some examples (I'm not the one tweeting but I made the optimizations):

https://twitter.com/sj_sinclair/status/1097920762147733506
I drove a Scion xB for 13 years which had all the sleek aerodynamics of a toaster. When I got it in 2005 after driving a sedan for years, I IMMEDIATELY noticed how much more buggy the windshield got during the summer. It was one of the few things I disliked about that ugly, lovely little Lego brick.

By 2015, the bugs has drastically diminished enough for me to remark upon it before coming across any studies. The confounding factor here though is that the county I was in had a lot of development in it over that time. My routes stayed mostly the same (meaning both ‘where I drove’ and ‘how many buildings were along them’) but I can’t discount the expansion of the surrounding sprawl as a big factor.

Even after I moved to a neighboring more-rural county though, with a longer commute to the same workplace, I did not really see an increase.
Yeah, if your metric is "percentage of people imprisoned", then yeah, we are the worst. I'm not sure how it's relevant to my reply or this comment chain, which is discussing the treatment of dissidents and ethnic minorities. You and the person I was initially replying to are trying to derail/move move the goalposts to incarceration rate.

Funny you mention whataboutism, because there's a distinct lack of it here. No one here is justifying America's incarceration rates by saying "the other side" does the same.
When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions
Thanks. I could only upvote you twice! It's so crazy to limit speech to not excluding any edge case. 95% are capable of doing anything they want and the other 5% will never want to be judged on physical constraints.

Lets take an example of the most brilliant people of our time while also extremely handicapt Steven Hawkins.

What would he care he was excluded in a statement like this?
Yes! I was at the edge of my seat wanting to know what happened with the FBI. I expected her to loop back to that story at the end to tie the two threads of the post together and explain how they relate. But then it just ended. I really liked both threads but feel a bit disappointed that I don’t have closure on the story.
And I wonder how you parse, let's say, "I dropped the pencil on the table and it smashed."
I feel like links to wccftech com should be banned here. Most of them are outright false information.
These US is just as bad as China hot takes are so stupid.
Game theory doesn't know everything. History tells us that when people are exposed to new ideas they will often adapt. After managers see that working from home isn't necessarily the devil they will allow more of it. However, it's not going to be wholesale shift to home, unless there is a big monetary advantage (say rent was insane to be in the middle of the city) companies will meet with the idea somewhere in the middle, especially in tech jobs.
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Even taking the claims in the article at face value (which is most likely not a good idea), we prevented 40,000 people from dying. That's a lot.
350k deaths sounds like a huge number, but it's important to take in account how many of those would have died anyway in the next two or three years. Dying at 80 is not the same as dying at 20.
Wow, incredibly informative video. That was actually worth 10 minutes to watch!
Dangerous fact-free argumentation from non-conservatives is generally pushed by fringe voices with limited connections to established figures and major funding sources. DNC and Dem PAC money isn't used to push left-antivax views, for example.

In contrast, fact-free argumentation from conservatives has the backing of both established figures and big money. To keep this as non-controversial as possible, consider Trump's continued promotion of an anti-malaria drug as a COVID-19 treatment. This misinformation is both false and has the potential to kill people. Consider also the GOP's long-running strategy to de-legitimize elections by overstating the extent of voter fraud, which has now resurfaced as opposition to mail-in ballots. This misinformation is both false and deeply dangerous in a democracy.

There is no left-right equivalency here and america's long-running slow motion political crisis isn't going to get any better until people are willing to admit this.
Isn't atlassian the most gung ho proponent of doing everything, everything through event streams and Kafka?
>> but one of the reasons for the cheap labor junior guy is to run to home depot.

And then get the wrong stuff, which the contractor will make do anyway if there's even the remote possibly it will work. and so on. After a while and some $$$ wasted you will get a feel for what's reasonable and what's bogus.
Also soonish, we'll have dendrite (go) and conduit (rust).

EDIT: And eventually p2p which might change everything.
My wife and kids. I'm the sole breadwinner and want to give my kids a greater life than I had. My dad was (still is) a deadbeat and didn't support me and my siblings at all.

A routine also helps me stay driven and avoid burnout because I know what to expect each day and there is a clear end in sight.
In addition to improved local compilation, the constraint space for compiler design is also changed by cloud compilation. Distributed deterministic compilation like [1] would permit community-level caching. Distribution reduces the importance of peak computes - if prompt compilation requires a hundred cores, that could be ok.
Community caching reduces the importance of worst-case performance - if some rich type analysis of a standard library takes days, that might be tolerable if it only needs to happen once. If optimization decisions can become a discrete things-on-the-side, like current execution traces for jit, then there's a new opportunity for human-compiler collaboration - "lay out the data in memory like so, when the cpu cache has this shape". I'm looking forward to the ferment of hobby languages starting to explore this new space. What would you do differently in designing a language, if the language community was served by a single giant instance of a compiler? How might that change the economics of language development? PLAAS?

[1] https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg Sort of checksums-and-argument-lists to make gcc deterministic, as for a cache, but farmed out so `make -j100` runs on amazon Lambda.
> “ that nitpicking is actually a critically important signal telling us that the framework with which we’re approaching these problems is faulty. First, our efforts at mitigation are rooted in the idea of harm reduction: how can we keep doing what we’re doing, but less bad?”

Unfortunately if you take this attitude you won’t get anywhere, certainly not to a world with less climate destruction.

You have two options

(a) we keep doing what we’re doing, just as bad or worse

(b) we keep doing what we’re doing, but less bad

That’s it. There is no third option where we don’t keep doing what we’re doing. The overwhelming preference of the humans on earth is to destroy the planet and retreat into biodome bunkers if we have to, but absolutely no option permits reducing consumption or material innovation. Extinction, wasteland, whatever, nobody cares. You’ve got to deal with that inarguable fact.

If you can show them a way to keep their comforts but less bad, even if they must pay more, then you might be able to solve problems. But you have to take it as a constraint that people must keep doing what they are doing, come what may. That part’s not changing.
That's something the curators would have to look out for. If you're building a green-field solution, I'd also suggest to outright reject library versions that don't follow semantic versioning. A patch version bump that changes the API? Not allowed, go bump your minor version and come back. A minor version that breaks existing users? Not allowed either. It's a really easy check. I'm honestly baffled no one's doing it yet.

(Side-note: I'm only talking about libraries here, not applications.)
Inability to move forward has less to do with IETF/RFC/public standards than it does with email and SMTP, to use your example, being heavily entrenched. Anyone can come up with a new way of doing something, but it's a walled-garden until it's interoperable with other tooling that other people, everyone else, are using.
Hi msbarnett: sorry unrelated to this thread.
In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file.
What is TFA?
Sweden achieved zero excess mortality in June.

Excess mortality is the best measure, because it accounts for the impact of the disease, as well as the impact of actions taken to fight it (not all of which will be good).

Looking only at covid deaths is therefore misleading, as it only optimizes for that one thing. Looking at the big picture is the better way to make policy.

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Where are you getting those numbers? Swedish GDP is up this quarter, as about the only nation in Europe
I encourage you to read this whole article. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/15/afl-cio/wi...
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It is fair.

If both sides can be in ... but now only China can be in, influence the media, use $ to buy and work with USA firm in USA etc. etc. But not USA. It is so one sided that China will win only in the arrangement.

Time to restructure. It is time!
Congestion control seems pretty important for videoconferencing, especially given that these are mobile apps that are especially prone to signal degradation/tower switching that will drastically affect throughput. I'd argue that being able to fall back to reliable text chat when your network is imploding and video/audio is unusable is a core feature of web conferencing tools.
While being a big fan of Julia in general and recognizing a very significant progress in both language and ecosystem development [kudos to Julia's core team as well as numerous contributors to the language and its growing ecosystem!], I respectfully disagree with the post's author conclusion in its entirety.

For scientific computing and advanced machine learning domains, Julia is certainly a breath of fresh air and a no-brainer decision. However, as a general-purpose language as well as technology stack, I think Julia has still a long way to go. This is mostly due to relative immaturity of that part of the ecosystem, spotty - and sometimes even non-existent! - documentation (of course, except for the language itself and quite a limited number of core and popular packages) as well as some other issues, including tooling, development/compilation performance and limited pool of skilled developers.

So, from a startup founder perspective [who has to select the optimal, risk-minimizing, platform stack], despite Julia's many attractive features (including powerful meta-programming facilities - in my case, for potential DSL development), I'm now leaning toward Python and .NET ecosystems. Both offer very mature and large package ecosystems along with comprehensive tooling support and incomparably larger pool of skilled developers. Additionally, .NET offers stability of consistent development improvements, backing of a major corporation [no acquisition risk] along with support for modern enterprise-focused architectural practices and patterns, including DDD and multi-tenancy.
I think his point is you can't compare the impact of the flu because 1) it hits every year (versus a quick outbreak) and 2) many people are vaccinated.

Don't forget the '17 flu seasons was 65k deaths in the US. So we're at a little under 3x right now. So yes, Covid is worse, but we don't bat an eye at 65k deaths due to the flu.
OK, how about this: the entire Federal judiciary runs on a budget about 20% less than the NYPD.
The official numbers from the statistic agency in sweden https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...