skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't explicitly say that capital is entitled to a return, but the comment pretty clearly indicated an asymmetry between capital and labor. You could invert the wording to the following

> You aren't de facto entitled to receiving a return on any capital you may provide, regardless of whether that capital is put to productive use or not. A company exists because one or more people provided their labor in order to create a net positive system.

and the tone clearly changes from the original. I agree that neither capital nor labor is entitled to a return, but I don't think that's what the parent comment was suggesting.
What xkcd comic did you mean to link? That's the homepage.
> 1.35x salary as the fully loaded cost for engineers ... Just cash (so base + bonus)

That's going to depend a lot by how the company does comp. For example, equity was ~43% of my total comp last year, which means you'd need 1.75x just for for base+bonus+stock. And that's before considering taxes, healthcare, and office space.
We don't have to imagine very hard. Did you read the Senate report (bipartisan) that shows the level of effort Russia put into helping install a President who's policies show an inclination of wanting to be a dictator? That's supported by a party that takes as many steps as possible to deny citizens the right to vote?

"The Russian gove[rn]ment directed extensive activity, beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into at least 2017, against U.S. election infrastructure' at the state and local level."

"The Committee found that no single group of Americans was targeted by IRA information operatives more than African-Americans. By far, race and related issues were the preferred target of the information warfare campaign designed to divide the country in 2016."

"One former employee's description of his work at the IRA is notable:

I arrived there, and I immediately felt like a character in the book '1984' by George Orwell-a place where you have to write that white is black and black is white. Your first feeling, when you ended up there, was that you were in some kind of factory that turned lying, telling untruths, into an industrial assembly line. The volumes were colossal-there were huge numbers of people, 300 to 400, and they were all writing absolute untruths. It was like being in Orwell's world."

vol. 1: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

vol. 2: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
I can't help but feel that many of the dismissive comments here must be either from folks without kids, or from people that got lucky with a well-mannered child. You think those good manners were all your amazing parenting? You probably deserve some credit, but I think you also lucked out more than you realize. Haven't you seen parents with multiple kids and those kids have wildly different dispositions?

I urge you to have more empathy with parents and kids. Kids handling remote learning badly is such a pervasive complaint right now that it defies logic that all of these parents are bad parents.
OS X is a great platform, less frustrating to use than Windows, with lots of well-designed GUI apps, a true MS Office, and a whole UNIX under the hood.
The problem you mention at the end is not exactly a problem, you were working more for the same salary (a self inflicted salary reduction). That might help you rationalize it, calculate how much you earn per actual hour worked and try to get that number higher by not working for free. At the end of it, you are paying for that output with your time which is limited.
But the two aren't at odds, o e could use an electric engine and still burn gasoline to produce the electricity, sort of like ships do.
As most authoritarian-collectivist movements go, the "Stay the fuck home" crowd took no time at all in destroying all goodwill towards their worldview.

Had its tone been more educational and pleading instead of arrogant, shaming and outright threatening they could have avoided polarizing the conversation and creating a contrarian counter-movement that resists even sensible compromise.
These are useful for tasks that can last an arbitrarily long amount of time. Think about the process of signing up a user and waiting for her to click on a email verification link. This process can literally never end (the user never clicked) but more commonly it takes a few minutes.

It's easier to implement these things if you can write the code like:

await sendVerificationEmail();
await waitForUserToClick(); // This could take forever
await sendWelcomeEmail();

If you do the above in a "normal" program, said program could stay in memory forever (consuming RAM, server can't restart, etc). The workflow engine will take care of storing intermediate state so you can indeed write the above code.

The other option is to implement a state machine via your database and some state column, but the code doesn't look as pretty as the above three lines.

Note that this particular tool seems to be more declarative than my example above (it uses JSON to do define the steps), so instead of using an `if` statement, you'd need to declare a "Decision".

Hope this helps!
I don't think the point is it can't be done. I think it's just acknowledging that it's HARD. Both for the kids, and the parents.
I'm sure good subreddits still exists, but it has gone way past eternal September at this point and Gresham's law is in full effect. Once an organization reaches a certain size, vested interests on all sides have perverse incentives, and it starts a terminal slide to the lowest common denominator. I suspect the issue is largely in the inherent zero marginal cost to entry for most social media platforms.
> We would still be trying to kill food by throwing rocks if we were wise.

Which is funny, because it would have been those first wise people who took the steps to get here.
I had just graduated college and moved to a new city on a new coast before lockdowns started. I essentially have no in-person social network to speak of, currently. My parents lived overseas up until a month ago. Folks my age (early 20s) are happy to socialize with their established friends. Less so with strangers. All the places shut down are the standard avenues for folks like me to meet new people. I was entirely alone for 4 months. My life was hell. And all the while my company talks about difficulties being at home with family, and figuring out childcare (and has freed up resources to help their employees do so). No mention, ever, of any effort to establish meetups for low-risk, early-career employees, not that I'd expect that. No one particularly cares about people in my situation (not that rare).

Comments like this and the ever popular "it's just a mask!" show a remarkable lack of awareness and understanding. Yes, that's perhaps overly selfish of me. Yes, there are people at serious risk, and many people dying or developing life-long serious complications. But this has been the worst period in my entire life, by far. I was regularly, very seriously, suicidal (have since moved back in with my parents now that they're stateside, starting to get better). All the policies and all the talk are oriented around having a network of close relations to fall back on. That doesn't exist for everyone.
A glaring irony for me here is that historically, wealthier families have significantly more access to online courses. Rather than being the great force for democratization of education we all hoped for, research shows they are privileging the elite. What if we worked to expand access to online courses and improve them for all? https://edlab.tc.columbia.edu/blog/18957-MOOCs-Are-Not-the-S...
> So a lot of mistakes that are used as boogeyman to convince people to use Rust are barely problems you really face.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?q=produ...

This year alone saw 2 issues from Project Zero in Chrome that would have been prevented by Rust - both OOB accesses, one with a helping of data racing.

Chromium is an incredibly security-sensitive piece of software, and that really is an excellent fit for Rust. It's not a boogeyman argument and the Chromium team themselves are the ones pursuing it, it's not being forced on them.
> There are no files (they call it datasets)

That's really just a difference in terminology, not a different concept.

z/OS datasets are mostly record-oriented, quite different from the stream-oriented files familiar to people from Unix-like and Windows platforms.

However, it would be a mistake to think that datasets are record-oriented and files are stream-oriented. z/OS has one type of stream-oriented dataset (VSAM LDS), and other operating systems have record-oriented files (e.g. IBM i, OpenVMS).

In general, "dataset" is just a rare synonym for file.

In the area of z/OS in particular, datasets belong to the non-Unix part of the operating system (non-VSAM datasets, VSAM, PDS(E), etc), while files (or to give their full name, "z/OS UNIX files") belong to the Unix part of the OS. But a VSAM LDS and a z/OS UNIX files are conceptually quite similar, you could say they are two different implementations of the same fundamental concept–the main differences between them being which filesystem namespace they appear in, and which API is the native API for accessing them. (The internals of how they are stored and what filesystem code is used to access them are also somewhat different.)
When I saw the first statistic was US only I assumed the WWII statistic was also US only. Nonetheless, JoshuaDavid made a great speech. Favorited.
Any suggested path(s) forward on that?
What Zoom Got Wrong with End-to-End Encryption
Perfect competition is definitely taught as a concept, mostly as a benchmark to measure real-world markets against, but I don’t think it’s literally an assumption of everything you learn in Econ 101.
Walmart eliminated all greeters last year.
What's the difference between your local grocery store clerk, and a Hollywood actor?

They both likely have cars, homes and an iphone. Sure, your Hollywood actor is probably driving an exotic sports car and their iphone is diamond studded, but fundamentally, what does it matter?

> housing, food, education and health. Any society where anyone can't get those things by asking for them is not fair

I agree in the general but I suspect we disagree quite differently on the details. We do provide housing for the poor, and short term homelessness outcomes are actually generally positive - we tend to get people who lose their home back into another house. We provide free education through a high school diploma and community college in most areas is exceedingly affordable with massive scholarship opportunities available for ivy leagues. You can walk into any hospital and it's illegal for them to refuse you treatment.

Does this mean our society is without fault? Of course not - we've shown repeatedly that we're terrible at finding real solutions for the persistently homeless (and no, shoving them into homes doesn't actually fix their problems as much as it fixes the stats), and healthcare is at best described as "horrifically abberant".

And we should fix those things. But that some Hollywood starlett is flying around in a gulfstream has nothing to do with those fundamental problems - it is not a lack of resources but a lack of willingness and deep understanding of the problem space.

It's easy to blame the wealthy, it's much harder to solve the actual problem set.
Is there a quantity/critical mass of engineers who learned ethics that can meaningfully change the state of things?

If not, who can change the state of things?
Why do you prefer a definition that is achievable?

What you describe is of course good, but maybe we could just call that a welfare society or some other words. Giving people the bare minimum won't automatically make their lives fair.
His response is perfectly reasonable.
...and this is the syllabus: http://ethics.fast.ai/syllabus/
I’ve seen them a lot, but two of the more canonical use cases are (complex) ETL and Continuous Delivery processes.

In both these cases, before these types of systems existed, it were useful a dozens of ad-hoc scripts that handled it. Monitoring, testing, instrumentation and visibility were usually after-thoughts and often not worth the trouble.

Workflow Orchestration Engines solve these problems. Each of these workflow engines have a slightly different angle, slightly better at different use cases, and as usual it can be quite important to select the right tool for the job.

But if you have found one, it can be a real boost to the quality of your processes.
DCF77 Time signal transmitted from Germany
My son had to miss pre-school when he was 4.

I created a home-based program (week to week) where we learned everything I could find that would normally be in a regular pre-school curriculum.

We worked for 3 hours every morning "studying", and he was 4. I made it fun. I made it productive. We took breaks. We had snacks. We had recess. It worked.

By the end of the summer, he was reading and more prepared for Kindergarten than any of the kids in his class.

Yes. If parents stop complaining, and get down to work, and make this fun for their kids, and have a positive attitude, even the youngest students can learn from home.

Now days we even have Zoom options, so we WILL be able to get kids eye to eye with teachers, friends, other students. I would have loved that 8 years ago.
Or you could make an automation tax and use it to fund UBI
I remember a couple years ago hearing a talk about using smartphone camera sensors to detect radiation levels - the idea of using such devices is out in the open now
You can buy them: https://www.trackers-cam.com/en/gsm-spy-microphone/329-gsm-c...

The power strip calls you as soon as it detects a sound.
I don't think Zoom is the problem. It's just as bad in the classroom. The only difference is that in the classroom there is a century old system in place, designed and tested to crush children's emotions and frustrations and also designed to transform them into obedient tax cows. And in the classroom you are not witness to this process.
The number of sociopaths in this thread, more concerned about their 'optimal' means of fitness expression, versus the health and safety of their community is astounding.

I'm a fitness enthusiast, but I've managed to adapt in less than ideal circumstances, even though it meant temporarily giving up a group sport. This is a small sacrifice for the overall benefit of the community, whether or not there is much risk to my personal well being.
It's really not. Think about what this information is used for: It's probably pulled by your insurance whenever you take out a new policy. There's 40 million people in California. If 5% of them change insurance each year (2 million), and that report costs $25 (A reasonable filing fee for a sensitive government document), there's your $50 million right there.
Saying you can relate to what the author describes means that you can fill in the iceberg below the surface. I'm not sure I can say that for those without kids developing an appreciation for the magnitude of this iceberg is possible without having a child. I'm still learning how to dad and part of that is sharing the experience of the phase transition from childless to parent with those who have yet to or choose not to pass through the transition. With enough time and thought (which is hard to come by when you have a kid), maybe I'll get there.
Only possible thanks to government policy wielded through regulatory capture. Not a free market outcome.
Many of the people employed at very low wages have attributes which mean that they are not worth hiring at higher costs. Factors such as lack of job history, attendance issues/unreliability, language issues, etc. mean that the employer will opt for a more 'attractive' candidate if there is a price floor.

As an example, if you are looking for a bottle of wine to accompany your Tuesday night dinner, you might opt for a low-cost, low-quality option, as it is adequate for your needs; but if there is a price floor, you will opt for a different, higher quality option.

Price floors mean that deals below the set price are illegal.
Not @dang, not even a mod, but ...

Some items get re-upped, and the timestamps get "rolled back" in interesting ways. Eventually it all comes out in the wash, but it can lead to local (space and time) apparent inconsistencies like this.

Don't sweat the small stuff... and it's all small stuff. -- Richard Carlson
True but gas turbines (not ICEs, those are mainly used on small aircraft) can reach a theoretical efficiency of 30% while electric motor efficiency of 92…93% is quite common. So you can multiply that number by 1/3 since 2/3 becomes heat.
Hopefully this behavior change will help improve AVX-512 uptake and end the somewhat ridiculous conception people have that the instructions are entirely useless. Intel's HotChips presentation on Icelake-SP also indicated that the behavior will be significantly better on server chips, but the behavior is more instruction dependent with 3 license levels and only 512-bit instructions that utilize the FMA unit being subject to downclocking (by ~15-17% as opposed to ~27-29% on SKX derived chips).

(Intel Hotchips slide: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15984/202008171757161.jpg)
> This is just a paid, public gripe that a lot of people can relate with

It is

> but what purpose does it serve?

It lets the millions of other parents who find themselves suddenly in the same situation, feeling the same things, know they're not alone, and that the struggle is real!
How Long Does It Take to Learn a Language?
Your own words betray you. You've got your conclusions already. I bet you ascribe your lucky breaks to personal qualities too.
No kidding. I'm shocked that all these perfect and wildly successful people even have time to post on hacker news :p
I'm not even going to bother to read this article. I'm not a fan of UBI and I think this is an admission that we don't have real solutions for the pandemic and we aren't even going to try to come up with real solutions, like helping people get into remote work and creating germ control solutions (like Little Caesar's pizza portal) for things where remote work is not an option.

I mean, glad to see they don't want their people to just starve. Three years is maybe a good time frame for helping people come up with real solutions.

The problem is that if you aren't explicitly stating up front that we are giving you three years to adjust to the new reality and we need you working on solutions, then those three years are going to fly by without people working on solutions and then the checks will stop coming and then what? You are just delaying disaster, not resolving anything.
I feel I would thrive in a movement based work environment. I think and articulate much better when walking.
You can typically find a guide to where any given modem is and manually remove it, but it's increasingly difficult to do so and causes functionally downgrades.
What the hell is wrong with HARD???? Why is everyone so lazy? We are going backwards as a society. I was raised thinking that if it wasn't hard to do, it wasn't worth doing. Every uphill path should not be looked at as an arduous journey, but as an adventure with an amazing reward at the top.
Since we have a social safety net, nobody needs to do such to 'avoid starvation' so the question makes no sense.
There a certain time windows where a key is valid, so you can delay a few days for example (keys are disclosed either after 30s or 5min). You can really protect against real time replay of the signal, at least not in the authentication protocol. But there are other Methods of detecting relays.

The delayed publication of the key give the algorithm the needed asymmetricity. Since a key only authenticates message in a specific time window, attackers can't reuse the key once it's out there.

Regarding your last point, you can reconstruct "used" key with new keys. The keys are basically generated with K_{n-1} = F(K_n), where F is a hash function. So with the current key you can authenticated all previous messages.
Destroys small businesses and consolidates big corps as monopolies.
Educators did not come up with this plan, politicians did by their lack of any sort of COVID response.

Do you really think educators want to do remote learning?

My heart goes out to all the teachers who have to deal with this. It's as hard on them as it is parents and students.
It does that even with network access (I didn't see any additional traffic when it happens in a packet capture). I have to use a programmable HDMI splitter that presents an EDID when the real input is off just to get rid of that behavior. My computer resuming from sleep triggers it.
There's a good graphic novel as well:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/operation-ajax-mike-de-seve...

which is based on the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah%27s_Men
Makes sense - the main difference between ICL and ICL-X would seem to be 2 FMA units.
> And good luck if your user name (and hence home directory) has a space in it, which it very well might if you're on Windows.

I went to great lengths on my recent Windows install to ensure my user profile, which has my real name in it, uses `efreak` as the name for my home folder specifically to deal with software that hates having spaces in filenames. There might well be a way to specify this in Windows, but I'm not aware of it. Instead, I had to recreate my user profile 3 times due to Microsoft syncing; first it wanted 'first last', then it wanted my Microsoft account name. I don't recall how I got it working finally; I may have renamed the account before signing into sync (it keeps my desktop environments together across several computers). Using 8.3 filenames can help too, but that requires remembering what they are.

If you've only got a single folder in the path that has a space in it, then I've had success using symlinks (or junction points on windows, since explorer recognizes those and doesn't recognize symlinks as such). Just create a folder c:\mounts or ~/symlinks to work with.

And god forbid you ever have to work with the qt build environment in Windows, extracting and deleting the source each take like 10 minutes on my ssd... I really wish it was distributed as a vhd file, or that I could convert it to one easily.
Which new way of creating value will be immune to automation?
Sounds like Mass Effect :-)
MAGAFN in fact is the preferred nomenclature.

Make America Great as f--, now

substituted with "not" depending on the current zietgeist.
Is the alternative - a total absence of contracts offered to those people - a desirable feature in our society?
The common wisdom is wrong. Of course personalities develop after 7 years old. People's personalities develop well into adulthood. Adults are capable of developing, continuing to mature, and changing their behaviors. Who I was at age 7 is not who I am today. Who I was at age 18 is not who I am today.

Do people really think that anyone who fights with a sibling past the age of 7 is destined for prison? I guess I need to start making a plan for when I'm arrested.
"forced to sit in front of a screen" is the key phrase here. What if we didn't force them to sit, but allowed them to stand and move about freely, come and go when they please, have some autonomy and decision making power around what goes on in class (e.g. share preferences for what they want to learn) and give them frequent movement breaks (a good set of headphones, an ipad with a wide lens attached allows that). What if we engaged them more so they were excited to see what was happening on their screen? Kids aren't any more excited to sit and do something boring than we are.

The key problem here(and it's not a small one) is that we need to give ALL kids access to this hardware to support their learning, not just a few. Right now only 18% of US households have a device. I've seen school districts short 20,000 computers.