skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the past two months, the Trump’s Labor Department has introduced two pending changes to deregulate vulturous private equity firms and multi-trillion dollar retirement managers like Vanguard, Fidelity, and BlackRock. A third proposed change would restrict retirement investments with an underlying environmental, social, or governance mission — mainly to boost the struggling fossil-fuel industry.

Oh man. Vanguard, Fidelity and BlackRock are the main drivers in reducing the cost of holding diversified portfolio funds. A "low cost" mutual fund from 10 years ago looks ridiculous compared to what is offered as standard now. Nobody forced them to do it, either.

And these companies are also really angry about the proposed ESG rule. They've spent a lot of time and money developing extremely good ones, and the DoL is pulling the rug out from under them right as they get ready to roll them out.
>> call everyone who they can think of that they've had contact with in the past few days.

How do I call the subway travelers? How do call the people at the pizza parlor? How do I call the people who bumped me in line at the grocer?
Or homogeneity.
Sharp P and the issue of `natural problems'
Researchers propose a supernova triggered the Late Devonian mass extinction
Fair--depending what "most" is weighted by, I may have overstated, and a Google employee who happens to get assigned to work on Chrome stuff is certainly making no personal sacrifice.

I meant independent volunteers or people working for free-software-focused companies (which I believe usually offer well below FAANG-level compensation, especially at the high end, though still enough to live quite well). Excluding hardware vendors porting Linux to their own products, I believe the core kernel developers tend to fall in to that last category. I have no specific knowledge of their individual compensation, but the technical leads responsible for closed-source projects of similar scope make incredible amounts of money.
> In what kind of context? The Linux kernel?

Not the Linux kernel, but a large embedded system.

> Filesystem code is pretty tricky to begin with, and prone

> to very subtle bugs with very not-subtle consequences.

This code has been running in the wild for quite a while now, it has had a trial by fire. And there's no way around testing, subtle ext4 bugs still crop up despite the maturity of the filesystem.

> And this isn't greenfield development of a new filesystem,

> but an implementation that needs to remain highly

> compatible with Microsoft's version.

No amount of code review will stop Microsoft from adapting their version. Also, I doubt Microsoft themselves will change too much about the filesystem given the compatibility they themselves have to maintain with cold storage NTFS drives.

> This FS driver has to be maintained to track changes to

> two operating systems.

You make it sound as if Microsoft have a hand in any of this. Also, have you seen the state of the current NTFS driver? It's a bit flakey (no disrespect to the maintainers).
Possibly you have cause and effect backwards. What if the act of ‘thinking’ that you have a problem leads to the heightened distractibility?
Without the behavioral data you'll just plain miss out on correlations that simply can't be described by product metadata alone. Is this a big deal? It seems like that would be one of the big advantages of collaborative filtering. I guess that advantage is probably larger on sites with a huge product variety (e.g. Amazon) which aren't really your audience.
I do not have a credit card, and do not want "beautiful" polls. But, I think, as they mentioned if you are not subscribed then you cannot "unsubscribe" (I see nothing about subscribing anywhere on that web page, although I do not know how Stripe is working; I found something about subscriptions there but I don't know how that works or even if that is being used here; presumably it isn't). However, I started making up my own poll software (based on plain text, not HTML), so you might look once I do, in case you don't like this one.
Did you get the job you were looking for?
American values are way more important to the success of the U.S. than whether we have the #1 social media app in the world or whatever.

The U.S. rose to its current position by being a nation of values and principles--by sticking by them even through tough times, and encouraging their adoption elsewhere. That's the real long game. And right now we're losing it... actually no, this isn't something we can lose to someone else. We're forfeiting it. We're abandoning our best advantage.

We can't beat China by becoming China. And more to the point, China does not have to lose for the U.S. (or anyone else) to win.
If we just think of something that is part of the fabric of a prominent university like a university press - MIT Press was formed in 1932. Oxford University press was founded in 1586.

Tsinghua University Press was founded in 1980. The university probably wasn't even open during the cultural revolution. This is where Xi Jinping graduated, it is considered by many to be the best university in Asia, and its press didn't open until 1980. I know a CS professor who published a book via TUP about 15 years ago, and there were all kinds of problems, they just didn't know how to publish a textbook in the manner that MIT Press or some equivalent university press could, the publication process was much more amateurish. But - at the end of the day - the textbook was published, the content was good, and the printing was adequate. I have a feeling that they will get there.
besides ./* i also like to use star.ext or even a* b* c* depending on the contents of the directory.

rsync also used the local/only/path/./local/and/remote/path convention where the path before the /./ is not sent to the remote side
Do you really think this comment has something to do with TFA? The organization you describe has less than 95% whites and less than 90% men. You're better than the Pentagon!
Do you think the issue with hyperpartisanism is that people’s existing bubbles and filters just aren’t strong enough?
I fed GPT-3 Moby Dick and it wrote hauntingly beautiful prose about life at sea
I saw a meme that was “what if everything was x” for each programming language. For Python it was “what I’d everything was a hash.”
This is a relevant preprint from our Institute of Environmental Science and Research, outlining the results of genetic sequencing:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.05.20168930v...
Is hosting web URLs at storage.googleapis.com a thing? After finding a persistent phishing campaign using it, I ended up restricting it from being loaded in the web browser in my environment. (Embedded images from it, like on blog.google, still work.)

This is the first time I've seen a legitimate website with one of these URLs.
Flight Simulator should make Amazon, Google nervous
I agree with you in spirit but part of the reason copyright trolling even still exist is down to the fact that many judges presiding over the cases lack even a basic understanding of how any of it works.

An IP is a terrible way to identify someone and the judges who actually know a thing or two have already learned that.

The copyright trolling industry has worked its hardest to try and goose the legal process in their favor at all junctures and the reality is most judges just don’t have the knowledge to properly adjudicate these cases so the technical nuance of bogus IPs just doesn’t matter. In most cases the copyright trolls just make declarative statements about what their tech discovered. Some cases by more informed defendants have been tossed because they were unwilling to disclose how the data was collected.

Ultimately if you stand up to the copyright trolls, they usually stand down. It’s not worth them to actually fight. They’re hoping for the drive-by payout.
I fully agree with and arrived at the same conclusions.
He talks about it a bit as the "magic numbers". You can see the big table: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c91b3c50068224929c...

I guess there's also syscall emulation stubs for Windows but since he only supports "stdio and sockets" maybe not.
Which distro/desktop? My standard ubuntu 18.04 with gnome and mounted through the file manager doesn't do this and copying to a slow USB drive is as glacial as it should be, but copying between internal drives is instant and hidden.
I don't know enough about Excel but I highly doubt it's about the looks - I have Office installed on my MBP and the ribbon looks like I remember it from Windows.

I don't understand your point - non-native widgets are not a deal breaker and there are plenty of examples, Electron being the most common non-native cross platform framework recently (it has technical limitations but even the subpar performance doesn't make it a deal-breaker). So it's possible to create cross-platform UI frameworks and most of the the most successful apps I can think of are using some version.
I believe that scripts without a shebang line cannot be executed by execve. They will only run if the shell sees them before the kernel does. It's an annoying limitation of this approach and it wasn't clear to me whether this technique includes a workaround for this. Also the push for code signing everywhere is going to make this harder in the future as well. (I heard a rumor that the workaround to run unsigned executables on macOS no longer works when running on Apple Silicon.) Otherwise, I love it!

My approach was slightly different; I created a polyglot script header you can paste at the beginning of a C source file to make it essentially a C script which is just-in-time compiled when it is executed. Works on Windows, Linux, and Mac as long as a C compiler is installed. https://gist.github.com/jdarpinian/6860ddfd92b5b458a20ab6055...
Hey, thanks for taking the time for answering that. Your answers are realy helpful.

- Definitely an interesting way to look at it, I am not sure whether I would be able to convince myself of this though, based on the cultural difference I have grown up with.

- The US company thing sounds great, even entry level tech roles have $150k+ comps, and I think in Japan that should still be really good.

- I can live with a little bit of racism and I think learning language of the land is kind of a good thing anyway, if I do plan to live long term.

- I think with Covid forcing companies to allow WFH possibly in the long term should definitely make it easier. Japan seems to have beautiful countryside and small towns, so it would be a shame if I don't get to experience that. :)

The culture bit is quite interesting indeed. Other than Buddhism, foreign religions haven't been able to get much foothold there it seems. Even Buddhism lives alongside Shinto and folk religions from what I have read.

I think one more good thing about Japan is their PR is points based and last I checked, I qualified for the fast track one based on points.

A bit worried about the Gaijin bubble thing, I would have assumed even the US company offices would have a lot of Japanese employees.

From one of your remark it seems like you are planning on moving out, are you planning to go back to your home country or some other place?
This might be true today, but will it hold in the medium/long-term future? The precise concern is that the existing manufacturers aren't paying attention to the upstart that could conceivably eat their lunch in the medium-term future.

The pivotal question here is whether the existing manufacturers are simply burying their heads in the sand, or are ignoring the growth of EVs due to a principled strategy that has legs. That case has not been made sufficiently clearly, if it even has any merit, in my opinion.
There are plenty of American companies that are doing fine in the China market. The automakers, Starbucks, even Disney does okay. Apple is doing alright, supposedly.

Tech companies don't do well because they tend to be staffed by people who 1. rebel against authority and 2. think that the liberal / anarchist parts of Western culture are the best way of doing things. What Uber did pissed off people in San Francisco, so it's small wonder the authorities would come down hard on them in China.

The word on the street is that people in China thought Googlers (and American software engineers by extension) were a tad insufferable and arrogant. One ought to be warned, that being arrogant is a surefire way to get people to beat you at any cost. And to be clear, I fit in that category myself.

At some point, I got off the high horse as far as China-this, China-that. Why? Partly because it didn't really seem important anymore, and partly because a lot of things that you can criticize China about, the U.S. has done as bad, and I don't like being hypocritical to that degree. You know what politicians like to do when things aren't so great? Point fingers at someone who's "worse." So really, in my view of things, FB and GOOG not succeeding in China would be a small price to pay for actually paying attention to things not right in the U.S.
Parent’s keyword is “allow to succeed”, not “succeed”. I always warn people about false equivalence when it comes to China. The laws and rules in China are not the same concept as laws and rules in the West. There are implicit rules or 潜规则. The rules and laws are only there to make things look legit. There are very few places on earth where you can be forced into citizenship so you can be deprived of consular access and be dealt with using the convenience of Chinese rules and tools[1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-sentences-bookseller-gui-...
Yeah, I just can't see getting my 75 year old dad to be able to use a system like that.
You can read more in the libc source. The readme gives an overview.

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/libc
I remain very bullish on Tesla.

Tesla is technically and organizationally ahead of their competitors. The EV market is Tesla's to lose.

Reminds me of Toyota before them. Others could set out to copy everything about Toyota verbatim, and in the 18 months it takes to implement, Toyota will then be 18 months ahead. To get ahead of Toyota, you'd have to leapfrog.

And while the tech will certainly percolate out to others, I can't imagine any existing player successfully adopting Tesla's organizational innovations.

- Shuffling their org charts, so that octovalve and unibottles are even possible.

- Implementing new stuff asap, instead of waiting for model years.

- Aggressively reducing part counts.

- Toyota style vertical integration, reversing decades of outsourcing.

- Learning how to write software.

Etc.

Any way. If Elon Musk can avoid imploding, I think competitors will have to seize the future waves of disruption to displace Tesla. Solid state batteries for EV. And people smarter than me are bullish on hydrogen fuel.
REI is going remote and selling its corporate headquarters
At the beginning of the year I spent about 10 days in 40 bookshops around Taiwan and one of the things I noticed is that a lot of bookshops (both first- and second-hand) are stepping up their game in a few ways to stay alive. Some of the things I noticed included:

- Well-curated collections to make people actually want to be there

- Some bookshops collect entrance fees since they don't necessarily expect to sell books. In return, you often get nice couches to read all you want, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, sometimes free tea, and sometimes you can discount your entrance fee against the cost of any books you buy.

- Some bookshops offer themed experiences in the shop itself. One I went to had the entire bookshop very dark except for the books and reading areas themselves, with the idea being that you only see yourself and the books, and not other people.

Of course, yet others seemed to be struggling, in the face of Eslite and other massive bookstores that have started to capture the young crowds.
Hey, thanks for making RARS! I am TA-ing a class this semester where we are using RARS. It's my university's "build a CPU with Verilog class", and we just switched to RISC-V. We previously used MIPS with MARS, and lacking a MARS alternative was one of our blockers for switching to RISC-V.
I hate it when people do that. It looks tacky and it's super annoying when they (mis)use a script you can read.
> Where the people seem to have a sense of joy and fun.

I'm going to take issue with that one. Of course "a sense of joy and fun" is subjective, but the extreme social conformism of Japan definitely has its drawbacks.

I mean, take one measurable metric when it comes to "joy and fun": sex. Much as been written about Japan's extremely low birth rates, but that also extends to sex and even just romantic relationships. Decent article: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/japan-m...
>>Plants don't produce any useful amount of oxygen, and real scientists know that.

Could you please add some context to this statement. It is hard to believe that the oxygen produced by plants is so negligible as to be useless. Why?
Kind of reminds me of https://plinkhq.com/, but for books. (Not exactly, but close.)

I wonder how many other types of media / physical goods this sort of service could be useful for?
Same, only I updated my answers when necessary.
What changed in ~1999 in your Dept? I've heard similar stories too many times and I'd be curious what the solution was before.

Also do you have any insight into the NSF's resistance to funding PI's?
I recall reading here, within the past month, that China had blown up its' academic institutions, and they were considerably behind the rest of the world as late as 1990, and perhaps even later. They may in fact have lots of room to grow. They can't grow exponentially forever, but maybe they can for a while.
https://www.skritter.com for writing

Pleco for dictionary

HelloTalk for connecting with natives
I guess the article should be called "2 year unconditional cash transfer program to 2000 people seemed to improve employment and wellbeing".

But I disagree that this doesn't allow us to infer anything about UBI. It tells us something about unconditional cash transfer over a 2 year period, which is a subset of UBI. Baby apples, if you will.

There are of course other facets that aren't tested here, like the duration of the study not being a lifetime, or the fact that not everyone in the society is getting it, or the taxes not manifesting.

Ultimately, no study can fully prove the duration effects of UBI in a useful amount of time. We could do lifetime studies and we still wouldn't know about multi-generational effects. And we could do multi-generational studies, but do we really have 200 years?

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That said I agree longer term studies are a good idea, maybe 5+ years which would give people time to do career changes. That this study has worked out hopefully gives someone justification to undertake the next.
Show HN: Pandora – Zero config key-value database services
Hi everyone!

So a couple of weeks ago I was building a chrome extension for crawling data and uploading it somewhere online for further exploration. I found myself struggling a lot with this as I found every solution I tried hard to implement (Firebase, Mongo Atlas, EC2). I mean I only needed a simple endpoint in which I was able to set and get JSON data with some key. In the end I made a small CRUD using Mongo, Sinatra, Puma, and Nginx. Then Chrome complained that my endpoint (raw IP) was not HTTPS so I bought a cheap domain and configured an SSL certificate into my server. I found this to be a repetitive yet time consuming process and I decided to solve this problem by myself.

With that said I created Pandora, a platform that allows you to create key-value stores in a very quick way. More specifically with Pandora you can:

- [Create | Delete] services (key-value storage). Each service is logically isolated from each other. You can interact with a service by its own URL (db-<service_id>.not-a-db.com).

- Associate some custom URL to a service. Let's say you own example.com, then you can use that to interact with some service. SSL certificate is generated and renewed automatically on the background.

- [Create | Retrieve | Update | Delete] a JSON value associated to some key (unique per service).

You can find the complete API reference here: https://www.notion.so/Pandora-Server-API-875a7902c00d4f29969c24d7770c95ec

Also, I created a guess user in which you can try Pandora:

- Email: guess@not-a-db.com
- Password: helloguess123

There's also this CLI for admin operations (not interacting with a service) that you can try too: https://github.com/pandorakv/pandoractl

As you can see this is still in a very early stage and I'd be more than happy to know what feedback do you have. Also, let me know through the comments if you want to get a custom user as right now I don't have a signup page.
Really? I mean, think of the story of Boris Yeltsin visiting a grocery store.

Is the life of the average North Korean government official actually better than my life as an SRE in Brooklyn? I think I have way more access to luxuries than they do.
The infrastructure one really stands out to me, and I'm always astounded by it. Adding yet another example - The Golden Gate Bridge was built in 4 years for $1.6 billion (inflation adjusted), under budget and ahead of schedule. 11 workers died during construction, a safety record matching or surpassing most modern projects.

In contrast, a project to install suicide nets around the bridge has been under development for 12 years. It was recently delayed for another 2 years, and is estimated to cost ~$250 million.

Where/when did we go wrong, and how do we fix it?
That's pretty impressive.

Google's Pegusus summarizer learnt to count to 5: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/06/pegasus-state-of-art-model...
Have they even fixed websocket portscanning, canvas/audio/font fingerprinting, their crippled request blocking API etc. etc. before coming up with this new privacy and security nightmare?

Can we maybe have a breather?

There must be something about the term sandboxed environment that makes people want to poke holes in it.
Sure, so - what does the American approach have to recommend it? Why shouldn't I leave for China, the apparent winning team?
Ask HN: Any project management apps that focus on reducing cognitive load?
For personal use for my own side-projects. I normally use trello/jira/text files, but feature creep eventually leaves me looking at dozens of unfinished tasks across categories.

Then my project's "second 90%" starts looking insurmountable and I start losing motivation and inevitably burnout. Which is not very good as the second 90% usually involves marketing, talking to users, figuring out monetization and all the important bits.

As a dev, I feel the most productive when I know exactly what to do next and I can just keep banging out task after task. Autonomously coding in the flow where it all seems to pass in a blur.

This is easier to do in jobs, not so much in alone side-projects. So, I want to find a todo/kanban/project management app, that specifically makes this easier.

I want to sit down once, decide on the order of tasks that I want to do, preferably only "see" like the top 2 or 3 at a time and then do them one at a time.

Once a task is done, it should ideally just fade away or something. I find archiving a card in trello rather unsatisfying and looking at it as crossed out in jira somehow doesn't feel great. Like, to me it seems like a good use case to add some gamification to keep up the user's motivation. I completed a task! Show me a nice animation while you chuck the task in a completed bin or something.

An app that essentially focuses on reducing the cognitive load and helping break it all down into smaller chunks that I can do one by one. Anything like this out there?
>as far as the song goes I think it's one of the lesser Touhou tracks.

There's basically a billion of Touhou tracks at this point and Bad Apple is the lesser of those?