skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrow's theorem is nonsense that has set back election reform by decades. Because in any realistic scenario, "irrelevant" alternatives are never truly irrelevant. That is, Arrow's IIA assumption is simply not desirable or relevant.

Once IIA is relaxed to a sane axiom [read: abolished almost entirely], there are multiple methods that work like versions of STV. Besides, Arrow never applied to ordinal voting methods like Approval (which is OK) or Range (which I strongly dislike for other reasons).
It amuses me to wonder what an entity with the value of one of the current market behemoths could accomplish if only they put a % or ten of their capitalisation into 'nuclear' research, be it fission or fusion.

A sort of modern day swords to ploughshares in terms of the Apples and whatnots.
Elvis in the Box
Also check into Andrew Carnegie if you haven't already.
You can wear jeans and sneakers in tech, but suit and cravate makes you suspect.
The PR battle has nothing to do with the lack of investment. That all comes down to well-supported reactors not even being buildable.

Even EDF in France, which has massive support, can't build nuclear these days, and France is often cited as nuclear's greatest success stories.

It's time to stop blaming boogie men for nuclear's failures, because that does nothing to help it succeed. Anti-nuke "greens" blame does allow for building a culture war, which is why I think it survives in the public imagination. However, in utility boardrooms, and at the NRC, none of that has stopped the world's attempts at building the next generation nuclear fleet. What has stopped that is the cost of construction.

It doesn't matter whether there is outsider opposition to the tech if it can't even be built economically.
> what is objectionable about it

Background checks disproportionately impact poor and minority communities because they are more likely to be impacted by systemic poverty.
Or, maybe, when we realize our society is set up to increase billionaires' fortunes, not happiness or well-being, his example of Giving While Living will become a standard for the very rich, and everyone will know his name. Why not make the word for a selfless act a Feeney?
It's nonsense, for Japan certainly, if not also wrt the English (which I don't know enough about to comment on, but I'm skeptical).

When Japanese people are purchasing foreign products at least, they are responding to the same pressures and cultural biases that guide their purchase of Japanese products and services. In my experience this is stuff like age and legacy of the company, how much other Japanese people like and trust the brand, and all the other arbitrary things that shape the ebb and flow of product and service popularity in a given culture.

This is not to say that there aren't unique aspects to how Japanese people choose products which maybe overlap with the English, but in and of itself the markers of status in Japan are distinct from those in the U.S. (for example), so it doesn't seem likely that Japanese people somehow have some sophisticated notion of not just how to find products that have high status but high status according to U.S. consumers. It's silly simply taken at face value.

I do think the question of whether the English and Japanese share similarities because they are island nations with a royal family (and more) is interesting, though.

EDIT: I should be clear that I'm responding to the entire section of the piece, not just what you highlighted:

It's something like: if you want to know what's good about what your country makes look at what the Japanese and British import. (I can't find the actual quote). And his reasoning is something like: Japanese and British cultures are so hierarchical and stratified, in such long-lasting and subtle ways, that they've become incredibly good at discerning status from tiny signals.

Also worth stating that "what's good" != high-status, so the whole thing seems confused to me.
From my experience that answer also means you won't be going forwards so it's just a waste of everyones time. I guess you're supposed to feign immense interest in this cold-call interview.
It goes to show that Cliff Mass has completely lost his framework of reference in his comparison (and so have you).

As a German let me assure you that comparing riots among BLM protesters to the Kristallnacht is utterly unappropriate. Don't get me wrong - the rioters should be held accountable for their crimes.

You compare a local, loosely organised group of somewhat indiscriminate rioters to a nation-wide, highly hierarchical, para-military organisation that targets one specific ethnicity and went on to commit mass murder of said ethnicity on an unprecedented, industrial scale.
> One could argue that everyone has the same responsibilities to society at large.

Yes you could argue that.

> Thus for every Chuck Feeny and Bill Gates, you, personally you, have an obligation to create many billion dollars of value and give it away

Now that is a big jump. It does not follow that we all have the same responsibility that we all have a specific responsibility.

Historically some rights were tied to the ability of the upper classes to fulfill some base responsibilities that the lower the classes could never possibly meet. Such as being able to afford a full set of bronze armour and a spear. Thus achieving both moral and social superiority.
To rephrase: it will humiliate people who consume non-intellectually interesting material but don't really think about what they're doing. E.g. Someone whose daily reading consists of the top articles on Yahoo News. I don't think they'll continue to do so if Yahoo and its partners switch to GPT-X. So either Yahoo will source better material, or its readership will decline.
> They seem to think they will be working class for the rest of their lives and there's noticeable hate/resent for the rich.

Told to me by an Irish person:

You know the difference between an Irishman and an American? The American looks up at that big, shining mansion on the hill, and says, "someday... someday... I'm gonna be that guy". The Irishman looks up at that big, shining mansion on the hill, and says, "someday... someday... I'm gonna get that bastard".
Companies do. It happens all the time with usually no recourse for the candidate.

One time a startup hired me and a buddy as contractors (expensive contractors) to help with their push to release. They had hired a bunch of junior (it seemed) marketing/sales/bizdevs types around the same time too. Two weeks later just about everyone was fired except the two expensive contractors (me and my buddy). I found out because I could hear some of the outgoing employees crying at their desk. One day they are eagerly working overtime to prep for a trade show, next day they are packing their stuff.

Soon thereafter, my project was canceled and I was reassigned to other work for a few weeks while I looked for somewhere else to work.

It's a Great Day at Hall Kinion was awesome on that gig too. I asked my handler to find me a new position, instead she setup an ambush meeting with me and the CTO to discuss why I wanted to leave. I couldn't believe it.
Reddit /is/ the candy - a bunch of empty information calories that makes you feel good until you realize what you've done. 99% of it is forgettable the moment you move on to your next post.
Oh sorry, I'll bump up the contrast thanks for the feedback.
IMO it doesn't really matter which design they chose. They already have mips-based https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson with hardware-assisted X86-translation (And ARM too? That was news to me.) Which seems to be OK for the process technology they used.
I feel totally out of touch with all the hype around the game, in particular the aesthetic choices is actually what disappointed me the most. The name of the game, as well as the design to me looks quite literally as if someone designed the most generic 'cyberpunk' game possible.

It looks like the cyberpunk version of GTA, which is ironic because cyberpunk is supposed to be transgressive, yet nothing what I've seen about the game is surprising or going into any new territory. The trailer just featured a few lines about unemployment, the most dangerous city to live in, almost as if someone had written a generic script you could apply to everything that is cyberpunk.

It's a little bit like scyscrapers in Dubai, which look like someone in the 90s read sci-fi from the 60s, rather than futuristic it looks retro and nostalgic, missing the entire point.
Do you know if Loom has any implications for reactive frameworks, like reactive spring? Or do they already contain a... "non native" implementation of this concept?

https://spring.io/reactive
This is a really good list, and I don’t think I can add much to the discussion already here. But the article introduces the author as “passionate about architecting and building scalable software systems.“ Is _anyone_ passionate about this, or is this just marketing speak. It’s like introducing someone as “passionate about customer service,” give me a break.
We might be weeks / months away from finding aliens, even if they are only microbes :) Exciting times.
It's better than spending the money on yachts or luxury goods, which is the other way people signal status. I'm a big fan of conspicuous philanthropy over conspicuous consumption.
I’ve run into serious house burning down problems with myrocks too. Simple recipe to crash MySQL in a way that is unrecoverable: do ALTER TABLE on a big table and it runs out of RAM, crashes, and refuses to restart, ever.

Googling and people have been reporting the error on restarting several times on lists and things. What help is it to report to Maria dB or something? But do FB notice? Seems not.

Here’s hoping someone at FB browses HN...

I don’t get why FB don’t have some fuzzing and chaos monkey stress test to find easy stability bugs :(
> Spend your money on riotous living – no tax;

Ah, yes, such a shame that the only way to spend a fortune is on caviar and jetskis.

This is a purposefully obtuse take. We have specific tax structures to incentivize charitable giving, building businesses, creating things to benefit others.
React-nil, a null renderer for node
Your comment is nonsense.

From the articke:

> Trump has insisted that “forest management” is the cause of the record wildfires.

This is corect.

Regarding corona, CDC dropped the ball, not Trump.
You being stuck is a poor technical decision
An even faster way would have been for him to create a website , for example, www.claimmymoney.com and allow people to put in requests for donations, for any reason, that he would either honor or decline. There would probably have to be ID verification and other system in place to try to prevent people from abusing it. Given how so many Americans are living below poverty or in poverty or having expenses, he would have little trouble giving it all away
I'm interested to know too so I can avoid it like the plague.
Kind of an amusing reference given the name of one of the prominent anti-nuclear (weapons) organizations: https://www.ploughshares.org/
A new entry in one of my favorite series of blogs? I must be dreaming!

This is some black macro magic, indeed.
They promoted something they understood to be a fiction because they knew it would offset reasonable concerns about their product. If you think that’s the core of marketing then we have very different ideas about what good marketing is.
We could also just tax the income used to make the donations at similar levels to prior top brackets and not depend on philanthropy as a means to fund public institutions or social safety nets.
"When people complain to me about the lack of Nvidia support in Sway, I get really pissed off. It is not my fucking problem to support Nvidia, it’s Nvidia’s fucking problem to support me."

I'd suggest his users asking for Nvidia support are evidence of this being wrong.

That aside though, it seems like Nvidia's proprietary driver doesn't have support for some kernal APIs and the other vendors (AMD, Intel) do?

I wonder why I've always had better experience with basic OS usage using the Nvidia proprietary driver over AMD in Linux. Maybe I just didn't use any applications relying on these APIs. Nouveau has never been good though.

Not really a surprise given the tone of that blog post that Nvidia doesn't want to collaborate with OSS community.

Don't people rely on Nvidia for deep learning workflows? I thought that stuff ran on Linux? Maybe this is just about different dev priorities for what the driver supports?
I think this is the right answer. I have "showdead" enabled, and I can see two dead stories at the top of their favorites list:

1. [flagged] [dead] How I made $210,822 selling a pdf and a video on the internet (indiehackers.com)

7 points by DVassallo 1 hour ago | flag | vouch

2. [flagged] [dead] Lessons of Persuasion from Scott Adams, Creator of Dilbert (knowledgeartist.org)

7 points by laybak 6 hours ago | flag | vouch | 2 comments

Note, however, that HN seems to eventually remove the hyperlinks from dead stories, so if you're interested in those links, they should probably be bookmarked somewhere else.
Exactly why we have interview problems in engineering. I respect engineers for having opinions and ethics and they should lean on them, but to bar one from employment because they were doing their job is wrong, immoral, and potentially illegal.
>Except a URL only points to one resource

isn't that exactly what this is asking for though? A URL can by definition only point to one resource. So if you include that URL with every other reference to the project (in the app descriptions, blog posts about it, etc) then you always know you're talking about the same thing. It makes a lot more sense that any resource related to this PDF editor should include a link to "https://macpep.org" instead of including some random 128 character string. Any resource related to python peps should include a link to "https://www.python.org/dev/peps/" (which all PEPs do, by virtue of having a url that's a subdirectory of the PEP index URL)
I've been looking for an open source robovac for ages. This will definitely do.

(Obviously this isn't very serious. I do however think this project is great)
My org has an Engineering Guild that I am a "leader" of [in the sense that I just organize calendars and "officiate" the call, it's completely flat otherwise]-the guild itself doesn't make up the company, but rather just exists as a small little "coven" within the larger enterprise, there's about 12 of us, though we don't publish anything out publicly for other teams to emulate. Probably not a bad idea now that you bring it up. We've written code for things that went to local non-profits, and written code that became a fully-funded line of business for the company as a service offering (but wasn't-at the time-part of any scoped or planned work, just an idea one of our SREs had to improve an existing business product, built it, deployed it, showed it to the executives).

What would you like to know?
You bet; see std::variant<>. Great for closed-world polymorphism with compilation-time checking of completeness!
I don't think that was the meaning of the gp post. If you're traveling, names on buildings or businesses tend to reflect the population of that area. Thus, if you're in an area with a large Jewish population, you can expect to see buildings/businesses that reflect that too.
Antisemitism is a real issue, but this is just not it.
I am Jewish by the way, if that matters.
When can I get a nuclear car?
Tell HN: Scammed by Google Fi customer support out of a device trade-in
Used to be a fan of Google Fi but it looks like the largest tech giant has stopped caring about its phone service customers.

After buying a Pixel 4a and noticing that they did not give me a trade-in option to return my current Pixel 3a for a credit, I asked customer support if I could initiate the trade-in then.

They confirmed that they would initiate the trade-in process for me and I would not have to worry. I asked them if they were certain, as otherwise I would return the device before the return deadline. I emailed them several times asking them to confirm this, which they did.

After the return deadline has passed, they tell me actually there is no way they can honor the trade in.

Is there any kind of recourse for Google over this kind of scammer nonsense? I will recommend to friends, family, and colleagues to never buy a Google hardware product again.
Housing should be priced by how effectively it houses people. The idea that housing is a market good that people can use as an investment vehicle undermines the actual value of having places for everyone to live at an affordable rate.

I believe everyone should have access to free housing should they require it, but that's different than housing should be free.
This is true. I interviewed someone for a senior eng role the other day and when asked a couple basic CS questions that were not simply trivia, the candidate fell apart totally. Like asking basic DB questions to a DBA candidate, or asking basic web/css/html questions to a frontend developer. They immediately went to the back of the line.
Like GCC and Linux, total failure trying to cater for users, while FreeBSD rules.
This requires either a low noise sensitivity or a willingness to replace fans every year or so. I've put a ton of research and work into building silent PCs over the years. They inevitably start out silent, but as the fans wear they become audible around the year mark and annoying around the two year mark.
FTA:

> From tackling pollution to protecting coral reefs, the international community did not fully achieve any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010 to slow the loss of the natural world. It is the second consecutive decade that governments have failed to meet targets.

Though this is a bit better:

> The 20 Aichi biodiversity targets are broken down into 60 separate elements to monitor overall progress. Of those, seven have been achieved, 38 have shown progress and 13 elements have shown no progress. Progress remains unknown for two elements.

It seems like conservation of "vital biodiversity areas" is improving, but the situation for marine ecosystems is not improving (with regard to overfishing, coastal development, pollution, or climate change/ocean acidification). Marine ecosystem preservation seems like a tragedy of the commons issue, and this is the result. The lands in your nation are directly yours and there can be national movements to improve them. But the oceans are everyone's, in the sense that they can be harmed by any nation's inability to curb pollution, overfishing, etc. Eg 10 rivers as the source of 88 - 95% of all plastic in the ocean[0].

[0] http://oceanrep.geomar.de/43169/4/es7b02368_si_001.pdf
Virtual PowerPoint Greenscreens with OBS
Here's the original article, with more direct quotes from the memo: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

According to it, the full version isn't going to be released because it contains privately identifiable information.
There was a previous discussion of this yesterday based on a Buzzfeed News article about the same memo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24474343
I haven't seen any of those. All I've seen is a green-on-black graph where the Y axis has no 0, they don't say what application they're testing, and they say that the 3070 is 2x faster than the 2080 Ti. Can you link me to their performance numbers? As you can tell, I'm somewhat interested. (And know that real reviews arrive tomorrow, so... I guess I can wait :)
There's a great Warren Buffett quote on this:

"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."
Anonymous is how Jewish philanthropy is supposed to work.
This sounds an awful lot like research at a university. It definitely has it's strenths and weaknesses. Some labs collaborate more than others. Some feel like islands in the ocean, while others feel like a townhouse in the city. Some labs are poor and a few are incredibly wealthy. All of them seem to filled with hard working interesting people.
In the Shadow of Apple Fitness+
The problem in my mind is that while homes are investments they’re not great investments (they’re rather illiquid, they’re not diversified, they’re multipurposed when a domicile and that makes valuation and decisions messy). They carry a lot of benefits too though, so it’s a worthwhile asset, but having to put a larger % of your wealth into that asset would be suboptimal. In my experience the delta on home prices (and then down payments) is in excess of the salary deltas but however that math breaks down individually seems like the right thing to focus on.

Oh yeah and then after that you can choose where to live for whatever reasons work for you :-)
The missing component is the need to integrate Electric Vehicles into the grid on a fundamental basis including selling electricity.

We need a technical, regulatory and user regime to support this. For starters, by transmitting power demand/price information to cars so they can decide when to charge, and also allowing cars to deposit electricity back into the network.

If we manage this smartly, we can have battery storage and EVs in one go.
You mean like TeX?
I guess one way Google filters out the junk articles is that people who read them don't end their search, and keep looking for the same information after visiting the useless, wordy stuff.
They were probably just responding to how I framed the question.
> because they were doing their job

Where have we heard that one before?
Inheritance taxes raise insignificant amounts of money compared to others form tax. If you taxed all wealth at 100% you could only fund the government for a few months.
It's not about majority rules–it is about openness. I'm not concerned if a single person controls the content or a large community ruled by the majority. What matters to me is that the content is publicly available for all to see and review.

With open curriculum parents can look at what is being taught and make a decision based on the content. In a closed system this is not possible. The only reason Acellus became an issue this year was because someone on twitter took a picture of their child's lesson and luckily the media picked up on it.
Now just put your laptop inside of a HEPA vacuum bag. Problem solved.
Yeah, there's a misconception that it is more morally righteous to give quietly than to give and take credit and that's debatable. $100M is a $100M whether the person is anonymous or not and if not, it can lead to more of the same, even if the motivation is self-aggrandizement. I mean, take that out to a long conclusion and you get a society who's competing to give away the most instead of possess the most.
The problem is that writing code is a much smaller percentage of most business problems than those of us with software backgrounds assume.

In your example, setting up a Shopify instance isn't much of a programming task, but consider the ongoing support. Once the instance is up, who updates the listings? Makes changes? Who's on call for support? Eventually you're just running a services business to cater to customers who don't want to get their hands dirty.

Even for problems that can be solved by writing a lot of code, the overhead of dealing with sales, payments, hosting, licensing, ongoing support, and maintenance can easily overshadow the effort required to write the original code.

In general, it's hard to write software solutions that can be handed off to customers without ongoing support. This model might work for people who can dive into old codebases and fix things, but that's miserable work as soon as you see what real-world code looks like at companies without permanent developers.
The fraud was in denying the externality, which is on the environment in the form of massive amounts of material that can’t be recycled and which do not biodegrade.