skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we really have to go to asinine level of detail given that freedom of speech has been a constitutionally protected right for over 230 years? We have plenty of legal precedent for what should be protected. There's no reason to move those markers. Ethiopia has many problems and Facebook is but one.

I think social media is toxic, but not because it allows freedom of speech. Social media rewards virality and outrage is inherently and unfortunately one of the most viral things you can put out on social media. The problem is the platform, not the speech.
speech x money = reach.

The Supreme Court of the US decided that freedom of speech implies freedom of reach, including the financial means to do so.
But their range was actually achievable, assuming they found a 500 mile downhill stretch of road
It’s due to bullshit from EasyList: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/4023
It’s better because it’s a surprisingly universally applicable solution.
No way around it, sort out your sleeping routine.
how much is your salary for you to be on that living arrangement? sounds awful when 250K/year in SF can't buy any decent living space.
That’s really not the same thing at all. Demos that crash when you go off the happy path are pretty common (Halo 2’s demo was like this too, for instance).

It doesn’t change that it’s still working software and doing everything its being shown to do (just not capable of doing things that aren’t being shown or demoed).

The equivalent of the truck stunt would be if the iphone demo were just a CGI video of an “iphone” but it was actually just a green-screen piece of metal.
The renderings are real, not vaporware. You can 2D print them
That’s pretty sinophobic. What are you basing your determinations on? US led media?
I'll venture a good chunk of that is due to an out-of-sync-with-reality issue.

I think we'd all feel more productive and motivated working from home if the world wasn't collapsing all around us. Working on some new feature shaving a few milliseconds off an API call for investment bankers seems a bit out of touch, whether at home or in the office.

Blaming loss of productivity solely on working from home may be the wrong conclusion.
> Income tax seems like an overall success to me.

How would you quantify this?

> people living there have gotten net-worth-wealthy from real estate

1. NIMBY's, excessive regulation, limits on building all drive costs up.
2. Scared money from over seas looking for safe haven in gateway cities.

You're starting to see people flee CA in droves. Housing prices here will crash worse than the rest of the country. If the politicians don't reform laws and cut spending the state will turn into Detroit.

> This has shifted paying for state services to use-based taxes

Kicking fixed income grandma out of her house is immoral. People constantly moving due to property tax spikes is destabilizing.

CA's is not lacking in taxes. CA is spending way too much. Other states are doing fine collecting a fraction of what we do adjusted for any kind of metric you can think of.

> What would the social security tax rate be if you didn't cap the maximum income it applies to?

You incur more liabilities. The contract is I pay more in, I get more out later. It's a safety net. We cap it so people have a minimum and don't die in destitution.

> What should probably happen: Figure out a revenue neutral approach that blends a net worth tax with a reduction in sales taxes. That puts money back in the pockets of people who most need it.

A wealth tax is opening a pandora box. Enjoy paying more accountants. You don't know how much something is worth until you sell it. Who get's to decide how much my paintings or my stock is worth? A politician? Why is it ok to tax someone on income they've already paid taxes every year for the rest of their lives. People will flee and no one will move here. Detroit.

> social security is a poll tax

No. A poll tax is something much much different.
I agree though I think the 4 class system enables people to fight for their place within the social strata. Today, many are against unions out of an odd idea, that the economy is all that matters, and that with an unconstrained market they too will get their lottery ticket to being the next Jeff Bezos.

If one thinks the highest calling is to be a proficient tradesman then we absolutely want a union to push back against business interest stopping us from gaining more mastery. That's a direct attack against the existing power structure.
It's really the same thing. Freedom of the press is also right there in the First Amendment, implying the right to reach an audience with a message.
What makes you think that WFH is better for people with kids and a dog?
I didn’t say it might not be well attested, I said its use is odious. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/gi...

And anyway its Germanic root now means “poison”.
China has a very democratic ideology, you just don’t see it from the outside.
they probably surfaced it to replace the Intel CPUs with NVIDIARM C/GPUs
Oh that is very interesting. First time seeing a cloud architecture diagram tool with support for different views.
2nd this. They will eat you up if it’s anything interesting or even if it’s not.
You mean the 17 y.o. kid chased by an angry mob? The one who shot three people attacking him?[1] Your comment is ambiguous as to whom you are referring, but based on the evidence, I don't think the 17 y.o. kid was the radicalized one. I've also seen no evidence that any of the people involved are/were particularly active on social media (although the one who lived allegedly told his friend he wishes he emptied his entire gun into the 17 y.o.).[2] I also haven't seen any evidence that the 17 y.o. was in a militia (he apparently worked as a life guard), but maybe there is some.

This sort of proves my point, though: social media has "radicalized" people into believing claims that lack a factual basis and serve a particular narrative. But this is mostly perpetrated by members of the traditional press, not ordinary social media users. If anything, social media has only radicalized people by privileging members of the traditional press at the expense of the random people, no matter how crazy they are.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ro8hkfBDVw&bpctr=1600132912

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1299086141329563...
I think the ancient wisdom apples here:

Don't shoot the Messenger!
I disagree. I think its actually correct to adjust based on location. Everyone is only looking at it from a "I am smart by living somewhere cheaper, dont doc my pay", but not seeing it the other way around as well. If you worked at a company based out of, say, detroit, but lived in SF, you would demand SF income, because otherwise you wouldn't be able to afford a living.

This policy protects you, even if you do work at a SF place.
Lets say, in theory, you move to some place cheaper, and that place starts becoming more expensive. Likewise, SF becomes cheaper over time (or, the company just moves HQ to somewhere cheap). By doing location based pay, your pay continues to go up, in line with your local area cost of living. Otherwise, if you were still getting paid based on SF cost of living, you would be loosing money every year. Eventually forcing you to move, which, you might not be able to do because of family, house, etc.

Second, its ethical. "Salary" represents a quality of life, i.e. Purchasing power, not a raw number of dollars. If you were paid SF wages while you lived in a third world country, you could very well be the richest man in the country. This does not make sense. Nor is it ethical, think of the raw damage you could do to that economy. For a more common scenario, do you really feel that a mediocre software dev working for a SF company should be paid more than the local best ER doctor?
Many professions simply cant be done "remote"

Third, it makes all companies "equal". In a "remote first" company, the location of the HQ shouldn't matter. Maybe, not even exist. Most companies are actually "Delaware companies". Should they pay delaware salaries?

And lastly, its just economics. The reason salaries are so high in SF is because no one wants to live in SF, because cost of living is so high. Its supply and demand. The cost of finding good talent in SF is astronomically high. As soon as you go "world wide", then you can attract great talent at a cheaper price. AKA, if you are going to demand a SF salary, they can certainly find someone cheaper and better (fire your ass). Frankly, _still_ getting paid a SF salary while in SF at a remote company is just incredibly generous of the company. At remote first companies, salaries will have a downward force. Over time, you will get paid less working remote.
I disagree with this advice. Give it a day tops. If you don't enjoy the process after a day and the goal is a month away, you won't get there.
That was self defense, tho. He wasn't there to start trouble, and his life literally was in danger thanks to, you've guessed it, social media radicalization of the rioters. Kid will walk, and will make millions from defamation settlements.
For verbing to truly weird language we should try using them for other parts of language like adverbs and articles!
Red flags everywhere and missed? And why would TikTok use Facebook to login?
There are FreedomBox versions for Raspberry Pi 2, 3B, 3B+, and 4B.

https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware#Also_Working_Har...
Oh yeah, definitely. I held on to my place in SF because it was a rent controlled spot that I clinged on to, but with rents crashing and the quality of life in SF worsening, I've considered terminating my lease and putting my stuff in storage.

Where did you move? A few months in a seaside town Airbnb would be nice. I could use the change of scenery.
> A big problem with freeing up communications from everybody is how toxic some people and groups will be to others.

Another big problem is how stupid and violent many people are - enough to take Internet bullshit serious and kill people. I would only allow people into the Internet after they get educated and pass a test of not taking ANYTHING they find there too serious.
Scrabble Tournaments Move Toward Banning Racial and Ethnic Slurs
If arm wanted to stay in the uk they shouldn’t have sold themselves to the Japanese.

The UK has always lagged in tech as they still think it’s the 1800’s and their domestic island is enough as they ignored the world in the 80s with low effort 3rd party sourcing at best.

As usual the state TV and education could have dominated the English speaking world with BBC micros and education, but again they stayed on their tiny insignificant island.

This whole thing is nothing more than sellers re-remorse for selling ARM for next to nothing.

Go and do something new.
Yup, it’s already happening, and it’s only going to go down more.
I don't like to see BLM message to be said as worldwide problem in global project/product websites.

Racism is the problem in the worldwide but BLM looks like US domestic problem caused by historical, gun, police reason.
It's essentially impossible to rent a car, book a hotel room, or do most online shopping, without a credit card. Debit and pre-paid visa/mc cards don't work for this.

If you want to live a normal life, you have to be able to borrow money in the form of having a credit card.
Coronavirus cases surge, Israel first country to reintroduce nationwide lockdown
Generally the paper would at least be glanced at before unloading the criticism though right? Did parent even know how much phosphine they'd found when making the above comments?
I’m willing to bet a lot of money that Amazon started designing these CPUs more than 2 years ago.
Yeah, but shooting the UX designer seems apropos...

Facebook design specifically impairs reasonable discourse.
Does anyone have any experience with running and upgrading FreedomBox for self-hosting.
Before, the Soviets simply didn't have any mechanism to get 100 million American voter impressions. Facebook delivered that on a silver platter, with narrowly sliced demos, purposefully curated by a Facebook sales team.

The message and the basic mechanism is the same, but the scale is what turns this from merely concerning into serious discussion about the end of democracy.
Government borrowing costs, even for terms as long as 30 years, are at the lowest they've ever been. We don't necessarily need private startup capital if we agree that this is an important problem to solve. And unlike much of other such expenditure, these plants can be privatized to enthusiastic infra investors at a later date for a return likely well above the borrowing costs. Not to mention the ancillary benefits of stable energy for economic growth & probability.

As for time, the majority of this 20-30 years estimate consists of inertia and bureaucracy. As a country, we've built far more complicated (Apollo Project) and high-risk (Manhattan Project) things in the past in a compressed time frame, we had no choice then because we've faced clear existential risks. Our inability to countenance all this today says more about us as a society, than it does about the do-ability (within say a decade) of the task at hand.

I guess I can agree with you, but only as pessimist, which is a darn shame really.
This has been a massive issue for me. I've had the same problem off-and-on over the past few years, whether in offices or at home. The work I do feels rather pointless in a world collapsing around me with no short or long term future. I at least sometimes get pulled back into feeling good about what I work on because it's a consumer app that does have a large userbase that depends on it for their happiness, and I do feel good about contributing to that, but if I was working in finance? No way.

Anyone who has been able to stay productive, let alone get more productive, in this reality is either in denial or far more optimistic than I'll ever be.
> Who wants to live longer if you can't appreciate the one, short, life you do have? Why waste it trying to get more?

Why is the arbitrary length of human life sacred? Less is seemingly bad (because murder is illegal), but more would also be bad... so we got exactly the correct amount now, regardless of the fact that it is a different number for different people. Sounds like Stockholm syndrome.

If you like your life, you still have to prioritize. You would like to do X and Y, time is short, you choose X. With more time, you could experience Y, too. Why not?

If you don't want to live, I respect your decision, just please don't force it on other people.

My preferred option would be an unlimited life, with perfect health, and the ability to choose quick painless death if you decide so.
How about moving back home? Your parents will be happy to have you around, cooking will be fun again, they are your best friends. And since there are only 7 zipcodes in the whole US where single men outnumber single women ages 20-40, your dating life may surprisingly improve too!

Listen this is a healthy perspective. Having such clarity about how shitty things are without the perks. Most people sit around years ruminating how crappy all this stuff is and you figured it out pretty quickly.
I also have to point out one of the most terrifying science fiction short stories ever written, "I have no mouth and I must scream." Search it online and you'll find a pdf somewhere. It's short and definitely worth a read if you aren't faint of heart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law :

> It has been argued that Benford's law is a special bounded case of Zipf's law,[22] with the connection between these two laws being explained by their both originating from scale invariant functional relations from statistical physics and critical phenomena.[24] The ratios of probabilities in Benford's law are not constant. The leading digits of data satisfying Zipf's law with s = 1 satisfy Benford's law.
Did anyone advanced in this research line? It looks like a nice mathematical idea, but it is forced too much to fit into the genetic code.

First they propose a genetic code that is totally unrelated to the current one. It can be perfectly the table of a totally different lifeform. The transition they propose looks too difficult, almost impossible.

Probably we had a transition from RNA to DNA a loooong time ago, but they have a 1 to 1 translation, and the intermediate steps look useful. But no one is sure anyway.

They propose a change where almost all the table changes and almost all the internal structure of the table change.

It is very strange that they have 20 amino acids and no stop code. A proposal with 19 amino acids and a stop code looks more sensible. We know that it is possible to add new amino acids to the table (with enough time). I think the main problem is that using 19 amino acids and a stop code breaks the magical part of predicting the number 20 with pencil and paper.

To make the table work, you need the correct transfer-RNA. To get all the symmetries in their model you need to be really lucky. In the block model of 15+1 you any random selection of tRNA is fine if it ignore the last base.

Another big problem is that they predict that half of the proteins would have been constructed backward. But as they say this make proteins not fold correctly. They try to avoid the problem using palindromic proteins, that is not supported by evidence.
I'm not a nutritionist but do care about my health.
If you want to maintain good health and live a healthy, long life you should adopt the Mediterranean diet...
https://medicinetoday.com.au/in-brief/fibre-rich-mediterrane...
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/t...
Having a simple database it a great feature for prototyping, but I think having custom Dockerfile support would be even better.

Current PHP support in repl.it pretty limit (Very few extensions are enabled, so you can't connect to real MySQL...). This won't be a problem if advanced users can use there own Dockerfile.

UI wise, I think it would be good if repl.it can adopt a VSCode-like interface and their keybindings. GitHub codespaces and some other cloud coding platform already have this.

Reliability of deployed services should be improved too. I tried use a website monitor to a repl.it with "Always On", but it will still be down several times a day. Each downtime is about 1~2 minutes.
`file` on BSD/OSX has this notice for the option '-s':

> Normally, file only attempts to read and determine the type of argument files which stat(2) reports are ordinary files. This prevents problems, because reading special files may have peculiar consequences.

One example that comes to mind is /dev/urandom, which sucks randomy values out of the entropy pool (at least in Linux)—and the pool can be exhausted, or at least it could back in the day, not sure about now. Other possible cases are things in /proc (though unlikely), and particularly stuff like serial ports—where presumably reading could gobble data intended for some drivers or client software.
It's also possible that the domain was primarily spread by bots. There are countless possible reasons why any low quality domain could be blocked.
This is silly. Your argument is purely based comparisons.

If there is a tool that helps 99% of students learn better, don't refuse to use the tool just because it can't help the 1%. I'm NOT saying to forget about the 1%. Also do everything you can to help the 1%. But the 99% shouldn't be artificially slowed down just so they don't get ahead of the 1%.

Sorry if that's controversial. Just seems ridiculous to me to prevent people from learning in whatever way is most effective to them.
In copyright law I believe it's the same word: author. Indeed, the notion that authorship subsists in the person with creative control is typically explained by way of a hypothetical painter, photographer, or sculptor.
At least with the press, historically, the editor was a human being (generally with a known set of allegiances), rather than an algorithm; and people had to pay for their news, which kept the publisher accountable.

If people had multiple (interoperable) Facebooks to choose from, and had to pay for them based on how often they visited the site, I imagine the news / social media landscape would look a lot different.
> It would seem we would gain a lot from greater transparency in who owns shares.

Major KODK shareholders: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KODK/holders?p=KODK

Retail holds a small percent of pretty much anything, institutions dwarf retail.
Just the usual pettiness.
He also might have deleted the Files app.
there are just way too many people on a warming earth. This is going to get ugly real fast, real soon.
I have found this a problem in real life too - people often assume that when you are asking for help you are asking for them to become a strategic partner that is going to shape your overall approach to the problem.

For example, getting someone at work with some free time to pitch in on a minor presentation aspect of a major project, where decisions have been made over a long period of consultation and trial and error, I have been told all sorts of things about "it would be better if we did this..."

I guess people are trying to be helpful, but cynically I think it also comes from overestimating their importance and assuming because you asked for help it must be at a project steering level and not just to get through a minor bind.
Never believe stories like this, measuring productivity is an impossible problem. Microsoft spend something in excess of 3 billion dollars trying to quantify productivity in the 90s and they couldn't do it. One of my college professors worked on this exact problem for the Army in the 80s, they created a formal domain specific language for quantifying employee productivity it took them 20 years and several hundred million dollars before they finally realized it wasn't generalizable. They had to scrap the entire project.

It isnt possible to measure employee productivity because its impossible to properly quantify the relative importance of a task. Properly scoping problems is a massive task and finally its impossible to adjust for employees gaming the system, collusion or simply malicious behavior.

Employees always figure out how to abuse productivity metrics.
This is purely an anecdote, but I had to replace a few SD cards in my Pi until I changed power supply. It's not even the official, it's just one that's rated for 5.0 V, 2.5 A. I've used the same card for a few years now.
I think it’s unfortunate that people are taking statistics (or anecdotes) from this period to support or not support WFH. At this point in time, it would be rather audacious for anyone to claim that productivity is more tied to the location of your desk than to the fact that people are working through the apocalypse, and some people are working through more than one “once in a lifetime” disaster. If productivity is down, maybe it’s because we expect people to keep adding to billionaire bottom lines when their entire lives are falling apart, in many cases irreparably??
It all reads extremely vague.
What do these all mean? Is there anything in R-V other than the constant hype propelled by sifive?!
So what happened to Facebook's "real names" policy? If they got serious about that, fake accounts would be less of a problem.
Cool good to know!

Out of curiosity - do you just not check personal email at all at work? Or do you use your phone and don't connect to corporate wifi?
I tend to agree. Algebraic data types (product and sum types) is essential for modeling. Missing sum type would be incomplete in terms of modeling.

A lot of obscure OO code I have seen is related to modeling sum types of products (or parameterized enumerated in some language), or the lack of it in mainstream languages.

The problem applies to SQL as well. If I make everything into the same table and leave many columns empty I’m not modeling at all. But if I split them into tables it defeat most basic SQL functionalities like SELECT * FROM my_sum_type.