skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

A market economy is not based on greed, it's based on the willingness of people to provide services for one another whereupon actor's first motivation may be individual wealth creation, but the side effects of trade, division of labour and especially competition create massive surpluses, usually for the buyers, i.e. consumers.

Most importantly, companies are only successful if they focus really hard on doing things that others (i.e. 'the market') believe is valuable.

Paradoxically - it is 'intrinsically motivated' behaviour that is 'greedy' or purely self-oriented. To think that someone - anyone - deserves some kind of high standard of material living because 'they want to do whatever they want all day' - irrespective of the net utility they create for the community ... is selfish.

'Intrinsically motivated work' already has a name, it's called 'art'. And in that I would lump the vast majority of OSS which was designed to meet the makers view of what is useful, not 'the market's view', which is why most of it is not used.

Nothing could be less healthy on the whole than letting Engineers build 'whatever they want' because most of it will be completely useless, and projects will generally not produce enough material input to be able to do anything at scale.

Another bit of paradox is that if there were more efficient means to fairly license and maintain software - 90% of OSS makers would happily do that. I don't believe they are ideologically tied to OSS - if they could tool away on their favorite bit of software and earn what they though was a 'fair living' by selling it - they would do it in a heartbeat.

Intrinsically motivated initiatives are important, and frankly, nobody would do Engineering if they didn't like it on some level, but it's only one ingredient, and not the primary driver.

And of course, most labour has zero possibility for intrinsic motivation: 40-80% of jobs would instantly be vacated if that were the only motivator as they're just too grinding, boring, difficult for someone to do mostly on that basis.

The market forces people to 'serve others' and that's ironically want people don't want to do ... because it's a grind. What people really 'want to do' is 'whatever they want' which probably won't bode well on the whole for having a broadly high standard of living.
Boswell’s Life of Johnson
I'm not American, but follow a few people on Twitter and you'll see the ADA leaves a lot to be desired.
Point taken, but I don't think you're taking into account the monumental impact of COVID-19. We've never had such a large, immediate, and impactful shift to work culture.

Working remote was still a niche idea at the beginning of 2020, now it's ubiquitous. That has never happened before.
Already there.

1. 104-key is in my muscle memory and i'm much more efficient.

2. Laptop plus keyboard plus power supply = desktop.

3. By being flexible, I can use only secondhand hardware.
I do it all for the laughs.
As an international student from an embargoed country, I’m increasingly worried if at some point there will be a law resulting in blockage of my bank account.
Already I’ve heard news of PayPal causing trouble for some of us, so I’ve stopped using PayPal for good.
> San Francisco cannot even convert places that are zoned for housing into housing

You missed a "not" there.

You talk about that like it's a law of Physics.

It's not.
> How could you honestly take this position?

What position do you mean? Your comment is not replying to anybody.

I don't see anybody in this thread who is arguing that we should do nothing.
I think you would see this occur. As inflexible as local government tends to be, they get the idea pretty quick when rich people start losing money. Where I am, tbf I am in the UK and the rules are likely nowhere as inflexible, but property is being rezoned (and green zones are being built in, all the apparently immovable shibboleths of local govt are tumbling).
Not necessarily more power efficient. Modern desktop systems have quite good power management features.

Depending on the workload, a device that consumes a lot of power but also goes into an idle state much faster could actually use less overall power.
They're really not, whatsoever. In fact, very much the opposite to many.

The article starts off on the wrong foot and proceeds with personal observations minus collective experience.

Of course, certain people do get 'hooked', perhaps because most people don't think, and may be so inclined to become 'hooked'.
Awesome! I hope you find Lucia useful. Your project looks cool, I just left a star :D
That's 1.1M m^2, so a bit over 1 km^2.
We should have explicitly been paying people to stay home, but somehow the $1200 + the $600 unemployment bump became welfare payments, and morons were giving speeches about how they were incentivizing people to stay home. No shit.

Once we had things under control, we could loosen up quarantine, then when it got shitty again, tighten it up again and pay people to stay home. It would have goddamn paid for itself. If people could quarantine and know their livelihoods were secure, they wouldn't be so upset about it.

edit: this is a rehearsal for when the next coronavirus comes around that has an infection rate like covid-19 but a death rate like MURS. It's going to whip through the world like the plague.
When you dramatically expand the money supply you make the rich richer. It doesn't matter how the money is distributed, it tends to inflate asset prices, and the people who own the most assets (the rich) reap the rewards in the end.

If you wanted to stop that, you'd have to actually pay for your spending, perhaps by implement some sort of wealth tax or dramatically increasing income taxes. Of course, nobody wants to increase taxes, so we just keep printing money to try and fix every problem.
> sudden new squalor and economic catastrophe

Billionaires suddenly losing their tenants is now economic catastrophe?

Is this another variant of ‘too big to fail’?

Those buildings won’t be going anywhere regardless of anything else.
Your example is something illegal and easy to condemn but you are raising a good point about thinking of the consequences of our job. It is hard to balance career with ethics.
"Raise hand" is an attempt to solve the right problem, but it doesn't solve it in a realistic way. Virtual meetings feel weird because we're all more Trumpy than we realize - in actuality nearly every speaker's turn ends with an impatient interruption by the next speaker. This just doesn't feel "natural" with the latency of a phone call or video conference. I know, it's cynical, but it's one reason we love to hate meetings - we never get to finish tal
Sometimes it is interesting to be pragmatic and be sure to provide the right solution i.e that’s fits the real needs of the client.

So I think these books are good to read for the Data culture and be aware that DS / ML are not the only truths / solutions.

I don’t know real books on DS / ML. Only one in french called « Big Data et Machine Learning guide du Data scientist »
> to which you haven't responded.

Where? I responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881656

I can only repeat what's there.
Feels like wav2letter will not be actively developed anymore. Understandable since it is hard to compete with Pytorch with a custom NN toolkit. Any plans to move to Pytorch/Tensorflow?
I didn't know that a modern laptop could drive 2 4K monitors. This is good news.

BTW, it sounds to me that your laptop setup is indistinguishable from a desktop, and your setup is even less portable than a desktop, so why not go the cheap desktop route?
Many of the only high quality review sites left (like Wirecutter) are partially monetized with referral links. I don't think this would be a good approach.
Standard ML in 2020
There is legislation. It’s called common carrier. The argument is this existing legislation should be extended to social media as well.
If you're running a meeting its great to be able to mute someone though. Would be nice to do that in real life. :)
Did you not read the article or did I misunderstood what was written there? It exactly shows via several statistics that IQ is a good predictor even above the average.
The story of udemy-dl
I agree with the point that modern devices like smartphones ad tables aren't a PC replacement. But having to buy a pre-2012 laptop just to be able to install a Linux distro is false: nowadays mayor distros support secure boot and if this isn't the case of your distro or it complicates the install process you can easily disable it in most of the cases. Actually I was unaware of the existence of motherboards preventing you form disabling secure boot before reading this article. AFAIK the only laptops where you could actually have problems installing Linux are MacBooks due to a security chip (it's called T9? But also I'm not informed about MacBooks so maybe there's a way around), on all others you shouldn't encounter actual roadblocks, in the worst case scenario you could have some minor hw incompatibility.
The subtext of the article seems to be the loss of "freedom to tinker" and the loss of control over your gadgets - both valid. Personally, I find the NUC a nice hybrid that is portable and modular enough to keep my inner nerd satisfied :). It currently sits under the TV and runs a Plex server.
In addition, as a father of an inquisitive 6 year old, I find the PC a tad better for the following reasons:

- Ability to show the internals (from a few feet away!) thereby spawning curiosity on the possibilities of technology

- His coursework can be seen on TV and ensuring that TV is not merely entertainment

- "Certified" media for him to consume (we don't have youtube installed in any of our devices so I use youtube-dl to download astronomy stuff for him)
There is a mass exodus of people from HCOL cities as jobs go virtual as well as a massive amount of office downsizing.

Residential real estate may be okay in the cities receiving this exodus in the South, Midwest, Texas, Idaho, etc. but as for HCOL cities I’m just not sure. There may be enough demand to at least cushion it.

Commercial will definitely be a bloodbath of epic proportions, especially in formerly hot markets.

Edit: too early for good stats but here are some cities that seem to be receiving HCOL expats as determined by the highly scientific process of observing anecdotes:

Phoenix, Santa Fe, Boise, Denver, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago... I’m sure that list is not exhaustive. Those are just some I have seen.

Those vary in terms of how not-HCOL they are but all of them are much less expensive than California, NYC, or the Seattle area. Much better places to live if you don’t have to live somewhere with $500k to $1.5m “starter homes” and other absurdities. Now that we are discovering that we can actually use this Internet thing, good riddance to that madness.
> There is no mystical "other pollinator" that is going to fill the niche of the honey bee. Honey bees are uniquely industrialized and failure to eliminate the Murder Hornet threat to honey bees will have HUGE implications.

This is solely due to the industrialization of agriculture.

Leaving fallow portions of the field and growing native crops winds up with an assortment of pollinators--including a lot of native bees.

The problem is that they are less efficient. So, a farmer who does this will lose to a farmer who uses industrialized honeybees.

This is a standard case of privatize the profit and socialize the risk.
I know a couple of ex staff who left after a short while, dissatisfied. Obviously no details but it's clear that it combines the low pay and inflexibility of civil service work with a whole extra hassle of working securely.

Lots of advertising for all three arms of the military at the moment too.
This is too reductive and unclear what you are saying.

If we do no redistribution and simply allow people to starve in the streets then revolution is coming.

On the other hand, if we prioritize helping people, and stop propping up failing businesses then we can maintain social stability long enough for the economy to restructure according to natural economic forces.
That just sounds like a desktop with extra steps.
> Really, it's an infrastructure problem.

No it's not. Seemed to work fine in July didn't it? It's obviously a political problem. Why can't we just use the same mechanism again?

edit: Maybe you're talking about the business/paycheck replacement relief and not the individual checks like the parent was?
Monetary stimulus (QE, Low interest rates) is not fiscal stimulus (spending). Maybe we need to do a lot less buying assets, and a bit more spending on people and jobs. The parent is recommending the latter (spending), not the former.
I live in a state where we are suddenly inundated with California’s refugees, fleeing the state now that they don’t have to physically live there. Reasonable taxes, a much less stressful work-life balance, bigger homes all make it very appealing to ditch the once0golden state.

Our company has decided not to reopen a majority of it’s office space. Ironically, the Bay Area office is remaining open while other offices are being closed, but even there it will be a shadow of it’s former self

I would like local and federal governments to come up with a plan for the inevitable bail out that transforms some of this space into more livable space, more community access, and more on-demand office space.

Apple’s HQ has turned into the worlds largest set piece for a iPhone ad.

San Fran is going to come out of COVID dramatically weaker. That’s been inevitable for a while, the pandemic just accelerated it.
.. and a visit from GCHQ informing you that you've breached the official secrets act.
Or just bring one of the battery leads out of the encapsulation and cut it. Just a tiny bit of solder and you hook it back up. With the rest of the device waterproofed just one tiny exposed contact should still remain waterproof with thin gauge solid conductor wire. There's no voltage differential so it shouldn't rust moreso than just a regular blob of solder exposed to the elements.
I once had a 2000 Audi that had an electrical failure which causes my wipers, turn signal, and a/c blower motor to fail. You see they all operated off of a shared relay which died while I was leaving a toll booth during a bad rainfall in the summer. Lucky for me the rain stopped 15min later and I had a soldering iron at my destination. (The solder did not hold and failed during the return trip but it was a nice day for the trip)
Just run your own recursive resolver, it's very easy and reliable (e.g. knot-resolver).
Where does that money come from? QE & more government debt?
Concepts are a recent addition, but not the only one that has improved compile-time or static programming in C++. The `constexpr` specifier, for instance, was added in C++11 and with every release since then it's been able to replace more and more complicated template metaprograms with just regular C++ code. Other things like generic lambdas and return type deduction also serve to make template-heavy code simpler to both write and read.
I've been thinking along similar lines, especially now that - with WFH likely to be the norm for the foreseeable future - my need for a portable computer is much diminished. I could get a lot more bang for my buck and build a system that was specced exactly the way I want.

The rub for me is that I really dislike Windows. I use it for work - I have to - but it's not an OS I'd choose for myself[0]. I like OSX but the problem there is that, unless you go down the Hackintosh route (which soon I suspect won't really be a viable option anyway with the move to ARM), you have to buy preconfigured Apple hardware.

And then there's desktop Linux, which fills me with dread simply because I've not had great experiences in the past. Moreover, some key software that I need simply won't run on it. Notably Ableton Live. (I know Linux-compatible DAWs exist, but I really like Live and don't want to have to give it up.)

A decade ago, for me, buying a Mac was unequivocally the best option. Now that's perhaps no longer the case and, worse, there aren't any other great options that I can see. I'd be glad to be proven wrong though.

EDIT: Actually, maybe what I could do is dual-boot Windows and Linux. Use Linux for software development and most everything else (even Office 365 will run on Linux under Wine nowadays, apparently), then use Windows for Ableton Live and games. With UEFI it might not be the worst thing in the world to set up and maintain either.

[0] The main beef I have with Windows is that it just doesn't get out of the damn way. It really wants you to know it's there, from the dreadful multi-DPI multi-monitor support[1], gimpily inconsistent UI, the shitty 10 second dance all your desktops and windows do when you plug in another monitor[2], and crappy update mechanism, to the driver issues, WiFi connectivity issues, ropey audio support, instability and blue screens. And there's always, always, ALWAYS some random thing or other sucking CPU and running the fans. Don't get me wrong: every problem that bothers me on Windows also bothers me on OSX. It's just that on Windows these problems bother me several times per day, whereas on OSX I'm bothered by one of these issues maybe once a month. The upgrade to Catalina was initially painful and enraging but after the first couple of weeks, having upgraded everything, all was well again and remained so.

[1] Granted, likely to be less of an issue with a desktop system where you're likely to purchase monitors with identical DPIs and resolutions.

[2] Also less likely to be an issue with a desktop system, unless you need to use a KVM so you can share your desktop displays with your work laptop.
Discord lights up the avatar's outline when they speak, which is fantastic by itself, but combined with push to talk it's perfect as you can convey the exact intention of taking over the conversation and solve it much more quickly when there's overlap than any 'raise hand' mechanism I've used. Those tend to just not work as raised hands get more ignored than just talking.
And we have a new winner for the most unusual headline on Hacker News!
> extremely difficult

Right up until 50% of the city center is empty. You’ll see those laws changing real soon.
NVIDIA's EGLDevice / EGLOutput / EGLStream API isn't too bad in and of itself. The annoying thing is trying to have backends for both it and DRM / GBM in the same application. The programming models are just so different.
In an economy with 80% consumer spending, your assertion should be supported because it is fundamentally at odds with the economic context and make up of economic activity.

Supporting consumers obviously worked this year, the fact that a 30% drop in economic activity has been as mild systematically as it has is direct counter evidence to your statement.
> What value does something like fivethirtyeight add to our democracy, if any?

One possible use of polls and election models is for helping people who want to donate to candidates determine which races are closest and where their money is most likely to have an impact.

> Here’s an idea: everyone go vote for whoever you think the best candidate is regardless of what a stack of polls say.

Because the US does not have ranked choice voting in most elections, polls are useful to determine which candidates are viable. If your preferred candidate is only polling at 5%, they are pretty unlikely to win, so you might want to vote instead for whichever of the leading candidates you find most agreeable.
"paternal approach" is the most ridiculously white washed term I've heard used for the CCP's historical information practices... ever.
What do you mean, billionaires? What about all the small businesses who used to get daily business from those office workers who bought coffee, lunch, drinks, and so forth?

The hubris and myopia of the 'eat the rich' mentality is galling and a little depressing.
Also https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/generative...
Have you ever known Microsoft to aquire something similar to their own product, dump their product name and go with the acquisitions branding?
And they turn it on after updates or ignore the setting or nag you every day to turn it back on. Every time I boot back in to windows I get a full screen message about tying my account to an online one.
The problem is that one stimulus check cost $2 trillion dollars. Doing that every single month for an indefinite period of time is, quite expensive to put it mildly. And that’s not even taking into consideration that there’s a lot of people with monthly expenses in excess of $1200 per month.
Only if you root. General purpose computers can run alternative OSs.
Thank you so much. That's sort of what I expected to hear honestly. I've been using Doom Emacs lately in anticipation of transitioning over to Emacspeak. I still have some remaining vision but considering my disease is degenerative I'm thinking towards the future. I can imagine dealing with whitespace is easier than getting lost trying to find a missing bracket or brace or whatever.
Ask HN: How do you make best use of your time while wfh?
Curious to see how much time you spend at home and on what activities besides work? Here work means professional work (9-5). What’s your schedule look like and how do you get maximum output from your day?
This criticism looks like "free as beer and I know better".

1. The old, mostly working thing waits your commit

2. That new thing can have some help too

I recommend developers story about this "mostly working thing" (2014) [1]. It is quite fun and eye opening, he clearly knows his subject better than most of the comments.

Wayland demo worked almost from day one. I've run it in 2010 [2]. But we need applications, that is migrating toolkits and this took 10 years.

It is very toxic development culture, cancel culture, mob.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ

[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=858020#p858020
Yeah, the thing is, the by far best use for "bike power" is actual transportation. 0.15kWh of pedaling power can get you surprisingly far (one hour of moderate effort cycling), but would be rather unimpressive for the usual electrical applications. Apparently, almost two centuries of doing that have lead us to some very clever and pragmatic efficiency tweaks, probably because the effort-motion feedback loop is so extremely compelling to the human mind (evolution has made us brains on an endurance locomotion machine, everything else is rather unimpressive compared to peer mammals).
I think a big one is actually latency and framerate. If you have a low latency videosetup (e.g. SDI Cameras and two monitors) you can try out what real low latency feels like. This works soo much better already because you can react to one another's mimic expression etc.
r/sffpc might be up your alley
Any horse people can see from the art that something is a little off. The riding style, even the horse, is European. No america studio would have Indi riding like that with his knees all bent into high stirrups. He would, he did, ride like a cowboy.

See https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/19/26CF475300000578-...

Note the different stances of the three characters. Indi and his father are on western saddles.

https://theurgetowander.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/indianaj...

https://www.thesprucepets.com/english-and-western-riding-dif...
Rumble is a YouTube alternative that’s growing in popularity
One thing where multicore pays off for me is when running the D test suite.
I think a lot of people (myself included when I've felt the pressure to) lowball how long things like this take because a) it makes me look smart and b) people could judge of they knew who much time I actually wasted on it.
A 12 month lease for commercial real estate in SF?
It's similar to how sea level tides can be predicted even if there are big waves all the time.