skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
999 times out of 1000 if I ask a working class American to explain Marx's concept of surplus labor time, they would have no idea of what I was talking about. That is false consciousness.

You're talking as if they rejected the idea. They don't even know what the idea is.

A sizable amount of working class Americans have no idea that people die. They have no idea that their grandparents died. They have been to wakes and have seen the corpse of their grandparents or whomever, but when I talk to them they say their grandparents are elsewhere and enjoying themselves. They do not mean this metaphorically, or that they live on via children or their works or memories. They have no concept that these people are not around any more, permanently. They go to churches where a man stands in front and says this, I guess they believe him. This would be part of false consciousness, although not a needed component of them. They are as ignorant of death as they are of their economic exploitation. They are ignorant and uneducated. If you want to call them stupid as you do, that's your right.
Wow, is this the beginning of the end for x86/64 architecture? Are PCs and all going to move to ARM? I feel this could be the start of a shift.
Amusingly, I've read that Apple (internally) frequently uses Anker cables.
“Emotional” Sherlock Holmes Not in Public Domain: Conan Doyle Estate in Lawsuit
Thank you for posting this!
I was so confused when folks were saying 16GB of ram was too little.

I run Linux on all my machines, and even running many (5-10) containers, 16GB was plenty. I now understand a bit better.
From the authors website...

"These notes are of pretty poor quality, since with I was lost with high probability when I wrote them"
if only two parts got replaced, then landfill mass was reduced.
They can't help but penalize change. Work from home is a change that is resulting in much lower tax revenue, and they need new income streams to make up for it.

"It argues this is only fair, as those who work from home are saving money and not paying into the system like those who go out to work."

They simply need more people to "pay into the system" again.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen the same thing. It’s weird because outside of these political conspiracies, they don’t really have any other odd beliefs as far as I know.
Which camera did you get?
Reflecting on the Armistice
How do you know why they were hired? Were you here?

I feel lot of hate and frustration in your comments. If people got nice jobs, celebrate.be happy for them. No time to be a hater, love is the answer!
Obviously, to echo everyone else's sentiments, I'm grateful for dang and tbh the hn community at large.

But one thing I keep thinking back to is the abysmal discussion of the Event Horizon Telescope black hole pictures. I think they were shown around the time of this interview. I remember for the first time the threads on hn felt unmoderated or overwhelmed [1]. Like someone sucked all the air out the room, metaphorically speaking. I don't mean this as a criticism of dan or anyone else behind hn (you can even see he was actively trying to flag the worst offenders), but I just wonder what it was like behind the scenes for hn that day, how prevalent that sort of thing is, how concerned mods should be of that sort of thing in the future, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086
Figure and ground.
Virtual HLF 2020 – Dialogue: Robert Endre Tarjan/Donald Ervin Knuth
This Vista (1)? With the 100 point post acquisition operating plan and intelligence tests? Maybe lifestyle means different things...

“ Billionaire’s Secret Buyout Formula: 110 Instructions and an Intelligence Test

Robert Smith’s private-equity firm revamps software companies by following detailed protocols; ‘their process is like a factory’”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/billionaires-secret-buyout-form...
I think that's because it's trying to connect to your phone since that's where the messages etc are stored.
OR...end the lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions so there are no "vulnerable jobs" to this virus that has a 0.13% IFR [1]. Human choices by governments are both creating the problem and providing solutions to the problem.

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.” ― Harry Browne

Remote workers you get to pay for the crutch.

[1] Oct 05 WHO announces 750m cases and on that day there were ~1m fatailities. 1m / 750m = 0.0013 = 0.13% IFR ( end of article here https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/nyc-ebola-doctor... )
What ludicrousness. An artists right should die with them or survive only 25-30 years from creation after their death.
More of a transitory news cycle in a few years worth of distractions
As an American, American politics genuinely feels like a game of dodge ball where each team captain takes turns picking virtues that the other side has to be against.

The left picked immigration so the right has to hate immigration, the right picked the military so the left has to hate the military. It's like our politics have to be polar opposites on everything, and it's exhausting.
I am totally relying on my memory but didn't Craig Federighi say that you will be able to disable secure boot ( at WWDC either in the keynote or in an interview with MKBHD )
> Most pollworkers in my experience are there for the money (I've never bothered cashing the check) and the threat that they won't get paid if they count doesn't match is extremely powerful.

That's it, you just don't get paid? I'd expect it to involve a criminal investigation.
Convenient, but not a slam dunk. You can't really count most of those since the formula is <complete-word>-ster.

Give me a sec to see what can get filtered out and what exceptions I'd have to accept.

Hmmmm. Most problematic would be
minister
Adjuster
Sister
Tester

Then again, those fail the full standalone word criterion.
Voyager Lost in the Delta Quadrant. Thanks, Obama
I can't seem to find mention of the clock frequency of the chip anywhere. Am I missing something or is Apple withholding this information for the time being?
> If you have a reputation for screwing over founders

Why do people keep saying this? The dude sold a company for $4 million dollars. Asking for the $800k back that you invested isn't screwing him over.
The Rise of ML Ops
Your experience sounds identical to my career in biotech. My PI wanted a new line that produced a certain transgenic protein. When I explained that it wasn't possible I was asked if one set of results from another assay could be "used" in the current project. I said no but still provided all the the necessary data to lie if that was what they wanted to do. The lab ended up getting a $75k plus grant because of the fabricated data and I was left disillusioned and quit soon afterward.

Ever since I have told anyone that would listen that science is broken and I rarely believe anything until there is a working product. It is beyond sickening how much and how often people lie and how it is constantly covered up by their colleagues who don't want to cause a fuss.
We had a presidential election in 2000 that was stolen in public by the GOP, despite being on paper. They did it with a technicality.

They're doing the same with signature matching (your signature on your ballot has to match a different signature that could be many years older).

Paper is safe from people outside the system, but not from politicized courts that are able to ignore paper ballots for minor mistakes.
Yea, i think that's correct. documentation is just another product, no different than other software.
so basically you can start asking with very common user reasearch questions such as:
* who would use our documentation?
* what would our user need the most from our documentation?
Do you know who tara reade is? And if you don't why don't you?
Show HN: Crystal – Clean and simple spending tracker for credit card users
People should take sleep and rest seriously. No smartphones and inet after 10PM, no in the weekends, no on vacations, no online entertainments.
What POSIX and the linux kernel calls "capabilities" unfortunately result in quite a bit of confusion, which I believe is the cause of your post. POSIX capabilities bear little resemblance to actual capability based security (where a capability is a send/recv-able token that references an object and a set of rights for interacting with that object).
Deno + express gives you the statically typed language you’ll enjoy with a Node-like runtime, for what it’s worth.
That does raise the question though as to why the notes have garnered enough attention to necessitate such a comment from the author. Maybe it isn't a good idea to use these notes as reference, but they are of some value. At the very least it is interesting to see that such a large repository of notes of this form exists. The only other collection that is similar to this that I know of is https://dec41.user.srcf.net/notes/
> Imagine haggling over the range start or range size, and then picking your salary from a uniform distribution contained by that range.

I think that it’s important that the last step is not random. I can’t imagine the job applicant would be happy with their salary being chosen randomly.
How is it screwing over founders?

They put in $ for 20%, you put in sweat for 80%. Why again is them not getting 20% the right solution? Unless the agreements said “hey look, sub 5x were okay with you getting it all”.

The business didn’t work. Arguably since only management is involved with running the business, it’s managements fault it didn’t work...why do the investors get 0 and the management team get bailed out? It’s not like they took zero salaries / weren’t compensated...

The world doesn’t work if you sign stuff and then later decide to not honor it just because you can torpedo the guy or girl on the other side of the table.

The ceo also doesn’t seem to have paid the staff either, based on his self disclosure. Not sure exactly how jamming a VC and not giving them at least what they put in back isn’t honorable.
"Gaming on Linux with GeForce efficiently" looks like difficult task.
Xi's name, along with that of Genghis Khan, now appears on the shortlist of most-despised dictators. First he imprisoned hundreds of thousands of muslim Uighurs for "reeducation" and left their unprotected families and wives to be raped by Han men in Xinjiang province and now he attempts to erase the historical record of a near-mythical figure that everyone in the Western and Eastern worlds knows of. But certainly Xi has read the poem "Ozymandias"?

Xi's killing, although qualifying as genocide, is paltry compared to that of Genghis Khan, who killed more people on some days than Xi has killed in a lifetime. Perhaps Xi is jealous.
Farm subsidies aren't a major factor. The federal government spends about $20B per year on farm subsidies.

https://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/reform...

To put that in context, the GDP of the state of Iowa is $173B. And that's just one state with a large agriculture sector.
So what happens to the VM when an index out of bounds happens in Rustler?

Is there a panic handler that prevents a crash and returns a magic value that makes sense to the caller?
I wanted a no-pay sabbatical for a few months but unfortunately my company had no policy for one. After 4.5 years, my well had run dry.

I really struggled to get help and was left with no option but to quit.
99 channels and nothing's on...

the internet has gone critical mass, and when that happens, things go to shit. think pop music.

also, the media and other corporations are to blame. information is basically free. so how do you make your information valuable? you flood the sources with shitty information. ex; Ramit Sethi: "i give 98% of my content away for free and i charge a lot for that 2%" [not picking on him, it's just the business model adopted by the internet.]
also, go check out the super cuts of media outlets. compilations of the exact, basically word for word, reporting coming out of these places. talk about gigantically redundant production budgets...

social media is definitely a bore. since when did we ever want to hear the inner thoughts of billions of people? can't help but feel sorry for Professor Xavier.

the gems though... DO NOT TELL ANYONE ABOUT HACKER NEWS!
2020 Zoom lied about end to end encryption

2021 Nobody can have end to end encryption
If, as Trump claims, Biden's victory is fraudulent, it would mean over 100k voted were falsely cast.

If that happens to be true, it would put every single election on US soil into question. Pretty much undermines democracy altogether.
>that caused someone in management to believe 8GB is an adequate base spec for RAM in 2020.

And yet most PC laptops, with same or higher prices, have the same base spec, so there's that...
For many, the human interfaces offered by macOS running on Apple hardware are unmatched.
Thread Helper: A serendipity engine on the Twitter sidebar
For those who don't get the joke, Apple's engineers are apparently using an iFixit toolkit in their lab, while continuing to make Apple devices harder for companies like iFixit to repair.
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Manta-Driver-Kit--112-Bit...
Yes, Wikipedia says it's i7-8557U which has 8 MB cache.

So comparing a

4-Core, 5nm, 16 MB cache, 10 watts TDP vs

4-Core, 14nm, 8 MB cache, 15 watts TDP.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/192996/...
Pondera Health Department staff resign, citing lack Covid-19 support
>Even if you somehow could argue that 8 is all you need now, what about in few years?

What about it? It's not like someone who mostly browses the web, checks email, works with office documents, and so on, will change what he does in a few years...
Hmmmm, maybe I am just dense hahaha.
> they're case classes then you're moving around a lot of unnecessary data fields and you've got the overhead of making fifty intermediate case classes yourself.

Haskell developer here... What about case classes and lenses? Do they solve this?
> That was twelve years ago.

It was a predictable result of Debian policy, which Debian did not see fit to change. Debian still patches upstream sources including security-critical software, still does not have any dedicated security review of those patches, still leaves it up to individual maintainers to decide whether and how to clear these things with upstream, and still thinks all of this is fine.

> Do you think equally-bad bugs haven’t made it into upstream projects directly?

Honestly, I can't think of a single equally-bad bug in "normal" code, only in medical devices / industrial controllers / etc.. Cloudbleed wasn't this bad. Bumblebee deleting /usr wasn't this bad. It really was a uniquely awful bug.
Members of the House of Representatives aren't really leaders in the sense of having the authority to decide things on their own. I think randomly-chosen representatives could be a workable solution. It might be awful in some ways, but the House would then be a reasonably accurate representation of the full population. And if they did anything nonsensical, there's still the Senate which would presumably still be elected in the usual way.

I'll bet people would take more interest the quality of public education for the average citizen, at least.
So there are a few ways to do interop with non-BEAM languages.

Ports are the typical one for simpler things. You start an external command and talk to it via stdin/stdout.

NIFs are potentially much faster and are traditionally in C. But they carry the risk of crashing the VM. Rustler+Rust removes most, likely not all, but most of the risks for screwing up and killing the VM.

So NIFs are usually not recommended simply because the resilience and reliability of the BEAM VM relies on a bunch of cool strategies inside the VM and NIFs side-step all of that. The Rust ones should be far less dangerous.
With Yubico I always get a feeling that if they could breakaway from all this legacy smartcard stuff and lock everyone in, they would. But they can't yet, so they distanced themselves from it and were keeping it on the down-low ever since.

I would really like if they made a wearable without any ports like a NFC ring, but that would mean either keeping it tied to phones only with an app or selling their own NFC/contactless reader, most likely with some proprietary bent.
Personal epistemology, free speech, and tech companies
The votes haven't even been fully counted (NY has barely started with their mail-ins), so the exits aren't weighted yet. There are, so far as I know, no valid takes to be made from current exit data.
(Full context for those who are encountering this)

"These are live-TeXed notes for the courses I took/am taking at Harvard. Typing up my notes with a computer is mostly inspired by this site (which is also a good resource). The purpose of writing up these notes is primarily to use as a reference for myself, and I advise great caution to those trying to learn actual math from them. Brackets indicate that you must be extra cautious when consulting them. If you find anything wrong (mathematically wrong claims or even typos) please notify me by email." https://dongryulkim.wordpress.com/notes/course_notes/
95% percent of laptop users wont run VMs or Xcode, so there's that...
Maybe some kind of clip-on, thin, third party cooling solutions will become a thing?
I've seen that both be suggested _and_ denied on Hacker News, so I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, but I doubt it's routine practice.
Exits aren't great in the best circumstances, but early unweighted exits are widely believed to be almost completely useless.
There are tons of $1000 PC laptops with worse build and 8GB
We Don't Have Enemies
Fencing like this may be an extraordinary feat.

I for one want to engage at a level where the cost/benefit at most allows an 'opponent' to reevaluate their stance. At least, I can understand a thread of reasoning that is alien to me.

I understand engaging in a radius of reason. I implore you to build relationships that necessitate constructive debate.
being groomed your whole life to take your father's place is totally different from being randomly forced to be a member of a legislative body, though... even if you are unremarkable, at least you'd learn enough to "know the language" from being in that world your whole life. maybe. also, you could at least argue that nobility have the most "skin in the game" when it comes to decisions about the realm. (not that that justifies that sort of system-- i think everyone makes out a lot better now than they did then)
Macro Button
Correction: Apple's studio. People are praising Apple's production value but I just see people awkwardly standing while talking because the director told them to make sure that their feet are exactly as apart as their shoulders. No one stands like in real life. The whole thing feels so extremely polished, scripted and manicured; I much prefer the candid style Steve Jobs did and may be they can take some questions from the crowd (although during the pandemic, its understandable). Genuine connection with people is what the high production studios do not understand. They create shiny pieces, not art. But shiny things sell, so all bets are off.
I can't speak for halal, but kosher is not about blessings. In the case of meat, there are a myriad of rules that regulate the production, starting from animal selection (only a kosher species, and then only an animal that meets certain health criteria - a cow with a punctured lung may not be eaten), then the slaughter technique and procedure, then the removal of specific parts of the animal that may not be eaten, salting to remove the blood, and ultimately preparation (no mixing with dairy, etc).
This is inaccurate based on latest elections. There isn't full data for 2020 but in 2016 college educated voted Dem +9.

"In the 2016 election, a wide gap in presidential preferences emerged between those with and without a college degree. College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin (52%-43%), while those without a college degree backed Trump 52%-44%. This is by far the widest gap in support among college graduates and non-college graduates in exit polls dating back to 1980."

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trum...
Does anyone else reject the premise of the article? I understand that polling definitely missed big in some areas, but isn't that normal? Polling is really hard. You have to make a lot of assumptions, adjust for demographics, predict whether a voter will turn out, while using a sample of usually ~1000 people. Of course some polls are going to be wrong. I don't think the polling was generally wrong though. Polling averages had Biden +8 or so, when all votes are counted he'll likely be +5, which is within margin of error. Polls were extremely accurate in Georgia, where conventional wisdom would say Biden shouldn't win.

I get that most of the polling error benefited Trump, and the industry needs to reflect on why that happened and how to prevent underestimating republicans again in the future, but I don't yet buy the narratives that "the polls got it wrong."
>If the headline is an accurate representation of the study, then the study is garbage without having to know anything else about it.

So much for confirmation bias...
I also haven't used Debian since. No, we are not naive as to the presence of security related bugs elsewhere (e.g. Heartbleed). Just a lot of reputation was lost.

It was interesting because the cause was a patch crafted to satisfy a static analysis tool they insisted on applying to every package, which demonstrated their want to go above and beyond with respect to quality. Kudos to Debian in that regard. But a blindly applied policy, and bad judgement in disabling some cryptographic initialization code, caused a terrible bug.

I wonder if this is less of an issue today because of well defined kernel interfaces for getting "good" random numbers (i.e. cryptographically suitable). I'm sure the devil is in the details, and OpenSSH's support for unpopular systems means intentional use of uninitialized variables is still in the code base. It's all very impressive to an outsider who knows enough not to tell cryptographers how to do their job.
A more complicated fuckit.js

https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs
The man also posed as a "progressive vegan rockclimber", so I wouldn't be willing to conclude much about his true political beliefs based on what this article tells us. For all we know, he just picked alternate personas as varied as possible in order to not be discovered.