skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not fixed though. You may think the market for cars only has so much demand, but if you can make a car cheaper, demand goes up. This is one of the most fundamental laws of microeconomics (the non bullshit part of economics.)

There are definitely some zero sum games, I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out a nuance. The market for eyeballs/attention is zero sum. Netflix famously thinks of its competition as everything outside of Netflix including "real life."
K6 is “like unit testing, for performance”
If the participants are consuming the same amount of sugar, then for those that have a higher label and have a higher glucose rise, where does the "extra" glucose come from?

And is it more glucose going in to the blood, or less being processed out?
And it doesn't measure normal phone calls or on site support for customers. There is nothing better than having to run from one issue to the next and getting a mail saying I just enjoyed a week of peace and quiet.
My wife is an H1B holder who is now in line for a green card. She is unable to leave the United States until she receives that green card within a year from now.

Her passport will likely expire before then. It's all just a giant game :) Our solution was to lawyer up and let them handle everything for us, there is no use in trying to understand a government system.
>Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job

If only that's what it was about and not one group trying to force woke politics into the workplace.
I always intentionally click on wrong images, just to see how wrong I can be and still be allowed to go.

Initially I could get through easily while choosing wrong images, but now it takes me many goes to get through with even one wrong pick.
I think the concept of thin clients is where we should be heading, especially now that internet is so much better.

The kicker is who owns the super computer you're dialing into, and how much of it you actually own. "Back in the day" it probably made sense for a company to maintain their own servers.

But now it's too profitable to not use amazon in most cases. It's nice not needing a server room, but hat suffers is ownership issues with infra and data, accepting the outages, and rolling with the crazy decisions amazon might make in the future that will effect your systems.
How do you leverage your stereotypes? I assume the stereotypes you leverage are the positive ones?
I’m too isolated to say how many people engage in “VC-worship” but in any case, I don’t believe this is limited to VC’s? Confident explanations of social issues are everywhere and there are other popular authors of them.
I get the way Burke tied together all ten episodes of the first season and put a bow on it.

I'm not convinced though as to how terrified I ought to be. I understand that there is a complexity and inter-connect-edness in our present day society, but the fear of nuclear, mutual annihilation is the part of the original series that seems the most dated.

I suppose I choose to feel a little more optimistic. I consider the people in the first episode, when all of greater Manhattan lost power, that gathered, celebrated, and ate a birthday cake by candlelight.

Civilization won't break down. Though there may be momentary, brief interruptions.
We don't represent large tech firms; our focus is on mid-size companies and startups and honestly I don't see abuse with these companies. What specfic abuses are you referring to?
Yeah, "Docker" for macOS runs in a Linux VM anyway, so... run an ARM Linux VM and ARM docker with associated fat (x86+ARM) docker images.

I've known about Xhyve and other lesser-known virtualization systems for macOS, and now I know about vftool, so that's a good thing.

Interesting how easy it is to make a VMM using Virtualization.framework.
I agree with you that current market incentives do not capture externalities like environmental harm. (eg. soil erosion, in the case of a farmer who doesn't rest his fields)

I hope to convince you to hate the game, not the players. So that we can focus our efforts at the root cause. And to take a measured approach: it's not all bad. I'd rather have our current quality of life (in Canada) than to live in a pre-industrial world in the longhouses of the Aboriginal Peoples who used to live where I do. It seems romantic, but I'm sure I'd be a terrible hunter. I choose to believe that human progress will continue to solve the problems we face, in time. Because historically we always have. Let's root for more Elon Musks instead of hating on the average capitalist.
I hope they have a rust client
This is a wonderful story. Go Gust!

I cannot imagine why a company that depends on an OSS project doesn't own and use their own fork of it. Give back and get back and all the benefits of OSS; but the company should have its own codebase and own responsibility for it, to prevent problems like this or the host of others that keep arising.
> There is a large socialist/anti-capitalist/woke movement on Twitter and a somewhat in the real world as well.
"rebuttal" is giving them way too much credit
The problem is that security questions are fundamentally flawed. Most of them are easily guessable with a little bit of research, and because they can often be used to bypass your password they're effectively a backdoor into your account. You're generally better off using them as either a backup password (that is, not guessable even given knowledge about you), or simply not using them at all. If you forgot your password then reset it via your e-mail account. In short, don't use security questions, they're fundamentally broken.
There are bosses in the rear and fork that serve as rack and basket attachment points. Both rack and baskets are carbon to offer stiffness while maintaining a lightweight build. Love the commentary!
Can't wait for self-driving cars to always crash into the outer part of a car because it looks straight past it thanks to our square-based teaching.
> As an inventor holding over 70 patents

Can/Did you elaborate on this? Sounds exciting, I would love to hear more about how you got started and what kind of work you do.
What is the difference between doing work for someone versus simply just working for someone?
I’ve done a certain amount of research around GI due to my wife twice having gestational diabetes, and it was hard to find good numbers in general, but I couldn’t find any numbers related to artificial sweetners. I did find a lot of people claiming artificial sweetners didn’t cause a rise in glucose, which makes sense because the only way to get glucose would be for the liver to release glucose as a response. What I don’t know definitely is whether or not artificial sweetners cause an insulin response (though there seems to he a growing body of evidence that some do cause the pancreas to produce insulin). There also seems to be a growing body of evidence that artificial sweeteners cause gut bacterial changes ( which, as I write this, makes me wonder if my current gastro intestinal drama might be related to a recent reintroduction of diet soda in my diet...).

I will say as an anecdote, that I find intermittent fasting (skipping breakfast and late lunch) much easier when I have diet soda than when I have tea with sugar in the morning.
I know it's almost unbelievable! But it's in the nytimes so definitely happened.
Could you give some examples of some concrete tasks? Because I use Julia for exactly those same tasks, and I don't get why Excel would be any benefit. Julia launches faster. It is easy to just keep around in a Terminal window all day. Doesn't consume much resources.

Any command I have previously typed is quickly accessible. Excel in contrast doesn't know what you did previously or can easily bring that kind of functionality back.
Which is a good thing; you experience this as a mild energy boost when you have sweetened tea vs non-sweetened tea, say.

The body perceives a sweet flavor and anticipates a deposit of glucose. You have a physiological process that manages economic use of glucose. When it registers a deposit, it permits a withdrawal/release into your blood, where it can be delivered to your muscles and mind for energy.

The problem with sugar, is when you have excessive sugar in the blood. Excessive sugar is potentially lethal, because glucose can cross the blood-brain barrier. the brain has a protein like substance, chemically similar to egg white, and when you mix too much sugar with egg white, you get meringue. meringue brain is bad. so in healthy individuals, we get insulin spikes, to flush the glucose from our blood when we have too much. sure it robs you of energy but it saves your brain. in type 2 diabetics their insulin safety mechanism can’t be relied on.

If you’re healthy you don’t need to worry about extra glucose released by your body from its stores. instead be reassured that you understand why you feel more perky when your drink is sweetened. But if you have sweetener in your tea, and then you have a sugary snack, that’s worse than the sugary snack alone. You’re more likely to generate harmful levels of blood glucose because your body will preemptively elevate blood glucose before you even get to the snack.

moral of the story, don’t eat food high in real sugar or flour. as always.
The difference between true genius and your regular old smart person is that it takes about all the brainpower the smart person has to understand something that's pretty complicated, and their thinking then becomes locked in. The effort not only cements their conceptual understanding; it cements their emotional attachment to their understanding. By contrast, the genius has the brainpower to understand a thing, understand alternative explanations just as well, and then innovate beyond all that.
So just use a green screen to make it look like you're in Italy and call your video "How to make Grana Padano"?
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It definitely does not solve all the issues listed in the article, but for me Zotero https://www.zotero.org has been absolutely brilliant as a "digital content organizer".

While it is "marketed" for scientists, it is a very general tool, that allows me to archive, tag, organize and search any webpage (with the option of taking a snapshot) or digital item.

I started using it for research articles, but it quickly expanded as a general bookmark organizer, then to books and even some podcast and movies archival. I use specific folders as reading/watching/listening queues.

Best of all it is FLOSS software, which is an absolute requirement for me to future-proof my use, and has an API that can be used to interact with external software. I use it for example as a document "backend" for my emacs org-mode journal (via the zotxt-emacs package).

There is an online sync service offered at a very reasonable cost (including a free tier). This is one of the very rare online services I'm paying money for. My understanding is that the sync server is open-source, but not production ready for self-hosting yet. The devs are supposedly working on it.

I strongly recommend you at least take a look.
The manager rarely needs to detect when the developer is that unproductive - it's glaringly obvious. In practice, even if you as the manager don't notice, the team will tell you that another developer isn't pulling their weight. However, you can't just fire someone in most organizations because their teammates have a gut feeling -- you need to have evidence as you get a case together. Further, some causes of poor performance are temporary; some are an indication of a lack of skill that can be remedied; some are that someone is a good worker in the wrong place in the organization; Sometimes, a developer is just lazy. A good manager will be able to discern this and determine if the solution is to change the environment in a way that brings success to the dev.

But if the case is that the developer needs to be "managed out," you need to build the case as a manager. This is where those metrics help.
You're right, just another set of race-obsessed liars victimized by the Lyin' New York Times repeating their fake accusations!
Will do. Thanks for taking the time!
Hi Peter, I'm in the UK and have an approved I-140 (EB2 NIW). I'm waiting for IVP but due to COVID19 and the various visa bans, the London Embassy is apparently only scheduling interviews based on National Interest Exception grounds. I'm co-founder of a new startup in my research field (same basis as NIW, cloud computing), looking to move to the US to register the company, raise a seed round and hire. Do you think that NIW could provide grounds for a National Interest Exception?

Thank you!
That generally isn't a problem if you pin/vendor your dependencies... the same thing that most developers seem to do on Windows and mac anyway.
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I prefer shows that make their point with succinctness and brevity. Connections, the original run, was perfect.
Is it just me or are the images and text contradictory?

The text of this article says that the drink was, in reality, 62 grams of sugar and portrayed via the label as either 0 grams or 124 grams.

However, the image of the nutritional label shows the actual drink was 15 grams (but 62 calories) or 30 grams (124 calories).

Which is it?

124 grams of sugar doesn't pass the sniff test for anyone who is passing familiar with the basic fact there are 35-40 grams of sugar in a 12-oz can of soda. Was this noticed or not? Were questions asked whether people had a sense of how much sugar (or calories) are in a soda? Did people perceive they were getting a extremely-high-sugar beverage (124g) or a low-sugar beverage (30g)? Does that affect the psychological dynamics in a material way?

I am a little disappointed in the quality of peer review coming out of Nature here...
I am only using pocket these days to search through the things I have used before and need to find. like bookmarks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
http://zenoh.io/docs/overview/

> What is zenoh?

This page describes various "why?" motivations of Zenoh, but at the end of it I was none the wiser about what it is.

Something to do with pub/sub. It mentions Arduino so I guess it's targeted at IoT applications? It mentions MQTT so I guess it's a competitor?

(...to be fair the front page http://zenoh.io/ has more relevant info)
At least on AWS, it's slightly cheaper to deploy ARM servers. Look for this problem to also get solved on the server side by more ARM servers being put into production.
Yes, just the best tool for the job and its not hydrogen.

Yes, hydrogen production can potentially improve. Of course, it can, if we invest infinity money into it everything can improve.

The question is with limited resources make choices about what the best couple of things are that we can invest in. In terms of basic research, some study on hydrogen is appropriate. But it is nowhere close to be the right system for grid storage, in the next 1-2 decade.

The problem is this, hydrogen is the older technology compared to these battery systems it has shown a far, far slower improvement curve. And an top of that, the cost improvement curve is even worse. Where should investment go, in places where we are making massive leaps on both the fundamentals and the cost, or to the system that is mostly stagnant.

We literally have totally new battery systems go from research to mass deployment while hydrogen with more overall investment has only improved a tiny amount.
a YC company (S16)

Given the founders naivety and pig-headedness, i could have guessed.
IMHO, this is only one of the theses, and not the central one. The central thesis is already hinted at in the subtitle: change and progress are caused by humans either aimlessly playing around with ideas or concepts, possibly from totally unconnected fields, or by creating something entirely different than what they initially set out to do (possibly without even realizing it). Very, very seldomly can change and progress be planned, and therefore it is a pointless endeavor to predict or plan future technologies. In that regard, Burke was certainly a child of its time, as progress through many individual actions (and their recombinations) vs. centrally planned progress is essentially the narrative of the Cold War.

What you are describing is one of two cautionary tales in the series: technological progress will continue to accelerate (because the possible recombinations of existing ideas will grow exponentially), and we will be increasingly dependend on and caught in it. This is not entirely original, but has been lamented over and over again for many centuries before Burke. Just consider this verse of a still popular German lullaby from the 18th century:

We, with our proud endeavour,
Are poor vain sinners ever,
There’s little that we know.
Frail cobwebs we are spinning,
Our goal we are not winning,
But straying farther as we go [0].

It's basically the same concept. The German original even specifically addresses "Künste", a term which still had a technlogical meaning at that time (as preserved in "Baukunst", "Wasserkunst", "künstlich", etc.)

PS: a possible corrolary of the central thesis is that we should stop goal-driven research to progress further. But that is of course not true: goal-driven research is exactly what caused a great part of human progress, it's just that the initial goal was almost never met.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Mond_ist_aufgegangen
> meringue brain is bad.

Quote of the year.
Holy cow, the font color they describe as "perfect" strikes me as far too little contrast, and the one they describe as "good but too much contrast" is still barely readable.

Am I missing something?
You won't be downvoted if you've said this in the first place.
Hi Peter,

- Are J1s being issued for software engineering interns for next summer? I thought these were paused, but not sure what the latest is.

- Would it cause problems if an H1B holder relocates to a different US state (one where the sponsor company doesn't have an office), but keeps working remotely for the same company?

Thank you.
I've had some of those cheeses, I suspect. Occasionally when buying parmesan it just tastes like utter shit.

Never had olive oil taste bad, but wouldn't surprise me if I had one diluted with a cheap neutral oil.
> I find it disingenuous to claim, as the OP did (perhaps unintentionally), that innovators are bad faith actors playing a zero sum game. Surely that's the exception, not the norm. Just as there are bad actors in academia and any other profession.

I didn't intend to claim bad faith. As you point out there are surely bad actors in any field. More common, I think, is the (most likely subconscious) Lippmann effect: "We are peculiarly inclined to suppress whatever impugns the security of that to which we have given our allegiance."[0]

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1919/11/the-bas...
That's sad and unfair, another act of terrorism against what has been a peaceful country for quite a while, after all. Iran has been quite virtuous, while the US and its allies (Israel and Saudi Arabia) have been waging constant war. (Israel vs. Palestine and Jordan / Saudi Arabia against Yemen).

That's deeply shameful. I wonder why isn’t there a “are we the baddies?” moment in the west…
Making Kin with the Machines
I'm fascinated by that question too. What have you come up with? (Your blog domain listed in your HN profile seems kaput.)

Have you heard of Paolo Soleri's "arcology" concept? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology
It's a very nice looking bike. However, as a bike commuter I prefer something that can handle the bumps and scratches of being in a bike rack next to other commuters which is one reason why I ride aluminum frames (the other being cost). Build this in aluminum and drop the sticker price and you are approaching the e-bike holy trinity of affordability, durability and usability.

ps - if gjlemond is actually Greg... holy crap! You are an inspiration, sir.[0]

[0]https://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/a27681555/greg-lemo...
A flying saucer is quite flat though.
Take a look at the scene in the first episode while discussing the consequences of being in a scenario where one needs to escape the technology trap where he asks the viewer whether they are willing to kill to ensure their survival.

Take a look at the scene about 42 minutes into the last episode where technological artifacts are being smashed to Wagnerian music and listen to what he says just beforehand.

Does any of that sound optimistic?
What tools are your team using for remote dev?
The little Django mistake that loads your entire database to memory
My sense is that the travel bans and bans on the issuance of H-1B and L-1 visas will go away soon after Biden takes office (although they might be replaced by quarantine requirements in the US). Regarding the NIEs, I agree, the process is very frustrating because the information is hard to come by and varies from Consulate to Consulate but based on my experience, NIEs to the ban on travel have been freely granted if one is returning to the same company and position in the US.
> the story of Google firing all its managers, only to then have problems

Do you have a link to more information about this? I only heard about this recently.
If you need a suggestion, Anki is for retaining what you have already learned, not learning, which is what you are supposed to do yourself. In other words, learn to learn. For example,

I heavily rely on mnemonics and I have a field for them, thus for the German word "vertrauen", which stands for "to trust", I have the following mnemonic: ”I trust Ver to heal my wounds”. Ver is a friend doctor of mine.

For Japanese it helps me to have also mnemonics for kanji sounds(ka - cat, ho - hole), then make stories based on them.
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> Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees

I hate this kind of sloppy writing. who added that, the colleague or the manager?

EDIT: Downvoted. I guess clarity in the NYT isn't allowed to be questioned..
I want this to be in karaoke catalogs!
what should the port be
Unfortunately the bias against negative results in scientific publications cause a lot of scientific dead-ends to be non-public as well.

A lot starting researchers (such as PhD students) that are left without adequate supervision are likely to reach a dead-end someone previously encountered but did not publish anything about.
This piece paints coinbase as a company with racist tendencies and a hostile place to work for black people.
Based on the evidence or lack there of provided the article and after reading coinbase's rebuttal, I must say this NYT piece feels like an attempt to bully coinbase/armstrong into reverting its/his stance on engagement in issues unrelated to coinbase core mission and into submission to the cause.
The EU PDO scheme conflates geographic origin and a particular type of product in a way that is transparently protectionist and silly. When people say "feta cheese" or "american cheese", they're not asking for "made in Feta cheese" or "made in America cheese". They're asking for a particular flavor profile and cooking behavior, and possibly a specific method of manufacture. There is no particular reason why you can't make feta outside of Feta. There is nothing magical about the location in Greece that makes cheese produced in the same way outside of the town inherently inferior. Fuck terroir.
Agree. I would add too, it seems likely that James Burke more or less created the idea too of connectedness across disciplines, historical events, etc. as opposed to the linear, "homo-disciplinary" approach we were used to. Or at least he brought the idea to the masses in a compelling way.