skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to make all your money up front with one time sales, whereas you can spread it out with a subscription. The former is much harder to make a living off of, which is why you see the proliferation of SaaS these days.
Well, I don't think so. LibreCalc is much more competitive in terms of performance.

Octave doesn't even come close to MATLAB performance especially when dealing with large datasets and plots.
Why do we have to give access to our entire hard-drive to share one file once? How is it legal for someone else to give away your phone number, your addresses for the last 30 years, your email addresses, and the rest of your personal contact information, along with all the contact information of everyone else they ever met to any app they like? Why can apps run your mic and camera 24 hours a day in the background because you wanted to record a gif once? Why should an app be able to read every sms for all eternity because they wanted to verify your phone number once?

Ungoogling is a fine step but the whole thing needs to be rebuilt:

- Sharing Contacts: Should be illegal and removed as an option. Apps shouldn't be able to trick/coerce/incentivise people to harvest and sell other people's private information. When people give out their phone numbers and addresses they do it with some expectation of care, not with the intention of having it immedietly uploaded to Flappy Bird. The most that should be allowed is perhaps some sort of hash of contacts to be able to bootstrap some friend graph, but that's it.

- Sharing Files: There should be a single general default "file manager" app that acts as the intermediary between your files, and other apps, giving them only the files they need for the specific task at hand. Permission for the filemanagers themselves can be given with multiple ALL CAPS permission warnings not to do it.

- Camera/Mic/Location: Trusted intermediate app should capture and provide the data needed for the task at hand. At the absolute minimum, permissions should default to only recording while the app is open (like android location now). Persistent background recording should only be allowed after multiple ALL CAPS stern warnings and suggestion to reject unless absolutely necessary.

- SMS/etc: Have intermediate trusted apps select and share the specific messages you need to share for the task at hand.

In short, data access should be handled by few, trusted, vetted, intermediary apps, with heavily gated permissions for those apps themsevles; and sharing other people's private contact information should be illegal.
The problem is if I were to flash AOSP on to my Note 9, it'd blow an eFuse and limit my future options IRT reselling the thing.

If I did the same with a Sony Xperia XA2 (which I did) the eFuse means I can never get OTA updates again.
Covid because the hospital gets a fat fed check everytime they handle a covid death.
Same, I sometimes start getting a headache in the late afternoon only to realize I’ve only had coffee a my one liquid intake for the day. It’s not as bad when working from home because I have more reminders to drink, including when in the kitchen to make lunch.
The computers are much better than even the best humans though by several hundred rating points (as in, the world #1 would still lose 90+% of their games). The engines being so strong makes the anticheat detectors job easier to statistically find inhuman play before the account reaches a high rating.
Have a chronic illness. Can’t make it 8 hours through a day.

Laying down 20-40 minutes is enough to be effective in the afternoon.

My choices are work from home and a daily “long lunch” or be homeless.
Thanks & noted! Btw. the scrolling stops if you hover with your mouse over it/touch the area (similar to IG stories)
Public funding of research does not imply a political endorsement.
Market is volatile specially these days, it is in constant churn. Who knows what will happen in 20, 30 years?

There are many niche, local markets, there are many opportunities to innovate. But still you don't need to slave yourself to work to get those markets, I can't buy her message that starting a startup would require a complete self sacrifice for a decade. Then she says the most important thing is relationships, yet in the same interview she said you can't see your friends and family etc. Sorry, that is a very dysfunctional way to live for a long time.
Slightly OT, but the Prototype Fund has one of the best Codes of Conduct I've seen: https://prototypefund.de/en/code-of-conduct/.
Don't worry if they get big enough and don't join the capital markets they will get killed off. It's hard to do real business with a fortune 500 if you aren't listed. Look at SurveyMonkey they ended up relenting.
I think Simon Sinek is mostly selling himself. I'm not aware of any scientific research supporting his views.
> main takeaway I got from that experience is that both of these "simple" static site generators are ridiculously over-engineered.

Amen - Hugo is a total pain to work with in my experience. Many hours pulling hair out trying to do very simple things (like a page that appears if the user just enters a directory (e.g. "mysite.com/stuff/" and not "mysite.com/stuff/page"))

I found Jekyll to be much, much, much, much easier to work with than Hugo - I ported a site from dokuwiki and with Jekyll I was done within a day (complete with writing a custom theme), but with Hugo I spent days and days just wrestling trying to get basic things to work before I had even started theming before giving up and just using Jekyll.

I am sure there are people who need compilation in 20ms vs 1000ms, but I can wait a couple of seconds if it means I don't have to spend days messing with Hugo just to get it to do basic things.
Not really, the US is only 3 orders of magnitude away from being 100% paved over.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070719230638A...
Here's what happened. Excerpt from the wikipedia page [0]:

> PogChamps is an online amateur chess tournament hosted by Chess.com. Players in the tournament are internet personalities, primarily Twitch streamers. PogChamps takes place over the course of two weeks and has a prize pool of $50,000.

Basically, very strong chess players trained twitch personalities for a few days, and then had them play against each other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PogChamps
On success, mkdwarfs needed 1 hr, and reduced 219 dirs to a size of 970 MB. Not just source files, but also the build and install object files.

1 hr is a lot, but just think how long squashfs would have needed. Totally impractical. Thanks mhx
I couldn't recommend the CDC link above more. The various dashboards tell the clearest story here.
Agree -

Describing yourself as a "refugee of Communism" is an explicitly political stance which initially put me off reading this article. Was it relevant? Considering that she then describes working beyond the point that it damages her health, I'm not sure that this is such a great advertisement for capitalism.

Nobody is a refugee of 'communism' at least as far as nobody is a citizen of communism - communism isn't a nation-state.

(In general, people claiming asylum from communist states have been aristocrats with the power to choose to leave, and choose to do so rather than lose their status: so this shouldn't in itself be seen as a claim to poverty or disadvantage)
I felt like that until I got to around $2.5 million liquid net worth. Now I still like money, but each additional dollar is starting to show diminishing marginal utility. Though of course I'm still trying to grow my net worth, it's no longer the main focus of my life, especially now that I'm "retired" from my main career at least. I split my time between gaming, running, reading, socializing and working on my trading bot (got rich the old fashioned way of saving my salary, the bot is for fun and to grow hopefully faster than SPX with better Sharpe ratio, so far so good).

I think while you don't have "FU money" it's important for money to be the main focus of your life. You don't have freedom if you don't have a lot of money and you can't be 100% happy without freedom, at least in my experience, though I know opinions vary here.
Julia is a new player but probably still "too new" for most people (I say this as a Julia fan). Python is a pretty old language at this point, but the data sciencey eco system has only matured relatively recently (compared to the age of Matlab anyway).
Add that chess had already seen a remarkable resurgence this year, before the Queen's Gambit.

https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2020/09/13/the-classic-game-of...

https://www.insider.com/online-chess-has-surged-during-quara...

I absolutely loved the Queen's Gambit, but the root comment has it a bit backwards. It really seems like the Queen's Gambit came at a remarkably opportune time, just as chess was re-emerging into the popular mindspace.
My college roommate followed this one guy and even bought his courses. He claimed he's made double his money since paying for his "insider trading tips" or whatever. My roommate claimed he was a self made millionaire.

I looked the guy up, he's just a college dropout whose parents owned a very successful real estate agency to which he was placed in. He then got absurd amounts of capital from the commissions only people like his parents could get.

My roommate believed this guy knew the ticket to wealth but all I saw was basically the xkcd comic of "but lottery tickets! It works!"
This is addressed in the article extensively, although with factual error. That said, neither the article or your comment address the fact that 2020 had a large effects on behavior and lifestyle which could effect death numbers.
One of the things that feels a bit problematic here - the webpage is avoiding mention of the fact that this is still Android. In essence, this is still Google's OS and the team has decided to start a fight against Google by taking their opensource and perpetually fight against the main developer by removing their proprietary component.

I don't think this is a fight that's sustainable - a giant graveyard of Android privacy forks shows that. In the end, the major contributor to this OS is and will remain Google.

In that respect, Purism's PureOS seems like a more sustainable effort.
The Einstein Toolkit for Computational Relativity
Problem is that when your M1 cpu goes bad, you cannot buy the chip from Apple to replace it (tools to do that are fairly inexpensive now and within hobbyist reach). Something like this should be regulated - companies should be required to provide spare parts for x period of time after product phase out. Companies should be forbidden from telling suppliers to not sell spare parts to 3rd parties.
We need regulation for the right to repair.
Similar from my experience with family working in a Germany. Cellphone corporate email disabled after 7pm at one firm IIRC.

The crazy thing is French gdp per capita (measured hourly) growth was cited to be higher than America’s in this book by Mitt Romney’s partner at Bain. Aka, hustle porn measures hustle not output. The French just work 1700 hours a year versus the Americans who skewed up towards 2100.
No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
Lol, I have a couple friend, 3 kids, living in Los Altos, they said combined they think they make $800k a year. They can't afford to live their !?!?!?!?!?
Uhh- I reached out to PG a few times but didn't get a response. So I just left him a note saying that I would take it down if he wants.
There is nothing wrong with making money, usually it's the way people make money that is bad or good, not money itself
the 2 and 5 year average are interesting too, because another important matter for a age-skewed disease is how much it impacted life expectancy
How often does the fund get rebalanced?

That’s the nice thing with the market cap weighted SP500 funds, no tax consequences from rebalancing.

But you could plug “RSP” into a tax-advantaged account.

Edit: You can owe taxes even if you don’t personally buy/sell.

As a fund shareholder, you could be on the hook for taxes on gains even if you haven't sold any of your shares.

https://investor.vanguard.com/investing/taxes/mutual-funds-e...
I buy index. I have a portfolio of 500 large American companies, who are publicly traded, and follow SEC regulations, where gross negligence and gross fraud are mostly avoided, and which maybe a third also have global operations.

It’s a basket of restive safe equity, diversified across industry but not much in terms of nationality. Beyond that I don’t know what’s in it and don’t particularly need to care
Quoting from https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki:

> This is alpha-grade software and not yet ready for production use. Do not use if you don't know what you're doing.

Personally I'd also be concerned that Google's bot detection code might mark accounts that use microg as suspicious (as they're going to behave differently than phones using the official software) which could increase the risk of Google banning the account.
Show HN: Polylith – the last architecture you will ever need?
The Polylith team has just released a big update to the Polylith architecture.
Now it's even simpler to grow software out of composable LEGO-like building blocks.
The whole team is here to answer your questions.
I went looking for studies to support those suggestions because they make sense, but I ended up finding contrary evidence: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/remote-working-from-h...

Although this is pre-COVID so perhaps the stress was because it was the minority of people at a company who were working remotely, therefore feeling left-out, stressed etc
A lot of the scientific sensors are Peltier cooled to -20C to reduce noise, particularly IR.
I think the Lunatic architecture can enable shared memory regions between processes and between processes and host in addition to the erlang-like shared nothing approach. That would be an advantage over (non-NIF) erlang for some use-cases. Do you plan something like that? Can you easily map a data structure in Rust? (I think is doable between WASM process but not sure about between WASM and native host).

Another question: What about sending code between process? Like sending a fun between Erlang process.

IMHO this architecture has the potential to go beyond BEAM, good work!
Nope. Deaths are being attributed to COVID whether that was the actual cause or not. Fell off of a ladder? COVID. Motorcycle cycle accident? COVID.
Sure they know what’s in their portfolio. The entire index.
Dynamic space allocation vs knowing beforehand how long the request will be.

The former is more of a pain, from a clients' standpoint.
very, very true

This: am also suspecting that the level-off will happen one layer higher. I.e. the economic relevance of the current incumbents within the US economy will not drop, but the global relevance of the US will. For a perspective, you can look at the German economy that is dominated by companies founded 100+ years ago.

Because US government is getting in bed with Amazon, Google, Facebook

it is causing a double effect

A) They are letting them keep growing their monopolies in return for surveillance of Americans and non Americans

Which makes them stronger

B) US innovation is slowing down

For Example: Now most of US technology is around showing ads, surveillance, and basically treating people like stupid ATMs

They might be able to make it work for another 10 to 30 years, and then there will be big breakdowns

A good example is what is happening to Amazon in countries like China and India
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625015
Increased stress due to joblessness, more family time might mean more abuse for some, lack of schedule can have mental health effects, many people are gaining weight from stress-eating food that is always available, some aren’t sleeping as well.
The quoted statement of fact does not imply that the poster believes himself to have no accent. The implication in this statement is the (plainly true) assumption that from the perspective of a listener, the greater difference a speaker has to their own dialect is what is always meant by 'more' of an accent.

Furthermore, the presence of several dialects does not preclude there being a 'central' dialect, with 'less' of an accent, being most easily understood by all- eg the columbus oh 'midland' accent being the traditional american 'radio standard' for its neutrality and strong general pronunciation.
> the file system behaviour is also a Linux thing

I think the interesting part is being missed here, the behavior is that the file is being identified to apps by a uniquie identifier which is not the path, so referrering apps still find it after it's been moved, even when they didn't have it open already. More like using the inode as the identifier maybe? This is a behavior that goes all the way back through the pre-OSX macs. It was part of some sort of philosophy for Macs though I forget its name.
Does it still allow conflicting dependencies?
That's nice, I hope you enjoy your setup.
The Daily Mail publishes a lot of articles by contributing journalists, Harriet Alexander is actually a pretty good journalist https://twitter.com/h_alexander
20 versions are no joke. I can't remember the last time I used a command that wasn't install, but I suppose they are no joke!

On the other hand I would love to use the shiny new feature, but explaining it to my manager would be like talking to a tree.
Sure, but it's the determining of the cost function where the irrational debating starts.

Similarly, suggesting that there are situations where the cost function is both necessary and has such a high constant overhead that you're better off with a non-market system is a non-starter half of the time.
Nice! I knew someone in HN would know the details.

Edit: Details on the FDA website

The online web conference meeting will be available at the following:
https://youtu.be/owveMJBTc2I

https://twitter.com/US_FDA
(Supported in Chrome browser)

https://fda.yorkcast.com/webcast/Play/d75d80a3eb6e419986181c...
You guys should join the bivector discord channel https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk.
One of the best articles I read on hacker news
It’s not that easy, even in SV and within my batch at 500 startups (arguably one of the better credentials a startup can have at an early stage) the struggle to raise was real. And then back in the Midwest a lot of startups I’ve advised have had a hell of a time raising.

If you aren’t well connected or hyper credentialed (or if you’re a minority founder), raising capital is very hard. It’s easier than it’s ever been, but it’s not « easy »
Ε5: New to a UX workplace? Know these things
So 99.99% of the world can't be happy? Don't you think it's quite selfish of you to prioritise achieving this for yourself over allowing a greater number of people to have a more reasonable level of wealth?
The status page does not look particularly reassuring
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status
Efficiency gains are outstripped by far more production.
Any pointers to get SafetyNet to pass?
The lie that electric vehicles are better for the environment than internal combustion needs to stop. Lithium batteries will pollute the world. We will exploit impoverished counties and extract their lithium reserves while destroying their environments. We will not clean up when we finish. Lithium batteries will pollute our water supplies here at home when they aren't properly disposed. This is a giant environmental scam promoted to make us feel good about "saving" the earth. I don't believe for a second that corporate democrats care about the environment.

We need widespread renewable electricity generation first anyway. Otherwise our electric cars will be running on coal.
“Don’t be cross, uncle!” said the nephew.

“What else can I be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?

If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”

Dickens had this attitude’s number long ago. Do not mistake the writhing in your guts for “an undigested bit of beef”. It’s a more important signal.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm
> We are going back to the old patterns of integration of both Software and Hardware.

Can we have some regulation against this, please?
MATLAB seems ill condusive for structuring and organising code in a sane manner. It tends to give its users bad habits with respect to structuring code is what I observe.

It seems to lack data structures that are quite pervasive in modern programming practise.

Also python being a general purpose system brings its own benefits, one can easily hook up ones code to fetch or push data to databases and even easily scrape data of the web or extract/reparse/rectify/reformat poorly/complexly structured data before processing.

And I find MATLAB not feature rich in terms of being able to manipulate tabular data in a relational DB like manner, that is querying/projecting/selecting rows/colums to find interesting facts.
I haven't read the book, only reviews, but based on those, it seemed to me that that McAfee's thesis relies on carefully selected numbers. For example, using "number of cattle" as a proxy for resource input into the dairy industry, even though everyone else just measures actual resource input.

It leaves me wondering if the book (which I admittedly won't be reading; my existing reading list is already long enough) ends up functioning a bit like that satirical paper on smoking and long distance running from 10 years back. In it, the authors "convincingly" argued that marathon runners should all be smokers. The overall structure was a sort of numeric Gish Gallop: the paper focused on a constellation of individual measurements that are plausibly associated with both smoking and long distance running performance, while carefully steering clear of any measurement of smokers' actual athletic performance.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/
The Telegram FOSS fork also is g-services and telemetry/firebase free (you can verify this with AppWarden). [1]

[1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
Great news! It looks like WireGuard is very appreciated by both BSD now.
This is very true. For me I have found staying away from HFCS after 6:30, and eating very light. Staying away from anything with caffeine in it for the same time too. Getting to sleep at the same time every night. My diet played a large part of my sleeping well. I have asked others in my family to try the same thing and they have seen similar results. The caffeine bit was a big one. Its effects linger for a long time even though you get little to no benefit from it.
Here's a longer article about the resolver: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/03/new-pip-resolver-to-rol...
Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it's ruined their lives
Pretty difficult to have an open web without a libre browser?
> Try the ETF with the symbol "RSP". It's an S&P 500 fund, but each of the 500 is equally weighted.

Note that an equal-weighted index will tend be more volatile, have higher turnover (i.e. more trading costs and short-term tax effects) and be sensitive to value over momentum in comparison with a market-cap weighted index like the S&P 500. The former have outperformed the latter over the last decade (EDIT: no, it hasn’t. I was looking at a biased source.)
t. SJW
I experienced that with Scrabble (and as you, only play with friends now), but not with Chess. But then I'm not very good at Chess (rapid rating c 1300 on chess.com)
I haven't read it yet but I'm guessing these are only useful for American companies?