skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School where my kids are is doing lessons before lunch and then kids play for hours till parents come.

It is absolutely awesome that mothers are able to work. Not just on terms of having money and independence, but also in terms of not having own ego completely dependent on kids. And especially when dad is death or absent, it makes super massive difference.
It is wrong to pretend that lockdown isn't effective. No man is an island with respect to communicable diseases.

Instead, we decided that this health issue is an ideological struggle of authoritarianism versus liberty, or democrats versus conservative, instead of working together to solve this problem so that we can return to normalcy ASAP.

It's pretty embarrassing that China had got the disease beaten, while we're still struggling with COVID-19.
The excerpt above it, from "The sovereign individual", is pretty depressing. A brand of techno-optimism that we now see has completely fell flat.
Does the UN still exist?
> Now, imagine you take 1/6 of the people, remove all of their wealth, and disperse it among the remaining 5/6. Perhaps you skim a few percent off the top due to inefficiencies of the scheme. Are you saying the 5/6 people here didn't benefit? Sure seems like they did!

Slave ownership was strongly concentrated. A relatively small class of plantation owners got rich off slavery. They didn't redistribute the proceeds across the entire white population. Economically, the slave-owning South, as a whole, lagged far behind the North, and slavery is a likely cause for that economic backwardness.

> didn't encode a right to vote (for anyone, that was left up to the individual states) until reconstruction.

That has nothing to do with slavery. The Constitution was written at a time when democracy was viewed with suspicion, and moreover. Nevertheless, the United States was, at the time, rapidly becoming one of the most democratic polities in the world. One way to see this is to look at the state constitutions written in this era.
I guess, by %-syntax, you mean templace strings, something like logging.info('logging object %s', obj)? (as opposed to the 'old' printf-style formatting with % operator)

This is a fair concern, but in my personal experience, that was never an issue in Python. Sometimes I had similar problems in c++ code, but then typically if you choose c++, it's probably for the very reason you expect to squeeze every last bit of performance.

Another potential benefit of pattern strings is that they allow for more defensive behaviour

- e.g. imagine __str__ method for obj throws the extension, then f'logging object {obj}' will crash immediately. logging.info('object %s', obj) can catch the exception from __str__, log it, and continue

- or imagine a typo in the logging pattern, something like logging.info('objects %s %s', obj1). Depending on the logger configuration, it might just log the error (e.g. 'missing value') and carry on without crashing.

Such defensive behaviour may or may not be desirable, of course. In my experience, such errors just never happen (especially the latter, if you use f-strings and mypy, most of these can be statically checked). But YMMV
Interview with Solid-State Battery Startup QuantumScape CEO Jagdeep Singh
You can already do this. There's a kernel boot parameter called isocpu or something and the kernel will only run on the logical cpus listed. Furthermore, you can isolate your user programs. The general benefit is latency, but there's a theoretical trade-off in scheduling bandwidth. The memory heirarchy will be utilized less efficiently too.
Companies will shovel money to their lawyers to set up an ownership structure that benefits the investors and founders, but don't bother to develop a workaround to the AMT exercise trap, and that tells you everything you need to know about working at a pre-RSU startup.

*Doesn't apply to companies with 10-year exercise windows or other good tricks.
The web is very fascinating space for me. Back in university years I started to realize how much powerful is web. One doesn't have to buy a lot of book in order to learn new things. It's just amazing.

And yet I am a bit pessimistic about the future of the web, in the beginning we all hoped it will created new space, where we will be able to freely speak and share our thoughts, in fact today's web turns into a space where surveillance has become a standard.

The web was created for people, not for capitalists.
That means putting them in the middle class. Middle class means you have income from both labor and capital, it includes plumbers with healthy retirement savings. The only way to be lower class is to have severely insufficient savings.
By the time the web was as old as bitcoin is now, we were already the other side of the dot com boom/bust and Amazon had a market cap of $2.25B. The web changed everything very quickly.
I am wondering if this US Law is specific to Cable Companies, does it also apply to those using Fibre and good old DSL?

And in the EU, does that mean you could theoretically buy your own ONT + Router if you have an Fibre Internet Connection?

I hate having so many boxes, so I have always preferred to have Modem / ONT + Router in One, but it seems to be an unpopular option around the world. As a matter of fact I would even want my TV to be the Wireless Router so I could no boxes underneath my TV.
The tax is based on the fraction of time spent in CA, both days and years. The intent (for years) is likely to avoid people striking it rich in startups/movies/etc, and then immediately leaving the state to avoid a tax on the windfall. The intent (for days) is probably to avoid a high net worth CEO "moving" to a close state and flying in frequently to conduct an in-state business. I don't know many working people who spend 60 days/year on vacation :-)

From the bill itself: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml...

"... percentage of days in the year such taxpayer was present"

"... the portion of a taxpayer’s wealth subject to the tax imposed by this part shall be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be years of residence in California over the 10 last years, and the denominator of which shall be 10"

So taking a contrived example of someone most affected who visited for the briefest of 60 day visits one time in 10 years, we would have 60/365 * 1/10 * 0.4% = .006%/yr tax. That seems pretty reasonable for a CEO/movie-star/whatever who visits (most likely to earn more money based on in-state activities). Even over the ten year period this amounts to 0.06% which is TINY. For someone with $100M net worth, over ten years it would amount to $42K of state tax (note that the first $30M is not taxed).
looks like yesterday I used BBS's to outdial to the web :'-)
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Good teaching of kids is not lecture - relationship and reacting to kids as individuals matter and does not scale.
> the single mom working 2 jobs and didn't graduate high school herself

This isn't a quick fix strategy, it's a long term fix strategy that takes generations. The "access to education" is exactly for the benefit of people like the mother. Also the UBI means that she no longer has to work two jobs to pay for basic services for her kids.

UBI is the ultimate safety net that catches almost everyone who the current system has failed, and education is the long term guarantee to break the cycle of poverty.
Graded Modal Dependent Type Theory
There may be a few sites I don't know about but I wish there was a reputable resource that saved archived information. I think libraries should archive everything on the internet if they haven't already. It would be really neat to give students the ability to surf the web of 2001's ecetera.

By archiving the internet I mean everything. Search engine performance on each date, ads, social traffic.
I think recent firmwares would allow Sd-card-less pxe boot. I was wondering the other day if you could then run the whole system from RAM disk only and/or maybe mount volumes via iSCSI from SAN (keeping in mind limitations of RPi 1Gb nic).

Edit: someone has done this already. Of course! :) ( https://tech.xlab.si/blog/pxe-boot-raspberry-pi-iscsi/ )
Especially later on you really get the idea that Michael isn't as ridiculous as it seems at first and does a lot of "silly" stuff for leadership reasons. There's an episode where Jim tries to combine birthday celebrations as one of his first acts as manager and it blows up in his face. After, Michael imparts real wisdom about why that happened. It becomes clear that while he is a ridiculous and imperfect man, he is a decent leader after all. And some of the jokes and such? They're for morale, even if they don't always hit the mark. Somehow Scranton stays afloat..

What a great show
2013 discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6882744
Sure, that's absolutely true. But it doesn't mean that you need to rebuild already working stuff over and over.

It's much more fun to improve the status quo by inventing something nice as to repeat the work of the past generation (only painting things in a different color).
While I doubt they did this for more than a few days at a time, I can totally see them doing this to help get through winters.

I've had a couple of periods where I was flat broke and had food staples and a roof over my head but not much else in Canadian winter or two. That's essentially how I would pass a few days here and there to save money on food and expenses.

I would sleep as much as possible, fast until around 8pm, and eat a cheap meal (e.g. bulk pasta and tomato sauce I made from marked down cans of tomato and froze), then back to bed. A lot of the time, if I couldn't sleep, I would read. This was pre internet and I didn't have a phone or tv.

Days go by pretty fast like that (it was very, very cold out each time I did this and I had inadequate clothing for the weather so even a walk was not happening).

Eventually, the next thing I had to do would come up and I'd get back to normal. For context, I worked in kitchens so work meant "free" food (my jobs paid very little) or a couple times I was in a cabin in the middle of nowhere waiting for the weather to clear so I could dig out and get my car in the road. Nice to do this when you have a good supply of stove wood and a good book.
Almost as if Russia and the US are being pitted against each other, ignoring the other major hacking nation-state.

More than half of all visits to my website are from a single Asian country. Extra points to you if you can guess it. Visits from Russia and other ex-Soviet block countries amount to about 2%.
Short it big boy, short it.
>Municipal broadband is an interesting idea but physical infrastructure inevitably needs maintenance and I'm not sure tax dollars should be used to maintain fiber optic lines to residences.

There's no need to lease the fiber infrastructure, just provide interconnect nodes for ISPs.

Municipal broadband maintenance can be paid for by charging interconnect fees to the ISPs who wish to service that area.

Once the infrastructure is in place, barriers to entry for ISPs is very low. All you need is bandwidth and connection to the municipal network.

Maintenance can be provided on a cost plus basis by an independent (i.e., not the ISPs) company that manages and maintains the infrastructure.

And surpluses from interconnect fees can be used for both network enhancements and other municipal programs.
agree :) The reason status and wealth remains big is most people wants easy life. And we people are taught we should work hard to earn money from school level. Society say we should become Doctor/engineer/High Level Manager at least where I live. If we can marry rich people and live happy life why not?
How you can connect a handful of (some college educated) women I know putting their body where they want with men they pick as being anything like a billionaires sex cabal drugging and buying kids from poor parents are at all similar is some Machiavellian effort. Bravo.

But since we’re on the subject; maybe put less value into financial trade which is the contemporary value store propping up the exploitation of billionaires.

Perhaps buy fewer gadgets that prop up the economy they grift on from the masses agency.

Perhaps be more for raising taxes to distribute wealth to communities that can use it if you’re that worried.

Above all perhaps avoid centralizing authority over agency in private power. A pattern we keep buying into as a species only to realize it rather makes things worse for the majority.

Put your agency into something that tackles artificial social problems (stock values, disposable widgets sold!, not enough money for M4A or community uplift in poor areas) instead of (sad as it may be) human issues that have existed forever, and there’s precious little we can do about it. Even if billionaire sex cabals vanish, are you going to scour the world seeking out every tribal instance? Or are you simply reaching for acceptable semantics from your perspective?

In other words: walk the walk when it comes to pushing back against immoral behavior as you see it. Semantic battles here over specific instances are self congratulatory and empty if we’ll simply equivocate away structural changes.
The US CIA runs a global secret network of unaccountable torture prisons.

When the US congress tried to investigate them, the CIA compromised the congressional computers to avoid oversight of their torture programs, then lied about compromising them.

The US military conducts bulk espionage on everyone inside the country, in violation of the country's own basic law.

The differences aren't quite as stark as you think.

I also believe that if you ask the average Chinese or Russian person (the US bogeymen of the season) they would also believe that their country is fundamentally good.

It turns out humans everywhere are fundamentally good, and governments everywhere tend toward illegal and oppressive authoritatianism, given enough time to gather resources, size, and fear.
File a formal complaint with your state attorney general.
Well that's a garbage take. This guy fundamentally doesn't seem to understand what an index is. The S&P 500 doesn't (well, shouldn't) make value judgments about the quality of the companies in it. It's just the 500 largest companies on US exchanges. That's what people who use it want.

Really, the big problem here was that it wasn't already included on the S&P 500 years ago, so that all of the gains leading up to this point could have been shared with passive investors. It's satisfied the market cap requirement for awhile, but not the profitability requirement, which clearly didn't work well in this case.
Did you see the “underwater Stonehenge” article voted to the to the top of the font page the other day? It’s fallen pretty rapidly in recent times. I’m looking for an alternative but have yet to find one. Disappointing.
What Books Should Biden Read?
We should talk about this. I'm working with 3 other people who are all in the same boat. So far it seems like the only way to really make it work is to get options with a 10 year exercise window, or basically consider them worthless until the company has liquidity.
Unfortunately that's exactly what a sociopath or clueless would say.

I believe in "work hard & be nice to people", but for religious & stoic reasons rather than expectations that it will be a successful strategy in most corporate environments.
not if you buy a replacement. (which goes together with the depreication comment).

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/06/section1031exchange...

though I was wrong about the stepped up cost basis. was confusing that with inheritance.
What made Lode Runner the must-have game to have is that it was the first game with a built in level editor. Before Lode Runner, once one finished all of the levels in a game, it was time to move on to another game. To make custom levels, one needed to program their own game in Basic.

With Lode Runner, one could open up the level editor, easily make a custom Lode level, then playtest and share it with friends.
And, as that article mentions, the YoY delta is closer to 10%, so about 7500 excess deaths compared to a normal year. The data is from around June if I recall correctly, so it could have gone up or down a bit, but I doubt it would change by an order of magnitude. What's more, as we get the vaccine rolled out, almost all of these deaths are preventable. COVID is a unique event.

That being said, the shocking statistic I remember is when drug overdoses surpassed the COMBINATION of automobile accidents and homicides as a source of mortality. That is the blurb that really got me thinking differently about the scale of the problem.
> Also, there are limits to what companies can afford to pay while still having a viable business model. They can be maximally desperate for talent, but still limited to paying only up to a certain amount.

That's part of the demand curve, as commonly understood in economics, even if we might colloquially say that "there is a large demand".
I loved this game. I first played a ported version of Lode Runner on a sinclair spectrum clone in the 80s, I was less than 10 years old. I love The digita antiquarian, he brings back sweet memories
How would one most easily construct a pipeline or script to either split apart an mp4 into images, process them all with this tool, and then recombine into a video, or else modify this tool to take video as input?

Anyone have any ideas / suggestions for a path to try that might require the least installation and scripting?

And can anyone tell whether it's deterministic or not as far as whether the same input generates the same output each time?
my understanding of US stock options for Canadians (and really for anyone who can't afford to exercise their options) is:

- having ISOs is bad, you don't get any of the tax advantages that Americans get and it means that they expire 90 days after you leave the company if you don't exercise them

- having NSOs that expire after 10 years is good, they can still be risky to exercise (same as with ISOs), but that's not too bad because you can delay exercising for 10 years after you get them, and hopefully they'll become liquid (or worthless) before then

- it's possible for a company to switch employees' options from ISOs to NSOs (for example Pinterest did this https://fortune.com/2015/03/23/pinterest-employee-taxes/), so it might be worth putting pressure on your employer to offer that change if you're in the bad (ISO) situation
The truly vast amount of literature on both Buddhism and Hinduism argue to the contrary.

Also, the ultimate reality in Buddhism, Hinduism, and (incidentally) mystic forms of Islam, is often described as being beyond words and even beyond conception, so there is a limited amount that could be said about it in ordinary language -- though that hasn't stopped people from trying.

In Buddhism one often hears the teachings described as the finger pointing towards the moon. Language may be inadequate to describe ultimate reality, but it can point to it.
Yeah the increased the broadcast fees from 12 to 18 and a bunch of other small fees. Such BS.
As someone who doesn’t know much about the two protocols: how come?
> And yes, compatibility will be kept with other Arm based CPUs including Apple Silicon.

Did you forget the three E's?

"Embrace, extend, extinguish"? Surely you're not that young?
Tech often does this, it takes a thing, deskills 95% of it, and puts the people who can do the missing 5% in a horrible situation where they can't make enough money to live. Instead they see other people making more than them by half-assing their profession.

I was a Carpenter and Joiner. Crappy gangs with nail guns and battery saws could compete with me on some of my work, leaving too little of the skilled stuff to make a living. CNC stair builders churned out a demonstrably worse but cheaper version of what my workshop made. My Dad, long past retirement age, is still living on the crumbs these kids leave behind. When he dies there will be none left in our old patch that can do some of the old skills, like traditional roofing (where prefab trussed rafters can't be used).

I am not 100% clear that this is a better world.

I use the tube in London, but black cabs are still the premium service.
I’m actually not sure that’s what he meant. I think he meant that if you picked two planets to have life on them at random, and the pairwise distances between planets forms a uniform distribution, then the distance between the two planets randomly chosen is equally likely to be any distance.
I've been playing this version of it a lot recently: http://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/

Even though I'm a lot better than when I was a kid, I've only made it up to level 14 so far.
I think 2 hours would probably be plenty. I've seen schools during the pandemic have about 1 hour of teacher/student of subject instruction, and that's with larger cohort sizes (9-10 students) and doing everything virtual. You can also look at homeschool examples, here's one I just randomly found[1]. She spends about 1 hour and 15 minutes actively teaching her 5th grader and 30 minutes with her 4 year old (they also study on their own or sit in with each others classes).

As others mentioned, a big part of the issue is that school ends up serving as a daycare for many parents. It's likely that school isn't optimized for education, and there is a good chance that much of school is just for occupying kids that we as a society aren't willing to accommodate in any other way.

[1] https://tablelifeblog.com/typical-homeschool-day/
Oh man, how much of my youth was spent in front of Lode Runner.

Just reading the name triggered the SFX in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72k1ZYp83tc
> So what's your apparently more correct understanding of some of those words?

My guess would be "I care about results, not how you get them". Which is a completely acceptable policy if your workloads line up exactly with the benchmarks.

The benefit of trying to "peek behind the curtain" is mostly for trying to extrapolate anything else from the benchmark results (how would it perform on my different workload? which setups are worth benchmarking anyway? what could I change to improve the performance?).
Part is technical: App then no longer have access to the device advertisert id. Companies can use that to track you between multiple apps.

Part is transparency and documentation only: Companies need to describe what data is collected and what it's being used for.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-...
It does indeed make it easier to code. But you may have noticed that Xbox X has moved to having different speed memories with different memory controllers, even if logically contiguous and uniformly accessible. The CPU pool has a narrower bus and can't be used for graphics objects -- you have to queue for copy to the graphics pool. The driver then schedules a deconflicted copy.

The PS5 architecture also has different speeds -- but the slow access is to SSD! It has manual management of streaming resources from SSD to RAM, but also allows direct SSD reads -- but that is a trick, because the SSD controller has a huge RAM cache too.

So I'd say we're actually moving away from UMA in general. I think that memory aware scheduling is going to be the next win -- online learning to understand memory access patterns and scheduling compute and cache fill. Fancy cache algorithms used to take too much logic (and slow cache fill logic down), but for SSD->RAM you can do lots of prediction based on program state.