skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with less than 100k infections and 5k deaths

Acceptance of this statement requires trusting the output of the CCP, which is inherently dishonest with these sort of metrics for political purposes.
> I think this response and some others vastly underestimate the value and complexity of „unskilled“ or „menial“ work.

IMHO the parent poster is not talking about, let’s say the “inherent” value of such work, but the value our society places on it when it comes to money - aka when it comes to acquiring the basic necessities and securities of life and what it takes to live a decent life in the modern world.

Otherwise, I agree with your comment 100% and suspect several of the other posters do too.
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$100 each starts making way less sense when they have the same semantics as a burned optical discs for home users.

These days the main benefit to tape is the physical safety of having the media be inside a cartridge, and the streaming read speeds are stupid fast so you can reconstruct a backup faster.

Home use, even with a data hoarder sized NAS, is better served with a bluray burner with multiple copies.
I haven’t read the full paper, but I think there is a lot of opportunities in parallelizing various shell workloads.

Simple things like grep can be split and parallelized on a single system with a ssd. The pain comes back to doing something like combining results.

Additionally, commands have so many options they can move between simple to parallelize, to more complicated.

I also wonder if the approach should be to build a query planning layer al la pash, or addressing the parallelism in the command itself. I.e their sort example.
D-VHS was a thing, tape capacity started at 25GB
Somewhat of a pain, but you can use the share button to open it in a web browser. Then when it forwards you to apple news use the back to old app in the top left corner. Then hit tap here and it takes you to the website.
I'm not a big fan of the TINA (There is no alternative), assertion. Sure, if you compare yields of stocks against bonds, they look relatively more attractive, but that's a strictly relative comparison. Even if bonds yield 0%, if you buy a stock that goes down 50%, as many did in the dotcom bubble, you've done much worse.

Can stocks continue their historical run up? Sure. But we're pretty clearly one catalyst away from a major correction. Will that catalyst arise in the next year? Impossible to say, but it will come eventually.

In an effort to save the economy, the Federal Reserve and Government have created a much bigger long-term problem. They've shown a willingness to prop up the stock market and removed all downside risk. Wealth inequality is ballooning to an all-time high due to large inflation of asset prices. Homes are less affordable than ever due to extraordinarily low interest rates.

And when the Fed attempted to raise rates (2018 dip) and stocks dipped a few percent, they backed off totally. Years of asset price growth is happening in a few months, which is basically a wealth transfer from the investors of tomorrow to the asset holders of today.

While government intervention has helped the real economy in the short-run, we're setting ourselves up for much bigger problems down the line.
The reason why it’s enforceable was because of psystar.
I would say time for money, as I don't really have any programming "ideals". I don't really like programming and I don't really hate programming. However, I am not going to make a seven figure income doing something else, so I will be programming until I stop :)
Home users had tape backups since the 80’s.

The problem was, nobody actually backs up so not enough people bought tapes/drives so they quit making them.
Let's be honest. Nobody is running workloads on Mac Mini servers because they think it's a good server OS or good server hardware. They're doing it to run Xcode as part of a CI/CD pipeline (or some other kind of automated testing) in order to develop applications for iOS devices. No, there is no money in Apple for either licensing out their IP or building their own server brand. It's a loss leader or at best a break-even, low-margin business for them, but it's a compliment to their high-margin businesses (having more/better apps means more App Store revenue and helps keep users on the hardware/software platform). Not having a convenient way to run Xcode in an automated workflow is a strategy tax on their other, profitable lines of business.
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If you build for yourself, you'll have a first customer right away.

But, on a less trite note, it's highly variable. For my most recent project (sci.chat), it took me a total of three weeks from starting to get my first customer. They came through a reddit post. For other projects I've made, I've gotten zero customers after months of effort. In my experience, relying on organic growth instead of "going viral" attempts has worked out a lot better.
I agree on the merits of "pure", but I wouldn't call "auto" bloat. As a quality-of-life improvement, especially for writing generic code, it's pretty useful.
> Adding “auto” is just a me-too to the “var” of C# and Java.

I get the "C++ is so full of nonsense, and they keep adding more of it!" attitude, and I largely agree with it, but "auto" is a bad target. auto makes a lot of c++ code (most, arguably) much easier to read and cleans up and simplifies a lot of the language. Like, the fact that you never, ever, have to write out the full name of iterator types in C++ (you can just go "auto it = vec.begin()" or whatever) is worth the feature all on its own. It also makes dealing with complex generics simpler. It's a huge quality of life improvement.

There's a reason most languages have added type inference, and it's not just a trendy bandwagon. In most reasonably recent languages (Rust and Swift notably), it is in fact the default to do this kind of type inference. It's genuinely a nicer way to program.

In C++ it also serves another important purpose: if there wasn't auto, there wouldn't be lambdas. All lambdas in C++ have an type created by the compiler which you can't access the name of. In order to store a lambda in its native type, you therefore have to use auto. Basically, if you like that C++ is becoming "more functional", that is only really possible because of adding auto.
Imagine the entire population of the world was a village of 100 houses. There are 100 people.

Imagine the village ages out and you have 90 old people, and 10 middle-aged people. There's not enough people harvesting grain to feed everyone. There's not enough workers to maintain the roads. The life-savings everyone accumulated under the balanced population gets spent squabbling for the limited food at inflated prices. The water and roads fall apart with no one to maintain them. Life gets worse, not better. Unless there is war, famine or pestilence, usually reductions in population will be unbalanced by nature.
It's a chilling indictment of the human race that all our tools for detecting intelligent life are pointed AWAY from the earth. That's a real red flag, and it would make sense that others would see that and refuse to talk to us.

Tangentially, we put almost no effort into interspecies communication. It's asinine to be constantly searching for intelligence when we can't even figure out how to communicate with cetaceans. By now we should have a full functioning networked dolphin-computer interface and dolphin web forums and interspecies instant messenger. But NOOOOOOO, we're all too busy literally shouting at the sky.
Simpler versions of such devices exist, eg HENSOLDT Cyber markets a secure VPN gateway that is built on seL4. Over the years we've been in on-and-off discussions with vendors of networking equipment, it's always a battle between those in the company who take security seriously and those resisting any rocking of the boat. Having said that, we're presently in such a discussion again and it's looking promising so far.
However, it's entirely possible that someone has already done it and is not talking about it...
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2347360332
> Or maybe different people have different needs and don’t care if every device is “open”

And that is exactly the point you miss.

You are happy and don't care if Apple is open or not. Good for you.

Some of us are not.

And if you do not care whether Apple is open or not, what does it really matter to you if some of us advocate for more openness and transparency from them? It's important to us.
The biggest problem with modern blockbusters (2016)
...with a claw on an extendable rope attached. Because a rescue operation is obviously more interesting than just giving the kids a second drone.
Can confirm that printers work significantly more reliably on Linux than on Windows as of about ten years. My SO asks me to print things from Linux because on Windows they need to always re-add the printer or some such nonsense. And that's via USB, don't ask me about my dad's network printer that his Windows fails to "find" half the time even when trying to re-add (and Windows doesn't make it clear what that even means) but my system just sends the job and it just works.
That's why they'll install the technology approximating whatever was around when you were 48, not whatever is "in" when you're 70 :)
Unfortunately true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-gall...
Good. Fuck Ireland for their policy of building an entire economy on the basis of sucking the arse of American megacorporations, rather than actually investing in producing stuff for themselves, or building up home-grown businesses.

Let's hope the rest of the big US megacorps follow suit.
drone with a saw.
> groff gets no love even though it can deliver nice output. The syntax is even more arcane

I think you've answered it yourself. Also damning is that groff doesn't support UTF-8 directly.

Most groff guides only do very basic formatting. Complex math/equation layout can be awful. Image files apparently need to be ps/eps. I just keep running into issues.

There's also no accessible ecosystem for groff. CTAN. Code highlighting (ideally, I want to use pygments - i guess i could write a backend if i was really invested). TikZ is great and something I've invested in a lot. Bibliography management. Also, not an issue for me, but an issue for adoption is Windows support.

As for competing with Word's workflow, at least with some TeX variant I have a chance. Installer frameworks. Editors with previews. So a few GiB to not run into these limitations sounds worth it to me to be productive.

I'm not saying groff couldn't be used for complex stuff, but I wouldn't know where to begin, or want to work around all those limitations.
I’m suspicious of any large transfer of wealth from an individual or organization to a politician, whether that’s through campaign donations or some other means.

It seems strange not to take the next logical step and conclude that there were some backroom dealings, especially if the politician later takes an action that is favorable to the donor.
Apple News is trying this and it doesn’t seem to work too well. The trouble is the best publications can run their own offers and charge much more. FT and Bloomberg in particular tend to be corporate expenses.

Apple news costs $120 a year. Basic digital FT is over $350. Premium digital even more.
> To be clear, I'm not saying anyone who is poor can get out of it easily (or even at all). I'm saying some definitely can.

I was not disagreeing that SOME people can move. I am saying that it isn't blanket advice that you can give to every poor person living in a big city.

My main issue is that the advice to 'move somewhere cheaper' is often used as a way to dismiss the seriousness of poverty, that all it takes is some personal decisions and you won't be poor anymore. In other words, it is poor people's fault for being poor (because they choose to live in an expensive city).

Yes, there are lots of techniques that many individuals can use to improve their personal situation. However, that doesn't mean that we have solved the societal issues that are leading to widespread poverty.
I am sure there is a better way but I just do this. It works well enough for my purposes.

cd ~

git init

git remote add origin [URL]

git fetch

git checkout -f master
I just started reading it, but I just wanted to say THANK YOU to whoever implemented keyboard navigation for this (scrolling with arrows).

Makes it so much more enjoyable to experience.
Artificial general intelligence will not be
Blockchain is way too hard to interact with even for moderately technical people. And the minute you create an interface that makes it easy, you become the single point of failure.

I used to think BitTorrent was easy for the average computer user by now, but actually not so. You can't really delete a magnet link, but you can relatively easily take down the websites that host them, so it's not really relevant. It doesn't matter if the file still exists and there's a peer willing to distribute it if I cannot find it. In practice a lot of a popular torrent trackers (or magnet link indexers) manage to stay up for several years, but there's no technological guarantee for this.
Sometimes it's necessary to make an example of someone. Sucks for that particular teen, and it's sad to see someone's future completely ruined, but maybe they should've thought twice about throwing the n word around.
> A 12 TB HDD requires 10 GB/day for three years to be filled. [...] hoarding (by today's standards).

You have an interesting argument - by the same reasoning, when one has eventually filled up a 12 TB HDD, it would no longer be hoarding by tomorrow's standard. In other words, at this point, one should be able to get the next generation of HDDs for cheap, and it's this fact that makes all tape drives unnecessary.

Now I wonder whether it was a mistake for me to buy a spare 14 TB HDD to 1:1 mirror my new file server for cold backup. Perhaps a smaller one should be good for 5 years anyway...
No, I think it is very prescient --- the same way almost no one believed RMS a few decades ago and thought he was crazy. But it's clear where things are heading with Apple.
They will build a new one right next to an empty building.
Finally a way I can store all those family photos I swear I'm going to sort through someday!
It is two fold: private plane owners associations are lobbying. The flight tracking industry (FlightRadar24, FlightAware, etc) are also pushing for it because without an expensive feed of data from the FAA hobbyist networks like ADSBExchange will be unable to compete with them.
People and institutions need to become less fearful of internet mobs. No person I've talked to felt like cancelling this student was an appropriate response. No one. The punishment (or "consequences" if you want to use that word instead) is completely asymmetrical to the actual act that happened. There is nothing "just" about this whole situation. I really hope things will turn out okay for this teenager.
My knowledge about the matter is almost certainly out of date, but when I was working on image recognition over a decade ago the process I went through was like this: translate image to grayscale, run an edge detection algorithm, and then look for certain features. Lighting and dark colors had a big effect on the detection quality, and the whole thing wasn't very robust. I can see how skin color could be an issue if there isn't enough contrast in the image to identify features.
Yo. Stop being mean. This isn’t a competition. You’re not in high school anymore. You don’t need to put others down to boost yourself.
Thank you. I appreciate that you recognize what I wrote here versus what some people apparently want to read into it.

And, just to continue the anecdote where the camera turned my friend green, y'all know it's not like anybody said "Hey, $FRINEDS_NAME, can you just be less black, or something?" In fact, what we did was all laugh together (including our friend, the subject of the photo), joke a little, and, IIRC, take a digital portrait.
It’s neither ;-).

If you’ve passed your midlife crisis, you have all the resources you need to answer that question yourself. And you’re the only person who can.

If you want input, there’s more than enough actual wisdom literature out there to tap into.

You’re working backwards from death at this point, not forward from birth. And that is a very good thing.

Hint: money starts becoming an increasingly unreal thing, if it ever was real to begin with.
On a side note, what are the odds that there is a giant gold asteroid, floating around out there in the asteroid belt?

After all, a huge nickel asteroid slammed into what is now Canada, and left a huge nickel deposit there, just waiting to be mined out one day.

The same idea can be said for something like gold or platinum.
I recently started sending long form voice recordings to friends as a new way to stay connected (I explain that idea here https://nicktorba.com/brain/voice-memo-experiment). I'm excited to send those friends a link to this article as a way to further convince them they should send recordings back.

I did not expect the personal thought benefits that come from speaking to yourself in long form. After starting to send recordings to friends, I quickly became more comfortable speaking for long periods and found it led to more interesting ideas and better understanding of my thoughts and ideas. Plus, it helped me better structure thoughts verbally. I've also started making a recording right after I listen to any podcast. It has made listening to them much more engaging.

I was also surprised by how energizing recording audio is. I find myself refreshed after going for a walk and recording my thoughts, or creating a recording for a friend (much more so than if I listened to a podcast on the same walk, or just walked in silence). It's also a fantastic way to make time in the car creative and productive.

Voice recording or self talking is definitely an underutilized tool for thought and creation.
> So...it's basically impossible for anyone smaller than NYT or WaPo to ever make money from this model.

That doesn't necessarily follow though. It just means that organizations smaller than NYT or WaPo will make proportionally less money, which would be true of any monetization method. The question is whether you can bring in as many total dollars with such a shared subscription scheme as you could with advertising or some other similar venue.

> Likewise, most artists don't make any meaningful money from Spotify.

And if they would have made meaningful money with CDs, merch, and whatnot then the cause is that people are paying less in aggregate for music via Spotify than they used to from other channels (Spotify's cut might also play a role if the difference is only 2x or something). It's not that Spotify is paying out in proportion to listens, because that was already happening.
There were populations that were as high as 9 in the 1960's. All have fallen in line with global trends.
It's disappointing that so many things listed here either are not real problems (soil degradation) or are already solved (we're spending a tonne of money on fusion, populations are already falling in many places and will fall globally from 2100).

In light of that: I'm surprised we're not better at spreading awareness of, and prioritising, problems.
> Any sensible time handling solution will truncate instead of rounding.

That doesn't really work for a countdown timer though since the last second would then display as zero, which is nonsense for 'time remaining'. You have to round up, always.

The Android 9 countdown works intuitively, it takes a second to decrement from 5 to 4 and sounds the alarm exactly at 0. You can't pause it at zero...

> Which is not to call apple's timer nonsensical.

It pretty much is, since the last 'second' takes more than a second to elapse.
Well kind of yes and no. As far as GHC is concerned, `Prelude` is just a module like any other, within `base`, a package like any other.

We could special-case it, but on the other hand, there are already multiple other solutions in this space that are more generally useful. Alternate Preludes (and compiler support of -XNoImplicitPrelude) `hlint` can also be customized to do exactly what you're asking for as well.
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This is one of my favourites [0] that goes a lot further than most, but fits the timeframe. Error handling, macros, standard library all included.

[0] http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
I can recommend Overleaf. I used it for my PhD thesis and multiple collaborative scientific papers.
Aaaaand none of that matters when it comes to getting a job, except, maybe, for certain areas of software development.

And yeah he prioritized avoiding debt the same way a hungry animal prioritizes avoiding starvation.
You are correct that its easy to mis-apply broad sweeping statements based on individual complaints, however, Apple's extended warranty program generates billions of dollars and the Apple repair market is also worth hundreds of millions (sorry don't have a handy link, this is just waht I remember the last time I looked. Should be easy enough to Google). Its clear that like any other product Apple products too fail, and its also clear that the customers understand that Apple products fail.
A better whiteboard/notes/mindmap app. (for windows)

I can't be the only person who uses graphs, flow charts and images as a primary mental model for idea representation.
This a domain I have been obsessed with for ages. The tech seems to be there. Ocr, shape recognition, pen technology is all there. New devices increasingly have the ML hardware to support it.

Why isn't it here yet? We are living in the midst of a remote collaboration revolution, with notion, airtable, teams and slack becoming the norm, but this one thing seems to be completely sidelined.

I would have blindly jumped headfirst into making such an app if I did not have serious visa related causes holding me down. I can see it, but it just isn't there yet.

p.s: I have spent days finding a good app. (onenote is my begrudging compromise for now). Send me a good one if you can. There isn't much on apple either, but I care more about the windows ecosystem.
G&A are going to be so concerned with "loosing out on data" that to their detriment all of their voice-driven interfaces will be cloud dependent. Hopefully, someone with enough wits will dare to lose out on that data and instead create devices with local voice models that can still learn and become more useful as you use them. I want this model to become embedded into my operating system.

I want an OS that gets smarter by the day but without phoning home. I want my OS to become better than yours, simply because I trained it better that you did yours. I want this OS to be _my OS_. Not your's. Not Apple's. Not Microsoft's.

Did you see the movie "AI" (written by Kubric, directed by Spielberg)? In the movie there's an AI driven teddy bear that is awfully close to being an AGI. I want my OS to be like that.
There's a lot going on in the space, but it's still frustrating when fans get such large blind spots for cars not made by their favorite manufacturer. It's a tale as old as time, though.
I am you in the past then, I am still trying to find the balance. Thank you for the insights!
How much good sex has this project lead to you having? :)