skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no economist so I may be missing something; let's talk through this bit by bit and maybe you can help me understand your plan better.

> If you could also prevent other existing competitors from Walmart-level pay or worse. In this scenario, the demand for groceries didn't disappear - just Walmart did, and now there's all these ex-Walmart people looking for a job.

You mention existing competitors would face the same regulation and control that Walmart would but the rest of your post reads like you only expect Walmart employees to be laid off. What makes you think that Smiths, Macey's, Kroger, Target, etc won't have to let workers go for the same reasons that Walmart workers would be let go? If you're instituting policies that result in Walmart cutting its workforce, those same policies will absolutely cause the same to happen in competing chains.

Okay, so you've managed to flood the labor market with workers from a dozen grocery chains- what next?

> New grocery stores would form

How and why do you think new grocery stores that don't even have the established presence or infrastructure other chains had already built will be able to thrive once these other chains have disappeared?

> And if they paid enough to get these people off welfare

Where is the money coming from that allows these new stores to pay their workers $6.2b more than before? By
a) raising prices on groceries and
b) hiring fewer workers.

So, to recap: a large part of the workforce has been laid off, prices have risen for everyone across the board, and because the new stores with the higher prices aren't hiring as many workers to compensate for the policies you've instituted, part of the workforce that was laid off in the first place will still be out of work! That's without even taking into consideration the effect this will have on the rest of the working class. Do you think the families who were on the cusp of needing welfare before the prices on groceries rose will magically have their food budgets increased? Of course not. Either they'll work more to increase their incomes, learn to live with less while keeping their grocery budgets static, or get the government to subsidize them which is the whole problem you wanted to fix in the first place.

If you're instituting a policy that causes massive lay-offs for multiple corporations while increasing the cost of living for everyone (including the people you just got laid off), you're not going to free up $6.2b to be used elsewhere- you're creating a situation where
a) even more people will need to take advantage of government subsidies to make ends meet; wasn't this what you were trying to fix?
b) families will, as they always have, learn to survive on less while spending the same as before.
c) permanently add to the unemployment pool because the new stores are hiring fewer employees than were laid off by the new policies you instituted.

I don't like this solution. Am I wrong? I've never had any formal econ education so it's perfectly reasonable to believe I'm missing some key points here; this is just how it logically plays out in my mind.
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> shown what a complete mess of a state that the U.S. is in

I have found people more likely to believe that covid is fake or over exaggerated than leadership issues.

> real estate... tanking

Actually in some areas real estate is booming, driven by the lowest interest rates ever. Maybe that leads to different ways of viewing the situation as well.
As more and more people move to Austin they will grow in political influence until they can vote out those people, institute a personal income tax, etc.
> I think you are right: the SLOWNESS is a killer. In fact, I think it is THE show-stopper flaw.

I think there are multiple clones of JIRA that literally just focus on the performance part. I think at this point it's unrealistic to expect major performance improvements in a timely fashion with JIRA.
Do you have any ideas for changing the format, to make it easier to write about these things in a way that lets people read the parts they want?

Possibly write about the reasons something was changed and the use cases improved, instead of the changes themselves?
USDC v2: Upgrading a multi-billion dollar ERC-20 token
What if the universe itself is alive, just on a vastly longer timescale than normal organic life? It contains all other life, after all.
It's already solved.

We have charter schools and specialized public schools for tech and arts that are pretty fantastic.
I don't think semantic debates are very worthwhile, but in my mind a system that collapses is completely non-functional, not partially non-functional.

A system that is choosing which patients to treat is therefor not collapsed.

Similarly, a bridge that has collapsed transports zero traffic - not 50% of the traffic.

But again, venturing into these semantic debates isn't useful. People choose hyperbolic words in order to justify their preconceived conclusions. The hyperbolic adjectives themselves aren't the point of OP above.
who would have guessed that a paper he wrote as a joke would turn out to be one of his most important and influential. I have seen this paper cited and referenced online more than his serious papers. It shows the value of side projects and divergent thinking. Twitter began as a side project too.
Even if you correctly pick up on the implications of "studio", it could also be a page about WebAssembly Studio or the page where you download it.
> Google, and other companies are welcome to use OpenStreetMap Data as long as they meet their obligations in the OpenStreetMap License.

But they do not make wide use of OSM data, because one of the terms of the license is attribution, of which there is none on any Google product I have seen.

I would guess they are big supporters of OSM as a hiring thing - by supporting an opensource project, you will get young engineers interested in mapping, some of which will then go work on Google Maps.

It also helps any antitrust cases if Google isn't the only game in town, which was the case for many years.
I always thought that if I ran my own lab, I would have rotation projects be to replicate a recent result from the lab. Then, a lot of the infrastructure and support would still be there, so it would be pretty clear if the fault lay with the experiment. Plus, it would reinforce the notion among trainees that the point of science is to be replicated, and that the hard part of doing something novel is figuring out what to do, not actually doing the work.
Looks good. On my tablet PC, it's not letting me play by touch. For users with both mice and touchscreens, one has to handle the touch events that browsers have.
I would argue the opposite: SV is a monoculture of nerds obsessed with computers, science, and grand ideas of changing the world through tiny companies. Everyone around the world knows it. So all of these kinds of people flock to the Bay in droves, and drive all of the locals mad in the process, but eventually unicorns and impossible fortunes start oozing out of the cracks.

And how can we be sure SV is a monoculture? Because in San Francisco, and now Austin, residents are complaining loudly about the blight of uniform techies with nothing to offer the community at large but glass skyscrapers and hunched backs. Case closed!
Apple M1 Chip for Photoscanning
I haven't seen any reports of arrest.
I would be the target audience, but from the front page I don't see what value it brings over a spreadsheet. I won't register just to found out that. Does it automatically calculate travel costs?
A friend doesn't, from biking. He swims instead. Another friend plays a team sport, one which is utterly incomprehensible to me.

That was my point, sort of. One size does not fit all, but different forms of bodily exercise exist. I believe GP did not try to say so.
What about the burn down charts?

Every project I’ve ever worked on, features are finished, apps and websites are shipped, clients are happy and pay the bills, yet the burn down just goes straight to the right and never down. Sometimes right and up if people added more tickets during the sprint.

We look at it at the end of the sprint and say ah well and continue on our way.

Then sometimes a PM type decides it’s a problem but nothing ever changes it.
Author here for your calculator questions :-)
The camera means it needs registered, but it’s not very onerous and there are no competency requirements. The new rules actually give you more freedom in terms of where you can fly, so it’s a good deal IMO.

You only need insurance for commercial operations.
I don't know why someone would intentionally destroy vaccines.
Chinese regulators probe Ant Group's equity investments
I agree that if we make something we intend for others to use it should aim to be accessible to others. Nobody here is saying others shouldn't be able to use software the problem is software is never complete and for a project like this getting the thing working may reasonably happen before you add ARIA attributes without the cause being enmity to others.

I might be missing something, how would it have been easier to make by adding additional ARIA markup to the UI?
Can read it fine within hn app(Android - manual maly)
Weird - I wonder what they were thinking?

If they thought that it was worth ruining them, they must have believe that they work.
>>It seems that a lot of criticism is due systemd doing more than a classic init process does, but some of it seem unjustified since you it is not an "all or nothing" package.

I hate this argument because, in practice, it is an "all-or-nothing" package from a user standpoint. Packages have a terrible habit of setting dependencies on one or two of the "modules," which wind up bringing the whole thing along with them. Sure, you can "disable" it after the fact, but then you're left with a system that will break in fun and exciting ways when something a package you requested wants isn't available.

If you don't want systemd, your only option at this point is also-ran distros.
> We have operated this system with more than 1.5M concurrent connections and pushes over 250,000 messages per second.

1.5 million? I thought Uber would have more simultaneous active clients than that.
I think it’s binary - it’s either fully concurrent or not concurrent at all.
Lol I enjoyed your rant. I think this is true for most new stuff in any city. From Stockholm to Milan, from Melbourne to Tokyo. It’s the general money culture you’re addressing, not necessarily from SV.

I wish we would have uniqueness to the city. It’s becoming all a monoculture of Eames fake bar stools and Edison bulbs illuminating your exceptionally well crafted macchiato. This started in late 2000s actually. I was just in Kyoto before the pandemic and a lot of traditional old cafes are being replaced by the most hipster japanese shit I've ever. You know the old cafes that served 10cm thick toast, I specifically remember one by the Tajima (sic?) market when I used to travel there back in early 2000s.

Honestly, I want to preserve culture, but that's "too conservative" and you get attacked for saying these things.
Rust algorithm is only one way to do automatic memory management. And regarded as being very restrictive. The scheme Nim implements (ORC), which is innovative as well, is more permissive and unobtrusive. I hope in the next year it becomes the default.
GDP doesn’t mean growth. A country going through an economic contraction still has a massive GDP. There are no IMF policies that favor growth rates, just the raw GDP.

> It's beyond silly to claim that capitalism doesn't require endless growth.

Capitalism requires no such thing. It’s human reproduction and striving for better conditions that requires economic expansion. That doesn’t change under socialism/communism/whatever.

Finally, GDP growth does not imply anything about carbon production. Some of the biggest growth sectors going forward are entirely about clean energy.
Something over 25 years ago, I downloaded and installed some program for Solaris 2.x that was written in CWEB. I wish I could remember what the program was.

Oh, and thanks for the link to the PBR book.
Why would you want to settle a system that doesn't have all the stuff available you need? Moving nontrivial amounts of mass around the universe is extremely expensive.
I've been using the Beta version of Photostructure[0] for a while and am generally very happy with it.

It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, no ML etc, but it's also much lighter. Running on my Synology NAS inside a docker container just fine (with ~30k photos).

I also heard about Mylio[1] which looks nice, but haven't tried it. Somehow the privacy policy left me a little more concerned compared to the bold promises elsewhere. The pricing model also feels a bit off to me.

Neither are open-source though.

[0] https://photostructure.com/

[1] https://mylio.com/
The zone diagram at the top of the article makes London's importance pretty clear. All roads (in England and Wales) lead to London.
Out of curiosity, what is the use case?
RISC-V is new enough that it is unlikely to be needed for 'dusty-deck' (source code long lost) that was needed for the VAX --> Alpha binary translators, or for Univac (ones complement!) to X86_64.
Why require a JIT? For static binary translators (based upon experience) the biggest difficulty is a combination of variable-length instruction decode and/or self-modifying code (requires an interpreter) and/or re-entrant-into-the-middle-of-an-instruction (easiest to handle with an interpreter).
Match has it's place in unpacking common Enum types like Option and Result, but typically you'll reach for functional patterns like `Result::map`, `Result::expect`, `Result::unwrap_or`, and of course `?` as they're able to do the same thing but in far less code.

I think the downvotes are because both the example and the generalized statement that C# is "noticeably faster" is bait / lazy.
Mine too. I like the idea and the intent behind it very much, but nobody could yet explain to me how to prevent the market from adjusting across the board to cancel it out.
There's no authority or common duty-set now. That's why shame doesn't work anymore.

You go to the park, you see a kid littering, you tell them to pick up their trash. They tell you to mind your own business, and make YOU feel bad about talking to a child who isn't your own.

The problem with the duty system you mentioned is it needs a lot of buy-in. It's like it's metastable, it works when there's buy-in, but generally it doesn't work. As soon as someone is willing to question it, it falls down. "Who are you to point your finger" is surprisingly effective at reflecting shame.

In the mid-20th century we were still at the height of nationalism. People thought to be English meant you had to do certain things, believe certain authorities. During that century, people started to notice the cracks and it all went.
I don’t know for sure, but from what I read the cost per dose is under USD 40 since a lot of governments already invested billions into their research. If they asked 10k per vial after all of that money it’d be a huge slap in the face.
No. I don't only want to read ad-driven content. Time to learn how to bypass paywalls in 2020.
I used Rust pretty regularly through 2020 at work and home, all with stable Rust.

All the stuff I did worked fine - 3D graphics with OpenGL and SDL2, web services with Hyper and Tokio (recently hit 1.0!), and CLI apps.

If you want to try apt install first, you can do that - It's easy to remove. But personally I do use rustup.
For some quick catharsis, have a look at https://jiralover.tumblr.com/
Does anyone here get to use Basecamp? It looks awesome and I’ve read up on their Shape Up process but have yet to find any organizational support for it in my professional experiences.
lived in both. answer to title is "it can't"
Who is looking to become a real estate investor in 2021?
[0] returned a 404, but this appears to be substitute: https://statlearning.com/
It's rather called "the tragedy of the commons".. next valley can be anywhere except a hub these days.
In George C Williams' book Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges, he starts the book with some philosophical problems for biologists. One of my favorites is that he points out a sharp distinction between the "codical" domain and the domain of "interactors".

Interactors are the physical organisms that interact with each other and the environment. The codices are the information stored in the genes. He makes this point to emphasize that the world of information has its own rules that are different from the rules of physical bodies, and that the interactors seem to exist merely to ensure the continued propagation of the information.
Why? No income tax and high property taxes is a good idea IMO. Property taxes in Austin are outrageous.
Tech luminaries we lost in 2020
Yes, I found tagging a person less than about ten times tends to mess up the recognition. The sweet spot is about 20-50, then as described above as soon as you have a couple hundred for one person it seems to overfit. I could identify half the detected faces pretty easily by re-running detection two or three times but eventually I ended up with a remaining set of faces that always got detected as the wrong person, if at all, and it's not that they are all blurry or otherwise low quality.

Also I wonder how bad it is to accidentally assign the wrong tag to a person. I noticed that it happened three or four times, so I ended up having maybe 400 proper assignments and then one false tag. Could they even add a function to detect this?

The next thing for me would be to research which management tools support face recognition and what they use to do it. Anything using what digikam uses would not be worth trying to me.
All the stuff to make the factory that makes factories. After that, maybe just information.
I need to stop replying, but you've gotten under my skin. I'm not good at walking away from things (particularly Internet bickering).

I'm sorry I have to dismiss you, as you're not willing to entertain the possibility I'm right.

Which is not what I said.

I suppose I should have just dismissed you when I asked questions that you didn't "satisfactorily" respond to.
I believe it’s because a UAV is only called a ‘drone’ in these regulations if it’s at least 250g.

I agree the rules are annoyingly confusing and the information is spread piecemeal over multiple documents. They should fix that.
The thing about this is that there are mops and geeks. The geeks just do the thing that they think is cool. The mops are there because the geeks are there. Since the geeks just do cool things, they have no trouble finding each other and doing cool things.

It's the mops who have trouble. They're always like "X place used to be cool. There were all these people who did Y here". Well, those people are elsewhere and you don't know it because you were never one of them. You were a groupie. So the mops always get annoyed at some point not because some lower class of mop arrived but because there is only so many of them that can exist without ruining their thing.

So, usually it's earlier groupies complaining about later groupies.

"Man, Oakland used to be full of artists"

"Oh yeah? What kind of art did you make?"

"Oh not me. I studied chemical engineering. But there were all these artists back then."

Riiiiight
Because they think they’re saving people from vaccines. The irony
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Wow nice! I feel pretty stupid for just having looked over that all the time. It comes pretty close to what I hoped to get.

I do see some surprising behavior though, eg I ran it on WhatsApp Web, where it complains about image links that have no `alt`. But these links do have a `title`. Wouldn't every screen reader fall back to the `title` when there's no `alt`? What I mean is, is that an actual issue or just a "satisfy the tool" level thing to fix? I'm not sure how people build up an intuition for stuff like this, any suggestions?
I thought the doses ranged from around $3 - $100 depending on the type. But I also can’t read the article so I don’t know which vaccine it was.
The question is: what are Nucor's inputs. As I understand it, their input is scrap metal, not ore. (I lived down the road from one of their plants, and work with someone who used to work there, but I don't have extensive first hand knowledge)
If the poster is a point-haired-middle-manager archetype, maybe. More often though, it’s very useful for a manager or team leader to ensure that everyone on the team has a common base of knowledge, concepts and terminology. That way the team members can unambiguously understand jargon (at-least-once), communicate with high bandwidth (“let’s switch RMQ queue X to at-most-once mode, the persistent audit FIFO will handle missed messages”). Even if the team members disagree, at least everyone knows what the disagreement is about. The shared vocabulary is very useful.
To be fair, doesn't bypassing paywalls kind of the defeat the purpose for these sites to be able to provide content without ads? Thus, ad driven content is the only way for them to keep the lights on.
That’s fine. The discussions here are most of the time more interesting than the articles anyway.

And there are ways around most paywalls if one article is particularly interesting.
I left Texas several years ago, and I don't plan on returning. I didn't realize just how much the weather there was reducing my quality of life until I moved. Almost overnight, I dropped 50 lbs and started spending a lot of time outside. Outdoor recreation is just not an option for most of the year in Texas. I can't see a thriving startup culture materializing in Texas if young people don't want to live there.
> a corporate death penalty

This is a silly idea if you think about it.

Companies are packets of assets and obligations. Liquidations usually involve shareholders pulling the plug. If the shareholders want the company to keep going but the government doesn’t, when you liquidate the assets, the old shareholders will simply re-purchase them and re-hire the same (or a similar) team. Not a lot done except hosing creditors and enriching lawyers.

Okay, so you ban former shareholders from buying. Who is most likely to be able to do the fire sale diligence? A competitor. Now you have a policy that promotes industrial concentration.

Fine, ban competitors. At this point, few deeply knowledgeable about the assets can bid. In most cases, a deep discount bid will take the cake. So a wealthy person will get assets at a discount from pension plans and individual investors.

Applying concepts like a “death penalty” to legal fictions is emotionally satisfying but economically dubious. I am actually surprised it hasn’t been suggested as a solution by large-company lobbyists. It creates lots of legal work. A back door for wiping out debts. And it enriches wealthy clients while sidestepping real consequences.
Kettle, meet Pot
Ok the Electron part was from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22773785
> I'm hoping that you are as cautious about pangolin and secret lab stories

Seems like you are trying to ridicule me just because you disagree with me.

'Wuhan Institute of Virology' (China's only BSL4 lab) is less than 14km from 'Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market'.

The 'Wuhan Centre for Disease Prevention & Control' is 1.4 km from the 'Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market'.

Both are public institutions with published research on both virus classification and gain of function experiments.

This is circunstancial evidence. Unlike the previous origin investigation for SARS-Cov1, there has been little transparence or effort to investigate the origin of SARS-Cov2.

Let's agree to disagree. If indeed the origin is a Southern China zoonotic event, which then happened to have a superspreader event in Wuhan, then it is in the interest of the Chinese government to investigate this and disclose this evidence to dissolve international doubts and concerns.
There are a ton of conspiracy theories around vaccines, and the coronavirus vaccine in particular.