skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be surprised when I would read articles about this mythical legislative process which can and will protect lowly plebians like me. I'm not sure why so many people are under the impression legislation will be able to keep up with perversely motivated individuals or groups. Who are these legislators with motives so pure that they will never be bribed to only look out for my interests? Let's never forget there is only one person in jail for the 2008 crash this article is trying to convince us was the result of too little regulation. There was never enough incentive to protect us from the people who created that market crash.
This is both a good and a bad thing in my opinion. If you have, for instance, a big pile of near identical Lenovo M78 small form factor desktops (https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-t...), it's easy to swap parts between them.

If you have just one unit and a failed power supply, instead of swapping in an ATX power supply you can buy in any local PC repair shop, you have to order the custom weird power supply online and wait for it to arrive. Or if you have a failed fan, maybe it's a standard 60mm or 80mm 12VDC fan, but it has a weird connector on it for how it plugs into the motherboard, so you'll have to take the 'ordinary' PC heatsink or case fans you have on hand and splice the old connector onto it.

Or if you have a failed motherboard (maybe a blown MOSFET?), but you're fairly certain all the other parts are good, instead of getting an ATX motherboard that will work with your CPU and RAM, you need a motherboard for that specific model of Lenovo M78, to match the weird shape and size of the case and rear I/O panel, and to match the specific DC power connections unique to that series and model of SFF desktop PC.

At least hard drives and RAM are common between whitebox PCs and enterprise type semi-proprietary PCs.
No offense but those are two garbage articles with no substance whatsoever and it's a joke to present them as "well documented" examples of setbacks for USB-C.

The first link is just an ad for AmazonBasics. It complains about bad cables (not unique to USB-C), differences between USB 2 vs 3 (this is true for USB-A and Micro-USB as well, so again it's not unique to USB-C), and then cryptically says "Dongle Hell Is Real" as the third problem with USB-C before talking up the merits of AmazonBasics in the section titled "Your Best Bet is AmazonBasics Cables."

The second link complains about cable quality (solution: buy better cables), missing USB-IF logos (not a functional problem and can also be solved by buying better cables), USB-C adoption (like that's some kind of product characteristic), inconsistent supported features (that's true of any standardized connector used for several different applications), and non-compliant cables.

Of a total of eight complaints, four of them can be resolved by avoiding cheap-o cables, one of them is totally unrelated to the product's technical characteristics, two of them are true of all USB standards. That only leaves "Dongle Hell Is Real."
Same thing as old industrial buildings: artists, then gentrification.

"This is the old converted office of Microsoft. In these very rooms people used to write the operating system that used to run the world."
My ex...liked to spend money. We made 300k combined in 2019 in a MCOL area, and I still have no idea where it all went. Mortgage, nice cars, eating out, a couple vacations - all gone! I’ve heard of people making 7 figures and can barely afford their lifestyle. Rule of thumb, people spend what they make. Some spend on saving/investing. I think that’s what sets apart the top percentage with a few exceptions, they make money work for them, not the other way around.
Server side development was all I did and at the time it was the best ide in my opinion.
Only point 2 is from the employer's perspective, the employee has control over the others. While there is truth in those, I don't think people would naturally settle into a 5/7 day week just for those reasons. You'll see a spread with big differences in age groups/family situations, but the average days at the office will be much less than it was before.
The crypto world is rife with scams and thieves, but so too are the traditional financial systems. There are two key differences, however:

1. The scale of wrongdoing in the crypto world is insignificant compared to in traditional systems.

2. Some of what is deemed "criminal" in crypto systems is only criminal because it bypasses traditional controls.

In the first case, small investors and taxpayers have been on the losing end of many financial disasters which were not of their own making. But as evidenced by the multiple bailouts in the US, those negligent or intentionally malfeasant rarely suffer the consequences of their actions; on the contrary, they often profit from it.

To be sure, there are plenty of really lame scams in the crypto world - either outright frauds or ponzi schemes. And the losses to customers and clients is significant. However, if the losses in traditional system failures and thefts were calculated, we would be much better served by focusing on the traditional system problems.

In the second case, some of the criminal crypto activities (such as the transparent lotteries and ponzis operating in the Ethereum network) are arguably less risky than legal gambling or equities and futures trading. Small investors in traditional markets get cheated in invisible ways that would not be possible on a system with blockchain-published smart contracts. (That's not to imply that many people can truly grasp exactly how a given smart contract works, edge cases and all - but at least it is visible.)

I personally dislike the crypto world. In the very early days, it was a place of hope and possibility. But that was quickly buried by the waves of unethical people who were fixated on quick riches. And unfortunately, little of the potential or promises of cryptocurrencies have panned out. Meanwhile, at least in some places (Europe for example), financial transaction speed and associated costs have been reduced to well below what even crypto can offer. For example, I can move money from a Dutch account to a German account in one second, at no cost. There is no room for improvement there - ignoring the concept of anonymity of course... but that isn't really something crypto actually offers.

In the places where the banks themselves have not improved, new players have stepped in. Transferwise has saved me thousands per year for several years compared to international bank wires. Crypto can do that as well, but both endpoints then have to manage the fiat to crypto exchange.

To be fair to cryptocurrency in this regard, there has been intentional pressure from traditional financial systems to create laws that make it more difficult to exchange fiat and crypto, and that has greatly hindered some of the potential uses. Even that is evidence of how much more corrupt traditional systems are compared to cryptocurrencies.
I agree with pretty much all of what you said. It's an amazing brain teaser how the person falling across an event horizon would feel nothing (as far as science knows) and yet some observer far away watching it happen would see that it takes 'forever' to happen (time stops). Like QM itself, General Relativity has some 'contradictions' built in, related to observability.

Despite the contradictions, I agree with Susskind that the 'surface' of BHs might be where the interesting stuff happens, and that the singularity itself might not even 'exist' except as some endpoint boundary condition of oscillations like an end of a guitar string, that's interacting with everything yet contains nothing.
I wonder what impact he had. Looking at his wikipedia page he had a very long career.
Does this mean Chromium will be "ungoogled"[0] by default?

[0] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium#key-features
As I understand it, the frequency bands for the various GNSS systems either overlap or are adjacent (see, for example, https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/File:GNSS_navigatio...), so interference with one means interference for all of them.
Interop with Java to give you access to that world?

Yes but it's a big time sink, you waste time thinking on how to wrap library, and for some libs you end hitting some blockers cause Clojure's interop is not that smooth, ending up writing two wrappers, one in Java(to make the lib usable from Clojure without pulling your out) and one in Clojure.

And I'm talking about ad-hoc use of Java libs, writing a more idiomatic wrapper is a lot work. The Clojure ecosystem is pretty much abandonware at this point, even for high profile libraries.

In languages with big ecosystems, you simply just use the lib and get work done, no cognitive overhead, no time sink.
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Yeah, I was going to react to that. I'm not from Italy or Spain but definitely could be in "so forth", I found that somewhat offensive. Especially coming from an American policeman, where police brutality is no small problem...

I found him a good advocate of "don't talk to police", a lot of things he describes as standard police practice I would have hoped are illegal, and probably are in some EU countries (police can lie in interview??)
In my experience:

If worker worker A is not at risk of termination, bar any incentive program rewarding excess production, worker B will likely produce 80 widgets in 8 hours.
This is a blast from the past. This was my first venture into unix OS systems. I installed this on my parents Mac from a Jaz drive over SCSI. I was 16 years old.

Somehow I was able to get it to work, but I have memories of trying to compile programs and having to dive into the source and make changes with the blind confidence only a teenager could have. I'm surprised the system was as stable as it was
I don't thinks so at all. I'm basically a dummy and that's what I use make a living.

Used to be the thing that makes life difficult for a hobbyist is either you need to learn a lot of arcana to string free tools together and learn to debug blind. Or you needed to spend a bunch of money on tools.

With a bundled in circuit emulator and IDE it's easy to get started. That used to cost a couple of thousand. Now it's a few hundred to $1500 or so.
High COL and taxes (saved you a click)
I’m not sure what you are referring to. As far as I know internet connectivity was never intentionally disrupted on Jan 6th, and of course people could and did communicate. We have a whole cache of videos that were livestreamed from that event.
Problem is lots of tooling and libraries you might integrate with assume getters and setters and literally won't work without them.
Chances are that your Mac binary is a MacOS package (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_(macOS): “In the Apple macOS operating system, a package is a file system directory that is normally displayed to the user by the Finder as if it were a single file”)

Right-click the binary and select “Show package contents” to peek inside. Chances are you’ll find a code signature, an icon, various support files, one or more jars and an executable that launches the main jar.

Figuring out what the main jar is typically is easy. You may have to experiment to find out what the current directory has to be when launching it.
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If you want to use a Google account and Google sync/other services you may as well just use Chrome anyways. To me the entire point of packaged Chromium is that it is Google-free.
Thermal paste replacement and through clean of fans etc helped me.
To me "being a suspect" is a long way from a warrant being issued.

If cops can get a warrant on mere hunches, then I agree we have real problems. But a separate problem.
This really is one of the most interesting and consequential economic questions of our time. And I do imagine we will get an answer, because there is no political will to cut spending anymore.

The reason that all this stimulus hasn't affected measured inflation all that much is because the mechanism of monetary policy tends to be top-heavy, creating low interest rates which obviously benefits the rich more than the poor (people with high credit who tend to borrow larger sums more frequently). The rich channel this wealth into assets like real estate and equities, which are underrepresented in the CPI, in my opinion. There should be more of a "Volume Weighted" approach to balancing where large sums of the global economic market cap are sitting.

And since the rich can apparently just hold wealth in index funds indefinitely and cash out what they need for expenses (don't worry, if a pandemic freezes the economy, the Fed will rescue your position and create a new bull market!), few of those dollars creep into the economy. The "buy, hold, and never sell the entire market" philosophy creates economic distortion that enables this type of policy, and is incentivized by lower long term capital gains tax rates.

So by using this regressive, but fast acting, method of money printing, we can stave off hyperinflation and prolonged bear markets at the expense of increased income inequality. A more progressive, but slower acting way to finance government spending is to print a universal stimulus check, tax it, and spend the tax. We do both, but lean heavier toward the open market operations approach.

The hidden variable, not mentioned in this post: social security. Social security, which is due to become insolvent sometime in the next two decades, will have consequences like the progressive stimulus checks, but on a much greater scale, if the Fed starts printing money to finance it. This is where the "everything bubble" will convert into plain old inflation, when millions of everyday people are getting and spending cash that was printed out of thin air, assuming there isn't some sort of reckoning before that.
Maybe the employees will be able to buy/lease space in (now emptied out) office buildings!
A false positive based on keywords that "cannot be reviewed" sounds like a massive failure in policy.
So much hyperbolic, reminds me why Twitter makes people hate everyone.

> Biden faces an immediate, urgent test of his willingness to tackle worker misclassification

I guess put down that covid hat and put on his misclassification hat, stat?

But on topic, welcome to the working from home world some people are rushing to create.
My main issue with Bitcoin isn't how it attracts libertarian sociopaths to it like flies on shit, but the enormous environmental impact it is having. Proof of Work is a morally and ethically repugnant form of computing. Not enough of us speak up about it.
"...and it's not out of the question that you might have a very minor case of serious brain damage."
For a seasoned hobbyist, not really if you get the correct tools and software.

How exactly do you program a microcontroller?
With a pc.

So having a pi with NOOBS on the boot drive where u can just plug in peripherals and be off to the races is easier.
The omission part of their definitions is the same, but they're not synonyms. The lie is intentional. The error is unintentional.

If Win32 is partially a 32-bit API, what is factually wrong about what they said? For that part to be factually wrong, they would have to say that it's exclusively 32-bit or not at all 32-bit.

Both this situation and the accounting term fit the definition.
Well, because of NIMBYism, most US cities can only legally build urban housing in industrial or formerly industrial areas that lack mobilized neighborhood associations. So we're going in the opposite direction, thanks in part to zoning.
> The computer said he's a suspect and we don't know why, but we still want a warrant.

Mission critical ML systems (G/FB ads, crime forensics, medical decision support, financial algorithms) do not work like this.

The designers know exactly which features are causing responses/predictions in the model, their respective perturbation sensitivities, and have clear bounds regarding adversarial inputs/outliers.

“Not knowing how the model works” is definitely true for deep learning, though.
They pursued legislators and the vice president after gaining access to the building. The FBI should be aggressive.
Does it work with chromium variants, like edge?

What about for "collections"? Under the hood, it mustn't be so different from bookmarks.
My example illustrates pro-social incentives that are not captured by the profit motive.
I was lucky to be in your position only months before the pandemic (though I never went to college), so I built up a reasonable set of friends before WFH (both at work and outside of work).

The biggest factor in your decision should be ease of meeting new people, imo. Cities were already bad for this in the first place, but I view them as the "least worst" option. Try leverage your existing network if you know anybody where you're moving to, because they're going to be in the same position. Hacker meetups, game jams, industry conferences or other hobbies work really well too -- though you might want to avoid being in the tech bubble because I'm totally stuck inside it.

Once you've got a few friends, you can leverage their social network to meet new people and explore new hobbies and stuff.

WFH does mean you can more easily keep in touch with college friends. Me and a few buddies have a Discord server where we co-work and we also have something similar within my company (where it's easier to not worry about leaking secret stuff). This has been one of the few things that's kept me sane over the last year.

Edit: Happy to share more if you've got something specific in mind.
> Facebook is not an essential service; it is not a monopoly

Depending on your social circles, it de facto is, and refusing to use it or being refused from it will result in being excluded from real-life social events.
Worker A and B not being interchangeable in this context, and understanding the reason for their distinction, worker B will attain the quota they've been given within the alotted time period, up to 80 units as is their capacity.
Depends where the plane is.

High altitude, away from any precision navigation areas, not a huge risk.

Flying a GPS approach to an airport - definite risk.

Bear in mind that a GPS satellite has a power budget of ~4kw, and it's >12,000 miles up.

A jammer may only have a watt or two of transmit power, but it can put all of that into a single channel, and it's only going to be a few miles away from your receiver.
Recently the Fed hasn't been good at getting inflation to 2% (their published target) and economists haven't been good at predicting whether the Fed will succeed, or modeling why the Fed has failed.

Noah (article) doesn't emphasize this but he does refer to it. We don't really understand ordinary inflation much less hyper-inflation. Even the cause of the famous period of inflation in the 1970s is still very much debated.
After years of reading hacker news, books on startups, tweets, essays, listening to podcasts I decided I had to start my own startup. From all the years of prior research I did a lot of things right. I also did just so many things wrong that they always warn you about.

The failure was mostly one of spending months building out a product that no one actually wanted (the classic move!) But it was also one of not working hard enough and having very wrong mental models about startups and the nature of the world.

I took almost a year off to do it and had basically nothing to show for it by the end. The psychological effects of that kind of failure are pretty rough in the wake of it. I felt pretty ashamed. All my friends and family were convinced it was impossible to lose and told me as much all the time. I think had kind of convinced myself of that too because of how easily the software field had come to me up to that point. I assumed I'd try to start a startup and do nothing but kick ass and cash checks because frankly, thats how my career had gone up to that point for the most part.

After the dust settled I got a new job, it paid well. Even failed startups seem to be a resume booster. I also got the chance to reevaluate how I approached life and thought about myself. I had my identity and self worth all wrapped up in material success. This might have been the crux of the failure. I was enamored with the idea of earning money and status rather than focused on the actual problem I was trying to solve. Particularly the status of being able to tell people that I did it - I started my own company. I also felt like I got something back from my childhood that I had lost, my curiosity. What did I really care about money or status? When I was a kid all I had cared about was poking around at interesting problems. Where had I gone off track?

I learned a lot. I feel like I emerged on the other side as an almost entirely different person. There was trauma but I grew from it and wouldn't trade it. And it didn't feel that way in the immediate aftermath by the way. At the very end I just felt terrible all the time.

I'm going to try again. I'm happy I tried it and know just how damn hard it is now.

I've found that most of the failures in my life tend to be that way, big growth experiences. It sucks that you have to experience something like that to grow but it tends to be the case for me at least.

So as for this failure you've experienced I understand how bad it feels. With time I hope you'll be able to look back and learn from parts, laugh about others.

Good Luck.
Ah, but didn't you say it was impossible to measure quality of work? You could only measure the time spent in the seat, right?

Now you're saying people should be judged on their outputs. Interesting change of pace.

In reality he's unlikely to draw 2x the salary for 2x the output, though, because he's operating from a deficit of information and again, the manager/hr person's main goal isn't actually efficiency.

If they're smart, though, they'll give him a performance bonus based on productivity over a minimum marker, maybe staged as productivity goes up without a quality drop to squeeze out as much as possible. At a certain point, though, money becomes less of a driver for most people so that's not the only thing they'll do. They will also tie his performance to the team as a whole, create opportunities for building 'team unity' and maybe put together artificial competition so he actually cares about team performance. Then his colleagues will push him to perform better.
I highly doubt this decision went all the way up to Page or Pichai.
When banks got ATMs, they thought it'd drastically cut headcount - instead it went _up_: freeing up time from doing the basics meant you had more time to focus on more profitable activities

I hope to live long enough to be mostly writing tests for a gloriously hacky code generator that gets it right 80% of the time
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Totally get it and I agree there should be a more intuitive handling of complexes that aligns with the goal of being able to convey the “training story.”

I will do some noodling on this. If you have ideas, I’d love to dialog on them. I hadn’t implemented anything beyond the basics just because I hadn’t been doing them lately. I definitely want to support your use case as a first class language feature.
Can facial recognition technology reveal political orientation?
The Pirate Bay has been operating out in the open for two decades.
Ah, well, I'm not exactly a proponent of lockdown in the first place, but the big difference is Covid spreads faster. it's already a social norm to stay away from grandparents when the flu rolls around.
There is no way for them to delete all the shadow profiles that they haven't conclusively linked to your real-life identity, even though they already contain enough information to make it identifiable if someone were to really try.
And assuming a linear no-threshold risk model we want to keep it as low as possible. People spraying leaded exhaust over cities for fun is not consistent with that.