skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really have the energy to respond to all your points (but thank you for making them, they've shown where I was unclear in my writing, or made assumptions that weren't obvious), but I wanted to mention one thing:

> This whole thing could be bypassed by arguing that these types of improvements should be paid by property taxes

This is pretty much the core policy that Georgism advocates for: "Henry George is best known for popularizing the argument that government should be funded by a tax on land rent rather than taxes on labor". The rest is just a way to provide economic/justice based reasons for this policy.
It must not be all or nothing. In firewalls we have rules. In SELinux etc we have rules, and distros package them for you.
> but there is a humongous overlap between your typical undergraduate physics and electrical engineering degree

As someone who has a degree in both: Hard disagree. The physics curriculum had one course on circuits/electronics combined, and they covered almost nothing practical when it came to tools like oscilloscopes, etc. Few physicists I know have heard of "3db point". No statistics in the physics curriculum (no, quantum mechanics and stat mechanics don't count). Absolutely nothing with regards to digital, communications, or control theory.

The only real overlap was math, EM and semiconductors. Most people who get an EE degree are not targeting that world.
The LA bookstore I remember most was Opamp Technical Books on Sycamore in Hollywood. But they're gone now.
I'd be fairly happy for an IDE to stick to the /dev folder where I have that kind of stuff.
I’ll bite: Leadership in chip manufacturing is firmly in TSMC’s hands. Chip design is dominated by ARM and Qualcomm. Display tech by Samsung and LG.

Today, if you have an idea for a new gadget and you need fast prototyping, you’re far better off setting up shop in Shenzen than San Jose.

I’ll give you one thing: When it comes to software, by far SV has still the most influence. But when you include the whole tech space I think one should differentiate.
> The thing about EE&E is that it's not exclusively a Microsoft strategy.

That's not exclusive, but they pretty much coined the term and made it in a viable business practice to undermine competition in the most dirty way.
I read, or skimmed, all the way to the end, and I don't think it gets any better.

One particular super up-to-date cliché that annoys me is where it goes on about "casino capitalism". So today we're not attacking "Wall Street's short term thinking"? When you're against risk taking and conservatism, all you're saying is "people shouldn't make mistakes, blaargh". You're right, they shouldn't. It's been noted.

I don't think the whole thing says anything worthwhile at all, or contains any non-clichéd thought, so I think people who didn't read it should be excused.

All I want from a "thoughtful" article is some thought that is new and could be right or wrong. "Not even wrong" gets all the clicks.
People aren't idiots just because they sometimes do stupid things. Perfectly intelligent people frequently drive recklessly or post incendiary bullshit on hacker news. I don't think anyone is flawless, so I try not to judge people for a few flaws in their personality.
> Assuming the victims are all CS majors is not on.

A large part of VUW's research focus covers law and politics [1], so this statement rings quite true. I would not expect that all researchers even in topics adjacent to IT such as physics and chemistry would understand prior to this event that IT could remote wipe their computer, where the limits of local and network storage lie, or what data storage locations are apparently their personal responsibility to back up.

[1] https://www.vuw.ac.nz/research/strengths/research-focus
The data there is heavily biased as it was advertised and promoted in only a few select places (e.g. Reddit).
I'll thank you not to remind me of that

Jokes aside, no. I'm closeted anyway.
Except in China. Which is my point.

For every Uber there is a Didi.
Microsoft there is a Tencent...

Etc. but they don’t play at US scale, they play at China scale.
Expectations do change though. In the UK, it used to be the expectation that appliances came with no power plug at all.
They built a brand on the backs of replacement workers that are not valuable to the company.

Rather than employ people by giving them a living wage and respect, this has been replaced with poverty wages and shackles to prevent retaliation.
The proper way to do this is to have the file/directory picker run in a separate process (managed by the sandboxing runtime), and the sandbox only grants access to files/directories explicitly picked by the user.

This does mean that some apps potentially do have worse UX; any app that implements a custom file picker will just stop working properly. Arguably in that case you just simply cannot sandbox that kind of app, and you shouldn't try, because it gives people a false sense of security in using it.

For apps that want to do custom things you essentially have to make them not need to do custom things by building their custom behavior into the sandbox-owned file picker (or whatever), and allow them to make use of it in a safe way. But that's a lot of work, and it doesn't seem like the Flatpak folks really work with the toolkit authors.
In my original comment, I stated "when you die or sell your home", so I don't see why anyone would have to move.

If you think people shouldn't have to pay extra when their land becomes more valuable, I don't see why they should still get the profits when their land becomes more valuable. That's basically socializing the costs, but privatizing the profits, which is obviously a bad thing to do.
Look at how the Web standbox is designed: of course some websites must access to your camera (Zoom, Jitsi, MS Teams, etc.) yet you still have to give them the permission! And it's a fine-grained permission (don't want to share your microphone, Ok just don't).

I want to be able to give programs exactly access to I want it to access, and just when I want to give it that access. This way I'm sure my SSH keys (or private emails,or bitcoin wallet, etc) will never be leaked by a malicious VSCode extension.
Did some light building/carpentry around the house (An ice hockey rink and a large outdoor table). Picked up mountainbiking. Visited my parents in summer when the pandemic died down and got a chance to appreciate how important that is, instead of just a yearly routine.

As a permanent only wfh employee in my org since many years, the transformation that occurred when everyone else was in the same boat really improved my situation.
The investors care. Traditionally they wouldn't fund anyone who wasn't in easy reach.

It's also easier to hire employees since they're all in SV.
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Why not matrix connectivity?
I highly suggest you push through it. Mathematical knowledge ties in together very well. It's like snowboarding. Once you get over the initial hump, it'll come fairly easily to you (what's often called "mathematical maturity"). Then you'll be able to easily learn about statistics and ML if you want to experiment, or scene rendering, or differential geometry, or audio processing, and on, and on. Computers were originally created to be calculating machines, and they remain great ways to blend math with instructions.
> Stainless steel can be cut and welded.

Not easily, stainless is very finicky requiring proper shielding of the heat affected zone.
That was a great article.

I read it wondering if I'd learn anything when I think I know most of 'it' already.

I was ready to pounce at the end when he said government largesse can "topple dictatorships" -- but then he followed up with the opposite case. :-D

I do like the idea that the government and industry (and sometimes even people) are 'just' picking winners/losers - it's a helpful way to look at things - really, the correct way, imo.

I'm not necessarily crazy about putting a price on externalities and combining it with the cost of subsidies/taxes/etc. -- just because it seems to potentially dilute/confuse the argument -- but point taken.
It's not going to collapse as long as it is supported by other states. At this point, the U.S. political cycle is too short lived to do anything about it and all the players at the table know this.
This is actually a very compelling paradigm to consider, and on the surface it looks like an issue of semantics, but the change in viewpoint can change how you look at cognition considerably.

I was pondering the nature of consciousness, particularly the barriers between a social species, eusocial species, and singular mind. My brain is made up of neurons, but there's no discernible consciousness to them individually, there's just my mind. Is a herd of cattle a mind in a similar way? What about a bee hive? Is the distinction simply a function of bandwidth or latency? Is the distinction based on some organizational principle? Something else?

What this article kind of argues (or frames someone else's argument) is that there is no fundamental distinction, just an apparent and illusory one. If you offload memory and information processing tasks externally, for example, taking a list or using an abacus, do those tools become a part of your mind? If you cooperate with another person, do you both become part of each other's minds? The perspective laid out in the article argues yes, when you offload cognitive tasks outside of your brain, the tools with which you do that are a part of your mind. It is very interesting to consider.
There's a strong distance effect, where investors will invest more easily companies located near them. It could be that this will change after a year of experience with doing everything online, but it's been true historically.
I think now is the greatest time to launch a startup
> The Penrose–Lucas argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem. From the theorem we know any mathematical system has sentences that the system itself cannot prove. So computer algorithms, based on mathematical systems, cannot prove them either. (just like the Halting problem) But humans can prove them like Gödel did. Thus human intelligence is noncomputable and inherently superior to AIs.

Godel's incompleteness theorems apply to math itself, not to computation. Those observations are not provable but incomputable, they are not provable in the formal system at all. So, humans can't prove them anymore than computers could. The gods themselves couldn't prove them.

What I believe the argument could be is that humans still found them and have reasons to believe they are true (they have an informal proof), even if they can't be formally proven.

However, the Penrose-Lacau argument is quite infamous and is generally not believed in the scientific community. The most obvious way out of Godel's incompleteness theorems conflict with human mathematicians is to simply reject the notion that human mathematicians have proven these things in any sense. Godel's incompleteness theorems don't forbid incorrect but convincing proofs, and informal proofs that can't be formalized could well be just that.
What company uses the scale in this comment? (IC5 IC6 IC7 etc)
Good question. I mostly use it for algebra. It has varying levels of support for analysis. There is a SageManifolds project that allows for computations over differentiable and Riemannian manifolds, for example.
Yes, average fiction or biographies etc I do. If it is harder (hard literature, much thicker, books that are not in Dutch, English or German ( I try to reread books I read in English in Spanish ) or science books which are theoretical like physics or CS with formulas etc, then it obviously will be (much) slower.

I noticed myself watching more and more fiction TV shows and found them too slow while being not dense enough and then I remembered I used to not watch anything and just read books in that time.
There is a short documentary available on Amazon Prime Video (US) called “Welcome to the Last Bookstore” of you want to learn a bit more about this gem:

https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Last-Bookstore-Josh-Spencer/d...
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Additionally, California is one of the only states that doesn't recognize non-competes [1], that is key for innovation and competitors coming up including small/medium competitors. This part is always overlooked.

> A few states, such as California, Montana, North Dakota, and Oklahoma, totally ban non-compete agreements for employees, or prohibit all non-compete agreements except in limited circumstances. [1]

There is also a massive augmented wave coming that is heavily underestimated and will change everything. The future is heavily content creation in new phases of technology which are huge. Overall, it is better to have a virtual economy that uses less resources than a physical one.

The new markets are definitely remote and that is how you communicate with most people now even in the same building, so being physically in California isn't as needed. Though the policies of not recognizing non-competes needs to go nationwide. Non-competes are anti-innovation, anti-worker, anti-business, anti-competition and only help the bigs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#United_Stat...
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Lucky man, flew both the P-51 and F-86, the most beautiful machines of their eras. The only thing left for him was to switch sides and fly the Su-27 :) (yep I know that one is a little younger)
In practice this has the same effect as windows vista had. You train users to immediately click away the annoying popups without reading them.
Thanks for reading. However, that’s not what Marc meant by ‘software eating the world’ and it’s not how I described consultants.
Clunky interface aside (a given with emacs), what's wrong with package-list-packages and customize? It's essentially no different to installing and configuring packages in vscode. Why do you think use-package is necessary?
Except for graphics, doesn't everything perform better under Linux?

Honest question, this is (practically speaking) my impression after 20 years.
I did not move goal posts, the conversation did.

If you want to go back to Apple's OS spying the users, it's another section of the privacy policy:

> Usage Data. Data about your activity on and use of our offerings, such as app launches within our services, including browsing history; search history; product interaction; crash data, performance and other diagnostic data; and other usage data

From “Personal Data Apple Collects from You”

That being said, since you've moved from just a bit narrow-minded to openly rude, I'm not interesting in pursuing further.
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Everyone had to learn this lesson. Just copy the files somewhere from time to time.

I've had cloud providers nuke my disk intentionally, then demand I upgrade $$$ to get access to backup.

Backups do fail, get corrupted or are incomplete.
Which is good as one should discuss the merits of the arguments brought forth when discussing the pros and cons of a technology rather than who who said it or what motives they might have.

Edit: when I wrote this comment only the first sentence of the parent existed.
I just recently learned about Faust (a domain-specific language for digital signal processing) and I find it waaay easier than writing C++ or (what I was doing before) javascript with the web audio APIs.

There's an online IDE[+] where you can try out ideas in real time and hear the results straightaway.

Faust compiles to C++ and from there to a wide variety of platforms.

[+] https://faustide.grame.fr/
Presumably they still optimize and write for -O3, just that they run far slower version.

Without any manual optimization targeting O0.

(main negative is that missing performance degradation appearing in 03 ut not O0 may be harder to notice)
People are not leaving SF because tech employees are coming in. If nobody moved in, the economy would just get worse, housing wouldn't get any more available.

The problem is that your parents go to every community meeting and get all the housing projects shut down to prevent "greedy developers". That's been happening consistently since the 70s.
I have not heard about that one. Here is some dirt about the origins of Micro-Soft BASIC from Noam Cohen's The Know-It Alls, which seems fairly well researched:

> The timing of Gates's leave [from Harvard] could appear suspect since it came on the heels of a disciplinary hearing with college administrators. An auditor from the Defense Department discovered how much time Gates had spent programming on the PDP-10 computer, which was provided by the U.S. government, and began to ask questions. Gates's explanations were flimsy: first, he was doing work for his own company, and, second, some of that outside work was carried out by Allen, who wasn't a student. The records of the Gates disciplinary hearing are sealed, but accounts say that the punishment fell short of his being asked to leave… Gates, who as nineteen years old at the time, made his case in the club's newsletter, which published his "Open Letter to Hobbyists" in the January-February 1976 issue… Furthermore, there was the computer time, whose "value" exceeded $40,000, Gates informed the hobbyists. This odd phrasing jumped out to some readers, even before people learned of Gates's reliance on Harvard's computers. Gates wasn't claiming that Micro-Soft had spent $40,000 for the computer time, which it needed to recoup; rather, it had obtained that time somehow. Young Gates certainly had chutzpah. He was writing to a bunch of excited young computer enthusiasts to object to the "theft" of a version of a program [BASIC] that was, to start, based on software created by academic researchers working on a federal grant and was created using "borrowed" time on a university computer that was also paid for by the federal government.

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Have a look into https://tezos.com/ its PoS

The ecological footprint it important in the nft space.
https://medium.com/tqtezos/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-t...

At the moment approximately 40 transactions per second

NFTs on Tezos:
https://kalamint.io/
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/
Minting a NFT costs about 1 cent

A collectible card game called emergents will be based on the chain. https://coa.se/

Further adoption: Recently the biggest retailer in france has announced to develop a stable coin on tezos. https://www.coindesk.com/french-firm-launches-euro-stablecoi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Casino
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South Bay has much better restaurants than most suburbs, if you like food, and it's not hard to get out to nature. Weather's better than SF and it's a lot cleaner. But if you want nightlife there isn't any, no.
> Does it count to say "this code exists because the original author added a lot of nonsense - let's refactor"?

No. Why is the code nonsense? What caused the author to land nonsense vs something different? It's very possible that the authors have very poor taste and/or decision making, or maybe had different understanding of requirements or potential future direction. Understand how they were mistaken and why the refactored version is better.

Unless you're dealing with code which is literal nonsense (i.e. doesn't compile and/or never did what it was supposed to), assume you're mistaken until you see how the code is mistaken instead.
To the downvoters: why? Genuinely curious.
Less polluted too
One thing I've not understood about flatpak (or their competition for that matter) is why don't these permissions get prompted when they're used? Similar to iOS and Android, ping the user and confirm whether or not they want to give the application this permission. Perhaps even allow for customising the permissions (e.g. when it asks for permission to the homedir, you can override what the homedir would be when prompted).

We are living in a day and age where applications ask for overbroad permissions for many reasons, laziness, privacy invasion, and even legitimate use. Forcing user interaction at worst raises awareness, at best prevents the privacy of individuals from being invaded.
I would say 3 things:

- I got a bike

- I left my previous job and started working on my own projects

- Adopting a cat
> children used as retirement support for elderly parents

also known as living in a loving family
Just like a normal driver. Have you been a passenger in a car with and old lady like my mum. So it's a bad driver, how much better than the average driver does it have to be?
If you've been building complex web components for 4 years, hopefully by now you've realized you can actually pass _properties_ down to custom elements.
It kinda balances out when you're young and can easily get a seed $1M dollars to build a company with a very dubious (or non-existent) business plan

There's your salary. If the company works out or not later, well, you're a founder and has the experience, it's easier to get a job anywhere.
> If there's anything that will kill Silicon Valley it's that people since 2010 have made too much money. Practically anyone at a FAANG is now a multi-millionaire no matter what you've worked on.

No they're not. A multi-thousandaire maybe.

You can get to millionaire status if you buy a house and pay off the loan, but for that you need more than 10 years of working in SV or an inheritance.
Because playing in the street used to be normal - so normal it was taken as a given, and drivers stole that.
> Well, ok, sure, that's definitely not "almost all", but that's still way too many.

And a couple of sentences after it goes on to explain that it’s not too many because most of those 23 need those permissions.
Thanks for the article, it was an interesting read.

Genuinely interested, what do you think he meant? What do you feel the phrase means today? I read it as software will transform and replace many industries and physical things but will go back and find that essay again now - perhaps it's the bit about software permeating the physical world you object to? It was a really interesting phrase that I think resonated with a lot of people, so perhaps I read into it lots that wasn’t there.

Re consultants, I was referring to this bit:

There’s an old joke that consultants are like seagulls - they fly in, make lots of noise, mess everything up and then fly out. That’s pretty much what tech has done to media industries...

It seemed to me your thesis was that software is done transforming these industries and the only interesting problems are industry specific and not related to software? I think there is still a lot of change left to go.
Yes, the point is to have the package manager set sane defaults for every user.

Say you distribute a video app.
It is completely counterproductive to have every user click on a permission dialog "I allow this video app to open videos". This only trains users to blindly allow everything to make software, you know, work at all.

A much more sane approach would be to enable access to ~/videos and other reasonable places at install time and only ask for additional permission when needed.
>A perfect example is the Jan 6th capitol attack. It was being planned out on the open, on social media channels. They didn't use any obfuscation in their language and still, even with all the technology they have, the massive surveillance machine couldn't stop it from happening.

While the rest of your point is salient, this example is flat out false. The FBI and multiple police departments were aware of what was about to happen and warned those in charge. It was summarily ignored, because the people in charge believed the rioters were on their side. It could have easily been stopped had they reacted with even a fraction of the force they did with the BLM protests a year earlier. The events of January 6th was a result of institutional prejudice and nothing less, not a lack of information from surveillance.
Yea, there are many schools of thought on what/how to comment "properly". But I have found this simple rule to cover most of the cases, it's not perfect but better than most:

"The code is the HOW, the comments are the WHY"