skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it’s not that free labor isn’t worth it, it’s that it’s a lemons problem. that is, (the signaling indicates) uncertainty is high, which is what makes it expensive (or if lucky, a fantastic deal). most people are rather risk-averse and therefore prefer safe choices, with the commensurate relinquishment of potential greater gains (and greater losses).

the lesson should be to value your labor correctly, as large deviations in perceptions of value mean that transactions won’t happen. a more astute approach would be to communicate your (accurate) understanding of your own value and your willingness to negotiate alternate dimensions of value in exchange, like getting experience faster or doing more interesting work in exchange for less money.

tl;dr: establish a common understanding of value, then negotiate.
tends to is not going to cut it in this instance. If 99% of diseases are either easy to spread, or deadly, we still need to worry about the 1% that are both. It only takes one such disease to cause a wipeout like event.
Most nations of the old world have had people living in its constituent lands for several centuries at the least. Immigration has not meaningfully shaped them, unless we talk about specific instances of forced population movement (partition of nations, ethnic cleansing etc.).

The US has for most of its history had a significant population of immigrants, rising up to 10% of the population at the turn of the 20th century. It has absolutely been made by immigrants; people who decided to move to the US in search of better opportunities.
> I imagine the two brothers hugged each other

Actually, that's pretty unlikely. It was a very different time. A display like that would have been considered unseemly. Also, neither Wilbur nor Orville were known for being particularly emotional or affectionate. Neither brother ever married.
Readability and ultra low energy consumption (plus: they are awesome and produce a soft sound like a distant waterfall).

Also, contrary on what I have seen on LED matrices or other RGB/pixel based displays: they won’t display advertisement which otherwise manages to sneak in – too close to information.
I think it's less about the split between W2 FTEs and contractors, and instead that the R&D credits were likey government/state grants for high-tech innovation that helped to offset R&D costs, but Squarespace didn't really expand on this in their S-1.
Prions are pretty scary, but I think there are a lot of things this article gets wrong.

- Prions are resistant to sterilization (since there is nothing to "kill"), but simple soap and water are still highly effective

- Prions don't "last forever". They can live in buried carcasses for a few years, but some studies have shown that even our existing sewage treatment processes already break down a lot of prions.

- While vegans might have some risk, meat multiplies the risk because of how it can concentrate prions. I have to imagine that vegans have an incredibly low risk profile for prions.

- Most importantly, viruses and bacteria innately "want" to spread. Prions do not have any biological mechanism for their own propagation - they are just an unfortunate mistake of nature. And this seems to be key why there has never been a massive prion outbreak.

If you were an anarchist rooting for the collapse of society, as this writer seems to pitching for, sure it seems like it might be a more likely vector than many.
Could this explain why everyone seems to be getting dumber? Have we all been infected by prions already and our brains are decaying?
Give them a laptop and put the solar panel on the side? Even in the exact case you're mentioning, they're better as separate devices. (It wasn't done this way because the solar panel would be used for other purposes, but treating the user as hostile is the clearest sign that something has gone terribly wrong in your design process.)
To be fair, I've also had Apple push an OTA that softbricked my iPhone 7 Plus a few years back, and had to reset it in the same way. I learned the hard way that day to do a local backup before installing any OS updates. This is probably wise, no matter who made it or what software it runs.
Yea it's a fascinating topic. I think as countries become weary of each other (E.U. <-> U.K., China <-> U.S., others...) they start to protect industries and such even if it goes in the face of stated ideals. I think we're seeing governments act on a more nation-state basis than in the recent past. Much more scrutiny and distrust.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the topic.
The limited research there is on prions is heavily concentrated on the nasties. Its like learning about bacteria by studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis and coming to the conclusion that bacteria = death.
I'm sure it does, but I don't believe it does materially in this case. People are going to have a perception of other terms, e.g. RMS, as well. While yes, what you describe may have influenced an emotional response, I see no evidence that would have changed the outcome.
How about: Hire me, pay me what I'm worth, and give me interesting work.

Why should we make any compromises on the activity that we'll spend the majority of our lives doing?
the ability to develop iOS apps in Swift and test them without buying a mac or an iPhone
> (...) that has the nasty problem that 3 does not have a type (...)

How is that possible? At least in Common Lisp, all literal objects have types, and the same is true of C from what I have just checked.
I laughed so hard when I read this, but then I realized something. Dude, you have a really cool mom.

But I'm "that Dad". For home-related projects, about 25% of the stuff I replace with "home-built" ends up being the things my kids show off to their friends[0]. The other half is duct-tape and rubber bands. Unfortunately, the duct tape exists in the worst places -- like DHCP, and my routers, so while they don't require extra effort to use, they flake out on some of their devices[1].

My favorite is when I have to be called over to explain that, no, Son is not lying us doing that ourselves. He used to walk into his room and hit a few keys on the remote, which would trigger Plex to play a song, dim the regular lights and enable some really slick music visualizations. Hit pause/quit the app and the room goes back to previous state. If his phone started ringing, the app would auto-pause[2] and play-back after the phone returned to idle state.

[0] It goes something like: "Son: Can I buy this (overpriced) LED/gaming PC thing?" and usually ends with me saying "... or, we can buy $10 worth of things I don't already have and make something that when you're friends as 'where can I buy that', you can say 'You can't, but I sell them for (overpriced) if you want to buy one!'". .

[1] Recently better -- ESP8266 devices and Android devices didn't play well with one of my DD-WRT based routers.

[2] Home Assistant and Android allowed me to read phone state. It worked but there was horrible delay and after a phone update, it just broke entirely, causing it to interrupt playback constantly. I ended up wiping out every related piece of that automation with the intent of doing it right (with a bluetooth sensor in his room which would allow me to trigger actions when he arrives/exits the room) but haven't completed that, yet.
Yeah, a 62M will cost you ~100 dollars in single unit quantities.
The chart in this tweet shows him as having sold 71% of his shares: https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1383792715360399372

Some folks are counting un-exercised options as shares to make it sound like insiders sold less than they actually did, but you cant sell shares you dont own.
Simple explanation if anyone needs it.

The problem is suppose you have 4 neurons that need to understand a memory and present experience at the same time to make a decision (for example that you see a hot stove and memory that hot stoves hurt). The incoming neurons from memory and experience each have 4 neuron connections, which fire at some rate. Lets represent this as the firing rate of the neurons per second in a 4d vector:

experience: <1.0, 0, 0, 0> (1 pulse per sec on axis 0)
memory: <1.0, 0, 0, 0> (1 pulse per sec on axis 0)

If you "add" these together at the downstream neurons, you won't be able to tell which was a memory and which was sensation. A simplified explanation of how neurons work is by combining voltages from their incoming neurons. Example:

downstream sees: <2.0, 0, 0, 0>

upstream could be a memory with <1.0, ...> and experience <1.0, ...>, or memory <2.0, ...> experience <0.0, ....>, or memory <0.5, ....> and experience <1.5, ....>. There are many possible vectors that could "add" to produce the downstream effect, so it makes it harder for those neurons to "learn" the pattern.

As a math equivalence, if I ask "what two numbers sum to 10", there are many solutions (its impossible to disentangle the original numbers).

To make it easier to learn these patterns, what if we used only separate elements of the incoming vectors to represent this information (so the elements of memory and experience could be seperated)?

So some intermediate neurons can transform the representation. We can constructor orthogonal vectors (since the vectors above are sparse):

experience: <1.0, 0, 0, 0>
memory: <1.0, 0, 0, 0> => <0, 1.0, 0, 0>
experience + memory: <1.0, 1.0, 0, 0>

The "memory" must undergo a "rotation" which moves data into an "unused" portion that won't conflict with the experience neuron firing pattern.

Now downstream neurons can use the data from each (its effectively merging memory and experience without confusing the signal). There is only a single memory and a single experience that combined will give the firing pattern, so the pattern can be learned.

Due to the way linear algebra works, its possible to do this with more complex numbers along arbitrary axes in an n-dimensional space (instead of doing it with a single axis/neuron and all others being zero).

For a physical corollary, imagine two images super-imposed on each other. If they are very distinct, you might be able to infer what the two source images were, but if they are similar it would be difficult. Now imagine a "lenticular" image that clearly displays two images by printing them at orthogonal angles on the medium. You can easily determine what content belongs to which image, but only having a single "print" to store the data (this isn't a perfect anology, but it illustrates the idea):

https://images.app.goo.gl/3dCH7Txigh1adTd66
We know so much about Google’s tax structure, how is the reporting so wrong?
4 Metrics to Measure Your Software Team Productivity [pdf]
High-Speed Robot Hand [video]
> How to handle the mess of naming things in Western music theory, where things have 12 different names, depending on which note you choose as the base.

You are missing the point.
Thank you. I hate sensationalist articles like this. Countdown until some idiot right winger wants to ban prions.
Since IPv4 addresses are natively a 32-bit integer at the level of BSD sockets, it makes sense to allow curl to accept them without having it be re-parsed back out into a dotted-quad. Many tools and databases will store addresses natively this way. Let's say you were writing a script to take that information and probe it with curl; convenient to just printf("https://0x%x", ip_address), you know?
I’m sorry, but you can’t speak for all vegetarians in the world. Some may find it offensive so we must err on the side of caution.

After all, it’s just one word. /s
> There was a recent HN discussion about how much of a pain it is to get something removed from archive.org.

I really wanna read this but can't find the thread, do you happen to have a link?
The clients are not actually native, at least on desktop it's just Electron and the mobile clients (Android, iOS) don't feel fast either, but frankly rough edges like these are my only real complaint.

Features are available and work everywhere (unlike Signal which has a dumbed-down desktop client and no web client at all), it does everything you generally need and the search is actually superb (better than Telegram even, since tg only does word matching and Wire can do symbol and arbitrary string matching and is also very fast) although limited to one chat so you need to know which chat contains what you're looking for. Meanwhile Element (Matrix) goes "can't search encrypted chats"... useless if you want to communicate something non-ephemeral, you'd need to switch to pgp-encrypted email and all its problems or another chat service.

Compared to all the alternatives, Wire with all its faults is the best encrypted messenger. I would recommend it to everyone aside from the network effect: Signal clearly has more users (while being worse on features and privacy). Because it's useless to be alone on a messenger and because it's still a step forwards from the status quo, most of the time I end up recommending subpar solutions.
PostScript IT'S a programming language, man.

Just look up the example on this page on the Z-Machine v3 interpreter written from a great hacker and Gopher user I admire.
prion infections are always eventually fatal, there is no cure, and they are contagious.

The majority of research into prions happens post mortem, and is usually trying to pin down the cause of death. Statistically, there must be prions that are not lethal.

I'm reminded of the issues with people that work at pig processing plants, who had the job of blowing the brains out of the skull cavity with compressed air. Many were not issued proper PPE and ended up with a wide variety of symptoms.

https://www.twincities.com/2008/02/06/minn-to-question-25-mo...
I understand the argument here, and how ill-prepared we are for steady low-coefficient exponentials, but never more have I felt like the 2nd law of thermodynamics is my friend.

Even if 1 prion can kill you, even if prions will survive in the soil indefinitely, I think we are going to erode all the topsoil faster than the prions can accumulate in concentrations sufficient to cause issues.
Does your second point suggest that we should avoid eating beef?
There was nothing democratic about the rise of the fossil fuel industry in the first place. Wanting "democracy" in the other direction is an asymmetrical demand with no justification.
Yes! Ha! I read this in the library of my grade school. Thank you for the memory.
Wrote this a little while back. Most news orgs -- especially local -- are being set up to fail in this environment.

https://blog.nillium.com/news-was-never-meant-for-social-pla...
Xbox Cloud Gaming for PC and iOS Begin as Limited Beta
When you have two questions about a specific feature that every change proposal must answer, it's a sign that something needs improvement.
I think the timescale is too long for it to be an effective tool for terrorists

Terrorism is first and foremost a propaganda strategy to destabilise the political system in the target country and recruit new members to the organisations cause

Since prions take decades to progress, a terrorist attack using such a weapon, would probably not create the shock and outrage, that makes headlines
The problem with Elixir is it's too small to get good data on (I'm not being mean, that's the truth).
Tiobe has trends only for the top 20 languages so can't use that.

The best I've got is Stackoverflow survey (are you saying Elixir devs don't use Stackoverflow at all? I find it bizarre. Even if you use Elixir forum a modern dev has questions on many things he needs answered (css, javascript, sql etc).

So please compare https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-popular-...
With
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...
Elixir was dropped from the list. That's definitely a sign of decline. Now it could be that on absolute terms Elixir is keeping it's usage but only dropping on relative terms but I find it a bit hard to believe. I have a feeling Elixir devs who look for the next gig use other tech more often than not.
Yep - that was the other one, thanks!
Not an answer to your question, nor am parent, but this article immediately reminded me of my experience with this Samsung device:

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/others/news/samsung-gear-fit-health...

It's been seven or so years, so the memory is fuzzy, and the Samsung wasn't nearly as bad as the OnePlus is reported to be. But there were definitely "back of the box" features that that just plain didn't work, and other features that were buggy enough that the feature should not have been included. For instance, it would just stop tracking a workout because I stopped at a stoplight on my bicycle ride to work. "Looks like your workout's done! Good job!"

The poor experience was a major contributor to me swearing off Samsung devices specifically, and avoiding Android in general. Back to the iPhone for me since.
> You can only take a reference to an lvalue, which is (essentially) an expression that is legal to use in the form `my_lvalue = ….

I mean it could implicitly allocate, that's what Rust does for instance.

Your second and third attempts would not compile though, the first would by returning a `&'static T`.
You might want to check again to see if you’re eligible now. They ended some of these restrictions on blood donation in the summer of 2020.
I didn’t even know Apple or any of the other FAANG’s hired freelancers.
Under the 1st amendment, every citizen is "the press" if/when they choose to be. No centralized credentialing agency required to prove it.
> As a more general comment, using a GC language as the FFI target from a GC language is begging for difficult-if-not-impossible-to-debug crashes down the line.

Safe interop between two GC'd languages (Haskell and Java) was one motivation of Haskell's new -XLinearTypes extension

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-02-06-safe-inline-java/

Generally, the new linear types are exciting but are nascent at the moment. But one extension to them (linear constraint [1]) seems to allow embed the equivalent of Rust's ownership in Hsakell using more primitive features in the type system (to my understanding..)

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.06127.pdf
Collecting Statistics for Open Source Projects
It's so good to hear someone else put into words what I feel. Having fulfilling work has been absolutely my #1 goal for as long as I can remember, like since I was 12 or 13 years old, and by that I mean it's more important than getting married, saving for retirement, traveling, having fun. It is a constant thought every waking moment in my life, the same way when you're hungry it's on the forefront of everything you do.
Because no one owes you a job you like? It's great if what you're good at is what others are looking for. But outside of tech and math that's often a rare proposition.
I think it's important to define terms. what, in your estimation, qualifies as a "justified killing"? Self defence? does the aggressive party have to be capable of lethal force in that case?

I would also like to point out that diabetes is something that an individual has some long-term control over, whereas it takes one cop with a hot trigger finger and some bad luck to get shot. The two are not remotely equivalent.
I wouldn't be too worried about this. I'm noticing chatter in the worst parts of the internet around COVID vaccines causing prion disease, it's likely just the latest disinfo by Q types.

This site hosts white-supremacist aligned articles (like this one supporting the dehumanizing NPC meme: https://www.countere.com/home/how-to-spot-an-npc) so I wouldn't be too worried about an article here about the "end of the world"
Maybe it has to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
We have no idea if US Beef is infected. The USDA prohibits anyone from testing their cows and ended their spot-testing program (which was a joke).

So unlike Europe we never reckoned with the problem and don't know if it is currently spreading. For human exposure we would not yet be far enough along to know if the US Beef supply either is or was contaminated.

Personally I have basically stopped eating beef for this reason.
Asking honestly... They do? I've never seen it happen in any Chinese media I've consumed, though not speaking Chinese that could have more to do with the translators. I've certainly never heard an American of Chinese decent refer to themselves this way.

Can we get more context on this?
Dell used to offer dual battery bays in its business line like the Latitude C840:

https://youtu.be/9XkeTCIC1TA?t=453

Side note: The clips holding in the batteries were the number one failure mode on those laptops.
One problem is the environmental effects of using a certain product, which in this situation are fossil fuels. The only solution to the problems caused by fossil fuels, from emissions to microplastics, is to decrease the use of fossil fuels period. In order to decrease the use of something, you can increase the price.

Another problem is the income/wealth/opportunity gap between people around the world. This might be solved by transferring income/wealth/opportunity from those that have it to those that don’t. It does not need to be linked directly to taxes on fossil fuels, like most other government expenditures are not linked to specific taxes.

This is not a net zero effect with lots of inefficiency. It’s actually the most efficient way I can think of, certainly more than hoping people sort and clean their recycling properly, ignoring the fact that recycling doesn’t even really work.

The whole point is to make people feel the effects of increased prices. It will mean fewer plastic toys, and toys in general since they won’t be so cheap, less flying, smaller homes and lots since transportation for longer distances is more expensive.

But that is the goal, to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Which all of our modern quality of life revolves around. And why, politically, there will not be a real solution to damage caused by fossil fuels in any relevant timeframe.
What about PHP or Java has anything to do with not "programming at a more advanced level"?

These are general-purpose programming languages. Due to their design, some patterns/paradigms might seem more natural to implement, but you can build anything you want with them.

For an experienced programmer eschewing conventions with this "resume", I am surprised by this comment.
Interesting... Do you have a source copy for this? I'm always interested to play music as the artist intended and Stevie Wonder is one of my favourites :)
Hi tdfirth. I am with the team at Serverless, Inc, creators of the Serverless Framework. I can totally understand the frustration, especially with new development architectures such as serverless.

Over the years of building serverless applications there are some unique differences in building them compared to traditional applications you build entirely locally then "throw over the wall" to be run on a server somewhere. And for this reason there are many teams and organisations working to make the developer experience better, including making deployments to the cloud to test easier and faster. Unlike mainframes of old, new code can be deployed in seconds and logs available in less than that when testing invocations of your Lambda functions. For example, the Serverless Framework has a command to deploy just the code changes of a Lambda and does so in seconds. There are other tools that do similar.

Its a really broad topic to get into but am more than happy to do so if you wish or have any specific questions I can help you answer. If its easier to ask privately feel free to do so

And I would just like to leave saying that I am a proponent of serverless development not because I happen to work for a company bearing the name, but because I sincerely think its the future. They just happened to spot that and asked me to join them.
> I think the information who is a contact of whom should not reside with the provider, but be distributed among the peers.

Signal partially solves this with SGX. Partially because SGX will probably never be fully secure.