skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems cruel to me. Especially if you need a part time job because of family commitments. Plenty of full time jobs are actively hostile to working parents. Perhaps dealing with that issue first would help?

Or is this really just about punishing those who can't fight back as hard? Probably.

Edit: unemployed people are easy targets in order to appear tough in politics. Its great for later campaigning.
> difficult to scale on short notice

Will it be a big deal in the long term then?
outsource; for 7k usd you can get very skilled people
> Linux is not a profit-driven operating system for which those arguments are valid.

Here's the main problem with the article.

Nowadays, Linux is a profit-driven operating system. Probably not in the direct sense, yet it is.

You want people implementing hardware support? You need developers, and pay them.

You need integration between the various system components? Same.

And so on...
Oh my gosh, I responded the same way.

I read a story 3 days ago. 2 days ago, I'm about to back up - but I get out of my car and look for my kid (she was safe).
What a great HN comment.
This is super-informative, thank you.
This makes my day and guarantees I will come back on HN for more!
The unfortunate side is that the people voting on and installing policies that don’t help workers but tend to punish them have never seen that side of life—one where they’ve had to operate at the mercy of a cruel employer out of desperation and just plain survival.

We can surely do better than that, but it takes empathy. For that reason, my hopes are tempered.
Funny, but not actually true. Competition is not the only available source of excitement
How much of that is just undercounting of covid deaths in India?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/worl...

“It’s a complete massacre of data,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan who has been following India closely. “From all the modeling we’ve done, we believe the true number of deaths is two to five times what is being reported.”
You actually add credibility to his writing because you make it obvious that you don't actually have a counter argument.
As an expat living in Sweden, I have the opposite experience. Did you by any chance work in a big corporation like Ericsson? Then I can see why you'd think that. Startup culture was the opposite though. Other comments here also give a lot of evidence to the contrary.
I'm curious to see a list of world-changing ideas that came out of domain expertise and those that the essay claims could be dismissed because the person was not an expert.

AirBnB, which is perhaps pg's favorite company, would never have gotten into Y Combinator without Michael Seibel and the endorsement of the JTV crew. AirBnB simply would not exist today.

So I hope people don't read this essay and think, "I'm not a domain expert, so I'll give up on this idea." Somewhat of a dangerous essay for that reason.
Yup, I've got mpv playing back 720p youtube on a 1.8Ghz Pentium M machine with no trouble at all.

The real issue I'm having is that with all the old 2D graphics acceleration API's being deprecated in X11, you are stuck with Glamor to accelerate desktop compositing, and that only works if you have a later fixed function GPU, or a modern programmable GPU. If you're stuck with an old ATI FireGL like I am, X11 will vomit an error about the GPU not having enough instruction slots to do the job.

Its kind of baffling, the hardware is capable enough to run Half Life 2, but it can't composite a few windows? I'm almost tempted to go compile X11 myself and remove that particular check.
Fully agreed. A lazy article all-round. Where are the examples? Where are the pitfalls?

Is the insight merely that some wacky ideas turn out to be right sometimes?

Yeah, sure so how can we tell in advance? How is this actionable? And his answer is: listen to reasonable domain experts. That phrase is doing some real heavy lifting there...
I mean, it’s not surprising that people who are doing well in the contract market like the contract market.

For my part, I literally left the UK in part because the industry there was so geared towards contract work or boutique contract houses as the only viable career path for senior developers. It’s just not for everyone. I like staying with a product team and building and owning stuff; I like companies that build their technology in-house rather than outsourcing; I like being able to shape what the technology team contributes to the business rather than respond to already-baked RFPs. I like stock-based comp.

The UK tech job market is very well suited to certain kinds of developers and certain kinds of relationships between businesses (and frequently government organizations) and their technology providers.

It’s not the only way though.
I'm a big fan of thermal mass.

This is probably climate-related - when there is a big difference between day- and nighttime temperatures it is very comfortable.
can the font size be smaller? please
I agree - but in cases of marginal hardware I'd expect to see more strange issues than just specifically FS corruption with btrfs.

At one point it was limited to if I was using compression, but using compression was the major reason I wanted btrfs for that use rather than ext4/xfs.
What are your views then?
Making the Internet more secure one signed container at a time
Are you asserting that the monetary value of unemployment benefits exceeds the full time salary of those jobs? It's easily possible that the the majority of local employers pay much less than that and are threatened by UI. Does every local business pay that well or just the corporate chains (which have additional wage pressures and other nationwide factors)?
It’s for when you want to sell your useless old stuff on Ebay.
I'm new at this, having just purchased some miners, but have followed the space using a similar logic. For the 10% view I'd consider the insane amount of institutional money chasing the entire value chain, which will not be shy about protecting itself.

The policy environment is still evolving; the FinCEN travel rule will put the hurt on crypto ATMs and the exchanges (to some degree). But it's good collateral, it doesn't (generally) have storage costs like gold, the growth of supply is well understood. Potential positive catalysts remain, including a US btc ETF, the impact of cme's micro contract, and geopolitical developments further constraining the supply of ASICs.

Its clear from the above that I view it more as a store of value than something you should spend as a currency. Ethereum-world (incl stablecoins) seems to have a lock on the latter. It will be interesting to see what happens when ETH shifts to POS.
I’m not sure I understand why we aren’t? In my area it seems there are now plenty of vaccine doses to go around now. Anyone can walk in to one of the various vaccine clinics set up by the county and get it. No appointment, no ID, no insurance needed. When I went they were practically begging me to spread the word to friends and family.
They review applications because they want to make sure big developers with many apps aren't dividing their apps across lots of different developer accounts so as to get around the total sales cap. (The application form asks questions about other accounts you have, related businesses etc.)

If you are a small dev with just one developer account, you'll sail through the applicaton process.
The article linked above is by Mr Doctorow, as is the text loosely quoted
Auto Route Generate Package for Laravel
The cost of living in Bozeman is astronomical. $800k single family houses. $1,500 apartments.

Even the exorbitant sounding $17 an hour isn’t much of a living wage in Bozeman anymore. Hasn’t been for a decade or more.
> nordic mentality of thinking carefully before acting

To me, your comment also sounds like a stereotype.
This is normally true, but the condition of looking for work was removed with the pandemic unemployment programs, I think because it wasn’t possible to look for work and people needed help.

“Proving” to BLS just means answering a question on a survey, so it’s not burdensome compared to what is required to do continue unemployment insurance. So workers who run out of benefit and answer something like “yes, I’d like to work, am looking, and can’t find” will be included in U3.

There are other measures for underemployed, or people who gave up working, etc. I think those are U4-U6, described in the second link I posted.

I find lots of these arguments are people not understanding the unemployment measures or people arguing with different versions.
I had to read this remark a couple of times before I realised it's suggesting a curl debugging trace is somehow more definitive and less complicated than tcpdump, despite it being a TCP issue.

For those of us who grew up reading W.R.Stevens, that might seem absolutely back-to-front. Not only that, curl ain't gonna help you diagnose the next one, which is a Path MTU Discovery issue, or the one after that, which is an undervoltage on the DRAM refresh controller. It might, however, be helpful in nailing that HTTP/2 prefetch request connection upgrade bug.

Mechanical sympathy means feeling every part of the machine, right down in your bones.
Development environment for PHP programmers on Windows
For Linux, the alternative is redshift.
You don’t have to match contract wages. There are benefits other than salary that contractors don’t have access to.

But let’s be honest. It’s a marketplace. The solution to hiring is more money. That’s how capitalism works.
My production Linux+ZFS server is still running a LVM mirror with ext4 on root because of exactly the fear you mentioned. All the FreeBSD systems have had mirrored ZFS root since v10.x (released 20 January 2014 according to Wikipedia). 7+ years later and I'm still not confident enough to run the same set up in production using Linux.
Having crazy ideas seems to be a prerequisite for taking over the world with an idea. The alternative is having familiar ideas which are already pervasive, or having no ideas.
See, this is why it is always so hard to take these rationalist arguments seriously. They assume their own competence, at the same time as pretending not to.

The most likely alternative is obviously E: something we (personally) don't know. That doesn't depend on time travel, extra dimensions, or aliens.

It's not a clear majority, > 0.5. But to fail to mention it amounts to a big hole in the argument.
It's not about your own wealth, it's about the size of the company you are at the helm of.

People understand the diminishing returns of wealth, they'd rather be at the helm of a Fortune 100 company and have a net wealth of 100m vs. being a billionaire who made his billion buying and selling real estate in Sweden.

Sweden billionaires are all small potatos guys, they are way inferior to Trump if we are talking about turnover of the companies they own.

The US has the real guys, people like Bezos, Gates, Buffett, Koch etc.
> impossible to match day rates pro-rata

You're not expected to match day rates if you're offering a permanent contract.

I usually advise people doing contract work to charge at least double what they would otherwise get in full-time employment, just to account for their additional costs and time spent on admin.

Compare permanent senior engineers rates with permanent senior engineers rates, rather than with day rates - it's a completely different frame of reference.
I think the point is that while CPUs have gotten (significantly) better over time using a computer doesn't feel any faster than 10 years ago because software has more than made up for it. On my 3 year old Ubuntu machine here it takes ~2-3s to launch gnome-calculator. This is no faster than launching gnome-calculator in 2004 on my 2004 Athlon 64 with Gnome 2.6. It's not like gnome-calculator is suddenly doing a lot more now.

It feels like I spend more time now waiting for the computer than I did then. It's the same with the phone - click, wait, click, wait, click, wait. For a taste of what it could be like try running Windows 2000 in a VM. Zoooooooom.

Why? Developers will only optimise their software when it becomes unbearably slow - and in the absence of automated performance tracking and eternal vigilance software gets slower over time. The result is that there is no reason* to get excited about CPU advances. It doesn't make your life better, it's just a cost you have to pay to stop your life getting worse.

* Sure there are some reasons - if you're already using/dependant upon heavily optimised software like games or machine learning, but for most people that's a very small part of their computing use.
I think this is a good point the authors make:

"it is important to think about what portion of that stimulation is light emission versus other cognitive and psychological stimulations"

I think having some studies done that compare something like a chill game vs. facebook or news with and without nightshift would be valuable.
I don't think pg intended that crazy new ideas require someone to be a domain expert, just some expertise. Slight wording difference.

In the case of music, one could have domain expertise on audio files, compression and domain expertise about file sharing and domain expertise about younger people's listening habits. That's just having some insights into the domain, several as is the case with Napster. Music industry execs in those days probably had domain expertise on contract law, revenue sharing models, marketing and didn't have a clue about file sharing or audio compression.

Also want to mention the examples you mention seem to have not much "newness" to them to be "crazy new" in my opinion.

When I think of "crazy new" ideas, I think of things like stuff that came out of PARC in the 60's. If you go watch the Stanford 2 part series "How To Invent The Future" with Alan Kay on youtube [0] it goes into a lot of detail about them.

The challenge there with Xerox was they couldn't capitalize on every single idea that came out, just not logistically possible for a company to really do that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ
OP here. There is a character limit on the title.
While I don't agree with the tone, and the expectation that other should ensure that you can keep running a free OS on a 12 year old laptop, there is a point to this website.

I did all the thing I do now 15 years ago on my laptop. Sure video quality have improved, screen resolution have increased and I can do more stuff online, if I want to. All the daily stuff, browsing the web, hobby programming and paying my bills online, why can't I do that with 1 or 2GB of RAM?

We could do 100Mbit networking 15 years ago, or even 20 years ago, so the increased network speed shouldn't be an issue.
Graph Rot
It's been maintained with constant supervision. Probably regular inspections and fixes. Watch what happens in as little as ten years once it has no human intervention at all.
If it sounded like I was implying that companies would do that, that's my mistake - I was only saying that they could do that.
How on earth do they justify anything except next-day payment? If they can't pay a few thousand dollars what is going on with their cashflow?
I think you've hit it exactly. There's no reason to think that resolving IP concerns will speed up production and deployment in India. Problems there have more to do with the state of their logistical and healthcare infrastructure than the (very impressive) vaccine production capabilities of the Serum Institute of India.

It's also maybe a little relevant that the Modi government didn't order nearly enough vaccines early enough.
It would be fantastic for the user. But you can’t be bothered wrapping it in an app. I guess either it’s not fantastic enough, or we’re missing something.
In my limited knowledge of psychology it's widely accepted there are 2 kinds of subjective well-being AKA "happiness". One is in-the-moment emotional happiness - joy, laughter, fun, that kind of thing. The other is "life satisfaction" which is what is discussed here.
So true.
Most times when I'm making a right turn and have to wait for a pedestrian to cross, I notice that they never look up. Somehow if you have the right of way, cars are magically supposed to obey that.
Better to be in one piece than be right.
Motorcycle airbag that need a monthly/yearly subscription to work
Right, and for every company who advertises ‘competitive compensation’ and means it there are a dozen whose idea of competitive comp is that they’ll match an offer to retain you later.

You do need to filter through some BSers to find a good job but that doesn’t mean any company that claims anything good about themselves is lying.
You misunderstood, natural disasters don’t care about state lines or even national borders.

It’s likely no one state adds up to 1 million people, but collectively people at in or near pacific ocean in the US, Canada, and Mexico are at risk. So, if you want to understand the risk from such an earthquake you add everyone together.
Canada was simply too late for everything. Wait and see, wait and see, whoops - it is too late. I also suspect that Canada’s low early infection numbers were results of non existing testing.
Is price speculation considered abuse?
Only worth doing with brand new clients where I've not vetted them yet and there's no mutually established trust and respect.

For clients where I've worked with them for many years, these are just a waste of time. I know they'll pay me. They know that I'll deliver. I am careful to not agree any work that I won't be able to do. And they are very careful to not ask me to do work that they can't afford.

If they really can't pay me, then I know they've went bankrupt, so no amount of contracts will make my invoice recoverable. I accept that as the cost of doing freelancing.
The article refers more to “big” expectations around one’s station in life or fame. Americans are brought up to think “you could be the next President” or “you could be a star”, and then when they turn out to have a regular life then feel disappointed.
utterly disgusting ... period. I almost want to vomit reading that. I hope you didn't watch that yourself.

my point holds nonetheless.
PureCycle: The Latest Zero-Revenue ESG SPAC Charade
For sure, I'd heard that 10% before and it makes sense - also aware of the McDonald's use case. I wasn't trying to imply that this was a simple or universal fix. Still, pulling unemployment to force people back to work feels really gross and I think we need to start to look at where there's room in that 10% (or more for other companies) to help people.

That said, do we need so many McDonald's? If, say, half of them closed, but the people who worked there had better lives and more free time, I'm inclined to believe the world would benefit. So maybe we end up with fewer low-skill jobs, but ultimately was society really benefiting greatly from that labor anyways?

And if the answer is "yes", ok, that's probably a case for the government to start providing or assisting in that service.
PowerPC in general is somewhat niche. Its used in things from networking switches to fighter jets, but nothing that would affect mainstream CPU market. I can't imagine Apple jumping to a new architecture after just developing their own ARM chips.
The McDonald's where minimum wage is $15 don't really charge that much more than the places where it's $7.25 though.
Government competence is either surprisingly high or low? I'm going with the latter on principle.
PinePhone is compatible with the iPhone’s MagSafe wallets right out of the box
This might be more useful for specifying the clauses of smart contracts than actual law.
People are weird and unusual, consider how much people were rushing to get to California to find golden rocks. Money honestly makes no sense at all to me.
> Off the top of my head, I vaguely remember that the latter half of the careers of many "greats" like Einstein, Fermi, Erdos were riddled with pursuing directions which bore no fruit (to this day).

I don't know about Erdos, but the other had ambitious ideas, not crazy ones. Evidence that they weren't crazy is that the problems they were working on are still seen as the ones to solve by most of the physics community.

In fact, on the case of Einstein, he worked on much crazier ideas on the beginning of his career. I don't think any respected physicist ever thought about solving Brownian motion, and the photoelectric effect was an interesting curiosity but mostly of interest of "those inventors out there", not of researchers.
Ah yeah, don't do this either :P

(EDIT: parent has edited their comment)
That assumes that AWS/Azure/GCP won't have the same issues getting chips to run Mighty on that PC manufacturers have getting chips to sell to consumers though. If the shortage keeps up, that is not necessarily true.
No, that's the U-3 number which is intended to measure people actively seeking work. It's true there's a lot of subtlety with measuring and understanding unemployment statistics, but this argument is just spin, it doesn't hold.

The simple truth is that workforce participation in Montana (and the rest of the US) is actually quite high right now, especially given the pandemic context.

This policy is simply misguided, period. It targets the wrong people for the wrong things to solve a problem that doesn't exist. And it's actively harming the people who elected the government. All because the people making decisions choose to believe spin and not truths.
I don't quite follow the part about homeless people.
Because not that long ago the UK was more or less totally deforested and the only people doing stuff with wood were the well to do and as is typical with these sorts of things the yacht builder is held in higher regard than the barge builder.
The article seems to be more about the longer term way forward, i.e. what _can_ be done with mRNA vaccines.
At first I wondered why ItemFix was hosting videos---based on the name alone, it sounded like a home improvement site.
On the other hand, I saw some research that says that the power consumption of those older devices in use is dwarfed by the power used to make them, or to make a newer computer, so, as with cars, the right thing to do is keep them running as long as you can. I spent a little bit of time looking for the reference, but it was on gopher a couple of years ago, and I wasn't able to find it.
Ancient Akkadian poems and medical texts reveal grief’s universals
More soup for Wafer Scale Engine 3.
I accepted a role at a modest day rate and turned down offers from FAANGs. Why?

1. The project is entirely FOSS and in an interesting problem space

2. 100% remote work, with flexible time

3. There's no scrum/agile ceremonies and similar corporate stuff
Bell Labs is a counterexample to what you said. It developed the first transistor, photovoltaic cell, fiberiptic, lasers, cctv and some other things. Oh, and cellphones of course.

Ditto Xerox Parc and modern user interfaces, ethernet and and laser printers.
I don't see any new IP development at all. All I see is dev of existing IP.
Are they not compatible solutions? I understand if the development is very fast you want to have focus, but the goal here is performance, it seems worth to at least coordinate. I hope it happens!!
Well done, love the project! Setting up infrastructure on AWS for experiments really costs me a lot of time!