skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you're doing it too! Saying there "may actually be evidence" is not saying there is evidence. There is no evidence. The WHO conceded that more investigation is needed in a report that deemed the lab leak hypothesis "extremely unlikely".

But to the conspiracist mind, any statement other than an unambiguous "THIS IS UNCONTROVERTABLY FALSE" becomes twisted into something that sounds like evidence for the conspiracy.

Which is why debunkings need to be firm and clear. Admitting that something is possible in theory is just nodding to people who want to hear something very different.
There are even some in SV who are clearly a step-function smarter than most other intelligent folk. Balaji Srinivasan, Marc Andreesen, Larry Page, Eric Yuan, Peter Thiel, Taher Elgamal and Naval Ravikant are amongst them in the famous league. Eric Yuan is also hilarious in real life despite English being his second language.
>Howard tells Reason there was no attempt made by the FBI to contact him, his wife, or their heirs—despite the fact that contact information was taped to the top of their box.

The article doesn't say if all of the boxes are marked in the same way, but at least that one was.
Goodness, who decided that was a good idea?!
"There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Ok maybe a bit off topic, but what I'm getting at is... well I think that a bit of unpleasantness is simply necessary and unavoidable. How, where, and the correct amount are important, but people seem to be overly outraged over every bit of negativity these days.

Human misery has a tendency to adjust itself to whatever circumstances a person finds themselves in which is why you find people in profound poverty imagining if they just had this they would be happy forever and then you go and look at people who actually have it and find that they are just as likely to be completely miserable.

I think shittiness is necessary in places because without it you'll have some people making really bad choices just to make folks happy and others who no matter what will find something to be miserable about.

So it's not about eliminating all the rough spots, but instead intentionally shaping them to be in the right places at the right intensities.
8GB is fine, the problem is all laptops are still shipped with 5400RPM harddrives. My mother bought a new $700 Inspiron from Dell, it's made of janky plastic and took 5 minutes to get to desktop and longer to do anything else. Replaced the 5400rpm drive with an SSD and it was plenty fast.

Oems are sabotaging themselves to get their customers to buy their $1200 laptops - which at that point people are instead buying macbooks.
This instantly raises a question for me: what companies did you work for that did not leave you feeling like you were being abused? Do they still exist, do you have any impression of how their work environment has changed since then? I know my friend who worked at Popcap sure did like it a lot less once EA bought them, for instance.

60h + 1-4mo of crunch sure sounds like more than I'd wanna do for anything. Maybe if I got a piece of the IP/profits - as someone with 'socialist' in your username I'd assume you'd be interested in companies that let the workers own more of what they produce; were any of your workplaces unusual in that regard?
China probably won’t do fine in that scenario. They need the US at least as much as the US needs them. Interesting lecture by Peter Zeihan on that topic: https://youtu.be/yttug-a3sWI
Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux
> while keeping a way to access it

There is one.
The size and locus of liability varies by the country of card issue. The US is particularly "generous" in shifting most of the liability onto credit card issuers; few (or any?) other countries do so.

BTW the origin of this legal regime is the card issuers themselves back in the 1960s as people were reluctant to use the cards. It's also good law in the sense that the card companies can modulate the line between reducing friction vs their fraud detection abilities & tolerance for fraud.

Of course one of the downsides is they do this via mass surveillance. That's why I put the quotes around "generous" -- it wasn't out of good will towards customers. Another was pushing quite a bit of responsibility onto merchants.
This is definitely happening, but only in very limited circles.

Tech especially is still drinking the kool-aid
Samsung phones, Samsung Exynos, and Samsung fabs are essentially separate companies.
I see representation as a positive thing, but it's definitely part of the style.
I don't see the appeal of one year grants from the employee side.
>The manufacturing side of things may have found uses for 3d printing, but i'm doubtful if even that is the case.

you are grossly under-representing the role of additive manufacturing in today's world.[0]

[0]: https://amfg.ai/2020/01/14/40-3d-printing-industry-stats-you...
Builders don't necessarily get a dime until the house sells either. Lots of property development is fueled by credit
It’s funny, but the only reason I care about my HN count is because it’s my only indication that someone has responded to something I’ve said, so when I notice my count has changed, I go glance at my comments section to see if someone has said something in response.
Before the big YouTuber my videos were getting high hundreds to low thousands for views with the occasional video hitting tens of thousands. After my videos were getting mid double digit views. I found it very discouraging to spend time making content that wasn't really well received and seemed to be moving my channel backwards. For example, I'd post a new video and subscribers would net decrease over it.

In retrospect, I think the smart thing would've been to not post the new content type on my existing channel. I should've just created a new channel for it.
Don't tell degree-holders this, they might start to suspect that the worker-ants have the capacity to make informed diecisions, self-actualize, or plan into the future.
> They probably will issue one if you haven't had to ask for that before, but it reflects badly on everybody that cryptominers weren't caught for two months.

As much as I'd like to agree with you, AWS makes controlling this WAY too stupidly difficult.

Out here in the real world, many of us are part of startups that have 4 people and a dog. We wear many hats, and "AWS Billing Expert" is not one we have time for.

I actually grind my teeth and recommend Azure to most small companies on this alone. GCP is nice, but I simply won't recommend them due to Google.

However, sometimes AWS has "that service" that you really need. And I just have to caution people that AWS will not protect you.

AWS could solve this. Simply allow people to opt into a hard stop on spending--some of us would rather be down than overspend. Let us make that choice.

The fact that AWS absolutely refuses to solve this speaks volumes.
Of course context matters as does choice of material, but it's a heckuva lot better than hearing what someone thinks something means or (my favorite) 'unnamed sources'.
> Downloading game file 1 of 1 x/8.2MB

> © 1994

The emulation must be 8x the original right?
It's a labor/motivation shortage for the lowest paying jobs, but more troubling is the growing skills deficit:

> “Clearly, there are industries in both manufacturing and services that are eager to beef up staff as the pace of economic activity accelerates. But those efforts are being frustrated. In some cases, the problem is a mismatch in skills. You can’t train a one-time courier on a bike to become an IT specialist overnight,” said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group.

As a hiring manager, it's become much more difficult to find even mediocre engineers over the past three years, and I don't believe it's because the duds we interview would rather live off of unemployment.
I'm nearly speechless reading these replies.

What makes you ask this question? Is it privilege? Ignorance?

We aren't talking about a silly pet project. We're talking about important government websites that need to be available to every citizen of the US, regardless of their work schedules and obligations. Artificially restricting the hours is insane.
Borrowing is just a pointer, no allocation at all. It can point at anything, heap or stack.
There is weakening demand for low- and semi-skilled labor. There is a shortage of skilled labor in many places.
If they are worried, they should worry about BGP.

The DNS roots are probably not the biggest risk due to their nature (discussed in the post).
How did you spend $350k in down payment, mortgage interest on a $500k house?

Do you have a mortgage on it still? I don’t see that in your math. And what about the opportunity cost of your down payment?
I don't know if I should give any advice.

But there are so many publishers/companies that prey on people who want to write, or think they are good enough to publish.

They are called Vanity Publishers.

It's a huge scummy business. It all seems kosher because the customer agrees to the deal.
This was the problem that surface laptops set out to solve by not preinstalling the crap that Microsoft hates (but can’t stop OEMs shipping). They were clearly at least partly successful but I guess they can’t get into the low end well enough.
Seriously, I don't think they would. The individual people who work there are good and decent men and women. That their aggregate activity has the emergent effect of skinner boxing people doesn't make social media company people cackling comic book villains.
The 3rd world would be fine, the first world would fall apart. Just a few weeks without power is enough to bring the USA down onto it's knees.
> No, raising the minimum wage subsidizes innovation. It's better for the people and the technology.

I agree with that as a long term result, but what I'm arguing against is the common refrain of the immediate detrimental effect on current business of increasing minimum wages to living wages. Higher wages for society does lots of great things I didn't get into, but the common refrain is that it will "hurt small businesses".

More people that can take more shots at innovating (also, producing culture which is an exportable good if not valuable in and of itself) is a great thing.

> The only risk is that if gets so high there is more incentive for illegal work. That's one reason why UBI is better.

I don't understand the point here on illegal work -- could you lay out the scenario?

I'm not sold on UBI -- no one has managed to give a satisfactory answer for why it won't lead to persistent (even if minuscule) inflation everywhere. The best people get at is "competition", but very few "free" markets are as competitive as people think they are. Once UBI takes hold, companies will rush to gain a percentage of that UBI (this is almost like securing a government contract that never ends), and businesses will raise prices because at least intuitively every single customer now has more purchasing power and there's room for more profit.

Remember that time that the government gave out $X checks and a lot of products magically became just around $X (in the recent years, very large TVs and stuff)? The market does react when it sees the government give out free money and I'm not sure why people think UBI will be any different. Don't add some new system that will be broken in new novel ways -- just help the people at the bottom of the economy right now, we know how to do it, we just won't because right now we are valuing economic growth more than stability/societal benefit.

[EDIT] - I want to add a personal anecdote -- I have business owners in my family and during the pandemic, and we disagreed over a few things:

- which businesses are really "essential"

- the fact that more people at the bottom of the economy with disposable income means more profit for their own businesses, and just about every business. This means paying their employees more actually results in more profits for themselves in the long run (of course there's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma here).

- The "job creator" narrative really is so ingrained at this point that it was hard to argue my point that businesses do not create jobs, demand creates jobs. Demand comes overwhelmingly from the middle and lower classes (well, except for very specific goods) -- most of the time smart businesses actually do their best to remove jobs (make their operations "lean").

Somewhat out of left field, but a lot has been said about the decline of the music industry -- but if you can get 1% of America to listen to your music, and give you a $1 for an album, that is 3 million dollars. It gets easier and easier to charge the more wages people make -- $5 a lot easier to pay when it's maybe 15mins of work for a worker. This kind of rising tide lifts all boats.
Exactly, tell them to fuck off with a smile.
Is that second group large enough that it should influence policy very much?

Put another way, is the cost of administering a system that can tell the difference worth the savings?
M1 also uses ARM cpu core.
Right now? CA still has an eviction moratorium going. If your tenants stopped paying rent you’d just have to bank roll it until it ends and you evict them.
My son likes 'muppet babies' that's a show for little kids, it's without Elmo, but with most of the Muppet show characters that came from Sesame street - and it is sort of interesting, i watch it togather with my son. Unfortunately it is without Bert and Ernie and without Cookie Monster, miss them.
Show me an actually good book and I will pay for it. Until then you can keep your pulp fiction and trashy romance novels.
Holy shit, I think you're right.
the PREVAIL implementation seems to be more robust then Linux's verifier, are there any plans to port it to Linux?

From the counter examples directory, this implementation seems very promising.
I had worked on an online machine learning method[0] last year that assumes priming effect (similar to the effect you and the GP describe, i.e., the timing effect) and tries to exploit it.

With respect to infinite scrolling/ranking, I have also worked on a simplified model (unfortunately does not capture spacing of likes but captures fatigue based on relevancy) and and algorithm to work with it.[1]

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10356: Learning by Repetition: Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits under Priming Effect

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07734: Thompson Sampling for a Fatigue-aware Online Recommendation System
"Buck Rogers is a science fiction (and later, particularly space opera) character created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the novella Armageddon 2419 A.D., subsequently appearing in multiple media".

Star Wars is basically that, as a movie, tuned and optimized. It's a complicated question, but I think it's quite possible Star Wars would not and could not exist in the absence of the original, pre-Star-Wars, novella.

Which became all sorts of things such as comic strips… but started as a book.
I think it'll stay for next year too, considering how many years anti-racism has been on trend.
> Also the argument that it's "grueling 80+ hour weeks day in and day out is" is bullshit! The only time I ever worked 80 hours in a single week was when I was starting out in Quality Assurance and I was getting paid hourly so I was happy to make the extra overtime.

Sorry but I'm going to call bullshit on your bullshit. Spent ~5 years in the industry and every place I worked crunched like hell and every place that my coworkers came from crunched like hell. There are companies that limit crunch but they are few and far between.

My experience was that those who survived crunch perpetuated a culture of needing to "pay your dues" and you weren't a "team player" if you didn't put in the extra hours on salary.
Good God that's awesome! I must have missed that episode.
China doesn't produce enough food; the US doesn't produce enough goods. China would also experience unrest because of unemployment from the loss of export industries, which could or could not be worse than the unrest elsewhere because of shortages of goods.
What about paying them to stay out of prison?
We'll fix this. Looks like we missed a few references to the old status domain! :)
Panda Malware Targets Crypto Wallets and Discord + Telegram Accounts
mRNA is a new vaccine type, need at least 3-5 years imo
Nearly 40% of those who've died from Covid-19 had diabetes, ADA says (2020)
I was an art director and a creative director last century - mine was not a tirade, more observation of cowardly corporate clients.

Regarding 'multi cultural inclusive visual banality' this is a cultural low tide that is dropping all boats IMO: portraying everyone as mediocre little personas with cute skin colors and different simplified costumes like a cast of playmobile people.
I think ideas like "money represent value" are tru-ish enough approximations from a distance but comments like this show just how easy it is to slip into seeing them as definitions or absolute truth.

Useful models are still models after all.
CHP investigates man doing potentially deadly Tesla autopilot stunt
The survey data she cites is pretty weak and seems to be the only real evidence:

>A Pew Research Center survey this year found that 66 percent of the unemployed had “seriously considered” changing their field of work, a far greater percentage than during the Great Recession. People who used to work in restaurants or travel are finding higher-paying jobs in warehouses or real estate, for example. Or they want a job that is more stable and less likely to be exposed to the coronavirus — or any other deadly virus down the road. Consider that grocery stores shed over 49,000 workers in April and nursing care facilities lost nearly 20,000.
The irony is that there's nothing Memphis here. It's all corporate.

Original 80s Memphis was migraine-inducingly Weird As Fuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group

A very heavily watered down version influenced MTV and an even more neutered version was splattered across numerous corporate brochures and reports in the 90s. But it was only Memphis in the most superficial sense, riffing off bright colours, geometric squiggles, and a few stock Memphis textures like zebra print.

This doesn't even have that. It's just bland, cartoony, sometimes literally faceless, and flat - visually as well as emotionally.
If there are unfilled jobs, employers should raise wages and increase benefits. If there are not unfilled jobs, people without wealth should receive support from a social safety net.
If we're lucky! :D
Work = be poor

Don't work = be poor

Why work?
Only if you think that "diversity" is somehow abnormal. Why is it a calculated move for companies like Google, whose CEO has brown skin, to have some of their advertisements include brown skinned people? The real cynical move would be to make them all white to appease middle America. Why do you feel the rest of us have to hide our existence to appease you?
Those links gave me the heeby-jeebies.
Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow are suddenly disappearing
Something interesting to note - I think if your account gets deranked by the moderators(I don't know the details of how it works), your account gets significantly fewer upvotes yet receives all downvotes, disincentivizing controversial speech. I think it's done on my account, and while it's annoying sometimes, it's been a net positive for me(I'm sensitive to votes).
Exactly this. I feel like this blog post just feeds into HN’s superiority complex. Let people have fun
> a hundred years ago (say 1921) there were less people (in the US for example), and more successful authors.

Are you sure there were more successful authors? There weren't that many notable books published in 1921.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_in_literature
>But we can conclude, and with absolute confidence: Elon Musk is not more intelligent than I am, or you. We’re different.

Yeah okay.
Well that and expensive goods...
Having followed the instructions from https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/, I was able to get this working fine. This is without Docker Desktop installed. It probably would have also worked with the version from distro repository.

zed@ZED-PC:~$ sudo service docker start
* Starting Docker: docker [ OK ]
zed@ZED-PC:~$ sudo docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
b8dfde127a29: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:f2266cbfc127c960fd30e76b7c792dc23b588c0db76233517e1891a4e357d519
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

The full output for 'docker run' was much longer, so I've snipped it down to size
"It references work by US Air Force colonel Michael J. Ainscough, who predicted World War III may be fought with bioweapons."

So.. Chinese army theoretics discussed Bioweapons, citing work done by US army theoreticians. You know, the ones who actually made, stockpiled, tested bio and chem weapons.

I think this is going to die in a hailstorm of whataboutery accusations, But it's really very bizarre to say that when your "enemy" (btw, China is not the enemy, formally, of the USA, and hasn't been for many decades, notwithstanding what happens across the Taiwan straights) discusses something you don't like and cites work you did in it, yourself

yet, this is written up an "AHA" moment about.. them.
I hear you on the frustration with finding a good therapist. I’ve heard it’s not abnormal to go through 5+ before you find one who you really like. By the way, a good strategy can be to set up initial consultations with multiple in near succession, so you don’t have to wait so long before you can evaluate the next person. If you land on someone you really like, cancel the other appts.

But like you say, COVID is also making the situation worse. For example, all psychotherapists affiliated with my PCP’s hospital are booked out 6+ months.

Therapy isn’t your only option, but it’s a great option if you find someone you enjoy working with. Like life changing great. You should also be upfront with them about what you’re looking for (sounds like you are). If they ignore you that’s a red flag. Your PCP might have a locator service as well, which can save you some hassle. If you know you want CBT, that should be a primary filter.

You can try to solve your issues on your own but it can take a lot more work. Eg you have to start by understanding what anxiety is, where it’s coming from (not the literal thoughts, but on a subconscious level), and work to confront your deeper underlying emotions. Meditation. Understanding yourself. Not impossible, but up hill, and not appropriate for all issues. You could be blind to a lot of issues that a third party can help you identify. Check out the book Self Analysis by Karen Horney (have not read, just seen as a recommendation).

While you continue your search, I can make a recommendation to you, it’s a YT channel: https://youtube.com/c/HealthyGamerGG

Ignore the “gamer” label. There’s a ton of good general advice on there. It’s an MD psychotherapist talking to primarily gamers and internet people about a wide selection of mental health topics. And then some more lecture style content. Ex search for anxiety. There’s a lot of advice on relieving symptoms, and understanding the mechanisms involved. He mixes standard western style approaches like psychotherapy with eastern style understanding of mind/body, which isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

And here’s a guide to therapy, I found it super helpful: https://youtu.be/YuLfFqPFrkc

Best of luck!
A lot in this comment that I would like to understand. What is the source of this despair? You mention: low pay, undesirable job, inability to progress, and inability to afford land. What exactly is it about government programs that provide any of those? It seems the issue is entirely something else if the "solution" doesn't actually address the problems.