skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem to be under the impression that the large blocks of voters actually understand and care about the issues. Large corporations and their considerable advertising and lobbying efforts are what's really important. Much of this effort is to frame issues to the public in the way they choose.

The idea that it's the voters that vote is actually true! That's how the system works. Corporations can influence that of course, probably to an enormous degree. But the corporations themselves don't vote. That's the system we've got.

The primary mechanism in our system is people. And people aren't logical, rational, economically-maximizing, or any of it. People are far more narrative-driven than they are rationally-driven.

THAT's what I would say that Republicans would get on board with a universal healthcare bill in which they could claim that they "destroyed" the Democrats by "obliterating" a bunch of "socialist pork". But that's absolutely going to ensure that the Democrats that "caved" in order to get something important done won't be able to get re-elected. And they care more about getting re-elected than they do about doing the right thing! Same on the other side of the isle! This isn't a partisan issue. Everyone wants to get re-elected way, way, way more badly than they want to do the right thing.

I don't like it. I don't think it's right. But it's extremely easy to see that neither party is compromising in any meaningful way these days. Both take hardline stances and don't budge. That's not a bug, it's a feature of American Democracy. It was designed such that if there wasn't wide agreement (or elected officials who would compromise) that things would grind to a halt. That was done so that nobody could run roughshod over the other.

Until we start getting richer such that the increases in spending are coming out of even bigger growth or we somehow manage to convince everyone that paying more and getting less is totally-A-OK this is going to be how it continues to go. Neither side wants to compromise, so their counterparties don't want to either. Deadlock is the name of the game.

> and they actively vote against their own best interests

I can understand how you'd think that. It makes a lot of sense. But it belies a terrible ignorance on your part. Animals don't make decisions on purpose to make their own lives worse in ways in which they KNOW they will end up worse. You can try and project your ethics onto other people all you want and use their relative-to-you irrationality to belittle them. But it doesn't work! Putting people down doesn't change minds. In fact putting people down might be the very thing that got Trump elected (re: deplorables).

I'm not saying Trump is good and Hilary is bad BTW. I'm just using that as an example of how unfortunate it can be to generalize one's personal ethics to the entire country and draw conclusions as a result.
"Maybe when the work is truly meaningful (I wouldn’t know)."

But sure, have it your way.
They're largely right. Only 10% of Americans live in single-family homes.
What we need is OS-level innovation that allows to safely run remote applications. Inferno partly went in that direction, but nothing else seems to have done any better AFAIK.
The global middle class is over 1B people; if 10% of them are rural that's over 100M.
I like the UI. It’s truly refreshing. Cool stuff
(not difficult) Detect that a customer's modem is next to a fish tank or a microwave from a picture the customer sends via the company app. This is a common cause for wifi problems so it helps to sort these cases out before they connect to an operator
In that case my weekend of climbing can be considered work too
It was great compared to what else was available at the time. Yes, it was about being in the right place at the right time - a place and time where three guys could build something that was better than anything out there, that people actually used.
What about intelligence and being able to notice emerging trends? Do you think Jobs and Gates were simply lucky in the early 80s? Or did they see what was going on at Xerox PARC and the coming PC revolution? Their less lucky colleagues stayed in college and went on to have normal careers.
yeah. edX was stellar compared to other platforms. like really really good. sad that it's uncertain what is going to happen to it now
I watched in one breath a former president explain to a group of AARP members that socialized medicine was evil, medicare was the best, and he'd do whatever it took to preserve medicare. I had a full on shocked pikachu face.
> Installing the non-alpha upgrade will improve this experience how?

For one thing it'll cut the 30% of the story that involved figuring out the compatibility issue iteratively.
However, such language about 'safety of the residents' is not present in his report.

The NPR article was just simplifying. True, the original report didn't use those exact 3 words - but what it did say:

Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially.

Is quite damning, and essentially in line with the simplified version given in the NPR article. And in any case directly at odds by the town's building official:

"Structural engineer report was reviewed by Mr. Prieto. It appears the building is in very good shape."

Which may explain why Mr Prieto is "no longer employed by Surfside".
I think it falls into a different category. Lucky in this regard is being in the right situations at the right time.
I suggest turbo to lots of people who love jet and they find it a useful replacement for those cases where the distinctness of colours is helpful, e.g. noisy fields for which contours are too much of a mess to understand.

As others have said, the choice of colour scheme depends on the application. And it can even make sense to use a distinctly suboptimal scheme, if the goal is to produce graphs that can be compared easily with existing works. For example, annual reports of datasets are a lot easier to compare if the changes to the colour scheme are avoided.
> but QR codes seem to work really well for this sort of thing and even non tech users can easily figure it out.

Good luck explaining that to my grandmother who doesn't own a smartphone.
Australia: Beijing Threatening Academic Freedom
What has Microsoft done to GH to "ruin it"?
Welfare fire department, welfare police.....
> Having an income 300:1 your lowest paid employee is disturbing

I can imagine how and why communist revolutions were so "successful". This ratio simply shows theft from the workers. Probably, if we don't get a regulation in that area, so that let's say the maximum ratio could be no more than 10:1 and heavily tax capital gains, dividends and other means that privilege class use to extract value without having to work for it, this history will repeat itself.
In some western countries, extreme left parties gain huge support, because people are simply fed up of reading that e.g. Amazon got another record year while they themselves have to sleep in a tent because they cannot afford paying rent.
I’m using markdown files and plain images on dropbox. Non-techies love it.
Like you, I was very recently considering doing some kind of traveling. I don't know if it would be in an RV or other vehicle. I'm still on the fence however; it would be the most radical thing I will have ever done with my life.

I understand that just traveling isn't really a solution to my problems, but I feel like my life at present is too sterile and I don't have much to say. Some writers say that first-hand experience is valuable in creating new ideas. Maybe I just need more experience.

It's like when I read the passage in Kerouac's On The Road where the protagonist wakes up in a motel and realizes he's farther away from home than he's ever been. I feel like, if I choose to write for fun, I don't think I can write properly without experiencing that kind of thing myself (though opinions may vary between people). That's at least true for everything fictional I've written so far, despite how little I've actually written.

If that doesn't work then I could find something else like working abroad, provided I have enough contacts to help me, but I struggle with that sort of thing. I also wanted to find some people I feel comfortable keeping in touch with, though I haven't quite put in enough effort to reach that point.

Because about all my therapist does is sympathize with the things I talk about (such as the issues in my parent comment) I don't think much real change is going to come out of that relationship; it would only keep me sane. That carries its own value, but I feel that there's something more I'm missing. This is the kind of thing that I have to get my hands dirty in order to have any hope of fixing it.
Suppose someone is average and lazy. They're practically guaranteed to live a life of coasting by from job to job, living paycheck to paycheck, and struggling to get by in America these days. That is not success by my measure.
Several radios have built in APRS messaging, but it’s extremely frustrating to use as non have implemented predictive text entry.

That said, the SX1276 covers both 2m and 70cm, and has FSK mode, so this project has the hardware to do APRS, though I don’t see schematics on how the RF chain is implemented.
The nice thing about doing a Smalltalk is that there is a colossal amount of software built on top of it. I'd love to know how much of that corpus could operate like this. I don't recall ever using locks, but I also never ran ST on a multicore machine either. It's just that the message-passing idea matches a many-core machine so well it's a shame not to play with it.
> I bet those Canadians are young and healthy

Exactly. I know a Canadian that’s in their late 30’s, has children, and mixed health record. Now that the adventures are over, they’re eager to move back. Similar stories for European friends that married and had families with Americans.
You are arguing a completely different point than PG.

PG is talking about the ingredients for "doing great things" and "great work".

You are talking about getting rich. Sometimes these are aligned, and sometimes they aren't.

It seems like you are looking for a predictive model of who succeeds in society and who doesn't, while PG is offering life advice on the value of hard work (something within an individual's control) - a different topic.
Exactly, they just want to suck you dry. They don't want to let a̶ ̶p̶o̶t̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶r̶c̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶r̶e̶v̶e̶n̶u̶e̶ you die from lack of medicine that costs them pennies.
That's hardly a fair comparison they are calling it welfare as the town in question didn't pay a cent to get it's own broadband.
Starlink may be faster than fiber from NY to London.
Van Ness Avenue: What Lies Beneath [pdf]
Is your modem next to a microwave oven?

you ask them directly and you don't invade their privacy by making them take pictures.
OK, then ask him to go easy! Great idea, and it might get a good response.
Thank you for that response, I didn't realize the lottery was happening at the moment of payment. I thought tickets were given out then the draw happens at a later date and the tickets are redeemed then. This makes sense! Thanks for clarifying.
Now I guess we just look through crtasm's history for what has caught dang's eye. :)
100% they are not a normal web user, I am stating this as a fact.

> WebRTC: "real-time communication capabilities", in a web browser. Pepperidge farm remembers when chat apps weren't running in browsers.

It seems to me that they want media/experience/communications-rich features removed from the browser, in-lieu of your local OS/software suite. To me, the core feature of "the browser", and the web for that matter, is open standards communication + cross platform dissemination of information... rich-media included (video, audio, RTC).

This list would take us back 10-20 years to when the browser was still a fledgling platform for development by ripping out a TON of features that people use on a daily basis.

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Overall the article feels like a daily Gentoo user trying to call shots on what their ideal version of Windows would look like:

1. Your ideals vs. the product the world uses are two very different things.

2. Sure it's a valid thought experiment, but I personally wouldn't spend the time writing/marking-up/citing a 152-item bulleted list expressing an ideal that will never happen.
> a place and time where three guys could build something that was better than anything out there, that people actually used

This is being in the right place at the right time. In other words, luck.
Zen: Posture Correction Software via Webcam
Talk about moving goalposts..
> 1) Please stop using fatality comparisons when talking about radiation incidents - it's disingenuous. You need to look at total impact, including negative outcomes like cancers and reduced life expectancies rather than outright deaths.

It's my understanding that nuclear power performs very favorably in these metrics as well. Living near a coal-fired plant isn't very healthy, and probably exposes you to more radiation anyways[1].

I don't really follow the alternative power source news, but I don't think anybody's argument actually stops at "it's better than the worst." Most people seem to think that nuclear power makes a good choice because it's a consistent source of power and has a proven track record (see: France).

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Oversubscription proved to be a problematic thing early in 2020, because of everyone working from home. This will ease up, but the old oversubscription numbers won’t work anymore as people have permanently changed some of their habits.

And the bandwidth required by any given household will only really go up in the future.
I never understood the concept of vouchers. Taxes are connected from everyone to pay for public schools, which can be used by anyone's children. They're not to pay for the schooling of your own children.

I don't have children at all, and I don't mind paying taxes to fund schools, because when I'm old I want the doctor who is younger than to have gotten a good education. I don't expect any vouchers just because I don't have kids consuming public education.

Vouchers always seemed to me like an obvious scheme to defund public schools and let them rot, thereby punishing kids who were unlucky enough to be born poor.
No need to be sorry, it's a perfectly reasonable question.

1. Security is a huge threat to Windows, 0365, etc. Microsoft and "malware" go together a little too much in the public's eyes and that hurts their business. Addressing this through hardware is reasonable, but they even have an entire product line now around this - Sentinel.

2. Microsoft likely sees GSuite as a major threat to 0365. Where Microsoft's major client is Windows, GSuite's client is ChromeOS. ChromeOS has mandated TPM 2.0 and baked it into every system, and they offer GSuite features that integrate with that - it's a massive security win for ChromeOS users, and Microsoft has to have TPM 2.0 to compete.

I hope that clears this up for TPM 2.0.

As for the intel series, I can't comment, I haven't looked into it and as I said elsewhere I feel that MS could easily reduce the requirement.
You'd likely be shocked/scared at the amount of terrible code which is out there in the wild running at any time in large companies. Mostly it is outsourced to the cheapest possible vendor, many times who have barely a grasp of what they're doing, and for sure don't understand or think about best security practices.
The high cost of healthcare in the US has very little to do with the structure of insurance. Insurance industry profits only account for 2% of aggregate medical expenditures.

The reason that Turkish healthcare is much cheaper than American healthcare is primarily because Turkish doctors are paid much less than American doctors. (As are Turkish nurses, and Turkish drug and device wholesalers, and so on.) There's a very simple solution to that. All you have to do is let Turkish doctors come to the United States and practice medicine. Or better yet let Turkish hospitals open entire branches in the United States and wholesale import their staff, equipment, and drugs from Turkey.

The reason that doesn't happen is because we have a cartel called the American Medical Association that continuously lobbies for antiquated barriers to foreign competition. Unless a physician does a residency in America (which good luck, if you're a foreigner from a foreign school), you will never be allowed to practice in the US.
yeah, nothing beats K8s except you know... maybe serverless. or maybe cloud primitives that are already there and are handled by someone else.

IMHO, unless you have a huge fleet of bare metal machines K8s is an overhead you don't need
The only theoretical value I see in Secure Boot is if you're trying to build a tamper-resistant laptop. You'd have to only run Linux, you'd have to disable everything except your own signing keys (rather than using the shim, or anything else signed by Microsoft, because they'll sign (or can be coerced into signing) basically anything), you'd probably want to skip GRUB and boot an EFI executable directly without editable kernel arguments, and you'd have to manually sign every kernel update or module that you wanted to load.

But even then, I see no reason to trust that a given UEFI implementation won't quietly accept some secret hard-coded key even after all of the defaults have been removed, so now I guess we're stuck with older machines that can be flashed with Coreboot?

Yeesh. The number of people who can get this to work has got to be vanishingly small...
I didn't go to CMU. But to me, as I read this essay, that was balanced by the "quit when you're too tired to do your best work". That's not working-to-the-bone. That's working hard, and then stopping.

Now, someone who went to CMU may be too traumatized to hear that, but PG did say that...
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Because the overwhelming scientific consensus is that the Sun is not in the "centre" (whatever that means) of the universe. That idea, as originally conceived, is just incorrect.
Cargo-cult programming has always been a problem, but now we're explicitly building tools for it.

I get what you're saying, but I'm not worried. At the end of the day, the programmer has to understand the code they're submitting, both the fine grain and the holistic context. If they don't know how to, or can't be bothered at least curate the suggestions the tool is making... then your organization has much bigger problems than can be helped by reading a Dijkstra paper or two.
You have to put yourself in a position to get lucky. Doesn’t mean that you will.
Quantum Computers and the Bitcoin Blockchain
Is anyone else surprised there isn't more discussion of focus? I know many people (myself included) who work hard but on too many things simultaneously and the results aren't as good as folks who seem to just keep plodding along on one thing. Two of my friends who are extremely successful seem less interested in the field they are in, and while intelligent not outrageously so, and don't work super hard. But they just keep at one thing without distraction. Over 10-15 years it's added up. And it's not an easy thing to do. Sticking at one thing 50 hours a week for 10 years is intolerably boring for many people.
It is replication, maybe not of a single piece of code - but creating a synthesis is still copying. For example, constructing a single piece of code of three pieces of code from your co-workers is still replication of code.

Your argument would have some merit if something were created instead of assembled, but there is no new algorithm that is being created. That is not what is happening here.

On the one hand, you call this copying in fair use. On the other hand, you say this is creating new code. You can't have it both ways.
wow surprised your submissions here werent beloved
> Eventually most engs left ....

and now have k8s on their resume. Bazinga!
> all successful people are talented and hardworking

This doesn't even remotely align with the reality I've witnessed in my lifetime, at least as far as financial success goes.
I am worried about the low level of intact mRNA in those vaccines, esp. as an IT guy.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/early-concerns-rai...

25-45% randomly modified or defective mRNA doesn't sound safe. It's a bit like machine code with random errors, isn't it?
If you count all the people whose 2nd or 3rd ISP options are Hughesnet and Frontier dsl (or mobile broadband hotspots with abysmally low data caps) those options barely count.

If only 1 option can provide me with greater than 25 Mbps bandwidth (what is the minimum requirements for a single 4k Netflix stream) with unlimited (or at least reasonably high) data caps, it is hard to see the alternatives as truly competitive options.

If we count everyone who then falls under this definition that be double the number you provided.
stock options, not great
Don’t Sue Me Like That: Anatomy of a Copyright Troll
I clearly state this is not what I’m arguing.
You cannot just create a crypto out of thin air and expect it to have value, unless you are selling eye scan data to generate revenue that might give value to these tokens somehow. I fail to see how any crypto can be UBI, if they do not have value in dollars.
UBI cannot be done through a private person, must be done through the government, which makes me think he is intending to partner with the government to make this a reality. It sounds really really disgusting.
It actually seems like a backdoor to raising money via ICO, the con being you provide your eye scan (something valuable) for a worthless token (something worth zero). The con being they con people into believing these tokens are in fact valuable somehow. If this was a contract, it would fail contracts law 101 since something of value must be exchanged on each side.
You're trying to talk about consequences of my statement, which I'm trying very hard not to talk about, because I don't care. I'm only talking about this very specific instance.

> Again, that is a disclosure timeline. Not a demand for a fix in that timeline.

Yes and it is based on the expectation of a fix within that timeline being practical.

> You're trying to convert it to a demand for a fix no matter what. That is not productive.

No I'm not, you're trying to say that I am, repeatedly, and I keep telling you I don't care about discussing disclosure policy broadly. I'm only talking about this once instance.

> It seems like a much stronger approach than the "lol PZ hypocricy" option.

Take that up with the person who posted about P0 initially. I'm only saying that it's ironic and that I support the 90 day window as being a very reasonable time to fix things, and that them going 3x over is a bad look.
In practical terms, IP could be referred to as unique advantages. What is the purpose of an organization that has no unique qualities?

In general, what is IP and how it's enforced are two separate things. Just because we've used copyright and patents to "protect" an organization's unique advantages, doesn't mean we need to keep using them in the same way. Or maybe it's the best we can do for now. That's why BSD style licences are so great.