skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a fair criticism; I don't have a perfect solution built out right now, so I can't paint you a picture of how a theoretical nation full of well-educated laborers and farmers building things and providing for themselves would look in comparison to our current nation, where everyone barely struggles to hang on financially as citizens of the wealthiest empire in the history of civilization.

I am finding it particularly difficult to convince people that they should even look past the current system. If you read through other comments on other chains in this thread, people are trying to explain to me that I could never convince someone to work half-time at a white collar job (where they endlessly produce code and then clock out) and half-time at a blue-collar job (where they endlessly shovel asphalt and then clock out), while at the same time I'm trying to convince them that it's possible to create an equilibrium of demand with output by simultaneously reducing aggregate demand and moving around aggregate output. If there's an end goal to your labor- produce this much and then stop producing until repairs or new units are needed- you don't have to work all the time at these horrible jobs.

Right now, people work in white collar jobs in order to justify their right to the results of the blue collar jobs. If you don't write code, you can't afford the berries that Driscoll's ships to your grocery store, so you write code and make $150k/year, and you buy your $6 carton of berries, and the migrant berry pickers make $18k/year, and the truck driver makes $80k/year. But you're the end user of the berries; if you instead knew how to pick or knew how to drive, you might have a chance at getting the berries to your table without needing quasi-slave labor.

I don't want to live in a country where I get stuff- materials, goods, etc.- from people who are always struggling. We can't just UBI our way to luxury space communism, because then no one will pick the berries, because right now the "berry-picking job" is defined as "12 hours per day in and out of the hot sun".

This is what I'm trying to say- find some way to make sure that I can provide myself with shelter and see a doctor when I need to, and I'll go pick the damn berries and drive them back myself. Many seem to be responding with "no, that's impossible."
> Also, legally you are bound to work for a company according to contracts. I don't want you working for another company on the company's time. It introduces potential liability and risks especially if you are remote.

Just on this point, what you say is common but it's not universal. A lot depends on the type of contract.

I'm working full time at the moment. Yet my contract is structured to allow me to work on other companies' work if I want. And I control my time. It's quite explicit.

That clarity has a real positive payoff for both me and the company I'm working for. I'm more enthusiastic about the work in large part because this arrangement is compatible with me keeping open several research projects on ths side, and I'm confident if they lead anywhere, there isn't a conflict - and that the company people recognise this.

They wouldn't want me not working on the company's projects or not acting as a responsible person. But the whole attitude is to assume I am and support that in an adult-to-adult way. I really like that I feel we could talk freely about outside business interests at work.

It helps a lot that this is a mission-oriented open source company.

TL;DR it does depend on the job, but it's not an inevitable fact that remote work contracts bind a person's time exclusively, even during hours worked.
Dashboard stories reconfigure roles, risk and sociality in education
Yes I agree. However neither side left with their dignity intact if you ask me. It was depressing to watch and the media circus around it was a train wreck.
Hardly any game needs "thousands of interacting entities" though (outside of special subsystems like particle systems). Arguably, (DOTS-style) ECS makes it harder to incrementally build a game by adding features, because you need to put more effort into designing the data layout upfront. And if there's just a few dozen instances of each thing that's definitely overkill, moving to ECS won't make a noticeable performance difference in that case.
That doesn't mean GCP is bad unless they totally switched to AWS. I believe this is just part of multi cloud approach.
How does this make sense? If they don't hold the underlying security, where does the value come from?

This feel like it's another one of those "while money is flowing in it'll work, but if there's a run, it crashes spectacularly". If the liquidity dries up, i end up owning nothing. With a real security at least i end up owning a small part of apple, but here i literally own nothing.
That person’s experience is bizarre. There’s something they aren’t telling us. Americans don’t pay anything like $1k for a checkup or pair of them, especially a virtual one.
Benefits:
24/7, lower fees, less financial incumbent insiders front running your trades, less retail traders giving data of their every move to financial incumbent insiders, privacy.

I think this'll be adopted widely in the near-future by savvy traders.

It benefits the little guys.

And I look forward to the day companies preferably issue equity directly atop decentralized networks - under what legal framework and/or sovereignty is yet to be determined.
Interesting that this is something that only just now YC is tackling.
> someone with a chloroform infused rag and a wrench can visit any of us at any moment

That's where engineering comes into play, maybe materials science to build suitable systems to defend against such physical attacks. And, you can't just ban engineering.
Finally, my answer to "If there were no computers, what would you do for a living?"
ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers [pdf]
First, thanks for digging up the source chart. You are right that the source matches the essence of the xckd chart. Very helpful and a pretty interesting and well made chart. I was loving these FDA reports and was so bummed when they ended the placebo group early.

"Always try to get data that's good enough that you don't need to do statistics on it."

https://breckyunits.com/2400.png

Don't need to do statistics on that to see that xkcd added strong bias.

But more important than that, the problem is the right arrow on the X-Axis implies the placebo experiment is ongoing and did not come to an abrupt end.
> in all sentient life

I don't think we have to worry too much about ALL of sentient life, since all that's gonna be left of it soon is humans and pets and cattle.

> most of us in the technically advanced nations take its routine absence for granted

The absence of pain is not the absence of issues. Unless you can "solve" all (physical, psychological, societal) issues (and what would "solving" most of them even mean?), you're advocating for literally the cliche "treating the symptom and not the cause", Brave-New-World-soma-style.
I'm a Homestuck fan, but this article is just as lengthy as the comic itself. Is there a high-level overall summary of this fiasco?
Show HN: I built a drag and drop wrapper for Dragula with React Hooks
While there seems to be a correlation where credit unions have better service, it's not a hard rule. Small local banks can also be friendly and responsive.

The key is to avoid large companies where your call will be "placed in a bucket of stomach fluid", and even worse, when you visit the branch the person trying to help you will be at the mercy of the same exact customer service line.

I'm glad you found a smaller business to trust.
Is there anything special about singletons here?

In Java, there's no real difference between a singleton and any other object. A singleton is an object that just happens to have a single instance. Practically speaking, they're typically used as a clever design pattern to "work around" Java's lack of language-level support for global variables, so there's that. But I think that that fact might not be relevant to the issue at hand?

The more basic issue is, if you have two different threads concurrently executing `myFunction`, what happens when they're both operating on the same instance of `FooObject`?
>Which classes of society do you deem unworthy of home ownership other than the aforementioned groups and (presumably) every group below them?

I do not know where you are getting this from. I have no interest in drawing a line and I do not deem anyone to be unworthy of home ownership.
You're gonna need a citation for that statement, because everything I know about the US disagrees with that. Indiana, for example, was almost completely forest before European settlers arrived [1] and has seen forest cover reduced by 75%. Most of the midwest is similar.

[1] https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr-nrs-p-108papers/02car...
"And of course there's a binding arbitration agreement, requiring all arbitration actions to be on an individual basis."

The CFPB Arbitration Rule "prohibits covered providers of certain consumer financial products and services from using an agreement with a consumer that provides for arbitration of any future dispute between the parties to bar the consumer from filing or participating in a class action concerning the covered consumer financial product or service." [1]

I also have this vague recollection of a story recently about a law firm filing large numbers of arbitration complaints against companies, resulting in very large bills for those companies, because they are required to pay for an authorized arbitrator for each and every arbitration complaint. Unfortunately, I can't find the link to the story.

So it sounds as if the people being ripped off by Chime do have some recourse, if they can just get together with a law firm that specializes in class action lawsuits.

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/final-rules/arb...
Not in America they won't lol, it's illegal. In fact it's illegal for US persons to trade securities out of a non-SEC regulated brokerage account. See Regulation S.

Isn't the new monetization strategy in crypto literally to reorder blocks and front-run transactions due to the massive time quanta?

How exactly do you think the NBBO rule is to be implemented? [1]

The little guys as always are the most likely to get hurt.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nbbo.asp
Here's the actual DoD press release: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/26...

Notably, they are still focusing on AWS and MS offerings, but also doing further market research.

I'm curious about the specifics as to why GCP isn't on the shortlist.
You might like the Withings trackers.
> I don't think those pictures are "drill, not scrimmage", in that they are themselves perfectly good works of art.

I agree that they're nice, but the author's ultimate desire was to make paintings, not ink drawings, and therein lies the distinction between drill and scrimmage (I think). For him, the ink drawings acted as drills in service of the desired ultimate product (the paintings).

For someone trying to get better at ink drawings, on the other hand, those ink drawings would count as scrimmage -- and I imagine the author would argue they should drill the sub-skills that make a great ink drawer (pen work, composition, perspective, shading, etc) separately from the ink drawings themselves.

The artifacts produced by those drills may be beautiful, but they're still "drills" because they represent only a subset of the skills the author was ultimately after.
Scott Hanselman has blogged and podcast about working remote within primarily in-person teams for years.

That’s where I would start.
Every time a surveillance system and violation of privacy rights is advertised in the EU as a solution against child abuse and trafficking I ask myself how such a system could have changed the outcome of a case like Dutroux. Would have been the dozens of witnesses and police officers involved in the investigation suicided a way sooner, later, more silently, or at all? We will never know...
The problem is that the monetary system is ending and it desperately tries to propagate itself by promoting/enriching people who are able to maintain the illusion of normalcy which keeps everything together. It becomes increasingly difficult to find people who are capable of such an extreme degree of corruption and hypocrisy. The system ends after it runs out of corrupt people to promote. In the meantime, this systematic promotion of corrupt people creates political instability.
If they had to bear the cost in any way, they would be incentivized to reduce the amount of pain they're inflicting on customers. And of course I'm not literally proposing that people go and beat up execs; I'm just pointing out that for basically however long human civilization has existed, the scale was such that you always knew who, specifically, was causing you problems. Now it's all hidden behind a bunch of bullshit.
On Secrets
I don't think there's any political interest in looking at them right now. It's largely just a bunch of nerds playing with pretend money. It hasn't really hurt anybody outside of it yet.
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I mean there is nothing "wrong" with starting at the 2nd paragraph (and that was was just for the more limited Laplace version of Poisson's), its just not generally the most effective writing style. Yes, there is some subjectivity here, but writing is hard, and it is only through criticism that we learn to be better technical writers.

The first paragraph of the conclusion would have better served as the Introductory remark: "Poisson's equation comes up in many domains. Once you know how to recognize it and solve it, you will be capable of simulating a very wide range of physical phenomena." That is a great sentence. I'm interested now, and I know its context.
I hope the mod team will support it. I thought it was gimmicky before looking at the thread; it seems like a big success and lots of people got value out of it. Well done.

Maybe it could link to YC’s founder search thing too?
Our startup is working on it!
You've just taken a good, detailed comment and dismissed it. Do you have anything else to add?
> Punishing unmarried couples didn't increase the number of stable partnerships at all.

That’s a bad example. Family stability plummeted after the sexual revolution, even as access to birth control and abortion made family planning easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_parents_in_the_United_S...
I think we're agreeing here too, and that's the point of my main comment. If we both agree that more ultrasounds may be needed, then let me stop on this hedonic treadmill of producing slight increases in code efficiency or tapping new markets that don't need to be tapped, and just work on the ultrasounds.

I don't need fast foods restaurants, television, professional sports, overnight shipping, cheap smartphones, endless software updates, new computers, new cars, etc. Cut the parasitic, hedonic treadmill of consumption and you free up billions of labor hours that could instead work on {materials, refine, assembly, shipping, and operation} and then just go home afterwards and talk to their families or work on their own projects.

Apparently there are presently 9.82 million unemployed Americans. Cut the ones that can't work (either because of character issues or because of disability issues), add the rest to the pile of people theoretically freed up by no longer producing piles and piles of useless crap and entertainment, and you've got a tremendous amount of intellectual capital available to work on real goods and services.

There's an indoctrination aspect to this; people would have to be convinced that they don't need all this crap, and I admit that's a hard sell.
whenever I escape toxic locations to hide in my car I can feel the blood reach my toes again

where (and whom with) you spend your time matters a lot
Sounds like the Wall Street Journal doesn't like Lina Khan. That suggests she's just the right person for the job.
Humans are a k-selected species and we die pretty easily. What makes you think so?
There are a couple of reasons; performance is one.

Besides that, games have an (un)surpring level of coupling between entities. Even a simple, few hundred lines game, is a tangle. The ECS designs decouples the entities, which is a very significant design improvement.

What has been done in the past is not really indicative, as ECS is relatively new (in the grand scheme of things).

Something that can be said though, is that ECS is frequently considered overkill for small projects.
But you can mail letters without return addresses...
its not naive to think there are plenty of talented 120k devs sitting in faangs waiting to catch a break.
OOP with an inheritance tree is nice until you have a houseboat.
Bitcoin enthusiasts are learning first hand why financial regulations exist. It's a shame we can't seem to learn from history.
>Have you ever gone out and built something for yourself, like a shed?

Yes, I love building things for myself and my friends, but I wouldn't want to do it as a low paying job. In fact, doing it as a job would give me less time and money to do it for myself and friends. For me, that is just hopping off one economic hamster wheel and onto another. My job is complex and hard enough as it is, doubling the required skills and cutting the time to learn them sounds horrible. I'm fully aware that sharing jobs might be more attractive for the guy shoveling asphalt 100% of the time

> I got snippy in another response to you on a different comment chain.

No worries, at least to me it seems like you are engaging in good faith, listening to answers, and responding to what people are saying instead of talking past them. I can live with a little snippiness as long as people are coherent.
As someone who was born and raised overseas, I would say they take up a much larger space in the American psyche though.
"it seems like they are not any more privacy averse than any other messaging service, given that they don't claim to offer any more privacy than any other service."
Pro tip, using sweeping words like "any" will almost always make you wrong.

Nearly every popular messaging service these days offers end-to-end encryption. I have no idea what you're talking about when you say they "are not any more privacy averse than any other messaging service"

When you're worse off, privacy-wise than a Facebook owned messenger, you're not doing too hot.

I found a good write up of popular and e2e messengers for you to check out.
https://getstream.io/blog/most-secure-messaging-apps/
> We all know that the EU won't have backdoored Signal any more today than the next ten times this gets discussed on HN. It's all smoke and mirrors.

How can you say that it's not only the stated goal but they have been making real progress towards it?
In Java, any object can be used to synchronize any data, e.g.

synchronized(foobar_object){ foo(); }
synchronized(foobar_object){ bar(); }
synchronized(foobar_object){ baz(); }

Will have foo, bar, baz methods well behaved in any data that they share regardless of whether they are foobar methods or methods of any other class(es). It is exactly analogous to the S(a) -> S(a) synchronizing instruction from the article that establishes a happens-before partitioning each thread into before/after the S(a).

The only time synchronized(explicit_object) relates to anything else is when also using the keyword where `synchronized void foo()` is equivalent (with a minor performance difference) to `synchronized(this) { ... }` wrapping the entire body of the foo method.
Reminds me of HSX (Hollywood Stock Exchange). It's a trading game/predictive market (no real money) where you trade shares in actors, movies, forthcoming movies, and even funds, e.g. "all Marvel movies." Pretty fun. https://www.hsx.com
It would be the concept of "tradition," which means very different things in the US and Europe.

First and foremost, there's the pure frequency in which that term is used. Good luck spending a day in Europe and not being exposed to one tradition or another. It's kind of cute in a superficial way (the way that people dress up for balls in Vienna), and very counter-progressive in others (the way that doctors are more respected than programmers).

I would also wage to say that the pure interpretation of the term is a bit different. In the US, using the term "traditionally" in a sentence could have a positive connotation (eg: "traditionally, we celebrate new launches with some drinks") or a negative connotation ("those traditional companies are usually lacking in technology"). In contrast, invoking the term "tradition" in a sentence in, let's say Germany, would be to describe a near-religious ritual that cannot and must not be changed or even questioned (eg: "for Oktoberfest, people dress in traditional outfits that include lederhosen and dirndls.") I struggle to think of a frequent context in Germany in which the term traditional would have a negative connotation.

All this is to say that tradition is a wonderful thing if your circumstances lead you to invoke as little change as possible. But for those seeking social mobility and other types of change in their lives, I would argue that traditions can be very negative.
I haven't asked my cofounder that question, but I did hear from the advisor I mentioned that she was just searching linkedin for a term that's relevant to her, to stay current with the industry.
This isn't the contract you're looking for
Maybe the DoD protests at Google pushed them away?
Open source. That means that they'd have to either prevent the downloading of the source, prevent it compiling, or prevent running something that you compiled on your own box. Any of those three seems to be guaranteeing that Europe will not have any leading role in computers for the foreseeable future. Any of those three also seems almost impossible to enforce.
Browsing through the code, there's a pretty sizeable chunk of old CryEngine stuff (CryCommon and CrySystem), it's in a directory called "Legacy", but I guess that doesn't mean that it isn't needed anymore.
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Increased stratification started when incomes decoupled from productivity growth in ~1979. That was caused by a wave of union busting.
This is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750770
> Wildcat banking increased incentives for risk-taking and fraud to high levels.

The evidence points out that it’s the current banking system that incentivizes risk taking because the international bankers know they’re getting a bailout every time when they mess up.

> The US has huge financial industry partly because the regulation is so extensive. People from all over the world invest their money in the US because they know what when liquidity crisis happens, they still get their money back.

I’d like to know how this massive regulation helped consumers during the GameStop events at the end of January.

Naked short selling is running rampant and the system is protecting these crooks who essentially resell the same shares repeatedly.

Stock trading must inevitably take place on a blockchain: it is the only means to publicly verify accurate data. The current system with self-reported data and slap on the wrist fines is completely ridiculous.
And if the product is bad neither do they. At the end of the day it's all a group effort. Good engineers are not easily replaceable in my experience.
Why are we allowing this to happen? This blockchain madness needs to stop.
> some sort of strange conspiracy amongst rust people

I mean, "it seems like our technology should fit this domain, let's see if we can help them use it" isn't so strange as conspiracies go.
>large numbers of arbitration complaints

Doordash tried to weasel out of their arbitration clause but was denied.

[0]https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/doordash-or...