skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I'm not sure we actually want this (Amazon or others making housing for their workers), especially since these workers are often not labor aristocrats, and therefore will have little bargaining power.

Even in the 19th century, workers had a significant amount of bargaining power, and company towns were in fact an attempt to improve working conditions, in light of workers' sensitivity to high prices.

Without things like company stores and company housing, what was found to happen is that an independent store owner or housing provider would take advantage of their monopoly status, and raise prices, leading to workers quitting. So just like oil rigs have their own company restaurant on-site, isolated 19th century worksites had their own company businesses on-site to ensure their workers had competitively priced goods available to them.

Companies did this at the time because workers in the 19th century were aware of the comparative wages/living-standards on offer, and had enough mobility to leave sites that didn't offer the best available in the market at that time. Compared to the late 19th century, workers today have enormous mobility, and ready internet-based knowledge of market options, so what would happen if company towns emerged today would not be exploitive.
How much money should the modern inventor of the electric dishwasher receive, given the labour saved by the invention?

And as much as I utterly fail to get spectator sports in general, footballers get their money specifically because people pay to watch their teams and the teams are more popular when they win and therefore the teams directly bid against each other for the best players. Similar logic for movies and their stars, and in both cases there are a lot of people at the bottom who do similar things for approximately nothing as it’s fun — but they’re not the best in the world at what they do, and only the best can compete with the best.

The connection in sports and media is a lot more direct than asking if (and how much) a corporation’s overall performance can be attributed to the skills of given fat cat acting as a multiplier on the work done by those under them.

And then you have the last question: what is the stuff which must be done? Most individuals could live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, yet no city (UK definition rather than USA) can survive everyone trying that at the same time, let alone the whole world. Is shipping in the “must have” list? If just shipping stopped, much of the UK would starve even if everyone turned their gardens into personal farms like in WW2. Who makes the ships? Who digs up the raw materials for the ship?
The author claims that society collectively feels something, that Woolf is defined by her death - based on what? - her gut feel that unspecified others feel in some way. Who? Maybe she has encountered it. I haven’t. She offers nothing to back up the claim, so I am happy to dismiss it with equal carelessness, because the claim is used to jump to the next claim, sexism, which is effectively an accusation of malice. It’s not malice if I noticed something noticeable.
> why are the most boring jobs not paid the best?

Because most boring jobs require skills that everyone has. Specialization makes the other jobs have higher salaries, not because they are less boring, but because they can only be done by a smaller amount of people.
I can agree with that sentiment up to a point. We're still better off now than before. Information is more generally available. If you want to publish online or create software, nearly every resource is available. The Internet is its own paradigm of value.

There are still specialized fields guarded by academic gatekeepers. However even there, knowledge is more widely available than before.

Hypothetically speaking, if a researcher progressed to a high level in a traditionally academic field, the term "world class scientist" is a bit loaded. The rank of "world class" would most likely be determined by academic or other large institutions. If he acquired the knowledge without the receipts from an institution, he could easily be excluded. Therefore the gatekeeping to achieve this status is not strictly one of knowledge acquisition. It becomes a bit self-referential.

>That story about the Nepali is not empirical data. It's an anecdotal story that keeps the working class distracted, and stops them from seeing how the system...

I disagree strongly. It is that kind of can't do attitude that stops people from even starting.

"How can I ever succeed, when the deck is stacked against me? The world is unfair, therefore I shouldn't even bother to try. Better to go back to wage based employment. I blame the system!"

If that's the view you take, you'll never manifest success outside of the institutional paradigms you observe. No, the world isn't fair. The world has never been fair. Some will always have an advantage. That doesn't mean that Internet doesn't provide amazing opportunities for those who are willing. If you want different results, it stands to reason that you'll have to do something different. It is possible to escape day to day drudgery if you are willing, motivated and prepared to fail repeatedly.
Maybe 'set in his ways', because used to laptops of that size and pixel density, not wanting to change that. And clueless about ergonomics, because favouring the same way to look downward at the display which leads to hunchback, if you don't take care.
I suppose we'll see how this play out but... I think there are some serious chasms between 19th century manufacturing's take on mass employment and the tech industries'.

Henry Ford's ideal for manufacturing workers was long term employment, high commitment. The modern tech industry's ideal for logistical work is a fluid, low commitment workforces, with "gig economy" at the extreme end. I don't think amazon want to arrive at a place where the average employee has been working in the warehouse for a decade.
This is my experience too. Unless there's some sort of heavy workload going on you can have an "inaudible" computer fairly easily.

Something I've seen people fall for is the idea that water-cooled computers will be more quiet but that's definitely not the case. You'll struggle to find a water pump that is quieter than a decently air cooled PC (when not under heavy load.)
> The issue here is that the school is teaching not general knowledge, but knowledge that is only useful in the Amazon context.

The public high school in California? They might add some extra stuff to spend that (whopping) $50k from Amazon, but it seems hard to believe that the state will allow a high school to just ditch the education code requirements. Especially a public school.
Hmm I kinda want to create a Python package for this.
The VCs take risks. It’s egg on their face but they made enough on Coinbase and others to cover the loss. The market cap may have been 4 billion but the amount invested dramatically less.
4k120 is not only expensive, it's plagued by all sorts of issues, not to mention fans.

As for 980pro. It's just an Eco with the Pro branding. Check out 5he reviews. It's a joke
If I was from Poland, I'd feel the same. Here in Czechia, it is a lie - this country worked well on its own. Membership in EU is great, but acting like there wouldn't be schools and public parks without EU is not.
My Mid-Year 2021 Portfolio ( 0 – 70%)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948093
I agree that in small situations you can bring social pressure to solve this problem. Sometimes. Some families break up over issues like this.

As you scale up, it gets harder and harder. You get a few people who are intentional free riders. The hard workers see the free riders sitting right next to them stop. Then more and more hard workers defect.

That system of emergency operations is a great counter example. You correctly point out that it's good to have a system with more than just monetary incentives. You have to have a mix of monetary incentives, punishments and other incentives such as just the feeling that you're helping out, or perhaps prestige.

I'm not arguing to get rid of all incentives except money. Those other levers are vital. I'm arguing against a system with no money.
What’s the relationship between No and Low tech magazine?
Not the first company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey,_Pennsylvania
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I noticed that Facebook made a few friends completely disappear, even though they posted regularly.

Now that I think of it, I just need Facebook to be an RSS reader. Show me a list of unread events from different channels in chronological order. That's it.

In any case, I don't use Facebook anymore. I unsubscribed from everything and everyone, and stopped posting a long time ago.
Using SQL Server, can you get back deleted messages on Instagram?
I’m curious about this matter, Instagram claims that they automatically delete from their database the deleted items after 90 days, but, can you actually get back all your Instagram history using SQL server and then a server that reads it?
Who's going to do it until it's automated?

Who's going to pay to automate it?
For me, complexity would have to be a factor.

A single ring line would in my view count as smaller than a more traditional "flared out" system, assuming they moved the same amount of passengers.

Maybe a complexity factor based on number of distinct tunnels multiplied by number of riders? Hmmm, metrics are hard...
The series of videos about the Mill on youtube are fascinating and they got me interested in hardware. It is very sad that nothing seems to have come of it, especially since one of their architecture was supposed to be easier to build in hardware than existing architectures. It would be valuable as an experiment even if it never ends up being better than e.g. the M1, negative results are useful too.

Is it really so hard to them to raise money? Look at some of the stupid ideas that have raised tens to hundreds of millions of dollars over the last few years.
Storage is the last big scientific puzzle for doing it completely economically, yes. Thereafter it's "just" a matter of political will.
NLP from Zero to Hero tutorials mini-series
I found this mini-series of NLP tutorials. It starts from scraping Google and social media till applying NLP techniques to real-world problems, passing through preparing a PIP package to make repetitive code easier. (code needed is included)

Learn data cleaning using regex, generating a word cloud, visualization of the unigram, bigram, and trigram on the text data, Parts of speech tagging, Named entity recognition, and Sentiment analysis in this tutorial https://omdena.com/blog/nlp-regex/

Learn how to get data from news articles and other google URL sources, how to scrap Twitter, and how to deploy the code as a package to save efforts https://omdena.com/blog/nlp-libraries/

For advanced NLP, find out what LDA is, Topic Modeling, Machine Learning in NLP, models implementation and evaluation here https://omdena.com/blog/topic-modeling-tutorial/

Apply what you learned on an impact real-world problem like understanding youth sentiments by analyzing aspirations, fears, and thoughts of the youth through scraping the web and youth-led media. Analyzing different topics like human rights, politics, education, etc. in this case study https://omdena.com/blog/youth-sentiment/
> A few days later, I read about GitLab making it their policy to help people get visas

link?
So that would make it AQS or PSS.... Is that really easier to understand then SQS?
Yeah that one's a real mystery. They really thought the world would believe their reasoning: that a further investigation " disregards common sense and defies science".

The amazing thing is watching media from all over the world report this as if it is normal; without a hint of context or accusation.
They had Safari for Windows for several years, but abandoned it because it didn't gain enough market share.
A long time ago, an internet friend maintained a list of web browsers and built quite an obscure list.

https://browsers.evolt.org/

Can probably date it based on what's there (e.g., Safari from 2003) and what isn't (Chrome from 2008). It was 23 years ago that we started evolt.org - time flies!
Payback is a 'Brit' (quantity of asterisks replaced).
Rationals are typically slower (gcd operations) and prone to memory explosion if the set of possible denominators isn't extremely nice.

If approximate answers suffice then a scheme like floats or doubles is usually good enough.

If approximate answers suffice and floats or doubles have undesirable properties (weird density distributions, ranges larger than what your application needs, ...) then it's easy to hack something together with a few _bounded_ integer types which has better properties for your specific needs.

In most other practical applications some kind of a fixed-precision decimal suffices. It's a bit slower than floats and might have undesirable memory characteristics, but broad classes of real-world numbers which need to be represented exactly (like financial data) are nicely represented.

Compared with those (and other) schemes, what advantages do rationals have? Chiefly, they admit an exact representation of any rational number. If you can mitigate the downsides (e.g., by not having many possible denominator prime factors) and need those benefits then rationals might be a good fit.

One practical situation where I occasionally like to use rationals is in account data -- credits, currencies, .... It lends itself to forward compatibility when new features are desired (most often that the smallest atomic unit in a currency changes or that some niche system wants to offer transactions for 1/3 of a unit). Such changes usually have small, nice, compatible denominators, so you don't have unbounded memory issues. More importantly, all such operations are exact by definition without any extra work on my part (the biggest challenges are in display and formatting if your business admits those sorts of oddities).
Agreed don't think this guy really deserves much praise, if he were adding value to society and bartering for his needs that would be different.
> It's alwys going to work

That's a hope I currently do not share. There were multiple cases where Microsoft employees proposed features for WinForms that were only stopped by community members because it would have broken WinForms in very subtle ways. If Microsoft were on their own, it would already be broken. Also see the VS WinForms designer problem in the sibling comment.

I have the feeling that the original WinForms designers quit Microsoft years ago and some juniors are left trying to force their new ideas into it to make a name for themselves.
Bottom: Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor
Revioo is dedicated to code reviews with a built-in tool featuring a "code" tab listing all files of the review and allowing people to post annotations on any line. So you can easily see which lines have been annotated, improving the readability of the review. There is also a "summary" tab where you can clearly see all annotations.

StackExchange is a forum, so the format is not really suitable for code reviews IMO. When there are several files, several proposals and comments, the post becomes a little bit messy.
I wonder if you've heard of Effective Altruism - it's, broadly speaking, about using evidence and our resources to help others the most.

It's a great community where I think you'd fit in: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
How to edit a PDF file on mobile and desktop
Recently I used uBlock filters to hide feeds from various sites. It instantly curbed my usage.
Yes, of course. This whole thread is about how we would prefer things to be, it's about the ethics of whether or not someone should have been arrested. He was arrested. That is the "truth of the matter".
I made a collection of 34 Curated VS Code Extensions for Productivity
Why doesn't the audio player have volume controls???
I thought this was going to be about the decline in the numbers and diversity of butterflies. Good article though.
It could do it thought, if it would support something like unvalidated peers.
Clubhouse's moment in the spotlight seemed to be largely due to the eagerness of certain media types to try to embarrass VCs and silicon valley personalities. I think the appetite for "let's just find someone's social media output and shame them" is receding somewhat, and the lack of exclusivity in clubhouse is also attenuating its value there.
That's a counter example in the same way that someone responding to "Stop depicting all humans as spread eagle with their hands over their head, they don't naturally stand like that!" with a picture of a basketball player's arms straight up would be a counter-example. Most lepidopterans are capable of that pose especially in active flight, but it's still unnatural.
Nicely done. Thank you.

Am total noob. Been learning from The Limiting Factor on youtube that many different Li-ion chemistries have different use cases, ideal applications, knock-on considerations.

Why Tesla intends to use different chemistries for car, cybertruck, semi, powerwall, etc. Why others are choosing different chemistries, like Apple and lithium-titanium, for their particular needs. (Such subtlety. Total nerdgasm. What a time to be alive.)

So your explanation makes perfect sense.
Only tangentially related, every once in a while I look for a book, video, or even course that concisely explains the “language” of mathematical notation. As someone who is largely self-taught when it comes to the more advanced math it’s frustrating that so many resources assume a basic level of notational knowledge/understanding so they just skip right over it and you’re left piecing it together using context clues and LaTex crib sheets.
Not Lisp?
Me neither. The forced login just reminds me that this is a site I don't want to visit, and a tab that I want to close. I'm not going to configure a workaround for every obstacle the site operators throw in my way; if they don't want me to visit, I won't visit.

I think they'll eventually learn not to do these things (see also cookie banners). But if they don't, it doesn't matter to me. There's other content available.
Meanwhile CCP going to extreme measures to reverse their one child policy. Last week, banning tutoring to decrease the cost of raising a child.
This would normally have been true. Sadly we've invented intellectual property to commoditize knowledge, making computers much less productive unless you have intellectual capital (IP, etc...)

Beyond that, without structural change, it won't help you to become a programmer unless most people can't become a programmer.
Hm. There seems to be a correlation between declaring war and winning them.
Apparently, since you chose to reply to this one in stead of the sibling one.
Plausible it could be automated. No idea how much it would cost, and while electric dishwashers have been a thing for longer than I’ve been alive, there’s not enough room in my current place to install one, and a humanoid cleaning robot would also have nowhere to stow itself.
They're products, sometimes even brands, so I'm not sure why this requirement for clarity is needed. It at least helps differentiate projects in the same space.

If I want something to provision infra I could go for Chef, Puppey, Ansible, Terraform. Or is it better for me to write my Infrastructure as Code setup using Whitespace Significant Serialization Format?
I'm sorry but moving ground water from below the surface to the local atmosphere means you are taking a limited resource and removing it from the area. In California, a desert landscape, evaporated water does not turn into local rain.
MSDN has this blurb with sounds rather... weird to me:

> CommandLineToArgvW has a special interpretation of backslash characters when they are followed by a quotation mark character ("). This interpretation assumes that any preceding argument is a valid file system path, or else it may behave unpredictably.
Meanwhile, there is a "War on Poop" in North Korea https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4?t=1898
> legal emergency measure, for which the key requirement is there are no other viable treatments.

Dexamethasone is an approved, cheap drug that is now also recommended by the FDA to treat covid-19. The theory there’s some conspiracy by government authorities to deny any approved drug is working on covid is clearly bogus.

The FDA will be granting full, not emergency, approval to the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine in the coming months, and then this argument falls apart completely.[1]

> I don't think there is serious controversy that the vaccine rollout is being used as leverage for imposing digital identity schemes and for establishing a variety of other ostensibly temporary powers that will not be rolled back

Seems like nonsense, only two states have rolled out a vaccine “passport” (nothing like the actual passport schemes created in China and some foreign countries to reopen economies faster - the US version is just a digital document similar to how you can buy a railroad fare digitally) and the latest reporting is that Biden’s covid team is blocking incoming travel from Europe because they are opposed to vaccine passports, fearing that conspiracy theorists wouldn’t get a vaccine if they allow vaccinated travelers from Europe to prove their status and visit.[2]

1. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/when-will-covid-19-v...

2. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/17/biden-covid-czar-ob...
Instead of process explorer, I highly recommend people to use Process Hacker[0]. It's open source, contains a lot of information missing from process explorer, and has a much cleaner user interface.

Another great one is WinObjEx64[1], which allows exploring the NT namespace.

[0]: https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker

[1]: https://github.com/hfiref0x/WinObjEx64
How is the blogosphere doing? Is it all about forgotten? Or is it alive and well? I don't follow any blogs, but am very glad that they exist. It seems to me to be the most genuine expression of social media.
Imagine a revolution with a retrospective
The PR success may be the problem. Once something is "the next big thing," people jump in for that reason, which isn't a great reason. At that point, you have a lot of people there randomly just for the sake of it... trying to "succeed at clubhouse" in the abstract, rather than do something they themselves find compelling.

That said, I don't think the concept is the problem. Live is compelling. Look at twitch, youtube livestreams, legacy radio, zoom, sports. That, but less barrier between consumer and creator isn't a bad idea.

CH may or may not sort itself out. Ultimately, social media is an extremely competitive "market." People will either find stuff worth listening to, or leave. It doesn't really matter how many bad podcasts or youtube channels exist and the this blog would have applied equally to twitter, FB and every other medium in its early days. That doesn't mean CH will succeed, it just means that the such points are irrelevant.
That's exactly what I referred to: The function takes two BigInt's, which you have to unpack yourself from the byte-serialization created by JS. There's no JS-compatible ECDH key derivation function in Golang either, so you have to implement the multiplication yourself (which again isn't difficult).
In my circles, the people who didn't get sucked in were not vocal about it. It wasn't a conscious action. They just didn't care. They had a life, and it didn't occur to them that they had to prove it.

I wish I had learned from them sooner.
All the vx coercives are going to hang from a gallows. Nuremberg 2 is coming where will you be?
Dumbassery regarding being IOS only and invite only resulted me never trying it and I no longer care to try it, the hype is over
Welcome to the Experience Economy
How scientists are subtracting race from medical risk calculators
Reminds me of the series "Incorporated". Corporations taking over more & more of the roles countries used to
Dread Pirate Roberts escaped development hell: Making Silk Road work as a film