skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like much of the time when people think about giving a challenge a go it relates to the external world. Sport, hobbies, a software project.

For people who have financial independence, what about mastery of our internal world, our thoughts and emotions? If we can feel joy most of the time and get enjoyment from what we do, by looking after ourselves and helping others and living well, I'm not sure what else there is?
More experiments are always worthwhile, but from a practical perspective funding is a zero-sum game with a small number of finite pots. The question being raised isn't whether this proposal is worthwhile "in general", but instead whether it's a good use of finite finding vs other potential science.

Given the immense cost and the lack of serious reasons to expect otherwise, I think it's a pretty reasonable question to ask.
Professional (and generally speaking) audio equipment can produce undesired sound effects if there’s any voltage irregularities going on. I know that certain outlets in my house that cause static noise out of a guitar amplifier because they aren’t.. perfectly wired? Also, I know audio engineers will typically plug their equipment into an outlet that is separate from their computer to avoid this as well. I haven’t studied electrical or sound engineering too deeply but I have noticed the same. Knowing that this is a general issue, I did a quick search and found this: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/manufacture/0712/
TPM can work without PIN requirement imho. It makes environment measurements to decide that nothing has changed. Secure boot had to be enabled too to assert that bootloader is signed.
This story is also told in the "The Vaccine Whisperer: How a Quebec program is convincing vaccine hesitant parents to immunize their newborns, and what it could mean for COVID-19 vaccines" episode [1] of the "White Coat Black Art" podcast.

The host talks to Dr. Gagneur and Mathieu Savard, mentioned in the article.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-75-white-coat-black-a...
I recall some very decent by airport standards Japanese inspired food in Singapore's airport.

Fast food chains are normally the way to go for minimizing the downside risk though.
I moved to Hong Kong from France with a passable english and no cantonese.

Life is a constant challenge, it's really a fun life to live: the language gap in English can be overcome but not Cantonese, finding a partner in such a different culture is also a lot of fun, you can move flat within the blink of an eye where you need weeks of pre approval in France, so you're always moving around, jobs are so plentiful your own boss tells you you should move elsewhere and get a payraise he can't give you - so you double your salary every X years. And now, there's a game to play on politics with China !!!

Honestly, I feel everyday at the center of the world, am always constantly busy and never have enough money. I can't feel like it's normal life like it was before, it's like an adventure book everyday :D
I'm not sure why Excel is suitable in the first place. It has 1M row limit.

Plus, generally, a log file is JSON-based, not CSV.

If you are looking for a quick tool to perform SQL on CSV (maybe your log is in CSV), I've built a desktop app for this: https://superintendent.app
not or... and.

My wife has worked in the banking industry for years, in my experience of what she's told me it's all of the above.
Why didn't you try to look at some numbers? If anything, immigration to the US has accelerated in the last 50 years. 4.7 percent of the population were immigrants in 1970. The number increased to 13.7 percent in 2019.

"Since 1970, the share and number of immigrants have increased rapidly, mainly because of large-scale immigration from Latin America and Asia. The vast diversification of immigration flows was ushered in by important shifts in U.S. immigration law (including the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which abolished national-origin admission quotas; the creation of a formal refugee resettlement program with the Refugee Act of 1980; and the Cold War-era grant of preferential treatment to Cuban immigrants); the United States’ growing economic and military presence in Asia and Latin America; economic ties, social linkages, and deep migration history between the United States and its southern neighbors; and major economic transformations and political instability in countries around the world." - [0]

People from Asia and Latin America, those who contribute the majority of the boom in migration since 1970s, are those by default don't speak English natively and have distinct culture. 22 percent American spoke a language other than English at home.

> Modern US cities are not capable to accept and absorb large scale immigration of people who are not already integrated into society. People who do not speak local language and have very different culture.

Incorrect. As of 2018, 20% of NYC residents are naturalized citizens (born abroad), 10.9% are legal and 6.3% are undocumented immigrants. [1]

[0] - https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...

[1] - https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/immigrants/downloads/pdf/moia_an...
I agree with that, but what you advocade isn't efficacy, "just write good vanilla js" is as useful of a statement as "just write clean code".

In practice I've never seen anyone capable of writing clean vanilla js except for myself.

Of course that's just me jerking off to my own standard. "Vanilla" is an useless approach when it comes to finding a common ground to work in a professional context. It's in-efficacy in that sense.
A 1901 electric car has batteries in glass jars and plates of iron and nickel, speed control of just carbon and copper, easy to make with a vice, hacksaw, and file.

Let's not be comparing obsolete technology to modern.
Agreed. How then could we expect to exchange views with an alien species, when we cannot do the same even with Earth species? We imagine it would somehow be easier if only the alien species were "intelligent", but then our expectation arguably defines intelligence in No True Scotsman terms, essentially an intelligent species is one with which we could communicate.

Most would argue against a species being intelligent if we could not communicate with it. "These are just automatic processes, like sophisticated software"
There used to be an old-fashioned, well-known hand-signal for this situation. You pause long enough to hold up one finger for a second or two, then return to what you were doing. The polite would then poke around or sit down or return in a half-minute or minute to see if you'd paused. The impolite would get barked at.
I tried to install I-don't-remember-what Java app years ago. The logging didn't work at all. The docs went on and on about how it used this standard, pluggable logging interface and you can plug any logging implementation into it, but as for how to get it to actually log something somewhere (hopefully to syslog, but that's doubtful), nobody seemed interested in that. I rm -rf'd the app and never allowed anything written in Java into the project again.
Yeah man that's a good idea. Like Maslow actualization hierarchy of needs. Somehow Marcus Aurelius meditations and stoics comes when you talk about that mastery. Could be one approach to it.
One thing to keep in mind is that Linkerd is pretty much strictly k8s only one while Istio and Consul Connect have first-class support for out-of-cluster services as well as e.g. Nomad. Relying on linkerd digs you waaay deeper into k8s lock-in.

This may be fully acceptable for you, but should not be glossed over.

From my experience, linkerd had the most seamless deployment to get to the most feature-complete out-of-the box experience with monitoring etc. But as it goes with these things there’s a much bigger amortized cost in terms of magic to unwind if you need to integrate it.
Hey all. I posted this four months back and it didn't get much attention. Over the past few months, I've put a huge amount of work into it to get it to support multithreaded binaires, so figured it was worth a repost. A bit more context can be found in my comment on my original post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26556751.

Happy to answer any questions that arise either here or via email (see my GitHub).
> Subscribing to blogs directly creates a huge firehose of mostly boring content

It's possible that you're reading the wrong blogs.
I don't like it when people say we're "too late" on global warming either. But the narrative behind that is not physically absurd - as atmospheric CO2 density increases, the temperature rises, which makes in turn causes increased CO2 (increased fires), and this causes a runaway effect resulting in something like Venus.

It's not too late. And even if things become really dire, even apocalyptic, we may as well face it open-eyed and do our best to survive (in earthbound arks) and recover (applying all those science fictional terraforming ideas...to Terra). It seems highly unlikely that we'll survive (Fermi paradox and all) but that shouldn't stop us from giving it the old college try!
I don’t understand what you are saying, does Britain have the best or worst sandwich?

Which Britain airport?
And yet you provide no songs. Fascinating.
Well if you enter as a legal visitor through a border checkpoint you give the govt the opportunity to do security checks, restrict import of various things, charge customs taxes. Plus they have an idea you are there. It makes sense that sidestepping some or all of that screening and record-keeping will be treated more harshly.
I used to put main kernels compiled for a very standard distro, on production, and manually updated twice a month after testing a bit each release.

* One time I dodged a data corruption bug with a default, common filesystem, that obviously got rapidly patched.
* Last time and very recently, main kernel introduced a bug that made NFS just don't work for clients trying to connect, until a patch was released and applied for those servers.

On the other hand, also saw a vendor mainstream bogus update that rendered the boxes unpingable after a reboot. Could patch before a reboot was needed so day saved.

You're almost never safe. But I agree some testing helps. Anyway not everyone has the infra and/or resources.
> As a civilization, we are good at inducing demand, though. ...

This right after GP mentions the unreasonability of the infinite demand assumption. Is it? I think so. How is that wrong?
But why not mandate masks, forever? And keep distance, stop all meetings over 8 people forever etc? Covid measures prevented seasonal flu and other transferable diseases (STDs etc) so why not enforce a that with 'state violence'?

Of course not: just overreach because every state is struggling with the first pandemic in their life time.
Lists. Forced vaccinations. McCarthy and Stalin must be laughing in the afterlife. How did we get this hell bent on forcing the will of others? Milgram’s obedience study was very poorly conducted, and very faulty, but he would have no problem with participants today.
Elm-Pages 2.0
What are two or three titles you'd like to have? assuming a semi-ideal-ish world, or where things just kind of worked out pretty darn ok over the next month or two.

ps, this is not going to give away your identity.
They take like 5% of the money. That's pretty dang significant.
How to make tomorrow less shity is awesome
Right, thanks for the info. I just read up on prison work. From what I read, it seems like it varies a lot from prison to prison and state to state on the actual number of hours worked per day. Some say an hour or two a day, and some said that it can be as much as 8 or 10 hours per day. Additionally, many of the jobs do pay money. Not a lot, but it does allow prisoners to put some money into their canteen allowance, which is a really big deal in prison, from what I read. I've also read that a lot of the work detail is pretty lax. Sweep the prison might be 2 hours per day, and even then, you sweep a few yards, then you rest on your broom for 15 minutes. Again, this is not me but what I heard when I watched prison videos by ex-cons.

In any case, it seems like there is a LOT of discretion around the mandatory work issue. So it would seem to me that in a prison, if a prisoner wanted to work on getting a degree, that he or she should be able to use work hours for that and either the warden or the state law allow it. After all, it is the most proven thing I've ever seen to prevent recidivism. That's what we want. We don't want someone to get out of prison and start breaking into our homes and cars. I've had my car broken into many times, and it's a pain because it costs money, but the bigger pain is the time it takes to deal with it.

As far as slavery....well, I understand your point. However, people are incarcerated and put in a cage against their will. Because when you break the law and get caught, you give up your freedom to choose. It's not just forced work, but even if one didn't have to work, it still is like slavery - you are made to live in one place, can't have visitors except when supervised and get permission and for very short periods, told when and where to eat and must eat what they serve. It's pretty much slavery anyways, even taking the work part out. But as I hear it on the videos that I watch from former prisoners, most prisoners WANT to work, because it gets boring in prison, so while it is mandatory, it's also by choice too. And some jobs are very much coveted by prisoners. And mostly the do get paid. Probably a good idea to pay 50 cents so that the poor convicts with no family to put money in the canteen account will get something, as I said before, the canteen is extremely important.
> It would be great if more blog posts took that approach

But of course the incentives ensure it’s not the case: for a newssheet, the goal is to get the reader to buy the sheet, once they have you’re happy.

For online properties however you need time-on-site and ad impressions, so the longer you make the reader linger the more money you have. Therefore clickbait headlines resolved as late as possible, with as much pointless fluff in the middle as feasible.
This might actually be legitimate.

In the US, we have several basic tax jurisdictions. Going from the "top" (biggest/Federal) down:

Federal > State > County > City > Transit/Local Area

There's no federal (nation-wide) sales tax in the US, but each state has their own state-wide sales tax, each county WITHIN each state has their own sales tax on top of that, each city WITHIN EACH COUNTY has their own sales tax on top of that, aaaaaaand some areas of some cities have specific sales tax rates only in those particular areas that differ from other areas ON TOP OF THAT!

This is totally separate from any federal or state income taxes. Entirely different/separate topic.

So for example, I live in Texas. Here's how sales tax breaks down in my county:

State: 6.25%
County: 0.5%
City: 1.0%
Transit/Area: 0.5%
TOTAL: 8.25%

Spotify would have to know your specific address - not just your ZIP code, but the actual "point of purchase" (per law, internet sales point of purchase is defined as wherever the CUSTOMER is when they give you money, no matter where your business is located) - in order to look up the right tax rates to charge so they don't overcharge you, but also so they don't under-charge and under-report, thus incurring the wrath of state and local comptrollers everywhere.

Do a search here for further examples:

https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/atj/search
First, streaming services charge people money and sell them a thing: access to music. Not liking it won't make that different than movie tickets.

Second, the price is identical. Streaming providers charge $10/month (or very close to it) regardless of what the content is. Also, albums when new are $10-$20, and movies new are $10-$20.
U.S. consumption has been around 22KWh/day/capita for a long time. The rest of the world is much lower. The 22KWh/day/capita includes gasoline and diesel. I don't see Americans wanting to consume 30KWh/day for current uses. Do you?
Yet you don't work in labor law...

Coward.
> Not the same programmers though nor the same job though.

The details of job changed, as more low level pieces of it were automated leaving the higher-level, more abstract bits, but for most of the changes, while some either bailed for other work or rode the dying embers of the old way to retirement, programmers generally adapted.
Agreed, but it is also much worse than a tech startup. It is the most competitive and saturated market, and participants are up against prodigies of talent that work long and hard on their projects. A tech startup usually has some strategy to attack a problem, where a game is more of a creative passion project with hope of pleasing a very outspoken customer base.
> Current growth rates need an exponential increase in resources.

World population is stabilizing, and, indeed, going to decrease. Now what.
Presumably a FIRE person would be sitting on assets that act as significant hedges against inflation. It wouldn’t be fun but they’d be in a better position than most.

I would argue that the real nightmare scenario is that the rules of the game or government policy are radically changed by fiat. For example, effectively nationalizing private retirement accounts in some fashion to backstop public pension systems like Social Security (which has been floated in the US at various times). A lot of FIRE plans are predicated on retirement accounts existing in something like their current legal form over the next several decades. I am skeptical.
I think we are in complete agreement that the details matter, and those of us discussing this are doing so without enough information to be considered well informed.
A few years ago I got mugged on my block in Oak Park (which is across the street from the Austin neighborhood of Chicago). They took my phone, $12, and then ran when I wouldn't give them my bag. I called the police, and in less then 10 minutes the muggers were in custody (I like to say they stole $12 from me and a device that tracked them from space).

We can do dueling anecdotes, but the underlying question here is well studied. Increased police patrol presence reduces crime.
Before we pull the panic trigger, based on the justice.gov link you provided (because I cannot read German nor do I feel like putting it through a translator) all Protonmail appears to have provided was the registration date of the account in question. The defendant apparently emailed himself his passwords to several accounts including the offending Protonmail account.
Hex is not a book but rather a recurring device in the Discworld series, mostly in later books centered on wizards - basically a technomagical computer analogue that is powered apparently by ants rather than electrons. Not sure how much did the late Pterry have the hivemind=computer analogy in mind but as an added bonus on the surface it does open up at least a few jokes about computer "bugs".
Ok. I understand better.

The contention is that Musk told a tall, entertaining tale that was untrue. Fair.

But also that the tale indicates something dark about Musk's character? That seems a stretch.
Yeah, man! There's so many jobs there and so many cool places to live and things to do. I totally agree. I also moved to HK from AU many years ago and found fun in those things. The language was so cool. I guess part of it was I felt AU was too boring and not enough challenge there, I'd already done all the cool stuff, so I may as well try someplace else and HK seemed so exciting and different. It was awesome. The rates I got there were unlike anything I got anywhere else :D But after a while I found it a bit too easy, so I suppose I sought challenge someplace else!!! I'll be back tho -- i think there's a whole other level at HK that I haven't touched yet and I really want to. :D
Social media report buttons are absolutely useless

I will go through the hoops and fill the form for every tweet/post/video, detailing how they break the sites' regulations... and either I get no response or a boilerplate automated response

the content still stays up
I was fortunate to see a 25% increase by moving to a remote gig. Lots of office oriented employers already don’t offer enough.
17th-century botanists filled their gardens with plants from around the world
The article claims the difficulty is with the non-newtonian mortar, but this doesn't pass the sniff test. Non-newtonian fluids are easy to model and position feedback is common in virtually all modern automation systems. I say this as someone who used to do masonry work, worked in a rheology lab in college and is now an industrial automation engineer. The fact that numerous attempts to make bricklaying systems that didn't involve mortar but still did not succeed would certainly seem to indicate that mortar is not the dealbreaker. Indeed, the fact masonry assistant machines haven't seen wide adoption suggests that the problem has nothing to do with software.

Nature has optimized the design of muscles and skeletons over tbe course of hundreds of millions of years. People tend not to appreciate just how good of an actuator muscle is. You can certainly beat it in power, speed, precision, duty cycle, or form factor, but not all at once. Bricks and blocks are specifically optimized for being handled by a human laborer: they are small enough that a human arm can precisely manipulate them but big enough that you don't need to place an absurd number of them. Anything that's optimized for human manipulation will be difficult for a robot to manipulate.

A typical block weighs about 35 lbs. A robot arm capable of even lifting a payload that heavy will cost you somewhere on the order of 80k not including end of arm tooling, weigh hundreds of pounds, and draw several kilowatts of electricity. Then you need to take this arm and put it on some platform capable of moving around a job site such that it can reach any place a human could. At scale, you're probably looking at a quarter million dollar machine just to get a brick near where it needs to go. Combined with maintenance costs, it's likely such a system would never pay for itself over its useful life. Maybe you could do a little better with bricks but 5 lbs is still a lot for a precision robot. All the artificial intelligence in the world is useless if the actuators just aren't up to the task.

For better or worse, human muscle is cheap, it can be leased with no money down, and you typically don't need to pay for maintenance. That it comes equipped with an extremely powerful computing system for no additional charge is just icing on the cake. People tend to have the mistaken belief that things which are conceptually simple must be easy to automate and that things which are hard to automate must be secretly complex, but that's not really it at all. Tasks appear simple to us because we are good at doing them, and they appear complicated when we're not. Picking ripe fruit seems like such a simple task to us because that is exactly what we evolved to do. Simulating quantum chemistry, not so much. Picking fruit isn't secretly more complicated than quantum chemistry, but it's much easier to automate the latter because it's not hard to be better than a human at a task humans perform poorly to begin with.
If you use US/UK localisation, yes. I don't use language localizations (since translation is often poor/missing so you get a mix, and I have to learn new terminology all the time) but you bet I want my 24-hour clock and not that old Latin stuff.
FWIW this website appears normal in Internet Explorer compatibility mode (i.e. IE7 mode).

You'll probably have to jump through hoops to actually get it to open in Windows 10 though...