skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By synthesis culture, I meant the period of intense cultural exchange between the Anglos and the Iroquois during the great migration and beyond. Squanto taught the Plymouth crew agriculture, politics, and war along the Indian pattern, and he died a Christian. Roger Williams brought Christianity to the Indians, and Indian culture back to the Anglos. They were probably thousands of praying Indians. By 1636 there was already a pidgin language in the area (“What cheer, netop?”) You can still see the lasting effect of Indian culture on American culture with Iroquois loanwords or translated concepts like caucus, powwow, peace pipe, warpath, etc. Williams was a relative and some even say a mentor to Oliver Cromwell.

Adam Smith realized that the laws of supply and demand apply to wages as well when he observed that Anglos on the North American continent were being paid more for the same kind of work that they did in England. The low labor supply was probably not due to a low population, but because the Indian gardening techniques had allowed the average household to be self-sufficient, taking the average colonist out of the labor market and allowing him to demand a higher wage for the same service.

This Anglo-Iroquois synthesis culture was overwhelmed by the successive waves of Anglos, from southwest England, Scotland, and Ireland, who did not benefit from this cultural exchange. The Plymouth colony was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay colony after 100 years. But I believe it was pivotal to forming a national identity for the United States, which is why we still referred to the Puritan colony as the formation of America, and not the Roanoke colony, the Jamestown colony, or the Charleston colony, all of which preceded the Puritan colony. I also believe it was a prototype for the dominant form of capitalism over the past 200 years in the United States, which is now receding in favor of older forms like feudalism, in the form of techno-feudalism, and mercantilism in the form of global trade deals.
Maybe antitrust distracted them but not so much to miss huge mobile OS opportunity. They were destined to make mobile OS because they had so much knowledge about operating systems and they had so much resources to do it. I also read somewhere that Gates wasn't excited about mobile phones and thought that PCs will rule the world forever. On the other hand he was excited about Xbox that's why they invested much more effort and resources into gaming hardware than in mobile phone.

Gates even admitted he messed it up and lost $400bn with mobile operating system.
https://youtu.be/W5g4sPi1wd4?t=709
Firefox for Android seems to do this.
None of what you stated indicates any increased likelihood of ADE. In fact, there are concerns that natural immunity may be more susceptible to antigenic sin, precisely because the immunity is more generic and not focused to the spike protein. This would increase the odds of individuals with just natural immunity of developing a malformed immune response to future variants.

> Hensley worries, though, that people whose immunity to the virus comes from infection, not vaccination, might have more difficulty handling variant viruses because of imprinting effects.

> David Topham, an immunologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center and director of the New York Influenza Center of Excellence, also envisages that possibility.

> He noted that, in the earliest stages of SARS-2 infection, the immune system mounts a response to a portion of the spike protein called S2. Later, the immune system focuses its attention on other parts of the spike, notably the part of the protein that attaches the virus to cells it invades, known as the receptor binding domain.

> It’s not yet known if the early focus on S2 — which doesn’t change much from virus to virus — will blind the immune system to the changes elsewhere in the spike protein, the changes updated vaccines would be trying to teach the immune system to respond to, Topham said.

> Topham doesn’t think this will be a problem in vaccinated people, because of the way the vaccines in use have been designed. The spike proteins they trigger production of appear to hide the S2 region, he said. The immune system can’t fixate on something it doesn’t see. [0]

There’s also doubt as to if COVID even could cause ADE, both because it has yet to be seen across millions of cases, but also because the known mechanisms of ADE don’t apply to Covid [1][2].

Also recent studies have shown that the rate of mutation in a country is inversely correlated with vaccine coverage for Covid. [3]

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/16/next-generation-covid-19...

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/macroliter/status/142157887960985...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/macroliter/status/142157887960985...

[3] https://mobile.twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/14254499058...
> Apple says they chose to configure it such that the feature runs only on the files that are uploaded to iCloud using iCloud Photos

This must be implemented in software. A bug in this software that causes the "only on files that are uploaded" return the wrong boolean value means it will scan local photos.

I never said random files on the filesystem. That's your strawman. In any case, it could well happen as well. Something is deciding what to scan, and that's software.
is crypto currency gold (asset building) or is it cash (transactional)? some spent $100 on food and some probably didn't know what do to with it and left it alone. if you knew right now that a $1 bill would be effectively worth $100 in 5 years would you use it to buy food? Bitcoin in particular was originally supposed to be a transactional mechanism but along the way it was either too slow or too expensive. Until the price is stable and remains so it will likely remain only something to own and not something to spend.
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Not yet, but I'll start thinking about it. I've never talked to anyone about it other than close friends, I probably should share more as progress continues.
> EDIT: For Question below
https://technokilo.com/apple-child-safety-feature-third-part...
>Apple didn’t announce any timeframe about when will they implement child safety features in third-party apps. Apple said that they still have to complete testing of child features and ensure that the use of this feature in third-party apps will not bring any privacy harm

The Q&A mentioned has no date or time. No Apple Spokespeople are named. There are no actual quotes. No well known news outlets have mentioned this very consequential detail.

This has all the indicators of a fake.
All this is moot for me since I only use systems with overcommit enabled.

Is there a way to disable it for a single program or cgroup, to enable it to deal with out-of-memory conditions? Maybe changing/hooking the standard library?

mlockall(2) seems overkill, since it will also force all code and mapped files to be resident.
You're probably right.
There's also a push to make the vaccine mandatory for federal and healthcare workers.
Somehow it rubs me the wrong way for a not fully approved vaccine to be made mandatory though. Don't get me wrong, I'm doubly vaccinated and I believe everyone should be.
But should we force people? In a country where 82%/72% (1) of eligible people are already vaccinated once/twice?

(1) https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html
I have to admit, I find it a bit perplexing that the income differences can be that much. I mean, how can one person's idea and work be worth $1B when they can't execute on it without others, and those others that help make it happen make .01% of that. Maybe I was just raised on old values with the idea that as a leader I am just one of the people and they are who the ones making me successful and let them share in that wealth. Perhaps that's why I'll never be in such a position.
I don‘t think it‘s true that there is no competition in the example you give, rather competition simply happens along a differen axis.

In the open source space there are certain characteristics that make your project more likely to succeed. Being, well, open is obviously one of them, just like passing emission tests is a factor in cars. So, open source projects have to be competitive along the openness axis in order to succeed, just like VW needs to pass these tests, one way or the other. To me it seems like the same mechanism really, just fed with different incentives.
I'm not sure of their vaccination status, and to be fair my sample size is small because it's been announced recently and there's only so much people you can interact with. That said, we've had a protest here on day 1 and the people I have spoken to are more against a perceived overreach than of the vaccine, although I am young and most non-vaccinated people are in my age group (because of the side effects afai can tell).

I'm weary of polls, especially those paid for by news networks, but even then this was done in may, before the variants became well know/transmission more understood/efficiency more know.
Can you provide an example company?
I was recently wondering how much CPU time would be regained if we got an instruction to do x * 10 ^ y where x is an int64/y an int (or something like that) and do so without error. This is a really really common operation and needs a bigint library to do properly now for many cases. It’s also slow, I think aggregate it’s around 500MB/s to 1GB/s, but the slow path is < 100MB/s.

But pretty much every JSON/XML/Number.from_string is using an operation like this, to the scale is quite large.
> our capitalistic company creations

Grammar question for anyone: is it capitalistic or just capitalist?

I keep seeing "-istic" tacked on to words these days, feel it is incorrect.
We've got a vaccine passport in France and it boosted vaccination substantially. Italy is the same, AFAIK.

The doses were always "free". Testing used to be as well, now it's 15€ I think.
So you believe that PhD's are 'not smarter' - or you believe there's no such thing as 'smarter?

Either way you're losing this one badly.

IQ and 'intelligence' are difficult qualities, no doubt, but they crudely do exist, and PhD's are 'smarter'. That's pretty much unambiguous.
People buy 3d printers. I'm sure there would be people interested in building their own silicon chips, even if it would be a lot more involved.

I can imagine a little niche market for tools and services for that kind of production. I design electronics but I order my PCBs from jlcpcb because I can get much better product with much less hassle.
Especially for example that a Jetson AGX Xavier with 32GB of RAM is available at the same price point as an M1 Mac mini.

For $50 more, you can get: https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/h... on which you just add your own DRAM sticks too.
I find it demotivational because I know I'll never get to that level.
Exploit remote work policy by taking on a second fulltime job
How do you get the government to pass a law that this is the only way to transact real estate?
I don’t think it’s that people don’t trust experts, I think it’s that people don’t trust media sources to accurately deliver experts’ findings. Nobody is actually reading scientific papers, everything they get from experts is at best getting filtered through something like the New York Times.
I would think almost certainly. And that's an issue they'll probably have to take up with their embassy if the airline can't make an exception.
> “He was a very enlightening person to think with — someone you would want to have a meal with at every opportunity,” Borgman said.

+1. He had (has?) an rare combination of intellectual humility with didactic ability and drive.

I remember getting to chat with him after he presented at Webzine. It was in an SF warehouse, exploring the sociotechnical phenomena we’d come to call blogs. It was 1999 IIRC because there was wine but I wasn’t old enough to drink it. He was happy to sit down with this kid, teach and listen.
Back in the day when I was in the (Dutch) Navy, at one point we had a special forces team on board. They quite literally spent 8 hours per day in the gym, 8 hours per day doing gunnery and/or tactical exercises and divided the remaining 8 hours between sleeping, eating and showering. Every day was the same, except that possibly the individual exercises differed. All of the soldiers on that team were focused on their job to a completely unhealthy degree, except of course that in their line of work not being focused like that can be way more unhealthy (ie, it directly leads to getting shot).

It is a fascinating lifestyle and I'm glad that some people are willing to do it, but I'm also glad that my own life is not like that. Apparently the suicide rate of retired special forces soldiers is several times higher than the baseline because if you leave (and sooner or later everyone gets too old and slow to keep up the lifestyle), almost everything you lived for is now gone.
The KeePass database format has clients for every platform… and the best part is you don’t pay for yet another subscription.
> if that generally doesn't happen

That's a big if. I don't know where you're from, but here in France the State expropriating smaller landowners in order to achieve huge private-public partnerships (i.e. siphoning off public money right into the pockets of private companies, with little if any benefits for society) is common practice: see for example the ZAD in Notre dame des Landes for an example of popular outcry/resistance, or the expropriations and mafia-like intimidation/aggression for the "Grand Stade de Lyon".

Of course, if you're a big landowner and/or close to the circles of power, you have nothing to worry about.
Thanks for the feedback, we will improve in upcoming days.
I think OP believes that 11 is more significant ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
I think you’d like Ted Chiang’s short story “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom”

Touches on these themes and really made me think about the overlap of chaos and (“macro”?)determinism.

https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freed...
Study finds men have a big role to play in workplace gender equality
Exactly this for me. Why spend hours tweaking something to look and work a certain way when all I am going to use it for is to launch some other program that I will likely run maximized?
You could try the images which include non-free firmware: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/image...
> Take a look at what happened earlier in the summer in Portland. Extreme heat events are becoming more common in places where homes often don’t have air conditioning.

This is true, but even in Portland, which is regarded as having one of the lowest rates of air conditioning in the nation, three out of four homes have it. We experienced around 100 deaths statewide (getting an exact count eludes me, as recently as three days ago NPR put it at 83, though earlier reports put it over 100) due to the heat wave.

As long as we can keep the power going, Portland can probably find practical ways to keep the death toll very low in future heat waves. I'm guessing we will get an opportunity to test that.
Because you only have to express it for it to be respected.

Which is the bare minimum if you want others to be able to even consider respecting it.

The default choice being, in the absence of any information, the one that increases chances of survival of actually living humans doesn’t seem misguided to me.

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If you want compulsory and overreaching (although not necessarily bad. Got no opinion on that aspect) rules, over here we:

- can’t disinherit a descendant. The state decides the minimum each one of your genetic or legal relatives can get from your assets

- have to financially support our adult children until an arbitrary time decided by the law

- have to support and assist our parents and grand-parents if they can’t provide for themselves

- basically can be legally compelled to financially assist any ascendant or descendant

- may end up having to pay up after a divorce, even if you had an iron-clad contract, to compensate for the loss of QoL of the spouse with a lesser income
How recently? If you installed IntelliJ during 2020 it didn't have native ARM support yet[1], and had to be reinstalled to get it, so it would have been running in emulation.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/12/intellij-idea-2020-3...
St. Domingue (now Haiti) was France's wealthiest overseas possession in 1790. It was a human meat-grinder as slave life expectancy was low from being worked and whipped to death on the plantations.
The slaves rebelled, fought the French and won. But then France was her enemy and tried to extract any remaining wealth in Haiti as "repayment" for their lost plantations.
That set Haiti back really bad in development deficits that are still very present.
The vaccine prevents serious illness in many cases so I think this is a good argument in favour of vaccination. People can go around and catch covid, build up more natural immunity while not running all the risks from the start of the pandemic.
contrary to popular opinion and Hollywood most of these elite special forces teams don't succeed because they are aim-bot super soldiers. It mostly comes down to intel, preparation, and better gear
That doesn't sound right, but maybe there is something about the Spanish law I don't know. You can transition to other countries tax residency in Germany if you de-register(most countries don't have the concept of de-registering) and enter the other ones without making use of double taxation laws. You do have to notify your local tax authority of leaving though otherwise they'll happily continue treating you like a resident. Usually the overlap is something like a year. Most countries actually have insight into each others tax records nowadays.
"sounds like sci-fi now"

Sci-fi is usually about future. With 8 billion people in the world and growing, I can definitely see some other places divided by walls so that hostile factions do not mix.

There are "peace lines" in contemporary Belfast and Derry still in existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_lines
Korea. While it's not in the middle of the capital, it's not that far. And the border is much tighter than the Berlin wall has ever been.
Can I Find My Next Great Investment by 2029?
Because It Just Works, Right Out of the Box.

Apple has developed a smooth, consistent, unrivaled UI experience. Everything works the same across apps written in Apple's UI framework. All the keyboard shortcuts are the same, and they use the Command key avoiding the stupidity of overloading Ctrl which is for sending control codes only.

The Mac UI was developed using principles of human psychology which make it objectively easier, smoother, and more pleasant to use. The Linux UI hasn't evolved beyond the concept of "make it look cool". The Apple UI actually works with your brain to make you more productive -- a "bicycle for the mind" as Jobs put it. Granted, this is less true now than it was in the past, but it's still leagues ahead of Windows and especially Linux.
I hate snap (no experience with flatpack). I have setup my Ubuntu to not use snap, and have snapd removed. I install Chrome from Debina Buster because that way it is not "snap packaged".

Since I use nearly exclusively open source software I tend to trust it. I see the extra security benefits of snap and want that for sure, but all the trouble I had using it was simply not worth it for me.

I'll come back in 10 years with snap and wayland have actually matured :)
At first I read the title as Plan 9

That would explain why it is not more popular. If you install your software in a black hole, you cannot get any computed data from it out again.
Thanks. What does "Unofficial images" mean?

It sounds kinda dangerous to me.
Strange no mention of Covid as a crisis the US would struggle to handle. The most popular news network in the US is Fox News, and it is (although not uniformly) skeptical of vaccines, masks, lockdowns or even if Covid is real and killing the people its killing. We can look at the rising delta variant infections and deaths to see how the US handles this.

Also missing is the threat of a full-scale war between nuclear-armed powers. There hasn't been a real non-proxy war between major powers for 75 years, but is there anyone who thinks tensions between NATO and Russia or China have been decreasing or even level? They have obviously been increasing, so the potential of a nuclear crisis walks alongside all of that. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara thought so, as do others.

He says he is in an area with as progressive and pro-climate a local government as you could want, then he says he had to fight for his own initiative to put solar panels on his roof. Every year more carbon pours into the atmosphere. His assertion that amounts to "liberalism is not preventing this, but is capable of understanding it" is not encouraging. Like Covid, major corporations at the center of the economy and hegemony are actively involved in spreading the idea that this is not even happening, which many buy into.

Insofar as fascism and events like Charlottesville, a town voted to remove a statue, a number of people came to protest, many openly calling themselves fascist. One townsperson marching to remove the statue was deliberately run over and killed by the other side. It's a manifestation of a fascist movement and it had a certain size and result. People are not wrong to notice Charlottesville or other things like that and see some level of a fascist threat, the question is how large it is - he is probably right that some reactions to such things are overblown, but they're not reacting to something that doesn't exist. I probably agree with Yglesias on the odds of the country becoming fascist in the next decades, but with Charlottesville, storming the Capitol to stop the election count and such things, it is correct to concern those on the watch for fascism, even if as Yglesias says, this can become overblown.

Also some people just have a historical perspective Yglesias doesn't get. Like an imminent collapse of the middle class would strongly portend an attempted fascist seizure of power.

One sign of a sea shift - liberal is an old word, and speech codes, measures against hate speech, blocking presidents on platforms like Twitter, canceling and the like are departures from liberalism. The groups and institutions which formerly supported freedom of speech are now in favor of different things. There may or may not be good reasons for this but it is a departure from liberalism. That these institutions and groups which formerly embraced liberal ideals with regards to speech have now abandoned them is a sign of changes within the institutions he discusses. Liberalism hasn't changed, the formerly liberal groups and institutions have abandoned aspects of liberalism, for good or ill.
I know everyone grieves differently and there is no wrong way to grieve, but this is the wrong way to grieve.
I suspect that real estate prices are dragged up by fear of inflation. People in my country buy whatever has a roof, because they do not want their savings to go to waste.
It implies that they're not all at 11 yet.
We need lawmakers to force Apple and other companies to open documentation that could enable writing drivers etc.
Give Apple anti privacy stance, I can see why they don't want a platform they can't control on their hardware.
This should be illegal.