skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘You can't predict unless you have the will to perform a prediction.’

That is a general claim that you wrote that I have shown is not correct unless you have an interpretation of the word ‘will’ that is so broad as to render your other statements somewhat meaningless.

In fact you are the one creating the strawman since you dodged addressing the question. I have made no separate claims about my personal free will, or lack thereof.
the government distorting the labor market with increased unemployment benefits isn't the free market

Especially when unemployment increased due to government mandated shutdowns
Not for a model, but consciousness is a different 'matter'.
Possibly. But is the contents of article incorrect, misleading or outright made up? I don't see how it is different to the Economist's take on the subject: [0]

Maybe I just generally read the actual contents of article(s) rather than just the titles, but again this article from the Telegraph is proving the point of the one from the Economist.

[0] https://archive.ph/jVOl3
We had to reveal all of our houses and loans on our mortgage application. They had no way to verify, but the penalty in that case is always fraud. But there are definitely a lot of people out there who don’t think that is a serious problem, and the government has to come down hard on it:

https://www.magnifymoney.com/blog/mortgage/lying-mortgage-ap...

Is the UK more tolerant of lying than the USA? It doesn’t seem so via a Google search:

https://www.onlinemortgageadvisor.co.uk/mortgage-application...

Now, of course, they might not find out, but that just means it is a perfect crime, it is still a crime.
The biggest joke about those manufacturing jobs is a lot of HR will filter you out if you don't have experience. Meanwhile no school trains or teaches you about how to operate a CNC milling machine. Technical colleges offer apprenticeship programs if you can find a place that will sponsor you. But then that circles back to not being able to find a company without experience.

The blue collar labor market is just a magnificent joke. I tried it for about 7 years of my life and they will literally only employ you if they somehow know you or you know someone else. If you're just a stranger, they won't even look at your resume. They don't even want to train on shit that in the 1960-1990's, they would take you if you weren't a total moron and could pass a drug test (if that even).

Modern HR has become a joke in this situation as well. Not only do they pretend like they add value to a company, but they filter out people who could easily be exploited for cheap simply because they don't have experience. Seriously, just hire a rando who seems vetted, make them do some bitch work and occasionally the main job duties. If they catch on, give them more, if not, get rid of them. It's like employers have become more risk averse than someone investing in CD's...
Not the GP, but I used to commute two hours each way for college in Mumbai (including a switchover and long walks to/from the train stations). Used some of that time to finish assignments if I got a seat!
The small biz owners here described here aren’t the Masters-of-the-Universe “owner class” types. They don’t even really own businesses, they own lower management jobs.
Use the money for a basic income.
"What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone" can't be literally true or else your phone wouldn't be able to communicate with any other devices. There is therefore an implicit exception for data that you choose to send elsewhere. As I said, Apple was only planning to scan photos you were sending to iCloud. Therefore these are already files that you agreed to send off your device and they shouldn't be assumed to be covered by that marketing slogan as you are the one choosing to contradict it.

You want "What happens on your iPhone to stay on your iPhone"? Turn off iCloud.
>"Moral (or amoral) behavior, I would think, requires intent."

That itself is not something all ethicists would agree with.
Finally, my bachelor's in philosophy comes in handy.

I don't understand the point in even writing an article like this because it's impossible to begin without staking out your moral positions, and at that point 99% of the work is just writing a philosophy paper. I don't think you can even say that most philosophers would agree that moral reflection promotes moral behavior, because you'd have to get them all to agree on what moral behavior is - or in other words, you'd have to solve the problem the field has been trying to solve for the entirety of its existence.
This is not my experience. Watching Starbucks and my other local coffee places implement app/cashier less ordering it seems like more customers and more purchases.

Ordering on my phone while I’m the way is easier than talking with a human. And easier to add stuff on.

I’ve never considered buying an espresso machine and bypassing my local coffee place.

Similarly, I wish all fast food went cashierless. The cashier is the slowest and most error prone part of the process.
It gets super demotivating and boring then. It turns into something like washing dishes, except less interesting and takes more time. At which point, you start to think that you might have to do something useful with that time - like cleaning, spending time with kids or reading/relaxing.

And from what I observed, I am not special snowflake in that regard.
It does seem like we're in a good bubble. People eat out probably 10x more a month than they did 30 years ago. Now with delivery on top of that...
> b) have a business so close to the brink of shutting down that an additional $20-50 an hour will shutter you.

This is the default state of businesses in competitive markets. If you could do with less then you could charge less, and one of your competitors will start doing that to take your customers, so you have to do the same.

Of course, the alternative is to pay more and then raise prices. Which you might not be able to do if the additional cost is imposed only on you, but when your competitors have to pay it too, you all raise prices without losing business to each other.

But the overall industry would still lose some business to customers not being able to afford its products, and some of the suppliers still go out of business.

Unless the labor costs increase generally instead of only for that industry. Because then your customers can afford the higher prices. If labor becomes a higher percentage of operating costs overall, they may even be able to afford more than before. This is why a UBI is good for businesses -- customers have more money in their pockets.
On beaming solar power from low earth orbit
Yes, kinda.
Again this god-of-the-gaps drivel (or dualism-of-the-gaps, since the proponent is atheistic) that claims that since we don't know how a mind arises from the physical brain it must mean that it doesn't.

The extreme complexity of this theory of the world is of course irrelevant to the kind of people whose end goal is to put art on the same footing as science not only in abstract value (which it surely does) but as an actual method for knowing the world (which is preposterous).

To be clear, if we accept the existence of a non-physical mental realm, we have the monstrous problem of explaining how these two interact, as there are numerous correlations between the two.
What language something is written in is not a feature.
(An aside) Bruh the ppl in Thailand looted the wreck, how sad is that. What kind of shit person does such a thing?
according to angular docs build is

build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)

so using build for things that affect /src seems wrong.
How stable is the CDN when the each node lifetime is 5 minutes? The likelihood of an ongoing request being cut off is fairly high. Nodes are also constantly in syncing state I assume.
Tesla Carbon Fiber Camera Protective Covers
There are a lot of businesses on the brink. My regular Italian spot went out of business in the depths of the pandemic. They re-capitalized and opened again but with higher prices. Their clientele is upper middle class (i.e. relatively price insensitive). But they still wrote a long letter explaining why prices increased (more benefits, more salary) and asking that people support their increased overhead by becoming regular patrons. I think operators are really scared people will judge them on value if the price goes up.
For a hilarious read, which answers a related question, I recommend the paper "Is this the longest Chess game?", published on April 1st, 2020:

http://tom7.org/chess/longest.pdf
BIOS updates are OS independent. It's the first screen you see when you turn on the device that tests the memory and finds the first bootable drive.

It's not a Linux Mechanic thing.
I did a whole Twitter rant on this very topic earlier this year: https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1366578799274381313?s=2...
Shepherd Moons
Does that change anything with the NSA getting NIST, DoD, and later mfgs to go along with an algorithm that had two backdoors?
If they start raising prices then CPI will start reflecting true inflation, and we can't be having that!
Partly personal preference in both what is readable and in how much you optimize caller convenience vs simple callee code. I think it's fine to just expect the caller to do the conversion. In fact, it's often automatic. (Eg if you have a PathBuf, then just sticking a & in front of it is sufficient to supply &Path via Deref<Target = Path>.) So I'd write this function as follows:

fn read(path: &Path) -> io::Result<Vec<u8>> {
let mut file = File::open(path)?;
let mut bytes = Vec::new();
file.read_to_end(&mut bytes)?;
Ok(bytes)
}

which I find readable. Comparing to another language...I haven't written Go in a while, but I think the rough equivalent would be:

func Read(path *Path) ([]byte, error) {
file, err := os.Open(path)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
slice, err := io.ReadAll(file)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return slice, nil
}

(Maybe in this case you'd just return the io.ReadAll rather than doing an if, but I'm trying to use similar constructs. The ? is something you can use all throughout the function, not just at the end, so I tried to match that pattern.)

[edited: I said there wasn't a io.ReadToEnd extracted from io.ReadFile in Go, but jatone pointed out it's called io.ReadAll.]
May I suggest looking at YugabyteDB, which is a distributed SQL database built on actual PostgreSQL 11.2 engine? It's way ahead of CockroachDB in terms of feature support.

YugabyteDB has UDFs, stored procedures, distributed transactions, the range types are working from what I can tell, at least the example from here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Extract_days_from_range_typ... works right out of the box, just copy paste. Postgres extensions are of course working. Orafce, postgis (with extra work needed for gin indexes, afair...), custom extensions.

YugabyteBD == Postgres. The query planner, analyzer and executor are all Postgres. Mind you, some features are not readily available because handling them properly in a distributed manner takes effort. Those unsupported features are disabled on the grammar level, before being worked on. But - unsupported features will not corrupt your data. Missing features are enabled very fast.

For example, I have recently contributed foreign data wrapper support: https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/pull/9650 (enables postgres_fdw at a usable level) and working on table inheritance now.

Yugabyte is an amazing bit of technology and more people should know about it. By the way - it's Apache 2 with no strings attached.

For clarification: I'm not associated with Yugabyte in any way other than very happy user and contributor. Yugabyte organizes the Distributed SQL Summit later this month: https://distributedsql.org/. Might be a good opportunity to learn more about it. Second clarification: I'll be speaking at the event.
They're just upset that ZH is allowed.
The first thing hitting the concrete when falling is your palms, so having a glove with plastic protection will help not losing any skin from your palms.

Also wear a helmet.
The owner won't hire a couple of cooks at $20 an hour because he won't be able to pay off his mortgages anymore. The banker sits behind all this and collects his fat percentage cut while laughing at the plebs fighting with each other over scraps.

We have a 3 tier system: minimum wage workers condemned to a perpetual state of precarity, middle class professional and small business types that toil away paying hefty mortgages one medical emergency from bankruptcy and capital owners that lend around money at extortionate rates and run to the nanny state to print money and save their skin whenever their bets go sour. Guess which strata gets most of the flak. Tip: it's not those at the top.
What I do is include the ChangeLog in the tag for the release.

I do semi-manually generate the ChangeLog using the titles of the Story/Bug that was merged in for a given PR, and then any commits that were done directly get a special notation (if any exist). The list of Stories/Bugs is generated automatically (branch->PR->Story).

This way there is no ever growing file, but the ChangeLog is available for every release within the VCS, and it's organized by release.
> The governments are to blame.

Governments are reluctant to oppose profiteering. And with stagnant wages and rising COL, working people are being squeezed out of ownership.

The British band XTC had a prescient song -- "Where did the ordinary people go?" They couldn't afford to live in their hometowns anymore!
> thus the supply of rentals goes down

You're sort of "begging the question" here.

> The answer is to reduce the centralization of jobs and other factors that cause everyone to want to live in Amsterdam

Obviously I'm not against that happening but it's not either-or.

> but of course many things may have changed in two decades.

Oh, you have no idea. It was hard to even get the owners to get back to you, because they'd already accepted an offer; and I was being asked for 1,500 EUR - 1,650 EUR/month for a bedroom+living room apartment. And while that wasn't in Diemen or Bijlmer, they weren't in posh super-central locations.
The economy has undergone a massive and fundamental shift because of the pandemic. It is disingenuous, at best, to say the increased unemployment insurance is “the only thing that’s actually changed.” Everything has changed. The demand for in-person services. Transportation and how (and even how often) we travel. Childcare. Education. Entertainment. Everything.
You're presenting it as he has an infinite money supply and just of pure stupidity and greed doesn't want to pay $20 or $50 per hour. Maybe his supply is not unlimited, and maybe nobody would buy a taco for $50 and he knows it, and he made the calculation and decided there's no way to pay all his costs, charge the price that people would be willing to pay, and make a profit.

Now, if you know how to do it, there's a big opportunity for you just opened up. You could buy the place (probably for cheap), hire the cooks for $20 or for $50 (they would be ecstatic to work for you, I am sure, you're not that previous greedy owner and would pay them lavishly) and become the model of a businessman. People love good Mexican food. I know I do. I know many people that do. You can't lose, really - it's a mystery why there aren't more Mexican food billionaires... It's so simple, after all.

Somehow most of such attempts I've heard of never turned a profit and shut down soon. Maybe those restaurant owners know something about their business that is not obvious to a random person only reading newspaper headlines...
They understand neoteny / youth, which is pretty cool!
This. I like online ordering and delivery because I don’t want to talk to anyone. And I’m not here to be your friend. You wouldn’t charge a friend for a ride, right?
Not quite. =] Arc coordinates and synchronizes across tabs (via an iframe). So Arc behaves identically whether you have one open tab with Arc or 100.
Ironically, it was Einstein who introduced the “cosmological constant” (and thus indirectly dark energy). I think later in life he called it a glorified fudge factor and his biggest regret.
"Rich" programmers.

You know society is doomed when a wage supporting a middle class lifestyle is deemed "rich".
I mean I want to log income, spendings, exchanges in multiple currencies (or commodities), and then be able to see reports in a single currency - my net worth, my income over period of time, capital gains / losses.

Leger printed nonsence for such roports.

I used to pay taxes in multi currency environment, and know the official rules here, in Belarus, how to calculate the indicators when converting to a single currency.

Also I once came across US guideline for that - the same simple principle.

So I guess that's a very standard aporoach in accounting.

Ledger does something strange instead.

I remember also some large blog post was circulating, where the author "explains" how to do accounting in two currencies, in some overcomplicated way, that only works for two currencies. This link was usualy shared between people as an ansver to the multi-currency question.
> Proof of work miners make profits today, but this is a temporary situation caused by the large block reward which will fall, and large price increases which cannot last forever.

But that is the problem I talked about. Already today the entry into the mining business is costly. Not everybody can do that. There are already centralisation concerns with Bitcoin miners and the pressure will only increase in the future due to economies of scale.

> In contrast, proof of stake is not competitive and has very little risk or cost. It's practically pure profit, and the wealthier you are the more you make.

I disagree. But the competition lies elsewhere than with PoW. As with PoS you are purely securing the blockchain with capital the competition lies with other investments.

With Ethereum 2.0 the more ETH is staked the less interest is earned by the stakers (https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-basics/monetary-policy/#proo...). This means for big players (the wealthy stakers) their stakes need to yield as much ROI as other financial instruments. If their stakes falls below that they will take their ETH elsewhere.

For less wealthy stakers who have less easy access to financial instruments they can continue staking with less yield. Also staking is pretty easy, it needs to be, so that enough small stakers can do it and we have enough decentralisation.
Great article. I did stop reading when I got to the part about how there wasn't a lot of pushback.

Most employees are dependant upon that job to maintain their income. And losing that income creates a big problem.

So there is a strong incentive to accept most things the employer wants to avoid being fired. Including spyware or tattleware or whatever.

Employees know that even though they hate being spied on, raising it as a serious issue risks losing their job. Or, they have heard other employees try and fail to get anywhere against a mandatory policy.

So if it seems to someone like there isn't a lot of pushback, that is a misleading statistic they have gathered.
Studies of states that extended the unemployment benefits vs ones that didn’t seem to show that the benefits accounted for a fairly small portion of the difference in employment.

https://www.wxxinews.org/post/what-unemployment-insurance-te...
McDonald's pays about 20% in labor costs, and from what I can see other restaurants also average 20-30%. Where are you getting that labor is the highest cost?
Yeah, was disappointed there were no other references to the Bohemian Grove in the comments.
In a word the reason MongoDB was and is popular is "objects." Objects are hard to store and retrieve in relational databases, despite countless attempts to make it work.

In MongoDB you just pop them into a table and fetch them back as needed. You don't need to define schema. In fact, you don't even need to define tables. MongoDB creates them automatically. It's still surprising to me how many people don't see how great this is for full stack developers. It makes up for a lot of other sins.
German government wants to support Tesla battery cell plant with 1.14B euros
The salons in question are still charging $18 for a haircut.
To me, if 50% of restaurants close tomorrow, fine.

There are people who dine out 3, 4, 5 times a week, who don't really know how to cook anything beyond microwaved meals... that's completely insane!

And I think that's kind of what all of this hysteria is about. Because yeah, if the price of a burrito went up by $2-3, those people would have to learn how to cook some basic meals for themselves.

Not so long ago, dining out -- having another human being cook & bring you your food -- was a luxury, reserved for special events. This is something completely different.
Government doesn’t need to do a thing.

Assuming flood insurance prices are realistic (not propped up by government), eventually no new construction will happen because no one will approve/afford insurance.

Existing places will get cheaper / hell hole as rates keep going up.

Federal flood insurance has distorted market prices drastically in many places
It’s been fun to see this play out at my current (self-destructing) company. A large percentage of senior engineers have left; rather than make changes, management is going about business as usual.
Maybe people never needed to pay for haircuts in the first place
[1] https://macchiatobin.net/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turris_Omnia

[3] https://docs.turris.cz/hw/omnia/omnia/

These two and similar were what I had in mind.

Though I don't have them. But considered them a few years ago.
But I've chosen another path, of really dark art ;->
(Don't ask)

edit:

Oh, and

[4] https://espressobin.net/

The smaller, and more affordable option from the makers of [1]

But this is all from three, or even four years ago?

I don't even know if that Turris Omnia thing is EOL meanwhile?

They wanted to make something even more modular.

Anyways, all MARVELL based and thus IIRC with working offloading under Linux, though not mainlined at the time.

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvell_Technology,_Inc.

edit: Funny, Amazon.com says they have 9 Turris in stock

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Turris-hi-Performance-printserver-Vir...

While amazon.de has 19.

So they should be available. But about 400, instead of maybe 40 to 200 for some cheap plastic trash which melts or resets if you look at it the wrong way.
Heart bleed is still the biggest point against your argument.

The key word you correctly used is OPPORTUNITY.

I like smaller localized governance, but would not be opposed at all to a federal subsidized program for security bugs and open source development of algorithms and code for commonly required tasks.
Yes, LibGen is mirrored on IPFS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246
> For what it's worth, New Orleans is a historic city with a rich culture.

Nobody wants to lose New Orleans. It's a great city. But the problem is accurately summed up by the OP: "How much can places where millions of people live be fortified? At what cost? And who pays for it?"

The only good news is that the Port of South Louisiana is the biggest and arguably most important port in the Western Hemisphere (and that's without even taking into account the Port of New Orleans or the Port of Baton Rouge, both in the top 10). There is enormous nationwide economic and geopolitical incentive to protect the city. The bad news is that New Orleans would be sinking even without rising sea levels.
> Black to move, and in the final position, the pawn at h4 can be captured en-passant.

> They're all legal.

But then, looking at the final position[1], black is in check by the knight on b2. If white's pawn can be captured en passant, this implies the knight was not the most recent move, so the black king was in check on the previous turn as well.

It's obviously not legal to remain in check. What am I missing?

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking...