skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you're clearly an advocate for labor so I'm not going to here try to convince / sway you to some different viewpoint.

I'm just going to correct your "facts" for other people reading the discussion.

"as it’s [$15/hr] proven it’s sustainable at scale"
That's a total guess / assertion in favor of your position, isn't it?

The new wage being offered isn't proven "sustainable" -- it's merely what some employers have had to offer in the face of a pandemic + widespread increased unemployment benefits. And we're seeing record inflation (with some part attributable to this, some due to other important factors of course). So you're hardly justified in saying it's proven sustainable long term. You just want it to be so because it benefits you.

And secondly, and more importantly, your tactics are no better than some corporatists who seek to exploit laws to their advantage whenever they can, just for their side, because they can. "... which makes it easier to lock it in with statue."

If it were so proven to be good and sustainable, why is a statute required? Wouldn't that sustain itself?

Now that you see a moment where $15 has been tried out of necessity due to the temporary (hopefully) situation, you want to "lock it in" with laws and regulation, and distort how the market for labor works by putting in a floor.

I find it equally bad for someone to try to argue for and do this, regardless of whose side it is -- corporations trying to skirt environmental regulations, other public obligations, or labor trying to say that they deserve x/y/z because they got it for a moment.

Don't act as if you're trying to find a solution good for the entire economy, producers, consumers, workers, people. You're an advocate for labor to get more benefits. And using incomplete arguments that favor your position.

And by the way, I don't engage in the practice of downvoting people who I merely disagree with.
For AR they will need some ability to interpret the world around them, but high res photography isn’t the only way. Think Lidar and the like already used to get a spatial understanding, or the infrared dots used in some face/body recognition. I expect that companies that are more “privacy” focus will avoid a camera, or at least any ability for apps to directly access the images from them if they do have them.
I make no fundamental distinction between an Original and a copy, maybe that nomenclature is misleading. I use “original“ for the entity to be copied; that entity could be the tenth copy of a copy of a copy. It makes no difference. There is nothing special about the zeroth member of that line, except that that person accrued the memories that are then copied and experienced in other entities as their own. And why wouldn’t they, they’re copies.

So in your thought experiment, why (and how?) would your “self” be transported after copying? Why would you assume that? And what happens to the “original self“? You describe the experience of stepping into the teleporter and then stepping out, but this experience would require some magic to transfer the self. The much more plausible solution is that you step into a teleporter, you die, a copy of you continues your life happily on Mars but you have nothing to do with it. What would happen if you created several copies? Your model has no explanation for that. The only solution for your model is then the hive mind; the much more consistent answer is that each copy has their own mind, and does indeed think they’re original.
Yooo, if anyone wants to let me know on this. I'm already using an off the shelf load balancer because I didn't have time to figure out on my own -- would it be possible to "tag this on" and determine stats for all my connections?

TL-R605 by TP-Link is the router I'm using.
> Tylenol … predate the use of any fetal cell lines

Doesn’t mean not used for today’s Tylenol.

Quoting from a University of Notre Dame essay grappling with morality of fetal cell lines:

”[S]ince traditional Catholic moral principles make it clear that the reception of vaccines produced with or tested on HEK293 is easily justified in a global pandemic (how could it not be if taking a Tylenol, also tested on HEK293, is justified by a headache?)—then perhaps the time has come for us to focus our moral concern on the ongoing use…”

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/does-the-origin-of...

Additional contextual background around concerns re COVID vax, at North Dakota health site:

https://www.health.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/COVID%20...
Why don't you know the costs upfront? "Socialist insurance" doesn't automatically cover everything you want or need, by the way. Rather, there is a government mandated list of things that are covered.

There are presumably different types of private insurances, sometimes it makes sense to agree on "self pay" for small amounts, sometimes it doesn't.

Also if "socialist insurance" would cover your 15 minute talk, you would never know it cost 150$. You would just wonder after a while why the health care system always seems to be on the brink of collapse.
I mentioned this above, but at least in the short term my experience has been that paying more doesn’t yield better results on most tasks, which I naively attribute to those skills not being available at any price from the current population of MTers.

This is plausible but doesn't change the basic problem. Of course, workers on AMT have years of experience trying to game it. Just more pay isn't going to create a sudden sense of solidarity with the employer.

I would guess that quality results at scale would require a system built from the ground-up to cultivate some degree of loyalty or something.

It's kind of a dilema of capitalism itself.

At scale, you can pay people to accomplish a task for peanuts but they lack loyalty and will cut-corners whenever it's possible and convenient. And that still gets a whole lot of things done for cheap in this world.

But if you want to get loyalty, people you don't have to watch, etc., you have to organize an entire enterprise for that, maybe show loyalty yourself (Turkers are inherently throw-away, why should they be loyal for just today's wages). And the cost of that arrangement tends to multiply.
Are antiviruses still a thing?
Rental supply is an idiotic concept. You are increasing rental supply by diminishing owned housing supply. You're not doing anything for housing supply, which is the only thing that matters.

And no, pushing up the prices of rents don't incentivize building. Building rentals is meh compared to just buying existing housing supply. While house prices are increasing, so will rental prices commensurately, because renting and buying a house are not isolated and independent choices.

In reality, there is no increase in construction, because the increase in housing demand is no different from someone buying a house, and the increase in property costs that follows it doesn't change anything.
Source?

Also, either way: do vegetarianism.
In the same period or a bit earlier, hundreds of thousands of apartments in Bucharest and other major cities were sold at preferential prices (read: heavily discounted) to the renters. It was a populist measure, people bought apartments and sold them a year later at 4-5 times the purchase price.

Also the old Communist era small apartments were cheaply build and without much value. 6000 euro looks low, but I bought in 1998 from the open market an apartment for $13,000 (the transaction was in USD). These days, that apartment is around 3-4 times more expensive (I don't have it for many years), but it is still small and poorly insulated. "small" means less than 50 square meters, one living room and one bedroom.
These guys can’t design a website I’m not giving them money to build a laptop. And why PowerPC? And if they have prototypes coming in October where are the photos? Not one photo of a PCB. This is vaporware.
Eh, I was a hobbyist before being a pro. I love coding at home, I just won't do the same thing I do at work.
It's for protection from ISPs.
Judo or Brasilian Jiu Jitsu. Any grappling I guess where part of training is deliberate practice and part is kind of competition/sparring.
I'm not in the US, but afaik they provide the best medical care in the world.

Socialist restrictions of course also exist in "socialist" systems like here in Germany. There also seems to be a constant shortage of workers in health care.
TI sold about 250,000 units in Germany, starting in early 1980. They had European manufacturing sites for hardware and software in Holland and Italy. They even released a number of software packages in a number of European languages--and a few of these software packages were unique to the European market. It was known outside of Europe as well. It was sold in Japan in 1980, Australia and New Zealand, and South America. Argentina even had manufacturing facilities for hardware and software, and continued building/selling systems until 1986, two years beyond the point US and European production stopped.
For me, programming for free would be painful at a cellular level.

Better to learn the piano or how to do portrait art.
Note to readers: scroll down, the actual contrarian opinions are at the bottom.
Yeah, my simplest explanation is the first guess you have a 1/3 chance. If you switch, you are actually just betting that you were wrong on the first guess… and there is a 2/3 chance you were wrong, so that is a good bet.
> Sales is a communication-heavy job.

I think this is the issue in a nutshell. And as a salesperson, you don't get to define the method by which customers want to interact with you.

They're the ones with the money. You're the one trying to get the money. They get to have you meet them where they prefer.
But that is nonsense - apartments are apartments, even if wealthy move into those apartments, it would free the apartments they previously lived in. Also, it would be money for the city.

Also it is not just social cases who have problems with high rents in Berlin. You suggest the majority of people in Berlin want only more social housing, implying most of them are social cases themselves?
Sorry, did not notice the push part. But it solves the pull part nicely.
Apple has since moved off of x86 for similar reasons. The issue is the fab process more than the architecture.
Team lead is known as "project manager". Tech lead is just the most experienced person on the project.
Useful advice from my uncle: "Ugly women have p*ssies too."
How does that relate to AirTags (or similar devices, like Tile)? The companies that make these trackers aren't selling the data to anyone external, only displaying it to the person who bought the device.
Third time -as a secret police state – is not always the charm
Ah. And read Feynman!
Indeed. Looking at this from an information point of view, the fact that the host can open a door tells you nothing as to whether your first choice was right. So the chance you picked the right door is always 1/3.

The information you get is which door to open if you are allowed to switch.
Are you suggesting that our universities are teaching short-term thinking cowardice and greed? Or is it just certain programs? For a while I thought it was "STEM" programs that alluded most to easy-money themes in academia, with business schools teaching more of the long view and social responsibility of financing then managing a business.
It's still an anecdote. Corporate housing discriminates against poor people and people of colour as a matter of incentive, which is no different in practice.

In any case, it doesn't change anything, if Singapore is oppressing LGBT people they will do so government owned housing or not.
I recently signed up for Headspace, it’s quite good!
> Cloudflare workers don't run in the background. They block the HTTP request. For serious computation, Cloudflare should offer background workers that can run for extended periods of time.

You can use `event.waitUntil()` to schedule a task that runs after the HTTP response has completed, and you can use cron triggers to schedule background work in the absence of any HTTP request at all. You can even build a reliable async queuing system on top of cron triggers and Durable Objects, though at the moment it's a bit DIY -- we're working on improving that.
> EDIT 16/09/2021 10:12*: During the night we had two more attacks. We are working with the authorities, who have confirmed they are looking into it and are doing everything in their power to find the responsible individuals. We were contacted by an individual who verified he was behind the attacks, asking for a ransom.

Roughly how many criminal groups are active in DDoS ransoms (as opposed to data crimes, like cryptolockers and exfiltration)? How common is this nowadays? Clearly it happens, but I've no idea the general scale of the problem in 2021.
Your sentence “it should be possible to make any number of copies, all of them starting with identical memories until the moment when the original was destroyed.” is not unique, but now I understand what you want to say.
You're thinking along the lines of the dimension of distribution. Yes in terms of distribution, software scales because it can be copied.

However there are many other dimensions of scalability to consider. Examine the complexity of the software system itself where thousands of people have to work on it. Eventually there will be no choice but to go this route due to rising complexity of the software. You need specialists with narrow assignments because those narrow assignments are already so complex that it takes a team to comprehend it. Engineers on these projects have to give up ownership of certain things and trust that others can handle it if they ever want to get any work done.

I stated it above as a tradeoff. Efficiency and scalability vs. flexibility. I completely agree with you on being careful about optimizing for scalability but eventually a bigger org HAS to make this tradeoff because they have no choice.

If a few bespoke nuclear submarines don't necessitate the trade off that's fine, but putting a new ever complexifying smart phone in the hands of the ENTIRE population year after year requires immense sacrifices to flexibility in the name of scalability.
What would that look like?

Do you have evidence some don’t?
Jonathan Haidt has been talking about exactly this issue for many years now.

Here's is one of many of his videos on YouTube dealing exactly with this topic: https://youtu.be/jQcDw1r1lGw
I used to write libraries and have non-technical people who never programmed follow the documentation and use them. My reference point is that if they could do it, then programmers will have no trouble doing it.

The next best thing is writing the doc before the actual code, and have others look at it and see if it makes sense, then I'd write the code that makes that possible.[0]

- [0]: https://github.com/minio/minio-py/issues/829#issuecomment-65...
>Claiming that his approach was “not scalable” and that yours is “flexible” sounds naive and conceited to me.

Insulting people for a differing opinion that is introduced neutrally is not a conductive way to communicate... it is way of communication that is both against the rules on this site and one that Admiral Rickover himself will condemn.

One thing that is for sure is that insults, rude behavior is not scalable or acceptable in any organization.

>Claiming that his approach was “not scalable” and that yours is “flexible” sounds naive and conceited to me.

Why don't you read what I wrote again. I said Rickovers' approach was "flexible" while my approach was "scalable." Another thing I should mention that I'm sure Admiral Rickover will agree with me on is that insulting people based off of a cursory reading and complete misinterpretation of a post is not productive for any organization. It's very careless

> Admiral Rickover managed nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Moreover, he was responsible for introducing these incredibly complex and dangerous technologies to the Navy.

It's debatable how efficient and productive these technologies are. The Defense industry is famous for inefficiencies and incompetence. While the feat you describe is impressive there is nuance that needs to be examined here. Objectivity is warranted. Learn to be able see things not in terms of black and white but in sets of pros and cons which is likely the reality here.
The usual recommendation here is to value the equity of small private startups as $0. There are too many things that can go wrong, there are too many ways the founders can screw you, and there are too many ways the investors that put real hard cash get magic equity with liquidation preference that will get all the money before you.
Riding on the train, just watching out the window as the landscape pass me by.
To me the consent of the public is even more shocking.
I take a walk and call my parents. I also occasionally take a bath while listening to a podcast.
> I don’t know why

Both words come from the Latin tenere, to hold. A tenant is someone who holds a lease. A tenet is a belief that is held.
I’d like protection against devices not made by US companies too
Yup, and taking payments online was awful but privacy was more of a thing. In South Korea ActiveX was required until recently. https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/south_korea_activex_c...
Since this is HN, it’s 2021 and DDoS’es are still a thing: why are they still a thing? Is there some fundamental “anonymity” to the Internet that makes it impossible to structurally prevent DDoS attacks? Apart from CloudFlare-like approaches, are there any R&D in the pipeline that may kill this type of attack once and for all?

To me it’s incredibly infuriating to see the damage that still happens with these extremely simple techniques. Will it ever end?

Edit: to elaborate, I know that there are tons of insecure Internet devices and whatnot. I’m more interested in standards, and core protocol improvements that can fundamentally rid the world of these types of attacks.
There’s a third reason here. With the current size of a round a founder can become very wealthy by converting personal shares (ie cashing out) in each round. They can literally get F-you money regardless of the company’s outcome.

Look at Clubhouse. It reached Unicorn status while still at, essentially, Alpha. It would be silly for the founders not to take $20M home during those rounds right?
I figure someone might as well go whole-hog on that and build a PC with just a big ol' FPGA.
Regardless of whether it is ethical or not, you’re going to waste a lot of time trying to get people who will actually do it. If your startup idea is super hot, you might find people who ask for more equity and less cash, but good luck finding good people who have enough discretionary time to work in your idea for equity only. I tried for a couple years and it didn’t really work. When I finally had a little money, I was able to hire good people at a significantly reduced rate when they were both freelancers and friends, usually when they were between bigger projects, and not one of them wanted equity even when offered. Even my employees didn’t want equity, mostly because they didn’t understand it.
> A library to convert celsius to fahrenheit.

I don't think you learn anything with that, unless you mean getting confortable with the toolchain.
This seems great for language/library knowledge. As an experienced polyglot, the languages are not where I'm hitting the wall these days though. It's the tooling. I can learn new language basics faster than I can figure out the ecosystem/tooling.

For example, my current conundrum is how to deploy an Elixir Phoenix/MQTT app. Writing the app was a fun curve to climb. And I could use techniques like described here to learn from others in the actual programming. But how to build an executable I can wrap in a systemd process running on a different machine? Those are actions people do, not expressed so much in code I can look at. The few blogs I can find on the subject are mired in deep CI toolchains.

I want the blog that discusses the secret sauce to learn to acquire the knowledge to work the raft of ever evolving tools we have to work with now days. The "materials" (the languages) are the easy part now days. It's the massively automated complicated machinery we've built around the language of ideas that are my personal pain point of entry.
I dunno. Speaking as someone whose first Blizzard game was Overwatch, the over-sexualization of women in previous titles felt very blatant and distracting to me.

The fact that basically every major female character got the "armor bikini" treatment feels really weird.

And it's definitely not gender-neutral. Male mage gets monk robes. Female mage gets cape and a bare midriff. Male space marine gets a full-body exoskeleton. Female space marine gets a high-tech swimsuit and boob armor.
Authorities have no missing $10M. Snyk has. And it’s their responsibility. Not the responsibility of ‘authorities’ nor the responsibility of anyone else.

Do you really think that if I wire my taxes to your bank account authorities are going to assist me in getting it back from you?
Short term, many people gain from artificially inflating the value of goods in a supply restricted market, but that is just market manipulation, no real value added. Those apartments will be demolished one day and the value will drop from $100,000 to $0 in a second.
Before ditching SMTP/etc, we'd need something to replace them.

TMTP (my work) is a candidate. More at https://mnmnotmail.org/
I'll probably go back and update the article at some point.

Background on the book Ultralearning. It was written by Scott Young who went viral for doing his MIT challenge, to teach himself the MIT CS coursework within a small amount of time.

I would expand on the post and focus on the concept of direct learning. That is, if you're not really practicing a skill in the way you're going to use it in an actual real life situation then it's less optimal.

The example he gave in the book and I totally agree with is learning a language. People look to apps like Duolingo where you're working to recall vocabulary and language in a way that's much different than when speaking.

This isn't to take anything away from doing drills wherein you focus on a specific subset of a skill, like say, free throws in basketball.

The approach I discovered myself and outlined in this post is really a drill for doing code reviews in a language you're learning and learning idioms and patterns from the community. People don't usually look at these aspects because usually the advice is to build a project you're passionate about.

I'm bad at finding side projects to build from the ground up that I'm "passionate" about. I have a couple of drills to work on coding more actively than reviewing code. I take an open source library that I'm interested in, take the tests and write the code to make the tests pass. Or vice-versa where you write the tests for a library. You can make this as big or small as you'd like. I'd start with either a function or a module that's interesting.

This way you zero in on the coding aspect and you don't worry too much about designing the interface since it already has tests. It's also much more real world than doing leetcode algorithm problems. I was taking this approach when I was working on learning how the raft consensus protocol worked.
I wonder if this is related to the attack on voip.ms (ongoing for multiple days)

https://twitter.com/voipms
No offense but that park looks like crap. Can't the city at least plant a few trees?
Go to London. Then you'll see if the free market can provide what you want. It doesn't.
Never heard of it, but I used a third-party system called Wycove Forth, back in the 80s. It was unimpressive by today's standards but fun enough for teenaged me.
We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad
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