skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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https://coincircle.com/l/qDm3mQ3VTW hayuk
Pandemic response is policies. That's directly political.

The problem is that various countries' (USA in particular) political institutions are in crises and facing collapse.

So instead, the pattern instead, is embrace authoritarian politics and do what's dictated to you unquestioningly.
Clojure has the "thread-as" macro (`as->`), but I don't think it's used much: usually thread-first (`->`) and thread-last (`->>`) will more than do the job and have less mental overhead due to their regularity.
There was an earlier comment on a different discussion where someone referred to "elites" as basically anyone who worked for the government or had a bachelors degree.

It is a lazy way to get people to agree with your argument when they wouldn't if you were forced to define who you precisely mean.
Seems like an absolute overkill for now.
May you get down-voted into oblivion for your rudeness. It's not only unnecessary and uncalled for, but redundant.

If you'd like an example of how to correct someone's misunderstanding in a constructive manner, see sibling comments, which were posted prior to yours by an hour.
I see. All the all-in-one solutions that I have seen so far require way more RAM though. Maybe I can cut down by going low-level, but I have to understand how email works first then.
If Netflix pays for the bandwidth, what do Comcast's customers pay for?
> Sears: had Allstate for insurance and Discover Card for credit. Unlike most "branded" credit-cards, Sears did its own underwriting for the Discover Card i.e. they owned the Greentrust bank

This was a fairly common thing to do, as you point out, for department stores. As far as I'm aware, Target was the last holdout department store owning its own bank, Retailers (then Target) National Bank, through which it issued the RedCard and RedCard Visa, and sold to TDBank. Macy's had Department Stores National Bank, which it sold to Citi, and so on.
Again: the next step is not more experiments. The experiments are done, and confirmed the discrepancy. The next step is theorizing, which can be done in isolation, relatively unaffected by pandemic. That is what is now neglected.

After hypotheses have been shown to be plausible, i.e. account for the result correctly, yet consistent with other results, it will be time to design experiments to choose among them.

So, no, the silence is not consistent with normal process AIUI.
Two things: 1) 'me-too' comments tend to get downvoted here in an effort to promote substantive discussion. I think something gets lost in the gulf between an upvote and stating you agree but thems the breaks and 2) cryptocurrencies actually do get used by people that lack access to stable currencies. I asked about this myself. I don't think it changes the original assessment, but it is heartening to know that there is some real utility people are getting out of this tech.
Can AI work better than property-based testing?

https://hypothesis.works/articles/what-is-property-based-tes...
Does distributed hosting really work for streaming video, especially along "the long tail"?
> One must keep in mind that the United States is and near or more always has been a welfare state.

> If one must keep that in mind, may one ask what definition of "welfare state" has applied to the USA since its founding?

The contention was definitely whether it has been a welfare state ever since its founding. No judgement though - the English language is terribly poorly designed, so I can totally understand how you read it that way.
Terraform is actually kind of a nightmare. It's deceptively simple yet requires a massive amount of real world expertise to use it properly. It's a configuration management tools, but more difficult to use and extend.

I'm thinking of designing a series of tools to replace Terraform. The idea would be to break down how modern cloud environments are managed into a couple concepts, and then make a variety of tools that work within those concepts together, so that it's easy to expand and modify the way you use them for your use case. This would enable things like tailoring the use of the tools to a particular deployment strategy, or adding custom business logic, or replacing individual functionality, without being tied to one tool, language, etc.
That's understandable. I just wasn't sure if anybody mentioned what I said by now, or if you were already thinking about this, so I at least wanted to get the thoughts in your mind before HN closes all comments.

Also, if I'm not being too rude, your posts were a little hard for me to understand, so I thought that releasing some or all of the code would help people (and myself) understand them better, ignoring the teaching stuff that I already talked about. With code, people can debug and change it to show what the program's doing. It'd also at least satisfy some people's curiosity (and probably use up their weekend).

And thanks for replying!
It's not at all a bizarre argument in a labor shortage. Exactly what you should expect to happen is that low-value economic activity gets replaced by higher-value economic activity!
reddit's conspiracy channel is groupthink (or, the lacking of critical thought?) at it's absolute worst. Point out the obvious flaws in their reasoning, get banned, just as fast as any other subreddit.
In short, reddit is cancerous no matter the forum.
What is property-based testing? (2016)
What Is the Healthiest Type of Rice?
> I wasted money on eating out three times last week

Was it definitely a waste? The time you spend preparing your own food has value. As does the mental impact of (depending what you bought) the pleasure of a meal you could not have made for yourself; and the relief of pressure of not having to do it yourself.
https://youtu.be/TIxt9guMbXo
I assume this is because she was required to be tested
Employers would finally realize that cleaners provide an important and valuable service and would have to compensate them accordingly. Adam Smith's invisible hand would adjust incomes accordingly.
The emphasis on stateless here is that your desired state us described in code that resides in your repository. Actual state is what you have in your cloud. No need to spend time on state format, storage and related logic and complexity
As someone who was around for at least a portion of that time period, nobody ever actually called them diskettes except for the people who designed the packaging and marketing material.
..do they?
Definitely some truths there. The profanity wasn’t enough to bother me. After reading it I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or cry.
Well, they need makeup applied and masks would defeat that.
> Economics doesn't care about your feelings or your dreams.

This is an example of business thinking gone wrong.

Economics prescribes behaviors to humans using logical and historical arguments, and tries work out how this scales up.

You can't use it to pretend humanity doesn't exist.

> If you need money to pay your bills and the only way to get that money is to work a shit job, you will work the shit job.

I think you'll find the rising homeless problem in every major city in america proves this wrong.

Sometimes you just get anxious and depressed until you fall into an addiction fueled rut and you end up homeless and clueless.
But a lot of the world's problems are caused by those "domain expert" type of elites, because, in many countries, including the US, they run the government. Anthony Fauci, for example is probably not particularly wealthy, but has had more power over citizens in the US over the last year than any billionaire. Not that some man on the street could do a better job, but you have to expect that people are going to be pissed at the people making the decisions when things go wrong.
No it is not, and if you are representative of the majority then $deity help HN.

There was a clue in one of the posts.
Comcast were purposefully keeping those links under capacity so they could double dip - get money from both their customers and Netflix.
Exxon and BP called to testify on climate after ‘troubling’ new documents
Gunpowder-infused fabric or paper was being used for fuses around the 10th century, as well[0]. I always thought this depiction came from fireworks, which had fuses both linking multiple devices and also serving as a (relatively) safer point for ignition around the 10th century, as well[1].

[0] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_(explosives)

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks
In Memory of Sir Clive Sinclair
Indeed, and it’s also terribly counter-productive in that it borders on anti-intellectualism.

If you care about regular folks having a good life and having good opportunities, if you want the American dream (work hard and get rewarded) to be true, then a big part of that requires “vertical mobility”, and that means that you should want regular people to be able to achieve “elite status”.

It’s not the existence of elites that is the problem, it’s how fairly opportunities are distributed and how fairly people are rewarded. Stated in another way, the problem is not the elite, the problem is how the elite is made.
your connection in one direction is "send their kids to be credentialed"? That's pretty weak, and I think you might not really have a case for an equivalence relation.
At some point you have to acknowledge that not all "biases" are bad; a bias may just be a value you don't agree with.

Being biased against the extermination of all human life is a bias, but I think we'd agree it's a good one.
If the AR glasses were very useful, then I would think so.
Couchsurfing Hangouts was also a great way for me to meet people in new cities. Is there anything aiming to replace that aspect of the site now?
I think that's just because people couldn't remember which was "slash" and which was "backslash", and in the DOS/Windows world, you were more likely to hear references to "backslash". Browsers quickly started silently fixing inappropriate backslashes, so people never had to learn which was which.
That was very standard in the Roman empire at the time. Formalized patronage relationships were one of the core social organizing principles and given the distances, a letter from your patron to one of their contacts was _the_ mechanism for social proof.
OK, but then the problem is on their security team, not your product development. They need to decide internally if the importance of your tool supercedes those security policies.

You can do two things from here:

1) Accept those features as valid needs for potential future customers. Prioritize them in your roadmap however you see fit.

2) Have a dialogue with their security team, asking why those policies are in place, and showing them alternative ways you solve their concerns.

I will put out a word of warning - if you let your product decisions be driven by whatever cost you a sale, or what the sales team believe will make a future sale, you are now being driven by short-term sales goals, not by a long-term view of what your customer base needs. Going to massive efforts to make one sale is almost never the right answer.
Python Treemap Visualization – Plot a Treemap Using Python
If given the choice I'd never run anything on bare metal again. Let's say we have some service we want to run on a bare metal server. For not very much more hardware money, amortized, I can set up two or three VMs to do the same server, duplicated. Then if any subset of that metal goes bad, a replica/duplicate is already ready to go. There's no network overhead, etc.

I've been doing this for stuff like SMTPE authority servers and ntpd and things that absolutely cannot go down, for over a decade.
1) No. Well, potentially as a crypto accelerator, but QAT and Chelsio T6 are less power hungry and more available. GPUs are so expensive/unavailable now that leveraging them in creative ways makes less sense than just using a NIC like the CX6-Dx, which has crypto as a low cost feature.

2) These are just static files, all encoding is done before it hits the CDN.
Can't speak for your alma mater (or am I??), but during my time at UF, adjuncts in engineering simply weren't a thing; never took a course taught by one for anything lower division either...YMMV, I suppose.

Somewhere in between, full-time lecturers (called "instructional professors" these days?) were and still are exceedingly rare (albeit probably safe to assert all ECE alumni of roughly the past 2 decades were Schwartz'd and/or Gugel'd in some capacity).
The claims in this video are absurd. It suggests that there are no stable jobs, which is patently false. If you want the promise of a steady job, however, you need to pick a field which will always be in demand. Off the top of my head: corrections, sanitation, healthcare, and the legal system.
To my understanding, there is no technical reason behind not being able to use custom wakewords besides them just not wanting you to.

I also believe it is restricted mainly for branding and easy marketing.
From a practical standpoint, different countries are really different both in culture and infrastructure.

What worked in China was welding people into their houses, but that's not going to work of most people don't have metal doors
A retail bank in the US is covered by FDIC or NCUA, which means that (up to reasonable limits), my deposit is guaranteed. If the bank goes belly up or someone steals all the money, I will not suffer a loss.

That's a very important benefit that is independent of whether or not the money is digital.
> 2. A lot of restaurant and retail workers had a full year to find something else to do. Many did. And why go back to working for tips if you found a junior marketing position that you can do remotely home and has a career path?

To this end, I have several friends who worked in the food industry pre-pandemic who have spent the last almost 2 years studying, finishing school and finding jobs in the tech sector.

Some are now working as software engineers after waiting tables two years ago. They aren't going back to working for tips any time soon.
SONY's banking branch was a big part of its revenue IIRC.
This is my preference as well. I've done everything from makefiles and bash scripts to a monolith Go program that statelessly provisions/tears down resources.

Even makefiles are pretty straightforward, though you really want operations to only trigger when checksums differ -- timestamps result in a lot of redundant operations. As long as everything is idempotent, it's pretty straightforward.
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Primes Conjecture
Free Fire is basically a whole film of that. To be honest it's great.
Thats about United Kingdom, but Ireland is mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
Yes, it used to be based on Electron. Although the date on the blog posts is off because we migrated our old blog posts to Medium back in June.
We're talking past each other.

I'm not saying it's going to be the same group of people who will re-pick cleaning jobs.

There's plenty of people out there who need the occasional physical thankless labor (myself included). As long as it's no more than 3-4h shift IMO there will be people who will do it.

In my eyes the key element is having the choice of not doing it. UBI might give us that or it might be a half-arsed measure that only does things on paper. We have no way of knowing that right now though.
I absolutely understand your concerns.

There are approximately twenty supervolcanoes around the world, so I wouldn't worry to much. There is an almost supervulcano in Italy that is also much closer to where power is needed [0].

Remoteness is not that much of a problem though: (ultra) high-voltage direct-current ("(U)HVDC") power lines have losses in the order of 3% per 1000km (that's 620mi) which is very acceptable. China has power lines that move the power equivalent of several nuclear power plants over thousands of kilometers for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
But the current labor issues didn’t start until after the pandemic, and until the massive government spending to ease the issue of business closures and people losing jobs.

It’s not a fair market when people are avoiding those jobs because they can get paid for not working.

Once the government spending stops, things will change quickly.

And in fact we actually have had the opposite, people willing to give up benefits for worse jobs, gig economy jobs that provide no stability nor benefits. The reason is because there’s not actually a labor shortage at all.

So you might say that the pandemic reset people’s value assessment on the job market. That may be a good thing. But until government payouts stop we won’t see the actual market in a clear light.

For instance here our dog daycare can’t hire enough employees. What’s been happening is people apply, in order to show applications, and then don’t follow up because they’re still able to receive extended unemployment benefits. So at the moment there is gaming of the system.

And you are correct. Downvotes are not censorship. But they are a toxic method to communicate outrage and add little to positive discussions. As has been outlined both from other articles here, as well as recent coverage from the Wall Street Journal, social media companies are well aware these tactics result in increased outrage and mental health issues, but they choose to ignore them because it adds to their bottoms lines.

> what I hear them saying that they think people have to be compelled into working under the threat of poverty and violence in order to keep the current system from collapsing.

But this is ultimately the system of nature. If you don’t provide for yourself you starve. If you don’t provide for your shelter you freeze. If you don’t provide for your safety you are a victim of violence. Society has distributed those tasks, yes, and we can debate that distribution. But you can’t claim that you just shouldn’t have to work to prevent those things. If you assume you have free access to those things, they are being supplied by someone else. So why should they be free for that person and not the provider?

Could we supply those things free for everyone? I and everyone else would love that utopia. But it’s not where the world is at the moment, even if it’s a worthy goal. We need to keep moving forward as a species. Parasitic behavior is a real issue in any area of life, and in nature things balance out via Nash equilibrium.
It was a would be funny, but volcanes induce acid rain besides many other issues
Fallacy of the Single Cause has become a popular ope-ed trope lately.
I was using it as an example of a conspiracy theory.

> Both parties and beyond, everyone must stop the partisan squabbling

Prisoner's dilemma: the first person to stop being partisan loses. And demonstrably hyper-partisanship is working for at least one party.
Very thought-provoking article. I think the narrative has a truthful core but it exaggerates reality, almost to a caricature.

Anyway, a related thought, I've been increasingly noticing one phenomenon:

A surprisingly large fraction of human behavior and thinking is driven by an often subconscious desire to maintain or advance social status and respect, this is true for both individual and group identities. I think it's one of the most underrated hidden forces behind political preferences. Some examples:

- Obama becoming the president has increased the relative social status of black people. Some whites used to have or still have a subconscious perception that whites are at the top of the hierarchy and Obama was a threat to their position in the ladder, that's why they hated him.

- China's growth has lead to a relative decrease in the international status of the US. Which is why Trump's anti-China rhetoric resonated so well.

- When someone is rude or dismissive to you, they're subtly saying that you're not important for them and they don't respect you, which is the cause for the anger.
Hmm,

I agree with your overall description - I believe economist describe problems of this sort as externalities[1].

The example of externalities that comes to mind is shipping companies running absurdly large ships to shave margins and so being concerned that their behemoth might lodge in the Suez Canal and disrupt much of world trade.

IE, producers not being concerned about the larger impact of their decisions.

But your example leaves me scratching my head. My impression is that cloud providers effectively selling CPU cycles by the dollar. There must be some pricing tradeoff for fast versus slow cycles. If a cloud provider can sell 20 throttled instances cheaper than 17 unthrottled instances, that's a deal that might suit buyer and seller.

But maybe there's something I'd missing here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Are you suggesting that Dr Fauci does not deserve to have his position, or that somehow the accountability mechanisms that govern his office are unjust?

I would submit that Dr Fauci typically holds very little power, and that he has had an unusual amount of influence lately because there’s a pandemic.
I do expect some sensitivity when daring to question women being in the work force rather than prioritising the care of their own children. Let me be clear first, I entirely agree with you that society shouldn't tell us what is right with this regard. But society has spoken, the dogma of having women be the same as men and get to work. With the pretence of more freedom and independence of course. I don't speak for women, nor men. Each person is free to decide whether they should enter the workforce or not. I'm not advocating that women shouldn't be allowed to work.

I disagree with the ratio argument you've proposed, I'm sorry 1 carer for 12 toddlers is undeseriable. Ask any stay-at-home moms how it goes when they get their 3rd kid. And a carer will never care as much as a parent, so 1 to 12 is surely compromising on the children well being.

I would gladly consider parents rather than women, but for the vast majority of human history it appears that females have been rather focusing on taking care of home and children. Things can be arranged differently, but there are surely some deep rooted reasons as to the adoption of the role fulfilled by women for so long, and it must have shown superiority over having men take that role since it has survived across very different cultures.

We aren't hunter gatherers, we are even past the sedentary model that organised societies for millenia, so models can and better be questioned, but the childcare dead end needs to be looked at the way it is. It is not working.

Yes children grow up, I give you that. And of course it is natural for women who were mostly taking care of their own children to find an occupation, work is one. My comment was in the context of the child care chaos we've created. Not in the context of trying to hijack the thread into claiming women should not be in the workplace.
Real-world success is generally a matter of luck no matter what the incentives are. You can't make your cancer research pan out, you can only do it diligently and find out later if it was the right direction. You can definitely screw it up. But you can't make it work without a bit of luck.

If people can't keep their luck-based gains, no one has any real reason to try anything unusual. Everyone would be chasing the puck instead of skating to the open ice hoping to catch a break. Society would stagnate.
I think variables names and infix operators/method names are very different.
The bandwidth paid for by their customers you mean?
Should have at least [2020] in the title? (or earlier... the Feb 2020 is when the first submission of this page to HN happened)

Also, while there has been no big discussions of this page in particular, here is the best plain-language Urbit explanation I have seen:

"Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268462
That is a failing of the USA, considering that states don't have border controls between them