skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like everyone is trying real hard to come up with solutions that just continue the status quo of having all of our goods produced in China.

Just 20-25 years ago we were still making a lot of things in the US. But the American worker, and economy, was sold out to cheap, high-polluting, IP-stealing, yes-lets-ship-it-2000-miles-instead-of-making-it-in-the-US Chinese labor and manufacturing at the benefit of the CCP but everyone else’s expense.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. This wasn’t even a direct supply chain disruption and it’s hitting us hard. Imagine if we ever had one, and there’s no evidence to suggest we won’t again. We’re dependent on… China of all places for everything?

Why can’t we focus our brainstorming sessions on bringing manufacturing back to the USA? Why is this not a major talking point? Americans have been polled and across the aisle people prefer made in the USA.

Let the CCP take care of its own people. It certainly thinks it’s system is the right way.

It’s madness and it’s sad. Every corporation and politician that had a hand in this ought to be ashamed. Every media outlet that ignores it ought to be ashamed too.
I'm not Californian.
Lets look at who "people" are here - TSMC's biggest customers over the last three years:

AMD, Nvidia - direct Intel competitors

Hi-Silicon - no due to being based in PRC

Mediatek - based in Taiwan

Which leaves Apple, Broadcom and Qualcomm.

I suspect they will get some business from the last two but Apple clearly have a deep long term relationship with TSMC and have invested a lot into that relationship. Can't see it being easy to get them to move.

Maybe Intel is counting on political pressure to get the big US firms to use them?
> the idea of hailing cab drivers with an app, and then encouraging people to drive (i.e., ridesharing) is a great one.

I didn't think I'd have to explain this, I thought most here already understood it. But okay. Nothing about hailing cab drivers with an app changes the economics of transportation. What changed the economics was exploitation. Not that the cab industry was really all that much better. But what's wrong with Uber and the gig economy at large is that we're letting huge companies with big budgets get away with not respecting labor norms. And so they have changed those norms, for the worse.

It's a clear-cut example of the tech industry making things better for the well-off, and worse for those trying to scrape by.
What about based on internal beliefs and voting patterns? A "police" administrator at the city level is liable to donate a lot more money than a rural patrolman.
I remember re-covering the roof of an apartment building for a slumlord I worked for in college. We ran out of tar, so I had to wait an hour while the boss went to get some more. Sitting for awhile in the shade of the roof access entrance was glorious. We were supposed to drag our exhausted, aching bodies to the basement to "tidy". We didn't because that was absurd.

Now I sit on my ass all day long and write code. I make enough now that I'm in the class of worker that's allowed to slack and pretend I don't. Sometimes I slack and post to Hacker News in the middle of the day. No union needed!
"Among founders who do not do Engineering, 80% prefer a co-founder who does Engineering."

I'm sure this familiar to any engineer on this site. "I have this great idea for an app, and I just need you to build it. We'll split the company 50/50."
Turing published his paper in 1936, so well before the war. The idea of a computer itself is usually set at the analytical engine by Babbage, whose main motivation was to aid with nautical navigation (a mainly civilian use).

Even more fundamentally: the military picked up Turing after the war started, so they had a good idea of what he could so because of work he'd done for others than them.

Granted, without the military we wouldn't have had the specific computers the military built, but in this context that is about as interesting as saying that without the military we wouldn't have had the innovation of the 150 mm high explosive shell.

Likewise, Tsiolkovsky did his theoretical work in a log cabin because he wanted to reason about space travel. Robert H. Goddard invented the liquid fuelled rocket in the interwar years working largely alone and in any case without any military support. Again the military shows up after stuff is very clearly moving.

Like, how is it surprising that an organisation that needs to pay for guns and the training of the people to use them would mostly invest in already existing prototypes?
YInMn Blue is nothing but trouble
> Biometrics are not protected by the 5th Amendment in the USA as the police can legally force your finger onto a touchpad or hold your face in front of a camera.

Where can I read about this distinction?
That is relevant to the actual article, which is about Amazon warehouse workers unionizing in response to various abuses, including being told to pee in a bottle.

Yes, most corporations are not asking people to pee in a bottle. On the other hand, as I said, individual workers have little negotiating power with a corporation, even a relatively small corporation, and the difference between union and non-union jobs is clear. It is not at all unusual or extreme for corporations to give non-union workers lower wages and lower-quality benefits because the corporation has outsized power to negotiate the terms of employment with individual workers. Non-union workers are more vulnerable to abuses and abuses are more common among non-union workers -- not extreme abuses, but mundane abuses that generally go unreported.
Do You Love Me?
Remember setting IRQ with dip switches on your 300 baud modem....

Computers are becoming (already are) 'black-boxes' -- non serviceable by the mainstream.... Thank Tim Apple
I ferment more pungent Chinense peppers in 3-5% brine for 6+ months in low temperature and then smoke them on apple+pecan wood with typical bell peppers soaked in 15% brine for 6 hours. Then there's drying, crushing and this makes a "smoked paprika" condiment very different to store bought.
Less pungent Chinenses usually go dry or are smoked and dried for later use.
Less pungent Annuum peppers like jalapeño go for 3-6 months of fermentation in 2% brine and are then turned into "cowboy candy" by soft-boiling in syrup, wrapped in sugar and dried. This is my favorite candy with no fat. Left-over bacteria water is my daily probiotic and pre-workout drink addition kept in the fridge.
Nah. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/26918/could-peo...

(Be sure to read the #2 answer, which I find more compelling than the first.)
Interesting that your employer would be so zealous about it, my employer's written policy is "Always cooperate with security/customs. If they want your computer unlocked, unlock it. Your safety is more important than our secrets, just call corporate security when you're released."
Yeah the issue and imo the difference between my drive and MKBHD's is that mountain driving has a whole set of challenges you don't get with "regular" driving. As an example, between Kelowna and Merrit, we hit a snowstorm -- it took 40+ minutes extra driving 15-25kmph and we burned through an extra 20% battery. Had I not charged to 100% the night before I would not have made it (that drive is basically a fairly steep hill 50% of the way)
IMO, FX is more of a toolkit for writing transforms over your FX modules than "moving in Jax's direction" (although there are certainly some similarities!)

It's not totally clear what "Jax's direction" means to you, but I'd consider its defining characteristics as 1. composable transformations, 2. a functional way of programming (related to its function transformations)

I'd say that Pytorch is moving towards the first (see
https://github.com/pytorch/functorch) but not the second.

Disclaimer: I work on PyTorch, and Functorch more specifically, although my opinions here aren't on behalf of PyTorch.
I pronounce it maggot despite knowing the “proper” pronunciation. I don’t care—it is maggot and that’s that.
Unions' interests are not aligned with those of the company.

Solvable via work councils with reserved seats on the BoD, similar to the German Betriebsräte.
I think the commenter you're responding to was just mistaking my assertion that most bad cops match a particular demographic due to the type of person to become a cop for an assertion that you can tell someone will be a bully if you know what their demographics are.
Microsoft’s research’s Project Silica was doing interesting things on etching glass for long duration archival.

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/ignite-project...
I've been using a rear carrier battery too on my bike. It's pretty bad for the center of gravity. I will be building a middle mount for it in the next month. I will caution against it for a heavy pack - it does become a safety issue when the battery is heavy. What happened to me twice is that in suboptimal conditions - rain or dirty roads - it's VERY easy for the front wheel to lock up under braking and for you to lowside. If possible a split between the frame and a rear rack is definitely preferable.

>I'm not quite sure what 'modern' means in this context but all of the batteries that I've seen so far (Samsung, LG, Sony) caution in their MSDS against deep discharge both from a functional risk as well as from a safety perspective and there are a number of pretty knowledgeable people online who are on the record with their reputations at stake cautioning against this

Basically by modern they mean higher capacity than the ones in the 2006 study that found dendrites at 0V - those were early 2000s era tech, shoddy 760mAh cells. They found that the higher the specific capacity, the higher the resistance to Cu becoming dissolved.

As far as constructor experience I do agree with you, it's preferable to avoid it. Though one factor is that people with extensive commercial experience will probably have had to work for very cheap, low capacity 1600mAh cells that are definitely more prone to this, and quite old arrays. I definitely recommend against it too, it just seems to me that it won't result in a fire anymore. I wouldn't take the risk though with a cell I know was discharged to 0 or beyond.
Print to PDF, store on archival quality CDs and/or print to archival quality paper.
lots of assuming going on in this thread
I think he is working closer to full time on AI, and does the VR CTO thing separately.
I think what the GP was trying to get across is that you’re making an argument from moral principles that doesn’t necessarily translate to situations without the same moral stakes. Opening a business to serve a minority excluded from mainstream establishments could be a morally righteous decision (as in the example you provided), a savvy business decision (e.g., mob-run gay bars in NYC in the early 1960’s), or both (like thriving businesses run by and for the black community during segregation).

Given the current state of what’s on Gab, it’s difficult to see how running a social network that caters to users & content banned from FB and Twitter could be a sound business decision —- what company wants their ads to run in a sea of vaccine disinformation and hate speech? —- so you need to justify it on moral grounds. And in that sense, I’m sorry, but it’s a bit insulting to compare Gab and Truth to businesses that deliberately bucked segregation or apartheid.
And you are much more likely to meet potential investors on a golf course than at an improv club.
...but the world wasn't a global village back then. A thousand years on, the world may look more similar than diverse, and less divergent / more convergent than it did over a similar time frame in the past?
That is so cool !
May I ask at which resolution you had those results ?

We managed to get up to 10x for very low resolutions (160) for a resnet101 but it usually plateaus for high resolutions (above 896x896) at a 1.7~1.9 speed-up.
Although using Int8 gives even higher speed-ups (~times 3.6 for 896x896 input), for some tasks it degrades the performance too much.

I will definitely try your setup :)
"Oh cool! Show me your business plan!"
You can't. No more than you can make a garden last 500 years without people tending to it regularly. Digital has a lot of great advantages, but permanence isn't one. Will DNS even be used in 500 years? Maybe. Will whatever hosting provider you use still exist. Almost definitely not. Will html and css and javascript still be used even? Or will they be something academics study the way we study latin and greek today?

Books, buildings, and art survive 500 years and not much else.
Like "Blue" and "Navy"? Or just two blues? If the latter, what's the reason?
Entirely whose point?
Some people still think the biggest deals are happening on the golf course, I think most deals over the past 18 months likely happened via zoom.
For an ad network it's a B2B market.

You're the person seeing the ad, but you're not party to the transaction.

Websites often run an auction at request time. The ad networks are actually competing, even if you get targeted by Google exclusively, personally.
If you're going to have to use a digital temperature control, I'm not sure a Kamado is really necessary.

I really like my PitmasterIQ[1]. It's a couple hundred bucks, and doesn't require a smartphone app, which means it won't stop working in a few years. Hooks up to pretty much any grill -- which, presumably, you already have -- and near-guarantees perfect results every time.

Sure, you'll need to foil wrap (3-2-1 is a good place to start), but otherwise, it's minimal work. Did a six-hour smoke of some babyback pork ribs a couple of months ago, and if I closed my eyes, could easily imagine I was in Texas, not Tokyo. Flavor, texture, and color were all amazing.

For those that don't know: These work by controlling airflow to the coals, with a thermocouple-driven feedback loop. I went with the cheaper Pitmaster, but I'll likely invest in one that also has a thermocouple for the meat as well.

[1] https://pitmasteriq.com/
IANAL but I believe "the rule against perpetuities" is one of the sticking points in using something like a trust as an institutional solution to this problem.
My 600 GB of Photos begs to differ (I've worn out camera shutters!), you can't find anything without a long search. If you can't find it, you don't own it... so yes, in theory it's there, but nobody will access it, ever... so does it really exist any more?

It's back to the same meta that everyone else says... you have to make something that people want to have around in 500 years as a first step, or you're just pushing against very poor odds.
I'm asking you why you think what you do. He communicated to me why he thinks the way he does and I have no questions about that. I think the essay was clear enough for what it was and didn't think it betrayed any fundamental misunderstanding of finance.

I think what he said is that things aren't working for many, this crisis showed that to everyone and we should therefore keep this in mind and do something about it. The part I liked in particular was the implication that we should keep in mind that the economy exists primarily to satisfy our needs and not the other way around.

I don't see anything there that suggests he misunderstands finance, especially with a reputation for the opposite, or that he doesn't get the philosophy of contract law (I think that's what you're hinting at), so that's why I asked.
> I think this goes somewhat beyond right to repair?

Something like right to use would be nice. If you need specs or docs or source code for the software/hardware to be usable, then it should be provided. And IMO that should include not gating essential functionality behind online services unless it is inherent to the function.
Tropt Data Privacy Week 2022
I have used a bike with single gears and I currently run my own ebike with a single gear - it's really not that bad if you are in shape. I have pretty strong legs though so ymmv.
I love command line tools that provide hints or "command palettes". Typical CLI stuff is great for things I use at least once a week, and usually only in a couple ways. It's terrible at presenting me stuff I could be doing that I don't know about [edit: yes, I know how to use apropos, which is great but still something you have to think to go query on your own], or reminding me how to do the fifth-most-common thing I do with a tool, but that I do only 10% as often as the fourth-most-common, so I have to look it up every single time.

Git is full of that kind of thing. Tealdear and friends usually save me from digging through SO posts or manpages, so remove much of the pain, but it's still worse than having a reminder already on the screen.

(actually, some kind of automated tealdear in a second term or tmux pane, reading what I'm typing with some kind of auto-complete magic so it can show me options quickly even for longer commands, and smart enough to look up "git rebase" as "git-rebase" or whatever, would be amazing... I'll have to look into that)
Azure, cobalt, sapphire, cerulean, indigo, aquamarine...

Most languages probably have quite a few.
I can see future archaeologists classifying QR Codes as an “ornamental technique popular in early Plastic Age cultures“.

Somewhere a crackpot conspiracy theorist group will be trying to claim that the QR Codes contain messages from this long-lost civilisation…
As others have said -- if the goal is to communicate with your descendants 500 years from now, I wouldn't use the web!

And I wouldn't use CD-ROMs or Bitcoin

I would use something that's proven to last 500 years, which is basically "paper". This is just "the Lindy effect"
Well if the officer lies and says you gave it willingly, I imagine yes!
Ever protested anything that the conservative majority of your city supports, esp. the police? Try it some time, its fun! You'll find out pretty damn quick that the riot police love to hurt people, once something is declared a riot, it becomes a free-for-all. If you think this is innuendo, let me direct you to the 2 years of BLM protests around the country that have videos of cops behaving just lovely.
https://archive.ph/dZVAu
For Samsung, sure. My LG’s interface is pretty darn good.
Wrong wall of sound. Actual wall of sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)

The grateful dead bankrupted themselves bringing a revolutionary approach to sound reproduction to their touring kit. Unlike every system before and after, it directly routed the audio of each individual player to a unique cluster of speakers. Many of the reproduction qualities are still not easy to achieve today (perfectly in-phase at a quarter mile out), although the actual system was impractical and was eventually retired.
This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317840
I’ve often made that comparison myself, though I hesitate sharing it in order to avoid triggering a possible knee-jerk response.

Outer Wilds is my favorite game of all time :) It is generally quite chill (though there are a few tense moments). I hear the DLC is a little scary/thrilling but I haven’t played it yet.
That is entirely dependent on your local voting system, not every place in the US has citizen initiatives on the ballot AFAIK. But it's a representative democracy anyway, so you vote for polices by who gets your vote.

Sure, a lot of people just vote party line. But a lot of local elections are non-partisan.
It is unlikely that humanity will exist for more than 500 years.
Just to offer a more benevolent interpretation: I read that "Google thought patents aggressive tools" sentence not necessarily as any implication of Google's intent, but rather an implication that Google were worried about patents being used as weapons against them.
Yea I've been thinking about this. Open up specs, schematics, docs, and code, or actually support it "forever" (not literally, but a decently long time). It might be a bit extreme though. To provide some incentive, I'd consider the responsibility for recycling if you're unwilling to support usage. There is far too much throwaway crap.
Eat Rice Without Getting Fat (2017)
Or tell Zuckerberg it has sensitive personal data.
> I would say that Magit and structural editing using Paredit are the two most important technologies that make programming great.

I would also add undo-tree to that list, it's like having a lightweight VCS on every file without needing to resort to git.
> cops are clever and talk to each other to strategize against protections, too.

Like playing popular music while being recorded by bystanders so that the videos get taken down for copyright infringement.
They are not tracked at all.

People who have businesses that are easy to run in cash (landlords, construction, restaurant trades) often run a portion of the business off book. Converting cash to commodities is a pretty common way to store value more securely, as cash gets unwieldy. Sometimes country folk use equipment like tractors or junk cars for similar purposes.
Can't say I'm surprised. There are way too many efforts that forego actually developing software.
"Devices like this, Chromebooks, and many others will make Linux a more consumer facing OS in the decades to come."

Can you see how that's the point I'm making? "Linux" is still decades off from being a viable desktop OS, and it will always be so. A new embedded device running Linux that you can technically connect a keyboard and mouse to doesn't help the general case that Windows targets, or the case of purpose-built desktop/laptops that Apple targets.
No Gender, Only Lesbian. Or, Memes on the Brain
Chef's rule of thumb: everything you do in a slow cooker (crock pot) can be done better and faster in a pressure cooker.

Dried beans, for example. 4:1 water ratio; e.g., four cups of water per cup of dried beans. 1 tsp of sea salt per cup of dried beans. Bring to high pressure and cook for 25 minutes. Allow to naturally release.

2:1 yield (two cups of cooked beans out for every dry cup in) Perfectly soft, yet still intact, as long as you kept the temperature low during the cook. Steam should be just escaping from the pressure valve once you hit pressure, no more.
كلمات اغنية مسكين ماجد المهندس
The Economics of Debt Clearing Mechanisms (2010) [pdf]
I would probably create some type of small self-contained unit, that's battery powered, and can recharge itself via solar panels. I'd have this device periodically try to fetch data from the internet.

Once the internet goes down it goes down, and you'd have the local cached copy.

I'd also have this mystical device print out the entire website in paper form every year or so, and then it would automatically shove the book version of it in a miniature Warehouse.

I don't think electronics are going to function any way similar to they do now in 200 years. But books, particularly picture books will always be readable. We already have examples of this, hieroglyphics are thousands of years old but can still be read and interpreted by modern people even without knowledge of the language they were written in.
As someone who teaches python+sqlite in an intro to cs course, I can't disagree with this statement more.
yes, but if you get powerful enough there is no regulatory smackdown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34397551-the-chickenshit...
If I want to buy carbon offsets why would I not just buy them from a farm/landowner? What does crypto do for me that I can’t do with a dollar bill?
Don't pay attention to the other "just ship it" comments, it'll be ready when it's ready. Too many people like to walk out that trite phrase when they have no knowledge on what you're doing or where you're at yet want to seem like they know something you don't. It's annoying.