skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money is just one small aspect of it - getting into that kind of research probably requires >2σ IQ, then there's the affinity and motivation - you are left with a small pool of people who can do this work.

By funding toy projects and pipe dreams you are crowding out useful research - and there's plenty of fundamental work in material sciences, superconductivity, etc. that could actually improve the lives of everyone
> I can open the purse now or have it opened by force by the majority someday.

why are these the only possible choices? Why can't the third option, one where the poor also get richer (compared to their poorer past) through growth, and improvements in tech?

because that was what has been happening for the past several hundred years, and a lot of it in the past 100 years. Some people didn't get ahead as far as some others - but the poor of today are still better off than poor of several centuries ago.

if you look at countries that have had revolutions that stripped the rich of their wealth, how have they fared today?
A large issue with this will be that Rosetta doesn't support AVX, AVX2 extensions, which are increasingly commonly used in games.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/2976275080122...
A monad is for composing effectful computations.

Effects are encoded using a polymorphic type with a `map` operation (called a functor), and effectful computations are functions `a -> E b` for some types `a, b` and effect `E`.

A monad is exactly the plumbing you need for composing effectful computations: it turns a computation `b -> E c` into a `E b -> E c` so that you can compose `a -> E b` with `E b -> E c` to get a composed computation `a -> E c`.

It does so in a way that makes effectful composition associative (i.e. the way you'd expect)
“I Hate Paintings”
Imagining someday I go on vacation and valuables are stolen, including that disk. Now that friend’s supposedly personal data is compromised, as of course they would set a lower protection on something that is supposed to be used during emergencies.

Just use LUKS or FileVault full disk encryption. Your friend just has to memorize one password. If it gets stolen, it's as good to a thieve as random data.

Same if the disk gets corrupted because we didn’t realize it’s stored next to the fan, and 2 years were enough to have an impact.

I would tell them to make more than one off-site copy. It's their responsibility to not just depend on you.
USB-C is highly extensible (some would say way too much), I doubt we will need to make a connector that is physically incompatible anytime soon (although I'm sure the standard will be upgraded for more speed/uses)
TPMs are great at preventing extraction of keys via the exploitation of software bugs. They are not so good at preventing extraction if you have physical access to the machine, and especially not if you don't need the machine to survive intact, and can afford to destroy as many machines as you need to get the keys out...
How many of those historical examples cost so much though? With $100 billion you could give $10000 to 10 million people. Or spend it on retraining or some other education.

Most previous science discoveries weren't throwing around oodles of money.
> Emacs is not bifurcated, but a lapse of judgment 40 years ago could’ve made it so: a complex, string-fiddly world for Serious Programmers; and a safe, boring, but disjointed, world that “users” are expected to use. That’s how most editors and IDEs work, and you have to pay the piper if you want to join the Serious Programmers... But not so in Emacs. You see, in Emacs, the buffer you see and interact with on your screen is the string.

Can someone expand on this? I don't understand it.
The way I see it, syntax sugar can be part of the language proper.

For instance classes in JS are sugar syntax to define a function that defines fields in this and prototype members of this function.

Arrow functions are sugar syntax to define functions bound to a specific this.

async / await is sugar syntax for promises.

for..of is sugar syntax for iterating over an iterable.
I agree with you. This year’s WWDC is a clear indication that Apple has the appetite for everything. CarPlay is the best example.
The baked in expiration seems like a great idea.
I'm the opposite. I'd much rather a 4x10 work week and have 3 days off.
Why is it that I can't play musical instruments after someone has explained to me in simple English what musical instruments are?

https://two-wrongs.com/the-what-are-monads-fallacy
Also the very first paragraph is "Imagine...".

I missed both of these, and wondered why an HN commenter said luckily everything is fine..
I hope to see the next Mad Max movie as a visceral depiction of a wind, solar, geothermal, BEV, desalination tribe defeating the carbon tribe.

In replay of the recent election in Aus.
The first thing that ever sold online was pizza (2018)
If you rarely use a hammer, but change the way a hammer operates, claim it’s better, but the folks who use hammers everyday all day disagree, it’s not the hammer users who are ignorant.
Not clear from the title, but this is a short game “based on FT reporting and interviews with Uber drivers”.
The author perfunctorily wrote the essay. By the gist of it, they sound like an elitist snob.
Interesting idea.

I've found some banks that place a voice call before tbey will accept a number for sign up. The obvious security issues with this web service undoubtedly explains wby.
I am discussing larger societal implications of what happens when this type of morality expands to the extreme.

Absolutely zero to do with you personally. You're building a strawman.

To you personally: If you're going around touting "other side's morality", you should be open to seeing what happens when this kind of thinking is adopted by the society. Don't play the victim game.
There can be lots of new alternatives. Why not fund those instead, by creating “moonshine physics departments”? (That is just a comment, not a suggestion).

The problem with String Theory is it unfalsifiability and that it has not even grown to explain 3D phenomena AT ALL. 40 years later.

Quantum Mechanics and Relativity (both special and general) gave results in a single decade.
Funny enough, I started one a few weeks ago too. I wanted to do some basic automatic type checking. Though I will probably never finish it. https://github.com/codabrink/tolkien
Fire safes are rated by time and temperature.

A particularly intense house fire could exceed the parameters of one's safe.
Not just fireflys. All kinds of flying insects.

I live in the Great Lakes region out in the country, and the need to clean my windshield and front license plate was a weekly requirement due to all the bug splatter from my daily commute into work. This need has plummeted in recent years.

Another observation: Fish Flys

They would be so thick, that I have seen snow shovels and once even a snow-plow used to clear them off the street! (I worked at a full-service gas station in my teen years, the snow shovel was necessary for that 1 week in May-June). You couldn't walk from a parking lot into a store without slipping from the sheer number that get crushed when you walk.

The insect apocalypse is already here, and we are fucked.
The original Air was placed in a completely different segment, against the tiny executive Vaios and the like. People on a budget (like university student me) got the white plastic Macbook back then.
At some point I desperately was looking for something like that to catalogize animated ASCII GIFs [1] because it's an too obscure corner case for mainstream search engines.

[1] https://animasci.com/
My Samsung phone allows the message to be sent to reminder. Iphones don't have something like that?
If my kids are nearby and someone asks what I do, all 4 will spontaneously do enthusiastic jazz hands and scat "Daaaaaaaa-taaaaaa."

Feels accurate.
> I've never bought the hype about a different password for each service.

It's not a hype. Any reasonable security expert will recommend you this. Because passwords evidentially get leaked. And most people are (I'm sure you aren't) vulnerable to social engineering, especially if the attacker has access to other accounts like HN or Quora.

I surely hope that you don't reuse the password of your email account.
It seems more like "free sub-domains" not domains.

EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative.

These things are quite unstable. I've seen URL shorteners (even one from goo.gl) and URL "redirectioners" and a lot of things like that disappear. Like Geocities in the wind.

Sadly only archive.org is a source of memories.
UK tech companies can and do pay for overtime, just not all of them and the ones that don't would like to have that discussion squelched as much as possible.

Talking about a 'four day work week' is meaningless if you at the same time claim that you have to work more than those four days per week to satisfy your employment contract, it just turns one vague thing into an even vaguer thing.
In Sweden, a significant number of parents with young children who work 80% so maybe that has caused the confusion.
Wasn't Apple probably going to do this anyway?
> that I will have to throw away, how is that good for e-waste?

We are not most people. Most people get yet another lightning cable with every Apple device when they could just use the cables we all already have for other devices. I also have a bunch of lightning cables because each device came with one, but, at least, they stopped coming with power bricks.

> I am livid that they’d do something like that instead of working on actual stuff like forbidding mining

This is not an either/or thing. Other groups are working on doing that without causing supply chain collapses and crashing economies. It's a very complicated and chaotic system with tons of interesting emerging behaviors.
Your options are here btw. Another apple device, text to phone number or account recovery which is automated but takes a few days:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915
And in some organizations, the toil just never gets done at all
If you want the bumpersticker version, it’s “rules for thee, not for me”
I don't have an apple phone, but my daughter does, and I've always thought that mechanically at least the Apple connector was better because it had less bits to go wrong.

USB C, like micro USB has that "tongue" piece that has to fit inside the end of the cable which always looks like it could snap off. The Apple connector is just a solid piece that goes in the end of the phone. No fiddly interlock pieces.
I live in NYC so many of my friends and colleagues have had tech jobs in the well known banks. Here are some of the data points I've collected.

Person 1 says there is a lot of politics, ass-covering, and throwing under the bus

Persons 2 and 3 says back in the 80s and 90s there were a lot of exciting projects, but now it's all maintenance work and making sure money train does not stop.

Person 4 says at his company they tracked how much money your bugs cost the firm, and at the end of the year if that number is too high, you're fired.

Person 5 corroborates what Person 4 said, adding that no one is allowed to touch production -- you touch production and you might cause an outage in some part of the company you never heard of, next thing that happens is Security shows up at your desk with cardboard boxes telling you to pack your stuff.

Person 6 says for the same reasons no one is allowed to touch the base classes you inherit from -- people just make their own copy of the base class and make their changes to it. The code base is littered with many copies of the same file each different in its own way.

Person 7 flat out told me "you are too nice, you will get eaten alive at a financial services firm"

Person 8 says he was not allowed to talk to or collaborate with a colleague because they worked for competing managers, they had to leave the office to collaborate
Are there any color ramps that work well for color blind people?
I don’t use a password manager. Instead, I have a formula in my head to generate a unique complex password for each site or online service based on its domain name and some other optional parameters, if the site has password constraints (eg. no special characters, short maximum length).

I have an encrypted plain text file (just a .txt in an encrypted macOS disk image) containing all of the parameters (if any) to generate the passwords for each site, which I keep on Dropbox, accessible at public URL I have memorized. This lets me easily update my password parameters file (open the disk image on my computer, update the .txt file, close the disk image).
> First, I’m so glad this turned out to be hypothetical

I've only learned about this is hypothetical from your comment (yes, I'm guilty of not reading to the very end). I wish the author conveyed that a little more clearly.
For all the good things about SpaceX, landing a few astronauts to the Moon by having about ~100K tons launched initially (~15 Starship+Superheavy flights for multiple tanking) is a crazy plan.
Since it's in econlib, maybe there's that smug kind of economics answer to this issue.

Are scientists all using 8th Grade math? Maybe that subset of math became 8th grade math, because it was the subset that was most used.

Maybe the big top level planning already happened via lots of micro-transactions and came to the right answer.

edit: commented before I got to the end, I think this is what they're arguing, though they're not being smug about it.

I think I'd agree with them more if they weren't dissing Excel.

Don't use it myself, but it (and it's predecessors/analogues) are powerful tools. Widely used and abused, for good and bad.
Work is definately an escape for alot of people.

A few individuals at my work when COVID hit it's first of many peaks/waves of March 2020, were forced to stop coming to the office.

They shutdown the office March 14, yet these people were still coming in March 31.

The reasons varried.

Children, family, environment, , lack of wfh infrastructure, personal challenges (one employee hit hard times and didn't have internet at home or mobile device, company hooked him up with mobile hot spot and mobile), and many more.

With my own personal home life challenges, working from home 3+ years now, I have sat in my home office "working" while I catchup on binge watching on days I am actually off (I work with clients in North America, i might work a stat holiday of one country, I might not, varies per holiday if they are on diff days -- I take of both Canada and USA thanksgivings).

I have a friend at work who sounds alot like your post.
The only exception is he doesn't have a family/responsibilities really.
Work is his hobby/life, shows up on his days off just to chit chat with friends at work(he does have friends outside of work).
We joke he would sleep there if he could.

You need a hobby, something productive to do outside of work :) something I am struggling a little myself with
It was all hypothetical

> In the meantime, please rest assured that my home is still standing. But, if you can, please donate generously to the DEC's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
I mean to me it makes sense that they would be less busy if they worked a full week like everyone else. When we have a shortage of GP's and it's impacting people across the country (and having a knock on effect on hospital A&E usage) disallowing 4.5 day weeks would probably help. There are obviously much bigger issues at play (e.g. recruiting GP's) but that doesn't mean we should ignore things that could impact immediately in a smaller way.
Yes, I haven't mentioned defence in depth here. And as you say, serious
real world applications are more than a single layer. But of course
what we see with DiD is polynomial growth of complexity, so policy,
monitoring, rebuild time and so much else gets hard to manage - upshot
is someone, somewhere falls back to simpler configurations - and
there's the entry point. But sure, thank goodness we've moved beyond a
single blacklist firewall these days :)
A few points I haven’t seen raised yet.

1) I bet a far fewer percentage of people use Shakespeare, Steinbeck, or any other literature in their jobs. Is this an argument for eliminating literature from the curriculum? Why or why not?

2) The percentage that do use higher level math are extremely useful to society, but the infrastructure that educates that smaller percentage needs to be large and widespread and accessible to all. A system that selectively educates a small amount of kids in valuable skills probably turns into a privilege filter and decreases the amount of talent educates massively.
Haskell in Production: Haskoin
Micro USB was the standardized smartphone port for years (around the time of the feature phone->smartphone transition): https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/29/micro-usb-to-be-the-standa...
As I read it, the new laws are concerned with the chargers more than the devices being charged - if Apple just includes a lightning to USB-C cable (as they already do for the 12), wouldn’t that be enough to satisfy the legislation?
My digital life isn't as cloud-based. Most of it is in locally stored files. For example, my Gmail account is synced to a local Thunderbird instance and all my photo and video storage is local.

I have two sets of backup hard disks (each set is a current one, and an old one, both of which get synced; the old one only with the more important stuff since it is smaller). Both sets are LUKS encrypted. One set lives in the filing cabinet at the office (during the COVID lockdown it was at a friend's house). An automatic nag system bugs me if either set hasn't been updated for 40 days.

Updating them is semi-manual. Plug them in, enter the decryption code, run a script stored on the disk itself that gathers all the data - from all over my LAN - that needs backing up. When it's done, unmount and unplug the disk. Make sure one set is always offsite - update set A, take it to the office, store it there, bring set B home, update it.

It's not perfect. If the sort of disaster in this article were to strike, I'd potentially not have the last month's data. But I would have all my passwords (backed up on these disks) and if I had something that gives a last-resort recovery code, that too would be on there - in a separately encrypted sub-filesystem that I know the password to. This is so the super sensitive stuff isn't even decrypted fulltime on my home machine.

I should have readable copies of all the important physical documents and cards in this separately encrypted subfolder too, but currently don't.
I use a variation of the USB to a friend method that I call horcruxing. Several USBs distributed to different friends that contain enough info for me to get back into my cloud synced password manage (plus a copy of all the passwords I have at that time). The USB is encrypted with a password I have memorized.
The first paragraph also says "Imagine…"

I skipped over it the first time around, but that made the rest of the post hit harder. This was pretty well written.
What would you recommend as a better source?
1. If you're defending large corporations, always assume that they're adversarial. They're machines made to defend themselves/attack opponents. When posting in their favor, be careful not to become a shill for them, accidentally.

As a general rule, defending the "big guy" on their behalf is generally a losing strategy. They can defend themselves already, no need to stand up for them.

2. I have family working in the medical and pharma fields.

3. I doesn't even matter what and who I know, this tells you everything you need to know:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PFE/pfizer/gross-p...

The profit graphs for most of the Big Pharmas look similar.

They're hugely profitable. For sure they could lose a chunk of that and do fine.

It's just greed. A bit of greed shows ambition. A lot of greed corrodes everything. It's just pathological at some point (money is not points on a mobile game leaderboard!).
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> I can see them making portless phone just out of pure spite (maybe having cheaper version with port and not selling that in EU).

What kind of mindset is this? Sometimes Apple prefers aesthetics over practicality, but they are not a spiteful company (unless you are Nvidia), particularly when it hurts customers.
The Supreme Court of the US has determined money to be speech, so this is an unwise position to take.

If you ask the government to prevent the use of cryptography in cryptocurrencies then you undermine the argument that the government should not tap or intermediate all communications.

At the end of the day, a financial transaction IS a message. It’s a command to a ledger to make an adjustment.
> safety deposit box

A firesafe in a friend or relative's basement is a much better choice. Safety deposit boxes regularly get lost, tossed, or sold and the banks have very little liabilty.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
> A watch maker killed for the tyranny of time.

This isn't so much a strawman as a slippery slope made from them. It is not reasonable to leap from 'people should acknowledge and discuss the ethics of their actions' to 'blood-drenched tyranny'.
For cars, changes like these are phased in multiple steps. For each car model, companies mass producing cars have to obtain a permit for the model. Then, they are allowed to sell those cars. At which point the individual owners get their cars registered at the government office.

The phasing in happens by first requiring it for permits for new models. The manufacturers can still build and sell older models. A few years later, the rule also applies to all first registration of new cars, to prevent car manufacturers to avoid the new rules by keeping to produce an older model.

IDK if something similar exists for electric household devices. For the famous light bulb ban, they introduced it via import and manufacturing restrictions, so you could still sell the light bulbs, and still can today, but you can't either build new light bulbs or (legally) get light bulbs from outside of the EU into the EU.

You could do the same for phones, just ban the imports at a specified date in the future so that the hardware can be readjusted in time.

Anyways, this only affects one manufacturer (Apple) and they don't have as much of a market share here as in the US.
Hey, the developer Eric here. Thanks for checking out this super early version of the project. How can I make it right?
What I don't understand about Europe is

1. They are facing a huge negative demographic dividend.

2. They are facing steep inflation, low energy and food security and lower economic growth.

3. High social security costs may not be sustainable in the long term.

4. Finance is crumbling and real economy is taking over. Monetary expansion had its run and is no longer the panacea.

How will they handle this and still emerge unscathed while competing with China and India and Indonesia and the likes.
Refilling the non-refillable Miele AutoDos Dishwasher
Which is fine. The goal of the trial is to reward employees for increased productivity (historical trends tell an impressive story) by offering them the opportunity to keep their existing salaries by working (and therefore stressing themselves) less.

Sure, high performers should be rewarded using subjective metrics, which is already the case for blue collar workers. This trial gives people the opportunity to not be penalized for working less, which is the case with all the existing flexible hour arrangements. If successful, I have no doubt that this would lead to a longer term bigger change in what counts as full-time employment when it comes to taxation, immigration, and retirement.