jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Real tuna already is expensive, but that isn't helping the fish. By the time it becomes expensive enough to actually kill demand, the species will be in terrible shape.

You can't rely on supply and demand games to keep a species off the brink of extinction, we've learned this too many times the hard way.

> No, it actually delays the conversion of demand by masking the cost and delaying people trying the other fish as itself and learning that it is acceptable.

Informed consumers would be opened up to the new cheaper fish. For example, now that I am aware of it (and specifically aware that it is like tuna), I will make an effort to buy escolar in the future.
I think it would be awesome if they played along on this one and then followed up a few days later explaining that the tin-foil hat crowd was right and that the information was in fact leaked by the government in an attempt to discredit Snowden and Greenwald.

If I ran a news business and was approached to disinform the public, to me that is a huge story. I would milk it and play along and gather as much irrefutable evidence of willful acts to mislead the public and then drop that story later on.

If you simply say that you won't play along, you lose the opportunity to discover how deep that rabbit hole goes.
Thanks for taking the time to argue with this person. I withheld--despite the downvote brigade--because I presume he has some other agenda for promoting this story.
Apple devices have always been lacking RAM, especially iPhones and iPads. Macbooks used to be upgradeable but now with everything soldeted on PCB that is no longer the case... so keep that in mind and buy new Macs with highest RAM option, otherwise your device may become obsolete sooner
And some of those children, especially the poorest, will share beds with a parent.

See eg this from Buttle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45017513
> “There are simply not enough experienced women in the sector and of suitable caliber to fill a third of board posts” in the smaller tech company space, the founder of U.K.-based Herald Investment Trust Plc said

I imagine this as part of the political purpose of the assault on the concept of merit. If merit is just a cover for miscellaneous class, race and gender supremacisms, and people are largely the same in capability underneath achievement-skewing social conventions, then the above quote makes no sense. Of course there are plenty of women for these posts. Just pick some random suitably intersectional people and the overall competence of the board won't likely change much, but fairness will increase.
> I already pay nearly 50% of my income in taxes

...I am curious as to the math behind that. The highest federal income tax bracket in the US is 37%. Only income over $523,601 (as of 2021) is taxed at that rate.
Having lived through this here in Dallas and California's post-Enron adventure back in the day, it gives me strong priors against deregulated utilities, but I don't think this is a super strong argument against it. 60% of the population of Texas is about 17 million people, and dividing $28 billion over 17 years equally between them is about $98 a year, so did we get $98 a year better service? I have no idea how to answer that, but I don't think you can just see a higher price and say it's automatically worse.

I will say my biggest complaint as a consumer of electricity has nothing at all to do with who sells me the power. It's the fact that our power lines are all above ground and the city does nothing to keep trees trimmed, so in an area with consistent high winds, my power is going out all the damn time because the lines are constantly getting cut. Reliability in this case is downstream of the utilities themselves. The energy company doesn't own the transmission lines or the trees. I have no idea what prevents the lines from getting buried. Seemingly just cost, but avoiding excess costs at the price of crappier service is common to regulated, unregulated, and direct government providers alike.
It is abuse. As a parent you are in a stronger position and your child will will trust you because you are their first and primary focus of this new world their are growing into. Violence against children (and most of it happens in families) will destroy this trust.
I'm not a scientist and have never claimed to be one. Having antiscientific positions is not a problem for me because science is, in this country, primarily a tool of capitalists.

I'm a Earth-worshipping socialist, but not a Maoist. if I were a Maoist I'd be calling for executions of climate change deniers, but I don't believe in killing for any reason, so instead I am calling for imprisonment of those who seek to harm the Earth. these beliefs are internally consistent, though perhaps not what you expect.
I think you'll almost certainly want to have "Contact us" pricing. The cost of a zerk being poorly greased depends greatly on the value of that machine to the plant and the cost of that machine going down.
That depends. A VC that has arbitrary and non-nonsensical rules on their 'input queue' will probably have arbitrary and nonsensical rules further down the line.

They may have something you want (money, network, experience, maybe even a mix) but the price of dealing with them could be too high. Startups that are solid enough to attract funding from one party are possibly strong enough to make their case to a party that sees these things the way they do.

If it is 'just' the email policy you could ask them what their motivation is, and if it is good enough then you might be able to get past it, if there is no reason (and what reason could there be?) then you may be better off looking at a VC with a more up-to-date view of the way the internet is organized these days. Gmail is everywhere even in places where it really shouldn't be.

Now, to make it a bit more interesting, how would you feel if a VC would disqualify someone mailing from a hotmail or mailinator address?
This is actually tricky from a legal perspective because startups are illiquid investments, and the SEC has rules that prevent you from selling shares in a non-public company to so-called non-qualified investors.
How do articles like this get upvoted so quickly on a site that is supposed to be filled with critical thinkers?

There are very serious implications to making something a right. Making food a right in the US would be a disaster.
Chumby out-class all of these for me because of the open-hardware schematics.
> I'd be crazy to take on this article

I'd listen.
Great movie! But those were not lie detectors they were pads to collect sweat.

Those were put in jars, cataloged, and saved for later. They would be used in hunting someone down using dogs. It basically saved their scent and then years later if they want to find you and you are running way they could bring in the K-9 unit.
And when do we finally decide that those principles are worth fighting for? When do we decide that "absolutely nothing you can do" is unacceptable?
My bag set off the explosion detector and I had to have an "enhanced" pat down in private. They agent later admitted to me that the machine I was tested on gives false positives about 50% of the time.
Originally the hospital required $20,000 up front. These were the two options discussed in the article. Is there a third, better alternative that they missed?
Looks like a shit on a plate
Debate can't really be had. Fiat currencies are better and more predictable... right up until they aren't. Which takes so long that hard-earned experience has long since diffused.
This is not very new. This coursera-dl script has been around for like... a year or something ? ANyway, I have been using it and it works quite well but there are some classes where compatibility problems occur and not all material is downloaded at once. Now the next step is for someone to make a GUI for it.
That said, their constant changing of shipping policies, add-on only items, etc... IS terrible customer experience and there's no support about it.
Well I was about try out Amazon but then I saw they don't have a Linux client... so I'm sticking with Dropbox for now.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home

It's definitely an issue, and one that can be difficult to overcome. Since I'm splitting my time between my full time job, and working on Appleseed almost full time in the off hours, the last year has been short on social interaction, and I've felt the effects. That Oatmeal comic really hit home a few months ago when I went to a party a few months ago and found myself feeling very socially awkward. Not nervous, just a little bit clueless about what to do and how to do it.

I'm a very social person, so it was a little bit jarring how quickly those skills could atrophy.

But there are remedies. Scheduling social time is important, and not seeing as "wasted" time, but an actually necessary task for your mental health. Working in coffee shops when you need to, going for walks when taking breaks, etc. And going to a co-working space once in a while doesn't hurt.
> The real deal is if we got rid of the electoral college

I reckon the US system needs to self-reform if it wants to survive. All democracies change their electoral laws from time to time. The current system appears unsustainable: roughly two thirds of the electorate now feel fundamentally disenfranchised (one third thinks it's racist; the other that it's corrupt).
Why is there no option for staying with WhatsApp? My reality is that none of my friends and family will care enough to switch, so whether I like it or not I'm stuck.
Gaming of the media is a title/position. Probably the easiest part of an attack-
Not so, Ford pardoned Nixon for any (i.e. unspecified) crimes he might be accused of doing while President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon
I don't know if this post was supposed to be funny, but it certainly made me laugh.
I think that's a common feature, but the Telegram desktop client is particularly good.
Wasnt Google Talk XMPP?

It was highly successful and used by ordinary folks all over.
Not to mention the huge security risk.
It appears that the Americans woke up, mods
Lol. Good luck with that. No evidence that any of this Tether stuff will bring the Bitcoin price down.
But they want each one to be tied to a single physical person. They actively dislike alts, which makes having a home profile and a work profile and $counterculture_of_choice profile or two awkward and annoying.
Thanks mate, appreciate it. Hope you can make it to the next HN Tokyo event too!!
Agree on the motivation, and you see this with Automattic/Wordpress. They haven't touched or accepted tickets into commenting or ORM in quite some time, because they've "fixed" it as they think it should be in outside projects (http://www.intensedebate.com/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/hyperdb/). While these are "free" (for now), they're closed source so that they can do as they wish with them. The great majority of WP commenting code is 3-5 years old, and they keep deferring this DB ticket (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21663) despite the drivers they use (mysql_*) being deprecated in modern versions of PHP.
Such articles are really motivational for solopreneurs - to know that even as a one-man company you still can land a major enterprise customer.
I'm not a banker and never wanted to be one; but some of the things on that feed are hilarious.
So do most people use Nginx as a load balancer and webserver?

I am using Apache webservers behind a fronted running Pound proxy (www.apsis.ch/pound‎). Pound is mind-bogglingly easy to setup and use, anyone looking for an Nginx replacement should really start there.
I forgot to add... Here's a Street View from Ivy Drive in Menlo Park that happened to be taken during a pipeline addition/reconstruction. They set out the pipe sections in the street median before digging to lay them in place. These are some big pipes!

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.47579%2C-122.1629239999999...

(You may need to zoom out; I couldn't figure out how to save a URL with the correct zoom level.)
I have two friends who work on this for Rio and the level of tech is amazing.

Even the manned trucks have their routes all planned by computer. Some algorithm decides the most efficient way to move trucks around. Sometimes a driver will get a seemingly nonsensical instruction to deposit his load in a location other than the one closest to him, but when you query the computer about it, it's got a valid reason why that's a better idea for efficiency and it's always right.

The precision in the GPS trackers in phenomenal. Short range scanners pick up GPS tags on all corners of a bin, a robotic delivery system can place a gigantic item with mere centimetres of accuracy.

The human really is the weakest link in the entire system.

It's unsurprising the military want this. I remember being an outside contractor for PermoDrive in the early 2000s. They were just a small company from a small rural Australian town who developed a system which enabled trucks to store braking energy and later use it as forward momentum, reducing fuel costs by some large amount. Once they had a working prototype, the US military swooped in and bought the company.
This is explained in the official docs: to avoid too many allocations when repeatedly concatenating strings.

> Implements the + operator for concatenating two strings.

> This consumes the String on the left-hand side and re-uses its buffer (growing it if necessary). This is done to avoid allocating a new String and copying the entire contents on every operation, which would lead to O(n^2) running time when building an n-byte string by repeated concatenation.
There's many ways to value cryptocurrency. One of them is largely driven by network effect, except it's directed edges of accepts and pays in.

This is a huge addition to the network with a giant amount of accepts edges.
... but not docker-compose
Sadly, it's not generalized enough to represent C-like enums in Rust, which can be declared as (in _theory_):

enum Foo {
A = 0,
B = 1,
C = 2,
Unknown(i32),
}

where Unknown field cannot contain values 0, 1, or 2, thus Rust compiler will be able to pack this enum into single i32, like in C.
If someone is in a country with a collapsing local currency, they still have to transfer that money to a Bitcoin exchange before they can transfer the Bitcoin.

If the currency is collapsing, who’s going to trade Bitcoin for the collapsing currency? That’s the necessary first step in this process.

If I’m just trying to cross the border with Bitcoin in my mind wallet so I can convert it back to cash on the other side, why does it matter if 1 BTC is $10 or $10,000,000? It doesn’t, because moving money round-trip through a currency is a matched pair of buy and sell trades in a short period. Net zero, long term.

This narrative that Bitcoin is somehow going to save refugees from oppressive governments is possible, but deeply flawed in practice. Either way, it’s not a long term driver of demand.

Frankly, it’s far more likely that the dictators of such countries would use Bitcoin to flee the country with their citizen’s money and avoid prosecution than the other way around.
I would think caregivers are less prone to turnover, but that may be an erroneous assumption. That said turnover is a drag on productivity.
> how is lobbying different from bribery?

Oh, that's easy. Lobbying is legal, bribery isn't.
Try Reboot blocker https://udse.de/reboot-blocker/
In my lifetime some sort of switch has flipped, where the people advocating for more taxes no longer do so with an explicit intention to pay for something greater or something new, but simply on the assumption that the act of taxing people will inherently make them more equal. Is there a coherent philosophical basis for this train of thought? Is there any historical precedent that increased taxes is what we need to become equal?
Brute Force or normal Scaling. And as far as I am aware none of them use Truffle Ruby. Even Shopify are still not running their Rails Apps on TruffleRuby.

Often when people say Ruby Rails dont scale, they dont mean in literal sense it cant scale, it just means it is comparatively speaking expensive to scale. And depending on how you value multiple factors the term expensive is subject to debate and discussions.
I'm confused, you make it sound like there is something unique to OSX here. But every Linux WM has had virtual desktops since ages ago and virtual desktops are a superior solution to just fullscreen windows (they can do the same for fullscreen windows+do the same for groups of windows... )
It's a conflict between out of touch Meta executives with out of touch German and French politicians, entirely made up by media. Things are going well and smooth, money is flowing, the power is asserted, the stocks are going only up.
Emissions per capita is only relevant if you want to assign moral blame rather than solve the problem. Canada and Australia are higher per capita than the US [0], and you can demonize and crucify them all you want, but it doesn't stop more than 3% of the total problem.

Similarly, you can send every person in the US back to the stone age, and you're still going to have about 80% of the problem unless you can get other countries to join along.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...
In germany beer homebrewing is limited at 200L/year (approx 50gallons, which is a respectable but not huge amount if you have friends). Anything above you have to pay taxes on. Those taxes however are pretty minor for a typical 20L batch, and customs are only allowed to investigate a case if they suspect a big enough discrepancy (I think 10€). So there's a group of petty homebrewers who don't make use of their free 200L, but instead opt to report every single batch, only paying 0.01€. The intention is to waste time and annoy as many customs employees as possible to create friction and lobby against restrictions on homebrewing.
No, and you'll see lots of pictures online of iPhones that shut themselves down and refuse to do anything until they cool down.
Some areas are moving back to the crappy 00’s touchscreens. They don’t connect to the internet and I’ve heard election officials claim they’re “unhackable”.

It seems unlikely they’ll replace mail in ballot scantrons any time soon, but with mail-in ballots you have increased vectors for fraud and stuff like the recent political interference with the US Postal Service.

One step forward, two steps back, I guess.

Disclaimers:

Since I mentioned mail-in ballot fraud, and the 2020 election just happened: I have heard of no credible evidence of widespread fraud during the 2020 election or Georgia runoff.

Electronic machines might be able to serve a useful purpose: I think the best option involves most people voting in person on paper ballots, despite universal access to mail-in ballots, and universal access to machines that print filled-out ballots for people with accessibility issues. Machines that print scantrons for everyone might be a net win if they reduce adjudication, and if people actually double check that the printout matches their intended vote. Alternatively, people could scan their own ballot at the polling place, and confirm it scans correctly. Either way, the paper ballot must be the authoritative record.
Your second paragraph seems rather simplistic to me.

Less-able men with more ability to marshall resources/rewards can convince more-able men to be their proxies by paying them . How would they have the ability to do that? Technology, knowledge, cunning, guile.

How long has it been since the king was the best fighter in the realm? I mean, seriously?
They make some interesting points about religion, particularly around how the left abandoned it, but absolutely miss the forest for the trees when discussing demographics. They vaguely describe what I would call intersectionalism, but they take such a reductionist approach that it really misses the point. They call it a bunch of "categories", which is pretty misleading, in my opinion. They also are pretty harsh with how they describe those categories meshing into local communities, missing the forest for the trees in how intersectionalism is a micro view and communities are the macro.

On economics, I agree with the author that it's very difficult to start a family in America right now. They're mostly on the money about the unions and wage problems, but they again betray their underlying opinions by lumping Democrats in with Republicans on this issue where they honestly might be the most different.

I would agree with the author about the "knowledge economy" not working out like we thought, though I'd attribute that to skyrocketing education costs and other educational system issues, not wage issues. One could argue better wages would help, though. I would accept that.

I think the author betrays their own opinions several times in this article. They're scathingly critical of the left, but paint the right as essentially just victims of the above mentioned "categories" that have sprung up.

Democrats are not blameless, and I'm first in line to be critical of the politicians I have voted for, but Republicans are also not innocent victims.
Yeah, people need to realize that it's not using FB that really empowers it, but allowing FB to use you.

If you're not blocking all FB owned domains, IPs, embeds, cookies, and ads (placed via it's network), then you're still getting used.

This goes for both client-side and server-side "users."
They don't need to create it...just have a variant of Linux. It's what the Chinese government does, and there's probably a good reason for it. However, as long as some Microsoft lobbyist can line the pockets of politicians, or politicians say it's "creating jobs" and government should not interfere w/ private sector business...it won't happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)
Climate change will create the first trillionaire. Sounds like USV is riding the carbon wave.
Presque in French is not a reflex of Latin paene, so presqu'île is not a straightforward continuation of Latin paeninsula.

> I could totally be wrong about this, of course. For example if you would spoke French, I'd look like an asshole.

I do happen to speak French, but that is irrelevant. Merely speaking a language does not make a person an authority on etymology. The general public often holds unsound views on where the words they use come from. I am however involved in historical linguistics in academia, and what I would like to emphasize here is that the Romance languages are well known to have created calques on the basis of learned Latin -- examples abound in Spanish and Romanian too, for example. The layman may believe them to continue Latin forms, but they can be shown to represent late coinages, not retentions.
Yes, you can trade them there. However, there is no mechanism imposed by Kraken to keep the price close to 1. It is purely supply and demand. Nothing prevents the price of USDT from collapsing (apart from arbitrage predicated on exchanging USDT back into USD).
> . Espionage is one of Russia's core competencies, it's just how it is.

I really question this assessment. Russia is not USSR, not by a long shot. Russia has lost an entire generation of the most educated people it did have, and I see no evidence that it ever recovered or will ever recover. Economically tiny and outright insignificant Russia simply isn't capable of developing serious technological capabilities to rival that of the US.