jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Correction: The Fed's policies have taken $50T of wealth from the Bottom 90%.

What do you think the Fed is? The Fed is made up of the top banks, which means it's controlled by... the 1%.

EDIT for the downvoters:

> The Federal Reserve is "Controlled by member private banks"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
It's all fun and games until I have to learn about Zircon to control the software running on hardware I "own".
Although you got the sign right, that is the rising supply of money does lower interest rates, in most of the world there is certainly not an oversupply.

Money at around -2% real return is still pricing private stores of value, read new investment, out of the market. Money needs a real return that is lower than that so that fiat is not over valued compared to market stores of value, and people, banks and businesses don't hold their savings in excess idle reserves instead of in things that have intrinsic value and that are backed by economic activity.
And to buy an expensive car when they could have gotten a cheaper one instead and use the difference to reduce the principal (which is exactly what I did when I bought the house I live in). For years I drove in ugly but reliable sub $1000 cars to pay down the debt as fast as I could.
Not off the top of my head. I'll keep it in mind.
It seems that you have fallen for Geek Social Fallacy #2: http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
Why is it nonsense? It is natural.
If that TLS 1.0 device had never needed to support RC4 in TLS to begin with, which practically speaking it never really needed to, we could've done less work at implementation time, provided clearer guidance to users when the vulnerabilities were discovered, and likely had fewer affected users to begin with.
Because people are trained by the system to be pissed off at everything and see topics like UBI to be a fight between good and evil. I'm mostly against UBI if we can avoid it, but when I have this discussion with people who support it, both offline and online, they assume that I'm cruel and that I don't want to help people. (If only some of them understood the irony of their statements)

Politics has always generated anger, but I think there'd be less visceral hostility if people stopped reading Twitter and didn't watch MSNBC day in and day out.
On a more spiritual note, we're all bus ticket collectors. PG is defining "matters" as "what can make money", which is fine for a business-focused essay, but it does what we all attempt to do - convince ourselves that our domain has significance.

The truth is, whether we're bus ticket collectors or Bill Gates, we're all headed to the grave. Bus tickets or billionaires, we're all getting burned up. Both science and religion hint at the same endgame, best to ponder if there's something beyond that which changes the "what matters" equation in the living short-term.

Somewhat interesting PG cites both Newton and Pasteur in his essay - men who were obsessively pulled by their desire to understand their Creator and the infinitude of His magnificent creation:

Pasteur: "Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory."
nice, it would be nice if this could be applied to any sort of batter, so I could order fish & chips and have both of them crisp and non-soggy :)
Wouldn't also a better metric be the size of the corporation proportionate to the size of population?
I'm thinking of the big banking families were equivalents of the modern day corporation in pooled resources and infrastructure, and social dependence. Privately held, sure, so not 100% the same, but it seems like humans end up with similar concentrated power structures, and even breaking them up, we kinda find our way back to the same type of abstractions, just a bit more sophisticated, but with the same fundamental motivations.
> Code duplication should be avoided, but not if the alternative is complicated or highly-coupled code.

100% agree.

Along these lines, avoid applying DRY principles to "incidental duplication"; You can end up coupling completely unrelated code if you are blinded by removing all duplication.
The ideal would be something like, per vehicle, measure mileage and multiply that by a road-wear lookup table indexed with gross vehicle weight rating & number of axles. Cost would be passed down to the consumer and then the market would sort it all out.
Bari Weiss complained about internal war at the NYT: older staff vs. young woke employees.

If universities have gone fully woke, no wonder they churn out a lot of woke graduates. In that case, natural generational exchange will change things for worse across the board, at least until a new generation comes that scoffs at wokeism because it is what their stupid, old parents do.
Sadly I also realize how cruel humans can be towards each other. It’s amazing what ideology can drive people to do.

Thanks, I’ll check the book out. I’m currently reading the Jakarta Method though, so I’ll need a break with something a bit less bleak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method
Wouldn’t Fairchild Semiconductor and Xerox PARC be early examples of studios?

Aside from enforcing draconian non-compete, non-solicit and IP ownership rules, I don’t see why that pattern wouldn’t reassert itself. Great teams budding off when they find a rhythm. Outsiders picking off your best using the increased compensation focussed attention can afford.

Are there examples of unambiguously successful studio-launched start-ups?
If you get a single server/vps from anyone, you should assume that it might go down for a few hours at any point. If that's a problem for you, you should create your own redundancy. No matter how much redundancy your provider claims.
> Please tell me that doesn't mean potential data loss!

That's not a problem. You have backups of course.
I would imagine that publishing the idea would leave the friend liable for legal action.

It is highly (as dangrossman has already pointed out) that your friend has already signed something that assigns all IP created during a course.
"Never build a business based on a missing feature of a popular software product"

First time I see this, is it really a fundamental piece of business advice?
The people who have lost out have been GMail users.
not my idea else i would have :P
A big feature conspicuously absent from iOS is a unified documents folder accessible by all apps, and some basic file management capabilities. It would preferably be mounted as a virtual mass storage device when you plug in the USB cable. Here's hoping this'll be one of the features of 5.0.
If you have already signed up for a fixed period (such as an year), then your that would remain your minimum obligation. Sleazy business will allow you to break the obligation at a hefty fine.
I'm aware of that. But as you are no doubt aware, a very very large number of commentators who really ought to know better are explicitly saying that it's a matter of "free speech rights" (which is obviously is not) or that it's a First Amendment issue (which, again, it obviously is not).

I'm very tired of it. I was just honestly wondering if anyone else is tired of it, too.

It seems to me that if could just stop debating in bad faith, perhaps we could then get to the actual issue, which is that some people think that private companies should not be allowed to do content moderation and that we'd all be magically better off if this were not allowed, or at least, not a common practice. Then we could have a debate on that question, without all the stupid noise about whether this is a real free speech issue.
Americans really, really don't understand what poverty is, why it exists, and how it works. Nor do they comprehend why it must be fought and how hard it is to fight. This is because most Americans haven't been face-to-face with actual poverty in 50 years and now that it's creeping up on them in the less fortunate reaches of the country, they don't know what is going on.

The stores in these towns are dying because people don't have money to spend in them, and because the stores are dying, people have even less money and more stores have to close. It's a self-accelerating process. Even McDonald's is not immune: it's still unaffordable for the truly poor, so as people slide, its revenues are going to decline like everything else. Conservatives believe poverty is a "moral medicine" that toughens up the good and kills off the weak. Wrong. It's a cancer.

For a more ground-level analysis of this, what actually happens during corporate-chain hiring drives is that the individual stores have tight seatbelts and the budgets often don't increase. The corporate office may decide to have a "hiring drive" but it doesn't increase the stores' budgets. The goal of the "hiring drive" is not to increase staffing but to take in new people and fire some, or to ensure that workers who are currently getting overtime no longer do. (Workers in low-paid hourly positions often love overtime, but managers don't like having to pay it out.) Thus, hiring new people means that those are there have to take hours cuts or get laid off. Generally, managers would rather keep the people they have than hire someone new and have to cut other peoples' hours, hurting morale across the board. So the incentive structure in such hiring drives is such that very little actual hiring will take place. Serious hiring only happens if (a) the budget increases, or (b) people are working overtime and corporate comes down on the store manager for paying out too much time-and-a-half.
You seem confused about what I wrote. Suggest you read it again. All you've done is reiterate some Bitcoin dogma without attempting to grapple with reality as it presents itself to you.
> I'm not afraid of binary protocols as long as there is tooling to interact with the data.

I agree with this premise but would also note how long it takes for such tooling to become widespread. Even UTF-8 took awhile to become universal — I recall fiddling with it on the command line as recently as Windows 7 (code page 1252 and the like).
I made exactly that a while ago: https://github.com/ruphin/inline-shamir

My use case was that I need to encrypt/decrypt private keys on an offline device, and I wanted a single file "program" that runs on any device.
Have you met the masses? Half the population has an IQ below 100, those are not and won't ever be knowledge workers; those are the people that machines will easily replace. They currently live off of either manual labor or service jobs, both of which are being decimated by machines and that trend will only continue.
Some things the Goddess keeps to herself. Others, she leaves for us mortals to find, like breadcrumbs leading to a shack full of fireworks - and you having to light a match to see where you are.

And yet others, Mankind makes for himself, and Goddess can only sit back, pour herself one, spark up a spliff and laugh at our inability to see the consequences.
I think the article shows strong a connection between untrustworthy officials and unreliable jury trials.

In the case, officials effectively coerced at least three different people into testifying against the defendant and then lied about their behavior.

Jurors aren't psychic. They have to assume that prosecutors aren't lying and coercing witnesses. So unreliable officials will give you unreliable jury trials.

And making an irrevocable decision based on such an unreliable trial system clearly has some problems even every single juror is the most honest, upstanding citizen you can find.
IMHO, it feels quite awkward to have GNU/Linux system under the hood, and "run" Python by sending requests to some interpreter-hosting third-party service.

However, I would extremely enjoy Python interpreter being hooked with Chrom{e,ium}, either as Python-to-Javascript compiler, or native code plugin. Preferably, with ability to interact with DOM and Javascript.
So why does the growth trend begin two and a half years earlier?
Russia is problematic in that its government is notoriously corrupt and controlled by the mob and Russian business interests, but its workers are not poor (and therefore cheap) enough for foreign investors to be able to overlook Russia's political problems.
Over the last 30 odd years, "wealthy" has gradually morphed from "compound interest" to "credit approved."
Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton,
and of Darwin

CMOA
Technology allows people to be much more productive than the mean and the weight of most productivity is naturally skewed toward a small minority.

This is not an injustice. A top programmer will be many times more productive than an average programmer and large codebases tend to include code from top programmers preferentially. Not only that, the value generated by top programmers (or project leader) is vastly more than that of an average programmer. This is why Google is paying their top people (technical, administrative) millions of dollars.

Compare that to a stone age hunter, who may have been 2-3 times more effective than an average hunter. A strong or a fast man is never much stronger or faster than an average man.
It's useful for when you're doing stuff on a Chrome OS computer. You can't pop open a shell running Python.
It's all a category error. HATEOAS was descriptive, he was describing the early web architecture, and it was implemented without thinking about it in web 1.0 apps.

It only became problematic when we tried to shoe-horn it into traditional data APIs.
We would love to hear your feedback. FYI - we are still in early beta, so you can expect more features coming soon.
sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin # Debian/Ubuntu/etc
sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /path/to/program

will allow program to bind low numbered ports by non-root user.

Just learned this deploying a new rails app behind caddy2 (which is running as the deploy user I setup).
It's got 10 ac outlets. Plug in your favorite charger?
This is a far cry from a 'hack'. Oof.
> Ultimately, this is why the DNS and domain name industry feels so shady in general and why for most companies getting a name on the internet is a tortuous process that feels very scammy, which is unfair and costs more than it probably should.

Shady is putting it lightly.

I once tried to register a nice .wiki domain in order to host a wiki for myself. Those domains weren't available anywhere. I had to "request" one from the company that managed the TLD. So I emailed them and they asked me about my "plans" for the domain. Eventually they just said they'd host it on my behalf. They created a wiki on the domain I wanted, threw ads around it and told me to start contributing.

It's not really an equal playing field where anyone can buy a domain. They gatekeep not only by charging huge prices but also by simply refusing to sell the domain if they think you're not important enough.

People should start making more onion services.
I mean if the reason you offer free trails is to make money on people forgetting to cancel then it’s probably best to just not offer a trail.

If you’re offering a free trail to actually let customers evaluate your product then you’ll probably be unaffected by this.
knapsack_pro gem uses Knapsack Pro API which is paid. See more at https://knapsackpro.com

It works similarly like tools for exceptions tracking, i.e https://www.honeybadger.io is paid but has MIT client https://github.com/honeybadger-io/honeybadger-ruby

Other than that I do support paying customers.
That will be maximum, ever, I suspect. In reality, it isn't hard but does take time and you have to push yourself. The hardest part is really eating. A typical day would like this,

1. Breakfast, a cup of espresso with milk, 6oz NY Strip, 1 cup of grits with butter, 16oz whole milk.

2. Lunch, 6oz NY Strip, 2 eggs, 16 oz whole milk

3. Snack, 2 - 4 pieces of fruit e.g, 3 apples with peanut butter.

4. Dinner, 2 - 3 pieces of fried/grilled chicken, collard greens, sweet potatoes.

5. Desert - a quarter slice of pie with 16oz of milk

I didn't take any supplements, just ate whole foods I cooked at home. Everything was made from scratch. The pies used lard we rendered at home from leaf fat (fat near the kidney).
I imagine you don't know the answer, but I'm curious as to if these studies were controlled for screen glare.

Dark themes/backgrounds have far worse issues with screen glare from badly configured room lighting than light ones do in my experience.

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I'm also curious why another area of design that is extremely concerned with legibility seems to have reached the opposite conclusion, pretty much worldwide.

Road signs.

Even though signs themselves can vary widely, the standard color scheme for road signs in every developed country I can think of, is a darker background with lighter text. I certainly don't have the studies in front of me, but I know a great deal of research has gone into fonts and legibility for road signs, and I presume what we see on the roads in the world is the result.
That's sort of how I started programming, as well. First TI Basic, then Z80 assembly. I still have my TI-83 and TI-89 some 20 years after graduating. Also still have the parallel port link (not that I have a working computer with a parallel port anymore).

When I was in HS, my teachers became wise to the existence of apps that would display the mem cleared message, so they would go around to each student and clear the memory themselves. This annoyed me as I'd written a lot of useful to me utilities (not cheats) and games, so I wrote a not-so-little program that emulated all of the system menus. You have to enter a hidden key combo to get out of it.

Looking back at it, the code embarrasses me because it is so goddamn awful. I didn't know how to write functions or use the stack properly. It was just one giant mess of jumps and conditional branches. But hey, it worked.

Sadly, I think all of my Z80 assembly is lost. I don't think I shared it on any sites, either.
I'm sure we will have this exact discussion when human genetic modifications start to become commercialized...
Could you elaborate on this setup?
> It's a reasonable feature that makes perfect sense if you understand it,

This is true of all these features in general. They're all well-intentioned. No one wants to design a system that annoys users. But my criteria is meant to illustrate why it might not have been a smart idea to begin with: the user didn't indicate they wanted the system to renumber their bullet points. In fact, very often the user indicates that they want a specific numbering by placing specific numbers. The feature would work if there was some way to indicate this is just a bulleted list with numbers. Instead, the system assumes 100% of the time that the user made an error, then fixes that error in a way that is difficult to detect without ever providing feedback about the changes. That's a bad system that happens to usually be trivial or at most embarrassing. But the design itself is flawed from first principles.

A better way to implement auto-numbered lists would be indicate you want to use auto-numbered lists, just like you indicate you want to use headings, links, or any other element. First, don't rewrite all numbers, making the fact that a correction is taking place under the hood invisible to even experienced users. Auto-numbered lists should be indicated by having multiple lines starting with, say, "<space>0.", or even better "<space>#." to be more congruent with the use of "#" for headings and subheadings in other markdown systems (languages?). Second, when a user submits a post, the system should indicate what has been changed, perhaps with a non-intrusive highlight.

The problem would never have arisen had the developers asked my two questions "did the user indicate X?" and "where/how did the user indicate X?"

I suppose you should add onto that "is the change transparent to the user?" which is also known to cause some potentially life-threatening errors: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_... - you probably think "it's markdown, what's the big deal?", but who knows. Maybe someone gets some medical or chemistry advice and, sure, they shouldn't trust reddit, but then maybe someone dies anyway. So I think it's always best practice to indicate that a change has been made.
CRTs were default black, yet we went from dark to light backgrounds during their heyday.
Yes, MAOI dramatically increase and prolong effects of DMT.

And indeed, that's what ayahuasca (aka yage) is.

Plus various mushrooms and other psychoactive stuff, depending on the preferences of the curandeiro/a (shaman) and the intended outcome.
Well if she didn't post her naked pictures in Facebook, even if it was hacked, nobody would get them. Is it not a common sense not to post your naked pictures on the Internet? Especially if you don't want people to look at them...
install != run.

Using that mobile site still requires one to run non-free Javascript, which RMS also has a problem with.
Wait... if I send them from NY there is no way for them to verify it right?
Well if you're a windows user who is not familiar with other operating systems I would regard that as a legitimate question. For the first few years as a computer user the only computers I had access to were windows PCs in school, so it was only later that I became aware of other operating systems and their utilities.
Several components of OS X are directly from FreeBSD.
Printable/Saveable version please!
Has anyone else noticed HN comment threads becoming more, uh, unfocused lately? Here, an article on technology standards and avoiding trade restrictions on RISC-V has led to pages of comments on nuclear war with Switzerland.
The definition of "exploitation" is a technical one; even those who argue against the Marxist claim actually take this in stride, for instance, there is an objection to the Marxist idea of exploitation that Marx's selection of labour-power as the exploited commodity is arbitrary, thus we can say that any commodity (such as steel, peanuts or shoes) is "exploited" - the Marxist reply to this isn't to say "well, exploitation doesn't mean that, exploitation is evil and you can't be evil toward inanimate objects".

In other words, I think the definiton used by Marxists is somewhere between the two. It not only means to use something up (to exploit resources) but also the Marxist idea that exploitation relates to workers being forced (by man-made historically arisen structures, that is) to sell their labour-power.

Nevertheless, newer schools of Marxism (such as the ones from the 80s which attempted to use neoclassical economic models) have axiomatic definitions of exploitation. For some simplified models of a commodity economy, researchers such as Veneziani and Yoshihara (and Roemer on different grounds) prove that the axiomatic definition of exploitation is satisfied. Defined axiomatically, we can escape the talk about morality. But you can easily rephrase Marx without the word "exploitation" - the claim is, rather simply, that there is some amount of labour that is unpaid, this labour forms the substance of surplus value, which is appropriated. No judgement, no morality, no right or wrong - that's just the fact, and of course it may well be a good thing(!) that workers are "exploited" - Marx certainly said as much, when writing that the capitalist's point of view, his idea of "fairness" is just as worhless as anyone else's.
That actually sounds much more logical of an explanation than the link to the Eminem song. I discovered the term back in the Tumblr days of 2013 or so and was surprised to hear it was related to a then 13-year old song.
No private entity can ever truly ignore or be free of the state, that's what a state is to begin with.
On the other hand, Disney World at least seems to be losing a lot of the inspired, imaginative ideas it once had, in favor of synergizing the whole experience with other Disney IPs like Marvel, Star Wars, Frozen, etc.