jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Vanguard has a stewardship team which decides how they vote on shareholder proposals. They try to vote in a way that maximizes long-term value.

https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
Um, what? Since when was Wolfire games, the guys behind the humble indie bundle, backed by Y-combinator? This is the first time I've ever heard of this association.
>To be clear, "private" variables (including "methods", ie. variables bound to functions) can be implemented anywhere using lexical scope; whether you're pretending to have "classes" or not.

Sure, as long as you declare all methods that require access to said private fields also within that same scope.

For example, TypeScript emits class methods (and getters-setters) as properties on the constructor's prototype. The reason for assigning methods to the prototype instead of each new instance is of course efficiency - you don't want to make new closures every time you create an instance. If the private fields were only available within the constructor body, the methods could not access them.
For users of Karabiner, a keyboard customising utility for OS X (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/)

Karabiner enables users to extend its features by writing custom xml to a private.xml file. This is my private.xml file, along with associated secondary xml files and some applescripts

Features include:

- an enhanced Mousekeys mode for controlling the cursor with your keyboard

- easy shifting between tabs in Firefox, Chrome, Totalfinder, Sublime Text, iTerm2, Microsoft Excel, and Bean (tap command-R/option-R)

- easy shifting between spaces (tap option-L/command-L)

- easy shifting between multiple windows of an app (tap shift-R)

- control Spotify using OS X's media keys (must change media keys to standard FN keys through System Preferences first)

- a simple Hyper key implementation, using control-L (use Seil to remap capslock as control - https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/seil.html.en)

- disabling of the Sysdiagnose keys

- some keys for zooming/navigating Preview documents using a more ergonomic group of keys.
Simply running a web-app on desktop wouldn't satisfy Stallman. He'd want the entire stack to be open-source (front-end and back-end code).
It's not a deficiency in guiding concentration. It's the complete lack of WANTING to concentrate on boring things. That's why people with ADD can easily concentrate on a video game for hours. Clearly they can guide their concentration on things they enjoy!
Yes. You can get multiple versions easily on the same machine and run them from that location. It's also easy to point rstudio to that instance. All the libraries install in the same location as well.
Poor analogy. And I don't think there needs to be an analogy; the issue is already quite simple.

The USA's political system is substantially less free than many other nations. In turn, China is substantially less free than the US. Whether equating the two is really hyperbolic is debatable - functionally speaking, vested interests are allowed to run unchecked in both countries.

The main difference really lies in the source of power. In China, the Party runs the show and corporations fall into line. In the US it's the opposite, where corporations hold sway over the white house.

China at least has aspirations to lift the living standards of all its citizens. It's not easy but they're getting there - compare China with India for instance. Can't say the same for the US.
Cash? I'm not sure you can make an online business without disclosing some data about yourself.
Did those smart people you knew have trouble finding jobs?
This is really fascinating. When my father was a boy, he worked in the oil fields of Southern Illinois/Indiana. He described to me roughly how the pumps worked:

A large single-piston engine, centrally located provided power they looked more or less like this http://www.stationaryengine.org/hornsby1_haddenham_2003.jpg

The huge wheel had to be removed by hand every once in a while and greased up. Apparently it normally took 3-4 burly men. It was backbreaking work.

Attached to the engine through some contraption he was too young to remember or understand were a number of power transmission rods (that sound like they might have been what this article is talking about) that went out to the pumps. A single engine might power a dozen pumps and the pumps might be a mile away or so from the engine.

The oilman had to make his rounds throughout the day to each pump to make sure they were working well and keep the flow of oil coming. While out at a pump, the engine might have problems.

The "diagnostic" was to grab the rod and feel the vibrations. An experienced oilman could tell what was wrong and the nature of it by these vibrations and knew if he needed to go back, send a young worker boy (like my father) or leave it for a bit till he got back later.

Even more experienced oilmen could simply sit at the engine head and grab each rod and feel if the pumps were misbehaving and dispatch himself or a boy to go deal with it. This saved miles of walking around to the pumps each day.

It's hard to imagine an oilman, perched a bit like a spider near his engine, feeling into his web of rods for problems out in fields a mile away, but that's how it was.
There were already studies (with people in fmri) that showed computer model can predict decision from brain scan few seconds BEFORE test subjects make it consciously :)

one of the links http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13658-brain-scanner-pr...
If this is being run on a binary only (for C anyway), then this won't be able to detect signed integer overflow if the compiler optimizes it away
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831172

And previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4746787
Honestly I would rather there wasn't a "bring a lethal weapon" to work day. How very American.

If you want to go down to the range after-work, by all means do so, but the way you Americans trivialise a toy good for nothing but war in many cases is really fascinating.
//Just because you can survive without a job, it doesn't mean people won't want more money and use the skills they have available to earn it

Oh I see.

I can get $X without working and that should suffice to buy potatoes.

You are willing to pick potatoes but you need to get paid more than $X now (cuz you can get that free.) You'll pick potatoes for $2X.

Now potatoes cost $2X. I can't afford them with my $X UBI. Now what?
Here's a MUCH better page:

https://kanjicards.org/kanji-list-by-freq.html

Much more complete and you can actually click on each kanji in order to read about it. Plus they're not pictures but actual UTF-8 characters so they can be zoomed into without aliasing and can be copied and pasted. Only thing that seems to be missing is a search feature.
Nice, I'd love this as an open source yubikey replacement.

But it doesn't do OpenPGP, I rely on that way too much sadly. Not just for SSH which supports fido2 now but also for file encryption and my password manager.

If they add that in the future I might jump ship.
warning: anecdotal. back when i wasn't banned on twitter, it was doing a good job surfacing outside, surprising content, seemingly without repetitous design. i got interesting tech tidbits from surprising places, regularly.

sugar is just one substance. i'm on mastodon & chilling elsewhere. these days there's a little less animosity & hostility in the algorithm vs timeline view, but for a while popular outrage against the algorithm was high. and i didn't buy in. i saw the algorithm as giving me good content, outside content, different things i wouldn't have seen.

i think there are dangerous avenues too. i'd like to know more about how many other people got recommended the "niche" "interesting" content i saw, get some idea how broadscale versus personal it was. but it was working for me. it wasn't an echo chamber. it was surfacing interesting tech topics.
You can 3D print a gun you can use once.

Where are you going to get the bullets from? Or for a shotgun, where is the powder from, the pellets etc.

I live in the UK, I quite like clay pigeon shooting, would it be a shock to you that American mass shootings basically aren't news worthy anymore unless they are more than 2 dozen people now?
I took this as more as poking fun at Calvin's common theme of superficially imitating "high art", opaque writing styles, and so on, in a very self-aware or cynical way, as a grift, since that's just what Calvin always does -- E.g. in the comics where Calvin sets up a lemonade stand, it superficially imitates a business, but is really just a scam.

An alternative or additional interpretation of his "curmudgeonliness" would be these are intended to tie into his bigger theme of critiquing those who gate-keep "high art". It's been a long time since I read any of these, but I do remember his biggest bone to pick wasn't with abstract art or anything in particular, but with the perception that comics / "graphic novels" could never be considered "high art". So, having his kid scribble some nonsense and call it "high art" is a bit of a middle-finger to art critics who relegate his work to the "funny papers"

As bizarre as this sounds, I actually do think there are legitimate criticisms of the mid-century abstract art movement -- notably, the CIA's involvement. However, that is pretty off-topic here and I highly doubt that Watterson has ever made a reference to this!

Edit: I'm not necessarily even disagreeing you, I think all of this can be true at once
The best thing about seeing old material is that it helps you to filter out old technology but recycle the best essence on the intention of the designs with modern resources.
Saying "making it illegal to use illegally-gained funds is something I suspect most US citizens would be OK with", is making an argument that the law is good in the eyes of US society, even if it doesn't state your specific position.
It wasn't invented in Google and is therefore inferior. Google has a massive incentive to develop projects specific to their requirements and then open source and evangelize them to stomp out approaches not optimized for them.
Also, it's generally a good idea to write code where the original developer's intent can be easily figured out by looking at the code. If the code is too compact, does too much magic (or it's too verbose, which is the other extreme) it can be difficult to tell what was intentional, how it was meant to work, if something is a bug or not. The code should "tell a story", so to speak.
Sadly it requires Flash/Shumway.
It looks like they have a pretty good user list going:

http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html
I'd recommend Javelin Browser[0] on Android.

[0] http://javelinbrowser.com/
There will always be grey areas, but I think the recording/observing equipment would need to be both common and not deployed for the purpose of gathering evidence. If some evidence was somehow in the SSID of a Wifi network, and a police officer happened to see it on a laptop, I wouldn't call that a search (although I also probably wouldn't really call it credible enough evidence to justify any further action). If some conversations were broadcast over FM radio, and a police officer happened to hear it while driving by the source, I wouldn't call that a search.
Yep, you're right. It works fine for me on Safari.
While his statement was definitely prejudiced, don't you think assuming that 21-year-old nerds can't identify lightly applied makeup is also somewhat prejudicial?
related:

RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
http://vimeo.com/13852158
Huh, so I was going to ask today whether Linode or EC2 made sense for running a personal server. Thanks Linode, you hopefully just made my choice easier!
A quick contribution:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aohhkkllpkopbboneo...

Super quick, small chrome extension that turns all non-relative links on any page you browse to open in new tabs...
Unlike a lot of articles reporting on science, this one doesn't make any gigantic claims. They note that morality can be manipulated in the lab, not that scientists have cured evil or that science has found a way to reprogram your mind.

Even better, they quote the scientist's ideas on potential next steps for this line of work and do a decent job of detailing the actual procedures used in the research.

There's a lot of crummy science reporting out there, so when a good job is done, it should be noticed. Good job, BBC.
I'm surprised by the number of IE users—seems high for a community of devs.
So there are patent defense companies like Allied Security Trust, RPX and the Open Invention Network but it seems like these are for major players and/or have very limited scopes.

Is there anything similar out there for smaller businesses, particularly for those in the software industry?

Wouldn't it be nice to have an Open Invention Network type entity that can build up an arsenal to defend against these types of existential threats?

I could see paying a monthly 'licensing and services' premium that would go toward maintaining a patent portfolio, retaining defensive legal services and maintaining a database of prior art and other useful information that can be brought to bear in these kinds of situations.

I know there is regular patent insurance (I have never used it) but it seems more offensive rather than defensive in nature and is expensive.
Good points. I've definitely noticed in my own life a pressure to act like I have money. Personally I think the Diderot effect is partly to blame.

I also agree that we seem to be reaching a better understanding of happiness, thought it's still very fragile and may not last.
In this conflict the narrative defines your position. A Jewish person might say those people occupied my historical homeland to which they have no right to and from which I've been forcefully removed. A Palestinian can say the Jewish people displaced my ancestors from my home by force. They're both right (to some degree) and both positions are not useful to actually getting a peaceful resolution, they are typically used to justify non-peaceful actions. There's also a lot more detail/colour to those statements and history than meets the eye, some agreed to facts and a lot of historical debates.

I would also add to that that IMO the specific criticism of Jewish people borders on antisemitism. There are very few people on this planet who live on land that was not taken by force from someone at some point, sometimes in very recent history (is there a statue of limitation on this stuff?). There are also many people who immigrated in recent history from one place to another. At the same time there's certainly much to be critical of. I would also say the characterization above of "turned into colonies" is factually wrong. Even if we look at it solely from the Palestinian narrative I think you want to tread pretty carefully, especially if you want someone to listen to your position/argument and maybe change their minds.

All that said, we have to move forward (both in Israel and the rest of the world) through some sort of reconciliation that can acknowledge the wrongs and make amends while at the same time realizing we can't turn the clock backwards. Clearly (to me) there are win-win solutions that are much preferable to the ongoing conflict.

EDIT: I find this story very inspirational and something that hopefully can show everyone that despite all the challenges it is possible to move forward to a better place.
I think this is the quintessential scene from that movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
The entire point of a government is to provide services; including but not limited to transport infrastructure, contract dispute settlement (civil courts), protection of life and property (police, criminal justice system, sewers, firefighting, public health, etc.) and education. If all of that is socialism then I don't know a country that isn't socialist. Maybe Somalia in the 90s. Of course words can mean whatever we want, but that definition doesn't sound useful.
Or Ctrl-l (which I assume is Cmd-l on your platform).
I was hoping for the nuclear aircraft carrier. So much for my geek cred!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)

TIL that CVN-65 was the second aircraft carrier of its name, and there will be a third in 2028.

The first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CV-6)

The future third: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-80)
> However, it is also beyond question that there is at least some marginal disenfranchisement experienced by certain people purely on the basis of their appearance

Most of the focus today is on what’s called “systemic racism” which is a real thing and is based more on structural disparities associated with skin color rather than skin color in and of itself. For example, wealth in Black families undercut by redlining, etc. These disparities are not only real, they’re large, and they’re not shrinking.

We can (and should) talk about these things. But inverting that, and talking about “white privilege” isn’t either sound nor effective. “White privilege” includes, for example, the fact that the median Black person makes about the same income as a White person at the 33rd percentile of income. Put differently, a white person enjoys “white privilege” because there was a statistically better chance they’d be born into a higher income family. (Specifically, a 66% chance of having an income higher than 50% of Black households.) That makes sense from an academic point of view, to people with college degrees. It comes across as complete gibberish to my grandmother in law and some of my wife’s aunts, who are solidly in the bottom 1/3 of white incomes, and spent much of their lives below even that. The counter-factual hypothetical the income distribution of white people in general is meaningless to them. All they hear is that most Black people make more money than they do, yet they’re the ones being accused of having “white privilege.”

The problem is exactly the issue of applying generalizations to specific people. If you explained the statistics to my grandmother in law, that white people on average make significantly more money than Black people on average, she would get it. She didn’t go to college, but that’s within her ambit. It’s where you take the generalization about white people, and tell her as an individual white person that she’s somehow “privileged” despite growing up dirt poor that you’re going to lose her.

The lessons we 90s kids learned in school were the right ones. Don’t generalize about people based on their skin color. These new ideas from college professors are wrong ideas.
There are plenty of American toothbrush manufacturers which already compete on price (I use Preserve, made from recycled material in America for $3). It's mostly the big guys (Colgate + OralB) who are trying to maximize profit by outsourcing to China.

> Who is going to pay to build the local factories for everything your local drug store stocks

The manufacturer is going to pay for it by selling their products to drug stores.

> Wont all of those thousands of local toothbrush factories worldwide pollute even more than a single toothbrush factory worldwide?

How so? Even if there was a single manufactory in Oklahoma it could serve the entire country at a fraction of the environmental cost.
Anecdotally, during the Bay Area fires of 2018 when the air quality was the worse in the world, it truly felt like walking around in a half-functional dazed fog
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn't read clearly.. my apologies. Very cool!
"The Fourth Industrial Revolution" is one of the most successfully lobbied and marketed instruments of our time. It has preoccupied governments and distracted them from addressing existing inequalities.
I thought biting down a pencil was the state-of-the-art. What are the advantages of using a cork vs a pencil?
I got used to the strange looks. I got the strange looks when people heard I didn't use Facebook. If you asked them to sign up to a website on the Internet that was popular in your circles just so you could be friends, they'd refuse, eg. "please sign up to basschat.co.uk because all my friends like bass guitars".

If their friendship relies on you installing an app on your phone, that's a very shallow friendship isn't it?
Good, this means I can finally exit at a modest profit.

I jumped on the bandwagon in 2017, and made the mistake of doubling down in 2018. I put some in Ethereum which is a pretty solid coin in terms of value, but made the mistake of buying Ripple (XRP) and some other random shitcoins because of trying to spread my investments on the one hand, and assuming everything would follow the bitcoin anyway. Which is partially true I guess.

Anyway, my eth is up so if I sell that now I'll break even. I bought XRP at like $2 and then some, that one's only worth $0,18 at the time, lol.

We're not talking massive amounts thankfully, there was a limit on how much I could spend at once via credit card.
While the re-titling of this repost (leaving out Larry Page's name) is in accordance with HN's norms, I suspect it will lead to it being skipped by many who would otherwise find it interesting.
It doesn't support ios. Some of my friends are on that platform.

I also installed the android client and it wanted permission for the camera, files and I think the microphone. I didn't grant it any of them and it then refused to work. So it got uninstalled.

A messaging app has to be able to work without any permission except for network access and maybe the contact book.
Since 2008 (possibly earlier): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129951
Ah hah! Thank you. 0.65 is much better. Yeah, that gear thing is terribly placed.
Also better to look at them as people who were enormously lucky, by being in the right place at the right time with the right idea.

For example I worked at a company which built a social network, starting out in schools, generously funded by VC money. Unfortunately that was back in 1999 before a bunch of stuff had come together to turn that into a multi-billion dollar idea (such as widely available always-on flat-fee internet, and cheap digital cameras).
Exactly. Privilege can indeed be earned through hard work (without implying that's the only way to gain/earn it), and one is free to use privilege in life. It's still privilege, and the troublesome part is when that goes unacknowledged.
I'm not a military expert, but just as a civilian tired of seeing my taxes wasted, doesn't the US military need to be completely reimagined anyway? Who is it built to defend against?

As an example - the flyover at Super Bowl 55. Terrifying air power that could wipe out a civilization, but those bombers don't stop some rogue idiots from storming the Capitol, or any number of foreign and domestic hacking threats.
Same here, been an hour and a half with no power in Austin.
Smashing a speaker that deafens those around it doesn't inhibit free speech. Believing that building such a thing is an act of freedom is authoritarian.
That is OPs point.
>Unless there's an implication that they'd need to hire more people

I think you hit the nail on the head. IF the company needs a someone M-F for 40 hours of Bug-fixed/widgets/ect, they will have to hire to fill the gap.

If the last 20% of the worker's time is truly non-productive, then the company is already over paying and the worker is wasting their time.
I think you're feeling some depression/ennui because you don't care for this particular job. I had similar issues years ago which went away almost immediately after switching jobs. I'd suggest just trying to find a devops job elsewhere at a company you think isn't making something totally pointless.
Valid point, thanks for pointing it out. I'll keep thinking about it — if you come up with a solution, please PM me!
Nice idea. Thanks!
I'm sorry, your second paragraph is too ahead of me. Can you explain it in a different way please? I believe what you're saying is interesting