jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The book also explicitly describes that these castes are perfectly happy being who they are. They are happy and proud to be in their caste and have no desires to be in another caste. All inhabitants are happy and feel at place in life. So now where's the problem? Is there an inherent moral evil in social strata, when those people have no desire for class mobility?

I mean I'm all in favor of letting and encouraging people to develop themselves into who they want to be, but the society in the book is one where everybody is everything he/she wants to be! I fail to understand the moral wrong in that.
Florida has guidelines but nothing mandatory, I believe? But yeah I walked into a Papa John's pizza and half the employees were wearing no masks and the other half were wearing "chin diapers" when I visited last month.

I live in Kansas and mask compliance here is actually really high in all the places I go shopping, which someone on the coasts might not expect. People just don't want to cause trouble, even if they disagree with the restrictions. My 82 year old grandmother has said as much, she has made a decision that the mental health toll isn't worth it, and she'll risk exposure to go grocery shopping, but doesn't want to cause trouble so wears her mask.
Maybe not even the sugar pills are important. Maybe being given virtual pills would be enough for the placebo effect to work.
Why? Nobody will learn from it anything.
This is spam. The submitter is the author/owner of the software product in question, which is not free.
I use goobook for contact sync to mutt. Works a treat.
Although that could have been the author's intention, I doubt it as Jesus is never mentioned in the article.

See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006779
I actually started doing this on my TVs. They have usb ports. I bought a 16GB usb stick. And I just did youtub-dl to download a bunch of workouts. And then use roku app on the TV to play them. Saves time, and no youtube ads.
Here's the bona fides of the archaeologist quoted in the article:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/mike-parker-pearson...

BA, PhD, FBA, FSA, FSA Scot, MIFA. Professor of British Later Prehistory.

Do I believe him or a random software engineer on HN who thinks it might be "a bit too convenient"? Hmm. Tricky one.

I know a guy who crossed the Channel on a tiny little narrowboat meant for 3ft-deep canals. The entire thing was filmed. The TV programme hammed it up and made it seem like an entirely haphazard endeavour. Of course it was playing to the camera. That doesn't mean he didn't cross the Channel. He did.
Conversations about politics in the workplace only seems to be acceptable if you share nearly identical political views with those around you in the office. There is no true desire for diversity of thought. To me it feels like a way to reinforce groupthink.
Between Macs with macOS, this usually works fine (except with older hardware that is not supported by the OS on the external drive). Can't say for Windows.
Either niche companies or companies in slower growth industries.

In regards to the latter, EdTech is a good example. Time to exit is at a minimum double what it is in the enterprise or consumer space. This is driven by the bureaucratic nature of the sales process which in turn leads to much longer sales cycles (think 6-18 months to close a deal). The upside of course are things like high customer retention / low churn and almost guaranteed collection rates.

Companies that operate in industries like these reach a point where they have a proven product and real product, but profit may not be high enough or is not growing fast enough for the founders to make the investments they KNOW will generate additionally growth.

Large VCs are turned off by these companies because the industries they operate in are not big enough to sustain the large 9-10 digit exits they seek, while smaller VCs looking for smaller exits are equally turned off because the ROI comes too slow.

For these companies, oftentimes the only option is either private Angels who are personally vested in the space or bank loans. It's hard to find the former and even then they can't offer much $$$ and the latter tends to be unworkable because of either the lack of assets, misunderstanding of the business models, or established (5+ years) historical revenue track.

Just my $0.02
I recently installed pkgsrc for osx, and so far so good. (I've never liked the idea of installing software by compiling it.)

However this project could really use some nice webpages and instructions to promote it. It seems like most Mac devs have never heard of it. And much of the info is pretty minimal and seems like it assumes you understand NetBSD packaging.
There's no "right way", but there are best practices as with any language.
What does this even mean?

Your browser supports those things because it implements protocols, like HTTP, TLS, and others. Your browser, or other tools, could support SSH, which I think is the point of the article.
There is no such thing as a safe helicopter.
How can you tell a lunatic from a philosopher?
Am I sounding like a lunatic now?
You can refuse to answer, but why stop me from asking?
Not if you care about free speech.

Google and Apple control the means by which the vast majority of the world can access software. This is not like Twitter banning from a platform, this is preventing users from accessing a platform in the first place.
Agreed, its horrific.

This is an act of great escalation in an already dicey situation.

I hope I'm wrong when I say this will likely beget more violence.
I made this comment in another thread but I think we are few year from it being forced by the Supreme Court as it has ruled very close to this in the past.

> ... noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

Twitter is going to be forced to unban most if not all people if they want to be a general open to the public social network.
They were domestic terrorists and they will stand trial. And whoever organized the event will hopefully be tried for treason. With a punishment that is appropriate for that crime.
Yes. Attacked federal courthouses and a mob outside the White House burned a church.
> 2/3rds of democrats believing Russia hacked and changed vote counts in 2016?
[Citation needed]

The chronology of Russian involvement with and around the Trump campaign, illegal or not, is pretty damn well established now thanks to the Mueller report, disclosures from other parallel cases, and the recent senate committee report. Changing vote counts isn't part of it.

Meanwhile, as per YouGov [https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...] "One in five voters - including 45% of Republicans - approve of the storming of the Capitol building"
The vast majority of BLM protests were peaceful.

> ...93 percent of the protests associated with BLM were entirely peaceful...

Yet our government treats left-wing protests and right-wing protests quite differently.

> Between May 1 and November 28, 2020, authorities were more than twice as likely to attempt to break up and disperse a left-wing protest than a right-wing one. And in those situations when law enforcement chose to intervene, they were more likely to use force — 34 percent of the time with right-wing protests compared with 51 percent of the time for the left.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-respo...
Which is a fair comment to make, but ultimately without the protection of Section 230, Twitter or Facebook would have never allowed Trump on the platform in the first place. The risk of being held accountable (ie. lawsuits, defamation suits, etc) for the content he posted would have been too great.

Removing Section 230 wouldn't have the effect people like to think it would.
The world is a circle.

I figured, maybe I'll port some basic program for linux, so I did a search of basic in debian and found:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/basic256

Click on the homepage link and:

http://www.basic256.org/

Perfect! I'm about to write to the author of the post and then I notice:

Check out "Why Johnny Can't Code," the article that inspired BASIC-256.

LOL

Someone should update the title to point out that the article is from 2006, and the link above is the answer.

(The actual link on debian is http://kidbasic.sourceforge.net/en/index.html but that no longer works, so I adjusted it.)
What's your routine ID and I'll give you my opinion - I will discuss performance later.
The only thing I miss about installations, as a developer, is the ability to drop an icon on the desktop. I still get purchases from software installed in 2007, biding its time on a desktop, waiting to be clicked on. On the other hand, many of my users cannot find my website again after they close the browser.

Bringing back a lightweight notion of installation offers an interesting way out of these constraints. If an author uses APIs like window.open() and desktop notifications in an annoying way, his app will be uninstalled. The UA can make it easy for the user to discover the uninstall button, so there's a strong incentive for authors to not be assholes.

The author has more confidence in the ability of regular users to identify the cause of a novel behavior on their computer than I do. For example, I sell downloadable software. My users largely understand that downloadable software is dangerous and Google is safe. When Google went down last year, three people did the following math: "Google was up, I installed Patrick's software, Google went down, clearly Patrick has broken the Google and needs to give it back or I will tell my husband."
Absolutely. The plan as of now is Amsterdam, London, Italy, Japan, Beijing, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica.

Feel free to make fun of me in a year when it turns out completely different than planned. :-)
I hate HTML/CSS because of how much better it could be. Don't get me wrong it's nicer than other layout formats but it's still terribly designed for what it could be, not to mention implementation issues galore. Having said that, I love that there are people like yourself who love diving into this stuff.
Heating the biosphere and the crust to a depth of 5 miles to 500 degrees and keeping it there for at least a couple of hours would likely do it, even for the Water Bears and radiolarens. That could be accomplished with asteroid/comet bombardment. The energy budget for that is many orders of magnitude smaller than most of the proposals in the article.
The advice remains the same. You/she tried. It didn't work out. Move on to the next.
You will do well to note that I said statins, not CETP inhibitors (torcetrapib) nor fibrates. There is an ocean of difference between them, so you can't just go around making it look like I endorsed a drug that never got FDA approval (torcetrapib), for example. After antibiotics, statins have the clearest risk-benefit profile of just about any drugs ever invented, and their effectiveness and safety have been under continuous study for decades. You assert that the production of cholesterol is not the problem. Since you claim that I am starting from the wrong axiom, what do you believe is the root cause of hypercholesterolemia? Since hypercholesterolemia is the canonical asymptomatic disease, I suspect you are misusing the term symptom.

Finally, it is natural for medical textbooks to change as our knowledge changes. I haven't read the book you are referring to but if he says that drug companies are having an evil influence, I wouldn't be surprised and I'd probably agree.
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As much as I wish Bitcoin would go away, I suspect that when the US has its first currency crisis, Bitcoin will find its long term footing. It has advantages over lots of other alternatives which are either not easily converted (gold, silver, etc) or subject to shenanigans (like JPY or Euro).

Seems unthinkable now, but I suspect this can't be more than 5 years out. I'm happy that the price has been coming down so I will be able to accumulate some at a more reasonable level. (I am still waiting, of course).
Right. In the documentary’s case you can see multiple people contributing to then end product: one will head to the market to gather the fish, one to cook the rice, one to massage the meat if needed, one to smoke the meat if needed, etc. Even in simple take-out sushi restaurants there’s usually a lot of moving parts behind the scenes, far from an individual effort. Just that one person will end up assembling the pieces into a final product in the end.
Good riddance! Better start working on it.. :-)

Seriously, we have problems with distribution of capital already. There are two mainstream theories of value:

First pretty much argues that value is subjective, so the distribution of capital, whatever it is, is never a problem. It's more of a cop-out than an attempt to describe the world.

The second is the (Marxist) labor theory of value, which argues that all the value comes from human work. However, it is unfortunately logically inconsistent.

In the reality probably lots of value already comes from machines (and biological systems), and we have lots of social conventions and pretending (calling it "meritocracy" etc.) around it concerning how to distribute this added value to humans. In reality I don't believe there are many people (maybe some homeless ones) in the western society who deserve their current living standard, for the labor they do.

I don't think that this sort of social construction is going to be eliminated by artificial intelligence. We will just see more of it, if anything.
Then there's AdBlock, of which most of the people reading the blog might be aware of.

The web looks weird with all the advertisements when I'm not on my own machine.
From a superficial reading I think what they are doing is quite simplistic. Basically they want to provide typed channels, e.g. ActorRef[T] that only accepts T messages. That's the easy part. What you really want is something like type-based guarantees that a the interaction between actors cannot get stuck. Achieving this is fraught with difficulties.
Out of interest, what kind of hardware specs does the box doing the image processing have (CPU speed, #cores, and memory in particular). Do you expect to be limited by the compute capabilities?
I think you can select the search engine (preferences), but if you select DuckDuckGo you will have only the thumbnails on the new tab, not the search input.
> Cute little narrative you got going [...] You're the one [...] you deserve to be called out

Your comments have been crossed into incivility frequently in a way that violates the site rules. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly. Please edit such bits out of your posts to HN.

Instead, please be respectful and assume good faith when disagreeing, regardless of how wrong someone else may be. Even if you don't feel you owe it to them, you owe it to the community not to damage the commons.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14600765 and marked it off-topic.
Also, if the doctor goes into private practice, they will live with significant loses until the practice is established:

Expenses such as:

1. Rent
2. Marketing
3. Equipment
4. Student loans
5. Malpractice insurance
6. Billing service, unless they want to do this themselves
7. Staff

All these expenses can be written off until the business is established and profitable.
> I'm never paying for a gym again.

I believe for most gymgoers, a primary purpose of going to the gym is to hang out with your gym friends.

If you just want exercise, you can do body weight exercises for free; a couple hundred dollars is overkill.
Took me a while to find the audio feed: https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/27...
I always appreciate people that live by their principles but some of this stuff is downright comical! Making other people buy things online for you to avoid using non-free javascript?! Lol
I honestly can't conceive of what this "Serious FSF" that you imagine would look like? Meaning, I can't think of any similar "movement" that succeeds by having a camera-friendly diplomatic leader -- unless you're thinking about going "full politics?"

There's no "vegan leader person" or "financial literacy leader person" or "animal cruelty leader person," etc. Not even "environment person," though you do get your occasional Greta Thunberg or Al Gore, but that's different from what you're saying here.
Economically a monopoly harms customers with the ability to dictate prices via market power, think OPEC controlling oil supply. In an ideal world, there would be multiple companies offering search ads who compete to give advertisers the best RoI. There would be multiple realistic options at good prices for companies who need office productivity software, Microsoft still has nearly 90%. If I wanted to sell in-app purchases, there would be multiple payment processors I should be able to use and I can chose who takes the smallest cut which would be way less than Play Store and App store
This is true for many children, but there’s a also a lot of kids who are too afraid to spend and enjoy their money.

It is I think as important to teach children how to spend their money, on what, and get them used to understand how much they got for their money.

As a kid I saved for a long time to buy an Atari Jaguar, and it was a eye opener looking back at the “sacrifices” I made for that result.
people get their twitter accounts locked for having incidental background music playing in shared content. This is an amazingly punitive action for a trivial mistake, and Twitter's hands are effectively tied on this (the copyright mafia won this war a long time ago).

No one's forcing people to break Twitter's rules, they should have read them before they broke them.
In addition, this article assumes that Facebook isn't the way to solve the problem... It assumes that going through that pain will provide insight that nobody had before, and that Facebook wasn't already designed to fix the same thing.

And finally, it assumes that finding a better solution will 'kill' Facebook, whereas I think it's much more likely to be taken down by a site that knows how to market.
Let the Kuhn v. Popper debates begin...

EDIT: To clarify, using the term "erroneous" under the Kuhnian view (disclaimer, my view), is a bit disingenuous because the criteria under which we are claiming these theories to be wrong did not exist in their historical contexts: on the contrary, some of these theories, such as gravity, happenned to be progressive, brilliant, and in some cases extremely useful as a simplifying framework in the next paradigm. All of the historical and technological ingredients, such as the ability to calculate the speed of light accurately, or Maxwell's equations didn't exist for Newton. Do we call that he missed it an error?

In my opinion, "erroneous" as a term should be reserved for beliefs that were incorrect given existing frameworks: Lamarkian evolution, Einstein's cosmological constant, the postulating of the lumeferious ether, Hilbert's axiomatic program that was disproven in his time by Godel...THESE were erroneous.

It would be like saying in the future when (hypothetically) a more advanced technology comes along and computes a totally revolutionary and paradigm-shifting scientific framework that our views in 2010 are "erroneous". Probably a little extreme.
My cofounder is reasonably technically minded (for a business guy), and yet I've never seen him glance at more than the headline description of a test. Steak provides those. The actual steps of the test are just implementation details. The headline should say what the test does, reasonably precisely.
Folks in their irc channel are saying that the problem is with Hurricane Electric.
This is really annoying... Down 2 times in 3 days!
People prefer a simplified view of history where people where dumb and ignorant even if it's often proven wrong. The reality is reasonably correct interpretations / ideas are often replaced by misinformation for long periods of time. The most obvious example is how do you lose a city. But, something as simple as crop rotation is often found, then lost then found again.

For a more popular example, two thousand years ago many people thought the earth was round based on a wide range of evidence. They even calculated the size of the earth with a fair amount of precision. A more striking example a scurvy cure was found, then lost and then found again over hundreds of years. http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
I don't understand what they did the last days if this is another power outage.

In their posting about the outage on the 20th they said:
"At this point all we know is a severe lightning storm in the area caused a power outage and redundant UPS systems failed."
http://status.linode.com/2010/11/possible-power-outage-in-fr...

Redundant UPS systems failed? And now it fails again? What kind of data center are they running in Fremont?
I think Edge picked a very bad word. Isn't "scientific belief" is a silly oxymoron?

At least, many of those "beliefs" weren't actually beliefs, but scientific theories that worked very well but were later improved. It's the case of Newtonian gravitational force.
After spending a few hours building an API using Entity Framework Core, and then another few trying to get Dapper.Contrib extensions to do what I need it to do without success. I gotta say Entity Framework Core takes the cake.
Do you recommend any beginner courses?
I said saying only 20% of women are involved in labor in India is incorrect. That number is much much higher if you take those into account.
That is because you are opening in browser. You have to set wa.me links to open in app.

Open firefox settings, toggle 'open links in app'.

(or)

Open a chat with yourself in whatsapp. https://wa.me/your-number . You can spam anything here, it's personal and only you can see it.

They send wa.me/number-of-person-you-are-contacting in that chat. Click on it and it will start a chat with person-you-are-contacting.

All numbers MUST be in international format. Country code and number.
That's not money laundering. The gift card in that scenario is still "dirty".
Well the first step would be to ban the so called lobbying. Idk in other countries we just call it corruption. In US that seems to be legalized.
I'm not a parent and I don't know this kid and I'm certainly not in a place to judge.

That said, I will say that I enjoyed finished high school. Having that piece of my teenage experience was nice and I was able to judge my other passions with studies fairly easily. It was nice to meet other kids, make friends, go to prom, have that experience growing up.

It's great that this girl is passionate about something but committing to a career path so early in life makes me a little hesitant.

Also, I'm glad I "wasted" my time with the liberal arts. I probably won't use the literature or the history I learned from school in my career but I think it was a good experience.
referenced talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6jTFxQaUJA
I've been having problems with getting people to come back. How do you do this?
Not $1k, but might be a inspiration anyway: 2 years ago i made some simple LAMP+HTML/CSS Videotutorials and put them on YouTube. Production quality isn't great but better than 90% that was on YT at the time. Along with that, created a little site with the Videos and some code examples. Videos + site are making me $100/month.
I flagged it.
Ah, yes. It's the UK I was talking about but I guess it will differ around the world.
Xiaomi is the next big thing.
They've done most things right, yet people don't take them seriously yet, because "Apple-copycat".

For a start, I think they'll hire few more high profile people from prominent SV company to build the brand in Western hemisphere.

Also, I predict this year, there will be much more interesting stuff coming from the East in general.