jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Just another hammer-blow to the underlying element that makes any society work: trust. Given that we nuked contract law when GM bond holders got shafted in '08, any reaction is simply the twitching of a dead corpse.

With high trust social environments, almost any government and financial system can work. In low trust social environments, none do.
The income graph strongly suggests to me that increased happiness scales with the proportionate increase in income, rather than the absolute increase in raw dollars. That is to say, a 20% raise will increase everybody's happiness roughly equally, regardless of the absolute magnitude of the raise (eg, $10k for someone earning $50k/year and $100k for someone earning $500k/year).

This probably has to do less with the utility of the money itself and more with psychological positive reinforcement ("I'm smart and successful and my boss recognizes that") as well as increasing the person's relative social status. I've read that, given the choice, people will prefer to (for example) earn $70k while their peer group earns $50k, as opposed to earning $100k while the peer group earns $150k. Income is an indicator of social status and is largely valued relative to the rest of your social cohort.

Interestingly, the Japanese are said to be more efficient because their corporations tend to award social status directly to "salarymen" (sic) rather than indirectly through differential wages.
Yeah, my comment wasn't bashing drones. I think drones are great (outside government use) .... I just know Amazon well enough, and amazons business well enough to know this is a joke.

When I say it's a joke I'm not being pejorative.

Amazon regularly releases press releases and propaganda designed to make the company look good but that have nothing to do with its products or that aren't real initiatives. This is one of them. IT's purely propaganda.

you're making a lot of assumptions about the economics and quality advancements of control software in your response-- - you're assuming pie in the sky comes true.

I'm note.
"On the eve of a major national holiday and less than one year after al Qaida's failed attack last Christmas Day, it is irresponsible for a group to suggest travelers opt out of the very screening that could prevent an attack using non-metallic explosives."

He seems to be overlooking the possibility that things are getting so bad with the TSA that increasing numbers of travelers would rather take their chances with terrorists and underwear bombs than submit to the TSA's heavy-handed, dehumanizing procedures.
We have always been coerced into procedures that violate our privacy when we fly. If we were not, terrorists would regularly board aircraft with guns and ammo.

From a shitload of personal travel (I fly twice a month) I have found 95% of the TSA to be good humored and responsible. The situation today is fa better than it was when run by private companies.
I hope I'm not raining on your Christmas, but if you register at FanFiction.net, you can subscribe to get an email whenever a new chapter is posted. That way you find out about new chapters quickly, and you don't have to check manually. That's what I do, anyway. There's also an unofficial RSS feed:

http://demented.no-ip.org/~feep/rss_proxy.cgi?5782108
Those numbers aren't realistic for most sites:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692758
I saw that, but it's not enough. Someone needs to send some of these pictures (even better, pictures of congress members) to Wikileaks or a similar organization to really push this forward.
You know why? Because the effects are not that big. It's hard to detect small effects.

Here's what I do: I eat whenever I feel like it, whatever I feel like, as much as I feel like. But when I'm full, I stop.

For breakfast this can be:

- yogurt with banana and jam and sugar
- slices of bread with cheese and tomato and olive oil heated in the oven
- a bar of chocolate
- bread with boiled egg and mayonnaise
- bread with butter and cheese/jam/other
- nothing
- pizza left over from the previous night (home cooked of course ;)
- any other left overs
- fruit
- when I'm hungry, a bowl of pasta

According to every eating school of thought, at least half of these are very bad. Yet I am perfectly healthy. Not overeating (and undereating) is like 10 times more important than what you eat, as long as you get enough of all the nutrients you need.

Don't obsess over what you eat until there is clear evidence. Eat things you like to eat.
I just did this with Yahoo mail on Firefox. I just realized that it actually imported my wife's friend's emails since she was the one still logged into Facebook.
It's solid because of the pressure. If you had a void the pressure would be high enough to cause even solid rock to flow like water.
I just watched this one a few days ago... probably one of the best TED talks I've seen. It's amazing the way she could remember and understand what she was going through and explain it as she does in this talk.
Do not work for less that 40hr freelance. The agencies are charging no less that 80hr for you if you go through them and charging less than 40hr gives the impression that you are an amateur. Realistically, you should try to get what an agency would get if you have a direct client. When I have too much freelance work, and my regular peers are booked up. I always look for the guys that are in the $80-120 range. There are some hacks that have the audacity to try and get that rate, but for the most part those are the rates of a good self-starter that you know will be able to take the ball and run with it. If I am looking for another hand on a project that I am running, I look for the $40-60hr guys.
FYI: These two just as good, if not different.

http://www.jinni.com/

I do also like http://www.nanocrowd.com/ too...
It is a German thing as well: The Telekom sells mobile user data [1] (link in German).

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/datenschutz-vag-i...
Russian founders began the company in Prague and opened a Saint Petersburg office soon afterwards.
The reality nearest to our own where the impeachment attempt succeeded is the one where the Senate was D-majority that year. Only a few seats would have to be different for that, whereas the counterfactual of republicans voting against one of their own would require a shift in the very elements of politics. Imagine a world where a D-majority legislature impeached a Republican president. Instead of pointing to an election, Democrats would have to point to a 1000 page report that nobody wants to read. Republicans would be calling it a "political move" and the whole party would be unified against its fairness.
It actually is a deep insight if it’s true.

It doesn’t matter very much if one side is more crass, or tells more obvious lies.

It matters a lot if everybody has derelicted the attempt to represent views and understandings across the spectrum, and it’s important that we be able to distinguish that situation from just blaming a particular actor.

Perhaps you have something deeper to offer though?
ouch. first I thought that it is about FBI, then realized it is about Facebook. They should merge sometime in future, anyway.
Reminds me after the GFC how some of the rules that were brought in were around banning automated real time trading systems. This was in some similar ways recognizing that automated algorithmic treatment can have extremely harmful side effects - even when it successfully executes the goals of its owner (for the stock market - once a certain threshold is breached, get me out of the market as quickly as possible - as an individual, its exactly what I want, for the overall market it is a disaster if everyone does it suddenly).
> many more stakeholders to coordinate

That's the beauty of using price as a signal. People's self interest does the rest.

Markets are far too complex to be coordinated by central planning.
Calling for the max punishment of people directly is inciting violence.

> Treason and insurrection are serious matters.

They are, but this is no different than people claiming Snowden should be “tried, convicted, and executed”. It’s just lipstick on calling for his murder because there is no actual presumption of innocence.
Every module Pai Mei implements fits on a single page of his 80-column terminal, including comments. He manages this brevity not with obscure one-liners, but through algorithmic simplicity. Every module is precisely as complex as it needs to be to accomplish its purpose, no more, no less.
"Most" is enough, right?
According to the ILO (UN labour organisation) [1], in PPP dollars global average wage is 1480$ per month. So for the US equality would mean that 50% of working age people earn less than that. This is only counting wage-earners. No freelancers, children, elderly or anything like that are collected.

In the US, average wage for employed individuals is about 42000 [2]. Since there are 300 million Americans and 6.7 billion non-Americans, America should shift almost entirely to the average to get income equality. This will mean the equivalent of a 55% across-the-board pay cut for every American, provided prices do not go down. Your rent will stay the same, but your income should go down 55%.

(This is in fact happening, but is manifesting as uneven inflation without corresponding wage rises, so you'd experience an 81% rise in average prices, rent, food, restaurants, ..., while seeing your wage stay the same)

Also note that average worldwide unemployment is at least a factor of 3 higher than in the US. So it would not just take a massive pay cut, but also firing close to 20% of all workers, to bring the US into the worldwide average.

This is why socialists are (or should be) against immigration, and should be pro-isolationist. I think that if you want to improve the conditions of the American working class, that would be the correct attitude to have.

In reality the period of 1950-today has been a very exceptional period in history where not only incomes were higher, by most measures, than ever before, but income inequality was far lower than the vast majority of economic history.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040
[2] http://www.worldsalaries.org/usa.shtml
> Most states don't matter, the swing states do.

The swing states all have a paper trail:

Michigan: paper ballots

Wisconsin: paper ballots or machines that produce a paper ballot

Pennsylvania: paper ballots

Georgia: machines that produce a paper ballot

Arizona: paper ballots or machines that produce a paper ballot

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...
I have the same frustration with PD and QC.

NoFlo's UI design will make it easy to dive in and edit any module's source, as well as make a new module when code is easier than wiring. We are coders designing this tool for our own work.
I'm a little late to the conversation, but I need to say this just for myself. But yeah I totally get this. As a rising fifth grader in the mid-80's, "somehow" I heard of or got invited to some summer school computer class. Basically for 4 weeks I went back to school and learned about computers on an Apple IIe. We played some lemonadestand game and even wrote BASIC on some Trash80's. That was my watershed moment. Ever since then I knew I was going to be a programmer. I remember as a senior in high school, the only computer class they had was on BASIC programming. Since I had literally been doing it for 7 years, I aced it. The teacher would hand out exams (yes on paper) and I would be done before she finished handing them out to the rest of the class. I hated that I was out in the sticks in highschool though. If only I had someone I could have been mentored from, there's no telling where I'd be now. But hey, I still enjoy programming (debugging MY code, creating code, etc). I'm attending way too many meetings now and I rarely open my IDE at work. But the thrill of creation and making the computer do what I tell it to do is pretty awesome after 30+ years. I need a side project...
A large part of why I chose a pseudonym is because I'm a woman. People react very differently on tech boards to people they think are women.
Yes you could get things done most of the time without knowing it, but why bother? It is not hard to learn and you'll need it anyways someday if you code enough.
I think you're correct. The privacy policy link on emailoracle.com points to the etacts privacy policy.
When I was a kid my family had a Mercedes diesel and my aunt had a Cadillac. I remember noting that the Mercedes fuel gauge was labeled "Tank" and marked off in a round arc with equal distances between each of the markings. The Cadillac had a square gauge labeled "Fuel Data Centre" with a needle sweeping across markings in a straight line. The Mercedes was much more practical.
LOL, Facebook has turned random acquaintances into friends since 2003!
Android cannot be the new "windows" because alot of decisions leading up to windows in it's current incarnation were driven by the anti-competitive nature of Microsoft. Android takes the best aspects of windows' business strategies and incorporates them in an open environment.

So I guess if you are saying android is the phone to run on a bunch of random hardware which will outsell apple, yes, android is the new windows of cellphones. In the end it's closer to a user-friendly linux.
Hey, thanks for offering to take questions.

How long have you guys been working on this, and how closely was Facebook involved during development of the product on your end?

A couple comments/questions about how it works. The "can advise friends" pins seem like a great idea, but I'm not sure how it works. Am I supposed to contact them outside of Tripadviser now that I've found they are offering advice, or is there some way to request more information from them within the site?

Also, unless I missed it I think there should be a more obvious way to add your own pins to the friends map on the home page. I got there by clicking through to a city, then clicking "add to my map", but there must be a more direct way.

Thanks in advance!
Leaves one hell of a hangover in the morning, I can tell you.
I'm just relaying my experience with P2P network design and with system-wide failures. I agree with you that gradual discovery is possible, but I doubt that's the best case scenario for them depending on how long it takes. They have the worst of both world: if it's slow, their users are going to be extremely frustrated, but if their clients are very quick to discover new nodes, the possibility of them getting swamped is still very real. The status update doesn't talk about their deployment strategy at all so I don't think we can make assumptions; either way has it's own potentially serious issues.
I don't think that's what Apple said at all–they just said the ball is in their court, which means that they want Microsoft to write Bootcamp essentially.
Your device’s firmware is not even able to keep a connection up for a few hours. Which is its main function. Do you trust that they tested its code for recovering partitions that were not unmounted cleanly?
>While it's probably true that a full gui ecosystem could be built on top of wasi+webgpu+windowing, it would mean that programs would often reinvent the wheel.

You can compile existing GUI libraries you just need to port the rendering backend and input.

Flutter, Qt, GTK, etc.
We have data, but no information. We have to synthesize the data into information using analytical techniques or it is meaningless.
There is plenty of material about why hydrogen isn't really better just a google away. Plenty of smart people have evaluated it and realized it's not worth it. Toyota is the only company left that still pretends that it's relevant... while slowly electrifying their fleet.
It's possible for both of those views to coexist. I have no idea if the data fits such a model, but off the top of my head here are a few factors which might matter.

1. White-collar criminals might be more significantly deterred by the threat of any prison time, perhaps because they have more to lose or because such crimes have more premeditation.

2. Prison might work as a deterrent in general, but if 20yrs will already ruin your life then the additional threat of another 80yrs might have little to no impact.

3. Rehabilitation might have a stronger effect than deterrence, which could point to hybrid solutions leveraging both effects, supposing they mix appropriately.
There are a lot of things working against us.

In my experience, it basically boils down to not being given a chance.
Meanwhile the pirate bay is still compatible with pretty much any system on the planet.

If you want my money you'll have to provide at least the same amount of service. And stop being assholes trying to pass massive surveillance laws every three months.
Yeah, ideally SaaS is the way to roll on this stuff.
First let me concede up front that we are descending into handwavery here.

Second let me acknowledge that on the merits of this case divorced from the issues we're discussing here, I agree, Columbia shouldn't be the beneficiary of eminent domain.

But your logic doesn't hold. Just because there is a fair market value for an asset doesn't mean one party will be reasonable about selling it. It's not even likely that they'll be reasonable. The unreasonableness of a seller can indeed inflict economic harm on the overall market and on the public good. We recognize this, which is why we can build interstate highways without being held hostage by 2-bit real estate wildcatters.

A friend of mine is dealing with this right now in the real estate market; she owns several properties but rents her own property. Her landlord is being foreclosed on. She's made an offer above fair-market value for the house in a fashion that spares the owner from the (dreadful) cost of real estate agency. But the seller won't budge, believing that any offer from my friend must be the market floor value, else it wouldn't have been offered. And so my friend may have to move and the seller will end up receiving less money as a result.

This kind of micro-tragedy happens every other minute in a free market and I generally agree that we should suck it up and be happy for all the benefits the free market offers in return, but it's not fair to pretend there's no trade-off.

And, come on, it's totally unfair to compare a real estate transaction to the valuation of a small business.
For teachers that totally makes sense. But this is a minority union that will not have collective bargaining power in the foreseeable future.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178
Hospital in La Crosse wanted to give you detailed genome sequencing to trace outbreaks and you told them to go fish
I took the term open to mean unoccupied which put them at 46% utilization.

The columns in the spreadsheet are "Sum of Number of adult critical care beds open" and "Sum of Number of adult critical care beds occupied".
Qanon is exactly what you are describing though. Quoting from Bellingcat [1]:

"Here is the core of the QAnon myth: with the aid of a small group of military intelligence officers called the Q team (one or more of whom is supposedly responsible for writing the drops), President Donald Trump is waging a shadow war against a cabal of Satan-worshipping, child-eating pedophiles who are conspiring to obstruct and overthrow him. The military will arrest them en masse in an event called “the Storm.”"

You can see why people would be uncomfortable dipping their toes into that water when so many people have been led to believe in "obvious psyops". Conspiratorial thinking is healthy until it isn't. Be careful about how deep you dive my friend.

1. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/07/the-maki...
Samsung does (or at least did) lock down their Android phones like that. They had to be rooted to get third-party APKs installed.
If nobody wants to do business with you, maybe you are the problem?
I am very grateful there is a web browser. But whatever is the next web browser can't even be invented today (perhaps), because we no longer have free computing platforms.
It only feels like a megaphone when most people disagree with you. And the web is the real megaphone, and it’s still unlimited.
edit I’m off topic to your intention, I know. But I think still worth highlighting the behavior. No offense meant. :)

While definitely catering to it due to the nature of the platforms intentions, I think it may be going to far to just classify a platform like Parlor as “alt”.

It attracted an ‘alt’ crowd due to it trying to be a purist in free speech, which I think on the surface is something we all think we want.

The real conversation here is that we are learning as a society that “free speech” does need governance and it’s going to be a long violent road to defining what that actually means.

“Freedom” in the sense our lazy minds have generally defined it, has failed. Not to say that’s a bad thing, but we’re still in a time of our evolution where just that very sentence sounds as evil as the devil himself.

Our next 100 years is going to be tumultuous and we should all have some apprehension, even if it’s 80% right, perpetuating the same lazy thinking that Has resulted in a future that is guaranteed to make the future of our kids a major struggle.

All this. All of what’s going on now... it makes me sad to know that the ease my life has enjoyed so far is not the same future for the ones I love the most in this world.

This is all a VERY BIG DEAL. It’s not just a headline deserving no more than a lazy label. We should treat it and discuss it as such.
Probably, but only if the violence doesn't serve them. There will be an undefined but overtly demonstrated acceptable violence. Any words of incitement will be given the most charitable of interpretations.
Well it is also important to note that censorship is a continuous variable. Censorship can gradually increase over time, and what many people in the US are observing is that even in the absence of any censorship (Note: I do not think there is an absence of censorship), the mechanisms for application of censorship are becoming evermore potent.

Think of it in the language of physics. Regardless of the "Kinetic Energy" of censorship, the "Potential Energy" for censorship in is the US with concentrated power to decide who can say what and effectively remove people from public life and discourse is likely far greater than existed in a country like Croatia (which you believe to have had far greater "Kinetic Energy" than the US has).
the insurrection is the political classes fault! if they hadnt shown the right that they were ok with burning cities the right wouldnt have had enough and actually did something. Sure the political class is going to make examples because this wasnt approved like the other but now their own words are getting thrown at them. granted a civil war will make the soviet collapse look like a cakewalk so im not preaching for that but holy damn. and it doesnt help this censorship means 40% of the country will think there is indeed a conspiracy now and will cause more unrest which will cause more more tyranny which will cause more unrest which causes a giant feedback loop. the higher ups literally are meeting their destiny by trying to avoid it. this could very well not end well.
As a proponent of python and a full time python developer I fully endorse this decision.

There is a compelling need to be able to distribute graphical python applications that isn't met (and that https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0441/ isn't even a step in the right direction is an indication of how far away a solution is).

Don't get me wrong, python is a great language, but its not the right solution for teaching programming for exactly these reasons.
This person's actual ID needs to be called out! if not on HN - make anon reviews on Glassdoor with the actual name of this person.
Who owns the content?
This is a 4 part (as of Jan 15 2015) series http://cesquivias.github.io/tags/truffle.html

Greatly appreciated topic.