skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also the fact that although direct labor may not be a large % almost everything needed to create and maintain the plant is produced by China with cheap labor (including exotic things like rare earth metals). This is the ole McDonalds econ effect (McDonalds owns their own farms etc..) of controlling production of all upstream things to provide better price and leverage.

Besides regulation there is also the fact that China has a government where eminent domain and relocation citizens to other homes is not a problem.
"We once tried an experiment where we funded a bunch of promising founding teams with no ideas in the hopes they would land on a promising idea after we funded them.

All of them failed."

I was under the impression Reddit fell within this category. I recall a PG quote that went something like "we [Y combinator] hate your idea, but we like you [Alexis and Steve]" in reference to reddit's initial YC funding.

I know Reddit isn't considered a smashing success by VC standards (originally sold for roughly 15-20 MM), but I certainly wouldn't call it a failure.
Doesn't Nim require types (e.g. for function arguments)?
In theory, you can examine it, sure. But I fear that in practice, it's so complicated and large, it's unlikely there are many humans who can really tell about themselves that they really know how the thing works. A certain part - sure, given enough time to read and learn. A whole thing - quite unlikely.
Grab an economics book and get familiar with the concept of marginal utility. A gentle introduction might be Todd Buckholz' 'New Ideas from Dead Economists.'
China generally is not more efficient. Rather, China doesn't have the cost of externalities included in the price of the goods. The US doesn't ensure that all the cost is put back on the manufacturers, but our environmental and labor regulation ensures at least some of it is included in the price. I imagine if China had the same requirements on its power plants and manufacturing facilities as the US does then the advantage (if any) would not be very much.
I love how the page fails to provide any explanation of how it works or what it does at all. Maybe there is something in the video, but I'm not going to watch it.
There was a story on HN not too long ago about a proposed Dark QCD - implying different kinds of Dark Matter, Dark Chemistry, etc., a whole "parallel universe" of Dark Matter.

And yup, my friends and I have been brainstorming story ideas all morning!
It seems that this particular article is more about creating equal conditions for domestic vs foreign producers – see "as a condition of import". Japan can still require ALL cars sold in Japan to release their source code. They just can't single out foreign made cars for this. (IANAL)
you can't ask it a question and then expect it to come up with an answer

Why not? If the model was trained on a large enough corpus of texts, it will have seen lots of answers to your question, or similar questions. It can, in principle, extract the important features of those answers, and present them to you as an answer. This is pretty much how the majority of humans would answer "the most meaningful" questions.
I do not agree with the premise that taxation is necessary.

Any given alternative to taxation might be worse, though. It also might be better. There are a lot of ideas that already failed, and a lot that haven't yet been tried.

But none of the potentially better schemes can possibly work when you already accept taxation as axiomatic.

Of course, this doesn't mean that there is no value in attempting to determine a method of taxation that is least unfair. But given the variance in individual tastes, you may have to combine multiple models of fairness to come up with a reasonable basis for comparison.

If your tax scheme takes as much money from a person as it is possible to take without causing that person measurable harm, you're obviously going to be able to take a lot more from rich people than from poor people. But then, as everyone would end up with the same standard of living, you disincentivize excellence. So maybe you use a model drawn from psychological experiments with respect to reward-seeking behavior, and you give accomplishment above and beyond the lowest common denominator diminishing returns. Maybe someone who produces twice as much gets twice as much as their reward, but someone who produces ten times as much only gets five times as much reward. The studies on lever-pushing rats suggest that this would still work. Someone might even produce twenty times as much for only six times the reward.
I just downloaded this and tried it out. Does it not compile at all on windows?

The interface is so clean and fast I really want to start using it. It really seems like a great way to try out ideas quickly but still end up with native executable. There isn't even an install to go through which I actually really like.
In my experience (just as a client) Chase is very happy to act unilaterally and without communication. On the other hand, as an ex-client I have the option of just never dealing with them again.
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Yes, it happens a LOT. I can't point fingers (it's not polite, and I'm Canadian), but it's what prompted me to write the article.

And yes, it does matter who owns the IP. If a sale happens, the proceeds to to the residing country's tax base. If it's not in Canada, we lose out on those gains.
Okay. So they have to store your password, but it doesn't have to be plain text. They can encrypt it.
How about the term "scale-sustainable", meaning the business is cash flow positive for most of its growth?
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So your argument is "Stalin and Mao were monsters, therefore fuck the poor"?

Life is not black and white. The hardline communists were awful. That doesn't mean that hardline capitalists can't also be awful. Maybe they're less awful, in a "rather be kicked in the face than shot in the head" kind of way, but that's not a positive recommendation.
Well, all right, but how often do you see the loop closed? "We predicted results X from this government program (with these error bars), actual results were Y, which were/were not withing the error bars."

I have literally never seen that kind of analysis of a government program, still less a group of them. But it's essential, so that we can tell whether the predictions of what the next program will do have any basis in reality.
Well, they're paying the same taxes as super-wealthy people in other industries, and they're expressing their opinion about how their tax monies ought to be spent, like almost everybody who pays taxes does.

You seem to be saying that people who make money in the arts should be taxes more than people in other lines of work. Is that correct, or have I misunderstood what you're saying?
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Uh right below the video...

"We first added Private Browsing to Firefox to give you control over your privacy locally by not saving your browser history and cookies when you close a private window. However, when you browse the Web, you can unknowingly share information about yourself with third parties that are separate from the site you’re actually visiting, even in Private Browsing mode on any browser. Until today.

Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Firefox for Windows, Mac, Android and Linux actively blocks content like ads, analytics trackers and social share buttons that may record your behavior without your knowledge across sites."
People can and have been sentenced to death because of lies told to the police.
No-one's willing to take the huge amount of time it takes to design a software system and accurately estimate how long it will take to build it.

They're happy to pretend good estimates are possible without that, though, and complain endlessly about how bad estimates always are.
> It isn't a choice between institutionalizing people or leaving them to fend for themselves entirely.

I didn't say that it is a binary choice of either forcing them into a psychiatric ward or letting them rot on the streets.

One can offer persons in such situations help in different ways, which they are of course free to reject.

> Whether private or public, the choices made on this spectrum absolutely do reflect on the society making them.

No, it does not reflect in an _absolute_ or _general_ way on the society, it is only one specific feature.

That's why I cite the strong individual rights in the next sentence.

If a person rejects any help and is no threat to anyone then it is none of your or anyone else's business if he ruins his life.

There's no psychiatric ward, jail or Gulag awaiting such a person to "mentally correct" him.
You're making the mistake of thinking that private property is a god-given right. It is a privilege that the body politic bestows on you. If you want to continue having it, pay the price.
> He had made some self-destructive statements...
> ... he made some more self-destructive statements

It wasn't a lie.
Except it gets really interesting down the line once we create a new intelligent life form.

How would you feel if your body, consciousness, and everything you were was patented?
>>I'm sorry, continuing resolutions are now our ideal?

I did not say that continuing resolutions are an ideal. My point was that although budgets are complex, only a relative small part of them changes from one cycle to the next. People don't have to digest the whole budget, because they already know what was in it before. They only have to understand the changes.
Right, that's my point. There is no technical requirement to be stored as plain-text.

Though I would imagine that encryption, by definition, is two-way (encrypt, decrypt).

As an aside, do merchant account API services provide a secure-token service to store credit card information? That is, I enter in my VISA credit-card, click "save" and Amazon.com gets a unique token back that identifies this credit card. When I later go to purchase an item, Amazon uses this token to with VISA to charge my card? IIRC, that is how Stripe works, but I wonder if each credit card manufacturer now supports this, as part of PCI compliance.
> The focus includes the company’s activities dating to the late 1970s, including a period of at least a decade when Exxon Mobil funded groups that sought to undermine climate science. A major focus of the investigation is whether the company adequately warned investors about potential financial risks stemming from society’s need to limit fossil-fuel use.

I've always wondered about this. Presumably the people leading big oil companies are not dumb idiots; so why wouldn't they take this knowledge and prepare in advance? Exxon could be the leading global provider of renewable energy right now, set to dominate the industry for a century or more. But instead, they are a crumbling company leading a death march of society and their own bank accounts. Why? Why would a big company do this? Is it that really, honestly that hard for people in power to recognize that trying to prevent progress in their industry is exactly what will get them in trouble, lose them all of their money and potentially land them in jail? It seems crazy to me that Exxon didn't pivot their business model 40 years ago. If it was so obvious to them, why not try to own a new > $1T market for the 21st century?
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There's nothing stopping you from doing that, even with a patent in place, so long as your mechanism for secreting X (such as using a different base organism) is different.

To give an analogy, if somebody invented and patented the reciprocating piston engine, and then somebody else came along and invented a rotary engine, such as the wankel engine, the inventor of the former wouldn't have a claim against the latter because, while the result is the same (a drive shaft gets turned), the mechanism is different. Sure, it's possible that the inventor of the former could threaten the inventor of the former, as many patent trolls do, but legally they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Now, if the gene itself is the critical part of the 'invention', and not the organism, then taking that same gene and inserting it into a different organism still leaves you open to patent infringement. But that assumes the gene itself has been engineered, as opposed to having been found in an existing organism.
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Has there been any progress in ReactOS and OSFree in the past few years?
thanks for the confirmation.
Very interesting. Really nice stack: allowing extensive re-use, across a huge range of devices (Android seems to be worked on), fully open source!

For personal taste I'd put a little PureScript or Haskell (with GHCJS) in the mix :)
Oh god... just as depressing as it is today.
Can you provide examples of it actually helping China?

Their supposed copycat jet fighter has gone nowhere so far. There's zero evidence they have the ability to bring it to production and deployment.

There are several countries that could build a 737 clone.

Cisco continues to dominate routers, despite China's attempt to steal from them and clone their products.

Windows, iOS, Android dominate operating systems, despite China's continued attempt to build a serious home-grown operating system.

Russia has been stealing US industrial and military secrets for 60 years. It also didn't do much for them. There is a lot more to it than just stealing trade secrets - that's the easy part.
You can (and people do) argue that by refusing to take prescribed meds the sick person is harming themselves. This only works if you have a diagnosis already, of course.
My bank already does this, to a limited extent anyway. I use (slightly) different credentials for OFX login than if I go to the website.
He's referring to a YC batch in which founders were specifically offered the option of applying with no idea (that's not what Reddit's founders did).
"shall endeavour to cooperate" means this provision will never be the reason why this happens, if it does.
I find the whole idea that you could hold a company which produces petroleum products responsible for climate change ridiculous. Oil is so undeniably important to the economy and indeed livelihood at this point, that the U.S. has salt caverns full of it in case of an emergency.

No one in their right mind expects to wake up and find that an oil company has come to the conclusion that "it's really bad stuff and we're going to exit the market immediately on moral ground" or "start making clean oil".

Climate change is a global problem that demands a solution by governments. Oil companies should be exempt from prosecution over climate change. If you're going to say they've profited while the seas are rising, fine, then tax them, not sue them.
Just to add, Zojirushi are top of the line rice cookers and I would expect that they outlast most other appliances.
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I too think it begins with parents, attitudes and elementary school. Parents need to steer or at least inform their children about the workforce.

I'd like to see how minority owned or run small to mid size enterprises even large have fared in hiring minorities (their own, as well as outside their own) in the "tech" field. If they can who higher rates, then it may indicate that non minority owned and run are to some extent racist, or at least not actively seeking minorities.
France has something like that as well, and boy, you wouldn't believe the number of software companies which totally do massive amounts of R&D. And they really do, it's just that for them, R stands for Read and D for Debug.
As far as I know, that's not really severe. They only collect stats how much those "directory tiles" are clicked, pinned or removed. Maybe I'm unaware, though.

There are other concerns, though. Did you know that when you type in sync passphrase (if you dare to use sync, of course) - the one that Mozilla is supposed to never have any access to - you're actually fetching a piece of HTML+JS from Mozilla's servers and letting that code process it? That's a privacy/security concern that really bothers me.
> Your very insistence that you have the only right point of view on this makes me even more against ever allowing anybody who thinks like you the power to involuntarily commit anybody.

I don't know what made you think that I have the only right opinion. I'm advocating a view, and actually part of developing a well-rounded view is challenging beliefs you yourself hold--playing devil's advocate.

> That they can only be deprived of their rights through due process of law, as passed by elected legislature. Not a "scientific" book written by people who have no accountability to the population as a whole.

The part of the government that deals with health sets the policy on who should be institutionalised, and they are the ones that give executive power to do so to doctors. Actually, doctors and psychiatrists hold an immense amount of responsibility over the welfare of patients; they may not personally hold accountability, but the hospital or other medical instution does, because of the great potential for lawsuits in the case of mistakes (AFAIK).

> It may well already be true that a malicious individual with enough knowledge could look at your current lifestyle and find a justification for committing you and injecting you with things against your will. I'm sure that such a thing could happen under the rules that you seem to advocate.

This is rather unplausible; there is a mountain of a difference between my behaviour and of an unwashed, malnourished man who fails to communicate even basically with other people, standing for hours at road crossrods like a zombie.
Another unfortunate thing about the sex offender registry is that it lumps, e.g., 18-year-olds who had a 17-year-old quasi-consensual partner (whom the law decrees can't actually consent), together with much worse criminals -- at least under some jurisdictions' laws. I suppose an abuser-of-power registry would have similar issues with minor infractors getting too much punishment because people pay more attention to "he's listed" than to what he actually did.
There are a lot of cars on the road and planes in the air.

Nobody thinks the demand for oil is going to drop significantly in the next 15 years. So, Exxon has time and the cash hoard to buy whoever figures out how to make real money from renewables.

Coal companies on the other hand are in for a world of hurt.
So we might know what is was about in 2053 ?
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I think you'd find not many BBSes required ~2.5MB of transfer to display a handful of extremely short articles.
Unless someone finds and confirms one in the wild.

Which would be an amusing scene; cars full of people with laptops and phones, sitting around a telephone pole, or wherever they mount the damned things.
If it's on, let's call it my shithub, there's no social contract.

Have a just witnessed the moment of inception for a fantastic new word?

"Team, we've got to stop all this shithubbing and really start properly testing and documenting our code."
Thanks for your response and reasoning as to the circumstance, I follow what you're pointing out. Your last line, about getting started, is the reality I've decided to deal with - enough with dreaming of getting a jump start from anybody else. A co-worker of mine obtained a device patent and has been very encouraging that I pursue the same route - if the idea is to be as successful as intuition and market review indicate, then might as well reap all the rewards first and foremost.

I guess I'm just rather frustrated at the "start up culture" of claiming to invest in new things, in risk-to-reward principles, while in practice it's a lot more akin to the RIAA big-label approach of "we'll give you money only because we know you'll make us more money in this proven areana of pop/country/rap/etc" in a lot of respects.
> Small propellors are less efficient than large ones,

not really - they are about of the same efficiency for the same power load.

> and you're putting virtually the entire wing in prop wash, which is going to screw up the airflow.

this is the idea here. Increased airflow for the wing means increased lift. Of course you need to make sure that it is good quality airflow. If you notice - the NASA uses kind of fans instead of props.

>I also don't see how this design makes VTOL easy. That design involves rotating the entire wing by 90 degrees to transition between horizontal and vertical flight.

rotating wing is just this NASA design and it isn't the best one. VTOL is a big theme. I'd just mention that [technically] successful VTOLs have been - CL-84, XV-15/V-22, X-22, XV-5 - and looking at them one can get an idea how a good number (4 minimum, 8 better) of well controlled prop+engine units would make for a good VTOL.

>But for failure modes where, say, the motor catches fire or the prop comes apart, you've greatly increased the chances of a major problem.

electric motor isn't an issue. A main generator unit - having at least 2 of them - can be easily immediately shutdown and flooded with fire-suppressor gas. Smaller props present less a danger and if in ducts that would be even less dangerous.
You don't understand. I mean I want to enter facts as they are, included real currencies used in transactions. But when I review balance, net worth I want them presented a single currency I choose.
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Microsoft UK reps commented at a Win2k3 presentation that I went to that customers had complained NT4 didn't do enough out of the box. All sorts of features it was capable of required specific configuration and enabling. They made the point about security etc to their customers, but lots of customers still requested features to be turned on by default. The internet was still fairly nascent at the time, there hadn't been a major vulnerability through such mechanism etc. etc.

They listened to their customers. Which is often the right thing to do, but rarely when it comes to things with security implications, but it's fair to say that in general the tech industry was still fairly naive back then.

Win2k came with IIS enabled by default, etc. etc. etc. It was a security disaster. Microsoft decided from the next version on that convenience didn't trump security and went back to requiring you to consciously turn on services.
haha, of COURSE it's esr making this shit up. ol' eric, the loveable "natural extrovert" entirely detached from actual reality
Why didn't Kodak pivot to digital cameras when it invented them in 1975? Why didn't Barnes and Noble move into the online retailing business in the late 90's? Fear of cannibalizing your own business. Shaking the status quo. Oil companies have had a long and great run that will continue for some time. It's a scary thing to move away from your core competency. Many companies have fallen victim to failures to pivot. That's why pivoting has become one of the hallmark's of lean processes.
Plenty of companies never pivot even facing demise. Some didn't manage the simple stuff, like analog photography to digital.

Pretty much the only big companies operating in the manner you describe (constantly in and out of growth areas) would be Samsung and Siemens, I guess.
Many language compile to JS nowadays! (PureScript, ClojureScript and GHCJS are a few I personally would really like to use)

I think currently there are more languages compiling to JS then to JVM. :)
> The technical aspects are entirely uninteresting - it's the business case that's being tested/evaluated.

I find a lot of these tests provide junk data though because it is obvious the site has no product and is just fishing for information. People have wiser up a fair bit and will just hit the back button.
I get unknown or unsupported for Citibank which is one of the largest banks.