skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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On the other hand it was likewise surprising to hear that homebrew was using github as its CDN.

That sounds a bit weird to me. Homebrew gets developed on GitHub... so using GitHub as a CDN doesn't seem wrong (to me).
> Electric cars are an order of magnitude more efficient than ICE cars.

Citation needed. (I don't think more than a factor of 3 is possible, in ideal circumstances.)
I paid. If other developer tools were around the same $100 range I would gladly buy them. Others that are $500 range are just too much for individual purchases.
Thanks for the pointer, a new word for me.

In my own thinking I've been leaning towards representing the commons, with some institution, as the sole owner of property, aiming for a good distribution by renting instead. I see some similarities of sentiment.

Perhaps even the same thought taken to an extreme?

The distribution coming from two aspects. The income form rent is itself distributed evenly constituting a basic income for all. Some form of auctioning should ensure that the rent represents the current value, it also ensures the resource being allocated to the highest bidder (the one capable of providing the highest value use for the resource). Since resources must be rented also avoiding the feedback loops that encourage hoarding of capital just for rent extraction.

Thoughts in that direction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
You can justify nationalization by public interest.
What am I missing?

That most of the people who do have that experience, have, shall we say, shown such poor judgement that they should be automatically and firmly excluded from the process? Do you want people to whom the modern meaning of "neo-con" applies doing this? As Thiel himself noted, "A normal country doesn't fight five simultaneous undeclared wars."

This is one of Trump's biggest breaks from the GOPe(stablishment), after immigration. And unlike the latter, one I think most of us on the Right and Left support.

Note also there's little bench depth, so to speak, in Presidential transition processes when they've been happening at 8 year intervals since 1992 and switching between parties. Should Trump be emulating in any way W's transition process and methods of selecting people? I'm pretty sure that was the absolutely worst thing he was at as a President, that and his weird loyalty to the duds he'd selected, Trump at least fires fast....

His father was no prize as well, which means you'd have to reach back to 1980, and I'll bet most of the people on Reagan's transition team are dead or seriously retired.

Anyway, Team Trump is getting good advice from retired members of the professional military, but you definitely don't want to entirely depend on them.

Note also Trump is pretty good at picking people, he went through 3 campaign managers, and won because he did that, not in spite of it. Compare to, oh, Hillary's first in 2008, who lost her that nomination, apparently before Hillary realized it.
Now make one that can find inverses ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Perhaps if you read the article without the intent to argue everything written because it contradicts your ideology?

> What he's saying is that no one needs to do anything of value anymore.

Can you point to the particular sentence where this is stated? Didn't think so.

The article I read said that the majority of jobs aren't paid at a level appropriate to their value, and that without the (rather limited US) welfare programs to support them, the bulk of employees would be below the poverty line, and with the impending automation of almost 50% of available jobs it'll be those bottom-line jobs that go.

The article then tells us that we'll need to redefine our attitudes to both income and work, but nowhere can I find the statement that "no one needs to do anything of value anymore." It tells us that almost half of the population already don't do anything of sufficient value, and many of those jobs are going to go away.
The censoring and removing posts of people you don't like starts to create an echo chamber

Yes, I'm very well aware of this. The thing is, I really don't care any more. When I was younger I used to think that if you would just keep peeling away the layers of awful from a vicious person eventually you'd find some root cause that would be worth fixing and so on. As I've gotten older I've come to the conclusion that some people are just assholes, are never going to change, and that studying them further is not going to result in any great revelation which will heal the world.

For myself, I don't worry about ending up in an echo chamber. I devote a certain amount of time to studying people I don't agree with - I've monitored neo-nazi forums and related pools of internet extremism for nearly 15 years as I have an interest in knowing what those people are up to and how they think and so on. So I'm not worried about my political instincts atrophying from only being exposed to opinions that I agree with.

On the other hand, when I'm not actively monitoring such people and just want to pass some pleasant time for my own enjoyment, I would really like if there was a way to just screen out bullshit and offensive chatter without sacrificing all social content in the process.
His lectures are awesome, wish some of them could be remastered though
This sounds like Square Cash?
I agree with this sentiment. There is a lot of work that needs doing. There are also a lot of parents out there with young children who could use a nanny. There's a need for more therapists, or just people to talk to.

There's a lot of work that needs doing. There's an abundance of people to do the work, and I feel like we have plenty of natural resources. It seems to me that we could build housing for everyone, we have the capability to do it. It's just that our economic model isn't about the betterment of manking, providing the people what they need, etc.

If you told an unemployed man that he could have guaranteed food, clothing, medical care, lodging and basic income for his family if he goes work a job where he builds houses for other family in need, I think that would be a very appealing offer.
Hi Darius (it's a small world).

That looks really good, I'll have a look at it!
Interview with Reddit Moderator That Leaked CEO Conversation
Do you remember Netscape? The default was definitely gray.
This may be a cynical take on things, but it seems to me that the 'fake news factories' figured out that the core product of a political website is confirmation of existing beliefs, then 'unbundled' it from everything else.
> I can say that the Tesla app should avoid storing the OAuth token in cleartext.

Why? What additional security would encrypting it with a key that's on the same device give you?
I've been using a commercial VPN (more likely for the general population than SSH tunnels).

More and more sites and intermediaries are identifying this (via IP address and/or whatever else) and treating it differentially, in the past year. Not just Netflix, Amazon, et al., but also Cloudflare, archive.is, etc., etc.

As this increases, where do you buy your exit point, and how well does it work for you?

The Internet is less "flat" than ever. It's being parceled up, and user are being ever more boxed in -- tunneling notwithstanding.

P.S. I forgot to mention increasing payment tracking and control. What happens when Visa et al. stop processing payments from the UK for such services? Banks block and even report attempted payment transfers. Paypal "suspends" you for an "illegal" type of payment?

The increased monitoring we all face also enables more and more effective real-time control over what we do. Including tunneling.
> Anything that can be economically automated will be.

Yes, but when you can't pay the wonderful automated hospital its fees, you hire the local unemployed doctor (replaced by an automatic diagnostic system) and in lieu of payment, you go and fix his roof.

My point is that there are going to be lots of unemployed people and they are going to work for themselves because they need to survive, because they got no money or jobs. Automation will make it cheaper for corporations to manufacture things, but people are not going to buy their products because they don't have hard money. They only have barter money. And companies don't take that as payment.

The alternative, UBI, requires that companies realize they actually want UBI. UBI would be like a pot of gold they can sink their hands into. People would buy shit and they would make profits. Of course, UBI comes out of their pockets, but hopefully they make more profit than the competition and win. Also, hopefully, with automation there is enough increase in productivity to cover UBI and some profits for the industries. If UBI doesn't come, they are busted. Rich people can't satiate economy's demand for customers. They can only eat so much food, and sleep on so much bed, and use so much car. The larger the UBI, the more money on the table each year.

But for people it's going to be great to become more self reliant, even acquire automation and support themselves by directly benefiting. Automation is going to become much cheaper and an open-source community of makers is going to appear. We won't need to buy much except generic computers and raw materials. Or the government will subsidize buying commercial automation for self reliance, as a cheaper alternative to UBI. Automated farms, 3d printers and solar panels are going to empower people.
Fake news is not the only problem
Once you factor in the cost of the home charging station(and the required charging infra) and the battery and other electric components ,electric cars are(and will stay) more expensive ,meaningfully than ICE-cars.

EVs are fundamentally simpler and cheaper to build than combustion vehicles. Fewer parts, less complexity, more commoditisation and potential for economies of scale.

The only reason EV's are more expensive today is battery prices, which are dropping rapidly and will continue to do so.

ICE cars are much more reliable , they don't need an expensive battery swap every 5 years.

In testing, modern EV batteries last much longer than this already. Even after 10 years and hundreds of thousands of miles, you're still likely to have over 80% of the original capacity. In something like a Tesla, that's still a very useful vehicle. And the battery technology will only get better.
I actually requested him to comment on Twitter (https://twitter.com/yazinsai). He founded White Payments, a Stripe-inspired payment processor in the Middle East. It was acquired by Payfort last year [1].

[1]: https://www.wamda.com/2015/06/payfort-acquires-white-payment...
> The fact that CEOs are legally bound to maximize profits..

this is, in fact, not a fact. ceo's of corporations are hired to execute their corporate charter.

with that said, many corporations do have provisions in their charters about maximizing returns for shareholders, among other provisions. but not every corporation does, and many have competing provisions in their charters.

particularly over the past ~30 years, an extensive theory of finance has been developed to argue that maximizing profit is the highest and best use of a corporation, but i'm very skeptical of that claim. german corporations for example are designed to consider all three of its constituents: employees, customers and shareholders.

so while i don't disagree with all of your claims about bureaucracies, i'd argue that facebook doesn't have to be turned over to the government to realize the benefits you claim.
Sorry, English is not my first language.
That's a problem for trucks and buses though.
“Whistled Languages” Reveal How the Brain Processes Information
I use a Macbook Air from 2013 driving 2 24'' monitors at work. I have to use a USB 3.0 to DisplayPort adapter. It's not ideal. At home I use a 27'' monitor.

I would like to upgrade but the Macbook Pro that came out is expensive for what you get. I would like 32 GB of Ram. I probably will pretty soon.

Also, I have 2 desktops at home which I SSH into. One is a Haswell Xeon machine with 8 cores, 128GB of ram, 2 GPUs. I have another i7 machine, 4 cores, 32GB of ram, and a GPU. I do machine learning and data processing on them.
A more modern and relevant example would be the foreign workers from the indian subcontinent on most of the middle east construction sites building the sky scrapers or the next FIFA cup facilities. (withheld pay, life threatening living conditions, confiscated passports). These is modern slavery. Aided and abetted by the state.

You may also want to look at the few stories of "domestic workers" and "maid" abuse that make the headlines from time to time in your own country (works in any country with a free press).

As said in another comment, slavery is alive and well. It is only frowned upon.
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> I'm mostly using it for work

so you definitely must pay for it
I studied Economics and Public Policy in uni. I just came to the realization, what essentially boils down to 'utopian theorycrafting' seems fine and all, but when we are currently using only a very small fraction of the capability of our current system it makes me feel that an earnest attempt should be something more pragmatic than dreaming up our utopian society.
No. No they aren't. The number of pregnancies is declining, but the pregnancies that result in a child who lives more than two years has never been higher.
Battery swap doesn't really scale. It's hard to imagine battery swap stations being set up wherever you could conceivably need one, with all the associated infrastructure and labor costs, just so you can swap a battery in 10 minutes rather than supercharge in 30.

And remember, chargers of the future will be faster still. CCS has been designed to scale to at least 300kW.
I felt some relief after deleting my facebook account almost 5 years ago now. It has left me with more time to focus on things that actually matter, in addition to helping me narrow down who I really need in my life in terms of "friends".
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study: "I" would rather have "them" ... in discussions like this we must exchange perspectives with all citizens. From the highest to the lowest. Even to the lowliest we must see that their fundamental needs are the same.
How is that different than what something like Yacc or ANTLR already provide?

Inserting arbitrary code is definitely necessary for real languages, but this breaks the model, any guarantees you might have gotten (about performance), and is often awkward. bash uses yacc, and there are a bunch of globals mutated in the semantic actions, which is not easy to reason about. They are REALLY breaking out of the model.

That is why people prefer hand-written parsers, because you can develop your own model, specific to the language you are parsing.

As I wrote in that blog post, my parser only requires two tokens of lookahead, so there are no fancy algorithms involved. The hard part isn't really deriving the parser from the grammar; it's everything else (parsing here docs, etc.)

I would question whether this saves any effort or lines of code over the hand-written approach. I think you would just end up with something almost as long -- and if you count the parser generator itself, it will be longer.
Looks really useful. Tried to provide feedback via the site, but the "doorbell" script kept locking up my Firefox (v50 on Windows).
Mars is 96% CO2, I think it might already have enough. In fact, the problem is trying to get rid of it all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021893
Yep, I've had New Zealand black truffles before.

I haven't had European truffles, so I have nothing to compare them to though in terms of quality. The price was about the same as European ones though, I think it was about NZ$3 per gram?
Do you have details on that?
How to Hold Algorithms Accountable
And economics often operates under the assumption that all actors act rationally and with perfect and complete information, which of course we know is not true.

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Goddamnit, dang, this may be the worst administrative decision I've ever seen on HN. How is it not relevant backstory that pizzagate is the most batshit crazy conspiracy theory imaginable? It is absolutely relevant this was in response to people who have given every indication that they cannot be reasoned with.
Not to take from the article, but to each their own. I leave the house at 4:30am and typically get home around 6:30 to 7pm (it used to be 7:30). That includes stopping at the gym before catching the train to work. Pretty much the same schedule for about 5 years. Recently, I started working from home two days a week, so that has been nice. Granted, I get compensated well for that (lucky to be a software engineer). Would I like more time with the wife and kids? Of course. I would also like to be able for them to do things like eat healthy and participate in sports.

I've met a lady (single mom) on the train once. If I recall, her day started around the same time mine does, but to catch a bus, to catch another bus, to get to the train, to catch another bus to work, and then the reverse at the end of the day, usually getting home well after 8pm (when bus or train delays don't mess it up further). 5 days a week. Her role suggested to me that she likely did not make over 50k a year. Such is life.
They have a different Problem and might need a different solution. Hydrogen might be cost effective at truck-scale.
They likely meant both ways takes 4 hours (2 hours each way), which is still ridiculous and in no way invalidates your point.
A friend of mine said something wonderfully complementary recently. She said I'm the kind of extrovert that makes introverts more comfortable, rather than less comfortable. That in itself is a very sensitive statement, distinguishing out the extroverts who treat introverts like doormats. :(

Not to say introversion and anxiety are the same thing. My daughter is actually pretty extroverted, as long as she feels comfortable and in control, but when her anxiety kicks in, she becomes painfully shy.
If you're traveling with two kids you certainly don't want to waste half an hour while they're both asleep just to charge the battery... :-)

Supercharging time is almost never wasted. You (and the kids) need a break after 3-4 hours on the road anyway. Quite often, in my experience, the car is recharged and ready to go well before the occupants are!
tbh my personal view is not entirely aligned with the one I made the comment - I just get incredibly frustrated by the tone of some posters. Statements of how all right minded people must behave, because no other viewpoint is valid.

I suspect that many of the people for whom this is a non-issue are demographically similar to those who voted for brexit. Their perspectives are different, and shouldn't be dismissed as merely ignorant.

Of course you can be troubled, and you're free to make arguments for why it may be considered a bad thing™ - influencing Brits to give a shit.
I've done my own personal "cost/benefit" for these things.

We might call it "dollars saved / aggravation induced".

Short answer: Ratio is consistently way too low.

Message to retailers: Make my life easier, if you want my business. (Fair price for a good product and support.)
I'm a Shopify store owner, how do I opt-in to be featured?
I think you're oversimplifying. None of those things are actually a necessity to becoming an economic powerhouse.

Intellectual Property is a construct which exists to protect the creations of the incumbents, and more often than not, people get ahead by ignoring that construct until they have enough to suddenly care.

I'm merely pointing out that those with IP crying foul is the historical norm, and I'll extrapolate 30 years into the future when China has enough IP to complain about other industrializing countries "stealing" their inventions.
I bought Sublime 2 as well and was able to enter my same license into Sublime 3.
Sounds funny to me, because I'm avoiding Google, Facebook and Microsoft products when it isn't way too problematic, and I do it because of political/moral reasons not in the last place.

I'm not saying I agree with r/golang deletion, by the way. Surely this is stupid and inadequate, as reddit it made out of drama anyway. But getting off something you don't agree with in general is quite noble, I'd say.
That's one of the single best things about Wal-Mart, they don't f* around with prices, "Everyday low price" is both a motto and a method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_low_price), which also helps them keep their prices low, since they aren't engaging in all sorts of frictions in marking prices up and down, advertising sales, etc. etc. Probably also helps keep their logistics sane, they only have to deal with the normal ebbs and flows of demand, not artificial demand created by sales, or lack of demand created by people waiting for the next sale.
Another difference between the human brain and a computer is the number of round of hardware optimization. Human brains have millions of years and millions of search paths explored, while computer hardware, although advancing at a much faster pace, is still a relatively new technology.
That's different though. It sounds like you feel like you actively have the choice to work long hours. It sounded like she felt forced into it.
Unless you have good funding or a customer with a pre-sales signed contract, I myself would be very reluctant to even think about it. If your idea is so good to worth it, just hire it.

Sorry but I've received too many promising proposals, and even in some cases, I was asked to sign an NDA that forbid to compete with the "idea" even without knowing what the project was about.
> You can't invoke overpopulation without bringing in racial and other divisions

Of course I can. Watch: overpopulation of humans is a very serious problem. In fact, it is the root of many (if not nearly all) of the other major problems we are currently facing (climate change, pollution, loss of biodiversity). Not overpopulation of poor humans or dark-skinned humans, but humans. And in fact it is almost universally the case that if you offer people the opportunity to have fewer children without destroying their economic prospects or requiring them to have abortions (i.e. if you give them jobs and access to birth control), they will take it. The only exceptions are members of certain extreme religious (not racial) groups.
>>Average wealth has increased in America over the last 50 years

Average wealth doesn't matter. Relative wealth does. The reason is simple: wealth is a proxy for political power.

Let's say Bob had 10 dubloons yesterday and Alex had 20, and today Bob has 20 and Alex has 100. Sure, Bob is twice as wealthy as he was, but Alex is five times as wealthy and also five times wealthier than Bob (as opposed to twice).

Now replace "wealth" in the above paragraph with "power" and you'll see the issue.
How do you understand the title? Is it (Married to someone) with anxiety or Married to (someone with anxiety)?
FadeFX, easy way for adding animations to HTML elements
That's not the problem. The problem is the person making the PR projecting their own style choices instead of following the project's. They explicitly changed other contributors' code in a negative (stylistic) way.