skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post-1998 US market Beetle is a completely different car from the original. (For starters, it has the engine in the front.)

But long after the original rear-engine design was discontinued in the US, they made them in Mexico for the domestic market there. They wouldn't pass crash standards and thus were illegal to import into the US (although people periodically tried, and I suspect if you were even slightly cagey about it, you could have made it work using an old hulk's VIN; there are certainly enough of them around in junkyards).

The last ones were made in late 2003, so they actually overlapped the production of the "New Beetle" by several years.

Interestingly, a decree prohibiting the issuance of taxi permits to 2-door vehicles reportedly contributed to the decline in sales, which shows you the role of government in killing off older products. They might still be made if not for that, just for the Mexico City taxi market.
For stuff like this, Millesime imperial for men, I cannot be sure I am buying the real thing or a counterfeit. This is totally the opposite of what I expected amazon to represent, i'm not quite sure when this decline started to happen.

https://www.amazon.com/Creed-Millesime-Imperial-Spray-4-0/dp...
It's good and not at all insane that I make $100,000/year for dicking around on a computer every day. Those poors just aren't creating value.
If the business co-founder were to have an MVP built and a little traction but no funding, would you guys join?
If you're applying non-destructive updates then you don't even need quorum to achieve consistency. You're just writing immutable data.
Wiping away a massive trove of contextualized historical discussion and even technical content, particularly one about a widely used open source project, is sickening and in my eyes is so much worse than what anyone at reddit did I am shocked that someone would even propose it much less that other people on this mailing list were not only willing to consider it but seem to actively support the idea.
I guess curation (of products, content, reviews, vendors, everything) remains one of the big problems of the internet age, where there's a million of everything and it's hard to know who to trust.
Stop rubbing it in.
Webconverger has reproducible builds
Wealth has nothing to do with gold coins or green pieces of paper.

Wealth is about the total amount and quality of goods and services you consume.

Your house is of much higher quality than the houses of the 1950s. Just because the mansions are even bigger and better, This doesn't take away the quality of life improvement of you owning a better house or car or your ability to be cured of diseases that were incurable in 1950.
Can you provide evidence that Belgium and Denmark have "DNS censorship"?
Snide comments like this do nothing to promote constructive discussion. Please post civilly or just don't.
The code on the cover of the-cloud-book.com is Go from the bosun.org project
> Why can't you face that ?

What makes you think I can't? (And why are you getting so defensive?)

> I dont know why its acceptable to denigrate the field of psychology.

Don't confuse denigration with legitimate criticism. Jsprogrammer's comments may have been loaded and ignorant, but they were not wrong: lobotomization was in fact considered a legitimate therapy in the not-so-distant past. And Psychology has a very checkered history, e.g.:

http://jeffreymasson.com/books/final-analysis.html

And a current replication crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology

So some skepticism of the profession's claims is not entirely unwarranted.

BTW, but for the defensive tone, I think your response was very good, and exactly the sort of thing that is needed in this discussion. I upvoted you again.
Although I know it is inevitable, I'll be sad when my muscle car is driven off the road.
Then the big question is if work is a aplenty, and workers scarce. Why is it so hard for such a large portion of the population to find good work? Why doesn't all of that work turn into jobs?
Edward Snowden loses Norway safe passage case
"Woe betide you if you actually have a nuanced opinion that doesn't fit neatly with either side of an issue. Your fellow posters/commenters will reject their pattern-match and call you a liar and 5th columnist for the other side"

lol, his comment fits this perfectly.
Varies from person to person. The three I've personally had the best success with are as follows:

An appeal to historical abuses works for some - but others see that sort of abuse "not being possible in the modern day". In my opinion, that is naive since many countries are still actively oppressing minority views... it's literally happening in the modern day. Just perhaps not in their country yet. =\

As Adam D. Moore said: "Consider someone’s sexual or medical history. Imagine someone visiting a library to learn about alternative lifestyles not accepted by the majority." I use examples such as: Have you ever seen a therapist? Taken an anger management class? Have had an STD? Are you LGBT or supportive of LGBT rights?

Depending what country someone lives in - inquiring about their beliefs on "touchy subjects" can be a good one. If they refuse to tell, then they have something they wish to keep private. If they do tell - is there someone they wouldn't tell? If so, why not? (eg: Would they tell talk to their boss about politics?)

Those are the most TL;DR versions I could make for each of them. The goal is to get them to see privacy from the viewpoint of a minority - and especially from a minority group who are persecuted, ostracized, harmed, or killed for having their beliefs. Privacy is literally the difference between life and death for people across the globe and people who have no felt their life has ever been in danger due to the lack of privacy should be thankful.

In a world where people truly have "nothing to hide" then there would be no reason to look.
> Today's dominant storytelling technique, in contrast, nearly always portrays one or two individuals in dire scenarios, without useful support from the societies that made them.

I dunno, that last movie I saw in theaters, Finding Dory, was sort of about the social support system coming out to save a member of society in some deep shit...
All the same stuff I was worrying about when I was making 50k -- "how can I make more?" mixed in with "how can I feel happier and more accomplished?"
I think most people who have 'bad luck' with cars tend not to maintain them very well. I think that this is probably even reflected in car reliability statistics; there are models of cars (e.g. Ford Crown Victorias) which have very good reliability records when in vehicle fleets, where they receive regular preventative maintenance, but much more mixed results when in private ownership, where my sense is that they tend to be owned by people with a more relaxed attitude towards good PM.

I have always been surprised that car manufacturers haven't done a better job of rolling regular maintenance expenses into the initial cost of a car (and thus, into the financing arrangements that support most new-car purchases), because doing so would appear to be something of a win-win: a more reliable car for the consumer and also a more reliable-seeming car for the manufacturer to tout. But I think the mandated separation of auto manufacturers from retailers and servicers in the US tends to conspire against this.
Apple’s Black Friday Discount Is Genius
Cranking Red Barchetta at full volume? I know what you mean. Though I'm a little more saddened thinking of the day when autopilot replaces me at the wheel.
There are empty houses, but not in places where people want to live.

There is absolutely a housing shortage in popular metropolitan areas (take your pick) . If there wasn't, then prices wouldn't be so high.
> You can't be more than 100% energy efficient

Yes, you can, practically speaking. The amount of energy needed to produce a given amount of value to humans is not fixed; it can be decreased, and in principle can be made as small as we like given sufficient advances in technology. That means the amount of value to humans that can be produced with a fixed amount of energy can increase, in principle as much as we like. That's what the parent to your post was saying.

Obviously it will be a while before we have technology advanced to the point where, say, the amount of value currently being produced per year on Earth can be produced with one tenth or one hundredth or less of the energy it currently takes. But we also have a while before we hit any hard limits of the sort you are referring to.
I took that as fatalistic irony. Still, it's about as funny as nuclear war.
No, they haven't. I'm just responding to the parent post saying that I hope they don't get caught up in the storm and labeled as such.
I recently came across an idea that involves group based[0] learning in students rather than the classical model. It's in a bunch of school districts but I'm curious how it works in practice.

That we have many competing new forms of education is a great evolution in my opinion and I had one of these experiments winds up causing a big impact.

0: https://newtechnetwork.org/
MPEG-LA Announces MPEG-DASH Patent Portfolio License
Can't edit my original comment – sorry about the 'I love you', that's a bit over the top. I might've had a drink earlier. ;)
Would a better method for the tiles in the chain be to sum up to that point?
What would you do if you didn’t have to work to receive an income?
Rust doesn't need its own malloc implementation.
> Your father's lifetime wasn't all that different. From no planes, to jets

I'm not quite that old. My father was born in 1936. Commercial air travel was already common. (But you're right about no jets yet). :-) Now my grandparents were born in a world with no airplanes. My grandmother grew up in a house with no electricity (but they had a telephone!)
Well, a call to rethink the concept of a job itself, is a very provocative and interesting idea. I would like to see more discussions around that.
Sheeple: https://xkcd.com/610/
There's a great example of this now. Uber drivers.

There are a lot of people out there with a lot of free time who are willing to work for very little.

Maybe the Govt should make an app that people can use their phone to sign up and do jobs like cleaning up parks etc.. and the Govt can pay them.
> We're in the middle of the longest stretch of world peace in history...

But what is the status of military expenses?

>There is less poverty (in terms of percentage of the population) than ever.

How much of that is loaned? I mean, aren't more people in perpetual, often unnecessary, debt now?

>People are healthier and living longer than ever.

And totally dependent on drugs, often from very young, even when they are not necessary. Not to mention obesity, depression...but hey, more drugs, cola and fast food.

>And we have Pokemon! It's a golden era.

Sure. I see you now.

The "awesomeness" you see is very superficial, and is quite possibly short lived. Things are far rotten if you look deep down.
it works exactly like that. law by brute force. that's basically how we've got data retention laws and how the BND "reform" happened.

the government proposes laws, the bundestag approves of it and the bundespresident signs it. the bundestag is, at times, critical of things but i would have to look up an example. the bundespräsident has forever been a sheep. can't remember anybody doing anything out of order. they get "thrown out" as soon as they even only say sth critical of the political mainstream - see mr. wulf.

anything can happen anytime if they get their ppl in line. opposition is hilarious and bold and simple at most. some say it doesn't even exist. i mean, we have a government constructed of a coalition of opposing forces, the CDU and the SPD, and they're marching the same march. depressing.

anybody telling you some other text book alternative theory is just delusional. there's nothing really better at least with regards to privacy or data protection. it's a laughabke myth spread by the german industry trying to draw profits from snowden. again, depressing.

edit: i forgot one entity viewed by many as one last bastion against unjust laws: our highest court, the bundesverfassungsgericht, the constitutional court. it's regarded very highly so let me demonstrate how those judges work. case in point, data retention law (vorratsdatenspeicherung)

court: "you'd like to save data for 12 months? that's too much."
gov: "ok, 6 months."
court: "that's better. agreed."
bundespräsident: signs law
Link to the MPEG LA's patent pool page since it's not in the article: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/MPEG-DASH/Pages/Intro.as...
Help me hack to save these kids
In my day job, I work on turning science-fiction into fact. I love it and would pay to do it. But for years, I have had this nagging feeling that I have been doing this at the cost of ignoring the less fortunate people whose lives will not be immediately impacted by my work. I told myself that spending my time doing what I was good at was the best way to contribute to the world.

But then, I had a wake up call on Wednesday. I came across this video of a child being maimed : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqIDsDhPNCk

Go ahead, take 50 seconds to watch it.

What is the point of all this technology if we cannot save this kid? Deep learning, cloud computing, big data...

This is a community of passionate hackers. Help me help these kids. There should be something that we can build. An app, a website, a database .. something that can help solve the problem of "beggar mafia" in India. Millions of people have smartphones in India. Can you think of something?
Have you looked into BetterTouchTool?
what kind of insights?
Off topic: I absolutely love your DIY posts on Reddit. Appreciate the openness in which you deep dive into your projects.
Why would we have to worry about that now?

The economy can grow by a million X before we start running into physical limitations on solar energy.
I'm convinced that ammonia will be used rather than hydrogen for these applications, but it amounts to the same thing.
Not a joke; it's a quote from one Ebenezer Scrooge.
I acknowledge that. The problem is that at the fringes there's news that will be labeled as fake by some and not others. If that stuff gets censored that's a huge problem to me, to the point that I'll accept the clearly fake news, while we think of a better way to deal with it.
> the question literally wanted a number in $ for net worth

That is literally not true. The question did not literally ask for a number in $ for net worth.

I do agree the questioner may have had dollars in mind (and probably would have settled for a ballpark) and that Wales avoided a quantitative answer. Evasive and cheeky but still with some enjoyable insight.
> A ChipWhisperer

OK, you've got it. Where should I have it sent?
Here's to a competitive Zen launch.
The KoalaPad – How we used to create graphics
Hmmm.. I'm pretty sure AltaVista ran on DEC Alpha hardware, not Sun. And Google used self-built high-density racks of Intel hardware.

Maybe it was Inktomi? I'm pretty sure they used Sun hardware.
No, economic policies come from observation that policies are sociological. Economics tells us what is, not what is desirable. Policies are applied economics, intended to distribute value in unnatural but desirable ways. Price controls and other "bad" economic policies are akin to a rocket ship's gravity controls that generate huge amounts of entropy to lift a metal box off the ground: They sacrifice some measure of global optimality in exchange for local improvements.
74.125.72.138 is a Google DNS server in Iowa:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#support
> Why don't rich countries like the US, Switzerland or Japan not print money to cover their spending?

The US is doing exactly that, and has been for decades. Since the 2008 debacle it has being doing even more of it.

> inflation in a sense is unavoidable

If you mean politically unavoidable, I agree; no government in human history has been able to avoid messing with the currency.

If you mean unavoidable period, I'm not sure why it would be. There is nothing in principle impossible about having a currency that cannot be inflated.

> if the cause of inflation is labor scarcity

How does labor scarcity cause inflation?
I think you were trying to parody comments on HN or elsewhere but I've rarely, if ever, heard anyone espouse such a view. The overwhelming majority agree that increased automation will lead to higher productivity but also cause unemployment. It's easy to write a snarky comment like that one, but I don't think it really adds value to the conversation.
It at least cuts down on the amount of time you have to explain the mechanics of it. This is more intuitive to memorize than an algorithm composed of bullet-point instructions. For intuition, I highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc - I think both the intuition and practicing the details should be learned.
From first principles, a battery swap station seems to add just one relatively isolated component to an existing charge station... they would use the same power infrastructure, the same authorization protocols, the same locations...
> my feeling is, is that anything that is larger human scale invokes mechanisms concerned with religion so you have a priesthood with white coats, you know all the paraphernalia were there and some people thought it would take over the world and some people wanted it to take over the world, and some people were afraid it would take over the world, and none of those things happened.

Can things be said any more brilliantly, for all inclusive matters involving humans?
increases are fun, but non-increases are better than decreases. Is our economic life worse than the 70s?
> Note as well that the average person today has a better quality of life than medieval kings did.

That doesn't means that we should set by and let modern kings steal most of our economic surplus.

And American wealth has grown at the expense of creating enemies who are in a growing position to exact retribution.
When there are no more jobs that need to be done, we will invent something new and create new jobs.
Why Laptops Should Have Ports of the Same Kind
Some variance of the end of labor seems to work its way around every five or so years. The focus of these articles are always the abstract concepts of labor that make it into politidal campaigns and economics. They never seem to notice that people often enjoy work: camaraderie, taking pleasure in a job well done and seeing how one's personal efforts can make a positive impact. What we should be struggling against is dehumanizing or demeaning work. People should be able to seek personal meaning in what they do.
When there are no more jobs that need to be done, we will invent something new and create new jobs. No one would have imagined 50 years ago that so many people would be software developers, designers, game developers, etc... Innovation builds on innovation
this would be lovely, but it's utopian. uber drivers drive someone to a place, and if they dont they dont get paid.

the sorts of jobs you're talking about arent always all so clearly verified/verifiable. you'd need other government workers just to verify that the job was done properly... ufff I can see the waste now
I ran DEC Alpha servers at the same time, and Tru64 (aka OSF/1 aka DEC UNIX) shipped with AdvFS. It has a lot of the same features as ZFS (volume management combined with the FS, so you could add/remove drives, and grow/shrink capacity w/o downtime). I remember my Sun admin friends being incredulous as I shuffled disk space on a live server. It is kind of a shame HP killed it.
> We're in the middle of the longest stretch of world peace in history.

If you don't count the Middle East or Africa, I suppose.
What's special about energy that makes it OK to rent, but not a tractor? (I can't buy a lifetime supply of diesel any more or less than I can pre-pay for a lifetime tractor rental)
Posted at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8332614.
Ya.

Whenever anyone talks about 'the singularity' (i.e. computer consciousness) I usually respond with "get your bot to make me a goddam ham sandwich and clean my toilet!" - then we can talk!

But let's avoid calling people 'retarded', eh :)
> what is the status of military expenses?

World wide? As a percentage of the size of the world economy? Compared to historical norms? I have no idea. But I'd be surprised if they weren't low.

> How much of that is loaned?

I'm talking about actual wealth, not bean-counting. There are fewer (again, as a percentage, not in absolute numbers) people without the basic necessities of life than ever before.

> totally dependent on drugs

Longevity improvements are not due to drugs on which people become dependent. They are due mainly to better nutrition and hygiene, vaccines, and antibiotics.

> Sure. I see you now.

To be clear, I was joking about the Pokemon.

> quite possibly short lived

That is certainly true. We can easily squander our good fortune. But one of the ways we can do that is not to recognize our good fortune for what it is: good fortune.
I have the political and business acumen of a wooden plank, so forgive the elementary question, but what would the German government or businesses have to benefit from the massive limitations? The way I read it, it seems Germany wants to restrict one's right to privacy... and that's it. Why?
> small businesses to big corporations.

What's wrong with that? I want a job that pays well, I don't care how many people share ownership or how large the separate units of ownership are.
To Joseph Campbell people identify with an in group and an out group. Have you ever empathized and cheered for a villain? Where in the psychology does that come from? A good story requires identifying with the protagonist or villain protagonist as a friend or someone we become emotionally wrapped in. Some stories we identify with the out group that we aren't in. First two movies that come to mind are the early Stars Wars and really to make this point is Revenge of the Nerds.

The story of Revenge of the Nerds was really needed at the time. Keep in mind at the time that movie was released gays were still hated, much more than today and yes there seems to be people in today's government who vocally hate gays. The movie causes us to identify with the nerds, to see how we might fit in as an individual, and to see how Lamar with his effeminate javelin throw is a member of our in group, our team.

Any larger community that doesn't accept gays are a bunch of idiots and there is a time and still large communities in the United States that don't. In that case the world is filled with idiots.

> The "we're in this together" spirit of films from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s later gave way to a reflex shared by left and right, that villainy is associated with organization.

That's not true. First movie that comes into my mind is the Wizard of Oz from 1939. The witch with her obedient monkeys and the wizard are the antagonists. The Munchkins were not idiots or enemies in the film. They were hard working people who wanted to get through the day and take care of the their families (maybe not that exactly). They needed someone who was brave, smart, and compassionate, to help them face a problem. That is what the hero does.

"Society never works". This completely misrepresents what Joseph Campbell was explaining about these stories. He would say most people need to conform because they need at the top of Maslow's pyramid to belong but society only works if someone with a new and different idea to solve a problem for that era and time stands alone against the grain of all the people who submit to the status quo because their need to belong.

It's not that society are idiots. It's that most people need to conform. Also, society won't work if people didn't conform. Society doesn't need everybody to be a hero but only a few.