skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was growing up, there was a definite fear of Mutually Assured Destruction, which disappeared with the fall of the Soviet Union.

On a more local scale, in the 80s in Australia there was a huge fear of European Wasps - you could even buy little plastic protectors for your drink cans to prevent them crawling inside.

On a personal scale, when I was young I was scared of being different, now I don't really care whether I'm different or not.

Fear is not forever. We shed fears left, right, and center. Yes, if someone is putting energy into maintaining a fear, it will sustain, but it's just not true that once we fear something, we always will.
> When CNN gets a story wrong, the right creates a huge storm and people get fired. When the right gets a story wrong (Breitbart still pushing the hard anti-climate change line, Hannity with the Seth Rich conspiracy, the entire birther movement, Pizzagate, and on and on and on)... nothing happens. Nothing.

We see this in Australian media too, and I'm guessing everywhere else in the world is seeing it becoming more prevalent too. There's a real elitism around "what you are allowed to say"...
Kid, when I started in software development we had to give 50% of our revenues to Ingram-MicroD, plus co-op (marketing) dollars, and pay for printing manuals, boxes, copying disks, and shrink-wrapping out of the rest. Then with what was left we'd pay for advertising, development, and support.

Apple created a market where they host all of your content, give you your own free marketing pages for each product, pay for all the costs of distributing your content world-wide, and pay developers tens of billions of dollars a year. That they only ask 30% is one for the greatest deals software developers have ever had.
Been doing this for ages without intending to.

I generally eat 13-14 and again 18-19. and that's it.
It's difficult for me to even respond to this politely, but I'll give it a shot.

> For now, for work I spend a couple of hours a week maintaining a website.

So you have some sort of life where you have no responsibility and don't work. I can see how that might be difficult for you.

"Go find something you love and do it," is the typical life advice. I don't get the feeling that you're doing that. I don't get the feeling an office will change that.
There were real deals on Amazon hardware devices (Echo, Fire, etc). Most everything else was "meh".

camelcamelcamel.com is your friend to research how good of a deal it really is. (no affiliation, just a happy user)
> The problems with Upwork and Freelancer, while significant, are regularly blown out of proportion. I don't recommend them for more than finding short gigs when you're in a pinch, but they are useful for that. Do be prepared to lose a lot of jobs to bidders from the third world. Take advantage of anything that you can use to differentiate yourself.

I would second this. It's not great pay, but OP already expressed they'd take less than market. If you learn which types of jobs to quickly ignore, I think a person could easily stay fully engaged in the $25-50/hr range. There's quite a few clients there that are sick of what they get at the lower end of the spectrum.
Technology in general moves capital to the top, so long Government fails to properly regulate and manage the growing economy.

Nothing intrinsic about Elon's desired changes here -- what a hit job of an article; childish at best, and deceiving at worst.
Theory: Operator (who seems European) was also purchasing/selling in quantity on Hansa. Given the amount of information gathered by the Dutch Police, it's possibly a risk-based decision by the operator to clean house.
Hawkings was the PI at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. Which is now part of Berkeley. He is not an outsider (15+ years of research). You could argue though, that Numenta is more focused on bringing these methods to market, then solely doing research. I get that this doesn't always resonate well with people in academia.
Note that although we can run on CPU, CPUs do not have the graphics pipeline and the memory bandwidth necessary for interactive server-side visualizations like this.
Where is the clarity in mass media.
I feel the same based on price of items I watched. I'm curious any site like camelcamelcamel can help quantify this "scam" :)
When I'm most cynical I believe that the tech community's preoccupation with diversity is to avoid thinking about social class and lack of social mobility.

It's understandable. We're culpable to some degree and that doesn't feel good.
It's called evil twin and if you thought of it more than ten years ago you would've had to write your own script.
For completeness sake, this is probably the comic you are referencing: https://xkcd.com/936/
Not only is this not new for traditional vendors, it's not even new for the internet. Scummy sellers on Steam do the same thing right before sales every single year. Oh well. At least some quite nice Anker stuff was actually on sale. You can never have enough USB chargers these days.

Just like in the case of Steam, I'm more apt to believe it's sellers that are doing this than Amazon. While both stand to benefit, sellers stand to benefit much more overall.

Although it's never going to be perfectly accurate, I recommend anyone who shops Amazon for expensive stuff use a price tracking service, like CamelCamelCamel, to see exactly how good a deal on Amazon really is. Again, not perfect, but at least you can then get some context for what the price is currently showing up as.
For those who like newsletters delivered to their inbox:

https://github.com/vredniy/awesome-newsletters

Enough programming news for a lifetime, or two.
I dunno, what about super nationalist white supremacists? Don't really find them here either.
But they are! At least that's how it is perceived by the other side, and that's how you understand that perspective.

For a large number of people, truth is in the eye of the beholder. If a story confirms your preconceived biases, the journalist got it right and is telling the truth. If it opposes your beliefs, it's factually wrong. Truth is like relativity: There is no aether, no privileged reference frame.

When one believes, for example, with all of their soul and being, that climate change isn't happening, or that vaccines are good for you, then any reporting on the "facts" is ridiculous conspiracy, no matter how measurable it is. It's those greedy ivory tower elite, at it again! Reports about the falseness of climate change and the dangers of vaccinations are the lone voice of truth shining through.

You could write a report that you believe has zero bias. All observable facts. It will be seen as ridiculous, biased conspiracy by some people out there.
The book being from 2004 is kind of outdated. Nevertheless fun to read.
Game a Week: Getting Experienced at Failure
> taxi-drivers will find new jobs in the future.

Will these new jobs be skilled and require a high amount of education. They probably will, do you really think lot of people are going to retrain themselves.
Amazon has a gift card system (Amazon Cash I think?) and as a full blown grocery store could accept EBT.
... nothing happens

That because of expectations. Everyone knows Breitbart is hard right. Even conservatives will admit that. Even Breitbart will admit that.

CNN like to position itself as the news. You know, the straight shit. When they go off the rails people get pissed because they don't expect CNN to do that.
Is this FUD?

One of the Mikkelsons was registered Republican then turned independent and the other is Canadian thus unable to vote.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/
Yeah, I can basically understand texts written in interlingua.
> I'm curious if anyone has had success with this.

I've found full-time non-remote work through meetup.com meetups. It wasn't very hard. I'm sure mileage will vary though, especially if the "must be remote" requirement implies significant distance from an urban area.
Yeah, I feel tricked frankly, given the proximate mention of GPUs.
Udemy does this as well for all of their products.
A Practical Guide to Tree Based Learning Algorithms
At that point you might as well just speak a Spanish/Italian mashup.
That's the problem with journalism today though. With ad based revenue platforms, a view is a view. The content itself doesn't matter, only a headline that makes views does.

I really want to see a subscription system that rewards quality over just views.
Icculus (Ryan Gordon) Tells Us Everything – Part 1
Social security pays survivor's benefits to your minor children... How many 65+ year olds have minor children? Basically none. And the other straw man your article argues against is private account plans that are basically loans taken against your future social security benefits. I'm talking about not participating in social security at all.

>that my goal is sinister enslavement via social security check, or that your championing of an entirely privatized retirement system owes more to some other motive than concern for the struggles of manual laborers?

How a reader is biased before coming into the conversation is irrelevant. I'll ask again, since you dodged it. Are you open to plans that would allow the poor to accumulate private wealth that they can pass onto their children? I'll give you a pass that you probably don't think your actions are part of what's keeping them poor. However, keeping them under your thumb and beholden to the state is simply an objective fact of the system if you won't allow them to opt out.

>The question is how you're going to replace the revenue they provide for Social Security and Medicare

Why would I want to replace the revenue? There's lots of ways to handle phasing out the program, but you could simply freeze the nominal value of the payouts and let inflation eat away at it until it's cheap to just pay off any remaining outstanding benefits and shut it down. While that's going on you can issue a dividend refund for however much excess the program collects.

>I haven't seen any credible evidence or argument that if we eliminate SS+MC, the people for whom those specific taxes turn out to be regressive would have the opportunity to get a hold of a vehicle that would provide better benefits/returns, not to mention the balance of incentives to put money into it.

Buying a bunch of useless shit that your kids sell at a yard sale after you die that makes a few hundred bucks is a better return on investment than the 100% loss many of the poor get today because they die too early to receive any benefits at all. Your answer to that was that if the 60-year old who dies has a 5 year old they'll get a payout... I mean seriously...

A person/family making $35k/yr from 21 to 65 needs to only put away 6% of their income and earn the historical 401k average of 5% to have 100% of their working years annual income in retirement income to the age of 80. The bottom 40% of US income has a life expectancy of 80 or less. And that's putting under half their current FICA (15%) into a retirement account. Also incidentally, that's nearly 50% better than than the SS payout in your James Russel article.

Will there be some unfortunate people who were disabled or spent an inordinate amount of time with a household income of less than 2/3 the median household income? Or perhaps some low income people who beat the odds and live to 90? Absolutely. If 90% of us want to pitch in to help the bottom 10%, I'm happy to do so.
Survival MMORPG Durango: Wild Lands Now on Closed Beta in SEA
I believe I tried dan Carlin but was turned off when he made the argument that a third party vote is a wasted vote.
Codementor/HackHands seem to be good options.
It's clear to any layperson willing to do research that they did so - I looked up several items on a few price history websites, and found that while they did have lower than normal prices, it was more like a 4% discount off the bottom instead of the 40% they claimed. The Yeti microphones seemed to be the absolute worst - they have never ever been $150, more like $90, and they were on sale for $85 or so.
Lest anyone not take you seriously, I noticed this when I first immigrated to the US, and every time I've returned from a multi-week trip: the first time I see a TV again I'm just flabbergasted at how nasty the advertizing is. When you're not used to it, it just seems especially manipulative and very negative towards the competition compared to other the other countries I've spent time in (which primarily other countries heavily influenced by the UK).
Ask HN: How do you manage part-time co-founders?
I run a startup and I am full-time, but my two co-founders are part-time. They are going full-time in 3 months, but how do we best manage expectations to maximize success and productivity. We are also all remote for this time-period.
I stopped watching CNN during election night when the table was full of people who at least once said "we" when they intended to say "the Democrats".
Note that producers can't contractually force independent retailers to obey certain prices under antitrust rules. Hence MSRPs being merely "suggested".
The lithium is a small percentage of the battery by weight.
Thank you for letting me know that SMS authentication is not mandatory for Google accounts! I assumed it was for the reason mentioned in your comment.
Go to a brick and mortar jewelry store, everything is 100% off.
Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in a darknet dropbox type thing?
Hey everyone! I created a nice alternative to dropbox that's 100% encrypted and is anonymous. Each account comes with there own .onion url and has all the same abilities as dropbox accept the added feature to be able to code in a built in IDE. Is this something anyone would be interested in? Let me know your thoughts! Thanks!
Also:

> Withdrew from top university in my country after 6 months

combined with

> I also am very much a generalist with no specialist skills. What employers would this be valuable for?

None. Not phrased like that anyway.
I recommend this article to you about the failure and death of journalism.

https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2016/08/21/american-jo...
Can you post some examples?
Try to follow the route and switch to mapping mode if it doesn't match?

Honestly I don't know why the Roombas don't just trace the perimeter. The semi-random probing they do seems inefficient to me. But then I don't know anything about the algorithm they're using, so maybe I'm missing something.
I second the recommendation for 3camels, and not just for Prime Day. I bought quite a bit on Prime Day - all of which I'd had in my cart / wish list for months and all of which were well below their actual price (per 3camels).

I also saw quite a few products that were well above their normal prices, while showing as "80% off" because the prices were raised a week before. I didn't see anything that drastic from Sold-By-Amazon products. They were generally 3rd-party vendors.
I was banned from latestagecapitalism when I argued with a user that was recommending murdering business owners was a necessity to improve the world.

That sub used to just be a cynical but funny place to comment on the general degradation of morality, then it swung to extremism like seemingly every Reddit sub.
Legit explanation of bitcoin

Bitcoin is a digital currency, tied to no government, that can be exchanged for U.S. dollars and other national currency. It consists of a public ledger of all bitcoin in circulation and the transactions in which they are used. To own bitcoin, a user must possess two codes; a public key that identifies individual bitcoin, and a private key akin to the signature needed to write a check. To carry out transactions, those codes are passed between bitcoin wallets, where they are stored by users.
Only the last 20 years? Only the US?
> To have one language for communication for the whole world unencumbered by historical baggage of politico-cultural domineering

Unfortunately, Esperanto bears a lot of that baggage, despite it's intent.
I'm saying there's not always clarity in reality. Someone says, "look at this giant mess!" and people want a simple answer. Sometimes there isn't one. But people demand clarity, so some will emerge, even if it's false and even if it's fear-based.
A lot of the design guidelines in that book carry forward many other technologies. A really great read.
That's a topcoder/codeforces algorithm competition sized problem.
Does your Town need its own Currency?
Their prices are not the lowest, just experienced this recently. Here is a bike i wanted to buy

https://www.amazon.com/GMC-Denali-Large-63-5cm-Frame/dp/B00F... ($220)

Ended up buying on walmart ($170)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/25-700c-GMC-Denali-Men-s-Bike-Whi...

So much for paying $99 to get prime. I have noticed of late that lot of items are cheaper on Walmart and they offer free 2 day shipping.
One thing that makes Esperanto popular in Asia is that the Asian languages are much more dissimilar than European languages. For example, the effort for a Japanese person to learn Korean is much more than to learn Esperanto.
> So you have some sort of life where you have no responsibility and don't work.

Not exactly. I have a responsibility to serve my customers that pay to use the service and still work, just not as much as others. I have spent a lot of time getting the business to the point where it is now.

> "Go find something you love and do it" - I don't get the feeling that you're doing that

It actually is something I am very passionate about but it's solved the problem I set out to solve. There isn't much more room to develop myself with it. I'm thinking (hoping?) that employment may broaden my perspectives.
It's not just consumers...

"Nobody's got to use the Internet." - Sensenbrenner

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/04/15/...
Failure to predict the behaviour of a large group of people doesn't necessarily imply a lack of objectivity. It's possible that it's the large group that lacks objectivity.
i read that two companies involved in traditional securities trading on distributed ledgers lobbied for this legislation.

Reading the text, they did not make sufficient changes required to have a legal entity on a blockchain like ethereum or bitcoin.

for example, Delaware requires keeping track of the full names of each person/entity that owns a corp.
What is the name of the wallet software he compromised?
Can someone enlighten me to a better appreciation of the moderation of my above comment?

I don't understand, unless maybe I was gushing somewhat. I do that. I'm female. And despite decades writing programs mainly for my personal research, I have a non technical, traditional media business, corporate experience of computing.

So when I look around here, I am both very happy to not see references to big ticket kit, and the feeling of independence is fresh without question.

But I cannot recall any acknowledgement of the tooling that corporations have habitually to hand. That GitLab controversy I thought hardly touched the issues of providing the level of service that major enterprises require and do obtain from the market, instead of using open source software for singularly critical infrastructure, without any analysis of the alternatives. It would be very boring to discuss storage products, its hard to get real information about them, even, despite the influence of a host of new companies. But the debate didn't touch a single advantage or aspect of the options exist.

I'm in total darkness trying to guess what I spoke improperly. I thought I might prompt someone who sells hardware support for say Ceph clusters, to comment, using the idea to gain awareness their own business.

But a silent, cold, zero, feels badly in need of some sort of company that commiserates the comment I wrote. I can totally grok if the Shut Up Woman reflex is one I have prompted you to feel. My bad, I usually have a lid on the gush. Is the idea so awful? I only know that the commission on storage systems is still enormous, and I think in particular younger HN types could make sheer bank, in a EDS sales setting, where real understanding of technology is, well, imperfect. It seems like the HN world doesn't acknowledge the corporate world much. That's a pity, if true. Below the household name corporations are so many in real need of serious minds, and I know personally that the salaries are not as bad as they are made to look at with statistics when debated here, I mean you think a typical character here is going to be a bottom decile performer, or top centile producer, compared against the big wobbly world of corporate computer departments?

Edit horrid auto correction
Here's a question (ignoring the fact the CEO said it's opt-in): what danger does this actually pose?
Not really newsworthy. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book. "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." -Publilius Syrus (1st century BC)
That's because it hasn't happened. It is simply a highly-plausible fantasy used to justify government interventions in fully-functioning markets. Economist Thomas DiLorenzo has actually studied this, and has found that, in the vast majority of cases, monopolies are associated with a dramatic (edit: permanent) reduction in prices. He found only two cases that actually followed the "predatory pricing" script (edit: that is, where prices dropped over time and then rose when monopoly power was achieved) — and those were trivial monopolies in the markets for matches and castor oil in the early 20th century.

(Edit: remove FTC comment, as it is besides the point and not strictly accurate)
Indeed. They pretty have an eternal "sale" for $10.

Quick check: yep. $10. "Set Yourself Apart -
Keep your competitive edge with courses for $10—ends 7/31!"

Pretty sure by 8/3, there will be another sale for $10.
isn't california trying to do this?
A lot of white Americans would rather be fucked over than risk helping non-whites.
100% off is free, no matter what the base price is, so that's clearly not true. (Though, oddly, it's not uncommon online, with a “just pay (inflated) shipping and handling charge” proviso.)
Prime Day is essentially a farce at this point, giving customers really great prices on only their own products like the Fire Tablet and Echo, which allow the customer to easily spend more on Amazon. I bet they would love it to be like Singles Day on Alibaba but all the marketing in the world can only help it along so fast.
There has never been anything quite like the patent situation around HEVC. Using HEVC legally requires signing four different license agreements at the minumum[1]. The license agreements with Technicolor and Velos Media are actually secret. This includes their fees. The other two licenses (MPEG LA and HEVC Advance) are public. They are far more expensive then H.264 taken individually, even at current promotional rates.

As a result the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) was formed by major hardware and software companies. AOM is developing an alternative to HEVC. AOM has almost all hardware manufacturers of any significance as members.

[1]: Other essential patent holders who have not officially licensed their patents include AT&T, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and Cisco. They may elect to license their patents unilaterally, which adds additional uncertainty to HEVC.
Benami Property Transactions and Penalties for It – Bill Rules and Definition
It's pretty shocking even if you are used to it. I can't believe people pay for cable given how terrible of an experience it is.
Um, "agents that perceive the environment" sounds a lot like homunculi, which effectively just punts the Hard Problem downstream, but doesn't address it.

This is no different in essence than Searle's Chinese Room problem, which at its core asks "If the parts aren't conscious, how can the gestalt be?"

We don't have an answer, but it must be true as long as the brain is involved. Individual neurons are unconscious electrochemical devices, but they still add up to experiencing the redness of red.