skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China does not have a greater free-market model than the USA did during the 20th century. The problem is playing a correlation game and attributing absolutely every advance to the free market while attributing every decline to "socialism".

Clearly, the move of farmers to newly built cities was centrally planned by a huge central government. There's just no way all those privately owned businesses got together and said "let's build cities". It is a collective action problem. The same thing took much longer after the Great Depression, as John Steinbeck writes about in his novelsz

You can see similar advancements in all the new USSR Republics across the Soviet Union which came from pre industrial conditions to sky high literacy rates and electricity and manufacturing in a span of a few decades. I am talking about Muslim countries like Uzbekistan, Turkemenistan, etc. becoming much more prosperous, under Communist rule. So to claim that only Capitalism is capable of lifting masses out of poverty is certainly not true.

I am not saying Communist (or Islamist, or Nazi or Fascisy) ideology is good to have at the state level. I am saying NO IDEOLOGY IS GOOD at the state level. And in the USA, the worship of Capitalism is on the level of Islam in Saudi Arabia.

Capitalism has produced toms of negative externalities. The ecosystems of the world are all going to shit. We are living on resources borrowed from future generations, and it is unsustainable. Those rates of famine you are talking about have also been accompanied by the largest rise in desertification of farmland, deforestation, pollution of natural ecosystems and extinction of species around the world. And let's not forget the greenhouse gases. When will the bill come due? Will we be thanking those industrialists?
High-frequency chip makes fastest internet speeds look slow
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>Scientific advancement and technological innovation both greatly benefit from societies that have the greatest individual liberty and the least central control.

Communists agree, and this is why democratic Socialistts such as Oscar Wilde praised the fact that Communism nurtures individualism, especially for those in the arts and sciences. He wrote about this in The Soul of Man Under Socialism:

"What is needed is Individualism. If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first. At present, in consequence of the existence of private property, a great many people are enabled to develop a certain very limited amount of Individualism. They are either under no necessity to work for their living, or are enabled to choose the sphere of activity that is really congenial to them, and gives them pleasure. These are the poets, the philosophers, the men of science, the men of culture – in a word, the real men, the men who have realised themselves, and in whom all Humanity gains a partial realisation. Upon the other hand, there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want."

Your idea that anarcho-capitalism is a legitimate heir of the liberal ideas which were used to found the US is, to be honest, a silly one - as one can see the exact opposite in the writings of the Communists and anarchists whose whole idea was based on the freedom of individuals and their free association, something which even individualist anarchists such as Stirner realised is not possible with private property.
German licence plates are designed to be cheap to produce in high quality. Tiny licensed shops can just stamp them for you. That's much harder with proportional fonts.

And of course OCR, as everybody else already mentioned.
Sad to see that happen, what a great OS.
I think you could argue that small things like that can be done by a small team.
Are you serious? Everyone and their grandma in India uses WhatsApp. It's so pervasive that it's almost like the only means of communication for people with smartphone and internet access.
You think? To me it reads like a parody of 4chan. Come to think of it, 4chan is a pretty good at being a parody of itself. It reads to me just like a normal 4chan thread.
It is bad advice! Some get burned and some don't, but you have to consider possibilities like personal liability that can take a huge toll on your life.

It's all well and good until you find yourself in a tense standoff with a client who happens to enjoy litigation since they have an in-house counsel and money to burn. You may not identify that aspect of their personality until it is too late. Or you might think the risk is worth it.
Well it made me discover this gem http://n-gate.com
Looks promising. But the sign-up fails.
> it was not radical enough to overcome the power structures

there are issues that are even more deeply rooted than that. for example it completely eludes me how luxuries would be handled and distributed according to needs, or if it's ever recognized a need for luxuries and if it were how they'd be distributed to each according to personal interests and preferences
Yeah I installed this hoping for a different view of my open tabs.

e.g. all reddit tabs displayed together, all github tabs displayed together etc
Is there any fully formed application made with Haskell out there?
In http://blog.zarfhome.com/2017/08/your-load-is-too-heavy-zork... , Andrew Plotkin was pointing to an Inform 6 version of Zork by Allen Garvin ,
http://plover.net/~agarvin/zork1.txt derived from the original decompiled Z-machine code.
I used to work as a developer on a large sneaker site based in the UK (Crooked Tongues). Before then I had just thought of sneakers as something you wear. One of the guys I worked with was heavily into it and since we would get a (heavy) discount he'd suggest pairs to me I should buy purely as an investment. I think the best return I had was nearly quadrupling my money on a pair of Air Jordan 5s.

One of the last projects I worked on at the agency was a book of rare and collectables [1] - I think at one point we had the equivalent of half a million dollars sat behind my desk (the large yellow box in the middle is the Nike "Air Mag" Marty Mc Fly sneaker they mention in the article) [2]. After all this I understood a hell of a lot more that there's money in anything when enough people want it. Sounds obvious, but I didn't fully appreciate it until then. That and the power of marketing to create value out of thin air.

[1] http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/sneakers-the-complet...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/bO6nYts.png
And http://plover.net/~agarvin/zorkbugs.txt is a list of Zork bugs.
Using OMP is incredibly easy but in my experience it sometimes leaves up to 20% performance on the table vs doing and tuning everything manually.
Taking (or seeking) VC means that you don't want to be a gradual, incrementally growing company.
Not quite. Passenger makes Rails deployment easier, sure, but it's the fundamental nature of PHP not requiring an app server and just loading everything per request that's the real trick - I know FPM changes that, btw.
It seems to me that the kind of person who would write that is the kind of person who sees a group and can't imagine that individuals in that group might have different opinions.
> show the world that we are no less capable

I'm afraid the only way here is to make India more desirable place than US (and then accept everybody who wants to come).

Just leaving for greener pastures won't qualify.
Would it have been different if any other company had bought Sun?

Solaris was competing against free, without much to justify the large added cost. It's been a very long time since I heard of anyone buying new Solaris installations.
I don't know if this is more of a European thing but it used to be the case that unless you were wealthy you rented your fridge, cooker, TV etc. or at least bought them on some kind of hire-purchase agreement.

In Switzerland you even used to pay a monthly subscription to the PTT to rent your landline phone, separately from your phone line subscription. If you paid a bit more per month you got one of the fancy models with buttons instead of a dial. [source in German: https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/themen/ser...]

The whole service economy thing looks to me like it's going back in the direction of the times when various versions of "servant" were a common occupation.
Yes impatience is probably one of the most underestimated issues when it comes with humans and progress in general.
"Destroying the planet" doesn't mean nuking every single square-inch of land. Models predict that it is possible to trigger a self-sustaining nuclear winter when soot blocks the sun.

Destroying the planet via nuclear winter is firmly within our grasp, and we have enough nukes to do it several times over.
> seemingly unlimited amount of capital

Did they burn through lots of money?

> no immediate pressure to turn _any_ revenue/profit

Didn't some people pay for it?
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But the paywall does not pay for research, nor does it pay the peer review. It used to only pay the paper and editing, costs that internet and arxiv have made obsolete.
The USSR did indeed have problems after collectivizing farms in the Ukraine. However, that ended much earlier than the 70s. The USA did a lot to counteract the USSR. The Marshall Plan helped Europe recover after World War 2, but not USSR or Eastern Bloc. NATO was created to counteract the Warsaw Pact. The USA claims to have lost a lot in WW2 but perhaps you forget that the USSR lost 30 million people! Most of these people were men.

And yet, within a few short decades, without much economic help from the USA, the USSR not only rebounded but helped raise many Muslim republics like Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, etc. from a pre-industrial age to sky high literacy rates, spread electricity, manufacturing etc. The average quality of life greatly improved under the USSR. Everyone started speaking Russian.

Empires tend to do this kind of thing in general, regardless of their economic system. When we say "Chinese invented paper 2000 years ago" or "Arabs invented algebra" what we are really talking about is empires which disseminated knowledge that was obtained in one part of it by some people.

What would you say these republics had before "Communism" came? Was it Capitalism? Because they were dirt-poor on average per capita and couldn't read.
someone told me to join Amway Business Owner program. I am going to evaluate it.
Pandoc, I use that heavily for homework.
I had de-activated my account ~7 years ago. Back then, deleting facebook was not an option. I thought I was done with it till recently (~2 months) i started getting all sorts of notification and what not on the linked email. Even got an email saying my `linked phone number` was removed. I never had one and had not used fb on phone ever. It was however an old number of mine(walmart straight talk number i had for ~4 months around the time i had deactivated it). Idk how that got added or approved or when that happened but w/e. I hated the idea of having to re-login to delete. (I wish i could have used some other burner computer or anything other than my laptop but maybe this is too much paranoia.) But I did recover password and went through the deletion process.

I didn't even bother asking for copy of my data or w/e. And I don't even care if NSA or whoever has a copy of it. By making leaving facebook hard, it made me bitter about it back then. Hopefully my account will be deleted from facebook and i never have to see use that site again.

P.S. Thanks for the link HN, I'd volunteer my personal data to some of the people here if they ever needed to compete with FB A.I! o/
so, trade the jobs and economic well being of mid westerners for some global peace and quiet.
Story is now flagged, so no.
The criticism we can handle. The racism, not so much.
> run-list of tasks that it can quickly switch between each time one of them stalls on IO

Sounds like a less granular version of hyper threading.

> versioning the memory so you can speculatively execute tasks

The more you speculatively execute the less you actually execute. With more threads you don't have to try to squeeze more granular parallelism at the cost of diminishing returns.
sigh

Sad to see the loss of diversity in the operating system space. Thank you SunOS & Solaris for all the goodies over the years - Zones, ZFS, NFS, AutoFS, dtrace, etc.
They should add another layer of security by using embarrassing code names like YummyDookieChomper and IBeatMyWife, to discourage people from using them in their resumes or casual conversations.
Taxes do not come in many forms. They are involuntary payments made with jail as the punishment for noncompliance.
It also doesn't prevent you from stealing (or buying) a machine that can make licence plates.

You can't defend against everything, but any criminal who defeats the current license plates wouldn't have been caught based on his license plate anyway.

The font is enough to make plate manipulation not worth the effort for average criminals and for people trying to defeat speed cameras. Going any further than that isn't worth the effort.
Vivaldi provides arguably the most customizable UI of any browser out of the box (see: ability to move tabs to any side of the screen), plus their culture seems to me to be all about customization and providing options. I like that.

Firefox ESR is pointless - it's just delaying the inevitable. I tried Midori, but it runs poorly on KDE. Palemoon is pretty bad - I tried it and it doesn't properly support existing XUL extensions that work fine in Firefox, so it's a no-go in my book. Waterfox, on the other hand, is fast, works exactly like Firefox, and is at least willing to give continued XUL support a shot.

So, it's Vivaldi or Waterfox as best I can figure at this point.
Pandoc, the "universal document converter", is a good example of a large, feature-complete Haskell project in wide use.

https://pandoc.org/

Most people who use it aren't aware it's written in Haskell!
It was also insanely expensive for west germany (though not as much as here), but it was their goal from the start.

>Germany agreed to pay about 55 billion deutschmarks to the Soviet Union in gifts and loans, the equivalent of eight days of the West German GDP.[1]

Which if applied to US numbers 2016 GDP would be about 0.5 trillion dollars. The same source said the Germans would have paid 100 billion marks or roughly a little under 2 trillion.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification

Quickly googling numbers, it get between 100 billion euros and a trillion dollars[2]

[2]:https://www.quora.com/What-would-it-take-for-North-and-South...

The economic ration between the two countries are estimated to be not the 1:3 east and west germany was but more like 1:20 and the norks has half the numbers SK has, whereas there were 1 east german for every 2 west germans.

However that also does not take into account that a united Korea would be a huge economic powerhouse[3] (with a fully developed north, which will obviously take some time), Goldman Sacks estimate that it could have an economy that is bigger than any other G7 country, except the US.

Given that interest rates are super low right now, it might not be a bad idea to get some long interest loans for a unification.

[3]:http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/09/123_52202.html
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I do use facebook, last thursday I got an email saying that I was trying to log in when I wasn't and it was super weird for it to happen at the time. It's either some bug, exploit, or facebook doing it on purpose.
Handmade Hero must be on this list!

https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
But people do need to setup software and run their business. If your favourite language can't abstract away those setup details your language will be skipped by the masses who want to get things done and won't want to invest the time in the setup details.

It was easy to get setup and start programming in the 80s. That allowed you to spend time/energy on the complex logic you needed to write the program. Most programming is so much easier the level of math required is so much smaller and most websites are simple crud. Why are we making the setup process more difficult? Do we really need a gate keeper?
People will not stop trying to establish domination over one another. If history has taught us anything, it's that. Status-seeking is built in to the human genome, and what counts as status changes with fashion - one day it's empire building, another day it's moral crusades, yet another it's extermination of the Other.

You're right that 70 years is an eyeblink. Without nukes, I would expect bloodier wars than WWII every 50 to 100 years. We may still see it yet with autonomous drones, and we'll definitely see it if a realistic, reliable defence to ballistic missiles is established.

I don't see a way out beyond altering the psychological utility function of humans at the genetic level, but no such technology could be created and deployed without it being used for tyranny. We might slowly breed it out of the population, but we'd need a different economic structure that doesn't rely so heavily on competition, and that's not going to happen any time soon.
This was a design-by-committee project that didn't have a clear singular problem it was trying to solve. Reading their goals they intentionally mixed the simple aspect of a "911" for human rights workers with a mishmash engagement-type soft goals.

Just looks like a recipe for failure regardless of funding.

Another way to look at it, it was a success if measured in terms of raising awareness of the problem.
> you need to test the new releases on a physical phone

Why not use the emulator?
Why do we adhere to the assumption that number of users is the ultimate metric of software success?

I would like to hear from devs who aren't interested in expanding for the sake of expanding, who still consider their apps to be very successful.
That's a fair point. "Why didn't it change? I updated the code." That's definitely a barrier when there's no distinction between development and production.
"They “trained” C.A.N. on more than 81,000 paintings from 1,119 artists ranging from the 15th century to the 20th century. The A.I. experts wrote algorithms for C.A.N. to emulate painting styles such as High Renaissance, Impressionism, and Pop Art"

None of this is "Intelligence" it is just averaged copying.

Intelligence requires self awareness. Until computers become self aware this is all hokum.
This is the kind of stuff that never makes into a journal article, but frequently gets cooked up by the university public relations/outreach staff. There is a huge incentive to make every piece of work as flashy as possible.

I'll also point out the 10M times faster thing. How was that estimated? If I have some really bad code that I'm using and I optimize it and it runs 10M times faster (not uncommon for scientific code) do I get to make this a big public headline? (the answer is: apparently yes).
no, what eh was saying (correctly) is that even if it's true that London need to import the things you listed from other countries it would not make a big difference in his prosperity. For example it's laughable that you mentioned farming, as UK heavily relay on imports already and the sector constitutes only 0.5% of the GDP. So basically London would be better off without the rest of the UK
It seems you are approaching this topic from the perspective that technological progress is of most value.

For others, ethical progress--that is, technological progress that does not impede on human rights--is of higher value than technological progress alone.

>[I]s Raytheon's freedom to use a compiler as important as individual freedom?

"As important" is a distraction: comparing degrees of importance with respect to rights and freedoms will always be a rabbit hole into which you will get lost as you differentiate infinitesimal cases in context. Freedom is freedom, and if humans are allowed that, that is enough.
Which exchanges are you using if you don't mind my asking? I have some btc that I mined ages ago and want to do something interesting with it..
It basically all comes down to front-loading income and back-loading expenses. On the first point, a bit of early job-hopping was hugely beneficial.

(1) Better raises that I would have gotten by staying in one place.

(2) Developed lots of skills; exposed myself to lots of industries / bodies of knowledge / ways of thinking and doing.

(3) Allowed me to discover which computing specialty best suited me (amazing how many work in an area they neither enjoy nor are good at just because they don't know any better).

Once things had stabilized a bit, when continuing to job-hop would have become a negative, I got deeper into one particular area and scratched my way up to expert-hood. Turns out to have been a good strategy, though I can't take much credit for having realized it at the time. To a certain extent I just fell into a good pattern by accident.

The "back-loading expenses" part was more deliberate. My wife and I have always been a bit frugal, driving older/cheaper cars and not traveling or eating out constantly. Didn't live in the most expensive part of the country. Didn't buy a house until I was 31. Didn't have a kid until I was 39. By that time, interest was working for me on investments instead of against me on credit. That's the one point you should take away from this: make interest work for you, not against you. Deliberately took a mortgage with no penalty for paying it off early, then did so about half way through the original term, have been 100% debt free ever since. Now the paychecks just roll in and a good chunk goes immediately into earning interest.

Even as a highly productive worker, this combination probably means I've made more money as a (fairly passive) investor than as a worker. Sadly, becoming a rentier or attaching yourself to them is the only way to get ahead in this economy.
As a parent with a child on Autism spectrum, it makes me mad to no end to try and shoehorn Animals everywhere. Like - Rabbit and Tiger going to school and doing things. Tiger going to "boys room". How do you explain that tiger is a boy?

I am not saying - to not have Animals in the stories. Turtle and the rabbit in their role make sense. Thirsty crow story won't be same without a crow or some other kind of flying Animal. So as Lion and the mouse.

But it doesn't stop there. We have Animals doing shopping, pigs buying ham (it comes quite close to that sometimes). In my experience of working with my child, he understands and retells stories that he can relate to. Contexts that I can explain without calling for helpful dose of fantasy. He and I still try and love books where use of Animals is out of place. Such as - Elephant & Piggy stories. But I believe, he will get so much more out of those books if they used Humans.

Then again, I may not be their target audience...
I very much appreciate the Google takeout service. I have switched to mostly using Fastmail, which is good but there is no easily used supported way to archive old emails locally on my laptop of backups. I don't consider using POP3 to fetch everything a good solution.
Oops... It is on the list. But I highly recommend it.
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