skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now if we could only solve the shilling problem on social networks.

Your whitepaper blew my mind in trying to bootstrap YACC via the hook of a decentralized social network. I'd say odds of long-term success are zero here, but points for originality.
> Moonshots like this are understandably expensive, though, and since a huge chunk of that money went to capital costs (like buying a tractor and a harvester), the next crop will be vastly cheaper.

They would get a more accurate number if they calculated how much these machines depreciated over that period instead of just throwing in their total cost.
Only successful if they can cross the Mexico border. :D
But Chrome for Android didn't come out until 2012 and Chris Rogers started the Web Audio work in 2009. I think someone would have had to have been exceptionally farsighted to think "Android's audio stack is going to suck for several years so we need to design around that now".
What makes society work is very visible - society. The individuals that comprise the society. When they have resources (money, freedom, property ownership, etc) the society will grow. Also, population growth. If there are more people around then there will be more sold and thus produced.
I came across this 36 page lecture[0] with the same title in by another person with the author, for those who want some insight without buying the book.

Interesting to read, and it seems like it comes down to:

- Because they have extractive political and economic institutions.

- These are difficult to change though they can be successfully challenged and altered during critical junctures.

- The roots of modern world inequality lie in the emergence of inclusive institutions in Britain and the fruits of this - the industrial revolution - spread to those parts of the world that had similar institutions (settler colonies) or quickly developed them (Western Europe).

- Other parts of the world languished with extractive institutions which have persisted over time and thus remain poor today.

With caveats of:

- History is not destiny.

- Effective reforms towards inclusive institutions possible.

- But it often necessitates a minor or major political revolution.

Two examples:

1 End of Southern equilibrium in the United States

2 Botswana

I think I was drawn to this part in the lecture and started thinking about what modern day analogous of this could look like (Jamie Dimon's position on crypto-currencies as of late [specifically bitcoin] as modern day Sultan wrt firing employees trading such [and other well politically entrenched financial institutions around the world], DPI on internet networks by various nation states from blocking easy access to information, etc) :

- In 1445 in the German city of Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press based on movable type. Spread rapidly throughout Western Europe.

- In 1485, the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II issued an edict to the effect that Muslims were expressly forbidden from printing in Arabic.

[0] http://www.lse.ac.uk/assets/richmedia/channels/publicLecture...
> it's that way because of people's greed.

Came here to say this. The poverty and richness (this word doesn't sound right) of every country can be directly tied to the greed (or lack thereof) of 1 or more rulers, aristocrats, businessmen, dicatators, prime ministers, presidents = "ruling class".

That's all there is to it. No amount of analysis or economic theories, justifications or "studies" can hide that.
There were no sound files. I used an oscillator and changed the gain with `setTargetAtTime` to briefly fade in and out. That should prevent any clicking, but in Firefox it required an excessive amount of time.
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Most rich countries are rich because they build their wealth on free labor (slavery), and this countries include USA, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, etc.
Some are really poor because they've been exploited by the countries mentioned above (Africa and former German, British, Belgian, French colonies).
Some are poorer because they've been destroyed by war multiple times (Poland).
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The zero racism part is not gonna slide with the so-called developed countries
Why XML of course!
Carlson: No... it didn't. It's not fair! It's not fair!
Sheridan: (knocks Carlson out) What can I say? Life's tough sometimes.

P.S. in an earlier comment you asked for a link and my profile provides it.
It is generally assumed to follow from the fact that the United States Customs Service was established back in 1789, and its duties, from the very beginning, involved dealing with contraband.

I poked around a bit, and while the first SCOTUS decision addressing this head on seems to be from 1977, it goes into more detail:

"That searches made at the border, pursuant to the longstanding right of the sovereign to protect itself by stopping and examining persons and property crossing into this country, are reasonable simply by virtue of the fact that they occur at the border, should, by now, require no extended demonstration. The Congress which proposed the Bill of Rights, including the Fourth Amendment, to the state legislatures on September 25, 1789, 1 Stat. 97, had, some two months prior to that proposal, enacted the first customs statute, Act of July 31, 1789, c. 5, 1 Stat. 29. Section 24 of this statute granted customs officials "full power and authority" to enter and search "any ship or vessel, in which they shall have reason to suspect any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty shall be concealed . . . ." This acknowledgment of plenary customs power was differentiated from the more limited power to enter and search "any particular dwelling-house, store, building, or other place . . ." where a warrant upon "cause to suspect" was required. The historical importance of the enactment of this customs statute by the same Congress which proposed the Fourth Amendment is, we think, manifest. This Court so concluded almost a century ago. In Boyd v. United States, 116 U. S. 616, 623 (1886), this Court observed:

"The seizure of stolen goods is authorized by the common law; and the seizure of goods forfeited for a breach of the revenue laws, or concealed to avoid the duties payable on them, has been authorized by English statutes for at least two centuries past; and the like seizures have been authorized by our own revenue acts from the commencement of the government. The first statute passed by Congress to regulate the collection of duties, the act of July 31, 1789, 1 Stat. 29, 43, contains provisions to this effect. As this act was passed by the same Congress which proposed for adoption the original amendments to the Constitution, it is clear that the members of that body did not regard searches and seizures of this kind as `unreasonable,' and they are not embraced within the prohibition of the amendment."

(https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=610713613239826...)
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Learning something new lol. No seriously. I missed it.

South Korea really did have the Greatest Generation. Those who were were adults during the war and those born around that time. Really.
Wow we are competitors: https://www.cryptoground.com/
You are not alone & I am with you
Assuming that the tools run on any OS. Mac users especially seem to rely on tools available only on that platform.
> But it's also true that we wouldn't have much reason for believing in any such form of consciousness given that it's completely unobservable.

The reason I see is roughly as follows: it also exists in the part of us which is able to communicate, and the conditions for it being there do not appear related the anatomical functions (e.g. cognition and communication) of that other area—so that the problem becomes more a question of demonstrating why we should assume that it does not exist in the parts which don't have communication capabilities. In other words, if all the parts which are able to communicate find it present and yet it is not due to the communication capability itself—why assume its not present rather than just not communicated in other areas? (And to clarify, I believe the above would be nonsense for the non-Hard Problem which is clearly related to cognition—but I'm only speaking of The Hard Problem.)

> But I wouldn't say it's necessarily a conflation

I think we're talking about different things here. I am specifically talking about people conflating the Hard Problem of consciousness with the non-Hard Problem of consciousness. Or do you mean to say that the two problems are the same and that the designation of 'Hard Problem' as something separate is vacuous?

> This sounds like an attempt to smuggle a preferred answer into the definition of the problem.

I agree it sounds that way, and I'm open to further argument that that's the case—but I'm pretty sure it's not. Instead, I think if you follow the problem of trying to define qualia far enough, you end up running into my fabric of the universe situation—or at least the distinction I make between the rules of monopoly versus the substrate in which the physical incarnation of monopoly exists. I believe that substrate issue is in the definition of the hard problem, though you can probably find phrasings of it in which its absent.

Anyway, I appreciated your reply and would be happy to discuss further.
Indeed. How rich would Finland, Sweden, Austria, and Poland really be today had they never colonized Africa or subjugated and enslaved its industrious inhabitants, and how rich would Ethiopia be if it had been spared from the ravages of European rapacity?
Here's a fairly detailed paper with links to many of the laws and court decisions that are the bedrock of the border search principle -
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/library/P1075.pdf
Ireland made some kind of special arrangements. For example Apple paid the full tax for products sold in Ireland but only aprox 1% or even less for the products sold in the rest of EU. It's like saying "come to Ireland" and pay no tax to the rest of EU. Ireland is happy because they cash in the tax for the products sold in Ireland plus an extra for the products sold in the rest of EU.
If you ask me tax should be paid where the profit is generated.
We are using Airflow to manage ETL jobs. Nearly all of these are SQL steps dynamically generated via an Airflow DAG that transform transaction and event data on our SQL warehouse into 'master' tables everyone has access to. All SQL and DAG code is committed into Github and we have a process to update Airflow and merge any changes after its peer reviewed. Every change is done via a PR so we have visibility and accountability.

One thing we want to improve is our testing component, curious to hear how people manage test workflows, replicating prod before promoting new pipelines. I.e. I want the branch to run a full test suite against a prod replica before automatically replacing the current prod pipeline.
The same could have been said 30 years ago for an open source OS.
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Not really, they should theoretically handle a lot more than a hectare with these things.
Why was the other side of the story banned on HN, but this one allowed?

This is retaliation for Kaspersky showing the middle finger to CIA backdoors, as was reported in multiple non-western news outlets over the past week.
I say moderate weather and higher percentage of fertile land.
Eh? Think you need to get your facts straight: https://amp.independent.ie/business/irish/ireland-contribute...
After WWII, the US invested /massively/ in Germany. Also, many people were trained in some profession, so even though everthing was destroyed, they knew how to rebuild it.
Regardless of whether you have an arm or not, there is a perceiver of these sense phenomena. Where is this perceiver? :)
This should be a solved problem with HD wallets.
It seems that half of the people in this company use the wrong acute sign `as an apostrophe instead of ' or ’.
Unfortunately it's the half that creates presentations and talks to customers.

It looks terrible and to me it's a disgrace!

Example: it`s versus it's or it’s. (first one is wrong).
Elon Musk posts a video of failed rocket landings
You can select any arbitrary tile. The opposite corner tile, or any random one in the edge if it's a maze you need to traverse.
Mmm. I had no idea either. I was surprised to see how old the linked article is!

I'm not a sysadmin, but I use Linux every day. Just can't keep up anymore...
Yes, to clarify, I was using `setTargetAtTime` to ramp the volume, but it was still clicking in Firefox without an extra hack. At the time I found a bug report that appeared to point to the cause (something related to internal audio buffers that Firefox uses), but I'm not finding it at the moment. It could have been fixed.
This criticism is always so weird. What should the article - not thesis note, ARTICLE - have been: 10 times longer?

It is almost like people expect comprehensive, bulletproof writing in under 1000 words.
Reminder: kik is the company who demanded from a contributor to remove his npm package with the same name and the whole sequence of events led to npm havoc.

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm
Monoid is a concept that is older than category theory. And way simpler. I don't get why people always say category theory when they mean basic algebra. Maybe they don't know better (lack of math background, expository texts that go straight to "category theory")?

Anyone an idea on why that's happening?
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It's literally been used that way for centuries [0].

Consider:

1. It's been used like this for centuries

2. By well-known writers including Dickens, Twain,
Fitzgerald, Joyce, Brontë

3. The definition of such usage is included in all major dictionaries

4. It's incredibly common in real-life use of the language

To somehow insist that it doesn't mean that, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, requires extraordinary feats of denial.

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
And it was the wrong tool for the job even then. Atom might be Electron's reason for existing, but that just emphasizes that Electron (in its current form) should not exist at all.

I have no problem with the idea of using Javascript for desktop application development. I do have a problem with relying on a memory-hogging framework, which Javascript was originally design to _avoid_ because back in the 90's it was meant to run in the resource-limited web browser. Too bad that Javascript has strayed so far from its roots.
What problems specifically? I'm not following closely, so a summary would be nice :)
Which means that usual ways of dealing with dicators, i.e. econimic sanctions are counterproductive. They make average people poorer, and then less likely to revolt against their dictator.

Taking communist Poland as an example, people start revolution not when things are worst for them economically, but, paradoxically, when things start getting better, but not fast enough.

Polish people revolted against communists in 1980, which was at the end of the decade of economic growth, fueled by money that Edward Gierek borrowed from western banks.
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Can we see some evidence for that claim?
According to my research, Ireland is a net contributor to the EU budget. In 2014, the last year for which complete data is available, the country paid €168m more to the EU than it received in grants and payments.
> The performance bottlenecks I hit seem to be disk i/o related.

Would it be possible to mount the folders with the code on RAM? They aren't, usually, very heavy. May be a small-ish 500mb volume on RAM could help? Is this even possible on WSL/Windows?
First of all IQ is commonly known to be a flawed metric, but more or less acceptable for many uses. Second - they are either outliers statistically or not really high IQ in the area of scientific methodology (which is incompatible with basic religion). People can know a lot and believe blindly in god-entity, people can do very hard calculus and believe. People can't do real scientific research about universe and blindly believe. They may use vague terminology about god-entity specifically because it is a clever concept that can't ever be disproven but really it is just a 3rd rate issue in large scale of things. Anyone claiming to be a theist and a scientist most likely never bothered to think about his "theism" much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DimUujL5wM

The guy who was hidden in the seat
https://youtu.be/nfd3vWrQhS8?t=166

Here you can see the hands moving down
https://youtu.be/nfd3vWrQhS8?t=183
The beauty about free market economics is, it doesn't depend on people's niceness to maximize productivity, capital utilization and consequently the aggregate standard of living of a country. Supply and demand, and pursueing self interest will achieve all of this in the aggregate despite any localized exceptions.
But they make the money to justify it...
I don't mean to be offensive, but can someone please explain to me how the Stop signs work in US? Am I correct to understand that whoever arrived at the stop sign first goes first, regardless of where they are going? Is this considered a good system?

In EU you have strictly defined priority at stop signs - put simply, if you are going straight you have priority over someone turning, if you are turning, then the person turning right has priority over someone turning left. Simple as that.

I'm just thinking in context of automatic vehicles a strictly defined priority rules are easier to follow, no?
> work of the Chrome team

Indeed. Because people who do browser internals and never do any web development are a good fit to create APIs for web developers
Ruby lifted that from Perl.

say qq<I can do '" in here>;
Ireland is basically selling multinational corporations the right to avoid paying their taxes to other European countries in which they have significant activity.
Liquidity may not be as different as you think. Volume on SNAP was $360M today; top ICOs are in the same order of magnitude. OMG was $67M, Qtum was $147M. (Bitcoin was $2B)
And over time you don't need machines that accommodate humans anymore making them even cheaper to produce. This is the future.
What I want to understand is what happens in the opposite direction, i.e. what does the tax situation look like for e.g Volkswagen cars sold in the US? Do they pay a minimal amount of tax in the US with most of the profits repatriated to Germany? If so it's just a whiney tax grab by the French and Germans who are used to getting their own way in the EU.
It'd also open the market to a new competitor when people in the EU (and elsewhere) realised that they can't find local ads on Google.
Well, the submission itself has a section entitled "Institutions". Institutional economics is a field of economics that studies the impact of the strength, stability and overall design of "institutions", in the widest possible sense, on economic activity. Stuff like the impact of the credibility and strength of property rights or the impact of minority rule, for instance, goes in here.

Growth theory, or rather development economics, studies how and why wealth grows. And here go ... pretty much any economic growth models. I really don't know how else to say it.

Finally, an institutional approach to development economics studies how institutions might cause nations either grow or not, depending on their institutions, and the guys who kick-started this approach were Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James Robinson, of Chicago University. They have a book on it called "Why Nations Fail", released in 2012, which has already been recommended by another commenter. Their main thesis being that certain patterns of colonialism induce certain patterns of institutions, which they call "extractive", by which a minority appropriates most of a country's wealth for itself, while setting the country on a low growth path. The classic example being a resource-based economy under either a minority or authoritarian rule.

If this all sounds really general, that's because it is. I haven't read much on institutional economics, much less on the economics of colonialism. But I know it's out there.
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MS Office for Linux. That's all I need, that's all I would miss in my current work environment (in the browser is just not cutting it atm).
Why is FizzBuzz a separate branch? To produce the desired output, all you have to do is print Fizz and Buzz in the correct order.
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I built git-browse: https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse

After getting tired of constantly searching github and phabricator, I built a small tool that would open git repositories, files, branches, and commits in the browser.
> Most rich countries are rich because they build their wealth on free labor (slavery), and this countries include USA, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, etc

Don't stop there. Throw in Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Hungry, etc.

> Some are really poor because they've been exploited by the countries mentioned above (Africa and former German, British, Belgian, French colonies

Including Ethiopia, right?

> Some are poorer because they've been destroyed by war multiple times (Poland).

Poland is poorer, but not poor. It's in the top 50 of countries ranked by GDP adjusted for PPP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_...
Sadly, that defines one race countries. No racism possible when there are no races but one.

Personally, I think this definition is bad because it progress free. Anxiety free is has no scale. If you are massively anxious I. Country A, and mildly anxious in B, both fail.

Need to rethink this.
Well, ask in countries which actually have that as law - Poland introduced it few years ago and the jury is still out on whether it made roads safer or not. I'd argue it didn't - mostly because as a driver your brain starts to associate lights = moving car. Which means that you start to ignore everything that doesn't have lights - bicycles, cars where someone forgot to turn the lights on. There were studies done on this and it's very inconclusive that it improves safety at all.
Tried https://mremoteng.org/ before? IIRC it wraps putty/kitty for ssh. But was the most useful terminal replacement options for me when I was on Microsoft Land.