skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, yes, we all know the narrative that quite literally everything liberals do in modern society were the straw that broke the camels back and forced millions of Americans to vote for Trump. Everything from elite colleges' safe spaces to shopping at Whole Foods.

Or perhaps it's simpler than that: a large swath of Americans unimpressed Hillary Clinton's largely uninteresting business-as-usual policies matching her husband's mildde-of-the-road governance with no real winners or interesting nuggets, up against the usual conservative base that will vote for just about anybody who claims loyalty with the Elephant (even if they don't really fit the profile, as Trump certainly did not).

How about everybody just stop coming up with hot takes on the election for five seconds. Your nitpick about the liberals in your life or sensationalized in the newspaper really did not matter. Sorry.
Sorry to see this downvoted, if this were reddit there'd be some reddit gold right here.
This assumes you do no work outside of that slim vertical, experimenting with different languages for others sorts of projects, etc.

But sure, if that is your life, or your very strict work life, I guess it can work fine. Would never be able to work for me since I tinker with so much random shit.
>Wouldn’t the enormous wealth that our increasingly productive society is generating, which now flows into just a few pockets, be a fair source?

This has never been done successfully in an economy not based on resource extraction without destroying the engine that produces that "enormous wealth".

The whole thing is both well intentioned and incredibly naive.
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The same source shows a roughly similar shift on immigration, with older people being less keen and the average opinion changing as they age out:

http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/4-race-immigration-an...
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Sort of, however it can bring full transactional traceability in a very transparent, open manner. That's better than what we have today. I mean, at a basic level even extracting your own account data from a bank is extremely tedious if you stay within their terms of use (i.e don't use yodlee etc)!
The Social Security fund kind of sounds like what is described in the fourth paragraph.
I didn't end up writing the kernel module, so this might be an anti use case:

I was working on an embedded system and needed to have fast I2C access (mostly just wanted very small latency bc it's an instrument). I2C from Linux userspace (using ioctls) adds a lot of overhead. I started looking into kernel modules but after a day of research I found out that you can access hardware registers from userspace using mmap("/dev/mem") which is even faster than a kernel module.

Edit:typos
Usually to control on-SoC peripherals/IP blocks or to add support for other external devices (that's what kernel's for, mostly, anyway) - camera sensor, I2C controlled regulator, thermal sensor,... story? no. :D I just wanted to have a nice non-amd64 SoC based desktop, and some things were missing at the time.
But you are given the option. I bet the app also stores timestamps along with the posts - should that be off by default as well because some are uncomfortable with divulging when they created their note?
Marketing and ride subsidies?
Introducing an easy way to deploy containers on Google Compute VMs
"I seriously don't understand the endgame here."

The end game is owning logistics (IE all forms of delivery, etc). It's a dumb end game, but that's what it is!
They subsidize rides (in many jurisdictions) so presumably they're not making much money on that 30% cut.
Thanks for the idea, I'm definitely going to do this as well!
This decade sure loves editors written in JavaScript
Just a thought here, but perhaps the ICO wasted them less time than months of meetings trying to raise funds with angels and VCs.

You could say Filecoin is a distraction, but in trying to raise seed money, 50 VCs arranging 100 meetings, 5 verbally committing to you a measly $1M each and negotiate over investment terms while you try to live on ramen, and then 3 out of the 5 backing out in the process, is arguably a MUCH bigger distraction to getting any real work done. It also causes a lot of actual brain rot when you spend that much consecutive time away from tech.
check out what are the sw's your company is using? can you make a better version of it? what about the internal tools? your company might not be paying for it but they may be useful to other similar companies? can u create them? being in a bigger organization also gives you certain advantages whether u realize it or not is upto you. some good examples are kubernete and graphql. really big orgs had these issues and solutions way before it was realized by other medium scale enterprise.
Any thoughts on something like andOTP (https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP), where you can make backups of your 2FA's?
I have Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian systems. All come with fwupd installed by default. I don't have a RHEL7 system to check, but it is in the repos of CentOS7. Whether it is activated by default, I don't know, but given that it is in the repos, I think it is. Linux Mint probably uses GNOME Software as well in its Cinnamon and Mate environments.

I am not sure about Arch and of course there is KDE (OpenSUSE/SUSE) left.

Still I think calling it a "misleading claim" a bit of a stretch given that "all the major distros" (or nearly) ship it in their default install.

Oh and don't get into quibbling about what "use" means here. If I follow that argument, Linux distribution don't "use" or "do" anything. All they do is shipping software.
In Italy it’s common for people to take their entire kitchen (including cabinets and fitted appliances) when they move.
Well you can easily sign stuff with your key and people can easily verify how much coin is in the account.
That's not a strawman either.

Hyperbole is a valid rhetorical device. The point is that fear is used to drive conservatism, in many cases irrational fear.
I think you're over-generalizing from one example. I follow a few differnt channels that are totally harmless and boring, and they all complain about demonitization.

It seems like the algorithm just defaults strongly towards demonitization. Maybe it will learn and get better, but at the moment lots of things are getting demonitized.
Steam also has software tokens if you use the Steam mobile app.

Blizzard also supports 2FA, but other than those, most gaming services don't support it indeed.
In the 90s, the Democrats were trying to enact a single-payer health care system, and the Republican response to it was similar to what we now know as the ACA. Now, the Democrats fight for the Republican plan and the Republicans want to do away with it altogether.

Democrats in the late 60s wanted a national gun registry and ban handguns for anyone who can't demonstrate a need, with household self-protection not considered sufficient need. Any existing guns that didn't qualify would be confiscated. Republicans only wanted to ban things like assault weapons, ownership by felons, and carrying loaded weapons in public. Now, Democrats struggle to ban assault weapons, and Republicans oppose almost all forms of gun control.

FDR enacted a top marginal income tax rate of 94%. Republicans wanted taxes reduced, after the war, to a level that would pay for postwar government spending. Now, the top marginal income tax rate is 39.6%, with Democrats proposing little tweaks like increasing it a bit or increasing the payroll tax cap, and Republicans wanting to slash tax rates (I saw one the other day saying that we should aim for 1-2%) and not caring in the least about the increased deficits this would bring.

Seems to me that the American left is moving sharply right, to the point where the Democratic Party would be considered centrist or mildly right-wing by most standards, while the American right is also moving sharply right and is teetering on the precipice of going all-in on racist nationalism.
How a poor guy with bad academic background make it to the top
How about lack of debt, education, satisfying jobs and free time?
It's a mistake to make any sort of broad claims about human nature because we are products of our material conditions. Hierarchies may have been a part of our past, present and even near future, but I don't think they are an intrinsic aspect of what it means to be human, because if anything hierarchies increasingly give way to egalitarianism the more advanced we become.
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This is rad! I wish it had MathSciNet as well.

https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/index.html
This sounds pretty much like what Sam Altman proposed the other day[1].

Posted on HN here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789108

1 - http://blog.samaltman.com/american-equity
Except housing, medical care, and time - with your kids, to improve yourself, etc.

Not to discount the importance of the rest of what you've listed, but there are still immensely important things that are not available at lower income, or that are only available at higher income.
I actually unintentionally do calorie deficits on the weekend. Usually busy working on something, or get caught up in a game, end up eating one meal a day. I'm 37, 6'1 and 175 pounds consistent for years.
Alexa, would you mind signing this NDA?
I think this is the scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pJC0FLA3Sk
having an assistant called EDI would be better

" I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees. "
Just as well, if you plan to sign up with ADT, they insist upon new equipment. I just went through this. We bought our house in February. ADT was sending crap almost daily so I called to see what they were offering. They absolutely would not use the 3-year old equipment in the house. Installation would come with new equipment. I didn't care either way, but thought that was notable.

No matter; I wasn't interested, and I was happy to get rid of all the their signs and stickers.
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I extract them from bitcoind's rpc interface by dumping blocks, but i started that process years ago. It'd take several months to dump everything from scratch at this point.
That may be true for some physical objects, but not for things like a secure retirement, protection from crippling health-care bills, and secure (non-bank-owned, non-landlord-owned) housing. There are vast and real inequalities there.
>This has never been done successfully in an economy not based on resource extraction without destroying the engine that produces that "enormous wealth".

So it's a good idea as long as we constrain it to our natural resources?
I don't agree with the comparison between diamonds and bitcoin. The supply of diamonds is constrained (just like the supply of many luxury goods) and that ends up making a physical product (a diamond ring or jewelry or even a Porsche (yep supply is constrained on that beyond what the market would buy)) more highly sought and valuable. But in the end you are getting a physical product which you can lust over and others can admire when they see you own it. The same does not exist with bitcoin. This is not even to mention that both diamonds and Porsches have actual use even if that use can be supplied by less expensive alternatives. Even Gold has this advantage. These are not tulip mania products that got bid up either and they have generally maintained and stood the test of time with regards to both their value and their utility. (Even if the utility of a diamond ring is what the person wearing it gets in good feeling).
One might be able to work around that by creating a corporation, 742 Evergreen Terrace Management Company, in some state where it is cheap to incorporate, and having the corporation own all the accounts related to the house.

When you sell the house, transfer ownership of 742 Evergreen Terrace Management Company to the new homeowner.
Thanks for pointing out the additional use case that can receive more consideration once fear is removed as a primary motivation.

I think that order to be a primary motivating behavior, it would have to also be the case that none of the licensing/tooling issues apply. This suggests that logically it may be less likely as a primary cause due to the dependency.
Is that really the idea? Do you know how large the ride hailing market is?

I am almost positive the point of subsidizing the price of the rides is to get you addicted/ build up a habit or get you comfortable using the service.

I think they are aware of the competition and are comfortable owning 60+% versus trying to get 80%+.

Their revenue is growing which is still wild despite bad press.

>Unfortunately their competitors have found a variety of ways to keep from being dragged down

Not a bad point but it is highly dependent on the market. In the US, Uber is 4x Lyft in market share.

A common problem drivers cite is that Lyft pays better, but the volume of Uber riders is much much larger.

I am not a fan of Uber, just extremely bitter at poor journalism, hence , I stopped reading at the first paragraph.
We visited Bali and they have some beautiful paintings there. There are so many artists there. With a little training they could produce some outstanding original art but instead they are painting a lot of similar tourist friendly crap. It probably needs some capitalist with vision to make a real artistic hub.

Such beautiful places are where tourists want to go and they can naturally pick up some artwork while they are there. Instead they get the same touristy crap.
Janis Joplin was an icon of American music culture. I wouldn't be surprised if this program was named after her.

Not to be insensitive to other cultures, but "this name sounds vaguely like this vulgar thing in another language" is not a strong reason to rename a project of this kind.
1) Yes, and bitcoin isn’t the only player in town.

2) It’s not assured that major breakthroughs will occur within the bitcoin ecosystem, nor that they will fold back into it.

I’m pretty familiar with bitcoin’s current technology developments. There are opinions, theories, and experiments flying around about how to build that rocket ship. Very very early and unclear.

The energy usage is not sustainable; we don’t have “decentralized logarithmically increasing clean energy sources” upon which to build bitcoin’s network to the stratospheric levels needed to achieve moonshot valuations, not without a serious innovation in technology to evolve the usage of bitcoin as a currency. Something better and more energy efficient for a trustless solution could come along.

Most everyone knows cryptocurrencies are here to stay but that’s not directly related to bitcoin, it’s price, it’s tech evolution specifically, and how it may or may not evolve into a viable currency.
> The inequality problem only exists if you look at absolute wealth numbers, and not the level of confort and opportunities that wealth affords

For physical comfort and mass produced entertainment, yes, they have never been cheaper. But definitely not opportunities.

Quality education, the bedrock of opportunity, is more expensive than ever, even for the middle class, and the poor have long been largely priced out.

It doesn't matter if all the knowledge in the world is available online because you still need a quality education to absorb that. When the wealthy decide to pull their kids out of school and give them the internet as a substitute I'll reconsider that.

Safe communities are also something increasingly inaccessible to the poor.

The disparities in opportunity are especially pronounced in urban areas and rural and post industrial areas, but the trend is the same practically everywhere.
That joke is a lot older than that.
It's a cool idea in case you ever want to isolate a device in a hurry, though. Just grab an appropriately packaged snack from a vending machine.
Is it possible to export a note? Are notes sharable?
Except it is double dipping, we've just come to see it as the norm. Somewhat similar to Comcast wanting to charge Netflix for the data you've already paid for.
What do you mean? It sounds like it's completely public not private. How would it be abused?
If I remember correctly there’s a micro usb on the back of the nest specifically to factory reset.
Show HN: SmarTTY – a free SSH client with command completion and a file browser
For Christmas, I'm giving books and I'll write a paper wallet seed in a page with some BTC in it already.
I'm still not used to the being tracked.

My father was a local 6 Union Electrician. About 30 years ago, an employer gave him a pager so they could find him in the Fairmont hotel, in San Fransisco.

I remember him coming home with the pager and looking at it on the dinner table.

He said, "God I despise this thing. When I'm done with a job, I call in? Son---I don't like this new fangled technology. I'm not a f---ing doctor?"

I was thinking it's just a pager though? Now--I get it though.

Even though it was only a pager, the message it sent my dad was we don't trust you to keep busy during the day.

After a month, "Well if the Swiglets (two spoiled brats who inherited the hotel) don't trust me to work on the facade--I just might start loosing the pagers?"

He got into the habit of accidentally dropping the pagers in the elevator shafts--oops?

He was to only one who knew how to reset the main switch gear to that fire trap when it rained, so they didn't fire him.

Personally, when I'm being watched/tracked there's a devious side of my personality that rears its head. It's on the lines of if they expect me to do the wrong thing, maybe I will?

Tracking people, and cameras everywhere is not the world I envisioned. I just don't like it, but then again I didn't like having to submit to a picture in order to drive.

I really wonder if all this surveillance actually prevents fraud? Yea, maybe in certain situations, but collectively on a whole? And as far as I know, they haven't really studied it in a proper manner.
The most likely explanation is blockchain.info trying to magically figure out how to import anything you supply, and the code decided to treat an address as a brainwallet since it didn't look like any known format of private key.
Bitcoin's minimal value
Some people claim that Bitcoin is a bubble, and that it's value will drop to zero. While such an event can happen, I think we'll see large scale mining operations shutdown before that happens. The proof of work system gives Bitcoin an intrinsic minimum value.

Imagine you are running a large mining operation in a datacenter. To keep the math simple, let's say that you win the mining "lottery" once every ~150 blocks, i.e. you are mining one coin per day. You must pay for electricity, datacenter space, return on your hardware investment, and other expenses. You will therefore only keep your operation going if you can turn around and sell your coins for some minimum value (say $150,000 per month). The presence of miners thus implies (with my made up numbers) that the coin has a minimum value of $5000.

It also implies that the same amount of money is entering the crypto currency every 10 minutes. I.e. the currency is growing and we can observe it by looking at the difficulty to mine one block.

External factors are giving Bitcoin a minimal value. Are people who are speculating on future prices taking all these externalities into account?
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I agree, so i think a good analogy would be, you buy a tractor and hold it and for whatever reason that tractor gains value, and you exchange it for a boat next year. At what point do you pay capital gains on that tractor? (it's not a currency, but you're using an asset like a currency)
Did anyone succeed creating a new environment? I tried from CodeStar but didn't find anything like Cloud9.
> How is reporting like this legal?

Why wouldn’t it be?

> Is this not speculation?

No, in the same way that court decisions based on witness testimony are not.

It is, of course, difficult for outside parties to verify the reporting, but journalism has never been legally bound to the standards appropriate to scientific research where reproducibility is key.

> It baffles me that no fact checking/ benchmarking exists for such a major news platform.

The absence of named sources does not imply the absence of fact checking.
My Evernote file is over 20GB, thanks to Web Clipper. I've saved everything from recipe to interesting articles, dating back almost 10 years ago. For me, it is cool to be able to save web pages without worrying that the page / link will disappear in the future.

The only other alternative is DevonThink, which is pricey, but well worth its cost.
Poly API expands Google's 3D objects pipeline for AR/VR
And I am sure most places have local competition. In my city there were at least three companies doing the same before Uber even showed up.
Google has an explicit knowledge graph. I saw it at a meetup in LA once, for a minute; then the guy showing us felt guilty and put it away. It looked like RDF, with a tree of predicates. Each predicate was written in the form "wordOrPhrase/wordOrPhrase/wordOrPhrase/...".
>Moving money is one of the oldest human endeavors and unlike a lot of topics in software development, it's an old profession with a huge body of accumulated domain knowledge. We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.

I would say that, like many fields, the existing domain knowledge in the relevant professions (accounting, finance) is incredible. But CS and the sort of expertise common in the Bay Area does have a lot to contribute to the tools used in those professions. I'm a lawyer and a developer working at a large public account firm, and my experience has been that the profession has a lot of experience recognizing the myriad ways to identify, measure, and disguise value via financial transactions, but very little expertise in using computers to do so.

Yeah, you're not gonna fool us by withdrawing $100k from your account and hiding it under your mattress or in a crypto wallet. Everyone in the field knows to look at the economic substance of a transaction over its nominal form. But most of us can't figure out how to open a CSV file that's too big for Excel, so there's plenty of room to help us with managing lots of data and extracting useful information from it.

>Case 3: money laundering and other types of financial crimes. There are entire companies who build software to detect money laundering. It's a well-understood problem.

I would disagree with you here. Money laundering is an extremely challenging problem, not least of all because money launderers are extraordinarily inventive and constantly shifting tactics. It's a lot like infosec. No matter how advanced your defenses are, a ton of hackers are always looking for a way through and any sufficiently complex system is impossible to secure 100%.
I have. It works fine, just like a myriad of other note-taking methods.

I don't know that I'll ever settle on just one note-taking method. I'm too everywhere to have a single system.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cloud_nine
You can pretty much hide everything on QOwnNotes. I've mine to pretty much mirror every other note-taking app (just 3 columns)
How Destiny 2 Will Be Fixing Its XP Problem
Twitter suggests they’re having load issues. Should have prewarmed those laps balancers!
filecoin taints the crediblity of ipfs by assosiation.
>I'd like to point out a HUGE fallacy in this "simple" plan -- it only works in low population high natural capital resource areas. Alaska and Norway happen to be relatively remote/cold places with an abundance natural gas/oil. Norway's 1T dollar fund would be comical at US scale.

What makes natural resources different from capital such that these wealth funds work with natural resources but not capital?
> Outside of things like... military things, etc

"Aside from the most impressive engineered systems known to man kind, the government can't do anything right"