skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft is still huge though. Sure they've lost server share to Linux (which they're embracing in some ways now) and desktop share to Apple, but they're still massive.

The trouble is, how do you compete with Google, now, today. We use to have Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, Dogpile ... Duckduckgo is far from even approaching Google's share.

I don't think the future is the free market. The future is developers making distributed platforms that everyone can support. The next YouTube won't be centralized. The next search won't have removable results, because they'll be cached among all the computers that contribute to that search.
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And where would one submit this form once it's filled out?

Having the form is one thing, actually being able to file it is another, no?
So did Fox News.
And this still ignores the fact that the value of gold is also arbitrary and disconnected from it's utility as a raw material.
lol. "plummet"
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4182349/221/lawson-v-gr...
So, what should have happened here? Not this.

OK, ok, you're asking, what should have happened, not what shouldn't have happened. I can't say it's a totally unfair question. It probably would be worth thinking this through.

But overall, I don't really feel like I need to propose a new a system for collecting minuscule delinquent property tax bills that doesn't involve selling off massively valuable property at auction to point out that this is a really bad and completely unnecessary outcome. Guess that's so obvious to me that I just don't feel inclined to engage with the question.
I've read about this a few time this year, do you think there will be some "tipping point" or crisis about these funds not being able to generate wealth?
> my experience is that, in actual practice, people don't even want Ohioans to move to their town.

Hm, most of the people I know who live in the "coastal elite" cities did not grow up in those same cities; they grew up in places like Ohio.

(Which, again, is fine if Boulder wants to be a steady size forever - make sure enough people are moving out to bigger towns to cancel out population growth, by making sure they don't have too many job opportunities locally.)
I already understood their motivation and situation. But I still find it concerning.

Maybe it's the bitcoin effect, but when people start investing in things they don't know anything about, that sets off my alarm.
I love the answer of letting them die. The negative externalities of the big three CRAs exceed value they provide and if the market could respond to those externalities, they would go under.

However, would whatever replaces the big three exhibit the same negative externalities and recreate the same situation of market failure?
That is a generalization. You certainly do with many networked appliances. And I prefer this, since that means connectivity with the device is not dependent on some cloud service. And that some cloud service can't control my appliance.
Seems to be a handful of videos on YouTube of this phenomenon. A bit in the gruesome direction as a warning to others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lWX5x0Kmgs
There's a few videos posting about the phenomena from 6-7 years ago so apparently they've learned this trick for some time.
All governing is balancing of competing options, so any decision could be attacked by pointing at the right lobby and saying "But Detroit needs the income from Mercury Lollipop Manufacturers/Low-end tourism/The Church of the Sacrifice of Fluffy Animals".

In this case, they've probably thought about and decided that almost all potential visitors will still be able to afford one of Detroit's surprisingly cheap hotels, and that the rest may not actually be the crowd you want to attract, anyway.
It called instinct. It’s why cats know to go in litter boxes, why many animals are afraid of snakes, and why dogs bark.
> Why are QT and GTK not nearly as popular?

Because the people who are building and releasing these Electron apps are not interested to learn GTK/Qt; simple as that. Same reason why JavaScript is so "popular" because it's easy [1] to learn and — with the help of these other projects, Electron just being one of them — it becomes very easy to develop "cross-platform" applications.

Imagine being a 12 years old interested to become a desktop application developer, and then someone comes and gives you the option to spend several hours learning GTK/Qt with C++/Python, and then another person gives them the option to learn JavaScript (a language that is daily giving something to talk about) with Electron, what would be your choice?

[1] If you disregard all the ambiguity of the language.
Here's the reason for the recall:

Q10. What exactly is the cause of this problem?
Lenovo’s investigation and analysis determined that an unfastened, small screw, left in the unit during manufacture, could damage the surface of the lithium ion polymer battery and cause a short, leading to rapid cell discharge of the battery. This defect has led to three failures in the field. Lenovo has not received any reports of a fire.
This article seems very poorly thought out to me. I'd be interested to hear from people upvoting it what they appreciate about it.
As much as I could read of that without a login sure didn't say that there was no business cycle. And, for that matter, observation of the last century or two certainly leads on to think that there is a business cycle.

Maybe, instead of a login-required paper, you could just state a position, and state what evidence you think makes that position reasonable?
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Or, maybe, the demand for accommodation is relatively inelastic to the small increase in cost when people have to just stay in an actual Hotel, and that small raise in prices ends up staying in Detroit as well...

It's hard to analyse such things without actual numbers. But it seems slightly icky to always go for the "Your're Detroit! You can't afford the luxury of zoning/safety regulations/firefighters/...".
>contractors are denied benefits like health insurance and pensions/401k plans

As their own employers, independent contractors can (and probably should) set up one-participant 401k plans for themselves. This can have significant advantages, since the "employer" gets to select the terms for the 401k, and employer-sponsored plans often drop terms that cost less than the value it'd provide you (eg, in-service Roth conversion + after-tax contributions).
I always find it hilarious when I see comments like these popping up on threads about bitcoin/crypto. The libertarian conspiracy theorist's first straw to grasp is this bizarre idea that "fiat" is inherently valueless. I'll grant that this idea is extremely attractive to laypersons because fiat is indeed made of paper, which grows on trees, which is not naturally scarce, which can be printed (or to use the libertarian nomenclature, manipulated) by the federal reserve.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the intrinsic value of a currency is not based solely on naturally occurring scarcity, but on a marketplace's faith in its stability as a means of transaction.

Gold was, once upon a time, THE standard, this is true. But the problem with gold is that its supply bears no relation to the needs of the economy. The supply of gold depends on what can be mined.

In the 16th Century, the discovery of South America and its vast gold deposits led to an enormous fall in the value of gold - and therefore an enormous increase in the price of everything else.

Since then, the problem has typically been the opposite - the supply of gold has been too rigid. For example, many countries escaped the Great Depression in the 1930s by unhitching their currencies from the Gold Standard. Doing so freed them up to print more money and reflate their economies.

The demand for gold can vary wildly - and with a fixed supply, that can lead to equally wild swings in its price.

Most recently for example, the price has gone from $260 per troy ounce in 2001, to peak at $1,921.15 in September 2011, before falling back to $1,230 currently.

This is hardly the behaviour of a stable store of value.
I had a similar experience. I binged and binged on hours of youtube videos of him. It was crazy how much I missed a man I have never met but who I felt so close to from movies and stand up.
Things can thrive without being very useful.
I think it may be too simple to say that perfectionism is bad. To me, it's one of two halves of the creative process. (At least in theoretical research, which is what I do, but I think this generalizes to other fields.)

You have one half where you need completely crazy and wild ideas, where it's vitally important to get started and not be paralyzed because you think that something is stupid or wrong or will not work. Here perfectionism is an enemy.

But you have the other half where you look at what you did and you try to figure out how good it is, and how it can be improved. Here, perfectionism is important because it's what will point out to you the flaws in what you have done so far.

I think the best work is created by iterating between these two mindsets. (It's even better if you can iterate with someone, where you go over what the other did until you converge.)

So I think perfectionism is something that can drive you to improve, as long as you retain the capacity to turn it off half the time, especially where you're trying to get started.
It's OK to kill an animal and feel bad for it at the same time.
Depends on which govt. I am no expert, but being a news junky the past few years I would think that Germany may side with censoring, and I would hope that the US would push for free speech above all else. The UK is looking at pushing google, visa/mc, and ISPs to choke anything sexually arousing online and then forcing blocks nationwide.
Getting rid of religious stuff has been interesting the past couple of years.
I am looking forward to more routers like the disney router to make these choices easier for households, and less about the portals relaying info posted by others.
At the same time people should have easy access to unfiltered net as well. Too many groups pushing to censor millions of minds here and there.
Govt could make it better, and of course they could make it worse.
Can tech really give those choices to the adults to make for themselves?
He did actually, but he used the medical term SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) [1] in place of "Asian bird flu". However, they refer to the same thing, and SARS does appear to have only been a major problem from late-2002 to mid-2003, a timeline that is consistent with his claims.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
a sign of a ``clean'', efficient police force

Or, that the substantial gentrification going on there over the last decade has changed the demographics substantially.
Does it decode the audio files (mp3, etc.) into the low level PCM audio samples and play those back? Or does it use a higher level browser API that lets you play high level mp3 files directly?

If the latter, how can you still implement the equalizer?
The microgreens are not for self-picking, but the kitchen staff picks from it.

It's impressive to get fed 3 meals a daily, yes. Many things are impressive. But you'd be amazed how entitled the average Googler gets after a few months.

It is still a job after all.
late edit: Could downvoters please explain why? Thanks.
This is an observational study. Observational studies in the field of nutrition have a horrendous track record; this research is almost no evidence at all for its finding.
Cramer: Elon Musk is like illusionist David Blaine, a master at misdirection

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/cramer-musk-like-illusionist...
It is basically the same problem business people get when hiring developers.

You just can't know if you are receiving competent service if you have no level of competence on practicing it.
As someone who spent the first ten years of their career desperately trying to salvage one steaming heap of technical debt and security disasters after another, I think we have wildly diverging opinions of the consequences of software development driven primarily by just trying to get something committed and out there.

In my opinion, every single one of these companies was effectively a zombie: dead, but unaware of it.
Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, had this to say on sterilization of Mars probes:

WEIR: I am not a fan. And I’ve mentioned this a few times in the past.

My main concern is this. OK, so just run through a little flowchart in your mind. Start off by saying, “Is there anything that’s on Earth, any organism on Earth, that can survive an eight-month journey through the vacuum of space and the radiation of space, and all the other rigors of being just out in space, that can survive the trip from Earth to Mars?” OK, maybe some tardigrades could; it’s possible; maybe some bacteria inside of something could. OK.

But if your answer to that is no, then there’s no need for planetary protection.

If your answer is yes, then the next question is, “Is there any life native to Earth that could find anything to eat on Mars?” That there’s any, anything . . . “Would it be able to survive and reproduce on Mars?” I don’t think it would. So if the answer to that is no, then there’s no need for planetary protection.

If it’s yes, then ask yourself this: “Would that life that you accidentally introduced to Mars — ”
Oh, sorry. Right at the top of this flowchart, ask, “Do you think there’s life on Mars?” If the answer is no, there’s no need for planetary protection. If the answer is yes, then move into these other steps.

Now, so since we’re assuming there’s life on Mars, move ahead to, “Would the Earth life somehow be more adept at surviving on Mars than naturally evolved Mars life to the point that it would displace it and ruin the Mars ecosphere?” Seems very unlikely to me, so I would say no.

But if your answer to that is yes, then ask yourself if the Soviets properly sterilize their probes.
If they paid for healthcare I would expect an employee of a firm that the work was outsourced to.

PEO's (Professional Employment Organizations) will have a future as more and more laws are enacted about how we classify an employee.
Seconded. It hit me incredibly hard.
I'm wondering what "unnatural" means when it comes to a mostly-arbitrary human game like the economy? Seems like it's all artificial, and interest rates in particular are especially artificial (controlled by central banks).
What are the anonymity characteristics of bitcoin?

Can't I simply traverse the blockchain (which is essentially a linked list) to see which address transacted with which?
1) Does YCombinator only invest in companies with a plan to become $1B?

2) What you're doing right now isn't necessarily the thing you end up doing in the long term. Sometimes it makes sense to create a simple product with a smallish market that people use now, and adapt over time to address or create a larger market. This other discussion today is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16334035
Is the editor really a problem to solve for Markdown? Philosophically I regard Markdown as a language in the text-only-editor-unimportant family.

I recently built a (simple, only works for me) filter for pandoc that allows for formulas in Markdown tables. org-mode features is what Markdown is missing, but without the marriage to the editor.

At the same time: an editor like this makes Markdown more accessible for non-hackers, which is always good.
I went to a state school and worked to pay my expenses so there’s always that. I just checked and in-state tuition is still low enough to be paid from part time employment, so no the world hasn’t suddenly become unfair to young people.
I'm looking for a language for cross-platform mobile app development using React/Expo. Can anyone give their opinion on ReasonReact vs Clojurescript Reframe?

I like the familiar syntax of ReasonML, but Clojurescript has LISP mojo and is more mature (more learning resources etc).
Just please not AngualarJS, not like this... please GOD not like this...
DiversityNet: a collaborative benchmark for generative AI models in chemistry
Reddit bans its forum for AI generated fake celebrity porn
> Fiscal policy depends mostly on monetary policy I think. The amount of money government can borrow is bound by central banks.

I'm not sure that either of those statements is true. It could be, in some situations in some countries. As a general statement? No, because most government borrowing is not borrowing from the central bank.

> And somehow price of the money is centrally managed.

Empirically, that has worked out rather well - far better than "centrally managed" would lead you to expect. In particular, it has dramatically cut the number of severe downturns (which used to occur whenever the price of money became too high).
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Oh hai, there is an HN Post... who knew. I'm the writer here... I have worn VivoBarefoot shoes. They were fine nothing more. I wasn't impressed enough to buy another pair but it's been 5 years maybe.
Oh yeah, thanks for pointing that out!

Maybe Chrome would be up for it at some point in the future as HTTP form submissions become rarer, though I don't know how they made this decision.

Edit: Amusingly, even though I normally use Firefox, I haven't noticed this UI element recently because I'm so conscious of HTTPS—working on Let's Encrypt and support for it—that I rarely even try to enter information into a non-HTTPS site in the first place. :-) (so I might not be quite the target audience for this notification)
This is the strangest part of California labor law:

> The right to discharge a worker at will and without cause is strong evidence for the right of direction and control

One usually thinks of a contract worker as being totally de facto dischargeable (contract says you do N jobs, if I don't like you the N+1th job doesn't get contracted), whereas an employee as being entirely nondischargeable due to union agreements or labor laws, but the law itself says the reverse elsewhere.

P & !P => Q
You could also add in here Gang music, which often includes real-life references to actual crimes that are happening right now or have happened, particularly with lower-level rappers.
There's a group from the UK, "67" who constantly have group members in and out prison and still play big festival stages. That's more extreme IMHO
Field Tech for data center equipment.

If I stumble on a word more than twice I just use a synonym, or a description. Get some smiles in meeting crowds, but no one really cares. It can even be a helpful "calm everyone down" thing, since people can really get stressed out.
They're claiming a legal right.
How does software such as ContactOut find your email?
tried on few friends and it found emails specifically used for Linkedin; additionally, those emails went way back. How did software like it find those emails?
> using it as a easy way to exchange value

This is what I was referencing. Nobody will ever use bitcoin as a means of exchange if the price of a car today is 30% less than it is tomorrow.

The most important thing with a means of transaction is the stability of its value. Bitcoin will never be stable so long as it is used as a vehicle for investment (aka a commodity).
I've never understood this logic. Shouldn't you be able to set your own hours and prices?
Blockchain is Governance
Long-term interest rates are controlled by the auction the US Treasury holds: aka the free market.

Only short-term interest rates are controlled by the central bank. And that's mostly because the central banks own something like a $$$TRILLION in short-term debt and raw cash, so they simply have enough money to shift the market direction.

In essence: short-term interest rates are still determined by auction, just like any other debt from the US treasury. But when a trillionare is sitting there with ideas about how the market should look like, the trillionare has real power to manipulate the market. Note that these trillions of dollars are money from private banks. Under a "true free market" situation, the Trillionare would still exist! The pile of $TRILLIONS is the money that's been collected by all of the banks in the USA.

In theory, if the central banks ran out of money, they would lose their power to manipulate the markets. But otherwise, the central bank is simply the largest "consumer" on the market. That's the extent of their control. Much like how Apple can buy out the entire 10nm or 7nm production chain for months at a time (preventing Apple's competitors from using TSMC's or GloFo's advanced nodes whenever Apple starts to prepare an iPhone).

Entities with lots of money exert power over the entire market. That's the free market.

Perhaps a better example would be the GDAX Bitcoin exchange. It only will take $25 Million to increase BTC's price to $9000 right now on GDAX: https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD. It will only take 3000 BTC to drop BTC's price down to $7000, over the short term at least.
Eh, I think it may come down to Dunbarr's Number more than anything else. People can only have a certain number of truly close friends/connections at any one time, and when you get beyond that, you see clashes and the social structure breaks down. Maybe Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc are simply too big, so people break into separate tribes rather than get along with each other.
>You clearly don't need such instructions to be privileged to do emulation games with CPUID.

There are configuration registers which can make CPUID a privileged instruction.
Efficiency is a lousy primary metric to run a society by.
A couple of people have asked me separately about where I found these on Taobao. Here is a link: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.135.17cc5590...

I'm not sure it was this particular buyer I bought from, but they are approximately this. Beware, it's pretty difficult (read near-impossible) to buy off taobao without chinese because the seller will expect that you chat with them about the purchase before they ship.
That's a fine opinion, but it's ignorant of the entire body of CBT research.

And inasmuch as you merely disagree with it because you think it's the wrong term, well, that's even shakier ground, because the formal definition of language follows from its real-world usage.
> I go back to /foo and try to click something else, say a file. This changes the to-be-saved-file's name to the selection.

That is the most annoying part to me. Windows does this as well. It's such a rare thing to want to overwrite a file for me, I find it so irritating that if I accidentally click on a file name instead of a folder, suddenly I lose the file name that I wanted to save as. Usually I just cancel and start again. So stupid.
No, I don't know that saying.
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Most types of rapid or early-onset dementia are just devastating to everyone -- you, those you love, and those who love you -- and if you know that that is going to happen to you and 'bystanders'... Well, there are no good choices, but I think I think his choice is pretty understandable, honestly.

(Also very saddened by his death, FWIW.)
I really suggest Brendan O'Neill debate proposition on Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend. It's an interesting look at how new ideas really came into being and what it means for something to be offensive before being progressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA&t=10s
On the math part, I see a lot of complaints on the rich, in these case the big four are indeed huge, but compared to what?

Last time I check none of these had reach $ 1T value, compared to the US government that expends $ 3T a year.

No one of those same people seem to be concerned with the harms of the a government expending so much money.
That's a misconception.

There are plenty of employees who work on piecework or an ad hoc basis. Setting ones own hours isn't really a cornerstone test for contractor status. Certainly much less so than the ability to set prices or subcontract.