skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody else said in this thread, equating the USA with 'Western countries' in general is distorting reality. Most 'Western' countries are very different from the US. But I see how the equation 'Western world=USA' serves people well rhetorically if they want to make a case against democracy without clearly saying so.

The point is that there are many different democracies and the USA is not and never was a poster example of it. Some have argued that the US is more of an oligarchic republic based on the example of ancient Rome rather than a modern democracy. However, the fact that people like Noam Chomsky who make this critique can freely live and talk in the US readily tells you how misleading it is to ride on popular anti-American sentiment when it is done on behalf of a country where critics are simply imprisoned.
Are dictatorship and censorship asian values?
Structuring projects and naming components in React
Do you have an opinion about the Curio? I'm curious as to what people think of them. My daughter has one, uses it occasionally, and enjoys it. Beyond that, I don't know much, or how it compares to similar machines.
The big issue is reserved instances - in order to get that level of savings you need to lock in for a year. At that point you're basically running on-prem servers since you're committed.
Firstly, manual memory management is what happens when a C programmer must manually place malloc/free calls within her program. Rust doesn't require any of that; the compiler determines the right times to allocate and free memory, while requiring the programmer to follow certain design rules in exchange for the convenience.

Second, you're making it sound as if the position Rust (and those who program in it) is somehow undesirable. This state of things is the consequence of an explicit design goal, which was to accomplish automatic memory management without runtime cost.
Ask HN: What's an (article|book|vid) that changed the way you view programming?
I was wondering, what were really valuable resources for you as a dev, either when you were starting out or when you had a bunch of years of experience. What's some event that changed the way you approached programming?

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For me it's these:

- Watching DHH/the video that introduced me to Rails. I was a student coding in PHP/CodeIgniter, and it blew my mind re: the speed at which things got done. (Now, not so much, hehe.)
- Watching [Destroy All Software](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/), I think that was the first time I saw someone with a high mastery of the Vim editor, and the first time I saw someone write tests/talk about app/class design. The next week, I was pulling my hair out trying to learn Vim.
- Non-programming: [Cracked article on harsh truths.](cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/) I read that several years ago, and every year I try to add a new skill to learn. It's still my auto-complete when I type in "cr" on my browser.
> The thought of that happening in the West is beyond the scope of my imagination.

You just have to go back to the times when Hitler ruled large parts of Europe.
Ever since I've turned on 'show dead' most of what I've seen as [dead] has been perfectly reasonable, go figure.
It doesn't really shut down the market for those that actually care about art.

The billionaire buyers will exist in a separate world from the everyday artists that are selling their works for $500. Completely independent markets.
This is essentially the reason that differentiable methods alone don't work that well for NLP. Language is a discrete arbitrary symbol system, so small changes may have large effects at many levels. ("Dog bites man" is not like "Man bites dog", discrete is not like discreet), etc.
I tried the latest Mac version. Crashed instantly I tried to log into Slack. Maybe in a few revisions it'll work but for now, it doesn't seem to.
Gaming AI beats human top scores by cheating
so what happens when you pay with options? they pay corp tax which ends up less?
>Hayek said basically that there was more freedom under Pinochet than under Allende, which is not the same thing as being a supporter of Pinochet.

The implication there is that economic freedom trumps any other kind of freedom, which is exactly what the GP was trying to say.
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Well, for sweets there's also the sugar addiction that comes into play and causes sugar cravings.

I used to buy all the sweets that I wanted to try every time I went into a store and was even somewhat hungry. If I would eat beforehand, I would hardly want to try any but I did my best to avoid the sweets aisles, too.

I'm guessing you don't enter a store and can't wait to buy the detergent you saw on TV. At least, I don't do that. I tend to pick the detergent that I've seen works best from trial and error for the least amount of money.

I also stock-up on plenty of it when there's a discount, and then when I'm starting to run out of it, I wait until there's another discount and get it then, even if I still have some left from before.
Got it wrong? That's over-stating it quite a bit. Sure, that was the spin to get a toe hold, but ultimately the West's Capitalists saw massive opportunity, and nothing else.

Long to short, 30 - 40 years ago the media ALWAYS referred to China as Communist China. I can't remember the last time I heard that phrase. That's no accident.

Perhaps the politicians got it wrong. That's no surprise. They're (pardon the editorial) just stupid hand puppets anyway. But the elite capitalist? They were spot on. Just look at how the income inequality gap has widened. Again, no accident.

p.s. If anything, China suckered the West, believing it could influence the West's structure, more than the other way around.
> Capitalism is the ability of freely trade private property, among other things.

Within limits. For example, we can't freely trade slaves, sex with minors, powerful weapons, etc, and I'm sure most of us are pretty thankful for that. Most western nations also have limits on trading private property, inasmuch as such trade is taxed. See Ha Joon Chang's books for a reminder that "free" markets aren't really as free as the ideology would have you believe.
Empirically, this does not happen.

Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Nike, and countless other big brands have had debacles related to quality or ethics.

Unfortunately, our memory of these complicated situations is shorter than our memory of the vague good feelings that advertising has built up in our minds about certain brands.

After all, they’re all still in business.
Has anyone been able to comprehensively state all of essential human values for a general AI to follow? Thankfully, we do not yet have an operational AGI and it is still quite a bit away from reality. (Narrow AIs we are using do not pose much of a problem because they are limited in capabilities.)
Really exciting, but have the regulations of what "stuff" we're putting up/leaving up there moved as fast?
The employees who get stock options, is the assumption here. Which of the warehouse runners have equity from Amazon?
Yeah. The junk food doesn't appeal to me, but I've certainly cooked something for dinner because I heard someone mention it during the day at work or something. Some advertising is meant to make you aware of something new but much of it is just to remind you of the existence of something you already like.
FreeBSD and OpenSolaris probably aren't very useful, when trying to rescue a Linux system. Especially if you need to chroot and run things from there. (My need so far was to rescue non-booting system, because the zfs package upgrade went wrong and didn't update spl too. Re-running dracut would be a somewhat problematic from these two systems).

Ubuntu desktop live CD doesn't contain zfs, you have to install it from apt.

However, if you have a ZFS system, I see no problem with having an USB stick with minimal installation of your distro of choice, together with ZFS support. I'm glad I did have it since the ZFS install.
Process mining to identify yet unknown relationships. This is more sort of a big data "what relates to each-other yet we don't know it" analysis
I don't see the similarity. I can't see any notion of recruitment rewards in modern art.

It's more like Pez dispensers and Beanie Babies and all that nonsense. Over-priced and over-hyped collectibles with no real-world (not even aesthetic) value.
When I heard these arguments and no rush or no attacking 20 minutes it would get under my skins. To me the T in RTS was Time and many people wanted to remove Time out of the game.

This is precisely why RTS as a genre pretty much died.
So basically he is saying familiarity works. So if you repeat ads often enough, then you will be affected by it?
That's how I explain my history to myself. I have failed to get significant beneficial work done while I could.

It is really hard if you're deficient in all areas. I'm facing biological / physical health issues, I'm socially isolated and I experience toxic mental patterns. Whatever I try, I will drag these issues around with me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_values - what's usually meant is filial piety or loyalty towards the family, corporation, and nation; the forgoing of personal freedom for the sake of society's stability and prosperity; the pursuit of academic and technological excellence; and, a strong work ethic together with thrift

Filial piety followed through to its logical conclusion as the leader being the father of the nation, risking dictatorship, while forgoing personal freedom for the sake of society leads to censorship.
Command line interface for Hashicorp Vault
I believe that's why the parent called it "Loop". :)
> Most people, including myself, find the idea of eating dog meat abhorrent, and yet it is a cultural norm in China.

Have you ever asked yourself why? Pigs are roughly comprable to dogs in intelligence[1], yet we eat them by the millions. There is little ethical distinction here - instead purely a cultural one.

[1] http://animalstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
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What's the part number for the one you have, please?
Encouraging Students Toward Computer Science Learning (2017) [pdf]
Throwing it out would have been preferable although almost every municipality has proper waste disposal facilities to take it.

I don't think you understand just how dangerous these things are in an airplane.
If we cut off China from world trade in order to reduce Chinese smog, we'd be condemning factory workers to go back to subsistence farming and a worse life overall.
I'm guessing you don't enter a store and can't wait to buy the detergent you saw on TV. At least, I don't do that.

I buy the same detergent I bought last time, which I bought because it was what I bought the time before that...But at some point, years and years ago, I almost certainly picked up that detergent because I recognized the brand from some ad.
I use Cookie AutoDelete, which autocleans cookies shortly after closing tabs. I whitelist sites where I want to stay logged in or save settings.
The key is to get a gallery to represent you. And not just any gallery, but one of the few hundred around the world with any influence - the kind that would have a booth at Art Basel or some of the other major art fairs around the world.

But for that to happen, you actually need to be talented and create amazing work, since it's a lot easier for a curator to push for you if you create something that's compelling.

If you look at the works in the elite galleries, the artists that are represented by them are much, much better than your everyday artists that you'd see at your local art fair.

So, the process is:

1. Create some awesome art.

2. Show it someplace - could be in a local fair or student exhibit or on the internet someplace.

3. Have some people talk about it by sending out press emails.

4. Get a major gallery to notice your work. The good galleries are always on the lookout for new, marketable talent, and if you have some buzz, that helps influence them.

5. Profit.
Disgust Sensitivity and the Neurophysiology of Left-Right Political Orientations
It may be a bubble, but it's not a pyramid scheme.

While similar, those two concepts are distinct.
Microchip buys Microsemi
The definition of capitalism that makes the most sense to me is that capitalism is the separation of ownership of businesses from employment in the business, i.e. The joint stock corporation. As opposed to all businesses being run directly by their owner, or being family businesses, etc. The big idea behind the joint stock corporation is that the son of the previous owner might not be the best person to run the business when the previous owner passes on, and if you want to unlock the wealth and resources of the aristocracy you need a way for them to invest in a business and have a permanent stake rather than just give a loan. But then to make that work you need to take the legal and ideological stance that businesses should be optimized to benefit the owners of them - the owners of the capital. From that point of view, markets and a currency and banking system- the "free market"- can exist without capitalism. For instance, if all companies were employee owned, there would be no stock market, and no class of people whose role was to own stock and collect the profits. Capitalism was a great idea, and produced a huge surge in investment, but freedom for the people who don't own capital is neither necessary or helpful to make it work.
>In fact, there are many social group situations in which asking specific people is far more effective than asking questions "to the group".

CPR for example. It's one of the primary tenants. Assign individual responsibility to people to ensure this group paralysis doesn't happen.
UK home entertainment spending overtakes print sales for first time
The interesting metric in this relationship is the amount of money that actually goes to the artist.

A recognized artist at a mid-high level gallery is usually promised a show approx. every 18 months. Average earnings for such a show is commonly expected to be around $100.000, (10-15 works each selling for between $5.000 and $10.000).

That would be a decent amount of money for that time but here comes the crux; the gallery takes 50%.

This leaves the artist with an income of $50.000 before taxes. Say you live in Sweden, where you have to tax nearly 50% for sales in a private company that leaves you with $25.000 every 18 months in disposable income, hardly something you can get a flat in Stockholm for.

What's even worse is that if you are tied to a gallery you are most commonly prohibited to sell privately or show with other galleries.
China didn't abandon communism (as in command and control economy, vs market economy) until 1978, so it's hardly a surprise that 40 years ago it was always Communist China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform
To be fair, where did the 400+ planets come from? One must surely be able to import some material as well.

Most of the mass in a generic system should be in the planets, if I remember correctly from an old article here in Sol if we scrapped all the planets we could create a 3m thick Dyson shell. But a ring should be a lot easier to construct.
Namibia has a "if you sell land, the government has the option of being the first buyer [to redistribute it afterward]". Not ideal, but way better than Zimbabwe. They probably looked at Mugabe's results and thought "thanks but no thanks".

Not sure this would work for ZA though. Namibia is only 2M people, it's not the same scale.
Static Code Analyzer PVS-Studio 6.22 Now Supports ARM Compilers (Keil, IAR)
What are normal framerates to expect here, with working graphics drivers on a modern laptop with Intel embedded graphics?

I'm asking because I have the suspicion my Firefox is not using hardware acceleration, at least not properly. In my case, it reaches roughly 30 fps.
Well how do you say what's cheating or not? It works and it increases the evaluation score

In this case one possible workaround to "cheating" would be to reduce the control precision, add some jittering to control inputs or change the goal function. But I'd say if it's being done solely with using the intended controls it's not cheating (as opposed to changing memory or using a debug 'cheat code').

Still, even in real sports some "cheating" is allowed (see Fosbury Flop)
I think the thinking is that capitalism creates wealth, creates a middle class, i.e. a large population of wealthy educated people (in other times we would call it the bourgeoisie). This middle class would be large enough, organised enough to threaten a corrupt/unpopular dictatorship and would ultimately result in its downfall, either violently or gradually.

I think it is misguided in the short term. Dictatorships are very good at protecting themselves from the hostility of its population. However I think it does work in the long run, that is 30-50 years.

So we just need to be either patient or ruthless with China.
> Allende democratically elected

Note that the election was far from being "the majority of electors" and heavily disputed at the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende#1970_election

Let's not pretend Allende represented the population of Chile at large, please.

Hoover report on before and after Allende:
https://www.hoover.org/research/what-pinochet-did-chile

> In 1970, Allende won 36.2 percent of the popular vote, less than the 38.6 percent he had taken in 1964 and only 1.3 percent more than the runner-up. According to the constitution, the legislature could have given the presidency to either of the top two candidates. It chose Allende only after he pledged explicitly to abide by the constitution. “A few months later,” Whelan reports, “Allende told fellow leftist Regis Debray that he never actually intended to abide by those commitments but signed just to finally become president.” In legislative and other elections over the next three years, Allende and his Popular Unity (UP) coalition, dominated by the Communist and Socialist parties, never won a majority, much less a mandate, in any election. Still Allende tried to “transition” (his term) Chile into a Marxist-Leninist economic, social, and political system.

and

> Many on the left had long believed that capitalism and democracy were incompatible. In a brazen demonstration of its contempt for majority wishes, and for the institutions of what it called “bourgeois democracy,” the pro-Allende newspaper Puro Chile reported the results of the March 1973 legislative elections with this headline: “The People, 43%. The Mummies, 55%.” This attitude and the actions that followed from it galvanized the center-left and right, whose candidates had received almost two-thirds of the votes in the 1970 election, against Allende. On August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies, whose members had been elected just five months earlier, voted 81–47 that Allende’s regime had systematically “destroyed essential elements of institutionality and of the state of law.” (The Supreme Court had earlier condemned the Allende government’s repeated violations of court orders and judicial procedures.) Less than three weeks later, the military, led by newly appointed army commander in chief Pinochet, overthrew the government. The coup was supported by Allende’s presidential predecessor, Eduardo Frei Montalva; by Patricio Aylwin, the first democratically elected president after democracy was restored in 1990; and by an overwhelming majority of the Chilean people. Cuba and the United States were actively involved on opposite sides, but the main players were always Chilean.
It even has a notion of proof of work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitated_Mass

The only thing that thing accomplishes is proving that a contractor had moved a rock from A to B, about as useful as figuring out how to get a certain number of zeroes in a hash.
Hetzner traffic isn't even that cheap compared to some unmetered offers, for example online.net.

I had to migrate away from Hetzner because I was actually paying 300 dollars on traffic alone.
> Does that NHS website provide a prescription to Tamiflu as well?

Well, no. And this is why: https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/effectiveness-of-tamiflu-...

What I love here is that there is clear, documented information about the choices on offer - and background into why the NHS recommends paracetamol/ibuprofen on its website.

> Compare cancer death rates of the UK vs the US, for example

Okay; looks like they are nearly identical for US, UK, France (105, 107, 109 per 100,000).

> That is literally impossible in the UK. I also am not getting referred to a “website” to solve my kids’ illnesses

This is the thing - emotively if your kid is ill it feels like they need a doctor. But likely they just need rest and over-the-counter medications (I've always found the pharmacist to be a good port of call for the right advice here).

If you do need a GP for your kid I have never had any problems getting one; day or night.

> I am not going to waste my time going to a doctor unless I actually feel that the doctor can provide some value.

In which case, great, but then I think you're not the target for these sorts of initiatives as you are using healthcare appropriately.
A much shorter guide that will get you 80% of the value for 2% of the effort:

* Install extension "uBlock Origin"

* Install extension "Cookie AutoDelete"

* Go into Preferences -> Privacy & Security, set "Accept 3rd party cookies" to "Never"

Done.
You know for people who live in an ever changing environment and are constantly editing our own reality - so much so that we need to track it in "source control" - developers are kind of funny how they get stuck on doing things "the right way."
When I learned of the commingling they do I changed my mind about using FBA to list some products. It has also changed my mind on products I purchase when I see others are selling it FBA. Though I still use Amazon a lot, I have also increased my local shopping for products I would previously have just purchased from Amazon.
Of course it's not isolated to a regime, but I don't see the US homeless fleeing to Mexico as Venezuelans are fleeing to Colombia and Brazil
Very interesting, and important, point - thank you!

It goes to show that healthcare is intrinsically linked into so many parts of our daily lives in weird ways.
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K programming language (2005)
A large chunk of the most important and/or profitable tech businesses are really private “markets.” That is, they don’t just sell goods and services. I would put all advertising businesses in that category too

Amazon is an obvious (and very literal) example, as are app stores. But, Youtube is another example. People post videos. People watch videos. People place ads on videos. Google is at the centre coordinating this stuff.

Very few markets are cleverly designed or run. Adwords was an example of a clever one. The auction, is the centrepiece and it reached its current state pretty early in adwords’ history. It was designed cleverly, with a ton of attention to incentives and 2nd order effects.

Youtube, as a marketplace, is terribly designed. The “monetisation” systems are almost designed to produce spam, and discourage unique “maker” content. The differentials in earnings of similar content on youtube, vs any other medium are immense.

Why does a podcast, TV show or other medium (lets assume it’s the same content) make so much more than a youtube channel. How is it possible that a million views a week is not enough to pay for a 2-man basement operation?

The big boys need to get some economists on board, good ones.