skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You bring up a couple of interesting points even if you don't realize it. There are a couple of things that impact your experience that are externalizations. For example, your "cheap" healthcare is largely due to massive amounts of subsidies and NGO work that goes into helping third wold countries provide such "cheap" medical services. In many ways, due to rather authoritarian types in control in government in the west, who think they have the right to steal from their own citizens through taxes in order to "help" others, it is actually even more expensive for Americans in particular to receive medial care because none of those costs of shipping off billions and trillions of Americans' dollars overseas to "help" others is ever included in the cost of things like healthcare. You may ask yourself how that correlates, but it's because, e.g., while American doctors and people are overseas training and "helping" others, they are neglecting their own society and people, and while billions upon billions are spent to subsidize and "help" others, those billions and billions of dollars are drained from America and Americans and their communities, which in turn is money that they cannot use to receive quality healthcare in some cases.

Another point you bring up is that while you are using facilities that are spartan compared to US standards but more than adequate for providing health services, in the USA the very same people who lament the cost of healthcare want well appointed and lavish facilities that are beautifully designed and have cafes and restaurants. I have this kind of argument all the time in a country where people think that a $120 million dollar library with a $10 million dollar yearly maintenance and operation cost is an even remotely reasonable cost when you could provide the very same kind of service in a facility that isn't like a luxury hotel.

It's not just that doctors don't face the same kind of fear of malpractice suits, those doctors are also not under constant pressure to perform unnecessary procedures to pay for the $1.3 billion ... yes, BILLION ... hospital and the health care sector in many countries is not the scheming and conniving and fraudulent get rich quick kind of scheme it has become in the USA. In many of the emerging countries, doctors and hospitals perform their services out of a desire to help people, in the USA there is a whole cottage industry of the medical services that has figured out how to latch onto all the various Socialist schemes Liberals devise on how to dispense with other people's money to "help", which affords them fleets of private planes and ocean side mansions.
It was naive of them to be fired in a state like California?
I don't have to, even the original was flagged.. :S

HN just doesn't want people to discuss it.
There is a lot to be said about seeing great art in a less crowded context. One of the best days of my life was when I went to Member Only Hours at MoMA, and I walked alone, in silence.

I live near the Met, and too many tour buses show up, discharge huge groups of people who hustle and shove from one famous piece to the other - ignoring the art that isn't in text books. It's not a checklist, it's a really incredible place. All people should be entitled to see "Self Portrait with Straw Hat" but man, maybe they should look at the pieces next to in, instead of running downstairs to check off the next box.

In my opinion, this will be a good thing - fundamentally, the land belongs to the people of the city of New York, and the free rent for that much acreage of Central Park on Fifth Avenue is an incalculable subsidy. It should at least _try_ to be more pleasant for the citizens of the city.
This is more or less what I was trying to say with my original comment.

Although unionizing is protected, "at-will employment" also leaves a lot of gray areas that can be leveraged for an employer to justify a termination. For example insubordination. The employer can claim that an employee was being hostile and creating a stressful work environment.
We've already had multiple highly-ranked discussions of the topic. (Additionally, these posts might be setting off the flamewar detector.)
I think mass-produced contemporary art is actually a huge untapped market. For example, Framed Tweets https://framedtweets.com/ [1].

I think the same formula could be replicated by framing other internet content as artwork.

[1] Full disclaimer, I'm the founder.
How is democratic voting control fair to the people that have put significantly more work and history into the company?
The difference is that workers are people, and companies are not.
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The corporation is a legal fiction created by government to shield the people from liability for harm those people cause through their agents while seeking profits; it's the original (well, at least an early) manifestation of socializing risk while privatizing gains, done through the power of the State.
> This will probably just lead to a lot of fighting in the comments.

That and a whole lot of name calling...
There are "improve this document" links at the top of each of the pages (a bit confusing, as that link doesn't really belong with the site navigation links). e.g. the OpenSSH doc lives at https://github.com/mozilla/infosec.mozilla.org/blob/master/d.... It looks like the root project is https://github.com/mozilla/infosec.mozilla.org.
For an ongoing discussion of this topic see: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/81aw5u/google_a...
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>Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3) [section 158(a)(3) of this title].

Unless I'm reading this wrong, it means that employers have no ability to stop their employees from forming a union, to fire them for forming a union and to hire non union employees without the unions approval. I can understand such regulations in socialist countries like India (where other than IT, most industries do have strong unions, with legal and politican support). However it seems to be against the image US projects
In one case they deliberately provided a whole category of false information in an attempt to spread awareness of False Authority Syndrome.[0] They wanted to make the same point that the comment you replied to is making!

[0] https://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp
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Yes you can. What I described is incredibly common in the rental vehicle business.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/ is a good community to find out negative information on the project.
I have a physical copy of Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate. I was hoping for a bad-lit treasure, much like my physical copy of Sass Girls X by Imari Stevenson --
but aside from being written by the man who so desperately wanted to talk about "dragons that can wield metal" on Fox News, and the brilliant cover image of a dragon with Hanna-Barbera spaceman armor and weaponry fighting a fluffy monster dragon, the book, I am sad to say, is profoundly boring.
I don't think it's accurate to say that "liberal western-style democracies" are the natural end-state. I think it's accurate that history has shown that such democracies work better than authoritarian regimes for various reasons -- largely economic.

I don't think that China's recent success disproves this. China spent decades experimenting with ruthless authoritarianism, and wound up decades behind the world. They relaxed their hold for a time, and experienced massive catch-up growth -- growth they would have experienced much earlier if their government had been properly managed.

The real question is whether they'll be able to continue that growth if they turn to a much more authoritarian model, which seems to be the direction they're going. And I'll be frank that there seems to be very little historical evidence that this approach will lead to continued economic (and thus political) dominance. In fact, all signs point the other way. It's just unfortunate that we keep trying the experiment.
I wonder what will happen to languages and culture when we will eventually be able to transmit direct thoughts to another person using brain implants or other tech. Imagine being able to communicate without any possibility of misunderstanding. The idea you have in mind is the exact idea the other person receives.
They still do, and there are many Chinese who criticize the west for using their own language.

Most articles in the western media on China are fairly pro-China, and have been for a very long time. But selection bias means we just focus on the critical ones.
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I think it's important to use the right "average" operation. word2vec puts words on the surface of a hypersphere, so "adding" vectors means turning around the sphere.
> I'd be interested in some examples of land reform done right.

Kerala.
CS Educators do this research all the time, but it's pretty challenging to design a CS1 class that's effective but also so radically different from the typical paradigm.

There's also a risk you'll set students back if it's not effective so there are definitely ethical concerns and it requires interrupting a professor's load for the quarter. That said, CS educators conduct research like this all the time and there's probably a lot of value in studying this kind of change.
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When are you going to stop blaming circumstance, and start looking at what you can do to improve your lot, and do that instead?
I'll point back to a couple interviews and reports from the Star Citizen developers discussing these topics:

- 64-bit map sizes: https://www.gamersnexus.net/gg/2622-star-citizen-sean-tracy-...

- Multi-crew ships and physics grids: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15...
And they've all been flagged or demoted in some way or another. The submissions will just keep coming and they will keep going, since it is a major news story ATM.
TBH, it seems HN can't have a civil discussion about it. Just check each and every story about James Damore and see how quickly it devolves into name-calling.
I think the point is that we realize that most success (and many failures) are due in large part to things beyond your control. This realization is important and has social implications - it gives us a reason to be more charitable and kind (spread some luck around) when we are successful.
"In relative terms, the decline is small -- accounting for one fewer injury for every 300,000 Americans."
Star Citizen feels like a bit of an off-topic diversion for this thread, I guess.

But see, the shear ridiculousness of Star Citizen's scope is the only reason I backed it. ...I've always dreamed of a hyper-realistic space simm that allowed you to do whatever you wanted. (Even in the alphas that have been released so far, I can do so many things that simply isn't possible in any other space game, ever made. In Elite: Dangerous you can't even get out of your seat.)

Of course, knowing that scope when I backed it, I understand the risk. I won't be shocked if it fails. And I won't really feel like I was slighted, or cheated. I put the money towards a thing I hope can be a thing, and maybe it will be. Maybe it won't.

That being said, the current lawsuit with Crytek is a super good reason to withhold funding them until it's resolved. There's so much shiftiness in there, and it's probably the first thing I've seen that could prematurely abort SC. It boggles the mind that they went the way they did to dodge licensing.
Studying improves your odds of success. Video games improve your odds of failure. It's your choice.
I suspect that the AML and KYC regulations will start to be enforced for bitcoin in the UK at some point. Bear in mind that London is one of the biggest financial centres in the world; if they can't trade it due to AML laws, then we'll really see if they have an influence

Serious jail time if a business is caught in any of the stages of the money laundering process.
It would be side-splittingly hilarious if it wasn't so terrifying, given how much ad income for many sites depends on portals like Facebook. And how idiotic and knee-jerk driven decision making seems to be at these sites.

From the most recent fiasco with Google banning substring "gun" in their Google Shopping searches, to Snopes "fact-checking" obvious satire, I am starting to think that we are to get bots to pass Turning test not by bots getting progressively smarter but by human behavior getting progressively dumber and bot-like. I don't know who wrote that Snopes article, but if it were a bot, I wouldn't be even a little bit surprised.
No that's not expected. Probably a bug.
What I got from that book was fuel. It gave me energy, like I read it for 5 minutes and I wanted to work on some side projects.
Interesting. So that's why emacs whigs out sometimes when trying to open very large files: because it has a recursive GC that has trouble when it runs out of stack space. Assuming I read the first statement correctly.

Seems like a welcome change. I'm not too well versed with the internals, but does 4.6MB seem reasonable for a memory footprint? I mean, compared to Slack, not bad.

> The naive version of this scheme needs about 4.6MB of overhead on my current 20MB Emacs heap, but it should be possible to reduce the overhead significantly by taking advantage of the block allocation we do for conses and other types --- we can put whole blocks on the queue instead of pointers to individual block parts, so we can get away with a much smaller queue.
US law doesn't ban any of those things. Those are simply factors in determining whether a person is an employee or contractor, which in the US is not a bright-line test but is more of a circumstances-based finding. The US also employs the % rule as a factor in that determination.
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You might want to clarify what 25K is. Is that MRR.

or service/dev fees.

Is that total for the year etc?

Try not to "spin" things to investors as much as possible.
Which 'average' people in the UK are you talking about?

The vast majority of the people I know don't think of China in those terms. And they may call China communist but what they really mean is non-democratic rather than a comment on the market. (The term 'communist' is somewhat overloaded in everyday talk.)

And I don't meet many people at all in the UK who want their nation to remain 'great'. That's a very foreign sentiment to us - patriotism doesn't sit that comfortably. They probably do want a good life for themselves and others though.

Lastly, I think you're a bit too cynical on people actually wanting democracy for China. I think a lot of people do genuinely want this for altruistic, but also selfish reasons.
> these days imagining running linux in 4MB makes me sniggers.

FWIW - OpenWRT / LEDE has support for a lot of wifi routers with 4MB flash that even have a webserver and lua and some other goodies - at the moment kernel 4.9 but 4.14 is coming and here device tree will even save some space.

Well you need 32mb RAM - it runs with some hacking on 16MB ram - with execute in place probably with less...

1: https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ar71xx/...
So what are you trying to say? That no one learns anything in university? Maybe you're just an outlier, has that thought crossed your mind? You're taking personal experience as generalizing from it. Very fallacious. Like they say, data, not anecdata.
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America is influenced by the Spanish language, but that is because it imports Mexican culture, not Peruvian.

Iceland (I assume) imports far more American culture than British. They simply dominate many forms of art (TV, movies, games). So while you are right that America is not the birthplace of English, English is the medium in which American culture spreads.
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I don’t think it works that way. My thoughts are in English. I’ve asked bilingual people about their dreams and thoughts. Most of them say it can be both languages usually depending on where they are.

If you mean transfer a feeling then I’d agree it’s possible. Like happy, sad, angry etc.
This is carbon and hydrogen we are talking about. A more sustainable, more common, more easily sourced, material doesn't exist (other than nitrogen and oxygen).

You can get it from anywhere.

Getting it from a plant changes absolutely nothing.

Here's the part you are missing:

Do you know why, if it's so easy to get, they most commonly source it as a petrochemical?

It's not because oil is an especially great source, it's because when you do so you save energy. Because that oil has energy, and you can use it while making your product.

To source your atoms elsewhere, then burn oil to gain energy needed to modify your product is backwards in environmental friendliness. You are adding another layer of inefficiency to oil usage.

> There are functional curves to look at here with more variables than what the raw count of joules that the process itself uses.

That's what they want you to think "look we are making environmental progress". It's not so. Sourcing carbohydrates is easy. Energy is hard, and they've made no progress there.
American cultural projection and economic success in the 20th century is overwhelmingly responsible for spreading the English language to so many corners of the globe. The British Empire collapsed and retracted back to the UK. Britain's global cultural projection is a small fraction of the US today. If eg Britain were the primary driver of English since WW2, as the first major sponsors of the language, you'd more likely see a contraction in English in line with the contraction of the British Empire and their cultural + economic reach. Instead English has continued to spread.

People in China haven't been aggressively learning English the last ~30 years primarily so they can do business with New Zealand. English become the global language of commerce because the US took over nearly half of the global economy, and over half of its manufacturing, immediately after WW2.

It's pretty simple: the British started that fire, then their empire declined. The US picked up their torch and made the fire a lot bigger with the wide-spread globalization we see today coinciding with the US becoming the sole superpower post WW2 (ie produced a perfect storm for English spreading globally).
Loads generate lots of wealth if they're used effectively, and great at creating problems if used irresponsibly.
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> That depends entirely on which unions you're looking at, the wobblies were organizing across racial lines and across industries. The pullman porters were black.

I'm looking at the unions that were the strongest, the most powerful, and the most influential. The IWW was never particularly strong after WWI, and that was at the peak of their membership. AFL- and CIO-affiliated unions were the strongest - and, more importantly, remain so to this day.

It's funny you mention the porters' union - they were the first to receive recognition by the AFL. Why is that unusual? Well, they were special not because they were a union that represented black members, but because they were the first union of black members that the AFL didn't deny membership to based on race, after decades of explicitly prohibiting black unions from joining their federation. (Even after that, they refused to recognize most unions that accepted black or Japanese workers as members).

> I'd even go so far as to say that actually your comment is the revisionist one.

No, it's not "revisionist" to point out counterexamples to OP's claim, especially when those counterexamples include the largest group of unions for the last 100 years.

Yes, sometimes it's convenient for labor unions to leverage rhetoric that flirts with socialism or communism, but in reality, their source of power is dependent on both capitalism and class hierarchy, which is why the largest and most influential ones have fought so hard to preserve it.
Star Citizen is “Wing Commander but we couldn’t/wouldn’t get the naming rights from EA, so Star Citizen wink-wink.” It’s the modern day continuation of Wing Commander.

Edit: Maybe minus the space tigers...
Yeah I agree with you.

But scheme especially when you have code like this:

(letrec ((even?
(lambda (n)
(if (zero? n)
#t
(odd? (- n 1)))))
(odd?
(lambda (n)
(if (zero? n)
#f
(even? (- n 1))))))
(even? 88))

The level of nesting can get rediculous.

Writing that on a midterm is harder than Python or java.

I’d say Python is nicest when writing out code.
>The VAT structure in the EU is the responsibility of the EU. An EU customer buying something or some service in USD from a US company with no presence in the EU is responsible for handling their own tax liability with the EU.

If you import goods (receive them via mail), there is a customs clearance required + VAT for prices over N euro (where N varies on the country but usually less than 25e). Indeed that's a direct responsibility of the receiver.

>Not one has charged me VAT nor the local “use tax” the People’s Republic of Chicago charges for internet-based services.

Please don't mix the laws in different jurisdictions. VAT is quite different than sale/use tax. Try and buy goods from USA (even ebay suffices) and receive it within the EU w/o paying VAT (unless explicitly exempt from the tax)

Electronic services have no customs clearance or physical presence and what I explained above (VAT number, etc.) applies.

>A bunch of expensive and competent accountants hired by my various employers agree that you’re wrong.

Proof by authority ain't cool. VAT does apply to the end user (companies can receive it back, etc.), so I am unaware if your employers used to sell to end users directly. If selling services was that easy, registering outside EU would so temping as pricing ~20% less would be great. As proof goes: I consulted an accountant about US offered services to a local EU member state. (didn't have to pay anything)

Examples of not being able to sell services to US residents are forex and gambling. Non-US companies practically can not take US customers. Selling services online ain't that easy even to US.
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Actually, I think in the United States, one does have the absolute right to have bigoted opinions, and even to speak them publicly, as stated in the 1st amendment.

Furthermore, the point of the OP is that the SPLC itself has gone overboard in governing who and what is hate speech or bigotry. Some of their work is obviously legitimate, but not everyone who has a problem with Islam is a bigot anymore than those who have a problem with Christianity or Naturalism or Republicans.
Did they not ditch cryengine in 2016?

I don't have a very deep knowledge of game development, but my understanding is that they moved to Amazon's Lumberyard and just went through a lawsuit with Crytek over it.
That's true, but being in the right place at the right time improves your odds of success more.
Although I don't think it's official, I know some police departments encourage community members to do Craigslist-type sales in their parking lots. It's not escrow, but I think you'd have to be very bold to steal something in view of police surveillance.
it doesn't matter if there's tuition assistance. Growing up poor you're at a profound structural disadvantage to even get into those schools.