skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 DIY Natural Moisturizer Hacks
Calculating cryptocurrency trading profits/losses for taxation
First line of the article: “REL, based at Culham in Oxfordshire, is working on a propulsion system that is part jet engine, part rocket engine.”
Can anyone recommend a Lisp dialect / environment which is suitable for web-based publication, and game multimedia (graphics, audio, control, etc.)?
I'm surprised to see that property rentals isn't listed under their "Industries" tab. I guess "Checkr is for every business" except that one.

If anyone's curious, I use https://www.e-renter.com/ for background checks on prospective tenants and https://connect.experian.com/ for credit checks.
porting to a backwards incompatible a language version? you can't use most of Python 3's new features while some part of your codebase is in Python 2
Just out of curiosity – how much does CRISPR allow us to modify adult humans? I've read a lot about designer babies and such, but what can the current population expect to get out of it?
Those are outliers, I think. Most wealth is family wealth and it is measured in the billions of assets under management. The land is owned. The companies are owned. The bonds and share certificates are in the bank.
It sounds cool... but I can't help but assume it will turn into a shit show like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
Controversial and tangential, I know.

Consider this:
Any organization is a system of people in roles, let's call them members.
The members are expected to make decisions in accordance with their responsibilities.
All decisions rest on the available information.
The human mind is imperfect, including limitations in memory, and an emotional context for the information.

So, an organization is typically a tree of people making decisions, which together form a system.

A number of these systems are operating on and near Syrian territory. The dynamics may best be described as utter chaos.

Furthermore, I don't believe there has been any instance in the history of mankind where a rocket has performed a successful investigation of crimes.

It's well worth the karma hit if this may trigger someone to come up with better ideas than more rockets.
Weird, it seems I can reply to you directly. Does anyone know why the "reply" button wasn't instantly available to me?

Here is my response again in case you are getting notifications and don't see my edited reply:

"I can't seem to reply to the reply to this reply, but I think when someone takes too many drugs they are classically known as being "Munted"."
I'm not sure 3D-printing houses will do much for their final prices. Actually putting materials on top of each other is not an overwhelming fraction of the total cost.
Which paper ?
What does wealth equality even mean and why should we pursue it? What would happen if everyone was magically given a distribution of “wealth”? Would there be anything to give?
Unpopular opinion around here, but Bitcoin. The idea that we have technology now which can help address global wealth inequality just makes me happy.
I hate that this is the defining thing people look for in their front end libraries.

But it is.

A lot of how "clean" or "modern" people think a given library is, is driven almost entirely by it's marketing homepage and only loosely tied to the actual experience of using it.
Don't mind at all!
I think your observation is correct. Historically our western cultural tendency has been to attribute all blame or accolades to an individual's character, which I think is rooted in part in religious notions (how else can character not be a product of environment and genetics, which are not under one's control?) but mostly as a byproduct of our need to explain the wealth/status gap in the context of a supposed meritocracy.

As we've grown more enlightened, as a society, to the reality that pretty much everything comes down to dumb luck in one way or another, we've started using this to excuse ourselves of our negative characteristics in order to relieve societal pressure to change, because either we don't really want to change or just because it is easier.

It's made even worse by the application of labels to the excuses. Once you assign a label to yourself it becomes part of your identity, your memetic self, and now needs to be defended and possibly even reinforced.

Which isn't to say that our old mindset is entirely correct either. "None of the blame" and "all of the blame" are just two extreme perspectives no the same reality.

I guess what I'm saying is that some things are significantly more difficult for some people than others due to factors beyond their control, and we should be more understanding of that than we are, but at the same time that doesn't necessarily mean they shouldn't work towards change, if change is what they desire, or that there shouldn't be consequences to being unwilling to invest that effort.

For context, I was somewhere north of 320lbs when I graduated college and have lost, and kept off, about half of that. It was by far the hardest I've ever done in my entire life. I wage constant war with my own body, every day, to maintain my current weight and I'm willing to do it because I took up a hobby where weighing less is significantly beneficial. As such, I have a very low opinion of people who think that because they have to exert little to no effort to maintain their weight then for others it must be just as easy. However, I also have a pretty low opinion of people making excuses for their weight, and believing that they shouldn't have to deal with at least some of the consequences of it. If you don't mind being fat so much, because you like eating more than what you think you'd get out of being thinner, that's fine, I can respect that, but you don't get to make that decision and not accept the consequences. You are entitled to be treated like a person regardless, but you don't get to complain about having to pay extra to fly because you need two seats.
Why would a 3d printed house be superior to factory constructed modular housing?
Of course it isn't just driven by nostalgia. It also requires a constant supply of coffee, for one thing.
Self-driving RVs. Imagine traveling throughout the country, sleeping in one national park campsite and waking up in another.
I don't really see the decentralized argument. I believe it's meant to solve a noble intent but in reality for a network to be successful all the information has to be readily available. You can't have a social network that says "Hey, thanks for posting about your birthday... we'll ensure it filters out to all nodes within at least 21 days".

So if all information has to be accessible and any node has access to all of it, or can aggregate it over time, then it's effectively centralized. Not to mention multiple nodes means anyone can tap into the information stream for whatever purpose.

So I see a case where centralization is somewhat critical but with tighter controls over what that data can be used for. Facebook was a headlong charge into new territory in information management and now I think we need to step back and examine how we better manage that.

That said I've spent about as much time thinking on it in depth as I have writing this post so I may be missing something quite obvious.
>Decentralized is the only way to know for sure your data is not being treated server-side against your wishes. This will certainly be the future of the social internet.

As a society, we are not even close to being there. There isn't a single person I personally know who has decided to leave Facebook for this reason.

>Moreover, it's inacurate : the current scandal and outfire against Facebook mostly comes from "Jane Average" people, and not the technical community who's mostly saying "we already knew it".

Frankly, I see little evidence of this. It seems mostly coming from activists.
Thank you for sharing this. I am in the early stages (just a few months in) and I am hoping to work towards this level.

How long did it take for you to go from a few stable clients to too much work to handle?
Spam killed it, I think.
My opinions regarding wealth inequality changed drastically when I realized that a stray dog has more wealth than one third of Americans.

You can live in a nice house, drive a few nice cars, and send your kids to nice private schools with near zero wealth - or even with negative wealth.
Esp32 cpu
Malls are still very busy, even though everything you say is true about clothing and shoes.
It's interesting to me that the ascribed the increase in mortality for night-owls to the fact that their schedule doesn't mesh with societies expectations - I suspect they'll also find that it's not good to have a sleep cycle that's too out-of-sync with the daylight hours (we already know a lack of sunlight during the winter hours affects some people and we use apps like F.Lux to dim our screens to avoid tricking our minds with extra daylight frequencies).
Interesting :). Though, this sort of presupposes that the people whose jobs are automated away have the financial security in order to take the time necessary to create a new job/career.

I think a lot of people, in the U.S. at least, don’t have that level of financial security (plus the healthcare snafu).

I agree with you about the potential.
> I think the powerful point is that there are and needs to be average programmers

Of course we do, but no one is saying only the best should be hired and the rest should go dig a ditch. Most programming tasks do not require top level talent to accomplish, but when I'm hiring I'm going after the best candidate I can get, and that has little to do with e.g. what web framework they are most familiar with.
This would be incredible for some privacy applications if you wrote a wrapper on top of it to obfuscate the class names. Clearly visible to users, very difficult for bots to pick up without clearly looking for it.
Right now your focus should be get a MVP out. Don't worry about the technology. You can change the underlying tech later once you have a viable business. Pick something which you are comfortable and get the product out
rouge

Small nitpick: you probably mean _rogue_, rouge alludes to red (powder).
1. Secure Scuttlebutt and the future of online social interaction. [0]

2. IPFS and the distributed offline web [1]

3. WebAssembly and the coming revolution of web applications. [2]

[0] https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork

[1] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...
Eat the Rich. Nosh! Nosh! Nosh!
Interesting, I always equated pills with "munted" but those other permutations always meant something very different. Maybe it's a regional thing in the UK?
I get more value out of the modern Digg than I do the modern Reddit. If someone reading this hasn't been to Digg in years, it isn't in the up-down-vote format but rather a few curated articles and funny clips as the day goes on.

It is different enough from modern Reddit that I wouldn't call them competitors anymore.
The appeal of retro console/computer dev is essentially an exercise in constrained programming. Systems of these era had extremely constrained specifications, and making the most of them is an art in itself.
That’s a very nice description of what’s going on. The example is there to illustrate how printf works. In fact this is a lot of what Emscripten does to make C/C++ applications just work.
Disturbing High Modernism? More like disturbing high mindedness. The author here is making claims that can be summarized to "I don't like Facebook and it's different from how we've usually done things, therefore we need to get rid of Facebook-like services."

The author, in other words, is trying to argue that, because they think that other people can't handle Facebook's "frictionless communication", no one should be able to use it because it'll do something bad to society. What that bad thing is isn't clearly specified, instead the author only claims that "tribalism, authoritarianism, extremism, disinformation, and hyperbolic outrage" has increased on these platforms, and implies that they think this outweighs the positives these platforms have also provided or that this is a change relative to how a world without Facebook would operate.

The author makes no concrete or quantifiable argument in this piece, only parrots the opinions of others they consider authorities. This text is the same sort of technopanic rhetoric that was used by luddites to oppose things like the printing press and electricity. We can argue about the ethics behind Facebook's method of funding itself, but the author here is conflating that with an argument against free communication.
It seems quite a bit like reddit. Just subscribe to outdoorsy and cat subreddits and you've got it
This will be what finally moves me away from Adobe software.

I use one Adobe app: Illustrator CS5. My needs are fairly specialist and I haven't needed any new features introduced since CS4 (2008; multiple artboards, finally).

Adobe's only upgrade option is £240pa for a single-app subscription. Fortunately, alternative drawing programs have come on a long way since CS5, so I'll almost certainly jump ship to one of those.
I am into consumer goods distribution, wondering how I could apply any of the above ?
Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works
I know it as the portmanteau...

:/
Purely from a user perspective I personally love the new Reddit design, I don't find it detracts much from the previous design at all. BUT I use a top-end Macbook Pro and I find the new design to be terribly slow and a performance hog, where it simply kills the UX.

Once you open up 10 tabs (how I typically browse Reddit, by shift clicking each thread I want to read) I can hear my CPU fans kicking in. I had to tune Firefox to use 6 cores instead of 4 to get any decent performance. I may just end up going back to the old design :/

I'm not sure what computers/browsers Reddit's UI/UX team has been testing on, or if they've ever tried to open multiple pages at once, but this is a pretty blatant issue.
Ludum Dare 41 starts 1 day later. So maybe you could pick their theme! A constraint like theming makes things much easier imho.
Completely nothing about globalization and free trade between countries of very different wage levels. Lots of things that indicate that we would be better off with bitcoin instead of regular money. Author is also an author of a book about bitcoin. Hmmm...
I agree with you: I don't think it's a problem either. But people who start from the axiom that inequality is bad have the choice of either claiming it's bad that people can start companies that grow fast, or not seeing this source of inequality. Most seem to choose the latter.
I find it suspicious that every one of these causes is a form of fiscal or monetary policy.

Keywords that don't exist in this article: Job, Workforce, Education, Technology. None of those even get a place in the top 10?
I've sent you an email to support@ with a name suggestion.
Flaw in Microsoft Outlook Lets Hackers Easily Steal Your Windows Password
>Of the ten causes of inequality he lists, zero of them explain why Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg are so much richer than the rest of us.

#1 is the tax code and the tax code explains a lot of how those three got so rich (e.g. Amazon's sales tax avoidance).

>I'm not sure why. Is it because they're far removed from the world of startups and don't understand how it works?

Out of curiosity how close are you to the field of tax avoidance?
The best games age well. People still play pac man. People still play Mario. That said, the aesthetic is absolutely nostalgic.
Made a quick url rewrite userscript: https://pastebin.com/A55FBKug
> Empirically, I dated a girl for about 2 years who was a sales representative for a major pharmaceutical company. When I asked about her job she said it was mostly dropping of brochures, swag, free lunches, and holding contests to promote products. Top producers (doctors) received all expense paid trips to medical conferences held in exotic locations or were invited to be paid speakers at said conferences. It was not too different from what the marketers did at the insurance broker I worked for at the time to cater Agents to write their lines.

Your anecdote is about which drugs the doctors choose to prescribe. It has nothing to do with incentivizing doctors to prevent patients from filling generic versions of drugs and forcing them to purchase the brand-name version of the same drug, which is what this thread is about.
No thanks. I'll take my digital audio, free of pops, hisses, and crackles.

> HD Vinyl can reproduce frequencies up to 100kHz

Pointless
By this logic Javascript is a dialect of Lisp.
Somewhat related:

I'm always thoroughly impressed with how complicated and knowledgeable the people who work on these topics are.

I don't even use the product, but I love reading the Dolphin blog [0] because they write about fairly complicated topics in a way that's pretty approachable, and it always makes me appreciate how much I don't know about these topics.

While I feel like it would be difficult-but-not-impossible to be a contributor to say, the linux kernel (this is probably me grossly oversimplifying the process), I think I could spend the next year diving into graphics programming and basic hardware topics and still not contribute in any meaningful way to a project like Dolphin.

Articles like this and the Dolphin blog definitely make me realize how much I don't know.

0: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/
I assume that robin_reala means that this is a motor, not a vehicle. So you don't need to do launches to a useful orbit as part of development. Or production - you can sell the motor to someone who wants to build a spaceplane.

That said, my understanding is that Reaction Engines plans to build the spaceplane too, although if someone else with more expertise came along and wanted to do that, i imagine they would be open to it.
Me too, one of the few redesigns that appear to really make sense. They also use space so that it works well on desktops, not one of those pages just optimised for phones with 80% whitespace on a large screen.
Is it possible to allow me to be part of your adventure?
I'd like to see greater emphasis on shared responsibility.

And some recognition that context, inertia, and available choices matter too.
C++ is of course a Swiss Army Knife of a language.

Important context is the Google C++ style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
Previously on Hacker News in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12231101
There's a subtle difference between what you're describing and what the parent post describes.

You are correct - in cases where there is a brand-name version of a dug AND also a generic version of the same drug, the generic is usually provided unless the brand-name is specifically requested.

But, the parent post is describing cases where there is a new, brand-name drug that fills the same niche as an existing generic. Two different drugs, but often only slightly differing results. MDs often prescribe the newest, assuming it's better than the generic. MDs receive much of their ongoing education about drugs from the pharmaceutical sales reps, so they are bombarded with ads and samples (just as consumers are with ads on TV).

As an aside, my dermatologist has been good about ensuring the costs of any treatments I receive are managed. She's recommended specific pharmacies, brand-name vs generic, and other tips/tricks to reduce the costs. This despite the fact that I don't directly bear any of the costs because I have a decent medical plan.
Big city highway traffic where the road is crowded and moving fast. Those people aren't paying attention either and will slam into you. I've seen cars stopped on the freeway a few times in Atlanta because they broke down and it causes a big wreck. Responders really rush to get them off the road because it's so dangerous.
> And now we're moving toward a web built on canvas + web assembly, our user agents will have less control than ever. Maybe we can even cut out the middle men and render the psd directly.

I know you're making a bit of a slight, but I won't kid you that publishers—frustrated by the fact that certain interactive features and desired visual structures require an understanding of the platform and code (even if they just have to hire people who -do-)—have started some move back to using print-version PDF's served to applications like Texture (recently purchased by Apple). Even with any compression or download-size problems that might come along with it. The art teams and editors are all very happy to keep doing the same process they've been doing for ~25 years, after having another technological progression dangling in front of them. If they could just take the PSD, stick it in a black-box folder and have it come out in their publication on every platform they output to... I think they might dance in the streets. Or start drinking earlier.

Am a programmer who has worked with first-hand with such publications. And now doesn't.
Isn’t the paywall a protection device which you are circumventing? Legally it’s no different
One other thing that took me awhile to get over was making asks (asking potential customers to become customers).

Some people say this is like asking someone out on a date. I've been in a relationship for 5 years so that didnt help me a lot.

I had to just start doing it. And anticipated the first 20 would go horribly wrong.

And thats kind of what happened. Now I don't really get attached to an opportunity at all. The faster you can get to that point the better you will be at selling.
The service looks like a ripoff of Instagram (loves, not likes) and Reddit (communities).
What problem is the site exactly trying to solve?
I had to spend the better part of a month trying to hound my friends to use Signal. I am not going to waste time for a service that's not even worth the effort.
Ubiquiti Networks Has Hired Paulus Schoutsen, the Founder of Home Assistant
Having a serious conversation about open source
They are Lisp languages. The syntax is similar, but the languages listed hardly have anything common with each other. They aren't even all on the same side of the classic functional/imperative divide.
Besides the name, what do you think of the service?
Taxing the rich seems to be one of the hardest things in the world to do. They can afford the best lobbyists to influence politicians to write loopholes in whatever laws you can think of to tax them; they can hire the best accountants to shelter assets from those laws; they can hire the best lawyers to help them get off the hook if they breech those laws; and if they become too unpopular here, they can afford the high price of gaining citizenship in other nations.

Better solutions are needed.
Munt also means to vomit in Australian slang
You're describing a long term view (singularity?) rather than the up-and-coming technology in the question.

Claiming to be 100% right and calling people with different opinion idiots might have added a downvote or two (Personally I upvoted).
Same thing as when I was a teenager in the 80's: clean energy. Solar cells are now mainstream and maybe I'll live to see some advance with fusion reactors.
You can still buy and download music files.
There are plenty of countries that have very liberal welfare payments. They're extremely easy to get and anyone that wants to can live on them for years and years without ever having a job.

You could look at those examples to see how society will be impacted...

Australia is a good place to start your research.

(It's not quite UBI because you have to apply for it and do something to get it, but it's pretty close)
If they wanted to verify my phone number, text me a code. That isn't a problem. It's the app install requirement we're talking about. Which both gives them access to some data on your phone, and also means only Android and iOS users can sign up.

(On Android, Hello gets access to your contacts, your rough location, the ability to read and modify your storage, use your camera, and view your Wi-Fi connections)
Twin Galaxies Removes All of Infamous Gamer Billy Mitchell's Records