skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you want to avoid challenges in life and just get a job so you can retire 50 years later with nothing remarkable in between, that strategy works.

Despite all of the hyperbole in tech, that's what most of us are doing. We work to provide for our family and if we get hit by a bus tomorrow, the company we work for will put out a req for an open job position and life goes on. It doesn't matter whether you are the janitor or the CEO.

Out of the billions of people in the world, a minuscule number make a long term difference.
An issue generated by the prospect of teachers carrying firearms is the problem of weapon retention.

Anyone trained with weaponry should understand that, when you are carrying, part of your attention must be on the weapon at all times. The way you stand, sit, walk, and interact with others must take into account good weapon retention practices.

Carrying a firearm is a bad idea for teachers because a teacher's focus should be on pedagogy, not on positioning oneself so that a student doesn't have easy access to your firearm.
Google Cloud: Ready for the GDPR
My ten year old son doesn't bother me when he is home from school. I taught him to program Scratch, Python and now learning C# so he gets as focused on his activities as I do.

I do try and limit his time to about four hours a day, then I deactivate his WiFi and send him outside to play until mom gets home.
The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
News Corp CEO calls for governments to create an “algorithm review board”
CockroachDB also support this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958660
They want it built on their tech here: https://blockstack.org/. "New Internet" aye? Is this an based on an episode of Silicon Valley?
No. But democracy is a threat to freedom.
I'm an engineer at LBRY and one of the devs hiring our boss. Happy to answer questions.
Hey, aren’t you the guy who said you can make a lotion that will treat skin cancer? how can I message you?
Why would you ever click one of those buttons?
I am not sure about that. What about high order programming

(define (goto proc)
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I'd answer this question by asking another: Is it profitable to destroy democracy? If so, someone is going to try it. That doesn't mean capitalism is any less compatible with democracy than socialism or any other system. But if we value democracy we need to defend against economic forces that threaten it.
imo, capitalism leads to oligopoly. oligopoly leads to corruption. Capitalism can only ends with corrupted states imo.
A time for free maps
Capitalism and free market are two things. I wished people would be more specific with words. Many things happened together so things were conflated.

The core idea of capitalism is that ownership of companies is based on invested capital not people.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

I think it's better to discuss individual things like private property, capital ownership of companies, monopolies, free markets, consumerism, imperialism (along the lines of Standard Fruit Company) etc. on their own merit, not throwing everything on one pile - even if things interact, influence and lead to each other.
My MySQL Database Is Corrupted What Do I Do Now?
> If capitalism tends to inevitably lead to corruption of government

Everything tends to lead to corruption of government, in fact most forms of government are the corruption we see as the problem here. The key point of liberal democracy is to put mechanisms in place to prevent this from happening.
We live in an urban environment, with one teenager in high school and another starting high school in the fall. Both walk to school.

There are a lot of restaurants and coffee shops and such around, so there are a lot of opportunities to walk somewhere with friends after school and hang out, or walk to someone's house and hang out or play music or something.

We also have a community pool and basketball courts where they could walk and be with friends when they were younger, especially during the summer.

I think that could be much harder in suburban environments, where it's almost impossible to get from point A to point B without a parent driving.
Drugs should be legalised, regulated, and taxed – The BMJ
kids can definitely learn not to bother you, my daughter used to come in the door asking "daddy, are you having a meeting?" cause she knows those moments are more critical :).

But they are kids nonetheless, if you are in your "office" room (provided you have one) and next room your kids are screaming it's still disruptive (though headgear might help).

If you have >1 kids and they are home sick, I suggest just working from some other place for a couple days.
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How is that not capitalism? Businesses paying government to achieve their ends. It's both, I suppose.

That's an argument for checks on capitalism and corruption. Your way is just unchecked harmful capitalism without any government controls.
Telcos can’t cut you off, but ISPs can. I guess dial up is potentially still an option, but internet access is much more relevant than telephone access in 2018.
I almost forgot crypto projects could exist without an ICO. Shit's crazy.
I have been wfh for 5 years and I have similar recommendations to you (jarvis bamboo, natural lighting, good noise cancelling headphones... dual monitors all that stuff). The only thing I'd add is for ergonomics. Back support when sitting -- for me the Better Back has done more than a chair can do.

https://getbetterback.com/

I've tried a few things for sitting and they all were crap compared to this.
Nobody needs a social network anymore, whether it is decentralized (Mastodon, Diaspora) or centralized (Facebook, Twitter). I think the social media bubble burst a long time ago and we just didn't realize it. I also have a Mastodon account, but used it only for a short time. I speak now only for myself personally, social networks bore me quite and I have no more interest to sign up somewhere.
Model showing the Trench Effect (as discovered in the Kings Cross Fire investigation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmeg-vn6ho

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

>The trench effect occurs when a fire burns beside a steeply inclined surface. The flames lie down along the surface, demonstrating the Coandă effect. The flames heat the material farther up: these emit gases that autoignite in a flashover event. The flames from these areas are themselves subject to the Coandă effect and blow a jet of flame up to the end of the inclined surface. This jet continues until the fuel depletes.
It's only a threat to the freedom of the privileged, but it protects the freedom of the vulnerable.
This is not at all the effect being discussed. The effect being discussed is laid out quite plainly in the subtitle. I'll just quote it here, and save you the effort of right clicking and selecting open in new tab:

"The idea that authoritarianism attracts workers harmed by the free market, which emerged when the Nazis were in power, has been making a comeback."

It's a very simple mechanism. Capitalism produces winners and losers. The losers are eventually an angry majority. An angry majority will vote to maximize change.
To your nuanced answer, has there been a time when Capitalism didn't seek to dominate all of it's regulatory bodies? Unions, governments, activists, even other Capitalists as they represent competition. There's a reason leftists call Imperialism the highest form of Capitalism.
Colloquially, "capitalism" and "free market capitalism" are used interchangeably. I understand the strict distinction, but in this context I don't think descending to that level of pedantry is really necessary.
Capitalism is simply the private ownership of resources and production for profit. We have that. We could certainly do it better, though.
Yes it is - but my point is that it is a reasonable discussion to have, and any attempt to avoid even having the discussion by saying "oh it isn't my theoretical pure capitalism" doesn't work.
Hi!

Here, working remotely for six years. I think that it's all about home-office, if you have a unique space, called office all changed a lot if not is still your house and you feel like extra-hours.

For this six years, for one year I didn't have a spare bedroom for the office, and that was bad, I was working from the dining room and a lot of problems. (As you have now)

Now working from a spare bedroom-office, with nice desk, large 4K screen, a good chair, etc.. Highly recommend. Around network problems, I have two internet connections, one for failover with another company, all wired, so I don't need to worry about the wifi.

Around kids, I don't have it yet, but a lot of my friends said that it's about that they should understand that you're working, and for that, you should have an "office".

Regards
You are absolutely right about the danger of knowing your own product too well. On the other hand, a developer is often in a much better position to know how to "make the computer do the work" than the end-user.

Ideally, you'd test with both...several times. It would be wonderful if clients were willing to pay for this level of software perfection!
I'd take "No True Capitalism" over "No True Communism" any day.
Chrome's debugger is trolling you (2016)
Ha, no. "Capitalism" is not a synonym for "freedom" no matter what an-caps might want to believe. It's one economic-political system among many.
I, for one, am looking forward to the nuanced, subtle discussion that will ensue here.

For the love of all that is holy, please don't comment unless you've read the article and want to discuss what it is trying to say.
"Is the freedom to choose what to Sell and what to Purchase a threat to the freedom to choose political leadership?"

No.

In fact, you cannot have the one without the other.
It's absolutely true.
What is this now, junior programming lessons?

You absolutely must know these because they're dead obvious and if you're just starting out with learning programming these are some of the first things you will/should learn, right after how computers store data.
Anything by Jiddu Krishnamurti. His work is difficult to understand if you are not into non duality. But once you get the hang of it everything makes sense.

His style is highly introspective and forces you to analyze everything. There are also lot of youtube videos with him giving a talk.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jiddu+krishnamu...
Tell me a story I could code #2
I have worked from home 3-5 days per week for the past 4 years. I think there are two keys to being effective when WFH:

1. Minimizing distractions. Kids, significant others, television, etc. can make it extremely difficult. IMO, there are two main reasons for working at home: convenience and avoiding distractions. If you can't do the latter, it may not be worth it.

2. Maintain a work routine similar to your office routine. Keep your normal morning routine -- shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, etc., but instead of leaving the house, go to your home work area. Set a start and end time for working and stick to it. Take breaks and lunch the same time you normally would.

As far as setting up your home office/workspace, try to re-create the elements of your office workspace that you like. If you use a dock station or large/multiple monitors at work and that's effective for you, setup a similar configuration at home.

Also, invest in a good chair. I have a La-Z-Boy office chair that I believe I paid $250-$300 and it is outstanding.
I would argue capitalism (or any economic system really) always corrupts government, it's just a matter of degree.

Farmer A gives free goats (or his daughter in marriage) to farmer B who is in charge of allocating newly acquired tribal farmland. Farmer A gets a good, fertile pasture with a stream, farmer Z might get a bunch of rocky hillside.
It still has a call stack, goto only goes forward.
This guy wrote a whole article off of interview quotes. No actual proof or research. Some people just want other people to fail.
This is sad because this show has a wonderfully realized world.
Agreed. I've flagged it.
Capitalism - no. Greed and lust for money - yes.
Judging by most craft beer companies, the AI should just add hops, then add double that amount of hops, then add some extra hops for flavor.
People use freedom as a platitude and have no respect for the meaning of the word. As if it's just a mantra that means absolute good and nothing more.

Is freedom a threat to democracy? Yes, it can be. Freedom to go around killing your political rivals and their supporters is definitely a threat to democracy. Absolute freedom is anarchy, and it's horrible for anyone who is not the most powerful. It's great for them, though.

That's a hyperbolic example. But the freedom of corporations to completely capture political parties and wrest the nation's tiller away from the people and hog it all to themselves is definitely an existential threat for democracy and our well-being. To allow their absolute freedom is a threat to our basic freedoms.
Consider that in 1955 (the year I chose above), Fortran was still two years in the future. At this point in time, people were still wrapping their heads around the concept of a library of pre-existing routines that new programs could call. Compilers for algebraic languages pre-Fortran was even called "automatic programming" at the time. Also keep in mind that although the mid '50s was when software and computer science was emerging as a distinct discipline, it wasn't until the '60s that independent CS departments emerged and it took even longer for that to be the norm in most universities. Animats and osteele is a sibling thread have interesting anecdotes in this regard. So I think it's quite possible that electrical engineers at the time not seeing a future where people would think about software independent of hardware. (To see some documents from the time, I wrote about some my family had a while back: http://www.scott-a-s.com/grandfather-univac/)

I don't think it's obvious that AI and data science will be distinct fields from CS. I just think it's quite possible, and if it does happen, this is the time people will point to when it started emerging on its own.
I think that they are aiming at using a mainline Linux kernel to make it resistant to the prevailing Android problem of lackluster updates.
Not to doubt you, since I don't know your experience, but I use Facebook to keep up with distant family members and old college friends. I check in about once a day, and if we find ourselves in the same town we notice, and make plans to meet up. That sums up 99% of my use of Facebook, and it's absolutely benign for me. No toxicity at all, from my pov. Maybe it depends on your social circle?
> For anyone who doesn't have time to read the whole article, the conclusion is pretty much "No, as long as we have a strong social safety net."

Well, then the answer is "yes". The whole issue being debated here is whether capitalism inevitably leads to a concentration of wealth which can then be leveraged into political power to create more concentration of wealth in a positive feedback cycle. The theory goes that after a couple iterations of that cycle, the wealthy will dismantle the social safety net entirely so they can cut their taxes.

Which is exactly what we're seeing right now.
When it's the inevitable effects of capitalism, we deny it

I haven't seen any proof that there are any "inevitable" effects of capitalism. Certainly we can't take the existence of these effects that you are referring to as a given.
"Is [Abstraction A] a threat to [Abstraction B]?"

No. Human beings who put money and control of land and resources over and above the welfare of other human beings are a threat to us all and always have been.

I wish sociopathic hypergreedy control freaks were viewed the same way we perceive pedophiles instead of being rewarded.
It was a really good podcast. One of my takeaways is that Holiday does a good job of not "taking sides" even though it is a seductive, socially compelling thing to do. I think that EconTalk and the book deserve their own HN thread.
For some reason I am repulsive towards 'self-help' books.
I always have a feeling that you just cannot sum up all the things to be "happy" or "content" or whatever in one book.
I have seen numerous people who read inspirational quotes/books but the act the opposite way.
I feel it is very difficult to change how the internals of a person work, reading a book will definitely push you in the right direction, motivate you, elate you, change your mental models[0]. But to bring those changes in your actual life, seems quite difficult and time consuming. Can your "mental model" be modified just by reading 1-2 books ?

I am interested to know, how often when you face a situation, you stop and think, oh I read this and that in a book, I should act this way instead of my natural intuition to do the other way.

Given the limited experience with life I have and the fact that I haven't read any of the self-help books, I am willing to change my perspective regarding this. Will give a shot to '12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.'

[0] => "It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read" https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/its-okay-to-forget-w...
"Damaging to society" is a a very subjective concept. The segment of society benefiting from said commingling of big government and big business might disagree with the assertion that their role is "damaging" to the broader society.
We are not talking about an absence of govenremnt.

A small government is perfectly able to regulated what is needed to regulate. It is an absolutle isllusion to believe that only a big government can correctly regulated cooperations.

In fact, I would argue there is little corrulation either way, both big and small govenrment sometimes have effective laws.

The ability to regulated derives from a monopoly on violence, not control of 50% of the economy.
A similar but much more active 100+ year old tunnel in Hamburg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Tunnel_(1911)

That one allows both cars and pedestrians. Worth seeing while in Hamburg (along with the miniature model railway museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland - a visit there inspired Sid Meier to re-create Railroad Tycoon).
Lullabies for little criminals is an INCREDIBLE book.
> it's also clear that most families are run as communes

Interesting observation. I'm not saying I disagree but growing up in an Evangelical religious culture (which describes much of America), this was definitely not the case. Men, specifically husbands/fathers were considered superior than other members of the family.
The problem is of cause that capitalism is a fiction that have never existed in the real world, with the "movement" that calls itself capitalist being captured by the mercantilist it was supposed to oppose as soon as it started.

And mercantilism which is what most economist is promoting as capitalism is basically feudalism by economic means and as such pretty much inconsistent with democracy the second you have a zero sum economy(which the west will for the foreseeable future be facing), especially when you remember that feudalism rose out of the concept of hereditary property not divine right(that came much later) as most textbooks state.

Weather capitalism is compatible with the real world is a much bigger question that few economist dare to ask because the last one to do so ended up founding communism as a response to the complete failure of Smiths actual ideals to survive in the real world.
On the whole, the service is brilliant, and exactly what USPS should have become in the mid-90s. Mail is auto-scanned and delivered as a pdf attachment to my email. When I need something physically forwarded to me, the prices are only a small markup from what it costs to mail the package, and it's mailed promptly. On the whole, it's awesome, and I'm very happy to be a customer.

I'll give you my two big complaints:

1) The time delay. My Traveling Mailbox address is in the western half of the US. Mail has to be delivered to that address, then shipped cross country to North Carolina where their headquarters and mail scanner is. You can count on an additional 3 to 14 days after USPS thinks the mail has been delivered before a scan of it shows up in my email inbox. A couple years ago, this was much worse and less consistent; occasionally letters were 3 weeks late. However in the past 2 years or so, I've noticed the time delay has been much more consistent, centering around 3-5 business days. They maintain addresses all over the country, and there's probably only the scale and margin to maintain one scanning facility, so I don't know what TM could realistically do to address this problem. If I didn't need an address where I have it, I would have already moved my address to Sanford, NC, where their headquarters is.

2) Some banks don't like the address. Due to KYC laws, banks and financial institutions need a residential address for their clients. I'm homeless and don't have such an address, so this is difficult for me. Traveling Mailbox is nice in that they give you a street address, not a P.O. Box. To a casual glance, it looks like a normal street address, but if one researches the address online, one will find that it's a business. When I changed my address over to use my TM address as my home address, about half the financial institutions I worked with rejected the address as not being my residence and said they couldn't do business with me anymore. Some asked for a driver's license as proof of the address. I said no problem and faxed my driver's license (which has my TM address), but the institutions still closed my account without further explanation. I'm still a little salty about the hubris of the politicians who enacted the KYC laws, assuming that everybody conforms and has a permanent residential address.
> The point is to provide some counterbalance to the Guardian's biased framing of this case.

> The excerpts are provided for the reader's convenience to quickly convey the gist of the article.

Sure, and they do that. The question was why you thought the article was worth including, and there could have been multiple answers, so I decided to ask. Perhaps you thought it was self evident, but that's often not as clear in a forums as people would like to think.

As to your reason for inclusion, I don't really see the Guardian's representation all that biased, because I think the points you referenced are for the most part irrelevant. In this country, we're supposed to have a right to free speech. He was detained for months and prosecuted for his speech. What that speech was advocating isn't really the point.

I do think it's useful information to have though, so thanks.
Well yeah, they only got the license to get their hands on the bailout money [1]. They must think they're going to make some serious money off this, as they had no real appetite to get into retail any other way.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/23/morganstanl...
"The ecology" is fine, it's just different now.
I listened recently on a radio an interview where the claim was that it's easier to achieve equality in a benevolent dictatorship than in capitalistic democracy.

Capitalistic democracy tend to distort to an organization influenced by lobbies and corporations, and in the long run governments have to take that and pay back by allowing monopolies and their clients.

In a benevolent dictatorship, corporations can't have a big influence on government. It's clear who is more powerful, and benevolent dictator can actually care more about the actual wellbeing of the people more than some democratically elected government which is just a proxy for big corporates.

Pretty dystopian.
I'd love to be a commodity tbh. I work just to pay off stuff, and I work hard because I want shinier stuff, but if I had a decent pay at a modest job I'd take it in a heartbeat.
OH god no. Democracy is a system which can easily trample on the freedoms of the vulnerable. It's why you need to engineer your actual system of government to give representation to the vulnerable that is hard to ignore.