skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a teenager (10 years ago) I found out about Facebook through my own mom. Facebook isn't for the youth, the appeal of Facebook was reconnecting with old friends, and family. To a young person, they usually see their friends in school and their family all the time 'cause they get dragged wherever their parents go. The value of Facebook is a storage facility for memories, once you got a large enough body of people somewhere on the internet the rest of the internet follows as a result.

Edit:

I also hear a lot that most people are on FB due to keeping up with "events" as well. Aside from memories / connecting and events it provides no value back to me. I can call / text / email anyone I know, I guess it's just convenience.
I think what you just wrote falls back on you. The parent just mentioned it, nothing special, AND it made sense as part of his argument. It was you who made a big deal of it.

You wrote

> How is it backward looking?

Which is clearly wrong! You even just admitted it.

Please don't try to make it look like it's the parent commenters fault now.
The Australian government has no choice but to push hard to get regulators to go after the banks. They were asleep at the wheel for years and it was only after enormous pressure that they allowed a Royal Commission.

Now they are singing a different tune. I'll be very interested in seeing what happens.
you could buy a reasonable home for about $229,000 in many areas with some jobs, but even that is still a massive financial burden that is not easily solved with "just get some tenants"

Back in the day, house prices were 1 year's salary. Now it's more like 6-7 years of salary, with a high tax assessment and no job security or pensions too.

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I’d really like to see a source that regulators are not allowed by law to levy a fine that would force a corporation into bankruptcy. I’m quite skeptical you can provide one :)
I gave a citation. When I say "everybody with a bit of economic common sense", I mean everybody in economic profession who is able of some elementary reflection on what they are doing. Even most neoclassicals (which is probably the only school where somebody actually believes in EMH) know that many of the theoretical assumptions are bullshit. Another classic example, aside from EMH, is SMD theorem.

I am pretty sure that most economic Nobel prize winners do not believe in EMH, from the top of my head, Akerlof and Kahneman.
NetBSD can run on most Amiga's with a MMU and 24MB or better [1]. That's either an A3000 (1990) with memory expansion or pretty much any model with a 68020 + MMU + RAM accelerator board. I don't know if you could get it to run on an Amiga 1000, but certainly on a 500 or 2000. So a 1987 computer... Though most of the accelerator boards that are easy to obtain today are newly manufactured FPGA based ones...

(NetBSD will probably run on older hardware than that too - it's just I remember people running it on Amiga's, so it's the one I'm aware of)

[1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/
Undo has many weird sides but what you describe rarely happen to me, if at all
I still haven't figured out how the undo-direction works in emacs. It feels like half the time I'd inadvertently end up redoing.
I would recommend learning more about the things you hate.

I used to hate modern art. I thought it was only for obnoxious people. Then I decided to take a college course on it and it's my favorite period of art because I learned to understand it. For the same reasons, I decided to take a course on the black power movement. My parents were racist so I was probably racist so I wanted to learn more. I learned about the Civil rights movement and discovered many personal heroes. I used to dislike John McCain and politics even though I knew very little about either, until I saw a documentary about McCain and learned he was literally a hero. I used to think finance, statistics, and programming were for smart people unlike me, until I learned more and developed a love for it.

I used to think the red pill was complete trash until someone forced me to watch the red pill documentary. It led to a painful breakup where we both weren't able to empathize with each other's traumas. I could not empathize with his pain of feeling inferior (because that's my status quo) and he could not empathize with the systemic oppression and violence against women (physical, sexual, and emotional). I feel he felt that his father may have been taken advantage of, abused and used financially and feared that for himself. While I watched my father abuse my mother, emotionally and financially, and feared that for myself. It was strange how we both felt strongly about both sides, the same problem, except we were passionately divided simply because of gender. I learned a lot and probably will always be learning from that experience.

Every time I've challenged my views, I've been rewarded.

Two books I've enjoyed or am enjoying that are about chaos:

Evicted by Mathew Desmond covers American poverty from a housing perspective.

The Big Short covers the 2008 financial crisis and it's much more informative than the film.
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True. I wonder if that’s because it’s explicitly a developer tool, and developers will understand what’s going on, and the risks/benefits of using a VPN.

I think the main reason they block apps using VPNs for other things is that it’s very easy for them to break internet on the whole phone with buggy software, and Apple don’t want lots of support time at the Genius Bar of turning off crappy ad blocking VPN apps.
Here is a list of reasons that "enlightened" (i.e. not scrooge) people would want to be rich:

- The ability to secure the best medical care for yourself and your family in a country where this takes money to do.

- The ability to walk away from abusive employment relationships without a second thought or any stress.

- The ability to engage in high-level economic actions, the kind that aren't designed for your failure. (Buying a few franchises vs. buying a payday loan)

- The ability to, fundamentally, own yourself instead of being forced to act according to the interests of people with the money to pay you. Maybe you'll use that time to act in the interests of people who can't pay you.
The author’s claim only applies to weak form of market efficiency.

The original Fama paper distinguishes between three forms of the EMH: weak, semi strong and strong.

The weak form only alleges that historical price info is fully incorporated in the current price. You can still make money by working hard and figuring things out from outside the price history.

The weak form applies to purely technical trading that extracts value from price history like momentum and the simple moving averages cross over studies you see.
> Why, nobody knows.

Wait what? I thought that's obvious. Facebook and WhatsApp don't even have the same type of social graph, multi-brand approaches are probably always strategically superior and changing the fundamental concept behind high-growth apps tends to be a high-risk endeavor.

There are probably a million more reasons not to prematurely integrate. (I guess they would also need to quit their e2e encryption in the process.)

Would there be any benefit beside convenience? Honest question.
Why US citizens hate their army so much? All i know is that if google announced it's working with our army on some AI projects, the response would be overwhelmingly positive, and people would praise Google for that.

(I'm from Israel if you're wondering)

And I think US are a minority in that the citizens despise their own government and army this much. Which really makes you wonder what's the whole point of democracy if you trust your own elected officials less than Russians trust their corrupted monarch.
Online jobs are increasing at a very rapid pace and people in developing countries will have more and more opportunities to make real wages without injuring themselves.

I spent many months in developing countries too, and I currently live in the USA in my car on like $7,000 a year all in.

Btw, US salaries are dropping/leveling off because of all the increasing work that is able to be performed abroad. I applaud this :)

And as for having kids as an insurance policy for an accident, my gf and I have already decided that we would never subject someone to such imprisonment. We escaped similar situations ourselves, where our parents feel like they own us because they birthed us.

Die when you die; when you die, you're gonna die
Right. So now it is NOT a VPN ad blocker. It’s an ad blocker using the system frameworks, plus a VPN app that allows finely grained network customisation, one use case of which is ad blocking, but not one that the app itself encourages. That fits my hypothesis.
WA is also practically non-existent in Denmark. If someone is one WA they are either an ex-pat or have lived extensive time abroad and have friends / family they keep in touch with.

Here we also have unlimited texting in all but the most limited pay-as-you-go offerings. The telco market is extremely competitive.
I don't think its that simple. Weddings may constitute a collection of individuals key to a war effort and in striking a wedding one might prevent the devastation of a prolonged conflict.
Also Middle Eastern weddings can occasionally be mis-interpreted as militant given the propensity for arms fire in celebration.

If a drone strike hit an American wedding they would ground their _home_ fleet.
Its a key difference. The information for an electorate of a democratic state to make more empathetic choices are available its just a question of whether:

* The electorate are wilfully ignorant of foreign suffering (as its tortuous to read)

* The electorate are kept ignorant intentionally or unintentionally as a product of the conflict for eye balls between media institutions.

* The electorate are not able to make impactful choices due to the type of democracy they have.

I'd argue its a bit of every one of those things.

I prefer to measure things in outcomes and I would posit the major difference in supplying or not supplying arms to a conflict is merely the level of guilt from the origin of supply. People are still going to die be it by drone, missile, mortar, ak-47 or spear.
We could argue that arms sales can enable conflict by giving one side an apparent advantage that they choose to capitalise on but that's a messy problem to investigate. Surely to wish to capitalise means that someone has already drawn the lines and is considering hostilities. What makes a war? The lines being drawn or the weapons or a combination of many factors multiplied over time and key events or decisions made by actors on either side?
One may decide to war without advantage, one may choose not to war with advantage. So I don't think its as clear cut as weapon sales == war.
Everything I've read hasn't differentiated. I can't seem to track down the official MS policy on my phone. Our certs are EV (need to sign drivers), so my experience is limited to EV certs.
Well, it's a true full "undo" behavior. It's a bit annoying at times because edits are not grouped, but you can see your entire editing history when you're undoing: no edit is ever lost in this manner.

As typical in emacs, this is not the only undo behavior you can have. undo-tree behaves very similarly to vim by default, but still preserves the entire editing history (with branching), which is visible graphically with "C-x u".
What is the difference with IPVS kernel module in Linux? Both are layer 4 load balancers and IPVS has come a long time and is proven to be good. Any performance comparisons available?
well, why do Israelis love their army so much? I think to know the answer, but be aware Israel is a very special case for so many reasons.

Edit: and the contrary is true, Americans loves their army, and they are all about that "thank you for your service" rhetoric, so perhaps just Israel top that.
It is important to bear in mind that this paper does not attempt to quantify how much market inefficiency results from not having polynomial-time solutions to the problems in NP, or how much different things would be if we did [1].

The importance of the difference between P and NP appears to be much greater in domains that are starkly discrete, such as cryptography, than in those that are approximately continuous, like finance, where there are often approximate methods in P that are very effective and efficient, at least for most real-world cases.

[1] Only in the last section does the author look at all at real market data, and there only to look for evidence in support of a weak prediction from the thesis. This is so riddled with uncontrolled factors that it tells us nothing about the quantitative consequences of N != NP on market efficiency.
Correct. Western culture is probably the least materialistic of all major cultures (500M+ people).
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This has a flipside though. If you do manage to find success (and say, own a profitable business or have an exit), you'll be taxed into oblivion.

It might not be the popular opinion on HN, but I would hate that. Make sure to structure things properly from the beginning so that you can leave when appropriate.
Because most people here are rather left-wing, and I feel that the majority of lefties hold the US military establishment (rightfully, IMHO) in very low regard, due to recent activities and engagements — e.g. the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bombing of Libya and Syria, and so on.

Not to imply this is only a position of the political left; it's my experience, however, that left-wing folk, including myself, are not exactly overflowing with praise for the US military...
If you did an undo in the history, it will look like a redo. So if you just did a bunch of undos, it will feel like redoing, but you are actually removing changes made by your undo.
And they're still way off. The only reason Detroit's number is so high is because they're counting the $1k condemned houses for sale, all over the city, that nobody wants to move into.
Ironically, that’s weirdly close to how it turns out. My current model is that humans are really driven by avoidance of various types of mental anguish (“suffering”), but can use pleasure and “happy things” to distract from suffering instead of removing the suffering. So after a while the pleasure or happiness seems like the goal.

But, if you decide to stop suffering and are able to achieve that, pleasure and “happiness” actually don’t serve much of a purpose anymore, but you still feel really good; it’s more of a “well-being” sensation.
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Suppose 2 and 7 are the only primes < 15. Then 15 is prime because its prime factorization couldn't contain any other number (2 * 7+1 makes it relatively prime to both 2 and 7 which under the supposition are the only primes < 15.) This is true if we suppose 2 and 7 are the only primes < 15, and that's just what the word "suppose" asks you to entertain.

This little mental exercise proves that 2 and 7 can't be the only primes in existence. It doesn't really matter what 15 really is or isn't. No need to add noise about it. We only care about the supposition, which you cut out of your quote.

Hope this explains why I didn't deal with the true status of new_number! It just doesn't matter.

However, I'm disappointed in you, in the other respondent, and in the moderation here, and I'm glad I made this alternate account.
Oh man, Sikuli (and SikuliX http://sikulix.com/) is amazing. It's the kind of thing where I hate that it has to exist, but I'm so happy that it does exist.
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As a fellow Israeli, I believe Americans don't feel their military is the only barrier between them and an impending doom as Israelis do. For some Americans, their military is just an oppression tool fighting colored people halfway around the world.

Other than that, there's a distrust towards authorities which US was founded upon, which I consider healthy and beneficial. As much as it lends itself to conspiracy theories and a drive to destroy the system, it also provides checks and balances against the world's strongest superpower becoming a tyranny.
it treats the undos as new changes to the buffer, and adds
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Usually, when you fail - there is no money left for any celebration. That's why i've am unable to throw parties when i fail. I would love to otherwise :)
> Have any more thoughts on its implementation that you’d care to share?

In its most rudimentary form think of it as another "last used time" column in the database. A periodic job can delete all entries which are older than a certain last used time.
I've been interested in finding some kind of approach to practice my social skills in a safe environment, what services offer something like that?
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All those indexed funds suggestions are biased by the fact that the stock market, overall, has increased in value OVER TIME:

http://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historica...

Remember, the stock market does not create money, it's not a fundamental advancement for humanity. That just means that more people poured money into stocks, rather than other investments or savings.

There's absolutely, ABSOLUTELY no reason for which this growth should keep going on in the future.
There is an inverse relationship between salary and the number of jobs available at that rate. I think you will find it harder to continue raising your income just by job hopping. You’re going to need to demonstrate you can deliver increasingly higher value to organizations in order to demand higher wages.
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The link you referenced counters your point that its a big no-no in most parts of the world to take a photo of someone without their consent. In the majority of the countries listed on that wiki page no consent is required with certain exceptions.

I'd personally say taking pictures of people without their consent is a big no-no in some parts of the world, but not all.

I have never personally had any issues with my street photography in the UK, it boils down to being respectful and not behaving in a harassing manor. If there is a reasonable expectation of privacy then one should consider taking an unsolicited photo as an invasion of privacy.
Do US citizens hate their army so much? The typical international stereotype for Americans is the opposite, especially with high respect for soldiers and veterans. Although I guess that's slightly different: respect for the individuals, but less respect for the overall organization that has them fighting "useless" wars. Little of it's fighting is fighting direct threats to the US mainland.

The US still has a culture around respecting the military that's quite foreign to many other countries.
> You need a military in order to prevent other people from bombing your country. You absolutely do not need to bomb other people, and if fact if your goal is to not get bombed, not bombing other people might be your best option for a bunch of reasons.

And sometimes the best way to save lives of your people is to bomb other people.

That’s very naive. Not all antagonists are rational state actors. Terrorist orgs like Al Qaeda or ISIS aren’t going to stop trying to kill you if you ignore them. The only solution is direct action and only question becomes who’s going to do it, i.e. the USA or a local proxy.
It seems to have taken on a literal narcissism in the Snap era.
The EMH is specific to asset markets. So stocks and bonds basically. No (respectable, well-known) economist has ever argued that all markets are always efficient.

Also what people mean when they say markets are efficient in other contexts means something very different. The EMH specifically describes how quickly and what kinds of information get incorporated into asset prices. It doesn't make claims about how markets organize production or optimize utility without centralized direction, which is usually what people mean when they say free markets are efficient.

I think a lot of confusion has arisen from the very general-sounding name of the hypothesis which does not reflect its relatively narrow claims. Not that I buy the EMH (no pun intended), but that's a different story.
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awesome database. It seems to need two "quick browse" modes for an easy discovery: (1) clicking on a country just plays the most popular sound clip. (2) clicking on a country, then on a region, plays the most popular clip.
Expending resources (i.e., money) for food doesn't cause the food to immediately lose its value. Expending resources (i.e., physical energy) for eating the food also doesn't cause the food to lose its value, as it almost certainly provides more energy and nutrition than is expended in its digestion, thus maintaining the consumer (i.e., a net gain); it may also have additional value, which probably attracted an additional cost to begin with (e.g., superior flavour, scarcity, etc.)

It's an overloaded term, sure, but it's clear that consumables -- i.e., things that need to be consumed to release their value, such as food -- only fall under the category of "consumption" when there's a surplus of value that becomes illiquid. For example, eating a balanced meal when you're hungry is a net gain, while eating 50 pizzas when you don't need to isn't!
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You should go after targets over which you have some leverage.

As a google engineer, you have the ability to impact this particular program in a way that you can’t impact what other military programs do.

Just as an American citizen you have more ability to impact American policy than you do Russian policy.

Make an impact where you have the power to make an impact.

I just quit my job because I was working on a DHS contract and it was getting harder and harder to ignore what they were doing to immigrants.

It’s small, but I don’t want to have to answer for what I was doing to my children.
What are some BitPay alternatives?
What are the Bitpay alternatives you recommend?
My consulting company is helping non-profits add Bitcoin to their accepted list of payment methods.

We plan to add BitPay for them, but we also need a backup method in case, BitPay fails. Our gateway routing infra is already in place, so it will be trivial to route payment request elsewhere incase of downtimes.
I'm interested in this. So far, the best resources I found are:

- "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford, a mix of fiction and non-fiction about planning experience in the USSR. It includes a rich bibliography and references to papers published over the past 70 years around this issue.

- There are few papers by Chinese economists, most notably this one: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/14/platform-socialism.html (you have to mess around with Sci-Hub mirrors to get a free copy).

- There are few papers and books by Michael Ellman, e.g.: https://www.amazon.com/Planning-Problems-USSR-Contribution-M...

- I also have a few primers on linear programming in my to-do list, e.g.: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486654915/

- Somewhat tangential, but "the greatest American capitalist" ripping into EMH is a fun read too: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/sup...

None of these really talk about the software still, but I would imagine a combination of:

- existing supply-chain systems already in place at Amazon, Walmart, etc.,

- something along the lines of non-monetary Kickstarter to gauge popularity of ideas from the ground up, and encourage innovation

- strong democratic institutions

- still allow free market at low levels, like individual entrepreneurs that don't employ anybody (once you employ someone, it must be a co-op).

Dunno, these are just random ideas in my head. :)