skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the revelations of the 1851 Great Exhibition was the difference between US exhibits and those of Britain, France and Germany. In some ways embarrassing because the US was the only nation (and somewhat ridiculed as a result) not to sponsor their nation's attendance it showed a simplicity and practicality that was often absent in the European equivalents.

Notably the reaper and other agricultural machinery and Colt firearms that were clearly ahead in both means of production and practicality.

There's been quite a bit written that it was the first indication that the world's centre would be changing. The US had none of the baggage and history that went with having hand made, high skill crafts and could go straight to production in large numbers. Because they were starting from scratch across much of the nation they had to. Which turned out to be a huge advantage. Much as we've seen more recently with developing nations going straight to mobile phones without landlines first, or China short-cutting much of the industrial development the West had to go through.

There's been a couple of credible books making the case that most of the changes of world centre through the ages have been for similar reasons.

If I can bring any titles to mind I'll edit. Offhand I can't remember.
Co-determination Hinders Innovation
Again, what was happening that was a violation of the license terms? As I read it, nothing. That's not "bad behavior". That's "I chose the wrong license for my project".
Investing in Crypto Is as Easy as 1, 2, 3
For some things, like compressing files, they are really good. But game performance still benefits from strong single core where Intel is the best still, unfortunately.
How often does CNN go the other way and say "Trump is right" in an attempt to seem relevant?

You appear to have skipped the "clickbait" part of what I wrote.

And Betteridge's Law wouldn't apply to the statement in the first headline, "NFL ratings are down again this season."

I never said it did. In a parallel of misunderstanding, I would point out that "NFL ratings are down again this season" isn't political.
Competitor to the Federal Reserve :)
That's true, but it's all a numbers game; you're just trying to get the 15,000 attendees down to a manageable number you can target.
In the past it was called 'fusion'. Today it's called 'cultural appropriation'

https://twitter.com/hashtag/jerkgate
The main problem in the US is that corporations and the wealthy have used populism to wage war on government. Thomas Frank's work on 'populist pro-business conservatism' is the reference on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansa...
They try to get citizens to hate the government so they can shrink it and cut taxes on themselves. They use disinformation to do so.

The main deceit comes from right-wing populist disinformation.

You can also read Thomas Piketty on how wealth inequality allows the very wealthy to spend money to influence politics. In the US, that's taken the form of anti-government disinformation.
An indirect reminder that now that YC China is a thing @sama and @paulg and any other affiliated will have to avoid saying anything negative about China in order to keep doing business there.
Ask HN: Is there an extension to block sellers on Amazon?
I was thinking today it would be nice to block product pages or have a warning banner appear on the page if the seller has a large amount of fake reviews or many recent reviews that are not good.

I was looking at buying a print off Amazon today and just before checking out I remembered to run it through fakespot. Even though everything looked good to me, the ASIN I was looking up got an F grade on reviews. It'd be nice to just avoid sellers entirely who use fake reviews.
Though trying to add the numbers for 1 to a million in a loop javascript was about 10 - 20 times faster when I tried it.
The 30% Tax
Yes, exactly. I was trying to say that a person would be better served using ethernet if they wanted data. But some older phone systems still work well with tdm style T1 and T3...
Just a guess, but probably it's because of sharing the same timezone and culture and where it's easy to set up payroll, benefits,... for the employee in question.
Article title's kind of disingenuous, isn't it? Name-drops Google and Apple, and then the rest of the positions are, like... "You can be a barista at Starbucks, a cashier at Whole Foods, or even a housekeeper at a Hilton!"
Wow, 10% own 84% of all stocks. That's a bit sad.

Is it because 90% of Americans don't even have money left to invest after their cost of living? Otherwise, where are people investing, if not the stock market?
My conclusion about using Haskell to make games and device drivers¹ is: don't.

Even if the ecosystem changed and some great libraries appeared since I last tried, the language itself is a bad match for those domains. Lazyness is great everywhere, except when it works against you, and the garbage collector will assure you notice it.

1 - On my case, userspace drivers. I'm still open to userspace filesystems (I have on on my TODO list, if I ever get there), but device controlling implies on some harder real time requirements.
I don't miss my commute by a long shot (Niagara to Toronto) all day, every day... about 2H on a good day each way during rush hours.
That's measurable via inflation, which has been remarkably low over the past decade.
In the end everything comes down on money, especially in the USA where the election system depends so much on the candidates getting enough (mostly corporate) donations (or friendly bribing, however you want to call it).
Slack Is Awful
Probably legacy software compatibility.
Yes, error after error. The intent of the article, clearly, is to attack Szilard. It poses as a review of Voice of the Dolphins, but there's little evidence that she even read it.
You're right, and I've edited my post to reflect that.
You can't have a genuine introspective and do the typical thought leader #humblebrags at the same time.
I would argue it's most affecting those who are particularly exposed to fluctuations in the currency market.
That's the inverse of how I understand those terms and how loaded they are. “Prayer” is a nearly universal religious practice even in ones that are not especially theistic, whereas “grace” is a distinctly Christian notion.
Step 1: Gain money and connections, one way or another.
Basically implement double entry accounting.

I think ideally you want something like Rich Hickey speaks about when he speaks of Datomic. An append only database.
You can see what the previous values for that row were, along with schema changes.
How to Build a Probability Microscope (2017)
This is true. However in this case, they aren’t cashing in dollars for time off.

It’s not like a billionaire (quibble about billionaires being in jail) can load up a commissary card and buy time off.

On the contrary, the billionaire would have to work the same hours as the guy who robbed the booze store and get 1 day off for every one worked.

I’m much more troubled by having private companies buying cheap prison labor to make goods or do customer service.

It’s interesting to note as well that I think I share the same underlying thesis that prisons are fucked, with terrible incentives and I am in favor of revamping the entire system — however this one program does not bother me the same way it does others.

If I was to guess, I’d imagine I have much more progressive views about prison reform than most opposed to this program. This is fascinating to me.

For example, I’ve been speaking with VCs about doing a “prison startup” with the right incentives - including things like cooperative ownership by the prisoners themselves.

In my view crime is a context not a characterstic of an individual.
So there's not money available to pay someone $18/hr to perform data entry and stamp passports but there is money available to pay someone $18 an hour to grope people and lecture them about what they can and can't bring past security. Top notch prioritization right there. Where is the oversight? Who is letting this happen?
New page on Bitcoin.org to help inform users about different kinds of scams
I once heard of a very major website essentially being DOS-ed because a scrapper was enumerating IDs in the URL. (Can't say the name because I signed an NDA.) The engineers involved all assumed the scraping was legitimate indexing by a 3rd party or researcher.
I'm only saying it isn't the only approach, even if you're keeping the source of truth in memory. It's the most prescriptive approach for sure so is the one people tend to go for first but there be dragons in managing especially long lived journals. Migrating the journal over time, figuring out how to truncate it (especially if there is an initial creation command/event that describes the rest of the life, or periodic updates to the structure - you have to keep all of that data forever potentially to know that it's going to wind up being correct.)

And yes long recovery times are an issue unless you want to keep every entity in memory forever and ever, or you can tolerate extremely slow turnaround times. There are knobs and dials here that are subtleties that people won't think about until after they launch.

If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail kind of thing. There are other ways to handle problems that are only marginally different in how they persist and recover state, yet are far more usable for certain use cases.
I'm extremely skeptical when I see someone gung-ho for event sourcing if they've never used it though. I tend to look at the problem very hard to see what else we could do for persistence while still maintaining the "source of truth" in memory.
Man, you are a smart guy. I know this, your posts are generally awesome. How in the hell do you think it's okay for them to try to ban consulting about a product? That isn't "property rights", that's just...fuckery.
Mysterious Aurora-Like Lights Above Canada Continue to Confuse Scientists
I love the idea of EVE but I hate the names of all the top corps, it really pulls me out of the RP element
You have to just log in and train skills for a couple of months. Then you can try some pvp. Otherwise you're just getting ganked by players who've been there for 3-5 years (git gud lul).

Though you can join a corp where you can provide (limited, since you can't even use more advanced tech for a month or two) use in mass pvp.

Massive waste of time.
Given Samsung, I wouldn't be surprised if that issue was related to their software. There's just so much going on in Android, and so much third party software, that you really can't assume much anymore.
Fomo3D just finished its first round: 10,469 ETH paid to the winner
"I think one of the top grossing authors has written an entire series about magic."

Wait.... what? Are you talking about Harry Potter?

It's hard to tell if you started as serious but are now becoming a parody troll account.
Serverless Pricing: AWS Lambda and Lambda at Edge
> Otherwise, where are people investing, if not the stock market?

Most people's primary investment is their home.
There was no prior mention of the person being a prison abolitionist. There was mention of concern about private prisons. I don't know how I am to intuit what a person is truly concerned about vs. what they state they are concerned about.
that's really high, what was costing you ~£30 a day?
We are already suffering from severe austerity after the collapse in 2008. Pay for the bottom 70% of people in the Western World falls further and further behind.

The present political mess, including in the US and in the UK, and across Europe is clear fall-out from these problems.

In this context, imposing further high-taxes to restrict energy use is political suicide, and simply won't happen.

In the longer-term, moving to wind and solar will help, especially as energy storage technologies improve. Countries such as Spain and Portugal are showing us the way in this respect.
Cost of living is measured via the "basket of goods" used in inflation measurements. Inflation has been extremely low over the past decade. I think the likelier conclusion is: the market isn't up because of currency devaluation.
Yes it has. This is exactly what the inflation indexes are meant to measure and apply it to nominal wage growth.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Maybe it hasn't in SF or NY or other insanely prices areas, but that is 100% because real estate policy in those areas is a disaster.
is that interpreter faster then the default one?
>and neither party is able to assume complete control over the territory.

Do you believe PRC doesn't have enough military force to conquer Taiwan right now?
Yeah, let's nationalize everything since the politicians know better than the free market /s
But that's kind of the point -- those who live in large enterprises who can't use the AGPL must buy a commercial license. The AGPL is toxic in some places, and its use is a deliberate attempt to nudge people toward a commercial license. Did this not work in your case?
I guess a clause could specify exemptions to previous clauses.
This is great! A college degree can really help in a lot of careers (and I say this as someone with both a college and a grad degree), but rarely is it actually essential. It's not often even a good proxy for knowing that someone can do something. Direct measures of ability, such as reviewing past work, or even tests of certain types, are going to be much better at actually assessing whether or not someone can do the job, and also make jobs accessible to people from backgrounds that might make getting a college degree hard, but have no effect on whether or not a given individual can do a given job.
Origin of “ballpark estimate” to mean a very rough estimate?
That's because it's difficult for poor populations to escape the US...
This is reminding me of "The Lick":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lick_(music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q
> You could argue that your VISA, MasterCard, or Amex card is a private "currency" with a fixed exchange rate 1:1 with the card's issuance currency. By offering you a line of credit on the card, they've "printed" their own private currency

I don't think this really flies, the credit is paid, denominated, and collected in USD it's not separate in any useful or meaningful sense. They can't pay out more to merchants than they have in their accounts/credit lines.
I vaguely remember my high school philosophy teacher telling us that Kant had lived freely in his early years, he drank a lot, partied all the time. But after reaching a certain age, he arrived at the conclusion that he had a duty in the society, so he organized his life rigidly. He told his servant to wake him up very early every day at the same hour. He worked and ceased partying. He carefully planned all parts of his life, for example for enjoyment he invited friends to his house for dinner.

I think taking Kant as an example could be flawed here. He didn't organize his life in routines to benefit himself, to make him more productive/happy etc., he organized his life to fulfill his duty and I personally don't think that he was happy in doing that.
Did someone say Hawaiian pizza? (or is that with pineapple...)
One infers their systems are highly integrated (tax/crime/social/banking/education/gps all unified)
The whole concept of 'requiring' a degree to get a job, aside from legal requirements, is silly to begin with. No company in existence has ever required a degree. Companies may reject someone they never planned on hiring in the first place on the basis of not having a degree to evade a discrimination lawsuit, but that's quite a different thing.
A great book on the recent history of music piracy and the advent of the MP3 is How Music Got Free:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Got-Free-Obsession/dp/01431...
I agree, though in context I assumed that using the internet was implied by my statement.
Really cool! I'd love to see this go even further and see what other patterns appear.
While not exactly that, https://anvil.works/ is kind of heading that way (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124)
This makes you think that maybe not individual humans, but a human society is destined to cause enough damage to eventually eradicate itself.

The problems we cause "take too long" to become an problem in the influencial lifetime of the most powerful people in our society, so it is always the problem of someone else until it is too late.
Remove restrictions? For example, the BSD license requires attribution, so you could have an extra clause that basically says "attribution is not required anywhere".
I’m more skeptical about words like “family,” “values,” and “ownership.” You don’t fire your brother if he doesn’t meet expectations. Corporations ultimately only value money. And, try taking anything with you that you “owned” at a corporation when leaving.

And, don’t even get me started on the word “resources.”
Wow, that's awesome! Direct link to the live notebook: https://livebook.inkandswitch.com/fork/welcome

Naturally, I changed the first code block to this:

from random import randint, seed
seed()
"\n".join([randint(5, 25) * ' ' + s for s in ['such code', 'much live', 'wow']])
Facebook Suspended a Latin American News Network – Gave Three Different Reasons
Everyone seems up in arms but this is the only point I'm making.
I also bike commute full time (even through Boston winters) and love it. I know I couldn't bike to music safely though. Are audiobooks different? Can you still hear approaching cars etc.? Or do you have an unusually safe route?
...and here I read the title hoping that it was a realization that turning your “self” into a capitalistic market product was fundamentally unfulfilling...

In any case, it entirely depends on what your goals are and what industry you are in. Fashion brands, for example, often have market caps above tech companies and are almost universally named after their founders (Prada, Versace, Tom Ford, Alexander McQueen, etc.) I would argue that a company selling luxury products / a notion of craftsmanship benefit from being named directly after a real person.
I had this bookmarked from a while back, should be helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13015544
Take a wealthy person, ask them what they're addicted to, and milk them for all they're worth
Without trying to trivialize your reasons for going to therapy: I don't think you have imposter syndrome. If you do, something seems incongruent here.

It sounds to me as though you struggle with negotiation due to a lack of confidence. That's not ideal but it can be remedied, and it's a different (better, in my opinion) issue to have. On the other hand I don't really think you can have imposter syndrome while being self-aware about having it. Imposter syndrome is a thought process, not a behavioral pattern. Understanding that you're worth more than what you're charging means you're aware you could improve in negotiation. How would you be aware that you're worth more while also being aware that you believe that you're not worth more?

On a more practical note: I used to be a consultant. I initially struggled with negotiation as well. My advice to you is to practice being flippant with the numbers you provide. I know that sounds cavalier and it's easier said than done, but it can be a very empowering (albeit nerve-wracking) experience to learn how to give ridiculous numbers out. You might be surprised how often they're accepted.
https://twitter.com/dibblego/status/1032041025240358912

What's his (Tony Morris') point? Is he putting on a show or is that for real?
I think choice of GPU matters more to game performance these days than the CPU does.
My ritual is checking hacker news. I practice it often.
No. Ask a person why they are "successful" and they will give you the answer they tell themselves. "I worked harder than others, I am smarter, I went to a good school, etc. etc." While they think that's true, it's mostly hogwash and most people can't tell you why they are or aren't successful.

The problem is that most of what it comes down to is luck. Luck in the sense of time and place. People born into a wealthy family or even with two loving parents are lucky and way more likely to be wealthy than those that were born without.

Warren Buffett came of age in the greatest period of prosperity in American history. Bill Gates came of age right at the time that PCs became possible. Bezos was first to market on a new and unproven platform. Zuckerberg got lucky because he was able to get started when broadband penetration in developing countries was finally starting to get some traction.

No man is an island and teaching success as a skill is just silly in my opinion.
Why would you blame the head of the system rather than the underlying ideology ?
no numpy & no tensorflow
Generally that just wasn't an option. I cleared it with my manager and there were only a couple of times that I can remember where we had either a customer visit or total crunch time and I'd drive myself on days where I wasn't the DD. This was in the early 90s so remote internet login wasn't even possible and we didn't have laptops either, sounds hard to believe even to myself now.
You could try Spacemacs in that regard.

You can use it with Vim key bindings, but get the customization offered by Emacs.

I also suggest trying it in Holy mode. What it does well is make commands mnemonic, more similar to Vim, but they just all start with M-m (Alt+m)

So you would do something like M-m b N to create a new buffer. Or M-m w / to split the frame in two windows horizontally.

This I find saves you to modal switch overhead, but maintain the simpler keystroke commands.
Ok fine, objectively there's less lyric content and more repetition; and subjectively the lyrics aren't exactly getting more insightful or laconic to compensate.
My fingers are thin, and it was a little finger.

A photo of my hand can be provided upon request.
An apartment is fairly easy; if you don't have to live near a big city in order to work, land and construction labor is relatively cheap.

A Netflix subscription is just data. A subscription and the broadband access to go with it is within most peoples' means now; broadband to the far-flung reaches people go to live when, as mentioned, they're not constrained to urban areas might be a challenge, but before too long LTE data will be sufficient for most purposes (especially in regions with lower population densities!)

People don't need a new iPhone X. Period! There's cheap alternatives that do 90% of the same thing. People who would be likely to spring for universal-income-based life are unlikely to be able to afford one in either case.

More broadly; food and housing is (given some geographic freedom) trivially accessible and cheap, internet access is almost at the same level, and most of what we consider "nice things" are trivially replaceable with much cheaper "nice things" that simply haven't had the same level of advertisement support. There's no material barrier to people living good lives on universal-basic-income-level resources.
Ask HN: Do you still enjoy toys as adults?
Open to whatever your interpretation of a "toy" is. Could be fidget spinners, model trains, RC planes, drones, action figures, etc. Physical things that provide entertainment and are fun to play with.
I agree that AGPL is not a complete anti-commerce license. It doesn't stop all forms of commercial use nor try to. It's unclear that stopping such use (without separate permissiong) will result in more money for the original project, but that's not impossible.

I was just clarifying the point being made above about AGPL.