skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question is: Why can't a new party come up? Is it due to the system itself or the "will of the people"?

I honestly and genuinely don't think that's much of a question.

I encourage you to read Lawrence Lessig's "Republic, Lost"[1] - which talks about how the big money behind campaign financing makes average Joe's feel as if they're choosing a politician based on their will, which turns out to not really be the case. Rather, they're choosing from a select group of politicians already rubber stamped "OK" by deep pocketed donors.

A good quote (not verbatim) from the book is basically how deep pocket donors have a sense of: "Let me choose the potential candidate options, and I don't really care who wins".

So it's the "will of the people" only so far as the people's will aligns with something they have 0 control over - the intentions/ambitions of those with money - which doesn't sound much like free will.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Version-Lawrence-Lessig...
How frightening. Did they like the West better? I remember reading an anecdote that many East Germans, once they left to West Germany and Western Europe, they regretted a while and started longing for the East. I always wondered what they miss and hated about Western Europe.
Exactly. I bought a brick of chalk for $2.50 (shipping included) from China. Shipping alone costs more here, and they're still making a profit.

I didn't realize that this subsidy exists. I'm no fan of Trump, but this is a good move.
I always thought the fade was just a radio friendly way to make it easy to transition seamlessly with 90s live radio technology.
Isn't it more about the lifestyle and general well being of the animals while they are alive than it is about diet? Ethically speaking.
I read an average amount as a child and frankly I found books such as "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Red Badge of Courage", "Great Expectations", etc to be absolutely mind-numbingly boring and would have to force myself to finish them. As a young adult I actually picked up some books I found interesting (i.e. nonfiction) and became a voracious reader. It was like an entire new world had opened up that wasn't constrained by the boundaries of some form of supervision. Admittedly, most of my reading as a youngster came in school and you were either reading fiction, or nonfiction that had to do with the holocaust or WWII. My advice to young people struggling with books is to find a genre that interests you, and dive in.
> complex

Complex is an understatement.

The Universal Postal Union constitution (1) from 1964 is some readable 11 pages, setting the scope to "... a single postal territory for the reciprocal exchange of letter-post items" and international collaboration to improve postal services including facilitating technical assistance.

Fast forward to 2018 and there is a a list of UPU activities (2) that really stretch that constitution to its limits.

Then some two hundred pages of regulation (3), including a bunch of country specific rules and exceptions.
"Not withstanding article 17-107.5.2, Azerbaijan, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Nepal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe shall admit sound recordings as items for the blind only if these are sent by, or addressed to, an officially recognized institute for the blind"

That doesn't yet include the elaborate classification of countries into different contribution groups. Those classification documents are hidden behind a login screen on the UPU website - only accessible to "select partners". Although with a bit of Google-fu you can find them from the US Postal Regulatory Commission (4). There you can see that the US is classified as group I, China as group III.

A complex world may need complex regulation, and the activities the UPU undertakes are not necessarily bad.
But just a brief look at this thing reminds me of a quote from the "The CumEx-Files" article that is currently on the HN front page: "the German tax law has grown so complex that those who have written the laws no longer understand it themselves".

(1)http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/actInForceIndefin...
(2)http://www.upu.int/en/activities.html
(3)http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/actRegulationsCon...
(4)https://www.prc.gov/docs/96/96632/Attachment%20B.pdf
Atlas Obscura is another site I ignore since it requires Javascript for images to load.
Making that about women vs men is missing the point entirely, which is part of why i was explicit about alternate childbearing groups. If you have two woman in a childbearing group, then the one who is pregnant has the option to terminate or continue the pregnancy, while the one who is not pregnant does not have these options. It is entirely about bodily autonomy - you cannot force anybody to either undergo an abortion or not undergo an abortion. It is a medical process with side effects, effects on one's mood and mind, deeply personal implications depending on how "human" exactly you feel a fetus is, et cetera.

Drawing that as "men have no rights" is deeply reductive, because it isn't about men vs women, it's about the childbearing person vs the non childbearing person(s), and fundamentally does come down to that the same rights have very different implications depending on a person's position.

You have the old joke, "this law isn't discriminatory, both rich and poor are banned from sleeping on the streets!", and in this case it essentially holds true. What you're seeing isn't discrimination, both the childbearing person and the non-childbearing person(s) have the same right to not be compelled into or out of an abortion, it just isn't a right which helps very much if you aren't pregnant.

It does work out that the average man in a childbearing couple doesn't have an "out", but there's no way to implement that "out" without imposing on the rights of somebody else, whether it be by compelling action, or by suddenly threatening to revoke a promise of support that a new childbearing parent desperately needs for them and their child.
So the title is basically "fade out of fade-out in popular music"?
Interesting.

Why I made this post is to figure out a better solution to what I want to achieve. You proposition here doesn't look like it solves it, but I didn't know about it before. I'll dig into it. If you have any further thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
Paper Airplane Designs
You can't say that ritual and worship doesn't have material impact. You have no way to prove or disprove that.
AFAIK the only functionality requiring JS on Hacker News is the up/downvote system. Comments open a new page anyway, so does editing. Wikipedia and issue trackers are the same, you only need to be able to GET and POST content basically. In terms of complexity it's very low.

You're right that they're not completely read-only documents but the interactive functionality is limited enough that it doesn't really qualify as an app. You don't need a client-side turing complete language to implement it, just forms. It's more akin to filling some paper form than interacting with Visual Studio if you see what I mean.
Yeah but Carlin also said that us thinking we were powerful enough to cause global warming was pure arrogance.
A lark ascending https://Twitter.com/donesmart2
Generally the artists I'm thinking of are experimenting with the medium on their own before using it on a finished project.
DDG's ads wouldn't need to be as profitable as Google's, they'd only need to be as profitable as what Google pays Apple to use Google as the default search engine, which is likely less than what Google makes on ads on searches from Macs.
Tesla Gaining Grounds on Global Operation Plans After Securing Land in Shanghai
Obligatory Schopenhauer: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/...

On reading and books.
Books are cheap. I'd get 500 books from a used bookstore and put them in a hut in some primitive village. Note that books would not be in the native language, and nobody in the village can read anyway. My hypothesis is that books will make no difference.

An interesting and useful experiment would be to place books in the homes of poor people who can read but don't. Turns out cities all over the US are doing this experiment on a large scale right now (often paid for by United Way). While the experiment isn't completely controlled anyone who cares to can collect data and analyse it.
You can find many interesting (and questionably safe) DIY 18650 packs used in e-bikes, powerwalls, etc.
Open-sourcing checker jobs : Regression testing for data
CGI: Ruby's Bare Metal
You often (depending on region and property) have to pay some kind of ground rent and/or non-trivial tax that you can transfer to the occupant. Also they can pay for maintenance and also point out big problems (water leaks - yes they do happen and be very unwelcome even if you have insurance). Overall, the net gain is low but that's better than 3 or 4 years of a minor accumulating net loss. Also the management fee is say 10% to keep your place in shape, so actually quite cheap in reality if your own time is in any way expensive.

[Edit: multiply the costs if you have a portfolio of properties and you then realise that you can easily have a dent in your cash flow while your property is accumulating in value]
I understand where you're coming from. Headphones are common! Let me use them, you assholes! And for love of fsck, no shitty vendor replacement for apps that are actually decent.

With all that said, it might be worth considering that recent events at Essential suggest that this might not be the significant competitive edge that might be hoped for. It's abstractly possible that our tastes in phones might not be an accurate reflection of the wider market.
Some of the best fiction I've read involves the main character dying in the middle of the story, and is written in the first person, where the reveal that the author is not actually who he says he was is the climactic moment of the story.
That's a seriously naive take.

Militaries exist to project power onto foreign entities. Defense of national territory is but one use for that projected power.

Keeping trade lanes open--such as those through the Straits of Hormuz or the South China Sea--is another use. Enforcing a trade blockade or embargo is another. The size and lethality of your military is measurable proof of your commitment to a particular political issue.
Apple doesn't publicly comment on how the chart rankings are calculated, which is why we can't draw strong conclusions, but our understanding is that this would do the job. Since the somewhat catastrophic failure of the charts a week ago its clear that Apple did update their algorithms, but its not clear how (and some of the same players identified in the blog are still ranking highly).
This asymmetry also prevents you from doing a return when your $2 cable is broken or doesn't match the description.
And that is why we need to abandon the notion of company's as moral entitys. That's what the state and law is for to be moral and humane.
Awesome! I have walked past it a few times and wondered how it was ever supposed to have worked, so its going to be wonderful to see it in action one day ..
I had mostly infinite access to all kinds of media so would always turn to video games and TV. These things are now so affordable that I imagine that is the norm for kids today.

I am curious if there is a big difference between immersing yourself in video game worlds compared to a books. Books would require more imagination, but early video games were pretty sparse and often required a large amount of imagination as well.
Maybe it makes sense logically in the abstract, but I'm going to miss buying electronics components and building things.
You're right that the headline is cautious enough not to misrepresent the content of the study. I think controlling for parent and child educational attainment, which likely subsumes much of the possible confounders, is sufficient to claim a plausible causative effect of the presence of books.
How long do air wave licenses last? Is there a substantial cost to renew or do you simply have to re-bid?
If you want to see a ghost town - Tahoe City Ca is decimated by AirBnB+Money.

I grew up there, and I was there last weekend for my Dad's memorial service.... I hadnt been back to Tahoe City for some time - and man, its freaking depressingly bad.

The "mall" -- the Boat Works, has basically 4 shops any longer, the retail spaces near Tahoe City Golf is boarded up and has weeds - many retail spaces are empty, the freaking BANK had to close, restaurants arent doing well according to several people I know who have worked in them for ~35 years (at SunnySide, for example)....

and all my Dad's freinds/contemporaries blame SV Money + AirBnB -- in that there are no places for anyone to live. Houses arent being rented to people who would want to live there - both seasonally or long-term.

All the cheaper houses were bought up over the last decades and rebuilt with $1MM++ homes in their place (This happened to one area which was the "ghetto" in the 80s when I was a kid - where all the houses were replaced with >$1MM homes and became one of the most expensive zipcodes in the country - whereas it was where all the "poor" kids lived in the 80s)
> Making causal claims without accounting for genetic confounds is simply pseudoscience, there are no excuses.

This study was done in response to the Scarborough and Dobrich paper that found that how much parents read to their children (generally) isn't correlated with children's future reading ability, but how many books are in their household is a positive predictor of future reading ability.

It's one of the most famous and surprising findings in all of social science.

I'd suggest rather than the authors not "understanding science" or whatever, perhaps it's more likely that their target audience wasn't people on HN who would complain without knowing anything about the field.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027322978...
Yeah, completely agree. When I was a kid I remember 15% being so standard that there was even a little mnemonic on how to calculate it (10% is easy to calculate, then add half that).

Now it seems like 15% is what you give for truly bad service.
Replica 1919 Vimy plane that flew round the world (2012)
Wide availability of access to the internet could have a similar effect, unless time is mostly spent on sites like Facebook. Reading became a lot easier (wouldn't space out) once taking acetyl L-carnitine + alpha-GPC. SEMAX + selank + alpha-GPC is even better. Iodine protocol.
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Why so many tech companies are creating shows
It's due to the voting system. Plurality voting systems tend towards two-party rule. This observation is known as Duverger's law [1].

Now, if the US switched to a radically different voting system today, we probably wouldn't see a flourishing of outside parties tomorrow; it could take a little while. But people sympathetic to outside parties such as the Greens or the Libertarians would be far less reluctant to vote for them if it didn't mean splitting their vote and causing the "lesser of two evils" to lose their local district.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
Those people were caught committing a crime. And it's not the kind of crime one could commit by mistake, they were entering a country illegally.
> Ideally we'd have infinite registers: each instruction would read from previous registers and output to a new register. And so we would never reuse any register, and there'd be no data hazards.

Crazy thought but would it be possible to build a decentralized and distributed CPU on top of the blockchain?

Edit: to the downvotes, care to explain? I am genuinely curious to know the answer, and curiosity should be a driving factor in this community
It’s a poliolike disease that appears predominantly in areas with low vaccination rates.

So I can’t imagine that this “polio like” disease is not just a small mutation of plain old polio. Made possible by anti-vaxxers.
Vue.js Authentication System with Node.js Back End
The compost from the city yard waste collection facilities is full of pea sized pieces of plastic, especially produce code stickers. If there’s plastic I can see and pick out, you just know there’s a bunch you can’t.

What do you suppose it would take to get plastic produce stickers banned in favor of biodegradable versions?
> ... though I have a hunch the security story ..

Which makes half of the news today. So, yes, world would be a bit better today if only ..
There is supposedly a huge correlation between reading speed and standardized test scores, like the SAT/GRE/GRE, which while not the point of this article is still a powerful argument for reading books as a kid. And, this could be any book, it just matters that you're practicing reading.
Introducing Opus 1.3
As a consumer in Australia, how do you benefit from cheap shipping from China to the US?
It's From Mozilla, It's Forbidden.
As a counter point, I love articles posted from Atlas Obscura and enjoy reading them when they pop up on HN.

Not everyone is the same, and I appreciate your point of view as well.
Podcast Featuring Lewis Gersh Founder of PebblePost, NYC Startup
Driver support will always trail behind Linux, so it depends.

Personally, I’d be more interested into having openbsd as the standard for cloud deployments, a place currently inhabited by Ubuntu derivatives. If one could get the declarative goodness of Nix, the popularity of docker, and the reliability / security of openbsd, the world would be a better place.
Yeah, that really requires calling their bluff. Ideally it's a bluff.
> Back in the 1970s, a computer used 8-bit tape, in binary code—picture a roll of paper tape with holes cut into it.

This seems like quite an ambitious project for 1975!
As I mentioned, though, there aren't many functions that use both the full compliment of integer and fp registers, so I think the aggregate register file size is rarely a factor. Aggregate register file size is also a detriment to fast context switches.

As long as you defined consistent semantics for switching among integer, floating point, and vector use of the same logical register, there's nothing stopping one from using a 32-bit-wide integer register file, a 64-bit-wide fp register file, and a 512-bit-wide vector register file. From an ISA level, you could (for instance) define all operations as if they worked on vector registers. Your imul could always compute a 32-bit result and sign-extend it to 64 bits as the first vector element, and zero out all but the first element of the vector. You wouldn't actually store it that way, since the top 33 bits would always be identical for the results of integer operations (and subsequent vector elements would always be zero). So, from the outside, it would look like all operations worked on very wide registers, just that the vast majority of operations did very trivial things with most of the output bits in those wide registers. The sign extension and zeroing operations would actually only happen when moving values between the internal register files.

Presumably, you'd use the same tricks used in other processors for actually tracking the amount of vector state that needs to be saved on context switches. You might re-use some of the same techniques for economizing the amount of vector state saved across function boundaries. Or, perhaps you'd define an ABI such that system calls preserve vector state, but all vector state beyond the first double is caller-saved state across function boundaries.
I really wish I knew what Ghostface says at the end of "Scary Hours"...
Ha, interesting observation! When Kurt Cobain died I remember someone postulating that the fact that no Nirvana songs ended with a fade out was a metaphor the band. I liked the idea, though the stats make it look like it was just a trend in the mid 90s!

I was in a cafe the other day and it was playing pop songs from the 40s or 50s. A large number of them would end by simply stopping the main song, and everyone playing a quick "dun-dun-dun". It was kind of jarring. I wonder if the "fade out" will be as jarring to people in the future.
Filed august 2008. This case isn't in michigan, but an attorney friend of mine in michigan said "if this case was in michigan, you'd be at least 5 years waiting". This is in NYC - even longer.

The company filed against is no longer in business, so I'm not even sure what to do at this point. It was a small individual LLC, may not be anything to do, but he was so shitty about it - couldn't pay me, but screwed over multiple other contractors I found out about around the same time, I drove up to NYC and filed a lawsuit. I didn't think it would take an entire 10 years to get a court date.
I always thought the bands just didn't know how to write an outro.
See my comment ITT regarding Lake Tahoe - this has already happened there.
I fixed that by removing Windows 10.
I absolutely feel the same way and was thinking about this when I read the comments.
Its like we have become old and disenchanted. We no longer see the the positive potential of an underlying piece of technology(or even the technology itself) but see ways to further exploit us.
I wonder if anyone has attempted to use machine learning to try and build a better paper airplane. I feel like that would be super interesting.
Apple’s holding another big event October 30
Space-borne Bose–Einstein condensation for precision interferometry
If some browser application can get bluetooth devices to actually work and do things for it, good for it. I sure as hell have never been able to hehe.
It's true that O'Connor's book doesn't really address idleness "in the face of urgent need," but I disagree with this article that it needs to. Before we can begin to justify the kind of idleness "in the face of urgent need" that is effectively "indifference to suffering," we have to first justify the lesser kind of idleness that is indifference to society's supposed needs, which I think O'Connor's book does adequately. Idleness has been dismissed by Kant and friends as a moral vice on the grounds that it's our "duty" to maximize our "usefulness" and "worth" to society. To alleviate others' suffering is a different matter entirely, and making an argument for idleness in that case is probably a lot more difficult.
There would still be benefits to variable pitch propellers with an electric motor (motor efficiency, correct propeller pitch for the airspeed to name two).

I work in the UAV industry and would adopt variable pitch in an instant if it didn't come with complexity and weight penalties!
Maybe the testers happened upon some very old stock that has gone through the evaporation pits before the plastic revolution. That industry goes way back.
The main point of RISC architectures is that they are trivially pipelineable to the extent that making non-pipelined implementation does not make much sense. All the architecture visible differences from CISC are motivated by that. Load-store gets you well defined subset of instructions that access memory and have to be handled specially, 3-operand arithmetics and zero register simplifies hazard detection and result forwarding logic and so on.
What kind of problems do you work on?
To name one more nostalgic programming game: RoboWar on the Mac (later ported):

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

Corewar is still the granddaddy of them all though, as has already been pointed out here.

At one time, there was a huge list of programming games posted on the 'net. This was a good idea and should be revived.