skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In The Social Conquest of Earth (2012), the entomologist E. O. Wilson contends that although the selfish-gene approach was accepted "until 2010 [when] Martin Nowak, Corina Tarnita, and I demonstrated that inclusive fitness theory, often called kin selection theory, is both mathematically and biologically incorrect."[35] Chapter 18 of The Social Conquest of Earth describes the deficiencies of kin selection and outlines group selection, which Wilson argues is a more realistic model of social evolution. He criticises earlier approaches to social evolution, saying: "...unwarranted faith in the central role of kinship in social evolution has led to the reversal of the usual order in which biological research is conducted. The proven best way in evolutionary biology, as in most of science, is to define a problem arising during empirical research, then select or devise the theory that is needed to solve it. Almost all research in inclusive-fitness theory has been the opposite: hypothesize the key roles of kinship and kin selection, then look for evidence to test that hypothesis." According to Wilson: "People must have a tribe...Experiments conducted over many years by social psychologists have revealed how swiftly and decisively people divide into groups, and then discriminate in favor of the one to which they belong." (pp. 57, 59) According to Wilson: "Different parts of the brain have evolved by group selection to create groupishness." (p. 61)
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene#Units_of_sele...
This idea that if someone critics something MUST also propose a solution is destroying any kind of sensible political discussion.

Anyway I would suggest to focus on long term growth strategies, simplification of the business, incentive for companies growth. Our economic system is formed by too many small medium companies that simply cannot compete anymore in the global market.
Ask HN: Application idea for C++
Hello there. I'm trying to improve myself in C++. I'm learning the use of tools like boost, cmake. I'm looking for an app idea that I can develop myself from scratch. Waiting for your suggestions. thanks.
I dont think the EU will want to sanction Italy over a budget that is, all things considered, within the usual 3% deficit limit. They are already in enough trouble picking more important fights with Poland and Hungary who have downgraded their democracies.
hurricanes happen every year. air base on coast of Florida. only a moron would design things so they dont have a reasonably hurricane safe place to protect aircraft on site. not hard. bumbling incompetence if not planned for.
West Virginia’s Supreme Court Impeachment Crisis
Mmo games actually trust the client?
American accents are often so unintelligible as to need subtitles - I can't watch many Hollywood films without them, especially if the dialogue is quiet or secondary to something happening on-screen.

The issue here of course being that "big film" is made in Hollywood and country-specific film industries are often much smaller and tend to stay far away from big-budget genres, rather than that we should try and find a globally understandable accent. Hollywood having taken over the globe is not really a good thing for anything except economies of scale.
Do you mean that some people consider them illegal, yet ethical?
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I am afraid that Italy is both too big to fail but also too big to be saved.

You mean the French and German banks and pension funds are too big to be saved? The Italian banks will be insolvent as soon as anything substantial happens, as was shown 3 years ago. The only reason to 'bail them out' would be to bail out forign banks, as was the case in Greece.

Having the perma-surplus countries of Europe enforce austerity and permanent contractionary policies on sovereign countries that share a currency (The Fiscal Compact) is an impossible combination, which we also know because we've tried it many times before.
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There will definitely not be a single course for next recession. But one triggers another, Multiple bubble burst. Although I don't think we are quite near there yet, but it will make 2008 down fall looks like child play.
Most people wouldn’t use drugs even if they were legal and freely available. Just like most people aren’t alcoholics. There are a lot of myths around drug addiction.
How could you sell marijuana and build the legalize movement, if government could just block those payments?

It is even worse than that. In Canada, cannabis is going to become legal this week. Government stores will sell it in some provinces, regulated private stores in others. Despite this, experts are warning people to buy it with cash, and never ever with a credit card. You see, Visa, MasterCard, and Amex are American companies subject to American data protection law. Because cannabis is illegal in the US, buying it with a credit card means the US government can learn about the transaction and ban you for life from the US.

Credit card is only an option for the intersection of international laws. As soon as you want to do something that is not legal in some countries, you better switch to cash.
Not sure what you expect? This is the internet
Populism is always hard to define, but for me it’s largely about treating symptoms directly without treating causes.

Socialism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, all the established political movements have a theory or philosophy of what goals they want to achieve, yes, but also what means they can use to achieve them. They have an economic or social theory.

Populism doesn’t, so all it tries to do is address the symptoms, not the causes. People are poor, let’s give them money. Problem solved! Foreign goods are cheaper than ours, let’s slap an import tax on them to make them more expensive. Problem solved!

The trouble is the reasons why people are trapped in poverty, or why local manufacturing isn’t competitive are not addressed, and populist tactics make those causes much harder to tackle.

The Italian governments policies will, if carried through, impoverish Italy for a generation. Just look at Greece to see what massive debt driven overspending can do to a country. The idea that growth will lift you out of the hole is a fantasy because the factors holding down growth aren’t being faced.
No, I think that very sadly you're 100% right. They won. The internet is commercial. The internet is the corporation's, not the people's. The early, magical, futuristic Internet is gone for good. All we have now is a bastardized version of that ideal of global network.
If parking is valuable people will pay for it. If it's not valuable, no great loss then. Markets are pretty good at figuring this out.

Though weirdly you can't rent a few parking spots for the (almost free) price they go for and live on them. Why is that?
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Hurricanes can be real with or without climate change.
If you included the level of expertise you already have, I believe more people will be able to help with suggestions. Maybe check out some of the open source projects that need contributors?
This is very easily preventable if Amazon easily allowed the listing to be flagged for IP violation. Such multiple violations should cause supplier to be banned. It is quite surprising that foreign supplier just can dump whatever they want without any regards to IP in US markets via Amazon.
I skimmed the rules of Mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/about/more

It's the default, and most instances stick with it. None of the items seem controversial. Which one stands out as a problem to you?
I see that list and all I see are purple links. It's still early :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_%28physics%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_%28physics%29
> "What does this mean?"

I have a Masters in Foresight and I'm a member of the Association of Professional Futurists. The field is commonly referred to as foresight and futures studies. We're sort of an awkward field, so at some universities, future studies program can be found under the school of design, political science, and technology.

In terms of careers, academically-trained futurists can be found in a few industries: defense, energy, and pharmaceuticals. My schoolmates from my program work at Disney, CPGs, and governments (defense, prime minsters office). In tech, I think Facebook and Mozilla also have foresight people.

Our field is by definition multi-disciplinary, so we had to learn a bit of everything: systems thinking, scenario planning, social change, business strategy, etc.

> "The future as it is and has been coming to pass? How we, today and recently, culturally portray the idea of the future?"

More so how we culturally portray the future. There are a lot of cultural preconceptions that are incorporated in visions of the future.

I grew up with Star Trek (TOS) and my dad is ex-NASA, so I'm well acquainted with the traditional American view of the future, but I'm also a strong supporter of the need for a diverse range of alternatives.

For example, Sohail Inayatullah of UNESCO writes a lot about alternative Muslim futures. They're not tech-based at all but thinking about political, economic, and social changes.
But flying debris would be a problem.
It's not clear exactly what kind of solution you're looking for. I would recommend either

1. Install Linux Mint with xfce. It is very easy to use, is fast, even on older hardware, and has most things that windows has.
2. Replace your harddisk with an SSD. It makes a world of difference. If an SSD is too small/expensive, you can buy a smaller one and use a supplementary external harddisk for your media (which usually takes the most space).
3. Back up your files and do a fresh install of your OS. This time, only install things you need, and prefer standalone programs over installed programs.
4. Buy a new laptop. You can also buy a refurbished hi-end model, which is a bit of a gamble but usually works out well in my experience.
Or panhandlers have to find another way to make money.

HN may not like this, but most people don't like pan handlers.
Any chance he just couldn't resist to fly that plane?
>The pension system is a Ponzi Scheme

I am now starting to discover not only pension, but lots and lots of financial systems and scheme, are not sustainable. Including what ever currency system we have in place.
If Shopify for selling goods, what are the others?
Hello, I am looking for easy to use business enablers. I am looking for a great list of easy-to-use third tools, that you can easily outsource and build your business on. e.g., use Shopify for selling goods; use X for ...

I am particularly interested in data analytics, processing (any given format) data (and getting various insights out of it) and data collection (outsourced IoT).
Thanks. Good content! I still believe you're limiting your audience by not running it like a typical blog. But it seems like that's partly what you want to do.
What actually makes them amateur at this point? Wouldn’t it behiove them to incorporate as a non profit perhaps?
Is there a problem with how much power some journalists have to move markets?

If this story turns out to be wrong, and it also wasn't fraud, it feels wildly unfair for a company to have half evaporated overnight.

Dangerous topic so I'll say that I'm not suggesting limits on journalism or freedom of speech.
Is it open for non US candidates? What about visa sponsorship?
Just install an ad blocker and be merry. If this particular nastiness isn’t caught by one of the major ad blockers, simply plug the device into Charles Proxy and capture the ad requests being made, and submit an enhancement to the ad block list.

Ezpz.

Public indignation accomplishes nothing. Direct action leads to results.
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If you’re doing something illegal, I’d assume you wouldn’t use Face ID because of this exact scenario, but from what I’ve seen, most criminals are dumb.
As an example, that one will ban extreme (and not so extreme) right-wingers. But you also have the opposite in other servers. And of course those servers refuse to federate with others. So there obviously are no flame wars like on Twitter... All ideologies are separated.

The reason there are no flame wars is not that Mastodon users are somewhat enlightened, as opposed to the Twitter rabble. Instead, clashes are avoided by having (and enforcing) rules and banning ideologies. The catch here is that this would never scale; this only works because there are only a few users.
Please don't be upset that I say this, because you seem to be earnest, but your comment reads like a parody. "VR" and "blockchain" and other buzzwords are new tech o ligues so they necessary are going to be great and revolutionary (in some ill specified way) and therefore will provide "experiences" and "revolutionise the way we do x". Why, you sound like an SV "evangelist" :^)
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Biometric authentication should stop working once a lockout has been triggered.
This is simply not true. I know the MPs that I voted for as well as the leaders of the major blocks and those who regularly talk. I sure know who is the german member of the commission as well as the president. And I know the president of the council. This is comparable to what I know about national politics as well. I don‘t know most MPs and can‘t name all ministers. For most of my friends it is the same.

Furthermore if people wouldn‘t know that explains very little about the EU.
It seems disingenuous to me to criticize the US military for massive budgets while also expecting bases to be built to withstand a 200 year storm.

Neither of us knows the detailed cost benefit analysis that went into hurricane preparedness at this base. No lives were lost and most of the F22s made it out, presumably a lot of the other assets did as well. Overall I’d say that’s a success.

If our plan for a 200 year storm is “rebuild” I’m ok with that if the alternative is “spend more than rebuild costs to hurricane proof the base”.
The blink issue could be avoided by having it wait a second or so to see if your eyes stay closed.
My bank has a machine that will count the coins and deposite them in my account for no fee. The bank is shit otherwise, but at least they got that one right.
https://web.archive.org/web/20111219235527/http://bu.mp/faq
My comment is on the loss of privacy. I am not an aggressive driver and I suspect that I might get a discount if I joined one of these programs, but I value my privacy too much for that. I do not want my every move monitored by my insurance. OnStar would even have the ability to report GPS location. How much longer then until the locations you visit are also factored in- or perhaps that info is used to ‘enrich’ other insurance types. What if your car insurance shared with your health insurance that you visit fast food restaurants twice a week? That’s hypothetical right now, but my point is that the data is so valuable that companies will become more and more invasive to get it- especially insurance. At some point these optional privacy violating practices will become required unless we have legislation protecting us.
..although there's nothing wrong with a panspermia religion.
Except the law is most likely to be the ones watching you entering the password. So the tradeoff is about one attack vs another.
I watched EU debt crisis since 2012. In 2015, I watched this animation about EU debt crisis on Bloomberg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4_tyEl84IQ

Since 2016, I spoke with many greeks, spanish and it looks to me that vast majority of them believe in wrong things. Therefore they will continue to vote for left or right populists no matter what. Their left and right are anti free market, anti fiscal conservatism, pro spending, pro welfare, against businesses.

In very long term, EU is unsustainable. Too many countries with different interests and huge moral hazard.
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There were plenty of banks that were solvent and solid.

But the politically connected big banks were not. They could have been reorganized but they were not. In fact not even 1 of the senior management were punished.
I just opened the site in Firefox using Tridactyl, and I can scroll normally with j k G gg.
It's well supported, well maintained, and around for the foreseeable future. (OpenResty)

The language implementation is fast, and allows you to tap into any C-compatible library.

The question isn't why you would go through Lua, but why you would choose something with less support?
What you call micro-managing is really regulations. And those are almost synonymous with the single market. If regulations would not be the same, there could be no single market (that benefits everyone, including companies and workers), because national differences would distort that.
Unless you have training and experience in the specific topic area, you probably won’t get much out of a “real” science book. We all need pop science.

(There’s good and bad pop science, of course, just as with anything else.)
Absolutely, but you see patents for minor variations all the time. Like pharmaceutics that add a vitamin to an existing drug and get a whole new patent for it.
>Universal Basic Income is deemed necessary even by people like Elon Musk, do you know that?

I have no idea what you mean by this.
North Philly is doing that thing where landlords of affordable housing kick everyone out, especially section 8 people, raze the place and put up luxury units at much higher rent.

eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/us/politics/section-8-hou...
I think it’s reasonable, and normal to expect a reduced add experience or no ads when you’re a paid subscriber.
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Surely a contributing factor must be it has been well-established women with aspergers are much less likely to experience problems from it. we all know how guys with aspergers end up when they are not exceptionally talented. that is not as true for girls and women with aspergers. Not that they do not experience problems, but they will have friends, partners, children eventually. because autism diagnosis relies on social problems, it is much harder to diagnose in them.
> the bureaucratic necessities - especially VAT accounting - make it a horror show.

EU VAT accounting is actually fabulous for real goods: intra-union transactions are VAT-free, so each state can levy whichever rate they prefer on the final sale. Everyone is happy and there is less red tape.

They fucked up for digital goods and services because the model simply does not map well to that domain - the internet has no border. Politicians felt they had to make a choice between losing VAT income altogether (which is what was happening before, with companies tactically exploiting low-VAT countries) or creating some friction for digital businesses. They picked the most rational option.

In reality, it's a false dichotomy, and everyone knows it. The real way out is a simplification where that tax is centralized at federal level; but it requires a huge amount of political capital, that the current generation of European politicians is completely incapable of generating on their own. At some point, someone will run in France or Germany on this platform of simple, flat VAT rates on digital income across the EU, accumulating to an unified EU treasury that can then be used to further generate income; they will win, and it will come to pass.
A fellow HN detailed how he did it here, seems extremely non-intuitive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17235923
Ask HN: My country is getting worse. Where to go?
I am 20 y.o, I live in Indonesia. I don't know what's going on with my country, but it looks like everything is getting worse. I don't see a bright future here, so I am looking for a better country. I am willing to move abroad.

The problems are, I don't know where to go, and how much does it cost. Right now, I have around $1,000 in my bank account. It's all the money that I save from my job.

Unfortunately, I don't have any degree. I am a high school graduate. But I'm good at design and good enough at front-end dev. I am also into fitness, I workout alot, mostly calisthenics.

I'm thinking about to move to Canada or Japan. But I don't think I have the money. Probably some of you can help me. I just want to get out. Where to go? Thank you!
Ok, one thing against the 'data analysis' in OP: if Santa Clara is allegedly male-dominated then the better comparison is number of complaints per million women in the local labour force. The other obvious one is that complaints per capital possibly falls with income. Without correction for that, this offhand denial after a casual data browsing is too easy. My personal ethics suggest that any sector where business is done in sex clubs and hot tubs is shady, but who am I? It's like when Heineken had stocked fridges with beer for meetings. It's not directly female-unfriendly but the social dynamics of meetings change after a few beers. They stopped that a decade ago.
You should feel fine approaching someone to buy their business.

In fact, if someone wasn’t at least willing to talk to you about selling, I would consider that a red flag on the business. I’ve always read in business books, or for the CEO’s I’ve worked for, that you should always have the “for sale” shingle outside your business no matter what.

Also in a way you are flattering them. You think the company they’ve created is so cool you’re
willing to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to buy it. There is something deeply rewarding about hearing that, since all owners have a little bit of doubt no matter how good things seem on the outside.

For actual tactics, I would Google “business broker”, or type that into LinkedIn. Business brokers are like the real estate agents for buying businesses; it’s been the default model for the last couple of decades.

EDIT: even if the business is doing fantastic you can always play the “what if this is a bubble” card. They could lose everything overnight, especially as this trade war heats up, and you could eliminate all of that risk for them.
The idea being that you are able to disable the biometric stuff before you expect to encounter a situation involving overreaching law enforcement. Hitting the power button 5 times in your pocket is easy enough.

Additionally TouchID is disabled after several hours of the device being unlocked. I presume FaceID is no different. So if you refuse to comply and they have to get a court order then the time limit may be reached.

You can even have the device wipe itself after 10 failed attempts to unlock it.
I believe they could single-handedly solve the lack of micropayments on-line; for some reason, they don't seem into it.
> I wouldn't give much stock in what Taleb writes about anything except options trading.

Why do you say that? I’m broadly familiar with Taleb’s writing, but have yet to fully read any of his books. So I’m curious of your perspective here and what is informing that sentiment.
Sure, but why is that they'd need additional preparation for hurricanes? Shouldn't they be ready for them since ever?
The (most likely German) authors of that map forgot about the existence of their neighbours to the West - the Netherlands are a blank void, same color as the North Sea.