skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Young men apparently don't have to work full time to survive, don't want to, and are free to do things they want. This is being painted as a bad thing...

I don't agree that the authors call this a bad thing. They call it out as an interesting trend that is different than what we've seen before, and run through the thought experiment of what you could do about it _if_ you thought it was bad. From the article:

> You might argue this is a good thing. People actually prefer to spend their time consuming media over working, and we have achieved the luxury of enabling them to act on this preference.

> If you’re in the camp that thinks lower economic output is bad, the natural follow-up question is what kind of policy changes might counteract this phenomenon.

> While it is fun to explore alternative mechanisms for motivating the labor force if labor supply no longer responds to increases in wages, it is far more likely that lost worker productivity will be made up for with technology (eg, automation via robotics, software, artificial intelligence) that makes remaining workers more productive. While this would lead to a host of other problems (eg, inequality) and almost certainly lead to a welfare state, it is probably more straightforward to implement the necessary technological advances than the attention tax. Furthermore, a welfare state where most people could devote most of their time to the pursuit of leisure seems to be more consistent with preferences revealed by recent trends in labor participation and alternative uses of time.
What Happens to Startups in the Next Recession?
Because all available evidence shows that seed oils, which have only been consumed for 100 years and were previously used for paints, lubricants, water-proofing, etc., are highly correlated with a number of inflammatory disease processes, including type 2 diabetes. Which makes sense, as polyunsaturated fats undergo lipid peroxidation in our bodies, which releases free radicals.
Yep, unless browser vendors change course, the revenge of plugins is near.

Prepare for Flash 2.0.
there is no remote administrative access from the EC2 instance or anywhere
It's downright barbaric. You have a service for which you basically can't get a quote, can be collected into oblivion if you don't pay, you don't even know WHO will bill you (or even how many bills you'll get!), and you very well might be unconscious or in no position to make this kind of decision. Your life might be on the line!

It only gets some level of sanity (though not to reasonable level) if you involve insurance companies, who have some of the information necessary and the leverage to negotiate.
Go watch all the videos at www.startupschool.com

Writing code and starting a business are different activities. You need to learn how to start a business, figure out what product you want to build, find out what market you want to target, merge the product and market to get a product/market fit. Then figure out selling/marketing/funding and all the rest.

Ideas are actually the easiest thing, execution is the hardest.

You might not want a startup but a small business that can make more than you currently make, then head over to indiehackers.com

You can do it. Have you considered partnering up with someone else? It's really hard to go at it alone. Not impossible, but really tough.
>During the early years of Emacs, the main complaints from users about the simple
mark&sweep algorithm were the GC pauses. These were solved very simply in Emacs 19.31
by removing the messages that indicated when GC was in progress. Since then
complaints about the performance of the GC have been rare. Most of them have to do with
the amount of time wasted in the GC during initialization phases, where a lot of data is
allocated without generating much garbage.

At 300 baud, I bet the GC messages took longer to display than the GC itself.
Frankly, I don't see how it should be possible to buy something you're not entitled to know the price of; or rather, I don't think it should be possible to bill more for something than the quote.
https://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Dairy... Better article.
I think it was a huge mistake that this didn't get tackled during the Obamacare discussions. Price transparency and the removal of preexisting conditions would be a big step for some sanity in the US medical system. It's also pretty sad that the Republicans who are supposedly for markets don't push for price transparency.
Advertising, transaction fees, and data. Please take a look at this one-minute commercial and you'll understand the concept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd748KfMnLY&t=7s
We just started sales for our product. Distributed about 30 flyers to restaurants and hair salons yesterday. Because it was the first time for us, it was quite a learning experience. Sales requires a much thicker skin and open ears. Also, because I am an American living in China, I had to learn some new technical words.

Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages. Its a captive portal plus a local web server. http://www.100-xyz.com

Looking for ideas on how to get customers/users. Suggestions, comments appreciated.
The syntax for instantiating Maps is really ham handed. An array of arrays of key value pairs. I get it. I just wish there was a better syntax. We need Map literals and for that I think we need another type of brace character.

I just want Python's dict everywhere. :)
By far the greatest improvement I have ever made to just about all of my machine learning based apps was moving to San Francisco. You’d be surprised how well they all work here.

Whenever I go visit back home in Slovenia my phone loses about 60% of its utility overnight.
Conversely, go down every rabbit hole and write off your time as a learning experience. If OP is committed to starting a business, focus on the business. But there's value in being in an "open mode" if you can get it thru to your brain that it's ok to not get anywhere quickly. The really valuable innovations are going to be in the overlooked areas.
Speaking of, this 2003 movie is doing a great job illustrating resurgence of nationalism in Russia circa 2014-2018. It's also a fun movie.
I don't know if I would call elisp awesome. In fact,I would probably not be alone in calling it the worst lisp dialect in widespread use.

The only thing really good about elisp is that it is integrated into Emacs.
Practically speaking, what are we supposed to do here? Slack raised 250m from Softbank which we know is driven be Saudi investment. Should we stop using Slack? Honestly, I doubt anyone would do that despite all this "outrage". I put it in quotes because all these principles are great to talk about but people won't do even a small thing like leaving Slack in their companies.
I don' t think "everyone had that information". I assumed that Saudis would kill political enemies who at least committed certain acts with consequences beforehand, not that they would kill and wrap the body of a prominent person into pieces within hours. I thought the russians had monopoly on remotely killing political enemies like that. What was plausible as a hypothesis, but unproven, is now very real, and it has now placed saudi in the same bucket as putin's russia in the mind of "public opinion".
A different perspective: there’s probably a few command line perl scripts out there that could be nice web services or perform some task in a browser. This way you don’t have to rewrite those scripts.
Does anyone know why "char" is unsigned on ARM/gcc?

To me it seems like a weird design choice that only complicates porting software from x86.
Pharo and VR?

Pharo's code browser is visually compact. The code too. Current VR HMDs have only a small VGA-ish region of non-blurry pixels. Hmm...

Might be a good match. Emacs and IDEs with non-compact languages can be head-sloshing. And the HMD OEM market is being dysfunctional, so higher resolution is on the "I don't see a unicorn here - who cares about easily improving the world?" slowmo snail plan.
Sounds like there just hasn’t been enough money and support to create a committed movement, not when pharmaceutical companies have the means to push the narrative that it’s an intractable problem.

From the article:

> Another reason Mr. Arnold got involved: Drug pricing was an issue no other philanthropist had claimed.

This makes some intuitive sense. America’s healthcare system manages to hide its costs so well while providing modern treatment that it may not seem like the most compelling humanitarian problem for a billionaire, i.e. a first-world problem compared to providing mosquito nets to prevent malaria.
> A typical car engine is also considered air cooled

We just have different definitions then. In car circles your typical car is definitely water cooled. I had never seen your definition but it also makes sense. The typical one is describing what fluid contacts the hot parts and yours is describing what mass the heat is transferred to.
It looked so disconcerting I clicked it away immediately. I was so sure it was a tiled wall of some kind in a slaughter house - and a nightmarish rendition of a cross section of a heart or an animal or a clogged vein.

It was all of these things
Is there a service that supports this? Like, get it to a security researcher, wipe it from your drive, and have the security researcher handle returning the data and providing a basic education (or reporting the data loss to the appropriate authorities.)
Sorry, I said bearish and I meant bullish.
I'm curious, do you have examples of yourself doing the above successfully?
Kodak Had a Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched Uranium (2012)
There is no cable for stacking. The expansion units expose a USB-C male connector and plug into the base unit's USB-C female connector.
That’s amazing, the Arctic sky has turned red
The chemical division of Kodak, Eastman Chemical, was spun off in 1994 and is doing well.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eastman-kodak-idUSTRE7BN0...
One maybe USSR would have created one 10 or 20 years later, while USA would have none... Hindsight is 20/20.

Why do you think no other country could match USA R&D now or in foreseeable future?
I saw this with my girlfriend. She needed a procedure where the provider refused to even give a ballpark number, the insurance refused to tell if they would cover it or to what extent. So if you really need it, your only way forward is to get the procedure and hope for the best without even a basic idea about the costs.
You may try to maintain a positive attitude before anything else. There are definitely many different career paths.

You've said yourself that people have paid for the things you've built in the past, so you are definitely more capable than you think when it comes to building stuff.

If the money you make barely covers your hosting costs, this might mean two things: 1) Not many people know about your solution, 2) you are not solving a big problem. 1 should be correct, if you've managed to make 8€/month, it'd be really odd if all the money you can make with your solution is capped at this amount. There should definitely be more people willing to pay you, you just have not managed to meet them. Maybe you should spend more time about distribution.
I also think 2 might be true, too. Maybe instead of building ideas right away, you may spend more time evaluating ideas, talking to people to understand what's important.

Last of all, I think defining characteristics of successful entrepreneurs include resourcefulness and perseverance.
<mandatory disgruntled western counter-comment about how the east germans took all the west's money and built way too nice streets and downtowns from it>
Is there an Internet law that says that for every reasonable rule there will be one US jurisdiction where it doesn’t apply?

My understanding is that in almost all jurisdictions in USA possession end when the trash is moved to the curb, put in public space. I remember reading at some point that at least in some part of Texas possession is transferred from the individual to the trash collection agency. This was interesting to me from privacy/search warrant perspective.
GDPR largely does not regulate what governments do with data.
Note that human services & the police dept. did not respond. Likely because they are exempt from foia requests.
Return of the Obra Dinn – Player's Hand Dev Timelapse
It's pretty sad that we have to rely on "billionaires" because the political system is not able or willing to bring even some level of sanity into this totally perverse system.
I have been coding in Pharo while in BigScreen on a Rift. Cool experience. Better with the font size set to medium in Pharo settings.
> There's no way that should be legal. I was quoted $60.

Well, part of the problem is that the state now assumes that consumers are not qualified to take care of themselves, and that the only people who are qualified are state-approved high-demand professionals. Oddly enough, opioid overdoses were not higher when you could just buy the stuff over the counter; but people have forgotten that people used to be responsible for their own well-being, and are convinced that they should not be trusted to defer to experts when they see fit.
I’m everyone in this thread talking about price transparency for goods people need to live.
This is what actual work looks like, 50% googling, 20% wasted work, 20% investigations/learning, 10% actual work.
This does not answer anything. Fred needs to list out all the sources by name and amount of money.
I would prefer going back to party conventions instead of the endless campaigning :-)
This is what the finished product looks like:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra...

The screens that look like handmade pixel art are rendered real-time.
Surely, I have tried to find an audience for a twisted "Come Dine With Me" (but who would host 3 others random unknown people in their own house??), have started some websites (extractemailaddress.com, linux-commands-examples.com) in the hope to get a big enough niche audience... But all I can get is an average of 8€ per month of donations, which barely covers my hosting costs.

This sounds to me like you are looking at the "skin" of what other people do and trying to replicate that instead of digging into the guts behind why their thing was successful.

I talk a lot with my sons about how dragons in fiction are "the red dragon" and "the blue dragon" and "the green dragon" etc. And maybe the red dragon breathes fire and the blue dragon breathes ice and the green dragon breathes acid, but they all look essentially identical except for the color, like you took a stamp and stamped out three dragons and colored them all differently with crayons.

In reality, if you have three species that are that fundamentally different in function, they will look vastly different. It won't be the same body, but with different skin.

You can see this readily in nature. Penguins are birds. But they are birds that don't fly, live in a very cold climate and swim. They look vastly different from most birds that live in warmer climates and fly instead of swimming.

So, no, it isn't sufficient to replicate the "skin" of a successful business. You need to do research and find out what the hidden parts are that make it actually work. This is sometimes called "the secret sauce."

No matter how much public data is available about a business, there will be things the public doesn't know -- The working guts of the business that happens behind the scenes. This is what you appear to be missing.

In my thirties, I was doing similar things. I was pursuing the trappings of a business without actually accomplishing anything.

The crux of all business is you need paying customers. You need to figure out a thing of value that people will pay you for. If you can't figure that out, the trappings aren't going to do anything. If you have that, layering on some trappings of business can improve things.

But you have to have that piece first and foremost. And from where I sit, you don't seem to be doing that piece.
This is misleading to the point that I would consider this lying to the audience. It's just wrong to convey the data in this way. The note below the graph does not make this OK.

If anybody is interested in the actual data, I think the data is pulled from "NSW HIV Surveillance Data Reports": https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/endinghiv/Pages/tools-and-data...
I remember having this argument a lot in 1999. It's nearly 20 years later now, they made their decision long ago, it's time to let it go and move on.
Any time you try to define what your insurance will cover, all you can get is s nkn binding estimate, yet most places have you sign an agreement to pay in full based on that estimate, even if the estimate is wrong.
It sounds like Pharo is the one for me to start with, thanks!
OpenOffice can't print on Tuesdays
Yes, very true. And a system has a ton of interesting mechanisms.

Pharo now has pretty neat git support with Iceberg and Tonel file format.
Another good talk about using types to guide your programming—instead of merely checking it for errors—is "Is a type a lifebuoy or a lamp?" by Conor McBride https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8893-is-a-type-a-lifebu... It is best approached with some knowledge about how the Haskell typeclass mechanism works.

The second part of the talk (from 25:50) is about how to expand the traditional Haskell Hindley-Milner type system (which is very centered on avoiding the need for explicit type annotations, using type inference) to allow the user to provide more explicit type information, which pays off by automating the generation of parts of the term-level code.
hmm, so this or glitch or codepen? Good to have so many good alternatives I guess...
1.) it is globally accessible through the gateway it connects to
2.) for email services, you don't need much in the way of bandwidth for this to work very well.
Have been googling Solvadi. Wow, curable hepatitis c is a big achievemt. But it‘s insanely expensive. It has to be taken daily for at least 12 weeks, with each pill costing 400€! The chance of curing is at 90%.
YouTube is now altering comments? [video]
Also don't forget that the thought of even asking for a refund on prescription medication will get you laughed at.

Right, so I'm supposed to pay $700 for some medication that has a chance of either making my heart stop or cure my condition and if it doesn't cure it, too bad.
There does seem to be some progress being made:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/politics/drug-prices-legislat...
Yes sir, we can replace your spark plugs for only $4.00 each.

It costs $75 to pull the car into the garage, the lift fee is $105, it's $21 to open the hood, $64 to unplug the wires from the old plugs, $64 to plug the wires into the new plugs, then there's $18 to close the hood (gravity assist discount), and another $75 to put the car back in the parking lot.

Don't worry, changing your plugs is only $16.
Voter registration is fine but why track party affiliation?
Jaynes usually tries to move away from an interpretation of probability distributions being "correct" as in representing a fact about the world, and towards a definition that is more about a state of knowledge and uncertainty about the world. Distributions are a property of a model or of a knowledgeable agent, not of an object or situation. See Chapter 10: "Physics of 'Random Experiments'". However the two definitions sorta become indistinguishable when you are dealing with experiments that are repeated enough times.
A quick attempt to find costs for 4 degrees C found ~7% of GDP, which would be inline with the figures from my original post.

Source (first result for "gdp global warming 4 degree celsius"): https://phys.org/news/2018-08-trillion-lost-temperatures-deg...

Do you have alternative numbers? 7% of GDP is a big hit, but it's not "end of civilization".
Automobile mechanics are required to provide a written estimate in advance. I don't see why health care should be any different.

Before anyone objects with "but what about emergencies!" note that emergency care is a single-digit percentage of total health expenditures.
One of the Smalltalk books goes over how it is idiomatic to write lots of tests and this is where TDD came from.
I keep thinking what Iraqi startups would think about accepting american VC money.

The thing is, international politics is really hard. I'm pretty sure that it makes sense to track where your money is coming from but every single country is going to have a different set of "worst offenders", and you will see that the list carry a lot of political interest. I mean, we're looking at Erdogan [1] pointing the finger at the Saudi's about how they're a ruthless regime.

Hell, go back 10 years and even the Saudi were in the other side of this hardball game, what changed from there?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
How are memories formed in the brain?
You can only control your efforts, not the outcome. A writer writes, a singer sings, a creator creates.

So long as you’re actually putting businesses out into the universe you’re a full fledged entrepreneur.

I can’t tell you why you haven’t been as successful as you want to be. That kind of advice is all over the place. Perhaps the comments here are right: figure out what the customer wants first and make a minimal first product. Perhaps they’re wrong and you should incubate them for longer or perhaps some third thing (partner with someone else? It’s not bad to be the drummer in the Beatles).

But I think self-doubt is a natural part of creativity and maybe even a sign you’re on the right track.
I’m not sure I follow: a poster above said something like “Apple keeps all your geo-location data on your phone/device, no need to worry”, I followed up by saying that that’s highly unlikely, because somehow Apple was able to reverse geo-locate my coordinates into a POI, most probably by sending data out of my device, to their servers, your telling me “I don’t know how the Internet works” doesn’t enlighten me one bit.

If it matters I can agree that I’m not the smartest bulb in the room when it comes to the latest web-dev stuff, it just happened that by chance I got to work on this geo and web stuff taken together for quite some time now, just a little before Google decided to publish their Maps API (that’s early 2006, if I’m not mistaken). I remember the glorious days of writing Python scripts that would help connect in real time an external GPS unit to a N60 Nokia phone so that the images taken with the phone would be mapped to geo-coordinates written on a file somewhere that will later be used to display those images on a map. Because back in those days phones didn’t have GPS capabilities built-in. I was also the person who built the first google maps mashup around these parts of the world (a pale replica of the Chicago crime website adapted to my home city, extracting addresses from plain-text police reports automatically was fun) and ever since then I have been obsessed with geo stuff and maps on the web. But, as I said, I’m not the brightest bulb so maybe I’m missing something about “how the internet works” and as such I’d be happy to learn more.
No, neovim is still the same concept: you're scripting the editor. It's still this gargantuan thing with all of these things you bolt on and reams of documentation to wade through. It still has the vim philosophy (which is the same as the Emacs philosophy, only not as good): my editor is an operating system and I want to rewrite all of my software to run inside of it.

I'm thinking of something altogether different: you leave the editor alone and you script the operating system around it, using the editor only as a flexible control interface for everything. This is the original vi philosophy. It means you don't have to rewrite anything. Any new program you install, if it can send/receive text on STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR, then you can use it in vi.

So what's wrong with vi? It has a few shortcomings: no unlimited undo, no ability to pass the cursor (row,col) position to an external command, and working with multiple buffers is more painful than it needs to be.