skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent here. The problem is the battle you are up against when trying to limit screen time. When it is the iPad vs. anything else constructive or worthwhile, the iPad is almost always going to win. The best minds of our generation have figured out how to addict us to screens and have succeeded. Moreover, as a parent, it is often a difficult and incessant struggle to monitor and control content (e.g., age inappropriate YouTube videos). And the large tech companies don’t seem interested in solving these problems. Just the opposite.
- Why not take the last 500 years? China's trade was quite beneficial to its trading partners, Europe's was generally not. Anything less than 100 years, I would consider noise.

- China has 10,000+ years of history (adding documented was a mistake)

- Chinese culture plays too big of a role in decision making to ignore it in my opinion, you may disagree.
This seems strange to me. In Western culture, I've always seen the higher quality copies valued more. Value of cultural artifacts like this usually depends on rarity, and the degraded copies are more common, so why would they be more valuable?
Curious, are you living in SF? My suggestion would be to live in a country where cost of living is cheap compared to the US and you’ll realize that you don’t need a whole lot to be happy
This might help. Also, check a few other posts on the same blog.

https://blog.halide.cam/iphone-xs-why-its-a-whole-new-camera...
> It's called a "rethorical question".

No, rhetorical questions have expected answers. You simply rejected answers which you did not expect and then declared your own questions "not to be answered".

>It's not untrue ((its true)) to say there is no clearly defined meaning of "safety"

Agreed (see - rhetorical). There is not one clear definition of safety, there are many for different contexts and in different jurisdictions.

Your idea that organic farming should be atomically definable, doesn't make nonsense bullshit out of organic agriculture and labeling - it has made nonsense of your understanding of organic agriculture.

Im not continuing this with you, but may link to it in the next discussion featuring insubstantial and false claims about organic farming. Organic agriculture deserves fair assessment and criticism for these times, not so much name calling. Have a good weekend.
Now I’d like a place where houses are affordable, and jobs are plentiful. Have we found a place like that yet?
It seems to me that a big part of the problem is parents’ screen time.

Kids I see (disclaimer: mostly in the <5 years old range) desperately want to play with other people, but often are left bored while the adults / older kids around are stuck staring at their smartphones. Fertile ground to develop their own screen addictions.

Instead of monitoring and controlling kids’ content, how about working with them on some physical projects, reading aloud, going for a hike, or even doing chores together?
Which reinforces the need to do the lookup in client code since you can't code it into GA.
absolutely agree on all three points. unfortunately it's well known that governments often go with the lowest bid for a plethora of goods and services, and it's all to easy to lowball a bid to push machines that suck.
What are your thoughts about the phenomenon called tyranny of the majority?
> We should focus on changing society so it's not so critical of statements people made years ago when they changed as a person

I'm a believer in progress long term, but I seriously doubt humanity is really capable of what you're describing in a way that's applied equally to all groups of people.

It seems several orders of magnitude much easier for people to develop the habit of recording information they might need later.
The simplest way to explain it is this:

Atoms can only absorb very specific and exact frequencies of light. But because the atoms are moving, the frequency of light, as seen by the atom, varies a lot.

If you only shine light that is slightly below the lowest frequency of light the atom can absorb, only those atoms that are moving toward the light (and thus "see" a slightly higher frequency) are able to absorb that light.

Then the atom emits that light - which is always at the exact frequency. In the process you basically "steal" energy from the atoms motion, and emit it back out as ever so slightly higher frequency light.

Since the atoms are now moving slower they are colder. You keep doing this until you've gotten as much out of the process as you can.
when the "other side" leverages something controversial, it's a crime. when "our side" leverages something controversial, it's playing to win. the hypocrisy in US politics is strong at every level.
I don’t know how you got your info about Japan, but even smaller homes in Tokyo (according to Japanese standards) can run up to $500,000. If I’d get something similar to what I’d have in the Netherlands we go up to $1.5M.
Nobody should be in that situation. You can make way more than $35,000 a year without even going to college. Doing that after college means that the college degree provided negative value.

One can look up jobs that don't need education past high school at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ and see that there are 9 occupations with income of $75,000 or more, and numerous additional ones in the $55,000 to $74,999 range.

You could break $35,000 per year easily in the military. An E-1, the lowest rank, can do that if they get the housing allowance and submarine pay. An E-5, which is mid-level enlisted, can do it on base pay alone.

Smokejumpers get about $35,000 per year.

The national average for a truck driver is $43,464 or $75,672 per year, depending on who is counting. Either way, it beats $35,000 by quite a bit. Plumbers are about the same. Lots of trades people are doing way better than $35,000 per year.

So the answer it seems is to hide the worthless degree. For some of the really nonsense degrees, it might be better to let employers think you spent those years in prison. You'd get paid more if you didn't have the degree.
SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE

Looking for someone to help me build a web-based IRC client. Someone who has prior experience working with IRC or at the very least real-time chat applications would be preferred.

Email: adnanazadsg@gmail.com
First let me congratulate you for being so honest with yourself (and us).

This sounds very much like an addiction (coming). In such cases (obsessive behavior), there is usually no way other, than seeking for a psycho therapist, because the obsessive behavior, usually, develops in order to cover something else. A therapist has much experience with such topics and knows how to lead you to that point and through it. And then it's all work. Difficult, but very rewarding, since you realize, how much you respect and appreciate yourself for dealing with these things.
You can run VMs. On any desktop OS or cloud provider.
I hosted our e-mail server a few years ago and it was a massive pain, because I could never be certain if e-mails were being delivered.

99% of the time it was fine, but then we'd occasionally run into some odd spam vendor who had blacklisted our IP address (presumably from someone who had used it to spam a decade prior).

Maintaining our own spam filters was a bit of a pain.

For our business, I'm pretty happy shelling out $50 a month to have someone else (Google) take care of everything. I'm basically paying that for the security of knowing my e-mails are actually being delivered. Pretty sure most people feel the same.
Guide to implement neo-feudalism:

1. Remove all trade barriers, allowing corporations to outsource all low skill manufacturing jobs and ship back the finished product with no consequences

2. Don't enforce border laws, allowing the remaining low skill jobs that weren't offshored to be taken by illegal immigrants with no federal labor protection, forcing native citizens to go for higher education if they don't want to accept 3rd world wages

3. Create a student loan program that doesn't allow debt to be discharged and allows colleges to continually increase prices, resulting in skyrocketing tuition costs, turning your citizens into debt slaves and driving down skilled wages due to the flood of college graduates

4. Enjoy your increased profits as the middle class dies and is replaced by a two tier society of elites and plebes.

The current system has been created by corrupt politicians and the rich who have bought them. Productivity has increased but all the wealth is going to the rich because of current broken free trade laws allowing infinite labor arbitrage.

Nobody wants to hear it but the only reason people vote for anti-establishment candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump is because the establishment is failing the people.
Yeah, it seems the already available people with clearances would be the big selling point.
Not to take anything away from Lem, who is one of my favorite science fiction writers and who I absolutely adore, but I was much more impressed by E M Forster's predictions in The Machine Stops[1][2]

Writing in 1909, Forster predicted many things we take for granted today -- the internet, internet addiction and withdrawal, chat rooms, video conferencing, online learning, widespread international air travel.

[1] - http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
If you are running JDK 9 or later, you can use jshell:

jshell> "Hello World!"

$1 ==> "Hello World!"

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/222
I'm in the UK and went through tertiary education (Degree and Masters) at the point where we were switching towards the US model.
I never paid for the education itself, but never received any funding to pay for my existence over those years.
I was fortunate to have parents who could support me into my mid-twenties.
The system has changed since. We've got people racking up debts they're never going to pay off for useless degrees (in UK there's threshold of income before you have to repay, and if you never reach it, it's written off).
We've also got companies that used to recruit 'good' graduates (IT/accountancy behemoths) recruiting at school-exit age and offering a career to the good encumbered with debt.
My takeaway thought is that tertiary education is no longer worthwhile for the sake of education. We're becoming much more utilitarian.
Short term it makes sense, but long-term seems insane to not invest in people.
I will agree with you that iPhone X photo looks poor. But that is last years flagship. The iPhone xs looks as good, if not better then the pixel. And if you compare the pixel 3 and iPhone xs at 2x zoom for the same photo, you will that the iPhone has much more detail (thanks to the telephoto lens). Google just can’t compete with the better hardware of the iPhones and Samsung phones, even with their better algorithms.
Good observation, yes, a jobs program for the ridiculous number of Chinese engineers being produced that is funded by Chinese banks and paid for with 99 year low interest loans and resources in exchange.

May not be the best model, but sounds better than the "bomb our way to profits" approach we've seen employed elsewhere.
I have a hard time trusting that my cable bill will get to Comcast on time via the USPS. I've seen unopened UPS and FedEx envelopes left in the street, out in the rain. Voting by mail gives me personally no more faith that my vote will be counted correctly than does a digital voting machine. Voting in person and on paper gives me some level of comfort, but I'm always cynically curious what happens after I leave my polling place.
I don't see it. It lists a number of conspiracy ideologies (creationists, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers, false-flag believers and birthers) and the reasons their adherents refuse to accept evidence to the contrary of their views, which seems an accurate description as far as I can tell. It's a statement about psychology, not politics, and I don't see the political agenda it's supposed to serve or falsehood being presented.
I've solved many difficult problems sleeping or showering.
Is he underrated?

I have always understood that everyone agrees that he is one of the greatest sci-fi writers ever. His writing and philosophy has depth and he understood the future would be interaction between the society and technology.

Maybe he is underrated in the sense that while he is considered a great, many of his writings are still relatively unknown.

His nonfiction is also remarkable (Golem XIV is technically sci-fi, but it's so philosophically heavy that it can be seen as philosophical work).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV

'The Philosophy of Chance' has not been translated to English.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Chance
Try it at one college and watch the college fail. Also watch it save very little money compared to the overall operating budget.
Hey! I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but on your site openmessage.io, if you go to:

Solutions (Menu bar) -> Use cases (in menu popup) -> Publishing/Loyalty/Reminders/Concierge

There's a fair bit of "Lorem ipsum dolor..." text.
They are using an in-house variant of Scheme known as DC. There are a few pages about it in Game Engine Architecture, a book written by an engineer at Naughty Dog. https://www.gameenginebook.com/

DC is compiled to bytecode then interpreted. DC compiler is written in Racket.
Edison bulbs, wood, microbrews, and board games on hand. See you at trivia night!
I've been using Cloudron.io for months now and have nothing but good things to say. Actively developed, good support, large selection of apps.
It is making me very unhappy and I realise that it's all because of this stupid obsession

Whether it's money or flowers or anything, a passion will do that to you. Programming does that to programmers. What I'm saying is that you might just be passionate about money and frankly, I don't think there is anything wrong with that despite what the average person think. Are you good at your passion? Just become better and you'll be more happy. Don't press the break pedal, press the gas one.
Ok, I've got it running. So the problem is: rtags-find-symbol-at-point opens wrong header files. I'm using custom sdk for embedded target generated by yocto. I need to be able to switch back and forth between desktop and embedded targets. Is this use case supported by rtags?
Change "heroin" to "cocaine" and you could tell the same story about many stockbrokers, so what's the point?
GP mentioned the LG G5 which is still receiving security updates
>I really was hoping HQ2 would go somewhere more conservative politically...

>Detroit specifically would have been perfect...

???

Detroit? Conservative?
> the blame would fall on a spot a little broader than my shadow.

Can you explain what you mean? I've never heard that expression before and it's.. confusing.
> Until I used the Internet, I didn’t know there were so many idiots in the world

The whole article was worth reading just for this quote alone
>"We all theoretically agree that I could have burned the most oil today [...]" is a way way way way better scenario than "I guess we will all have to burn a bunch of oil to make sure I'm right [...]"

note this argument only works if the costs of burning oil (habitat destruction) is being externalized. thus, this is more of a problem with externalization than a pos vs pow issue.
Facebook and Google look at your text pictures
Aargh, I wish ONE tech company would put a HQ somewhere in the South. I currently live in the Bay Area working at a company I love, but I'll have to move back at some point (my wife wants to be closer to family).

Crystal City, VA is still an 8 hour drive from the part of the South I'm from. Atlanta, Raleigh, and Nashville have so much potential... I think if just one of FANG put a HQ there (or even an office), the others would quickly follow.
This is a silly article.
Or NYC.

But NYC is way too crowded. They'll need growing room.
I'm not too happy with that resolution though, because it leads to problems.

While it may seem to reduce short term conflict, it exacerbates the effect of many of us living in ever-more-impervious bubbles. Which could lead to larger problems down the road as people's shared understandings about reality diverge even more.
It's easy to criticize federal student loan programs, but there's an even bigger problem: people are choosing majors that aren't valuable in the market, and are later somehow surprised they are worse off than when they started. Weird.
> The issue is that you need to lock up money for PoS in order to mine it. That has a cost as you are forgoing interest on lending that money to an actually productive enterprise that is creating value.

You do realize that stakers in PoS earn interest (paid for through inflation) on their locked collateral?
Exactly...if it's legal, you won't see dark alley trolling or illegal turns. You would see professional websites, apps, and clean, regulated places of business.
In case of DNS blocking, I'm always wondering what would happen if ISP wouldn't provide DNS resolver?
Instead recursive resolvers could be run on customers routers. Would they still be obliged to block it, even as this is not their resolver?
What Is an “Almost Prime” Number?
I've never seen a community that was completely open to discussion and where bad ideas disappeared because they were effectively challenged.

On the other hand, I've been in several communities where the mods had a clear agenda and the participants were helpless to change it.

I'd personally rather the people who are hostile to new ideas or critical thinking have their own communities and that their ability to harm other communities can be mitigated by a moderation system accountable to the users.

I do think there needs to be serious discussion about how to make communities that are good for people. The echo chamber and polarization effects tend to contract people into a smaller worldview. How to have a cohesive community that doesn't do that is essentially an unsolved problem in the social sciences.
It's pretty well accounted for. The money is borrowed from primarily the American people and American businesses in the from of treasury bills, notes, and securities.

Printing money does not increase the national debt (I'm assuming that is what you are referring to.)

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/mspd.htm
Summa Technologiae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae) is an excellent read and stunningly predictive.
Holocaust Survivor Rushed to Make Up for Lost Time and Lives
Wait, the iPad doesn't have parental controls?
I've only done some minor patches to Crystal, but I don't think so -- after all, `a & -b` is a perfectly legal operation as well.
Quark Deconfinement as Supernova Explosion Engine for Blue Supergiant Stars
Android is terrible. The best thing to do is piggy back zebra crossing's open source app and integrate it directly into the app. But as for a general use scanner, Android still depends on the user to download a external app. Motorola has it built into their camera app but I feel users don't know and don't reach out for it on reflex.

Google has their own solution but it is the stupidest, roundabout way of using it where the host app has to dynamically download the library that has the necessary barcode scanning.
>Surprisingly, that isn't true

the linked article is light on details, but the source given in that article makes the following conclusion

>The Matthew Effect, where the rich get richer, is not much of a concern for Ethereum on a Proof of Stake issuance schedule, since the platform more or less in a steady state of relatively extreme wealth inequality
In California at least there were ballot iniatives that mean the CA government must go with the lowest bid, even if it is from a company that has consistently run far over budget.

Honestly I feel the solution to this is: lowest bid, but the company cannot charge more than their bid and needs to have completion/bankruptcy insurance. That way companies that routinely under bid will go bankrupt/have the bankruptcy insurance bills increase until it becomes unprofitable to underbid.
I wonder how much time in average we got playing with our parents.

I was in primary schoold in the 80s and I remember seeing my father 10 min before going to bed, my mother was mostly dealing with stuff (administrative tasks, house keeping, shopping, cooking, checking homeworks) and outside of Scrabble I don’t remember playing anything with her. We’d watch tv news or vapid tv drama together at best, rest of time I’d do whatever I wanted as long as it wasn’t hurting anyone nor illegal.

Compared to that it seems to me parents nowadays are a lot more feeling guilty of not spending enough time with their kids, even as they spend a ton more in my opinion.
Though it's probably not a good time to buy a house in Toronto, it's easier to employ much more leverage on a house compared to a piano.
Different stages in development and the richest country in the world (right now) would obviously win.

We will see what this answer will be in 50-100 years.
To clarify my sibling comment, I never said, "nothing is new in this article" as you state. I said there is nothing worrying in the article because it does not show an increase in mental health problems among the population of children even though there has been a massive increase in screen time.
That's kind of a strange thing to say. I'd argue it's clearly not true in this case. Do you disagree? Can you maybe explain why?
I don't remember everything on top of my head unfortunately, but it was things like, weird choices all around like long names, no real OS threads, that kind of stuff. Sorry, I don't remember, I just know I tried it a couple of times and disliked it.
The very idea of a distinction between "living room" and "family room" is a foreign one to me, before you even get to the idea of a clear distinction between kitchen and dining room.
Man, I needed this last summer when I was doing a huge project. Glad someone can benefit from it!
Xamarin, QT, Electron, a few variants of React Native. For games, pick you favorite cross plat engine.

Follow the steps at https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/oldgrub for a free Windows VM development license.

For Apple, it is an entire hardware platform.
To quote Purism (who are in the process of making a competing phone), Apple is right about privacy, but wrong about freedom; real privacy depends on freedom.
Maybe what the OP meant was, that Lem's works are much less known in the West than in the old good "Eastern Block", though AFAIK he's quite well known in Germany.
Time is incredibly short. Money is only interesting as far as it lets you spend time on things that matter to you. Therefore time spent unhappily obsessing over money is a double tragedy.

We live in an era where almost everyone in the West has access to physical and social luxuries that go far beyond the lifestyle enjoyed by kings of the past. Louis XV of France spent his evenings in drafty old Versailles playing craps with the same old boring courtiers; we've got central heating, Netflix, boundless internet communities and $5 clothing delivered to your doorstep if you want. You don't need anything more than what you already have, and you're not going to be poor by any definition within your lifetime. Probably the best way to make that concrete is to start giving money away: charity is the easiest way to feel like a king.
It seems that beyond the generation it tries to guess the rest based on the screen res changing the font size and DPI via accessibility settings switches between XS and XS max for me.