skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What will these rich capital allocators do when nobody has money to buy their stuff? We need people to produce things and we need people who buy things. Both of these roles are equally important. Considering how housing and other asset prices are going up and companies like Apple are sitting on billions of dollars it seems there are a lot of rich people who don't know how to invest their money productively.
The criticisms of so called sunshine laws are unconvincing. Any one supporting more direct democracy will favor such reforms.

As for why things took a right-wing turn in the mid-70s, I prefer this thesis:

Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA

https://www.amazon.com/Lobbying-America-Politics-Business-So...

TL;DR: Titans of industry felt persecuted, rolled back The New Deal.

"Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business's political involvement was historically distinctive during this period, Waterhouse illustrates the changing power and goals of America's top corporate leaders.

Examining the rise of the Business Roundtable and the revitalization of older business associations such as the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Waterhouse takes readers inside the mind-set of the powerful CEOs who responded to the crises of inflation, recession, and declining industrial productivity by organizing an effective and disciplined lobbying force. By the mid-1970s, that coalition transformed the economic power of the capitalist class into a broad-reaching political movement with real policy consequences. Ironically, the cohesion that characterized organized business failed to survive the ascent of conservative politics during the 1980s, and many of the coalition's top goals on regulatory and fiscal policies remained unfulfilled. The industrial CEOs who fancied themselves the "voice of business" found themselves one voice among many vying for influence in an increasingly turbulent and unsettled economic landscape.

Complicating assumptions that wealthy business leaders naturally get their way in Washington, Lobbying America shows how economic and political powers interact in the American democratic system."
ATM logic attacks: scenarios [pdf]
> I can focus on my train of thoughts and links to pieces when I am drawing freely and not having to context switch to moving and selecting using a cursor.

Do you really know that for a fact or do you just assume that? What program with a scribbly interface are you actually using on a regular basis?

> I can also use this interface on a tablet.

You can also use toolshelfs (and many other interface elements) on a tablet.

> Many people are wired differently to your preferences, it's worth trying new approaches to old tools.

This is not a new approach, this is a very old approach that has been summarily rejected as a good way of going about things.
I find I need 4+ hour chunks to make any progress, so I find Saturday and Sunday mornings are the best times until around noon when people start waking up.

But this requires basically going to sleep early on Weekend evenings.

Another option is save a bunch of money and take 6 months to a year off in between jobs and work on side projects.

It's really hard to work full time, have a life, and work on side projects.

If you figure it out please let us know.
The Beth Newell & Sarah Pappalardo episode of Hollywood Handbook was a big let down, which was so disappointing given the quality on Reductress.

I am so puzzled that the intersection of People Who Nail David Foster Wallace Satire and People Who Don’t Get It As Hollywood Handbook Guests is non-empty.
I thought that show went off the rails when spoiler the dude set the van full of hardware on fire
This is why Java is better.
Glassdoor is nonsense. Somehow, they think we pay experienced specialists roughly the going rate for flipping burgers or mopping restrooms.
You've been doing this for months and months and we already asked you to stop, so we've banned the account. We'd like to unban you, so please email hn@ycombinator.com and let us know that you'll stop with the essay!
> When in opposition they throw a fit about deficits but as soon as they have power they forget these concerns but drive deficits up a lot.

They don't care about deficits, they care about spending priorities. Deficits is just the argument they turn to when they don't have an argument against particular spending priorities.
Agreed; this is mainly what I have done. "Gray" is American and "grey" is English, although a proper name or title will use the specific form that it uses. I forgot about the scientific measurement "gray", although that is a good point too.

Although it mentions audience, also note that many things have international audience (such as documentation for protocols).

There is one further consideration though. I generally will use American spellings in computer codes (and Italian for musical notation). I am Canadian though, so I might write a program and the documentation might say, for example, "the COLOR command changes the colour of..."
Population without access to electricity falls below 1B
I think you are both right. It’s a tech demo which unintentionally perfectly encapsulates a disturbing direction we could slowly evolve into... unintentionally.

This thing could be placed in an art gallery. Visitors submit an original drawing and watch it transform into a cookie cutter contribution, stripping away everything that makes them unique. Its actually a pretty played out concept artistically, the whole “white picket fence” vibe.
I gave one example of this that I personally know. Over the years I have seen this same scenario discussed by all sorts of people (business owners, technologists, etc). It various ways, this has even been discussed by the IEEE.

Whether you want to acknowledge the sameness of the USA government to the Chinese government in these areas or not, the Chinese government is only following in the well trod footsteps of the USA government.

The USA as a whole had a foundation that was extraordinary, but this foundation has been well and truly eroded in the last couple of centuries. What's the applicable phrase? Oh yes - "Oh how far it has fallen and knows it not."
I just don't understand how so many people in the HN community, who are so vocal about privacy, turn around and use Chrome.

The amount of blind trust that people - including very technical people - gift to Google is rather shocking.
Why make anything if someone is going to just steal it?
Not just free concert but free food and booze.

BTW the whole renaming of NIPS to NeurIPS could be an episode of SV, where a board of directors are all offended by names of body parts!
They are. It's a different thing, but they're great.
I can't get any of the pen's interactive effects to work on my mobile device.
It sorta is, via ad targeting.
I highly support a carbon tax, but I'm unconvinced it makes that much sense on a state level.
The final instance of “Silicon Valley” should be set in italics as a title (or quoted, if HN titles don't allow italics.)

(Would presumably be just as true the other way around, but that's not the title of the piece.)
We just revealed this to the world today! Excited to bring our research to a general audience in a more fun to read format (and if you have not seen it, be sure to check out the BAIR blog https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/).
How about:

1) Introducing a much higher tax rate for rental property income.

2) Making property taxes be reassessed every single year unless your AGI is lower than average and you are a resident.

3) Introducing a much (much!) higher tax for non-residents/foreign investors who buy a house purely for investment, and sometimes they don't even rent it out (I know a few rich folks from FAANG who bought a handful of houses in MV, and they keep them empty because they don't want the trouble of dealing with tenants, they say the appreciation is more than enough, to me it's borderline criminal).

I've seen numerous instances of those three events playing out against normal people trying to afford some housing while working a normal job. If it's not obvious, I'm heavily biased against real estate investors, because housing is a need for everybody, so the market should be much more regulated.
It sounds like you should apply for Ycombinator, they accept non-profits too

The hardest bit will be doing the marketing, getting sponsorship or donations from alumni so that it’s a sustainable organisation
To what extent is this a browser extension model bug?
No, they monetize it right there in house. Doesn’t change a thing.
I think they were referring to

Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, a software-as-a-service company for brands and businesses that bring people together via classes, events, content, and community, all in one place. Before Mighty Networks, she founded Ning, a pioneering social platform for creating your own social networks, in 2004.
Imagine we started with $100 and were betting on a fair coin with fair odds. There's no edge so Kelly says to bet $0, and hence the Kelly strategy stays at $100 forever. You can give yourself a very high chance of beating the Kelly strategy if you use a Martingale strategy. Bet $0.01. If you win then you have $100.01 and you should not bet again. If you lose then bet $0.02 next time, and then $0.04 and then $0.08 doubling each time until you win. When you win you will go up to $100.01, which beats the Kelly strategy. So Martingale beats Kelly unless you go bankrupt by losing too many times in a row before getting a win, which only happens with a very small probability. So there are strategies that have a high probability of beating the Kelly criterion.

For simplicity I gave the above example in the degenerate case where the edge is zero. But I think the analogous strategy works in all cases. If you aim for just a penny over the Kelly strategy then you have a high probability of success.
This. Also, the developer is responsive on his Discord server should you have any issues with the editor. Henrik is patient, kind and reliable, rare traits for open source projects these days.
>If you don't, then go back to designing* I guess, and ask for a programmers' help

Was this actually necessary to say? It's not only insulting to people who don't need/care about/currently know regex, while simultaneously insulting of designers' intelligence.
Thank you for sharing your story. I don't know the severity of your brother's disabilities but I believe that there is a potential place for him as a teacher to teach introductory courses (like JS basics, html, etc). The daily interaction someone like your brother might have with other people might help with his mental disabilities.

Just a my two cents, but I'm not trying to advocate for everyone to learn coding though. Simple jobs will always be there in the near future for those who need it. I just have a problem with people who are capable of a skilled jobs being forced into simple jobs because of financial reasons.
The comparison drawn is MW/employee which is not relative to anything: it's just how much power the plant is pushing, irrespective of whether its useful as that specific time. It's a fair oracle. I purposefully stated "long run" because none of this works until energy storage is also solved (which it mostly is) or developed (which it definitely is not).
Because them stealing it doesn’t entirely deprive you of it since it’s IP
Because the beer companies can trade the data with another company. And that company will trade the data to another company. And the cycle continues.
This person's project is called "funky" and it involves a new approach to creating shell functions. It doesn't take great linguistic genius to intuit what a "funk" might be.
World's first full-body medical scanner generates astonishing 3D images
No it isn't. It's the difference between "Here's some money, please show this to young Democrats" and "Here's some money, please give me a list of young Democrats." That's a pretty damn big difference.
You know those joke UI exercises of "the most terrible way to implement a volume slider" or whatnot? This is basically that.

In order to pick a tree prefab, please draw a tree.
Thanks for the tip.. :)
Great points. I guess I should have said that I'm using "science" with a 20th century tinge and from the perspective of analytic thinkers of that period. In that context, I think I'd agree with a description of science as a strict subset of epistemology, specifically the branch of epistemology that dedicates itself to picking out things in the physical world.

Per your link: I wonder what the author of that page thinks of the Gettier problems and whether they constitute "false knowledge."
Tried to, but got rejected every time. I don't think we have the numbers. 20 doesn't seem like a number that scales very well. I might try again next year.
You might trust someone with one thing but not with the other thing. A question "do you trust them?" out of context is not specific enough.
Charisma is only a problem when your representative is a figure on a screen you never see or interact with. Its definitely fallen by the wayside in recent times with the explosive population and suffrage growth not corresponding to a larger legislature, but there is ample historic record of the aristocratic voters in the decades following the founding of the US also having close relations to their representatives. The voters (the <10% of the population eligible) often had regular, direct access to converse and interact with those they elected.

In more modern terms it would be if you weren't electing a representative for every several hundred thousand people, but had one for every few hundred. Something constrained by Dunbars Number. You wouldn't be electing a caricature but someone you can actually interact with, especially in an era of total digital interconnection.

Fixing representative democracy in the US and abroad is probably the most fundamental issue facing America and most of the world today. Getting back to actual representation by peers has to happen eventually or the widening divide between the political aristocracy and the commoner will revert most of western society back into a model more reminiscent of 16th century Britain.
React Context API
Do you know if there are common tools people use as a search engine backend for this? Vespa.ai seems promising, although I can't tell if there are many people using it.
WHAT'S THE SPECIAL OCCASION?
There isn't any real way to contain or process nuclear waste (most of it is literally kept in swimming pools) and this article fries nuclear economics without even taking waste into account. And don't forget decommissioning, another waste process that costs billions and every plant eventually requires (at ratepayers' expense).
Except that aggregated data can be treated as having a copyright. Why plaintiff didn't present that argument boggles the mind. Second rate lawyers there.
The code written with this is probably going to be a lot easier for people to read that a raw regex. Never forget that code is read many time more often than it is written.
> We can listen to a big block of text more comfortably than we can read it.

I think this is true for some people, but not others. I find it easier to read through a block of text and break it down so that I can ask follow-up questions on things I may not fully understand. If I listen to it instead, I may miss some important detail and just not remember it after 30 minutes unless I take notes (in which case, it might as well be written down in the first place).
Infinite Jest was infinitely boring, a lot of the "edginess" feels dated and the problems the characters deal with feel juvenile. Its also devoid of emotions that feels like the isolation of the American suburbs.

I liked many hard to read books, Joyce for example, as well as postmodernism, but I can't recommend this collection of superficial rants and emotional sterility.

Curiously, the people that liked this book had the same kind of emotional sterility I despise. Mostly, whiny, stuck up English majors from the suburbs. Often with few life experiences.
it doesn't work on the majority of systems i have to work with, which is servers that don't have the necessary tools installed.

it's also very susceptible to latency and most applications don't handle slow connections in a usable manner. (they are designed with the expectation that the gui always responds instantly)

to get something of a tmux/screen like experience, xpra is available, which is an awesome piece of work, but it doesn't help with the latency. even over just local wifi i have some applications become unusable over xpra when they work ok over plain remote X.

the problem is not necessarily X but in part GUI in general. i can't click the mouse anywhere until the respective UI item is visible, so i have to wait for that.

on a commandline on the other hand in most cases i can keep typing even on extremely slow connections because i can anticipate what will happen and i know what keys are appropriate to type next.

using mosh i even get something like editable typeahead which is a marvel and very hard to imagine on X.

greetings, eMBee.
Assuming there's 1 billion Arabic people on the planet...all you need is 100,000 members of what the U.S. classifies as terrorist groups to have 1 in 1000.

ISIS already fills up 35,000 of that 100,000. You still have Hamas, al Queda, and many more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g...
As much as other people didn't like it I really loved Fake Steve Jobs.
If one is breathing helium directly from a pressurised tank, one can be inhaling it at higher than normal atmospheric pressure.

Divers control the pressure at which the diving gas is being delivered. A person who is breathing helium directly from a tank, either for misguided recreational reasons or with suicidal intent, is unlikely to be doing that.

The original suggestion – of adding helium to a room in order to damage iPhones – unless the room is pressurised, it is going to be at normal atmospheric pressure, so asphyxiation is a far greater risk than embolism. But, the point remains, inhaling helium is actually a lot more risky than many people think, sometimes it kills.

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/...
> I think there’s a step missing in the analysis there. If tech workers are spending all this money — what are they spending it _on_?

They often aren't, they are saving it (effectively, often directly, investing in the global capital markets and/or, insofar as their compensation has an equity component, directly in their own firm.)
Regarding #3, maybe something like Vancouver's vacancy tax: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...
You're welcome. I don't know if you need more, but here are a few other games that can handle 6 players, can be played in close to 30 minutes and are in your price range. The first set is probably the best for gifting, i.e. they are among the best games and also look nice/substantial (except for Codenames, which comes in a smaller, though not tiny box, but there's a lot of game in there):

Codenames -- 2-8, though I think you need 4 min. Under $20. Highly-ranked, highly-popular team vs. team word game. There are multiple versions, including one using pictures, instead of words, one for Marvel, one for Harry Potter, etc. But the base game is fine. Has a strong social component, as one person gives clues about certain words that appear in a grid of word-cards and their team has to guess which words they are being clued about; wrong words may give the other team an advantage, etc.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/178900/codenames

Sushi Go Party: $18.38 @Amazon plays 2 - 8
Highly-ranked and fast card-drafting game. As opposed to the original Sushi Go, it plays more players and lets you create a different deck of cards for every game (i.e. using different foods). Comes in a nice tin.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192291/sushi-go-party

King of Tokyo: plays 2 - 6 ($30 and change on Amazon). It's a yahtzee-mechanic dice-chucker where each player is a Godzilla-style monster in or out of Tokyo. It's also by Richard Garfield. This one is a well-known game in gaming circles, with expansions and so on. Comes with large, custom dice.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-tokyo

Treasure Hunter plays 2 - 6 ($27-ish on Amazon, though it may go down as Amazon has a history of discounting Queen games during this season -- last year it hit $12.50) Card-drafting game by Richard Garfield (who did another card-drafting game called Magic: The Gathering :-) ). It's in a Ticket To Ride sized box, as it has a board and tokens in addition to cards. Fairly light, despite all the components.

And here are a few others -- mostly card games:

Parade: plays 2-6, $19.91 @Amzn, $16.99 @Miniature Market. It's a light card game with an Alice in Wonderland theme; it's pretty well-regarded.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/56692/parade

For Sale: plays 3-6, either around $30 on Amazon for the regular box or around $16 for the deck-of-cards box "travel edition" which has thinner tokens and the rules printed on cards. The game is a well-known filler in gaming circles.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172/sale

Fantasy Realms: plays 3-6, $19.99 @ Amazon -- light card game

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223040/fantasy-realms

Cheaty Mages: plays 3-6 $16.47 @Amazon -- small-box, light card game

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38194/cheaty-mages

Age of War: plays 2-6, small, light dice game by ace-designer Reiner Knizia (though this isn't one of his classics). $11.76 @ Amazon.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/155695/age-war
I thought the whole "failing upwards" thing was a funny part of the early show, but I didn't realize it was a real thing until I saw it in person. It's amazing how accurate that portrayal is.
California Olive Ranch is a great brand. Can't recommend it highly enough.
The joys of press releases vs. actual scientific papers.
How to Control a Machine with Your Brain
Could anyone please compare Reason and Elm? I tried Elm for a while but felt really constrained, and strongly disliked feeling trapped in its bubble.
I think it's only worth having the semantic argument, in this case, because of the established equity (whether negative or positive) of the term "remote". There are a lot of implications that go along with that word and, as someone who's struggling to get the rest of my organization to adopt this paradigm shift, my team gets a bad rap from people because we're all branded as "millennials" (in a very negative sense) simply because we're able to perform and do all of our work fluidly. We don't have requirements that people have to work from the office or work remotely so everyone has the choice to do whatever works for them. Some people prefer coming into the office because it's less distracting and others "need" that mental separation from their home life and that's fine. For others in our org, though, there's this negative perception that surrounds it as if there's no accountability and that we're all just too lazy or unmotivated to actually come into the office or, worse yet, that we're all somehow afraid of face-to-face interaction. People seem to think that you lose interpersonal connection with people when "remote" work is part of the strategy so I think framing this as "distributed" work is really just to try and remove the way the work is done from people's (mostly older, non-agile people) perceptions of what they think is actually happening.