skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live very well without Amazon, what am I missing? Granted, I live in a dense European capital where there's a grocery store open every day till mid-night located 200 meters away from my building's entrance and I do prefer to buy my books directly from a book-store, but even when I used to live a little farther away from a grocery store I was still not purchasing anything from Amazon or Amazon-like websites.
This is a really great comment and should be much higher on the page, and I appreciate that you took the time to write it all out.
This is a very common argument and I find it weird.

I guess if you are a democrat, and at the same time have your own political ideas, the fact that many people disagree with you causes some cognitive dissonance. A nice solution is to think that the populace has been misled by the Yellow Press.

This story might have worked in the 1990s when it was the Sun Wot Won It (the 1997 election, for non-Brits). Since then, the media market has exploded and anyone can now reach thousands of alternative news sources. Simultaneously, public opinion has got much more anti-immigration. How does this data fit the theory of manipulation by press barons?
The majority of Americans want to, but in America the popularity of a policy is not a strong indicator of whether it will be made into law.
show the population your plan is working by broadly improving the population's standard of living

this is currently working in both russia and china to the point where many are content with quasi-dictatorships because they've seen such a vast improvement in their quality of life through improved economies

at the end of the day more food on your table and more money in your bank account speaks volumes louder than having an infinitesimal say in who represents your interests in an increasingly dysfunctional local and federal government
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Nice one! It'd be really cool to be able to sort by Visa length as well. That'd be a handy feature for digital nomads.

You could solve any issues with info being out of date by sourcing from the community, allowing people to flag or comment on specific pages.

Also, it's useful in the nomad community to know how easy it is to do visa runs etc as well, so that's perhaps some insider info - maybe you could put this behind a paywall.
Probably not. There's a straight between the two sides here. They aren't right next to each other like in Syria.
I'm guessing it was flagged for not having a date. It was indeed a little confusing to read at first because of that. Also, it's just considered good practice.
It's always important to put things into context. If you're developing a hello world or a few animations for your mostly static web site, the initial "tax" of Scala.js will always be too heavy. It's not so much the power of Scala as a language, but rather its collections library.

But if you're developing a larger front-end application, that tax is dwarfed by the size of your actual application.

Also, Scala.js can be and is used for other JS-based environemnts, which are less size-constrained, such as Node.js, electron, etc.
I am in washington state and I think it failed because the implications of the plan was unclear - no one could say how much taxes would be (there were various estimates) and no one had any idea how to use the revenue generated to reduce costs of poorer people - we don't don't have an income tax here so its hard to give govt money back through tax cuts.

I supported this and I (naively) think of myself as fairly well informed but for even someone more capable of reading the details it was unclear (there was going to be a state wide panel that would figure out the details)...

The earlier carbon tax plan was a lot easier to understand and support. Although it makes people lose their shit, I think we should add an income tax in conjunction with carbon taxes. The state needs more money to pay for infrastructure needs, rich overpaid programmers like me can afford more money to build roads and mass transit faster. Add taxes on carbon fuels and then rebate the costs with tax cuts to poorer people and perhaps it could be neutral for your average person.
Yep. 95% of the world doesn't live in the imaginary retail utopia the Amazon-haters do. For the vast majority of people, Amazon opens up new retail possibilities.

Yes, Amazon has ethical/moral/UX/etc... issues. Be critical of its actual sins, not imagined ones.
The author runs a forum and magazine dedicated to "fashion goth" designers like Rick Owens. He's a bit too close to the subject because his essay lacks distance and the analysis you provided. And like you say, this isn't new - it's just aspirational branding.
When I see (right-wing) "populists" being condemned, the "us vs them" narrative is that "them" is a small number of political figures who are using populism as a strategy for gaining power. Hence why, in the statement you quote, populism is a means of "appealing to ... a population", and is not a political identity in the same way as "liberalism" or "conservatism".

There is a big qualitative (not just quantitative) difference between condemning a few manipulative politicians, and condemning, say, an entire ethnic group or rival political party.
This times a million. All these attempts to blame the internet/social media/fake news/whatever for authoritarianism are attempts by those in power to avoid accepting that they screwed up and now they're paying the price (along with society as a whole).

It also wreaks of them thinking that trying to censor the population will make these problems go away, when the truth is that until the current system is replaced or fixed, things will get worse and worse until it crumbles entirely.
This is complete hogwash. A fund to manage migration? The author should and will be in a gulag. If the liberal leaders and billionaires want to keep importing cancer Islam en masse and telling the people they are racist, you will have civil war and a far right dictatorship within the next two decades.
Fools need to stop blaming Putin and Xi. Do you see them allowing mass migration?
Our societies are run by neutered half-men - that’s why we are decaying. It’s that simple
Bella’s been dreaming of a white winter and she finally got one this week
Regardless of the marginal benefits of 100% uptime vs 99.99...the entire point of ETH is that once the contract is posted to the block chain, it continues to operate in perpetuity...and no centralized service provider or government can take it down. That's powerful, and in our age of creeping power consolidation by big tech cos and overreaching governments, I applaud the development of censorship-resistant tech.
You should use an external DAC connected to your digital device via optical or spdif connection. Then connect your monitors to your DAC. I bet this solves all your problems.
It wasn't until you really got into the late 2000s that things started to change. And, even then, really ubiquitous mapping/GPS, more and more being online, machine translation, etc. have changed traveling to places like China on almost a year-by-year basis over the past decade.

It probably boggles a lot of people's minds that even 20 years or so ago, taking off on certain types of trips to many parts of the world meant, at best, infrequent contact and, often, essentially disappearing. Today I expect there's increasingly an expectation that you'd get a satellite messaging system under those circumstances.

The difference in information availability generally is astounding. I imagine that would drive most of us crazy generally if you go back a few decades.
This reminded me of a classic essay on how a lot of "luxury" branding is meant to appeal, not to the true elite (the kind of people who are born with seven or more figures in a trust fund and / or live off capital gains), but to the aspirations of professional-class strivers (lawyers, doctors, advertising directors, software engineers, etc.):

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/11/luxury_branding_the_...
Yes - we probably don't disagree. I believe that there's probably some technological value in digital currencies.

In terms of the "market being a bust", the statement was a criticism of the current valuation of the cryptocurrency market - particularly, that it is based on a cauldron of unholy factors that I mentioned in the first post.
I am referring to the opportunity cost.

Assume Bob could do something and get paid 50k per year, government pays Bob 50k/year to stay at home. Bob makes 50k either way.

But, if Bob does not work for a year then the economy loses 50k/year worth of labor, that’s true if bob makes 40k staying at home or 200k staying at home. It’s also true if the government pays Bob to do something that creates zero value.
Futures do nothing until the poll method is called. That method returns an enum, saying if it’s ready, pending, etc. the event loop calls poll repeatedly.

We have some really in depth docs in the works here but it’s not quite ready yet.
That was good advice when public libraries were less used. But these days (at least in the American cities I frequent), they are massively popular.

Which means if you reserve a new release, be prepared to wait. Even with 17 copies of a particular newish book, the wait for it from my local library system is in excess of eight months.

Wait eight months, or drop $11.95 at Amazon? Easy choice.
No, I think you mean Russia the government, not "russians" the people. The latter have little say over the policymaking of the former.
I think you are arguing that reducing carbon fuels usage, reducing carbon added to the atmosphere won't make any impact on slowing climate change. That is wrong I believe. Or are you arguing something different, that we can't correlate laws to reduce carbon use with actual carbon usage. Both ideas seem wrong to me.
1. Yes, angostura is mocking you.

2. Because your idea is unworkable for running a nation of 300 million people. It's not even workable for running a medium-sized town. You need coordination. That thing that coordinates winds up being a government.

Now, you are right that the answer isn't going to come from government. We need something more. But we still need government.
All my apple stuff makes an annoying pop sound any time the music stops for more than some amount of time I don't know. Bluetooth and analog do it.
To put things into perspective, the B-29 bomber project cost around $3.2 billion dollars in 1945 dollars, half as much again as the $1.9 billion atomic weapon.

The bomb project was expensive because they were accelerating perhaps 30 years of normal research and development into 4 years. They did not know what would work, so they made two different types of separation plants, and two different types of bombs. All the clean room technology needed for the factories needed to be developed from scratch.

With the wisdom of hindsight, the "race to the bomb" was a waste, but at the time it seemed prudent. Then again war is waste, war is about laying waste.
I wonder if these guys will ever hit the civilian market.

Those domesticated Russian foxes are supposedly starting to trickle out.
I don't quite understand the staunch love for the current payment and monetary system versus private peer to peer payments.
How is a book store any more direct than Amazon?
Move to the hinterlands, several hours from the nearest city, and get back to us in six months.
Reminds me of the principles behind the original asp.net, all the way back in 2000. At the time there were no websockets, so it was done with constant post-back, but the principle was fundamentally the same: develop like it were a local app, the framework will take care of the rest. Let’s just say it didn’t get very popular in my neck of the woods. I’ve since moved on to other things so I don’t know what modern asp.net does, but I bet you can still code this way if you really want.

(Not that you should, imho: trying to bypass the fundamental architecture of the web is typically a way to end up in debugging hell.)
If you're willing to put the time in, use your network to find someone that works at company X. LinkedIn is good for this. You can even send a link request to someone on LinkedIn that works there. But don't use the default, "I'd like to connect." Say, "Company X looks cool because ... - Do you have time to meet for coffee and tell me how you wound up there?"
We already have socialism, we are just in denial. Social security, taxes to cover job losses. We have a crappy socialism that doesn't protect people well, but that's what we are.
Not even our modern computers are Turing complete as they do not have unbounded tape.
Hah. This is the opposite of every single experience I've seen at my work, where both PCs and Macs are supported. Usually the Mac person plugs into a projector and it doesn't work, or they don't have their adapter. The HP works every time.
As the CEO of IRC.com, I can say that Mark Karpeles has nothing to do with the project nor does he have access to any of the infrastructure IRC.com runs on. His work goes towards other projects that London Trust Media has running.

I’ve been running the open source kiwiirc.com project for around 7 years and have always been very careful of who has access to what and so far has been clear of any issues. Hopefully I can now bring the same scrutiny and planning to IRC.com too!
Woah, slow down there Benito.
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I cancelled my eBay account because I was tired of getting ripped off by sellers.

At Amazon, I might get a co-mingled knock-off. But at least I'll get something, and not six weeks of shipping excuses followed by radio silence.
> Every time I hear politicians say how they know what needs to be done, but they will get voted out if they try. I don't believe this is true.

Imagine people rioting in the streets because you put a carbon tax on gas.
2048 at the command line
So user-friendly. /s
My takeaway is that people don't have a very good sense of scale on government spending.

Manhattan project: 30 billion (2012 dollars)

Apollo program: 83 billion (2005 dollars)

Shuttle program: 196 billion (2011 dollars)

2008 bailouts: 700 billion (2008 dollars)

Iraq war: over 1 trillion dollars

That's right, both the Iraq war and the 2008 bailouts each dwarf the entire space program. Yet which thing attracts more hand wringing about costs? Which things require years of tiresome political wrangling, and which happened at the snap of a finger?
A Kinesis Freestyle keyboard, which is split but otherwise a standard layout. Mine is angled/tented so both halves are higher in the middle.

An Evoluent VerticalMouse.

Between the 2 products, my wrists, forearms, and elbows stay in totally natural positions. My wrists don’t need to bend at all to type or mouse.
True, but it’s annoying for small investors (gamblers) like me to buy altcoins at the moment. I pay a transaction fee to coinbase to get btc/ltc/etc, then I pay a txn fee to move that to an exchange, then I pay a fee to the exchange to buy the altcoin, then I pay a txn fee to move to my wallet. I would rather just go to coinbase, buy the altcoin, then move the coin to my wallet. I would rather coinbase list too many coins than too few.
political systems are way too inefficient. It's known for long:

- snake oil campaigning

- a good chunk of the mandate is devoted to try to be reelected

- candidates are often vaguely different shades of gray

- voters cannot make a good decision, too much bipartisan reflex, not enough time to understand the complexity .. basically blind trust and group-dynamics
>It's gambling, not investing

What would you pay for something worth 10^13 with a probability of 10^-10? Yes, it is more gambling than investing. But still...
Europe is already very heavily taxed. Another tax on gasoline has just set France on fire.

Democracy? If it were democratic there'd be much stricter implementation of immigration rules and by the way, I think a healthy dose of helping refugees, and specifically helping the places from whence they camp.

Also in 'Democracy' - the EU itself is among the least democratic of institutions in the West, with an unelected executive forming all the laws, while elected MEPs with no ability to propose legislation. Moreover - nobody even knows who their MEP is. I understand why this was done, but still ...

Instead of 'more taxes' maybe they might want to consider a) thinking about efficiencies both in private and public sector and b) at least listening to populist concerns on migration.
I wouldn't work in a company that utilizes AWS in any kind of way.

How would you know? Any company of any size is going to use AWS directly or indirectly. The HR people won't know that some contracted vendor uses it for their API.
Developers rarely build blindly. If they build high-end housing, there is some demand which will definitely buy-in... and that opens a new option:

4. Wait, because operational expenses are cheap compared to the capital expenditure.

They will set an asking lease that is guaranteed to attract enough high-rent leasers to pay for maintenance + loan interest (if any), then hold the price right there regardless of vacancy rates. Rates will be lower only if the market demographics irreversibly change, but otherwise they can afford to wait as the building slowly fills over a decade or more - each additional renter is pure profit, and raises the value of the building as an asset for resale.

The alternative is lowering prices, which attracts a different demographic that makes it challenging to raise rates afterwards. They may generate more short-term income but overall value is lower.
Same as with Chrome. Same issue with a two browser engine culture.
You can also drown when underwater, Guybrush can only hold his breath for ten minutes!
I have to take issue with the inclusion of "craft beer" in the list of examples of "premium mediocre" at the top of the article.

There is certainly "fake" craft beer, made by the macro beverage companies that is designed to basically trick people into shelling out more because they believe they are buying into some premium category. It's classic aspirational stuff all built around marketing.

But then... well, there's all the REAL craft beer, which is (for want of a better word) crafted, made with care, creativity and in an environment of independence and experimentation. This stuff is genuinely good, or can be (sometimes experiments fail and this is fine), and like indie movements in music, art and literature deserves to be celebrated as an authentic expression of human endeavor.

So don't buy Goose, buy Revolution. Don't buy Elysian, buy New Glory. Go see what your local brewery is making. Better still, make some yourself and see how you like it.

Don't order "$25 signature burgers" from those places with all the trappings of the hipster movement but are actually owned by investment banks, order them from your local places that're actually doing it for themselves. It's not that hard to tell the difference usually.

I guess I agree with the article in the final analysis because I hate to see big companies ripping the genuine creativity out of grassroots/artisanal scenes and turning it into a shadow of itself for profit.
How about ebooks? The public library? Or other retailers? Amazon isn't the only option for buying books online, whether you live in a city or not.
My wife and I both use Android phones and a Google home. No problems here.
Ah sorry for the confusion — NDC is the new technology (https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/airline-distribution/ndc/Pages...), but it's built on XML :)
I'm helping with a conference and this would be massively useful... except I need to define there relationship by the destination country, not the origin.

Can this show me all of the conditions for people wanting to visit a country?
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> you will have civil war and a far right dictatorship within the next two decades.

Why? I mean why do you think it'll be far right, not far left? Why do you assume there will be anyone left standing at all?

> It’s that simple

Really? What about the aging and dwindling population that's Europe's most serious issue?

> run by neutered half-men

Umm, maybe you are thinking about women? (Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Germany, UK have a lot of women in politics.)

> we are decaying

Are we really decaying or you simply don't find your place, nor your viewpoint of the world?
Back in the early 90's, my best friend and I started a software consulting and development company called 'Sabre Systems' here in Australia.

We started getting calls at least 2 to 3 times a week from travel agents all over the world asking for support and information. It took us several weeks to cotton on that there was a worldwide booking system called SABRE, and that these agents were looking up the name on very early versions of Google or Yahoo search engines (or even just Yellow Pages) and finding our company!
Yes, the executor is that loop. Here is an older blog about Rust futures that is still relevant: http://aturon.github.io/2016/09/07/futures-design/
Exactly. There are at least two wholly practical reasons to wear a watch (and a conventional watch is actually better than a smartwatch for the second).

It doesn't require my fishing a phone out my pocket especially if it's cold, rainy, etc.

It's easier, as your boss suggested, to casually look at the time out of the corner of your eye in a meeting, presentation, etc. than it is to see it on your phone--especially if the phone is turned over as is often the custom in meetings.
That's a stretch. You picked a single feature and use that to say Apple provides better out of the box useability. Google/Android are better than Apple at most things that matter, including photos and maps.
" EU average is lower than the current US corporate tax rate."

Eeastern European countries generally have very low tax rates which brings the average down.

Otherwise they are 'ballpark similar' [1]

But that's only one source of taxation. As for the rest, they are very, very high in Europe.

I think the issues are probably in efficiencies across the board, more than redistribution at this point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
> The refugee intake should be taken to zero, and borders strictly enforced, since the net economic contribution of MENA migrants currently is negative

Delete this sentence and the rest of your post is mostly good.

Simplifying bureaucracy? Mandating English as an option? Capping payroll taxes at some reasonable level? All good ideas.

But the idea that we should turn away people fleeing poverty and violence because their "net economic contribution... is currently negative" is racist and gross.

Economic growth is nice, but it's a means to an end. The first step is to have a society worth growing.
They also seem ignorant of the Portfolio plugin which provides a macro view (above epic level).
I did well with PetroChina when the bubble started, and everyone was enamored with China. But once I started seeing that local corruption and fabrication of manufacturing numbers was widespread, I bailed and invested in Europe and North America.

I'm too old to take chances with my money anymore.
To be clear, my question about Taylor Alexander's suggestion is not about alternatives to democracy (of which I'm sure we're all aware of examples), but alternatives to "government".

> I believe we must solve them ourselves directly, not indirectly through government.

And perhaps to refine the question for a HN audience, I'll note that game theory, social choice theory etc, offer opportunities for technical insights to potentially play a part in answering this. But only a part.
Totally. The first time I was in India was 2006 and the second was in 2016. Talk about a different experience. I mean, India is still India but having that map and actual internet access, no matter how intermittent made a lot of difference. It also drastically cut down on interactions because there was no need to ask directions. Being lost will force you out of your comfort zone quicksmart and that just stopped happening in a post iPhone + maps world.