skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but first you have to solve for X in the following example: The Romans would displace conquered peoples by resettling them in Rome while the Romans went out into the hinterlands. This allowed the new influx of slaves to become "Romanized" while giving Roman soldiers farm land they were promised to receive as the price of conscription.

This creates two massive problems for today's society:

Today "Romanizing" has a different name: Cultural Genocide. Whether intentional or not, you are eradicating the cultures you have displaced. Today that's considered a violation of human rights and human dignity. You can't do that and if you try you are at least going to have to find something to mitigate the problem. Do you create an intersectional matrix that finds the most marginalized peoples and leaves them as they are? How do you decide who is most marginalized if you have to move someone. What if their culture a kind of terroir? Can it not exist if you remove it from that place? If so what do you do? Even if they have their language, are the Gullah still the Gullah if you remove them from their diet and usual place of livelihood? Not to mention, when you move their their language will likely disappear and members become assimilated.

Then you have the Refugee Resettlement or "Oakie" Problem. You are introducing a new out-group who will compete for resources and power with an existing in-group. This always causes conflict. In theory, if the in-group view the out-group as either dumb and/or untrustworthy, they turn their judgemental views into critical views and their critical views into moral judgements. After all, value judgements never sit still. After a while they begin incarcerating the most marginalized of the out-group and the scapegoating starts. If not carefully calibrated and balanced the in-group start caving heads in with baseball bats, but the more you carefully calibrate it, the more you return back to the "Romanization" problem.

There are a lot of other problems that arise, but these are the two most consistent when dealing with humans.
Another respondent suggested: 3. Bubble chamber effect.

I'll leave it to you to determine whether your false dichotomy is therefore on the rocks.
I started a reply, but honestly, I just don't feel like it's worth the energy to follow up with the replies I'd get. Probably because of the tone of the response.

I don't see debt as all that much different than insurance. Sure, society can get by without it, and you may never need it, but society in general benefits. If I run a business any large expenses would be amortized over the lifetime of that thing. I could pay for it upfront, but that might never happen and if I could it wouldn't be the best use of my resources. Ideally, I'd "pay rent" in order to borrow money upfront, now that I have that machine it's easier to pay back since that fixed cost will benefit me for the next 20 years. That's the scenario where all debt is never paid back.

Financial tools, like anything else can be good or bad depending on the circumstances and motivations at play. Payday loans (generally seen as bad) aren't all that different from micro-loans lauded in third-world countries. Let's say there's an older woman who walks out of town to buy goods and carries them back to town every day to sell (arbitrage). If she gets a small loan to buy more goods up front, invest in a wheelbarrow, or a booth at the market she can do more business and more easily pay off that loan benefiting; her, the person offering the loan, the sellers and the buyers--society in general. If she cannot pay back the loan she can get into a debit spiral. There are situations where that is beneficial to the person giving her the loan at the expense of her and the rest of society.
Chez is by far the fastest of all, similar to LuaJIT.
Chicken has more libs.

Static? no, maybe Stalin works on Chez
I understood the original comment to mean everyone’s debt is zeroed at 50 year intervals, e.g. 1900, 1950, 2000, etc. regardless of when it started.

What you are suggesting is all debt is zeroed out 50 years after it’s issued? Then why would any borrower pay off any principle at all?

This whole jubilee thing makes no sense, may be a little bit if the jubilee happens unexpectedly so that people can’t just plan around it. But that kind of sort of happens after a war.
There is a strong difference between Yield to Maturity and effective yield. Yes, If they hold bonds until they mature, specifically government bonds, there will be no loss in principle.

What people seem to be misunderstanding is that a yield curve exists. If they were to go the safe route of short maturities, the interest rates will be must lower than long dated securities. If they reach for yield in longer term securities, they will have to mark to market when interest rates rise (which they most likely will due to the fed signaling that they'll be tightening in 2019).

You can't have your cake and eat it too
Yep, it literally is last minute for a platform product used by others during a time of the year when the developers responsible for finding/building a replacement would otherwise have gone on vacation.

If this were a tangible product, a week notice would be fine since it gives customers time to stock up.
Gotcha, so what is your opinion living in China? Do you notice it?
The law is not determined by what you find reasonable, but by what the legislation says.

See: 39 U.S. Code § 3009 - Mailing of unordered merchandise

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/3009

If you're mailed merchandise that you did not expressly request or consent to, it becomes your property to do with as you will, and you cannot be billed for it. There are no exceptions for accidents.
Is everyone at your company paid the same?
You can read about the disintegration of the Mughal empire after Aurangzeb here: http://www.historydiscussion.net/empires/later-mughals-and-d...

The Marathas never controlled an "undivided India" given the extent of their empire at it's peak: https://www.mapsofindia.com/history/maratha-empire.html

Not to mention, even Akbar did not have the North east and the southernmost parts of India.

The rise of the Sikh empire, and the Deccan sultanate also limited the extent of the later Mughal and Maratha kingdoms.

I did not question that these empires had their time. But the notion of undivided India as united as one under the Mughals at the time right before the British arrived is wrong. Ancient times do not affect contemporary affairs, or in this case affairs of 1750s are not affected by the Maurya dynasty's claim on some version of modern day India/Pakistan/Bangladesh.
Exactly! AFAICT, the trickiest unknown is maintaining plasma stability and not degrading the insides (and then, breaking even on power while doing so.) Wendelstein seems to be on track to steady-state operation; they've held plasma for 100s, and their graphite shielding seems to be delivering cleaner plasma streams.

The design for the 7-X wasn't feasible until supercomputers got powerful enough. We know how to run those simulations; fusion should get more practical as computers get faster.
I have not met any designers outside of Adobe that are enthusastic about XD, except those who have been given free (or endorsed) subscriptions. It's odd.
I'm guessing it's the latter. I owe hundreds of thousands on my house, but my house is worth significantly more than my debt, so my net debt is zero.

I'm guessing this is just all debts added together, and then divided by the number of people. And it's probably including national debt, which is ~$58k/person in the US (which is surprisingly slightly below average for countries with debt).
> Another things CSS needs is some way to analyze it from scripts. It's amazing that there is no way to query/modify CSS rules from JS.

There is: document.styleSheets

It's existed for years, I remember fiddling with it in 2011 to dynamically change width/height of elements by changing the css rule from javascript.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/externalcss3.shtml
Is it maglev? Iirc it's a passive magnetic system, like inductrac... Which has recently come off patent.
If you count national debt, you get ~$60k/person from that, so the average mortgage would be closer to $20k/person.
Whether or not you need a food handler's card is likely state-specific.
In general, control who accesses the API and prevent from being hacked or manipulated. Worried that credentials/private information are stolen as well. Basically we do identity verification so as secure as possible without over complicating things?

Wonder if JSON Web Tokens with OAuth is enough or is 2FA the way to go for max security.
My company's lawyers disagree. I'll go with my company's lawyers' judgement over a group that exists solely to protect the interests of its member doctors.
Well people do take on debt for things that are quickly worth nothing. For example, you buy groceries with a credit card. You eat them; they are gone. But you still have the debt.

Or you buy a car. It quickly loses value, but you still have the debt based on the original purchase.

The formula still holds, but the "equity" part is negative, which leads many people to conclude that bankruptcy is a better option than paying for something they no longer have or is no longer worth what they owe.
Nice to hear! That's what I try to tell people who are asking for the right type theory book or the right dispatch method or whatever before even having a look. It's the same old problem solving; and here are always multiple solutions, each with it's own set of compromises. Claiming the one true way of doing anything related to software is delusional. We're barely scratching the surface.

Edit: While we're here; may I ask how you break out of the dispatch loop? Do you test an end-condition on each iteration? If that's the case, the longjmp trick might be worth trying. The condition will mostly be false, so it might make sense to pay more when it happens instead. You may find the essence of it in sgl_run at the bottom of sgl.c [0].

[0] https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl/blob/master/src/snigl/sgl.c#L...
This makes me appreciate the American Revolution all the more.
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What matters more than nominal amount of debt is the debt-to-income ratio. If people have income (or liquid assets) to cover their debt payments, things are fine. It's generally when that ratio gets large that problems arise.

Also, debt is money. When you give me something of value, and I say I will pay you later for it, we have created money. A big part of the problem in down cycles is that lending drastically decreases, and there is therefore less money (broadly defined) in the system.
That's a big ask. Instead I'll point you to the best video I've ever seen on this subject, by Ray Dalio. It's long, but worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
I think it eventually will. Just give it some time, it just got released.
> “It’s because the law gave them too much leeway” doesn’t make sense. If you have leeway, you choose the easiest and cheapest method, not the one that involves building a whole new communication system.

No, you choose the most self-interested option. That type of criticism is usually levied against laws that provide an incentive to enforce it in a self-serving way.

In this case what CenturyLink did should itself be illegal. CenturyLink knows fully well this was a self-serving move and they likely only did it because they're betting they can avoid lawsuits by blaming the law.

Interfering with traffic on a paying customer's active account should be illegal so there is no option to do this for any reason.
I would hope for 100.

We deserve it. Though of course others deserve it more.
There's so-called economic reform, such as moving up in supply chain, cutting debts, and reducing reliance on foreign investment.
Linking to my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18685130

Delegation is not the same as "divide and rule". There was active animosity amongst these provinces. The British played Bengal and Punjab against each other, for example. The Marathas did resist the British in their own strongholds, but they never centrally ruled an undivided India. It was a big empire nonetheless.
Rebalancing the domestic economy toward greater household income is necessary to provide sustained growth in China, and that's what Michael Pettis argues in your link to his blog.

Make no mistake though, the national and Party leadership is deathly afraid of low growth and it is exactly what they seek to avoid. The leadership knows they must create domestic consumer demand and that this must happen through an increase in household spending or, as Michael Pettis notes, in spending on behalf of households. Low auto sales seems like evidence that this isn't happening quickly enough.

They can use the threat of trade war to convince others of the need for this shift, but actual trade war, or actual low growth? No thanks. When you are riding a tiger, you don't want it getting too hungry.

China has a long history of civil unrest, the Taiping Rebellion being a good example. Twenty to thirty million people were killed, and economic depression following a trade war was the impetus. The result of this horror was China on her knees, and is precisely what the leadership seeks to avoid.
https://www.facinghistory.org/nanjing-atrocities/nation-buil...

The return to authoritarianism can be seen as battening down the hatches before the storm.
Shifting spending to household income goes against powerful interests. A large national health program and social security could help, but debt funding is not an option now, and the alternative is taxing wealthy individuals and wealthy local governments. This also creates unrest.
Yeah, I think a distorted sense implies amplification or narrow signals as well.
I tend to agree with an idea that's mentioned in the article. Perhaps much of the land in certain flyover states should just return to the bison? While it means most of the towns would disappear, some would greatly succeed. I'd be FAR more likely to regularly visit Podunk-Nowheresville if I could witness the annual migration of 10 million bison. After having traveled to the other side of the planet and seen such a migration, developing an American safari industry seems like an outcome worth pursuing.
> Try to say openly in the bay area that you support Trump and you will be shamed like never before.

Try being a 12 year old, in the south, who is openly mocked and degraded by his father for having a friend of a different race. How's that for shaming.

Try being a 16 year old, getting kicked out of your home and called a faggot for getting an ear piercing. Are we politically correct yet?

There is a lot of hate in this world and it is very rich for people to just turn and point the finger instead of taking a long hard look inside themselves and the company they keep.

If you believe what you believe, then stand steadfast in the face of the tsunami, but don't blame others for forcing self censorship, that's just cowardice.
Nansy rip
My comment was short for: "The article was published in 1992"
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That’s like saying a significant contributor to the mortgage crisis was restaurants, because restaurants pay interest on their loans to banks which the banks then used to underwrite risky mortgages.

Not sure I follow your argument. How did savings accounts that offered 4% cause the crisis?
Suppose there is a bug in the Linux kernel. Some business runs their webservers on Linux. They have user email addresses (PII). Is Linus responsible for breaches? If so, then OSS dies. If not, then how do you intend to prove that their are no vulns in any of your dependencies for the rest of time?
Sounds like the easiest way to avoid becoming a victim is not to use the product.
> Short or low-information comments are discouraged; if your comment is short or an exact duplicate of something previously written (e.g. a common insult), it's blocked or you have to wait longer before posting it.

I am for this one in particular, if for no other reason than to see more Shakespearean insults due to people being forced to get creative.
And on that note, you see a lot less (though not zero) breaches of healthcare data and most HIPAA violations are due to analog errors rather than digital exposure.

The government does a good job in this area forgiving innocuous violations, as long as all parties disclose it immediately and follow procedure.
"In computer science, we had the XML craze at the turn of the century."

I'm amazed at how much shade gets thrown at XML (still).

The biggest company in world (MSFT) defines their entire office suite in XML. SOAP on the wire is the most efficient M2M protocol for conveying strongly typed message payloads.

But to the Author's point, maybe some of the "questions" asked of XML were incorrect.
abortion and gun control.

We can limit the amount of abortion that occurs, without banning abortion (sex education, birth control, health insurance, family planning, adoption center funding, etc).

And we can limit the negative impacts of gun ownership on society, without gun bans (NICB, mental health funding, red flag laws, standardized licensing, increased funding for already existing laws, significantly increased police accountability, etc) .

But no one wants to talk about these things. Instead, we keep talking about them as wedge issues. Ban Abortion / Abortion is a right. Ban X,Y,Z Guns / Gun Ownership is a right.

If you want a jolly good time, find someone who is adamant on one of those issues, have them give an explanation for a while, then see how far you can get in the other issue before they realize they're using all the same arguments but from the opposite viewpoint.
Make sure to file a complaint with your state attorney general. Cases like these can quickly get their attention and more importantly, companies don't want to be investigated by AGs. Unlike state regulators, companies are less likely to have a pre-existing relationship with them. Since you're talking about telecom and not just internet, it's also worth checking to see if that is regulated by your state PUC/PSC. Don't bother with the better business bureau. A company can have an A rating as long as they respond to you, they don't actually need to fix your issue.
Personally I hate analogies.

The recipe for how a driver should not go over the speed limit is well known. Nowadays you even have the GPS apps alerting you and many trucks get monitored in real time from the dispatch center, drivers risking to be fired if not exactly on schedule.

Most software projects are greenfield ... people reuse previous work when available and for a good price, but all custom changes are greenfield.

Do you really think that the guy responsible for Heartbleed [1] was aware when he introduced that bug, just like a truck driver going over the speed limit?

It's really not the same thing, lets not pretend that it is and regulation in this field would have a chilling effect for open source or startups, because only big companies like Facebook will still be willing to develop critical software, which is definitely not what we want.

[1] http://heartbleed.com/
Air bearings are expensive and have a very low clearance (talking about tens of microns). The lower clearance raises the issue of safety. If I remember correctly, to get that to be greater than tens of microns you need larger compressors and lower operating pressure inside the tube which increases costs and it tougher to maintain.

If you take a look at the SpaceX Hyperloop competition the teams moved away from using air bearings mostly due to the low clearances and the challenges it brought. Maybe on Mars it could be more realistic.
There's been ~100 cases in 40 years. That's less than 3 people per year, so it's very rare.

There's about 10 shark attacks per year in the U.S. Now that you know that, will you stay out of the ocean forever? Or will you maybe take the risk and go for a dip if you go on a beach vacation?

edit Plus, of those 40 cases the vast majority are from swimming in lakes. So there's only a handful of cases where the infection was due to neti-pot usage. I could only find 3 confirmed cases. That's extremely rare.
> If you're going to implement a new form of public transit, they're a pretty good place to look.

Not really. Most of Switzerland's transit is through rail, particularly standard gouge. Introducing a completely new, incompatible form of transit in a highly integrated network is a bad idea. You have to build entirely new infrastructure, stations, etc. All of them incompatible with the existing infrastructure.

It is the same reasons why the Germans didn't chose Transrapid for high-speed rail.

New types of transportation only ever make sense in a place with no or little existing transit infrastructure.
Yes - but deploying capital in the way that brings the greatest returns is the way to become rich. Many SOEs either break even or make little money, especially when considering their size.(feel free to do research on that). You are saying they wouldn’t want to sell off some of these/make them more efficient (by liquidating some of their holdings or by laying off people who aren’t doing anything so that they can’t deploy that new capital elsewhere?). Many SOE jobs’ main utility here (from the government perspective) is to dispense wages, have people employed and keep employment numbers up. I don’t buy that the real power in China loves the current state of their SOEs.
> Don't walk in the north-east (insanity causing ticks).

More recently: insanity and meat allergy causing ticks.
> perhaps the same benefit -- or more benefit -- could be achieved through periodic health inspections rather then licensing individual hairdressers

Inspections with out a license would be unenforceable. If they fail an inspection, you revoke their license, requiring them to shut down. If there is no license to revoke, there is nothing stopping them from continuing to operate.
There was a startup recently for molten salt reactors but didn’t conclude successfully

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612193/nuclear...
And there really is not telling how much it is slowing. Especially since the Chinese government is suspected/known to provide misleading or blatantly false economic statistics for the country.
When you are looking at health related studies, look for the following magic keywords: "Double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized study"- ideally, not funded by the meat, egg or diary industry. The more plant based whole organic foods you eat, the better.
If you don't feel in an optimal state - don't guess, dont listen to "your body", dont follow random advice from people on the internet - find people who a actually medical professionals and(or) certified nutrionists. Do a blood, SIBO, gut microbiome tests to see where you stand.
You can choose to opt out of their DNS ads with a phone call. That’s what I did a long time ago.
It's all mainly farmland.
No, he did not say such a thing.

I'm not specifically addressing Kavanaugh, I'm pointing out a flaw in your logic. You made a general assertion, which I'll quote again: "Defending oneself from an accusation inherently entails discrediting the accuser, to criticize defendants for doing so is essentially saying it should be socially unacceptable to defend oneself from an accusation."

Did you mean that, or did you generalize a bit more than you intended while defending Kavanaugh?
Musical introduction to the cryptology of proxy re-encryption