skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Taxes should indeed be reverted. Omitting the large tax cuts over the last 20 years or so distorts the context.

2) Apart from the fact that there's been a significant influx of refugees that entire point should be seen as pure opinion with little relationship to facts. It seems based on anecdotal stuff about a few individuals being deported on technicalities, and imo, it seeps with a disdain for non-economically viable refugees. That the big unions & the social democrats are generally hostile to skilled immigrants because of competition is also nonsense.

3) That it's a multi-year project just to receive permissions is hyperbole. However, I do agree with the solution here, apart from the need to abolish rent-control. That the state should plan & build rental apartments would also be a revert to how it worked before rather than a reform, and I agree with that. To abolish rent-control is a right-wing dream because it guarantees good housing in popular locations to wealthy people, to the detriment of working class people that have to move out due to the higher rents.
> Cryptocurrencies is about divorcing money and state. Seems pretty clear to me.

No, they don't. There is no technological or cryptographic answer to the state's monopoly on legitimate force, its duty to execute the law, or any of its other functions that create and maintain the business environment.

It occurs to me that much of what crypto-lovers want is actually radically undemocratic. Vestigial states that can't do the bidding of the electorate because they're unable to hold companies to account and so on. People of this inclination are the death throes of the globalist dream: it is a fine thing indeed that the nation state looks to be reasserting itself in the face of one of California's more embarrassing wet dreams.
> We are discussing the claim that talented people can’t succeed in Sweden.

Who made this claim? Certainly not me. I claimed that, for an ordinary software engineer (i.e. not a startup founder), life will be better/easier in many other European countries.
You mean the “left” parties that are bankrolled by Hollywood and media companies? That’s who you want to roll back copyright terms?
Web platform designed for interactive storytelling: https://fiction.live
Just thinking that a success in that might be more likely if the plan did not include giving seigniorage from the state (i.e. people) to a bunch of cryptonerds. Also, a monetary policy not from medieval times might help.
>"I reject his views as despicable,” Dr. Lander wrote to Broad scientists. “They have no place in science, which must welcome everyone."

Except we know that intelligence is strongly heritable[1]. We know that genes affect hormone levels[2], which in turn probably influence behavior. We can clearly see measurable, consistent physical differences among populations (think sports, for example), but scientists are bending over backwards to avoid the obvious conclusion that, yes, there are likely to be deep cognitive differences among different populations that can only be partly explained or mitigated by environment. This kind of thinking is fundamentally unscientific, and there rationally should not be anything controversial about Watson's position.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

2.https://www.livescience.com/16439-lowtestosterone-men-geneti...
Hollywood and associated content creation/monetization businesses are historically strongly aligned with the Democrats - though I agree with your ideal, it is not likely that the party will bite the hand that feeds it.
Julian Assange is stepping his game up, not just leaking documents but also air from ISS.
There are IQ differences according to the article; the issue is whether or not those differences stem from genetics or environment. Current belief is that environment is to blame for the difference. I'm not sure if it's possible to prove that. The only way to prove its environment is to disprove the genetic component, which I highly doubt is going to happen. I feel like intelligence being genetically linked is obviously the case everywhere except when it comes to race.
I am sure all the people complaining here regularly donate to Mozilla.
If you read crime statistics reports from places like BRÅ, violent crime is actually down especially in proportion to the increasing population levels.

Edit:

Also, to add, during the Syrian refugee wave of 2015/2016, the second largest group to come here after Syrians were repatriating Swedes. We didn't get 200K war refugees during the wave on top of our regular immigration. It was 200K including repatriating Swedes and the normal immigration we see year over year.
"Cryptocurrencies is about divorcing money and state."

How so?

Despite the misleading term cryptocurrency is a type of commodity, not money. A heavily speculated one. It's really quite terrible at being a money substitute. With the exception of some very fringe use cases.
It's a shame that more dealerships aren't like this.

The traditional car dealership needs to go away. While companies like Carvana are great, the vast majority of car dealers are just engaging in rent-seeking behavior. These dealers exist solely so they can inject their own markup into the supply chain. They only continue to exist because their lobbyists have bribed state legislatures into passing laws that prohibit automakers from selling cars directly and blue laws that prohibit dealerships from being open on Sundays. Yes, most of the blue laws that are still on the books are the direct result of lobbying by car dealerships: small businesses are terrified that they're going to be replaced by corporate-owned dealerships that can afford to hire employees to staff their dealerships seven days a week, so they bribe lawmakers to pass anti-consumer laws that make it illegal for dealerships to be open seven days a week. Can't compete with a company that offers better service? Outlaw them! They are actively trying to drag the standard of living for the entire state all the way down to the lowest common denominator. Small businesses cause more externalities than they're worth.

We really need an aggressive push at the state level to overturn laws forbidding automakers selling cars and to overturn blue laws.

And while we're at it, let's get rid of the archaic third-world practice of haggling over car prices. We don't haggle over anything else, and it's an emotionally draining process that discriminates against people who don't have natural tendencies towards aggression. Honestly, I'm really disappointed Saturn and Scion went away, because they were the best hopes for dealership reform. And if we are going to have dealers lobbying state legislatures for laws, then let's actually have them do something beneficial and make it illegal to buy or sell a new car for anything other than MSRP.

Carvana is great, but ideally the automakers should be selling cars directly and adopting every single one of Carvana's innovations for themselves. We'd all benefit if every automaker in the country moved to the Apple Store model.

No more blue laws. No more dealers extracting markup from an unnecessary step in the supply chain. No more haggling. No more lying to and hiding information from buyers. Online sales as a first-class citizen of the omnichannel.
LORRI has a 8" primary mirror, not 3. Ralph has a 75mm mirror, but that's the secondary telescope; it does multispectral photography (6 bands) and infrared spectrometry.

Even with such a small primary mirror, New Horizons has a number of advantages. First, Ultima Thule is larger than Manhattan. Not exactly large, but certainly bigger than the Empire State Building.

Second, the mount is incredibly stable. There are basically no vibrations to speak of. As an amateur astronomer, I can tell you that the mount is one of the most important pieces of equipment in astrophotography. A mediocre telescope on a good mount will give good images. A good telescope on a mediocre mount will give mediocre images.

Third, the mirror itself is much better designed and manufactured than the average amateur astronomer's scope. Certainly better than any of mine.

Fourth, the sensor is cooled to very low temperatures, so it is way less noisy than the average consumer sensor.

Fifth, there is no atmosphere in the way. This is a huge advantage.

When all is said and done, LORRI will have a resolution on Ultima Thule's surface of about 60 feet. Certainly no Google Earth, but plenty good enough for the science objects of the flyby.
> no demand

“No demand”. Isn’t Bitcoin still trading for several thousand dollars? Maybe you, and maybe most people, don’t have any want for cryptocurrency, but don’t let that make you think that nobody has demand for it.
Depends on your requirements...

Quick and easy: Look into Firebase.

Powerful/extensible: Django + DRF
Not according to the OP - is this something else?

> The copyrights to Superman, Batman, Disney's Snow White, and early Looney Tunes characters will all fall into the public domain between 2031 and 2035.
>> There is no technological or cryptographic answer to the state's monopoly on legitimate force, its duty to execute the law, or any of its other functions that create and maintain the business environment.

Where are you stating besides the role of force and law, that state is also responsible for money.

The state can continue to have monopoly of force and law minus the creation and management of money.
“This snippet was an experiment to provide more value to Firefox users through offers provided by a partner,” a Mozilla spokesperson told VentureBeat. “It was not a paid placement or advertisement. We are continually looking for more ways to say thanks for using Firefox.

Yuck, what a slimey piece of PR babble. I guess all those IE toolbars weren’t spyware after all - they were trying to provide value to their users! I guess all those unwanted flyers tucked in my mailbox aren’t ads either, they just want to provide me value...
Honestly, I could see how this could happen.
Are we an advanced civilization?
Saving a few pennies per unit, times millions of units, makes a very big impact - and is integral to how industrialised civilisations became so rich compared to previous ones. Ignoring this kind of math isn't going to help teachers or carers for the elderly.
Can someone lift my european ignorance and tell me what's wrong with the dealers? How are they different from BestBuy, Target, etc - just essentially bringing the car to a showroom and selling it to you?

Why are dealers such a huge problem and who would buy such an expensive thing as a car without trying it first?
On Value Alignment: Humans&Machines
> it does not try to portray them as people; not even as dehumanized people

It was an explicit goal of theirs to do that, including giving every prisoner a backstory.

Whether they accomplished their goal of portraying them as people is a different story, but they did try.
I tried a mostly similar list, with little success. I've since found some success (not perfect, but much better), so if you are still willing to experiment ...

- 10,000 IU of Vitamin D3 before 10am

- 400-1000 daily milligrams of Magnesium chelate (or magnesium citrate, if you are ok with liquid stool for a while until you adapt)

- Make sure you have sufficient protein in your diet - rule of thumb is 1gr protein for 1kg of body weight (or 0.5gr per 1lb). That's often more than non-athletes are getting.

Do your own research about D3 and Mg - both are way above the RDA, and some people will tell you that D3 in this amount is bad for you (and they'd be wrong unless you spend all day in the sun, but don't trust me on that - do your own research)

I still have the occasional 3-4 day streak of unable-to-fall-a-sleep a month, but this combination has reduced it from 25-30 days a month ...
Carmax still only sells used cars, don't they?

I want a no-haggle dealer for new cars, especially if they sell economy cars like the Nissan Versa and Chevrolet Spark.
Myths from CSI is ‘causing unfair convictions’
Kind of depends on at what level your thinking about though.

In most games some towers can have a random aspects in deciding where/ what to attack. This can lead to variation of outcomes when replaying a given wave but amortized over an entire game the results are more-or-less static on a percentage basis.

Which is amusingly similar to probabilistic algorithms, so maybe that just reinforces your point.
Roguelikes are one way to solve the art problem.

As someone else mentioned, the Unity asset store has plenty of assets too - some are free, and many others are reasonably priced. There are plenty of 2D assets available, as well as 3D if that's what you're looking for.

Last time I checked, the TOS/EULA says you can use Unity purchased assets outside of Unity games, too - as long as you download them through the Unity editor. So you could potentially use the art assets you buy there even if you want to write your own game engine from scratch.

You might be able to find what you need here, too:

https://opengameart.org/
Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book about it called "The Mismeasure of Man". You can go to C-SPAN.org and see his 1994 speech on it.

The Brahmin say they are the chosen people, the Jews say they are the chosen people, Presbyterians say they are the elect - it's hard to reason people out of what is essentially a religious belief.

As behavioral modernity was not on display until 40000-50000 years ago, the idea that there is some significant genetic difference in this aspect seems silly.
Success rate of blockchain project is not 0%. Many people have became rich this way. Many people use cryptocurrencies actively.
Several well-known brands are working on this in various ways. Adidas has a cooperation with Carbon 3D to produce individualised soles for shoes you order, as one example[1]. Robotic knitting is another area I know some players are working on, for making custom uppers. You'll likely see offerings for customised footwear based on these technologies appear on the market in the next couple of years.

I'd expect it to take a number of years before the manufacturing processes have matured and evolved enough to get the price points down to the level that most people would consider an option when buying footwear, though.

[1] https://www.carbon3d.com/stories/adidas/
Not surprised ... he was a proponent of eugenics.
Seems intelligence does not prevent one of supporting dumb ideas.
> It doesn't have a giant themes or plugin site, but it can open files as big as your available RAM while staying fast. I'll give up a nice TM theme for "always works and never crashes".

I don't know what the early versions were like (it was already version 2 when I started using it). But I've been using Sublime Text for the last 6 years and I don't think I've experienced a single crash with it either.
Minor correction: brainfuck implementations generally provide 30,000 one-byte cells, but opinions differ; some provide more, or provide an unlimited tape. See https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Memory_and_wrapping for more.
I used Smalltalk for a while, so I at least had this rich debugger experience there: being able to change code whilst halted at a breakpoint and resume with the new code taking effect immediately, no world recompilation needed; being able to compose complicated queries in the debugger to do consistency checking of live data structures I was looking at, stuff like that. The thing is, I did not learn any of that from a book, I had to learn it from someone else who knew it.

Thanks for the details, sounds like I need to look at DDT too.

I can't remember where I read this, but I think it was about Marvin Minsky, a story about programming in the debugger, where the subject started out with an empty program, ran it which immediately put him in the debugger, and there he just built up the program a statement at a time to handle whatever the program needed to do at the step it was currently at, and it would just dump him to a breakpoint every time it got to a part where he had not yet specified what was to be done. The whole program was eventually composed in one debugging session starting from an empty program. I suspect this must have been done in DDT, or something much like it. Does that sound plausible to you?
> Blockchain is a decentralised ideal, but so is BitTorrent, so is Tor, and so on, to some significant extent.

So is internet. Most people use centralized services but no one prevents you from setting up your DNS servers, with your own domains, servers, website etc.
not sure I understand. cryptocurrencies in aggregate still have a market cap in the billions, which points to some demand.
Where is the actual data we can look at? The article seemed not to cover this. As difficult as the topic may be socially/ethically, there is either truth in the idea that certain races are on average more intelligent than others, or there isn't.

It's frustrating for me that as a society, we'd rather silence the bad man than challenge difficult ideas.
(Replying to my own comment)

Found this on Wikipedia[1]:

"Since the beginning of IQ testing around the time of World War I there have been observed differences between average scores of different population groups, but there has been no agreement about whether this is mainly due to environmental and cultural factors, or mainly due to some genetic factor, or even if the dichotomy between environmental and genetic factors is the most effectual approach to the debate."

So that appears to confirm -- the differences in IQ test scores do exist, but there is disagreement on how to explain the differences.

Watson's claims exceed what the evidence supports, in that he claims the differences are genetic, but the evidence is incapable of telling us whether that is the case or not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_race_and_intell...
This would be more of a family business, nothing special really, would you recomend a place where to get the right info, if you were in touch with any of those companies, dont want to trouble you with the info :) thanks
> are constantly phoning home and mining data

This seems to sadly be also true in Firefox nowadays with things like telemetry, crash reporting, safebrowsing.downloads.remote, etc.
No kidding! Just looked it up and found this:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news051203segasuit

I was under the erroneous assumption that it was an officially sanctioned clone. Little did I know...
Agreed, it has become clear that this has become Mozilla's version of shouting "it's just a social experiment bro!" after fucking with somebody. It's not cute, it's antisocial.
I feel this would be the case having done a bit of MS work my self over the years. But at the same time, I'd say it's also the reason MS don't innovate as much as Apple do. Just a personal opinion.
> I'm just a random guy on the internet but who is this guy to talk about these subjects in such broad terms? Lay off the misused hyped up tech, please.

He's a Princeton professor who's written a book about blockchain technology and taught several university courses about it. And he's been studying decentralization issues for a long time.

I don't think that Prof. Narayanan means to say here that decentralization requires blockchains, but rather than the optimism that blockchains provide a comprehensive solution to incentive, coordination, and scalability problems in decentralized systems has run up against very serious problems and counterexamples.

If you want to see some of his broader concerns about the tradeoffs of decentralization in other contexts, you should ask him, since he's reading this HN thread. :-) (edit: and he posted it himself)
Seems more likely to me that some situation like "stacked panels, top panel is drilled thru and fabricator didn't notice" followed by someone else assembling it and thinking "this hole might be here for a reason".
Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS monthly subscriptions?
We are a 30+ employees startups, and I was looking at the passing year's costs and realized our SaaS exceeds $2500 monthly payments.

Those are SaaS for utilities that helps us run the company and get things done, that includes CRM, git, monitoring, blog and website hosting, and so on. This amount excludes our own SaaS cloud costs (runs on 3 major public cloud, AWS, GCP and Azure).

I wonder what is the situation at other companies (we pay in total ~ $85 per seat per month).

Beyond comparison, I wonder if there is a fit for a "do-it-all" open source platform that can do it all for free. From task management, to CRM, to hiring and HR and on and on.

thanks for your time and happy new year!
That’s not how this works. The actual books/movies/cartoons that Batman appears in will eventually be public domain — you’ll be legally allowed to copy, edit and distribute these without restrictions. However, “Batman” (the idea, the concept) is still protected by trademark laws making it illegal to produce new (non-derivative) Batman books/movies/cartoons without the trademark holder’s consent.
There's also a problem with grouping individuals into races. What happens when a certain race has a higher IQ in the US than in another country? What about mixed races? How do we group them?

Wikipedia has a long article that dives into all these points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

> The racial groups studied in the United States and Europe are not necessarily representative samples for populations in other parts of the world. Cultural differences may also factor in IQ test performance and outcomes. Therefore, results in the United States and Europe do not necessarily correlate to results in other populations.

> Most people have an ancestry from different geographic regions, particularly African Americans typically have ancestors from both Africa and Europe, with, on average, 20% of their genome inherited from European ancestors. If racial IQ gaps have a partially genetic basis, one might expect blacks with a higher degree of European ancestry to score higher on IQ tests than blacks with less European ancestry, because the genes inherited from European ancestors would likely include some genes with a positive effect on IQ. Geneticist Alan Templeton has argued that an experiment based on the Mendelian "common garden" design where specimens with different hybrid compositions are subjected to the same environmental influences, would be the only way to definitively show a causal relation between genes and IQ. Summarizing the findings of admixture studies, he concludes that it has shown no significant correlation between any cognitive and the degree of African or European ancestry.
we can debate the semantics but i don't think it's a stretch to consider monetary exchange as a feature of advertising (perhaps a more narrow version of your general exchange of value definition). with that said, another commenter noted that this could be paid per action after the fact (CPA), so it could very well be called an ad by any definition.

i agree that we shouldn't place ads everywhere, especially in "safe" places. but i'm also concerned with the viability and longevity of firefox.
> "Blockchain proponents have a vision of _society_ in which centralized entities are weakened/eliminated. But blockchain tech is a way to build _software_ without centralized servers. Why would the latter enable the former? It’s a leap of logic that’s left unexplained."

The leap of logic is not unexplained, it's called libertarian ideology: government policies that work relatively well (healthcare, social security, Central Banks,...) are the most dangerous because they might (and do) give people the wrong idea. Bitcoin is an incredibly wasteful technology compared to the supposed obsolete paradigm, so you need the ideological element to understand why some take this "leap of logic".

Personal opinion: the crypto currency/Blockchain movement is no less ideologue than say the Free software foundation. But Stallman has the merit to be very explicit about it, instead of hiding it under a tech logorrhea.