skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, it's crippleware. Anything good is payfor
Thanks. The crosshatch shader threw me off, but it looks like that can be toggled.
> Yes, but unlike those places there is no Anglo-American tradition of a mid-workday nap.

That's because the Anglo-American world mostly has a tradition of a large evening meal (instead of a large midday meal) and is largely not in a warm climate; siesta, by varying names, is most common where warm climate and large midday meals coincide, and even there have often been displaced in the modern workforce though long lunch breaks often remain in an echo of the tradition.
It is really limited, but kids pick it up MUCH more quickly than anything else I've seen.

Alice ( https://www.alice.org/ ) is a step more advanced than Scratch, and works well for my middle-school-aged kiddo, who can work through exercises in CodeCombat ( https://codecombat.com/ ), but has trouble with javascript||python in less structured environments.
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When the student is ready, the master will appear.

For the most part, I find it best to find mentors who are only slightly ahead of you. Someone just learning to write wouldn't want to get tips from Shakespeare.

If you're still in the product development stage, you'll want to get a mentor who has reached the scaling stage, but not necessarily an "experienced CEO" who has exited a company. I looked for some of those and they told me "You can't do anything with ten thousand dollars." It's not that they don't want to help, but they can't recall solutions or even think of any, and many of them grew up in different eras.

However you have to offer them something. Even if it's an emotional gain, there has to be a reason they would pick you over some other kid with a landing page. You have to prove yourself committed enough.

The higher level mentors might invest in you. The lower level mentors might see something about them in you, or just want someone to bounce thoughts off. A lot of people have theories about the nature of startups, and you should be the canvas for them to experiment with and run their theories on.
Labor constrained vs capital constrained is a slight simplification that implies that all other things being equal, availability of capital and labor are the two things that will stop a business from growing without limit.

With that in mind:

A labor constrained economy implies that the capital is there to start a new business or venture, but the new business or venture cannot begin because they simply cannot hire the laborers needed to do the job (either through directly hiring, or hiring and then training). All things being equal, two businesses in direct competition, the business that manages to hire the most talent will end up growing most quickly and beat its rival.

A capital constrained economy implies that labor is not a limiting factor to consider when starting your new business or venture, you will be able to find laborers as needed. Your only possible constraint is the amount of capital required to fund said business, or the amount of capital available to you to make it grow more quickly. All things being equal, two businesses in direct competition, the business that manages to get access to the most amount of funding the quickest will end up growing the most quickly, and beat its rival.

By and large, most of the economy exists in the second category.

That said, you're right, there are large amounts of money sitting idle both at large corporations and elsewhere. But what these individuals and organizations are doing is taking advantage of the fact that we are in a capital constrained economy. To say it another way: In an economy where the "only" thing that can prevent a new business from growing large is its availability to capital, then the most powerful actors will be the ones with the most say in how that capital is directed.

We can think of it another way. If we were in a labor constrained economy, VCs as they currently exist would be far less powerful. The organizations with the most power, would be firms that had access to large numbers of skilled and waiting laborers ready to join your organization the moment they are needed.... like a union.
Thanks for clarifying. From the article:

>Each time the system restarts, the code executes on boot, before the OS loads and before the system’s antivirus software is launched. That means that even if the device’s hard drive is replaced, the LoJack software will still operate.

AFAIK on my systems the BIOS launches code in the EFI partition to boot the rest of the OS. an HDD/SSD wipe or replacement would defeat code installed in the EFI partition. Of course as you say, something added to the BIOS would run regardless.

Apparently LoJack installs itself in the BIOS as well.
The big issue for many African countries is that their trade flow is still configured to suit colonial trade flows. Port cities situated on the coast optimized to trade outwards, maybe connected by a few roads or a moribund colonial era rail to a resource extractive region in the interior. The issue though is that this prevents intra-regional trade, which is the dominant form of trade for North America as well as Eurasia, and which helps to facilitate viable regional economies.

Infrastructure is the first part of solving this puzzle. In East Africa in particular a lot of focus has been put on creating modernized rail systems, the construction of new modern freeways, and in particular with the EAC(East African Confederation) a strong focus on harmonizing business laws and trade regulations through the region. Movement is also being made on enacting the AFCTA (African Continental Free Trade Agreement) as well, which would construct a continental sized free trade market area, and help to smooth trade between the countries of the continent.

In reflection on the West African examples shown in this article, it reflects on the need for ECOWAS (West Africa's form of the EU) to move forward on becoming a serious supranational organization that gets tougher on business harmonization and regional economic integration. It has done exceptionally well on ensuring that freedom of movement is possible between the 15 states within its union but has stagnated since then. It is in great danger of staying a bored lame talking shop of corrupt enfeebled bureaucrats who ignore corrupt governments and repression, and do nothing to foster actual growth.

I am quite optimistic of the future though on the whole. The whole continent won't lift off, but enough countries are on the right trajectories towards becoming middle income countries.
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Just like the housing crisis... when are we going to learn that government backed debt is a terrible thing for our nation? Creditors _should_ turn away bad lendees or cap loan limits, or increase your interest rate based on risk factors. Some exmaples of this might be:

* Limiting the amount of money you can be loaned for majors that don't have good job prospects. People should turn to grants for these types of educations

* Increasing your interest rate if you miss class

* Increasing your interest rate for poor grade performance
> I am mostly interested by gains in security, gains in maintainability, and gains in simplicity. Dynamic libraries reduce the number of parts that need to be managed, reducing overall complexity.

I'd argue they do no such thing, the complexity is still there, only now your users can upgrade libraries and potentially break your app in ways you never expected.

Lets take openssl as an example, i've seen upgrades of that break applications easily.

Your app should take any dependency change as a new version or patch upgrade. And if you're releasing a new version of the application, what gain did a library provide? About none.

I've seen it from both static and dynamic sides, I vastly prefer static binaries cons to the cons I've seen from dynamic libraries.
Netflix did just that for an easter egg in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJNXzfZ4pw

There is some audio at the end that can be read into a ZX Spectrum emulator.
"only to realize very late that they were simply playing me to accumulate wealth for themselves and whomsoever they considered dear."

As someone starting out a pretty successful career with a not so wealthy background, I also feel that I will soon need to give of my personal gains to my close family out of a sense of personal duty. Which doesn't really bother me, as I am very grateful for what they have done for me and they would have probably done the same for me if the roles were reversed. My question is why do you feel that they played you? They asked for too much? They asked too often? They were not grateful? You were expecting things that they did not do for you? Could you please elaborate more on this?
They have the same form-factor for the connectors; I'd say that's a standard; especially since they are polarized plugs (full square, trapezoid.)
You're describing the problem that USB is supposed to solve.
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>Bitcoin is an incredibly wasteful technology

The first computer was also incredibly wasteful. Subsequent iterations proved to be less wasteful and more usefull.
Scratch is pretty great, and at least 3 of my kids constantly ask if they can play Scratch. Unfortunately, for 2 of them it usually means just putting characters on a stage and adding code to change their costumes when you click the green button.

But if you have kids who want to step up their game from Scratch, check out PICO-8 (submitted it earlier today, check my history). It's genuinely amazing, and my oldest absolutely loves using it. He's made some awesome 2d games so far over winter break and he's using legitimate programming concepts and techniques like they're nothing, it's really amazing to watch.
I've had similar conclusions when considdering this as well. These loans are not wiped out by bankruptcy so they will be a permanent drain to personal wealth indefinitely. I think we will see lasting effects as more and more young people are unable to invest, save for retirement, and buy real estate but there won't be a sudden shock to the economy like the mortgage bubble.
> we don't need to shove The Web into native applications

90% of the time I'd agree with this sentiment, but modern email clients need to be able to render rich web content. A browser engine integration is just the reality, at some level.
In my bubble it seems that in the current American public discourse the corruption and general inefficiency of many African governments can't really be discussed. According to some, the issue there is "(neo)colonialism" and left by itself Africa would be great and prosperous. Basically Eritrea would be Wakanda if not for white males. Is it true? Or is my perception warped by social networks more than average American HNer's?
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Jeff, I'd be curious to know. Going through TAOCP is on my lifetime-to-do and feel I am getting close to tackling it again however I have no time right now. There's also so many other things I want to go over (some higher order logic, TAPL, PFPL, the Software Foundations books, compiler design and probably won't pass up some category theory being abstract algebra seems accessible to me).

Do you feel TAOCP is worth the time investment or should I just forget about it and tackle something like your book and spend the rest of my time on other topics?
That can be good, or that can be bad.

Someone makes an incompatible change, but you do not find out months later, because the client of that incompatibility is not using the latest versions. In the meantime, the development of the module and its downstreams has marched past any sort of easy resolution, and you essentially are now maintaining two different copies of your code.
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Happy to take a look, but to do so, I'd need the email address that you applied with. Mind sending an email to workhere at Refersion?
I don't think we have a shortage of ideas for accomplishing this. What we have is a shortage of willpower.

All it takes is one asshole being put into a rehabilitation program[1], or one sufficiently high-profile crime committed by someone in a program/on parole, for half the country to sour about prison reform.

It's easier to send the bad people to the gulag, and forget about them. Treating crime in a constructive way is expensive, and doesn't work 100% of the time, so why bother?

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And Google has one that includes the multiverse.
Got biten by this bug. One time after more than a decade of Thunderbird use.

The mails were still on the server but having to create a new profile and redownload everything and retrain the spam filter was not fun.

It is not what I'd call an intermittent issue: it is a black swan. Happens very rarely but with huge consequences for the user. If it happens a second time thunderbird is being uninstalled and put on a blacklist of software to avoid.
A question: do tools like this count as "static linking" for the purposes of LGPL licensing? If so, there may be legal issues at stake.
For me, this is the #1 reason. Sure the Apple ecosystem is fantastic (lastpass on my iphone can prefill passwords on my apple TV!) and the level of polish and quality is high, but the one single solitary thing that would truly prevent me from moving to Chromebook or a pixel is the privacy aspect.

Apple has done well to make privacy one of their prime offerings.
I will use my iPhone 6 (not S) until they release a phone with a headphone jack

I’m hoping for a refreshed SE. I like the button. I like the headphone jack. I don’t like FaceId.
> the displays is upside down on one of my devices!

wait I don't get it. It's USB-C, just flip it over?
I don’t think iPhones are the problem as it’s not just Apple that’s having sales issues in China. You can find articles like the one below for many tech luxury brands.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/observer.com/2018/12/tesla-chin...

And even non-tech luxury brands

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/luxury...
Electronic parts are priced in USD, because USA is the biggest buyer of electronic toys...

This is what I think 99% of business people don't get when they are confused by counterintuitive price dynamics of the industry.
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They need a stripped down HTML engine for rending incoming emails and composing emails. With an electron-based app how are you going to prevent HTML from rending in the view?
If you like Scratch you will love Alice 3D: https://www.alice.org

And for younger kids Scratch Jr. is great https://www.scratchjr.org
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This ran at a very fluxating FPS but never below 120 in 1600x900 - So I think you've done a very good job. Love the fractals!
I wonder if there's an equivalent on iOS for andOTP. It puts the backup responsibility on the user in which you can export all tokens to plaintext or password-secured encrypted text. You ultimately put trust in the app maintainers instead of a third party like Authy.
How is that any different from AC->USB adapters before USB-C?
Tired of checking Hacker News every 5 minutes but don't want to miss anything?
I don't think Apple copied the flat UI from Windows Phone. It had already become a trend by that point, and OS X had started to move to lighter gradients and flatter buttons in 10.7, released in 2011. I'm sure the web had already started getting flat by then, too.
> I believe this does not include most of the mortgages. For example, Fannie Mae has 3.35 trillion in assets, which dwarfs total student loans.

Fannie Mae is a publicly-traded, privately-owned corporation, despite being federally chartered for a public mission.

So, yes, their holdings are not counted in government holdings, because they aren't the government.
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There's a wide spectrum of people at Mozilla. It can range from "oh, I broke Thunderbird? Here, let me fix it for you." to "Thunderbird? Why haven't you died yet?"

In terms of who fit where, a few of the people at the head of the Mozilla Foundation were definitely strongly supportive, but I think most of the upper-tier management levels tended to be against Thunderbird as too much of a distraction from fixing issues [1]. This resulted in a lot of mixed messaging about how much Mozilla was or was not supporting Thunderbird. By the time you get down to most of the development staff, there was usually a desire to be kind and helpful towards Thunderbird but utter confusion as to whether or not they could be so due to the aforementioned mixed messaging.

[1] I'd argue that this was strongly short-sighted. To me, Mozilla deciding to ultimately screw over embedding, and a lot of the issues with Thunderbird would have been solved with a big push to a new, stable embedding. I even made arguments to that affect nearly a decade ago, but to no avail...