skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you asking why they are incapable of finding sexual partners if they have some basic level of social competence?

The incel movement is mostly a self fulfilling prophecy. A group of men who failed to get partners and rather than attributing the failure to themselves, attributed it to the women. Thinking that they are low quality males and it is the women’s fault that their standards are too high. In the absence of this belief, they could probably find someone as you say. But they have convinced themselves that women as a collective will not accept men of their caliber. It’s an unusual message of “it’s not my fault I’m bad” and you won’t find much logic to it. Basically it’s angry men with low self esteem but high entitlement.
Would you recommend launching a new saas product in demo mode first, to gauge interest? For example, allow users to create a free account that works for two weeks to a month? Then hook in a way to get people's money after you have received enough feedback in the form of "Can I please throw money at you to purchase this product"?

I think one major hang up for first-timers is crossing that threshold of taking money, because now you have liability. Which includes dealing with support issues (will customers be satisfied with 24 - 48 hour turnaround time, will they be OK with web/email support only because you have a day job?), and also you need to deal with fraud and other legal issues.
It's a matter of scale. How many teenagers do you know who make $5 here, or $10 there, just mowing lawns, cleaning windows, or doing babysitting?

They're making money without luck, without scamming, and without being terribly valuable.

The problem is those things don't scale. I can imagine a couple of happy teenagers raking in $400-$500 a week, if they really push themselves, but it will be very seasonal work.

Hrm. uber for lawns? facebook for windows? (There are a lot of agencies that work as middlemen for childcare, where often vetting and background checks are involved. I'm not familiar with such a thing for pet-walking, window-cleaning, or lawn-mowing. Perhaps they exist, or perhaps there's your cheap and easy idea! Physical labour is cheap, anyway :)
Thrill-Seekers Who Sneak into the Super Bowl
In my experience, money as a side-project motivator or measure of future side-project success is folly. Make your side projects for fun, find other motivating factors to finish, or don't finish, it's all good. If you make something and gain adoption, then you can consider monetization. But otherwise, I've found building an imaginary future income on your not-yet-built, not-primary-work software does not result in happiness or success.

Granted, this is just my experience and only applies to side projects.
I'm a fervent supporter of Universal Basic Income and that very threat is why I want it Universal. Let's fix our societies' failings without the threat of death, hunger, and forced exposure to the elements.
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Flexsearch: Next-Generation full text search library for Browser and Node.js
Interesting rant/mind dump. I tend to agree. I'd like to know the moment we decided yaml should be a programming language. Projects like opsmops and pulumi seems to be headed in the right direction
Why would we compare the US today to the US 100 years ago? Should the Jim Crow-era really be our North Star?

Categorizing it like this could be viewed minimizing today’s prejudice by comparing to prejudice of 100 years ago. I think the goal is to get to zero prejudice, so let’s compare against that.

“Women don’t have it so bad today, 100 years ago they couldn’t even vote.”
loeg says, "programs rely on this".

Guarantee or not, it constrains whether something is usable as a drop-in replacement interpreter, especially if people can't tell which programs will break, and doubly so if the breakage is a subtle data corruption race that doesn't show up in tests.
Another biased article by Java hater who has no clue what he is talking about. Make Java Great Again!
> One would assume

I severely doubt it's the case. Besides, businesses aren't typically interested in having a competitive market anyways. It's probably more profitable to not lower prices at all and lobby to make it harder for competitors to lower prices . . . or just conspire with major competitors to keep them higher. Both actions have a strong historical precedent in US markets, at least.
..predictably, angry Abbot RMS/openSource commandeers 'Medusa' into 'gnudusa' github forks to 'nudeusa', 'goregon', 'gone', vpn networks p2p, 'blockchain' likely tossed in somewhere, conflates concurrent user data/meta-data into noise, mass outrage wide adoption undermines, saps, destroys walled gardens.
Um, there was this thing called Apartheid in South Africa, and it wasn't between 100% black people. Yes, America has some terrific difficulties with race, but no, its not the only country with these issues. Saying America is the most diverse is ignorant.
> The magic of having that money come in each month is that it removes the cognitive load of uh oh, how do I survive? allowing me to fully devote myself to work.

The only reasonably conclusion is why ever get to the point where your startup makes a product or service - you could spend a lifetime "working" on the launch and retire, if only the money kept coming in.

This "basic income for all, out of nothing" is completely insane and I am not at all surprised that so many of this site's readers see no issue with it.

Begin by reading "The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism", kids.
> There is a movement out there to 'intrinsic design' and using what the browser does rather than reinventing the wheel. Part of this is to use the CSS Grid layout engine, the HTML5 inputs for validation and CSS variables to make everything responsive. Pages written this way are just plain quicker, easier to maintain and likely to last.

This will only work when all browsers have feature parity.
It didn’t get hung up on RISC purity and introduced a series of instructions that kept code sizes down: single instruction Indexed Loads (normal and scaled), single instruction Address updates, bitfield operations, FMADD, subword operations (making decimal math ops faster), a bunch of branch path instructions and a handfull of others.

It had 32 64bit FP registers that could also be used as 64 32bit registers or 16 128bit registers. For the time this was novel.
John le Carré's 2001 novel, "The Constant Gardener," described this practice in action nearly two decades ago.
> Public Schools are equitable, because every child can attend public school, there are no barriers to attendance.

My experience of seeing/evaluating/considering public schools in rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods suggests that public schooling in the US is far from equitable.
And the other people who drive into Manhattan are those who live outside the 5 boroughs. And since the MTA is controlled by the state rather than the city, their votes on the issue (and those of people who live nowhere near the city and never visit but can't conceive of using anything but a personal car for transportation) outnumber those of the city dwellers who are most impacted by the noise, pollution, and transit slowdowns caused by congestion.
I always wondered why new MacBook purchasers were bemoaning the absence of the Esc key, a key I never use. Now I know.
Reading the documentation again, I just remembered this page:

https://reactjs.org/docs/forms.html

Makes my point (happily) moot. You're right. Sorry for the trouble.
@detaro I agree. Thus all the downvotes from the amateurs.
Really doubt you are legally allowed to use GPS based speedometer in place of actual one either.
What Great Listeners Actually Do(2016)
> “Why did you reply to TylerE if you wanted to talk about something else?”

Because my comment was related to that. Not all related things had to be squarely about the 10k/day item. My reply, which was very related to the parent comments, just wasn’t about the 10k/day part.

It’s not necessary for a reply to focus on or discuss precisely the 10k/day item in order to be related and merit being a reply in this subthread.
If the user never had admin priviledges then you can't install in C:\ either and the program should just install in AppData\Local (as my sibling poster correctly stated)
I'd say CCC is pretty similarly wonderful, although FOSDEM wins when it comes to price :)
Or, `kill %1` if you backgrounded it in the current shell (or whenever number `jobs` gives).
Overlapping functionality for sure. I think the primary difference is that there's not stock MES built into something like kepware, which keeps a large number of smaller manufacturers from using it. An API on its own is useless to them. OPC (UA) is one of the protocols we offer as an endpoint, but to be honest I think OPC (again, UA) is too complex for most use cases. It's a good protocol, but there's not enough tooling built up around it yet, and it's very much geared toward large enterprise. Not to mention the saga of legal issues it just escaped from. We also offer an HTTP API which uses swagger and swagger UI for documentation and testing, and normalize data across machine types before storing it in a database. This allows a company to grow from our opinionated MES into their own customized system as they grow. Additionally, we offer two way integrations with ERP systems. There are some other common interconnectivity applications required by most of the manufacturers we work with (we've been doing services for a long time and have 1000+ active service customers). These are not commonly covered by OPC servers, but are covered within our software.
Using X-rays in the search for extraterrestrial inteligence
vim is a modern app optimized for max user engagement.
You're really reaching.

The first question was pretty much "what reason could there possibly be, other than being a criminal?".

I just pointed out there are many "non criminal" reasons people don't want their every move tracked/stored/potentially-disclosed. That was obviously just a simple example.

Bearing in mind that what's "not criminal" in your country today may change too. You're not safely excluded. ;)
Nobody's saying she should have been earning six figures. But they could certainly have been smart enough to offer her and other prolific quizmakers paid positions with a revenue share upside if they thought they'd get more quizzes as a result. She's 19 and made 700 quizzes for free - she'd have probably thought an entry level wage and a $10k bonus was Buzzfeed being very generous.
I work in automotive.

These are the last three companies in the world you want defining industry standards / practices for anything.
I had some CSS on my MySpace page...
>who needs $10,000/month to live

Those who have a monthly mortgage payment of $9000. Substract $500 (or more if the government doesn't help you with their costs) for each child in your household.
when did it become popular to criticize the form of a technical document? what is the value of /your/ post?
> newegg lost some of my business recently after thinking it was a good idea to make me fill in a captcha before taking my money.

Probably they are combatting fraud, especially the variant "check if the credit card is still valid". There's not much defense against a botnet operator trying out a 100k dataset of stolen CC numbers other than captchas :(

For the interested, this kind of fraud simply orders cheap (on the order of 1-2$) stuff online to check if the card/cvv is valid. Doesn't draw much attention unless one of the victims has transaction notification active or diligently checks their CC bill.
> I'm one of those, treat everyone equal, types. Would like to hear your reason.

Here's a thought experiment: Imagine that you are born as any random person in a society. You could be born as a white male of exceptional intelligence with 1% rich parents, or you could be born as a girl of a minority race to junkie parents and suffer from mental health issues your entire life. Now, without knowing what kind of person you're born as, design a just society in terms of, say, the level of income redistribution, tax-provided health care, or whatnot.

Getting back to your original question of whether somebody should pay more for a laptop than somebody else; well, IF you accept (some amount of) income redistribution, it's more of a technical question how to implement it. I imagine it'd be easier to implement with income redistribution, social spending on low-income citizens or whatnot rather than having wealth- or income-dependent prices on everything.
You might be entirely right for all I know, but your points don't actually support your claims...

Why _would_ a city government make a profit? It's a government after all, not a business.

Comparing Puerto Rico with a city with multiple times its inhabitants and many many times its economic power isn't exactly saying much either
Oh I'd agree with you and extend your remarks such that we're unlikely to see a large scale WW2 re-enactment but rebels gotta rebel and you don't need a job or a girlfriend to vote.

I would argue that two effects might invalidate the claim against warfare. Human labor has been reduced in warfare, and democracy abstracts personal responsibility from decisionmaking.

For example, 5M dudes in their moms basement could vote, while remaining in their moms basement and never reaching the front lines, to extend the near shooting war between China jet fighters and Japanese recon planes that happened a couple years ago over that recently discovered East China Sea natural gas field. The kids will never personally fight unless something goes horribly wrong, and if the Japanese win, the kids will never work on offshore natgas platforms, but the economic effects of all those petro-dollars would raise all the boats in the entire country, such that 5M kids might get work at home or even salaryman jobs eventually leading to house, wife, and kids, and I bet a politician could court 5M or so votes using that logic. Politicians always seek power regardless of long term outcome. I mean, WRT the incident from 2014, we're not talking about hikki kids volunteering to personally fight in the jungle, all they have to do is tend to vote for people who tend to support a couple air force pilots being somewhat more aggressive than usual.

A similar dude with a job, wife, young kids, house, is not going to risk a war with China over some natgas fields and is not going to vote for a warmonger strategy politician. A kid kicked out of society because their isn't space in society for him anymore, has literally nothing to lose and everything to gain at the ballot box.

People who acquire the carrot on a stick are inherently small C conservative, and people kicked out of society's lifeboat are inherently rebellious, so its not even a simple binary thing of war or no war, its more an issue where political instability gets an automatic plus 5M points, which will lead to globally crazier outcomes than having zero additional automatic points.

Society failing kids by not delivering promises from national mythologies is a national security threat and a threat to global peace. Naturally of course everyone's gonna blame the kids and parents which is not going to fix anything, and if anything will just radicalize them further. "I thought I followed all the rules and didn't get what I was promised so I was just unlucky or they slightly disliked me, but turns out they hate me, so F them all lets nuke China and take their resources". And of course with a growing population around the world of the dispossessed and lied to, this is going to be a huge mess.
Forget to enter insert mode before typing? Now you're levels deep in some command recorder where none of your suggestions work.
Entryism in open communities
The best thing that Google could do to support pwas would be to build a good search for them.
That top tweet of the police just casually harassing the placard guy for filming an officer’s car is very interesting. Particularly how the officer is using carefully chosen words “I’m giving you an order to show me your ID” to skirt the fact he had no legal right to demand his ID.

So much of law enforcement abuse of power depends on intimidation and (most) people’s default reaction to trust their authority in all situations (which is also essential to their abuse of placards).

I had a similar experience where police straight up lied about tenant laws during an eviction process of the, protecting the most awful and abusive tenant (who was a cocaine dealer) a family friend had to deal with. The family member was immediately willing to believe the police, and had another family friend not been a lawyer who was familiar with tenant law and knows very well from professional experience never to trust police outright. The result was saving the family over a thousand dollars (out of multiple thousand owed), as the timing of them leaving the property, which the police was attempting to mess with, was very important in the legal process of a later claim.

The officer essentially conceded on the spot he had no legal grounds for what he had previously claimed with such confident authority, with plenty of weasel words, and just left.
Ideally, in a common law system, they're supposed to provide all of their evidence in order to secure the arrest warrant in the first place. What a cluster.
I run Linux, use my own VPN, and use Firefox with uMatrix. CAPTCHAs are one of the most user-hostile things I experience on the web. I've had to give up on registering for sites, or signing into sites I'm already registered with, because after literally minutes I still hadn't gotten through. I actively try to avoid sites that use CAPTCHA but unfortunately it's not always possible.
Also due to the fact that you forgot your password once and your last name sounds vaguely Ukrainian our AI has determined that your account should be shadowbanned, which means the app will appear to function as normal but the car will only drive in small circles around your home.

When you contact customer support our reps will explain that it must be something in their system but they can’t see your account and will transfer you to a manager at which point the call will disconnect.
I always preferred Colonization to the Civ series, and keep wondering why I am apparently in the minority.

Civ, and also SimCity, always felt as if they would progress along more or less the same trajectory of growth, with little actual choice for the player as long as they broadly stayed within the bounds of what the designers considered typical gameplay.

In Col, I loved building these intricate industrial networks and trade routes.

Now that I’m writing this, I’m wondering if Colonization possibly came too close to the Soviet idea of central economic planning for the taste of the audience.
Why does this functionality have to be embedded in a website? I use google earth and skype to look at maps and make video calls. I don't feel like I'm missing out.
That’s really silly. I think it’s fine to say.
Old captchas allowed you to see the content without need to pass it. I'm too tired to see cloudfront pages with recaptcha.
The reasons employees come to work at your startup
Android AboutScreen Library
Thought experiment. Which of those provides more value over the long run? Both to the invidividual and to society at large.

Do you consider your posting in this thread to be a overall positive? I do. I think it provides more value than praying over the topic would. For that reason alone, I wouldn’t necessarily consider the hikikomori to be worse than monks.

Just a thought.
NYC population: 8.6 million

Puerto Rico population: 3.3 million

NYC per capita GDP: 64000

Puero rico per capita GDP: 31000

Not to mention the brain drain from Puerto Rico, or there special status as an unicorporated territory (and resulting lack of political power)
I had a college roommate who was on food stamps as a kid. He related the story that his mom used to buy additional discounted food stamps from drunks in order to extend her family’s food budget. Sometimes you can actually get a righteous result from a bad system.
Regarding 2, one point of distributing PAWs via the respective stores is that when their origin is validated, they are also native apps and have full access to all device APIs.

See PWAs on Windows 10, or the recent TWA support on Android.
Google reCAPTCHA is the absolute worst. It makes me solve several puzzles very often, usually when I use a mobile network and I’m not logged in with any Google account. It’s so frustrating that most of the times I find a reCAPTCHA I give up before trying and just go elsewhere e.g. when a site uses reCAPTCHA for sign up or after the first failed login, I’ll most likely skip if I don’t absolutely need to access such website.

Glad to see I’m not the only one who’s getting tired!
For that, you can replace Kolmogorov complexity with Levin complexity, which penalizes the Kolmogorov complexity by adding the log of the execution time.

Since sufficiently advanced Turing machines are all equivalent up to a multiplicative factor, Levin complexity is defined up to a constant, as is Kolmogorov complexity.
Even if APIs are copyrighted, anything that's copyrighted can be licensed, and OpenJDK, which includes the Java APIs, is licensed under an open source license (which, BTW, Google did not use in Android until recently, but have used, and still do, for their use of OpenJDK).
I live in lower Manhattan. My feeling is that every vehicle other than delivery trucks should be banned from the city. There is no compelling reason for anyone to drive in Manhattan. If people are commuting into Manhattan, they should take public transit to and from parking lots in Brooklyn/Queens/New Jersey. You will never convince me that there are low income workers who need to drive in the city as an essential part of their livelihood. That’s just not a real thing here.
Actually, some undecidable problems are NP hard, like the halting problem. That is, a halting oracle gives a polynomial time algorithm for any NP problem.
Upload? Come on, just load it as dataURI, bookmark it and you have offline "application" at your disposal. And as a bonus, here, have this "distributed app store" you can even print on paper [1].

[1] http://zxing.org/w/chart?cht=qr&chs=350x350&chld=L&choe=UTF-...

i.e. QR-coded dataURI document

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<!DOCTYPE html><title>Screen light</title><html onclick=on=!on;this.style.background=on%3F'white':'black'><body onload=on=true>
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I have a feeling what you describe could be prevented and that if you wanted to load/unload modules the sum of the JS could still be limited to a certain size
Node.js, optionally with TypeScript, and VS Code as an IDE
> not that it matters in ML where everything is "euclidean"

Non-euclidean spaces are actually quite common in ML, but many people don’t realize the spaces they’re working in are non-euclidean!
Pet-walking: rover.com
My experience is that yes, it is possible to generate a passive income with side projects (by passive I mean <5h work per week).

As someone who has built and sold a SaaS company however, I'd strongly recommend against starting off with one. They are almost never passive!

If your main goal is to make some money on the side, I'd recommend you first try:

- An info product (a course, ebook, video course etc)

- Something in the ecommerce space (check out lasertweets.co by Josh Pigford for inspiration)

It's a lot easier to make $1-10k/month with just a few hours work per week (and time invested upfront of course) doing something like this than it is with a SaaS.

SaaS is just too time intensive with support, sales, product dev etc.

Source: Have built a SaaS, an ecommerce project and am now working on my first info product.