skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how deleting my account gave me a sense of autonomy over my own thoughts. It took a while, but after some time I didn't care about what other people liked and didn't like.

It's amazing what original thought can do for a person. That little button has more power than most people think.
See my other nice long response from before this post.
The Fixation of Belief (1877)
In reality, they typically shit once a day

I don't even have kids, and I know that's not true.

Source: might not be a parent, but I'm a hell of a babysitter.
The problem here is that no one knows where to recycle them. There's only a few locations in the US that recycle them and they don't accept consumer drop offs. Local recycling centers and waste centers generally don't accept them separately and just tell you to put them in the main trash. I had 15 years of bulbs stashed in a box in the garage because I didn't want to dump mercury in the landfill even though they told me that was perfectly fine, which I knew was wrong. Eventually an acquaintance told me that they had seen small tube collection boxes near the customer service desk at Home Depot. This is not advertised and is not known to the recycling centers. So the experts just tell people to landfill them when asked. If people knew where to take them it would be more than 0.5% doing it. It wouldn't be 100%, but maybe 50%.
Why would a massive legacy codebase be a recruitment turn-on?
>it's much easier to see if your cryptocurrency is being manipulated.

Specific transactions can be verified but that does not translate in to full transparency. Transactions can be obfuscated and laundered. A Swiss bank could set up a wallet to perform all BTC transactions through.

And your not being forced to use fiat. If you were, investing in crypto wouldn't even be possible.
That was always there anyway, but the like button made it that much easier to validate.
Yes mr snooty pants
I don't see why you think this article is a case against Bitcoin. The article is saying "I don't want Bitcoin to exist", but nearly everything else is listing you reasons to invest in it (even if you dislike the reasons, it's like buying stocks in a company who will be bailed out, even though you don't agree with the bailout).
> You’re implying that the chance of being sued by the EU is near 100% for every profitable business in the EU.

I mean to say that you can be fully aware of a law, interpret it broadly, and comply with that broad interpretation to the fullest extent, and you still have a reasonably high chance of being liable for damages in a suit related to that law.
I bought about 100 regular incandescents in various wattages at Lowes before they were banned. I wish I had bought a lot more. They were about $0.25 per bulb at the clearance sale prices. CFLs and LEDs are poor substitutes from a quality-of-light standpoint. Also AFAIK there is no hazardous waste in a burned-out incandescent. You can throw it away with a clear conscience.
No, but I think that's more because I've never had a WiFi source that worked even half as good as cellular. Campground WiFi is pretty universally bad.

I do use a NSM2loco to bridge the cellular hotspot into the router internally, which is only a range of about a foot, and I've had no issues there.
What you're doing is just a different kind of the social signaling than the one you're trying to seem above of.

It's okay for people to enjoy Instagram. It's okay for people to not enjoy Instagram. It's okay to make one of your hobbies getting Instagram famous. Trying to put some value judgement on why one is _better_, and going out of your way to justify your own is a waste of time.
LED bulbs are bad for us. Better to use low-voltage incandescent halogen lights.
For a long time I have had the opinion that science classes are really history classes and not conducive to actually performing science, unless the students are really paying attention AND highly motivated.

Here is a thing someone discovered at one point in time. Here is the conclusion. Now do this experiment. You didn't get the right answer? Do it again until you do. Or make up an answer that you think is right enough that you'll get credit. Sure, some people probably figure out what you're supposed to be learning, but I suspect most people just figure out that you should listen to authority and parrot what they expect you to say.
I remember Uber used to not encourage tipping. GrubHub and DoorDash should do the same thing, at least not encouraging, because tipping would cause more confusions for services like those.
I second this. I deleted my account four years ago because I kept getting in arguments with people, and I genuinely feel that deleting it made me a less insecure person.
You shouldn't make that bet. Zuckerberg's parents didn't attend Philips Exeter. Zuckerberg himself only transferred in.

But to the spirit of your point: yes, he did grow up in a household with two highly educated parents.
Once the problems in Miami get too big to ignore, residents will demand, and probably get, a huge engineering megaproject to fix the problem on the taxpayers’ dime, because the alternative is abandoning a major city, which has never been done in modern times apart from major nuclear accidents. So (unfortunately) it remains rational to invest in Miami real estate even if you accept that it’s going to be flooded in the next couple decades.
It's not a difference which is easy to legislate without unintended consequences (people's own interests frequently overlap with those of their employer, and most people with informed opinions on the implications of a policy are in employed in areas not unlinked to that policy).

What is facile is to argue that a law which simply bans corporations from hiring people describing themselves as lobbyists or government relations professionals will have any real world effect, or to pretend that there are no possible downsides from legislation which might prevent organisations like the EFF from existing or ensure that healthcare professionals are unable to make representations about healthcare to politicians.
Open your mouth for other things besides taking in food. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a production tax:

"For example land taxation proposed by single-tax movement"

Land is an input to production, so this would be a production tax.
This just won't fly until this (western) generation changes its ideas about eating bugs.
Thanks for sharing this, I haven't heard of MimbleWimble before but indeed it looks interesting. Here's the original whitepaper if anyone is interested: https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/MimbleWimble-Origi...

I wasn't there during the dot-com era, but from what I read it was the same situation: lots of scammers and cool kids raising millions from investors driven by FOMO (fear of missing out), and lots of money ending up in the wrong hands.
"Previously, I had replaced around 4 bulbs with Cree LEDs from Home Depot, and half of those were dead within a few months."

Were those the original Cree bulbs with the heavy, finned metal heatsink around the base ?

I currently have a bag of about 14 of those that I bought (with great enthusiasm) and that burned out (or turned weird purple colors) within 2-3 years.

New style cree bulbs appear to have these issues solved. In fact, I continue to buy them as they perform better than other (satco, fein) bulbs that I have. In most cases I get satco/fein as long as they have the color temperature and output I want, but if I am having issues with a dimmer, etc., I get a cree bulb.
A non-trivial component of the replication failure is the extreme incentives to cheat, p-hacking and friends, because if you call your shot, and reality says "you're wrong", the real current system, the one that actually determines who gets promotions and more grant money, says that scientist fails.

Sure, the pretend system says this scientist has done noble and laudable work by showing some hypothesis was wrong, but who cares what the pretend system says? Certainly not anyone who wants promotions (or even just job security) and grant money.
Millions of followers mean you have more influence. (like it or not)

Some people want to release products and not pay for advertising, some people want to watch football.
$3,000 is the deduction limit against personal income. Deduction against capital gains is limitless.
What's your take on why so many dimmable LED bulbs have flicker/buzz issues?

I've tried through 5 different MR type LED bulbs and every one of them had an extreme flickering issue. All of them were labeled as dimmable.

I've had better luck with the standard A type bulbs. But only because there were more thorough reviews available.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
Actually it is the law at every trade show I've ever exhibited at, just about to the point where you can't plug in anything without a union electrician doing it. One can usually get away with plugging in a laptop, but certainly if you need anything more than the single standard 10A 2-outlet power drop, expect to pay and wait for the official electrician (and they will kick you out of the show for violations).

Edit: I've seen this at least in NY, Florida, California
As an historical observation, Python 0.9p1's README said (emphasis mine):

> This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax.

> This is version 0.9 (the first beta release), patchlevel 1.

> Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write prototypes of real applications, or as an extension language of large systems, you name it.

Note the emphasis on "prototypes of real applications." That would suggest that version 0.9 was not really designed for "real applications".

However, by the 1.0 release this timid statement disappeared. For example, by the 1.0.3 release the README was telling "For a quick summary of what Python can mean for a UNIX/C programmer, read Misc/BLURB.LUTZ." That quotes an email dated Thu, 14 Oct 1993 17:10:37 GMT which said:

> It's central goal is to provide the best of both worlds: the dynamic nature of scripting languages like Perl/TCL/REXX, but also support for general programming found in the more traditional languages like Icon, C, Modula,...

> As such, it can function as a scripting/extension language, as a rapid prototyping language, and as a serious software development language. Python is suitable for fast development of large programs, but also does well at throw-away shell coding.

Thus, in a very narrow and irrelevantly technical sense, ilovecaching is correct - the very earliest versions of Python were not described as being for full-blown application software. As it turns out, despite not being designed for 'real applications', it turned out to be useful for 'serious software development', and the evolution for the last 27 or so years has kept that goal in mind.
The article's main argument is: "We are not obligated to love technology. [...] If we allow ["technology"] to stand as an umbrella term for everything from modern dentistry to the apparatus of ubiquitous surveillance, then we are forced to either accept modern technology in toto or reject it in toto. We are thus discouraged from thoughtful discrimination and responsible judgment."

This seem uncontroversial -- I doubt even Steven Pinker would disagree with that.

Maybe some internet trolls make low-quality arguments like "so you want to go back to horses and buggies?!?" but basically nobody is arguing that technology should reign unregulated. Who thinks civilians should be able to own nuclear weapons?

All of this seems quite unrelated to the dispute between Pinker and Hickel of whether global poverty is decreasing or not.
To offer another potential inflection point: public posts. That turned Facebook from solely a social network to a broadcast network, and--while it has been successful for their business--it led to them being mired in all these political-information-broadcasting type problems.
Similarly, I replaced all my bulbs around 2011/2012 after buying a new place and I have yet to have a single one fail on me.

These were fairly expensive, about $11 each (the going rate at the time), and were TCP brand, but it was unpleasant to read that newer bulbs might be far worse when it comes time to replace them, even if they are cheaper. I love the fact that they die so infrequently that I don't have to keep any spares around.
The problem is that "curators" like FJ will just crop out the watermark.

That's what makes these accounts so uniquely infuriating. They're not accidentally omitting credit out of laziness or ignorance. They do extra work to make sure the original creator gets cut out of the loop.
"Fortunately, after the first ones, it's been as simple as replying to the email thread and telling them how many more replacements I need!"

Could you tell us that email address ? I have a box of 14 original Cree bulbs that I would like to get replaced...
>Maybe you are assuming that all groups have equal underlying genetic potential, but there's no actual evidence for this, it's just the politically correct belief that everyone is scared to question.

Well, for good reason. The eugenics programs of the 20th century didn't noticeably improve the average persons life but did ruin (or end) the lives of millions. I'm not surprised people are scared after an outcome like that. Not to mention the supremacist arguments which relied on disparities in ethnic intelligence being the scientific consensus.

19th century social justice activists were able to simultaneously believe that consensus and advocate on behalf of folks. A lot of the problem with the new school is its withering fragility. I'm to understand the jury is still out on whether variance in IQ scores represents underlying genetic variance in g, but which outcome should we hope for? I think I'd prefer to live in the world where it's genetic, that's generously solvable outright with a few decades of well funded research into genetic engineering. By contrast, bigotry and social disparities are intractable logistical nightmares that might take a century to solve.
This point gets brought up a lot, but it's focused on individual situations; peers influence kids as much as parents, if not moreso (especially when the single parent works multiple jobs).

If the preponderance of a community doesn't value education enough, or can't at least take the time to act on feedback from teachers about how their kids are doing, then you're just going to end up with a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure. On the one hand, you've got kids being made fun of for "acting white" when they try hard, and parents laying into teachers for daring to criticize their children who are acting out.

Money can't fix any of that, and it matters a whole hell of a lot less than parents who at least put in some effort. My best friend- who I first met in college- grew up in near-abject poverty, raised by a single parent who worked a lot. His parent made sure to drill into him the importance of trying hard in school, and what the other kids he tried to emulate were doing wrong (even to the point of having him join a hockey team instead of a basketball team to break him of living up- or rather down- to stereotypes).
I’m in Atlanta and specifically in DeKalb County. The politicians are extremely corrupt and only care about themeselves. The former City of Atlanta mayor will hopefully face charges soon[1], someone in his office was indicted for taking bribes.

A former Dekalb sheriff is in jail for hiring a hit man to kill the guy who was running against him[2]. Not to mention former CEOs of Dekalb county are in jail. Yes a county with a CEO, that tells you a lot. Alothught the current CEO appears to be different and is cracking down on corruption, time will tell.

[1]https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/atlanta-corrup...

[2]https://www.ajc.com/news/local/years-ago-dekalb-sheriff-had-...

[3]https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/dekalb-ceo-burrell-ellis...
Philips has some solid products. Our old television used to be Philips and it lasted a full decade and a half - we only got rid of it to get an LED TV. Most of our light bulbs have been Philips all my life and they have generally lasted a good while better than other brands we have used.
Double taxation is unethical.
It’s a reasonable assertion, but it’s not backed up by any figures that I can imagine.
I recommend this channel (Townsends), lots of medieval and olde worlde cooking, usually based on actual recipes

https://m.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
What’s a beds?
I really think the blame lies with Facebook management and not a button.
For thousands of years (tens of thousands, probably) cities were a demographic drain. More people died in London than were born there, and the cities only survived because you can make a lot more money there (including enough not to starve to death).

Perhaps in the future the same thing will happen: kids will be reared in cheap places, then move to cities for the opportunities there, then fail to produce at replacement levels, and get buffed up by people moving in to the city from the country.
State attorneys general are not bound by these TOSs.
Isn't that the central problem with something like Bitcoin and currencies that can be (read: have to be) mined, though? You gain units of the currency for underpinning the integrity of the system. The average person will never be able to build up a mining system to compete with the likes of China and India where they're mining Bitcoin in farms that potentially devalue the currency every single second.

Edit: For clarity, yes, I understand that there is a finite amount of Bitcoin that can be mined. I'm talking about the value of what's constantly being mined. The US would never use Bitcoin as a currency when other countries already have more of it than we do.
In order of preference:

1) Command line parameters, particularly when an application is using getopt() or getopt_long(). Among other things, they make it easier to test and debug an application. For example, daemonization and sandboxing should be controllable from the command-line, assuming the application has such logic. That said, use of nonstandard option syntax in the Go community, for example, is maddening.

2) Environment variables. Personally I usually support environment variables which mirror command lines option. For example, FOO_B or FOO_BAR might be equivalent to specifying a -b or --bar command line option.

3) Configuration file. But please don't make it necessary if at all possible.

If I'm writing an application supporting all 3, then the above ordering is also the precedence ordering. A command line option overrides an environment variable which overrides a configuration file setting.

Command line options are constraining because of the flat namespace and because they become unwieldy in large numbers. But that's a good thing. They force you to think critically about semantics and default behaviors, and to make meaningful choices.

Simple key-value configuration files, like JSON or YAML, are IMO the worst choice of all. They just become dumping grounds. If you're going to support a configuration file format, use an expressive, declarative syntax. An HN poster the other day said that systemd's ini file format was declarative. No, it's not! The abstract configuration of systemd is declarative, but systemd's configuration syntax is anything but. Devising an expressive syntax and structure is difficult, but that's the point. It's a way to examine and reexamine your application behavior without ever writing a single line of code. As far as parsing the configuration file, most high-level languages have good PEG libraries which make it easy to write parsers for ad hoc grammars. For C if you're not comfortable using the classic yacc framework then maybe that's a strong hint to avoid a configuration file altogether.
Indeed! My Smeagol-sandwich was delicccious!
This happened in California, and now every state senator sees the State Senate as a rotating door and a launchpad for the next career. Get in, introduce some populist bill with your name attached to it, disregard any long-term consequences, get positive press headlines, use the momentum to get hired for the next job.
If you are looking for a place to move, check out Reno NV. Cost of living is fairly cheap and only a few hours away from SV & SF. Tech scene is blowing up. Tahoe is 10 minutes away.
>Maybe the system could be different where companies directly pay for the road upgrades they need and the power infrastructure upgrades they need, etc...

This is the solution most economists would suggest.
In my view, a "curator" will link to the original source (possibly including commentary), not just shamelessly repost it, with or without credit.
By the standards of late 1990s Phrack magazine, a 28.8kbps modem was pretty damn sexy so... yeah that may not be the best justification here.
1. Relative rates are fine in aggregate. But the economy doesn't consist of actors who are perfect representations of the median. Individual companies are going to be net beneficients or net losers. And it is always the net losers who are more vocal, complaining, and ultimately influential over the wider market. Actor confidence in large markets is naturally biased towards fear, not security. This is one of the reasons why regulation is sometimes welcomed by actors, if they can influence all actors equally.

2. "Treat people nicely" is about as effective a corporate policy as a law is forcing people to "be good and moral." A small company can effectively assert hiring control in hiring only people who "gel" with the people leading the company. A large company with a hiring quota of hundreds or thousands of people a quarter cannot. Ultimately, people are going to have personality conflicts with coworkers at large companies. You can either accept that as an inevitability and find a solution for it, or you can write off people finding (somewhat legitimate but still entirely foreseeable and unavoidable) excuses to move as BigCo management not treating their workers "nicely".
I wonder if giving someone my credit card, having them add to DoorDash, then suing would be worth it.

I wonder if small claims court lawsuits could be used as precedent.
I don't care if you think tax avoidance is wrong. I am still going to maximize my life around avoiding taxes and I feel absolutely zero remorse for doing it.
Karma is awful as well for similar reasons.
I believe there’s a business opportunity here predicated on the idea that the SAT/ACT tests almost exclusively exist because teacher designed and administered assessments are not trustable. Create a system that supports teachers in creating, administrating and scoring trustable assessments. Have this system judge the reliability of assessment questions in a manner similar to the College Board’s internal auditing of test item quality. The outcome would be more reliable assessment results within our schools (which increases the baseline quality of that education) and allows for the benchmarking/sorting of students for higher education and employment.

The results would not be reliable immediately, but over time such a system would simultaneously refocus the billions spent on standardized testing into more productive educational endeavors while also supporting educational improvement. As a high school level teacher, standardized testing data is useless for improving my instruction and improving student outcomes. We should close the gap between these redundant assessment regimes, reduce the negative impacts associated with how we administer standardized assessments, and save school districts money.
that's just irrational and come from envy because you didn't gain money from the hype. quite common in psychology
So true. Ultimately, data only gives you insight into people's short term decision processes. It doesn't help you to give people what they actually need in the long term.

Also, data can always be presented in ways which serve the financial interests of those who control that data.