skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find your definition of capitalism not meaningfully distinct from already coined terms like aristocracy, oligarchy, and plutocracy. One could argue that capitalism always leads to those, but it's unclear and therefore unhelpful to conflate all of the above.

Distinction and nuance let us have more interesting conversations than the yelling matches on cable news channels.
"It's more realistic [to create a billion-dollar company] than to become an astronaut"

You're missing half of the equation. There are a relatively tiny number of people (I assume mostly scientists and military pilots) who have set themselves the goal of becoming an astronaut and are working towards it in a concrete way.

In contrast, virtually everyone is trying to make money, and a huge number of people create companies. Not everyone has "a billion dollars" as their specific goal, but the implicit goal of "as much money as possible" is not uncommon.
Anyone can launch their own currency. I have some Timcoin I can sell you if you are interested. In spite of that bitcoin retains some value. Most of the value of any currency comes from the social network of people who use it.
As noted by the article in question:

The idea is not novel and goes back to at least 1973 (Jacobsohn). However, engineering matters because computer registers have finite number of bits, and multiplications can overflow. I believe that, historically, this was first introduced into a major compiler (the GNU GCC compiler) by Granlund and Montgomery (1994). While GNU GCC and the Go compiler still rely on the approach developed by Granlund and Montgomery, other compilers like LLVM’s clang use a slightly improved version described by Warren in his book Hacker’s Delight.
As a type 1 diabetic, this isn’t remotely true for me. Novolog and its equivalents made timing impossible for peaks of insulin and food absorption. Also made low carb impossible due to the peak pattern of the insulin compared to digestion of low carb, high protein meals. Insulin pumps with combo boluses resulted in unpredictable absorption due to scar tissue from having low body fat percentage.

Ended up switching back to generic novolin R (regular) as injections which allows me to use different areas of the body, eat low carb, and dropped my a1c down 3 points. Reduced my standard deviation of blood sugars by about 45 as well.

Every diabetic is different though as others have found great success with novolog, insulin pumps, etc.
GTK+ is now just GTK
Overall (all ages) labor force participation rates are low, but labor force participation among people 25-54 are very high.

All ages LFPR are probably low because the Baby Boomers are retiring and Millenials are still in college.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
What's probably worth saying is that (at least for Apache), you can enable compression only for certain file types, such as static text files (HTML/CSS/JS) but not dynamic files (thinking of classical CGI scripting -- PHP/Python/Ruby). It should be possible to seperate this also for modern-world fcgi services.

How does HTTP2 and HTTP3 perform in this question? I always percieved deflate/gzip compression as something preferable. I never realized the CRIME attack before.
I desire free eggs at the grocery store. Grocery store doesn't want to give me them. Grocery store is unscrupulous.
>once they're settled...

Should I be expected to monitor changes to a living document that I never read in the first place in order to know whether the current version means I am married to Spotify and act accordingly?

Spotify is the one who defaulted first by not providing me the limitless free music I am owed.
I feel like profits need a re-branding campaign. It's so easy to paint them as a negative, and even the most vocal capitalists will shrug and suggest they're something neutral.

Profits are a signal, and a powerful one at that. Outside of rent seeking, which I regard as fairly rare, profits signal that an entrepreneur is delivering value in excess of the costs to produce the value. Spread out over the size of a community, region, or nation, that's like magic!

Furthermore, they're not cold and unemotional, as is suggested here. Value almost always has an emotional component. The profitable condos that people want to build aren't going to be inhabited by automatons. They'll be inhabited by people - people who will date, get married, have children, people that will graduate from high school and college, people that will march in parades, protest in political movements, enjoy and create culture. To look at the value that companies want to create in this space like a shameless cash grabs ignores the very humanity that assigns that value in the first place.

Profits are not evil. They're a signal of efficient production of value, and value implies a benefit for humanity.
For drone, I have a lot of stuff from Cryochamber:

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/

Looking at my current most-played list, I'd suggest:

https://starcadian.bandcamp.com/album/saturdaze

https://future80s.bandcamp.com/album/trans-am

https://nightvision2.bandcamp.com/album/runaway !!

https://neondroid.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-sunset-2017-ep
My point is that many companies are 'profitable' in a financial absolute sense - but not up to the expectation of the non-market owners.
If we had a better system (similar to post-float IPO) before IPO to handle this and allow people outside of funding-rounds to invest/sell - I can't see how this wouldn't benefit us all.
Real estate is the nastiest business.

Everything from systematic harassment to unleashing the local code enforcement to torching the building can be used to make your life miserable.

Light up the building and get it declared unsafe, the city then bulldozes the building and hands the bill to the owner.
It seems to me that colonizing other planets would only be a viable solution if we first developed faster than light or at least near light speed travel; and those may or may not be physically possible. Otherwise we would just end up with a scarcity of planets within practical travel distance of each-other.
The article mentions the book and that the method presented therein is used by clang for faster division. The novel part is to adapt the method for faster remainders without calculating the quotient first.
It is ironic that the very same license that tries to prevent greedy companies from stealing open-source code is also preventing code from said (former)greedy company to be contributed back.
Aren't these journal articles, like all formal publications, a matter of public record? I don't know where the United States' libraries of record are, but you should be able to go to one of them and ask to see a copy of anything at all published ever in the US.
CGMs are great for this.

Also, try a Freestyle Libre. It’s closer in behaviour to a finger prick but still gives the trend info.
It's just a legal document. We have laws against killing, doesn't mean we suspect everyone of being a murderer.
How does x2go compare with xpra?
There are some open source designs for cheap 3D printed prosthetics and a volunteer network to build them for people.

http://enablingthefuture.org/
No not really. Hand the cash to the person you're tipping, nobody else.
Addendum to rule 1: Browse through the bibliography.

Quick but effective heuristic to gauge how serious the book is, and how well the author knows his field. If there isn't one, don't bother buying it. If it's a 20 page list of citations from reputable journals (or original sources, if you're reading a history book), then the author doesn't have to be a professor to be believable.
Indeed. This is a "developer board". They're made with little consequence to cost and they usually cost ghastly amounts compared to what you'd expect out of a standard motherboard.

They're for someone like Western Digital to buy for their devs to develop and test stuff against in their own designs.
> People don't act against their self-interest unless deceived.

They can also be stupid.
"RISC architecture is gonna change everything."
lang="ja" absolutely should work [1], so I have no idea why it doesn't on your website.

Maybe it's related to font you specified which may directly or indirectly (fallback) cause the problem. After all, `font-family` overrides language (which essentially just helps to get the right font(s)).

If you don't mind to provide a test page I can help debugging.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fireattack/sandbox
I'm okay with a prospective employer judging my finance past similarly to a past that includes Facebook. Ego has everything to do with failed ad hominem attacks, my friend
> It's demeaning to equate a person's effort in homemaking with servitude.

No one did that upthread. Someone compared the condition women were trapped in prior to the normalization of their choice to work in the general market as being trapped in domestic servitude. This is not equivalent to equating freely-chosen homemaking with domestic servitude.
It could also be that accounts that take part in harassment/harassment adjacent behavior may already have a few strikes against them for similar things.
It's hard to infer any conclusion from those numbers because we don't know how many people refused to interview and never received an offer.

Facebook pays REALLY well. That's a big deal fresh out of school too. Not all of us have the luxury of turning down a giant paycheck.
>> your agreement with Spotify on the free tier is "we provide music, you agree to be subject to our ads." If you block the ads, they can then yank the music.

Companies have a habit of trying to squeeze all kinds of stuff into their ToS/AUP, hoping they can get away with it.

Who'd want to bet Spotify's bans would survive both a) the courts, and b) public opinion? Remember they'd need to win in both.
> Those are part of the problem we should be solving. Delaying TLS 1.3 to enable middleboxes is precisely the kinds of things we should be throwing away from any standard.

Your "solution" of just breaking things while declaring this "doesn't have any compatibility problems" is not a solution people are going to accept. It genuinely doesn't matter that you think it'd be a great idea, not the tiniest bit, since it would see no adoption.

TLS 1.3 did not take this "backwards compatibility at all cost" approach you describe. On the contrary, it was engineered very carefully to work _around_ middleboxes. The protocol is untidy as a result, with extraneous compatibility fields, but the cryptography remains as intended. But you've not addressed that at all since your entire basis is "From what I've read a lot of the issues is the complexity of the standard itself".

Again, this issue you're reading about today is NOT a problem with TLS 1.3, and would not have been fixed by any changes to TLS 1.3 or imaginary alternatives to TLS 1.3 _unless_ as a side effect they prohibited falling back to earlier versions, something you can already choose to do if that's what you want (you do not).
Neovim – semi-transparent popupmenu is awesome
Spotify does NOT have the right to run arbitrary code on my device. That is not something that fits into the category of me using their service. That rather fits into the category of me being forced to provide a service to Spotify.
To each their own, I suppose, but fwiw I love the 787, even economy, for longhaul. I fly a mix of longhaul business and economy, depending on who's paying. When I get off a 787 at the end with no noticeable jetlag, it's pretty amazing. And that's the part of the experience I tend to remember, along with how much I was able to get done on the flight due to no dehydration-induced fuzzy-brain. By comparison, I don't even notice slightly less room.
> At something like $1000/port, for 100 Mbps symmetric broadband customers that's $10/customer divided by the oversubscription ratio, per hardware refresh cycle (say three years). The percentage of the customer's monthly bill rounds to zero.

If you're only building enough active equipment to support 100 mbps service, then your point about sharing capacity on the fiber itself with RF TV is entirely irrelevant--you've got nowhere near enough active equipment to exceed the capacity of even a single pair of wavelengths.

Compare that to something like Comcast's Gigabit Pro. Each user gets their own port on a 10G aggregation router. The CPE is a Juniper ACX-2100. And you need a beefy router after that to do traffic shaping. (Due to the way the traffic policing works, Comcast will happily deliver 25MB at 10 gbps before the policer kicks in, which completely overwhelms any consumer router you put after the Juniper.) That's thousands of dollars per user in active equipment--and you're still using just a single pair of wavelengths.

> It just seems like the opposite of how everything else is going. Virtualization, SDN, etc. Get everything running on the same kind of hardware so everything is fungible, failed hardware can be swapped out with universal replacements, idle resources can be reallocated to other workloads without changing hardware, etc.

There is nothing cheap, simple, or reliable about SDN. Flexible yes, but not those other things. It takes enormous amounts of hardware to, e.g. build an SDN switch with VPP that can compare to a $1,000 Juniper 10G switch.

RF over Glass is super easy and cheap. You get a feed from a head-end, and you inject it into a passive fiber network. There is no IP, no routing, nothing active in the delivery network until you get to the CPE.
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I found this post biased against javascript... good one though..
> no books by journalists, unless it’s about journalism

Charles Mann's 1491 and 1493 remain the best books on the topic.

Robert Whitaker's Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic likewise.
JavaScript is a descendant of Java in the same way that someone who changes their surname to Washington is related to the president.
I don't know what you mean - the article looks to me like text and photos, and then a short video as well.
I wish I could upvote you more! I had no idea. I don't do this often mostly during long boring conference calls.
Not trying to fix what isn't broken, just asking:

Have you tried an ereader? I have one that's 8", has a frontlight, and runs full on Android, I use it after my no-tech nighttime threshold and during meetings. But I especially use it for any long form reading I have to do.
We are all born ignorant. Life's mysteries give meaning and passion to life. If I knew everything, I'd have to find new passion, so I'm grateful I'm ignorant. There has never been nor ever will be anything wrong with not knowing.

Assuming you're studying alone, so it's not fear based on māna (comparing yourself to others without taking in the back story of all parties being compared):

Generic fear is recognition of the unknown. Recognizing when there is something to learn is a beneficial skill to learn. Recognizing this is how fear works, the emotional response ceases its control when the logical mind understands what is going on and how to deal with this unknown; learning is an opportunity for a reward.

Learning is pattern matching our previous understanding (neighboring concepts) with a new idea. (And understanding the story of how that concept came to be, and what its intention is eg, leading to how it is used and in what situations.)

When one is learning a concept within a subject matter they are already familiar with, there are a lot of similar concepts, making the learning easy or effortless. However, when it is a new subject matter, especially if it is an atomic concept with its only neighboring understanding comes from isomorphic concepts that exist in other domains, it can take a bit more work to really "get it".

A trick I employ when learning is I forget time. I forget any goals. If I'm learning a thing so I can solve an issue in a issue tracker, then I will feel pressured on time. But the harder or more foreign the subject is that needs to be learned, the slower one needs to go to really get it.

If I am okay taking a day or even days pondering a new idea with the patience of learning the concept for it itself, then the learning process will be enjoyable instead of stressful.

If you have "all the time in the world" to learn, then it becomes easy to recursively dive depth-first into the concept and it's prerequisite concepts, as well as its neighboring concepts. Instead of learning a single concept, why not learn an ecosystem of concepts? This will help one retain what they've learned, make what they learn far more useful than learning a single stand alone idea, and it makes it easier to learn more of that topic. Once the first 2-4+ concepts in a domain are learned, learning anything else within that world becomes a cake walk.
That time I became a film director
You're not playing the 2019 version of the US job market then. Admittedly you're probably looking at a year and leaving at 1-2 but turn around time for people who make real money is nuts now.

I would hire a former Google or Facebook tech/PM/etc over someone who has a bachelor degree from who-cares-it's-not-MIT. Higher education is a means to an end. Not an end itself (education itself can of course be an end, but not in the context of OP).

Also if your stack takes 6 months to get stood up on you're moving too slowly (if you're not in a monopolistic position which, thankfully, I am). Most problems are not that complicated, 90% of your workforce is going to start as framework or CRUD peons anyway. It doesn't take 6 months to get stood up on a boring ass flask or django app.
My wife is genuinely happy to see ads. My parents are happy, that their small business can advertise, that allow them to sell product, pay their employees and support themselves.

Ads aren't root of all evil.
Good point. Where do you get them for $80?

If you can buy them in a place with good credit card rewards percentage on the gift card it's even lower.
I just moved and in order to file a change of address via the USPS website I was able to give them a credit card and was charged a buck or two as some sort of identity verification process. To your point, certainly reasonable must be available to Twitter, __if__ they were truly interested in cleaning up their act.
The Science and Business of Aging – Harvard Office of Technology Development
What services will cost more for the city? Public transportation will have a ridership subscription boost, property values will go up for local owners, service businesses will have ~25k more potential customers...
>> Also, if the marriage is ended, both parties leave with their individual things/pay/etc...

Q: Would Spotify refund users that they ban?
Yeah good, I'll just go back to getting all my music exclusively through the Black flag channels
Hard to imagine that the SoC is still being dumped after all of these years, if it even was in the first place.

If the purpose was to kill off the grossly overpriced PC104 market, mission accomplished. The fact that those boards have spawned a zillion competitors seems to suggest that any further dumping is not having the desired effect.

A free ISA is about more than saving a few pennies on each board in royalties, it's about having a chip you can truly trust. One that doesn't have some opaque binary blob running at ring -2. One where nothing is encrypted by a key only the manufacturer (and whomever they can strike a deal with) has. About hardware you truly own and control.
Tracy Kidder was the immediate counterpoint that came to my mind, as well. "The Soul of a New Machine" probably is (or should be) on every HNer's bookshelf. "Mountains Beyond Mountains" was also a fascinating read about an entirely different subject -- a doctor's humanitarian work.

Also agree that Goodreads reviews require a healthy dose of caveat lector.
H1B 2019 still waiting
I have been selected in the lottery last year but USCIS hasn't processed my case. Anyone else in the same train ?
It's a really frustrating experience...
If anyone proved beyond doubt that plants are not conscious & don't make decisions, I sure didn't hear about it. I have little doubt there are many flavors of consciousness out there, and while humans and animals and plants have their differences, they are not as large as some assume.

What I believe is this: We don't know nearly enough about consciousness, how it's made, and what it is, to make statements like that. And when people make the mistake of assuming they know otherwise, anything that follows is likely a pile of ballsack.

I suspect the dividing line, if we assume there is a single one, is pretty fuzzy and subjective. If a tree is cut down, is it still a tree? What about when it's cut into planks? At what point does an acorn become a tree; at it's first leaf, first sprout, first branch?

If we had answers to these kind of questions, the world would be very different to what I've observed.
The last article I read on HN abput this subject, the author was complaining about only achieving 20% growth per month and that it was a failure.

This seems like an extremely unnatural growth rate. It cannot possibly be sustainable in the long run. I dont know what tricks they are expected to use to achieve the ROIs but definitely, it's some kind of magic trick because this is not natural. How can someone predictably and consistently grow by 20% per month. Not possible. Why is it that the growth rate is almost always correlated with the size of the investment. This is software, production cost approaches 0 at scale, it makes no sense.
> I would say this work falls under the category of a curiosity

Don't all things fall under this category, until someone finds an use?

https://nationalmaglab.org/education/magnet-academy/history-...
Rules of Engagement for Social Media Influence Operations
League of Legends reads your browser tabs
It’s called private property.

I have an extra bedroom. It would be maximally efficient to rent the room, but I prefer to put my luggage in there.
Except for one thing that I don't think anyone has mentioned. This is a common ploy on behalf of owners of real estate to get the highest price for the property w/o appearing openly that that is what they are doing. Of course it's always suspected that is what they are doing. But it's really old school. You say you don't want to sell, won't sell, not at any price, reject all offers until one comes along that is so high you finally engage in the transaction.

I have actually run into this before many times.

Also part of the tell tale sign is that she plans to rent it out. That is another signal that she just plans to wait. Most likely the lease will be written in a way that allows her to terminate it if she wants with some kind of liquidated damages payment.

Now I have seen people not want to sell 'at any price' genuinely because they do run a business, don't need the money, and most importantly (and this is key) it gives them something to do. Typically they are older people who want to show up for work every day. This woman doesn't fit that MO though.

My bet is it's a selling strategy.
It's certainly a dim way of looking at corporations, but, oh well. I don't think they deserve better.

And I think GPL actually embodies a really positive mindset. To release GPL code is to believe that there are others out there who will help you without intending to get advantage over you or shut you out.