skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data you request (if I'm reading it correctly) is in your link, in the "2002-2016 series" document, page 9, point 3.3

The transference to the private sector in 2002 (thousands of Euros): 25017

In 2010 (the highest of the serie): 81997

In 2016: 54913

I didn't say the "rampant privatization" thing, but, as you can see, the spending more than doubled. Should we take into account the inflation here or not?

GDP per capita is, I think, important as an answer to your opinion of "expenditure is out of control" by the way.

>>"I'm not here for armchair politics."

Good to know, but until where I can see, we were discussing numbers not politics.

EDIT: I keep reading and that data is not right. The number are low, but I can't make sense of the tables. It would take a while to understand it. The good news is the data is there.
Uber's executives rely on:

- the rule of law and a court system that allow VC's and others to sign billion dollar contracts with only minor fears of being cheated

- a large supply of underemployed people rich enough to own a car, but desperate enough to cash in the depreciation by driving for Uber

- a massive public road system

- a market

- and much more.

For all of this, they pay very close to nothing as their income is mostly capital gains.
“It’s like Uber, but for healthcare” hahaha man do you want to tip your surgeon extra today?
If you print them one by one while iterating you would quickly discover the truth. Not sure why this would be worth making the string rendering of large maps much harder to use and compare (eg in log entries). Since any rendering implies an order (which is not guaranteed to remain consistent through the program's lifetime), then any string rendering of a map should be considered misleading by your logic.
That's not true. CDs store discrete data and vinyls continous data. However, it is true that CDs can store formats of higher quality than mp3s that cause no sound degradation.

I think the point I was trying to make was that tape is something different than digital. You can download high fidelity files as well and if you buy a CD you'll probably end up importing the files anyway.

With that said, cassettes are definitely not a hifi option and I'm quite sure it's genre dependent as well.
Its from RMS, not Steve Yegge: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html

It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was (2). He wrote a version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.
I think the ambiguity with justice comes from the ambiguity of what exactly a crime is. What is or isn't a crime is largely a product of the society that defines it.
Hugged to death. Outline version: https://outline.com/Fpy4Js
Quape
"Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you're too lazy"

If it were an ML-model, it would be AlphaZero of sarcasm.
Gee, that read a lot like a story from a tech version of The Onion.
yet we don't live in binary lives and grey area in between has more shades than newest OLEDs can display
I have this on my phone and it doesn't stop this technique.
> "Locer: is using the blockchain to create AI-Chatbots"

This one is hilarious... Is it like, you need to wait for the block time (20 minutes) to get one reply from the bot?
That’s probably because it’s antithetical to current economic and political thought (free global trade is an unalloyed good). Of course this has an impact. It’s the converse of the rising foreign economy where the local worker has seen their incomes rise due to export driven economics. They’re exporting their labor, we’re importing to complement our labor and that has placed negative pressure on wages.

It’s clearly seen in farm workers. Large agri businesses say that unless they have cheap imported labor, they can’t afford workers. But that does not stand. In their current economic model cheap labor is necessary, but it’s not inherently necessary.

The late 1990s to early 2000s anti-WTO leftists understood this, Perot understood this, but they were vanquished by non labor interests.
MDN has a page for that as well:

https://developer.mozilla.org/kab/docs/Web/API

The page DOM is not listed there. The closet thing is DOMParser which will allow parsing of an XML/HTML island into a new DOM object.

https://developer.mozilla.org/kab/docs/Web/API/DOMParser
Here's what worked for me (inadvertently). Brag about how good your documentation is on your product home page. Then people will go out of their way to volunteer all the ways in which it is not optimal for them. :-)
Get Uber Pickup Time and Price from Ubuntu Terminal
The point wasn't particularly about a person with $1 having more resources than the person with $0, but how healthy the local businesses in an area are given how many dollars are in circulation around it, and what the trend of this looks like. That is, in the medium-to-micro, not in the macro economics.

Anyone who has ever had a body is probably familiar with the concept of the whole seeming OK, while there's something unhealthy happening in the small. I'm not rejecting other metrics, but I don't think this is irrelevant to the economy at large.

The comment you're replying to pointed out that the absence of a wage or presence of a low wage probably does not correlate with an equivalent amount of passive income for the vast majority.

You reject this and call it "vague speculation", for which I assume that the alternative theory is that there's a substantial majority of passive income earners at the bottom of society. It's an interesting theory.
Rails integration tests: handle flakiness caused by production bugs
Android to replace passwords with fingerprints for website authentication
As someone from Europe - I find it really weird they just seem to treat racial and economic classes as more or less interchangeable.

It's as if white==wealthy and black==poor - is the situation still so dire in the USA?
> However, if I need open heart surgery, $8k is fair.

A "one-off" treatment such as this is one thing, but the co-pay system really breaks down for the individual once you start talking chronic conditions that require regular treatments for life.

In that case your insurance company may start to see you as a liability and raise the co-pay until treatment is no longer econically viable for the patient.
> Internet penetration into "gallery art" basically hasn't happened at all.

The arts industry has been slower to adopt, but there's definitely penetration. Net artists have gallery representation, and lots of galleries and other art world institutions are selling online. The key, though, is that many of them are selling physical artifacts of digital art or experiences since digital art is hard to sell.

This is related to scarcity, but it's not the whole story. Part of the reason is that digital art is more recent in the history of art and doesn't have the same cultural clout among institutions and collectors as, say, an Old Masters painting. Another reason is that it's simply not easy to display digital art in a way that makes sense to today's collectors. Both of these things will change over time.

> There isn't really a big "internet famous" artist though, is there? Would Banksy count?

What exactly do you mean here? All artists today, whether or not they make digital art, are trying to attract large followings on the Internet. Many tailor their content specifically to look good on apps like Instagram. The boundary between who is and isn't an "Internet artist" is disappearing since artworks are beginning to conform to what we can experience online.
Love this one:

Disous - Aggregate the long tail and drive discovery
"Disous is the new Google Plus"

Blockchain & AI, Funding and Fresh are just a few characteristic of Disous. But we offer a lot more!

Find us at the office

Rinkle- Gailey street no. 97, 61663 Vatican City, Vatican City
i'm not a programmer and i was able to string together an SMS RSVP system for my floor hockey league with zapier, google sheets and twilio.
I like these lists, but the ones I like the best are the lists that also provides examples and an explanation with the falsehoods. Pointing out a falsehood without providing a reason does little to change my mind.

Falsehoods about phone numbers was recently on HN [0], and I liked how it came with examples. Then it's possible to have a meaningful discussion about each one, and if it is something we need to handle. For instance Phone numbers are always written in ASCII, gives an example where that isn't true. Then we can discuss if that case is meaningful for us to support or not.

I cannot build a system that will handle all possible names, emails, addresses, timesystems, currencies, locales or whatnot there is a falsehood article about. So when writing an article like this, if you want it to have impact please explain the point of each bullet.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214035
Only newer engines can run unleaded. Most AV motors are made in the legacy style and have unhardened valve seats, requiring TEL in AVgas. Overhaul to mill the heads to install hardened seats would run 8k to over 100k depending on the craft. FAA only regulates when accidents happen it seems, so perhaps reframe the problem. FAA regs requiring proven engines and disincentivising things like fuel injection, electronic ignition, and other staples of ICE efficiency and reliability. We are effectively stuck in the 1950s in small aircraft ownership as a direct result. Considering the advancements, its a bit insane not to at least allow new tech, much less disincentivise it.
This "Does Not Exist" website does not exist.
Honestly the closest thing to a religious experience I have most days (weeks...months...) is getting rid of the foggy feeling in the morning with a cup of coffee while reading whatever I'm interested in at the moment. I've often wholeheartedly thanked the coffee in front of me for saving my mental state. It's certainly a ritual at this point.

I guess I'm saying... Would they really be far off?
This site is really cool, but it desperately needs a bookmarklet. An extension that adds an "outline" link to hacker news submissions would save me many hours per day. :)
> I wonder if in 5000 years time there will be people making similar observations regarding airports and placing their own idea of what our primitive religion must have been to have created these things

Airports today are treated as a kind of holy site.

* Certain types of speech are considered blasphemy in airports. Try and say the word bomb near the security line and see what happens.

* We have purification rituals we have to undergo, some would say trials even, before we can enter the inner sanctum. We have to shed our old self and be blessed before we can enter.

* We all become like children in airports, obedient and servile while in the presence of the security deity.

* Blessed goods such as alcohol and cigarettes from the duty free shops and 'holy water' (water purchased inside the secure zone) are available inside.

* The is a ritual for re-entering the normal world: customs, and all of the inspections and mortifications associated with that.

I'm sure some will argue that these rituals are in place for a good reason. But to me they make no more sense than the arbitrary rituals and superstitions of any of our most ancient religions.
The spec relates to maps...

The point is that a print should print in the order it is getting data.
Wouldn't it make it very easy for family members to steal credentials? I guess it would be used as a second layer of security over and above passwords.
Being good at math is also related to having been taught maths properly, and for most normal people getting enough encouragement to put in the work necessary to build one's skill is also important.

I know other traditions for labelling people stupid, that centrers around them lacking skill with driving or carpentry, and this "maths" ability tradition seems to be largely the same thing.
Even if humans are more wrong than the machines? Do we care more about justice or our humanity?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-based-platform-unv...
To quote Rodney Dangerfield when asked if becoming successful has made life better: "You've still got the same head"
The flavour text was always jerkcity.txt in every markov bot I've ever come across
Communication outside of (spoken) language is still a form of language
Where are you at right now? Depending on your location, they might not value "young" talent as much (which seems to only be a SV thing). I've worked in the east coast and Texas and there are plenty of jobs for more experienced people. But on a personal note, the harder you work to overcome your circumstances, the stronger you will become in the future, you will become more resilient to failure, you will have better coping strategies due, and you will definitely be better at not stressing over things you can't help in life. Think of this period as training to become that guy.
I don't think it is techies at this point - more hanger-ons marketers given the complete lack of requisite understanding or interest in it and pushing a solution based on how good it sounds instead of how well it works.

Even by the standards of machine learning which has often been guilty of following spurious correlations. Anyone who actually worked with it would laugh like an artilleryman hearing Aristotole's impetus theory because it is so obviously disconnected from reality.

I have cynically theorized it is deliberate "bias laundering" ever since I heard of a defacto classist British algorithm which included /garden size/ (yard in American sense).

There is literally no legitimate reason to include it in a reoffense risk as a variable. Even if they thought it somehow had a rehabilitative effect then ownership shouldn't be a variable when they can just turn them into upstanding citizens through yardwork!
The Behavior of Channels in Go
If your product can be built entirely by "t-shaped" people, it's not a complex product.

The thing about experts is that they're experts, an expert is INCREDIBLY good at one particular thing.

The idea of "t-shaped" came about as management didn't want to pay for "full-stack" people.

You know, people who are very knowledgeable in the entire software stack your product is built in (But are also experts on one particular thing)

Today it's a SCRUM sales pitch, that you can do more (development) with less (people) and thus save money.

What you're really doing is overloading the people you have, and usually expecting them to all perform at the expert level.

"Bob can do this in 2 days, why do you need 7?"

Almost no project has no "crunch time", and crunch time means you need to fly as fast as possible, you can only do that when everyone is assigned work within their area of expertise.

If you need experts, get experts, don't get fooled by the "Agile" sales people.

Remember, the agile manifesto is only a few lines of text, anyone selling you courses and books are doing just that, selling you stuff.
I got "like Twitter but for transportation"

I'm still mulling over the possibilities of what that could mean.
Sweden’s Negligence in Prosecuting Rape and the Politics Behind Assange Arrest
Names matter, though. For as long as the JVM has been called the "JVM" it has been associated with the Java language.

Using the Java language on other VMs confuses people in exactly the same way that using the Java Virtual Machine for other languages confuses people.

The outcome might have been different had they called it something like HLVM instead of JVM.
Obnoxious. The other "Falsehoods Programmers Believe" taught me things I didn't know and pointed out mistakes I'd made in the past. This is just a load of patronising progressive preaching which teaches me nothing.
(2016)

the posting from back then, for ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556983
You think?

Looking at my dashboard now I can see data on language, browser, mobile model, referral, etc. I think some are just not present in the mobile version of analytics, but I can't see what data this would not be collecting.

> However a lot of GA's stalking behaviour relies on having cookies on a specific Google-controlled domain

This also reminds me that this simple technique can bypass 3rd party cookies rules.

> author's nefarious goal.

You clearly misunderstood my goal.
It is close in the wording but very different in almost every other sense. wasm pushes for many indipendent implementation, it is meant to be very minimal and importantly it is made to be embeddable. In a sense it is closer to lua than Java.
that's why you always write name of the month in dates
You are right in essence, but there are a couple of complications:

- If the laptop is broken beyond use, I won't be able to write to the M.2 and I don't have an external M.2 enclosure (and the most likely fix here would be to switch out the drive to an equivalent laptop, then try and boot it up)

- I actually tried writing the image back to the M.2 at the weekend, and it it wouldn't boot, Windows had some error about a required device not being connected on one of those bootup BSODs
> Pareto efficiency exists.

> Information symmetry exists.

> People are rational actors.

Programmers? Aren't they the falsehoods an ideal theoretical economic model believes about the economy?
It is stronger, they don't make the distinction that it is people with dyscalculia that are stupid, but rather simply being ignorant is enough to qualify as this lesser form of intelligence.
It is _a_ multiplication symbol. Why not use period ".".
I agree, and would add „lifestyle“ to the relevant factors. Cuba has a lot more „communal“ life. Eating alone, as but one example, just doesn’t happen. Even something like watching TV is more of a group activity. Even if the cause of that is an inability to afford your own TV, chances are it could have an impact on psychological well-being.

Physical activity is also far higher. Again, this may be a result of relative poverty. But walking or taking public transport to work just happens to also be healthy.

Interestingly, these are factors somewhat shared across Cuba, Spain and Italy, even though there is no similar economic pressure in those countries.

On the other side of the divide, I live in Germany. We have universal insurance that is functionally equivalent to government-run healthcare (I, and everyone else, can visit a GP any time without paying). Yet outcomes here, and in Britain and Canada, are closer to the US.
That's an interesting point, but I think it's fair to say that usually when you're talking about a desktop computer you mean a computer whose interface is on your desk, similarly to how a laptop relates to a lap.

For what it's worth, I find the desktop metaphor in UX design a pretty tiring historical artefact. A desk, as a workstation, is the way it is because of physics. Computationally driven user interfaces don't have those constraints and it's awkward, not to mention short-sighted, at least in my opinion, to force one upon the other.
Couldn't you argue similarly in a paper and pencil simulation that you never create electricity, atoms, DNA and that all you have is pencil scratches on the paper?
A p-zombie. You’re going to split people 50-50 here
I see that I'm not the only geek who likes baking. When I was a PhD student I seriously considered packing it all in and starting a bakery. I'd just discovered what seemed like the forgotten secret of good bread: time. At the that time in the UK most bakery bread was terrible and bread recipes in books or online called for short rises in warm places. I had to go back to older books to discover the secret.

I would have been ahead of my time if I'd actually gone through with it. These days it seems that the secret is out again with recipes calling for 6+ hour rises. In the town I used to live there is a very successful artisan bakery now.
15 years ago I used to do Gentoo stage 1 builds and fuck around with all that nonsense. Nowadays I slap Fedora + XFCE on my desktop and every 12-18 months I do a major lift and shift upgrade. I run mostly stock settings as well.

No you're not a noob. All the nonsense I used to go through was just that... nonsense.
The author admits that he had a hard time differentiating authenticity of generated text on topics he was not interested in. This probably indicates that he might also have trouble detecting value in those topics even when discussed by a real human. Suggesting that people are not truly reasoning when speaking or do not exhibit general intelligence because they cannot solve assigned math problems was particularly infantile. I think there is just some heavy bias towards formal logic here, devaluing less easily analyzable forms of intelligence.

I doubt the school teachers who failed his mathematics exam would have major issues finding at least some of the problems in the generated texts he gave as examples.

So asking the question whether humans are "artificial" stems from a place of low empathy, I think.
Another synthetic content generator to add to https://github.com/paubric/awesome-doesnotexist
Distributed workloads are not yet supported, so they showcase what they can fit on a single node right now.
Amusing, but it feels like a template where some variables are filled by random selection from an array. Closer to SimCity 2000 newspapers than to thispersondoesnotexist.com
>See mama - I told you I was straight

Wtf is this? This is journalism?
I use dwm, but it is similar. It has a master area and a stack. The windows "snap" functionality is in several DE now, including gnome. The difference in tiling wm is that 1) it is far more flexible than just one window left and one window right 2) it doesnt take an extra keyboard shortcut, it organizes them automatically.

I would say flip the question around: if I can automatically tile windows, why would I use gnome where I have to do it manually?
IMO it's more a product of people expecting more from software. It's no longer enough to have something that works; it has to work and be pretty and user friendly.
I've often felt that most startup landing pages are just a variation upon a theme, and this site proves it to be true, literally. They have managed to distill it down to the basic elements of unoriginality that constitute the local maxima of startup landing pages today. Personally, whenever I see one of these kinds landing pages it serves as a huge red flag.
Please do the next one: this VC does not exist.
(Humans (who are not concentrating)) are not (general intelligences)
I think mupdf supports it if you compile it with that feature enabled, and I also heard about "mutool sign", which is supposed to be able to sign and verify, but I never used it. In fact, I don't even have the binary for some reason. I will try to compile mupdf from scratch now and see if it supports signatures properly. It would be good if it supported it right out of the box. Maybe some of their devs can clarify this.

So... I compiled it and now I have mutool.

I tried to run `mutool sign SampleSignedPDFDocument.pdf` and it gave me this output:

verifying signature on page 1

result: ''

The PDF I am using: https://blogs.adobe.com/security/SampleSignedPDFDocument.pdf

I have no idea how I can format the output. Is there a way to use code blocks on here?