skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever people discuss about contemporary art I am amazed that they see themselves somehow divorced from the larger entertainment industry. Once we acknowledge that artists are selling an experience, a pleasure, to art buyers then the 2m urinal makes perfect sense.

People are buying a pleasurable experience and each has a different taste. Some people want a light show and so go to a big rock concert. Some people want a pretty painting to look at while eating breakfast. So they buy a painting. Some people like the feeling of being better than other people. So they buy objects that, for them and their peers, are a badge. They demonstrate how much better their owners are than persons without such objects. Many people like this feeling and are willing to pay.

Some of these people buy flashy cars to show themselves off as they drive to work. Others buy paintings by the great masters and squirrel them away in a vault only to bring them out for dinner parties. In that context, a 2m$ urinal isn't all that different. It is an object that bestows barging rights on its owner. Compared to a great many cars and paintings, both of which come with substantial maintenance costs, 2m$ for a bit of porcelain is cheep.
Replying to my own comment so the individual saying "Bravo!" can delete their comment if they so desire (you can ask the mods to delete it if you missed the window to self delete). This is absolutely not intended to be personal about them in specific.

For the record, because there is no shortage of people worrying about my fee-fees, I don't need pats on the head or a sticker for the back of my hand like a 5 year old you are trying to mollify. That kind of reply is actually part of the problem. It treats me like I'm an emotional basket case, not like someone with a legitimate criticism of actual sexism and classism.

What I do need is a better income.

I posted a piece in early January called The Hand Licking Incident. [1] It got more than 60k page views and multiple people copied it to their site, one with my permission and proper attribution. What it didn't get is a single fucking tip or Patreon patron.

There are no ads on most of my sites because ads don't do well. A high percentage of people in the world today use ad blockers and bitch vehemently about the evils of ads online. Yet, they won't support good writing with actual money.

I am routinely told by the HN crowd that if I don't like being poor, I should go get a real job, that expecting adequate pay for good writing is just crazy talk. Writing isn't worth any money and should be done for free.

I spent about two weeks on that piece and it's informed by years of experience and education. I would love to do more writing of that sort. I think I have something of value to offer.

But, no, I can't just keep working for free. I need an adequate income. And the entire world seems to think that's just an unreasonable expectation.

So either leave a one dollar tip on one of my sites, become a patron or in some way support/promote my work or just leave me alone. I absolutely don't need people trying to massage my emotions here. If I were that emotionally fragile, I would have committed suicide years ago.

This is a chronic issue where people worry about my feelings and continue to not do a durn thing to help me establish an adequate income. I've been complaining about this for years. It's not remotely a new issue.

Guys here routinely encourage other guys here to use services like Patreon to monetize open source projects or the like. But I'm treated like a beggar and dismissed as asking for a handout for doing the same. And HN is even more hostile towards ads than most of the internet.

When I lay all that out, the next step is people telling me to give up entirely. Yet, at the same time, all of HN expects excellent content to show up here daily and also has a hissy about pay walls.

(Insert disgusted faces of the "Really??!" variety.)

[1] https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li...
Surprisingly complex states emerging out of simple synchronized networks
So I guess the answer is no, you haven't considered it.

That definitely isn’t what I said or meant, and it makes it hard to talk to someone who insists on responding to what they’d rather I’d have said in place of what I did say. The only thing I’d add to what I did say, is what darkpuma said.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19324558

Furthermore, people who believe themselves immune to being duped are less likely to admit when they've been duped, because for them to admit they were duped means they must first overcome their ego and admit to themselves they can be duped. For this reason and others, con artists love people who think no con artist could ever trick them.
I want my desktop OS to act like a proper desktop workstation and my phone to act like a typical smartphone. Don't force Windows 8 like experience onto me.
Geekbench is, IIRC, a pretty non-representative benchmark. Nowhere is this more clear than looking at Samsung Exynos Geekbench results vs. their real-world performance. It's okay for comparing iterations on an architecture (e.g. A11 vs A12, SD845 vs SD855), but it falls apart a bit otherwise.
>if I ever came into serious money, I'd buy some land and build a house outside Burlington, VT...

I hear you man, I live on a lake in Wisconsin. (In my case it's not as impressive though, because in Wisconsin nearly everyone lives on, or near a large lake.)
I have seen the image before, but I didn't know the source.

I was traying to interpret why the G.V. choose why the G.V. choose one interpretation in one case and another in the other case. It looks like a sensible criteria.

@minimaxir: I'd like to see another graph. Instead of drawing in a line the % of recognition, use a circular drawing, so it's easier to see the correspondence between the direction and the identification. I'd use the direction of the ears/beak instead of using the usual orientation as 0. (I can make a bad fake drawing, if this is too confusing.)
This is a good point. It's a challenge to convince CTOs to choose a startup to depend on for mission-critical services. For the most part, the trend is moving to greater trust for vendors that provide these services: Stripe, Twilio, Algolia. We're betting this trend will continue. And in the meantime, we're doing our best to off-set the fear of vendor lock-in with an easy export feature to export all of your data if needed.
I want to leave Facebook because it seems like a daily chore of unfollowing people who post shit stuff. Instagram is pretty much just personal photos, no stupid news articles, no "forwards from grandma" type stuff. I like seeing pictures of friends kids, new homes, vacations etc and they pretty much exist in exact duplicate across both properties. So why be on Facebook?
We use them to restrict access to some static assets (beta documentation) by checking an authorization endpoint. Haven't had any problems--but we're also doing this at a very small scale.
... and where was this Promised Land?

In the east, where the sun rises.
Do you see the wealth inequality between you and the people in at Level 1 poverty as a moral issue and how do we as a society solve that?

I pose this question because it's often overlooked how we might have wealth inequality in the USA but it's beginning to reflect that of the wealth inequality between the USA and other nations.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Factfulness

I have not read this book, but Gate's Notes on it are very interesting to me. Of course this is coming from one of the wealthiest men on the planet, but it's interesting in how we break this topic down.

This argument doesn't defer the fact that we have a pronounced problem in the USA, I am strictly pointing out that if we take this as an issue of morality we should probably apply our morality globally not locally. Politics isn't moral in it's nature. It's about a limited scope of morality (us).

We do need much better migration from rich to poor in the USA but I think this article points to a ton of people changing from one class group to another, which is the "American Dream."

The issue I think a lot of people can agree on that we need to break down is wealth hoarding, and generational wealth. That's a problem we need to address in the USA. If I get Bill Gates wealthy, that shouldn't mean my great grand kids are in the upper class. It might mean they have more opportunity to maintain their wealth, but not a guarantee of wealth.

I think we should all focus on issues that attack entrenched wealth like automation, incoherence, etc. So we can establish a playing field that encourages people to go the extra mile for the extra payoff at the end.

Edit: a curve is great but with wealth it's all about migration from one level to another.
I have some network folders mounted to ~/shares using sshfs that are automatically mounted and remounted with a cron job.

On my desktop I have _Process as a working folder for stuff that is 100% temporary. I clear this folder every day or so. This is purely for those one-off things like an image I'm posting to a site, music that I'm tagging, etc.

I have a second folder, _Projects that is for current projects -- stuff that I've 'checked out' of my NAS. This folder is automatically backed up every day regardless, but I also sort the files and clear out the auto-backup folder once its been sorted.

Every project folder has its own _Process folder that has all of the temporary working-files that I can later delete, but will need until proofs are sent off. This folder will have any notes, fonts, images, etc that the client sends.

This setup isn't fancy by any stretch, but it gives everything a home. When I start a new project I start off with mkdir -p ProjectName/_Process and fill that up first. I also rename everything that is sent to me so the file names make sense.

[1] https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sshfs
Then I think you'll find this Poland-related story amusing too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....
>I mean, if someone said, "I've successfully ported Vim to Android!", my first thought would be, "Why in god's name would I want to run vim on my phone?"*

Vim is available on android through termux. I've used it to write a few things. I actually used it to wrote an app to access my city's transit api because I wasn't a fan of the available ones.

With the right keyboard installed it's actually not too bad. Best programming editor i've actually found available on android.
I went to PAMF in Palo Alto, california yesterday for a "group diagnosis session" with the dermatologist. It seems dermatologist appointments are hard to get, so they came up with this method. You sit in a circle with other patients and doctor comes to each of you and quickly checks what happened to you and prescribes medicines. If she thinks it requires deeper consultation, she will scheduler private visits.

I thought this is a good system, especially if you are young and kind of know that what you have is one off fever or some such thing.

What am I missing? Why are more hospitals not following this? Why is no one applying to YC with this idea?
This was exactly my problem with College and why I didn't succeed there.

I came from a really good high school that offered a breadth of knowledge across fields. When I went to college (granted in 1998) to become a "web designer" the curriculum and training was just not there. My first year was taking variations of the same math courses, the same english courses and a couple comp sci courses (teaching Java). It was heartbreaking. Anything design related involved drawing classes.

I dropped out mostly because I was too disheartened by what college was and didn't end up going to class. I was instead hacking in my dorm room on HTML, CSS and Photoshop. When I dropped out it led to immense guilt in relation to my family, who very lovingly had done everything they could to set me up to succeed. It was only a year later when I had a surprisingly decent pay check to show my parents that they didn't consider me unmotivated.

College isn't for everyone. It's especially not good if you know what you want to do and have mastered some manner of self-learning. For those of us that figure that stuff early, it's much better to just jump into the work and figure it out. In those ways I somewhat value a good high school as more important to college. It was there that I learned to learn and could explore my interests in a well-rounded curriculum.

I'm conflicted about how I'll deal with the scenario when my own kids grow up. I married a teacher, and speaking for myself I do very much value liberal arts educations. I just think a lot of those introductions need to be provided in High School, with secondary education focused more towards whatever your career is. If you don't know what that career is yet, I think potentially waiting a couple years to go to secondary education (be it college or trade school) till you know is a better bet.

My big takeaway is there isn't some magic formula for this. Everyone is different and we shouldn't pressure certain paths.
A question for a physicist from a layman. All objects in the universe are connected to each other through gravity, no matter how distant. So what happens to the energy or mass of an object (or total energy/mass) in the expanding universe? As space inflates, the distances are greater between objects, so where the excess of gravitational radiation went to? Can that account for the dark energy?
Ask HN: Is there a historical data source for PV (solar power) generation?
Looking to answer questions like:
"How many megawatts were generated in 1993?"
"What was the cost of 1 MW of solar power in 2007?"
I think your depiction of Houston is accurate but it also applies to SF, Boston and Chicago (especially those cities!). Each has a very specific culture that is great if you fit with and horrible if you don't. Ever try to get good Mexican or Indian food in Boston or Chicago?

SF is a bit different as it does have many options that aren't available in second tier cities. That being said, the QoL is the lowest of all in many ways due to cost of living, commute... It also has a very specific political culture that many don't find appealing.
The House of Representatives is currently in Democratic hands, so the system there would appear to be working as intended.

Meanwhile, the Senate and the Presidency are controlled by Republicans, and gerrymandering is utterly irrelevant to those outcomes.
I understand the need but this adds serious complexity and wouldn't recommend that this becomes the standard for UX in React. A user is often ok with a delay and it may not worth the tech debt. That said, a very well written article.
You're right, my statement was too absolute. What I meant to convey is that pharmacists cannot just ask for modifications without the knowledge and consent of the patient.
Involuntarily locking up and interrogating someone for 13 hours isn't "asking for information," and yes, it is unreasonable. In the land of the free/home of the brave that is known as an "arrest," and it can only be done if there's a charge. This is simply using passport flagging and ports of entry to persecute the political enemies of the current administration.
Meanwhile abortion and second amendment enforcement are enough to keep me voting Republican for years and years to come (and the occasional Libertarian).
Similar story involved ICE, different location, not explicitly linked to border crossings...

https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-immigration-protest-sp...
It is not fair. The same cost in money does not translate to the same cost in efforts to earn trust. This is structural discrimination.
> Quit Open Source [...]

If you burn out in an open source project it may just mean that you are bad at self management.

I sometimes leave the office for a walk (without stopping the clock) if it becomes to stressful. Usually I come back more productive to make up for the missed time.
Visual Studio Code – February 2019 Update
Your brain isn't developed (it keeps developing till at least 30) to the point that you are capable of acquiring that expansive world view during those first 12 years. There is a reason we don't trust teenage drivers, and part of college is that transition from being a teenager to being an adult. In high school you are still only seeing people from your neighborhood but people go far away for college where they meet people who are totally not like them.

(Yes, people mature at different rates and some can acquire some of that world view in High School.)
> I'm talking about one person consuming as much as 100,000 others

Most rich people, even very rich, have mostly normal things, just at the higher end of the scale. A Mercedes instead of a Ford - Restaurants instead of cooking at home. Etc.

How many people really consume 100,000 x more than a regular person? That's impossible. A house that is 100,000 times as big? Cars and food that use 100,000 times as much resources? What! You make it sound common. For this to be real we'd have to live in a fantasy universe where some visible fraction of the populace drives things as big as the Titanic to work and park it in their house that's a skyscraper.

Most people who are mega wealthy do not consume anywhere near 100,000 times more resources as everyone else. The planet doesn't have nearly that many resources. Just look around you - they live mostly normal lives.

The difference between the average first-world person and the mega wealthy is smaller now in terms of life experience than it has ever been in history.

Some may have 100,000 times more money, sure - but that's different. For people with that much wealth, it's not even liquid. It's locked up on paper as things like ownership of a fraction of a company.

The times when massive amounts of money are spent on material goods privately often tend to be on things that are so far on the end of the spectrum that they drive technology for the whole world. The technology in Teslas flows to other developers, helping us fight global warming. The technology in even higher-end sports cars helps us discover new tricks of efficiency and engineering which also flow outward. Moving into spacious new apartments on billionaire's row develops new advancements in architecture, and also removes the super rich from competing for regular housing.

And for the things that seem superfluous, like a $300M yacht, I would say, why do you really care? I don't know about you, but I wasn't brought up to be envious of the rich. (My parents never fed me any political opinions, which in retrospect I am incredibly thankful for.) But as a result, I know that things like yachts can exist, and I've always thought they were marvels of engineering, beautiful for their own sake. Plus to be built requires the employment of thousands. Luxury items that big are basically private wealth redistribution.

The existence of an uneven spectrum of wealth is a good thing _precisely because_ of how it affects resource allocation. Taking that money from the marginal wealthy and giving it to everyone would only be an incremental increase for the rest of us. But its concentration and availability for things like starting Space X, starting Tesla, and, yes, fancy yachts, means that advancement can happen. The mega rich don't use more - proportional to their wealth, they use much less, but smartly designed. And those designs eventually help everyone else.
Alternate title: Regulators Move to Ease Pre-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street.
Knowing Elon Musk it is probably best they start on a small project given he is likely to over-commit to things.
You provide a good depiction of the current state but that still does not explain why some person that has as much as 100'000 others do is inherently a bad thing. Tilting the system in their favor may be undesirable for the society at large but now 1. that is something natural to do and is actually done by each of us (and the very attempt of incriminating the rich for their status can be counted as example) and 2. it would make more sense to narrow the targeting to the individuals that actually do that kind of tilting/corruption of the system. Blaming the rich for being rich will have bad consequence for the driving force that moves the society forward.
A civilization using this method might not use optical systems to focus the beam like we do, but might individually fire precisely aimed photons.
Sure, it doesn't go very far in the Apple ecosystem, but you can get a solid set of equipment for much less. For examine, a Thinkpad will run $500-1500 (depending on the model), a solid tablet can be found for ~$500, and plenty of decent phones are ~$500 (mine was $250). Altogether, that's <$2000 for a solid set of devices.
Ok, it's interesting because I also learned Japanese (MA graduate). In comparison, it took me a few days for learning hiragana/katakana plus few weeks more to read them a reasonable speed. Two years before that I've learned about 70 kanji with kunyomi in three weeks during high school. That part was done also with Wikipedia-sensei. Then I actually started learning the language at university.

So, if after two years of using Duolingo you cannot read all the katakana and cannot make a sentence more complex then xxx ha yyy desu it just totally prove how bad the application is. And what's even more damageable is that user think they are making progress and then do not focus on real, useful material.
But at what point does daring rule-breaking degenerate into mere gimmickry. I guess I can understand why piece generated so much interest in it's time, but since then we've been subjected to a relentless parade of urinals, cow corpses, faeces, signed brillo boxes etc. At this point we've seen the emperor naked ad nauseum
They can do experimentations and distribute their work through their channels then. But GNU tools (and FOSS by extension) are so popular because of their no-nonsense philosophy of here it is do with it whatever you want. Run it anywhere and any way you please.

Citing it or not is an issue of academic practice/considerations (whether its use was a significant part of the research etc.). Mandating it through nag messages is too much.

What's next? make will print ads while the compilation runs? GIMP will watermark my images if I don't pay 10K or promise to cite it if I make figures with for my paper?

So again, my main confusion is about how this can be an official GNU tool.
This surprised me a bit but generics are not always a de-branded version of a medication or the same formulation manufactured by a different company. Often times generic equivalents are different formulations (sometimes prior generation formulas and sometimes divergent formulas) that are considered to have the same effect.

They nearly always do, but the weirdness of our stupid patent system means that sometimes they can have weird allergenic effects or (especially with neurological medicines that are less well understood) differing efficacy.
One of the shittiest human beings on the face of the earth? Really? There are people alive today who have committed mass genocide. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they are probably shittier human beings than Martin Shkreli. So no, not concrete enough.
Also, that money from insurance companies would go to the development of better and safer drugs. People just tend to skim the surface of a news story and form their opinions based on public consensus, which is that Shkreli is an evil person. Of course in reality, he's a distraction.
Witty Women Are Less Likely to Get Promoted Than Men – Pacific Standard
Abortion's all the Rs need for the same loyalty from a big chunk of the population. They end up voting for all kinds of other stuff incidentally, just because the Rs are—thanks to some serious errors in our system of government that aren't likely to be fixed any time soon—the only viable pro-life party. So those voters will keep opposing action on climate change and voting anti-net-neutrality, simply as a side-effect.

[EDIT] wrote "pro-net-neutrality" rather than "anti" by mistake; fixed.