skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competitive impulses are not "capitalist". They predate capitalism. In other words, they exist in the absence of "capitalist" laws.

There is no evidence or indication that competitive impulses change as a result of changing or eliminating laws that provide people security of property and contract liberty. When you repeal those legal protections to forcibly redistribute income, you just cause people to find new ways to compete, like minimizing the taxes they pay (people in the US spend $265 billion a year attempting to minimize their tax exposure) or maximize the benefits they receive. And those ways are much less beneficial to society.

>You appear to be claiming that humans are, always and everywhere, solely moved to maximise their material interests.

No I'm saying that to the extent that they do try to maximize their own material interests, that will not change by changing the laws relating to private property rights.

>Contrary to your suggestion that welfare claimants comprehensively exploit the system, official statistics in the UK state that only about 2% of claimants do.

You can't actually measure successful fraud, and moreover, expending energy on maximizing welfare benefits isn't limited strictly to committing fraud. There are ways to increase welfare benefits that are legal and both unethical and socially detriment, like having additional children when you already cannot independently support the ones you have.
Why do you suppose that is the case? Is the cost per tree too great? Are you pessimistic about lowering that cost via automation? I read recently about drones that can drop large numbers of pods containing fertilizer and seeds over a huge area in little time; it doesn’t seem infeasible to iterate on a concept like that and drive down the costs considerably.
The law required that the operators of YouTube take stronger action against repeat offenders. They didn't. We were actually starting to line up the evidence to demonstrate beyond any doubt that they had been clearly informed about the repeated infringement and that DMCA-compliant takedown notices had been properly filed in each case, which would have set up a lawsuit against YouTube if we'd been inclined to pursue them. In practice, we never did, but not because of anything YouTube changed. The offending party slipped up so we could identify them, and then they stopped misbehaving after we contacted them directly and made clear that we were preparing to take legal action against them personally.
If you are on HN then you probably are White/Asian/Indian and middle class or above now, or in upbringing. You are less likely to mix with who have bad interactions with the police.

I agree broad statements like minorities can't trust the police are ridiculous. Very rarely do you hear Asian man shot by police.

Clearly black Americans(mostly men)have a problematic history in interactions with police , with some great abuse by some departments. Unfortunately, bad cops get protected, so abuse doesn't lead to punishment....BUT also CNN and clickbait media/Twitter outrage manufacturers turn every white cop/black citizen encounter in to a racial episode when it isn't, which further makes black men/boys feel under siege. Even though that isn't the case most of the time. When actual abuse does happen, the well is poisoned already by the clickbait, and (some) of their fellow citizens are not as empathetic.
These types of articles are everywhere and I wish they'd spend more time explaining how to tell if you're getting enough sleep

I've tried everything I can to measure but I cannot see an improvement between 8 vs 6 hours of sleep. I opt for 8 because these article scare me but I actually feel worse than with 6.

I don't drink coffee or alcohol and I fall asleep within 10 min of going to bed. Is it at all possible that I'm getting what I need with 6 hours?
That sounds like either a user error or worth a bug report. Did you create one? Which email server? What did the logs say?
> The interests of the occupants are best attended to via short-term control ... but the interests of society are best attended to via long-term control.

Sounds nice, but good luck finding politicians and leaders who will exercise just (as in "justice") decisions in this manner.

More generally: The problem right now is a people problem, corruption. The system isn't the primary problem. If everyone were benevolent, sharing, kindhearted individuals, then we'd work together to see everyone had a home, regardless of whether the system was capitalistic, socialistic, or communistic. Instead, we live in a world of selfish people. sigh

It's nice to talk about theories though. :)

> That might work if there was a constant supply of new land to distribute, but there isn't.

True, but there is plenty of unused land. Just that people tend to crowd the coasts. EDIT: I didn't finish my thought. I meant to add that there's still enough earth for people to occupy for years... and we can build vertical realestate too.
I entirely agree, presumption of knowledge is all too evident here and it burdens newcomers getting on board with the details. I gave up in exasperation when it droned on, and even when I skipped to the latter third. I may have entirely lost the specifics in between that I was looking for but no time left on my patience budget. A simple “for those unfamiliar with the situation ...<summary paragraph>”
puts tinfoil hat on

The author of post is the same person who's been heavy criticized[0] for her analysis of the StackOverflow survey dataset. Maybe she's trying to shift the attention to something else? I am not defending DataCamp or pulling an Ad Hominem, it's just a strange coincidence.

0.https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/382731/please-be-mo...
> “The team then cooked rice in an apparatus that continually condenses steam to produce a fresh supply of distilled hot water”

What device is that?
I don't recommend heading over to #python on Freenode then, if you want to maintain that belief! They're a bunch of purists, it's hard to squeeze a practical response from them a lot of the time.
I had not thought of that before
I’ve heard that a critical mass of trees can effectively generate their own moisture and counter desertification. No idea how this works or if it is true, but I’d love to be corrected and/or learn more.
And their mobile apps don’t allow more than one account in the free tier (which may be a good decision for ProtonMail, but is not for me). Since the free tier doesn’t support IMAP, and since the paid tier supports IMAP only through a bridge and only on the desktop, I don’t have a paid account with it. Seems like a lot of hassle for me.
I look for smaller places that I can handle on my own (2 bedroom max), no major structural/foundational issues that would require bringing an engineer in, no demolition that would require an engineer, that kind of thing. Finding an inspector that you trust and that knows their stuff is really key here. Basically the same kind of things you would look for when investing in house flips (which is really all I'm doing, just for fun on my own).
Yeah well, it's definitely not trivial. I just mean that most of the problems we're implementing have been solved decades ago (inverse kinematics, control, comms, etc). When you actually need to get all of those functions working in a hard real-time system, of course there are enormous engineering difficulties. In my limited experience, these mostly manifest as extensive testing and formal verification, to the extent to which that is possible.

Check out NASA Core Flight System if you're curious, it's an in-house framework and abstracted OS layer meant to support hard real-time flight systems.
The video has nothing to do with anything we are talking about, it is about short and longterm debt cycles. That was my comment.

Markets aren't killing anybody, markets don't hold a gun. They are a tool to efficiently allocate resources via price discovery.
(In some views) morals are relative and personal, not absolute.

But that too is a moral view, is it not? It may be "meta-relative" to other moral views but doesn't keep it from being statement of values.
Not all of it, that's the point. Some pure carbon (charcoal) is left that makes good soil amendment. That carbon doesn't make it back to the atmosphere unless somehow burned.
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A good way to take part in increasing the number of trees, if you own your own home, is to improve the state of your shade trees. The trees absorb atmospheric carbon while also reducing home temperatures in summer, which in turn reduces the electricity people use for cooling. (And you save money!!) So a shade tree is a particularly effective way to reduce both atmospheric CO2 and electric bills. You might think of shade trees as cheap, biological solar panels.

Also, one can plant fruit trees in their yard. I put in 6 last fall and plan to put in another dozen in the next 2-3 weeks. Over the winter I added about 6 truck loads of wood chips to the yard to reduce water usage. (My general feeling at this point from working with the soil is that the wood chips reduce watering needs by at least 80% here. This is a form of xeriscaping, if you're interested.) With all this food growing in the coming years we'll be taking fewer trips to the grocery store while eating better. And probably giving away and trading a lot of food - we're already starting to trade for eggs from a friend, for example.
My favorite talk on Sleep by William Dement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8 September 23, 2008 Google Tech Talk

Very entertaining.
UASP mode can be relatively efficient for USB but it's pretty rare for an ARM SBC to support it.

Boards with SATA support aren't hard to find but you have to be careful of ones that are simply SATA over USB if you're looking to avoid that.

The RockPi 4 is the cheapest board I know of to support m.2 NVMe drives.
From the ref: "Specifically, in October 2017, at an informal employee gathering at a bar after a week-long company offsite, one of DataCamp’s executives danced inappropriately and made uninvited physical contact with another employee while on the dance floor."

Which again is ambiguous because we're going from - someone swung someone around on the dance floor, to 'danced with someone' which involved 'two people touching' (gasp), to someone grabbing/groping someone in an utterly unacceptable way.

And boundaries are different depending on culture, and context (i.e. work, not really work, social, setting, 'consistent bad behaviour' vs. 'one time') etc. etc. etc..

Even with the 'details' it might still be a debate unless it's just blatantly bad.

Edit: I'm not going to defend anyone who's done anything obviously bad, I'm saying the information that we have easy access to is a little grey.
That actually makes sense (the difference between CLJS and syntactic sugar transpilers).
I've considered it! Our local community college offers classes like this for pretty cheap, maybe when I'm done with the current place.
Damn, I didn't know about the tipping schenanigans. However, it's weird how different my Instacart experiences are from yours. In Seattle everyone has been top notch, friendly, and like crazy helpful. I've been using it for, I dunno, a year? And I still get free shipping + waived delivery fees when I order. I have no idea how they make any money.

I've tried Prime in the past, but I'm not in the demographic they cater too. Whole Foods isn't my scene, and while I'm not too cheap to have something delivered, I am too cheap to pay $2.30 for an organic onion.
> and after giving people like this guy a pass for three decades are finally looking for the reason they’ve been getting screwed over and this guy is scared shitless they’re going to find it.

Preach on brother zcw100!
It's less a problem with the language syntax and more a problem of the low bar for entry.

To put it another way, "3 years of experience writing Python code" could mean hacking on scripts or it could mean Enterprise level system design and implementation. Hard to hack around on scripts in Java.
Desktop (Debian Sid, Xmonad etc): claws-mail

CLI: mutt

Mobile (Android): K9

Claws because it starts in less than a second and does all I want, mutt because of the same reasons, K9 because it it does most of what I want and is free software like all other software on my mobile devices.
I'd agree income inequality is a problem, but I think what is specifically bothering people is that they feel they don't have the opportunity to make more. Once someone has money they can use it to help themselves and "hold down" others. (I put that in quotes because it might be a little exageration, but I think people feel that way.)

There are many examples but a the most basic one in the US is that the outcome of a trial is highly correlated with the amount of money you spend on lawyers.

A problem with Khanna and the article is that he is just continuing to give outsize influence to the rich. I hope he can learn something from Sanders and not worry too much about "alienate(ing) some of his wealthiest backers".
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It's not up to me or you to determine why there are so many brands of consumer products. There is not a moment after which we ban all further competition and new entrants. I hope competitors continue to innovate, so we have the best possible choice on a multitude of variables including price, quality, ingredients, etc.
Watch the Air Force Jump-Start a B-52's Engines with Explosive Charges
That’s a really good point also where water and irrigation is concerned hopefully that would be done in the most sustainable way possible.

I wonder how many of those 1.2T trees could be accomplished without starting huge new forests or in places that require irrigation.

There are cities in places with ample rain that already have 1,000's of vacant lots. Ten trees per vacant lot could start to make a big difference, if only regionally.

Maybe Americans should stop thinking of Arbor Day and the Arbor Day Foundation as quaint square leftovers from a past generation, and start thinking of them as a framework to save the planet.

https://www.arborday.org

I'd welcome two new trees in my front yard and two in the back, but my HOA won't allow it. I've already reached my maximum vegetation allowance.
Bread and butter is the Lexus RX, Acura MDX, Honda CR-V and Toyota Highlander. There is zero issue putting them out the door, because the demand is insane. I've also started with Toyota Priuses because there's high-demand, most mechanics are allergic to batteries, and people dump them for cheap over any battery pack issue.

Though I've worked on a ton of stuff, the above is where there's A) enough people owning the above who still think all vehicles explode when their odometer hits 100K B) have inexpensive and easy repairs for simple things that are rotting or are wearing out and C) plenty of people who know better and when they test drive a 10-year old one that feels as good and looks as good as new, won't even negotiate your asking price.

I've entertained the idea of selling BMW M cars, Audi S/RS and Merc AMGs, but the reality is there's far more labor involved, far more to usually fix, higher acquisition costs, less demand, and buyers who are completely insufferable. I've sold several, but in retrospect it wasn't ever worth the time and effort.
Agreed that exceptional students should be given tools to excel. College admissions is supposed to work that way by accepting the best academically and supporting them with academic scholarships.

Still, the world is full of people who will not excel at anything. They deserve help to be their best too.
It doesn't sound like he did that, though, so I'm not really sure what the point of this hypothetical is.
It's a long story, but the short version goes something like this:

At first we worked our cabooses off to publish new original content several times per month. This proved unsustainable, partially because we were becoming more ambitious with our work, but especially owing to stressors that had arisen in my personal life, and I burned out.

I spent a year-long hiatus putting things right, and when we resumed our writing, it was with the understanding that we were switching to a marathon-not-a-sprint publication schedule. The curated column arose to fill in the gaps between our in-house writings. Nowadays many readers specifically visit us for the links, so we feel duty-bound to persist.
The Chinese invented the compass, movable type and other things long before the west.

(I'm not Chinese)
Was a great time this morning partaking in this thread.
That’s a really good point also where water and irrigation is concerned hopefully that would be done in the most sustainable way possible.
But the comment said we could get energy out. Wouldn't we burn it to get energy?
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I have had uninvited (and unwelcome) physical contact that took the form of handshakes, so obviously that language isn't shedding any real light. Those words could describe harassment, or they could describe aggravated sexual assault.
If you're a gameboy color fan, google the freckle shack kit. It's a backlit lcd with a custom pcb that doesn't require any soldering. New design by BennVenn who has been on the scene for a while.

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Especially, it takes one line in almost all toolkits to create Standard dialogs such as

window.alert("Hello world");

You can show such windows even from the terminal in Powershell, Linux, OS X. With one line of code.

It's not everything so broken...
Obligatory 'citation needed'.

In addition, I'm quite personally tired of the "they felt threatened" argument. If we are going to give a person such exceptional power (to make arrests, to search a person, and to carry a deadly weapon) it should be suspected that they act with exceptional responsibility, not fear or recklessness. If part of your job description entails that you have the right to kill someone that is a legitimate threat to your own life, you better be 100% sure that that person is a legitimate threat to your own life before you hurt them. Police officers should especially be held to a higher standard, but for some reason they arent, which absolutely baffles me. How do stories exist of cops effectively executing people who are lying on the ground with their hands on their heads, where the cop not only doesn't go to jail, but they keep their job? How is this not absolute insanity?
are you concerned about the low amounts of ground nylon that your customers (or really the original customers) were ingesting if this part does wear down over time?
I can certainly understands we have modeling limits
I saw it, it was so big
>>What I am actually arguing is for dealing with bias wherever we find it, and against your position that this is invalidated by possible existence of other biases, no matter how small, and even though they continue to be hypothetical.

The most efficient way to reduce all of what you call "biases", which are simply imperfections, is to reduce the total error rate. Prioritizing the error rate of one subset of the whole will be less efficient at reducing the total error rate, and that's what you do when you identify a disadvantaged group and change the development focus from reducing the total error rate to reducing the error rate for their subset.

>>You have consistently failed to show any real-world evidence for your position.

I've already addessed this argument. Repeating myself:

I can't show real world numbers when the phenomenon in question can't have controlled experiments run on it, and I don't need to show real world numbers to make a case for the logical soundness of a principle, in this case the principle that prioritizing improvement of a metric other than overall performance will generally lead to less overall performance improvements than not doing so.

>>Your argument is tendentious in the way it arbitrarily takes certain fixed positions, such as the above insistence on not doing anything unless you can guarantee 100% success,

What are you referring to?

>>and your insistence that maximizing the number of lives saved being the only justification for expenditure, only so far as it justifies (in your view) doing nothing in the case of ethnicity, race and gender, but no further.

Again I don't know what you're referring to. What do you mean when you say "only so far as it justifies [not focusing on reducing gender/racial disparities]"? You're alleging that my motivation for promoting the objective of maximizing the number of lives saved is to prevent action to reduce gender/racial disparities?
HN news ?
Yeah probably. I mean pretty much any manufacturing is really at odds with the ecological restoration and ecosystem management degrees I have. I've come to reconcile this dissonance as the non-essential, environment destroying job pays enough money for me to live and have these non-essential things, while trying to help the planet did not. So...there's that. Turns out it's really difficult to live on sparse couple month contracts that are paid with grant money that typically only occur during spring-fall.
On desktop, I use Thunderbird, although it’s showing its age on performance and search. The lack of native integration with MS Exchange is also a drawback for me (I have used some extensions, but they’re not very reliable). I do donate to the Thunderbird project regularly though.

On mobile, I use Mail.app from Apple and connect to mailboxes using IMAP. The only exception is ProtonMail, which doesn’t support IMAP directly, needs a bridge software on the desktop and supports it only for paid tiers (which is a fine business decision).

For productivity, I don’t think any desktop app or webmail could compete with well configured command line applications (like Mutt, Emacs, etc.).
"made uninvited physical contact" - I don't know if a whole lot can be understood by that.

Someone giving the 2-cheek Euro kiss in North America could be 'uninvited' to many, surely.

So could someone swinging someone around on the dance-floor.

Maybe someone danced like Elvis (i.e. hips) and then put their arm around someone else and said something to them drunkenly.

Or maybe someone was 'grabbed' or 'groped' in a way that would obviously be totally out of bounds in any context.

There's definitely a range of possibilities here. I'm going to guess that if this is a serious incident, there was probably 'unacceptable groping' but maybe they should have phrased it as such - because 'unwanted touching' is, in and of itself possibly problematic, but there's a range of behaviours there, some of which don't rise to the level of really bad stuff like groping.
No the Twitter thread, silly goose.
Only because you've made an assumption about what uninvited physical contact means.
I agree with others that this comment has increased my understanding greatly. Perhaps since this is a linguistic example, it resonates. Thank you for replying.

To add a bit of info, there is a system named Attempto Controlled English which uses a subset of Natural Language to express axioms. It is available here https://github.com/chrisdone/ace and here https://github.com/Attempto/APE

How would one associate patterns of axioms with appropriate relations in Category Theory ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Well I don’t know what county you’re in, but I’m not surprised a place with no assaults in 5 years has nice cops. I doubt the experience of a person of color there matches the experience where police shootings happen.