skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trade jobs deserve more respect than they get. Skilled labor is in short supply, nearly guaranteeing vocational school graduates steady work and good income (especially in construction/machinery fields). Not to mention about $100k less spent on tuition vs college bachelor's degree.

https://www.thesimpledollar.com/why-you-should-consider-trad...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19324670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15691817
In the previous wave of new space companies, Orbital's Pegasus launcher was first.
Nobody's claiming a magic bullet. Nothing you mention invalidates the idea, I think.

For the first part(the nature of the "hash"), there should obviously be standards to address these questions. An official recording could be identified by a hash of the actual recording in some standard format(e.g. raw wave files).

For distribution of score sheet and lyrics, those can be treated separately and have their own hash identifier according to their own standard.

The rest are philosophical and legal questions that are orthogonal to the technical problem.
The point of the suggestion, is to address the technical side of the problem.

Having an open platform where authors/copyright owners can hold public records of their copyrighted works and their distribution, and point to it as legal evidence, would certainly be useful, don't you think?
*One of the systems that we are aware of
Uh, Pennsylvania Dutch much? Regular Dutch in NY, for that matter? German as the national language being a possibility?

If you want to mourn the WASPs Stewart Alsop might ring your bell better.
What I would like to see is a system which is still binary, but the people that I personally upvote matters.

Just as an example I just upvoted you and I would like to see your future comments, I care less about how many people are upvoting a content and care more about who upvoted it, and whether that person is selective to upvote constructive content only.
The process betrays that type of evasion. Usually this stuff is part of a broader system, and there’s evidence of whatever omission is taking place.
"The lightest elements play an exceptional
role for the advancement of nuclear and atomic physics: Only
here theoretical approaches are sufficiently advanced to calculate both electronic and the nuclear structure from first principles."

The purpose of this work would be to get data to subject these calculations to experimental test. In other words, science.
Stoicism was an intriguing topic for me in college, but I've since been more drawn towards the works of St.Thomas Aquinas. It's interesting how St. Paul encountered Stoics and Epicureans in Athens (Chapter 17:18+ of Acts). From there, you have Dionysius who followed him and was an author of some influential writings that shaped Christian thought (including Aquinas). It's also interesting exploring Heraclitus' understanding of "Logos", which is very important (and with differences in the Who and What) for both Christianity and Stoicism.
> This was downvoted to death within 6 minutes. Downvoters: why?

It was probably mostly automatic: it's a brand new account posting links, so looks (to a program) like a spammer.
I don't think it's disingenuous. The advertiser is willing to pay a lot more for the ad after the extra tech is added on. That's a pretty clear case that the extra tech makes the same ad impression more valuable.

I don't agree that it's value add since the advertiser pays the publisher directly, and the advertiser then slaps on all of the extra bells and whistles, so the impression isn't modified to be more valuable before it gets to the advertiser.

However, the comparison is not disingenuous. Even though I disagree with the parent poster, there is a clear perspective where the two are comparable.
It exposed all their shady business (and technical!) practices and they weren't able to behave that way anymore.

But I agree, macroeconomic forces were more powerful.
The iPad is also single-app, and touch based. This is significantly different from multi-window/multi-app with a precision pointing device like a mouse. The windowing use-cases aren't the same.
I've heard the Japanese do not like "used" houses but I've never hear about the earthquake angle.
I like "round globally". Nice.
China 'rigs' 5G test to favour Huawei
What drives the value of the land if you are not able to build a valuable structure on it?
yeah I was a bit shocked to finally understand the purpose of that feature 20 years after the fact
After SpaceX Starlink Launch, Fear of Satellites Outnumbering All Visible Stars
All you linux veterans may cringe at it, but maybe check out my dotfiles. I have spent years cultivating a complete DE experience around dwm. It shouldn't be too hard to drop in your wm of choice.

I have used it with HiDPI but only briefly, so that may still be imperfect.

https://github.com/AeliusSaionji/dotfiles
It makes perfect sense- in the same way that your reflection in a mirror "demonstrates awareness of your presence." An illusion generated by a sensor glitch or interference is entirely liable to move around when the sensors and interference moves around, and flight computers tracking the glitch would plausibly show it "performing maneuvers" that make no sense for physical objects, such as the ones you describe.
My favorite quote from him came from his tech talk at Google where, in response to a question about String Theory from the audience he replied, "String Theory was invented in my lab, I thought it was a stupid idea then, and I still do."
> absurd humidity and mold problem endemic to pretty much all of coastal Asia (trying to keep your house mold-free is a losing battle after a certain point and it's unavoidable)

The only place I ever read about this supposedly terrifying mould is on the internet, usually from Americans. What exactly is wrong with mould? Everyone lives in mouldy houses where I live. Going by Americans online, we should all be dead by now (if not from the mould, from touching raw chicken... the other supposed terror).
window snaping IIRC, which is to me, the most interesting UI idea MS had since win95. It is damn intuitive and efficient.
Proper good comedy writing was found in that URL. One for the bookmarks.
We have a Chik-Fil-A a few miles from my house.

That place is the busiest fast food restaurant in town. They make tasty food, and the employees are unfailingly cheerful.

Some people dislike Chik-Fil-A for whatever personal reasons they may have. Chik-Fil-A doesn't care, they just keep on keeping on. They really do treat everybody respectfully, though. (If they didn't you'd better believe it'd be in your inbox in nanoseconds.)

Once in a while a business gets the formula just right. Disney did it. Apple did it. Now Chick-Fil-A has done it.
I would assume that the retention schedule and process around the video is designed to benefit to protect the employers interests.

“Nobody watching” is meaningless. Amazon offers facial recognition as a service, and many tools exist to identify and classify data in video. The computer is watching, and it will be configured to see whatever is in the interest of the folks controlling the machine.
Whatever it's worth, this whole thing has traumatized me so much it makes me fearful of flying at all. But one thing's for sure, if I have any say, I'll probably never fly a 737 MAX again.

I'm sure there are many people who will do the same. In fact, every flight I do go on now, I check to make sure it is not a MAX.

I doubt there will be enough people who think this way that it would cause a problem economically for any airlines that carry this line, and I'm sure with time, people will forget, but I sure as hell will do my best not to.
A rich person will by definition not be struggling financially but there are a lots of other problems a person can have. Maybe their wife divorced them, maybe their father just passed away, maybe their kid has a severe learning disability, maybe they are involved in a protracted court battle over the rights to a book they wrote.

Point is that there are so many problems people can have, and you wont notice unless you know the person well.
This is all really disappointing - they ought to mention it up front in their FAQ. I hope they (or someone else) submits a v3 with tighter definitions that can close the SaaS proprietary source code loophole without introducing a compromising level of overreach or ambiguity.

> the fact that they haven't switched over by now signals to me that they're not yet confident in the newer version of the license; if they're not, I can't say I am either.

Agreed; I wouldn't want to make use of it either until the dust is well settled.
It literally isn't, as you've presented it.
why the past tense?

Adobe AIR does not end, HARAMN take over its development

and AS3 is still a fine language, you can even use it on the command-line and server-side
It's massively more likely to hit some bug and record a bunch of me when the listening feature is enabled than when it's not.
I personally find the Meditations (of which I’m not a fan) to seem almost like a Christian gospel with regard to its tone and teachings. It makes me think that either Aurelius was influenced by Christianity, or Christianity represented a belief system that was common in Rome at the time. From my readings of the origins of Christianity, I understand that Jesus was just one of many messianic type leaders with similar teachings that existed in the Roman Empire at that time. So, makes me believe it’s more toward the latter.
>For whatever reason

It's pretty simple: as you say, they're local. Google and Amazon are the big evil corporations on the other side of the country, but Comcast has an office in your town, and your neighbour's son works for them. They're a significant provider of relatively well-paid low-skill jobs in every community in the country. It's incredibly difficult to come down on that.
It correlates well with people complaints about reccuring failure in recent german car brands. Maybe they're just cheaping out or maybe plastic is really not fit for the task.
>I'm not sure this is the best strategy for Amazon when I buy a deck of cards, I don't need 20 more types. But maybe it is effective and that's why they keep doing it.

For standard playing cards, probably not, but for collectible card games, tarot cards, the blank cards used by game designers when building prototypes, card driven board games, etc. it might be significantly more effective. Those are all "cards" things where customers are likely to be repeat buyers or interested in trying other options.

They were laughably bad about distinguishing those sorts of different types/audiences in the past, and as in your example still aren't always good, but anecdotally seem to be gradually getting better. Maybe the gradual investment in development of machine learning and accumulation of data over time will result in less ridiculous suggestions in a decade or two.
You're not that important. If you don't want to answer that's your business, you're allowed to just do nothing.
Even partial credit seems enough to question the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius's philosophy.

He raised Commodus, and co-ruled with him for a time.
- He was was either unaware of his son's (lack) of fitness or
- He was aware but unwilling to take corrective action or
- He was aware but unable to take corrective action
> the flats that people talk about would be considered too small to live in by western standards. Most of them seem to be made of horrendous cheap plastic prefab; you get a corridor with a kitchen in it, a mezzanine to sleep on above said corridor that is too small to sit upright, a 7'x'7 living area and a bathroom (including toilet) that is about 2ft x 2ft.

What are you talking about? That sounds like the kind of accommodation so rare that it gets articles written [1] for being so innovative. Apartments in Japan are small, but I have never seen one like that except on the internet, or in Hong Kong.

As a counterpoint, the typical small single occupant housing I saw in Japan had the following characteristics: solid concrete construction, a narrow kitchen (double burner with fish broiler, sink, counter, rice cooker, and microwave, with cupboards above and below), a small living room plus a small tatami bedroom to the side (though these spaces likely aren't separate in denser cities), a closet-sized toilet room, and a larger room with bath.

So yes, they are certainly smaller than anything you find in most western countries - but that is because zoning makes it illegal.

{1} https://www.livingbiginatinyhouse.com/tiny-tokyo-apartment/
No. They didn't get broken up. But they stopped a number of anti-competitive behaviors for a decade or more. It definitely was not "business as usual", either in internal attitude (from what I've heard) or in external behavior (from what I observed).
4 Years of College, $0 in Debt: How Some Countries Make Education Affordable
“Slavery” doesn’t have just one configuration.

It’s just a word that we sometimes use to describe certain kinds of superior-inferior relationships: master-servant, lord-peasant, employer-employee, landlord-tenant, etc.

Or how about debtpeon-bank?

Taxman-taxpayer...

Government-citizen...

State-subject...

You say “slavery” and you think of “black slavery”, but do you think of the ruthlessly exploited sharecropper?

How about the fresh-faced grad indentured to his debt for life?

The newlywed with the mortgage on the house that cost him 10x what it cost his father?

Slavery is closer than you think.
I posted this as a comment the other day in another Boeing and MCAS discussion.

In my research into the topic the saddest bit of information I've seen is the image of the black box data for the flight (the first crash): https://i.imgur.com/WJuhjlO.png
You can see from the graph that in the final minutes and seconds, the pilot put insane amounts of force on the control column (aka the yoke) to try to pull the plane out of the dive - to save the 189 people on board. But no, MCAS was overpowering and lacked the documentation for the pilot to try anything else.

Also interesting to see is the amount of times the pilots bring the nose up, only for MCAS to kick in and force the nose back down. 26 times.

All data from this Seattle Times article, which was written before the second crash occurred: [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/black...
I've wondered for the longest time about the feasibility/consequences of having a recursive, private karma system (with decay). I upvote you, so I see your stuff, and more of the stuff you upvoted, and less of the stuff you downvoted. You can repeat the process recursively and add decay as you go further. Every user holds their own version of the karma network.
Not sure if I'm imagining things but I see this pattern of oscillating between distribution (small scale local) and integration (large remote). In computer we had a bit of the same (mainframe -> desktop -> servers -> smartphones -> consoles -> streaming from datacenter). It seems a 'natural' phenomenon of optimization.
Christianity, especially in the first two centuries AD, was very heavily influenced by Stoic philosophy. (The Stoic influence declined somewhat after Augustine defeated the Pelagian heresy.)

(For reference: Stoicism predated Christianity by around 300 years, and was quite entrenched by the time the Gospels were written.)
Journalists, photographers, video editors, live/TB production crews, movie crews, artists, illustrators, designers, programmers, almost EVERY construction worker...
Maybe, but I don't know if I buy that reason.

It seems more like the actual interest in actually doing any anti trust stuff for any consumer type product just faded away mostly ...
Are you saying you want to switch into Machine Learning, but you're assuming you'll have to take a significant pay cut? I'm not sure that assumption pans out. If I were you I would start testing that assumption and find out what kind of a salary you can demand as a ML programmer.
Man. It hasn't directly impacted other areas of my life, but I get a similar feeling from HN. Sometimes I have to log myself out to get out of the cycle.
I think that having just one common ui system makes a lot of sense. We want web apps to work as well as Native applications, and vise-versa.

I support the concept of Electron, but my question is - exactly why is it so bloated? Doesn’t it come with a built-in Chromium? Why is that? Wouldn’t it make more sense if it used the machine’s default browser engine? You would need to look out for different browser versions, but we are already doing that for the web anyways.

If not that... then maybe a single electron-specific chromium engine that is shared across electron apps.
And everything was influenced by and influencing platonism at that time, so some of the connection may be via that.
I would argue this is not unrelated.

The initial point is that "China-like" is a preferred form of government because things like one/two child policies prevent environmental collapse and ensuing death.

My point is that if abortion is murder, then "China-like" is already killing a lot of people, and really we are just choosing what group of people to kill.
I was saying the opposite. The claim of time dilation has nothing to do with the visual perception of clocks, which is a common (flawed) example that is used. The visual perception of clocks differing by heading towards or away from a clock is just a phenomenon akin to the Doppler effect.
Even if they cared, it might be very hard. The people in that industry are surprisingly not tech savvy, moreover, often, there's very little they can do about it, or worse, very little access to detailed information themselves.
You're not wrong, but why is this the case?

One hypothesis I heard was that building codes changed quite regularly, especially with regards to earthquakes, and therefore people often wanted the latest designs. So when they built houses, they didn't spend as much effort because they knew after a few decades they'd be completely torn down:

> This scrap-and-build approach is a quirk of the Japanese housing market that can be explained variously by low-quality construction to quickly meet demand after the second world war, repeated building code revisions to improve earthquake resilience and a cycle of poor maintenance due to the lack of any incentive to make homes marketable for resale.

* https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...

* https://www.rethinktokyo.com/2018/06/06/depreciate-limited-l...

In North America, I believe we also do some mental gymnastics: we say that houses are expensive, but what's actually pricey is the dirt. It's just that we tend not to completely demolish structures: to the point that even if someone completely guts a house, replacing (e.g.) >75% of materials, we psychologically still call it an "old house" even though most of the structure except the frame is new (see Ship of Theseus).
Unfortunately, that’s not a recent development.
Tech Companies Care Only When They Get Caught: Abortion Edition
Ask HN: A separate team for fixing bugs?
Imagine a team of software developers that its main responsiblity is fixing bugs. Whereas other teams who develope features and shape the architecture.

Would it make sense to have such a team? Have you ever seen such a team anywhere?
Also, if the feds open an antitrust investigation, the companies and people damaged by google will proactively tell the feds where to look. So they don't just have to go entirely hunting on their own; they have a pretty good notion of where to start.

eg phone manufacturers will be upset about google not allowing them to produce devices that compete with android and android devices; yelp and other sites are upset google scrapes their content, etc.
That's a two way street, As a media person, I can't survive in the bay area without freelancing for various media companies. My rates are far higher than salary if I can stay in demand. I guess I could survive, but it's a huge cut to what I could make in a good year.
Why NeverTrumpers Need to Rethink the Economy
Location.

It's valuable to be next to useful places. This value of proximity could be increasing so rapidly that it would wash out the value of any particular residential building you could put there.
> In your book, you also write about the importance of following your own values — and that Stoicism is a personal choice.

> therapists today are increasingly encouraging clients to identify their true inner values and do things that serve those more fully. The big problem here is that most people don’t know what those values are.

It's important to remember that the Stoics did not encourage us to follow our own individual, personal values, or to look for them as some sort of "inner truth." Rather, they thought that value was objective, and that we should give up our existing values in favor of the correct ones (the ones in accordance with nature).

> It’s something they identify with at a deeper kind of more spiritual level, almost like a substitute for religion.

Well, it effectively was a religion, based on a fairly developed system of theology.
> they do not have economies of scale or other innovations (e.g. self-driving vehicles)

Not yet. They're on it, having invested about $1B so far. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/uber-has-...
The original iPad screen physical size was actually rather similar to that of the original Mac.

And apps often felt way too big on it. The calculator was so comically stretched that they couldn’t bring themselves to ship it.

Full screen only is a simple yet overly contraining model.
I use gnome-terminal instead of xterm in i3. gnome-terminal supports tabs (control+shift+t), so I can easily choose between a new tab versus a new window.
Cutting Carbon in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
That sounds far more reasonable of a solution.
Eh, I think most people are desensitized. These Wyze cams are dirt cheap, small, look nice, I dont think its going to impact them at all. Higher end products or things like IoT door locks, maybe.
I agree that the teachings from Stoicism and Buddhism seem simple but I have some difficulty consistently putting them into practice in my daily life. I read about one book a week and out the approximately 50 books a year I read, at least 3 or 4 of those are on Stoicism or Buddhism. (The remainder of my reading allowance is about equal parts of fiction and technology.)

While I am a devoted student of technology and I love learning new programming languages and application domains, I find that I enjoy those "aha" moments from Stoicism and especially from Buddhism. I consider myself very fortunate to have enough time to pursue both tech and philosophy.
At what point does it become “big data”? 10s of billions, 100s of billions? I would love to get a single PostgreSQL server to index all of my data in a timely manner. Heck, I’d be happy with a sharded scheme, if it worked. But, I don’t have time to learn the low-level details of a RDBMS and my system IO throughput to make that work. Spark works, it’s easy, and it’s relatively cheap. So, why make it more complicated?
Indeed. Epictetus is famous for (mis)interpreting Plato to suit his own ends.
Sure, the "house" depreciates, but what about the land / dirt?

This is what I always find interesting in real estate, especially in the pricey areas: we use the mental shortcut of saying "I bought an expensive house".

No, you didn't, you bought expensive land. If you "bought a house" for $3M, the structure itself would probably take <$500K to rebuild if it's <3000 sq. ft. (300 m^2): the rest of the money went to dirt ownership.
I have been using https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager for several months now. It is a plugin for Hammersppoon on macOS that lets you resize and organize windows using the keyboard.

It’s worked really well for my set-up (can make windows fullscreen, take up 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 of vertical or horizontal space of the screen).
> The human brain is incapable of conceptualizing it

speak for yourself. I understand geometric growth quite well.