skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a more practical relationship than something intrinsic. Power (or relative power, really) comes from consolidation and control of resources or agency. Hierarchy is a very efficient and scalable topology for command and control, helpful to manage such a consolidation.

But, other methods might be possible to wield power without hierarchy. An individual with massive wealth can consolidate financial power. They certainly depend on a system that enforces rules and protects financial interests, but can you really call that hierarchy? They might perform significant, world-changing transactions but they do not continue to control the assets once they are traded. It might be a hierarchical distribution in the "trickle-down" sense, but is not hierarchical control nor planning.

Or, if someone obtains some sort of scifi doomsday weapon and uses it to extort others, is that expressing hierarchy?
Ask anyone to do any real work – i.e. to be productive – on mobile and watch them struggle, at least in relative terms vs. how they'd fare using a real computer.
Ask HN: How to go about asking for VC funding?
I have a prototype for a project that I would like to sell, and I was curious to the steps involved with getting a funding from angels and/or VCs.

I don't know that my project is big enough or interesting enough to get something like YC to fund it (though I do have a plan to monetize it), but I was curious to what people here would recommend in regards to getting seed money? Do you just call up a firm to request a meeting? Do I have to "know someone" and get a meeting that way?
RAMBleed: Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them [pdf]
Association Between Life Purpose and Mortality Among US Adults Older Than 50
Advanced React Hooks Concepts – Through Snake
It's nice that people don't have to learn Haskell just to use a decent window manager :D I get frustrated just watching others work - it seems like they spend half their days looking for, resizing or moving windows around. Hope it catches on.

Edit: Getting some downvotes and I realized I sound like an xmonad snob. I really don't judge, I just think people deserve something more efficient. If you like your window manager and workflow, then that's great! :)
>> To clarify, China doesn't "hate muslims" in the way some westerners do.

> Yes, they do.

I'd like to read more about this - what reason would they have to hate Muslims?

My understanding is that the CCP's current goal, however ill conceived, is to revert elements of Salafi/Wahhabi Islam imported from Saudi Arabia to Turkey, and subsequently to Xinjiang (by mostly ethnic Uyghurs) post-1985, back to the pre-1985 Sufi Islam. The primary goal is to contain the spread of jihadist doctrine [1] to prevent incidents such as the 2009 Urumqi riots [2] (where hundreds of ethnic Han and Sufi muslims were slaughtered in the streets) as well as other extremist-Islam inspired terrorist incidents [3][4]. By contrast, the Hui Muslims living in the region are extremely well integrated both economically and socially [5] and the Kazak, Dongxiang, Khalka, Sala, Tajik, Uzbeks, Bao’an and Tatar Muslims seem to be doing just fine.

> Yes, an attitude of compulsory conformity to common tribal identity and the norms, rituals, and behaviors associated therewith is a particularly common thing in human societies, and it's exactly the main reason Muslims are targeted in the West, as well as in China.

During the pre-1985 Sufi-majority period, ethnic Uyghurs were allowed to express their traditional culture just like any of the other dozens of ethnic minorities in China do in the present day (for example by wearing brightly coloured clothing, traditional dresses, performing traditional music and dance, eating traditional food). That was the mostly peaceful, secular version of Islam that has been tolerated by the CCP. My understanding is that constructs of the more extreme Wahhabi/Salafi Islam such as burkas, suppression of women's rights, (non-Islamic) education, music, consumption of alcohol, pork, etc., are the kinds of things the CCP is trying to eradicate owing to their belief that these practices lead to extremism which undermines their holy grail of societal stability.

[1] https://www.iris-france.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Asia-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Chronology_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Mansour

[5] https://www.ft.com/content/08b19a76-f389-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9...
On the other hand it would be super interesting if we _could_ get in to people's data maybe several generations after they've passed. Imagine what historians could learn about what life was like hundreds of years ago if those people left the same digital footprints that we're creating today.
> the environment is the biggest election issue this year

Is it? It should be, but I'm pretty sure the biggest election issue is always going to be the economy.

That being said, maybe the advantage is that the environment is becoming less of a partisan issue. Anecdotally, my left- and right-wing friends and family seem to be coming closer to a consensus that we need to act.

Still, it's easy to say "we need to fix the environment". My own city council voted unanimously on a resolution to slash our city's greenhouse gas production. But then when it comes to specific proposals on what that would look like, such as saying "no" to building a new convention centre or new highways, suddenly there's no political will. "Something should absolutely be done... as long as it doesn't cost us anything."

So we'll ban single use plastics (barely effective, but very popular), but we won't cut back on exploiting the Alberta oil sands, or on deforestation for that matter (both of which would have a tremendous impact, but at great economic and political cost).
Moving to gestures on a desktop is a productivity nightmare.

There is certainly room for improvement, I like the panels window management, with very large/super wide monitors third party solutions are often used to provide similar functionality.

Tagging/multi-patch hierarchies over folders could be really really useful, but potentially more of a nightmare if not done really well.

The lack of leveraging keyboard commands is the biggest failure here. Its basically designing a mobile interface for a desktop, ignoring the actual usefulness and reality of desktop interfaces having functional keyboards and mice.
It is a lot less risky.

Yeah 2008 happened, however, the prices at least in my area are back to 2007 levels. Short term real estate can be risky but long term it is a relatively safe investment.
I used to turn the brightness down to 0 on my mac 512ke when I wasn't using it. That was a physical knob. Since it was convection cooled there wasn't any noise, and it saved the not inconsiderable time of booting from a double sided floppy.
nothing to address the docker mounted-volume slowness issue?
Not only that, but a Server with 100 VM's is going to have a substantial percentage of each OS image as identical...not so much on an average consumer laptop.
This sounds similar to the mobile approach, excepting that the underlying fs is heirarchical. Do you have any idea how this worked with paths in the terminal?
When you have a global currency that all other currencies are measured in and all oil is bought in, what happens to a country that has economic surpluses? They have to buy dollars.

What happens if countries want to buy dollars? The U.S. government (well, the Fed) has to print them. If you look at the balance of trade and look at the dollar as a printed thing, the US is very good at getting the rest of the world to buy their dollars (that can be just printed or magically made on a computer screen) and getting real stuff in return. I wish I could print money and get boxes of nice shiny iphones, shoes and other trinkets.

I think this is a pretty successful exploitation model. The dollars printed to go overseas to buy oil and other stuff don't come back to cause inflation. Apart from anything else, if another country decides to dump its dollars then if that did cause inflation in the US then that would devalue their remaining holding.

Meanwhile the US can spend as much as it wants on gunboats and the like to enforce this hegemony.

If you benefit from this system, i.e. by being an American, then the dollar is far from toxic. If you are a farmer in a developing nation trying to sell wheat then your view of the dollar may be different.
Hi people!

We're a young advertising agency, and we've been building this product to help our own clients during the last few months. We received good feedback so, we decided to share it with everyone.

We’re trying to make online advertisement easy to understand for everyone, one step at a time.

First we tried to simplify insights and metrics, by cutting out complexity and marketing jargon, and consolidating Google and Facebook data into one single dashboard.

Then we built an online investment simulator that works for Google, Facebook and Instagram. It's based on statistical data, but it can also be fed by your own data for better accuracy.

Our goal is to simplify digital advertising at every level. And we're planning what comes next ;)

Hope you like it and find it useful! Any comment or thought is of course welcome!
Why though? You could just make a bunch of whataboutism's that prove the USA has the very same horrors that China does in its own economy. Why the double standard? As someone pointed out above, this seems like xenophobia and not much else. They don't pose a war threat and any war would be initiated by USA.
Smartphones cannot cheat Fitts's law, they will always be much slower to use than desktop computers.

> Ask any non technical user to open an app that is not on the desktop, or to find a picture hidden in some random folder.

What does it have to do with productivity? Ask them to find a picture 100000 times on a smartphone and on a desktop having similarly capable software but with smartphone/desktop specific UI features. But you didn't suggest that, because I'm sure you intuitively realize how ridiculous this comparison is.
7 years is really a long time and there is likely to be some real needs to adjust business operation. If the deal doesn’t specify a duration to keep jobs in canada, you can’t reasonably expect it to be forever.

CCP has done horrible things, but it isn’t really a CCP specific behavior; any greedy capitalist would have done the same.
Two finger pinch to zoom is such an awkward gesture for me for some reason, but I recently discovered that some Android apps like Google Maps and Edge have an alternate one finger zoom gesture that I find much more intuitive: double tap and drag up to zoom out, and double tap and drag down to zoom in.
By Ron Swanson
> In any case, dedup just makes things more confusing to the customer— like, "you have X GB in files on your computer, but more than N-X GB free space because of magical deduplication." Or worse, "You deleted all those files, but didn't actually free up any space because they were dupes. So sad."

For what it's worth, this can already happen in APFS. While they don't have real deduplication, if you copy a file within Finder, that copy won't take up extra space.
This is not a "meeting" exactly, but I have it scheduled as one.

Every morning, I have a half-hour (sometimes extended to an hour) blocking meeting to check and reply to my emails, where I'm the only one invited. I get a ton of email in this job, and if there's a risk of me getting interrupted and losing my flow, I will get swamped. Having a dedicated amount of time to do this really helps.
I respectfully disagree. Steve Jobs used to talk about how a great team is like the Beatles. They were four really talented people that balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. It's hard to imagine the Beatles didn't disagree with one another and I would bet they eventually learned how to have productive disagreements. This is our attempt to define that best practice and help new hires be successful as we grow the team.

The sooner a company establishes how to have productive conversations and unlock everyone's potential the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QfK9UokAIo
An example is Vox's current tirade against YouTube with the goal of censoring certain creators in the name of one-sided "inclusivity."

What happens when Vox aims their influence at scientific publications publishing research with uncomfortable implications? For example, the genetic factor in IQ, violence, and development.

That's all I'm saying. I don't think their proclivity for censorship will merely stop at social media platforms.
Scala 3 is all about baking common Scala patterns into the language, while making everything a bit nicer to use. It's an evolution and pretty much everyone in the Scala community is eager to adopt it. The fact that it will be binary-compatible with Scala 2.14 will make adoption much faster, too.
Wow. I am really stunned by this list. I took a look expecting the usual chorus of contrarian populist hardbacks, but this list is very conclusive and and covers a wide range of opinions and subjects. I have read about a quarter of them and can attest they are all excellent (although with varying degree of readability). This is the exact sort of list if you want to see multiple perspectives and challenge yourself.

I also want to shout out to Hidden Order, which I was really surprised to see here, but is really quite the gem. More than any other econ book, I have pulled off the shelf and gone through the much dog-eared pages. It does an amazing job of taking off-the-shelf economic ideas and framing them in such excellently written parables or examples. Disagree or whatever, but it's an excellent and often trite way to understand classic principles.

A couple books I would add to the list:

Why Nations Fail

Red Plenty

Who Gets What and Why
Do 4K ultrawide even exist?
Oops I was a bit unclear. I meant, include the engine part that matches English statements to commands and parameters but hook it up to a keyboard-driven text box instead of a microphone. So it's:

written text->'AI'->command
vs.
speech->'AI'->command

(Edit: and sure, voice as an adjunct per my first comment.)
>transmission lines are a broader concept.

Indeed...

https://www.f150online.com/galleries/images/7538-10939-17442...
Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
That’s a stupid hill to die on. Pick your employer based on important things like comp, work life balance, advancement opportunities, etc. If you have to fork over $300 to buy your own work phone then so be it, buy one and move on with your life.
It's not quite that simple to absolve Canada (and Europe and the US) from their responsibility for this problem. Quite a bit of the plastic that ends up in those rivers far away was exported "for recycling" to the countries where it gets miss-handled and ends up in the landscape.
I have taken probably 15 Acela rounds trips in the last 3 years between Boston and NYC for work and I personally find it more convenient than flight travel.

In my case, it's easier for me to get to South Station in Boston than to get to Logan Airport. The seats and accommodations are much better on a train, much less stressful and easier boarding process (and I have precheck). I have never had an issue finding overheard space. Once in NYC, it's also easier to get to the part of Manhattan that I need to than any NYC airport. Flying is still a little faster, but my employer encourages we travel during work hours, so I don't mind the extra time for the better experience.

Obviously if I was going all the way to DC from Boston, it would't make as much sense, but since NYC is close enough, speed is basically a wash.
Not really a recent development though. In the late seventies, or early eighties there were already biodegradable and compostable plastics.

One UK supermarket used one of them for trays and bags around the same time, and printed the fact on every one. I forget whether they were compostable or just biodegradable. Yet eventually that chain switched back to oil derived plastic like everyone else.

Presumably price won.

Here's one from fermented sugars that ICI came up with in the early 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydroxyalkanoates
It is very unlikely that docker issues are a priority for Apple.
See my reply to RobertoG.
Relative to what? I've been around long enough it's hard for me to see just about any disk storage as expensive even if it costs more than whatever is on sale at Newegg.
Kinda, but way closer still: you're not eating on premise, however the shop brings you food rather than having to get food from the shop.
This project seems interesting. I usually use a 4x4 grid on i3. I wonder if your pluggin can handle this kind of grid. From the pictures, it seems like new windows are arranged vertically only, as columns.
The past two companies I've worked for are forcing teams to move to OpenJDK and one was far more diligent about conducting audits for this than they were for GDPR.
Third world countries follow First world countries. In India, not too long ago, cheap roadside restaurants(dhabas) used plates made out of leaves and served tea in cups made out of clay. Now that is considered a sign of primitiveness and poverty. If first world nations change their attitude towards plastics, the third world nations will follow suit eventually.
California Cities Are Trying to Kill an Important Location Privacy Bill – EFF
Page Up / Page Down buttons are underrated.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/
Gotta burn the money from donations somehow.
> If society believes that some animals should not be in captivity at all due to moral/practical reasons, it is worth asking: What other technologically driven solutions can be made/used to help people of all demographics experience what it is like to be in front of X animal

Seems like the perfect use case for VR?
I don't even know which "Journal" you're talking about.

Paul Graham is not as well-known or influential as you think.
I think it is worth reading the whole essay (The Tyranny of Structurelessness), which does a great job of articulating how if there are no formal levers of power it becomes very difficult for people who don't have power to make changes within the organization.

For example, if I'm part of a club and I think the treasurer is doing a bad job, if there are 'formal' elections I can run for treasurer (or vote for a different treasurer) and make changes.

In a structureless org it is much harder to tell the 'popular people' that, for example, some of the expenses they are having the club reimburse should actually be paid out of pocket (because by definition the 'popular people' have a lot of informal influence - average or unpopular people are much easier to correct).

If one person is highly charismatic they could wield huge amounts of power in a structureless organization - but in a structured organization there can be clear limits on what each role can do. Structures can constrain power and make it easier for those with less informal power to make changes or to create those limits.
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As a counter to tagging everything, in which one "thing" can be in multiple "places" (tags), there's spatial file management. [1]

http://archive.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-3.htm
I seem to remember being able to use something like geocities, or a cheap/free /~user/ hosts and FrontPage or similar to generate badly formed HTML that let me share a lot of ideas before I was deeply familiar with programming and specialty knowledge.

Yeah, I had to learn about FTP, and not much more. There was a lot of availability, and diversity without a lot of overhead to it.
I'm not sure any of them particularly cared about the terminal. Remember, this was the '90s; all the companies that explored this (Microsoft, Apple, Be) were deeply invested in the GUI as the Future of Computing™.
Internet Trends 2019
I think making some waste opt-in would go a long way. Some stingy restaurant owners are doing that any way.
They do RAM compression, I thought disk compression was soon to follow after Apple went all-flash storage
How could I become Pro in Front-End developement?
Parisitic wasps are some of my favorite insects to learn about as long as they aren't doing any mind control tricks on their hosts.

My favorite is the Megaphragma mymaripenne[1], the adults are said to have reduced the size of 95% of their neuron cells by getting rid of the nucleus.

[1]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/3...
Present (1.1+) SBT is much much nicer. It's the same core, but the new syntax does a great job of exposing what it does. It's still a complex tool, but it has become learnable.

Oh, and it's much faster nowadays.
The New Dropbox
Oh man. This is one of those things that's great when done well and terrible when done poorly. Miss the head-up memo until the following day? Too late, the author's already a day into the work and you'd be a jerk to make them back all that out. If it happens often, you have to constantly monitor communication channels or risk missing an important "heads-up," since that's how serious decisions are being made now. In the middle of your own work, but see a 10-page design doc go by in slack or email? Better drop everything and read it well enough to form an opinion because every minute that goes by it becomes harder to object to that change.

But, as you say, it can be a great way to overcome bikeshedding. It's a good way to speed up a ponderous decision-making culture. It works.

Like a lot of organizational tricks, the line between use and abuse is something that simply requires judgement.
>What other technologically driven solutions can be made/used to help people of all demographics experience what it is like to be in front of X animal?

I would say education teaching people that the urge to be 'in front of X animal' is likely dangerous and destructive and something we shouldn't do.

The use of media tools to allow limited interactions to be shared with much wider audiences like we see with Our Planet and other nature documentaries are more than enough to provide information, exposure, and there is no doubt that movies and media has already inspired thousands of biologists and other scientists to get into their fields (I know biologists that refer to themselves as the free willy generation due to their love of biology and nature starting with those movies at a young age, for example)
Most if not all captive raptors have some kind of illness. Interestingly, sometimes it's actually a mental illness. The most common example I know of is being imprinted on humans rather than their own species. These birds simply wouldn't survive in the wild. In fact, they won't even survive in captivity if kept in the same enclosure as another member of their own species.
True information ergonomics is subtle, you need a fair amount of laissez-faire so the user feels in control but at the same time fill gaps at the right time.

I remember being shocked at an old AS400 application that was so lean, easy to learn and use and so useful. It blew any admistrative or even web (new trend at the time) application I've used in every dimensions.

Of course it was about to be retired and replaced by .. a web app.
Next-day train tickets do increase in price, particularly on these Acela lines. However you do escape the aggressively hyperoptimized pricing for airlines, and fares become flat once you're booking about a week ahead.
Should I pepper you with links to the Moto E5 Plus (5,000 mAh), Moto G7 Power (5,000 mAh), Apple Smart Battery Case, and the entire Anker power bank product line?

Phones aren't even getting thinner anymore, e.g. the iPhone X is actually thicker than the iPhone 8.
On the topic of Lenin, one can read The state and revolution where he defends the need of a strong state in a communist regime, and this quote: "the people don't want freedom, they want power. Freedom ? What would they do with it ?!"
Apple's $5B 'spaceship' campus isn't attached to the planet