skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd strongly recommend Ha-Joon Chang's Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism:

Chang argued uncomfortable truth of capitalism and criticizes globalization represented by the book "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" in the first chapter. He argued that there are errors in theories regarded as established theory related to economic development and refuted them with economic theory, and historical and current data. In the later chapter, Chang claimed that "Market and democracy clash at the fundamental level." In epilogue, he wrote about Brazil in 2037 that faced gloomy future as a consequence of reckless beliefs in neo-liberalism policies. Finally, he made the case for new strategies for a more prosperous world that may appall the 'Bad Samaritans'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Samaritans:_The_Myth_of_Fr...

An interesting digression of views is evident in a dispute between publishers of the English an American editions of Chambers Encyclopaedia:

Free Trade (American Edition), 'a dogma of modern growth, industriously taught by British manufacturers and their commercial agents. For many years certain political economists have laboured to establish this theory upon a reliable basis, and have asserted that the doctrine represents an important truth; but no nation has attained substantial prosperity except by protection to native industry, whether avowed or disavowed. The doctrine had no foothold in the policy of any nation, and had no legislative birth until put forth by Sir R. Peel in 1846. While it was in the interest of Great Britain to protect her industry, she imposed sufficient duties; and when, by this means, her producers of wealth became strong, and able to compete with those of other countries, protection yielded to reciprocity; and even at the present time, the nations most clamorous for free trade rely upon it in theory only, reciprocity in fact, and protection in principle. Even the most strenuous advocates of the theory dare not put it to the test of experience in its fullness. The teachers, therefore, remain self-deceived. The cloistered sophists of their schools, and the propagandists of free-trade, are doubtless as learned as the sophists of any age, and practically as useless. Free-trade expressions need Americanising, as they are utterly hostile to our prosperity, and subversive of scientific truth. Whenever an advocate of this dogma, schooled in their errors, has found devolving upon himself the responsibility of dealing with practical questions, he finds their supposed cardinal truths as groundless as the mythical Arcadias and Utopias of romance. The sophistries of free trade are put forth to lull the suspicions of the deluded purveyors to the wealth of England, and are advocated most strenuously by agents of British manufacturing houses and foreign residents in our cities, whose chief aim is the accumulation of wealth by extensive sales of foreign products, regardless of the injury they may inflict on American interests.' With a great deal more on the same purpose --- an entire perversion of the original.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...
Might want to try a dedicated GPS. Not too expensive, and they have nice features like talking you into the correct lane.

Also, no lag (especially wierd lags) and no interruptions from notifications, phone calls and similar.
One might argue that some SaaS product teams hold back adding new features almost to a fault. Basecamp and Sifter come to mind.

Edit: I know more about Sifter than Basecamp. I login to Basecamp every few years and it seems like not too much has changed to my untrained eye, but maybe they did stuff under the hood. For sure I know that Sifter got to what they considered peak features and stopped.
What are the biggest misunderstandings of Chinese culture you encounter from Westerners?
Nope, not just dust. :)

My keycaps came off because I don't hit them square on, and perhaps I'm a tad more aggressive than most (emacs + vim user). It put stress on the two C-clamps at the top of those keys and they weaken their grasp before ultimately breaking from wear. I'm on my third keyboard replacement, the exact same keys failing first (ERTSDF). 2017 Macbook Pro.

I am familiar with the dust issues. And I yearn for the days where those were my only issues. Now I can't even type without having to put keycaps back on to keys.
It comes with a bias though, since your searches will bias towards finding asteroids that are easiest to find using your search method.
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The US has zero cities in the top 30 of that list, not really supporting your argument. (EDIT, it is also amazingly US centric and still doesn't rate US cities higher, NYC is given a base score of 100 and other cities are essentially compared to it).
Irony alert!
Free market works only as long as both parties have the freedom to bail out. In case of essential commodities like housing or healthcare, this isn't the case. Even if a deal is beyond your budget, you can't turn it down and live in the streets. The other option to live further away has upper bounds in terms of practicality. And this power imbalance, creates a reinforcement loop which would spiral out of control without any external corrective measures like Government interference or workforce/business exodus.
>Ironically, theory says that restrictions like this make the crises worse

The economic theory alluded to doesn't take into account intangible factors like community cohesiveness, economic precarity and the effects of that on mental health. These things are real and have an impact on the wellbeing of residents.

Housing security is the foundation on which an individual's ability to produce and prosper is based. Housing isn't a commodity to the people living in it and economic theory that reduces the complexities of housing to market-based supply and demand are intentionally selling a value system that prioritizes the transfer and accumulation of capital above all other needs.
He's implying that contrary to what economists say, and hackernews believes, rent control does not ruin cities.

You just made the rest up.
Without reading the link...

This kind of question is dumb. It imagines there is an entity called "China" that's tasked with feeding 1.3B people.

In reality, it's just 1,300,000,000 individuals tasked with feeding themselves, just like anywhere else in the world. We do it by division of labor. Some grow food, others build goods, others provide services. We all trade with each other so everyone can specialize at what we do best.

It's no different if the nation border happens to enclose 1.3B Chinese nationals or 300K Icelandic ones.
I don't find it hard to be against free trade. All you have to want to do is protect your own model because you believe in it more than another. I don't believe in many foreign labor laws, so I don't think those goods should be priced the same as goods produced under different rules. I would rather the products were produced by robots under better conditions. I hold a similar view of capital. Of course it is easy to agree with free trade if you don't attach any consequences to it.
Interesting. On older tesla cars, people complained about the maps and the older MCU1 cpu.

The telsa maps are based on google maps.

I heard there were two ways to speed up maps:

1) turn off traffic, which significantly slowed things down

2) switch from vector maps to satellite maps. Apparently the map tiles of the vector maps require costly rendering for display, but the satellite maps just required a blit.

#2 may also explain #1, I'll bet traffic requires rendering too.
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> The Fool's founders tapped Iomega as one of their highly recommended "Rule Breakers," and there were people on the Motley Fool message boards who were so convinced that Iomega was The Next Big Thing that they called themselves "Iomegans" (!), preaching the Gospel of Iomega with quasi-religious fervor. All that hype drove the price of Iomega stock to dizzying, unsustainable heights.

Sounds like /r/wallstreetbets had a predecessor!
Fresh air.

Heat, CO2, and general stuffyness are massive attention killers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/06/why-crowd...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-ai... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845029)

Leave.

If you don't need to be there, and are gaining/contributing nothing, bail.
It would set up incredible moral hazard. Folks would take on enormous debts and then lobby for another round of that debt repayment. Having set the precedent and given how incredibly popular it would be politically, it would likely happen again.

The net effect would be a spiral of inflation.
If you're voting on matters of public policy, you should be in a position where the outcome of that policy affects you as if you are part of that community. Part of that is being... part of that community. Having an ID is a pretty good proxy for that.
BTT cannot add a physical Escape key.
It's downvoted because it puts the cart before the horse.
Monetary policy intervention interferes with the market by forcing interbank interest rates to be higher than they would be in a free market. As any banker will tell you the price of interbank reserves in a free market is zero - as there are more than are required to clear the banking system. In a free market asset prices are naturally determined by the last creditworthy person prepared to pay the current price of money who visits a bank. Which will be higher than zero because ordinary people have no access to the interbank, and therefore the bank can put their risk and cost mark up on the price of money.

You can hardly argue against rent controls but for interest rate controls. Why favour bankers over property occupiers?
Reminds me of Russia today which banned certain import of food (like Parmesan for example and many others) then publicly and demonstratively destroyed it, airing on state TV, using trucks etc. Even few live goats got under truck. That's the most surreal thing I've seen.

Meanwhile we have people who die from hunger.
Because "free trade" does not exist unless all regulations go away. But American mega corps (which includes political parties) like to pretend free trade means just get rid of the regulations we don't like, but keep all the ones that prevent competition.

Rent control is not even close to the only barrier to the free trade of housing. It's one of the most minor, but its one of the few that actually protects consumers verses protecting the interests of mega corps like most regulations do. So of course the mega corps are opposed to it.
It's too bad these developers live in countries with such nasty governments that it has come to this. Perhaps their governments will change course?
How do you prevent fraudulent voting without being able to tie a vote back to a real, documented person?
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You can probably sue in Federal court. You’d have to have an attorney though.. people on no fly lists outside the US have to do that.
He said Mediterranean, upper Midwest in the US is not a Mediterranean climate either.
Voting is only a Constitutional right for citizens. Hence the need to prove you're a citizen before voting.
Voter id is not required because by requiring it you shift voter demographics away from poor/minority/elderly people who don't have an id. The cost for an id should be zero if it is required to vote.
Stop pretending populism is a bad thing. The people should be in charge.
And then you go to use another machine with a full keyboard... Frustration. I agree: mapping keys is a simple and easy fix. But, it's frustrating if you switch between machines. I literally cannot type on my MBP from work after using my fantastic mechanical keyboard all day. Jarring is an understatement.

I want a full, physical keyboard. That's it. I won't buy another MacBook if Apple continues to forcefeed that pile of garbage as the only option. I said this in another comment a while ago: people who like Touchbar don't type. They're point and click users. People who type for a living despise it. I realize there are outliers but that's a pretty accurate characterization.
Yeah, "old school" was very much for extensive voter qualifications like assets and literacy tests.

In fact, that's the whole purpose of the now-awkward electoral college: state legislatures choosing knowledgeable electors to vote for president/VP.

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This an unpopular opinion, but I honestly think there's something to that.

My state political party operates on a caucus system, where I don't directly vote for local, state, or federal candidates in the primary (ironically, president is the exception to this); rather I elect a district representative to attend the convention, speak with the candidates, and vote the best one. I don't have time/choose not to have time to do this same level of diligence, and like in many other areas, I am happy to delegate it to one of my known, trusted neighbors. I believe it produces a better, more intelligent, less hysterical media outcome.

This is also why I'm not necessarily against non-pathological obstacles in voting. In 2018, my county did a (inexpensive) mail-only election. I wouldn't be surprised is the deadlines, etc. proved to be an obstacle. But....is it really that bad to have that small hoop for people to participate? I don't think so.

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P.S. You know poll taxes aren't taxes at polling stations, right? It just means "flat (non-proportional) tax".
Or isn’t American, the US standard of living has dropped but for many people around the world, this is as good as it’s been for them in centuries or longer.
Office 2007 went end of support in October 2017[0].

Office 365 is a support nightmare but it does have security patches.

[0] https://products.office.com/en-us/office-2007-end-of-support
> authorized to get in the car

I don't know what you mean. In the U.S. you don't need a drivers license to ride in a car. Uber does not currently require any state issued ID for riders and I'm not sure why they would in the future.

You might need the Uber app but that isn't tied to any government ID.
How is it irrelevant to their point? Property deeds and literacy tests are documentation, yes?
You hear about pension failures but you rarely hear about the retirement failures of 401(k)s because it's a distributed problem. There were plenty of these stories during the Great Recession, but you mostly heard about pension crises even though pensions by their nature are designed to and in fact did weather the storm much better.

Plus, as you point out pensions are insured by the PBGC, primarily funded by premiums paid by pensions. Where's the insurance for your 401(k)? There are a lot of problems with the PBGC, some of which relate to the Republican strategy since the 1970s of killing the system of private employee pensions through neglect, but it's still there.

There are many problems with pensions we could identify, but these are fixable problems using the type of technocratic, regulatory work we know how to do well and are still perfectly capable of doing, even in our bitterly divisive society. And in any event the system doesn't need to be perfect, just better than the alternative. Leaving everybody to fend for themselves isn't an actual alternative--it's an ideological position that denies that a problem exists instead of addressing it.

A 401(k) may be the best choice for you, but the social problem we face isn't figuring out how to maximize nradov's retirement wealth, it's how to maximize population wide outcomes.

As I said, annuities are one of the best vehicles for a secure retirement. It's becoming increasingly common for people to invest in variable annuities through their 401(k)s, but these aren't the same thing. For one thing they don't offer the same security as a fixed annuity. For another their payouts will be lower because healthier, long-lived people will self-select into annuities while other people will live shorter, harsher lives than they otherwise would have. It's a collective action problem--everybody is worse off.

Much like with health insurance, in the aggregate and over time (everybody is an outlying insurance risk at some point) people are better off purchasing insurance and annuities through group plans. Well, that's exactly what a pension is--a group fixed annuity!

To be clear, my point is that pensions are misrepresented; that they're not only useful but desirable. What I'm not saying that we should only have pensions or that 401(k) and other investment schemes don't have a place--they're just a very poor mechanism to provide minimum retirement security at scale as compared to defined-benefit schemes.
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I've been on many interview debriefs where the discussion came down to a question of our team's appetite for taking on a more relatively junior hire vs holding out for a more solid candidate. Some "weaker" hires can be OK, but in order to be fair to them (and the team) you have to make sure you have the resources to develop them by giving them the opportunity to work with more experienced people and get one-on-one mentoring. So yes, the extent that you want to "hire better people" is very much an intentional judgment, and you can calibrate your hiring process accordingly based on your current team composition and the work on your plate.
Interesting historical tidbit: Many libraries had very lax requirements for library cards pre-9/11. The PATRIOT Act forced them to collect more information.
https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000060501&fullsite=true
> However, that's orthogonal to the issue; documentation of your right to vote is not one of the requirements of possessing that right.

According to whom exactly?

As others have pointed out in this discussion, that's not how the US system was designed. There is no inalienable right to vote.
Are you a North Korean of Iranian descent living in Crimea? Are you an American of Italian descent living in Crimea?
Are you a Russian who went to new colony to live in?
Are you an Ukrainian who hoped that Russians will help make you young again? At expense to people you prefer to ignore.
Or are you Ukrainian who wanted but couldn't flee the occupation?

All these are different circumstances.

Only one represents the case where law has undesired side effect.
Yep, me too -- thanks so much for the great VLC player, keep up the great work!
Natural gas is cheaply transportable for heating which is probably a more efficient use of it than in electricity production (I think for electricity it is mainly used in peaker plants that need to start up quickly)
You don't understand anything about either term you used.

Populism is not and has never been a right wing thing. Populism is the idea the the people should control society and their interests are more important than abstract concepts like the economy which benefit primarily the elite. The term has no political leaning.

Rent control is not a leftist policy. It's neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is not leftist in the slightest. It's simply a rebranding of right wing policy.

Rent control is populism.
Why are these people wasting their time on cutting-edge medical research instead of doing something important, like figuring out better ways to sell advertising?
> Tell people to reduce coal to reduce CO2 for climate change and you will get a strong split along D and R lines.

Why? Seriously, for someone outside the US, why in the name of anything that is holy to anyone, would people actively try to destroy the planet and justify it with their ideology?

I mean, I get that you can have shares in a fossil fuel company, and you don't care if your children and grandchildren will have a place to live on. But I honestly do not understand why the split is "along D and R lines" — how does this have anything to do with political affiliation?
It’s not, but people who don’t like the idea of others voting like to obfuscate the conversation with red herrings and non sequiturs.
That assessment is an audit to make sure you are not compromising their users' data or doing nefarious things. It's conducted by an external reviewer who charges the fee.

It's now part of passing the test to be a Gmail / Gsuite extension. I doubt there are viable alternatives if you want to be integrated to the point of feeling native to the user.

Maybe a browser plugin?

Call it a cost of doing business, there are larger costs if you are successful anyhow, so it's relative.
Anyone recommend the essay mentioned in the article?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician's_Apology

https://archive.org/details/hardy_annotated/page/n1
Could you explain how you made that transition? Or any advice for someone in tech interested in getting into working with cancer?
The ICE auto industry is well aware that it’s game over for all but maybe one or two of them who can survive the transition to electric+autonomy.

It behooves the others to try to minimize expenses and ride the company into the ground. Basically, revenue is going to zero so they want to maximize profits in what’s left of this little corner of the curve.

Lowering emissions standards, even for 5 years, let’s them squeeze out a few more millions.
Heck, if you've written color film recorder software, they're not even particularly square
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Read the link and then delete your comment.
> - People who want to feel like they're living in the Star Trek universe

I mean, do you not want to feel like that?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20537960
Well, then I strongly disagree. Modern JS is very easy to write, but extremely complex because of all the leftover cruft. For example, a beginner can declare a varible with let, const, var or (what could be easier) nothing at all. The resulting scoping rules, however, are anything but simple.
Apple has extensively annotated iOS with understandable information about how data is used. The user has the ability to review this info when they enable Hey Siri, or any time in the Siri & Search settings. It lists the data that is sent to Apple when you activate Siri.

Personally, I’ve only ever seen Hey Siri falsely activate once, from something a character on TV said. (I could get Ok, Google to trigger on a friend’s phone by talking in a ridiculous falsetto that sounded nothing like the friend’s voice.) Per the law of large numbers I’m sure it does trigger in doctors’ offices and so on but I’m skeptical that it’s a widespread problem.

I do use Siri to dictate text messages all the time while I’m driving, and I’m sure I’d be embarrassed by one or two that human reviewers have heard.
This is just plain wrong. If it's less expensive the ordinary person could afford to fund it's construction rather than relying on a group of wealthy people to fund it construction. Who then control it an arbitrarily set rental prices.
This doesn’t make any sense at all.

Landlord profits don’t “slow down and stop”. They are like any other investment.

And until money grows in trees, you need capital from somewhere, either from investors or if the government pays for it, taken as taxes. There is no “magic” here.
home price vs income ratio is higher in taipei than any city in us, and that's just one example
Many districts vote over multiple weeks and/or offer absentee voting by mail.
Some citizens may be disenfranchised by the proof requirement; e.g. if ID is required but you can't afford to get an ID, you can't vote despite being a citizen.
A group of interested buyers who could afford to find its construction if it weren't for investors driving prices sky high.
Also why having a Library Card for certain IRS forms like an I-9 is a valid form of identity. Which at first I thought was crazy, but given this article, I suppose it's valid. I just hope all states make getting a Library Card complicated enough.