skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article seems to be a "no true Scotsman" argument. The paper that it is based on, https://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf , divides entrepreneurs into two groups, those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. Then says those with unincorporated businesses don't count. And then draws conclusions about entrepreneurs based on only the incorporated ones.

Of course unincorporated businesses are limited in size and complexity. Incorporated businesses are going to be made by people familiar with lawyers, business practices, etc. Businesses that require large amounts of capital are more likely to be incorporated. People who actually incorporate their business I suspect are more likely to have had a good education.

So yes, if you exclude all the people who are just hustling along with all the mom and pop businesses, then it seems to be that richer people are what is left.

The article also mentions that both incorporated and unincorporated entrepreneurs were more likely to engage in illicit activities in their youth. So it seems the lede of the article is not supported at all.
Your original post started off with this sentence: "Except the bombardier issue had literally nothing to do with regulation and to claim it did is misleading".
>I have been a software developer for more than 25 years. It is getting boring. Any "new" problem is just the same old problem with a new layer of abstraction. Look at this new language/framework that is so great! You could do all that with the previous language if you cared enough to learn it.

That's because you keep working with similar languages/solving the same problems.

Try different languages and/or problem domains.
Depends what you mean by ‘Coming from money’. That phrase generally implies major wealth in a way that ‘families with money’ does not. This seems like shifting the goalposts.
> "You know how a workout 'hurts so good'? Learn to think that way about hunger/cravings. Consider it the same way you would consider a workout pain, as progress not punishment".

Another way to look at it that I've found effective: think of food cravings as an adversarial agent. Your body is blackmailing you: if you give me food, I'll make this craving go away. Trick is, the food you're probably craving -- chips, soda -- don't make the craving go away. They make it worse. Once you notice that you're body doesn't actually make good on its promises to make the cravings stop it's easier to not give in to its demands. And that actually makes the cravings stop. It's no different than dealing with any other bully.
With fasting you generally want to take to take some salt. Any time you feel dizzy or nauseous that's basically an indicator that you're lacking some electrolytes. I usually take a bit of table salt or sea salt on the edge of a spoon and then wash it down with water.

Warning: Don't take too much salt all at once, because that can trigger a regurgitation..
If we're thinking of traditional ad blockers, I can see where you're coming from. But really, I don't think that's in danger. There will always be forks, or binary patches, not to mention router/DNS level solutions.

What I find much more scary is the prospect of the entire web stack becoming much more locked down as a consequence of both (1) ad blocker prevention and (2) the consolidated browser market. Think Encrypted Media Extensions, but for everything.

If there were ten browsers in active use today, getting them all to agree to something like this would be almost impossible. Unfortunately, there's only 2–3 browsers, and if Firefox loses any more marketshare...
> allows you to look at them subjectively

I think you meant, "objectively"?
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.
Makes you wonder if some rogue device/adapter/charger could deliver malware (sploit/trickery) to it before or after it's booted from the host.
Privatization of public goods can cause population decline
They exist and they are very annoying compared to regular old 50m lanes. You end up having to constantly overcompensate to one side (obviously) but also you suddenly have to either burn in a constant bias to your technique (bad) or be constantly aware of the boundaries, which ruins the normal flow of pool swimming. They are fun for families and kids who only ever do one or a half round, but if you like swimming just stick to traditional pools.
A similar idea is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank
That’s a rather bizarre reason to avoid a pretty solid system.
They address backwards compatibility in the document. It will only be a keyword in certain contexts so that any valid go1 code will still be valid go2 code.
> I'd agree that not much can be done based on the current nature of both political and public/personal discourse, but can the quality of this discourse not be improved?

Probably. But I also don't think the discourse matter as much as it used to. It used to be that to have a voice you had to build something. So the discourse was meaningful as in reflected what was going to happen. Today everyone has a voice and therefor the discourse more reflects whatever people want it to be but not necessarily what happens. That is why we can discuss things seemingly forever while they largely remain the same.

In that sense I think Rosling was right in refusing to be negative. Not, as some people think, because he thought everything was getting better but to show that they could better. When you provide your own signal with substance other people's promises or dismissals become less relevant.

The really hard part is that the West has increasingly lost the narrative. So now we have to translate what China does to our own environment. We want the long term thinking, investment and development but not the authoritarianism.

Which is what China did with the whole "Chinese capitalism". No longer did they have to come up with things from scratch in their own system, but could translate from the Western narrative by buying companies or technologies.

So you have to find a way to show people that it can be done in a way that fits into their narrative by taking their concerns seriously.

But honestly for some countries it might be too late. I believe in fairness as something to strive for, but from a greater perspective reality doesn't really care what people think or how things should be. Countries who can't provide things that matter are going to lose, unless they can come up with something else. Which would probably be war, so they still lose.
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Without having yet read the paper, is there an explanation given for the exclusion? Like perhaps sole proprietorships don’t scale as large and are not typically the focus of government incentives (funding, sweetheart tax deals, immigration, or otherwise).
I still firmly believe that in-browser crypto mining could solve internet advertising problems fairly for both parties.

1. As a user, you set your preference: no mining - ads will show instead. No ads, there will be some mining.

2. The longer a user stays on a page, ie the more engaging the content is, the more money the publisher earns.
In theory, this would trigger a natural correction for dark publishing patterns: click bait would diminish, articles split over X pages would reduce. True, engaging content would win.

Hitherto all alternatives for remunerating publishers have flopped (an engaged user has no easy way to remunerate aside from pulling out a credit card..) .. so we have been stuck with ads.

I was truly sad to see in-browser crypto mining get banned. For a brief moment, it seemed that pleasing everyone was going to be possible.
this is....false. The "big driver of it" is state and federal subsidy, period. And as far as the zoning goes, that is a much much grayer picture than painted by this comment. For example, in the county I live, you couldn't sell liquor on one side of a highway, a highway which runs dead center through the county and town, because of religious influence on the approval and application of zoning laws. And blue laws are only a tiny part of it.
> But these companies are intentionally blurring the lines between advertisement and digital surveillance.

That's what I've been harping on. I'm not blocking ads, I'm trying to protect my privacy and keep ad companies from effectively DoSing my browser.

Nothing about 'ad blockers' prevent advertisers from showing ordinary magazine style ads.
I don't think you understood what was meant by "industrial chemistry", it is a type of science and engineering (basically doing chemistry at mass scale) not an interest group. The government is bound by the same laws of physics as everyone else. The industrial processes outlined in these articles are fundamentally non-scalable to the problem of meaningfully reducing atmospheric CO2, it doesn't matter who implements them. The fully burdened cost per ton of CO2 adds up to more resources than humanity has available in its entirety as a practical matter.

It would be great if it could feasibly scale but there is no science that supports that notion. Any chemical engineer worth a damn can figure that out on the back of a napkin.

Scaling is hard for industrial chemistry, same as with software, and it is only weakly parallelizable. The idea that we will take one of these prototypes and scale it a million-fold (literally) while increasing efficiency by 1-2 orders of magnitude is completely implausible for well understood boring engineering reasons. And even if we could do this, the economics are barely within the realm of plausibility.

Biomass, on the other hand, has math that works out (still expensive though).
This can work for people who don't really need a lot of weight loss. Obese people are too deeply conditioned, their brains are wired differently and their bodies probably not responding on the hormonal level the same way as yours. To them it's a bit like suggesting a drug addict to just enjoy the withdrawal crisis. According to this research: "a substantial fraction of obese individuals exhibit an imbalance between an enhanced sensitivity of the reward circuitry to conditioned stimuli linked to energy-dense food and impaired function of the executive control circuitry that weakens inhibitory control over appetitive behaviors"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124340/
I host a Mastodon instance for 24 people for $60/yr (from DO) and $8/yr to my registrar. It's federated with most networks available. If there was more of a UI to manage an instance and its federation/blocking, it might be easier to expand interest.
Because the more people live in the universe the richer everyone of them is. Rich person who owns the whole planet all by himself is much poorer than anyone of us because he can't buy a phone watch a movie or learn new science.

Of course things change a bit If AI can do all of this thisgs, but then AI are the new people, and instead of rich vs poor rich would worry about AI vs people.
I'm never hungry when I wake up, but I think that's mostly just a habit thing. Your body adjusts to expect food on a schedule, if you normally eat on a schedule.

I only eat lunch (at noon) and dinner (at 8pm), pretty much like clockwork. It's very rare that I eat outside of these times during the work week. I don't snack through the work day, and I very seldom snack at home on work evenings. But I still end up eating too much; lunch + dinner is more than I need. I'm thinking about paring it back to just dinner (perhaps 2 days a week starting out), since that's the most important, socially.

I didn't have any problem sticking with my normal 60kg weight until I got over 35 or so, now I'm up to 70kg or so and I can feel my body fat jiggle as I run up or down stairs - an alien feeling to me.
I once saw a documentary about a fish farm where they had tanks where fish were forced to swim in circles. Probably not the most fish friendly environment.
No way that any of these can compete with the amount of pay you're getting for Tier 1, Tier 2 companies in Bangalore.
This whole XXXX is dying, we have seen this before and how many of them actual die? None I'm aware.

But it has become the defacto headline grabbing go to for so many and always operate on the premise that the company will stay stagnate in innovation and not evolve in any way.
I think calling it a type would be confusing. It's not a type, it's a description of a behaviors of potential types.
> Now that we know that CRISPR-style genesplicing is possible, it seems likely that it could be taught as well. In other words, go into a trance and mutate yourself.

Well that seems like a "bit" of a logical jump...
Whoever talks about OOP without mentioning simula should never be hired.
You’re blaming Facebook for your lack of self discipline and control?
I'm browser crypto mining.
There's a direct link between the time a user is engaged, and the amount of money a publisher earns.

The relationship is direct between reader and publisher; making quality content becomes important again, there's no adoption friction, and ad networks become a thing of the past.

It's no wonder Google blocked browser mining quick-smart.. it had the potential to bring down the entire house of cards.
What happens if you pre-load that credit card with $100 before you take it out?

This method is commonly used for travel in foreign lands by tourists. They pre-load credit cards with their domestic currency before they travel and then take out the local foreign currency from the foreign ATMs when it's required.
>We’ve been undergoing a 70-year long period of deregulation, and it’s been overwhelmingly positive.

This is such a ridiculously untrue statement.
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>For the same reason they sell mobile phones. Because the marginal cost is much lower than what they sell it for. (...) The "rich" aren't a single person. If Jeff Bezos refuses to sell you something, Tim Cook will see an opportunity to take the market from under him. Competition is why they'll sell it to you.

There's no need for Bezos and Cook to sell you anything if you don't have any money -- and there's no reason for you to have money if they don't need your services.

They will either pay you some UBI to keep you from storming their 10%-20% secluded parts of the city, or just use private armies for that and leave you to rot...

>If AI can eliminate 80% of the workforce, it's only a matter of time before it eliminates 100%, at which point "rich" doesn't matter anymore as that's a human distinction only.

If you have the guns, the state, and the money, then it doesn't matter whether rich "matters anymore", you can use your power to keep them...
Numbers don’t lie – it’s time to build your own router
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> most were white, male, and highly educated.

That doesn't mean they have money. Most PhD students appear to be scraping by on a stipend provided by the university, not zipping to campus in their Lambos.

One founder I know personally who's a wealthy man today drove a wretched Datsun for a decade as he had nothing while he worked for his PhD.
Do you have a more on point summary? That's a lot of text and the parts I skimmed say little against education. Obviously education is used for signaling ability. Not using it this way would be stupid, since it's one of the best tools for that we have. Kind of like the SSN seems to be used as ID in the US. Doesn't mean both of them don't also serve their original purpose anymore. And I haven't found much of of that in that 11 page blog post.

Then there is a bunch about how to build better schools. This seems reasonable in principle, since the way we teach especially in early years is still heavily influenced from by long ago times with different workforce needs and a different culture in general. But lets better not get into the actually mentioned proposals. And this still does hardly fit the "IQ unrelated from schools" narrative discussed in the comments here.

So back to those: If school has no impact, then were do those traits we aspire come from? Are here actually people who believe you can just dump an infant with perfect genes in front of a TV, feed (&co) it regularly, and then expect it to become a genius in adulthood? If not, then what makes the difference and why shouldn't some "school" help citizens apply whatever it is, supported by policy?
> I didn't have any problem sticking with my normal 60kg weight until I got over 35 or so, now I'm up to 70kg

Yeah, I put on 10 kg as well once I hit 33. I don't know what happened, everything I've read said your metabolism doesn't slow down until much later, but I exercise more and eat less than I used to, yet I put on a bunch of weight that I can't easily lose.

I'd love to figure out why that is, but I can't find anything.
'The Expanse’ Renewed for Season 5 at Amazon
I know that, but I don't want that :p I guess there are still software renders and game engines that simulate a 2D buffer
The Next Phase of Marvel’s Movies Is Much Weirder Than You Realize
Well, lay people have no clue. And probably should not be in charge of funding.
For me personally, I stopped posting to my wall simply because I felt like it was a waste of time. Very few people actually liked it or responded to it, so why bother? Also the wall is now flooded with "sponsored content" which is just a nuisance if you ask me. The only thing left on facebook for me is basically the groups functions which has certain groups which are useful.
Are you asking about blocking ads on a smartphone? Or on a desktop/laptop? The answer depends on your platform, you see.
You think you're doing that, but in reality the site thinks they're hot shit, and people just are annoyed with the ads.
How about a pool in a rotating orbital space station? Just keep swimming forwards and slightly uphill :) Just don't lose the fake G or you could be the first person to drown in space.
> Boeing should have redesigned the airframe

In hindsight, yes, but Boeing had been modifying it for fifty years, so I get why they thought they could do it again.
Blocking third party JavaScript will have the unwanted consequence of blocking CDNs as well, so at least you need some whitelist that allows those scripts.
That's precisely what it means, there are not that many "highly educated" people without family money...

Besides, you seem to have ignored the "If one does not have money in the form of a family with money, the chances of becoming an entrepreneur drop quite a bit" part...
Any 3D printed versions?
You don't need scripts to know who visited your website. Scripts can potentially tell you how many are blocking your ads though. But its always a cat and mouse game. I prefer to simply avoid sites that show shitty ads.
Relevant book: A Canticle For Leibowitz.
How would you suggest this post be strongly interpreted? Any interpretation I can come up with conflates their own self discipline with Facebooks doing.
If anyone can remind me of the name of this software used to lock down windows 98 machines I'd appreciate it. It was IBM I think. Blue background for student. Green for teacher. Red for admin.

I learned how to bypass it and discovered winpopup. I messaged every computer in the school district with my account like an idiot 9th grader. I then learned a lot about getting caught, punished, and second chances. I was lucky that the powers that be didn't overblow what I did.
I would also ban all "puffery" in advertising, a.k.a. lies that are ok because they're unverifiable.
Unlikely since the Apple adapter contains no software. The firmware is loaded by the host device when it's plugged in.
I feel said type of founders having much less chance of becoming strong leaders. Anecdotally, I've worked with founders who have their parents wealth to fall back on take their position a lot less seriously than those who have nothing to go back to.

The situation I mentioned creates a high friction situation sometimes, in which those who work under rich founder (without many prospects outside the company) start to actually take the potential for success seriously, while rich founder is oblivious to poor management and bad decisions having any serious implications for themselves longer term.

It would be interesting to see a survey done on this actually, even more interesting would be to work for a company where consequences of action matter more.
My guess is that you can put the bar for "wealthy" as high as necessary to get any percentage you want. Illustrating by reductio ad absurdum, you can make the argument that 100% of "wealthy" parents have no wealthy children, if your definition of "wealthy" is only the single richest person in the world. Expand the definition incrementally, and you can probably get nearly any percentage statistic you want between 10% and 100%. So the fact is "not even wrong" without more context.
What parent means is that the the "means of production" are also a beneficial technology in themselves...
> Any time you feel dizzy or nauseous that's basically an indicator that you're lacking some electrolytes.

If that were true (it's not), there are all sorts of important "electrolytes" that are not in table salt (Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, etc).

The reason your technique resolves your dizziness is likely a combination of placebo and hydration.
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Extended waterfasting is amazing folks. It's the simplest way to A) lose weight B) improve your metabolism C) increase your longevity D) help with various problems (like acne, hemorrhoids, etc). Warning: May not be safe for those with a BMI lower than 20.

Fasting gives the chance for the body to engage in autophagy which is the breakdown of old or broken cells into their components and reused to repair the body. Fasting takes you to a state of ketosis, where your body switches to fat-burning for fuel. Note that it takes 2 weeks for the muscles to fully adapt to using fuel as the source, so athletic performance will decline for that period.

Depending on how fat-adapted you are, it can take anywhere from 3 to 5 days to get past the point of hunger & cravings. It becomes much easier to maintain the fast after that. That means for most people, day 2 or day 3 are the hardest days in the transition.

Warning: if you stop at the hard point of the fast after multiple attempts, it will get progressively harder to stick to it and get through (as that will train the body's hormone for cravings to peak at that time).
I, along with millennia of common wisdom, doubt that the rich are "no more evil" than the rest of us.
> I don't want to live every day of my life as if I'm the weakest I'll ever be

But even if you're completely healthy and in great shape, you can have an accident or illness that makes you temporarily unable to climb a ladder. If you broke your leg one day, or came down with a nasty flu or stomach virus, would you want to be living in a place where you needed to climb a ladder to travel between your bed and your bathroom? Nobody is healthy 100% of the time.
UK harvested info from EU databases in preparation for no-deal Brexit
Before genetic modifications we should try cloning people (especially famous scientists) to see how much of IQ is genetic, and how is it affected by the environment.
I'm not talking about completely different planes. If you have a Boeing 737 type rating, obtaining a 757/767 type rating is more expedient than it is for someone who has no prior Boeing 737 type rating.

Further the regulations say whether a type certificate is required, and what goes into it, is up to the administrator. It's not strictly defined. You can in in effect have subtype ratings.

FAA regulations are very much dependent on delegating authority rather than detailing every nitpicky thing. They really aren't that complicated.
Also free from empirical observation?