skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, and it is also the case that totalitarian policy can be implemented in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons. It can be a last resort measure to save a society (e.g., when the UK canceled elections to deal with the Nazi threat).

More importantly: it is perfectly possible to implement totalitarian policy while maintaining the aesthetics of freedom. There is a famous book about this, 1984 something... Sorry for the cliché, but here we are.

Let's say, for example, that you convince the population of the most powerful economy on earth that they are the most free, most amazing society ever, while the rest of the developed world actually enjoys affordable health care and vacation time. Meanwhile, most of your citizens not only spend the vast amount of their time in an endless rat race that only benefits economically the top .001%, send their sons and daughters to stupid wars, while aggressively demanding the continuation of this state of affairs.

Another important trick to maintaining this state of affairs is to create very violent political debate about a very narrow and irrelevant set of topics (e.g. bullshit topics such as "cultural marxism", "red pill", "cucks and soyboys", "cultural appropriation", the corrupt blue guy vs the corrupt red gal... you get the picture).
Have you checked out Monica?
Cost of taxes are highly variable too. Not just sales tax, some jurisdictions apply yearly property tax to vehicles.
Its more complicated than that. US Property prices were rocketing, CDO's were taking subprime mortgages mixing it with prime giving you a "beef pattie" whilst being rated by the agency's as steak. Unlike Europe, the US have plenty more land, a lower population so their housing market growth was unsustainable. The US population taking on massive mortgages helped make the Great Recession, the banks facilitated it and the world suffered. Sure the US banks could have been more selective who they lent money to, but the US financial system was a boom and bust just waiting to happen and it took about 10years to blow up.

So who exactly was to blame considering there are various rating's agency's from around the world commenting on matters, various banks from around the world lending to US markets, US legislation and the US population?
The buck stops with the president, so which president do you blame considering they all played a part in this as well?
> And if the transcription is done by the user?

If you can successfully argue that in court, chances are you'll win.

> In all those cases the user has altered the work, and made a derivative one, if you will.

It's a difference if you do it for your personal notes, or if you then distribute them at scale and make money from it.

Just for the record I don't like how it's currently handled, it's just my best understanding of what the law and the courts say.
What I find hilarious os that all this storm is coming from a group if men, as well as the vast majority of comments here in HN. Men trying to rationalise something related to women.

Would be good to hear female voices in here... why was there only 1 application?

Having studied in an all boys school, this looks to me as the times when me and my friends would get together to discuss how to approach a girl, or what would girls like. As you grow and mature, you understand that you only have to ask THEM, same as you would ask a random guy.
I always felt Apple was good at this, in the Steve Jobs era, anyway. Everyone said the iPhone would kill the iPod, but that didn't matter in reality because the iPhone opportunity was so much larger.
Like a grant to a small foundation who could oversee the distribution? No competitive bidding or tender process necessary, no questions asked.
I suppose it depends on the type of work, but as a web developer I’d be very unsatisfied with my team if we only got 20 real hours of work. On my previous team we did pair programming and had a very sustainable 30-32 hours a week. Now this did include ~3 hours of meetings, but they were always productive, good meetings.

Our trick was to work in 90-minute bursts, with 30 minute breaks where we actively stepped away, took a walk, played ping pong or Nintendo, got coffee, stretched, etc.
Isn't that a slippery slope? If you extrapolate, the market gets used to easy money from the central banks and we end up with most companies being owned by the central banks. Price discovery and risk get totally screwed.
been using the beta version for the last week or so. pretty solid, imo.
Ninite[1] lets you pick and choose from a pretty large list of frequently used windows software and generates a single installer that sets them all up in one shot.

https://ninite.com
I agree, this sentence is strange.

And when a company of 100 signs up...... oops.
Imo one of the reddit comments captures the situation perfectly: "You mean you dont want to see app advertisements when trying to remember where the fuck you put your resume???"

Someone inside MS turned mundane OS File Manager feature into revenue stream. High fives, promotions and bonuses all around guys!!1
My experience of Arch is that it's fun as a home computer tinkering exercise but I don't trust it for my work computer since I can't resist a version number bump and the amount of time spent faffing around would be a nightmare.
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>getting women on equal footing in government and business leadership

As a woman, I really can't think of any women I know who would want such a thing. Pursuing power is a never-ending rat race for tenuous prizes, and having a family will take several years out of a woman's career. For what, some ill-conceived notion of equality? If you want to treat women with respect, treat them as women with their own dreams and desires and not just as if they were men-in-womens-clothing.
This is going to be a tough lesson to learn.
Ask HN: What should the first day for an intern be like?
I am currently interning on the other side of the world and after much hassle I arrived at my job (software development) now I dont make more than I pay to be here so Technically im at a loss already. However experience can be valuable and so I hope that this internship will be valuable. Its true that i also pay extra to explore the country and live in a new environment with a different culture so it also can be considered part holiday. Now my question is "what should a first day interning be like?" comes from the fact that today I was welcomed and then 'forgotten about' I felt like they didn't care about me or my efforts at all, which is why im afraid that this internship won't be of much use to me. I'm hoping someone could shed light on this topic so I can maybe make a decision to switch companies if needed.
Is there a guide or a book you'd recommend on designing software like this (in terms of the UI)? You've done very well.
Your optimism is laudable, but I doubt Iceland would have recovered as well if the entire world had experienced a massive financial collapse. After all, Iceland has primarily depended on tourism to prop up its economy, and there would not have been tourists if the world economy had collapsed.

The Iceland example works because its such a small part of the global economy.
How to make a complete web-app fit in less than 1500 bytes?
Hi, could you explain this section from your TOS?

"You will provide us the right to reproduce, modify or create derivative works from your Content. Obviously we won’t be modifying your Content, we need these rights for example to be able to share your designs with other users. You will also provide us a right to publicly perform or display your Content to allow us to display the material on other users’ monitors.

Base does not claim any ownership on your Content. You hereby grant Base a worldwide, non-exclusive, revocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works, publicly perform, display, distribute and transmit your Content."

I am not sure I read it right, but does it say that you are allowed to share my content with whomever you like?
And also create new versions of my work?
The democratic process leads to tyranny of majority which is still tyranny but I guess you have better odds of being in the privileged pool.
Especially for less-common words (such as "Čapek"), keeping the original spelling helps accurate cross-referencing and avoids ambiguity.
Coral is a living thing. It can't live in hot(ter) water.

Additionally, the minerals will dissolve in more acidic water.

The problems of coral reefs are caused by the water becoming hotter and more acidic. I fail to see how pumice makes the water cooler and more basic.
So how do we solve this problem of uninformed decision (even when the customer tries his best to make an informed choice around choosing actual leather)?

Something like a site with "leather teardowns" on products?

Alternatively, what would be a good non-invasive non-destructive method to detect its actual leathernness? Something like Atomic Dielectric Resonance scanning? It may sound absurd to construct an ADR scanner to buy a leather item on a sporadic basis, but the device could be rented (for a miniscule price, with a deposit in escrow to ensure return) say at a bio-shop... Or somehow build it into a phone, using its radio spectrum?
I always assumed it was cost.

Electricity for heating my home, hot water is expensive compared to gas. May as well run a line to the stove while I'm at it.

As for ovens I find it to be more of a "variety" in the US rather than just gas or just electric.
As a software developer that mainly builds internal web applications (frontend and backend) with ReactJS, I've just started looking into improving my code with Typescript. I've seen it being praised far too much to not give it a try myself.

Lately I've also been working on an embedded BLE Mesh project at work writing C, which I found surprisingly fun. Coming from literally zero experience in embedded systems programming, I found it a fun and rewarding challenge.

I've also been very interested in Rust lately, just need to find a project to play with.
I'm very happy with it! I'll write a blog post about it soon, meanwhile I do tweet some development stuff about it on @drikerf :).
The first time I saw a Caltrain (small commuter train local service in the Bay Area) train pull into a station I thought it must be a Soviet ballistic missile train it was so huge and heavily armoured.
Lol... Nobody spends $4k on maintenance over the first five years of a brand new Camry's life.

Id like to see how a Model 3 is cheaper to insure as well... seems questionable at best. I'd have to get quotes to disprove it though.

In fact, right now I have an econocar that's almost 10 years old and I'm certain I've spent less than $4k in maintenance over that decade. I've gotten new tires twice (~$1,300), new battery (~300), brakes (~$400), oil changes (~$300), turn signal bulbs (~$10) and that's really all I can remember.
> PCIe Gen4 does matter. M.2 NVMe has been read limited for a long time already (NAND bandwidth scales trivially). The I/O section of this article is basically nonsense.

It probably does for a great many special use cases on servers or other specialty workloads. But for programming/gaming/normal productivity workloads it really doesn't. The net difference in load times/compile times/boot times is tiny even going from a cheap ssd to the latest pci4 ssds.

If you do huge sequential reads/writes, then yeah, large differences are getting unlocked.
> author, editor, publisher, actor, distributor

...and someone to buy the microphones and recording equipment, and someone to push the buttons, and someone to edit the audio.
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Actually, the newly-proposed FCC rules would require fail-safe deorbit systems when operating above 550 km and below 2000 km. Above 550 km, most stuff takes more than 25 years to deorbit, and the NGSO volume below 2000 km is considered the most useful (and thus most likely to get crowded). These fail-safe systems should be designed to cause the satellite to deorbit within 25 years of activation.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-159A1.pdf

The FCC hasn't proscribed exactly what these look like (that's implementation), but electrodynamic tethers would seem likely.
Sideshow (actual) geeks used this trick to keep chickens from wriggling when they bit their heads off. Heard so from my dad. Not sure where he heard it. Avid reader, but he was a journalist in the 1970s and early 1980s. He might have heard it from someone he interviewed. Maybe Red Skelton, as he would have been alive in an era that allowed it, and would have needed work in either a sideshow or circus.
Let the record show that this post went to the top spot on HN in 5 minutes, before it got flagged into oblivion.
Not sure how I feel about this implication that schizophrenia and autism are opposite issues on the same axis; there's existing evidence that schizotypy and autism are actually considered quite similar. The schizotypal personality disorder mentioned must actually be diagnosed via a ruling out of autism, as they both have similar symptoms and score similarly in socio-cognitive testing (eg. facial emotion recognition).

EDIT: Also, given that schizotypal personality disorder scores similarly to autism in recognizing human facial expressions, I'm not entirely sure where the author in the link is getting the depiction of a schizotypal person being particularly socially insightful through an examination of facial feature (the provided example being how to extrapolate from an eye twitch).
Interesting to read this. The reason I didn't get on with macOS is the extra modifier keys.

It was a relief when I didn't have to use a mac for work anymore.
Indeed. Here's a video of this being done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3sPv9BZd0
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Not really - when osTicket started, circa 2004, having a mascot was the rage - think MySQL etc. Funnily Kangaroo has given us affinity from Australian users... perhaps an osTrich would been a better choice.
If you bought a movie (let's say a DVD), does that mean you should be able to get the book for free (even in ebook form)?

IMO both are completely separate products. It should be up to the publisher on whether or not they want to bundle the text version for free with their audio book (some do).
If I understand you correctly, your argument is that QE is not inflationary because the banks don't have bonds in their balance that previously they had, instead they have reserves.

First, reserves are not inflationary (1). The quantity of reserves in the system is not important if that money is keep in the Central Bank and it's not spent. As the current QE exercise has show, adding reserves to the system don't make firms and households ask for more credit. If the real economy don't want to spend, you can add all the reserves that you want and nothing will happen (except lowering the interest rate that it's already at minumum).

Now, fiscal policy, it's the right tool if you want to stimulate the economy, but, for political reasons, it's not done.

Second, please, explain through what mechanism banks don't owning a quantity of bonds equivalent to the reserves in the system will create inflation. All the point of selling bonds (by the central bank to the banks) is to retire reserves from the system.

Monetization of the debt don't cause inflation. What causes inflation is spending in the economy. That it's precisely what the politics in, for instance, the Euro-area refuse to do.

(1) - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=6624
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> If the US indeed has less induction stoves than the EU, the fact that it would be less convenient due to the electrical wiring of American homes is a more likely explanation than gas prices.

Any house wired for electric cooking appliances should be able to handle an induction stove. Electric stoves are fairly common, but induction stoves are rare.
Don't know about France, but in Belgium almost every house is gas or oil heating. Although water/Air heat pump is getting more popular for new buildings.
But is that really going to “replenish the Great Barrier Reef?” That implies that the reef is just waiting for seeding by organisms for it to flourish and that is very likely not the case.
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What would you recommend for a mom and pop ecommerce? Trying to find something for a couple of friends, but everything is bloated and complex.
It was not enough for the stove he had already selected.

It has 5 zones, but it also has a boost setting that boils a pan of water quicker than our electric kettle does. And those electric kettles aren't that far below what a regular group can take, so heating more than one pan would likely blow a fuse.

And we don't want our cooking experience crippled for many years to come due to a stupid construction mistake in our house. Better just fix it right away.
In French, and more specifically French as spoken in some areas in Switzerland, there is a very natural way of pronouncing hex numbers:

1 to F are the normal 'un' to 'quinze'. A is 'dix'.

10 is 'seize'. 11 is 'seize et un' etc. Until 1F which is `seize et quinze'.

20 to 2F are 'vingt' until 'vingt et quinze'.

Etc.

70, 80 and 90 are called 'septante', 'huitante' (Swiss-specific) and 'nonante'.

A0 is 'dixante', then we have 'onzante', 'douzante', 'treizante', 'quatorzante' and 'quinzante'.

100 is 'cent', and from there normal rules apply.

Etc.

So B78D would be 'onze mille sept cents huitante treize'.

Note that 'soixante dix' is 6A, not 70.
You point it out right there yourself—each language picks a pronunciation and sticks with it. The German pronunciation doesn't come in when you're speaking Czech—for the simple reason that German pronunciations don't fit in Czech. Then, just write down the pronunciation in the system used for the language.

A Ukrainian speaker would easily use two pronunciations and spellings for ‘Gödel’, since Ukrainian doesn't have a ‘yo’ letter but Russian does and Russian is widespread in Ukraine. But the person would use each pronunciation and spelling in the corresponding language, not in the other one.

English doesn't do that—instead, it goes with the foreign spelling first, and then people pronounce the word whatever which way since they can't be bothered to look in an encyclopedia, or don't have one on them.
Admittedly, I don't send personal emails, but on HN or Reddit, I'll often ask experts or people who are at least knee-deep in a topic themselves (or find previous instances where expert(s) was asked).

It's not about laziness, it's just that as somebody who doesn't know anything about established papers or books of a certain field or how it's structured, it can help a great deal to get started if somebody can point in a general direction of where to spend my attention (which is a limited resource). As somebody with dozens of interests across a bunch of disciplines, drawing on existing knowledge has been such an immense time saver and help that I'm always grateful for. There are a lot of books and papers out there. And not all of them are particularly good. If other people have experienced them and share that experience, why shouldn't I want to draw on that?

Also, I've gotten a response as often as I haven't. And when I don't, it really isn't a big deal. You don't need to respond to every request.
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The genuine idea of a decentralized Internet is slowly dying. Worst thing is, this is not driven by democracy controlled states, but by unelected monster companies.

Us, users of the Internet, seem to always being preyed upon. Fake news. Political propaganda. Corporations propaganda. Governments surveillance. Consumers tracking.

The Anonymous showed us that individuals could regroup and take action. We want to take it further.

We bring you pDoS, a blockchain consensus based Denial of Service framework and coordination tool to conduct DDoS attacks. Technically simple, nearly everybody can use it.

The first registered operation will be an attack on Saudi Arabia Justice ministry, exactly one year after the brutal assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.

Join it!

pDoS -- "DDoS for the people"

https://github.com/pdos-team/pdos
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I started paper logging when I got my first programming job. At first it was just to write down things I needed to know; IP addresses/host names, bugs I worked on, etc. Eventually, I started logging more information about my thought process for why I designed something a certain way or how I tracked down a bug. These come in handy months later when the bug comes back and I can refer to my notes and talk to the team about it, or when I need to design something similar and need to give an estimate. Are there better places to put this? Sure, I guess, but this is mine[0] and I can write down what I want.

[0] Oh, in case anyone is curious. My logs stay with the company when I leave. I don't take any IP with me.
But this is more like being charged a full license cost for a CD copy and a Digital Download.
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For the cooktop. You're still stuck with a crappy (relatively-speaking) resistive element in the oven.
Why should I link myself so heavily to a provider like you? Not wanting to troll, as a dev, I know that the problems you try to solve are common, but still wondering what happens "if..."
Also, it's a way of going around capital controls.
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I always wondered why the folks doing QE didnt pump money into the people letting them stimulate the economy by spending / paying their bills.

Banks still end up with the money but people would not be screwed quite so during the process.
Why do you believe it's not a derivative work? Let's say a neural network was trained on two books, and it ends up reproducing large fragments of text from those two books. Is that a derivative work?

Or 3 Or 4... And reproducing how much of the original work exactly, under what conditions. Does the size of the model factor in to the analysis?

It doesn't seem as clear cut as you suggest to me.
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So, printing more money and creating inflation. Why even both investing and saving any more...
Unless they know it will last 150k miles and don't care beyond that. Or put more cynically, have set the window for artificial obsolescence of their vehicles early enough to goose sales, but late enough that their reputation and liability don't take a hit.
> That’s what I mean when I say denying one’s existence.

No, that would not be "denying your existence". That is hyperbole.
Disassembler is a collection of powershell snippets that lets you disable features of Win10 that you don't use. It also supports presets and snippets for enablement of said features.
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May be related, the pronunciation of the word quixotic, is odd in English compared to how Quixote is pronounced.
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I agree, most appliances in the US run on 240 volts, but this is separate from 3 phase. Most households only wire up single phase electrics. Both can support 120v or 240v appliances, but appliances designed for 3 phase are more efficient in their energy use and less prone to overload your breaker.
How exactly does blockchain solve this problem, other than being the buzzword of the day?

The vast majority of this data comes from the United States Strategic Command's Space Surveillance Network, which provides orbit information in SGP4 format for public use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillan...
Probably something shorter, easier to read, and in a genre that they like. If they like horror, then maybe something from Stephen King. If they like sci-fi, then Isaac Asimov. Romance? Nicholas Sparks.
i cannot seem to find the extension. do you mind linking it.