skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though Ali had the courage to go to jail, by your reasoning in the previous paragraph, someone else “had to” be drafted in his place.

Perhaps you won’t go so far as to call conscription kidnapping, but you seem to sympathize at least a bit with people having scruples over being shipped off involuntarily to wage aggressive war. Now, you may admit that some are principled objectors, and others may simply believe that dirty work is beneath them. The more important question is whether the draft is just. If so, then any refusal by the able is wrong, and if not, we may not condemn resistance in any peaceful form.

The reality of deferments for the politically connected and most especially those for the children and grandchildren of politicians who vote for war makes utter propaganda the notion that disinterested philosopher-kings or a technocratic elite are merely acting to promote the greatest good for the greatest number.
Military officers advise politicians. It seems silly to believe they have zero sway over political opinions.
I don’t understand how these ideas can mix. If schools are super competitive and the good economic opportunities go to only the top x%, where x is smallish, then most people do not get x. I can’t see it being suicidally bad if this the most common outcome.

What do people do if they don’t succeed?
We know, with respect to elected governments, economies with independent central banks outperform those with political ones.

We know there is a correlation, that's all. I happen to think that an independent central bank is a good idea but that is little more than a guess based on my low opinion of the political class.
All Linux and Windows OS follow the IBM CUA standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access).

All of them honor Ctrl+Insert for copy and Shift+Insert for paste. This will work on browsers, editors , shells, etc.
FYI this will also work on Windows XP cmd.

Linux has its own set of standards that has evolved to work on keyboards that do not have the super modifier (e.g. in India), but has far more consistency built into it that the Mac
This only works if there isn't an out for folk with bone spurs.
I believe the internet goes to big extremes. I only want to read a newsletter from the “be a bit more prudent and save some more and then retire at the normal time with a reasonable expectation that you won’t run out of money” movement.
While I agree with the point that parents can absolutely be happy/happier when their kids move out, them being adults you could talk to after you moved out probably has more to do with you maturing rather than them ;)

Or, more nuanced, everyone involved was able to develop and chill out!
A Neural Model for Dialogue Coherence Assessment
Orwell’s Animal Farm

How the world has always worked, in an allegorical nutshell.
Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality
Well, we live in a capitalist society where accumulating riches is everyone's main objective.

Brazil was a great project called the Amazon Fund. It would improve the lives of the people of the region, without destroying the forest. The fund was supported by Norway and German. The far-right government didn't like that money were not destined to the big agro-business and is closing it. Literally throwing money away.
Why should tax inherently make it uncompetitive?

Has untaxed rooftop solar always been cheaper than some other taxed energy source?
I switched to working in academia in a genetics core (a four person team that provides services to labs at any university but mainly ours)

Choosing a lab is hard work, and some lab cultures based on stories from our Post docs are extremely toxic. The lab PI (lab boss’s) attitude drives this. Because the way science works is very disfunctional people working for the PI are very dependent on them for advancing their careers. Science is very competitive with too few jobs in academia for the number of phds.
If you PI isn’t good it can be very trying.
Programmers Should Curb Their Enthusiasm
The original article uses a spaced en dash: "Douglas Adams was right – knowledge without understanding is meaningless"

Not as distinguishable as an em dash but much better than an en dash with no spaces.
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Enron had union workers. Volkswagen has union workers. Boeing has union workers. I'm not sure that unionization is the silver bullet to ward off unethical behavior.
> or I get fed up with 2 hours of battery life and go back to macOS.

Not sure about the Bluetooth part (i had this kind of issue once in like 10 years) but the battery life, getting 2 hours is not common anymore. Sure, you won't get as long as Windows on the same hardware more of the time, but 5 to 7 hours on a full charge is what you can expect, if not longer.
In general the ancient Romans were more interested in mathematical application, instead of abstraction. I think that's true for many other ancient civilizations as well. It's not true that the Romans didn't understand mathematics, they were spectacular engineers. They just focused on something different.

The Romans invented Roman numerals, and it's important to acknowledge that this was a mathematical achievement even though we don't use them as much any more. By putting smaller numbers in front of larger ones, they created a number writing system where you did not have to learn a large number of symbols yet any particular number was short and easy to write. Greek numbers had separate symbols not only for one through nine, but for each of the symbols 10 through 90, which meant you had to learn a lot more symbols for just one through 99.

It's true that doing calculations with Roman numerals is a pain, especially division, but I don't think the Romans thought this was a big deal. Calculations were typically done using an abacus anyway, so you simply needed a simple way to record results.
No Photoshop, no Final cut, no Adobe Premiere, no CaptureOne or Lightroom. No good color management

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no Linux if you want to do something serious with photography or video.
Yes and I agree that is the case. Came from DevOps, so Linux still feels natural. Though I use it for everything now from developing, image/video editing, browsing. Literally, I feel like the only thing I can't do is IOS development.
Sorry I misunderstood the previous post I thought it disagreed with me about Polish. We do have spelling tests in Polish too, but only one way not both ways like in English.

We have tons of Latin, Greek, German, French, Italian, English loan words but we transcribe them consistently with the rest of the language: inżynier, wiktuały, donżon, jacht, komputer, opcja, pałac, skwer, hipermarket.

Kids don't need to know which language it came from, the pronunciation rules are the same.

You might say English is late-binding and Polish is early-binding language when it comes to phonetics - we decide how the word is pronounced and change the spelling when we adopt a word to out language, you do it each time you use the word :)
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Hi HN community. After many years invested in Creo, it seems that it struggles to find a market fit. I really would like to receive your honest feedback about the project, especially what is wrong about it and what should be improved.
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No, the path integral formulation does not require faster than light communication. Time is an explicit parameter
Sharing goals with friends/family works well
> I predict that generic computers (the ones you install Linux on) will slowly disappear from the market.

It seems the be going the opposite way, since by far and large there's more offering hardware wise than there has ever been, so what you see is manufacturers catering to niches more than before.
Journal on J programming language and applications in science
Total red meat and poultry shows 2020 and 2019 as the 2 highest estimates though and the rest of the data shows a pretty clear trend line going upwards.

I'm guessing it has more to do with doctor recommendations to limit red meat for health concerns and so people are moving to other meats like poultry.
how do you type an em dash, a mu, an eszett, et c on linux without looking up arcane codes each time? (option dash, option m, option s, respectively). how do you do color calibration? how do you do messaging? how do you get non-ugly fonts?

these are the barriers to me switching.
Since you are a member of the 1% who understands this, please help us mumbo dumbos.
Yeah, this is exactly my experience too.

I try to move over every six months to a year or so, and it's the same gripes every time at this point.

Driver support's reasonable now, and the desktop environments are generally solid enough, but things like mixed DPI work really badly on Linux, my browser nearly always tears when scrolling on my secondary display, etc.

But... the single biggest killer for me though is how badly Linux copes with very low amounts of free memory. Put 32G in a machine and it still periodically runs completely out under my dev workload and when that happens, the whole system becomes unusable and I have to hard reboot it. I'm not sure what macOS and Windows do differently, but it just doesn't happen on either of those two OSes.

I really want to have the freedom to pick and choose my hardware more, but at the moment I keep falling back to macOS.

It's a UNIX environment so it has the tooling I want and a solid GUI that works well.
Not everyone is a professional photographer or video editor. Especially on HN.
Study on using millimetre waves bands for the deployment of the 5G ecosystem
>> As a developer, I spend almost 80% of the time in my terminal

>In which case then sure, pretty much anything will suit you fine.

I thought the same. I’m married to Photoshop. How good is graphic acceleration support inside a VM these days?

I need to run the latest version, fast and glitch free. Wine will never be a solution unfortunately, unless Adobe supports it officially.
> Doing anything 'interesting' requires you to reboot and fiddle with the firmware. Where linux sudo works as expected.

If you mean SIP, can't you just disable it for good? Then you should be in a situation similar to Linux.
Selecting text immediately copies it to the clipboard, and middle mouse button pastes. I think this works across terminal implementations.
The problem is when our incomplete understanding is used to justify inadequate policy, simply because that's the part of the problem we understand. For instance, deregulating industries because markets are generally more efficient, thus disregarding whether that particular market naturally leads to monopoly. It sometimes leads to regulatory capture and whack-a-mole problem solving that are wholely inadequate.
He's getting that experience through the window manager. i3 offers the features like tabs or horizontal/vertical splitting.
Which countries dominate the world’s dinner tables?
17 Years of Classic Mac OS Design History
Ask your users what they don't like about the product. Experiment with features to see what works and what doesn't.
If all you do is reading and writing code and processing emails, and you don't want to waste time, workflow is very important, since it minimises interruptions.

Maybe you mixed up "tinkering" for workflow improvement with "tinkering" for the sake of it.

The advantage of GNU/Linux here is that once you nail it, you never have to change it again. Your OS will outlive your hardware; you simply transplant it, together with your workflow.
Education is of paramount importance in India. The competition is fierce. I don't have data but you can frequently read in newspapers about so many teens committing suicide over failures to clear an exam or because of intense pressure to perform.

These days so many kids start preparing for IIT entrance exams at least 2 years in advance. Even though there are may be 10,000+ engineering colleges in India, only around 30 are just good enough. I once read a Quora post in which a mother asked for guidance as to how she should prepere her 6 year old kid for IIT!

Getting admission in medical colleges is even worse. There are even fewer colleges and I've heard that people pay very very large sum as donation to get lateral entry in medical colleges.

Education in political science/art is considered waste of time and money. Degree in commerce (if from non premier colleges) is for mediocre jobs.

The situation is far worse than I can describe here. Far more worse.
The Rust people have taken over YCombinator. It's sad.
This article is discussing the transition from #1 to #2 in your pathway. It cites multiple studies showing that the method being criticized is not effective.
Politicians ignore economists unless and until they happen to propose something politically convenient.
> It can pretty much do anything you want, given enough time and configuration... but when that configuration breaks: good luck.

You can say the opposite of Macs: "the stuff that is designed to work in a certain way by Apple works perfectly, if you want to anything outside of that beautiful box, good luck"
This is not the first time I've seen you writing about this on HN.

Do you have a good source to read more about this? Both about the distinction you're making (recording vs. calculation) and in general about historical capabilities around them? I'm very interested in learning more!
That's why game theory is so important. We definitely need more progress here.
Even worse are the kid influencers on YouTube. Kids advertising to other kids. And parents trying to turn their own kids into influencers.

The whole thing is just gross.
>>But this typically seems to involve taking what you are as a person as given, preferring instead to simply try and change one's circumstances to match that.

Relevant quote: “The reasonable man adapts to the world around him, whereas the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world around him to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Something to think about next time you find yourself wanting to just get up and leave when things stop going your way. ;)
Does "if it compiles it's bug free" actually work in practice? I've heard a lot of advocates for Haskell and Rust use similar lines to this, but it seems to me like it can only be true for a limited subset of all bugs. Elm's "no runtime errors in production" claim has a more reasonable-sounding scope.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Thank God we don't have famines, but that's a really low bar to strive for as humanity. People only being able to afford food and a lifestyle that lead to obesity and a whole host of other health problems is still pretty bad, imo.
You might know this already given your username, but for the sake of the thread I feel I should mention "Ha ha" is a common expression in french when discovering something, and not exclusive to this feature (which I felt wasn't made clear in the article).
It has a specific intonation pattern and doesn't sound much like laughing, so to me the etymology isn't all that surprising.
I once received a book in the mail that contained about half a dozen live scorpions in it. The environment isn't as hostile as you might think.
Nothing creates more meaning for you than to create the opportunities based on knowing what you love. Since we're all different, different things create meaning for us differently. Rarely will a job someone else creates push our buttons best.

I created my course at NYU and wrote the book Initiative https://www.amazon.com/Initiative-Proven-Method-Bring-Passio... to create a step-by-step process to unearth each person's passions. I find that reflection alone or taking online quizzes doesn't reveal passions like action does -- that is, taking initiative (thoughtfully, with a process that works).

Recently, one person started blogging his results doing the exercises. As of August 25, here's his latest: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/2019/08/23/exercise-6-10-p....
Why Richard Branson Wishes He Was Just Starting Up in Business Today
... and how many of them died before retirement and never got the enjoy the fruits of their hard work.

... and how many of them find themselves with lots of money in retirement, but discover that they have missed their window to spend quality time with the people they love. Spouse has died, children have grown and moved away, etc.

So there are risks in the other direction as well.
Made me think about the lifters and grifters we all run into during our lives. Ann Nelson was a brilliant and powerful lifter.
Electron have CVEs which are not directly related to the browser: https://wickr.com/electron-vulnerability-the-quest-for-cool
But evicting homeless people camping on someones land is very very difficult without paying them off. You either have to pay the police to pay them off or you have to pay them to leave directly.

Water is an issue. But then it is an issue in much of the US too (Flint for example).
So in order for you to develop a payroll system you first need to know how to create a database?
Nigerians mock footballer Chified for posing with an iPhone 4 in 2019
Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
I guess this all depends on your dependence on mobile hardware.

Bluetooth? I don't even use it. Battery life? I'm on a desktop.
I also switched from macOS to Linux and am happy. I wrote a blog post titled "Home and Hotel" about this once [1]. TL;DR: macOS is like a hotel - stylish but you can't bring your own furniture. Linux feels like home. You have to do the dishes, but it's yours.

1: https://fman.io/blog/home-and-hotel/
Same. I use Linux (specifically Ubuntu) on my work/study computer and I love it.

But, weird hardware issues popped up now and then which I didn't have to deal with on my MacBook, such as the wifi card that had to be manually installed, the headphone jack sometimes doing weird things, the processors overheating.

I was able to solve those problems by searching online and finding others who had the same issue which lead to instructions to fix the problem, but I just can't imagine my family members who have never used the Terminal in their entire life having the same success.

The fact is that with my old MacBooks (and the computers I've given to my family) the only hardware related issue we've had over the last 10+ years is the battery related issues from the MBP.
Strongly recommend you get The Little Book of Hedge Funds by the Mooch himself, Anthony Scaramucci. Succinct and filled with history.

But the basic concept of a hedge is an investment to offset risk you've taken on as part of another investment.

The typical purpose of a hedge is to smooth out your expenses or returns - for example, you can use the futures market to more or less "fix" the price of whatever raw goods your business needs.

Large equity hedge funds take this concept to the "raw goods" of companies on the stock markets. They take a overall long or short position in the market and then offset that by making smart individual long or short bets on companies they think will over/underperform the market.

So to answer your question, what makes them "suited" is the business is based on their ability to identify companies out of step with the market. They do a tremendous amount of research and analysis to accomplish this, and they share this research with their investors so you can make an informed decision on whether to invest in their hedge fund or not.

Think of them as well trained bloodhounds or military scouts, able to spot danger or opportunity before others are aware of it and take swift action to deal with it.
The majority of paid for DAWs are also missing (Bitwig & Reaper only I think), then on top of that the vast majority of plugins are not built for Linux either, additionally lots of pro-spec hardware doesn't have Linux support. Of course your argument still holds true, in that most users (especially here) won't be pro-audio users, but hopefully in time the support for pro-audio users will increase on Linux, because Apple and Microsoft seem to be making the experience steadily worse.
The danger here is that many of the patterns that go from letters -> syllables are completely messed up in English. (Come to think of it, the entire darned language can be like that).

I remember in grade 3 having a teacher give a lesson on syllables. We would clap along with each syllable in the word. She asked me to do this for "Fire". I clapped twice, as there is clearly an audible Fy-er" two syllables in Canadian English. She told me I was wrong, clapped once, and said "Fire" quickly. She "knew" that a word with "consonant - vowel - consonant - vowel" pattern makes a single syllable. Never mind that my ears, and the rest of the students' ears, can hear that she's wrong.

The end result was her confusing the class about what syllables are. I remember the lesson well, because what I really learned was that teachers mean well but aren't always right.
He was an economist during an era where progressivism explosively grew the administrative state and really didn't have any checks. They were enabled by war.

What you're talking about was one of his biggest regrets.

> "It never occurred to me at the time that I was helping to develop machinery that would make possible a government that I would come to criticize severely as too large, too intrusive, too destructive of freedom. Yet, that is precisely what I was doing. [My wife] Rose has repeatedly chided me over the years about the role that I played in making possible the current overgrown government we both criticize so strongly."

[1] : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/16/post65...
On how we impose a stronger burden of truth on ideas we don’t want to believe
Imgur deletes photos after a while.
> They ask themselves "is this really what I'll want?", as opposed to "is this what the person I'll be after a few years of this will want?" or "will this turn me into a person I want?". By unconsciously taking one's self-image as fixed in that way, it becomes harder to find meaning in work and as a bonus also makes it somewhat more likely that you'll make the wrong decision because your potential future mental state isn't accounted for.

Thank you for this!

I think people overestimate how static the "self" actually is—everyone changes over time, and given how many hours a day you spend doing it, a job would almost definitely change you.
Oversimplifiying: Some of the carbon goes to the wood and some goes to sugar. During the night the plant "burns" the sugar with oxygen produce energy. (If you keep a plant in hermetic place without oxygen and without light, it would die, exactly like an animal.)

(Notes about the oversimpliplification: Wood is made of cellulose that is a carbohydrate and sugar is algo a carbohydrate, they are quite similar chemically. Also, plants produce and "burn" other compounds.)
In Polish stress is always on the second-last syllable and all sounds have the same length, there's no concept of long sounds ;)

But we do have 3 sounds with multiple letters possible (ó/u, ch/h, rz/ż or sz) so we have something like a spelling bee in schools, just the other way - teacher reads a story and kids have to write it down correctly.

It's so damn close to a fully phonetic system that it frustrates me we didn't go the last few miles and made it fully phonetic when the last reform happened ;)
Are you the founder of this site?
I switched from Mac to Windows 10, and I'm even more productive!
I believe you mean "she's" as the author of this article is a woman.
only 12 minutes ? Seemed like she had a lot more screen time in that film.