skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In describing the scale of distances (and time) in the United States to a brit:

> In England, 100 miles is a long distance. In the US, 100 years is a long time.

This likely applies to Australia as well. Note that this is a vast oversimplification as there is certainly culture in both Australia and the US that is much older than 100 years, but it gives the sense that the country is young - the difference between the old world and the new world.
“That depends on how easy it is to get out if it.”

Exactly. That’s why I despise ppl whose connections got them out of the draft. For everyone of those punks, another one of McNamara's morons had to be drafted.

Mohamad Ali, on the other hand, he had the courage to go to jail.

Burn your draft card, escape to Canada, or simply refuse. But those who use university exemptions or bone spurs can go to hell.
sit and call donors for money pretty much all day as in they have a quota to meet

My brother pointed out to me the goal really is to be able to control your own schedule. I guess that isn't it.
I'm not convinced.

Assuming you even recruit the officer class from draftees, you're going to recruit the ones that think like you, or at least that you respect, which in practice means they know someone you respect, were taught somewhere you respect, in short they're probably from the same circles as you.

Plus if you don't want to join the military, are you really going to give a toss about contributing?
She died whilst hiking, how common is that?

Are there any guidlines to reduce these dangers, was she walking in a particularly dangerous area?
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Temperate forests sequester carbon over millions of years by leaving a layer of carbon rich top soil beneath them through leaf and other litter fall.

Soil can hold a _lot_ of carbon per square foot. Carbon that is partially lost to the atmosphere when it is plowed.

But my understanding is that tropical forests tend to have fairly carbon poor soils on the forest floor.
Sorry, what? Are you implying that companies I write code for go out of business? Why do you think that?
>well-maintained application architecture
Tsk tsk.
>WooCommerce Hell
I have never experienced this. Can you elaborate?
I come at this from a productivity perspective after using Mac's for several jobs - Linux boosts my productivity by 30-40%. Anecdotal, sure, but things just work in Linux and your not constantly having to fiddle around and click through things. It could also be that Mac's have declined in quality and I can put Linux on nearly anything and it lasts forever, especially when you put it on high quality gear that just doesn't exist at Apple.
Nobody pays attention to Goodman's problem of induction [1].

The truth is that nobody really knows how we ought to arrange society, and which arrangement is likely to work. Everybody is guessing!

The moment you arrange the system one way, people game it and your economic model no longer applies. What worked in 1999 needs not work in 2019.

Blaming the people you chose to listen to is just another form of avoiding the elephant in the room - that you don't know how to decide who to listen to.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
I don't know if KDE connect is available on iOS, but that provides phone integration without effort. Copy/paste across devices, file access/browsing/sharing across devices, remote input, media player control, notification synchronisation and text messaging is all available through KDE connect. If you run Gnome instead of KDE, GSConnect also works very well.

iMessage integration won't happen because Apple has closed down their API. There have been reverse engineering efforts but such a system is never reliable enough for comfortable desktop integration imo.

I've never come across iMessage lock-in as everyone I know either uses WhatsApp, Telegram or plain old SMS so I don't know what limitations you might run into in your setup.

Come to think of it, KDE connect on iOS won't happen (GPL conflict with app store, restrictions to apps, limitations on background execution). I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything else from the Apple ecosystem.
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> "Why did America listen to the people who thought we needed “more millionaires and more bankrupts?”"

Pardon my somewhat unorthodox HN tone but who is "America" here? I'll tell you who it's not...plenty of those who voted for the current POTUS.

There was - and still is? - an economic narrative that's pumped out of W.DC via the the corporate media shoveling machine. That spin is disconnected from the reality that plenty of people are experiencing.

Regardless of the static thinking of leading economists, those theories have been tested time and again, and the market has spoken. There's a dark sad irony to the NYT taking notice of reality; mind you it's merely an op-ed.
That doesn't really make any sense, Backblaze were not limiting you to a single thread - you were...
There was a shop that said to influencers they could get a discount only after 30 people used their specific influencer promo code. None of them did (or could do) it.

It’s highly ineffective and for the most part it’s just some entitled person with an inflated ego demanding freebies. Madness to think businesses can really believe they are of any real substance or significance.

Instagram more and more has become a cesspool of materialism and advertising. It’s hauntingly shallow to witness, and the impact on the younger generation who are trying to “keep up” for their own mental sanity are instead being dragged further and further into it. Instagram isn’t the only offender obviously but I think it is the antithesis of the issue.

Having already deleted Facebook, I completely changed up my instagram to show photography photos and things relating to my hobbies, and removed my friends and other “lifestyle” feeds. I can honestly say it felt like an immediate lift of mental
clarity and happiness. I kept my friendships and have nothing to prove about the way I choose I live my life. No more scrutiny, no more pining after validation, and most of all, a bit of well deserved privacy.

Bringing up a child in this vapid and self obsessed culture must be like navigating a minefield.

Apologises for the rant. I’m only 29 but I sound like I am 90.
What specific kind of military do you get? The US military I was a part of was the most diverse group of men and women I have ever worked with in just any metric you can find.
Ultimately, this transfers shares to Dell that, most likely, provides liquidity that could be used to pay a little bit of their massive debt ($56B) that is choking them. Dell is in financial trouble. See https://seekingalpha.com/article/4278101-dell-technologies-m...
I didn't say anything about partial engineering. Just that engineering disciplines are different. If you need to design a column to hold up some load, a set of equations will tell you the dimensions of that column, how much cement, sand, etc to put in the concrete mix, how many steel rebars of what diameter and specification. Designing that column is very different than anything I do as a software engineer.
Depends. If they told me "look how easy it is to apply this function to a certain subset of the elements of this array" and they show me map and filter instead of a for loop I would be all for it, even if it's "prewritten" code.

But I get the example about roman numerals, editors and browsers.
“Everyone else is doing it” is a terrible argument. Individuals are not averages of the nations or regions they come from — an Asian in the USA is not one third Indian, one third Chinese, and one third Other; an Indian is not 16% Dalit.

Even though I don’t know of any history of SE Asian slaves in the USA, I can easily believe that a specific individual Indian with dark skin and Muslim religion might find America unwelcoming both on religious and racial grounds — if that person was rich enough to even try to move to America, I’m going to guess they’re probably not one of the untouchables. Other people’s pain doesn’t invalidate theirs; it only becomes hypocrisy if they turn a blind eye to it after experiencing it, and I have no evidence of that here.
Whereas on macOS if you have a use-case not supported by Apple, you're either out of luck completely, or it's going to cost you. macOS still doesn't have even window snapping, nor a decent file manager.
The first map shows roughly thirteen million people in non-Italy "Western Europe" and roughly twenty two millions in the non Western Europe parts. Wikipedia has an actual population density map[1] that highlights my point. Even in traditional "Western Europe," the population is predominantly Mediterranean. It also has a list of the most populous cities during the peak of the Empire, largely outside of Western Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empi...

edit terrible math on my part.
No it's not, since playing in a park is normal, but killing yourself for getting bad grades is not.
What if most people are not good at what society currently appears to value?

I don't think most people are against doing what they are good at (or even, what they like), it's just that discoverability is poor and in a lot of cases the most important thing ends up being a certain brand of social or political skill, and not the other secondary skill you might posses. For people to play to their strengths, we need a society that can detect and nurture those strengths, and I don't think we have that right now.
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幽体離脱時にバイオレンス映像が降ってきましたが僕の身にそれが降ってくるという事ではないようです（祈）†
Any discussion about a meaningful job will benefit from a look at 80,000 Hours -- https://80000hours.org

Making a positive difference in the world is a great thing to do.
Computerized trading has minimal impact on real asset prices, it just adds efficiency and liquidity. Bitcoin is mostly used as a speculative investment vehicle and for illegal transactions. Most technology (Google/FB), took an existing industry and computerized it (Advertising). Nothing is new, and the situation we are in now was discussed 20 years ago as a possibility, just not by the economists and politicians in power.
They have been for years. The issue is that they're tables, and often nested tables (there's nothing to prevent how nested afaik) which don't render that well on the mobile UI. Rather than figure out how to render them or come up with an alternative layout, they opted to hide them.
It’s more like giving kids a proper, but hard to use tool, plus a crutch.
Friedman’s worst idea that remains in vigorous implementation was automatic income tax withholding. He poured jet fuel into an engine of runaway state growth but is somehow remembered as a libertarian.
Just to give my perspective, I read it totally differently. The impressive part to me was the F# core doing spreadsheety things, and the rest felt like incidental view logic that had to be covered for the sake of completeness but wasn't really important. I thought the fact that the demo is embedded right in the page was incredibly cool because it let you poke the logic interactively, but I wasn't too concerned with how it was done.
It looks like most of that behavior is a sham and brands are waking up to that. Hopefully people in general are waking up to the sham and don’t get influenced by shallow actors.
I think there is some tribalism at play. Fowler and friends are writing about enterprise architecture. HN is probably more oriented towards startups which haven't yet reached that kind of challenges and constraints (and in most cases never will), and who feel superior to the dinosaurs. And then there is is the "computer scientists" who think software development should be based on proofs rather than experience and results.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

http://www4.westminster.edu/staff/brennie/wisdoms/eliot1.htm
I thought they got millions of dollars in subsidies over the past decades to do run the wires? Not exactly doing it for free n’est-ce pas?
Nothing makes me think economics is scientific.

But it's taught as if it's a science, handled inside academia as if it's a science, and has more influence on policy than hard science does.

If it's not a science, those three facts are rather curious.
How accurate are these predictions for you?
Like people don't have the option to vote.
Working hard for good grades and being disappointed at failure is normal too.

Software design could, probably should, have incorporated the social context of failure. This is Asia, India in particular, that we are talking about here - the hyper-competitiveness that these kids go through is probably worse than what medical doctors go through in prestigious schools in the US.
What are some of those things? (Curious question, haven't thought of switching yet but could try if it's worth it.)
To me, it looks like she really did have an accident, discover she would be ok then asked someone to take photos for Instagram. Which is a lot worse than staging it IMHO.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
It is often the toxins from bacteria, rather than the bacteria itself that makes you sick. Don't play when it comes to meat.
Not in the article, but in the book it self: there is also the function of combating superstition! Lots of people believed incredibly dangerous things. Such as cutting of the (arm or) hand of a new born (and carrying it when you attempt to burglar a house) can make you invisible. This believe was obviously quite dangerous for new borns. Thieves and burglars would sometimes “try their luck”. When they got caught it was the executioners job to also demonstrate/ educate the people.
Pornography is "the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal", it doesn't say anywhere that the actors have consented.
Well clearly autocorrect doesn't work well on linux
If I predict your car is going to crash based on the fact that the tyres are bald, the brakes are worn, and the steering wheel isnt attached. You probably (if you take the prediction seriously) want have a crash, because you'll get the car fixed.

So it isn't a particular problem of economics. The problem of economics is testing theories. I would guess that most economists have a theory that never gets tested, because you can't test them in a lab, only in real life, the depth of knowledge just isnt there to know what will work, what won't, and popular but wrong theories aren't proven wrong fast enough. I cant reasonably say whether bald tyres will cause a crash, because no ones seen bald tyres before.
No, they give you the answer in the beginning. High taxes on the legal pot, and extremely low prices on the illegal pot that has flooded the market.
One point of view that might help is considering cases as being an alternative to prepositions. English has three cases - nominative, indicating the subject of a sentence; accusative, indicating the direct object; and genitive, indicating possession. Rather than using the genitive, we can also use a preposition: David's book, or the book of David.

German has a fourth case for the indirect object. Where English has to use a preposition (e.g. I gave the book to him), German uses the dative case (Ich gab ihm das Buch).

Finnish takes the concept much further - it has fifteen cases, which can be used where English would use a preposition. For example, the abessive case is used where English would use "without", the comitative for "together" or "with".

So cases are not types, they are relations, indicating the role of the noun in the sentence.
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But it's not an argument - it's giving context. The USA is not uniquely guilty of all the injustices in the world, and refusing to go along with this narrative should not be framed as an attack.
China's firewall does not do man-in-the-middle in the same way as Kazakhstan. It may well be that it does surveillance by virtue of knowing the private part of some certificates (including RapidVPN), but that is a different thing.
Brooktree was effectively spun off as Conexant, who made direct successors to many of those ASICs for quite a while including updated single-chip USB and PCIe versions. I don't think they're still around now that analog broadcast is dead though.
I can't find it now, but I recall an article about it from the mid 80s. A reporter, posing as an executive, attended a government-run training/conference. I think that it was Michael Moore, but I'm not sure.
I dunno, my parents did not go bonkers after we all moved out. They turned into much nicer people. Adults I could actually talk to 1:1
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We in the USA live in the most gilded time in history, partially thanks to free markets and all the reasons the author bemoans. All income levels experience a level of prosperity without equal. Our poor are obese, unemployment is low, and the access to career altering knowledge and skills has never been better. A dip in the economy is overdue yet here we are, still experiencing a historic period of growth and economic strength.

But a presidential election is coming and the side not in power must convince everyone they are miserable. And since the economy historically ebbs and flows, “experts” will line up to write articles about the upcoming sunset so they can preen about when it inevitably does.

All the while our government is 22 trillion in debt and nobody cares. The left claims it’s because we don’t tax enough and then proposes programs that would explode the debt. And the right claims we spend too much yet, on their watch, deficits have never been larger despite record receipts.
Once upon a time, I worked in an area of mathematics called Algebraic Combinatorics, which dealt constantly with questions of 'how' and 'why.'

The combinatorics provided a 'how': Given a problem in algebra, we could make up some combinatorics that describe the system, and then prove some theorems that tell you precisely how to manipulate the system to get the answer you want. But this 'how' doesn't necessarily say much about 'why' such a solution must exist.

On the other end, we had representation theory, which gave a sort of algebraic reason for the solution to exist, but would give you no help in how to actually construct the solution.

It was extremely common for interesting problems to have difficulty on one side or the other. You've got a 'how' and spend dozens of grad-student-years (GSYs) trying to discover the 'why', or the reverse.

Likewise, ML is giving us relatively cheap answers to the 'how' question. How do proteins fold? Well, now we have better answers. And those answers, carefully studied, should help with the 'why'. Now, instead of having just a start structure and an end structure, you /should/ be getting an explicit sequence of moves from the neural network. Studying /why/ some moves are better than others should yield progress on the overall why question.

Along the way, getting answers to 'why' should help constrain the search space for AlphaFold, and allow it to come up with better answers faster.

This basic question going forward is 'how do we distill crystallized knowledge from this black box algorithm?' It's going to be an important question in a range of sciences, basically anywhere that data >> knowledge. Finding answers won't be easy, but, hey, no one said good science has to be easy...
>Software design should have incorporated the social context of failure.

Yeah sure. My bad. Let's be reasonable:

if(grade < 5)grade = 5
This is my gripe too, as someone who’s recently switched back to Linux after a 10 year OSX hiatus. My current Linux system is designed and developed by thousands of developers who were just trying to get their stuff working for them, each of them working on a small piece. OSX has a lot more consistency because it was decreed by a few UX designers, alas, that is the price you pay for flexibility.
great project. But why? Do you intend to out-compete wix/etc?

This is a significant piece of work, effort, and skill.
I feel so bewildered some times. Maybe i am just too focused on end-result and revenues.

p.s. yes, i am working on my own startup. yes, i am a developer not a manager. yes, i do get sidetracked into side projects

p.s.s. i love the pay-pal integration
Yes that's all true at the bottom. The top is still career military and they very much set the culture, tone, and policy.
(designer/developer) I too have finally switched to linux from osx. The final decision came down to the current models of Macbook Pros. I’m currently using a Lenovo P1 Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18. So far it’s worked out great!
Absolutely. A draft would also force Americans of all backgrounds to interact with each other in an environment that builds cohesion. It would also give even the most powerful of Americans skin in the game when it comes to starting wars.
I believe parent commentator was making a claim to lack of philosophical diversity, and that a voluntary military is more prone to prefer war over diplomacy.

I see the margin the parent commentator is trying to make, but feel it misses people who join the military to obtain gainful employment, get education, or numerous other reasons.
And even if it isn't about FU money, there are degrees of FI. There's a big difference between being able to move to a tropic island if you feel like it and not worrying about the next mortgage payment if you've had it with a current employer.

But even the latter creates a lot of degrees of freedom. Being able to honestly say and act as if you can walk out the door tomorrow if you feel like it does a lot for stress levels.
In GNOME you can four-finger swipe to switch workspaces. Maximising won't automatically put the app on a workspace, but you can use a keyboard shortcut to shift the current window to the next workspace until you get to a blank workspace, then maximise it. Or you can drag and drop the window to a new workspace in the overview.
So what’s your point?
Unfortunately, people professing to know economics often gives lawmakers rationalizations for whatever they want to do. There’s always someone ready to defend whatever conclusion politicians are already decided upon.
No, I can't. Sorry. Maybe I can, if you disclose what companies you are writing code for and not just plain namedropping, but disclaim the actual products you are involved with.
The stats I’ve seen make the USA seem entirely average in that regard.
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We have accounting records for the Mesopotamian civilization to the extent that Michael Hudson decades ago got a doctorate in economics for his work analyzing the debt ledgers in cuneiform. His work was instrumental for getting Iceland out of the financial struggles they were in years ago and his career struggles are a testament to the lack of concern that most STEM and economics professionals have for the possible lessons of thousands of years ago.
The US is uniquely guilty of a particular kind of racism used to build a particular kind of economy. Racism in Europe is different than it is in the US. Racism in SE Asia is different than it is in the US. In the US, racism is solely about economic exploitation of working classes by a small group of mostly white (though with some token individuals from other groups) executive/investor class and it has always been this.

Europe's industrialization was built on the back of religious divisions rather than racial ones for example, which makes the problems somewhat different.