skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the primary reason people lose their willingness to contribute is living in a situation that is both "unending famine" (from their perspective, not GDP) and "rivalrous" as opposed to "cooperative". Such a situation engenders sharp elbows and hoarding. But it reverses itself soon enough when either the "famine" ends or when cooperation is rewarded rather than stepped upon.
What elevation is it at?
If he plans to sell it within 10 or 20 years it will probably not yet be worthless.
This was an amazing resource for me. i travelled from Singapore to London by land this year using buses and trains and the info on this site really helped. What I came to appreciate from this trip is that it’s possible to travel across the world using public transport.
Taken in the macro, reproduction is an important part of policy. And you’re 100% correct - we have more than enough humans.

But when I look at the micro, at the amazing little person who is still asleep in her bed, it’s hard not to look at a subject emotionally.
>some models simply won't run if the infotainment system is broken; the navigation GPS provides the vehicle's master time counter, and without that, the powertrain won't function

:O
Here's a random question for Vim users who might know Kakoune...

What can be done to make Vim behave like Kakoune? Odd question, I know. As a former Vim user, I switched to Kakoune about a year ago and absolutely love it. The multi cursor behavior, and selection before action combined to make a really excellent and visual experience.

With that said, after 15 years in the Terminal, I tire of it. I want a GUI. Neovim has made some great advancements to getting users out of the Terminal (should they want that), and I envy Neovim users! Yet, I can't get away from Kakoune.

Is there any hope? Appreciate any replies, thank you.
What internal turmoil? Trump? He will be gone in 1-5 years, then it is another political cycle. Nothing unusual. China has had 1 party (communist) rule for 70 years?
I feel like at some point in the near future phone naming conventions will adopt the car manufacturer naming convention of just being the name of the car and then whatever year it is. It would be silly to have the Samsung Galaxy S26 or the Apple iPhone 32 XR instead it should just be the Samsung Galaxy (2028) and the Apple iPhone (2025) or whatever year it is. The updates to the phones will start to get very insignificant from year to year.
It's half the price of phones with similar spec, and there are reasons for that. It also has a plastic shell. I have mine wrapped up in a case/screen protector.
"Additionally, the IPCC notoriously makes their predictions algorithmically based purely on existing observations and doesn't take feedback loops into account."

This is not even close to true. The UAH and RSS global temperature sets have shown rock solid rates of change of around ~.13C/decade for 40 years. Yet the IPCC predicts much higher rates of change in the near future (the only possible way to get to >+2C/century).

You can't just wave your hands and say the IPCC hasn't considered all the possible outcomes better than you. What you're doing is FUD, what they're doing is science.
By the same token, didn't we learn 10 years ago that cell phones and keys are better off in different pockets?
wow so creative
Anyone has any idea how to get started with VIM window api?

Lets say I want to create a "floating" window on the side and populate it with some text. Where do I start?
Candles have not been pushed forwards much recently
Somewhat off-topic, but that's how I feel about Sublime Text 3. It's fast. It's snappy. It handles MB-sized files with ease. I use it for text editing, small scripting (shell scripting, JS), repetitive text transformations that can be reduced to a macro, and things of that sort. Anything heavier goes into an IDE.
What is meant by "classical chess"?
Seems just like lawyers doing lawyer things. People always read headlines like this and imagine Zuck sitting around a conference table with a bunch of his underlings cackling about their next big evil plot, but I bet he doesn't even know about this it's just their legal team doing what they've been paid to do - protect their trademark as much as possible.
Iran is in a tricky situation, with no good solution, but with solution better than others... The country invested a lot in nuclear and to get leverage abroad ; both things are strategic for the country (independently of who rules it) and even more to the current regime. They have nothing to expect from the current US president before election. Especially knowing that US is not ready for a war so far.
What happened recently, last act being in Saudi Arabia seems to shows that Iran keep leveling up the stake, to have more bargaining chips for next serious round of negotiation, post US presidential election (even if Trump get reelected, that is a new chapter)
Pure OS, https://pureos.net/

And if that's not sufficiently capable perhaps VW can invest into making it so.
What I learned 10 years ago is that glass is fragile and to keep it in its own pocket. My Pixel 3a doesn't have a scratch on it.
NPR is tracking dozens of items. The full table is further down in the article. "NPR's basket was based on the 2018 lists of tariffs the White House imposed on imports from China, Mexico and Canada as well as China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made products."
For the people who thing that there is nothing inherently wrong about MBS. Unfortunately, that´s not the case.

When banks sell off their loans, which is what an MBS is, it fundamentally changes the ratio of money:debt originating from the banking system. In a non-MBS banking system, there is roughly the same amount of deposit money flowing around as there are loans. In an MBS using banking system, there are significantly more loans being created - unlike the initial creation of a loan by a bank, the sale of the MBS does not create any additional money.

So the underlying economy may or may not need the extra debt, but creating it this way is anything but side effect free. Granted neither is creating normal bank debt given the money supply side effects.

The evidence of history suggests that an economy can get away with small amounts of this, but at some point there is too big an imbalance of debt to money, and this causes solvency issues in paying back the debt. And that´s when everything all goes terribly wrong.

But it´s a $1 trillion a year industry in the USA, so perish the thought that minor issues like systemic stability should be allowed to interfere with that. On the plus side, China introduced them a few years ago as well, so it will be very interesting to see what happens there as things play out.

For a deeply depressing paper, considering when(2000) and where (US Federal Reserve) it was written, see:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037842669...
If you keep your phone in a bag that may not be possible.
Russia already exerts a lot of economic influence over Kazakhstan, so this example actually goes the other way.

There are MANY ways to derive benefit from a relationship between countries: it’s not binary annex/not-annexed.
Show HN: A compile testing library for Kotlin
The Pros and Cons of Ultra-Tall Wind Turbine Towers
This article sold me in switching to iPhone. It's like everything about Facebook dating seems like a eugenic program to favour people with a naive and submissive tendency toward power and authorities.

As a technology change, online dating has become a "radical monopoly (Illich)," in the sense that whether you use it or not, you are subject to it, the way a cyclist is subject to the car, and any algorithmic bias or site policy is in effect a eugenics program. Of course nobody criticizes something when they are winning, and an ostensible losers view of dating is the very popular definition of disgusting, but for a ubiquitous global company whose business model reduces to selling ads on addictive pocket slot machines to become a dominant player in the genetic selection game should give people at least some pause.
There are a number of reasons that he might prefer not to live in Russia. An example obvious political reason: Russia has a lot of the same issues he criticizes in the US. He'd probably like to safely criticize Russia for these things as well. An example obvious personal reason: France is a much nicer country to live in (due to the weather if nothing else).
The Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro has very good cameras and a headphone jack for about 430 USD: https://www.mi.com/global/mi-9-t-pro

In some markets it's called the Redmi K20 Pro.
> The goal of the tariffs is to improve the bargaining position of America in getting better trade deals with China... not to move manufacturing back to the US.

Alternatively, to decouple US and Chinese trade as China is a major strategic rival to the US.

> That might be what’s fed to the average Joe the plumber Trump supporter but common sense easily precludes that motivation.

Perhaps one should avoid thinly veiled political insults. Particularly as it blinds one to alternative possibilities.
Is being a conservative consider being an extremist from your viewpoint?
Consumers are playing Lyft and Uber off of each other and picking whichever one is cheaper (https://www.vox.com/2019/2/5/18210376/uber-lyft-ride-loyalty...), and Uber's network structure doesn't lend itself to geographic control (https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-some-platforms-thrive-and-others...)
For Apple specifically it seems that they are more keen on keeping their iOS devices on a different naming scheme. The macbook lines already do the naming convention based on 'early' 'mid' and 'late' year, for example mid 2018 macbook pro
SeedQuest: A 3D Mnemonic Game for Key Recovery
How much do you think is spent on perfume / scent science annually?

Besides the core quality and variety of the scents, technology to prevent wick flare-ups, technology to alter burn rates, more economical mixtures of the wax, better composition of the jar to support cheaper shipping and less breakage.

That’s not even to mention all the new competition to the venerable candle; non-burning LED candles, plug-in oil dispensers, time release mechanisms, vaporizers, etc.
It's a hardened glass, just from a different manufacturer than Corning.
Also the optics of a campaigner for open and accountable government living under the protection of Vladimir Putin could be better.
Test it on 30-40 kids instead and then get back to us.

You sample size is too small :-)
Note that pricing of ebooks for libraries is higher than for consumers - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/the-fu...

>Among the Big Five publishers (HBG, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, PRH, and S&S), pricing for one copy remains excessively high, in the $50 range for two years of library access, compared with the $15 range for perpetual access by consumers. Four of the Big Five now employ a two-year access model, which poses challenges to collection development and preservation.

Note also that ebooks come with restrictions that inhibit inter-library loans.
Whenever these trademark stories come up, everyone seems to get angry without trying to bother to understand how trademarks work. They think that they're like copyrights, that trademarks require originality or disallow all forms of copying or something like that. I'm generally in favour of trademarks and I don't think trademarking common words is as problematic as most people think.

When some word is trademarked, it doesn't mean nobody else is allowed to say that word. I can write all day and all night about windows, apples, and lifts without having to get lawyers in my face about it. And if the lawyers do come, they might just request that I acknowledge the trademarks that I was using in a way that could confuse consumers.

You don't need to defend everyone else's trademarks on your own. If you want to generically say to "google" as a verb for any kind of search, go right ahead. It's Google's job to defend that trademark, not yours, and I think they may well lose that fight some day.

Trademarks allow common, dictionary words. There's no requirement for a trademark to be original or creative. All it has to be is distinctive. I can call software "Windows" and I can call a music producer "Apple". Generic words are usually only disallowed as trademarks when they are used to generically describe the thing under commerce. Facebook couldn't become a bookseller with the trademark "book", for example. (Little known fact, though, "facebook" itself was a common word, referring to college-provided printed books with fellow classmates' photos on them. I assume since no one is making those anymore, or because Facebook never produced printed facebooks, they now can elude any accusations of genericism.)

The test for trademark infringement is, are you using the trademark in a way that a reasonable consumer could be confused that you're selling the same thing as what someone else has under the same trademark? I don't think anyone has been referring to all social networking sites as "books", thereby invalidating the claim that Facebook has a valid trademark on "book".

Please, try to understand trademarks. One of my pet peeves with people who lump them under "intellectual property" is that they think that trademarks are somewhat similar to copyright or patents, but these are all very different laws with different purposes, histories, and ways of being defended and infringed. It doesn't all just mean "reproduction is disallowed".
I recently released this compile testing library for Kotlin in the spirit of Google's [compile-testing](https://github.com/google/compile-testing). It can be used to test annotation processors, compiler plugins and code generation.

Features:

- Mixed-source sets: Compile Kotlin and Java source files together

- Supports compiler plugins

- Run annotation processors on Kotlin and Java sources

- Generate Kotlin and Java sources

- Provide your own instances of annotation processors directly to the compiler instead of letting the compiler create them with a service locator

- Debug annotation processors: Since the compilation runs in the same process as your application, you can easily debug it instead of having to attach your IDE's debugger manually to the compilation process

- Inherit classpath: Compiled sources have access to classes in your application

- Project Jigsaw compatible: Works with JDK 8 as well as JDK 9 and later

- JDK cross compilation: Provide your own JDK to compile the code against, instead of using the host application's JDK. This allows you to easily test your code on all JDK versions

- Find dependencies automatically on the host classpath

Hopefully it will be as helpful to you as it was to me.
Paper from 2015 cracks Diffie-Hellman. What to tell the students?
Tones and harmonics get clustered into pitches, e.g. mistuned harmonics as seen in bass guitar or piano still get decoded into pitches via some sort of best match if the mistuning does not exceed certain percentage. And it works even if some harmonics disappear and reappear.

The pitch is higher level than purely perceptual.
Like your arrogant post was also a waste of your time, eh ?

Some people just want to give back to the world.
How is any investor supposed to be able to do any level of research approaching that depth, much less a college kid or your grandparents?

"Sorry Grandpa, I know you thought that company was on the up and up, but we're gonna have to take your retirement."
Future of Hydrogen – The Potential for Hydrogen as a Fossil-Fuel Alternative
> * Software for making reservations and bookings;

The word BOOKing should be a giant flag that they're trying to trademark the generic name there. Reservation book, order book, etc all come from physical books. It would be a giant stretch to try to trademark book for software covering those things.
Dammit! I didn't know this was a thing, but now I'm thinking about it.
Contrary to popular belief most managers in industry are not 100% clueless. No manager in a car company would be so incompetent that they would off-load time critical functions to a phone. My money would be on incompetence of the writer long before I'd suspect the people on the other side of the interview.

I've been through a couple of those myself, it is always very interesting to see how your words come out once they've been interpreted by someone who is essentially clueless but well-meaning and trying to understand something that goes above their normal day-to-day level of complexity. And that's the good case, the one where they don't have an agenda to push.
The repackaging of bonds and the fake ratings were a criminal act that has never been prosecuted. Taxpayers took it up the usual place.

They took mostly junk, sprinkled in a little non-junk, and voila, a perfect AAA rating! It was fucking magic!
Printing a truckload of currency is often a byproduct of populism. Even without fiat currencies, governments would simply use other methods to debase the value of their coins [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_coin_debasement
I'm 36, got diagnosed with ADHD when I was 25 or so. I took meds when I first got diagnosed but hated them and went off after a couple of weeks. Since then, I've never taken any amphetamines for ADHD.

I've also noticed an increase in functioning and ability to succeed and manage the symptoms of ADHD as time has gone on. I'm less inclined to think it's the drugs and more leaning towards it being the person learning to manage their symptoms more effectively as they get older.

You sort of just learn to live with how your brain works and processes things. No idea if uppers help that process or not. It wasn't necessary for me.
When I was in university and had access to scientific papers, I would often read papers on AGW. I remember reading several times that IPCC models were conservative and the msot bullish models in their assessment reports hadn't predicted the rate at which the north pole is melting.
I have a high level question; a lot of want to legalize drugs. Ending the war on drugs and all that. This is a drug that was legal and a lot of people got on it and now we're angry. Why? I don't like that people got hurt. I also recognize that bad drugs are bad. But I can't find a way out of "tell people drugs are bad and they have to make their own choices." Is the problem here the doctors told them the bad drugs were good drugs?
Which is less than half of the peak value, I don't know what your point is? If we were having this conversation a year ago or a year from today, his guess would have been way off. That's why its a coincidence.
I have no idea why the industry switched from aluminum backs to glass. I thought the whole point was to enable wireless charging, but some of the phones don't even support that.

As long as they don't, I'd much prefer we went back to the aluminum unibodies of the HTC M7-10 phones. They were gorgeous, in addition to being durable.
Ah man, I've been and done a [we need a name for this as mentioned by comment above]

edit: its a misjudgement about the stagnation of technology. How about "mistagnatechment"?

Ah man, I've been and done a mistagnatechment!
It would be much more
It's not regular soda lime glass, they just used a different manufacturer of borosilicate glass (Asahi Dragontrail vs Corning Gorilla Glass).
Cost might be a % of costs + percentage of profit which increases based on the cost and has a multiplier.
I could see a game like Mao being difficult for AI or really any game with an inconsistent ruleset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(card_game)
New printer next year: "Hmm, I can't contact my telemetry server with these internet settings… time to connect to any open Wi-Fi I can find nearby!"
Yes. And you can't shop around asylum as many of these comments imply. A country is going to ask, "show me the immediate danger you're in."
I would still recommend something similar to my original post. Try to find pursuits that are your own but do them within the context of a group where you can build friendships. I think that sports clubs are great for and especially running since there's really no bar to entry (hell many of the clubs are jokingly called drinking groups with running problems), but it could really be something else. No matter what if you want that social side of things you're going to have to go out there and build it up yourself. It's not actually some crazy impossible task; there are in fact huge numbers of people exactly like you whose friends have left/gotten busy. But you do need to go out there and take the first steps.
Yes that is true. Except for the cases when workers already _start_ the job as remote. In such cases these costs are never created and therefore never avoided.

You should also consider that the costs you've outlined are not paid "per headcount" but rather collectively for the company / per company site. This means that often the company would need to completely disimss the office location or move to a smaller location.

I do not disagree with you, I'm just showing that money are not some magical points that you allocate with everything else falling into place.
Thats one of the most interesting hello worlds (like real first hello worlds) I've heard of.
A Detox Drug Promises Miracles–If It Doesn't Kill You First
Discussed 8 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20911534
Had a business in Russia, corruption is endemic, police everywhere expect bribes, mafia is everywhere. Sanctions are biting, Snowden's just looking for a better opportunity.
Ask HN: Where does this Eliza clip come from?
I’m trying to help someone in the EU who is making a documentary about Eliza, source this clip:

https://youtu.be/RMK9AphfLco

Anyone have any ideas on how to find out where it came from?

TIA
> better climate

Would asylum allow access to overseas possessions? France has some nice tropical locations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_departments_and_terri...
> In a non-MBS banking system, there is roughly the same amount of deposit money flowing around as there are loans.

Because when you take out a mortgage it gets deposited immediately in someone elses account. The mechanics are effectively the same as for non-intermediated (MBS) debt.
That's not the way asylum works, though.
What a brilliant resource! Would it be possible for you to add Coventry Building Society (UK)?
There are strong hints that Han Kuo-yu's victory was helped by Chinese influenced media companies, e. g. here: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/28/taiwan-braces-pro-chin...

As of the last months, Han Kuo-yu's support is steadily declining.

But most importantly, it is clear beyond any doubt that >90% of all Taiwanese do not want to be part of the CCP ruled China.
CCP China is the most successful ethno-nationalist/fascist state in modern history.

* With the introduction of a market economy in the 70s and 80s, but retaining full party control of that economy, they fulfilled the economic definition of fascism.

* With their oppression of the Uighur and Tibetan people they have met the ethno-nationalist definition.

We continue to economically support them at our own peril. If you're watching what's happening in Hong Kong and continue to buy Chinese products, when alternatives are available, you're knowingly funding evil.
Ironic? It makes sense to me that someone who understands the mechanisms of addiction would know how to break the cycle.
There is no way any European government is strong enough to grant it. Still, important to rub this fact in their face regularly, since many base themselves solely on appearances.

I hope we see more people like Snowden, even if that kind of work comes at huge costs. Overwhelming parts of the press failed in covering this topic too.
>This oversimplified "regulation is good" idea is pushed by a lot of think tanks (e.g. Brookings, center for american progress, The Commonwealth Institute) set up by the Soros and Clintons.

It's not though. They make a case for certain kinds of regulation and they don't try to tell a "all regulation is good" story.