skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our entire society is built to trap you in to working on things you don't care about to make other people rich.

You go to college, get a pile of debt, and now you've lost the freedom to do what you like with your time because you have to optimise for income.

Or you don't go to college, don't have debt, but can't afford a reasonable home because the collegiates voted to make it illegal to build new ones, and DEFINITELY don't want any home that isn't gigantic and doesn't have parking. No modest townhouse for you!

You decide to follow your dream and get a part time job so with the rest of your time you do a net good for the world, and you get sick. You lacked insurance. You survive, but have learned your lesson and know not to step out of line, especially since you now have huge debts.

Every aspect of our lives has become an exercising in maximising profit. And yet most don't seem to feel very wealthy. We run ourselves ragged for the sake of others. Taking as path that means earning less money and more time is considered foolish at best, irresponsible at worst.

And we're doing all this to help rip the lungs and heart of our planet apart to help a few lucky psychopaths get a brief hit on the hedonic treadmill before they die, just in time to miss the gen z'ers in a dead world cursing their name.

I think it might be better to start with nothing than with the massive negative equity many young people wind up with when starting life.
For most of the code reading tasks that you list I would use a bash terminal in the project directory. What is the advantage of having them as functions in your editor?
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I love this website! The Java train system is a little confusing and this man helped me navigate it. I owe this man a train ticket
Hmm. Johannes Gutenberg is a little ahead of them, 580 years ahead of them to be exact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg

They were called codices (plural of codex) back then, though.

I hope EU uses this application for a few laffs, then denies it.

What's next? Will they tried to register FRIEND and LIKE as wordmarks? How about "FAKE NEWS"?
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Concrete Mathematics is 672 pages, hardcover for $72 on amazon.

Lord of the Rings is 3 hardcover books, 1214 pages total for $39 dollars.

Considering that you get much more "book" out of the second one, the content seems to be most of the price.

Similarly, if you look at China-only copies of math books, you pay about $10 (IIRC), which gets you admittedly bad quality paper and binding but still makes the publishers money.
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So children losing their sight to a parasitic worm by age 5 is a necessary part of growth?

Sorry, no, that's repellant.
Not quite. It's a fact of statistics that sometimes you'll sample extraordinary evidence for a hypothesis that's false. Check out this paper for some examples: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/PPS5....
And why wouldn't they? they lost some money but mostly got bailed out at the taxpayer's expense, and nobody went to jail.

If we haven't made the disincentives stronger (we haven't) and if they were inadequate the first time (they were), why are we expecting bankers to make different choices?

This is the expected outcome.
600 MB memory usage with just one small text file open IS a performance problem imo (but I agree the app doesn't feel slow).

Especially on MACs were RAM is priced at a premium.

On Windows I developed a small program that sums the ram usage of my browsers and Electron apps I use. Between Firefox, Chromium and VSCode it's frequently around 4 GB of ram ! That's insane just to basically browse text.
Banks gotta make money somehow in a low interest world.
I'm wondering if there are any estimates/simulations on which countries or geographical regions would be the least impacted (or perhaps even benefit) from global warming.

It's very defeatist, but maybe it would make sense to consider emigration before everyone else does so.
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The fall will be even larger.
I think it all comes down to proving personal involvement with the crimes.
> having faith in their willingness to contribute to the community

I feel like my parents subscribe to this view, that this willingness comes naturally for us. It did not. Might have been different a few generations ago, but its easier than ever to live with barely any contact to a community to contribute to. So your paradigm would likely have to "drag along" an increasing number of people.

> free up time

I didn't go with 40 for a reason :) This number has to be adjusted depending on societies ability, just like a minimum wage.

> it risks creating a serf underclass

Valid concern, but probably already reality, just harder to classify and right now less done by the gov. UBI/needs provided would kind of do the same, I think. I also don't see keeping some trade aspect making class mobility harder than what we currently have right now.
30-year mortgages are still being underwritten for beachfront properties.
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> Banks today are buying both mortgages that are eligible to be sold to Fannie and Freddie as well as ones that aren’t because they are too large or they are considered riskier—often because they use alternative documentation to approve the borrower.

I'm really curious what this "alternative documentation" is. This was part of the problem leading up to 2008: banks did not verify people's information. Some people received mortgages after putting their pet's name on the paperwork.

We might not be there yet, but it's a slippery slope.
Surviving rising water levels is trivial of course - just walk away from the beach.

But its not about the weather changes per se; its about the global human conflict when food gets scarce and hungry people have guns. You have to survive that first.
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Socialistic medicine at its best. Say it ain't so!
Ric Ocasek, Frontman of the Cars, Has Died
The cars exception is odd. Is there already a similar brand that's associated with cars?
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> At the end of the day, legal structures are convenient fictions

Exactly. Most countries have relations with Taiwan, and they only keep their stances ambiguous to not lose business with PRC.

Fun example is Nauru, which accepted $130 million from PRC to abandon relations with ROC, and then a couple years later promptly did a 180-degree turn and stood with ROC again.
This is an amazing web site. Whenever I want to travel by train anywhere in the world, I always Google for [site:seat61.com <country>] first.
On the other hand, look at an actual car from the 1950s.

Yes they have 4 wheels, wind screen, engine, but reliability is massively different, power is massively different, comfort, crash safety, price (for what you get).
Sooo would FaceTime run afoul of this?
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House Judiciary Committee requested docs from Bezos re: monopoly digital markets [pdf]
These bonds are fine if they're rated properly. On the other hand, if your rating system is not functioning properly (as was true in 2008) then any product that needs rating is suspect, only investments whose provenance you can directly investigate yourself are safe in that case.

Maybe we can blind the rating system? If Standard & Poor can't tell whether this instrument they're rating was created by HSBC or me in my basement, they may take a few seconds more to consider whether the scent of shit is because it is in fact just shit in a thin paper shell.

And if you blind them but they still don't give true ratings you can trivially exploit that to fill the market with highly rated shit, destroying the market but leaving the real economy largely untouched. Rinse and repeat until all the dumb money is sucked into your pocket.
Have any two financial crises happened for the same reasons ?

I’m in my early 30s and can recall the following in the US. All for different reasons which would lead me to believe that government regulation post crisis can be effective at avoiding the same crisis from repeating (while arguably could cause a new one):

- mortgage crisis 07
- dot com 00
- savings and loans late 80s
- oil crisis late 70s
Who cares what a 'normal' state of affairs is in historical and demographic terms? Everyone who came up against British expansion was/is right to be concerned. Everyone facing Chinese expansion is right to be concerned.
Right because who created, Adam, Eve and Lucifer and all things including free will? The buck stops at one place unless you believe there is something outside of god, that is free will is outside of gods creation or design, if so what created it?
Japanese trains are crazy. I rode the Shinkansen for a few hours. I actually wondered at the time if it was maglev because the ride was so smooth, quiet, and fast.
Yeah, and the author may actually acquire some common sense in 80 years, but probably will not.
If chinese security services had assassinated democratically-elected representatives like French/US services have DOZENS of times since WWII, i assume we'd know. (Although they have militarily invaded a few areas such as Tibet)

Investing in debt and huge infrastructure projects is indeed a more discreet and stable way of getting a hold of a country than plainly invading it. It's a form of economic colonization, but as much as i hate it it's orders of magnitude less bloody than the self-proclaimed "civilizing mission" our western countries are perpetuating to this day.

To be clear, i'm not a fan of the chinese regime, at all. Or any imperialist regime for that matter. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of western propaganda in regards to chinese activities. That is, i'm refusing to choose a side in the next world war they're preparing.

No war between peoples, no peace between classes!
Imagine a ribbed touch sensitive bezel on a regular single-screen e-reader. When you rub your thumb across it, it flips the pages in the reader by a proportional amount.
The disjointed nature of train companies and their booking systems used to make planning an inter-country trip effectively impossible without either (a) huge amounts of time to do research or (b) get professional advice. This site straddles those options and makes it easy to know where to go, including extra touches like photos showing you the way to a station on another line when interchanging at San Sebastián.
Not the "same". NK and SK both have stronger international recognition then Taiwan does.

NK is censured and shunned by many states, but it's independence isn't challenged. SK isn't challenged either.
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Innovations and technology were at the same level and culture was propagated and expanded easily among the different cities but they were by no means unified, look at the social and political structure of Athenas and compare it to the ones at Sparta, almost two different worlds, military technology, strategies and formation were different, heirs and inheritance had very different rules, arts were very different, even the view of life and understanding of the world was very different... they might have look similar as Phoenicians or other bronce age, early Iron Age tribes from the region, specially since through commerce and piracy there was a permanent exchange of products and ideas.
Interesting bits :
Correspondence about Amazon’s recent move to tell some brands that they can only sell on Marketplace (not as vendors) and others that they can only sell as vendors (not on Marketplace). (By dictating this, Amazon can max its margins at the brands’ expense.)
Another one: “Spreadsheets, charts, documents, or discussion” tracking data on AWS customers, including their usage of third-party software services. (The issue here is whether Amazon uses this data to develop its own native AWS software that displaces popular third parties.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20190909013313/https://www.seat61...
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Intel has copyright on the lower-case letter 'i'. I claim victory.
> On a side note, I don't like when people make up words like 'indistractable', but that's personal taste.

It's likely that the success of this book will rely entirely on this word. After all, Cal Newport wrote recently on the same subject, so I'm not sure what this book brings new, other than the catchy/annoying word.
Using the terms 'PRC' and 'CCP' rather that 'Chinese' is transparent.

This is stroking the "yellow peril" fantasy, nothing more. Sensationalism mixed with thinly-veiled racism. It sells books...
Part of the problem that I realized after hearing the author promotin this book in a podcast is that many people not only want to solve problems but also put their own spin/branding on it, even if it’s not actually much different from existing solutions.

But that slight difference in the new solution being promoted taps into our brains just in the right ways that it makes existing solutions seem inferior, thus the productive porn.
I think this might have been the one the parent comment was taking about - https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-27/labor-staffer-tell...

Was in 2015 but I think only came to light recently.
> Counting the power of Taiwan for China and Ukraine for Russia is likely more predictive of the future than not counting them.

More predictive in what regard? The only way I can see it being usefully predictive is if you count on the larger entity annexing the smaller one. An I missing something?
A multi-page e-ink book would be nice. I love my Kindle for certain types of reading, but when I read, I like to flip back to previous sections. Search doesn't work because I rarely know verbatim what I'm looking for or the search terms are flooded with answers from the entire book, when I really want it narrowed down to a particular area. With physical books, I just remember roughly how far into the book it was and can jump back there and start searching. I'd love to successfully replicate that with a Kindle.
Perhaps, but in the last year things have taken a turn that suggest China's momentum may be taking a turn for the worse recently. Trump's trade war is just a leading indicator, but it's not the only problem they're facing; increasing amounts of the world are seeing them as a direct threat. I'm not sure we can project out China's progress from a politital/economic regime where they were at least effectively unopposed (beyond the normal give and take of any economy), if not actively being given a helping hand, to a regime where they are being actively opposed by an increasing number of economies.

It's possible a trade war will end up being the best possible thing that could happen to them by putting some stress on their economy and helping them sharpen their game, but, then again, it may end up being the case that once again, a Communist regime turns out to be a paper tiger pumped up by a lot of people heavily invested in seeing Communism succeed, only for it to collapse spectacularly once all the internal contradictions are laid bare.

Stay tuned for the next couple of years.
I suppose its worth noting that the company is trying to trademark them in Class 9:

Class 9

Scientific, nautical, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling electricity;
apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images;
magnetic data carriers, recording discs;
automatic vending machines and mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus;
cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment and computers;
fire-extinguishing apparatus.

Explanatory Note

This Class includes, in particular:
– apparatus and instruments for scientific research in laboratories;
– apparatus and instruments for controlling ships, such as apparatus and instruments, for measuring and for transmitting orders;
– the following electrical apparatus and instruments:
(a) certain electrothermic tools and apparatus, such as electric soldering irons, electric flat irons which, if they were not electric, would belong to Class 8;
(b) apparatus and devices which, if not electrical, would be listed in various classes, i.e., electrically heated clothing, cigar-lighters for automobiles;
– protractors;
– punched card office machines;
– amusement apparatus adapted for use with television receivers only;
– all computer programs and software regardless of recording media or means of dissemination, that is, software recorded on magnetic media or downloaded from a remote computer network.
This Class does not include, in particular:
– the following electrical apparatus and instruments:
(a) electromechanical apparatus for the kitchen (grinders and mixers for foodstuffs, fruit presses, electrical coffee mills, etc.), and certain other apparatus and instruments driven by an electrical motor, all coming under Class 7;
(b) electric razors and clippers (hand instruments) (Cl. 8);
(c) electric toothbrushes and combs (Cl. 21);
(d) electrical apparatus for space heating or for the heating of liquids, for cooking, ventilating, etc. (Cl. 11);
– clocks and watches and other chronometric instruments (Cl. 14);
– control clocks (Cl. 14).
How does this pass the straight face test. The proposition is insane, I hope I wake up and this is all a fever dream.
It's not propaganda so much as not letting inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story.

Lots of ways to looks at numbers. China has 3x the population of US, so should we divide the company count by 3? Does number of companies matter, or market cap? Or revenue? Or profit + salary? Does purchasing power parity affect the weighting? What about the effects of US alliances with Europe vs China's alliances? What about the fact that US companies are multinationals, not purely American?

At best you can say that China is on the rise and is a force to be reckoned with. Can't say if it's more or less powerful than USA.
Some of the markets they're applying for seem a little questionable. Looks like they're trying to claim far more than just social network.

* Downloadable e-commerce computer software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via a global computer and communication networks

* Magnetically encoded gift cards;

* Software for accessing and viewing text, images and electronic data relating to conferences in the field of software development;

* Software for making reservations and bookings;

* Software for ordering and/or purchasing goods and services

* Software to enable accessing, displaying, editing, linking, sharing and otherwise providing electronic media and information via the internet and communications networks
So maybe Americans are not so crazy for having so many guns? /s
> UPDATE: tested with Chromium and it feels response. Only Firefox is sluggish.

If you're feeling up to it you might want to file an issue with Mozilla on this.
It's not about how fast they can pick it up. It's about whether they want to or not. And most devs doing JavaScript work want to stay in JS land.

Similarly, good luck finding help with Dart issues versus the JavaScript ecosystem.
Depends on the model. My first electric razor lasted somewhere around 10-12 years with no issues, before it broke and I needed a replacement. The replacement was a newer version of the same model, and caused bleeding around my adam's apple every day guaranteed; I downgraded and haven't had any issues since.
You're missing the point.

The situation is the same. The difference in the case of China is that one side is strong enough to influence the international community's recognition of the other side.

The point being that mainland China + Taiwan constitute the 'Chinese sphere' so to speak. The formal position of both sides on many international issues is not very different. For example, although mainland China gets a lot of flack for its claims in the South China Sea, Taiwan has the same claims because both sides agree that this area should be under Chinese sovereignty.
Nature works on the premise of emergence. It's entirely possible that the energy gradient required for a biological system to make successful, permanent changes beneath its fundamental layer of operation is just too much.

Suppose this all started with a few self-replicating proteins. From that we got organelles, and then cells. Then multi-cellular organisms, then tissues, organs, etc.

But working backwards, from protein -> molecular chemistry -> quantum phenomenon, may simply not be the path of least resistance and thus for the overwhelming majority of life in the universe, was not an evolutionary path.
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That independence movement is as much about giving up their own claims on the mainland and continuing as an independent nation without ambitions to one day kick out the poser government currently controlling the PRC as anything else.

All these years later, Taiwan still maintains their claims, actually they maintain technically larger claims on the mainland past PRC borders than even the PRC claims.
What features are you using in phpStorm that you think are missing from vim?

Definitely not trying to convince you to use vim over your favourit IDE, I'm just currious what your top 10 missing features are.
Yeah, I live 220 feet above sea level and wonder if I need to start looking for a new place to live.
Is it more computationally complex than Go?
Nope, not for the online image editor, you can edit as many images as you like.
Looks like IT classes I had in Poland 20 years ago. We used a programming language called Logo where we programmed movinng a turtle across a canvas. I absolutely detested those classes and never understood the purpose... I started liking programming when seen a real world problem like make an ajax request... but there were guys who liked it this way. I suppose everything have it’s audience. And well done yo the creator for taking his own time to write it!
And nuclear weapons are more destructive than my 16 year old. So that's all good then.

Sorry, what point were you trying to make?