skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand why you would require only adults to produce porn. Child porn is exploitative and destructive and one of then worst things in digital spaces.

But what is the reasoning behind limiting porn consumption to adults. This seems like an odd restriction that is taking away agency from children and families.

The age limit and type of porn varies significantly among parents that I know. None restrict porn of their 17 year olds. Everyone has a story of blocking their 10 year old.

The sheet cost of checking everyone’s id on a big section of the Internet seems to dwarf any expected benefit. It would be cheaper to hand out free pihole devices for every parent in the UK that just black holes porn and give an 800# for parents to get tech support.

In my country some places passed laws requiring grocery stores to check everyone’s id for alcohol purchases. It adds 10-30 seconds to every grocery trip and every incentive in a while causes a frustration. A friend’s 80 year old mother was denied being able to buy cooking wine because she didn’t have her id. It is so frustrating and an example of how society could improve, even in a small way, lives of citizens.
I don't mean it as a pejorative at all. I am all for a universal basic health care setup (e.g., Medicare for all) because "we" (the insured and tax payer) are already paying for everyone's healthcare that can't afford it. If you go to the ER instead of PCP, we are paying for it; if you lose out on work because of preventable illness, we are paying for it; if you die early without adding productively to society, we are paying. But we currently don't have this system to pay for this from those who are making money. In other words, everyone is paying for this, but in reality it should be the higher earners that are paying more for this. That is what I see as a wealth transfer. People like you (likely) and me will have higher payroll taxes or income taxes to cover those who cannot afford. Please don't take this the wrong way--I am all for this. But it may entrench this inequality because it removes the "push" from the invisible hand of the market to get people finding ways to improve their lot in life--the whole basis of our current economic system. Again, not saying it is right or wrong, just commenting on how I think things are.
> I wish we had let the last recession ('08) actual happen instead of cheap money for a decade allowing us to kick the can down the road. Intervention in the capital markets a la the past decade probably

The recession did happen and it ended, as recessions tend to do. Recessions are always much briefer than expansions. Cheap money is helping but much of the expansion is driven by consumer spending and tech innovation, in America and China especially. Companies such as Facebook, Apple , Disney, Walmart, Google and Microsoft making record profits every quarter and have so much cash they are giving it away in the form of dividends and buybacks. As evidence of how the US economy is not dependent on the fed, when the fed began raising rates in 2015-2017, the market still rallied. I don't see any reason for the era of low rates to end. In spite of the huge rally in stocks over the past decade, there is still an aversion to risk, and that is why capital keeps flowing into low or native yielding debt. Companies such as Ubere are spending a lot of money, but similar to Tesla, they are cashflow positive. The money is spent on outlays and other lagre expenses. When the expenses end, they will be profitable similar to Amazon. People keep predicting that things will eventually have to change, but maybe they won't. I n 2012-2014 there was talk of a tech bubble, but now valuations for FANG stocks is the lowest the have been in a long time.

> A company like Uber, though amazing to me and I use all the time, could only exist with cheap money for a decade. The idea of building a company by losing money for 10 years in order to build your client base is impossible if rates are high.

Not necessarily true. Tech VC funding for money-losing companies was huge in the late 90s despite high interest rates.
I see the same problems but it usually caused by a reluctance to modify the database schema. Once you get comfortable doing that and keep your schema matching the requirements then it solves a lot of the problems.
This is why debt holders are usually not in a rush to have the debt paid off. If in doing so it devalues the debt so much that it isn't worth it.

If you owe the bank $100,000 you have a problem, if you owe the bank $10,000,000 the bank has a problem.
You are a virtue signalling moron that put your political beliefs ahead of your product and your users. You didnt say shit when Obama built and ran the ICE centers. SJW = loser cancel-culture snowflake.
Imo

Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated,

And, Because Capital is trapped into networks, that Capital is squandered among an infinite array of companies employing the talent and producing products that don’t make you, or the planet, better, healthier, smarter or happier. (Apple’s SJ era, Google until 2014~ and Tesla fit the useful smarter happier paradigma, and not many other)

My solution is: take a piece of the federal budget and give $1-3MM to anyone with a far fetched idea that has a prototype to back it up. No long processes. If 30K -mostly students- a year get a mill to develop their thing, I suspect we would find ourselves way into the future in just a decade. And that’s just $30-90B/y
True, but they can delay the outcome.
Prices have to change for dollars to be worth less. If prices change depends on how the coin is used.
The citation from Germany's constitution is a bit misleading. In Germany, law enforcement warrants must be signed by a judge (in urgent cases, a prosecutor can sign them, and they have to be confirmed soon afterwards by a judge).
There is an exception for communication interception by the intelligence services: those warrants must be confirmed by the G-10 committee which is organized like a court, but directly appointed by parliament.
The main differences to the US system are strict separation between law enforcement and intelligence services, and direct oversight of the latter by the parliament.
I have yet to understand why people are upset about the concept of China devaluing their currency and manipulation of it, and don’t have an issue with the US doing it.
Trump ran on keeping the US out of dumb wars. That said, there's no hurry in pursuing this matter. Sometimes its better to wait and see how events play out. The Saudis and Israelis have already bombed Iran's military complexes in the Abu Kamal region of Syria.
Totally false. Total health industry publicly traded company profits (including drug companies, hospitals, and insurance companies) add up to about $50 billion per quarter, or $200 billion per year worldwide: https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/11/12/Chart-Day-Big-Phar....

Total domestic hospital profits (including more than just public companies) is about $74 billion per year: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180104/NEWS/18010.... Insurance companies are $25 billion annualized: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/05/top-health-insurers-profit-s... ($7 billion per quarter for health insurers). The link above shows $100 billion in drug company profits worldwide; about half of revenues are in the US, so let’s say $100 billion in profits domestically. That’s $200 billion for the US healthcare industry, including non-public companies in addition to publicly traded companies.

Total US healthcare spending is $3.5 trillion. Profits account for just 6% of that spending.

To reduce healthcare spending to the same levels as the rich European countries like Germany or France we’d have to cut spending about $1.25 trillion. Cutting healthcare industry profits to zero (and note that there are for-profit hospitals and drug companies in the EU and they don’t make zero profit!) would reduce healthcare expenditures by just 1/6 of the amount required.
GINI coefficient of Republican versus Democratic districts

You can get an idea from the states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_co...

It won't surprise you to reveal that Utah features the greatest amount of economic equality. When you chart Democrats' income it tends to be bimodal--poor people voting for tax money and rich people voting for [insert mystery reasons here--stopping climate change? ethnic interests? to please TV clowns?].
How common is that and how much harm does it cause? What’s the cost of that damage? What’s the cost to prevent it?

Perhaps we could launch a billion dollar program to protect children against drop bears [0]. Would that have the same impact? Perhaps. I think teenage boys have similar risk from drop bears as from incredibly violent porn with the women presented as enjoying it (or actually enjoying it).

If we get into this space then just watching prime time tv had violence and must be causing lots of harm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear
Pretty sad state of affairs when students will halt a protest on the orders of the university administration.
Inflation doesn't kick in when money is minted it kicks in after it is spent.

This is why QE didn't trigger inflation in a normal way - minted money was exchanged for bonds (financial assets) not spent on goods and services.
> list of innovations we need is long

but subsequent included nothing vis-a-vis the expensive, industrial lifestyle we have these days. It is unfortunate that cultural innovation doesn't make the list, since it would go a long way toward address some pertinent problems
I am a pilot (fixed wing, not helos), and while you can use physics to assist, there are a myriad of other variables in play such as wind currents, turbulence, air density, temperature, delays in throttle response, fatigue, visibility and visual obstructions, effects of constant g-force changes etc. etc. etc which are always changing the conditions and responses around you.

Swing loading like that can also cause problems with instability due to harmonic resonance. Plus other issues like differing weight of the loads, how securely the loads have been packed, whether the release catch works when the pilot dumps the load in the truck, or the load comes loose halfway through the loop etc. can turn a smooth ballet into a catastrophic scenario in short order.

It is a bit like saying that if someone can juggle 3 balls, then they should be able to easily juggle 6 balls because - inertia.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/395573/aut-denies-cancel...
This is a terrible reply, what are you even trying to say? You can’t stack overflow a problem so don’t write your own in-house solutions? Lack of testing? We write our own tests. We write our own documentation.

It’s crazy to me how many people on HN are ignorant to the costs of third party dependencies and the benefits of in house solutions when building large applications.
The post took 30 paragraphs (most are a single sentence) to get to the point, which is to recommend the Morning Pages exercise. It can be summarised as[1] “filling three sides of paper with words, stream of consciousness-style, first thing every day”.

They go on to say you “can do all your writing anytime, anywhere on this website, as long as you have a computer and access to internet”, that their metric is 750 words instead of 3 pages, and they require an account to use the service. I don’t see why you wouldn’t just do it in any semi-competent text editor, without needing an internet connection or another online account.

Finally, they end by suggesting the “don’t break the chain” productivity method[2], saying “it is inspired by a productivity trick invented by Jerry Seinfeld. You can google it for more detail”. If you google it, you might be quick to find out from the horse’s mouth that’s a common misconception, as Seinfeld did not create the system[3].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/03/morning...

[2]: https://lifehacker.com/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-2...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...
How to make up to $100k per month working at the comfort of your home
Signatories commit to use 10M tons of recycled plastic in products by 2025
Arguably we’re staving off an ice age which would make things _more_ habitable for humans.
There's already a heat shield covering it on many cars.
Relying in science and data is great, but relying in science avoiding rational thinking is questionable.

About the IQ test, what would make the test "unlearnable" in the sense that one cant train to do the test and be better at it? Thus enhancing his IQ.

Do those studies experimented this : measuring individuals who made the test (same rules, different exercices) multiple time. If their IQ increases over repetition, it definitely means that IQ test measures _in some way_ the ability to do the test, which makes the IQ test narrow.
Insured through their employer is different than insured.
Google researchers have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy”
It's not socialist, necessarily, but it's definitely blank-slatist, and the two are often stablemates.
Somewhere in a drawer here I have a Billion dollar note from some African nation from years ago. I think it roughly converts to about $100 here in Australia.
YES. This article clearly answers what I was asking about a month after the presidential election.

"Why aren't Democrats trying to answer everyone's problems? And realizing that someone is telling you they have a need if they vote for the other party?"

Turns out, politics is in its own filter bubble. Democrats honestly can't relate to rural or manufacturing areas anymore, and Republicans can't relate to urban or technology areas.
Huawei Dangles $1.5B in a Hunt for Global Developers
It sounds like you are talking about a "price relative" or "relative strength" or "Bogle tell tale" chart.
NSA recommends Intel!
Often there are powerful incentive effects at work that can explain the "lateness". The party making the estimate may be rewarded for making optimistic estimates (winning a bid, winning votes, staying in power). And that reward may be greater than the penalty for being "late", which can often be blamed on factors that appear unpredictable.

So the challenge for organizations who want predictability is to set up their system to balance the rewards and penalties to get the desired result.
> The recession did happen and it ended, as recessions tend to do. Recessions are always much briefer than expansions.

I think the part of the recession that didn't happen was the failure and disintegration of at least a couple of very large banks and at least one car company, among other things. There was no fundamental reorganization to clean up a couple of decades of bad decisions, which signalled to the next round of players that high risk is not really high risk. One day the chickens will come home to roost.
A Personal Message from the CTO of Chef.io
The billion dollar mistake refers to Hoare's statement, not the fact that it might have been a more or less costly error. And errors in terms of security are not all that matter: a simple crash can cost money too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Apologies_and_retra...
Usually it’s platinum, palladium, and rhodium along with some other, cheaper metals.
Because studying the planetology of the various other bodies in our solar system may spark novel ideas about how to successfully manage our own planet.
Putting Exceptions Back into Rust
Hang on are you accusing the OPs of racism because they are opposed to corruption?
Reminds me of how Yoda speaks in Star Wars.
I wasn't joking. Seems to me it could just as easily be used to support the "liberal elites are out of touch with real Americans" narrative as the "Tump voters are dumb bumpkins" narrative.
Not if it will result in you becoming stateless.
they shutdown a few months ago.
Build Soil Chestnuts Thread
The Brookings Institution is a think tank with a stated bias & political agenda.

The last couple of paragraphs especially are pretty clearly pushing an agenda.
They’re also tailoring their solution to be as generic as possible.

Having written OSS and also having written enterprise applications, it seems plainly obvious to me why a homegrown solution is preferred. Code developed internally is understood by the team (you may not understand the underlying implementation of a dependency), and can be tailored exactly to suit your needs (ignoring edge cases that aren’t relevant, removing unneeded features). And you never have to worry about maintainers disappearing, breaking changes being introduced, or bugged releases that you can’t do anything about.

I don’t mean to sound crass but how on earth could you think this is an example of Poe’s law? What’s so extreme about being a responsible developer? I didn’t say “every solution should be developed in house” (though I think most large projects would be better for it!) obviously there’s is a cost associated with in house solutions and you should gauge that cost to see if it’s worth it for your application. But if you’re going to be working with that application for years and years to come then I highly recommend trying to write your own code instead of relying on libraries.
> "Why aren't Democrats trying to answer everyone's problems? And realizing that someone is telling you they have a need if they vote for the other party?"

Not true in all cases. Particularly look at what is going on with farmers in the midwest voting directly against their economic self interest.
Depending on the perception of the value of the valueless currency, velocity of information, and "supply" of money.

Not that I'm a gold standard zealot, bitcoin self-deluder, or the like, but fiat currency is ridiculous, yet it's the basis of the global economy.
Solving ember fastboot 'flashing' issues
> Criminals aren’t deterred by the punishment terms, and upgrading minor thefts to serious crime levels is contributing to the mass incarceration problem across the US.

I think the problem with mass incarceration is more one of mental illness and punishing the associated problems [0] than punishing intelligent-but-lazy people who’d rather wreck people’s rides by stealing catalytic converters than apply themselves productively.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/numbers-mental-illness-b...

Going after rings of catalytic converters thieves is appropriate, if you look for the smart people at the top (head gangster providing direction, etc).

I agree with your last paragraph. Several of my passengers were not well served by their punitive punishments - they had more problems (PTSD, etc) after prison than before.
Why should the federal government do this? 'The founding fathers intended the states to be social and economic experiments.'

I find it frustrating that anything remotelt consistent with the scientific method is effectively shunned in economic policy and politics.
A better estimate for savings from some parts of the industry is revenue not profit. That’s because the work done by, for example, insurance companies is largely useless paper shuffling that doesn’t need to exist under single payer.

Edit: oh yeah, and marketing. So much health industry money ends up in marketing. Something almost completely unnecessary under single-payer as well.
Disciple's Guide to the Holy Spirit
It looks pretty cool.
I agree that installing the header in /usr/include is a good idea.
Seems a little bit unfair not to mention the five demands in this context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/what-do-the-ho...

If you really want to "interpret" the message of their movement, that would seem like a good place to start.
The talent, was originally a unity of mass and money of Antiquity, so people who have talent, means people who have money.
https://taiga.io/
> As long as children are taught to read on paper books, we will have an emotional connection to the printed page.

I've learned to read on paper books and I have zero attachment to them at this point.

In fact, I cringe when I occasionally have no alternative (or just scan it myself if it's not too much).

Old books now seem to be broken to me. You can't do anything with them except read (linearly). So much functionality is missing, it's unbearable :DD

I have no idea how representative my experience is but I know of at least a few others who feel similarly.
Like I said, “almost” always. Really the larger the application and the longer time you as a dev will work with it, the more meaningful it becomes to write your own solutions.

It’s really a balance, but I don’t think it’s a balance most devs consider and they really should.
As a working applied mathematician, I can tell you it's with pretty good reason. I learnt this stuff in high school and never used it since. It is one of the least useful things you could imagine. It is fun, though.
International students actually pay about 4x what a domestic student pay [1].

[1] https://www.adelaide.edu.au/degree-finder/2020/bengh_behe&es...
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
As an European with family and friends working in health care in several countries, I think the general impression most people in US have about the European health care is idealized and very far from reality. It is not the place for a long discussion here, but we are having serious problems in most countries, from waiting lists longer than the expected patient's life to lack of "free" drugs that you have to buy yourself if you want to live.
I was surprised to learn you can still buy kit houses from Menards, a major store similar to Home Depot and Lowes. They have a catalog you can look through to make your choice.
What does the average lifetime of a company have to do with it? I'm not really understanding why you think that is relevant to what the paper is discussing?

The paper isn't comparing "Company A that was in existence from 1926-1944" vs. "Treasury Bills from 1926-2018". It is comparing "Company A from 1926-1944" vs. "Treasury Bills from 1926-1944".

So the average lifetime of a company is irrelevant.

I also don't follow why you think the waters are muddied by consolidation? The paper explicitly discusses how it handles "merger, exchange, or liquidation (CRSP DLSTCD with 2, 3, or 4 as first digit)". If Company B is founded in 1931 and merges with another in 1943 then its lifetime is 1931-1943 and it is compared against Treasury bills over that period, so there's nothing muddied.
New Device Can Make Renewable Energy from the Cold Night Sky
Cryptocurrencies as a Timestamp Service
Well the US is the major superpower in good part because of Cisco, Bell Labs, Fairchild, Intel, Apple, Lockheed, Google etc.
Everything is a hassle. Building permits, operating licenses, legal compliance, etc.

All those things arguably exist for good reasons, but it's a huge hurdle to doing anything useful.

I can't have a 20 foot radio tower in town, I can't subdivide smaller than 10 acres outside of town, I can't build any facility out there to operate the experimental tower without building permits, radio licenses, compliance with tracking (for the police) any radio customer I might get if I qualify as a "communication service provider", etc.

There are (major) hurdles in just about every conceivable industry, and hardly any provision for "hey I'm a guy who wants to experiment, perhaps even noncommercially".

You can overcome the hurdles, but how many people will just stay at their 9 to 5 and not bother because its a huge pain in the ass with no guaranteed benefit?

I wonder how much this holds us back, it's hard to say.
> That sort of sounds-sorta-racist/nationalist ideology won't fly in modern Australia.

just grab another VB sit back and watch then?
It depends on social pressure. For places like Silicon valley, the ultimate status symbol is being a founder, which inherently involves inventing (what a founder would call) important stuff. It's similar in Israel. Heck, there, startups are struggling to scale becuase everyone wants to be a founder.
I love Django’s orm. I wish Django would publish its orm as a separate library. Every time I see a flask / sqlalchemy app I think to myself: Gee you could have saved at least 2x the keystrokes if you’d just used Django.