skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has been bested by foreign competition which has flooded innovation markets with cheap money.

The US could have done the same, but chose to use cheap money to skim profits from its economy instead of investing in real invention and innovation.

And US "liberty" is a self-serving myth.

Try hawking a truly revolutionary invention around potential funding sources and see how far you get if you don't have the "right" social background.

Conversely, try hawking a terrible non-working idea around and see how far you get if come from that background.
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"Extensions are battery killers."

ANY processing is a battery killer. It's as if people forgot every single thing done on a computer system STILL REQUIRES ENERGY TO DO.
How to Fix Politics: These 5 Places Tried Bold Political Experiments
I wrote something similar a couple years ago, except my macro automatically compiled to a no op if compiled in release mode, which is very convenient for switching back-and-forth to the testing.
Hi! Thanks for your response. Agree completely. We just wanted to put the point across that it should be a really small task - though I agree the time would vary hugely from developer to developer too. But the idea is once they send the requirements across - we estimate the time/cost it would take, and stick to the cost estimate even if we are to overshoot the time.

And thanks a ton for the heads up on the copy! Will take a look at it.
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Kind of what happens when you name your company something insanely stupid like “We”.

And yes I read your last sentence in Gollum’s voice and it was perfect. :)
Similarly, Yahoo insists on being called "Yahoo!" in their branding guidelines, but it just makes the writer look like an idiot. There's no reason you have to stick to the chosen name of a corporation if the chosen name is cutesy and dumb. :-)
Sounds like a great topic for the next Defcon...
Discussing your feelings towards debuggers would produce a better discussion if you explained what complexity you find lacking? Nowadays they are incredibly complex pieces of software (e.g., https://rr-project.org) if you take the time to learn how to apply what they offer to the kind of software you write.

Simple things that people like reasoning about and visualizing with printf() statements can be done in a debugger more easily after using your brain and logic to think about what the issue might be. Think a value got assigned a value it should't have? You add log statements, rebuild, relink, reproduce; or, you could just set a hardware watchpoint to print the backtrace whenever it changes. In my experience people don't reach for the debugger way of doing it simply because it might not be needed all the time and the syntax is forgotten. Diving into `man` or docs is harder than printf(). Use those skills more regularly and/or make a cheatsheet, macros, etc. and it is less of a problem.

Debuggers must be used in certain situations. Personally, the canonical example I use is tracking down compiler bugs. I and colleagues have been hit with a number and it would be utterly hopeless to attempt to reason about what is going on without a debugger. (One particular past case that stands out was the compiler, under very certain circumstances, not restoring a register that it was obligated to restore when emitting a catch block. Isolating the root cause and generating a reduced example was loads of fun /s, would not recommend.) Then there's kernels, runtime engines with JIT, diagnosing unreproducible problems in situ where the executable can't be replaced or restarted, and the list goes on...
I enjoyed this comment because I only I only recently tried Sqla for a project and agree fully that it embraces sql, in large part by NOT renaming/rethinking things at the oop level - methods very much tend to be named after sql verbs. I really liked this.

What I liked less was all the setup/config ceremony. Compared to ActiveRecord (the Ruby lib not necessarily the orm concept) I was using more LOC before I got to the part where I started saving time on simple queries. I realize this is because sqla uses the datamapper model. But for me thif sweet spot would be auto setup like AR with sql-like syntax of sqla.
Did they proofread this?

> The primary colours(yellow, red & blue) we were taught to paint with in school are wrong. The actual correct primary colours are yellow, magenta & cyan. The proof is in your printer cartridges.

...but two paragraphs later:

> Primary: red, yellow and blue, these colours can not be made from any other colours and are the building blocks of the other categories.

(My vague and possibly-incorrect understanding is that any three hues can be used as "primary hues", but different choices will result in different hue spaces, and it's just that CMY and RBY produce spaces that are useful in printing and painting, respectively.)
Oh, frak: There’s another Battlestar Galactica reboot coming
Because they identified the transition to green energy (grøn omstilling) as a strategic national goal almost 40 years ago and the policy is very popular.
They can benefit from export revenue or make the moral choice to leave their reserves in the ground.
The XY Fallacy
SpaceX is built on the original state-funded R&D that allowed NASA to create a space program in the first place.

Likewise for the entire computer industry, which would never have existed without government funding for Whirlwind, TX-0, SAGE, and other critical seed projects.
AdGuard vpn with custom lists for iOS.

"I don't trust ads, so I'm going to run all my internet traffic though this rando VPN in the Middle East."
Oh, absolutely.

Providing effective and low cost chronic care is an unsolved problem everywhere.

I can’t say that I support any and all entitlement schemes I’ve ever heard for chronic care, is why I was singling our acute care, where I do, but you’re right that I was mixing up arguments.

But of course when you provide low cost acute care, and don’t cover chronic conditions, there’s strong pressure for chronic problems to wait until they’re acute and harder to solve, and for chronic patients to use the acute system very inefficiently.

It is indeed a hard problem.
How many Safari users even know what an ad blocker is? It's not exactly a power feature, but people using the stock browser shipped with their OS probably aren't aware that it's even an option.
When companies have now started to go into debt to buyback shares and artificially raise their EPS, who are they targeting? The people who are actively evaluating what they're buying, or those asleep at the wheel buying index funds?

Index funds might have been a good investment in the past, before wallstreet has figured out how to exploit it like they're doing today.
Again, name one company that has been world changing and raised the seed round in an IPO. None.

And no, this is simply an idea that would offer funds to the vast majority, who don’t have access to VCs.

99.9% of VC funded companies are not world changing ideas (even if they worked at scale as intended). And 99% of that came thru an intro. So yeah.

Heck, this is the thesis of YC, except they also fund petty companies, because they’re optimizing for returns, not far fetching ideas.
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IIRC Mozilla said recently (last week or two) that they had managed to patch the bug responsible for the majority of battery issues on macOS.
In my dreams, I create 1024 stock-recommending twitter bots.

If half beat the market in a year and half don’t, i’ll Still have one that goes up every year after 10 years, and sell it for a fortune.
Social Security trust fund in USA holds Treasury bonds of enormous denominations like 100 million as well.
Some links about color theory in general (from my notes) :

* Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs - http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/

* Practical Color Theory
for People Who Code - https://tallys.github.io/color-theory/

* http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html
HTML input elements of type url let enter non-url
Would (say high net-worth) people moving from blue to red states upon retiring match "become less productive in the process" scenario? This seems like a likely case (moving on retirement), but I'd suspect if this is true that there are some less affluent families that are moving to red states in order to "do more with less" which also seems likely to me.
So how do you know which curve to use when? Is there anything beyond, "I like the look of that one"?
"UPDATE: Thanks to the Lobsters commmunity, commenting on my Lobsters post, I have come to the conclusion Nanix is unfeasable. That's too bad! "

That thread is here: https://lobste.rs/s/qurwmz
This should be a crime.
Really happy to see an update to this. Shaarli is an alternative, but seems to have issues with the default Docker container.

However, I would be much happier with an ncurses-based and file-system database for a bookmark manager that uses Markdown front matter or even just a TOML file:

https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/

Would be much easier to manage bookmarks and sync them in a directory-tree format. Hopefully something like this will get added eventually.

I'm envisioning something like,

* bookmarks/
* services/
* google.md
* favicons/
Stamp collector friend has Weimar inflation postage stamps in multi million Mark denominations, overprinted.

Just regular stamps.
Other choices for this problem as usual at https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#bookmarks-and....
I think that was OP's point, if they were doing anything sensitive they would at least require soundproof frosted glass rooms.

On the other hand, I can't imagine anyone with sensitive information working out of a shared workspace just because ofbthe ease with which a room or whole floor could be bugged.
A local VPN running on your device which code you can examine on Github: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS
> Will I get a return on that $20k?

Yes you will (according the basic theory of the idea).

Unfortunately, even though you will get a return, when you get it you will believe that you haven't had the return because it will take the form of $100k of life improvements that you will believe you "would have had anyway" without the investment.

You might even get $100k of cash, in the form of your salary increasing by much more than that, and costs of quality of life things increasing by less (enough to make the difference >$20k). But when it happens you will almost certainly attribute it to other causes.

And so, today, you will argue against the investment, it won't happen, and you will end up poorer than you would have been.

While believing you are richer, because $20k cash in the hand today feels more real than $100k quality of life cost differential improvements in future whose attribution is difficult or impossible to verify.

That's the theory anyway.
Just how bad is my air travel for the climate? Crunching the numbers
Which neighboring country could mount a huge amphibious assault against a developed island nation with still 100+ million people?

The only threat is China and China's aging too...
There's new AG for Safari: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari
Better to just be precise.

https://graphs.grevian.org/example
So instead, they should just sit there nicely and be swallowed into the largest communist police state in the world, a country notoriously[0] less free than the current government[1]?

> They protest against what

I'm guessing it's pretty clear, HK is against being reincorporated into mainland. Gilet jaune seems to be against the direction of law making in current French government (namely, tax the rich less and the poor more). The "young people" for more actions against pollution.

> They protest, and they go nowhere ...

What do you suggest they do instead, if they are not fine with that? You're protesting against them on an online forum, this is so much better.

Protests have an actual effect on policy making[3], if only to rally people and express the vox populi, especially when said people doesn't have another to express itself than casting a general paper that gives a name, not an intent, into a box, with very long periodicity ; or don't have that luxury (e.g. Hong Kong in that case)

[0] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/china

[1] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/hong-kong

[2] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/dshoag/Documents/Political%20...

/edit: fixing a url/
In a world with crypto currencies, would a frugal Dane be wise to put their cash into a cryptocurrency?

I realize crypto is still seen as risky, however if it takes hold and overall market volatility stabilizes, how would easy access to borderless liquid digital assets affect the neg interest rate strategy?

Edit: remove mention of specific cryptocurrency in an attempt to shift focus to broader strategy.
Very concerning reply. While you’re at it, don’t ever step outside or use a knife. You might injure yourself
I interpret the purpose of that item combined with the subsequent one is to ensure that they can't force you to sell yourself but can offer you the option and leave the decision with you.
90% Coverage of Kanji in the wild with 777 glyphs
Check out Shadertoy. By the same person (Inigo).
In fairness to the people of California, they got hosed by a lot of "tough on crime" laws in the past. When they made these 3 strikes laws and then you had murderers and rapists being released to make room for non violent felony offenders convicted after 3 strikes.

So I imagine people in California are a whole lot more careful with rhetoric like that these days. No, they probably aren't gonna let you make what are obviously less serious crimes into crimes that have equivalent terms to inmates convicted of, say, 2nd degree murder or manslaughter. (The way these tough on crime laws tend to work, sometimes the nonviolent criminals get longer terms than the violent criminals.) If you want support in getting tough on crime, than get tough on the high end, life ending type crimes. Don't try to convince people to fill their prisons with bicycle and muffler thieves. Prisons are expensive, there should be a good cost benefit ratio for every inmate you incarcerate.

If you absolutely believe you have to do something tough to muffler thieves, then hey, they seem extremely good candidates for ankle bracelets. (Which you can do right now charging them with misdemeanors. No need to change any laws.) But years in prison at 30 Grand a pop, (probably more in some states), should be completely out of the question. It's not worth that much.
That's a cool system. What country, if you don't mind sharing?
But ads often slowdown browsing significantly and cause unwanted cpu work and network traffic.

Then there is tracking and sometimes even malware...
I’m a uni student in aus right now and I’m not a fan of Chinese propaganda but I wouldn’t mind a free trip to China. Do you have any links/tips on how I could get myself on one of these trips? I’m at UNSW btw.
> It's kind of funny that Intel is the only remaining foundry within the United States at this point

Samsung Austin is in Texas.
Articles starting with a pseudo-defensive "you will hate on me, but I'm so much stronger than all of this" are rarely worth their time.

This isn't the exception. It meanders from one community the author despises (Linus Torvalds and his followers) to another (Trisquel — evidently a distribution), to another (Microsoft, because nothing lends you street cred like hating on them), and of course, in the end Stallman is just like Assange.
What is the motivation behind the cheating and plagiarism? This would seem to imply that students do not care about learning the underlying skill. Why would a country encourage this?
Correlation?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pairstrade.asp
When you purchase a song from iTunes, it is DRM-free. When you download it through Apple Music, it is not.
This has already been done. Works fine on older hardware: http://www.toms.net/rb/
No, because we’re not optimizing for ROI like VCs. You’d lose a ton of money funding 500 space Xs because they’ll all fail most likely, without even returning a percentage point
This is simply just factually wrong. Please show me one place that proves that high capacity factor is an issue. Just one.

I am not sure where you are getting your information but it's simply factually wrong.

Batteries can't solve this issue as it doesn't solve seasonality. And it would be extremely extremely huge batteries needed. The cost alone would make it impossible as peak demand only happens once in a while. And then you are back to backups.
I don't understand why you insist on disagreeing so violently when we're mostly on the same page. In fact I don't disagree with a single word in your comment, except the part about disingenuous which baffles me.

We agree that UML has a subset of common features that are super useful to communicate about software. That doesn't make UML as a whole any less overcomplicated and overspecified, though!

Most people agree that languages like C++ or Scala are large and complicated. The fact that you can choose to write C++ code that only uses functions and structs and pointers doesn't change anything about that.

I said nothing about UML's ease of use. I said something about its drop in popularity and about the swathes of useless features UML fans promoted when it was at the peak of its hype cycle. I mean, I assume you agree that UML is less popular now than it used to be?

Sidenote: nothing about UML was ever intended to be academic, I'm not sure where you got that term from all of a sudden. It was all very industry driven. People wanted to do "model driven development" and realized if only UML could have super precise semantics, you could generate entire programs from UML. This actually works and serious amounts of software have been painstakingly written this way. It's totally nuts.
I have actually been running the Edge beta for about a month. It's pretty good. I've noticed that since I no longer use Chrome, a lot of the ad-tracking related items have gotten much more generic over time (such as the news articles on my phone on the chrome homepage).

I at least I feel like I'm being tracked a little less by a single entity.
The point is that I wouldn't be paying for a search service, I would be paying for not to be tracked, which is something I don't want to happen. It's so similar to paying for insurance against fires (think of gangster movies.) I don't like it.
Scott is a treasure. I love just about everything he writes.

'No Mercy, No Malice'
This feels like too much of a "ricer" feature, at least the way it's implemented.

Instead, you want:

* A pretty-printer library (possibly single-header)
* A function for obtaining the typename; see:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/35941045/1593077
https://stackoverflow.com/a/56766138/1593077

for a constexpr approach.

and it won't hurt to have:

* A logging library with log levels (so that you don't necessarily need to recompile to enable these outputs)
* A stack trace printing library

When you have that, such a macro becomes nearly trivial. Oh, yeah, and - drop the silly ANSI coloring.
Major issue that I found: the Mac App Store has a completely broken method for determining “available disk space” and will refuse to download Xcode no matter how much space you free up on your disk.

The only solution I could find was to restart my machine, which seemed to reset whatever mechanism is used for measuring free space.
I just had a chance to do a bit research and read about the facts and I believe you're right.

It seems even a small pet, like a hamster, could produce more CO2 than a home full of trees/plants during the night.
You enforce the law on your citizens just like with any other citizen for any other financial crime. Usually one shows up at your door, then you go to court, etc.
The US is bifurcated between people who see no problem with current nuclear plants and those who see any nuclear plant as an abomination in need of removal.

It’s hard to have a reasonable debate about this issue when the sides are so diametrically opposed due to their dogmatic beliefs.
I protested by burning 100 gallons of gas in my guzzling pickup truck.
Will you guys please stop with the Soros bashing? There's literally no basis for all the BS being spewed about a self-made man like that.
It's a cool tool, thanks for sharing. I've been looking for something like this.
> Oh yes, you do, in the current envoirement. You compete for the same attention from retail consumers and enterprises. The price to reach said consumer gets ever higher + the usual monetary inflation. That's why every company is raising $1MM+ in seed nowdays while decent ones are raising $3MM+.

Why do you have to reach consumers at the ideation stage if

> We're not talking about seeing if there's demand for a piece of software.

?
I don't think you deserve to be downvoted.

On the other hand, I generally don't expect to find this in documentaries. This is what books are good at. (I'd never expect to see Power Broker content in documentary format.)
I think the parent is a variation on the "poor should stay poor, rich should stay rich" argument. With the poor not mentioned, and implicitly not counted.

Any cash given to the poorer classes and taken from the middle classes likely has greater quality of life value to the poorer classes - because it would be used for things that are more essential to life.

This means the quality of life loss to the middle classes is more than offset by quality of life gain to the poorer classes. And the poorer classes have many more people.

By some ethical standards, this makes it unequivocally beneficial to redistribute.

(I don't actually agree with that approach, because money in some hands is more potent for creating benefit to others, than in other hands. But I think the parent's argument, that it's bad because the middle class would suffer, is essentially a "poor people don't matter" argument.)
I bought a couple as a gift for my banker brother-in-law and got them framed. The owner of the frame shop was concerned about keeping them in his store, but then I explained that the frame he was making for me was worth more than they were.
You are talking about per capita. Yes, it will take a long time. But if the Chinese are half as productive as you and I their economy will be double our size.

Remember there are at least 4 Chinese people per 1 person in the USA. That changes the math a lot.
Yes, and similarly for Apple’s insistence that you not use “the” with iPhone. (Which Nintendo also did for the Wii.)
> I’d manage, but would stop spending for years.

If what happened, exactly? If you already "own" a home and are paying back a loan on it, a price drop of other housing units would not affect you in any way unless you felt that you needed to sell right at that moment. Would your payments rise from falling housing prices? Or your income decrease?
Cheating and plagiarism are perfectly a-ok in China[1]. Not only that, but their education system peaks towards the end of high school with the Gaokao and once they get to tertiary education, they're more or less guaranteed to pass even if they don't do a day of work[2]. Chinese students don't expect to have to work for their degree once in university.

This spills over to other topics that could be discussed for hours, like China's terrible hospital death rates and laughably incompetent engineering.

Australian tertiary education institutions are just catering to these Chinese oddities while holding all other students to a different and higher standard. Because money.

[1] https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/07/chinese-internation...

[2] https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003440/the-problem-with-chin...
Maybe this is unfair, but I hope they at least touch on the halloween documents and the antitrust suite. Anything that touches on microsoft's history should at least mention the anti-competitive practices they used to cripple competition.