skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because one system might work better in one situation and the other in a different situation and you are going to encounter both situations?

Just like in cooking you can use meat cleaver and a paring knife or in a network you use switches and routers.
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And Copenhagen is well known for its high hills, right? Not everyone lives in Holland and Copenhagen and other flat places. Also, while it's definitely great that Scandinavians live their healthy and slightly ascetic lifestyle, it's not everyones cup of tea outside of those specific nations/cultures. Maybe it should be, by all means if this is what young people want they should do it one day when they grow old. But it's silly to expect from old people who grew up in some other time to now suddenly jump into that lifestyle, especially in places that naturally don't fit it. Walking short distances, great. Public transportation, also great. Bikes for everyone... well, great for those who want it, but leave people a room to dislike riding a bike (or anything else) for whatever their reason is.
Perl, JavaScript, Go. Python for my side project (and Perl) [0]. Want to (re)learn Haskell.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
Bankruptcy is the safety net to bail out individuals. If you find yourself with too much debt to ever escape, regardless of how much it is and (mostly) regardless of how you got it, you get a reset button to wipe out all the debt you can't pay. The only negative consequences of bankruptcy (beyond the fact that it's not free to file) are the ones caused by the fact that it's the safety net; it's embarrassing to be forced to take it and lenders will judge you for needing it.
`h2, h2 ~ p` ought to do it.
It’s uncharitable to have a disdain for those without empathy when a large component of success is luck?

If you think success is guaranteed with grit and hard work, you are woefully misinformed. You can do everything right and still fail hard. “Personal responsibility” is a dog whistle for the willful ignorance of the necessity of government regulation and social safety nets.
Just like the rich didn't get rich entirely because of their own abilities, poor people didn't get poor because they chose to. Placing the poor people in an environment where there are better education, better healthcare and better career opportunities always results in better financial decision making. So the society bears most if not all responsibilities.

How can we eliminate poverty if it's entirely personal responsibility? Let me quote Mandela on this:

>Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is manmade, and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
Rubbish. Flash on Android was always an awful experience. The best you could say about it was that it existed.
Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Hurdle When Trying to Grow Your Open Source Project?
Python 3.7+ is fantastic.
Okay these loans certainly sound like a bad deal, but what are people supposed to do? Say your car breaks and you can’t get to work. For all of us here billing out >$100hr or whatever your local consulting rate is, the answer is some calculus around the cost of losing your job vs the cost of fixing it.

But for MOST people, the cost of fixing it is functionally infinite. They literally do not have even a few hundred dollars to, for instance, replace a tire.

Yeah, the interest on these is predatory, but then what are these lenders supposed to do? Many of the people getting these loans WILL default on them. Yes it would be great to offer these loans at a reasonable interest rate, but they are unsecured loans. The only collateral is the clients credit score.

It’s easy for all of us with our comfy tech jobs to hate on these, but to me that feels like kicking the poor while they are already down. Yeah, they know the loan is bad. They probably don’t have any other options.

Instead we should be looking at ways to make it so that giant unpredicted expenses don’t happen at all. That means cheaper transportation options, cheaper access to healthcare or preventitive care, predictive diagnostics, etc.

It helps nobody to point out how foolish the poor are.
> The Internet’s current state is a reflection of our societal values, which I think is what you’re really decrying.

I wish that were true. It feels more like the internet is a reflection of a very small number of greedy, amoral people from the bay area.
I had a feeling this was the case. I didn't realize it because I've been getting them in one degree to another since I was very young (~19-20 years old)
But aren't those up 20%?

Your theory suggests the problem is the top line, whereas the article suggests it's the bottom line.
The energy required to put anything on the Moon is immense. Meanwhile, pollution from rockets is not well understood yet: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-air-poll.... Meanwhile, a telescope on the moon would be pointing at the sun (a very bright radio source, mostly due to proximity) for long periods at a stretch.

TLDR: the moon probably isn’t an ideal location.
Not as long as this situation does not persist for too long. The market is supposed to correct such inefficiencies by dividing such failing investors from their money and conversely rewarding investors in successful and sustainable business models with that money.

The actual problem is not that investment errors are made. Such errors will always be made, as long as it's impossible to predict the future. The problem is that it appears as if right now, we are in a situation in which the negative consequences of such errors can seemingly be postponed virtually forever into the future. Or at least that has worked great for a decade now (first cracks are appearing lately, but it's far from enough yet).
Provable misinformation is legal, which is a much higher bar. That's why we'd consider it insane if someone took (legal) ads at face value and believed all their claims.
> Google Search will stop indexing standalone SWF files.

Does Google no longer index .zip files and the like? Obviously they can't process any content in those formats, but if the file name contains the right keywords... shouldn't search be file type agnostic?
The major components of Flash are a vector graphics engine, a timeline based video editor, and a scripting language. Leaning on browser SVG support and exec(), you could write an extremely bare-bones version in a couple of weekends.

It'd be a great open source project. As a commercial product, it'd probably be enough to support a small team, but I don't see a way for it to get huge.
Thanks for the clarifications. You seem to be much more familiar with hardware than I am. I've been thinking about getting a new laptop for a while since I built my desktop back in 2012 and my current laptop is a bulky 17" Toshiba that's even older. The hardware landscape seems to have changed so much since I was last in the market for a computer or parts. If you were in the market for a new mobile machine, would you be going Intel or AMD?

I'm currently eyeing Dell's Precision workstations due to their extensibility, but the XPS 13 Developer Edition also looks quite nice and more portable. And they both offer Ubuntu, which is nice. I think at this point almost anything I get will be better than what I already have.
Keep in mind that Flash is only being disabled by default, not removed from browser.
I taught myself how to program through the internet, which is the only reason I have a job right now. The internet also let me discover cryptocurrencies which is the only reason I have a house at a young age. As far as I'm concerned it's an objective fact that the internet helps motivated people multiply their wealth in ways that were not possible prior to its creation.
Is it, really?

The Java ecosystem had painless build artifacts figured out way before Python did (ship this directory of .jar files vs... a requirements.txt?).
It is. People keep getting offended by the notion that money incentivises people to do a better job. Most jobs where this has proven to work do exactly that (bonuses, raises, etc.).

All else being equal you will get better service from a person that is directly rewarded by offering that better service. Should it work that way? No. Does it? Obviously. And yes we can all think of outliers and yes some culturing differences play into this (Japan has a no tipping culture and on average has excellent service) but I live in Amsterdam and the service on average is absolutely less customer focused here than what I experience in the US. It's worth pointing out I also prefer it that way (not a huge fan of constantly being asked if I need anything and less than genuine niceties but that's a subjective thing)
Why would you ever encounter a fragmented Eden in a garbage collector?
I'll share mine to get things started: my biggest challenge is diagnosing and finding the one thing that needs 10x improvement to generate more adoption: better documentation? more tutorials? produce benchmarks? wider language coverage?
-Election manipulation.

-SWATTING of competitive Gamers.

-Cyber bullying (not just limitied to those instances that end in suicide)

-The stalking and death-threats to Black Lives Matter organizers.

-China's "social credit score"

-The need for Hong Kong protestors to hide their identity.

I don't have time to post specific URL's to substantiate my claims, but I feel I've given broad enough categorizes to convey my meaning.
I think most people are downvoting you for being an asshole. There’s a way to make your point without being so incendiary and callous.

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
That is a problem. Also, personal responsibility (or the lack thereof) is a problem.

Jebus. Seems like everyone wants one thing to blame. It ain't that simple.
Reminds me of UNIX curses
This oldie from SNL is never going to stop being relevant:

https://vimeo.com/199334296
Even though the facts appear wrong, I think this comment does raise the interesting question of whether money is a metric that is internal to capitalism, or if capitalism is the natural consequence of using only money as a metric.
Tumblr, that still has the full page interstitial of "we value your privacy" EVEN ON RSS FEEDS, despite Automattic bought it from Oath? Yeah, right.
I don't know why it would be any different constitutionally from false advertising in any other context. It's not a crime per se, but false advertisers can be held civilly liable for misleading consumers, and individual consumers can sue false advertisers, as can the FTC on the public's behalf (presumably it would be the FEC instead, but work similarly). The court system (so, presumably a jury) decides whether or not it's false.
these type of things seem not to be documented anywhere. If I want to start from scratch, what can I use as a reference?
Does Tup do more than C? Firefox needs to build some Rust things too.
The solution to bad credit can't be more credit -- people will (and do) just take the credit, waste it, and then seek more credit.

A better solution is to allow discharge of private debt so that lenders put more effort into validating debtors. If a creditor want to get money back from a debtor, they need to put the effort in to validate that the debtor has sufficient assets to pay it back and isn't paycheck-to-paycheck buying highly depreciating products.

If you need to buy a house or a car on credit, you can. For almost anything else, you don't need credit unless you have an (usually illiquid) asset to back it -- a slowly-depreciating asset like a house or car, or a steady job.
If you want a loan for a business, the creditor is on the hook for your default. Perhaps they'll insist on keeping your funds under trustee in escrow so you don't waste your loan on a luxury car and WeWork.

And while we're at it, term-limits on secured loans that cannot extend much beyond the depreciation of the loan-enabled purchased.

There's no reason that non-dischargable debt has to be arbitrarily easy to obtain.
> Their family has that responsibility.

Orphans? Abused children? What happens to them?
No, it does not.

everyone is just following the most popular producers and the rest are basically irrelevant.

Just look at the follower counts and how it drops off on any of the popular sites such as YouTube, twitch, patreon etc

We got more consumers than ever, but they're all following the same people, centralizing it even more
Google:
> Flash was the answer to the boring static web

so much is said and implied in those sad, sad words
There's this: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Looks like it got dropped from Ubuntu though.
I believe we need 3 different UI standards:

1. Page and document centric (HTML may be close enough)

2. Productivity and data-oriented GUI's ("cubicle" stuff)

3. Games, art, and diagrams

Doing everything in HTML/CS/JS keeps proving too clunky. Even the big wealthy sites have odd rendering bugs that pop up.
Really good hint, didn't think to try that. Toggling javascript off for that site in uBlock Origin should make future clicking on links to it a much happier experience, thanks!
I went through this a few weeks ago and found a site that explains how to run Flash games standalone: https://www.howtogeek.com/438141/how-to-play-adobe-flash-swf...

Basically there is a program you can download from Adobe called Flash Player Projector Content Debugger, then you just point that at the .swf and go.

An open source emulator would be better in the long term, but for now this is easier than trying to find a browser that still supports Flash natively.
At the price of a couple of headaches. Most programmers need to reverse the way they were thinking about programming when learning Prolog.
Those unpaid predatory loans fall off your credit report after about a decade.

Student loans are forever.
I have no issues with socialized medicine. In fact the fact remains medicare is actually the one functioning health insurance we have because the govt sets the rates that can be charged.

Unregulated healthcare is silly since people dont have a choice about their health ( not discussing the food choices )

People do have a choice about borrowing money.
Ask not what the US can do for you, but what you can do for the US.

Isn't this the exact same scenario you're claiming? Your friends should take personal responsibility instead of asking the government to bend to them. No?

(I'm trying to understand your logic here and how it applies to multiple circumstances. I think they're incongruous here, but I don't understand why.)
This is the cause of many people giving up contributing to software projects. Clearly pointing to specific versions, distributions used, or (if willing to move one step ahead) prepping a VM Image or container with all the dependencies set is really helpful
Be careful with balance transfers. At 18 months, a 3% fee is like a 3.75% APR. If the balance transfer is only 12 months, it's about 5.5%.

Still a lot better than a subprime installment loan, but a 3% fee is not a 3% APR.
Deploy something useless into production as soon as you can
Corporations have lobbied to take away Net Neutrality, and to institute throttling and make running a personal web site much more expensive.

There is literally no impact on personal web sites. You neither pay more, nor are you throttled.
This is a quote from the Office, which leads me to believe it's at least a little tongue in cheek.
They can't appoint people, but they could change the quorum rules to allow the currently sitting commissioners to regulate. It would require Presidential signature, though, or enough votes to override a veto.
You must be too young to remember when loans were dischargeable before the banks got the laws changed.
> Instead we should be looking at ways to make it so that giant unpredicted expenses don’t happen at all.

Or maybe fix it from the other end: reduce inequality so fewer people are living paycheck to paycheck and can actually build savings to use for unpredicted expenses.
Firefox currently can be built with tup, although it's still experimental and not used in production.
MBAs are getting underrated in the startup sphere. It's better if you are rich, but certainly valuable. The HBS/GSB/Wharton network alone is worth it.

But yes, the opportunity cost is super high. Either way, if you're going to be an entrepreneur you'll figure out a way. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/lang-upload/launching...
It's kind of odd for a web search to index information that your browser can't display. Although I suppose paywall sites and book search are similar.
You or I can buy ads. I have no affiliation. I’m not even registered for any party. I’ve voted for a cross section of candidates.

Are they going to vet all these ads? What if I’m in Mexico, can I place an ad to target US likely voters with a pro-USMCA candidate? What if I belong to a Union and buy pro union ads but don’t bring up a candidate but my union endorses some candidate?

Do we put a minimum on ad buys so that there are fewer to vet? Maybe the minimum is $20,000? Does that sound democratic?
> per month

I want software that I know, not that I lease. €5 per month means if I stop paying for reason x/y or z, I cannot use Office any more.
Ah, I did not know that.
I think as a child your mind is pretty easily distracted ( looking at you IT classes of my time where 90% + of the class would be sneaking on miniclip every time a teachers back was turned )

It's pretty essential if we're going to have those connected devices in the classroom there is a way to control it.

I would prefer rigorous blocking over teacher control - but reasonably I think it's kind of necessity in a classroom setting.
Exactly, thank you!
I interviewed recently at Fig Loans - they are working to dismantle the predatory payday loan industry. Only in a few states at the moment, but doing great things IMO
You had me until:

> Yeah, they know the loan is bad. They probably don’t have any other options.

I think it’s a pretty poor assumption to assume all the people taking out these loans understand exactly what they’re getting into, and what other options they may have. I think there should be a mandatory 20 minute education session for anyone taking out a payday loan/installment loan.
I have not had the same success as you. I do a lot of running and I sweat a lot while running at full speed. Formerly, I would put my AirPods into their case as quickly as possible after a run to avoid losing them. The charging contacts ended up becoming corroded and I have cleaned them off multiple times to get the batteries to charge. The AirPods were not fully wet, they just had a sheen of sweat on them. Now I set them out to dry in the air for a while before putting them in the case. I suspect the new version will have the same problem. They are not really meant for vigorous exercise.

[Edited to answer your question to which I cannot reply because it is marked as dead:] The corrosion to which I was referring is clearly oxidation to my eye. It has a green color and requires scraping. Maybe our environments and usage are too different for comparison. I live in Central Florida, where it is quite hot and humid. According to my receipts, I bought these AirPods on April 5, 2017. I have been running with them almost every day since then.
Is Silverlight also going to be removed from IE by Dec 2020?
Well indeed, the Wikipedia entry posted below https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_curve shows _total cost_ dropping down to a plateau at $1k since 2016.
Complaining for lack of tooling and doing some research require different efforts :)

Unity is just one example that can export to web. There's https://playcanvas.com/ too and a plethora of other stuff :)

Unity demo: https://wasm.bootcss.com/demo/Tanks/
I noticed that a lot of these unisex and gender-switching names are geographical in some way. Sydney, Chelsea, Austyn, Brighton, Raleigh, Milan. Also Native American tribes, like Lakota and Cree.
You don't have a 100% guarantee if unsafe is being used.
Might be more accurate to say "contribute to cooking our planet" because if there were 0 cars, we'd still be cooking this planet, since all of transportation including planes, boats and cars is only 29% of total carbon emissions (US 2017 data)

Even in transportation, only 60% is due to light duty vehicle, the other 40% being trucks and planes mostly.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...
There is still a bit of a gap in the market for small 10-12" laptops, but Chromebooks are eating those customers pretty quickly.

IMO, tablets are still a decent choice for people who think that 13" is too big for a laptop, although iPads may not work well for that because you're stuck with the default OS.
If that were its only job, the only change would have been 128 bits instead of 32 for the address. There's like a bazillion other changes, unfortunately :(
Seems more like exactly “middle-of-nowhere” to me. It’s not like you can only get in or out for half the year, and even then, only by plane.
.. which is fairly pointless, because the whole reason organisations use things like SSN in the first place is delegating verification to someone else.

Trying to do the whole thing in the private sector would result in everyone using Equifax as a "private key verification service".
I do my best to block ads. But YouTube is most likely to leak through.

Within the past week, I've actually opted to watch more than one complete ad on YouTube, because it was relevant. (More to the channel than me, but interesting for the same reason that the channel itself was. Channel about making things, ads about high end (multi hundred thousand dollar?) CNC tools and the such.
A homeless person desiring to gain some employable skills has an easier time doing such with the Internet and an access device, such as a phone - even if the phone has no cell service but can use free WiFi- than prior to the existence of the Internet and those devices.

There is a silent class of homeless people whom I am not clear you are including when you state "homeless", and that is people living on cars and/or "couch-surfing". On the occasion I've seen it mentioned in articles, it seems that it is nearly impossible to come up with reliable numbers on the actual population of homeless people living under such conditions due to their transitory nature.

It is likely true that the genuinely destitute homeless people, which is comprised in large part of people who suffer severe psychological and mental disorders, are only minimally aided by cell phones. I suspect the way they actually benefit is they carry on their persons a means for those trying aid them to find them as well as a life line they can tug, should they so choose.

"Inequality" is a divisive term with no genuine academic definition. Another correlation is that as "inequality" has risen, so has the greatest reduction in people living in subsistence farming and abject poverty in history of mankind, a conclusion that would suggest that "inequality" positively correlates with greater human flourishing, but the real purpose of my mentioning this is to demonstrate that "inequality" is a largely meaningless metric, by itself, used for manipulating people not familiar with broader understanding of what has occurred for so many billions of people on the planet.
Why can't the government just regulate the parameters of lending? Isn't that sufficient? Why does the government have to actually get into the business to help solve the problem?
Cosmic JS is now 100% Serverless
I think his point was "what other options do they have?". The cost of for example not fixing their car is infinite, so they'll accept anything to get that fixed.