skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...or in a live emulator :)

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/c64.html?input=${wait:200}...
> The new JSON-stuff honestly doesn't look much better from what I've seen. It seems to still be doing IMAP, only using JSON instead,

regarding JMAP that should not be the case. From their FAQ the intent is to make it easier to use already common workflows.
Thanks for writing this. I think you've explained why I've always liked the ability to invoke functions without parentheses. I always thought it simply appealed to my sense of aesthetics, and I've had somewhat of a hard time defending it but now that you mention it, building my own first-class primitives is a big part of it.
In Yang's case, the 10% VAT is accompanied by a $1000/month Universal Basic Income.
Some people believe the Earth is flat, too.
Road trains don't really give you much savings from a traffic jam unless there is something else that prevents most people from using it. Single passenger cars take up a lot of space. Getting cars/people out of the train will slow the whole thing down where they need to leave the "fast?" lane for the traffic jam to get to their exit.

Unless you are talking about all new freeways usable only by road trains. However at that point putting down steel rail is cheaper and can handle an order of magnitude more people for the investment.
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Citation for golden rice being available but local not wanting to eat it?
> Now in theory someone asked that could answer without accidentally agreeing that their company is extractive/they are harming young girls/they are recklessly not considering the impacts of their work.

The right answer to this question is to accept that the company is extracting / harming people. And admit that they didn't stop to think about that when they were building it. That's understandable - they had no idea the impact that facebook would have on society when they were building it.

You can then go on to have a productive collaborative discussion about what to do about it (which isn't obvious or easy). The environment is hostile because Zuckerberg isn't engaging in the process, and is stonewalling congress with "we have a process for this".

He's not being honest, and I suspect (and hope tbh) it will eventually be the downfall of his company.
I personally wonder why they don't go with accessible infastructure tunnels like old city sewer systems instead of having to dig up roads for wires and pipes. The two obvious "why nots" I can see are the initial expense of such tunnels and rodents or other pests damaging it.
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>if firefighting is privatized, insurance companies would require more fire-resistant building materials and design (instead of the typical match-box American single-family home or low rise apartment)

This is what happens when firefighting and house maintenance are in the same interest. The libertarian argument argues for a private interest, but it could very well be turned on its head in favor of a public interest.
I refer you to the human operator of an Uber self driving car, who was playing on her phone while the car ran down a pedestrian crossing the road.
It is really interesting to think about how arbitrarily difficult the problem of self driving cars becomes when they must be backwards compatible with existing infrastructure and co-exist with it for quite a long period of time, decades probably.

As Wozniak alludes to here, it might just be intractable (within a few-decades timeframe, probably not on a longer one) without concessions to adjusting the infrastructure to make the problem space smaller and solutions simpler and more practical.

Banning or limiting human drivers on certain roads, repainting surfaces with thick white lines for tracing, automated checking for obstacles and cleaning, sensors along the side of highways, networking self driving vehicles, reducing speed limits -- all things that could vastly reduce the complexity but doing them or getting people to want to spend money on them might be very hard.
I've only seen a few clips from the interview-- clips that were supposed to show Zuckerberg getting owned by some politician or other. To be honest, the politicians seemed really childish to me. Their questions were uninformed, hostile, and off topic. I thought Zuckerberg handled himself just fine, given the circumstances.

I say this as someone who thinks the world would be better off without Facebook. I don't use it. I don't invest in it.
UPS pays the fines in bulk at a discount. They don't care and price it into the shipping cost.
Of course workers have a responsibility to behave ethically, but they shouldn't have the sole responsibility to make sure the business itself is behaving ethically.

Architects don't need to consider the ethics of designing buildings up to structural code, because regulations (building codes) demand it. They don't have to worry about their bosses pushing them to design cheaper buildings that don't meet those standards, because the bosses know they will never be approved for use by their customer. Sure, an architect could enforce this himself or herself, but why should they? We as a society have already decided that we want buildings that are safe to occupy, and have mandated standards accordingly. It's now a LOT less profitable to make cheap buildings that won't meet code, because if the buildings can't be occupied after, then the builder doesn't get their money.

This is not to say building codes are never skirted, but it's a lot rarer than, for example, a Silicon Valley firm trampling privacy which is completely expected at this point, despite wide and vocal opposition.
Whenever I turn on my work laptop it launches sites and applications I use on a day to day basis, like Jira (for our ticket), Hacker News (daily dose of information), Slack, Outlook etc. Very simple to create with python and just something I wanted to make.
First, not a dig at Woz, but he's 69 and average male US life expectancy is 78.7. Saying he won't see level 5 in his lifetime is not a very bold claim.

Second, I don't understand people's fixation on Level 5 in particular. There are vast numbers of human drivers who cannot meet that criteria, perhaps even the majority of drivers. Despite this, they drive (in situations they feel comfortable), and have a profound impact on how society is structured. Woz will probably see both level 3 and level 4 cars and they'll have similarly profound impacts.
Having little to no responsibility for long periods of time would result in a driver filling the time with other activities, like phone conversations. A frightening number of cabbies blabber on the phone already. It's doubtful their reaction time to take control would be quick enough.

We should be looking at occupations that require people being alert but not engaged for a glimpse into drivers' behavior.
I see them as providing an invaluable service to the disabled and the elderly who live in appropriate cities. I would move there to have such luxury. But it s not a generic solution for all driving conditions
The problem with municipal firefighters and police is that they are unionized and are self-interested parties. For instance, police unions always complain they don't have enough personnel and need more for reasons x, y, z, and the public usually buys that line and so we continuously are building a police state of mega proportions. These entities are helping to foment a pension crisis in every town, city, and county. It will break out into the open eventually as property and sales taxes rise to ridiculous levels.

Everyone thinks private police and firefighters are some kind of abomination, but I say that there is no perfect solution. I don't think massively expensive public services are cost effective although they do serve the public at large without discrimination (some members of the public are much more frequent fliers than others, of course). Private ambulance services now abound and are quite successful at controlling costs (because they don't pay the EMTs who staff them very well).

We need policing of some kind, we need fire and ambulance coverage of some kind. It should not be illegal to hire mercenary detectives or firefighters, it's a supposedly free country. What we don't want happening is deep pockets hiring police to enforce their own "laws" as took place in the 19th century with the notorious Pinkertons, who were little more than thugs that would come in and break up protests or unionization attempts. It was all very dirty business.

The firefighters in NYC were basically little more than gangs for most of their existence. A fire would break out, the firefighters would come and fight over who was going to put it out, and meanwhile they would immediately condemn the structure so that anything of value inside could be pilfered. That history is why we have better control over our public services in the first place--cops and firefighters were just thugs with their own agendas for most of US history. These days they don't outright rob regular people, but they certainly do act as enforcers or "King's Men" in most jurisdictions and are not fully accountable to the public. Somehow firefighters are more beknighted, but behind the scenes, there is much dirt there, too. Dirty politics, nepotism, poor ethics.
Doom Source. I don't do C, but this stuff just... made sense.
> Unless I missed that the hearing was highly related to this, why would he remember this exact date offhand?

Because it is one of the biggest scandals affecting Facebook in probably its entire history, and he's been grilled about it before? You'd think that once they found out his staff and advisors would make sure to tell him every single detail about it. Likewise, it should be the thing that occupies him for months on end.

It's inexcusable for him to not seem to know some basic factoids about the whole thing.
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A few differences:

- VAT is applied to business to business transactions. Sales taxes are just applied to consumer transactions.

- Sales taxes are applied to total amount of sales. The amount of VAT that the user pays is on the cost of the product, less any of the costs of materials used in the product that have already been taxed.

- Since value is not generally created in a second hand sale. (Unless the item is restored) VATs are usually not applied to used/second hand items. Sales taxes are.
Any sovereign government has the right to nullify patents on its territory in times of emergency, or in the interests of national security. Doing so to feed starving kids would not even be controversial.

UK has such provisions in its laws, and so does India. I am less informed about Africa

This is definitely a navigable issue. The GM rice should succeed or fail on it's own merits, and if usefull, the IP could be sorted.
You must not play many online competitive games. I have played them for most of my life and I can tell you that latency of even just 100ms will absolutely wreck your ability to respond and react to dynamic, high speed situations with accuracy. “Save the confused autonomous agent about to plow into some pedestrians” is not a game I want to play at anything slower than the speed of my hands on the real steering wheel.
You can poor the water into a baking tray.

Regarding safety, just be careful not to burn yourself
I see nothing wrong with this. If I'm wealthy and I can pay money for a service for risk management and the benefits outweigh the costs it makes sense. Private security vs police? Sure. Private jet vs common carrier? Sure. Private firefighter vs public? You guys lose your minds over that? I don't see what is wrong paying for extra protection. It's like owning a very expensive car and paying for extra insurance in case the person who hits you has no insurance.
In the UK at least a lot of "basic" things are exempt from VAT, although the rules are quite complex:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-...
He says in the linked interview:

> "I don't even know if that will happen in my lifetime."

Not that I wish for Woz's death in any way, but he is 69 years old. The average male life expectancy in the US is 78. Now, he's wealthy, so I would expect him to probably live longer than the average, but 15-20 years would be doing good.

15-20 years is also my personal expectation for when we will start seeing truly autonomous self-driving vehicles.

Moreover, I think it will be incremental growth, not immediate massive availability. I would expect the technology to be adopted in certain controlled situations first, and in places where it makes economic sense. And considering how long it can take for people to replace cars and for the technology to filter down to more economic models, 40+ years before the majority of cars are self-driving does not seem like an unreasonable estimate.
So you're arguing for an increase of our sales tax. That's different than saying we don't pay sales tax!

Now, I don't disagree that a mechanism that tames American consumption would be good, and is also counter cycle to the economy.

But the question remains unanswered: How about the effect of sales tax on people and families at the margins [0]? 20-25% sales tax is a lot for them. A sales tax rebate check at the end of the year like Canada does? $70 hardly covers the bite of the sales tax!

[0] Including my in-laws, so I'll admit this is a bit personal.
Is it just me or do yes/no questions that don't allow a response make the person asking the question look even worse than the person replying?

If the person doesn't answer the question, go ahead & berate them. Just don't expect a complicated question to be answered with a simple yes/no.

Likewise it's terrible to judge a politician based on their yes/no voting record without understanding why they voted for/against something.
I would have hoped he would have the courtesy to dig one deep for himself after his rhetoric
Agreed. The book Flour Water Salt Yeast is also excellent. It's the best sourdough I've ever had, and it's coming out of my oven.

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I think the relevant difference is that VAT is paid even if you are in a different EU country.

I'm in Denmark, where the rate is 25%.

I pay 25% on something I order from a Danish online shop.

I pay 25% on something I order from a large German online shop, even though the VAT rate in Germany is lower.

I pay 19% (the German rate) on something I order from a small German shop, to reduce the administrative burden on that shop.

(In every case the advertised price includes VAT, although the middle case may use 19% until I input a delivery address, depending on how they guess my location.)

My understanding is that, in reality, people pay 0% in the USA if they order from a different state.
The problem is, many companies would just price the tickets into the cost of delivery, the same way they already do but just more.
Alternatively,a company like UPS could basically completely implode and deadlock the NYC courts by contesting every single ticket individually. They have enough money to play chicken with the city, and the city will lose almost immediately.
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Absolutely. Better to do a startup early and see it fail than make the same mistake mid-career. It showed me startups are a mug’s game.
The prospect of intelligent creators is irrelevant here as if they are present they are unseen. What can be partially made out is the broad path of evolution which has actually somehow arrived by its own properties on intelligence in animals - and also appearances of intelligent/cooperative etc. relationships between species. Many different kinds of relationships over kinds of chemistry and activity are present, which themselves may evolve and may have evolved over and throughout species.

The presumptive outlook is that all of the simple and complex evolutionary processes are in sum and product - assuredly mundane, stochastic, resilient to any accidental discord which could be caused by humans bodging their evolved configurations and then non-competitively reproducing trillions of carriers and spreading and maintaining them across the globe with no means to ever recall the version. That's GM agriculture described 'on an equal footing' with the products of natural history.
For all the Logo fans in this thread, I have created a Slack workspace here for us to get together: https://bit.ly/fd100slackinvite

Please do join it even if you don't remember Logo anymore. The intention here is not to discuss Logo but to share the joy of computing that we discovered through Logo and has remained in our lives. I hope to see you all there. :-)

By the way, there is also #fd100 channel on Freenode IRC but I am not sure whether most HN users prefer IRC or Slack.
One beautiful thing with baking sourdough is that even if you don't get it right, it will still be very good bread.

I think people tend to be discouraged by how difficult it might be but fail to realise even "failing" is still producing something edible and tasteful.
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Maybe if there was dramatic background music to manipulate your emotions?
That bar chart is terrible. It puts the US at a 137T shortfall and the Netherlands at 6T, making NL look much better than the US.

But there's about 20x more people in the US as in NL. The shortfalls are about the same.
The definitions of a sovereign country is that it's government/ people decides what goes.

They can definitely suspend IP protections for indefinite period.
Comment and Question :

1st the comment:
This is absolutely frightening to me: "A role-playing mobile app game depicting the protest was suspended by Google earlier this month, while gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment suspended Hong Kong esports star Chung “blitzchung” Ng Wai after he called for the liberation of Hong Kong in a post-game interview."
I am not pro or anti-China. That's not the point. What I fear is the growing reluctance of companies to do anything that may muddy their relationship with China, which amounts to effective and in-direct censorship. Did I get this right, or are there other reasons for Google's and Blizzard Entertainment's actions? Yes, yes, I know. No politics in business. But people that conduct business, in this case the video gamers, are in fact people! At one point can a celebrity, or even a regular employee, voice their political opinion without fear of reprisal. In the case of China (NBA this month), it seems it's almost never. Again, my comments are not about China. It's about how businesses stifle freedom of expression. This article could have been about Chile or Lebanon, two other countries with massive protests.

Now my question:
"The students said they have submitted their game to an online video game distributor and hope to have it available to the public next month."
Are there any platforms that empower these students to distribute their video game without relying on other businesses, specially big business?
The FOX TV Network would never run something like this. I find FOX properties online to be far less restrictive in what they can publish — even class struggles are fair game to post. This would never fly on FOX opinion shows on TV.

For the record, firefighters per neighborhood could work, but not multiple competing companies. We used to have that here in NYC. Here is a scene from Gangs of New York which is historically accurate and correctly mentions the Bowery Boys and the Municipal Police Riot (two diff sets of police)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmsB5bcygB4

This, friends, is one of the potential pitfalls of anarcho-capitalist utopia
yes people with longer lifetimes will put off having children which means conception events for each generation will have longer time intervals in between
To repeat, absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market

- Daniel Hannan, May 2015

Increasingly the Norway option looks the best for the UK

- Arron Banks, November 2015

https://youtube.com/watch?t=308&v=zzykce4oxII

https://twitter.com/arron_banks/status/682125949245206528
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Yes, the proposed deal does do this. Because Boris just wants a quick win and then wants to say that Brexit is done and then wants to win a majority on december 12.

It's one thing to do what's best for the country and what 17.4 million people voted for. It's another thing entirely to do what's best for yourself (that being boris)
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I almost never weigh in on political stuff. But, F* that. Do you want to be able to never afford anything? Because, that's a good start. What we really need to do is balance the budget by cutting back on the quantity and expensiveness of existing programs. The government needs to optimize. We are spending too much. Which are dirty words no one wants to hear or perform.
Again, it's easy to say 'quit your job' when you're a 20-something living in a group apartment, with no family, and no real responsibilities, in San Francisco and a new job is more or less a few phone calls away. It's quite another when you're providing for a household, with family with medical issues, shouldering debt and just making the ends meet, which is a much more common situation to find yourself in, here in the States at least.

And that's not to say I wouldn't be finding a new job, but again, I wouldn't have to find a job, nor would my boss be pressuring me to do this sort of unethical stuff, if the unethical stuff was simply made illegal. Settles the matter entirely. Will there be bad actors skirting those regulations? Of course, there always are, but laws don't stop 100% of bad activity and that's never stopped us from trying.
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Stopping can be just as dangerous, from causing accidents to blocking an ambulance.
So, again, the deal that's on the table is not the one that was voted for. By your own evidence!
This interview offers so many insights, it’s unbelievable.

Who are some visionaries/ industry leaders that have this kind Realistic future insight that are worth paying attention to?
Yeah it’s best to get the lesson early on that venture-backed startups are 99% of the time just smoke and mirrors.
VAT tax is regressive: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/who-would-bear...
Keycloak is an identity/authentication provider. Your app would leverage it using OpenID Connect (OAuth 2). Keycloak would handle the heavy lifting related to identity management, registration, password changes, authentication, etc. Your app would handle everything else.
This is a good response.

Building a little (but speculatively... I don't know much about wasps and their nest-building instincts): I often wonder what (if any) fractions of behavior that gets chalked up to "instinct" are actually the result of some biological/mechanical affordance, normal learning, and reasoning.

(I don't mean to deny instinct as such, but I guess I feel like the razor should exclude it until it's the only option left?)

To use the hexagonal example, the term "instinct" implies that the creature could do this thing in a variety of ways, but doesn't. But it wouldn't quite be "instinct" in the sense we mean it if the hexagonal structure is just a coincidental emergent byproduct of some detail of the species' visual system, physiology, etc.
And I couldn't justify $5 to read your comment.
So this would be more of a labyrinth than a maze?