skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who's been in charge for 16 years, and who just happens to be a military general and the eldest son of the previous prime minister.

But hey, I said what had to be said, and see no point arguing about the formalities. I'll let HN users decide for themselves.
Thank you for providing this.

Please avoid clicking the OP link and giving traffic to a company that engages in gray/black web and SEO patterns.
Just extending that line of reasoning, what about your organs powering someone who goes on to do such research?
I have been thinking about these questions as well. The gist is, it seems we need tools to manage data created from all the applications that we use. Today, there's so much data, that the most important tools are those that separate signal from noise.

Some things that I have considered:
- I like to read long articles on my e-paper reader, there are several services to do this.
- I need all quotings from articles, books and my personal notes to be accessible in one place, indexed and searchable.
- My whole knowledge base should be easily shared with other people.
- I want to find others with similar interests to mine.

Some interesting technologies that have the potential of bringing this to reality is the Beaker browser and the Dat format for sharing. Also, I really like World Brain's memex for web annotation, searching and sharing.

It seems we are getting closer, but we need to connect the different tools into a widely used workflow.
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> Why doesn't any other manufacturer of cars have a similar problem? Did I miss the story where BMW or Mercedes demand $1200 to replace this part?

This particular issue may be unique to Tesla, but obviously other car manufacturers have a whole host of issues which their customers deal with and can result in service bills even staggeringly higher than this.

My last Infiniti G35 has an issue with the Bose head unit, where a single resistor would come loose and the radio would lose power when you hit a bump. The problem was the whole center console stack of buttons all were powered through the radio and so you would also lose the ability to change the temperature or turn on the defogger.

Cost was $2400 to replace the unit, and they would typically fail again ever few years. The problem was extremely widespread and despite a campaign to get Infiniti to extend the warranty, they never did.

I ended up putting in an after-market unit but I had to replace the module with all the climate control buttons as well with one from the Japanese market version of the same car, because that one could work independently from the radio.
I am thankful for the Free software movement, they continue to do the right thing - since years.

So that we don't have be thankful to people or companies, because software is our right!
Hmm... antenna (aka frequency probe) shape vs. gain... someone should make a table of those... actually, even better would be a chart with various combinations of antenna shape, material (e.g., metal/alloy A vs. metal/alloy B), and frequency response... even more interesting might be trying various different meta-materials, fractal shapes, etc., etc... Note to future self: Here might be some interesting experiments...
Can you really vote with public amazon shares?
Edit: There is a leaderboard https://adventofcode.com/2018/leaderboard

> Getting a star first is worth 100 points, second is 99, and so on down to 1 point at 100th place.
Ask HN: Ever struggled with threats to your business?
Have you ever been faced with an unlawful threat or hindrance to your business? Example: »You give us $1,000 a month or we'll burn down your restaurant / ddos your site / etc.« I'm curious about:

(1) What kind of business?
(2) Which country/region/city?
(3) Who approached you?
(4) What was the request/threat?
(5) How did you react? Consequences?
(6) Any resources for information?

Apart from general curiosity, I'm trying to understand what environments are the friendliest for opening a business and whether that's even an issue to consider.
Let's just make orbital lifts while we're at it.
Inflation is already almost zero in much of the West. People demand growth because they want to get richer, regardless of the prevailing conditions.

I would also like to point out that if there were to be no growth and no inflation (edit: and a static population level!), then the only way to add a dollar to your pile is to permanently make someone else a dollar poorer. That seems likely to accelerate the lethality of the billionaries vs. hungry poor conflict rather than de-escalate it.

> inflation will erode their savings

> compete harder and harder just to maintain his/her existing standard of living

These are two different things. Savings are a stock, "standard of living" is a flow. The distinction matters here because GDP measures flows; the two are related through the money equation "MV=PQ".
I read this and assumed crypto meant cryptography. I guess at this stage we should come up with a new short term for cryptography, since crypto has been subsumed.

Could this maybe be editorialised to cryptocurrency for clarity?
Chevy Bolt is only offered in North America though. On this side of the pond the options are much more limited when it comes to small and cheap EVs.
indeed.

being "thankful" is such a subtle way to avoiding to fight for your rights.

ofc the two aren't necessarily contradictory, but in the US they are.
Looks nice and it's on discount because of Black Friday. Thanks!
I learned to play the piano without a piano
Yes, the writer talks about his failed attempts when he was not in charge of the whole boat in the book.
Inflation is a side effect of monetary and fiscal policy; central banks are now quite good at adjusting interest rates to keep inflation in the 0-2% band.

> In direct response to large classes of workers demanding more pay & benefits, companies will raise their prices to pay for those increases, again totally regardless of whether a stock market exists.

How well this works is down to the "tightness" of the labour market. Central bank policy affects this: raise interest rates -> decrease investment -> increase unemployment above the "NAIRU" ("non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment") -> workers are unable to demand pay increases as they may be replaced by eager cheaper workers from the pool of unemployed.
Growth is a synonym for progress.
An alternative would be to forming an co-operative unit that distributes wealth more evenly. More automation only leads to joblessness causing more inequality. Also natural resources are plundered more aggressively by few who become multi-billionaire causing more environmental degradation. Though, greed is necessary for development of society, concentration of wealth to a selected few does not bode well for society. Private profits or shareholder profits are better for society if business model evenly distributes it.
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> If you as an officer resist, the collective of shareholders will replace you with someone who will make more money.

and eventually you're left with sociopaths running the show.
As a user of noVNC, I'd be interested in such comparison, too. I haven't used Guacamole, but as I understand, sansnomme's point is that Guacamole compared to noVNC is like Visual Studio compared to GCC - while GCC and noVNC offer you most basic tool, Guacamole and Visual Studio provide some helper utilities around - like session management, config UI, etc.

So when compiling single-file "hello world" app or connecting to a single machine you would prefer a simpler tool (GCC/noVNC), since more complex tools require more complex workflow; but for more complex projects (or when you have tens of machines under your control) you would prefer more complex tools.

Disclaimer: I have never used Guacamole, used Visual Studio very little, and my experience with GCC is rather limited.
Here are a few points I think should be taught in high school :

- What a file and a file system are

- How text, image, video, sound and other kind of data is encoded and stored on computers

- What a database is, and how is real-world information modeled and structured inside a database

- What a network protocol is.

- What HTTP and HTTPS are in particular.

- What the web is.

- What a web browser is and what are the principles behind how it works.

- What encryption is and what are the broad mathematical principles behind it.

- What a computer program and an operating system are, and how they work.

- What a programming language is.

- What machine learning is, what it can and cannot do (not sure about this one...)

I having a firm grasp of these concepts would allow pupils to understand better the world they live in, give them better opportunities later, and make them more immune to modern-day hucksters.
That's what I was afraid of but still asked if there is Advanced ANSI SQL book.

Thanks!
I've read and enjoyed a bit by Edwards Deming recently, specifically Out of the Crisis and The New Economics.
I thought Catalina just deprecated 32-bit apps?

iPadOS on the other hand is inching towards a desktop-like OS, ofcourse based on Apple's in-house ARM chips.
Yes. Shareholder receive voting packets in the mail, or can exercise their votes online at their brokerage website.
In 30 years?

We could reduce the CO2 emissions of our electric by half within 10 years.

Begin moving to electric vehicles en masse within a decade.

Maybe a big 2025 goal should be a priority?

We should be doing more now so we need to do less later.
I too started higher education with hopes of semiconductor RnD. I found my way into a test and measurement lab and learned the stuff necessary for such a gig, but found myself content with the work instead of hoping for some high risk halo job. I’m still young but I’m doing relatively low pay work for a university gig in a new field that interests me, rather than in a higher paying/more stimulating industry job.
> I think [a decade is] about the typical life span of a modern car

Stop buying bad cars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%27s_10_Best_Engines
Thank goodness! I had the same response to this book - it seemed so shallow but I'd heard people rave about it...

Ultimately I just couldn't finish the book because of the constant unrelated anecdotes.
Thanks. But I don’t that’s fixable in my friends case. It’s a long story :P
Not what I were asking about but definitely something that I need. Thanks a lot for the reference and wow, lucky timing!
Progress, as in "your cancer progressed to stage 4". Growth can have downsides, be it what is growing or the costs of growth.
Could be a tech solution to the reputation problem? Some kind of distributed social media- and wikipedia-like system where information is signed by its author(s), and where people are able to produce metadata rating the factuality of information and authors.

Currently people can create such information, of course. But liars routinely deny well-documented things in their past, and those denials are effective to their intended audience. And currently someone can debunk a lie, but there's no systematic way to find everyone who testifies that it's untrue.

And while finding all of a claim's supporters and debunkers would be a great first step, a truly good (i.e. skeptical) reader would want to be able to find their arguments, too.

I'm skeptical that current AI could automate the job of indexing that information -- understanding controversial arguments seems likely to require true intelligence. I happen to have made a system[1] in which indexing any kind of data or metadata is extremely easy, requiring little more than knowing some natural language. (Deciding what kind of information you want to encode is hard, but once you've decided that, encoding it is easy.)

[1] https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode
Per other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664066 ; inflation is already near-zero, and this is controlled through interest rates rather than simple M0.
Ask HN: How do we force Apple to buy back faulty “butterfly keyboard” MacBooks?
Apple did acknowledge the problem and offered extended warranty to 3-4 years (depending on country, I think).

However:
- I'm having a 2nd keyboard replacement in first 6 months since purchase.
- Resale value of these MBPs is significantly affected (nobody will buy them)
- Who will pay for my replacements after the 3rd year, if the problem keeps reappearing?
- Each repair also means a couple of days of downtime, which is not only inconvenient but bears some cost too.

It would be fair if Apple offered a buy-back program or a (reasonably priced) upgrade program to new Macbooks with different keyboard mechanism.

This issue is driving me crazy. Any ideas how to sort out this issue and actually force Apple to do the right thing? Thank you.
Too bad Chrome stopped supporting the web speech-to-text API. But I guess it overwhelmed Google's network/servers!? I remember back in Windows XP? There was speech recognition, where you first had to read a bunch of text in order to train it. It didn't use a online service afaik. And it was decent. With today's hardware it should be possible to do speech to text on the client! eg. without sending the audio to the cloud for processing!
OK, these are serious questions.

1) This is true, and uncontroversial. Nobody doubts that bonsai are small for environmental reasons. More technically, the heritability of traits is inversely related to how variable the environment is. Once everyone is well-fed & well-cared-for, you expect higher correlations between parents' height and children's, compared to the earlier world where many were stunted. (And likewise you expect a stronger influence of people's innate interests on what jobs they do, once they are rich enough to turn down better-paying alternatives which they hate.)

2) This is a real concern, but it also depends a little bit on what you hope to achieve. My extreme example: If a freak accident on the way home from the 1964 olympics had stranded the Dutch men's & woman's gymnastics teams on the same island as (m&f) Nigerian basketball teams, and you visited today, then in this population genes for blue eyes would be a pretty strong predictor of being short. Because they would mark ancestry, not because of a more direct link.

This may not be a terrible thing. If what you want is a test to see who is more susceptible to some illness, for the purpose of giving them screening from age 40 instead of 50, then if what you are detecting is ancestry-markers not heart-muscle-genes, do you care?

But for other purposes you may really want to know the functional genes related. One thing you can do is to look only at differences in height (etc) between siblings, who by definition have the same ancestry. This is also done, but it's harder to collect this data, so studies for humans are smaller & noisier. But for plants you can do this very well, control everything. And I think that for dairy cows this is done very well (you know their ancestry perfectly, so the only point of DNA testing is to get information which that doesn't capture).
> we should come up with a new short term for cryptography

"they" should come up with a new short term for cryptocurrency
I feel that the operative difference is between “being” and “seeming” uniformly random.
The states goal of the Fed is to "maintain the rate as close to zero as possible while keeping it safely positive.".
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A lot of charts and napkin math to reach an obvious conclusion. Better discussion would be, "A) Why do we worship GDP, and B) how do we stop?"

My own answers (shared as a starting point rather than a destination) would be:

A)

- old westerners are really attached to the pensions they promised themselves

- marginally-skilled people prefer the illusion of agency offered by employment over being total dependents of the state

- people who have never experienced certain products and services attach much more value to them than those who already have--new toy vs old hat.

- plutocrats are very interested in keeping the machine well-oiled so that they may enjoy their lives in peace and keep the guillotine at bay.

and B)

- short of civilizational collapse, I'm not sure that we can.
... and more generally, players in a game can play by the existing rules, while still advocating a change to the rules.
It’s not zero sum, even during recession, because each year the economy is still adding its GDP even if it is not growing. You don’t have to take someone else’s, but you might all take less than the potential.
New Economics is good if you make it through the first chapters, which are more or less "old man yells at cloud" or "what I've always wanted to say". They are highly political, the subjects range from how bad anti-cartel law is to telephones to hitting children.

When he finally gets to special causes vs. common causes, control charts etc. the book gets quite good.
Are the EQ values never looked at it during debugging/testing?
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This is a unique and very well-done take on Seven Up. It has the added dimension of how much of a learning process this was for Apted (the director), as well as other aspects that I hadn't picked up from other sources.

I first discovered this series a few weeks ago. I found the idea fascinating and I expected to be keen to dig into it. So I read some of the pieces that I found online and I stopped. My expectation of wanting to dive into this living soap opera turned into a feeling of bleak depression. Part of it has something to do with the blandness of even the happiest of near-endings, and part of it has something to do with the sadness of seeing a seven year old quickly progress in age to that point in life when we're sort of forced to evaluate who and where we are. It was far too quick of a journey for me. Their lives are presented like a history book, that places an emphasis on wars and other human struggles. It's also similar to a newscast: the bad news overwhelms and the good news is boring, so it doesn't get much attention. It's a CV that demands to know "what have you done with your life?" in a series of bullet points that skews toward points of merit.

I suppose that part of my feeling has to do with the fact that I'm at that point in life myself. Family and peers are getting sick and dying. I'll be doing the same. A lot of us aren't mentally prepared for what it's really like to be here. I think I've been working my way through it pretty well, but it takes a lot of emotional and philosophical work that we may not have a lot of experience with.

For me, Seven Up pokes and prods at life's battle wounds without enough attention to the boring bits that may actually dominate a life, which might be where our focus needs to be if we're to attain the contentment that should perhaps be our goal, whatever our class.
Seems they're making all crypto exchanges not registered in Germany illegal for their citizens. I wonder what the punishment will be for a German who buys crypto from an unregistered exchange?
Or better yet, The Culture (Iain Banks).
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Unfortunately the free market cares about crypto->cryptocurrency more than about crypto->cryptography.

We are all, unfortunately, under control of an entity that values financial growth at all costs over any sort of scientific merit.
There is an important argument here about how not all GDP is created equal. In both developing and developed worlds - a lot of people just buy wasteful garbage.
> because each year the economy is still adding its GDP even if it is not growing

Er .. "economic growth" and "increasing GDP" are usually considered to be synonyms? Do you have alternative definitions?
I can't wait for my iot pan and stove respectively tell their manufacturers how often i'm reheating pizzas. Maybe my iot stove fan will get there first. All way after my iot fridge ofc called home to tell me to buy more pizza.
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Fair enough :) I'm an avid reader and love to just sit down, pick up a book (kindle actually the past few years) and read for some time.
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This is the internet. You can't retrospectively claim your predictions have come true without providing a dated link to when you actually made them.

If the PRC wants to be respected, they could publish information and allow journalists in instead of lying.
Read military leadership manuals, like Serve to Lead.

Any business leadership book is likely to really be a management book.
If it was your loved one the victim of the 7x you would not think this was puritanical. The drunk driver has innocent victims beyond him or herself.
eGold would have been a great name (limited supply, prone to gold rushes, comparable to cash, ...). Sadly that name is taken
Startup or a big company - the deal you get coming in is probably going to be much bigger than anything you will get organically in the normal case. Growing inside the company is a very different deal compared to this and you have to work with the system - no two ways about it.

Whatever work you did afterwards, even if it changed the whole world sadly belongs to the owners: That's one of the big reasons to own things rather than work on them. I am going to go a little too far and suggest it probably didn't - if your founders don't know about your personal contributions, there is a big chance you're overestimating your impact.

I would suggest NOT slacking off (like some comments I see here). Always do a good job that you'll be proud of. If you think you're not valued or overshadowed, move to a different place. But wherever you go, don't give up on your own standards. I personally can remember the exact days when I slacked off in different jobs and everyone of them makes me feel some shame.

Take a break, recharge, may be move teams or even companies and put what you have contributed in the past behind you: see how you're going to be contributing in the future - most of the growth is about this anyway: your potential.

Good luck!
I guess you're being downvoted because of the M word, but you have a point; it's very similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
> 1. Corporations desperately pursue continuous growth, even when they're already profitable, and do so at the expense of the environment, employee welfare and sometimes, the rule of law.

And sometimes its to the benefit of the environment, the employees and its in accordance with the rule of law.

> 4. Investors need to invest money in instruments with a certain minimum ROI because if they don't, inflation will erode their savings.

Inflation are low and predictable in the West. And investors would want to make money no matter what the inflation is.

> 6. The end result is a sort of "Red Queen" effect where everyone is forced to compete harder and harder just to maintain his/her existing standard of living.

That really isn't a logical conclusion.

> 8. Therefore, we should focus on curbing inflation to curb the pace of overwhelming growth, and thereby restore some measure of social justice.

I would recommend to you to really get into economics. You are making a lot of assumptions that really don't hold up.
>I would also like to point out that if there were to be no growth and no inflation (edit: and a static population level!), then the only way to add a dollar to your pile is to permanently make someone else a dollar poorer.

That's fine when wealth distribution is "the 0.01% owns 80% of the wealth".

Plenty of dollars to go around...
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