skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society should bestow success on ambitious, persistent, hard-working individuals who make a positive contribution.

The real reason we have inequality is because this doesn't happen, but this is hidden behind the false narrative that it does - i.e. success is a positive contribution by definition, and somehow "must" be the product of hard work.

In fact the Money Cult rewards acquisition for its own sake. It hides the true cost of externalities which damage the prospects and life experiences of others.

Our accounting systems reward narcissistic sociopathy over mature contextual awareness, and are politically toxic. "Market" values specifically exclude social and economic costs. And political sponsorship adds another positive feedback loop to the whole mess.

If post-market values rewarded actions that created positive social and cultural benefits of all kinds - from technology to education to medicine to pure science to the arts - we'd see an explosion of prosperity and potential that would make capitalist ethics look comically crippled and backward.
The job market is still looking for a way to separate ideal candidates from the general population.

The economy spends a lot of time dealing with unvetted untalented people that “need a chance“ to perform as much as someone that is unvetted but talented.

It doesn't have to be college, but there isnt another system so robust and bussing as many people throught it. Sure corporations can try apprenticeship programs but that will take a decade for it to be broad enough.
True, although I wouldn't like prohibiting paywalls. Maybe displaying [Paywall] next to the title would be a solution?
Like what kind of consequences, and why do toy think that will be successful in preventing further disasters?
We were recently asked by a client to build a relatively simple feature - wouldn’t have taken us more than a week.

After taking a deeper look at existing services we noted they were all surprisingly expensive - and in the same bracket.

Turned out access to a particular API and ensuring the process and output of the service would be legally inadmissible were the real cost, and we actually wouldn’t be able to compete with the existing services.

Not saying don’t go for it, just make sure you understand that the cost may not be the problem on the surface.
On the contrary, my job taught me that desktop software can be extremely reliable and does not actually break all the time. Many of my customers use versions of my app that are a few years old without any troubles. When the user is in control of their environment, software doesn't suddenly break.

That's not to say software doesn't have bugs. Only that bugs don't appear suddenly.

Most bugs are caused by two things:

(1) Changes to the code that accidentally break unrelated stuff

(2) Changes to the environment (eg. OS vendor releases a new version which changes how some API behaves)

I think (1) is more common.

So I think that the reason why SaaS have problems all the time is that typically devs are changing stuff all the time and accidentally breaking things left and right, not that software is inherently unreliable. And since users can't keep using an old version that works for them, they'll stumble across every bug eventually.
Working in VR, the state of the art is closer to Pong than to the Holodeck or the Matrix. That doesn't mean there aren't useful applications for the technology but we won't see anything that passes for reality in my lifetime, or perhaps ever.
So if they took a frog that died of natural causes and did the same thing, which actually makes it more like Frankenstein, you wouldn't use those terms because no life was lost as part of the experiment?
It is true. GPL apps are banned from the App Store because Apple’s TOS is incompatible with the license.

VLC for iOS is bi-licensed under MPLv2 and GPL [0].

[0]: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/07/18/vlc-for-ios-will-retu...
Did he? My impression was that they had SHA-1 from the start (maybe with a planned way to add another hashing) and only started to really switch gears when they got a real SHA-1 collision.
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Are we talking about things we like, use and do, or are we in a pissing contest about who's team is winning?
How almost no one understands that simply trading your time as units for money is ridiculous.
I think that's a great approach but I think the people predisposed to working longer and doing overtime are often the sort of people who won't willingly take that time off. Do you have to encourage it or it's welcomed?
a huge amount of the items you buy "new" have actually been opened multiple times.
Apple is not allowing notifications in Safari browser iOS.
Maybe For UX (they say) or differentiation for native apps (their P&L sheet says)

- Happy iOS user and web entrepreneur.
I just listened to the book Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre, which deals with this problem. The author works as a doctor and so has a bit of an inside view of how the industry does 'science' and how this affects doctors and patients.

The lack of published negative results isn't a problem unique to pharma but the drive for profits and the actual life and death outcomes makes it particular severe in this area of science, I think.

I highly recommend the book, it was both hilarious and terrifying.
Sigh.

Cloudflare and archive.fo don't play well together. Each blames the other.

I've explicitly coded an exception for the domain on my own networking kit, but that fix hasn't been working for a while, which is ... annoying.

Ordinarily, though, it's a useful fix. If you can point DNS at a provider other than Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), it should work.
My P3d is also from July 18 and is the lowest VIN of any that I know about, less than 55500, any chance yours is lower?

On topic, I've had a few trim issues fixed at the SC which was no cost and not much bother. Otherwise it's amazing, I really would not trade it for any other car.
This. I did consulting for a while and sales people don't seem to understand the amount of time, money and effort it costs to switch software suites. Sure, your product does x better and is cheaper, but the current suite is painstakingly shaped to match our needs over the years. To recreate the same situation in a new software suite will take 6-12 months (while running the outgoing suite as well since business has to continue as usual), meaning double workload on the staff involved. And don't even get me started on teaching Jen from accounting how to use the new software because the old software was 'running just fine' and 'she's been using it for decades'...

To most organizations, the cost of a software suite is a factor when they're in the market for something new. But when you're offering an alternative to something they're already using the price isn't really a factor.
Ya know that bahhhh sound that sheep make?
>Capping personal wealth at zero (or less than wealth per capita for that matter) is obviously a nonsense, so you should be careful with this strawman. Reasonable amount probably starts at some multiple of that.

There's not much more power needed to cap wealth at zero than at 10 million: the enforcement infrastructure would be the same.
(preface: I worked a string of manual labor jobs before and during college)

A lot of the (now) coveted trade jobs can seem like a very tempting alternative to crushing college debt and volatile job security, but truth be told, many of these trades are plagued with physical injuries, sudden unemployment, and what not.

Furthermore, you deal with A LOT more shady people (employers, customers / clients, suppliers, you name it) than you do in white-collar sectors.

I say this because for the past few years, I've seen an increase in people advocating for people to choose trade jobs over college-educated jobs, like it's the most obvious and risk-free thing in the world.

It's not, and I'd even go as far as arguing that the downsides of trade jobs can be worse than the downsides of a cushy white-collar job.
How do you do any business when inflation is wildly high? Do you just work in US dollars? I'd love some resource explaining in practical day to day detail how it got done.
At CES a Ford EV on display had this printed on its window "Doors are locked for your protection". Instead of being honest and saying "it's an early prototype"
Exactly. And then after the "blazingly" fast clickbait title we read:

"I'm (mostly) not going to show you some hacks, tricks and code
snippets that will magically solve your performance issues. This
is more about general ideas and strategies, which when used, can
make a huge impact on performance, in some cases up to 30%
speed-up."

Python CPU-bound programs are e.g. 30 times slower than C or Java, and "up to 30% speedup" makes them still 20 times slower which is really far from "blazingly".

An example (best scores):

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Java 6.83

Python 259.50
A rare but cool approach. Surely tracking extra time in such a way is a bit of extra effort?
> Its massively expensive @ $30k for 9 months. A year at a reasonably good California State University is <$8000 (http://www.sjsu.edu/faso/docs/1920_COA_ugrd.pdf), or <$32k for 4 years

The time is a cost, not a benefit. If you're choosing between spending $30k and nine months to get an education, or $32k and four years, the first one is obviously and vastly superior to the second.

You may be thinking that the education you get at the CSU is better than what you get at Lambda School, but "higher price, better product" is the opposite of the argument you actually made.
Did I hear Office Concept?
Have you looked at Yappi[0]? I use it in combination with kcachegrind[1] (call graph viewer) and the combination has been extremely useful in eliminating bottlenecks across entire programs.

Side note: I also used pyreverse, now part of pylint, to diagram entire projects and get a class hierarchy. It helped tremendously in refactoring and decoupling code through whole projects, finding redundancies, and have a better architecture.

I'll have a look at py-spy. Thanks for that.

[0]: https://pypi.org/project/yappi/

[1]: https://kcachegrind.github.io/html/Home.html
It might look dreary to you from a distance, but for us on the ground, it is working. My bank is already offering to show any other banks’ statements along my accounts.
Paying tuition to the tune of $200k-300k is not a prerequisite to becoming a writer, poet, nor artist.
> Think about how drastically perspectives on figures like Christopher Columbus have changed over just the last generation from bringing more diverse viewpoints into the conversation.

In my view Wikipedia should not be a repository of value judgements or specific values that one should adopt - perspectives on Christopher Columbus is important and should be included but in no manner should those perspectives be made out to be incontrovertible or something other than value judgements and perspectives from specific points of view. I think it is valuable to understand the European perspective and native american perspectives at the time and throughout the following centuries for events.

But I don't think Wikipedia should be telling me I must think what Columbus did was good or bad - Wikipedia should not be trying to teach me morality - and as long as it does not do that I don't see how there is any problem with what topics Wikipedia covers and who writes it.

I think the only problem comes in when you attempt to do something which is impossible - like incorporate something which is fundamentally specific to specific people (morality) into something which purports to be valid for everyone.
Yes, you're right.

The inference you haven't made yet is what the proportions of the users in the "early adopter" and "general user" categories are in countries that are NOT the United States or Europe.

Hint: most of Google's Android users aren't in the US or Europe at all. Instead they're in countries where there are much more pressing social, political, or economic issues for governments to address that easily sideline privacy concerns with minimal lobbying funds.

On the flip side of this, Apple can focus on privacy and security as a brand largely because their customer base consists almost entirely of the affluent and business class of society worldwide. Everyone who would otherwise be exploitable is priced out.
That would not necessarily be poor management though. If a single person is irreplaceable, it is a major risk for any organization.
It's not looking good for self-driving cars if we can't make a self-driving lawyer.
>Music, on the other hand, seems to be limited to the human species

I'm not sure how you're defining music, but I would consider a bird's song to count.
On one hand I don't believe music can be reduced to a mating display, but I'm skeptical that music has a biological root in processing memories/emotional response. Sure, it can stimulate memory/emotional processing, but so do most other social activities. Moreover, I think conversation, games, music, dance, etc. are much more similar to each other in that regard than dreaming is to any of them.

In my experience, dreams are wild extrapolations/interpolations of various waking experiences. When I'm awake, I would call this imagination, but the unconscious mind appears to put the imagination into overdrive in a way that is not possible while awake. It's almost as if the brain is trying to generalize memories, possibly to optimize them for storage space. (or some biological equivalent)

Interestingly, /u/undershirt mentions that it might be that you don't actually experience the dream until you wake up. This would make sense, as this process would be interrupted, leaving you with some bizarre false memories. The unconscious then quickly cleans up it's mess and hands control over to the conscious mind.

On the other hand, I think music is explained fairly satisfactorily as a positive social activity, related to dancing, both of which were ubiquitous and inseparable in ancient cultures. In a world where you have to make friends and be wary of enemies, it's not hard to see how bonding activities that signal friendliness are valuable for natural selection. Even birds sing, humans just have a much more complex songs.
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> It's kind of weird that we shoehorned this whole idea of career preparation for mass populations into an institution that's uniquely unsuited for that specific purpose.

it's because of the GI bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill , which setup a generation of people who got cheap/free college. Then they, obviously being educated, did well, and it flowed out on to the rest of society.

University was originally only for those who have the privilege of paying for it. And if you could afford it, you wouldn't need to worry about jobs or having to pay bills. But the recent college education dogma for jobs has transformed it to a utility, an "investment", and thus loans.

There is a place for loans to college education, but not as high as i see right now.
How little my personal variance in performance actually matters. The only ones that can tell a good day from a bad day by looking at or listening to (I am an orchestra musician) the result is me. The only time it really matters is for big orchestra solos.

I am a much worse programmer than bassoon player, and for programming amount of work put in matters a lot more. I still churn out mostly bad code, but the spectrum is a lot broader.
That money is debt. In a very fundamental, literal and practical sense, debt or credit (i.e. someone owing somebody something valuable) is what money is. The traditional definition of means of unit of measure, means of payment and unit of value describe how money is used, not what it is.

Like, knife is a sharp edged tool used to cut things vs knife actually is steel.

(This also being my main reason objecting cryptocurrencies. Idea of current cryptocurrencies being money is to me very much cargo cultish until there is a proper way to manage credit within the cryptocurrency system.)
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You realize that "the law" don't really have a good track record of making things fair for the average person?
Is It Necessary for Science to Be Moral?
> The E-Tron? iPace? Taycan? All have been more or less dead on arrival from an adoption and sales standpoint.

These are expensive luxury cars. They're never going to see high volume.

Jaguar sells about 76,000 cars a year in total across all of their models. Porsche expects to sell about 20,000 Taycans a year. Both the Audi e-tron and the Jaguar I-Pace outsell the Model X and the Model S in Europe:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/12/europe-november-2019.h...

If you want volume then have a look at Volkswagen ID.3 sales at the end of this year in Europe. It may well end up being the top selling EV in Europe even though it'll only be on sale for half the year at best.
I love Python and you are 100% correct.
How do we go palm oil free?
While I agree that "never" is a strong word, we usually over estimate ours and others importance and irreplaceablity.

Sometimes replacement of a critical engineer might even do good to a company by forcing them to break the silo.
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The graph is from an app that comes with Withings smart scales and it's that I've used. (So take the absolute values with a pinch of salt, but I suspect they're in the right ballpark).
But it seems to me those conspiracies often only affect a small (but vocal) minority of the people.

I recall a similar issue when they started to introduce a prescription database in Austria. There was a lot of fearmongering in the media, doctors spreading pamphlets against dangers of surveillance, etc.

But when I talked to people about it, nobody really cared about it. People might have read some article in the newspaper, but I don't know anybody who actually bothered to opt out of the system.

I think the problem is that journalists like reporting on controversies, so they end up writing a lot about issues that only bother a few people, and if you read the article it looks likes it's a major issue when it's really not.
When I was a kid, I always laughed at the "F*, even in the future nothing works" quote. Now that I am a software engineer, I just get sad.
> Is it worth $330/mo for ten years? Depends on the career, but quite likely!

That depends A LOT on the person though. Some people are really better off learning on their own, and to them that's $330/mo for a piece of paper that says they're cool, while others may actually need that in order to learn effectively.
I do not use the transcoding feature (it murders HDR content) so have never experienced any crashes.

The only UI prompt I recall seeing is some new streaming feature which I haven't looked into but appears to be some kind of partnership with content providers? I was able to get rid of it easily enough to not even remember how I did it and haven't seen it since.

Perhaps the mobile apps (which I assume are updated more regularly?) have had some more prompts? I only ever use the app on my TV.
To be fair, IDLE is pretty garbage in most ways.
you can but that doesnt mean the company can find an equivalent replacement
I’m sure the pigeon would say the same thing about the female peacock's first experience of seeing those fancy feathers for the first time. ;)
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Ask HN: Does new product Innovations generate demand?
The world is churning out countless products be it tech, non-tech some innovative and some pseudo innovative. Most don't survive and some do. In a way products are responsible for serving a need. However, I would ask does it really generate a significant demand, so much so that economy of a nation improves? Or is it going to be bubble that will burst one day or there is going to consolidation and only few will dominate. Thus these consolidation have ability to control demand for their profits and affecting the very function of economy?

What your opinion?
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People ready to pay stupid money for trivial things as long as the message is right.
A lot of people don't know how to use Google.
Finance companies staffed with tons of mediocre and incompetent people.
People do need to be protected from themselves occasionally.
Made me chuckle.thanks.
Surprised PyPy was not mentioned.
Just tried again as I don't wanna be accused of making things up: https://ibb.co/KGMhFXF
So, I guess, I'm not imagining things as I just tried again: https://ibb.co/KGMhFXF
Great idea!
This might be a fantastic pedagogic tool.

Some minor details that annoyed me (I'm only listing them here for improvement purposes):

- You can't "Expand" the whole program, only one statement at a time. However, having the fully expanded view is IMHO key to correct concurrent reasoning.

- Each mission's objective is hidden inside a big explanation text. I already know what mutexes/deadlocks/atomics/monitors/etc. are, I just want to play, thus I only need to know what will be considered as victory (as you can't unambiguously deduce it from the code: sometimes you must reach an Assert(false), sometimes you must deadlock the program, etc.).

- The confirmation dialog for 'reset level' is annoying (especially considering the 1s visual fade delay).

I'm only expressing those minor quibbles of mine for improvement purposes ; this game is fun and pedagogic and its author cleary did a great job here. Thanks to her/him!
Is child rearing and changing gender norms a factor here?
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People with strong opinions usually don't know enough in their field. (Mount stupid)

There's no one perfect tool/solution. It's always tradeoffs.

People are obsessed promoting their favourite tool/framework etc.. Eventually you realize it's more about the patterns behind them, not the individual solution.
In Germany, you can receive partial disability benefits ("Erwerbsminderungsrente"); that is, you might be evaluated as being capable of 3-6 hours of work per day, and thus receive only a portion of what would have been your full disability payment. Also, it's accepted (even hoped) that you might become fully fit again.

https://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/DRV/EN/Leistungen... (under "Invalidity pension")

More details in German: https://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/DRV/DE/Rente/Allg...
It doesn't - I tried again just to see if I was imagining things: https://ibb.co/KGMhFXF
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