skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All economies are made of people

Economies are made of economic actors, which includes ALL people as well as other entities like public institutions, companies, charities...

> some of whom do not make resource allocation decisions (because they are unable to or prohibited)

Every single person in the world is an economic actor. Every single person in the world has the ability to make resource allocation decisions, even if they are only using the labor of their own mind. The incarcerated are economic actors, even literal slaves would still be economic actors.

> most forms of socialism (theoretically, anyway) are democratic, in which allocation decision making is given to the people

A theoretical “democratic socialist” country (theoretical because people have voted socialism in, but never in history have they been allowed the privilege of voting it out) would be a country where the people surrender their natural rights to make their own resource allocation decisions (or at least a significant portion of those rights) to the government.

> The "ultimate free market" very clearly has a "system"

It doesn’t at all. It’s just the way humans (and really all animals) behave in absence of governance that prevents them from doing so. Ancient people most certainly had private property, even if it was shared within the tribe or family or whatever other format of social organisation. It would also pay for you to remember that Marx thought familiar or tribal affiliation was a source of evil, as families tend to care for each other, which he considered to be terribly unfair to anybody who didn’t have a family to care for them.

I would very highly recommend that you at least learn some basic economic concepts (what an economy actually is would be a good starting point) before you go around promoting the abolition of private property.
or, you know.. be the change you want to see.

I'm also cynical enough to think that taking all the "moral people" out of one workplace / school / whatever and forming a "moral maze / company" will still not be a utopia...

People are what they are...
Not sure what you mean by subtract. If you mean save away to pay yourself because as a contractor you don’t get paid time off – sure, you have to plan and be fiscally responsible.

My personal experience being a contractor vs. employee though is that contracting is Significantly more lucrative. Not orders of magnitude more lucrative, but at least ~2x in gross terms. What really sets it apart for me though is the freedom to choose how to make the best use of that revenue. That freedom to me is priceless, and can absolutely increase that multiplier quite significantly by way of investments, expense allocation, pension schemes etc. It’s more responsibility and more admin than simply being an employee and collecting a salary and benefits, and it’s certainly not for everyone, and you will definitely need a good accountant, but in my experience being a contractor is worth every second of extra time and effort.
> What are they embracing so they can extinguish in this instance?

Firefox, linux, open source. It's really funny how a lot of open source projects are hosted in github.
That's not a fair comparison. You don't have to wrap every use of your method in a closure any more than you have to call the constructor of your callable class on every use.

You have to bind your state to a function exactly once in both cases.

Your example just happens to omit the constructor call required to create the callable object while you are showing the code to create the closure.
The 16 Pro has a much less butterflyish keyboard.

But, then, the newer T490's can have up to 64 gigs of RAM, SATA and an M2 ssd
I don’t think that barefoot is unreasonable, actually - I have run either barefoot or in very thin-soled toe-shoes for over a decade now. It’s substantially changed how I run (almost exclusively on my toes and the balls of my feet when fast, a sort of shuffling, sliding lope when slow), and I haven’t had knee or hip problems (thanks, rowing) since.

There’s also something really neat about feeling the ground under your feet, the textures, the temperatures, the refreshing moisture of grass, and being able to actually use your feet for traction. Your toes exist for a reason.

If we’re talking about pure athleticism, and taking a technological advantage out of the equation, then I really don’t see why this couldn’t be the way forwards.
In most, not so quickly - plus you can't slip the clutch across the transition across gears.
Consider the purpose of one of your essays. Pretend you are a member of the target audience. Read it.

Your experience of your essay will tell you a lot, and is all the guidance you need to become the best according to your judgment/taste.

Though it will not enable you to improve beyond... For that, you need to read expert writing, and perhaps an expert-coach of some kind.
IANAL, but you seem to be trying to apply law as a scientist. Has anyone complained (so massively that it has become noticed) that their tablets or laptops run slower after some time?

(BTW, laptops would report bad-battery condition usually, this is how you know you need a replacement, which is an easy operation with them.)
NPR's This American Life and Planet Money had an episode on this phenomenon as well. I think it was:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/... (2011)

follow up: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/496/when-patents-attack-par... (2013)
It rules out all modern shoes. And you’d have to make new ones out of concrete or thick metals.
Though wooden clogs would likely be ok, though I doubt you’d want to run in those.
I think you’re totally confusing yourself
> But the interface itself always asks for the least possible things. Diesel/gasoline 95/gasoline 98 then the card PIN, and you can fill up.

In Finland, they don't even ask what you're going to pump. You just grab the right nozzle and go.
You are probably thinking of hazmat suits and it's not the most common type.

Medical staff in Wuhan wear disposable protective overalls that are made of a thin layer of polypropylene (as intended so it would be light and cheap) and easily torn. Thus it's necessary to avoid taking them on and off between shifts because the act will probably rip it beyond repair. Some also took the additional step of strapping plastic bags to their feet and forearm to protect against rupture. None of this would have been necessary if they had enough to go around.
I don't feel like reverse-rating systems are actually a good idea without some checks and balances. You have no way to know how a driver decides whether or not to give a passenger a bad rating. We know from history (both pre-and-post-Uber) that sometimes drivers have an agenda in how they treat their passengers, either due to race, gender, or other factors, just like how sometimes a horrible passenger will mistreat a driver.

With driver ratings, I can see my driver's rating and they can see it too. The rating system in Lyft (not sure about Uber) also has buttons you can use to explain why you gave a bad rating or indicate what you liked about a driver, which presumably provides anonymous feedback to the driver on how they could improve their scores.

In comparison, a passenger with bad driver ratings gets no feedback or incentive to improve, and it's hard to know whether they could improve at all. If they have a bad rating from drivers they may never know and will just have a bad experience with the app, potentially forever. If you pick up a fare who already has a rating of 1.5/5, are you more likely to negatively interpret their behavior and give them a low score? Psychology is a factor here.

An anecdote: On my third ever ride with Uber, the driver told me I had a very, very low passenger score. That means one of my first drivers gave me a low rating, probably a 1 or 2. Why? I have no idea. He didn't know either. Maybe the driver was having a bad day or thought I was rude, or the driver had trouble finding my pick-up location. In the end the only outcome was that it took me longer to get a driver to pick me up afterward because drivers saw my low score. (I use Lyft now instead and have no problems)
I'm not thinking on the specialized GPU parts for shading and mapping, but pure floating point hardware. With 3D you are doing lots and lots of floating point ops that should map easily to what GPUs do best.

OTOH, GPUs are still harder to program than CPUs and I can only imagine what the SFX crew would hear when they have to explain the movie can't be released in summer because the GPUs are too hard to write software for.
This was written in the article:

> Some cats don’t like lasers. They find it far too upsetting when they can’t catch what it is they’re chasing. If your cat starts to pant while chasing lasers, don’t assume it’s just exhausted. Panting can be a sign of stress in cats, and stressed is something your cat shouldn’t be. Exercise caution when playing with your cat and laser toys, and consult a vet if you’re unsure whether their behaviour is normal.
Meanwhile in EU the interchange fee is 0.3% on credit and 0.2% on debit cards: https://www.visa.co.uk/dam/VCOM/regional/ve/unitedkingdom/PD...
It's actually not a categoric no. There are usecases where rr does work fine, albeit a patch is needed to make it recognized (source: I've used it successfully on multiple occasions). It doesn't work for big workloads like Firefox yet, though.
Indeed, most of Europe has a form of the "English rule", it results in relatively low cost lawsuit insurance (for lack of a better translation) and not nearly as much frivolous lawsuits.

Basically if you get sued your insurance company will send their in-house lawyers, and in the end send a large bill to whoever filed the frivolous lawsuit. Very bad economical model to go and sue large groups of you're not going to win, because the defendant's legal costs will quickly bankrupt you.
Most diff programs don't have what you describe. And in a lot of cases you don't have the easy ability to "do stuff" before running the input through a diffing algorithm.
That's not true. I've observed a kernel build not hitting all the cores at 100% with everything in a tmpfs on a 3970x. I didn't investigate why.
Fukushima was just one of the many "not properly built" power plants. The problem with nuclear is that you can't just say "this plant is clearly a safety hazard, lets upgrade to the newest design" like you can do with software. Security problems will stay until you shut the plant down and build a new one. That means the only way to make nuclear viable is by making smaller modular reactors where replacing a single one doesn't cause the economics to no longer make sense.

There is also the need to maintain infrastructure. When you build a fleet of 20 nuclear plants you need an additional factory or two but once the fleet is complete those factories will no longer have any customers. 40 years later the nuclear plants need to be replaced but there is no factory that can build replacements. You end up paying a lot more if you build designs in batches than if you build 20 small reactors every year for 40 years and gradually replace the unsafest part of the fleet.

Yeah all the nuclear proponents don't even think about small reactors, they just want to shill their snowflake giant Gen IV reactors that are expensive to build and decommission.
Why are ASGs 'outdated' in a world with Kubernetes?

Our nodes are in ASGs.
The ownership of utilities and the cost of their infrastructure investments has nothing to do with the 'freeness' of electricity markets.

The performance of utilities is more a function of regulatory power and willingness to regulate rather than utility ownership.
Emulator development is not my cup of tea and I only once tried Dolphin, but the progress reports are always a fantastic read. The Dolphin code base [1] is also fun to read.

Thanks for all the enjoyable reads!

[1] https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
See also: magic-wormhole [1] (written in Python)

[1] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
This is already the case in Switzerland
I wrote and use this regularly, docker app that adds and removes instances from route53, similar to their terraform solution. Similar idea, different implementation.

https://github.com/discobean/route53-sidecar
Tell me again about “proper channels.”
Just over 2300 have been discharged based on a 10-day absence of viral RNA in throat swabs.

There has been some discussion about changing the guidelines to discharge patients after 3 days without viral titre but I'm not sure if this has been adopted. Any comment about recovery time would have to be made after the dust settles.
When looking for QGis i write:

Q -> nothing

Qg/Qg -> Qgis

QGi -> nothing

Qgis -> websearch
You forgot to say if you made the tour on time! What a cliff hanger! Thankfully I saw the answer in another comment, glad you made it. :o)

I went on a road trip last summer, and as a foreigner was thoroughly confused when driving across Alabama to Georgia, and the time changed. Then I got even more confused as I was driving in Tennessee and Kentucky, and the time just kept changing.

I think I understand time zones in theory, but in practice I always mess up and get it wrong, and confusion and hilarity often ensues. :o)
In the first one: So long as they are available to the general public (easily!) and meet the other guidelines: Sure. They are still obviously shoes.
Runners would choose which tech they want to go with and since there are price restraints and rules about them being available to everyone for months, I don't see an issue. The sport is going to look the same to everyone else. It isn't going to change anything: It isn't like professional runners are going to be using cheap, bottom-of-the-line running shoes any more than a swimmer is going to wear baggy swimming shorts. I don't mind customizing shoes based on activity and weight and so on.

In your second example, he isn't testing shoes. His shoes are still on his feet as he uses the things. Obviously those wouldn't be left in running because you aren't really running. I'd understand much more if we were talking about amputees, and then it would really depend on how it compares to two-legged folks doing things (I don't know the advantage/disadvantage compares here).
At some point when you build LLVM.with the default options, you hit a moment where most of what's left to do is linking a number of executables, all statically linking libllvm.a. They are all relatively slow to link, and there aren't enough of them to fill 32 or 64 cores. And they require a lot of RAM, so if you don't have enough RAM, you might end up swapping too.
Volume of a Sphere
What about species which use mosquitos as food? History shows that killing off entire species is a very questionable thing to do, no matter how good the cause.

I think a much better idea would be developing medicine and vaccines for diseases spread by mosquitos.
You call that a failing, and others call that a feature. I love the fact that I haven't had to think about ridiculous nit-pick level data-structure trade offs. In python you have a very basic set of data structures, and short of doing something ridiculously novel or exotic, that's all you need. It's part of the beauty of the language.
Moneymaker+ has finally released on fiverr
Seriously? You are claiming a 100% improvement from a recompile when the difference between gcc -O0 and -O2 isn't that, and wondering why people are asking to see the benchmarks?
> Having a patent system gives people the wrong impression that there's some special nugget of knowledge that is crucial to creating value

This depends on the business. I know some people who work in an area (developing calibration systems for low-cost sensors), where an entire company's competitive advantage can be written down in one or two equations which took years of work to develop. That said, they don't patent these things, they keep them as trade secrets.
Presumably the approval was the accident. (Or not renewing yet, so perhaps no approval necessary.)

Also, 'transfer locks' are a good idea, but not supported by all TLDs.
You can add tags to files instead of putting them in folders, I believe
Because that's literally what buying shares is?[0]: Giving money to the corporation so they can finance future endeavours. Yes, you may not buy shares from them directly but from some other gambler. Still, to be able to sell you shares they need to have given it to Chevron first.

[0] Please correct me if I'm unknowingly bullshitting here!
Mandatory wearing of face masks in China interferes with facial recognition
The DF Tootbot Is Once Again Fully Operational
>Economies are made of economic actors, which includes ALL people as well as other entities like public institutions, companies, charities...

But if we're applying hyper-reductionism, as in the case when the economists talk about individual actions and choices, all of those things can be further divided into individual actors. Why stop at the level of "economic actors"? Is there any basis for considering society as "economic actors" rather than individuals? But let's say that we can talk in terms of "economic actors" - how is it any less valid to talk about "class"? After all, the company and the property-owning class are both composed of individuals.

>Every single person in the world has the ability to make resource allocation decisions

Many disabled people (mentally, or maybe even otherwise) do not, and many prisoners are forced to operate in more or less a closed system. If "economic actor" really just means "person", why not say that?

>but never in history have they been allowed the privilege of voting it out

The irony here of course is that socialism is not merely a change in leader, but a qualitative change in the structure of society and the economy. It makes no sense to say that socialism is voted in (or out), since if it is voted out, it follows that there is a system of class and property structure in place. The mistake is to think that socilaism is a set of laws or policies, but nobody informed on socialsim would say that.

>where the people surrender their natural rights to make their own resource allocation decisions to the government.

I am skeptical of the "natural rights" hypothesis, and surrendering to the government (or some other authority) has taken place in every society, from property rights to taxes, even to speech (note the many restrictions on speech in the US, for instance). Why, if I have the natural right to withdraw my labour, do companies and governments engage in union busting, for example? And whose resources are allocated? The prisoner, for instance, has involuntarily surrendered some portion of their resource allocation rights, but not all of them. Laws against hiring a hitman or bribery mean that I have surrendered some of my resource allocation rights. And what use is a right when one cannot take advantage of it? Many people employed today do have resource allocation rights, but they cannot take full advantage of that: they could starve. When I am employed, I do not have full allocation rights of my labour product (instead, they are appropriated at the end of the production cycle to be sold).

I haven't received your plan to monetize HN comments, or your resource allocation timetable for today. You're beginning to make me think you haven't calculated the opportunity costs of posting on HN without pay.
> - being focused on winning instead of getting better. Many players play to get a short term kick out of winning the game instead of playing to get some kind of knowledge/skill that will help them get better.

In difficult projects, it's necessary to improve prerequisite skills before "winning" (completing the project).

But with sufficient layers of prerequisites, the goal becomes distant, the motivation decoupled, until it falls below a threshold.

In addition, for a non-expert, it's difficult to be sure that a prerequisite is really needed, or will be enough, or what the true ROI really is. We don't need precise certainty, but we do need to know well enough.

Do you have any suggestions for getting around this?
Awesome video. One of the better uses of Youtube, and what we should be striving for in terms of "online content".
The scheme to bury Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey, against his wishes
Lasersaur – open-source laser cutter
I believe you mean "expensive", not "expansive".
Not worth it if the risks include death of all species which depend from mosquitos as food. Then those people will eventually die from hunger.
Ask HN: Is Gmail events to Google calendar broken for anyone else?
It seems to me that something changed or is broken regarding the automatic adding of events being sent to gmail to google calendar. For example flight itineraries, events, meetings et cetera. This used to work fine but something changed. Anyone else experiencing this issue? There is not a lot to be found except a few support tickets which deny there is a problem:

- https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/20139154?hl=en

- https://support.google.com/mail/thread/5481486?hl=en
Central planning was a system with twisted incentives for some and no incentives at all for others. Even if the plan was right coming from the top, it went through layers of disinterested management. The feedback loop was broken as well since it could actually be dangerous to report the results of plan implementation in your area.
The Evolution of Urban Planning in 10 Diagrams (2012)
I don't know if you're not a native English speaker, but 'please do X' is not a polite way to ask someone to do something in English. I know it looks like it is if you look up 'please' in the dictionary, but it really doesn't sound like it in practice to native ears. You made a blunt demand, not a polite request.

Also since your username is 'BossingAround' and you were literally bossing someone around in your comment they may think you're a troll account.
Ask him to hotspot for you...
It always made me wonder why there are so many posts about this, that, or the other site being down at any given moment. Sure people on HN might subscribe to sites like Plex, but by default, those who do will notice themselves when it is down if and when they try to go there. I doubt people come to HN first to check site status in order to avoid going to other sites that may or may not be down. It's one step away from posting that your postal mail or garbage pickup was late today, or you just stepped on a piece of gum running to catch the subway - personal and in-the-moment.

Personally, I see it as the second laziest post one can make on HN. The laziest of course, are the randomish links to Wikipedia. Someone out there is probably already thinking links like https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hacker%20news would be the next greatest thing on HN, and yet even that is only slightly lazier.
That sounds ideal, but it fails for a few reasons:

1. When upper middle class people go off grid, it drives up electricity prices for poor people (fewer people paying for the infrasturcture), making them poorer. Adelaide, Australia is a good anecdote for this.

2. People are addicted to near 100% reliable electricity supply. It is far cheaper to achieve this on a regional scale than on a household scale millions of times.

3. The power grid still needs to service all industry and commercial end-users.

4. Individual self-sufficiency is not necessary if we are already sufficient on a regional scale. It only makes sense to do so if your grid electricity is too expensive or unreliable. Self-sufficiency in and of itself is selfish (I got mine!)
Show HN: I made a site to help you track Coronavirus outbreak and travel safe
It goes far beyond weightings, things will be completely missing with no reason.
It already is in California as well