skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capitalism is primarily about private property ownership to incentivize enterprise. It is more class-based when more private-property starts off in the hands of people by birth. It is more meritocratic the more that property migrates into the hands of people that work to benefit society more.

Examples of class-based systems. India's caste-system that disadvantages lower-castes. Pre-civil war America's racially implemented Constitution that disadvantaged non-whites (and women?). Fundamentalist Sharia Law systems that disadvantage non-muslims and women. You can tell you live in a more class-based capital system when the top slots are occupied more by birthright vs other systems.

BTW I think it's clearer to narrow talk to specific policies that make a system more class-based vs more meritocratic, and to remember to define them in terms of which particular groups of people they target. Because then we can see that meritocratic capitalism, boosted by the major revolutions we celebrate around the world, slowly gets eroded by things like redlining in the States, or low inheritance taxes etc.
> why people would say mathematical functions are bad.

People don't think 'encryption' is a mathematical function. They think it's like a radar detector in your car. "Why would you have it unless you intend on speeding?" [goes their thought process]

"Oh I use this frequently and things I do every day would be totally broken without it? Really?!" [is the realization we hope dialogue could bring]
Agreed. I love their stance on DRM and the fact that they put money behind their words.

I go out of my way to support them instead of Steam especially if both games are on the same platform (Atom, Divinity ).

I am sure there will be some abusers. I just hope their numbers are not high enough to merit policy change.
(React) Hooks and Streams
We've literally seen larger companies be more incompetent.

There's no reason PayPal is excluded from this.
In a bunch of the recent IOTA threads I've seen people shilling Nano. I'm slowly beginning to understand HN's allergy to cryptocurrencies.
Yes. It's part of the official rules (and the absence of it would be fairly disastrous to the game dynamics I think).
Even a regular surgical mask that doesn't have the effectiveness of the N95 can stop water droplets (as you said) and hence, it can stop viruses.

The key insight, though, is that water droplets carry viruses; viruses can travel through masks, but they can't travel by themselves without hitching a ride on a water droplet.

This is why flu season is during the cold winter, when there isn't enough heat to instantly evaporate the moisture in the air. And this is why even a regular surgical mask can offer some protection for a healthy wearer.
System that limits e-bike speeds will be tested on Dutch roads
>Read about the project and knew it was scam then

I felt this way for quite a few projects and I'll be honest I felt too smart by half by passing, I don't regret my risk adverse nature though.

Some of the most lucrative offers were obvious bullshit, but it didn't matter at all. Crowds were so frenetic about where the next "big project" was they didn't and couldn't comprehend that they were being fleeced.

It wasn't until a buddy of mine talked about his nephew "wanting to invest in X coin because the price was low".

Lot's of hype = lot's of dumb money ∴ Profits can be made on where dumb money flows.
Ask HN: What got you interested in programming/building/hacking?
Er, I have nearly no information to go on, but he wasn't shot.

From the looks of it, a guy turned up to the border with an illegal substance in a drinking bottle; proceeded to drink it, and the officer gestured and the person took another few sips. Before succumbing to an overdose because it was a highly concentrated narcotic.

I don't think this is a defence or support of anything, I don't have more facts like: what was said, where did the drugs come from, was coercion involved, etc;

It just looks sad, certainly not an indictment of border officials.
The war to keep programming operators at all consistent with mathematics was lost long ago, with `=` and `==` being the worst offenders.
Ask HN: Should nations have two kinds of currency?
One is for essentials and social services(schools, health, infrastructure etc)..the money for the ‘commons’, as it were..

And the other is ‘spending money’ currency for conspicuous consumption. Anything other than essential needs.

I feel like money should be the next disruption. I don’t see any other way to crack poverty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

> The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error message in the latter case. This XOR-encrypted, self-modifying, and deliberately obfuscated machine code used a variety of undocumented DOS structures and functions to perform its work, and appeared in the installer, WIN.COM, and several other executables in the OS.[1]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_i...

> Microsoft had several methods of detecting and sabotaging the use of DR-DOS with Windows, one incorporated into "Bambi", the code name that Microsoft used for its disk cache utility (SMARTDRV) that detected DR-DOS and refused to load it for Windows 3.1. The AARD code trickery is well-known, but Caldera is now pursuing four other deliberate incompatibilities. One of them was a version check in XMS in the Windows 3.1 setup program which produced the message: "The XMS driver you have installed is not compatible with Windows. You must remove it before setup can successfully install Windows."
Uncertainty in a Time of Coronavirus
Sounds a bit like El Morro National Monument. https://www.nps.gov/elmo/index.htm
Kickstarter's Union, Activism, and Tech Class Conflict
Questions to the public should be phrased: “Do you want Chinese style surveillance to be advanced in the United States?”
It’s called free will.

You can logout of Facebook

You can not use Google and use an ad ad blocker.

You can buy online from some place besides Amazon

You can not buy a mobile phone running an operating system written by an ad company.

What you can’t easily do is change your government.
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But GOG doesn't do as good as steam does with region specific prices, and ensure that gamers from poorer countries pay less for games than from richer countries.
Then again, given speeding is so widely accepted, radar detectors are legal to use in 49 out of 50 states. It would be nice if encryption was viewed the same way.
Approving carcinogens for residential use.
But a .2% mortality rate from COVID-19 means that if you're in your 20s and catch it, your odds of dying this year will have more than doubled! You think that's not worth worrying about? On a global scale that is millions of potential deaths beyond the prior statistical expectation.
Clearly you’re failing to teach your children binary :P
The rewrite of Firefox on Android is just not there yet. Yesterday it updated and now it crashes frequently at random intervals, when you open a new page it scrolls down to the center automatically, you can't copy the text of links, the text editing cursor can suddenly jump around when typing after moving it, the highlight search action is hidden behind a context menu because Wikipedia is given priority, you can't copy links that don't use the http/s protocol, you can't use sites like MEGA because it doesn't support the downloading APIs necessary, and there are many other features I wish were there but aren't like full WebExtension support.

On desktop it isn't compatible with physical smartcards, so it is impossible to do my job using Firefox or a browser with an engine besides Blink.

I was wanting to contribute code but haven't found time for it yet.

However, what I can stand even less is a Blink monoculture and the web's standards being controlled by a single entity.

The real reason I switched to Firefox was because Google intends to make API deprecations to WebExtensions to make uBlock Origin incompatible, probably in order to retain more revenue in their ad business. At that point I would be forced to switch in the future anyway, so I decided to get used to Firefox's warts early on.

The exposes about Chrome automatically signing you in in the browser if you sign in with YouTube happened afterward, and I only felt more justified in switching. As a side note, I can no longer find the "identity consistency between browser and cookie jar" toggle that allows disabling this anymore.

My usage of Firefox is for political, not technical, reasons.
I have a better house rule. Properties don't have prices and when anyone lands on an unowned property it goes up for auction. Reflects more of a realistic property market and makes the game far more strategic. We also find the property prices in monopoly are too low by at least 2x.
> I'm having trouble understanding why people would say mathematical functions are bad.

That's such a naïve way of putting it. People don't care about the mathematics behind it. They think it's "bad" because they think it enables terrorism and the spread of child sexual abuse imagery or whatever politicians have led them to believe.
Databases are a very bad communications medium. So if that's the major way devs and and product people are conversing about issues, it's no wonder the devs lack sufficient understanding of business context to understand what the real priorities are.

I do get that people have all sorts of adaptations to dysfunctional working conditions. So if a severity field is one of them, fine. But I don't want people to mistake that for healthy collaboration.
Found this in Carlo to issue 90 [2]:

>If one chooses a chromium channel in the launch options, then carlo calls puppeteer createBrowserFetcher which will download the chromium revision compatible with Puppeteer or even a specific revision. sunglasses

In regular ElectronJS you have the same Chromium bundled with the app. Not sure if puppeteer installs a local or system wide Chromium.

2: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo/issues/90
CouchDB 3.0
Yes, "oversleeping" is definitely possible. I found it to be well correlated in my N=1 to fighting off a cold or other infection.

Typically increases my 6-7h of sleep to some 10h. Unfortunately I do not have the hardware to track sleep quality.

Not sure if restriction would help or harm recovery.
Like explainshell.com, but as an editor extension?
You could however the problem is that the comment will invariably will be left after thing have changed and will just cause confusion.

Generally what the code is doing should be fairly obvious and should not need comments. Comments should be reserved where things aren't obvious.

I don't think it is a good idea to create code where it isnt obvious what it does. CSS is relatively simple tbh things really shouldn't be complicated.
Wow, I guess that was a revelation and something worth appreciating: the idea that if we just take a little bit of everyone's wealth and share it with the Commonwealth, then there can be a lot more wealth for all.
Storytelling, Humility, and Keeping It Weird: How Conferences Select Speakers
Any individual session of poker is mostly luck. I say this as a winning poker player. The edges are very small and the variance is quite high. There is a reason it's so rare for the best players to make deep runs in the WSOP Main Event.
Are there any concrete proposals on the table that can be looked at?

This feels to me like one of the typical debates where people are shooting at each other but nobody understands what they really are talking about.
That is even worse. Much worse.
I used to be the same way, but I went on a Zero Carb diet a few years ago because of some food allergy problems and I immediately needed about an hour less sleep.

Also I have an ADHD medication that I take first thing in the morning, and it wakes you up about 100x better than coffee, sort of short circuiting your biology and making you a morning person.
Expertise Is 'Just' Pattern Matching
> Completely agree. It's frustrating, because with words like "capitalism" and "socialism", why use words at all? Nobody means the same thing

And there's the reason why, in my original post at the beginning of this sub-thread, I used neither of those terms, in order to communicate more precisely.

Centrally planned economies are inferior to freer economies, whether the top-down controls are imposed by democracy or autocracy; both create economic inefficiencies. History has borne that out repeatedly.

But of course, that statement disregards non-economic externalities like environmental impacts, and one may want a central power to map non-economic externalities onto economic costs through e.g. taxes and fines for polluting because the economic inefficiencies incurred are worth the tradeoff (like having clean water/air). Then the market can price those non-economic externalities accordingly, once the market is appropriately regulated.
You're confusing your hypothetical personal success with the state of the system as a whole.

Most businesses will fail, and most businesses are built on loans of some kind rather than bootstrapped.

Rent-seekers will try to profit from this because they will claw back their "investment" in the form of collateral - preferably physical, but IP as a last resort.

If businesses succeed, rent-seekers will profit from their "investment" with an aggressive term sheet that gives their return priority over returns for the people who did the work.

At the same time, rent-seekers will be investing in property. If there's a run of successful businesses in an area they will gain by increasing rents and speculating on property prices.

This is basically just asset inflation - very good for rent-seekers, very bad for people who need access to limited resources like housing and health care.

This isn't even getting into the costs of externalities.

The picture as a whole is a lot more complicated than "My business succeeded and now I'm making money, so there's no zero sum here."
Unwritten pages in files that are extended don't actually take up space or appear as blocks; a good backup program should respect that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file
http://preview.themeforest.net/item/justdo-responsive-bootst...

http://www.urbanui.com/majestic/template/index.html

http://www.templatewatch.com/kapella-free/template/pages/for...
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. We're actually redoing the UI/UX so that the Hyperdocs are easier to navigate, so we'll be posting a guide with the new interface soon! Thanks for the feedback!
Have you used Bulma? Wondering how it compares to it.
It's tiring to learn yet another CSS library.
100's of millions is not necessarily an existential crisis because it already happened in the 1900's due to war, disease, and famine. Even if that absolute scale of deaths happens again because of climate change, it will be proportionally smaller due to the global population being an order of magnitude larger.

Do you have a reference to that prediction of it probably killing 100's of millions of people? On it's own, it doesn't really mean much because what time scale and what's the no-climate-change number to compare to?
They also have this problem where a "Spotify Helper" can crash constantly, and you won't notice it unless you look at the process tree.

On macOS, this will start a ReportCrash process, and end up taking up an entire CPU core just repeatedly crashing, reporting a crash, restarting, etc. It also significantly impacts battery life.

This happens every day for me. It's arguably worse than the SSD-killing SQLite vacuum problem they had.
I know some people look at me like I have three heads every time I say this. But if a project is dropping so many balls that it's hard to keep track of them all, I think the real solution is to work smaller and close feedback loops faster, so the sheer number of bugs is not overwhelming.
Hmmm. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood took Plato's settings for Socrates's dialogs -- under trees around classic Athens -- and made them work worldwide. StackOverflow.com

And, their attempt at the Euclidean approach -- their Documentation project -- didn't work out.
Watching Wargames and Tron as a child.
Thanks! Especially for open source projects, I find it difficult to submit a meaningful contribution quickly since I don't really understand the codebase.
This assumes that wealth does not consist of new or alternative resources.
Unfortunately the effects of which would be different from just cooling the climate in an unpredictable and likely extremely bad ways, so it's not an option.
What’s the Point of Writing Every Possible Melody?
Catan can get pretty uninteresting due to dice variance. I've had games where two players made lots of resources on 9 and two players made lots of resources on 5. Five got rolled 14 times and 9 got rolled 3 times. Even with good spots if the dice are against you it can easily become a lot of do nothing while other people play the game.

A lot of people also play with the houserule no trading because there is too much kingmaking in trading. It's too easy to place aggressively for ore if you know you can trade for whatever you're missing of the settlement. If you have to 4:1 it's a bit more of a tradeoff.
Very true. Nobody cares for the individual citizen. It’s just a power struggle by large players on the backs of the little guy.
The Complex Structure of the Roman Army
Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of ‘Konami Code,’ has died
I mean, don't you automatically have one even if you don't define one? At least on AWS? In that sense, explicit configuration rather than relying on AWS defaults that can change underneath you has value.
I just accepted a nearly-100% remote position at a software startup. I'm interested in any details others can share about what works and doesn't work in daily life.
I'm not making an argument against helmets, partly because I don't know if that effect is large enough to overcome the additional safety of the helmet. I'm just trying to illustrate that sometimes there are non-obvious offsetting effects.
Cryptographers and liberals.
> You can do a lot more damage as a trusted friend than you can as a known enemy.

Reminds me of the Young Pope's first episode.

"Friendly relationships are dangerous. They lend themselves to ambiguities, misunderstandings, and conflicts, and they always end badly. Formal relationships, on the other hand, are as clear as spring water."
Yeah, as someone who recently began spending more time in California, those signs are inadequate and completely ignored by everyone. It should be specific, which carcinogen in which part of the product is used, and why.
> I'm having trouble understanding why people would say mathematical functions are bad.

Encryption is more than just mathematical functions, it's the application of mathematical functions.

And the application is what matters, because it would be easy to say a Nuclear weapon is just physics or that a bio-weapon is just chemistry.

Clearly, how you use basic principles matters.
"Humans and other mammals have two seahorses, one on each side of the brain."

Today I learned that "hippocampus" comes from the Greek for "seahorse", because it looks like a seahorse: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ec8c1ae4b047...
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Of course I don’t know that since I don’t have the time or ability to inspect what the apps are doing. :-) The best I can do is give comparisons to the old non-Electron versions of Spotify and Skype, which had all the same core features as the Electron versions and used less memory for the whole app than you’re saying a base Electron window costs.

It is difficult for me to lay blame at the feet of application developers (assuming they didn’t make the choice to use Electron) when the platform itself is so bad at giving developers ways to manage their apps’ memory usage.

If you want to listen for an event on a global object like `window`, the platform could give a way to do this using a weak reference, but it doesn’t, so you have to make sure to always remember to manually remove the listener yourself or else you’ve just leaked a bunch of stuff.

If you want to load an image, or some other media, the platform could give a way to control the runtime’s internal caches so you aren’t retaining data in memory that you don’t need—but it doesn’t, so you have to hope that the generic runtime memory cache from Chromium is intelligent enough not to retain unimportant things (and, in my experience, it’s not).

This problem has existed in one form or another in every Electron app I’ve ever used. Some are certainly worse than others, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one come within even an order of magnitude of the memory usage of similar apps written natively.
So terrorists will use one-time pads and other strong encryption and everyone else will have their information exposed on a massive scale when the backdoors inevitably are exploited.
I suspect there will be always be use cases for fossil fuels; for instance, even when 99% of all cars are electric, I wouldn't want to deny auto enthusiasts muscle cars and the like, if they're willing to pay for the societal externality. The carbon tax can continue to go up to cover these cases.

Moreover, I think the same model can apply to other negative externalities (aka, Pigovian Tax [0]). But to the extent that the public will someday complain that their carbon dividend is going down: (a) I call that a good problem to have, and (b) because the collective action problem now points the other direction, there's no individual incentive to over-consume such that the dividend goes up again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
looks like he was concealing his tracks pretty well. Other than spending extravagantly, I wonder where he screwed up?
No, it's not dependent on chance. It's not some random spin on a roulette wheel. It depends on if you are offering a service that is valued by the marketplace.

There may be only so much time in a day, but the critical factor in wealth creation is how much you can get done in a day (productivity). You can also figure out clever ways to get more out of what you have (efficiency).
I'm sorry but that sounds wildly idealistic. "If everyone acted in a certain way, the world would be perfect and we'd have peace forever."

People drive SUVs, eat burgers, and travel on jet planes because it's fun and cheap. Make those things less cheap, say by introducing carbon taxes, and people will do less of them. It's really really hard to get people to change their lifestyles absent any immediate, external pressure.

It's awesome that you're doing all those things. I do many of them too (biking to work, shopping 2nd hand for many things, stubbornly repairing electronics etc) but not because I think it has any substantial impact. I do because it's the right thing to do and because it presents a positive example. It can show others that a rich, fulfilling life is possible without the frills of consumerism.
I don't like the way they designed the inputs. Pure placeholder hint, no label. Will create a big accesibility and usability problem.
Key feature of animals is now “all animals but one”
>> my intentional actions (successful business)

Yeah of course because you have full control of what happens to your business.

Your competitors, big corporate monopolies, regulators, investors, fickle cultural trends, politics, timing, your wealthy friends or family members and your own health have no impact at all on your business' chance of success.