skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why force the model? No idea is original. You would have to pay all the way down which would never expire.

You get paid for creating value that people can derive from your products.. Nothing more.
Absolutely yes, right now I'm running an old Dell Latitude which I bought from shops selling old corporate laptops. It's powerful and was under warranty before the purchase. It's no brainer buying second hand electronic items if you have the know how and know where to look. The new and fancy electronic items are often several magnitudes expensive and worst of all lose their value quickly.
For phones I prefer buying month old phones from people who bought them but didn't like them for some reason. Again huge savings.
I feel like I might get downvoted for this, but a large part of it comes from a sense of guilt about clearly being the most successful and powerful country in the world. When nearly everyone else on earth constantly gives you shit (while also trying to enter...) many people here have started accepting those foreign perspectives and seeing themselves as spoiled and privileged. I can remember this being true from when I was a child. It has been happening for a long time. Complacent adults have never stood up and tried to set things straight.

Many Americans don't want to seem naive about how good they have it, so they overcompensate by disliking the country instead.

It doesn't help that being successful has made life incredibly easy for a significant fraction of people, who find fulfillment in social justice rather than family and work, because they aren't as necessary anymore. Social justice as a way of living tends to correlate with self hatred, which extends to the country.

There are other factors of course, but these ones are large.
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If you go to /r/WooCommerce you'll see growing pains and that people are not happy in general with WooCommerce and plugin developers have to work extra hard to support ever changing WordPress.

There is a need of stable (not frequently changing) e-commerce app that can be hosted and supports stripe/PayPal and "shipment tracking".

WooCommerce requires yearly payment for shipment tracking.

When discourse is available for free, there is no reason why WooCommerce alternative which can provide more out of box support can't be free.

Today what options people have? WooCommerce, Shopify (SaaS) and legacy apps like Magento, Presto, Opencart.

This is not enough - most e-commerce development happens on agencies selling their services. We can certainly provide more out of box features with help of open develop model.
There are many other industries where advancement is not made without huge amounts of investment, and the only thing that protects the little players are patents.

Excuse me, this works the other way around, especially around communities like 3D printing that rely on players sharing information freely with each other.

Open hardware is threatened by patent holders, big or small.

I’m not saying that the patent system doesn’t have its flaws, and really needs some revisions and updates in places, but it does provide a real value.

You provided logical reasons as to why X and Y things happen this way, but not evidence that it actually happened this way in the world.
Modern math papers also love cryptic symbolism. I've been doing some research and been reading papers on a certain topic from 50s to these days. The difference in math presentation is startling: a paper from 50s really tries to explain things, e.g. it uses simple partial derivatives and some simplifications because that's just enough for the paper; on the other hand a paper from 2020 describes the very same math as a cryptic sequence of triangles and dots, and the reader really need to be familiar with the context to understand what this compressed formula expands into. I believe the main motivation behind this is the desire to look sophisticated, so anyone reading the author's paper would be impressed at a glance with the complexity of the math.
A culture of hedonism and postponing starting a family to your 30s is way more significant. I'm not against it, but an extended adolescence has its social consequences.
Because they’ve become the dominant platforms for debate and dissemination, so many of us want to fix them. Agree that it seems pretty futile, as the platforms will by design push back against the improvements we want.
Where by "forced into a coalition with increasingly radical white progressives", you probably mean "are running the table in a a party with a noisy but politically ineffective faction of radical white progressives". Did we not just watch the same 2020 Democratic primary? In the primary I watched, two small, white, disorganized primaries created a brief and embarrassing media blip of Sanders inevitability, followed by an unholy whupping in every subsequent primary state. Sanders lost Washtenaw County Michigan to Biden. Washtenaw is Ann Arbor. He lost the Berkeley of the Rust Belt. To Joe Biden.

A lot of what you have to say about politics is well-taken. From everything I understand, you're right: people of color are indeed more conservative than Very Online White People. But then it seems like you go a little off the rails: the (relative) conservatism of Hispanic and black voters is reflected in the Democratic party. If there's a shuffling of the party, it's going to be angry DSA people to a long trip to the political wilderness of the Green Party.
I would actually go even further and say that the only restriction we should eventually need is crediting the original author. Potential individual profit (as in economic profit) makes sense in the current world where the distribution of resources is terrible and you want to be able to capitalize on your ideas. But ideally, if that's not an issue in the future, all you could reasonably want is "acknowledgement for your contributions". Even there the line is hard to draw, but I find myself more and more aligned with this perspective lately. Might still be too egocentric, though, and maybe not even "acknowledgement" is necessary. Maybe if acknowledgement was culturally more widespread even a law like this wouldn't make sense to me.
Step 1)

Sell your Google to me for $1.0.

Step 2)

Use board to increase dividends to me to 80% of cash flow.

Step 2) (Other party)

Whoops, stocks do have value even if they don't pay a dividend.

Article debunked.
This is a horrific example of perseverance porn

These people were exploited which is terrible. That the nation that exploited them was still more desirable to them than their former home is also terrible. That all they got in return for being exploited was what they were initially promised but decades later is terrible

Everything presented here is terrible
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> the "Heat Theory of Education" [ Knowledge, in a given domain, flows from a knowledge-hot person to a knowledge-cool person, proportional to the differential

Geez, that's some epic wishful thinking. A higher differential impedes the flow of knowledge.
> fluent interfaces (the second format)

> and as you chain the fluent interface (eg foo().bar().baz())

Aside: A lone method call isn't a fluent interface (though I suppose it could be part of one), so the naming here is a bit misleading. A fluent interface is a particular type of method chaining, so the second example may or may not be one depending on what foo/bar/baz actually do.
> It's amazing how it is basically impossible to influence birth rates, one way or the other, up or down.

What are you talking about? Look at the differences in those countries/cultures and you'll find it. It's just that it's verboten for us in this contemporary Western culture.

But perhaps the artificial womb will change things.
Disasters (natural or otherwise) are usually fairly localised. Cell towers have a reach of a couple km at best and can be easily overwhelmed, whereas AM radio can reach upwards of 100km at night from a single transmitter and doesn't care at all how many people are listening.

As you already mentioned, power is another issue, as a modern smartphone won't last past a few weeks, even when turning on for only 5 minutes once a day, whereas I've seen AM radios that can run continuously for at least that long.

Finally, my main concern: cell phones are complicated. An EMP (or flood) could fry all your electronics and you're basically screwed, but finding someone who can build a passable AM receiver (or even transmitter) out of various electronic junk isn't all that difficult.
It might be worth considering that murdered-on-tape-in-broad-daylight is at the extreme end of the spectrum of violence - both direct and indirect - that minorities experience throughout their lives. Otherwise you might end up with the belief that a black person's experience of the USA is only 0.0005% different to that of a white one's.
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Only it isn't a myth.

"The typical incubation period for COVID‑19 is five or six days, but it can range from one to fourteen days with approximately ten percent of cases taking longer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019

I could have been more correct by writing 'up to', but if 10% of the cases take longer than 14 days then 99.5% within 14 days should be 90%.

Playing it safe with the incubation time around international arrivals is what has led to authorities the world over adopting the 14 day quarantine.
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> ...they just know America is not responsible for that trauma...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws
> completely disagree with you and capitalism is an immoral system of economy.

As I said I stand between an Ayn Rand type of system and and a socialist system. So while I think Capitalism is definitely the better options, I don't deny it's failings.

> It might have been a necessary transition but as it stands right now it's ruining the world bit by bit.

There are obviously areas it can be improved, however as it stands there are a lot more benefits than problems.

> It's also still theft no matter what system of economy you believe in.

> If someone is taking the compensation of the value you're adding to the economy, that's theft.

If people are compensated for their work then it isn't theft, when you agree to sell X (you effort) for Y (money), especially where Y is not capped in too many ways then it is not theft.

Remember person isn't adding the entire value to the economy, the company is, the product is.

And it is fine if you disagree.
I agree. If some mathematicians purposeful obfuscated or made more complicated than necessary certain topics, it would create an arbitrage opportunity for others to clarify and simplify the topic.

There are definitely tangible rewards for those who can clarify and simplify a topic, because it can lead to discoveries and insights.

This gradual clarification of a topic hinges on the actual importance of the topic. If a topic is not important, I can see people getting away with obfuscating or complicating results.
You get market share and rep for bringing a product. People are naturally incentivized to innovate within their grasp.

At some point all new technology is so expensive it's beyond reach, until it's not.. When governments force these things out of time with artificial incentives for political reasons often the market grows around it with poor incentives. The cost of which is filled long term for the negative by the tax payer.

The US interstate is a good example. If the government had waited until it was cheaper and the private sector would have done it then cities wouldn't have developed with such sprawl issues because the citizens and private markets would have had the opportunity to have paid for those costs and they wouldn't have. Cities would instead have been more dense and later when cheaper more viable public transportation systems were developed they would have been a lot more effective and more widely deployed.

Furthermore this takes resources away from the natural market growth that would have otherwise gone toward the natural market direction.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/21/nobody-knows-anything-a...

At least everyone is equally in the dark.
There are a few companies such as Spaceflight[1] that partner with launch providers such as ISRO[2][3] to offer rideshare and dedicated launches at much cheaper prices.

[1] https://spaceflight.com/pricing/

[2] https://www.isro.gov.in/launchers

[3] https://www.nsilindia.co.in/launch-services
“Enragement is engagement”, in other words.
Signs saying 'now leaving the USA' are not saying america has failed to live up to its ideals. It's saying... we don't want to be part of America anymore. That's fine, I'm not knocking you, but this is just revisionism.

I don't reject criticism as unpatriotic. I was made aware of no-knock warrants from Ms Taylor's unfortunate death, and I am against them. I am in favor of most police reform.

I am not in favor of the riots, CHOP, knocking down statues, or continued protests drawing thousands of individuals during a time of pandemic.
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1) Even if you combine the top 3, they would be quite smaller than the rest combined.

2) The actual markets is what you should look at, since you are talking about business, trade, etc. The EU is bigger than the US.

3) You wrote "most websites", not just HN. That is just incredibly wrong. Even if you had written "most English-speaking websites", you would still be wrong for the most popular sites.
What is interesting to me and why I posted it is that his intuition about how things might work tends to correlate highly with how they actually work even if at that point in time during the narrative I'd have absolutely no clue about what he comes up with. That's a very deep level of insight.
If someone is abusive and you want to tell them that behavior is not acceptable you are also at the same disadvantage.
> I'd much rather see a rule that allowed encryption on 33cm+ subject to the constraint that stations have to be identified, non-profit in nature, cooperate with local coordination, and act as secondary users to non-encrypted uses.

Yes, I think it is reasonable, although I don't know what bands to have that on, and of course it should not be interfering with non-encrypted uses.

(And perhaps the same rule should be applied to proprietary codecs, too, so that they don't overload the radio with proprietary codes that you cannot figure out how to decode.)
In Puerto Rico after hurricane Irma and Maria (specially Maria) we didn’t have much in terms of information.

All you need is 1 radio in a community and people can huddle up to listen or just a few listen and take information to others.

Cellphone towers run on generators after disasters with no power and they run out of fuel. People would find and take batteries out of anything they had and give them to whoever had a radio to stay informed. Some people had small solar ones or ones with an internal battery and a crank.

Cellphones became useless quick. No signal and they keep searching for a signal wasting battery quickly and a lot of people had no way to charge them. If the towers came back up and you had battery, they where overloaded quickly and useless.
> Contrary to what has been reported, no one at the University of California is prohibited from making statements such as “America is a melting pot,”

Simply being discouraged from saying something is scary enough. Look at the UCLA professor who didn't give his students extra time on the tests and received death threats. The silencing is deafening. Maybe you should try to hear it.

This is what I refer to: https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/ucla-suspends-professor-for-re...
> Basically every single thing someone does is “virtue signaling”. Even your use of that term is meant to indicate a certain set of conservative values.

¿? Mmm, no? You can help feed poor people or lobby for better housing regulations and you don't need to be signaling anything.

And I don't know what "conservative values" I hold, since I'm a social democrat.

> I’m glad you were able to reclaim whatever historic signifiers of oppression you’re talking about.

We didn't reclaim any historic signifiers. We have architecture, statues and museums about such invaders, everything is fine. In fact this "cancel culture" came from the anglophone world, thankfully without that much success, but enough to distract people from real issues we have here.

> For Black people in the US, that oppression is still ongoing, and the developers at Twitter would rather avoid using terms with that baggage in the context of their work.

I'm having a hard time believing that black developers at twitter are not in the top of the food chain. Also, the previous point I made about polysemic words. Knowing that words have multiple meanings seems useful for communication.
Yep. I have mostly purchased open box and 2nd hand computers in my life.

My latest computer was $400 off ($1600 usual price) just for having been opened.

Just make sure to wipe it/reinstall the software.
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Your comment made me laugh :D as blacksmith said, I meant aesthetically, but thanks for raising it was not clear
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The police murders are the most visible, egregious, tip of the iceberg. All the rest is all too common.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow
Emacs pdf-tools mode is very much underrated. Checkout the list of org-roam ecosystem emacs packages. I don't know if Emacs supports excel or word.
Although rather dysfunctional as a human being, Newton is undoubtedly the greatest physicist of all time. And probably one of the greatest mathematicians. I wonder what else he would have achieved if he hadn't so much of his time and energy on alchemy and bible study.
Providing some link to how this data was "collected" would be tremendously helpful.

Looking at https://millionneighborhoods.org/#11.46/29.7099/-9.7936 a private beach resort has "high access" while the few holiday mansion ghettos that dot the beaches just north of it have "low access". In reality all the same layout: big entrance, villas on a grid, road access to each house.

And again further north all has "high access" despite there being only one road, wide enough for just one car and potholes I now know by name. Even locals avoid that road if they like their car... and to reach the "high access" coast side, one even has to get off that road and onto gravel roads (4x4 advised).
Hey no problem with asking late though sometimes people may not respond or they may take a while though I have hacker news replies setup [1], so I sometimes have to get through my 300+ emails per week (mostly marketing emails [just saying I’m not that popular haha]). I actually was doing it at Utah State University (USU) and I was on Campus my distance-ed program was across different campuses for a University that has multiple campuses across Utah. So, I’m not sure if they have many people that do off campus distance ed classes.

I loved my University though. They were accredited for their CS program (not sure how important that is honestly in fact I only learned about that because I had to do an exit interview). Though there are many arguably better Universities in Utah such as BYU and U of U to name a fewer, I’ve come to believe that pretty much any University will likely give you a world class education. Also Utah State is a research University which is an added bonus, because it helps to have teachers that research in their field. I felt I got a really good grasp on the theoretical principles there. My favorite course was probably Discrete Mathematics at USU. It helped me get a good grasp on abstract thinking (might as well bring that up since this thread is about that). I really recommend anyone take something similar to Discrete Math by starting to go through the readings for the Mathematics for Computer Science course from MIT Open Course Ware and possibly the videos too (OCW) (e.g. [2] or [3]). Reading the beginning of the Math for Computer Science course manual prepared me for my Discrete Math class so well (In fact I ended getting over a 100% final grade because the teacher had to move the grading curve, because likely too many were likely not doing so good). Usually before you take a class like that you need to take Calculus, but really all you need to know from Calculus to complete that class is likely sums and series. Any ways best of luck with your studies and if you plan on doing online education I’m not sure the best University to do it through. I was really glad that I was able to attend University on campus though, because though I can be disciplined I feel like I lack that discipline whenever I don’t have enough pressure to keep me focused and not get distracted on other things. Again best of luck in studies!

[1]: http://www.hnreplies.com/
[2]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
[3]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Along the lines of hakfoo's response below, this would naturally happen any time you're dealing with enhancements to a larger ecosystem (i.e. complementary goods) - the sale price of certain products can be profitably set to almost zero if they encourage buying more expensive, or at least higher-margin, things. A specific example: patentable improvements to consumer-grade inkjet printers might be disincentivized under this scheme, because the real money is in selling ink to locked-in buyers.

I think there are some more fundamental problems with using sale price as the base of computation. What's "final" sale? Is it the price my company sells for wholesale? If I own my own vertically-integrated distribution network and sell direct to consumers, do I now owe the patent holder more per item? Am I incentivized to put my retail stores behind a shell company to bake the "final" sale price earlier in the pipeline? On that note, what's to stop me from doing so recursively? I could set up a "manufacturer" entity that produces the patented widget at a loss, paying the minimum licensing fee, and then an "assembler" entity that packages it into a meaningful product and actually makes all the profit. I suppose to some extent this is the same problem as deciding when to impose sales tax, so maybe the same regulation works there, but it feels trickier.

That's also setting aside what I expect are deal-breaking practical problems having to do with components. Most actual products are not patented in their entirety. If you use a patented design that improves one component of a $400 machine, is the license fee based on a fraction of $400? Do I owe the patent holder more per unit if I assemble my product with a high-quality aluminum shell instead of a cheap plastic one? If I have to use 5 different patent ideas to make that machine, do I pay all 5 owners the same fraction? If not, then who decides the respective fee for each one? (As an example, a modern smartphone probably makes use of hundreds of patents - think about how many patented bits of circuitry there are just in the radio and modem.)
I guess there is one more important bit that author is missing.

Twitter also let's anyone retweet very old postings out-of-context and don't even show some warning like "this was posted N years ago" tells me they are not interested in de-escalation.

There are a lot of years-old tweets that can be used to attack a person. And no people don't have to specifically delete their archives or press some "I was wrong" for solving this problem.
Couldn’t find BOM but processor is Atmega1284p, so between Arduino Uno and Mega. 1284p is also used in some low-end 3D printers.

Is it hard to do a touch keyboard on devices like this? Full tactile switch arrays adds so many solder points and I feel it drives up costs somewhat.