skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that there are billions in agricultural subsidies and they are (at least intended) to manage the cost of food on store shelves. The government will pay farmers to not grow food to control the supply. The government isn't fully running the show but it's absurd to assert that the government is incapable of everything and that only private business can get the job done!

Especially when you're being entirely disingenuous about your argument. I don't honestly understand how you can truly believe that corporate interests care more about people than the government. Perhaps you also believe that corporations are people, and at that point I guess I'd have to concede. If corporations are people, then they do care about people. It's just the one they care about is themselves.

Not every business is a cartoon mustache twirling villain but it's baffling to me to see the lengths people will go to to both outright dismiss the governments ability to do literally anything, and also that private enterprise can do it better.

Also the major sources of inequalities today go far beyond education, policing, and the justice system. Many of them are inexplicably tied to private enterprise. You don't want the government in charge of growing or distributing food. Well that's great. What's also great is that the cheapest food you can buy is also some of the most unhealthy trash you can put in your body. Soda is cheaper than water.
if i hosted a forum i would very likely ban people who posted extreme messages.

but, of course, im small. the relative harm to the extremist is small. they can find another place to spread their awful message. but what if i'm bigger? what if i have monopolized a large portion of political speech within a country? what if my platform is the primary communication channel for the president of the united states? do i then have an obligation to provide a platform to that speech?

what if myself and a few friends own such a significant share of the internet that we can effectively remove extremists from all online participation. they cant host a server. they cant register a domain. they cant use private messenger apps. they cant send or receive money.

to what degree can a person be ostracized from society for having an unpopular opinion.

i certainly don't agree with the views of the taliban. i certainly wouldn't want to be complicit in the hosting of those views. but i have to wonder, if "illegitimate" speech can be removed by a small minority of corporate leaders how long is it before "legitimate" speech is removed?

can a democratic society really exist where all opinions are filtered through a corporate elite? can "problematic" speech be allowed to exist so long as it doesn't call for violence? are calls to violence always evil?

the BLM protests have certainly made calls to violence. should the cause for racial equality be stopped because it offends or threatens a minority (or even a majority) of people? couldnt' the BLM protest be construed as "problematic" or "illegitimate" and removed from the civil discourse overnight?

im asking because i don't know what to do. there doesn't seem to be a clear path forward. there is no "public square" on the internet. its all private. but there's no one left in the "real" public square. the one in meat space. the "public square" has moved onto private property and there's no way to get it back.
And, issues about the length of the name aside, we shouldn't! `e` isn't a double or any other standard numeric type. It is an infinite-precision number.
"only the bare minimum to survive" as founder doesn't need to be interpreted as "only just above the poverty line" or "minimum wage".

There's a good argument to say it includes enough money for things like: comfortable bay area rent, ability to replace essential equipment (like lost/stolen/damaged dev-grade laptops) immediately, enough discretionary income to order in Ubereats dinner instead of stopping work to cook whenever in the zone.

The "bare minimum" for a founder to succeed probably rightfully means "enough money showing up every month that they can realistically not ever have to worry about any short/medium term bills/expenses/timesaving-expenditure". You shouldn't be saving for a house deposit or leasing a Lambo on a founders salary, but you also need to not be wondering where tomorrows dinner is coming from or how you're going to cover next month's rent.

"Ramen profitable" should be a choice to eat ramen because it's quick and you can get back to hacking in 4 minutes, not because you've spent the afternoon working out your food budget for the next 3 weeks comes out to $1.27 per meal if you're going to have enough money to not become homeless at the end of the month.
Consider any tangible thing that's wrong with America - shareholders whims are likely to be a part of that equation.

This is a state of affairs we need to consider rolling back, not expanding.
Sure you would, that's what everyone says who doesn't have to do it or can't.
I feel like this is a false comparison. Hitler did plenty of shitty things to the jews before exterminating them. Can we compare this to Hitler banning jews from civil service? The point of both is to marginalize a class of people those in positions of power find undesirable.
> Unsurprising, given the pool makes founders less reliant on them

How? The startup still need VCs for funding.

If I were a VC, one gripe would be that it might hurt a founder's motivation. At 1% of a founder's equity, it's not so much that they're not working to make the next big thing, but in the back of their mind, they know they might get $1M for it. My other concern is that this almost freerides on the VC model. It's a way for a founder to get the benefits of being an LP, but without the fee structure.
> The fringes will always be there, they're just more visible and vocal now.

And the fringes have enlisted bots to amplify their message, which includes accusations of serious criminal behavior with no evidence that would stand up in court.

I suspect media platforms won't actually be able to fix these problems because they are codependent on the outrage that they create.
That doesn't seem to make sense to me. We should give people money only to remove services, increasing their costs, likely far beyond any basic income could provide for?
I say, could someone explain this preponderance of sharp signs?
This sounds really interesting. Are there any sites that group people up for this sort of thing?
it is more expensive because it must be shipped as a parcel rather than a letter. They can't ship it as a letter because it's not legal to.
I can't tell if you're being needlessly pedantic, but to clarify: no there are no similarities between the holocaust and getting banned from twitter. The two situations aren't similar, and comparing them is disgusting and shows a lack of empathy for people who have faced actual persecution.

Sure, you can write the words that compare them. No, you should not.
I am 99% sure you are responding seriously to what is intended as satire (and ispretty hilarious).
Mathematics is more general and applicable than Vim, I'll give you that. I wasn't the one who brought in the Vim analogy, however.

It seems like your complaints are with academic papers, not with mathematical notation specifically. This is a problem that is universal to academic papers. Try reading a critical theory paper, for example, and you'll find it's extremely dense with critical theory jargon the authors don't bother explaining at all.

The problem with academic papers is that they aren't intended for a general audience. The authors of papers are often operating in subfields that are so small that they've actually met most of the other people who will be reading their papers. In that situation, conventions and jargon arise naturally among colleagues. Variable names form a part of these conventions such that, in a more common example, sigma will mean standard deviation among statisticians but mean singular value among linear algebraists.

The other problem with academic papers is that the authors generally don't care about reproducibility, consistency, clarity, pedagogy, or even intelligibility. They're optimizing for quantity of papers published, not quality. As long as their expert peer reviewers understand and give the green light for publication, that's good enough.
You say "I've met way more people interesting in learning math than performing it", but I have found it downright impossible to learn mathematics without performing it. And I daresay this is true of most people -- a well-known feeling amongst mathematics graduate students is to read a chapter of a text, think we have understood it, then turn to the very first exercise and get completely stumped and have to backtrack.

A lot of mathematics is optimised for pencil efficiency for a reason, and it's not at odds with learning mathematics.
> Our matching system issues an identical grant from the fund of the matching company. It goes out in the same grant cycle as the employee grant so they go together.

So the system creates a separate transaction for the original and the matched donation with each donor's name on the respective gift?

How do users sync which elements of their HR information with your service? IDK what the monthly admin cost there is.

There are a few HR, benefits, contracts, and payroll YC companies with privacy regulation compliance and APIs
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?query=Payroll

https://founderkit.com/people-and-recruiting/health-insuranc...
Wow many 'peaceful protestors'. Much targeting and throwing projectiles at the police and injuring many of them. /s

Very peaceful protesting once again. /s

See? Actual evidence of not so peaceful protesting (and on Twitter) and it is flagged/dead. Not a surprise is it on HN when there are those who want to control the whole narrative of 'peaceful protesting'?
Thanks for this feedback, it's really helpful! it's something we're thinking a lot about atm so this is great.

If you're interested, you can download the app from the Play Store and try the program with a 7-day free trial. Let us know what you think.
That’s unfortunate to hear, sounds like you’ve had some bad luck with the USPS. I can see why you took issue with my claim that the USPS is good about delivering the mail, I’d be frustrated if I was you as well.
? My problem is not with Unicode here. Unicode has angle-brackets. But SGML (which tbf predates Unicode by a lot) doesn't use them.... It uses less-than/greater-than signs and pretends that they're angle-brackets. They're not. Consequently, HTML <tags> are typographically incorrect and look horrible.

It's made even worse by "programmer fonts" that make the glyphs for less-than/greater-than look like angle-brackets, which is just wrong; now there's no way to write the comparators.

I guess we all just wish that ASCII (and/or keyboards) had one or two more pairs of brackets.
Facebook hate groups don't need Twitter accounts to operate. Regardless of the presumably positive outcome for the mainstream timeline, this is likely a futile whack-a-mole move that only benefits Twitter. Hate groups organize in private and output the vitriol with whichever fake accounts they have in possession. The way to definitively solve this societal problem is to help the people caught in the self-radicalisation filter bubble to overcome their real-life problems that fuel the hate. Banning them from the services that played a part in turning them seems a bit hypocritical.
But it does require a program. Which is then placed inside a main function.

I compiled the above program with gfortran, and then objdump -d on it, and found this line:

0000000000001283 <main>:

Under which the cli flags are setup, and then the program is called with:

callq 1199 <MAIN__>

Which is where you'll find the "true" main function.
not really about USPS, just the idea that the Kochs want the USPS privatized because they personally want to steal the value of labor being performed there. there's no reason to believe the Koch's are interested in or would be good at running postal services; probably fedex/ups/dhl/amazon or someone else would be better at that, leaving no particular material advantage to the Kochs. the labor theory of value being espoused by the person I was replying to is just an easily skewered tangent in an emotionally colinear conspiratorial vein. as far as I can tell the Kochs are just ideologues.
To me the value is in matching relationships (equations) of curated parameters from empirical data and using simulated recreations of the experiment as the objective. As soon as you can recreate experimental results in a simulation then you’ve made a successful model for that domain. This is an incredibly important and difficult task for fluid dynamics and plasma physics.
The Mall vs. Main Street: Where Are They Now?
So like, say, a cake shop?
Twitter isn't the government. Nor are QAnon-conspiracy-theorists comparable to <an ethnic or religious minority group>. So no. You could, however compare Hitler banning the Jews from civil service to Trump creating new guidelines that ban trans-women from shelters.

That is a government action to marginalize a class of people those in positions of power find undesirable.
They will not charge as much as the market can bear. They will charge as much as they can without competition eating their market share.

There is no regulation for instance on the cost of soda, but it is not priced as high as the market can bear. Soda is incredibly cheap and requires no government interference to be cheap.
I've wanted to see something like this for underlings, but when people actually see what the EV is of working at a startup, they might not be so happy. Part of the draw of startups is the gamble, and this takes away from that.
I see, that makes a whole lot of sense. This is an interesting use-case. It actually may be possible to use some of the aggregates provided by the extension even with a different schema. If you are interested in exploring further, my username on slack is `mat` and my email is the same @timescale.com
I think the more accurate perception is they have relatively unlimited budget and interest in attacking computer security, along with special powers like doing basically secret illegal shit that make them difficult to beat in security matters.

Not that any specific set of their employees are super geniuses.

While SV still has to run a profitable business while trying to care about security.
Redwood City Removes Black Lives Matter Mural
VCs also want you to join their club after the exit. I would wager that someone to joins this cabal is less likely to become a VC, and if they do, they will have a much different model.
"If you want to install Links immediately, proceed step-by-step according to the following instructions. Otherwise you will waste a lot of time."

First I just tried "brew install links". It worked but built it without graphics support.

So I bit the bullet and tried to build it myself. Then I got to needing an X server installed and gave up.

I've grown too impatient and spoiled for this sort of quest.
This is all meaningless semantics
An Explainer on Ed25519 Clamping
Yeah; a linear scan over what, possibly as many as a couple of megabytes. I bet that takes a while.

(Seriously? :-)
They do, but they also have universal coverage mandates, and pricing regulations.

If you want to mentions specific countries we can compare them to the US.
I don’t disagree with you on the last point. However, I believe a lot of it is cultural and environment rather than color of skin.

To give a completely honest example..
Some one speaking British English will likely sound more educated than some one speaking Ebonics. This perception caries over to areas such as business. A person with the perception of being “educated” will likely have higher sales numbers compared to the latter.

Home life is critical. Asians for example as part of the culture place a very high standard on education (in general - based upon my own life knowledge) while other culture do not.

Those were just some points. I do believe there is an issue, but I heavily disagree that their is systemic racism due to skin color that is stopping those that are black (for example) from achieving greater financial success.
Nope. With respect, the US Government has myriad enterprises, under all kinds of legal authorities, accounted for in all kinds of ways. Two of hundreds of examples are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
> We will permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension — something we’ve seen more of in recent weeks.

So is Twitter essentially admitting this rule is only enforced against groups they don't like?

If they're spreading hatred against some groups or harassing individuals why not use these rules instead? Twitter prohibits that already.

Also the timing is interesting given America is having and election in a few months and these Q people are some of President Trump's most devoted supporters. Didn't seem to bother them for over 2 years.
Rocket League is going free-to-play
It sounds like you're agreeing with me?
> This "cost" is manufactured

It's not manufactured. They are making promises that have a net present value of X dollars. That's a real cost they are incurring and it has to go on their profit/loss statement.

>Up until 2006, the USPS funded those obligations on a pay-as-you-go-basis,

No company is allowed to do that. All companies are required to fully fund their pensions:

>The funding requirement under PPA is simply that a plan must stay fully funded (that is, its assets must equal or exceed its liabilities). If a plan is fully funded, the minimum required contribution is the cost of benefits earned during the year. If a plan is not fully funded, the contribution also includes the amount necessary to amortize over seven years the difference between its liabilities and its assets. Stricter rules apply to severely underfunded plans (called "at-risk status").

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

> But it probably would've spent at least part of the last decade making comfortable profits.

You have to keep cash flow and profit clear. The prefunding requirement does not change their profitability. It changes their cash flow.

> If the prepayments required under PAEA were never enacted into law, the USPS would not have a net deficiency of nearly $20 billion, but instead be in the black by at least $1.5 billion.

Again, not in the black. They would have $20 billion dollars more in the bank but they would not be profitable. Simply put, they'd have a larger pile of cash to burn before the day of reckoning came.

An analogy would be someone jumping off a very tall bridge. They're dead the moment the feet leave the bridge. Saying that they would survive longer if they jumped off the top of the bridge is technically true but doesn't appreciably change anything. They're still dead. It will just take a bit longer and the splat at the bottom will be more impressive.
Mail going through the USPS has a right to privacy. Mail through commercial carriers does not. Unfortunately that privacy often doesn't get factored into the cost.
If a company like LinkedIn is doing a lay-off, that’s different from business as usual. They’re supposed to be growing. When they grow they fire people along the way. But a lay-off means they have run out of work or can’t employ people profitably. This can mean:

1. LinkedIn has its own special problems. (Maybe I’ll sell and follow another company or sector).

2. The economy is in recession. (Should have gotten into bonds 3 months ago, oh well).

Companies often try to paint structural problems as competitive adjustments, but we know they rarely do real layoffs during flush times.
Back in the '90s, when you entered AOL Instant Messenger chatrooms there was always disclaimers saying that certain content (swearing, hate speech, sexual material, etc.) were subject to be filtered out, or would cause you to be kicked.

Message boards and forums have always had moderators and admins who could censor at will. You're posting on one right now.

Can anyone explain how Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc. is qualitatively different from any of these other websites?
Does the programming language need to use textual input?
I would argue that elections are enough to drag the USPS along at literally any cost.
Perhaps you can analyze this a bit more, I have no idea if you also tile in windows or if you have a bunch of random window sizes floating around the desktop or if you full screen every window etc. Or is it a difference in font quality, scaling, resolution? Or is it a difference in things just working, less time spent tweaking config and dealing with issues?

Tiling in i3 must feel somewhat constraining after a point, maybe experiment with switching between two different modes/WMs?
Design Thinking- Ideation as a Skill
Interesting. I was taught to consider the audience in communication, but I think I fail to consider their mental model most of the time.
As someone who learned Morse code in Junior High enroute to becoming a ham radio operator it brightens my spirit seeing it used this way. However few people know Morse code these days (fewer than those who know how to use a stick shift) all it takes is one to tattle to the authorities.

What the Chinese authorities never seem to understand is no matter how hard you crack down there are those who wish freedom for China will always be there, willing to risk their life to achieve it. Sooner or later those wanting freedom, against all odds, will win.
The thing is, people like Musk are scared of super-intelligent AIs, but all you really needed is Russian MLbots more intelligent than the median American.
I guess my question transitions over to: If a candidate has less than 3 years experience and no degree, where does that fall on your radar? Genuinely curious as it falls into the "need experience to get experience" job meme many people find initially.
Oooh good catch! We just uploaded the App Store reviews to our site but can just take out that one - cheers!

Yeah that's fair enough, imo I would think it's difficult to game 400+ ratings/reviews from friends and family but I can see where you're coming from.

I'm surprised Apple/Google don't do that - it's beneficial for both the user and us as a business. We could always do it for reviews on our site but it could always be gamed when it's not held accountable with a third-party like with Amazon reviews.
I also disliked my time with TypeScript, but perhaps its value hasn't made itself entirely apparent to me. Most of my programming experience has also been with dynamically typed languages. I think if you had already spent enough time with a language like JavaScript or Lua and familiarized yourself with its quirks/footguns, you learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of not having a strict type system.

Although I've found that TypeScript is a great way to attract devs who hate JavaScript to try working on front-end.
hmm this may be a good point.

is it really capturing value or is it creating value? people made links because they wanted to make links anyway. the value of links to a search engine doesn't exist without a search engine, and the existing value of links isn't diminished by that (except for the specific case of a manually curated link directory, e.g. the original yahoo).