skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the worst is: people who give the shittiest advice is usually the most passionate about their own terribly bad ideas.

This is quite common. I work in a University. If you have a discussion about how to fix education, people who give the shittiest advice is usually the most passionate about their own terribly bad ideas.
Stoop is awesome! Would definitely recommend.
Outside of the US, things where different. The UK corn laws had less to do with farming than land ownership. The actual percentage of UK population owning large tracks of farm land was low enough to enable that kind of power grab. Further, they excluded potatoes which focused the benefit on the upper crust of society.

It is an interesting bit of history, but the specifics really drive home what I was talking about.
Mac OS 9 was very responsive. e.g. Clicking on something and seeing the results of your click tended to be very fast. Comparatively, early versions of Mac OS X running on the same hardware were incredibly slow/unresponsive. They improved that with subsequent releases, and of course the hardware caught up too.
This to me is a true moonshot and venture-worthy idea. Some of these concepts may be technically or economically infeasible—it's a major risk—but the pay-off for human wellbeing is phenomenal. I wish we celebrated more companies like these, but it seems like most of them are met with (well-earned) skepticism rather than genuine curiosity.

The world of atoms is harder than software, but it's awaiting disruptions like these.
Dystopias are unfortunately subjective, but I do think societies where citizens aren't free to leave qualify.

What matters is that these anti-defection cultures' expansion is contained. If not, pray to Seldon for a relatively short Galactic Dark Age.
Highly recommend watching 007 Goldeneye for a fictional take on this situation. Fantastic movie.
Looks like 'the radical left' seem to be something the current establishment are concerned about. Maybe a good time to take a look at what that group suggests and start supporting that instead of letting you be scared by 'liberals'.

As a european it is absolutely beyond me by which skullduggery one could convince a people not to want general public health insurance. It is truly baffeling.

Take it to the streets and start fixing your country. Also please make sure that in the future no insane person gets the nuclear codes.

Also absolutely baffling why this batshit crazy dude still has 40% support. What is wrong with you?

Ok, downvote me. I don't care.
Not just the power to say no. Freedom = having choices. Always boils down to what choices you have. Contentment is also an indicator of ample choice availability.
Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked Covid-19
I think so, yeah. I’ve often walked by a new restaurant and thought, “That looks interesting” but then end up looking at the reviews before I decide to eat there.
Large DNA Study Traces Violent History of American Slavery
Foot Creams That Will Save Your Un-Pedicured Feet
ODG, I know this comment is making light of a situation (and I promise to make up for doing so at some point) buuuut from the letter sent out -

[may impact your ability to] ... ' but a house' & 'you have an eviction on your renal records'.

Maybe it's just me but it speaks volumes about the type of person that would send out such nasty-o-grams
I've just started using org-roam (https://org-roam.readthedocs.io/en/master/) and I'm really enjoying it. I've been a fairly hardcore Emacs user for around 10 years but only used the basics of org previously. The zettlekasten system probably isn't for everyone, but it makes sense to me.
I disagree, and would count flat-earthers as highly conformist - it's just that they're conforming to an unconventional view.
> Just like insurance, the less times I use my refund, the lower rate I pay per month.

Then the problem shifts to: do I want to risk my no-claim discount, or do I want to go with the safe option?
It's all fake news.
The new Motorola Razr is also being assembled in India. Is this a trend?
Freedom of association is not exactly a pillar of modern liberalism.
What would make a "flying car" worthwhile for under 20km flights?
The issue with SQLite and concurrent writers isn't that it's slow, it's that it just can't do it. WAL mode lets you have as many readers as you want concurrent with a single writer, but it doesn't give you multiple concurrent writers. If you really need concurrent writes, use PostgreSQL or another RDBMS.

In my experience, SQLite is likely to be faster when you have lots of reading. Being in-process gives SQLite a natural advantage in read-heavy situations.
> Or maybe you want to escape to Lake Tahoe for a long weekend? That would be less than an hour on a Lilium Jet, at a cost of around $250 at launch and less in the near future.

Therein lies the problem with public transportation in the US. What do you do after you get to Tahoe, Santa Cruz, or wherever? Most of these places are devoid of functional public transportation, and rental car companies have long lines and routinely screw people over and overbook.

And will the FAA allow you with your tent stakes, hiking poles, bear spray, and camping stove with fuel on the Lilium Jet? (What else are you supposed to do in Tahoe?)
I think software development misses a "doctrine". It is very hard to develop robust maintainable software while trying to chase the latest fad (edit: under constant pressure to deliver new functionality).

I have known this as a junior, never really getting to know a technology before hopping to the next one, and I am still having to deal with this now that I have a bit more experience, trying to convince my colleagues not to be so quick to dismiss the modern for the newer.

Sometimes I feel like I do not know what we are doing although being one of the senior members of the team. Stuff quickly snowballs into mud... It's like there is not enough effort or time to deliver functionality while also staving off entropy
I find that asymmetric/concentrated power in the appropriate (!) hands can lead to better results for most things. For instance, I'd rather put my money in a company where the CEO has the proper vision and considerable agency over one that is ruled by committee, like most tech titants. I wouldn't advocate for a regression to authoritary regimes, but I think they can stabilize and accelerate progression towards greater objectives as opposed to a segmented and elected political power which rules on a 4 (maybe 8) years "vision" (colored heavily by polls optimization), for example China or ex-Yugoslavia. Linux probably benefited greatly from having Linus. It can obviously go wrong (North Korea, too many kings to count, WeWork, Theranos..).

I think it's a good hedge for NASA to have this policy, they probably selected a good pick in the first place, and if it went wrong they could probably easily replace the position [source needed].
> Trying to be happy all the time is overrated.

Completely agree.

“[B]y restoring grief to soul work, we are freed from our one-dimensional obsession with emotional progress. This “psychological moralism” places enormous pressure on us to always be improving, feeling good, and rising above our problems.2 Happiness has become the new mecca, and anything short of that often leaves us feeling that we have done something wrong or failed to live up to the acknowledged standard. This forces sorrow, pain, fear, weakness, and vulnerability into the underworld, where they fester and mutate into contorted expressions of themselves, often coated in a mantle of shame. People in my practice routinely apologize for their tears or for feeling sad.

I am an advocate for a soul psychology that senses vitality in every emotion, whatever life offers to us in the moment. We will have times of being happy, which is cause for celebration. We will, however, also have times of sorrow and loneliness. Moods will come upon us and events will occur that evoke anger and outrage in us. In fact, archetypal psychologist James Hillman once noted that being outraged is a sure sign that our soul is awake. Each of these emotions and experiences has vitality in it, and that is our work: to be alive and to be a good host to whoever arrives at the door of our house. Happiness, then, becomes a reflection of our ability to hold complexity and contradiction, to stay fluid and accept whatever arises, even sorrow.”

—Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

I loved that the Onion article, thanks for sharing it!
You go to Mars for science, to maybe find the first extraterrestrial life, or proof of its former existence.

You go to Mars to discover it’s unknown history.

You go to Mars to find out how to keep humans alive on others planets.

All those things will naturally produce byproducts that will be useful on Earth. Starship will ensure it’s cheap to do them.
I own two of them. Both work perfectly. One has (minor) cracks, the other doesn't. In any case, I don't think the cracks are really from the heat, it's just something about the plastic. They crack in exactly the places you'd expect, mostly around the load bearing screws.
Toward the end of the video he says that it's likely a jet engine far in the distance.
It's not just that non-technical people under-appreciate technical debt.

If you put in the time and pay the money to build an awesome system that is stable and usable for decades, there's only a small chance you'll be rewarded. First because no one notices when software is working. Second because you will probably have moved on to a different role at a different company after your wisdom is confirmed ten years later.

Saving money now is what gets attention.
https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/...

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful-Strate...
i like that idea. i got a cube off ebay some 15 years ago and was running it with linux as a home server almost a decade. i still have it and i love the form factor. giving it new life would be great. do share on HN when you get serious with this.
Alexa is asking the questions now
A factory worker who makes 2x as many widgets doesn't make 2x as much money in my experience in US industry work. The way it typically shakes out is that the workers are part of a union, and the union negotiates compensation and benefits based on length of tenure. In some cases, the factory and union determine a "quota" level of production, and any production in excess of that garners a small bonus. Assuming that 1x is the quota, and the median worker makes $15/hr, producing 2x over the course of a shift might result in an extra $5/hr. Even that number would be higher than I've typically seen.
> "the guy in charge of the coup ran security for Trump at many events and explicitly mentioned his relationship with the president when recruiting people."

Just so no one over-reads into this, it's important to point out that 'doing security for Trump' is essentially meaningless as Trump has frequently held stadium-sized public events and all kinds of local security contractors from off-duty police to mall cops are hired as temps to help do outer-ring security from parking lot patrol to outside line management. There's very little vetting because they have no special access to the president. The inner rings of presidential security are handled by active-duty law enforcement, then active-duty military/national guard and lastly the secret service.

I read a lengthy interview with a former special ops person that knew and occasionally worked with this guy up until recently. The guy was widely known to exaggerate his history, credentials and contacts. He tried to recruit his 'friend' to this effort but, according to the interviewed guy, anyone with half a clue avoided getting involved as the whole thing was clearly a half-assed cluster-fuck with no real support from anyone that matters. This erstwhile 'coup leader' appears to be no different than thousands of other ex-military dudes squeaking out a post-service living doing security contracting and playing at being a 'solder of fortune', except this guy was even more fringe than most. The only people that are known to have given him any real encouragement or money were some U.S.-base Venezuelan ex-pats fantasizing about over throwing the govt.
Many people in the thread seem to be talking past each other, I think because a meritocracy has different presumed purposes.

Purpose #1 is to make society more fair, in that in principle anyone can rise to the top, and you're not held back by your position of birth as in an aristocracy. Even in a true meritocracy though, you may still be held back by innate talent or upbringing.

Purpose #2 is to make society run better. This happens in two ways: More able people are selected for more responsible positions, so that hopefully decisions with more impact are made by more qualified people. Secondly, people have an incentive to try to become more qualified so that they can occupy these more responsible positions.
Sure but presumably the restaurants would be vetted in some way to minimize negative experiences, and the likelihood of you wanting to use your discount fairly low.

I’m not familiar with insurance companies but I imagine this is precisely their business model: minimize the likelihood of a claim but make the benefit of doing so worth it for the consumer to pay a monthly fee.
For regions where the geography makes the roads dangerous or extremely slow or border regions where road traffic delays due to customs or immigration checks are common.
Why do you believe [insert minority] coders aren't qualified?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917337
I do not agree that the essay is incoherent, the general line of thought is very clear: Independently of left or right, conformists of the passive, aggressive, or passive aggressive variety can ruin societies and free thinking.

Conformists can also easily switch sides.

Indeed the insertion of Silicon Valley was a bit unnecessary. They are ruthless capitalists that currently pretend to be socialist for profit and hiring motives as well as suppressing weak software developers by confusing them with new ideologies every week.
> The problem is that Twitter is a private public square.

What were the public public squares and the private public squares before Twitter was developed?

Understanding the historic context of these forums is pretty important.

I would argue there have only been remarkably few public public squares since property became privatized.
Nice!This is insightful and actionable.

This reminded me of Scott Adams' advice on writing too:
https://www.scottadamssays.com/2015/08/22/the-day-you-became...
Elon Musk’s Deepfake Soviet Song Takes over the Russian Internet
I hear this all the time: deflation causes demand destruction for consumers. But, how many consumers check the inflation numbers before buying a pizza? how many consumers even know what inflation is? (many do not). I really think we need to rethink this assumption that deflation is harmful.
> imminent

The arrival of quantum computers doesn't have to be imminent for it to cause harm. The Utah datacenter (and likely others) store giant amounts of encrypted content, waiting for the key exchange to become decryptable. Currently almost all communication we consider to be encrypted is not safe from quantum computers.

How great would it be in 30 years if you had great evidence that people who are in the prime of their careers have done embarrassing things in their youth. You could extort them or use it to get them out of the way if they turn out to be a problem. The value of such information in fact increases over time as those people rise to more important positions of society.

So ideally, we'd switch to quantum confidential key exchange as soon as possible so that such an attack can't be done.
I've been to It oriented cites in India. Normal people sleep on the sidewalk because they have nothing else (we don't share a language, so it is hard to be sure, but this isn't like homeless in the US where sleeping on a sidewalk implies a drug or mental problem, these seem like my neighbors here who have a typical family). You would fit right in on low pay if you wanted that life.

Now I'll grant most people want a better life and I'm not sure the low end supports much better, but in context it isn't uncommon.
I this is a solvable problem and moving from current propulsion methods to a whole bunch of very small individually controllable BLDC motors with one moving part and low inertia is definitely a step in the right direction toward increasing the stability of low mass aircraft.
Adjustments to tolerance are something aviation still has, but which has disappeared from consumer products. It's too labor-intensive.

Here's the "Adjustments" manual for a Model 15 Teletype, the 1930-1958 model. I've restored two of those. Making those adjustments isn't that difficult, just time-consuming. Adjustment to 0.002 in. is sometimes required, but it's not that hard. Most Teletype adjustments can be set with feeler gauges. You don't need a micrometer.

[1] http://aetherltd.com/public/model15manuals/138_Model15_Adj_O...
It's all well and good to talk about how great it would be to launch and land right from San Francisco, but they conveniently step around mentioning that it is currently explicitly illegal. The challenge isn't to come up with a great idea, but rather to get San Francisco to change its laws.

There are helipads all over the city and none of them can be used with the specific exception of flight-for-life helicopters landing in Mission Bay.
You can always pay more taxes than you’re legally obligated to pay, or else you can do what Apple does.
This isn't going to be certified and allowed for part 135 operations inside at least a decade. Boeing can't keep their jets from crashing due to simple trim control software, what makes anyone think the FAA is going to go along with these flights over densely populated areas?

This feels a lot like when everyone was scrambling to start helicopter taxi services which promptly crashed and burned... Helicopters were a mature and well understood technology then, but the realities of operating in urban areas under a variety of weather conditions just doesn't allow for these services to be A) safe or B) economical.
It's about 35 minutes in zero traffic. During rush out it can be a few minutes on either side of an hour.
> The difference is that a military junta doesn't give the people a choice.

That's not true. Military junta gives you option. Serve us or be punished. Prison or death.

EU negotiators gave Greece a choice too. Agree to our demands or we destroy your economy.

Thing is, that works for Greece, since the debt was small compared to EU budget. That won't work for Italy or Spain.

And if they get debt relief, when Greece didn't, there are going to be problems.
Best place to park $1M for 12 months?
My business operations are on hold right now and I'm looking for a safe place to park roughly $1-3 million.

By safe I mean FDIC safe. And it has to allow BUSINESS accounts.

Best I've seen so far is some online banks offering .7%. There are some banks offering 1% for personal accounts, but they are for personal accounts and don't accept businesses.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
This is just so ridiculous that "silly" is the only word to describe a simple requirement to prove that you have the right to vote as a step on the 24th amendment. It can only be demanded by people that want to rig elections.
There was a post about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893690
The problem is a landing spot in the city and noise. Most buildings no longer have helicopter pads and neighbors are not going to appreciate the amount of dirt your VTOL kicks up whenever you leave for vacation.
After seeing how different an adopted child acted compared to the non adopted ones in a close family member's family, I believe a lot more in nature causing big differences in behavior vs. nurture. Even when you have your own kids, children born 1 or 2 years apart in the same family can have very different personalities.

People don't like it, because it's used to justify fatalistic write offs of people. I agree it's wrong to do that because people are often wrong in writing off people, especially the aggressively independent :)
Lack (or later loss) of those social or charitable goals does not cause the prior act to be (or retroactively become) immoral.
Yeah, the handles on those G5/Mac Pros are downright painful. The current Mac Pro also has handles, and they're round this time!
I was worried about getting ripped when I bought my last Samsung, so I ordered directly from their site. I don't think they use Amazon for fulfillment (unlike Anker), and all was well. Every time I order something from Anker, I worry about getting hosed.
> Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

> Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monumental-acknow...
Obviously you have your personal driver pick you up and bring you to your 10k sqft "cottage" /s
Really both. First, your company can post the notice of filing electronically so that's not a real issue. But yes, there's a chance that PERM filing will be scrutinized more closely and audited and denied with greater frequency. But that hasn't happened yet so I guess in the end I don't buy that approach. I just don't think it makes sense to base decisions on things that might happen.
But that assumes the jobs guarantee is providing a reasonable job environment. Presumably these jobs would have bosses who can be cruel or can be prejudiced. And this being the job of last resort means they would not have an alternative.

I don't think there is a great track record of jobs being run by the government (or farmed out by the government to other organizations) as being idyllic workplaces.

Also a bs job is soul crushing and work-ethic destroying.

The only true power comes from being able to walk away from the control of anyone else, being able to simply say "no". For that, one needs a UBI.
I actually had a lab full of them. I said they were cool, not fast. :-)

Most everyone I knew who had one added a SCSI hard drive real quick to their NeXT cube and moved stuff like swap there, and eventually folks figured out how to replace the optical as the boot drive. If you were desperate, you could swap to NFS which while not much faster was usually smoother (and quieter) than swapping to the optical.
Is it okay to monetize on a mobile app while on H-1B visa?
Something that makes the Eastland quite horrifying is that it didn't take place far out at sea: it took place in the Chicago River. I don't know if you've spent any time in Chicago, but the river goes through the heart of the city. You're walking to the market and you hear some hubbub by the river. You turn the corner, and boom, suddenly you see a few thousand people get flipped into the water and start drowning. Even if "only" 800 of them actually drown, it's still a horrifying thing to see.
The main problem with the way most people look at meritocracy occurs on the fringes. Billionaires deserve that much more because they earned it; if they didn't, it'd mean the system is broken, corrupt, or both. The destitute deserve it, because they earned it; if they didn't "".

Irl some people deserve more than others, but the gap is made up and silly, and everyone is better off when everyone is taken care of. You don't want people who have nothing to lose, but notions of meritocracy make people think it's unfair to take care of everyone.
Where to outsource is the right question. I could write a word processor, but my company just buys me Microsoft office. My company could buy the software I wrote from an outsourcer, but we consider it a competitive advantage to do it in house.