skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg never need to work another day in their lives. Are you arguing they are miserable, self destructive, have lost purpose and will soon die?

People don't need a Sword of Damocles hanging over their head threatening them with homelessness, loss of medical treatment and hunger solely because they didn't find purpose in life.

How is being miserable and self destructive and losing purpose, as a worst case scenario, worse than homelessness, drug addiction, loss of friendship, family, self respect, health and medical treatment?

I mean, I don't see the connection. Are you saying that unless people are literally threatened with homelessness, starvation and death they won't find purpose on their own?
Again, as I said, I don't believe Russia has a reason to believe they'd win hence further advances in anti-nuclear defense only lessen the chance of them attacking not increase it.

If one side ends up controlling the other or there's a favorable truce to one side that side wins. All war is nasty and results in terrible destruction. Doesn't mean there's no winner at the end of it. I can throw random percentages around too. According to one simulation ("Crisis Relocation Program 2B") from the 80s given a few days of advance notice up to 80% of Americans could survive a nuclear war with Russia. One should strive to reduce potential casualties as much as possible.
Do relocation programs, shelters etc "violate MAD" in your book too? Because they certainly lessen the D part.

We know of at least two instances where Russians were close to erroneously launching nukes . Only stopped due to personnel disobeying procedures. It's almost inevitable one day someone somewhere will launch a nuke for whatever reason. Better be ready when that happens. Your strategy only kicks the can down the road and provides no way out. While in the meantime giving Russia and other adversaries all the reasons to keep continuing with their aggression. Is nobody allowed to ever attack Russia because of "MAD"?
> I once saw a 1 hour presentation on the cryptography design of the iPhone compared to an Android phone. The IOS design used layers of fine-grained encryption and was obviously carefully thought out to protect the consumer from: device theft, misbehaving apps, illegal searches by law enforcement, and even nation-state levels of spying.

When was this? Do you have a link? Was this like the usual grandiose presentations that Apple usually does? Cause I don't think this how it is for last few years.

Disc: Google but nowhere close to Android other than using an Android phone.
How the Guardian is an alternative to someone who consume Murdoch media? The Guardian is a far left leaning paper while people who read news.com.au wants something more towards the centre or even right.
If money is in a bank it is being redistributed throughout the economy at 1 / the fractional reserve ratio. So $200 billion in their bank account could end up creating $2 trillion in additional money supply in the economy, originating from loans.
I think the reason for lack of f keys is a two fold:

1. It's cheaper and easier to have less switches on a board. Some people are using switches that push a dollar or more a switch. That's an extra ten bucks for keys that... most people don't use that often. It also makes it easier for board layout I imagine, but I'll admit I don't have much knowledge on creation of custom PCBs.

2. One of the things I've seen complained about with the Ergodox and the reason most of the variants (Gergo, Iris, Corne) is the same thing your friend said. The extra keys that aren't in easy reach add more hand movement. When you have a thumb cluster as a lot of these boards do adding more layers is relatively trivial. Most of these boards have software that lets you output macros as well meaning that you can essentially output key short cuts that would have used the f keys, or any other 3 plus combination of keys as just two. Germ over a Gboards has taken this concept to absurdity with the Ginny. It has ten keys and is heavily inspired by stenography style chording.

I used to be in your boat, not thinking I'd ever want something smaller then maybe a 75% or ten keyless. However I recently got a 64% keyboard that has a split space bar. I'll admit I haven't found myself missing the f keys as much as I thought I would. The closer positioning of the arrow keys has left my elbows feeling better at the end of the day. It's also close enough to a normal keyboard that even with a few substitutions (esc is now where caps lock is. Backspace is right thumb.) my muscle memory seems to be fine when switching back and forth.
Can I put a product in Walmart and tell users they can get it cheaper elsewhere - in Walmart?
> So parenting isn't useful and children should pay their parents?

They should, most cultures express it in the form of an expectation that children take care of their parents in their old age.
You can write a locale for LC_COLLATE to make pretty much anything sort any way you'd like :) http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/
After 40 years I've decided that dependencies are the root all evil. There is something to be said for curated libraries and frameworks.
Comparing AVA, Jest, & Mocha Test Runners (with new –parallel mocha 8.x feature)
The cash hoard is for making powerful acquisitions that can rock industries. 200 billion might not even be enough to buy some really big players out there. Don’t sweat it.
You're still off quite a ways in your analogy. I get paid to develop software that someone else owns and brands and makes all decisions for. For nothing more than money. It's nothing like my passion projects, which I do not get paid for at all. Most of the time. Maybe 1 in a 1000 that I will get paid for them in any meaningful way.
The op talks about sulforaphane but then links to an article about vitamin a and e(I don't know why) They're totally different chemicals that work through completely different pathways.

And a study on vitamin a and e etc doesn't tell you much about other supplements. Just like how a study on does whether or not statins are associated with reduced mortality tells you little about whether or not ACE inhibitors are associated with reduced mortality.

Also I don't think op meant primary source as in primary vs secondary sources but meant in the sense of "this doctor primarily uses Cochrane as his source for information"
That's still downstream of Florida's sunshine laws. If that happens in your state, there's a chance the media doesn't hear about it, or hears about it too late.

In Florida, the media hears about anything that involves an arrest because it's all published for public inspection. It's not just mugshots but other records too.

The smallest community newspapers in Florida will have a section about who got arrested.
The Kinesis does look pretty interesting, I'm doing some research on it. $349 seems a bit pricey, but at least it does have the full key layout (even if the function keys are rubber).
I think it is quite ironic that an article about an epistemology that rejects criticism of itself was flagged.
Twitter removes chronological sorting for tweets
Wayland does have some ways (meaning protocols) to do explicit positioning, e.g. relative to a parent owned by the same client (for popups), that have been standardized.

The primary limitation is not to allow clients to set their x,y in the global scene (or even look them up), but there are proposed protocols that allow global positioning in a semantic sense like "I would like to be at the left edge" or "I am an overlay type thing" (z positioning). Some of those are in production use internally to Wayland-based desktop shells, e.g. KDE's Plasma, or used in communities like sway/wlroots+addons (e.g. dmenu implementations).

Why not do x,y? It means you don't have this sort of level positioning code in the apps, which are very expensive or impossible to fix after the fact (apps stop being maintained, etc.) when new ideas come up. Say you want to apply a transform to client windows - scale them, or put them into a 3D sphere in a HMD. Wayland compositors have full flexibility there because the apps don't make assumptions.
So now we define monopoly as only one company can sell its own products? Doesn’t that make every company a monopoly?
You're not wrong. It's been a clusterfuck. Where we differ is that you seem to argue what makes sense is to return to status quo ante, and I don't see how that makes any kind of sense when the clusterfuck we're arguing about is a side effect of the order-of-magnitude larger clusterfuck that is the economic effect of the ongoing pandemic, and the US government's ongoing and in my opinion frankly treasonable mishandling of said pandemic.

Please excuse my language. At the moment I can find no word in my lexicon which is both less vulgar and still able to capture my depth of feeling.
Macs have had the ability to run unsigned code with no hindrance for ages. There even were numerous software products that modified the system itself. None of this was "tarnishing Apple's precious image". Moreover, back before Apple started notoriously enforcing app signatures requiring a $99 annual fee, people used to love Macs more. They enjoyed the experience of being able to run whatever the hell they wanted on a device they own.
It would be nice if SEC were this dogged in its pursuit of actual insider trading.
The new MBK caps for them are getting some good reviews. Though the one downside of Choc caps is they are directional. Some of the split layouts need 2u vertical and that just doesn't exist.
When they say "cash" they almost certainly mean CCE (Cash and Cash Equivalents), which is being put to productive use by third parties in exchange for nominal interest income.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cashandcashequivalents....
GDP Drops at 32.9% Rate, the Worst U.S. Contraction Ever
Using your analogy imagine the bank had kept the client's money in a cardboard box in a shed out the back. They did this because they didn't want to pay for a safe. The thieves should prosecuted but so should the bank.
BU engineering student persuades book publisher to remove ‘master and slave’
I appreciate this response. I agree that there is a parallel between the virality of WhatsApp and the virality of TikTok. I also thought the WhatsApp price was high, but now in retrospect we can see that actually it was quite low, because people around the world are using whatsapp to replace the functionality of so many different websites (social, ecommerce, gaming, news, payments, etc).

For TikTok however I think there are two concerns. Number one would be the political situation between USA and China. Number two would be the fact that Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube, Twitter, WeChat and so on have already captured so much of whatever there is to capture in this market. I would be surprised if TikTok became the next WhatsApp, I think it's much more likely to be the next Snapchat or Viber.

If I had to buy a Chinese company, it would be Huawei. But Microsoft would find a way to kill that too.
> This is a lie. The question is why is he lying?

What? So the reporter asked for a guess, Dr Fauci threw a number at the air, and you react to a guess by accusing it of being a lie?

And afterwards you failed to even point out any disagreement with the guess. You just threw an ad hominem and.... That's it.
It actually isn’t. When you have a choice between paying a premium and paying half as much like 85% of the world. It isn’t a monopoly.
It is close if you get a CS, Engineering or business degree.
Because cutting taxes will cut spending, and military spending is a sacred cow, so among the useful things the government provides, the average worker needs things like roads and a working school system, and healthcare when they get to Medicare age.
No - it’s the worlds largest hedge fund:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
I’d imagine the FBI has more than just the link to these individuals via their drivers licenses being used for verification. Surely, these drivers licenses may have been used fraudulently by a hacker who wishes not to be found out so embarrassingly?
The latest update? Isn't it basically an incremental improvement? I haven't seen any big changes
Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't Italy having economic problems and struggling with austerity measures back before covid? If a state is on the edge of bankruptcy comparing it to the strongest economy in Europe that isn't exactly a fair comparison is it?
How do you distinguish between "mentioning your values in your marketing" and "your values are merely marketing"? Apple's stated value of customer privacy is pretty difficult to explain as "merely marketing." They clearly put a lot of work into it and in some cases even accept the product feature limitations that come with a privacy-first approach.
Because it is acting against the interests of the users.

Would you still support Apple's position if, say, Apple would roll out update to iOS with new EULA, which would require you to give up your firstborn son for a Satan sacrifice?

Of course, you can refuse, but the device that you supposedly "own" would effectively stop functioning (obsoleted iOS devices lose their usefulness very fast: try doing anything with iPhone 5).
I don't see anyone discussing this but I wonder if this also is a consequence of the platforms making more music available to people.

Artists are now competing in a larger pond. It would make sense (to me), that people move on from certain music quicker than they used too.
Ok I'll bite.

How much do you think would entice someone to be a cashier and work 8 hours a day when someone on unemployment in the current system gets say $3600/month. Imagine a poorer state where you can easily make do with $3.6K per month.

My question is pretty much what would you have to pay someone to show up for a somewhat unpleasant workplace when they don't need an income for a decent life already? (and they would lose their previous income if they did work)

I think the math is not so simple there.
Overcharging has become the norm. Not just in high profile cases but in everyday ones as well. It's an effective leveraging tool used to get the accused to accept the actual charge in a plea bargain.

Generally the American criminal justice system has bent all of its pressure upon convictions without trial. The system is designed to make your life a nightmare upon accusation in the hopes you cannot afford or dare to resist.
> But then these optimizations went so far as fixing (in the driver) broken game code.

AMD does the exact same thing and always has. When you see shaders come down the wire you can replace them with better-optimized or more performant versions. It's almost always fixing driver "bugs" in the game rather than actual game bugs. And the distinction is important.

I do agree with you, but that element is something everyone has to do to remain competitive in games. Developers will only optimize for one platform (because they're crunching), and 9 times out of 10 that's a RTX2080Ti.
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> And guess what? I don’t have to use Comcast.

Pretending everyone has that choice not to.
Back in what day? Aristotle spent considerable time explaining how to achieve eudaimonia. In more recent history, humanist psychologists (e.g., Maslow, Rogers, etc.) have suggested people have an inbuilt tendency towards self actualization (which is roughly equivalent to happiness). I’m sure there are many more examples, but I find it unlikely that happiness has been seriously considered as a vice.
But that's how you get from one to the other. By refusing to use something else, the developer would have to sell through Apple in order to get your business. If they want your business, that's what they'll do.

Meanwhile other people may choose to do something else, e.g. because they would rather that more of what they pay go to the developer (where it's plausible that it be used to improve the software) than to Apple (which can't productively use any more money than it already has). And who are you or Apple to get in the way of this transaction between two independent and consenting third parties?
$300 or whatever it is is a lot, but in the USA it's a rounding error compared to the cost of healthcare for a problem like RSI, and in Europe it's a rounding error for a business compared to the cost of an employee unable to work, or suing because they were not given appropriate (i.e. ergonomic) tools. A DIY version (solder it yourself) is half the cost, but insurance/employer won't buy that.

For others, it's a tool they use for many hours every day. I spent €10 on my kitchen knives, and my friend who is a professional chef is appalled, but I wouldn't want to use his €200 laptop every day.

They're probably only going to sell a few thousand, so there isn't the economy of scale that makes something like a Microsoft Sculpt $100. Finally, it's made from individual components (key switches), so should be easily repairable if a single key should fail, but also took a lot more time to assemble. It ought to last many years.
The arts (TV, movies, music, and related fields such as tourism, architecture, design, advertising) are massive industries in the United States. Then of course there are the soft power benefits of having much of the world grow up staring at America at the movies, singing along to American music, wearing blue jeans, etc. Same goes for many other developed economies.

I admit I am someone who appreciates art for its own sake, but after years spent eroding the post-WW2 edge
in science and manufacturing, creative endeavors are part of what sustains us materially as well as the intangible ways.

You need a bunch of artists for one Breaking Bad, the same way you need many startups for one Facebook or many scientists for one Einstein.
> You are implying they are good actors somehow that are doing all this thinking on you, while in reality they will do whatever they can to maximize their profits, and as long as people like you are fine with it, nothing will change.

Yes. Americans fully support their money going towards 2 trillion dollar companies as long as their device works well and they can upgrade to the fastest model every 2-4 years.
To 'Disrupt,' Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers (2019)
It's my opinion that Florida is weirder, because driving around, the weird signs of weird people (roadside, or on their vehicles for instance) are weirder and more common than up north. Not an airtight proof, but an independent datum not biased for the same reasons as the news.
People really need to stop suggesting using condoms as a solution. It’s not a solution.

First, it puts the blame on the victim. “Oh you got an STD? Should have used a condom.” Stop blaming the victim. Birthday suits don't come with condoms by default and many people expect unprotected sex, so it’s a reasonable expectation that people don't wear condoms.

Secondly there are a lot of places that people have SEX (Software EXchange). It’s not convenient to put on condoms in all places. If I used condoms when going to the local glory hole, every dick I sucked that needed a condom would make me stop, go to my bag, find my box of condoms, open one, and put it on him. Then go back to sucking dicks, bust this guy's nut, then go through the hassle of taking the condom off. That’s not a reasonable workflow to even suggest.

Lastly... ah nevermind, I don’t actually want to know if you honestly believe anyone is enforcing sex-after-marriage with a gun. It’s not true in any way but it’s such a ludicrous statement that I honestly don’t even want to hear if you’re being serious or not. For my own mental health I will pretend you’re joking.
Arm China CEO has refused to step down after being dismissed by Arm's board
Can I advertise in Walmart that they can buy the sane item cheaper from my own website?
"GPT-3 looks more like a sustaining innovation than a disruptive innovation"

Definitely see GPT-3 as a utility to augment existing functions within a product than something that stands on its own. One immediate use case I was thinking about was a way to auto generate decent meta descriptions for different pages on a site
Or worse than Scarface’s example - everything they have in China gets permanently appropriated by the government, and they have to rebuild all the supply chains somewhere else.
When we're out of virus times look for a mechanical keyboard meet up near you. A lot of times you'll run into a ton of people who will want nothing more then talk to you about their choice of split keyboard.
But spending coins doesn't give you cash back rewards either.
The current state of iOS software is that you can't run Signal in China. Or torrent client anywhere.
Nice job on this, I'm going to try runnaroo for a week. (frank feedback, it's a terrible domain name, hope you take this constructively)
Yes, they do. Typically after a few years working.
This is very narrow minded. Firstly, you imply that people find purpose in their jobs. Secondly, you seem to ignore that this purpose can come from other aspects in life than wage labour?

It blows my mind that people that are so prone to speaking about freedom wrt Capitalism always seem to be very uncomfortable with freedom in its literal sense.

This also reminds me of the opening lines of Bertrand Russell's essay "In Praise of Idleness":

"Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment."
Hot Stuff (or why we need tools to think clearly)
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Nope... it's been an issue in GTK's tracker for over 16 years. They would have passed the buck long time ago if it wasn't their issue.
> ...because unemployment checks are the only thing preventing a broader, systemic collapse when millions can’t pay for their housing, healthcare, and consumer demand implodes.

One of many necessary things, but not the only thing or sufficient by itself. Eviction protections, etc., are also part of the mix.