skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been going some anarch-communist rabbit holes lately. I feel I'm leaning more and more libertarian socialist. I'd accept government medicare for all, but I'm losing hope govt will ever do anything for people.

Another alternative would be: 1 million people start a union, virtual nation, online commune - whatever you want to call it. They donate 5% of their income. That's used for rental property investments, until we have a decent monthly recurring income from rentals.

Then we invest in other things like members startup ideas (as long as they use a worker-coop business structure).

Eventually we pay healthcare costs for all members, and ubi. 100% of money coming back going back out to the people who created it.

We could eventually buy hospitals, drug companies etc and get a stronger hold on the medical costs as well. Flip the script so self-pay and union members get discounts, and insurance carriers pay higher premiums. Maybe we even startup our own insurance companies in all 50 states. All worker-coops. All with CEO capped pay of 10x worker average.

Essentially using a tactic called 'dual power' to wrest power away from the insurance cartel.
Looks like it's only the cosmic bodies formerly known as "Eskimo Nebula" (NCG 2392 [1]) and "Siamese Twin Galaxies" (NCG 4567 [2] and NCG 4568 [2] that are changing right now, but if anything else comes up, or if they have to refer to something with an offensive name they won't use the name.

[1] https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/07/940-Ima...
[2] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190201.html
Google Play is a dumpster fire compared to the App Store, and despite alternative app stores as competition still charges 30%.
If cost is the only issue we should be subsidising it and turning farmland into succession forest.
AT&T's WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar Ousts HBO Max's Top Leadership
I think the difference is that the BSE crisis caused massive regulatory change, with farming, slaughter and rendering practices dramatically changes across a continent. Whereas the US does seem to just have this sort of thing routinely.
I won't tell you what to work on next but I would be very interested in an analysis of the 8086/8088 instruction decoding and microcode structure. TBH I watch and read everything you do with great interest.
Me too: https://weberc2.github.io/

I'm also curious what problems this presents and what platform the OP thinks we ought to use and why.

EDIT: Interestingly, I just Googled `"github is not a blog"` and the only hit was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910089 also from the OP 3 months ago where he also didn't support his position.
Not a movie, but a Monty Python sketch - "Ministry of Silly Walks"

In the sketch, the Python gang presents a culture that values silly walks and their development and a government that sponsors their study and development. There's even a critical discussion of what constitutes an "interesting silly walk".

Mind blown.

It offered a fresh perspective where I thought, what if we look at music (ex: singing) as "silly talk". Pretty much the entire sketch would hold. I started taking art stuff less seriously which had a lightening effect on my life .. coming from a family of musicians.
Well, don't stare at them. You know in advance that your contact will be walking down Merriweather Lane at 11:30am. If his shoes sport a single "X" near the bottom, that means the dead drop has the microfilm ready for pickup. If it doesn't have that "X", then try again next Tuesday.

If you see two X's in his lacing, the package is at the alternate drop site.

If he has 3 X patterns, you're burned! Make your way to the safehouse after losing any potential tails.

Glance quickly, agent, and keep moving.
There is a lot of misinformation for LSD and other psychedelics, going back to the 60's. I certainly remember all those whispered rumors of the kid that took some and though the could fly and jumped out the 6 story window.

If you're looking for an objective (in my opinion) perspective on LSD and other psychedelics, consider getting a copy of How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. Definitely a good read.
There was KIRIN from Huawei which was quite good before US killed it due to national security concerns.

And now US chip is genuine security concern for rest of the world.
Dead Man Walking

Growing up, I was always pro-death penalty and never thought much about it. My parents were pro-death penalty, after all, and I always assumed their political positions were well reasoned.

Dead Man Walking depicted the horrors of the death penalty, and how it can sentence an innocent man to an irreversible punishment. And, even if the man is guilty, it is barbaric for the state to put someone to death.

I never thought deeply about the death penalty before that movie. After watching it, I understood that the only real reason for the death penalty to be inflicted is vengeance, an instinct a just society should not indulge.
I think it originated with the Lisa. It's mentioned in that context on folklore.org (1):

> Lisa users never dealt with Lisa applications directly (these were called tools in Lisa parlance) but instead always manipulated stationery pads which produced documents.

(1) https://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&in...
Or just abstain from groups, but that comes with its own costs
I like Apples devices, but aren't they just as vulnerable to CPU bugs?

There's plenty of good reasons to use an iOS device (and some good reasons to avoid one), but I wouldn't think that CPU bug would be a particularly strong reason on either side.
Making remarks about a person rather than the subject is outright ad hominem (once again, regardless of intent). There is no context where it isn't. I was wrong before about it being "undeniable"; it can be denied. But if you do deny it, then you're wrong.
I would say it slightly different:

Google is known for shipping experiences that are used by hundreds of millions of people.

Unfortunately that model means they have to ignore everyone individually.
Apple is a fashion house. They will be around for quite a while, and still have time to turn things around, but if they keep at their current pace, they will be back to irrelevance in 2 decades. Apple builds beautiful looking hardware. Software wise? Complete garbage.
Do you also hold the same views for brand names?
Would the latch still work without the clock pass transistors? It seems to me that as long as there is no overlap between hold and load and they are not both low for too long it would store a bit in a controlled fashion. The output would change earlier with no relation to the clock, so that might be a problem (or not) depending on the next circuit.
> And honestly, the problem has been so difficult to solve, that I think every AWS customer leveraging Instance Profiles or machine roles is vulnerable to this somewhere. If one app gets compromised and you haven't limited blast radius, you're screwed.

What a shit product. I loved it back when we could discuss IT infrastructure without using AWS product names.

They have infiltrated IT and the prices will continue to rise. If you took the bait; you're screwed.

They are ripping through your data (hosted on THEIR machines) to compete against you.

Here are my thoughts. IT'S A TRAP! STAY AWAY!
I do wonder why this guy thinks that the rights to a successful song are an "uncorrelated" asset. Wouldn't strong economic growth mean that people are far more likely to spend money on these things? Especially for 'sync' rights which mostly come up for things like ads, or derivative mass-marketed media (e.g. successful song X ends up in the soundtrack of movie Y)? Just seemed like a weird claim to me.
naive question: would it help w/ energy costs to have the vertical farms under ground and to use mirrors to redirect sunlight (I guess it will still not be enough and require additional artificial lighting?)

one argument against vertical farming seems to be the high occupancy costs in larger cities. Why not build them outside of cities and connect them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming#Problems
Checkout "The man who wasn't there"
> I've concluded that the world typically teaches boys from an early age how to have a public reputation and public relations and girls generally don't get the same info to the same degree.

That would be contrary to popular wisdom, which says that girls are taught to be much more social from an earlier age, and as such, they generally have a better understanding of social dynamics, whereas boys tend to be more socially obtuse.

> I've had a really hard time figuring out why I had such an extremely hard time interacting with the public. It took a long time to get any kind of handle on that.

Just my two cents but: just being different from the norm will often get you weird, unfriendly looks.

From what I read in your discourse, I get the impression that it seems to you like boys have it easy/better, socially, but I can tell you, having been on the other side of the fence, that when boys are "out of line", they literally get beat up, repeatedly... And society somehow accepts this, "boys will be boys".

Being opinionated is not always well-received, both for men and women. Generally, people like opinionated if those opinions are just reinforcing their own... I do agree that men can get away with being more opinionated in some situations, but I don't think it's just a free pass. It only works if you're at the top of the social hierarchy. Maybe this is where we are in agreement. Society has difficulty accepting women being opinionated because it has difficulty accepting women being at the top of the social hierarchy. To fix that, it helps to fix gender norms, but we should also strive to live in a society where everyone can express their opinion, not just those at the top of the hierarchy.
If it settles, do you get a consistent texture when drinking it? Ever tried to foam it for a latte?
Eastern European, I drink milk (though lactose free, I like it but am lactose intolerant) either by itself (cold) or with a croissant or something similar. It is pretty common here for people to drink milk by itself. I was unaware people only consumed milk with their coffee, that is strange to me.

Also, question to people who only drink milk with coffee: Do you buy small processed pouches of milk for one cup of coffee, or do you drink enough coffee to use up a 1L (~4 "cups" in US lingo) packaging of milk before it goes bad in the fridge?
Because occupancy cost is very low outside the cities.
A few films with an emphasis on dialogue. Made me realize how much can be carried (plot, mood, the whole world of the work of art) by party A and party B doing nothing but talking.

* Jiang Wen - Keep Cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Cool_(film)

* Malle - My Dinner with Andre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Andre

* Jarmusch - Coffe and Cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_Cigarettes
Must be completely oblivious to every obscene tech scandal over the past ten years to make a statement like this.
Wrote code to solve a Ladybug puzzle for my little daughter.

Wrote a Sudoku solver for my wife, and a Cryptoquote puzzle solver for her as well, for when she gets stuck.

Wrote an election list manager for a municipal candidate I supported.

A program to choose the position of strips of tongue-and-groove hardwood flooring, so that the cracks would not be adjacent. Had to measure every piece. Just so I would not have to listen to my wife remark "What a shame those two pieces are so close" for the next ten years. Named the program "Birch", from the wood. Ran ten minutes on a 286.
"hence not in CLI applications" is that specific aspect accurate? I'm no longer mac user but thought mdfind (https://ss64.com/osx/mdfind.html) was the command line version of what smart folders use. Not the same as a filesystem but usable for many CLI apps.
I think so. Just create a new Smart Folder, set the condition to something that matches all files, for example "Created is after 1970" and sort by "Date Created".
The Swedish doctor also has a remarkably cavalier attitude about mortality and
I'm willing to bet quite a large sum that he wouldn't be so gung-ho about it
if he were 80 years old himself.

It is surprising to hear someone who is supposed to care about the bodies and
minds of people be such a cowboy when it comes to their lives. If it's not a
big deal for people over 80 to die because "quite a few [of them] would have
died this year anyway", maybe we should stop admitting people over 80 to
hospitals and save the costs of their care? Does that really sound like a
sensible proposition?

I am reminded of the Italian scientist, Rita Levi-Montalcini who receivead a
Nobel prize in physiology of medicine at 77 and continued to work and make
contributions well into her last years of life until she died at 103 [1]. Of
course there are exceedingly few such exceptional people, but my point is that
it is perfectly possible for someone to enjoy many years of a productive life
after their 80'th birthday and perhaps we should be doing more to ensure that
this is not such a rare occurrence, rather than assuming that all those old
fossils are dying anyway and leave them to it because them young 'uns wants to
go out dancin' and drinkin'.

After all, most people plan to grow old anyway. How many of us are comfortable
with the idea that, in our old age, priority will be given to "the economy",
not to mention the very economy we worked our arse off to keep going while we
were young? What is this economy anyway, Moloch?

________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini
Southwest Airlines Strengthens Onboard Mask Policy
Maybe not on the Internet, but go back to old Library of Congress rules.

You used to need to file a copy with the Library of Congress to obtain copyright. Then they'd start filing it, but immediately taking it out on loan, and lose it. Then they'd "file" it and take it out on loan before ever giving it over; the copy for the library never existed. Then they decided to just give up on the farce, and not make you file.

To renew a work, you should have to actually file a (non-DRM) copy with the Library of Congress, and not take it out on loan. If it's important enough to renew, it's important enough for the Library to demand an actual copy.

Now, I don't support having to file with the Library of Congress for the initial copyright, that'd disproportionately hurt independent people who publish on the Internet.
The Matrix - For me it is a deeply philosophical/spiritual film. We are surrounded by illusion that we cannot see. All suffering/joy is nothing but electrical signal in our brain. We always have this yearning that there is more to life than this. Also the action sequences are not bad :).
Really drank Disney's cool-aid, huh?
And that example has a cinnamon sugar syrup added to it.
If that was the intent of the film, it didn't work on me. It starts out with shots of nature and then I guess the idea was supposed to be, "Along comes mankind, industrialism ruins everything, life is out of balance!". But the problem is that it is all so gorgeous. Shots of Pruitt–Igoe being blown up, the Twinkie factory assembly line, traffic jams, bridges collapsing, a rocket exploding, all shot so that they are beautiful trippy visual wallpaper.
I had a similar idea, but the organization would provide health insurance from the start. Basically, all gig economy/independent contractors/small business owners could pay into it and get better health insurance than they could buy as independent entities.
I'm a long time Linux user who found himself in Windows for client work.

WSL 2 is unreasonably good. Hope this guide helps someone else looking to do development in Linux but doesn't know how.
Lactose intolerance is actually the original state for (adult) humans, while lactase persistence is an evolved adaption in cultures that drink a lot of unfermented dairy.

Which kind of proves that dairy is a significant enough part of many cultures' diet that it caused an evolutionary change! But these days you can buy lactase very cheaply in pill form, so really anyone can "have" the adaptation.

And many cultures with genetic lactose intolerance still consume a lot of fermented dairy.
> how do you get the average person writing more at work?

Some people have many answers, but other people have many questions. So I think encouraging people to ask more (even stupid) questions might be a way to get the discussion going.
Of the creators you know, how many of them would rank the limited duration of copyright terms among their chief worries that lead them to re-think a career as a creator?
I managed to fix the font rendering on my Mojave Hackintosh, but everything is still fucked on my 16-inch MacBook Pro running Catalina.
I haven't seen it yet. Guess it's going on my "to watch" list :)
> More copyright helps creators and incentivizes creation.

This is false. It helps corporations and hardly anyone else. There was incentive to create music and other works before copyright and there would still be without it.
I'm reminded of the scene in the "Last Emperor" when the young Emperor Puyi is weaned at a much later age from breast milk.

Have there been any studies on long term consumption of breast milk, well into adulthood? If you think about it, breast milk has many minerals and important nutrients, including endocannabinoids like 2-AG.
Wow, thank you! I start my day off by launching 10 or more applications and have always procrastinated on my plans to automate this.
Facebook removes troll network posing as Black Trump supporters
This is what I do. I just place it in a plastic bag and don't use it for about a week. I have enough to let me use one each day and quarantine the used mask for a week.
Your larger cities are already shaded to hell, and the skyscrapers are fighting each other for the remaining scraps that are left.

Your system of mirrors will occupy the same amount of space (or close to) as your farm would need. But it will be expensive to build and expensive to maintain and to protect against the elements.
I do not think "they" (whoever likes these living room mics_ ever think that. I think they believe "convenience" is the advantage. In the long run, I predict that this idea of convenience will be long forgotten. Eventually, no one is going to think of these mics as "convenient". That is because there will be no alternative. In order to book that vacation, you will be required to use the mic. If people do not recognise the value in the alternatives that are being lost, certainly those providing them won't either.
Honestly I think it’s just for show. There was a deal with Foxconn to set up shop in the US, but that never materialised either.
The great thing about three-finger drag is when you reach the end of the trackpad, you can lift one finger and put another finger to continue the drag. Tap and drag on Windows couldn't do that.
The usual reason programmers object to ugly, hacky code is that it's a lot harder to be justifiably confident that such code actually does produce the right answer -- "garbage in, garbage out" is just as true in function position as it is in argument position.
"Noone sleeps until this is fixed" sounds like a great way to make things even worse.
> Could you tell the difference between Tupac and an impersonator?

Probably not, but learning to impersonate Tupac isn't "zero effort" (and I'd imagine that it required access to copyrighted material).

To be explicit: copyright is awful and I'd like to see it abolished. It's important to realize that nifty stuff like Tupac vocoders are not "zero effort" and require public access to data that intellectual propertarians want to have monopolies on.
Bear in mind that food poisoning isn’t free. It is not in society’s interest to have people off work sick, taking up medical capacity, and dying early. The advances in food safety over the 20th and 21st century was a great social good, and backsliding would be bad.

I do think that one problem, particularly in societies like the US where people don’t go to their GP very frequently, is that it’s pretty hard to measure impacts, because there’s little reliable data on mild (but economically impactful) cases.
An explosion of work created doesn’t mean popularity. You can go to YouTube and find endless user generated good work. Popular (and hence valuable) music is the one that they system curates and puts in front of you (radio, shows etc.). In fact most people don’t even take a deep liking to a song in their first listen. But the system ensures repeatability which is a key factor in success. Then there is the social aspect of everyone liking it together.
A meaningless argument. The Internet is for communication, which is still its primary purpose.
Ctrl+Shift+Esc (hold) to force-quit a locked up fullscreen app.
Google says a flat white doesn’t have milk foam. So 1/3 less ingredients than a latte. A latte, cappuccino, and macchiato all seem way more similar. I’m here to argue that coffee is more normcore than hipster.
You've missed my point. Please see my other comment.
“ @BrandonEnright Yeah, I have. I agree that the difference in time for the two bullets will be so tiny that it doesn't even really matter. I'm just asking if there would be a tiny difference. – chbaker0 Dec 13 '14 at 2:20”
It’s relevant, but also easy to measure. GI is a guess at what the product will do to your blood sugar. A diet high in fiber they included oatly with a meal is going to give a very different insulin response than oatly in isolation which will likely be different again when compared to pure maltose. I am not diabetic and had fun measuring my blood sugar for a while. Full meals with a lot of fiber, even if they included high GI foods didn’t do a lot to my blood sugar compared to high GI foods in isolation. So, as a diabetic, you just have to know how your body handles some foods and how best to consume them (or not).
Wow, Google did lunch with ad scanning huh! I misremembered the controversy, I followed it closely at launch but that was loong ago.

That does hurt my premise but I think it overall still holds:

- Google did stop reading email for ads in 2017 as I said in an other post[1].

- Google does have a policy of innovate then monetize later. That was explicitly what they did with Google Maps

- GMail was a good (but bit wrong as I brought up!) example of creeping surveillance, but Chrome provides a good example as well[2]. Google sells ads, it's products will be optimized to gather information for it.

[1] https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/google-chrome-privacy/google...
Bugs can be discovered anywhere. The question is whether those bugs will be patched.

The original iPhone SE is about to start it's sixth year of OS updates and security patches.

Which works out to less than $70 per supported year.

That's a legitimate advantage over the Android ecosystem.
I personally would be interested in a tour of "rep movsb", as I consider it one of the interesting (and enduring) features of x86. I figure this'll take you pretty deep into microcode, especially the register-dependent sequencing.
> You can pay the living expenses of a whole lot of would-be-starving-artists-but-actually-baristas, for an enormous number of years, if you can collect investment revenue from the one who turned out to be Stephen King.

even with unlimited-length copyright, who would do that? if I'm the investor, I would just find a bunch of aspiring artists and offer to pay their living expenses for a year in exchange for ownership of the copyright. I'd ditch the ones that didn't make money and offer better terms to the successful ones for their next work. with unlimited-length copyright, I might be willing to give more people a one-year shot, but the end result would still be that most of them go back to their barista job.
Planet money had a really good episode about the romaine salmonella outbreak. The problem was that the water supply was tainted because it would go through protected federal land and the feces of the animal grazing on the land would get into the water supply. I wonder if this is the case for the onions.