skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no natural right to private property. There is only something close to a right to your own labour.

You can make a claim to that spear, of course. It's the product of your labour, you would get to own it, and you made it with freely available resources. One would call this "personal property".

However, imagine this scenario. You and I get marooned on an unclaimed island. I claim the island before you get the opportunity. Because of my claim on this land, which now becomes my private property, I force you to give me that spear.

This is exactly what happened in all of the globe. People laid claim to land, resources and capital that they did not build, and this is precisely the base of all private property beforethen. If I were to get any object I own, I could trace my ownership of that object to someone that, at some point, violently decided that some land is theirs, and based on the idea that the land is theirs seized the product of the labour of various people who had no choice but to work it or die.

So, unless you agree that seizing land that was not yours violently is a reasonable way of generating ownership, you come to the conclusion that the ownership of essentially everything in our society is illegitimate, and can only be motivated for utilitarian reasons.

If you do, then you agree that I have a right to your spear :)
> I think that's wrong. Your productivity gains are mostly due to technology and rise of Asia.

IMO the average person hasn’t gotten enough of the gains from tech and it’s one of the things that worries me. As automation accelerates we can’t tolerate a handful of elites reaping all the benefits from that.

I don’t know much about the USA tax system. I’m Canadian. We pay high taxes and I don’t have a problem with it. In general though, I think the wealthy elite in the world have been capturing a disproportionate amount of the wealth / productivity gains since the 80s.

I also think the rewards for “success” are way too high for CEOs, etc.. They claim to be irreplaceable, but whenever something bad happens and they get called before Congress they act like they barely know more than the janitor. I think their only real value is in knowing all the other rich people.

I believe in capitalism and think hard work needs to be rewarded, but that the rewards are skewed too much. Once you have 100x the standard of living of the average person in the wealthiest countries in the world I think that should be enough. Everything else is just pure greed.
> If all you need is diffing source code, I’d really consider buying

That's a giant leap. If you just need one thing, don't buy a IDE! If you just need to diff source code, use `diff` cli. Available everywhere and in some more places.

If you need something more than diff, find a proper comparison tool, unless you're already using an IDE of course. Or unless you need to also write/read code in the same tool. Then maybe IDE is fitting.

Your recommendation is very strange.
> Microsoft (TM) knows better and sees backwards compatibility as the holy grail

This is true, they have a regrettable habit of inventing a new GUI toolkit every few years, but they're good at ensuring the old ones still work.

> While the traditional buildsystem used on UNIX, autoconf, has its warts, it was designed in such a way that only the application developer required the full set of tools, whereas the consumer requires only a POSIX compatible shell environment and a make program.
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> More "modern" build systems like cmake and meson don't give a damn about the dependencies a user has to install

True, you have to install CMake to build packages that use CMake, but I'm not sure it would be possible for CMake to generate a shell script the way autotools does, without losing either its scripting power or its portability to non-Unix platforms (e.g. Visual Studio). Personally though I don't score this very high up the list of things wrong with CMake. [0][1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565266

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203172
>I don't like the state of software other people wrote

The idea of a Linux desktop is stupid to the core, and has crippled Linux more than anything Pottering will come up with next.

Everything past the kernel is software you choose to install and use, stop using it if you don't like it and learn to deal without it.
> - Non-linear and procedural workflow with nodes (similar to how Houdini does it) saves so much time as well

And nodes already implemented in the `master` branch of the Olive Video Editor.[0]

[0] https://github.com/olive-editor/olive
Presumably, that's the difference in the price of labor (and potentially regulations around setting it up).

Marginal cost for data transfer is pretty cheap (I remember seeing something like $.03 per GB).

Most of the cost of a telecom is in getting the rights required to set it up (fcc rights/land rights/ etc), and start-up labor (building poles/burying cable/building towers/etc). Running it is (by comparison) fairly cheap day to day.

Also, a reduction in start-up costs means more players can be in the game -> more competition -> lower prices.
On France, the second lockdown started a week ago, but honnestly it should start mid september…
I'm a bit confused, reading through comments here, this seemed like some nefarious issue, reading the conversation thread in the op though it seems like an error with the .nomedia file in the folder that's fixed by either appending a second dot to the front of the file name or removing the file.

I'm still unclear whether this was some intentional issue or an error.

The fix seems easy enough, if a bit opaque and non-obvious.

That thread's also from September, does this issue still exist?
Scroll down past the fold and you see a picture of a live flying squirrel also with fluorescent fur.
Daily Crunch: Netflix tests a linear video channel
Words can absolutely hurt. Trump's rhetoric has severely ramped up partisan anger and disaffection, contributing to real violence in several cases.

I don't believe it's the case that Biden or anyone in the leadership of the Democratic party has advocated for violence against people with wrong opinions, or indeed anyone.
> Nix is a nice research project

It's not. As far as I can tell, it's used heavily in some corporate environments once you're faced with solving the development environment dependency hell and you need something that actually solves your problem. (This is my story too.)

> ...and now I manage my personal machines with a simple Ansible playbook

Where Nix is used you typically don't have "personal machines". And having a separate guy just doing setups of developer environments is a huge overhead.
Especially if you're using nodes, use selective cache re-rendering: https://youtu.be/8Mu9UBPBm_k?t=139
Accountability is a way for society to correct societal ills - put people in prison so they stop committing crimes and to serve justice, for instance. Forgiveness is a way for society to move forward. There’s an infinite amount of “tomorrow”, but few things need to be infinitely repeated.
How sad it must be to be as joyless as you.
Gnome/Gtk has high churn, KDE/Qt is rather stable, perhaps in part because Qt is used by lots of commercial applications.
Sometime in this century, we will have a cure for most cancers.

Most likely by catching it very early.

There’s nothing arrogant about humanity working really hard to solve a problem.

I’m sure the Big Guy would rather we had spent the $2 trillion on cancer research instead of 2 wars.
I don't want to debug multiple programs when mail isn't getting sent or received. I don't want to have programs that think they've sent mail when they've just handed off responsibility to some other program. And, closely related, I don't want to have incidents where mail isn't getting sent and I don't know that.

I'd like a mail client as capable as mutt, but that also works whether I'm online or not, handles mail sync automatically in the background while I start processing those mails, lets me browse and search and draft responses offline, and has a built-in idea of "has that mail been sent yet?" rather than just saying "sent" the moment a mail goes into another queue the client doesn't manage without giving any status for when it actually gets sent. And all that while also leaving mail on the server so that other mail clients such as K-9 mail on my phone (which can do all those things) can also process mail.

Sometimes I like "programs that do one thing well". But doing mail well involves taking full responsibility for mail.
Yes, that's a loan. Who the hell would do that?
http://math.uni.lu/eml/projects/reports/prime-distribution.p...
Misguided Power Bank Myths you should know about
Looks interesting but kinda expensive. Any option to download only part of it at a lower price?
From my point of view, the open source and free software succeeded and went to it's apogee. But now, as noticed by this article, companies noticed that they could make a lot of money with that, and so there is a corporate take over of companies that don't have the core values but see the marketing interest of the oss.

So, little by little they used their money to get control of the main oss software/stacks and impose their flawed values. Look at npmjs, github bought by Microsoft, the Linux community that is now mostly corporate, os like Ubuntu, shitty tools like docker and mongodb and co...
Problem: if the user is directly signing with their ID key, then that vote is identifiable as having come from that user. Votes MUST be anonymous.

There are ways to get around this, but votes must not be attributable to individual citizens.
> “One evening,” says Anich, “he heard the chirp of a flying squirrel at a bird feeder, pointed the flashlight at it, and was amazed to see pink fluorescence.”
Trump increased his popularity with both Black men and women.

Biden just got an even bigger increase in metro areas from Blacks, and a higher % of D Black votes than any President ever (including Obama in 2008).
I am adding Meld to the list.

https://meldmerge.org/
I see, that's a good point: I'm used to pg_upgrade in --link mode, but if you want to be safe and have an isolated old cluster around, you're right: you'll still need to copy the data. Thanks for clarifying.
We already have that and call it Android.

Just wait til all web sites run WASM and WebGL to draw their content, so you can't even copy or hide the text on your screen.
Forgiveness is the next moral step after accountability. Jennings took accountability and apologized [0]. Therefore, forgiveness is now where we go.

My comment is already getting too political and culture wars-ey to be suitable for HN, for me, but at the risk of pushing that further I would like to add this: the moral nitpicking and flogging of public figures needs to end.

There are real villains out there, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby who need to be and have been held to account, and there are real issues out there, like ageism and sexism in hiring processes. Focusing on trivial matters like this not only doesn't help the movement to justice, but actively harms it.

A recent quote from Andrew Yang:

> “I would say, ‘Hey! I’m running for president!’ to a truck driver, retail worker, waitress in a diner, and they would say, ‘What party?’ And I’d say ‘Democrat’ and they would flinch like I said something really negative or I had just turned another color or something like that.” Yang told CNN host Don Lemon during a panel.

> “So you have to ask yourself, what has the Democratic Party been standing for in their minds?,” he continued. “And in their minds, the Democratic Party, unfortunately, has taken on this role of the coastal urban elites who are more concerned about policing various cultural issues than improving their way of life that has been declining for years.” [1]

[0]: https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/987423884436647936

[1]: https://nypost.com/2020/11/07/andrew-yang-calls-out-democrat...
> Trump doesn't define what socialism is or is not. Taxes are a taking of the proceeds of an enterprise, the more taken the more the owner is de facto the government.

In a socialist society there is no concept of individual property and therefore no concept of taxation. The concept of taxation is unique to a capitalist society. Beyond that, I'd say that what the taxes are used for defines whether it leans socialist or not.

Further, I disagree, taking the proceeds does not exert control or ownership until the level is substantially higher than it is now. Either way, a business' income apportionment doesn't matter as much these days thanks to the rise of equity.

> [Rent Control] It's local and state Democratic policy, and it certainly is socialistic.

Rent control is interesting, as I firmly disagree with it -- for being bad policy. I can see how this policy diminishes the value of personal property, though I could get behind it if it worked. The most effective approach I've seen that strengthens private property rights while also providing for the average citizen is the Singapore HDB model. [1] 78% of Singaporeans live in HDB government housing, and the rest have zero government imposition whatsoever.

> [California Gender Law] Of course it is. It applies to business and how they are run.

This is a state issue, as you pointed out. I will say though, that I tend to subdivide regulations into "for the greater good" type redistributive regulation (which I think you could make a claim is socialist leaning in a mixed economy), and "capturing externalities" regulation. The free market has shown a total inability to capture externalities, and as such, certain classes of regulation are required for a property functioning market economy. IMO doing so actually net strengthens property rights.

> [Single Payer] "It comes from the left"

I mean, agree to disagree on this one. I see it as the same degree of socialist as a DMV, police station or fire station. A necessity for a functioning free-market economy, and not a business. I believe having a socialized healthcare system strengthens private property ownership, private enterprise and the free market on the whole.

> Do you believe Biden's central economic planners will put the charging stations in the optimal place? I don't.

I don't believe Biden will have "central economic planners" -- the Democrat's will do the same thing government always does in the US. Find a private company, and have them do it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
I've been an avid ANC headphone user for some 6 years or so.

The current gen ANC is remarkably good. The issue I had with previous generations was that a carrier wave (for lack for better word) was always audible, which admittedly wasn't as bad as the noise it was cancelling, but it could be annoying for home use when you just wanted to cancel the fridge, AC or similar room tone humming.

With current gen ANC from the good brands this sound is very quiet, in some cases bordering on inaudible. Stuff just goes quiet. It's very impressive.
When so many people don't have a way of accessing the internet besides of their phones, and internet access is essential to meaningfully participate in our society and economy...

Let's zoom out a little more. If a phone is so essential yet the only way people can afford it is credit, what's the real problem here? Is it the structure of the economy?
Well the problem is that to actually get the backup (using pgdump) I'd also needs time that is proportional to the size of the database; and during that time the database can't get any writes so the system will again be down!

Also I'd really rather avoid restoring the data from a backup unless there's a real disaster that happened.
So it should be removed from Northern Ireland? France should stop doing it? Italy should just forget about it? Canada should pick a new system? Perhaps the Dutch have it all wrong too.

Such unsupported conspiratorial vagueness about disenfranchisement, equally tired and transparent a duplicity, seeks only to assert I believe an underlying hope/fear that there is some systemic problem that might be unwound. For it makes no sense to shore up a system once designed in a world were communities knew each other better to remove any question of doubt from that component of the process.

Are the people of Northern Ireland disenfranchised at the polls? France too?

I think not
It’s way more than hundreds. China has has hundreds illegally off of just Galapagos, and laughably claimed they were all operating legally. This article on that incident says China has 17000 “distant fishing” boats. Maybe not all are in economic exclusive zones but I bet most operate in ways that would be illegal under US law: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/260-chinese-b...

All avenues that aren’t violent have not worked and the UN or the international court system are too slow to respond effectively. YouTube already has many videos of military ships shooting at Chinese fishing vessels. That seems like the most expedient solution.
And I warn you, do not ask these questions unless you definitely have a comfortable position, these are all red flag inquisitions.

I’ve been in desperate spots before, and I never dig like this. It’s a position of luxury.
This product-despite how little maintenance it has received over the years-has performed wonderfully. The $69 spent four a high quality tool that helps me work more efficiently has been money well spent. The fact that this app has needed so little changes over the years is testament to how well it was made the first time. I’m hoping that new ownership will keep this running well for years to come
This is not and has never been the "first rule of comedy". It's only very recently, since the scourge of wokeness, that people have been turning this shitty line. Comedy is comedy. Lots of different kinds of comedy can be funny. Stop trying to make it rigidly fit your world view.
My middle school had a pay phone in the lobby. After-school activities had a variable end time so when I needed my mom to pick me up I’d call her collect. She never accepted the charges, but knew it was time to head over to the school.
No cookies are 'necessary' for site functionality, unless there is a login needed.

No cookies are 'necessary' to just display information, pics and videos.
If we can't/won't/shouldn't stop the Chinese then we need to stop our fishing, and never buy any Chinese fish. Much easier to enforce ourselves.
Would "Ion Technology" mean electrostatic disinfection?
Looks like it should, it does say numerous times that it allows the TV remote to control volume and mute, but it also says line-level output. I had looked at some other similar ones on Amazon last year that wasn't clear could do volume control, but the SHARC sounds like a good option. Thanks!
Do-Not-Track is the opposite. Do-Not-Track is a request not to send cookies.

This would be like Go-Ahead-And-Try-Track-Me-I-Dare-You.
Census takers say they were told to enter false information
Note that this is an oracle result, which has about zero relevance to anything in our universe (because oracles don't exist in our universe). It is of purely theoretical interest to complexity theorists.

In our universe it remains unknown if there are problems that can be solved efficiently by a quantum computer but not by any classical algorithm. It is known that BQP is contained in P^#P, so proving such a result would require separating P from P^#P, which is probably nearly as difficult as separating P from NP.
think of it this way: if you apply a sinusoid into a power storage, when the device (or the top/bottom device on its own) conducts 100% of the time, it is class A. When it conducts <50% of the time, it is class C. When it conducts >50% of the time (i.e. near the middle, both devices conduct), it is class AB. When it exactly conducts 50% of the time, it is class B.

Turns out at the crossover point, when it's is class AB, you get something called gm doubling where the large signal gain goes up because both devices are conducting and therefore providing gain. When you're in class C (incorrectly called class B by noobs), no device conduct near the middle so you get crossover distortion in the opposite direction. In class B, you theoretically get near-perfect handoff which makes the crossover distortion minimal (at least compared to class A)
Modern spin on collectible cards: NBA Top Shot
How many of those options work without an address? Moreover, many states do signature verification, which beyond being complete garbage as far as verification goes, has huge false negative rates. I once spent half an hour arguing with the bureaucrat that that the signature she had just seen me make was actually mine.
Wait a second, does the app know that I'm taking a screenshot?
Time is absolutely part of the transmission. It matters when you say "Hi" to someone. Differently timed "Hi"'s can say different things. Even if you repeat "Hi" many times, it's still just "Hi" but the amount of them also matters and becomes part of the transmission when looking at all of them together.

I feel like many, especially developers, fail to see what is in between the data to matter as well as the data itself. Seems like a common hole to fall into.
what? your medicine tastes bad?
While that's true, I think the parent is right that the media went too far with this one. Trump did explicitly say later in the speech that he wasn't referring to the white supremacists as good people, but to others in the crowd that just wanted to protect the Lee statue.

I think you're right that people were upset with Trump for focusing on that and drawing a moral equivalence between the counter-protestors and even those willing to march with white supremacists. One could even reasonably argue that no 'good' person would choose to join a march largely inhabited by white supremacists, or even that their support of the General Lee statue was itself a racist act. But those are the points that should have been made, rather than stretching it to say Trump literally called white supremacists good people, which he didn't. There's plenty you could criticise without resorting to taking him out of context.
Big fan of the app, and I've met the founder of Letter Opener GmbH before and he's a great guy. Very cool.
> His strong stance on Iran

In other words, you just like the side of the war that he picked.
Unlike voters, legislators are expected to be individually accountable. There are reasons why secret ballot is possible in parliament, but considered exceptional (or shady) measure.

Lobbyists and donors vulnerability is better alleviated by fixed salary and functional impartial criminal/justice system.
What about Atom CPUs?

I have a netbook bought in 2015 that has an Atom processor. Right now it runs Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Does this mean that distros will drop support for it?

IMO instead of dropping support, LLVM should get support for fat multi-versioned binaries, providing a graceful fallback if an extension is not available. You don't have to multi-version everything, only the functions which actually do end up getting autovectorized.
Would you like to review the psychometrics? Happy to share?
Congratulations. Terrible idea. Mandatory video (yes, the one by Tom Scott): https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs
They all have, and the world is worse for it.

An anecdote: someone like Dave Chappelle is wildly popular on both the left and the right. Several friends of mine on the right devour his specials like a gourmet buffet. So when Chappelle gets up on stage and talks about his experiences with racism, police profiling, and inequality (as he did on yesterday's SNL monologue [0]), those same people on the right listen. They hear him. It moves the needle of justice forward by reaching an audience who otherwise wouldn't necessarily hear these stories.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Un_VvR_WqNs