skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> requires government to solve as it is a public goods problem

Your comment makes me think of Ostrom's Nobel-winning work on governing [natural] commonses[1]. The framework she developed over 40 years makes a case that public goods problems are often misunderstood, and often created by government. Gov does this under the guise of ostensibly attempting to support management of the shared resource, but is likely just trying to render the landscape into a format legible to gov itself. It abstracts away the power and ability to both monitor & enforce, among other things.

Her framework says collective stewardship of common-pool resources is possible under ~8 clear guiding properties: (we need to read creatively to think how this generalizes to digital commonses like the internet and data trusts)

1A. User Boundaries: Clear and locally understood boundaries between legitimate users
and nonusers are present.

1B. Resource Boundaries: Clear boundaries that separate a specific common-pool resource
from a larger social-ecological system are present.

2A. Congruence with Local Conditions: Appropriation and provision rules are congruent
with local social and environmental conditions.

2B. Appropriation and Provision: Appropriation rules are congruent with provision rules;
the distribution of costs is proportional to the distribution of benefits.

3. Collective Choice Arrangements: Most individuals affected by a resource regime are
authorized to participate in making and modifying its rules.

4A. Monitoring Users: Individuals who are accountable to or are the users monitor the
appropriation and provision levels of the users.

4B. Monitoring the Resource: Individuals who are accountable to or are the users monitor
the condition of the resource.

5. Graduated Sanctions: Sanctions for rule violations start very low but become stronger
if a user repeatedly violates a rule.

6. Conflict Resolution Mechanisms: Rapid, low cost, local arenas exist for resolving conflicts among users or with officials.

7. Minimal Recognition of Rights: The rights of local users to make their own rules are
recognized by the government.

8. Nested Enterprises: When a common-pool resource is closely connected to a larger
social-ecological system, governance activities are organized in multiple nested layers.

[1]: http://web.pdx.edu/~nwallace/EHP/OstromPolyGov.pdf

(anyhow, hopefully this seems interesting, but pls disregard if not :) )
I suspect well known companies with good public reputations will not gain much from going the traditional routes. But lesser known companies will need to go traditional to have that extra level of vetting and get a big brand name behind them.
The weapons they used theoretically could have been legal had they had the provenance to make them legal.

Converting your own semi-auto to full auto is in now way legal then nor now.

Full auto guns are basically a rich man's toy and have been since well before new ones were outlawed in 1986. The practicality mostly isn't there for criminal use and they're real expensive to feed.
Sure? Don’t quite understand your point. The actors in the supporting roles are also a pleasure to watch.

Nor would it be nearly as good if it had Alex Guinness, but the supporting cast wasn’t up to snuff.

Lol I very strongly feel that the miniseries kicks the movies ass :).

Consider that Gary Oldman re-uses the glasses prop for George Smiley which Guinness originated. That’s how long a shadow Guinness cast in the role - it’s the definitive performance, and thus the definitive filmic version :).
At some point you run out of caregivers.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/22/9489081...
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When a checkout clerk asks if you have a coupon, you can reply "No, but you can give me a discount if you want". That works maybe 5 or 10% of the time. To me, that's worth the 10 seconds to say it.
Would threatening a chargeback have changed the response from Baremetrics? That's usually the nuclear action to these type of shenanigans, and the threat of it is often the proper deterrent.
My father-in-law had an intact Labrador Retriever show dog who escaped over a high fence and swam across a large river in order to visit a bitch in heat. They found him days later, filthy and with some minor injuries. The instinct to reproduce will drive dogs to do crazy things.
I suspect a study to prove the exact means of connection is very difficult.

A retrospective study would be easier. Based on a survey of a given vets files (not quite a random sample, but for this case it might be good enough to establish a bias in facts), could trace the incidence rate of 'yard escape injuries' between 'intact' and neutered males, as well as 'intact' and spayed females.
Pure speculation on my part (since I couldn't find any details either): their "Closed world assumption" and "No reflection" principles [1] could mean the compiler can output radically different bytecode, e.g., eliminating the tail call by eliminating the "call" altogether. That said, I might be wrong given that the FAQ [2] notes that tail call elimination "has some run-time performance cost"; maybe they're baking in a trampoline.

[1] https://flix.dev/principles/

[2] https://flix.dev/faq/
What you wrote is very scary. As someone who grew under a communist party rule, I have come to realize that there is no way to rationalize with communist. I think McCarthy came to the same realization.
My understanding of forgetpw17s lifestyle doesn't involve a lot of ownership or funds.
The 500EUR bill exists because Germans want it to exist. Historically Germans have been adverse to things like credit cards and other third-party financial records, largely because of the whole Nazi state thing.
Odd to see no discussion of gold. In 1971 the dollar began to float in relation to gold. For most people operating in the realm of dollars their net worth decreases as the dollar price deviates from gold. For wealthy individuals, most of their wealth is not in dollars but in property and equities. As the value of the dollar decreases, asset prices increase - great if you own assets, bad if you just own dollars.

Not that gold is the be-all, end-all of real money, but in the past when people owned dollars, they effectively owned a commodity with utility. Meanwhile, at the top, the wealthy are largely paid in equity with a much smaller portion of income in dollars.
There is no "we" allowing or disallowing anything. Who is this "we" and why do use suppose they have some divine insight into the ideal allocation of capital?
The fact that Musk's dad had millions does not imply that Musk himself had access to them; according to Wikipedia, their relations were not very good. But yes, being around people who have businesses and millions does give you certain experience and perspective. Despite that, Musk was heavily bullied at school; apparently dad's money could not buy him a private school, or maybe just a better school.

Indeed some childhoods of billionaires are special, like that of Steve Jobs, a highly problematic adopted child who suffered at school so much his working-class family decided to move to get him to another school district.

OTOH, neither Mark Zuckerberg, nor Jeff Bezos appear to have had extraordinary childhoods, or family wealth above a normal middle-class level.

Many of them, though, were exposed to electronics and computers early, and their parents were wise enough to encourage it, or at least to allow.

[Edited: typos.]
Even if you might confuse a domestic house cat for some other creature, I'm pretty sure another domestic house cat would not, which is the relevant point of comparison here :)
You won’t be able to acquire one if you live in CA, NFA items are de facto banned for ordinary citizens.
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That's not clear from the context.
regarding: 'trading time and money'.
My simple rule has always been, if I can hire someone to do something by the hour less than what I get paid by the hour then I should do that. This is 'trading money for time'.
To offset the money spent, I should then reverse and 'trade time for money' either by increased work or training and education for an increased pay rate.
I would be surprised if successful C++ to Java rewrites yielding better speed were rare as we move to multicore and correcness & safety are the bottleneck problems there. But I'm not a Java programmer or follw the scene closely.

Also the narrower niche of C++ means that it often makes sense to rewrite a small part of a Java app in C++, but it rarely makes sense to write a small part of a C++ app in Java. This domain difference can also explain the relative frequency of public "made it faster with C++" posts, since those small self contained uses make good posts that aren't entangled with the bigger application.
It’s not arbitrary. It’s defined by one’s relation to the means of production. This is capitalism in a nutshell.
I guess there's no reason you can't have defense in depth, but I'm wondering if this private virtual IPv6 network for your whole organization might end up being considered "secure enough" by the complacent? Like being behind the firewall in the old days.
For the bottom two columns on the page, shouldn't the second column break below the first column in a mobile/responsive view? I normally don't get picky about css stuff except for when it is in css tutorials lol.
I think this is true, but only to a point. It's certainly true when the comparison is 10K to invest vs 10M, as liquidity of markets is not yet a concern and the investor with 10M is suddenly "accredited", can afford to pay a financial advisor, etc.

However, at 10M vs 10B, the 10M investor is much better off. Liquidity becomes a real concern - there's just not that many assets or stocks that can support that kind of allocation.

Small, nimble investors can usually outperform large funds simply by being able to fully enter into positions where larger funds couldn't.
Is HVAC duct cleaning necessary? The intake air ducts pre-filter can accumulate dust but that is what the filter is for. Post-filter ducts are filled with cleaned air flowing through them. What am I missing?
lol

Reminds me of a time when I was in the city with a friend.

My shoes were broken, so I said to him "I need new shoes" went in the next department store, bought a pair, threw my old ones in a trash can and wore the new shoes.

He was mind-blown.
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> People commonly theorize that virus came from rump parasitic cells.

I have an alternate theory, that I've never seen articulated elsewhere: Viruses might be inter-microbial biochemical warfare gone wild; Among primitive and not-particularly robust cells, one competitive strategy might be to package toxins or other disruptive molecules into capsids that cleverly get past the 'enemy' cell membrane, perhaps aimed simply at disrupting the initially brittle reproductive process. Packaging random genes in with these capsids would be the beginning of the Horizontal Gene Transfer function that viruses perform in the ecosystem. A refinement would be to add in the specific genes for producing capsids as a deliverable so a subverted 'enemy' then takes out several neighbors (but 2nd gen capsids don't have to necessarily contain the same genes in order to accomplish their 'mission', or even be entirely identical to the 1st gen, as long as they work). A further refinement would be increasing fidelity, and packaging the responsible genes into the 2nd gen capsids produced by subverted cells so the 'weapon' can spread exponentially.

And voila, the 'weapon' has now escaped the originating organism and can evolve independently parasitizing the target. Each incremental step can at least hypothetically provide an evolutionary advantage so the whole thing doesn't have to spring forth fully formed.

Depending on how widespread variants of the original strategy were, viruses might have independently emerged more than once.

If I'm right, we ought to still be able to find cells that attack or suppress competitors with capsid-like molecules that don't particularly resemble existing virus lineages, possibly containing non-genetic payloads of various sorts.

We might also find bacteriophage endoviruses that as their 2nd stage only produce capsids sans-genes or that otherwise aren't identical to the endovirus, or ones that aren't very good at packaging up the correct genes, or that are much better at disrupting cell reproduction than hijacking it, or that the subsequent copies are only low-fidelity ones that can similarly penetrate the host but not spread any further; basically any indicators that the mechanisms for penetration of the membrane, attacking the cell, and even for making poor 2nd gen copies, have been evolving longer than capabilities only needed for indefinitely repeated copying, retransmission, and reinfection.

I suspect though that the oldest reconstructible endoviruses will no longer be capable of penetrating current members of their host cohort, which tells us little about the virus itself, but may offer clues about whatever ancestral cells were still prone to infection were like.
Risk of fatality in an accident is proportional to speed of the vehicles involved. People driving to work are stuck in traffic pre-COVID while the roads are ripe for hitting 80 mph during lockdowns and WFH.
Imagined myself injected into a Michael Mann film while reading that.
> Instead, I would have an open, honest conversation, listen from a place of empathy and generosity and seek a compromise.

What kind of compromise do you think is available that treats OP fairly that can be gained by performing empathy, compassion, generosity, and active listening?

From the story told, it sounds like the poster might have tried that already.
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> Take apart your toaster and put it back together again, don't stop until it works again

I find entry interesting. But what happens if it short circuits.

Are there any tests which we can do on things to know that before turning them on?
My point is that how is that not a hawala system, just facilitated by a distributed ledger instead of phone calls? If it is, why isn't illegal just like those other systems?

The similarity here I thought was the trading of IOUs -- this seems to be very similar to what hawala is/was.
In high density housing the low range/penetration power is a positive. Having lived in an apartment building where all the neighbors (in three dimensions) also had 2.4ghz wifi I can tell you that having to find a frequency band that isn't congested in that situation is a hassle. And I suspect that the knowledge that congestion and selecting a frequency band is even a thing is not very common.
Yep, $1M is not going to attract people to do things for you just because. The $50M+ people will have people flock to do small things for you for free.

I saw it with my old boss. People would always be asking if they needed help or would just offer free stuff in hopes of getting something later.
I play on Xbox One. It’s been fun and I’ve enjoyed the game. I purposely avoided all reviews and hype. I only knew it was the game to buy this year.

I think if the game was more like Alan Wake it would have been better as far story telling goes. Alan Wake is awesome by the way.

Without any expectations, when playing I thought the narrative choices were a bit shallow. Maybe they get better as the game progresses.

Hatred, negativity, and piling on is easy to do. If we enjoy something then we just enjoy it. Stopping and making a point to share that enjoyment doesn’t probably happen as often.

Also, remember there were many articles about a year or so ago about the toxic world game developers have to live in. Tons of expectations and tons of viscous attacks. Why would anyone expect anything different in this situation.
Digital services have always been either improperly factored or not factored at all. Software was only included after 1999, tech growth from Google and Facebook are still not included since they offer "free" services.
I don't agree -- I highly value our being humbled by how often a judge from "the other side" votes our way -- but genuinely appreciate hearing how you're thinking about it. Thanks for the words
I’m a solo developer that built and maintains https://label.live, a label design and print app (Electron) that has the ability to generate barcodes thanks to the open source project BWIP-JS (and all the turtles beneath it).

My app renders canvas data down to 1-bit images and sends them off to the printer as raster images. Each printer handles image data a bit differently. Although Zebra printers do support in-printer-barcodes (put a barcode of type Z at x,y) I opted to send full-sized images for every label and lose efficiency for greater reproducibility. I also support DYMO and BROTHER thermal printers that do not have built in barcode support.

One of the things that people don’t think about (ie my loving users) is how a minimally sized barcode doubles in size due to DPI. If your barcode has narrow bars equaling one dot width, then your next choice larger is literally 2x the size. There is no gray in thermal printers, just black or white. And on the flip side, barcode scanners need the highest contrast to scan.

Where people get in trouble is pixel misalignment, thinking that you can scale a tiny barcode by 20% at 200 DPI. Nope, sorry dear user!

The last few years have been a ton of fun. I really enjoy HN posts about barcodes. It makes me feel relevant. Ha!
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They tried similar thing in India and it was shutdown because it violated net neutrality laws.
You're lucky to at least have an understanding. I'm still not sure how he manages this one:

> Refuse to fill out paperwork of any kind.

I'm joking, of course. I know he doesn't actually follow most of the list. More of a wishlist probably.
Exactly. The contract is the skeleton. But it's relationships that put flesh on those bones.
This quote might put things in perspective:

"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can’t. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you’ll have to square with that some day. And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can’t bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?" (Jack Sparrow)

So, the question is what these other guys can do vs what you can do. You probably want to keep track of any correspondence regarding this matter in case legal action becomes an option. I hope no sane board will think that facing legal action is worth any cofounder's "wants" and "likes".
> There is an unfortunate increase in damage per instance but this again is no fault of the breed.

I don't think 'fault' is really the point -- the question is whether they are more dangerous. The 'unfortunate increase in damage per instance' is a euphemistic way of saying that yes, they are.
Make more money or spend less.

I spend around $380 a month for rent and I know a bunch of people in shared flats who spend even less.

Also, money can often (sadly not always) substituted with good ideas, time, or good social connections.
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People are idiots. Theyll buy anything pitchbook or no pitchbook. Can also argue that the internet is the pitchbook now which did not exist before.
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I see reports that hospital levels are fine, it's just that their dedicated covid areas are filling up. Or that nursing shortages are more to do with layoffs or hiring freezes by penny pinching executives. And reporting that covid deaths are vastly inflated from perverse incentives or political agendas or mandatory rules of which the nuance is lost in reporting.

Not saying any of this is true. Just saying I'm not exactly watching Alex Jones or Fox News and this is still the stuff I hear, and just because you hear a report about something doesn't mean it's the arbiter of truth and everyone else is wrong.
Would you explain what you mean by CSS not being as traditional an experience? Compared to what? Agree with the rest of your comment...
I came to say something similar, with the same fears. It's amazing how brainwashed the west is in believing its own propaganda and naritive. So many don't even realize they have been fed propaganda about communist run countries. It's mind boggling.

What people should be outraged by is that MOST VIETNAMESE ONLINE SENSORSHIP IS CREATED BY US COMPANIES. No, not in the way facebook does in 'being complicit', but rather by blocking access from Vietnamese country ips entirely - no Vietnamese Government request required!

I lived there for over a year and what I was surprised by was how often I was blocked by the actual domain, and not some 'comunist firewall' that people think. Things like, signing into an Apple Developer account can not be done without a vpn. Lots of others I wish I documented.

You will never see an article on that though because it doesn't fit the wests propaganda nariative that 'democracy good, communism bad'.
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The original post is flagged, so I can't read it. From the surrounding discussion I surmised that the original post made some sort of negative-sounding sweeping generalization about Indians, or at least phrased it in a bad way.

I'm not here to talk about the original post though. I'm specifically objecting to the "X isn't a race hur dur" meme because it derails discussion of the issue at hand without being constructive.

Neither of the things you mentioned about Americans or Colombians are negative or positive stereotypes - I see them as neutral. So those questions aren't bigoted by themselves, IMO. But there are ways to phrase those questions that would make you sound bigoted against Americans or Colombians. (No I don't care to try to give an example).
1. RSM is not part of modern FSF
2. Governance of free software projects has nothing to do with the competence of the FSF to define criteria for hardware that respects your freedom
I think this aspect is also worth considering:
https://www.thebillfold.com/2012/05/only-an-idiot-would-rob-...
And the tattoo microchip, really "profound" stuff
Frankly, no.

The issue is a falling share of productive growth going to the not-richest. That is the problem, not the "size of the pie," as it were. In this sense, "incentivizing wealthy into investing it productively" is nothing more than "attempting to con the wealthy into giving up a portion of their share." The alternatives are that nothing changes, or that the wealthy receive an even greater share of growth going forward. But those are prima facie counter to the goal, if you take the findings of the OP to be concerning. In any case, the wealthy are not going to fall for it. They want to maintain or expand their holdings and influence. If you're okay with that - essentially, if you subscribe to trickle-down economics, however misguided that may be - then I supposed that's fine. But either way, we have to be clear what the goal is, and who is going to be helped and and who is going to be hurt by achieving it.
Tell them you'll issue a chargeback.
It just struck me as odd for reads like `find` (which itself requires a pure fn arg). Is that because given the same reference, the function could yield different outputs? Or because it could be mutated concurrently? Would that imply every function that takes a mutable data structure will be impure?

Edit: I just noticed that `List.toArray` -- which just returns a new array, so no concern over references or mutation -- is also marked as impure. This seemed wrong to me, but then I noticed that even `Array.new()` is marked impure. To my mind, a function that allocates a new mutable collection is itself not inherently impure.
I don't think it's worth pointing that out. It's pretty obvious just like it's pretty obvious who the target audience is.