skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the story and thread. Generic "capitalism vs. communism" stuff is out because it's repetitive and tedious (and usually nasty) [1]. Same with political/ideological battle in general. Political flamewar is out because any flamewar is out [2]. Sensational/news-of-the-day/horse-race political stories are out because they're not intellectually interesting [2].

But curious, thoughtful conversation on topics with political overlap is ok on HN [3], and always has been [4].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869
Is this some kind of bot? I can't parse the response at all.
I built a hotel PMS system in 9 months without trying to sell it first to hoteliers (no industry experience, talked only to 1 hotel owner). Found out it's hard to sell it, even if almost/fully free.
https://hoteliera.com/
I hate this stereotype.

Most of the writers I know are perfectly normal and stable people. Even me. Despite being bipolar, I'm not destroying my life for the sake of the art.
> If we decide we want to tax that, it seems like the only means we'd have available is to force him to give up shares in his company.

I assume you mean because he'd have to liquidate profitable shares in order to cover his taxes?

If the concern is the attachment of profit-sharing to control, we already have profit-sharing non-voting shares and non-profit-sharing voting shares. The necessary division for maintaining ownership while preventing infinite untaxed wealth accumulation already exists.

So it seems to me, then, that taxing unrealized gains only equates to giving up shares in your company in the same way that taxing income equates to giving up shares in your bank account. Do the taxes cost you future return/interest? Yes. And?
Seed-Stage LA Startups to Watch in 2021
How does that factor in pedestrians? Do they count as deaths in signle-vehicle deaths?
This is a great interview that contains a bit more about the science of the LIGO instrument than is normally presented, woven together with some of the dramatic details of the project. Such as the fact that at the beginning of the project few at MIT believed black holes were real!
Seems to me like a lot of workarounds to write something he considered reasonable in a time when declaring oneself an atheist/agnostic meant political suicide.

Hey, we have not got out of that era! Every single politician has to be a public believer or he will lose office.
As someone who has been on both sides of the spectrum, I guarantee that the New York Times swallowing urbanite is in an unreality bubble every bit as pernicious (if not more so!) as the ones inhabited by the most unrepentant of foxnews boomers.
Nothing is happening to blender. This is only "blender network", which is a training, certification, and jobs website. It's now no longer needed, so it is being shut down.

Blender itself is being developed faster than ever.
Maps are literally curves fit to surveyed datapoints, and nobody questions their value. So what if string theory is nothing more than a map of physical laws? GR can't predict quantum behavior, the standard model doesn't have gravity, string theory does both and so is presently the only "theory of physics" in existence.
> Modern life kind of requires a 4 day work week,

I think if applied globally, a large number of things that I want to do on extra free day will also be closed. If everyone gets friday off it will be just like saturday where I can't to bank, dr, therapist appointments and so on because they also closed. This new holiday must be mandatorily floating
I am not sure but volvo's cars are still pretty well rated and relied upon - https://www.caranddriver.com/volvo/xc90 . Jaguar is now owned by a Indian company and Volvo is owned by a chinese company but I haven't heard anyone claim drop in their quality.

Can you point out specific examples of how changing ownership has affected quality of their cars?
There are differences depending on which state you live in.
In my state, I need to have my vehicle inspected (to pass air quality tests - DEQ) and re-registered (pay tax and get a sticker) every other year. I don't think people really make it clear what 'going to DMV' means, it probably includes an inspection like this - despite being a distinct location. Yes, every other year I must drive to two locations to complete this process.

Many American families have multiple vehicles. Usually both parents work, and when children are old enough they get a hand-me-down car. So, it's not unusual to have to manage 3+ vehicles. Depending on when registration is 'due' one could visit from 1x to 3x a year.

There are online resources, but to pass the air quality tests you must appear in person. The only way around this in my state is own vehicles which are exempt (pre-1974, and motorcycles), or be in a county which is exempt (most of the land area of the state, but not where most people live). I only know this because my project car is from 1972: I just pay taxes online and they mail me my registration and stickers.

Add into it that DMV visits are common-denominator and tend to be unpleasant (long wait times, confusing processes, having to start over if you mess up... then wait in the line AGAIN) and I think that's why you may see so much talk about it. FWIW, I think there are very few people who enjoy this. It's a past-time, but not one we choose.
If I remember it correctly, I initially wanted to build a LinkedIn alternative; but then it morphed into a IMDB alternative to give credit to where it's due

https://theymadethat.com

Besides answering who built what https://theymadethat.com/things/k4z/iphone

and who worked together and what makes up what https://theymadethat.com/projects/7da659d8-629f-5c10-9160-7a...

You can also use it to figure where something was used https://theymadethat.com/things/3r1/storyboard/show_used_for...

Different versions of a product also have their own profiles https://theymadethat.com/things/6wy/apple-macintosh/show_ver...

I'm still maintaining it, with some modest future goals of making the UI more mobile friendly
layoffs, evictions etc, unable to eat.

I was personally laid off this year due to lockdown bs and changed careers. It pays 1/5th as much but I’m so glad to be out of tech.

My monthly burn is negative. I’m subsidizing my new job from savings.

Not are all so lucky.
Here is what is available: https://i.imgur.com/hA1Pq0Z.png

IntelliJ, WebStorm, DataGrip, GoLand, RubyMine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7vN_PEmeKb0
This one was funny enough to be voice acted verbatim by the Rick and morty cast, and put to animation. Warning, it's very nsfw
looks super sleek, but I think a landing page that explains what's tiblar and why I should use it would help.
Not useful, all it does is lag the page and increase the cpu usage to 40% when you have hardware acceleration turned off.
What Big Tech does in the shadows
This is amazing! Is it just me or is the performance of Github's globe really bad on Firefox? The FPS is super low for me on Firefox but fine in Chrome.
Courts almost never side with the male parent.
at the risk of sounding inconsiderate(your friends should have been able of receiving proper care) the lockdowns have imposed a mental toll on everyone, in my opinion amplified by societies taboo in mental care.

I just hope everyone else is capable of finding comfort or finding a group which gives comfort to each other.
This problem exposes an aspect of the AI difficulty chasm between Amazon’s dream of assigning a unique barcode (ASIN) to every object under the sun that has been or ever will be sold, and Amazon’s dream of doing so without spending a single dollar on expensive human curators. Amazon is trying to solve a well-known library science problem using AI, and it’s been a miserable failure.

Their AI systems can’t detect when sellers bait and switch because there’s no way to detect this that doesn’t have a massive false positive rate, and they aren’t willing to spend a single dollar on ‘app store’ reviewing product changes by third parties.

Another demonstration of this chasm can be found by searching for ‘claritin’. There are pages of duplicates, terrible and missing product photos, and a wide array of metadata errors due to human inconsistency by the sellers listing the product on the marketplace. Fixing this would require human curation, since their AI curation is incapable of doing it, and so Amazon simply allows the rot to spread unchecked.
For a more actionable take on how (from a policy perspective) the US might get to a progressive health insurance system, I highly recommend this lecture from Ian Shapiro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqm8T_FNnog.

The series is somewhat lengthy, but he takes the important step of enumerating all of the challenges and political/economic/cultural forces that have stymied attempts so far, then proposes a very concrete and incremental path forward that should minimize the aforementioned pitfalls. Given how much we like to argue about what "should" be done in legislative politics on these online fora, I found his breakdown of why these "shoulds" often don't materialize to be very insightful.
If you were honest and serious with the response, the lockdowns did not need to be longer than two weeks. This would have had minimal psychic toll. You can see right now that the countries that were successful with the virus response like Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam have much less restricted societies right now and also did throughout the summer. They are all mostly open with mask wearing requirements. They might have some restrictions on stadiums and large indoor gatherings but everything else is going on as normal.

You can end the lock downs quickly if you do the lockdowns right. This of course also includes proper government response, such as testing, contact tracing enforcing isolation, having covid clinics, etc. Not the idiotic "see no evil, hear no evil, the virus will go away by itself" policy of the us federal government.

Here I should mention that you are also off topic. The cruise ship workers were subjected to much higher psychic stress than usual people. This is mostly due to the cruise companies irresponsible behavior during the pandemic.
What? Why would any of these things happen just because of time?
Pretty clever using the timezone offset to approximate the user's location without using GeoIP. I hadn't noticed that but sure enough, my (approximate) location is in view first.
Absolutely. All around, it's been a well organized migration. I'd originally thought they would launch one of their faster CPUs right off the bat, but in retrospect this makes more sense. If they'd pushed out the 16" MacBook Pro, the expectations that Pro software would work out the gate would be a lot higher.
Why the pandemic is causing spikes in break-UPS and divorces
"The quickest vaccine ever developed was for mumps. It took four years and was licensed in 1967. Covid-19 vaccine was develop in eight months."

I'm not against vaccines, but I'm not taking it. I take rather the virus, please.
What does "worst" mean? Did they get into an accident once or twice, but drive just fine on otherwise? Do they drive bad every single day? etc etc.
Wordpress/Automattic bought up successful plugins like WooCommerce and just integrated them.
A puff piece for Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani. Nothing of substance here.

Though I am curious: Compared to other companies that are considered pro-employee (e.g. Costco), what does Chobani do for employees that's so pro-employee? Hamdi may be for a $15/he min. wage, but does he pay at least that without laws in place? That would be pro-employee.

I haven't read anything beyond this article, so if you have any insight, I'm listening.
You’re confusing government policy with being an island. Hawaii has the lowest rate in the USA and California has the highest despite the latter having strictest lockdowns in the country.

Granted a sufficiently incompetent government can throw away the advantage being an island provides. Looking at you UK.
I built https://pagewatch.dev (a service to test your site for responsive/layout issues) over the last year.
I have a few customers but it is growing much slower than I expected. If I were to start building it now I would spend much more time building some kind of audience, just driving even a few visitors a day is hard starting from scratch.
Or just use the lite version?
It removes the heavy features like descriptors and reflection.

More details: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...
East asia is a police state: have you seen how they treated black people?

If east asia is the model you want the USA to follow I’m afraid of the politics your generation will bring.
Same, I think it is just because of the 50 page PDF in display (though it does load asynchronously from the rest of the page).
I recognize that you understand it as an act of charity. That by giving much more than necessary to employees, he is pro-employee. He is legally entitled to the profit, after all.

I see it as: his employees created the vast majority of the profit he enjoys. He didn't work thousands of times harder than his $15/hr workers after all. I'm not making a moral judgement here. Notice I'm not saying what he should or shouldn't do. But I think it's a mistake to call him pro-employee.

In fact I do applaud his personal actions. We both understand the employees are not entitled to the profit. His giving back is a wonderful move for his employees. He seems like a wonderful CEO to work under and probably a great person.
> ROM game commands

This phrase doesn't mean anything.

The game list includes games that do not support PlayStation Link Cable, so this has to implement netplay the same way other emulators do:

Both host and client emulate the game in sync, exchanging controller input

Edit: Seems like I was wrong about the latter, it runs the emulator on the host only, who sends video/audio from clients (and they send inputs).
Which makes sense: if it would speed up China's production of, let's say, military planes used in harassing or plain invading neighbors like Taiwan, it's in the US best interests not to make it any easier. Maybe not for this model, but the expertise will surely be applied to military complex: it's not the first time the CCP "rotates" key personnel.
Don’t Use ~~Protobuf for~~ Telemetry
It’s not just optimization but also correctness. You really don’t want do a bit wise copy of say a file descriptor.
Google's own protobuf runtime is so bloated that even google themselves don't use it in many of their software, but rather nanopb[1], which is done by completely unrelated person to google.

1: https://jpa.kapsi.fi/nanopb/
> In the movie Jodie Foster cries and says they have to take it on faith.

Except they don't have to... there are hours of static from her camera, something that should not be possible if she spent only a fraction of a second out of contact.
Devil's advocate, hear me out: Nintendo backlash is always dramatic. Zelda is my favorite franchise, so I've always followed this news. They are a large company primarily making recreational video games accessible for families and children. Whatever their mission statement is, it's simply not to cater to hardcore gaming. It's not part of their blood and the ecosystem they foster. Personally, sometimes I don't even think it's 100% for monetary reasons, they probably subconsciously think adults being overly obsessed with their kids properties is perverse. This twitter user has a filtered pokemon avatar (copyrighted) and said "[Nintendo] plan[s] your "death" and your next life probably." because some Japenese person made a legal flow chart. That seems wildly dramatic to me... some context too, I recently watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cSCLceDAjM by a famous youtuber I also felt was dramatic.
The McTrain: Rise and Fall of McDonald's Ambitious Plan to Conquer the Railroads
Turns out following exactly that line of orthodox (Comparative Advantage) is how you get a PhD in economics. The theory makes perfect sense and can be observed to be true in evidence across the world. Where it fails is that governments, politicians and central banks understand the theory as well and can use it to their advantage.

Namely this: you can bankrupt your competition by undercutting them - this is capitalism 101. Turns out you can do this at country-scale too! It is obvious but PhD economists cannot see it happen. They will hold onto their comparative advantage theory all the way to the poorhouse.

One supposed limiting factor to country-level jungle of capitalism is the Impossible Trinity. Quoting wikipedia: "It is impossible to have all three of the following at the same time: 1. a fixed foreign exchange rate 2. free capital movement (absence of capital controls) 3. an independent monetary policy"

Like an undying belief in Comparative Advantage, you cannot move up to the upper echelons of PhD Economist work without a bedrock belief in the Impossible Trinity.

In reality, turns out a dual currency structure is a great way to blow through the limitations of the Impossible Trinity. China is a spectacular success in lifting hundreds of millions of people out poverty. The Chinese people are hard working and innovative. One of their genius moves has been to create a dual-currency structure: the onshore and offshore yuan.

This dual currency structure is an absolutely brilliant solution - it affords the Chinese leadership tremendous opportunity to manage their own growth while circumventing the Impossible Trinity.

What is hard for me understand is why Econ PhDs with obvious evidence in front of them continue to disregard reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_of_the_re...
Omg ,
Sorry to hear. that
Life is a beach.
Full of surprises.
This's one of great life lesson
I ever read

May force with you
In 2020 your government has no way to identify you.

It's shocking and absurd and affects everything.

Beyond the operational stupidity ... they don't even know better.

Not a single anybody outside of the bureaucracy has even identified it as a problem.

We have the same thing in Canada: tons of COVID benefits fraudulent. They throw bazillions out the door.

Finally - though I don't want to throw smoke over the recent election in the US, it is high time that there are very open and rigorous standard for identification, there's too much at risk. If the government provided the service for free down at the DMV there'd be little excuse.
Another poster made this point, but I think this explains the different feel: you've dropped your working days by only 20%, but you've increased your free days by 50%. Even though it's still 4-work/3-off, it feels like a lot more.
People love to blame the President or their Governor or whatever, but the reality is that American culture made COVID much worse than it needed to be.

In general I see zero evidence that Americans at large would’ve followed a “proper lockdown”, by any definition. If you look at travel rates for each American airport this holiday season it’s pretty much confirmed. A company called StreetLight data put it at about 5% to 20% less.

If anyone has data suggesting otherwise please, by all means, reply and let’s see.

https://apnews.com/article/data-americans-thanksgiving-trave...

The question is how can we change American culture to be more collectivist?
Insufferable ones really stand out. There's plenty of programmers writing about programmers or programming that are just as insufferable.
California presumably has one of the highest compliance rates yet is still one of the worst affected.
Can painfully confirm that all the clerical bullshit that takes place in person at the DMV is still taking place solely in person at the DMV in a pandemic.
> value generated by workers’ labour

Exclusively?
Given the Bell Labs mention, you may be thinking of Hamming's talk “You and Your Research” (https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html), where that idea is mentioned:

> Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, “How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?” He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, “You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.” I simply slunk out of the office!

> What Bode was saying was this: “Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.” Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

Slightly edited in the version published at https://d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.net/stripe-press/TAODSAE_z... (linked from https://press.stripe.com/):

> Now to the matter of drive. Looking around, you can easily observe that great people have a great deal of drive to do things. I had worked with John Tukey for some years before I found he was essentially my age, so I went to our mutual boss and asked him, “How can anyone my age know as much as John Tukey does?” He leaned back, grinned, and said, “You would be surprised how much you would know if you had worked as hard as he has for as many years.” There was nothing for me to do but slink out of his office, which I did. I thought about the remark for some weeks and decided that while I could never work as hard as John did, I could do a lot better than I had been doing.

> In a sense my boss was saying intellectual investment is like compound interest: the more you do, the more you learn how to do, so the more you can do, etc. I do not know what compound interest rate to assign, but it must be well over 6%—one extra hour per day over a lifetime will much more than double the total output. The steady application of a bit more effort has a great total accumulation.

Looks like there also exists a video of the talk: https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw
Yeah. The Amish seem to have an interesting take on this. I think this difference also brings up the point that if we have universal health care, the entire nation would have to agree on the terms and conditions of that system, which tends to contradict with the history beliefs of the US.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/20/the-amish-health-care-...
Thanks! Can you give a bit of detail about the bugs you ran into?
> If I'm understanding this correctly this offloads the copyright issue by making it the users responsibility to upload a rom?

It doesn't, though.

It sources roms from the Internet Archive: https://i.imgur.com/4bX7Oow.png

Legally dubious.
I've spent a whole bunch of time on CoolBeans (now OpenBeans http://www.openbeans.org), a "distribution" of NetBeans.

I assumed it would be possible to do a lifestyle business out of catering to a subset of the over 1M NetBeans users. Turns out it is not so easy.

I spend some money for a Windows machine to digitally sign builds, the macOS dev certificate and hosting. But the bulk of the cost was the time it all took.

PS: The .xyz domain in combination with the Windows antivirus solutions (looking at you ESET) was a major annoyance. Switched to .ORG just in time for the whole debacle there.
What is it? Looks like a social network? Is it competing with generic ones like FB or does it have a niche?