skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes, but with possibly different costs. The trick of course is in trying to estimate what they will be.

But using off-the-shelf software that you simply install is certainly one form of "using code written by other people." If it is popular software offered by a stable company, I would always estimate it's likely future cost as less than anything written in-house. (Which doesn't mean it's risk free, the software can become unsupported or change in backwards incompat ways incurring costs. You can get unlucky. But I'm almost always going to advise that it's the safer choice with regard to future costs than in-house development).

If we're talking about in-house software projects to begin with, as you probably intended, but evaluating using a third-party dependency vs writing the functionality in-house, figuring out which of those paths will be likely to end up lower-cost is not at all easy to do, and dependent on a lot of context.

But certainly in all cases, not having any software will be lower-maintenance-cost than having any software. Well, at least lower software maintenance cost. :)
It's the ghost of merchantalism, really. What matters to a nation or empire historically is putting more stuff - goods, ships, people - "on the books", and calling that the wealth, but annexation and political incorporation as the way of accomplishing this gradually fell out of favor as we entered the modern period and turned towards productivity metrics. But you can create a scenario where your accounts - you being "whomever holds political power" - are inflated relative to others by enforcing favorable borders and terms of trade, so that you wield more productive forces relative to everyone else. And that's been the strategy of industrial-colonial countries.

If you are for global productivity, rather than local wealth, then open borders are the way, but they come with all kinds of other political challenges since they put the world on a course to unification more generally.
These are great takeaways. Especially this when talking to people about your startup's product:

"What you really want to hear is I like it. What’s the price? How can I buy it?"

So much time and money is saved by getting your value proposition and product to the point people say this.
A Heimlicker, I can confirm.
>I found some of what it promoted disturbing to be honest.

But was it illegal?
To be fair it does seem pretty random when stuff gets taken up and when it doesn't. AFAICT sometimes content that ends up very popular is ignored the first few submissions.
What helps me is breath meditation.

I sit down, if possible in the circumstances, and begin paying attention to my breath.

I pay attention to it the same way I would pay attention to the tip of the paintbrush as I am painting.

I do this for several seconds or minutes at a time, until I'm able to achieve a calm state.

Sometimes I do it counting the breaths, which may work well with your attention specifics.

Remember that you are experiencing evolved behaviors and states which are being triggered in unproductive ways.

You can change these triggers by first dissipating their effects. This is what breath meditation did for me, over the course of several years.
Waddabout Dubai?
Anki is basically the most efficient method to study facts. I use a gamified version called Memrise.
You won't be missed!
It says Junior devs are useless. If they are useless, why were they hired?
For clarification:

The 1st amendment ensures that the government may not stop you from saying what you want.

This is a separate issue from private companies removing/banning you. Each company has their own right and freedom to be as dickish as they want with regard to deleting your account etc - but that is not related to the 1st.
they are increasingly beyond the reach of normal citizens. If your views do not align 100% with either party, you are increasingly marginalized. See the treatment of Donald Trump (a republican outsider, and not a traditional conservative by any means, but not a democrat in principle either) by the Republican party. For the past four years, republicans have refused to pass bills due to not matching ideological purity tests from Trump. The best example of this is DACA (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/09/trum...), for which Trump has repeatedly asked for a legislative solution that gives these children legal status. Because that is not the exact party line of the GOP, they didn't like his solution. And then along with that, he wanted the wall of course, which doesn't fall into line exactly with the democrats, so now, despite DACA and secure borders being an issue many care about, no political party would take them up due to ideological purity.

On the democrat side, see the treatment of Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard (Both non-traditional democrats in different ways) by their party.

Honestly, after seeing both how the GOP and Democrats treated Trump, Sanders, and Gabbard, I find myself supportive of all three of them despite them having a very different views. I simply like that they're not either party.

It increasingly seems that both parties are becoming incredibly dogmatic, and anyone who doesn't fall in line is simply barred from public discourse or elected office. It is increasingly true that in order to even get to elected office you need the support of a party.

In my state of Oregon, the democrats and republicans actually mandated that you be part of a party before being elected to office. You can no longer run as an independent. It's so bad, some people made an 'independent party' just to be able to have non-democrat or republican candidates on the ballot, but this suffers from the same issues as parties, in that those individuals still need to be 'nominated' by a select group of people annointed by the party organizers, which means even the independent party has a bias, even if they try to minimize it.

We need major electoral reform, nationwide, but it doesn't benefit any party to do that. What I would like to see are protesters from both BLM, Antifa, or whatever and the capitol protesters (not the rioters of any group please...) band together for a change and demand a better means of governance from their legislators. The people need to band together on common principles, instead of being divided by stupid policy points.
That's just not true in many cases.
I wouldn't say it's a benchmark, but surely Pascal, Fortran and COBOL (to name but three) are all standardised?
> A list of banned words and opinions will never make the world progressive. Deplatforming people over truly just opinions or mannerisms is a temporary win.

When people know their opinions are generally considered reprehensible, they hide them. I can agree with that.

But if those opinions are successfully hidden or pushed underground, and the next generation is predominantly exposed to positive values, the world does become more progressive. Individuals change only a small amount, you're right, but society does change for the better over time.

It's when echo-chambers of intolerance exist that attitudes of intolerance and selfishness can be amplified and push the world in the wrong direction.
> Perhaps, but that difference is not given in the U.N. definition.

Of course it is! The definition explicitly says "any of the following acts committed with the intent to [...]".

One more thing that the definition says that I hadn't even noticed and that significantly simplifies my examples, and immediately makes your example clearly NOT genocide, is that point (d) talks about imposing reproductive restrictions, which offering free condoms will never do.

> All of this goes far beyond the original definition and is quite ad hoc.

Yes, I was going beyond the strict definition of genocide and exploring similar concepts. The idea of defining what "ethnic groups" etc. means by historical precedent is probably the exact intent of the UN definition, though.

> And that is too how laws work. I find that in practice the written text of the law is largely irrelevant vis à vis the gut feeling of whatever man vested with the power to interpret the law and I believe that not much would change in practice if entire law books were simply replaced with “The judge may do as he will and punish what he finds immoral on a case by case basis.”

This is completely wrong for 99% of law, and might be slightly true for a few aspects of criminal law. In 99% of cases, the judge is ruling entirely on the law, there is no moral cause to be explored.
Apolitical people sure love complaining about politics.
That quote comes from far before that 2019 book. It showed up as early as the 70s in that form, frequently attributed (without verified evidence) to Mark Twain [0]

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/
The old one, there isn't an M1 16" yet
Thanks. This is what exactly i am pointing out.
Man, this is bleak. Is it just me or do the gurus of today inspire some pretty tepid trains of thought?

What happened to all the interesting, utopian, and downright weird thinking that used to go on in the digital space?
> Is there solid evidence that this is actually possible, as opposed to creating a layer on top of it?

I doubt that's actually what happens, but if you think of it that way, you'll end up with the right result.
I never found the appeal of Twitter or Facebook in the first place. The day I created a Twitter account was to just see the quote tweets, it was the same day I deleted it since it was pretty much useless to me afterwards.

Good. Please delete your social media accounts. They're not good for you.
Who are you to decide who gets to live or not!? Population control of any kind must be made illegal.
Sex workers are vastly exploited in Europe too, sadly.

Not all of them are, but it does not seem like the issue has been solved.
Butterpat Industries is another.

I have one of their pans and it's excellent.
I'm still on a MacBook Pro 2011. Chrome runs great. Newer Xcode doesn't work, though.
They removed all unverified content a month ago. So that's clearly not an issue anymore.
The video games example seems consistent to me; we regularly italicize the names of plays (for example) but not the names of tools and businesses.
https://ask.moe

Ask.Moe is a European non-profit, free and open-source software, privacy-focused search engine. The initial plan is to build various categories, such as Podcast, Flight, Food, Shop, Math, etc. This approach will allow us to provide higher quality results compared to a general-purpose search engine, and it can hopefully allow us to slowly grow until we figure out how to handle the costs of Bing's API.

We just launched a Domain category (https://ask.moe/domain), which consist of a domain name finder that makes it easy to find great domains like FireFox, MailChimp, TaskRabbit, etc. by combining two words, searching through hundreds of domains in seconds.
Which Thinkpad and which distro? I've always found them reliable, but I've only used ones from about 2012 and have stuck with Ubuntu.
It's revolutionary, something Apple hasn't done in a while, but is still good at!
It's clear that you don't have enough experience with computers other than that one to support the statements you are making. I'm glad it is adequate for your purposes but to say that "it flies" is absurd. The Chromebook Duet scores 27 in the javascript benchmark Speedometer 2, while the MacBook Air scores 234. It is nine times faster. Looking at the single-thread geekbench 5 score, the Duet gets a score of 263, about half the performance of the dual-core Pentium CPU from 2008, a part which AnandTech once reviewed as part of a joke article. There's a supportable argument that the Chromebook Duet is the slowest laptop on the market today, without exception.
Yes, although it's interesting to note it that one interesting effect of opening borders would be to create a massive incentive for wealthy countries to establish this baseline. I don't think just opening would work because the short-term shock would be too great (+ nobody in those countries would agree to do it), but I do think eroding borders in some way may be necessary to get people in wealthy countries to take the needs of those elsewhere seriously. Currently we tend to have some level of wealth redistribution within countries, but very little between them.
The fantastic "Hypernomalisation" documentary by Adam Curtis[0] talks about exactly this. How the actual reality stops mattering at all, and how political leaders build whatever reality they want to be in. The Soviet Union comparison is especially apt and also mentioned in this documentary - when the Soviet government would announce that the potato harvest is once again 300% above the norm everyone knew they were lying. But it didn't matter because obviously everything said by the other side is also a lie.

[0] https://youtu.be/fh2cDKyFdyU
I will check this one out....thanks for the advice
Computational Zoom: A Framework for Post-Capture Image Composition (2017) [pdf]
But a lot of people think that it’s supposed to be all or nothing with cookies (not: required (login cookies) and non required (ads)). So if you opt out, people think they’re not allowed to store a cookie saying you opted out.
I have talked to him about it, actually! He gave me some great course recommendations that I plan on looking into. Ask HN was mostly motivated by wanting to get multiple data points/opinions.
I'm really glad that no one in this subthread proposed anything involving a blockchain.
C'mon, you're too cool for higher pay and worker's rights. :D
S. Korea establishes free nationwide WiFi network on public buses for first time
The white supremacists and other violent right wing groups (Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc.,) had been planning for a while. In plain view of anyone paying attention. There was plenty of warning. So, the fact that no preparation beyond the waist high barriers was done is surprising, no?
https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-f...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/trump-ri...
>Cast-iron cookware is a sucker's purchase

Gotta disagree with you there. Cast iron is great for dishes that you want to sear, or that you want to finish in the oven or under a broiler. Searing on most stainless pans doesn't work nearly as well because the metal doesn't retain its heat as zealously, and if you whack your little teflon pan in the oven you'll ruin it.

Sure, there's a lot of mythology around how to season the pans and how you need to baby them, etc. That's all BS. The "secret" is to cook on your pan regularly, using a little more oil/butter than you would on teflon, and don't let your pan soak in soapy water.

If you scrape away the memes and the hype on blogs and on reddit from astroturfing accounts they're dependable, versatile cookware and they're not particularly expensive. What's not to like?
If all of those dependencies are maintained by different teams, then it widens the surface area for unexpected bugs.

For something where you need security (i.e. a decentralized chat platform), this could be problematic.
There are many bloodless coups that are also military coups [1], the possibility of using a force has almost the same power as using a force.

Revelotion != coup.

Coups is done by a small but capable force, they would need to take both Capitol and Pentagon at least (and I mean not just shoot everyone there, but persuade those in control to give it up or turn them).

How do you envision those that raided capitol could take power of US? All they could do is just sit there and wait for special forces shoot them one by one.

Coup wasn't even considered, most probably what they did is plant malicious software on laptops/servers there and I think the real threat will be seen only few months later.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt...
It's possible but the majority of stakeholders need to be actively engaged in managing that entity. Otherwise it will be taken oven by the bad actors trying to primarily benefit themselves.
SARS-CoV-2 infections at schools: First results from Austria
Surely these people have been the subject of ridicule for over 4 years now? They certainly have from the rest of the world.
I got confused. They mention it’s a bootstrapped business but then they recommend to prepare the pitch deck for investors. If you take investment from VC you’re not bootstrapped company any more, are you?
Julia Notebooks containing the source code from the book is available at https://github.com/sisl/algforopt-notebooks
Is there an improvement when looking at Black doctors with White patients? Does the gender of the doctor make a difference?
The big concern of NYTimes is that this is a Canadian company making lots of money from the American market. I wonder if they would be so harsh with an American conglomerate.
> What’s the battery life like on your PC?

Actually not too bad - not good, but good enough for it to last long enough to write up lab data for 5 hours or so which is all I needed it to do. It's pretty diabolical in Linux, but I think that's partly my fault because I've not bothered to fettle with the power (not an unreasonable requirement given that the rest of the distro has been fiddled with)
There's also animal species that will go extinct without their old growth forest habitat.
It was literally because he used the same username in multiple places and, early on, he used an email address containing his full real name.[0]

If it's advanced not to do that, the bar isn't very high. :p

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Arrest
This may be slightly off topic... are hosting providers subject to Sec. 230 protections? That is, if they don’t make a good-faith effort to remove illegal content (i.e. incitement of violence, bonus points for elected officials) they can be legally held responsible?
A very long time ago
App engine went out of beta and there was a price hike leaving many scrambling. App engine was in beta so long that many people didn’t think that label meant anything.
Jewish children's restored books reveal life hiding from Nazis
Yes you should do that now but only because Rust doesn't have a stable ABI. If/when it does then there's nothing wrong with distributing shared libraries using the Rust ABI, just like there isn't really anything wrong with doing it in C++ nowadays as long as you don't use bleeding edge C++ stuff. The C++ ABIs are pretty stable.
on a per device licensing cost, the patent encumberance of JPEG2000 is probably not a problem. But for widespread adoption, it's too problematic.
The most interesting thing about this to me was the bit at the end about Windows and Games. I've heard of Windows emulation on Mac before but this is the first time I've heard of Parallels.

> Now you can download Steam and basically install anything and it will probably work. Microsoft really did some amazing magic in getting both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 programs running on arm64.

The author makes it sound like you can run basically all Windows software on Mac without issues with Parallel, including more demanding software like games you'd find on Steam.

Does anyone here have experience with Parallels? How does performance compare? My assumption with this kind of emulation was always that performance would typically suffer too much for it to be worth it.
Here is the OpenCourseWare site for the material [0]. It includes all the lecture videos, slides, and assignments plus notes, subtitles, and transcripts for each.

Based on the lecture titles, statistical concepts may be obliquely touched on but probably not graphs or np-completeness.

[0] https://cs50.harvard.edu/law/2019/
This is just the last one...

Keynesian policies have been all the rage in the western world in the last decades - we'll pay the price at some point.
Correct. Now, we are bootstrapped. But we might rise later.
Yeah, but that ceases to work once that entity is too large. I personally think the limit is around 50 or so, but I don't see the need for union in a 50-head company.

I've literally never seen a functioning union anywhere I went (I live in Europe). Everyone I met in my life, in a bar, etc is angry at their unions.
Sorry, but since the water company is privately owned they can do whatever they please. If you don't like it, you can build your own water company. Thanks!

...now you know how it feels for anyone on the opposite side of your argument.
Are you kidding?!! He is at least very active against gerrymandering [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/arnold-...
I don't see how that makes it a great laptop. It's a very low bar to say that the software working makes it a great laptop. I'd call that par.
Android/iOS is a duopoly as pervasive as Visa/MasterCard. The ither examples only to a much lesser degree.
The LINE: futuristic city with zero cars, zero streets and zero carbon emissions
Ya, but before improvements were much more noticeable, and now they are much more incremental. They might be nice to have if you even notice them, but they don't really change the experience that much. And that isn't really surprising, when a technology is immature it will grow quickly, and when it matures, it will grow much more slowly.
The problem to me is that it quickly becomes a game of what seems most progressive optically rather than what is right on a fundamental level. Like, the obvious bits of free speech are not very interesting; it’s the edges of free speech that are what really matter, and these are the things that need the most nuance. Nuance is not what you expect in a social media platform (especially not one aimed at explicitly short form communication only.)
Analogy with printing press would have been:
There are just 3 printing presses and all of them are controlled by people that are democrats.

You are a republican, how do you publish your political pieces?

You have to create a 4th printing press from ground up (because people that have printing press parts are refusing to work with you).

Distribution is a more appropriate in this case.
> But all the citations are going to mention that or it's just another chemical.

No they aren’t. All you need to do is cite all of the material that was used for its initial approval before they knew about the problems.

Another example to help illustrate. The Boeing 737 MAX had a well-cited full article before the MCAS issues were known. Unbalanced moderation could just revert any future edits that tried to add in the issues.

> The average HN-er seems be more right wing than in most comment sections

Don’t do this shit. It makes for such boring reading. All you’re stating is that you have confirmation bias and don’t like seeing ideas you disagree with. There are thousands of comments all over about how HN is right-wing, left-wing etc with no evidence beyond anecdotes.

If it were biased right-wing the top comments on the Parler bands would not be lauding the decisions to ban them. If it were biased right wing, there wouldn’t be so many articles about basic income, etc either.
sex work should be legalized and regulated, just like marijuana. sex work and porn has been a reality since the beginning of time, and making it "illegal" and letting it fester in dark corners is unhealthy. without proper education, acceptance, and oversight, it encourages predatory behavior and other mental health issues like porn addiction.

you don't have to think "porn is good" or "prostitution is good" to acknowledge that it is something that a large % of men consume and protect workers and consumers. we know that alcohol and drugs are bad, but they're legal and regulators do try to educate and protect the public. why not have the same for sex work?
Awesome. How do you manage testing considering that they don't have a test environment? Do you test with the same account as production or with a different account created just for testing? Also how quickly do they usually respond when you contact them? Thanks!