skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s odd to me that you see the mutually beneficial transaction there but not in the stock market.

I will state this once as simply as I can: stock market investors are rewarded for funding companies by taking on that risk in hopes that the companies they invest in produce a profit. It is overwhelmingly similar to the process you are describing with your credit union, but in a much more distributed way.

> Workers don’t need the shareholders, and they get nothing in return (except lower salaries).

There would be no workers if companies didn’t have the capital the needed. So no, the workers very very much need the shareholders. The money has to come from somewhere. No bank is going to bankroll the next Airbnb, Uber, Instacart, DoorDash, etc.

Beyond that, the workers aren’t owed a penny more than they agreed to be paid. If public shareholders didn’t exist, the owners would have full ownership which is what happens with small businesses. Nowhere in these circumstances are workers any better off. Profits and losses are not their domain.

I’m sorry if I sound like I’m talking down to you. It is just that you are a victim of cognitive dissonance possibly due to your unconscious bias against wealth.
It can connect with more than 70% of the Indian population through vernacular medium. As not all Indians are pro-English
This is the environment where my programming really took off from amateur to, well, less amateur.

It was so fast to compile and so ergonomic compared to the alternatives.

Great stuff.
I want to ask a question to the group, too. How do the companies headquartered in SF and NYC and places like that decide your salary and if you are in a cheaper locale? Do they give you a lower salary, are taxes weird, is there an awkward conversation with HR? Has anyone moved from an expensive place to a cheaper place and dealt with awkward company reactions (HR)?
That is exactly what the person you're replying to meant.
Because then your software is relying on guarantees not provided by the POSIX API and it would be incorrect.
Got it, but what is the reasoning for that rule to be there? Why was that rule/law created?
It's trivial to sideload apps on most Android devices. You can't sideload on iOS unless you jailbreak or spend some time and money on a developer account, and even then you're rather limited on what you can do.
Are you saying that not using Google search has improved your quality of life?
Where did we come up with 0.13%? Approximately 0.3% of everybody in NYC died of COVID-19 so that's the lower bound assuming everyone in NYC was infected (and they weren't, of course).
> Instead of buying a car with the money I saved up, I bought myself a Mac.

Same here. I bought a Lisa too because you had to have a Lisa to write code for the Mac back then. My Lisa had a 5 MB hard drive (no I didn't omit any zeros).
Do you expect these companies to stand still and wring their hands while you convince the government to stomp on their cash cows, or are they going to take some of the money you and your data have earned for them and lobby government more effectively than you ever could?

My bet’s on the latter. And so long as we all continue to support them (while claiming “but my boycott won’t do any good”), they’ll continue to use that financial support to ensure the continued non-involvement of the government in their affairs.

Doing nothing costs nothing, but it also changes nothing.
Consumer versions work this way for high priority updates.

I guess no one remembers the days when the entire industry (re: Slashdot) yelled at Microsoft that they needed to stop letting users run around with ancient exploitable installs of Windows.

So, Microsoft forces important updates.

Fancier versions of Windows let you turn off most updates. Sev0 exploits, RCEs, and the like, well, those updates still get pushed down unless you have a corporate install with policies disabling all updates.

There is a trade off, and for decades (!!) Microsoft let users decide, but eventually "1/4 of Windows users just got their machine 0wned" showed up in the press too many times.

Kind of like how every time there is a widely installed Android malware app, Google gets blamed. "Why don't they enforce their policies!" Then soon as they do enforce their policies "The Android app store should just be a dumb distribution mechanism!"

I get it, different people expressing those sentiments (I hope...), but balancing "keeping people from having their bank accounts cleared out" vs "user choice" is not the easiest of decisions. After many years, MS has gone full force on the auto-updating side of the debate.
I feel like New Zealand and Australia are the two least suited countries for this idea.

New Zealand is very mountainous and subject to earthquakes and volcanos. Australia is half desert.

I wonder what the best location to concentrate the world's population and agriculture actually would be. My guess would be North America, India, or China.
I’m there. We’re early, everyone else will eventually abandon ship.
What is matrix? Like the movie? Or the math thing?

(https://matrix.org/)
Speaking of management...Ryan Cohen, founder of Chewy.com is a recent heavy investor in Gamestop. Pretty sure he knows a thing or two about startups and he wouldn't be pouring in money into it if he felt it's hopeless.
> I'm not sure it had gray scale.

It didn't.
FYI your comment was dead, and I vouched for it. You might be shadowbanned? Not sure, but regardless you might look into it.
Well that’s the crux isn’t it? You want to complain, but declare yourself helpless in the face of multiple options. You’re the problem here.
The point is you are technically margin-trading when you do that. From the broker's perspective you are trading on margin until your prior trades settle.
Okay, this is second hand as I don't own a mac, but a friend who does noticed that on his macbook, macOS reports file sizes with megabyte being 10^6 bytes, whereas windows follos the 2^20 convention.

He was going crazy over a file being shown as 600Mb on Windows and 629Mb on mac. When he compared the bytes values, they were the same (around 629,145,600 bytes) and that settled it.
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Those are just tools that give you a lot of leverage if used correctly.

Instagram is a great tools for business, and now it's practically impossible to run one without using it. Twitter and reddit can provide you a ton of useful info that you will have a hard time finding anywhere else (or it will take way longer). I've built a business on Play Store.

It's all about how you use them.
You also get downvotes if you dare to question capitalism or the "free market." This isn't just an issue for right wingers.
That's tough to say, but I understand the confusion on what to do. It's a challenging situation to be in.

I do know this - this decision will affect more than just you, and you see that based on how the rest of your team is reacting.

I would recommend you listen to this talk from Ben Horowitz lecture on YC's How to Start a Startup series. It goes over a similar situation that you are experiencing with being demoted. It will give you perspective.

Here's a link. It's lecture 15 in the series: https://startupclass.samaltman.com/
What "a world worth retiring in" means in each retiree's case is gonna vary based on their situation. Wanna die on Mars? Maybe put it all in Space X, I don't know.

All I'm saying is that it's a shame that we're taught that the point of investing is to make money, rather than make a difference with a side effect of having more money. Because left to its own devices, money tends to motivate some pretty awful things.

I don't want retire rich, I wanna retire post-scarcity. I hate letting my money sit in an account while smart kids can't afford college. Those kids are gonna develop the tech that saves my ass one day--or not--depending on how we play our cards now.

Blindly picking a fund based on performance just feels like shooting my future self in the foot.
Original Macs actually had 1 bit graphics. “Gray” was done by clever placement of the black and white dots in different patterns to look gray at a distance.
I know there are ways to disable it, but none are intuitive and/or discoverable by regular people.

Also Group Policy is not available on Windows 10 Home (without hacks anyway).
The role of option writers is very much an under-reported part of this whole fiasco.

Normally you want option writers to be able to provide liquidity by going naked short when selling calls. Obviously that fails when involving small companies with high short interest and hordes of "4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal" investors.

I looked a little at GME during the week and I saw that the option market makers had significantly reduced their participation. I bet that they're also big losers. But that's what they do for a living, it's their own fault if they blew up selling calls naked. They knew the risks. Delta hedging doesn't work when a stock can move 100% in a single day.
https://matrix.org/faq/
> The thing is, Facebook is banning people who incite violence, share proven false narratives, and espouse extreme racism

The thing is, no, they’re not, and only someone not paying any attention could repeat this false claim.
Regarding Guadalcanal: from page 402,

Retention of Midway was important, but, more importantly, the Japanese were unable to accomplish any of their desired goals: to gain a necessary bastion to protect their Far Eastern frontier or to destroy the remaining U.S. fleet in a massive surface engagement. The U.S. loss of Midway could have spelled the loss of Pearl Harbor and the Hawaiian Islands. If Japan had taken them, the United States may well have been forced to sue for peace. Even without a Japanese invasion, the key position that Midway represented could well have slowed or stopped U.S. offensive moves for some time to come. It is for this reason that Midway, and not Guadalcanal (launched 7 August 1942, the first offensive of the United States against the Japanese), is included in this work. A U.S. loss at Guadalcanal in late 1942 to early 1943 would have forced a longer war and attacks at other locations. A U.S. loss at Midway, however, may have precluded any U.S. offensive into the Pacific.

> a.) they seem more representative of what most war is like

Yes, that's true. I'd highly recommend With The Old Breed. It's sort of the inverse of 100 Decisive Battles: a single soldier put his pen to paper and recorded everything he remembered about the Okinawa conflict, from start to finish.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/08914...

epub: https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/Bibliotik/W/With%20the%20Old...

> Similarly, it'd be interesting to read war histories that focus on logistics and technological development.

I agree! Does anyone know of something like this?
Thanks, I'll use it on my gaming VM.
Not funny.
Do you think the riots are leading to better society/life ?
Freenet in fact is less vulnerable to that because they aim to prevent that specific attack you described with the following feature:

It offers a "darknet" mode where you manually add peers by exchanging cryptographic keys with them.

The connections to those peers are fully encrypted then and thus very difficult to block because you can't detect Freenet with merely packet inspection anymore.

Besides, the ability to censor individual Tor sites is *bad enough* already IMHO.
That's fifty years ago. If you think a fifty years ago story is why the FDA is delaying, I differ. They're delaying because of IPR chauvinism, and massive amounts of NIH and I'm not talking about nih.gov

The FDA approved phen-fen, vioxx, des, the opiod disaster.. the hold up on AZ is not because they have magic time machine insight into why AZ should be delayed.
Google search has gone significantly down in quality over the last year or so. Even just searching for simple things only seems to yield articles from the same 20 or so major websites, and it’s worse if you’re looking for niche items. DuckDuckGo on the other hand is starting to give relatively better and more diverse results these days.
Hear, hear!

For the people who see no issues with any of this, shall we shut off their water and electricity too while we're at it?
Fair point.

That is a situation where I'd move bank, use an iPhone or just allow GServices on my device.

There is certainly a point where you just need to be pragmatic above all else. Otherwise, you can still reduce your interactions with their other services as much as possible.
A FUSE mount, or even a webdav virtual directory hierarchy, wouldn't be that tricky. Stripping metadata is trivial, thanks to ExifTool.
This author takes the perspective of Great Britain's war planners. This is not an unreasonable starting point for an understanding of the military readiness of the nations that would eventually go on to fight in the war, but a full understanding mustn't stop there. War planners always assume war will break out because that is their job, and given that Britain and France did ultimately decide to declare war on Germany, the war can appear like an inevitability after the fact. In truth, no one at the time saw it as inevitable and indeed it wasn't. The case P. E. Caquet should be making (and isn't) would be that Germany's ambitions extended beyond the pre-Versailles central European boundaries of Germany and Austria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War#/media/Fil...

Those boarders were surely larger, but had existed just 19 years prior and did not threaten the existence of France or Britain in all the years between German Unification and the Versailles treaty. Nothing in Germany's public proclamations nor the documents uncovered after the war suggest this hidden larger ambition, despite it being central to Churchill's case for granting the war guarantee to Poland (and his ultimate declaration of war against Germany)

The underlying reality is that England has always been the weakest of the European powers due to its small population. It built its empire with trade, espionage and its navy not large armies. England made itself more relatively powerful by playing the larger continental players against each other and against non-Europeans, always taking the side of the weaker countries against the strongest. England aided the Prussians to defeat Napoleon, and the Ottoman Turks against Russia in Crimea. The public arguments made at the time to morally justify England's geopolitical stratagems should not be uncritically assumed to be true and do not constitute a sound starting point for a correct historical understanding of World War II.
That would make China not capitalistic, which is obviously wrong.
> I can barely run Windows for a day or two without rebooting.

Something is wrong here. I run Windows 10 for weeks at a time without rebooting. I'm typing this reply out on a Windows 10 workstation that has been up for ten days without a single issue.
That's true. India shaping up as the goldmine for global tech
I’m not sure why your answer was downvoted. I certainly gave it an upvote. However, it’s still feels to me like the private sector is outperforming the public sector by massive massive amounts. And it kind of makes sense, because here in the USA it can easily cost $1 billion to get through testing alone.
I took 1347 deaths per million people in the U.S. [0] and did the division.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
"massive dependence"

Switching from gmail to another provider isn't like living without electricity, it takes a couple of days updating some external accounts to reflect your new email; I did it.

Buying shit from somewhere that isn't Amazon isn't exactly trekking through the jungle for 3 weeks. All you have to do is type in another domain. There is no shortage of non-Amazon sellers with similar prices.

Switching from Chrome to Firefox takes 5 minutes, you can import your bookmarks and whatnot. Maybe you'll have to type in a password again. No climbing K2 level difficulty there either.

Android and iOS aren't that different, you can click a browser, camera, or email in either in the same amount of time with the same UI.

Sure it's effort, but it's not a hell of a lot of effort.
But we live in democracies, and there are a lot of people who feel differently than you might. Not just Trump. They look at the same numbers and dangers and don't agree.

Besides, the authority and responsibility to respond to a pandemic (issue health orders, closings, quarantines, and lock downs) rests with the states and not the president or congress.

This is the comment you've rewritten 1/2 hour after I replied.

Anyway, the federal government has lots of powers that apply, they even have a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, intended to apply federal resources to controlling and preventing diseases.
Where are the publicly developed ones used and how much does it cost per vaccinated person, and what is the effectiveness and safety? One would expect to see these in EU, but I see only these from US companies around here.

I never said a thing against public funding. That is not the same thing as developed publicly.

Thinking you can just go and develop a mRNA vaccine sounds like Dunning-Kruger to me. It took decades of research done by highly paid, highly specialized people highly driven towards a business goal and thus profit. I am not aware of any public entity doing that kind of research and actually successfully applying it too. (Yes, the development stands on the shoulders of public basic research. Not the same thing.)
Wikipedia, and almost any remotely reputable source, defines day trading as when a trader "buys and sells a financial instrument within the same trading day, such that all positions are closed before the market closes..."

If you can't sell the stock that you bought on the same day that you bought it, then by definition you can not day trade.
> Google Search (including via DDG)

DuckDuckGo doesn't use Google Search, so you'd be okay there.
Hi, looking for the video - the ones I saw were two from Georgia, both showing regular ballot boxes being counted. Could you provide a link?
For me, the first hour or so after doing a clean install of any recent version of Windows is spent carefully going through all the settings (not just both(!) control panels, but everywhere else including the services, task scheduler, group policy, etc.) and turning off everything unwanted. It feels like cleaning an infected machine: you're never sure whether you got it all, or something is going to make an unpleasant appearance later.
Some of Google's products e.g. Youtube are designed to be addictive, and in my experience addiction decreases one's quality of life. I still use the !sp operator on Duckduckgo to get proxied google results, you don't need a Google account for that.
>lower the quality of my life

Quitting Facebook will objectively increase your quality of life.
I apologize, I edited that out when I looked for a reference and couldn't find one. I thought I remembered reading something to that effect, but couldn't be sure.
"A key defence of appeasement, and especially the 1938 Munich Agreement, is that it gave Britain and France time to rearm against the Nazi threat."

They declared war on Germany...
> bits are indivisible

No, they're not. Sure, in more familiar scenarios where you're measuring the size of some amount of data it's an integer, but there's nothing mathematically wrong with having a not-integer number of bits.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_(unit)

If you do any sort of calculations with information theory you're quite likely to end up with a non-integer number of bits, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Riot is the name of another Matrix client

*edited - the old name of Element, apparently.
It's basically (IRC + XMMP) 2.0.
I don't know what you mean. You want a list? I don't have one, but I'm sure you can find one.

If you mean a tradeable index so you can invest in market makers... I doubt it. Their entire business is making money for themselves, and likely don't need or want public shareholders that they have to report to.
I agree about the possible business use cases and to solve that issue I have created _business only_ accounts that are on a different browser, they are connected to my work email, they don't contain my personal data and I never use them outside of work tasks.
I think you vastly overestimate the complexity of configure.ac scripts...

There are some obscure M4 things you can do, like changing the quoting system, but really it's just a macro/templating system to create a POSIX sh script so generally it boils down to running POSIX sh commands, with some templating...

Here[0][1] are some autoconf scripts I've written, by hand...

[0] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/autoconf/dir?ci...
[1] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/tcc4tcl/file?na...

Now, none of these are individually long, but that's just because I tend to split out common functionality and use pre-written macros from the acx archive where possible. But this shouldn't diminish the point that an autoconf script is really just a knowable (the GNU autoconf manual is good) set of M4 tools to create a POSIX sh script.
(From throwaway)
I have been doing that for the past 5+ years.

I used to live in Bay Area. Gained lot of knowledge (tech, product, business etc) through trial and error with multiple attempts over the years in my career. Finally am at a point when I can bootstrap almost any idea as a solo founder and fill gaps with contractors as needs arise.

One of my tech companies (solely owned by me) makes 10+ millions (USD) in profit every year. This help me lead a good lifestyle in one of the most livable but expensive cities in the world (and it is not a tech center). I work from home and spend a lot of time with family. I love how much time I can spend with my wife and kids. This is the biggest benefit.

I have some ideas which have a strong chance to be a unicorn. But I have de-prioritized them, mainly because Covid has been really challenging and I want to focus on supporting myself and the family during this difficult year.

If I was still in Bay Area, there is a good chance that peer pressure might have pushed me to prioritize work more. One one hand I would have had a higher chance of making a lot more money, on the other hand sometime you think what's the point of it if I can't spend time with my family. So it might be a Pro for some and Con for others.

One thing which did help is that I made this move after I already had reasonable success!
Do you really need to "build culture?" How about "do an honest job for honest pay and live your life outside work on your own"?

"Build culture" sounds a lot like "lure people into working more for less compensation" anymore. With such limited interactions available, you just have to be your own culture.
I believe the parent comment is referencing the fact that the Element application used to be called Riot [1].

[1] https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/
The next logical step here, it seems to me, is to scrape tens of thousands of recipes and apply this more broadly. There are, alas, perhaps a dozen or more dimensions along which recipes are going to be difficult to sanitize and normalize—there’s weight vs volume, variations in how to describe similar ingredients, and perhaps worst of all is the actual steps!

But are these challenges insurmountable? Well, maybe a few would limit you in some respects, but it certainly can’t be denied that some intrepid coder-cook could push this concept somewhat further.

You could also turn this all around and have a “consensus recipe generator.” Type in “pesto genovese” and it gives you a best guess of ingredients and amounts, with links to some recipes roughly matching those consensus amounts, perhaps with notable variations/“nearby” recipe clusters (sun-dried tomato pesto? or just the most popular pine nut substitute?) noted too.
Riot is the name of another Matrix client.
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