skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that this is something else, it's a simple difference but having the code on the size changes everything for me.

I assume you mean "on the side" and I agree, it's a game-changer. Normally I find literate programs to be tedious to read but simply changing the layout makes a huge difference.
I don't know if this works on all ants, but try a line of cinnamon. Ants won't walk over the line so we used to use it around antholes at the base of walls.

That helped us a lot as a kid!

Good luck, hope it helps!
More technical rebuttal is here http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/03/guest-post-problems...
> The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

Here he understates his own point. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is getting poorer. The people getting poorer the fastest are the middle class.
The Peanut Butter Smell Test – Detect Alzheimer’s Early?
High housing prices is terrible for the economy. It's the cause of the decrease in worker mobility which is probably a big the part of the stagnation in productivity growth. Estimates put it at a full 10% of GDP lost.
Pay for the year up front like Dropbox and App Store subscriptions
Buh-Bye,Bitcoin: The PRC (China) Launched a Digital Yuan,It Changes Everything
Twitter is a great. Thanks!! We have thinking of being more active there and strategically sharing content to build more authority.
Research support teams is another great idea. We have been only focused on PI's and associate professors so far.
Thank you for your advice.
Inventor's Paradox
Of course someone who works for Russian state TV is going to say their enemies are CIA.
I do not believe that referring to women using the first names is somewhat infantilizing and demeaning.

Unfortunately, at least in most Western societies, using the first names is the only way to refer unambiguously to women.

According to the tradition, in most Western countries the women do not have their own family names, but use either the family name of their father until marriage, or the family name of their husband after that.

So while Grace is the computer scientist, Hopper is her husband and Murray is her father. Using the name Grace makes clear who is honored.

Nowadays, in many places there are laws that allow women to choose their family names or to combine the family names.

Nevertheless, the old tradition is still entrenched, so searching for a certain woman, when the last information about her is many years old, can be difficult due to unpredictable family name changes.

Ideally, a human should keep forever the family name used at birth and the parents should choose one of their family names for the children.
Restrict access to a specific application (Mac)
Hi. I have a moderate drug addiction and the only way I can buy drugs is via darknet (Tor). Is there a way to block this application for myself?

Thank you.
Rust for Windows, and the Windows Crate
Why should America empower workers and unions
OP mentions PG’s article arguing against a wealth tax. That article is short, simple and to the point - Modelling a Wealth Tax (http://www.paulgraham.com/wtax.html). It is so compelling, but also misleading and wrong. Its not easy to spot the sleights of hand he uses. I wrote more about it here - Modelling a Wealth Tax Correctly (https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/wealth-tax/).

And yet, I think the simplicity of PG’s arguments is going to convince a lot of people. Simplicity sells, even if it deliberately obscures the truth.
I come here to learn and hopefully also share some insights with others. I thought you were genuinely trying to teach me something, which is why I engaged with you. But justifying sloppy arguments with "no one really gives a shit" doesn't really do it for me.
How worried should you be about coronavirus variants? A virologist’s concerns
I think even with their "permissive usage guidelines" of the OpenSearch trademark, their own way of how they've been doing Amazon ElasticSearch would not be allowed... For example, you can't do: `Microsoft OpenSearch`, you have to do "for OpenSearch" or "with OpenSearch compatibility".

From their "permissive" trademark policy [1]

> You may also use the “OpenSearch” word mark to make accurate statements about compatibility and interoperability using relational phrases such as “works with,” “runs on,” “compatible with,” and the like (e.g., “Foocorp Software powered by OpenSearch” or “Foocorp Software for OpenSearch” or “Foocorp Software with OpenSearch compatibility”).

1: https://opensearch.org/trademark-usage.html
Is it feasible for many countries - particularly small, densely populated ones - to be self-sufficient in food?

In the UK, at least, I'm not sure there's physically enough space to farm enough food to supply the population. About 50% of food is imported and basically all the agricultural land is already used.
Out of the box you get EU or US hosting.

You can do others (eg West Coast US, Japan, Australia -- it's all just AWS regions under the hood) but to do that you have to be in a 'private space' which is effectively a dedicated clone of the Heroku management infrastructure.

If you were paying a few hundred dollars per month you're now going to be paying a few thousand. IMO Heroku is shooting itself in the foot with this price structure.
Software Engineers sometimes act as if administration and coordination of effort are unwelcome distractions to productivity, but those are necessary components to any viable commercial effort. The super-productive, "$3M/year engineer" who goes and starts a successful new startup always metamorphosizes into the pointy-haired boss. Why is that? Because that is the steady state of companies, anything else is transient.

However, VC's make money from a steady stream of disaffected engineers who are convinced that there is a better way - for a while, there is, until the same VCs ask the founders to step-up their administration-game, or they have to raise capital, or manage paperwork.
I don't see disparity of compensation an issue, especially if companies are enormous like these and for profit. The job of a CEO in a company with 20 employees is quite different than the job of a CEO in a company with 100000 employees. On the other hand, the job of those employees is often the same (especially for low pay jobs), this is why you see this discrepancy.

The only issue I see is when salaries are too low for the job, or when companies tries to prevent workers from unionizing.
We have been split testing copy but the number is below 1000 so far. We have been running Facebook ads and using LI sales navigator.
It's also worth noting that many startups are used to launder trust funds and family money. Daddy (or the family office) invests in my friends startup, I (I wish) get a job as "chief growth officer" or "chief of staff" or "COO" or similar - or even as an early stage dev. Daddy gets preference shares - ofc - I get early stage employee shares, Daddy gets a tax break and Daddy's investment ushers in Venture funding. With Venture funding & Daddy the company goes well (pretty often) and goes to a early exit which sees the investors make a minimal profit and the early employees (me, I wish) get a nice bonus too - and onward.
> "Amazon is allowed to be competitive"

Of course it is. Why wouldn't this be allowed?

> "fork the code"

That's the entire premise of OSS. Would it make a difference if they did it years ago? If not then what's the problem?

Again, the value AWS adds is in operational services because that's what customers want. Are you taking issue with all the other companies offering managed elasticsearch too?
Your mention of Musk should raise an alarm to your sense of reality. He comes from a well off family, moved to Canada at 17 to attend university. This alone already puts him at the top 1% of humanity in terms of privilege. Then he went on to attend Stanford...

Not that it takes away from any of his achievements, but you are failing hard at realizing what things actually look like.

> It's also totally feasible to position yourself so that even if you fail you can still land on your feet, you just have to be conscious of it

This is the famous “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” said by someone who’s obviously never had to.
NPR disagrees with you. Good night.

Edit: seems like you added some more info to your comment. Ok, I'll bite. Nobody ever uses Switzerland in an apples to apples comparison with Western democracies because Switzerland employs bank secrecy laws that make it a crime to identify owners of bank accounts (which brings into question the legitimacy of much of the capital in those bank accounts). This is straight from Wikipedia [0]:

> Swiss banks have served as safe havens for the wealth of dictators, despots, mobsters, arms dealers, corrupt officials, and tax cheats of all kinds. In 2018, London-based Tax Justice Network ranks Switzerland's banking sector as the "most corrupt" in the world due to a large offshore banking industry and very strict secrecy laws. The ranking attempts to measure how much assistance the country's legal systems provide to money laundering, and to protecting corruptly obtained wealth.

Also, I mentioned elsewhere that a total of 9 countries in Europe implemented and then killed the wealth tax. This has nothing to do with just one politician in one country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Switzerland
Amusingly, I think I will lose this if I don't link it here. https://github.com/josevalim/nested-data-structure-traversal... is my attempt at getting a LOOP solution in.

As noted in the message, I originally did this in elisp, which felt a bit more natural, for some reason.
Does anyone know how it is legal to be considered guilty until proven innocent in the financial world? For me it feels like this changed slowly during the past 30 years without anyone noticing it.
> There seem to be a lot of people in this discussion on HN who seem very inexperienced in signing business contracts.

But that would also be the case for most of the general public, no? Are you suggesting that people should have experience in signing business contracts (and contracts with a predatory company, at that) before it's considered safe for them to buy software?
The thing that I'd expand upon is the support network.

Somehow I have a wider range of friends and family than most people, and the thing that is missing from this conversation is that most people by far don't know anyone wealthy, especially if they're not themselves wealthy.

The issue with that isn't just the money and connections themselves. There's a cultural gap of "I couldn't do that, only people on TV do that" whether it's starting a startup or pursuing one of those one in a million type careers like acting or sports.

There's a risk behaviour that is also affected by background. Basically you're pushed to not take too much risk: your parents' entire productive output has gone into your education, you can't just take a chance on it.

Case in point is my family. The parents all got spread around the world as refugees back in the 1970s. Everyone worked really hard but they told their kids to go the safe route.

I have a cluster of cousins in the bay area, what do they do? None of them do startups. Doctors, nurses, and Google.
Betrayed it's community.
Right.
Seems like an oversimplification.
Unless it's community is a few giant cloud service providers.
Anduril Raising New Round That Will Double Valuation to over $4B
I guess you and I have different opinions on what makes a "better" broker. I'm in favor of clearly-defined policies that anticipate certain events, which are communicated to all customers far in advance, so customers can make an informed decision whether or not to patronize that particular company. You seem to be happy with firms like IBKR which might decide, mid-day, at the peak of volatility, to lock out its customers from trading certain securities, without any advance notice or warning.

https://www.investopedia.com/robinhood-latest-broker-to-rest...
Yikes, that sucks.

I’m fine with the walled garden of my iPhone and Apple’s App Store. But I had hoped there was an alternative for those so inclined.
Neovim gives you a preview of the result of your regex replacement, and with the ability to reference capture groups it's a pretty powerful.
Does the Kremlin want Alexei Navalny to die in prison?
> I don't see how kyc/aml applies to this particular stock over every single other ticker they will happily sell you? There's no difference, they aren't selling cryptocurrency here.

It's the equivalent of security theater. Do something conspicuous that they can spin as having done something about the problem. That serves their purpose regardless of whether it actually does any good or makes any sense.

On top of that, cryptocurrency kind of competes with banks, so they have an excuse to cause trouble for the competition.
Thank you. This needed to be said.

I was thinking the same when I read PG’s essay. Unfortunately, I sensed arrogance and entitlement rather than humility and reasoned thinking behind his words.

It’s a shame, really. This world needs not only more successful people, it also needs more compassionate people, too.
No. I don't think I have the information or competence to discuss what he says in detail, or a hypothesised mother Jones article. I do think, the failure to get over the line is a massive setback for organised labour, and workers as a matter of principle. I am in favour of unions. The failure to win the vote is bad, for my side in politics.

The only point I wanted to make is the relationship of the author to a school of thought. If you think there is some morally neutral point these things are written from (I don't) then even in that imagined world, the cato institute is not it. The author comes from a very specific view of capital and labour. It's inherently opposed to unions.

Do you disagree?
They sound absolutely horrid. I'll try almost anything once, but freeganing in a Whole Foods' dumpster sounds better.

I'm half-French ancestry living in Austin (ATX), arguably the taco capital of the US except maybe East LA. Apparently, KCK is now an upstart rival. Mexico city is probably the capital of the world.

PS: What's up with French disdain for peanut butter? Is it just something else to feel artificially-superior about?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilswo...
> And my answer to that question would be, arguably yes. Why? Because at least old money understands the concept of noblesse oblige. The real sinister psychological thing going on behind the Graham argument is that it's not at all about meritocracy, it's that this mentality of earned wealth completely rids the owner of any sort of responsibility.

Michael Young wrote this two decades ago now:

The business meritocracy is in vogue. If meritocrats believe, as more and more of them are encouraged to, that their advancement comes from their own merits, they can feel they deserve whatever they can get.

They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism. The newcomers can actually believe they have morality on their side.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Full disk encryption is more secure. If you can't trust your system files who knows whats happening when you enter your password.
That makes Totino's pizza rolls "mini tacos" too rather than "mini calzones."
I use ubuntu and have disabled everything snap related. Works well.
Extreme weather events of 535–536 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26598570 - March 2021 (87 comments)
Police Brutality in the United States –. By, Evon Latrail
2nd hand cars have become 20% more expensive here in Germany this year (anecdotal based on just buying a used car). This is a good move because Intel are being agile and focused on solving a real problem. This speaks well for how they will respond more generally. They know it isn't below them.
The really shocking quote from the article is the part of the caption below one of the charts:

"Data for families in the first quintile (bottom 20%) are not shown. Their median wealth was as follows: 1989 — $0; 1998 — $0; 2007 - $36 and 2016 — negative $1,099."

BOTTOM 20%. Has has zero or negative wealth. And that has only changed for the worse during the last 30 years.

If one FIFTH of your country has $0 or negative wealth, and your country is the richest country in the world, I would say there is a significant problem.
Whereas in the UK, cancelling an annual travelcard has at most a £10 administration fee and you get a refund based on when you cancelled (although since it's discounted to 10 months cost, you probably won't get anything after that.)

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/4657...
> In the 70s and 80s even 90s someone on a teacher's salary could own their own home in a major world city - say London.

You can still have that. All you need is a real estate tax. But nobody wants that. People don't want cheaper homes, they want to become part of the home-owner elite and get their own appreciating asset.
It does until you go too far left...
Why is this vomit on HN?
Yes. Having extra cash means you can eat out (saves 1+ hour a day), buy an automated vacuum, dishwasher (extra 30 minutes a day), get a car or use taxi (1-2 hours, depending on location), hire a personal assistant (better organization, hard to estimate), get better medical care (less pain = better concentration)...

You also have access to specialists. You can hire a lawyer, people to help you with research, people to help you present yourself on social media.

In the end, you can extend your day and improve your productivity significantly, resulting in more hours available "to get lucky" effectively. I mean, being lucky when washing dishes does not help a lot, but being lucky when shopping for business opportunities...
As usual, this entire argument, both the PG essay and the response, in focusing basically only on Silicon Valley and the US.
The real difference that nobody seem to notice is that 1982 rich people from Pg’s data were locally rich. Tech has enable a class of globally reach people, whose riches, even tho they live and prosper in Silicon Valley, is the product of global unregulated resources extraction.
Unlike oil and real estate, which were already quite regulated and fundamentally local (not limited to the country of the rich man, in case of multinationals, but definitely localized), tech prospers on the borderless nature of the Internet, and the borderless nature of media.
I always argue that identity politics is important but it is not as effective as empowering working population. Improving the lives and wages of working class allows them to invest more in themselves and become more successful. It allows them to improve the condition of the next generation.

And moreover, minorities are usually from the working class, therefore improving the working class' conditions will improve the minorities' conditions as well.

I used to think education creates prosperity, and with prosperity comes self-actualization. As I learned more about the world, I started to think that economic security and extra income lets people pursue education and with education comes self-actualization. We should improve the bottom lines lives so that we decrease the inequalities in our society.
The article is about groups of units in group rings. That seems to have very little to do with your post - am I missing something?
This is probably not the place to say the following, but I just have to.

Reading your comment nearly made me cry, because it (strikingly) reminded me of my own story. You are not alone.

Keep your head up (as you seem to always have done), and if you can, make peace with the past and your parents. This took me a LOT of time, but it helped me.

Thank you for sharing your story.
not rly
Cool to see how to use Futhark for image processing and blue noise.

Here's a couple more dithering algorithms: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/
Not really. I was much more focused and arguably a better coder at 18, albeit a somewhat less knowledgeable one.

At 26 I have twice the experience but only a third of the motivation and focus. When you're younger you do stuff just find out whether you can, when you're older you already know you could and decide not to do anything.

It's exceedingly rare I'll find something interesting enough that'll keep me coding for 15 hours straight, at 18 that was the norm on pretty much every free day - of which there are a lot more when you're younger and not already working as a software dev.

My money will always be on the 18 year olds.
Pretty easy, make it a felony. Punk kids (usually) don't go around killing people.
Kitemaker (YC W21) is hiring fullstack engineers to build an alternative to Jira
I think companies often get away with terms and condition. But if it's true (in Australia), it's a step up!
All I want in France is a steady mainline IV of pain au chocolat warmed-up so the chocolate is just melting without making the croissantness soggy or oily from the butter melting.
It's not really obvious no, I personally made the same mistake. I thought I was subscribing to a monthly service, their UX intentionally makes it hard to understand what you're signing up for, after a few months I wanted to cancel but then found out I basically have to pay up a few hundreds and lose access to the service.
It's not an "honest contract" because they make it difficult to understand
The next-generation of AutoML frameworks
Hopefully you've reported (or +1'd) any bugs you found in GIMP. They're more likely to actually be fixed in a free software project, I think.
Fortunately for Americans the shots are no longer being called by someone from reality TV, so governmental responses to future nationwide disasters should be marginally less pathetic.
Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea
I've used Affinity for about four years (~2017) and it's honestly great. It offers way more power than I need for editing my wildlife photos, has a nice, familiar UI and I actually own my licences.

I use it in combination with Capture One, but if Serif ever release a tool that can manage my ~30k photos I'll definitely consider switching.
Also many of the people mentioned are more ‘anti-west’ than ‘anti-war’. Not really questioning that this editor appears biased but let’s call it what it is, which is basic tribal left/right politics.
Benford's Law is relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
Yeah, I did similar to this where I just ouright said I cannot afford to pay the cancellation fee and they waived it. Obviously they are in the right to vharge this (if they make it abundantly clear). I do disagree with the practice or pricing model but cant say I didnt know about the fee going into it.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not against longer term contracts, but Adobe's marketing only advertises "monthly" prices which are really the yearly contract paid out monthly. They apparently have three separate tiers: actual monthly (most expensive, not advertised), yearly but paid monthly, and yearly charged yearly (also not advertised very well).

We also can't ignore the environment around subscription payments. If many other SaaS companies offered similar yearly but paid monthly plans, I think Adobe CC plans would be less problematic.

I'm definitely not against yearly plans, but this is unnecessarily confusing. If the advertising were honest, it would be more clear that this is a loan/lease agreement or they would advertise the real yearly cost/real monthly plans instead of this weird hybrid plan.
Most of it is just a giant outdoor meat factory, though. Same for Ireland. Meat, fortunately, is unnecessary and very inefficient.
Thank you very much! The idea to have all the computations already in place and just play bingo/lotto is awesome. This is the true spirit of defi