skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your comment is more sophisticated and useful than my “pornography for women”. What I was getting at in particular was that fantasies of luxury, arbitrary amounts of money, clothes, homes, vacations, and being listened to, resonate with many women on a fundamental level, and this may be entwined with their sexuality. Whether this is a form of pornography or not is complex. The points about politics above are well made. I have always thought that these endless “social dynamic” controversies represents a real time estimation, by the women involved, of their mating attractiveness, which partially governs all the chrome junk they’re enveloped in, but I am certainly a very amateur analyst. Two more thoughts, one from my late mother and one from me. 1. There are no books in these houses and no abstract concepts. 2. It is useful to contrast the details here with men’s obsession with sports.
I wonder if we’ll cross a line and realize that Brazil’s leaders were proving their deliberation that military action would result in government-ordered destruction.
1980's computers compared to today's computers are like an IKEA chair compared a nuclear aircraft carrier.
No they don't, the Free Software Foundation's IceCat cleans that up.
I loath having 80 char limits. Nothing worse than you end up 3 characters over on a condition and need to try format it nicely across 2 lines. More often it’s less readable splitting it than just having it on 1 line.

If 80 char is a warning it’s ok. Because obviously if every line is super long that’s not readable either. Needs to be a balance.
Ahh okay, I see, thank you for the explanation!
Okay, maybe you can explain it to me, because I never quite got the appeal.

Even if you want to use Apple Pay 100% of the time, don't you have to carry a wallet for your driver's license at least? What's the big benefit for not putting a card, or worst case, a $20 note, in said wallet, for emergencies or even "Oh cool! A yard sale!" moments?

It feels like we're still a few years off from "everything on your phone" at least in the US.
Unicode has reasonable support for combining forms these days in cursive and similar scripts: Arabic, Devanagari, etc.

Mongolian is, I suppose, the combination of everything tricky in text display. Ligatures and joining forms, vertical, left-to-right. I think it's the only living writing system with this particular combination.
In general I'm not crazy about stuff that is based around praising one's self. I get a lot of marketing on facebook that assumes I want to buy t-shirts that brag about how awesome I am because of the different groups I belong to - including my age, gen-x, etc. I find it to be off putting.

That said - I see the author's point about how we grew up with a sense of the wide open possibility. There is a feeling I had as a teen that this new world of computing made anything possible. I had posters of EA devs up on my walls and my friends and I wrote our own games that we played.

As things moved along and dev tools got expensive I lost some of that optimism until I ran into FOSS in the early 00s. That reignited the whole thing for me. But I think it will be a constant battle against many forces to keep open platforms, tools and networks. At the same time I think regulation has to be a part of it. It's a balancing act like so much of life.

I think the key is finding how it impacts the majority of people and helping them understand why it matters to them. They may not understand technical or philosophical arguments - they need to see the real impact on their daily lives.
Why would anyone use a currency that disappears? They will just store their money in some other form, then transfer it to govcoin when they have to pay taxes.
What % of the population is engineers? 1% representation doesn’t feel that off.
At least Foul Speakers makes an effort to educate people https://foulspeakers.com/dumbass/
It is. I don't mean to discourage the author in any way. It just doesn't appear, from the article, that the squeeze was worth the juice, in this case.
I woulden't say media is still as honest as they always were when it comes to right wing media. Fox News recently had to do multiple retractions but only did so in a miniscule way. The damage the oroginal reports like "Biden will ban beef" were supposed to do already happened, they covered it for hours or days on multiple shows then print a minimal retraction with Larry Kodlow or Tucker Carlson or others not even attempting to apologize. Thats not even mentioning their coverage of the Dr Seuess thing not mentioning the actual book in question and to avoid a retraction, they dont explicitly say Biden banned the books but keep making it appear as of that was the case. A Newsmax host literally had to walk off his show during thr My Pillow guy's rants after being sued by Smartmatic and yet they only had a minimal retraction compared to the lies they got sued for. Tucker Carlson literally had to claim in court that no sane person would take him seriously. Sorry but right wing news has gone completely off the rails from what they used to be.
I am fine with them wanting to cover topics from a right wing slant but when they are caught in a lie constantly and barely apologize enough to avoid getting in legal trouble, there is a serious problem.
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Too much marketing involved in this business. And then too much competition from China? Not sure whether the masses are aware of the good but cheap China items. BLON BL-03 , how can you compete with that?
This is a big problem with charities and other donation driven organizations. People want to say where their donations go, and will often leave gifts for flashy things that can't be used for general purposes. General donations can fill in any gaps and are therefore some of the highest value donations.

No one donates and says, please restrict this donation to the purchase of basic janitorial supplies. But that doesn't change the fact they still need those supplies.
There are a long list of illnesses caused by vitamin deficiencies, including Scurvy, Rickets, magnesium deficiencies and iron deficiencies (as well as others). These can be life threatening too, so survival is very much a question that should come up.
To clarity further:

The reserve requirement (banks must maintain so-and-so many percent of their money in central-bank issued reserves) simply means that if, after loans are made, the central bank discovers that the private banking system is low on reserves, the central bank sells new reserves to the banking system to satisfy their demand.

In other words, customer demand (which is relatively inflexible: you don't take out loans for fun, you do it because you need them) drives private bank loans, which drives creation of reserves by the central bank. Not the other way around.

The market dictates how much money is in circulation, by demanding a particular amount of money. The central bank can't do anything other than oblige, because if demand outpaces supply, our economy will stall.
Kind of an odd take. Either Millennials grew up with the old good web and invented the new bad web or they grew up with the new bad web and didn't invent it. Either way, the arguments kind of fall apart.

Zuck is a Millennial but the rest of web 2.0 is run by GenXers, no?

Well anyway, generational blame is pretty useless. Lets just try to fix stuff.
Yeah first thing I thought was "Cool, self-DOS."
Ended up exactly in the same situation. Unfortunately didn't thought about replay which is by the way a really nice feature.

Two bigs tower and a sad perfect spot to fit a L shape at the base of them :D
To say that millennials only know the internet as Facebook and MySpace etc, is not a good characterization of reality IMO.

I was born in 1990. Facebook is not my Internet. When I grew up the Internet was a very fascinating place. Flash games, web forums, chat rooms, peer to peer file sharing of mp3 files and movies. A friend of mine had an older brother who used to give him home burned CDs with software, anime, games and other files, that the older brother had obtained via Suprnova.org and other torrent tracker sites. And me and my friends also downloaded and shared files using BearShare, LimeWire and KaZaA Lite.

So no, I can not agree with the overly simplistic characterization of millennials as thinking that Facebook is the Internet.
Not all of us, probably?
Or you could do your normal work for 100$/hours, then donate that to pay two people at 50$/hours to do it. By spending the same amount of time, you helped twice as much.
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So true. They laugh at me 'cuz I know nothing about the latest app. I laugh at them because they have no idea how their computer works.

How many times do I advise: "Just unplug it and plug it back in."

P.S. for non-digital electronics, the cold reset doesn't work.

P.P.S. My skill at writing programs took an enormous discontinuous leap forward when I learned how transistors worked, how to wire up a transistor to make a flip flop, and how to hook up flip flops to make registers, adders, etc.
Just take a mental note while reading this article, those people that moved out, probably had to move out because there was no place/work for them there.

He is a wealthy man that owns a farm. Same story about someone who would be a bartender in a local pub, where he was just an employee serving local drunks, would be much sadder one.
As an irishman, i can so relate to the comment on the jam :)

"My uncle, a bachelor and farmer like me, had the same food for every meal. He had bread, butter, cheese and tea for breakfast, lunch and dinner (although he would bring out the jam for visitors)."
Character limits are obsolete.

Enter a line break if you need one. No need to force. We have high-res widescreen monitors now and it results in much more productive viewing. And editors can automatically wrap text if you need a narrower window.
Cool. You've just made some low wage worker deal with your trash. The CEO will never ever be impacted by your action, but one or more people in your local community definitely will.

Have a little more respect and empathy for those around you.
Lotta early-rock-history-for-newbs in there, I'll give it that. Dylan's insights - race, payola, manipulation - were already gospel long ago, for example in 1984 in Patrick Montgomery's Rock and Roll: The Early Days (1984). [0] (Despite the resolution) Enjoy! (About the garage-band thing supposedly happening? Not on the radio!)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL2K-KrtBNs

Edit: while I'm on it, if you'd like expert rock history, Alan Cross is your man. Check into all those 900+ 'Ongoing History of New Music' casts, about 25m each. The man's accurate and thorough.

https://omny.fm/shows/ongoing-history-of-new-music
Can we sit back and think for a moment about how many hours mpweiher spent figuring all this out, when we (humans) already knew all this?

We just let it be locked in the secret document vaults at Apple, and then had to waste effort rediscovering it.

That doesn't seem smart.
Linter flags when you put an await in front of a-non async function, but, alas, the opposite is not true (call of async without await). This has always been source of bugs in my code.
What are the factors that you think would cause prices to reduce?

To the contrary, as more subscribers join the service, satellite throughput capacities will eventually be saturated and will require more satellites or more advanced and powerful satellites.

Meanwhile, constant replenishment of the orbital network means that it's not a build-and-amortise asset. There's not a point at which revenue pays-off the asset and can sustain a reduction in subscription fees.
I'm not saying that the soviet union was a paradise, far from it, just that its weird for someone to describe creating good scientists as a "failure" when talking about educational systems. That's not to say that it might not have other flaws, i just struggle to see how creating scientists itself is a flaw.
That wasn't covered in any of my public school classes. Offhand, none of the teachers for history ever covered past WW-II. None of the material in the books (I read ahead) covered anything during the 70s or beyond either... though the district I grew up in did have some really old books for the time (over a decade old, and no dedicated class for 'recent' history).
Thanks for the advice, then I'll keep doing what I know
Also, if they use Instagram/Facebook as well, isn't the whole point moot anyway? Do they collect anything more in WhatsApp than they do in their other apps?
I am not sure why net payer/net beneficiary is relevant, but your link states the opposite of your claim.

>The majority of states receive more in federal services than what they pay in federal taxes, but 11 states, including California and New Jersey, spend more than they receive.

>We described the difference as the balance of payments. For example, California's balance of payments is -$13.7 billion. This means California residents get less in return than they pay for.

>In California, each resident is sending in $348 more than they get back.

>Florida: Total balance of payments: $62.4 billion Per capita balance of payments: $2,977

Its also from Sep 2017, after which there were considerable changes to the tax code so it is probably outdated.
The Hatetris code doesn’t appear to have an open source license, or any license, so it isn’t open source.

This use of the code is a clear legal breach of copyright, in the absence of specific agreement with the copyright holder.

(On the Hatetris page, the author declines someone’s request to use the code elsewhere)
I'm in Hungary. My Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram all have degraded features because I've refused some permissions.
I don't know, big difference between running a farm and working as a bartender.
In my country most professional jobs pay full salary for 6 months for maternity leave, that comes from the company, not the government (who only pay a small amount per week)

The bigger question is why is the US one of about 3 countries that doesn’t offer maternity leave.
Especially Carlos’s Beauty in the Beast, one of my fav albums. It seems to have a strong Indonesian influence in places, and I’ve since found similar exotic tunings in music from there.
The new way is to make the lines as long as a human needs it to be, and use the computer to automatically wrap them when you need a narrower view.
I'm used to giving the benefit of the doubt to Apple, but this one needs to be explained.

Is this fodder for new discovery in the Epic lawsuit?

Due to the nature of that case, can Apple be compelled to provide information on this and all other non-public entitlements along with and who they are granted to and why?

Is it reasonable to presume that Zoom was under an NDA on this, and it was an employee mistake bringing it up by name?
Sometimes there's value in getting your hands dirty, in connecting with your local community, in having a sense of satisfaction from personally doing a good thing, in seeing how those less fortunate are struggling.

Not every problem is a pure efficiency maximization problem. There are intangibles to consider as well.
I don't get it, why not just use MQTT? That has WebSockets support too. Is this reinventing the wheel or is there some advantage?
You're grossly underestimating the level of education in Mongolia. Until the IMF-mandated austerity policies of the 90's, during which so many schools closed that many families couldn't even send their children to primary school anymore, and the remaining schools had to close in winter because they couldn't afford heating, Mongolia did not only have near-total literacy, but also one of the highest rates of tertiary education, that is, college education, in the world (not in the "third" world). Of course, since Mongolia has been blessed with the free market, living standards have been on a decline throughout the country, and nowadays, your offhand remark is more likely than not to have some substance. However, things have been improving again over the past decade or so.

The Western drive to assume that people in poorer countries are all uneducated seems to me to reflect something Hannah Arendt wrote about Soviet totalitarianism, namely that once Soviet propaganda had claimed that the Moscow metro is the only working metro in the world, there emerged a need to conquer the whole world, just so all other metros could be shut down to ensure the truth of the ideology.
People want to live near jobs, services and amenities, and diversity of those can only be achieved at scale.

You could build a million homes in the middle of nowhere and you’d wind up with a million empty houses.
OK.

I used to be in Anthony Bourdain mode. In that time, Michael Palin mode seemed a world away - non-resonant and unobtainable.

Eventually I changed into Michael Palin!
Which is great
Now you have the choice to choose whether you want generic ads or personalised

That’s what people wanted for so long
The choice to choose , nothing more nothing less.
Chances are it'd be the same as the carplay drop-down - you only get access if your app is part of a market that apple allows the API to work on. You have no idea if it'll stay "only for Apple's friends" once they do this; even the current CarPlay app selection has no-name apps like Next[0] (74 total ratings), and I doubt they pulled any favors to get on there.

0: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1476724373
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Not if you consider that 66% of the people who sit in congress are lawyers and they're only 0.36% of the population.
The time family was making me to install this malware, it decided to go and delete _all_ my contacts in the phone. Thats when i immediately uninstalled the application and spend some time restoring all the contacts it deleted. Needless to say i told family, i wont use whatsapp, contact me by other means.
Hydrogen is likely to replace BEVs eventually. Just like internal combustion manufacturers are stuck in their paradigm, so are EV makers.
I mean, Hatetris probably wasn't using the Tetris trademarks properly, right? Aren't both just remix culture?
Depends what you optimise for I guess, maybe fine if you are looking for novel problems or starting a startup, but in general with regards to your career, I believe Patio11’s point on this is more accurate: you want to be part of the profit center [https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...]
Yes, I agree, but I'd like to know what it was. Best guess so far is fat.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic is generally used to talk about how it works for a less developed civilization meeting a more developed one, but perhaps it also pertains to the non technicians in the magic civilization.

At a certain point of specialization and advancement it no longer seems productive use of your time to try to understand it, leading to large portions of the population who view the technicians holding things together as inscrutable magicians.
Aren't you concerned that Californians will turn Atlanta into Little California by supporting the policies that caused the problems they are fleeing in the first place?
In modern Java they can be used to create an accessor function, because Java still does not have syntax for referencing fields in this context.

items.stream().map(Foo::bar)

vs

items.stream().map(i -> i.bar)
It would be great to have an mobile version of magic wormhole, though sadly I'm not an app developer so while I would really like to implement it, it's outside of my skillset.
Epicentre of the outbreak != the origin. But sure... let just pretend that Wuhan is a single lab, a single road going 10km and a wet market.

How come no one at the lab? Or the University got it? How come initially it was Hankou (west side) that was locked down and not Wuchang (east side)?

Surely the folks leaking (given the equivalent of the cdc is in the same location) it would have thought of that and locked it down first?

Sorry that facts keep spoiling the juicy narrative.
I figure we'll see .5 cents.
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In Lenin's definition, Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, its maturity, when the capital concentrates on few Big Groups. Imperialists are struggling and competing with each other in crucial issues like EV's (Electrical Vehicles), Semiconductors, New Energies (to be independent of oil and gas, otherwise they will be strategically weak, e.g., in wars). So you will hear more and more about Green Deal, Green New Deal, Next Generation Europe, Save the Planet, Greta Thunberg, Welfare States, etc. But all these are new ideologies of imperialists. But for sure we are going to see new World Wars in 15-20 years.
Not quite. The link below is Goodwill’s official statement on the matter. In fact, as of today, “22 of the 151 local Goodwill organizations” make use of special Federal dispensation to pay at least some of their employees sub-minimum wages. Yes, they go on to say they are transitioning away from the program, but that’s far more than one Goodwill organization - and in the recent past, it was much more prevalent. https://www.goodwill.org/about-the-special-minimum-wage-cert...
This is what bothers me most about Apple devices and software. They probably have the "best" devices out there in terms of user experience. I use an iPhone and iPad every day because of it. But they keep very tight control over what software can be installed and run on it in order to safeguard their views on UX and security/privacy.

This means for me as a developer that it's hard to write software and tools for my own devices without having to deal with Apple in some way or root the devices. Some things are even clearly impossible because of these private entitlements: There is no way for me to explore the CarPlay API's to experiment with my own ideas.

A small part of me hopes that the Epic lawsuit and recent developments can lead to more abilities for sideloading on iDevices.
Aren't skyscrapers in Manhattan mostly offices and luxury apartments?
>He is a wealthy man that owns a farm.

He's got 70 sheep mate. In Romania (IIRC) they'll unironically gift you farms like this because there's nobody else there to maintain them and you basically get some land for free. As the man himself points out it's a very simple life that involves a lot of hard work during all seasons, he's not privileged. Most people move out because life even in the service industry is easier.
The communist countries typically enslave parts of their own population, the capitalist countries typically enslave other populations. So obviously it's nicer to live in a capitalist country.

"Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, communism is the inverse."
> Why does the alternative need to be immaculate in order for you to drop a bad company?

Because of network effects. The status quo have your contacts, so an alternative must be that much better to convince anyone to join.
Do they provide E2EE for desktop by now, or still available only for phone? I would rather stick to Element, Wire, or XMPP (gajim on Linux, Conversations on Android from F-Droid). Briar seems cool, too, but it is not available for desktop.
That's pretty much the exact philosophy I live by. I've definitely found no bed frame to be a hard-sell to family and friends, and it's hard to see why once you've tried all the options. A mattress makes a lot of sense, but a bed frame adds little value unless you are short on storage and one has storage built in, or you aren't mobile enough to get to the ground. But maybe I'm missing some utility that others have found in their bedframes!

Living in Japan now, I had a few months with a padded mat + quilt on the floor as is tradition (and a damn cheap one), but upgraded to a mattress on the floor because the floor was too cold in winter as you mentioned.

There's as much to be gained from taking stuff away that isn't useful, as there is from adding useful stuff to your life.
Be your own biggest critic? Leans into the perfectionist mindset.