skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're doing well in America pretty much every system is better for you than the European counterpart. On the other hand if you're doing poorly well you can fall very far in the US system.

Of the American's on Hacker News almost all of them are in the "doing well" category so the perspective is all off.
Well, unless you’re a developer at a certain theme park featuring genetically engineered creatures…
This is currently a big pain in the butt for me.

I sometimes buy specialized tools and equipment from Amazon due to the convenience of Amazon's great catalog and suggestion system, it can be quite useful.

However, sometimes I receive items that are clearly B-stock, returns, mislabeled defective, improperly packaged, etc from these third party sellers who "win the buy box".

The subtle difference between useful and completely useless is really hard to demonstrate to someone who is not familiar with the usage and normal appearance of these products.

When I have a problem with some of these specialized industrial products I often cannot simply return them for service or warranty to the reseller, I am required to return them to the authorized reseller (Amazon is often one of these) for warranty service.

The problem with this is that the manufacturer often only warranties their product when sold from their authorized reseller. Even though Amazon may be an official reseller affiliate, the third party reseller that I purchased it from (again, FBA, but sold by GUYA JICKSV LLC) is not on this list!

In order to get the warranty service I now have to go to the manufacturer, who is wary of theft, counterfeit, returns, and a really surprising number of times I discover that there is a part missing or duplicate parts, and this renders the warranty void.

Dealing with the manufacturers in these situations is really annoying and often fruitless. To them its just one unit and they do industrial sales volume, but to me it is several hundred dollars and days of hassle. This costs me much more money than the cost of replacing the thing.

I am now very wary of buying certain types of products from Amazon, as they often appear to be sold by Amazon, but is actually not sold by Amazon, but only technically sold by amazon because of this buy box behavior.

Its is incredibly opaque, error prone, and nobody cares except me and my customers (with whom I sure do have a relationship, unlike the Amazon seller does with me.) As a result, I have reduced my purchasing from Amazon. Cest la vie.
This is some Rime of the Ancient Mariner shit and I love it, salute to this utter king
I found this related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076588

I wonder why this didn't blow up more, it sounds like such a privacy nightmare.
What country are you talking about?
What's new with in-app purchases in iOS 15 – WWDC21
I think this whole debate is centered on the shallow idea that "going to an Ivy League" in and of itself is what ordains "elite-ness". To unravel this, you first must consider the actual value proposition of Ivy Leagues relative to other schools.

Firstly, undergrad in America, especially at private schools like the Ivy Leagues, is more a daycare for rich kids, than it is a place of scholarship and learning. The education is certainly good, but there are plenty of other schools with rigorous academics. At these schools the children of the rich fraternize, drink and come of age with other children of the rich. The schools themselves are well connected as well but it's in large part through these bonds with their rich and powerful peers that the graduates of these schools go on to become "the elites". If you reduce the number of kids from rich and powerful families going to these places, you are going to drastically reduce the networking potential amongst classmates and start to erode school level affiliations. In short, you can't just limit admissions to solely "academic merit" without destroying a big part of what makes prestigious schools valuable. Ultimately, if the children of the rich and powerful are excluded, they will congregate elsewhere and all the prestige and kingmakers will follow.
They can block any traffic that they can't decode
The silo is soooo over.
The brief synopsis of video game tester I remember reading somewhere is that it's actually incredibly boring, because it involves finding and exhaustively reproducing bugs, not actually playing a game. Is that accurate?
It's crazy whack-a-mole. This one appears to have been printer ink before and seems still active.

https://www.amazon.com/Posture-Corrector-Comfortable-Adjusta...
To invest in a data center requires things like reliable property rights, a functioning judicial system, peace and security, network connectivity and other supply chain issues. You want rule of law, peace, security and infrastructure.

The advantage of bitcoin is that once you mine the coins, it is a lot harder for someone to come and take them from you, whether that someone is a rebel group or a corrupt government official or just a local crime syndicate. Moreover you are not dependent on available network backbones or any of the other required infrastructure that a data center depends upon.
28% of men and 18% of women between the ages of 18 and 30 report having had no sex in the past year. So, that would be 1 in 4 men, approximately. That's as of 2018, with a trendline going very distinctly up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...
I don’t think GP is criticizing the pedagogy, but instead memeing.
How do you know they are failures, if they are happy with their situation.
> Sodom/Gomorrah

Cause that’s the whole story right? Both of those cities weren’t destroying humanity at the time right? Have you read the part about cutting off your hand if it causes you to sin? Do you understand that saying your human body is who you are is equivalent to saying your name defines you? Do you understand religion at all other than some minor studying you’ve not really done?

> Assume for a minute that you don't believe in God.
Then explain how religion is not used to control (read: enforce moral standards).

Is this how you also explain laws? As control? What about discipline? Is this also control? Clearly both are. Do you now understand how control != bad? What argument are you trying to make exactly? Anarchy? But you'll also note, in religion it's said you will try to not sin and fail. And always be forgiven. So there's no punishment here. None. So you're arguing against discipline, laws, morality and civilization in general.
I think it starts early and the little things compound throughout most domains in childhood development which leads to these men feeling completely lost and unable to navigate the current society that doesn't really care about them unless they are the antagonist to some narrative. Outside of family, nobody really cares when they are falling through the cracks, and nobody really cares to try and pick them up afterwards.

Just look at the behaviors of people who are participating in society, why are they on average getting married less, later in life, having less kids, and buying homes later if ever, when these are all supposed to be important stepping stones of adulthood. The incentives that used to be there are harder to reach for people that actually have it together, and getting further out of reach for average people. When life sucks, might as well drop out.
I can compare. Ebuilds are nothing in comparison, and guix is much more flexible. What portage has over guix is the wealth of premade packages (for now)
They're both distributed. The fact that anyone _can_ archive anything forever reasonably excludes the assumption that it's not, accessibility/curation notwithstanding.
If success in college is indicative of intelligence, then the low correlation between SAT scores and college success would argue against your claim.
In the real world what prevents this outcome? Humans aside. Because it's uncommon. Ecosystem diversity? Pathogens?
I use a kindle paperwhite. I don’t love it for its hardware, but I think it has been great value. I can’t have a lamp let alone a light on or I’ll have way more trouble falling asleep. This thing has been like a sleeping pill for quite a while now. A fairly enriching one.
What sort of people do you think remote colonies need?
It's also not the best analogy to use because it betrays an utter lack of understanding of the purpose of language. No matter how fancy the phrases an AI might construct it's at best an additional translation barrier between the reader and the author.
- Non-Google, non-chromium, non-blink engine browser - Support for good keyboard navigation (vimium etc) - Support for Ublock Origin

Check.

- compact mode

Check.

Orion may be for you (if on Mac)
Oh man, I forgot I sang Jonah’s Song with the BYU Men’s Chorus until you posted those lines. I couldn’t find a recording of us singing it, but here is an excellent recording of another choir singing it:

https://youtu.be/3FmjPpTqk3s
Show HN: D20 app made with react-three/fiber
"Pamper, pander to". Perhaps it's a loaded word but as a parent who may some day be facing this situation (from the parent point of view) I feel like I'm justified in my judgement.

FWIW I do have friends that were forced out of the house at 18. At the time I was the same age and I thought it was harsh. Many years later though, I can see that it worked out just fine.
I knew a few women who went to college specifically for the purpose of finding a man to marry, with their goal being a stay at home mother and wife to a lawyer or doctor or something wealthy sounding.

They were as physically attractive as they were emotionally shallow. There is much much more to a person than an education.
Yet they moved their taxable entity to Ireland, if I understand things correctly. I'm not sure what it means to say that they're an "American" company. And what do we actually gain from having companies nominally located in the US?
Is someone enabling this behavior in her life? My sister is the same way. My parents enabled her for a decade. Now she is 34 and has minimal life skills and no real job skills to speak of. She just works at a day care. It is a tragedy, but my parents bail her out every time and they barely have many resources themselves. My sister can at least drive and has mostly had a job for a few years now... but that is a recent development.
My first read of that made me think your day job was diving for lobsters (often referred to as bugs, and quite elusive).
Yeah but step 2 of that is "wage increase" (then step 3 of that is "either school A increases wages or school B increases wages and gets all the teachers, etc.) You can't arbitrarily pick a point at which you stop making an appeal to authority to Econ 101; it's all or nothing.

The point here is, the situation should make us ask ourselves "huh, I wonder why wages aren't increasing." But I can save you some time and tell you the answer is mostly we don't think those jobs are high status enough.
This. I mean, technically (or operationally) that's a challenge, but I hate that they use the same permission to bug me with ads and send me ultra important information.

Oh, and my phone runs android. :)
Todays boys have only known privilege until today that they are suddenly equal? How does that work?
You might find something useful here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/pdf/ssch24.pdf
I like to think our policies would prevent this. Like you can’t just get an access token from support. And you have to know your employee network ID to even call support in the first place. And no one can arbitrarily spin up a VM (well, I say no one..no one that I work with including the guys who always need them). But I’m sure there’s one smooth talking person out there that could talk themselves into access if they tried and got to the right overworked and underpaid support person.
Because, if there was a non-human made virus being studied in a lab which was human-infectious...then that virus would already be out there in the wild unless you'd made a specific effort to eradicate it like we did with smallpox.

"Lab-leak" is non-sensical in all forms which don't begin with "lab evolved/bioengineered" and while not completely implausible, the methodology for selective rapid-evolution of a virus requires the exact same conditions as are trivially recreated in the population and human-animal contact regime of greater China.
That is true for you, but not all.

Programmer compensation can scale with the total capital of the enterprise because the software can run everywhere (eg. AWS backend developer). So bigger employers can pay programmers more, almost linearly with capital.

But most workers can not productively use infinite capital. So they do not reap the benefits of scale, while definitely suffering the reduced autonomy of larger firms (e.g. Amazon delivery jobbers).

Social-democratic societies make different choices.
Oddly enough in my locale, we plan for lower velocity during deer hunting season, and pretty much for the rest of the year after that, because people put off their vacations in case they get sick, and have to use up their vacation time at the end of the year.
This got real buried. Thanks for the intro to positive and negative rights. My complaint is with removing rights. Rights are not supposed to be removed, you’re born with them. I do not think any entity should be able to remove any right, positive or negative. It’s a dangerous precedent and I reiterate, every ounce of my being.
> People in France care so much more on raising their kids, having good friends, living somewhere fun or interesting, having time away from work

Ironically, working for a North American company in Europe lets me do all this better than if I worked for a local company.
It is mostly economic, but there is also a constant attack on masculinity in young boys.
If you assume the value extracted leaves the system, the sure. That's a bad assumption though. When everyone makes more everyone gets more. I mean, if a lot of something gets made in the US, it's generally because the US people demand it with spending.
> I live in NYC, for example, and I don't know a single grocery store here that belongs to a national chain or even a regional one -- they're all local.

1. Whole Foods

2. Trader Joe’s

3. Acme (subsidiary of Albertsons)

4. Wegmans (on GP’s linked list)

5. Fairway / Morton Williams (depends on how you define “regional chain”, but both are Shoprite affiliates and Shoprite is on GP’s linked list)

About the only truly “local” chain grocery stores I can think of in NYC are Gristedes and Westside Market, but I’m not an expert on the subject.
If you disagree that science should, in modern parlance, be interpreted as a reference to the scientific method, I guess I have no basis for argument. It's not my intent to be the grammar (semantic, I guess?) police.

I appreciate the sort of knowledge creation Kenji's engaging in. And I agree that it's the most rigorous I've seen presented in a remotely accessible way.

In some ways that just makes me wish he'd take it a step further. I don't think it takes any special equipment or money or MIT degree to follow the scientific method. It seems likely that Kenji already does record data of some kind somewhere. I'm not saying he needs to look at pie crust with an electron microscope, you could simply list a more detailed procedure and qualitative scoring data in a footnote.

I do think equivocating different forms of knowledge with science wastes a great way to introduce people to important scientific concepts. And I think one could argue it risks contributing to confusion about what science is, what it's capable of, and what it's limitations are.

Of course, "be the change you want to see in the world" is great advice. And at the risk of seeming to make an insincere "compliment sandwich", I really do like Kenji and his recipes.
Why should the federal government unilaterally regulate US big tech and do it openly? Do they want to trigger massive wastes of money in commissions to analyze the problem, hiring consultants to generate reams of bs, legal fees, etc. It would be a much fairer and economical solution to get the NSA to plant ransomware in every large company with monopolistic practices across the globe. Why single out FAANG? What about Alibaba? Tencent? Siemens? And all the others I do not even know about?

It's time for the world to get a BIG reset.
House Bills Seek to Break Up Amazon and Other Big Tech Companies
> It solves the problem of corporate censorship. Visa for example is notorious for refusing to do business with people they don't like (porn companies, 4chan, etc).

You're saying here that it's a problem that Visa isn't forced to sell credit or payment processing to porn sites. I'm saying that's their right under the First Amendment.
Guy actually started a game studio and moved in with his parents in Gainesville florida ironically. His costs were 12k a year.
Wikipedia:

> Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States.
NORAD, NORTHCOM want $80M to test SpaceX and OneWeb in the Arctic
>Why do you say that you're never going to be able to buy a house, but maybe will end up retiring before you're 40?

It's not necessarily about being able to afford a house, but rather about whether home ownership is the best option financially when compared to other options. 20 years ago, homes were so cheap that I'd be willing to buy a home just for the sake of being a homeowner and enjoying the security that entailed. However, nowadays with sky high housing prices, home ownership would need to provide concrete financial benefits when compared to other investments.

Admittedly I'd likely be more motivated to look into buying a house if I wanted children.

>Sounds like, in lieu of anything else, you should try and buy a rental property or two. Start slow, eventually FIRE, that whole thing.

Yes this is the path I am most likely to go down. Buying some rental properties and retiring relatively young is an attractive option.
The US doesn't have perpetual welfare for non-disabled people. Hopefully your parents love you enough to not allow you to live as a parasite.
About a month ago, I tried it on a Windows server and it was very slow, crashed a lot and the Web UI was much buggier than Emby's. Plus they don't have a Samsung TV app as far as I know which is a dealbreaker.
Yup, at least not whole.
"Historically, only a % of the population ever reproduced. About the same as do today"

What is "historically"? Is that in a society of cavemen where most men died before reaching maturity? Is that a polygamous tribal society?
Is it ancient Rome where peasants had families and had loads of kids to help with farm work? Are we talking post-renaissance, where vast majority of people had families and contraception was non existent, so basically everyone had kids?

What is a%, 100%? 90%?
It’s almost as if experts in one area (business) are often novices in other areas (medicine)
It's a fork of an older version of Emby, in my testing the experience isn't as good as the original.
In no way comparable in sophistication, but I did find making an n-body simulation to be unexpectedly profound.

My universe started as a uniform random distribution of small stationary objects, the only rules that existed were gravity (F=gm1m2/r^2) and inertia (F=ma).

Mass started clumping together, orbiting each other, eventually forming a relatively stable arrangement of what we recognize as stars orbited by planets orbited by moons.

With two simple rules to govern my universe, an emergent order had occurred that mirrored my reality.
> If you look at sci-fi movies with robots, they usually speak in a metallic voice but have good situational and language understanding. In reality it was the other way around, it's much easier to do artificial voices than understand the topic. That kind of naive understanding seems silly now, and this is how we gradually advance.

I waffle a lot on whether that aspect of 1968's '2001: A Space Odyssey' is evidence of genius or just survivorship bias.
There’s a lot of validity to the social struggles of men in a lot of online discourse, but to say “society“ punishes us for not being women flies in the face of almost every useful metric of socioeconomic success.

Women did not create the society that is hurting men emotionally and economically. Buying into that victim complex is a distraction from your own self-development and healing.
I want the EU right to be forgotten
29 here, living at home. I do have somewhat of a career though.

I Honestly don't know when I'll leave. I have the skills to live alone, but my self-esteem is so low and my social life so limited that it gets really scary to leave.
If we decimate domestic economic engines, then the internationals will figure out ways to push us into ever deeper economic dependency and subservience. We need the REAL hackers to paralyze monopolies.
shouldn't be happening every time you open these applications though.
The context of that quote was him explaining that Google has to comply with legal government requests for information.
You can do that today: it is possible to embed arbitrary information in a bitcoin transaction. For example, look at the message section https://chain.so/tx/BTC/27daac15b942454b32f913a41633151163d1...

I don't know of any situation where someone has used this to dox someone, but nothing prevents it.
I've lived in a few different parts of the EU, and couldn't imagine a worse idea than starting a company there (which I did, once).

Starting is hard enough without the general negative attitudes, the government insanities, the insane taxes, the low work ethic, the 8 weeks of vacation every month (I exaggerate, slightly). And I was in one of the two best EU countries, God only knows how bad it is in Spain or Italy or whatever where opening for business more than one day a week is seen as aggressive. (again, I exaggerate slightly).

If anyone disagrees with this article who's in the US, I dare you to go and try and start something in the EU and report back. Not the UK, the EU.

Glory to the US, and the ability to move States with little friction. Glory to the LLC. Glory to firing someone with less than six months notice (I'm looking at you, Belgium). Glory to sales tax below 20%. Glory to the country I chose as home, which so many natives seem to be delusional about how terrible it is.

One day I hope the EU lives up to the dream of being a genuine federation of EU states, with zero friction movement of labor (this is completely laughable now compared to the US), defends its borders instead of giving up on them, allows free and fair competition and puts its citizens above the bizarre EU commission and its bonkers methods and plans.
"When I want to wake up, I direct my attention outward and take a deep breath."

From this, I very much doubt you had an experience of waking up in a sleep paralysis of a meaningful degree. I'm talking about when you realize that you're only awake because you can control your thoughts and receive sensorial inputs (feeling, hearing, etc.) but don't have any movement control whatsoever, not over your breath, not even over your eyelids to open and look around. That in itself, as bad as it sounds, may not be a problem if the awakened mind won't feel the need for more oxygen, yet the breathing stays suffocatingly short and slow for way too long. There's just no out, there's only a wait for some change that will give you back a first bit of motor control.
This sounds like the kind of equality that communism created in the 20th century. The sort where all but a few are miserable and impoverished.

Of course, that’s most of human history. Until very recently life was nasty, brutish, and short. We seem to be trying our best to revert to that condition.
Its a check on the state.

You can still go to individual services or your local municipality and ask.