skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is such a name. But you're on the right track about it being difficult to distinguish between value and rent-seeking.

One thing to note is that governments themselves are, by definition, rent-seekers. This is inherent to how a government - a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within an area - works. Once you are sovereign within a territory you can extract rents in the form of taxes, and if you don't extract enough you will be deposed by someone who does.

Most governments also tend to encourage their own industries to rent-seek as well. If your country needs heavy industry or scientific research or cultural behemoths, it's far easier and politically defensible to construct new narrow property regimes (e.g. copyright, patents, PDOs, etc) for those companies to exploit rather than just paying them subsidies. These regimes can be selectively weakened when you need to build your industry domestically (what the US did to the UK, or what China did to the US) and then strengthened later when you need to protect it internationally (what the US forced into WIPO).

Very little of capitalism is actually adding value, in the sense that you have a business that hires people, buys materials, and turns them into goods and services at a prevailing market rate. At the lowest rungs of the chain, sure - you might have, say, petite-borgeouis crustaceans hiring workers to cook food and sell it to people who need it. But that's not where most of the actual profit is. Compare that to, say, a fast-food franchise; which doesn't usually run any restaurants or sell any food. They instead sell trademark rights and supplier relationships. In particularly egregious systems like McDonalds, they even rent their franchisees the land that the restaurant must be housed in.

Left-wing critiques of capitalism are typically extra-cynical about this, and would consider even the small profit Mr. Krabs makes on burgers to be rent, not value. This is usually in the context of the employee-business relationship, however; not the business-customer one. Small businesses generally don't extract a premium on the goods or services they sell just because they're the only company that happens to own a stove or know some secret recipe. But in the context of employees, they are getting paid less for their labor, albeit in exchange for not having to bear up-front capital costs or deal with inconsistent revenue. Whether or not this constitutes rent or value is most likely a political opinion, not something that you could actually devise some economic criteria for.
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This is great from a social aspect, but society favors having a smart phone to get things done. The cons might outweigh the pros from my perspective.
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What makes being overcharged due to errors more common than being undercharged? If anything I would expect it to be the other way around as it is easier to accidentally fail to scan an item than to accidentally double-scan an item, and personally I'm much more likely to double-check everything when the total comes out surprisingly high than when it comes out surprisingly low.
Even with FTL travel the heat death of the universe still closes the door on an "infinity" as far as things within it existing goes.
I believe strong language can escalate things, but there is no causal relationship to conflicts as it was believed for the longest time. Especially if you look at different online communities, vulgar language doesn't even seem to have an effect on conflicts. Sometime people even calm down after having had the ability to vent.

Wars happen for different reason. I wouldn't know of any war started by strong language.

One point of the conflict was that speech was restricted too much as far as I know, that can easily escalate a conflict.
I'm not sure that logic holds - many of the devices you mention will still work (space shuttle aside) - whereas that will not be the case with these older android devices.

While it may be 0.2%, it'd be interesting to see what numbers that actually equates to.
My first degree was civil engineering and I took the California Engineers in Training exam back in my college days and boy was it tough even though I had stellar grades from a top university. You could bring mountains of reference books to the exam but you had no time to use them. You had to solve endless problems based on fundamental techniques you already learned during your education.
Not just flavor. Also nutrition. You can’t make something good from just water and cotton balls.

Although we’re very good at that here in NL
Probably the most common case where this comes up is in the context of hard links: two (or more) files with different names that point to the same inode. I guess actual usage of hard links is rare enough that it doesn't come up all that often, but I'm actually surprised you didn't know this – not judging you, just something I thought most more experienced Linux/Unix users knew, but it seems not.

Hard links can be a somewhat notorious footgun due to this by the way; with a soft link you know you're only deleting a link, but with "rm hard-link" this is a bit trickier: if you think there's another link but actually, it turns out you made an error and there's not then you've lost that file. A "hard link" isn't really a thing on its own: it's just another reference to an inode. This is why symbolic links are used in most cases, but you can hard links are still used from time to time in e.g. /bin and some other places.
I have a bookmark in there from Nov 9, 2008. hmmm
Ironically, the most unrelentingly boring and defensive style of soccer is to be on offense most of the game, by maintaining possession and doing nothing with it. I say "ironically" because teams that maintain possession and "build slowly" usually receive credit for aspiring to play beautiful attacking football. When it works, and the offense circulates the ball around in nimble interchanges until they pounce on an almost imperceptible defensive error and pry open successively larger holes by quick intelligent passing until they have a high-percentage shot on goal, it can be sublime. This is how Barcelona played some of the most beautiful football of all time. It is often compared to picking a lock, since this slow, methodical style gives the defense time to sit back and prepare for you, which means you are attacking a defense at its best and most organized.

However, many Barcelona-wannabes aren't as great as Barcelona was, and for them the practical function of maintaining possession and "attacking" is not to score but to prevent the other team from scoring. (Spoiler alert: this is the punch line of the essay.) A team that spends most of the game "on the attack" may produce nothing but boring, sterile, fruitless possession, while their opponents spend relatively less time on offense, but more productively, because when they get the ball they directly attempt to do something with it.

For those who follow MLS, yes, I am an Austin FC fan. Fingers crossed that our new signings add some quality to our attack.
You could replace the image with software that doesn't support iMessage, for example.
Sure will have a look. Thanks!
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Google map's starred locations have a limitation of 500 stars to be shown and AFAIK there's not many easy ways to access more than that except the bookmark service. I wonder if they're going to remove this limitation?
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In the Netherlands gambling is either done by the state owned company with all profit going to state treasury or heavily regulated when done online. All to prevent gambling addiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Casino

It seems harmful to let gambling be unregulated...

Even loot boxes in games are illegal
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Engineered life still follows evolutionary pressure and natural selection it just might not hit the same walls as life that is only driven forth by random mutations and opportunistic gene exchange does.
Android 8.0 is not supported anymore, and it suffers from very serious security vulnerabilities.

Versions up to 8.0 constitute around 20% of the phones (as of June 2021¹), which creates a significant amount of e-waste, particularly embarrassing when considering phones like the Nexus 5x, which is a perfectly usable model.

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The missing text-post content from above is:

> After September 30th 2021, Google Bookmarks will no longer be supported. To save your bookmarks, click "Export bookmarks".
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I think there is an underlying assumption that you’re entitled to play the game, therefor anti cheat is violating your freedoms.

But if we remove the assumption that you are entitled to play any game how ever you please i think this argument somewhat falls apart. If you don’t like their using anti cheat, then just don’t play those games which use it.

I just don’t think enough people agree with you that it will work in your favour unfortunately.
I've got two complaints here as a legitimate and frequent consumer:

1) They already chain down all the tools and/or keep them boxed without store displays such that it is very difficult to evaluate tools you might wish to purchase. You can't even pick them up to get a feeling for the weight. Many of the more robust tools (table saws, drill presses, etc) they don't keep in stock either.

2) So many of the accidental thefts in the comments are due to self-scanning. Well - why were consumers forced to self-checkout in the first place? Because HD never has enough checkers, their checkout areas are poorly designed for the kinds of bulk items being purchased, and basically HD is being cheap and wants to lower their costs by putting the burden back on the consumer. Sure, I do my best to scan accurately and ethically, but I can completely see how this happens and it is difficult to blame the consumer when HD has deliberately funnel you into self-checkout.
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I am benefitting?! I am desperate for a prescription more like. Doesn't matter, soon it might be over.
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It is popular, but it does not have the most well-known battery company in the world standing behind it. Volume EVs in China use LFP, which has the effect of making those cells common and then available cheaply in the rest of the world. So DIYers love them, and there are lots of commercial products that rely on LFP.

Tesla doesn't have any incentive at this point to use LFP, they're selling every Powerwall they can make. The people who are buying them aren't price sensitive. The folks who are, buy LFP instead.
The stats from Google lump everything under 4.1 together at 0.2%.

I would link to it but Google removed the chart from the web a while ago and just tells you to look at it in Android Studio's new project wizard.
Yeah I remember waiting for people - I got a smartphone at 16, in 2004, something like that, so it's hard to really imagine how it was for adults...

My parents told me they spend evenings at the phone booth talking to each other - but even that is ultra convenient compared to my grandparents sending letters :D

But I think it's better anyway - we sample mating candidates more, we cycle through faster, we can stop and try anew nearly any time until 50, and with some difficulty above.

I mean my aunt had a crushing divorce when she had 3 young children and stayed alone working with all 3 until the internet arrived and she could find a partner much faster...
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Reminds me of video games/movies where guns/other weapons only work for the enemies or whatever because they have an NFC or something that validates them as being allowed to fire the weapon.
> The beauty of maths is that it exists independent of all other considerations. This seems to be where Perelman comes from. Perhaps Perelman goes further. It's hard to say without knowing more of his story, which Perelman doesn't give us.

So, I’d just like to point out that this is a very naive perspective on the philosophy of mathematics. Math is an intrinsically social activity, because you need to lead other mathematicians through your proofs/arguments.
It would be equally as foolish to say the logical conclusion of liberalism is Stalinism. The underlying fallacy is the idea that politics has any conclusions at all.
Lexi absolutely understands how to properly use the Maybe monad. What you're saying to do here is the exact opposite of what this post is advocating for. You're talking about pushing the handling of the Maybe till later and the post is all about the advantages of handling it upfront and not having to worry about it anymore. You might want to read it one more time.
regarding the last point, nowadays what I see is the opposite where candidates still struggle with getting a clear salary range before engaging into time wasting exercises.
They don't make these impossible, they typically just don't let you express these within the type system and they typically don't let you not specify your types.

I should have made clear that I'm emphasizing the advantages of being dynamic to describe and check the shape of your data to the degree of your choosing. Static typing is very powerful and useful, but writing dynamic code interactively is not just "woopdiedoo" is kind of the point I wanted to make without being overzealous/ignorant.
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Familar higher orders of complexity emerge far easier within systems with more states.

Due to our physical laws elements with larger rooms for reaction via chemistry are familar.

The chances of a replicating agent just anthropologically emerging from the surface of a 2nd generation hydrogen dominant star with an accumulation disc composed of little higher orders elements is inconceivably less likely than the relative petri dish organic molecules provide.
With books you have to actually read. It’s an active thing. Vegging out on the couch or bed even, is passive. Often you don’t even have to think because it’s mostly action with lots of repetition and little mystery.
The year after he wrote this, Norvig joined Google and decided that Python was a good enough alternative. He posted a web page about it, but I can't find it rn. However, here's a comment of his on HN about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815
> I love the sagrada familia un Barcelona, but it's still under construction after 150 years. Building cathedrals maybe not the way.

Interestingly, this may also be a sign of declining engineering. The Hagia Sophia, the largest church in the world for 1000 years, was apparently built in 5 years (532- 537).

In general, it seems Rome was able to build fantastically persistent buildings in fractions of the time required later. Even today I wonder if we actually have the engineering and logistics practices required to build buildings that would survive thousands of years in a under a decade - of which the Romans had several.
I'm talking mainly about the OG article (which discontinues 2.3 and earlier from Google Services), not Android's terrible long-term support compared to iOS which wholly deserves criticism.

But they can still access Google.
(Pre cellphones, early 90s era) My problem with that is that my friend group were not exactly punctual (myself included). So that meant a lot of waiting around, and in some cases, your group may not show up. Being near a pay-phone or begging a phone call from an establishment helped some.

Also - you remembered your friends phone numbers (or had a black book).