skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not going to be a problem. When it comes to censorship of the Internet, your primary risk is the 5 / 14 / 19 eyes groups, not China.

China isn't a critical part of the global Internet today and they'll be even less a part of it in another decade. They operate their own separate network that only poorly connects to the Internet, by design. That separation will increase considerably over this decade.

Xi is currently putting new restraints into place to pull Chinese tech companies back even further from the Internet and into their own isolated network.

When China becomes the largest economy by GDP, it'll be meaningless to the operation of the Internet, which they'll only kinda-sorta be a part of.

Further, China is now widely regarded as the top adversary to the US and the West. That context will get increasingly confrontational and war-like in the coming years. Nearly all members of Congress are on board the anti-China bandwagon now, they've all gotten the message from above (the military industrial complex, which dictates nearly all foreign policy). The cultural atmosphere will increasingly become like it was when the USSR was the primary adversary for decades. As that confrontation increases, China's influence over the Internet will be intentionally reduced by the powers that actually do control the Internet today. China sees that coming as well and is taking steps ahead of time to reduce its exposure, points of influence and risk. At this point China views a military confrontation with the West as close to inevitable (which recent Xi speeches have elaborated on).

This increasing separation effort by China is in part designed to make it possible for China to attempt to destroy/damage the Internet - if it comes to that - without posing much terminal risk to their network and economy in the process. If they take down the Internet, it'll butcher the economies of their adversaries, while their own network remains highly functional. This is something the West is almost entirely unprepared for, and China is aggressively preparing for it; an epic mistake by the West.
> If all the cooks, servers, cosmetologists, janitors, lawn care / landscaping, delivery drivers, warehouse workers and so forth stopped doing their jobs... everything would suck real quickly.

That’s the idea behind a general strike I believe, but coordination is hard (and figuring out a set of demands that is effective long term may be harder).

/me once stayed in Athens during a garbage collectors’ strike; didn’t suck as much as you’d think, but was undeniably spectacular
I think beside limiting property investors, curbing central bank zero interest rates will make housing more affordable. Why? Zero interest rates drives up all asset prizes including housing. Buyers buy housing that they can afford to pay the monthly mortgage on. Zero interest rates by central banks undermines the UN article 17 human right to own property, instead you rent from banks.
I argue that there wouldn't be so many property speculators if the interest rate weren't set artificially close to zero by central banks purchasing bonds.

UN human right of right to own property
"Article 17

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others."
I live in Houston and can attest to that being ridiculously true. This is completely due to government incompetence (mostly local, not state or federal). The lack of remediation after Harvey is just sad. So many missed opportunities. Bill White was the last major who did anything about it, and he took a long term view that his successors have basically ignored.
Honestly, that is a great a reply.

I especially agree that some dams on the Mississippi need to destroyed and have agriculture be moved away from the river, as the dead zone in Gulf of Mexico is caused by upstream agriculture states.
I can't eat a few sweets from a bag, I have to finish the whole bag.

I used to live with a guy who was the same with chocolate biscuits. Once, I bought a packet of chocolate "Hob nobs" (very nice), eat one and went out. When I returned, the packet was full and unopened. "So what's the story" I asked, and it turned out that this guy had had one biscuit from the packet, then another, then scoffed the lot. So he went out and bought a new packet (sweetie) and took one biscuit out so I'd be none the wiser. Then the same happened and he scoffed the whole packet. Then he bought another packet and left it sealed for fear of doing the same: "I can't eat 3 packets of Hob-nobs in a day"
What is the search based on? Lucene?
Yeah because you clearly understand his entire financial situation and profit margin to justify that cost right? How are you so sure customers pay the higher food prices? People think small business owners are swimming in money, and that’s just not true.
The real problem is inflation and excessive rent seeking.
Rents are currently at the highest level on record in the US. Hard to get someone to take a job that won't even pay the rent.

The wealth trickle up has changed into a torrent since covid, something is going to break.
>If the US can spend billions on fossil subsidies and trillions on military and foreign wars, it should be a no brainer to stimulate domestic the economy with universal healthcare.

The numbers you're looking at are too small. The war on terror cost $8 trillion in 20 years.[0] That's $500 billion a year. Divide this by US population (330M) and you get $1,515. How much healthcare could you buy for that per year?

And don't forget that even without the wars a lot of this money would've been spent on modernizing the military anyway.

[0] https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
Somehow people are going to need to get their hair cut, so this isn't going to be a horse liveries situation. More people may sacrifice quality or preference for a specific style & do it themselves. Some people might get shorter haircuts so they don't need one as often, maybe trim thing around the edges in between paid haircuts. Some people will be price elastic and pay higher prices.

The economics and behaviors may change, but the need won't go away.
Ya. I've always thought the answer was more deliberative democracy. Hard to imagine how that can happen with modern media funded by advertising, the outrage engine fueled by anxiety and fear.

Stuff like Oregon's experiments with Citizen Juries have kept my hope alive. Barely.

"Jefferson Smith talks with Linn Davis from Healthy Democracy. Linn oversees the Citizens Initiative Review, in which Oregon voters deliberate a ballot initiative and provide a statement for the voters' pamphlet. The use of citizens' juries to weigh in on public policy has been exported to other states and other countries, including Switzerland where Linn Davis visited in the Fall of 2019."

https://democracynerd.us/episode/exporting-oregon-style-demo...
>> This is gatekeeping 101

> What? How?
In many hobby communities, whenever new people ask questions, which are obvious to the more experienced people, some more experienced people become hostile/use more hostile language/say things like "you should know this wtf" etc. A fairly recent example I saw on Reddit of what I mean https://www.reddit.com/r/AdeptusMechanicus/comments/h7s5gw/g...

> That's fair enough. But I wished these beginners then didn't make claims like "security tools cannot be installed like this, it's insecure", and we would all be better off.

I understand where you are coming from but this is an eternal struggle with any profession.

> Either you know what you're talking about and you share your knowledge. Or, you listen and ask questions in order to eventually know what you're talking about.

Yes and no, this is Dunning-Kruger effect quite often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
https://imgur.com/r/psychology/jbo2gy5
Reminds me of this video about LED light bulbs that continue to draw power even with the switch off. (Something to do with capacitance of the house wiring, the capacitive coupling is enough to make the bulb glow faintly even with the switch turned off)

https://youtu.be/1uEmX5XClPY
The place doesn’t seem quite as busy as before. But I’m not sure if that’s because of price changes or some general post-pandemic change (e.g. they also added outdoor dining, which might make the place feel less busy.)
Yeah, that was sarcasm. Also eat orphans.
Perhaps unfairly, it's hard to take physics papers not written in LaTeX seriously. At least within particle physics and astrophysics/cosmology... I don't really read papers from other fields.

Note that, arXiv makes you post LaTeX sources if it detects that it's a LaTeX document, and not everyone remembers to redact perhaps not meant to be public comments :).
This is pretty interesting, too. Linked in the README:

Number of legal Go positions
https://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html
I really like your take and was pleased to find it here -- even though it's at the very bottom of the page currenty.

> I want to have some company trying to make an OS for people like me, and I want them doing that to make money in a non-gross way.

> I feel like System76 is targeting me as a customer. I am willing to pay a premium for a good machine that somebody designed. Not all of their hardware appeals to me, but they are trying to do that.

This part really spoke to me. Go System76!
A Guide to Custom Joysticks
Claims like this about UBI are simply unknown. You can't say it with any certainty, not even close. To begin to have UBI you'd have to increase taxes substantially, and you'd have to prove that doing that would actually lead to better results for businesses and the people.
That rock-and-a-hard-place choice is often what happens when a business dies, right? You live between your costs and your income. This may just be the business version of the 9/11 falling man.

It may well be that the market for food places in your area cannot support the current set of outlets, and some of them will have to die, and this is how they die.

The way I think about it is there's a metastability in the economy that's not often discussed. Basically, unviable business models can survive small disturbances. One chef gets fed up, no problem. One customer think it's too expensive for what he gets, no problem. When there's a big shakeup, it all comes crashing down.
Ass antler. That is hilarious.
> Employees would also be taxed on the "tip" (which would now be included in their base salary)

Tips are income already, and are taxed as such. You can get away with not reporting it if it's a few extra bucks from a jar on a counter. But if you're a "tipped employee" (and thus eligible to be paid sub-minimum wage) you report them to your employer, who then reports them to the IRS, and does tax withholding same as for wages.
Have you ever worked a job that depends on tips? Try serving a table of 20 and working your butt off and then getting no tip from the table because they "don't believe in tipping."

The correlation between "great service" and getting a good tip is nowhere near a 1:1. It sucks to go to work and not know whether you're going to come home with enough money to pay your bills this week, because you might get lucky or you might get a stream of tightwads.

I'd be OK with tipping if people made a baseline living wage and the tips were for service above and beyond the usual. I'm not OK with the current standard.

If you can't be persuaded that it's unfair to the workers, realize it's also unfair to you as a customer. Because people can't be reliably counted upon to tip their fair share, you need to over-tip if you care about people making a fair wage.

And the perception of a "fair" tip has gone up noticeably in my lifetime -- 10-15% used to be a reasonable tip when I was in my teens and early 20s. Now it's crept up to 15-20% and spread to a lot of jobs that you didn't think of for tips (e.g., somebody handing you a coffee) because wages suck.
Nice framing.

Or it’s to get paid for bearing all of the risk of starting and running the business, and being financially on the hook for when it fails and gets to deal with years of being sued.
How hard is it to make airliner lose grip? There is a lot of weight above the wheels and a lot of downforce from the wings.
Frankly, too bad. There is no meaningful resistance to this change in language. You can't use the word "awesome" to mean "deeply terrifying" in almost any context anymore and that is okay.
Thanks for the review it comes like a revelation.
Sometimes. In other cases, especially when the toddler cries, the dog recognizes that cry as typical for prey and mauls or kills the toddler.
I have always hated the idea of UBI in any for it has been presented so far. Money means nothing if the price of everything shoots through the roof. Just yesterday I paid $9.50 for bacon where a year ago it was closer to $5. Let’s not even get started on shrinkflation of items. Back to my point though we don’t need a ubi but a right to food shelter and water. Anyone who has been poor knows something will eat up this check and you will be no better then before. It may not happen right away but there are too many predators looking for your money. I don’t know how you could give everyone the right to food, shelter and water but that is what we need.
Kind of stereotyping/assumptious to think that because someone posts something about cat people that the person is a man who actually means to say women cant drive.
I'm surprised we haven't seen an article explaining that the chip shortage is due to so many hidden chips being secretly placed on mobos used by the largest vendors.
Wouldn't $50 now be worth less than the original $45 "years ago", considering inflation?
Your comparaison isn't only about syntax, it's also about the presence or absence of static types.
Look up “Doop” skates. I have a pair of three-wheeled (100mm monsters) doops that I can step into somewhat like snowboard bindings. I much prefer my roller hockey skates most of the time, as the ankle support on Doops is almost nonexistent, but after the first couple minutes each time you adjust and can go for a while.
I don’t know if this is true for all of their models, but mine disassembles each skate into a boot and a wheels+rail section, meaning it’s very easy to pack them in luggage for a trip.
Is it necessary to remove #2?

Where is the mandate for spoon feeding consumers of information?

Is the risk posed by fact check, "My truth is bigger than yours", not greater than the benefit?
Those aren't the only options. You can have small street-food vendors. The costs are much lower because there's no waiter etc. But it's more of a functional thing ("get food, go home fed"), not a pleasure thing where you sit around with friends or your partner and talk while someone serves you food.
Well,

1) I personally hate choosing things from menus as as I truly like all the food "that isn't bad" (for all dishes there exists a pareto equal or better dish which I like. Something like that?) That fact that a single dish du jour can get more attention an planning re seasonal ingredients and other inputs due diligence is a huge plus too.

2) I am also fine committing to eating at the same restaurant once, twice, maybe even 3 times a week, and do that anyways.

Count me in!
The problem is that it IS a purely economic problem. It's just math - supply, demand and competition. Small business in particular is captured by these forces. It cannot increase prices because people will go to the competition. And it has no margin to absorb people's desire to earn enough to live a middle-class life doing a job that you can hire anyone to do.

All of that said, what you could reasonably hope would happen is that all businesses raise their prices because of the labor shortage (already happening around me), but then you have another problem which is that the increased wages are offset by the increased prices.

At the current click, all that's going to be left are the corporations with enough wiggle room to absorb the increase, but they will also pass on prices. I would just prefer not to live in that world. I think corporations increase inequity (Walmart could pay a living wage and full health care, but doesn't) and small business puts the power back with the individual.
Cities rarely try this out in practice. There are examples of smaller cities that manage to keep up - e.g. Kristiansand in Norway, which kept the real estate price development slightly negative during a decade when the rest of the country had a massive increase. I get the impression Copenhagen has also managed to build enough. Their bubble popped in 2006 AFAICT, with moderate development since then in spite of negative interest rates.

But for large cities, there seems to almost universally be democratic agreement that we won’t build a lot more right here.

You get the odd symbolic attempt. But I’m not talking about re-zoning the odd industrial park and rationing them out to the three developers that get things done in this town.

I’m talking about building 40 stories everywhere, where previously there were 8. Consistently allowing developers to build in front of their neighbors’ ocean view. Turning 50% of the beloved hills around the city into high-rise apartments. Stuff like this, to a degree proportional with demand. Annual price increase or decrease is the signal to steer by.

My point: If you support local democratic policy that will lead to an outcome every passing ECON101 student can predict -

Own it.
I love Sci-Hub, even though I never use it. I just really like what it's doing for science. However, the law has failed us. It's very clear that Sci-Hub is overwhelmingly a Good Thing, yet governments want to tear it down because it's threatening companies' revenue streams too much.

Given how important it is, and how at risk it is, I think it's very important to find a technological solution to keep it up. We have the technology to distribute the papers (torrents) as well as a search index. I really hope that either Alexandra starts using these technologies more, or the technologies mature enough to be usable.

Then Sci-Hub would be unkillable.
Mmmm, my dad was a veterinarian and me being a dog trainer ( well, for 4 dogs of our own where I learned a lot from where I trained my dogs), so i got to a lot of my dad's clients to help out with their new/adopted dogs that behave frightened.

It's weird that your dog still has the same behavior after one year with "his own family".

I think playing with a dog has a lot of "accidental" touches that should make him accessible to those actions.

I also don't think it was a stick, since my own abused dog was afraid of sticks in particular. As long as we had one it was okay and he didn't care ( since we played with it). But if someone unfamiliar would try that, he would become aggressive ( happened one time many years after, when an older guy with a walking stick came over and wanted to silence/move the dog with his cane. Luckily I was nearby and heard the sound immediately )
If you define "risk" as "hospitalization," that's largely true. If you define "risk" as months or years of bizarre symptoms, reduced lung capacity, brain fog, etc., then children are at risk too.

But perhaps you don't care about that sort of thing.
> "More money could lower the stress of the employees (given they now no longer have to worry about paying their bills) which may lead to higher quality products."

Except businesses then raise their prices to cover the increased wages so the "more money" is almost instantly eaten away by having to pay those increased prices. You can't get something for nothing.
You're greatly overestimating the reliability of such technology and greatly underestimating the costs of it. There's a reason automation has not replaced these roles, it's simply not (yet) capable or cost effective. Source: I worked for a startup that built restaurant automation solutions and witnessed first-hand how difficult this is. It'll get there some day, but we're a long ways off.
Probably a bit early
As a guy who gets a pretty standard, quick-and-easy cut, I get this. At the same time, $50 a month or whatever is pretty cheap compared to what I looked like after my partner tried her hand at cutting my hair at the start of the pandemic.

$50 or look like I've got the mange? I'll pay the $50!
With the waiter it is more about someome friendly taking the order, giving some advice, noting down some special preferences. And before that everyone looking at their own menu card at ease (okay, having 6 tablets might be an improvement then).
did I miss the memo on something replacing hair growth

Men have been giving it a shot for a while, but unfortunately being half bald hasn't yet resulted in commensurate reductions in haircut prices compared to other men. It seems like there's a business opportunity there for a business model based on prices weighted by hair quantity.
https://turtlespaces.org
https://lynxcoding.club

are two modern Logo interpreters (both are web-based)
I had dinner with the arXiv creator once (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ginsparg). What I understood is is that before the arXiv, all "good" universities would each mail each other copies of preprints, and so researchers there would have access to the newest research developments. Eventually, they'd get published, but that takes a while, so anybody not in this circle would be far behind and have a hard time being relevant in his field (theoretical particle physics).

So the arXiv was a more modern, scalable, democratic replacement of what was already popular within the culture of the field.
Anyone that uses char * instead of std::array for example.
Yes and no. There's really not a whole lot of margin in the food. You get margin from buying a soda, beer, or wine in wholesale and selling it with barely any labour at a 5x markup.

My parents tried a buffet thing once, didn't work. You need a certain amount of scale that wasn't present in their area. I have seen some proper huge buffet places though, seems pretty good though rent is an issue.
If a side effect of COVID19 were getting rid of flu and colds, I'd be very very happy.

It doesn't look like it will be, but it'd be nice.

I actually think all the contact tracing stuff would do it. If we had zero tolerance for colds and flues -- we quarantine everyone who gets them and their contacts -- we'd end up at close to zero cases, and close to zero actual quarantines.

I actually think steady-state, we'd need fewer quarantines than the number of people flu kills. Flues kill 60k per season. I think 60k quarantines would be more than adequate for containing it.
Yeah that is good. Bums me out that we force them to use gas generators and not have running water mainly to avoid extractive rents, but that can be fixed. Mandating you bring your own container as I swear take-out contributes a huge portion of urban trash would also be a doable improvement.
I think at this point they might even all be the same lies
Not true. I used it behind double NAT without problems in the past. Even in 2014.
My understanding is that these sorts of comparisons are basically useless unless you're measuring in a RAM constrained environment. When there's lots of free memory, Chrome will cache the hell out of everything to boost performance. Until it's starving other processes IMO that's the right call (the browser creator who ran the original test mentions this but the linked article summarizing his work kinda glosses over that).

If you're only opening 2 tabs and have 20 GB of free memory on your machine, you're not measuring how good the browser is at sharing RAM with other programs.

(Obligatory disclaimer that I'm a Google shill who has no direct involvement with Chrome and I still do most of my browsing in Firefox)