skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slight difference between "left-leaning" (so that middle-class folks can feel good about themselves on their staycations in the Cotswolds) and "hard-left".

I'm not particularly running down the middle-classes (I think that they are often something of a force for good, and I am one of them myself) but I don't think that reading the Grauniad (sic) turns us into Che Guevaras.
> You want X, but you don't want to put the work in.

Yes! That is exactly what people want.
Even putting the proliferation issue aside, a Taiwan nuke program just won't deter China, will merely justify an invasion. This may have worked - in the sense of deterring PRC - 30 or more likely 40 years ago, when their army was much weaker. It's far too late to think about that now.
Yep the GOP needed a long term project like the Labor had in the UK to remove clause 4 and kick out the "tankie" / "hobbyist" element.

One member one vote instead of primaries would be a good start as would be outlawing the presidential "venal offices" an have a fully professional civil service.

The Big companies need to get together and support Eisenhower era sensible GOP candidates.
> which it should be.

Solar power will never need to remove more than a tiny fraction of tree cover from Appalachia. What's a far bigger threat to the ecosystem, including animal migration, is mountaintop removal for coal mining:

https://law.lclark.edu/live/blogs/134-de-regulation-of-mount...
Mouth noises or button mashing are an insufficient proxy for ground truth
> it seems really implausible, and gives humans (which are just meatbags) special status

I agree! However:

> because the vast majority of data we have excludes it

No it doesn't. In fact, there is not a single experimental result that rules this out and I doubt one could ever devise such an experiment in the first place.

All experimental results are consistent with the observer modeling the universe with the Schrödinger equation (i.e. with unitary time evolution / without collapse) and assuming that a measurement by said observer makes the wave function collapse to the appropriate eigenstate.
Few days ago users found that "TopoActive Russia" map with Crimea peninsula (Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine) appear in main Garmin market and notified Ukrainian distributor of Garmin.[0]

On September 7, 2021 Ukrainian subdivision of Garmin tweeted that they notified main Garmin office.[1,2]

As on September 9, 2021 this map not available anymore on main Garmin market, but still available on site of Russian distributor of Garmin.[4]

[0] https://bykvu.com/eng/bukvy/crimea-map-scandal-ukrainian-dis...

[1] https://twitter.com/garmin_ua/status/1435202814209368072

[2] https://twitter.com/garmin_ua/status/1435594894287024128

[3] https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/p/648337#coverage

[4] http://web.archive.org/web/20210910001902/https://support.ga...
The modal random "qualified investor" is probably a dentist, not Kissinger.
The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias
newb question what is paid up capital?
I mean apologies if I'm misunderstanding what you're saying - but as far as I can tell you're claiming the leverage ratio for a bank is 0.9:1 and I'm saying it is 9:1. If that's the case only one of us can be correct.

It doesn't help that you're conflating the terms "deposits" and "reserves". Deposits are liabilities of the bank, while reserves are assets held in their account at the central bank.

If the banking system as a whole is leveraged 9:1, that implies each individual bank is leveraged approximately 9:1.
Mopewa is a force to be reckoned with. Wish her name were closer to the top!
I think you're grabbing at straws this with this project, and your "pain points" kinda state that right away.

Less fan noise?? Do I really hate my fan that much? Can I even hear it through my earphones? Do/will M1 Macs and next gen ARM Windows/linux even need a fan?

Save battery? How many people are regularly coding their android apps without being plugged in at a desk? Maybe you know more than me, but I almost never code when I'm not plugged in, and I don't think I've ever bundled on battery. Not that I couldn't, I just have no need to. Again, battery is becoming a non-issue for many of us.

I think there is some serious flaws in your logic around "time saved".

If you save 30 seconds on every build (30% more than you're stating), what's the time to upload my code to you, and the overhead in doing that? Then what happens when the build is done? I download the APK? What's the time that takes? Have I saved 30 seconds at all?

If you're saving me 30 seconds 20 times a day, are there not other things I could be doing for those 30 seconds while my computer is building?

So, I can pay you to do something that I can do in 30 seconds, and that I do 20 times a day, or I can not pay you, and just do it myself, for free.

Now lets take the best case scenario. I can make each employee 10 minutes more effective per day. Is that correct?
But am I actually going to be able to measure what they are doing for that extra 10 minutes? Am I REALLY going to get 10 minutes more engineering time? If so, that's $10/day per employee. I'm paying this person $100/hour, do you think I'm micro-managing down to the point where I'm saving $10/day. This is also assuming that I'm paying the person $200k.

You've taken a very top down approach in your maths, but you need to also go bottom up.

Having said all of that, I'll tell you from my experience, we don't build 20 times a day. We run dev devices via USB (we're React Native), and maybe bundle a few times a week at most.

So, now add into your math, how many companies are bundling their app more than a few times per week? How big of a market opportunity is this?

So, yeah, you haven't convinced me, I'm not a believer.

HOWEVER, do I believe there is an opportunity for a great dev tool to improve development experience? Yes, there is. Do I know what that is? No, I can't help you there. But when you find that real need, you've got a great domain name, so that's a start. :)
There are plenty of examples but you won't hear about those things if all your information comes from the corporate press.

Someone else in the comments posted a twitter app with many examples but when someone finally posts the receipts, nobody follows up. What does that tell me? People are not interested in the truth but defending their tribe.
Kudos for the effort but it would be dumb not to use Flutter at this state and go just native.
PS: This is coming for somebody with 10 yrs of dev experience to all the CTOs right now doing mobile app.
It depends on what you are looking for. Yes, for say small molecules like vitamins a pinprick (less than a microliter) could theoretically be enough. But if you are looking for things like early infection or cancer, the signals you want may not actually be in such a small sample at all.
To be a pedant, you should rank those likely to make it to the last round, but with the spots left over (working your way from your last choice up) you can rank whoever you want.

Eric Adams won by a smidgen, and yet 15% of ballots were invalid by the last round. Perhaps those 15% gave 0 fucks about Garcia vs Adams, or perhaps they were mistaken about how best to vote.

We really need proportional representation, but don't get me wrong IRV (instant-runoff voting) is still better than FPTP.
Boris seems to be trying to pivot some aspects of the conservative party that way.
The argument against him is the same argument against Obama.

This is the age of Networks. Replacing one central node in a gigantic hierarchy of power doesnt seem to really do anything. There are too many hubs that need to be replaced to get anything done.
Option A: Use Firefox or Edge, press F9.

Option B, for when F9 doesn't work: Narrow down your browser to a strip of desired width down the centre of the screen, keep a maximized blank window -- text editor with a new empty file, or something -- behind it.

HTH!
If you think taxes are too high, by all means, work to reduce them. Simply having some people evade them, and others pay their share... that's wrong.
I thought there's no way that's right, but no, that really was their method behind one of their studies. What in the world?
Wait, a functor is just a pure unary function? And an endofunctor is just one of those where the argument type and return type are the same? This could have been explained to me years ago, in five minutes?

Sometimes it makes me mad that so much confusion (and as another commenter put it, gatekeeping) has been sown in FP circles through the invention of pointlessly-obfuscated terminology for everything (and through - among many in those circles - a lack of interest in connecting the very simple dots that would allow masses of people to understand these concepts). It's like when the medieval Catholic Church refused to print a bible in anything but Latin so that they'd remain the sole authority on its content.

Kudos to the OP for cutting through some of that, but shame on those who maintain this status quo.

Edit: assuming it really is (roughly) that simple. Some in the comments have suggested parts of the OP were wrong (assuming they aren't just being pedantic), so I'm curious to see discussion.
I understand the interest in a fifth force is to explain the dark matter/dark energy anomaly discovered by the astronomer Vera Rubin. The orbital velocities of stars at increasing radii (radiuses?) from the center can't be accounted for by the current understanding of gravity and visible matter.
Not bad. Sometimes socialism advances by inches, one argument at a time. But, I have to say the pay is abysmal: we need a union.
You can’t compare Afghanistan and Taiwan. The US never really cared about Afghanistan once they got rid of Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden. They only stayed as long they did because the optics of leaving were always going to be bad.

The US does care about Taiwan, because of real economic interests.
Eh, the anti-PC example is anti-progressive though. I didn't want to elaborate my comment with lengthier political views since HN usually isn't the place.

But here's a right-leaning hot take to drive the point home: 18 months into this pandemic and I've never once had any input into the policy response. I thought the agreement was "I get the vaccine, I get to live my life as normal". Now that policy changes (mostly state-level) are flipping that, I regret getting the vaccine: I'm in a low-risk demographic and I just gave up my most powerful tool in influencing policy decision. I won't make that same mistake with the booster shots Biden discussed earlier today: I won't be getting those until my policy leaders actually serve me as a constituent.

> it's well known in tech that you're putting your job/livelihood at risk by speaking contrary to the political groupthink.

Still confident that GP is wrong about that and I won't lose my job or livelihood by posting this.
One could even argue that the agreement Great Britain had for the 100 year lease of Hong Kong was with the Nationalist (Taiwan) government and not the PRC.
Chances are really good that the companies they operate gained their stature in part by monopolistic (aka, anti-capitalistic free market, as is the popular theme) behaviors.

But I will play this game anyway. If you have 1 billion dollars worth of your company's stock, in addition to your other assets (which you surely have, as you do not live on stock alone), then would it pain you greatly to sell off some of that stock every year to pay taxes on your gains? Yes I know the current tax law doesn't require it, but that's the problem.

And in the case of Amazon, since that's a great example, are they a well-behaved company? And by that, I mean, do they really serve the customer and provide what millions of people want? Do millions of people want counterfeit goods? Do millions of people knowingly want their purchases to be packaged and transported by modern slave labor? If the richest American exmplifies why corporate value should be protected, then I'd say we have failed as a human civilization.

I'm not sure how old you are, but there was a time before Amazon. It worked pretty well. We went to a store and bought a thing. If what we wanted wasn't available, we waited or shopped around or decided it wasn't important (or we went for a second-hand thing or built it ourselves). Amazon did not supply a need that was unmet. They just replaced the existing suppliers with a more clever, profitable system. I daresay the end result is a net loss for most people.
So "Silencing" is just getting kicked from Twitter and FB?

Such a privileged and weak notion of silencing. China will send people to camps and the police will break down a memorial museum - that's silencing.

Getting kicked from FB/Twitter because for being a twat doesn't mean your group is persecuted.
You mean this. Which already happened: https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/augmented-reality-explorer...
Not that much more complicated - but perhaps that's because you're over-simplifying the case of a household spending more than it earns. As with a household, when spending exceeds income the government has to take out a loan (usually by issuing government bonds).

That loan has to be paid back with interest, and so it only makes sense when you are paying for soemthing now that will save you more money in future than you would pay in interest.

The main differences are quantitative - effectively the (US) government has an insanely high credit score, and so many people are willing to lend them money (buy bonds).

If a household misses payments on a loan, it will worsen their credit score. Likewise, if the government prints more money to make the interest payments on bonds more manageable, then it also dis-incentivises entities from investing in those bonds in future. In both cases future borrowing will be at a higher interest rate.

edit:

Also, that's tax-payer money that's being spent paying off the interest on outstanding bonds, which could have instead been spent on healthcare or infrastructure.
I mean... let's say I buy chinese toothbrushes for $1, and sell them for $10 in usa... I get taxed on the $9 I earned, and I pay a lot of tax. Instead, my friend opens a company in TaxHeaven islands, and he buys the toothbrushes for $1 from the chinese manufacturer, and sells them to me for $9.90,... i get taxed on the $0.1 at a high rate, and he gets taxed on the $8.90 at a very low island rate.

In many cases this is perfectly legal, and many companies do just that (not directly with toothbrushes, but pay licence fees to offshore companies where taxes are low).

For another example, in slovenia, i can start a company, earn 100k (profit), and that profit gets taxed at 19% at the end of the year, and to take it out (pay it to me, the owner) aditional 25%. If I open the same company in bosnia, I can still to the same jobs with the bosnian company, but I only pay 10% on the money I take out (so, 100k->81k in slovenia, and to pay out, i get 60.75k... or i get 90k with a bosnian firm).

This is completely legal in slovenia in bosnia. Our "IRS" can't do anything about that.

So, first the laws have to change to make it fair, so facebook would pay taxes at the same rate a small local plumber would, and only than can IRS start their job.
1. no state

2. no side effects

And you get most of the benefit of FP in a way that everyone can understand and can use any language.
> If there were actually even a small US confrontation and say a couple of US frigates were sunk ... don't underestimate how Americans will rally under the wrath of that offence.

I suspect you are drastically overestimating the US public's appetite for another war. In the last few years the US has been run out of Iraq by Iran, Syria by Russia and Afghanistan by the Taliban. I don't see much appetite for going back to any of those.
> We wouldn't be trading with China if it didn't benefit us.

The ends don't justify the means when those means are morally wrong. Morally wrong means create collateral damage that I believe will haunt us for generations to come. (I'm sure you can think of various 20th century dictators whose actions still haunt the world.)

> China's average wage more than doubled over the past 10 years.

That's good, but it's more a result of Jintao's relaxed policy than the current president's policy. Not that I approve of Jintao - he was as much an authoritarian leader as those that preceded him.
They should have started the trailer with the voice Mr.Anderson...
HDF5: High-performance data management and storage suite
I don't think everyone has their phone out all the time. I feel like I can usually tell if someone has a phone in a position where they can record me. Usually they are tucked in a purse/pocket.
Can't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI&t=1s
> it just looks more complex because it's less familiar

This is a problem I have at work. Everyone here thinks unfamiliar and hard / complex are synonyms. They aren't!
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Yuan
But with billions in assets, you can borrow so greatly that you never have to spend a penny of your own assets.

And hey, even if you do sell some of your stock, a 20% cap gains tax isn't so much when your stock is going up faster than 20%.

Also, random people don't value your company at billions. Other unreasonably wealthy groups of people seek places to stash their wealth, since there is a glut of money in a few hands. So they find the most stable or reliable stores of wealth. Amazon stock is certainly one.
None of these systems are perfect. I lived in Italy for a number of years and... boy oh boy does proportional representation have its own series of problems.

RCV seems like an attainable reform though, and better than the current system.
Modern languages like Rust/Go/Clojure typically incorporate polymorphism without the need of inheritance and get more out of it rather than less. The type of polymorphism and malleability you get from Clojure is much more expressive than class inheritance.

You're losing the OO mental model, but gain very loose coupling (data coupling) and code that is easier to reason about. (The trade-off here is not for everyone though.)

On top of that, Clojure is an extremely flexible, interactive language, which is fantastic especially for GUI programming (as mentioned in the article).
There really isn't any call to trash Elm and its creator like this.

There's very little evidence of ongoing hostility from Evan - I pay attention to his work and writings and find he's rarely if ever hostile. In fact he's very mild-mannered, and is painstakingly detailed about explaining the reasons for why he does things the way he does, over and over again.

Perhaps that wore thin once or twice in the face of repeated criticism and demands. We've all seen way worse.

Yes, sticking to his vision has excluded ideas and contributions, and made some people very angry. There have been several high profile blogposts and twiits painting him as some kind of despot. And when other overzealous developers swooped in to defend his work, it just fed the meme, one which people on HN like to repeat every chance they get.

Well, I for one am glad he's a 'code despot' - considering how many people keep demanding that they dilute Elm's guarantees for the sake of JS library interop or marginally less boilerplate. Any bending to these demands and Elm today would be just another framework with a slightly different syntax, with none of guarantees that allow for the innovative tooling and libraries [1] we see coming out of the community.

Whether you agree with Evan's vision or not, Elm is doing just fine meeting its stated goals and is a fantastic and delightful technology and toolchain.

So please give over with trashing other people's hard work. If you don't like it, just don't use Elm.

[1] for example, the compiler's dead code elimination capabilities, elm-review's tco detection and other amazing auto-fixes, lamdera, etc.
I would say vitrification is a better sealant. Or maybe welding shut in a thick stainless steel container.
Kind of reminds me of an old saying I heard somewhere, that I'll paraphrase here: "novice writers use little words, intermediate writers use big words, and expert writers use little words."

Like, it's fun to communicate in technical jargon -- and personally I'm quite proud of the vocabulary I have built up over time -- but you are totally correct in that it serves as a gatekeeper for an in-group to retain its dominance over a given field. There is a lot to be said for effective communication using a simple, base language and reserving obtuse technical terms for areas where one needs to be very specific.

There's another point to be made for not inventing new technical terms when existing ones apply. The amount of overlapping terminology in this field is infuriating to me.

This is true across all disciplines...
Character style/formatting is a pretty standard feature in commercial OCR offerings such as ABBYY FineReader. Its accuracy rate depends on the origin text, and is generally less than the overall OCR accuracy, though.
If you want more up to date programs might also consider Linux Mint, Sometimes Ubuntu is a bit behind the curve on languages and such Mint is also Debian based so a lot of Ubuntu's help applies to mint and the mint support community is also pretty strong.

I started with Ubuntu for my development computer and am now running Mint because I needed more recent versions to test with. The servers are running ubuntu server though (since I try to develop ahead of the version on the server) so it works out.
Not enough to require an 8-K filing, which means the purchase price was so low as to be immaterial.
The+Diabetes+Lie+:(
Yeah, those are good points but a participatory democracy doesn’t mean communities (like a church group) can’t govern themselves. It means literally the opposite of that.

As an example, in Germany nudity is much less of a taboo than in the US. Facebook has a blanket ban on nudity for American cultural reasons. A nudist event in Berlin can be argued for and against in Berlin by the communities involved. They can talk about it in council, protest, write letters, vote or get politically involved. On Facebook people can’t effectively do any of those things. They just enforce America’s squeamishness from on high. If Facebook and Twitter want to be an online version of the public square, people need the right to govern our own communities online as we do offline.

I like Reddit’s moves in this direction with community moderation of subreddits. I’m not a free speech absolutist - I like that entire subreddits can still be banned if they become too toxic (as we saw recently). But this makes people really angry because Reddit’s internal governance is entirely unaccountable. An unelected monarch is ruling over a bunch of small community run spaces. The next healthy step is for the monarch to be replaced with a board of directors or something - who are themselves accountable to the users. But like all kings throughout time, reddit has no incentive to do that.

And on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube it’s much worse. At scale, the editorial choices made by their content algorithms are inordinately powerful, invisible and actively destructive to society. I don’t know the right way to reign in this stuff. But I’m worried that if we don’t, society at large won’t survive the partisanship, extremism and conspiracy thinking that these editorial algorithms en masse create.

I agree there’s something deeply wrong in Washington. I wish us technologists were making things better instead of making things worse.