skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be really interested to hear your definition of capitalism, because I think you are confusing ideals. It appears you are tying capitalism to a tax structure or some other government program to promote equity. Capitalism is simply using a market economy rather than command economy.

China has used capitalistic market principals from the 1970s to greatly benefit the wealth of its population, as opposed to the Mao era command economy which clearly failed. If you look at poverty in the world from the 1970s you will clearly see the China's reopening greatly reduced world poverty (mostly because their population is a major proportion of the world's).

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

https://www.zdnet.com/article/study-world-poverty-rates-plum...

Capitalism recognizes that a competitive market driven economy relies on governmental controls to protect against market failures, externalities, and imperfections. These are knowns in American economic academia.

Because the government of America fails to give appropriate, or lack-thereof, government control in the face of some of these issues (such as healthcare) does not mean that the capitalism concept is incorrect. It means that the federalistic, two party, republic has not properly regulated some issues as recognized by standard economic practices.

However, give me concrete examples of other governments that better protect against "when the measure of a man is the depth of his pockets then the world shall be ran by clowns" abuses while not removing blatant freedoms, and give specific changes you propose. Sitting on the side of "capitalism is for pigs" is much easier than actually studying and solving the problem.
I think I would support some sort of government incentive for this.

It's good for everyone if people are encouraged to make sacrifices that net benefit society. In the long run, everyone should benefit (if the sacrifices and benefitees are equally distributed enough).
I never really thought about it too much but your post made me think. I also have photos of bad/negative memories but I think overall I really enjoying seeing the photos from the happy times and the photos from the bad remind me of things or make me think and don't tend to ruin my day. Overall, I like the feature but I totally see where you are coming from and its not great the AI just sends you these memories basically randomly, not sure how to do this without curation (still prone to error or magic all knowing AI (more scary really).
Several of my real, profitable business customers are running $200-$300/mo AWS bills. That includes multiple virtual servers, hosted RDBMS, load balancers, multi-region redundancy, etc.

If AWS is costing thousands a month the company is either big enough to need that level of infrastructure, or doesn’t know how to manage their cloud resources. As a freelance system admin I see over-provisioned services and extras added on all the time, doubling or tripling AWS bills for no reason other than ignorance and neglect. I see software stacks that are such pigs they need huge servers to put a simple web page together.

Companies should focus on their core products, and that’s even more true for startups that have less cash. Some of them I’ve worked at are using Docker and k8s and all kinds of random crap they don’t need, presumably chosen because it’s cool or some prima donna engineer had to get their way.
How does this compare to TablePlus?
If what you're referring to is the central banking system, then yes, that's a lot more stable than any of these crypto alternatives.
For me, what you're referring to is one of the reasons I don't like to use Windows as a desktop OS (because you need to hunt for these relatively small target areas to organise multiple windows). The alternative which I greatly prefer is outlined in the other responses.

In the past, I used to disable title bars entirely even on full-sized monitors. These days it's not so easy to do that, though.
Should Leopards Be Paid for Their Spots?
I used to use Postico (paid version) but switched to TablePlus free and then paid for it. I switched so long back that I don't remember exactly why I switched but TablePlus has been amazing.
Russia is currently doing logistics with civilian transports. Which is not well adjusted to the terrain for eg. Off-road/mud.

I think their logistic capabilities are almost reduced to 0 and this could become a decisive factor ( eg. Around Kiev at this very instant).

Additionally, all the new weapons are produced in limited quantities and mostly sold to foreign countries because they need the money. Their actual equipment is mostly rusty and from the Soviet era.
No, it originally started as standalone apps with licenses you could purchase for each platform (at that time it was mainly Mac, and a poorer alternative on Windows). You could decide where to store the encrypted password file(s) and sync them however you wanted. You could choose to upgrade to a new version, or not.

Then it changed to the subscription model and a move to storing the passwords on the cloud. At the same time, the company also hid the standalone license option from all the main and help pages where one would look for it (and it required asking in the forums to get a link).

There’s a lot to write about how the company built a good reputation in the beginning and then worked very hard to dig itself deep underground.
The even better thing now is that with the "No Surprises Act" taking effect, I could presumably walk into any hospital in the US and never get billed more than I'd have to pay with Kaiser.

If you're in an area where Kaiser's hospitals are, non-Kaiser hospitals will generally work with Kaiser. It's not like you get to choose which one you go to in an emergency. Outside of the states that Kaiser is in, you're usually fine but there are many horror stories about hospitals asking for fees beyond what Kaiser will cover under their global ER coverage.
I don't really get your point, I wouldn't call it a dismissal. Not all areas of white poverty were once "vibrant".
I work very hard to name, catalogue and caption all my photos as the trip goes. I ruthlessly delete duplicates or blurry / not so good ones, until I'm left with 5-10 photos from any given event that I will have forever and always remember.

i.e. playing with lava in 2010 - http://theroadchoseme.com/volca%CC%81n-pacaya

all the way to seeing the gorillas in Uganda in 2018 - http://theroadchoseme.com/mgahinga-mountain-gorillas
Amen. We've entirely just used `useReducer` in combo with `useContext` where needed, and its been brilliant (this is a 100k LOC React app)
I was unware that the Links mentioned originally was a specific Stripe product. It makes sense now. I've been integrating with the Checkout API, and was hoping Radar would be worth including the stripe.js on every page as they recommend.

I've had the displeasure of getting hit with a bunch of fraud charges and the resulting chargebacks. It literally ended our small 2-person operation as we not only lost the money from the sale but also the product that had been shipped. This was early '00s, and online merchant accounts back then were not any where like Stripe. This is the one area of a trying a new online biz that concerns me the most.
>Am I just extraordinarily sensitive, or is this a thing?

Not just you. I get micro seizures accompanied with vision distortions, a killer headache, and often vomit 24-36 hours after last having caffeine. I take this to be a migraine. Even as little as 3 fluid ounces of coca-cola has enough caffeine to do it. Never was a heavy consumer of caffeinated beverages.
I used to scoff at selfies, but they are very efficient.
So funny!

> RESULTS Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury (0% for parachute v 0% for control; P>0.9). This finding was consistent across multiple subgroups. Compared with individuals screened but not enrolled, participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and lower velocity (mean of 0 km/h v mean of 800 km/h; P<0.001).

> CONCLUSIONS Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice.
In the post WWII era, it was common for Americans to raise two or three children on a single blue collar salary. That doesn't seem economically viable in recent decades.
I agree that's part of it. But I've also seen university administration proudly let state governments know that they're weaning themselves off of state funding. That can be seen in different ways, but it's clear that they've internalized the message so much that they don't push back against it at all.

More fundamentally, I think the US really needs to step back to the basics and think about different ways research can be funded, and to what extent current funding systems map onto those different mechanisms. I think there's a lot of dishonesty about what is going on, in terms of how research is funded in theory versus what actual expectations or practices are, and what the consequences of all of it is.
> a mechanism that allows two completely unrelated & unconnected blockchains to transfer tokens between eachother

Atomic swaps already exist.

I still have no idea what that has to do with the nonsensical metaphor "a blockchain is a bank"
I think we're in full agreement here. My prior comment was about using your existing keys as the CA.
If a 2KM bed of salt became liberated and released into the med, and IIRC both the bosphorus and the pillars of hercules are subject to tides...

How long would it take to reach "homeostasis"?

there's already semi-stable thermohaline layers between the med and the atlantic. differential current flows depending on depth.
Cloud is inherently subscription based though. Packaged software like Windows can always survive with a one time fee.

Hardware is interesting, there’s ongoing fees for the business if it’s connected hardware. However, almost all of them (b2c) charge a one time fee (IoT devices such as smart switches, security camera) and then charge a subscription for more advanced features or cloud storage (such as for the camera).

Also, it’s definitely a lot easier to produce and sell hardware products now compared to before!
Researchers discover oldest-known ochre workshop in East Asia
Last week Google's AI thought it would be fun to create a silly photo reel of my dogs capering about. It then happily mixed in photos of them dying at the veterinary office, all set to whimsical music.

I hate this pseudo-cutesy zero-context crap so very, very much.
Visually nice but it's almost always going to overlap the thing you've right clicked. Under any circumstance I still want to see the thing I've right clicked.
sorry too late in the evening to care about the particulars.

i am 100% interested in the general idea. completely infatuated. state what you are interested in, what resonates with you. update your assessment kver time. nothing could be more civil than you shifting change of views, than updates on your belief.
I think you have to chose the right tool for the right job, and you have to also understand that not all people have the same toolsets.

For most startups, they are hoping to get some money (investment, revenue, etc) in order to keep themselves going in the first bits. Buying servers is a huge capital expense, and not all startups have excellent credit and ability to do long term financing. But almost every startup will have access to a credit card and be able to pay a (reasonable) cloud bill on a monthly basis.

I've worked with a business that wanted to put TBs of data (with monthly growth) into AWS. I think the break-even point to buying a fully automated 10 tape library was something like 14 months, by which time they would have fully paid for ALL the tapes, the changer, and an extra drive to do emergency recovery offsite.

I think with startups it's about controlling costs -- developers are expensive but needed, sys-admin skills are expensive but "easily avoided" by just using AWS.
Some of it is also the ease factor, where you can use a bunch of cloud services to do things that are powerful, at fractions of a penny per transaction.

I also think some biz people aren't always tech experts, and tech people tend to either want to try something shiny (to pad their resume) or stick with something they know well. Cloud and AWS particularly make that easy.
Thank you for this post, but you are very wrong, and may $DEITY have mercy on your soul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade

TIL, they're missiles except drone-based instead of rocket-based

And because of the simplified flight infrastructure they're only $6k
Insofar as it has been placed atop the toast in this scenario, yes. Inasmuch as it competes with butter or jam, unequivocally not.
What does it mean to be modern in this context? Are you trying to differentiate from some other client in a meaningful way? The description says modern design language but it looks pretty plain, which is a good thing, but I wouldn't use 'modern' to describe it.
A few years ago I did some work with IBM's Watson Twitter integration. One of the fun things you could do was sentiment analysis. It was reasonably accurate for the extremes but anything in the gray area would be wildly off. A politely worded tweet that was scathing would come across high on the positive sides of the scale, whereas a perfectly reasonable sentence that included profanity as used in a quote would immediately be high on the negatives.

This part from the article made me chuckle, because IMO the author fell for some of the most basic language processing smoke & mirrors:

…so we’ll give it some examples. When generating the array, it even creates the ideal variable name and escapes the quotations.

Here, it generates toxic_comments as a variable name, when the instructions were:

# create an array with the following toxic comments: [etc]

This is pretty basic language parsing stuff that might have been kicking around awhile. I think the most basic english language parser could output something along the lines of what was suggested, given an understanding of what valid Python should look like. While impressive, it's not nearly as interesting or good as the rest of the work being done.

Copilot appears no different to most ML models out there. Poor and incomplete training data will yield ok results for popular things but as soon as you ask for edge cases it will fall apart like Siri trying to understand a Scottish accent.

Eventually it might get there with enough good representative training data but it's unclear to me how long that will take. If it tracks with speech processing models it might take decades plus.

Another consideration is that because the training data is being done using github public repos (at least last I read), it's likely that it's ripe for abuse. If that's still how they're doing it I'm looking forward to the TEDTalk in two years from a researcher who "hacked" the copilot AI by polluting its training data.
Does it handle mapping for PostGIS? That's why I can't get away from pgAdmin 4.
Does that make it an N-Gage?
my s9 doesnt. my oneplus 6t doesnt. both are "customer provided equipement". the s9 still gets manufacturer updates. the oneplus will allegedly be supported by mainline linux for decades.
The reason to use services like AWS is that you can scale in the opposite direction too - provisioning cheap infra for $10s - $100s a month. That's something your hypothetical(?) startup should consider doing, depending of course on what they are doing with all that hardware.
Market pressures can have a corrupting influence on many human endeavors, but to say "capitalism is ruining science" is incredibly reductive.

Capitalist countries, such as the US and western Europe, have had an outsized contribution to scientific endeavor, winning more than their share of Nobel prizes.

This is probably because investment in scientific research depends on a level of material prosperity that wasn't achieved in the USSR and communist China. Centrally planned economies tend to be so corrupt that researchers may have bigger issues to navigate than "publish or perish."

Jacobin takes a reasonable point (marketization can have a corrupting influence), dials up the stakes hyperbolically ("a new dark age!"), and pins it on its favorite bogeyman – "capitalism" – an amorphous, nefarious scourge (it's not clear what level of socialism we need to adopt to avert the new dark ages.)

Seems like a more reasonable take would just be to increase public funding to scientific research.
I don't think the west overestimated the Russian war machine.

The use-case for focusing on their few and somewhat modern capabilities in the past lies in the "then" future, not in the "then" present

If Russia was smarter, they would have trained their military and upgraded their Soviet era equipment. Which is something they didn't do.

They could have become formidable, but it's mostly about the quantity now. They don't have quality.

The resistance of Ukraine has partially been successful because of their own learning over the 8 years, the apparently CIA training ( which came out pretty soon) and the delivery of western defensive equipment.

Why we talked about the Russian army is simple:

It could have become dangerous quickly if they had enough money.

We need a reason to spend 1-2% in military of our GDP. Without actual military threat, democracy wouldn't accept so much investments in military easily.

Additionally, Russia wanted to present to the outside as a global military might. Which the west gladly accepted the appearance of and Russia used it to sell weapons abroad ( china/India).
I agree.

Brain storming some ideas:

I think a large portion of the problem is expecting university to be needed to get a job. It's largely not true, but it's perceived to be true, and so students fill up ranks in droves, and further to that, unis (under the current model) are incentivised to make lower barriers of entries and to graduate more students.

I think largely, the solution would be to stop the "uni is needed for jobs" thing. have training centers, have in job apprenticeship programs, etc, or atleast keep uni minimally involved.

I think if uni was to stop being seen as a "job centre" and was relied upon for more governmental policy things, or allowed to interact with business while also keeping as the seperate special class / meritocratic, then it'd be forever-protected (theoretically if it was working well).

Unfortunately university is one of Australia's prime exports, so things aren't changing here any time soon (here).
Pay no mind to this poster. Cube rule dictates seaweed-wrapped sandwiches are sushi. This is obvious.
also interested in this. Anyone have experience with both?
> I can find better images online.

This can bite in several ways.

The main one: the online images are not mine, so if I was to use or share them for any reason I might not be able to.

Another is that after a trip, you won’t start googling for every place you liked and download, archive and perhaps geotag them to have them in your collection. At least I don’t know anyone doing that.

Related to that, they probably won’t have the metadata you really want, like the date of your trip, which is often the best way to find back a photo of a place you remember having visited during a trip.
Reddit seems to have a knack for using technology for its worst. Terrible search, abysmal video, atrocious JS, horrific UI on web mobile...
Just no change.
SSH certificates are great in theory, but the whole certificate management, ad-hoc issuance, and revocation require boatloads of infrastructure.
If you do it right, certificates will be signed as needed and have a short validity period, say half an hour or something. That means you need an automated signing application, or a very cheap full-time certificate manager.

I’ve actually started working on such an app recently, including a web portal, CA rotation, automated configuration distribution, etc. Still far from usable, but if you’re interested in contributing: https://github.com/Radiergummi/fides
I decided to use Safari for any sites that don't work with Firefox. I'm ignoring Chrome for as long as I can.
No, that either they didn’t identify him as a threat, or that he was a fed all along (in which case, fair enough, the feds also invented Tor, they do cool shit occasionally).
It’s been said that a diehard ForTran programmer can write ForTran code using any programming language.

I’m sure this applies to any language that a diehard programmer chooses to focus upon.

It would be nice to have a idea what techniques a language focuses on providing. Perhaps some kind of Rosetta Code site might be a place to pint this kind of information.
I have a rare eye condition related to caffeine. If i drink caffeine for a few days (any form - coffee/coke/,,) i get retinal stroke. basically some capillaries in the eye block and i develop blind spot. I see noisy spot for a few days in vision and the visual system adjusts in software and i no longer see the noisy spot. This stopped happening completely since I stopped all caffeine. Some years back I drank coffee for a few days and happened again. Since the topic is heart related I am wondering of there is a connection to blood vessels damage. Maybe caffeine acts as a mild stressor? mild stressors are known to trigger the protective systems and thats why we see the benefits with respect to heart?
If you find this resonates, Lavamoat is basically the continuation of that 2018 blog post. Hopefully it catches on to get enough traction that SES (or something similar enough providing an API for controlling capabilities) makes it into runtimes.

https://github.com/LavaMoat/LavaMoat

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30707096
(Study) Tech Exodus out of California is a Myth
Hi! I have no idea, just a lone guy on the internet. Rust seems cool. Thanks for the tool I use every day.
Are you really English? I didn't know they were allowed to be this positive.
Prediction: this thread will contain a thousand onanistic replies which trend toward nihilism. Embrace the cube rule. You need not spend cycles debating the true nature of a taco. Give thanks.
Human are there own folley thinking that they are the definition of intelligence. In years to come, we will realise how simple our physiology is, compared to the other creatures. Brain included.
Netflix Could Reap $1.6B/Year by Charging Password-Sharing Users Extra
Building a discord server for startup CTOs