skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All issues are zero sum in a moment imo. What’s an example of a positive sum short term situation like the one I described?

Nice move adding “short term” in there.

The examples that I have seen that stand out to me are when the “have almost everything” group shares with the two “have less” groups, and that lets the have everything group have more of everything. Their relative score may be less (they have 90% of the total score versus 95%), but they have a higher absolute score (e.g., 180 points versus 95).

A classic example of this is growing (or shrinking) the middle class. The US did a fairly good job of this in the 20th century. The pie got bigger and the rich got richer on an absolute level.

A counter example is Japan in the recent “lost decades”. The haves basically stuck it to the youth and the have nots, and they have created quite a predicament for themselves. A once vibrant economy with a high velocity of money is a shadow of its former self. So many groups turtles down and said “I got mine”, and basically was content letting the pie shrink.
It's no different or worse than the security model of any other text editor or IDE. It runs as your user (unless you're doing something zany like running an admin account), and it can do anything your user can do like launch programs or subprocesses you have access to execute. A vs code extension isn't going to get some unexpected power like root privilege to start messing with your system, opening low ports, etc.
keeping information for the purposes of enforcing rules and bans is explicitly allowed in GDPR and you are not forced to delete it. (similarly, you can't ask a company to delete all the stuff you've bought and sold them from their accounts)
I'm in the camp these days of I would much rather pay someone who does one or a few related things well and charges me for them, I'm already happy with my note taking setup, but 5$ a month doesn't seem too bad for a service I actively use and enjoy.
> Where, exactly, does the money to pay for their additional salary and jobs come from?

Why does anyone pay anyone else to do work for them? If this situation was actually zero-sum, then employees would get paid for a while until companies ran out of money, and then no one would ever get paid again. Fortunately, this is not a zero-sum situation, and people pay other people to do work in order to produce more value for the people paying for the work than they pay for the work.

For example, if I pay you $50 to put together $50 worth of components into a phone, I then go and sell that phone for more than $100. You get $50, whoever sold me the components gets $50, I get my sell price - $100 for the phone, and whoever buys it gets a shiny new phone. Everybody wins.

And it goes further! Everyone who made money takes their money and spends it on things other people have produced via their hard work -- or they invest it with some people for those people to try to make something more of that investment. Or they sit on it and spend it later, because they don't know what they want to spend it on right now. Whatever they do, the entire economy gets some action... eventually.

But let's say I'm kind of racist and sexist and biased in all kinds of ways and not necessarily aware of all the ways in which I'm biased, aka an actual human being. Then I might decide not to even consider hiring some people, because I think they wouldn't be able to do the work, when in reality they might do just fine, but my biases are getting the better of me. Then I might not hire as many people, and so I wouldn't pay as many workers to make phones, and I wouldn't pay for as many phone components, and I wouldn't sell as many phones. Now I am poorer, and the component seller is poorer, and the person I didn't hire is poorer, and someone out there doesn't get a phone. And the economy sees a little less influx of activity from everything we might have done and ended up not doing. Everyone is worse off.

But! If some policies are put in place to encourage me (somehow) to hire people that I might not normally consider due to my biases, then I might change my mind, and everyone wins more again.

So where does the money come from? I might be hanging onto some, hoping to hire some people, but I'm not spending as much as I would if I was hiring people I'm biased against. Or maybe some other companies besides mine hire more people that often face bias, and those companies expand and produce more and their new employees spend more buying all kinds of things (including the stuff my company makes), so my company gets buoyed up and now I have cash to spend to hire more people too. Or maybe I see the policy changes and decide I want to expand my business, so I seek out some investment or take out a loan.

The reason equality -enhancing policies are beneficial to everyone is that they make the total market bigger, faster. Money in a healthy economy doesn't run out and disappear; it flows. And if it flows productively to people who are currently relatively neglected in this regard, then everyone ends up better off, including the people who are not neglected in this regard.
And if you do get that somehow please post it, I think a lot of people would find it interesting
How did diabetics manage before smartphones?
Gluten free isn't a health fad. Please learn about celiacs.
So... The US and Europe haven't stopped being manufacturing hubs. The kind of manufacturing changed to high end goods, and automation has greatly decreased the amount of labor involved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_... the thesis is only possible if all you look at are the cheapest consumer goods, where moving to places with the lowest cost labor is a necessity.
I teach computational approaches to literature at a university, and I always give my students a test to see if they can tell which poems were written by a computer, and which were written by a human. They tend to score about 50%. But to me, a literary scholar, I know immediately, from a glance even, which ones aren't written by humans, because they're patently ridiculous. I guess if you're not really a reader of poetry, or don't understand it, it's all just nonsense anyway. But for the rest of us, not even the most advanced language models can pull off a poem, convincingly.
Wishlist feature for PowerToys Run

The ability to search for an application and bring those windows into focus. This is my primary way of switching between applications (except for the terminal which I have bound to Ctrl+Shift+Space). It's much easier for my brain to just type the first two letters of the app I want to focus then to remember the state of the app switch history.
Disagree and we can do better than traditional vague tribal gossip with data.

Polls tell us clearly the public would prefer equality of condition with regard to health, education, and access to food of nutritional substance, by their support for policy that enables agency to those ends.

What they don’t care about is policy providing everyone TVs and McMansions.

We can be a bit more specific than the hand wavy, traditional narratives. How much less duplication of effort is there if stability and a casual life is available to the masses keeping truly useful work moving along and not mired down in administrative matters because people need to compete for jobs?

We don’t know because we can’t try. Tacitly making our system unfalsifiable.

When asked privately, opinions diverge wildly from public consensus. No one wants to publicly be the person who blinks.
You operate on the assumption that the choice is between "work 80 hours per week" or "starve and be homeless." You have painted a false dichotomy and that destructive mindset is _exactly why_ people get stuck in shitty situations.

There is more than enough opportunity in the USA for someone to be born with relatively little and work their way up to a middle-class lifestyle EASILY. Many people do.
Negative Voting
I like the regex touch
I gave in to the temptation - hence Dendron

What issues did you encounter with Dendron? Would appreciate feedback so we can make it better!
okay. the reason we don't blame the affected person is because..
Tracking a smartphone's reflection in a user's eyes
I'm part of the new generation and I think the opposite. I am obsessed with my phone and the Internet. And I don't think it's bad. It's extremely stimulating in a way real life is orders of magnitude worse at. Point of reference, born around 2000. There's no going back for me. I want my phone at all times to have access to billions of possible thoughts, pictures, memes. It's literally a god like power.
It does feel full circle how we used to suffer from pop ups and produced popup blocks; and now we have implemented the ability to do it all via javascript instead with overlays.
If you can use hash to identify someone then its pii by definition
I always thought Ebay's fundamental design error was that it did not serve as a true escrow agent.

Yes, that would have been difficult to scale, but then you'd not need a fraud department at all as both sides would be able to verify the transaction.

Seems like a business opportunity here.
The discussion here is whether equality is zero-sum: disadvantageous to "advantaged groups". The argument for this view is that there are a limited number of jobs. If we were talking about dockworkers or factory workers maybe that's a point. My argument is that this lacks imagination. Were talking about enabling talent and creativity. The number of opportunities thereby expands to accommodate the extra number of talented people who recognize and pursue them.
Contrary to popular understanding, the GDPR does not allow you to force a company to delete all data about you.

In effect, it lets you revoke your consent for the company to store and process your data. But it also provides for cases where your data can be processed without your consent. It's not an unlimited carte blanche, but fraud prevention is explicitly given as an example of a legitimate purpose.
Will I admire Mark Rober going after scammers, I have to point out, that Glitter, is one of those plastic pollutants that is contributing to the global tsunami of plastic pollution and microplastics ... which we now find inside our blood.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/22/glitte...

What I would really like is for Mark to stop with the glitter bombs. We have enough plastic already everywhere.

But cudos to bringing down the scammers in India.
Similarly, I went out to dinner Friday and could not scan the QR code to view the menu because I decided to leave my phone in the car. I asked for a a physical menu and was told they literally do not have them anymore. Had to hunch over my friend's phone instead.
The better place to get tooling info is the OCaml Platform page: https://ocaml.org/docs/platform

There you can see that dune is the only actively maintained viable build system for OCaml. The others are all in maintenance mode or deprecated.
Your "I've never had problems" is just another anecdotal story like the op's. Why is your opinion that eBay is okay more acceptable to strangers than the op's opinion not to use it?
I literally have a AutoHotkey script to make windows to stay always on top. This is great!
Bobby Axelrod meditates secularly. He's a case study in what happens when power isn't ethically contextualized.
The set of celiacs is much smaller than the set of people who think eating gluten free food is a good idea.
"Equality" of opportunity itself is a little weird.

If one family emphasizes reading and math and another family emphasizes dance and music, they will provide different (non-equal) opportunities to their children, but one is not necessarily "better".
Yeah, I know the argument, but how many people in industrial society know how to do anything? The engineers build the systems that the factory workers use. In fact, the workers generally know only one subset of some problem that is being solved by the manufacturing process.

You have to be able to show how this "knowledge gap" causes a collapse because the "new engineers" fail to understand the building blocks and the systems will erode over time. As long as the standards exist someone can "follow the recipe."

I can totally concede that over long epochs of time of stability there would be a wax and wane of technological prowess and that at some point interest, or active knowledge, would be lost. But as long as the knowledge is still there then it would not take much for this future society to repair and regain its knowledge.

I see absolutely no justification for a collapse scenario. Your CoD LARPers will have to unclog their toilet eventually.
Privileged doesn't mean easy. Even if you're poor and white, you will never be judged by a potential landlord, store security employee, or taxi driver on the basis of your skin. You may have a tough life for all sorts of other reasons, but that won't be one of your problems, and that is a form of privilege.
Yes, it should be "With a terminal".
In the US, you already need a phone to charge an EV (of course, the EV has a cell modem anyway, and license plate tracking cameras are becoming ubiquitous too...)
It can be both…
I hate to be one of those "both party" people (clearly, the Dems are a lesser extreme, even though both have slid towards conservative positions) but both parties have represented less and less of the population and seem to actively stoke political disenfranchisement in the nation, playing towards a fervent party base who don't examine passed policy but only look at talking points. This can be seen in both foreign policy and the filibuster legislation, as well as previous promises of codifying Roe v. Wade. I'd like to say this is a sad "day" but this slide truly started during the Reagan era, quickened during the Gingrich era and Clinton turned the Democrats into the center right party in a lot of their practical policies(foreign policy, military budget, corporate spending, corporate rights). And while the center right policy might actual message well to a lot of America, they try to sell to a fringe left for some reason.
You forgot to mention people having different values and ways to go about achieving them - could explain the difference in outcomes without making them lesser in any way.
pooping with phone now.
now and then i try pooping without it just in the interest of time. and saving my legs from falling asleep.
not often though. bad habit.
Have a high quality stdlib, but nothing other languages do not have. There are many community libs, but again nothing that special, also the popularity rise for a language transpiled on top is not much a thing...

Java exists today in many places where change codebase is a nightmare and keep up software is no less a nightmare so having a more manageable language able to insert itself in the old ecosystem is valuable, but on a moderately new language with nothing so big to be in a state of needing a nightmarish replacement why?

It's like Hy for Python: it's nice, a programming exercise but for what more than the technical piece? How many Python programs need a new language while remain on their own python VM? How many Python programmers want lisp with Python underneath?
But then I need two phones. Why?
It is a health fad for most. People with actual diagnosed celiac's disease are rare. Self diagnosed… that is another deal…
I'll take a look when I'm on the computer. It does look interesting. Actually it ends up being mostly useable on the phone if you just click "feed" and then back to "decision engine" again, it will render much more nicely.
Good to know, thanks for your insight!
I find it funny that the 13 mini (2.53"x5.18") is bigger than the iphone 4 (2.31"x4.5") of yesteryear.
bugs are a feature to make you hate it even more
WAGI: The Easiest Way to Build WebAssembly Microservices [2020]
From your response I would guess that you don’t have kids or dogs, would I be correct?
People are constantly saying these things about google and when I search for:

"Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal"

I get the exact answer as a snippet at the top of the search. I am beginning to think everyone that has bad search results has some kind of malware installed on their computer since their searches always work for me.
>In todays world it seems equal opportunity, equity.. and equalized outcomes often conflated with one another

Two ways to look at this statement. One, that those who advocate for pro-equity policies are doing the conflation. The other is that those who make that assertion are doing the conflation.

In general, I'd say it's more of the latter. That is, because the measures must necessarily be remunerative, it can give the sense of advantaging the historically disenfranchised at the expense of others. The conclusion is then drawn that this is overly corrective (i.e. inequitable in the other direction), thus equality of outcomes must be the goal.

It's easy to fall victim to this conclusion if you believe that finally implementing equitable rules after, say, 400 years of one group's disenfranchisement truly represents equal opportunity for that group.
People also absorb their parents' attitudes about things like work, diligence, handling money, honor, investing, value of education, etc. These have a large effect on their future lives.

> there is little evidence to suggest that this corrects itself after a few generations

On the contrary. The vast bulk of modern American citizens emigrated to America as poor, even destitute, people. Look what happened to their descendants.
This is the fundamental differentiation of Powershell, right? UNIX operates on text streams while Powershell operates on structured data. It is in a better position to do this kind of stuff.

That aside, a lot of contemporary cloudy CLIs will now speak json on stdin/out and JQ will make any json transformations you can imagine.
Sure, but it didn’t have to be the most wasteful implementation possible.
By traveling to new places, I even just mean that Yelp and Google, coupled with GPS navigation, allow people to more regularly patronize new businesses in the localities they reside in. So it’s much more frequent to be driving to somewhere unfamiliar.
You mean, by coming in tune with ones own body and mind people start to value themselves? Call me shocked!

In all seriousness, people who know what they want tend to come across as selfish. I don’t know why people consider this bad. All airlines tell you to put on your masks, before helping others (in their emergency videos). The idea being, you must be capable in order to help others.

I think this is something many altruists miss. Society is best when everyone is healthy and capable. Teach a man to fish, as opposed to giving him a fish, so to speak.
You could read his post as him living with constant threats of victimization (this is how I read your comment) but it applies equally well to medical emergencies. I happened to be in such a situation once and it was stressful enough with medical guidance on the phone and assurances that the ambulance was on its way

I will not risk to have to face such a situation alone or have to leave a person in distress just to call for help
I recently got my first Apple Watch with a cellular plan specifically so I can leave my phone at home and still be reachable via phone and text message. Mostly it’s great. The watch barely works well enough as a phone, I can play Spotify, Apple Maps kind of works for directions (not nearly as well as Google maps on the phone IMO), and that’s basically all that’s usable, which is nice.

However, when dropping off my kid at school they require a Covid screening app (phone only) that you have to show every morning. I got half way to Whole Foods before turning back realizing I needed my phone to scan the Amazon Prime code to get better prices.

I expect more and more everyday activities will require smartphones sadly.
Does this mean parkinson's is caused by not feeling loved?
How would you sell the result to marketers, or warrantlessly track people after the fact without the app?
It's a pretty steady trend downward since the mid 90's.
The difficult part about these discussions is that there’s a principled philosophical aspect and a pragmatic aspect.

We’re all born equal, but take different paths. It’s a lazy answer to say “<“They”> are just a bunch of lazy rabble”, but it’s equally lazy to declare that we’re all prepared to do anything, given the opportunity.

Coming to a middle ground that respects human dignity and improves society as a whole is truly difficult.
Like I said, you don't need Jane Street Core for the practical application of the language. Many people who are using OCaml practically are not using JSC.
Quick question…did your account have a history and past positive reviews from any purchases you had made in the past?

I have a long-standing account and rarely buy on eBay nowadays (I’m trying to recall if I’ve ever sold anything…if I have it was maybe only one item but I don’t even recall if it sold or not).

Recently, I was looking into buying a used gaming PC via eBay to save a few bucks and I ended up completing a “Buy it now” purchase quickly without looking more into the seller (or their location). The location wasn’t a big deal (Paris, France) but that mainly meant the shipping would take longer. What ended up being more concerning was the 0 rating for the seller, which immediately make think “oh crap”. I reached out to the seller just to see if I could get a response with no quick reply, but I sent one short follow up the next day when I didn’t receive a response and shared my concern and waited another day before reaching out to eBay about the concern I had about the seller (especially because by this point the original listing was gone and then it even seemed like the seller’s account too). I used the live chat option and the person there was very helpful and got the process started and mentioned to reach back on Friday (about 3 days later), but later that same day my refund was issued and the case closed which I was grateful for.

But it did make me wonder of what might be an apparent difficulty for newer accounts to sell successfully on the platform? (Kind of like stories I’ve heard about liquor licenses being grandfathered in for certain locations in cities, whereas it may be more work for a new location to apply for one…maybe newer sellers can easily be flagged? The inability to dispute the situation when you are obviously willing/able to communicate with the eBay staff however is the sad part in your story since legitimate individuals should always have recourse to be heard in these large tech platforms).
What kind of god, though? What are you missing that only exists in meat space?

When you get older you might grow bored of the virtual stimulation trapped inside a screen.
if your account is established enough not to trip whatever crude fraud algorithm they have, ebay is an extremely convenient and efficient way of buying and selling stuff. maybe its because ive done it for a while so im used to it, but im always suprised when people complain about ebay. i think you get into real trouble if you expect it to be 100% perfect, but if you just accept that every now you might get screwed and dont put all your eggs in one basket, it works very well.
After reading the title to my wife she quickly said most likely a man wrote this article, possibly an older gentleman.

As a female having a phone at all times makes her feel more comfortable for emergency use.
> It's a radio I can use to summon help. Why would I _ever_ want to be without that?

I think it's good for you to occasionally to know that you are on your own. Completely responsible on what you do. Be it on the nearby forest or in some more extreme situation. I am not sure the direction of (illusion of) ultrasafety where our society has been going is all good. Occasionally it's good to have the red pill instead of the blue. Keeps your mind clear.