skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very familiar sentiment to thoughts I have been thinking and feeling over the past year or so. Interesting to see more of this stuff popping up. I am starting to think unionizing is going to be the path to start pointing the majority of folks towards.

https://medium.com/@kris-nova/why-i-wrote-hacking-capitalism...
If people have dumped engine oil as a weed suppressant or just poured it out on the ground, youll get a lot of heavy metals including lead.

Also leaded gasoline used to be popular, and would likely have been used for all sorts of things like an accelerant or a degreaser. It doesnt take many incidents like that over 50 years to spread lead all over the place.
Same here.

"Now, I don't feel like there's a qualitative difference between the two, to put it harshly."

There isnt. I'm cool with psychopathic killers and rapists being locked up indefinitely and/or killed by the state on my behalf. In reality, we have not fully considered the drivers of their behavior nor tailored the response to be compassionate of their circumstances.

Are they mentally ill? Did they grow up in an orphanage where they were abused and humiliated daily by the other kids and staff?

We don't have time for such questions and considerations because we have to get them off the street.

We tell ourselves it is justice because the truth takes far too many resources to fully reconcile.

Consent (inaction) of the governed.
It's the same argument if someone should take options in lieu of salary in a startup, and the answer is almost always no. Options tend to end up worthless as most startups fail.

IMO, a better question is to ask what allowed the single investor to become an investor to begin with. The nature of investing means the investor must be able to also lose all their capital. What can we do as a society to make easier for the 99 other employees to 'invest'. For me this means having social safety nets like healthcare and UBI so that people can take less salary or risk what little they have in a venture like you originally described.
for 0 gain in 99% of use-cases
I included ALL capital gains - realized and unrealized...

Do the math. It's literally division.

When you have 335M people in a wealthy nation - that's a large number already. Introduce a small amount of inequality - and the numbers will still be enormous. The US has MASSIVE inequality - the worst in the history of the world - surpassing the Belle Epoch in France before WWI. I'm not pretending the world nor the US is equal.

But the inequality is NOT the reason people are poor. And it's not the reason that you're not rich.

Is inequality a thing? Yes.

Is it causing problems? I think so. I think this is the interesting thing to talk about.

Is it the reason you don't have yacht or that we don't live in a utopia where no one has to work? Definitely no. Not worth considering when the smallest amount of math disproves it completely.
The Cluetrain Manifesto is painful to read and suffers from inflated prose rather that speak plainly to the reader.

Tech columnist John C Dvorak disliked The Cluetrain Manifesto and wrote a very entertaining book review in PC Magazine from 2002:

Cult of the Cluetrain Manifesto: https://www.pcmag.com/archive/cult-of-the-cluetrain-manifest...
There have been a couple of these posts recently and they all contain the same flaw.

They talk about their experience on an iPhone and assume it's true on all ecosystems.

It's not true for mine (Firefox and Android). When following a link from Gmail it opens embedded within the Gmail app and the site has access to the same cookies as if I'd opened it in the browser.
And it's trivial and seamless to then open into full Firefox (position in page and form values are kept).

I think Chrome Android is more or less the same too.
You can't just say something like that while I'm drinking my coffee! Now I have to change my shirt.
Worth it, especially because of the reasons the prices of electricity went up.
Maybe mix the mulch with some fine gravel
That is a non-answer.

What portion of this is non-voluntary?
There is NO successor to Civ4 BTS, the other games with the Civ name are a different more boring game. One unit per tile games are not Civ games.

Having vented, a decade ago I made a hex tile based “we-go” version of Civ (with stacks if units), got bored with the AI and never finished it. Had A* path finding, 3d terrain, economic and production models all working. Maybe in a decade I reignite the passion.
JSX doesn't separate languages, you're mixing HTML with TypeScript. You can absolutely do database queries in your template. What is keeping you from doing `fetch('https://side-effect.ts').then(() => doSomethingHorrible())` in your template? Or invoking an `alert()`?
I remember when I was addicted to Factorio, I could vividly "see" conveyor belts everytime I closed my eyes.
What is partisan about what I said? I didn’t mention party, so it doesn’t fall apart.

Further the people making the claim I referenced are talking about getting rid of the electoral college and 2 votes in senate which is essentially disenfranchising those people. How is it ‘reciprocating’ the vote? Your concept of equality doesn’t work here because it wasn’t the original deal and the distances and other things at play (water rights, starting wars, etc) don’t translate exactly to one vote one person.

I argue your premise is wrong for the situation “one person one vote” works locally and at the state level, but when applied federally it actually nullifies the smaller state voter and our ancestors were smart enough to design for that.

Thank you for your feedback I am eager to explore this idea further.
Hallelujah. Whenever scientists invent things we cannot measure to explain why their theories are still valid, you know you have a problem.

The three biggest issues with the sciences today are:

1) grant money purse strings controlled by bureaucrats with a political agenda

2) the "peer review process" and lack of open source, real-time, collaborative research

3) scientists who become dogmatic about their field of expertise, even if all of their work is built on a flawed theory

All three are interrelated and a cancer in terms of humanity's progress.

I'm sure you'll find plenty of examples of #3 in this thread, too.
I landed on the page and there doesn’t seem to be an article or a “pay/register to view” prompt. Just the title, the hero image, a word count, and some comments (which prompts to register to add comments)

Does it load for others?
What is barbecue land?
output*
The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos
Laughing at the thought of engineers making $400k reading this and identifying with it.
Germany already had the highest electricity prices in the world even when gas was cheap. Green energy has become an ersatz-religion here.
That is a problem when Amazon buys up everything that moves and integrates it into their product line. At some point it becomes impossible to avoid. Most of the snack and soft drink industry is owned by like what, 3 megacorps?

You don't like existing? Just die. Nobody's stopping you.
https://archive.ph/72j3M
I'm very interested in this point! Do you think there is something about the structure of co-operatives that intrinsically makes them less attractive to investors? Or do you think that the fear you mentioned is just a result of them being currently unconventional, and this problem will be fixed once we culturally become more open to alternative ways of organising work?
One central tenet of Buddhism is the belief in karma: you will rip what you sow (in many previous lives). Thus it’s safe to say almost all Asian believe in a just world. According to this study, this will make the Asian comparatively more dishonest??
There is an another aspect: if you believe in karma, in general it will also affect your behaviors, make you more likely to adjust your actions towards other beings, be less harsh to other people, a bit more moral. How will that make you more dishonest? I would say belief in god’s judgment is also a form of karma. Will that make all Christians more dishonest?
Somehow it’s very hard for me to believe!
> when there are other solutions that are way more efficient

I was explicitly clear that I was commenting on proof of work blockchains. Crypto has a whole host of other issues, but I agree that there are other blockchain/crypto-like solutions that fit - some - of the touted use cases (e.g., GNU Thaler for digital currencies and currency-backed transactions).

The issue, however, is that for good or bad, crypto is currently dominated by Bitcoin. The parent comment is relevant and meaningful in this context, and should not have been flagged.
The companies are (rightfully) punched for first offering services that cost money for free, thus discouraging the open source community from developing and promoting decentralised alternatives and then taking advantage of the adoption and lock-in. In the good old days it would be called dumping and maybe even got the attention of antitrust bodies.
for proofs i really liked two sources: susanna epps’s discrete math book and also rosen’s discrete math text (though epp’s is friendlier for the beginner)

supplement those books with these lecture videos:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-gb0E4MII28GykmtuBXNUNo...

they appear to follow rosen but they’re the same topics you’d see in epp

if you’re the complete beginner go with epp and then use rosen as a supplement.

if you are an advanced undergraduate in math but don’t know category theory then:

https://math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/context.pdf

or

Basic Category Theory by Tom Leinster

(even though i’ll list a bunch more resources below i’d probably start with leinster and work up enough math maturity to push through it.)

i also liked this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.10642.pdf

if you don’t know advanced math then there is an upcoming (not yet released book) called “the joy of abstraction”

i cannot attest for the book as i haven’t read it but may be good for true beginners:

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics/l...

(click “look inside”)

they say “no formal mathematical background needed”

you can read the description and see if that is something that would be of interest to you.

this guy has videos + a book

https://youtu.be/fY02LIW8fvk

there are a lot of books like “category theory for programmers”, “programming in categories” and the “seven sketches” books along with lecture recordings and videos that you may find helpful.

category theory for programmers might be the easiest of those three books. i worked a bit out of the programming with categories (http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats_files/cats4progs-DRAF...) book and ignored all the haskell sections and just focused on the math parts (this is a distinct book from “category theory for programmers”. people confuse the two due to the names and the fact they both use haskell).

if you know category theory and want to learn topology then there is “ Topology A Categorical Approach” by bradley et al.
In Finland it is the other way around. Household pays the full price with industry paying the same but get huge tax breaks.

Basically residential and companies pay the same but are taxed very differently in a form that ends up with companies paying way less electricity taxes.
EC2, particularly traffic, has massive markups too.
Beyond just exposing them, it gave them a megaphone!
Its fascinating that electricity is really the biggest cost of computing. I put a server in my house which was supposed to save money, but actually the electricity cost was something I hadn't thought of and really adds up. esp when the AC has to run to remove the extra heat. So much old hardware out there but its going to get junked as new hw is more efficient.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the elephant in the room -- Gitlab's new pricing per user per month ($19/mo) is steep compared to the incumbent, Github's ($4/mo). I like the ability to self-host, but I'm not sure what I really get from the premium.
This has to be downvoted because people aren't writing things like this because they want to do any deep understanding or enact meaningful change, they are doing it because it makes them feel better to complain about how unfair it is.
This is clearly not true. I was diagnosed with autism in high school, struggled with many things for many years, and nearing 40 now I've learned a great many things since then. My previous comment you're replying to was very much written from personal experience. I didn't mention this because I didn't think it's necessarily all that relevant.

Of course not everyone is the same, and things are different for other people; everyone is different. Some people may struggle more, or may have a hard time learning some things. But a blanket "you can never learn anything, full stop" is just not true.
That's true, but lot of startups actually die before they become enterprises. That implies your churn might be high. You might be in a situation where you allocated support resources for an org that runs out of money.

Also, I think the pricing is very low. For $2.5 per user, for an org of 100 users, ACV is $3000, that implies for a 1M ARR, you need around ~340 SMBs, which I think is possible but it is on the higher side and it is lot of effort. You are pricing implies Bottoms up, But for adoption you need the whole org's buys in which I think does align at scale. Just to put things to perspective, smaller orgs (20-50) pays $5000-$6000 to drata, vanta and others for SOC2/Compliance.

Again from customer point view it is cheap and great but economics may not workout.

Just food for thought. I wish you success.
Have you looked around lately? First people grow taller and then grow wider.

Also elasticity wears out. Poorly fit shirts that are worn out look pretty sloppy. And I say this as someone who wears poorly fit clothing that is worn out.
BJW may be taken as a proxy for common religious convictions, specifically those that posit fairness mechanisms such as heaven/hell, karma, reincarnation.

It is clearly smart to use the BJW designation instead, to avoid being pilloried.
> People are much more empowered to know the truth: Amazon reviews, restaurant reviews etc. Yes they can be manipulated, and yes counterfeit products can make their way into the supply chain, but we are forgetting that before the internet the lack of scaled reviews meant many more bad meals at restaurants.

I think the problem is worse that you state. For instance, IIRC pretty much all the sites in the "independent" online mattress review industry are either owned by some particular mattress company and shill for them or are pay-for-play. There's a huge amount of astroturfing, even for now-end no name products.
People always bitch about CEOs.

Do the math.

Intel employs 120k people. The CEO makes $10M per year.

Distribute his salary evenly to everyone at the company, it's not even a 0.2% increase to the average person's pay.

Let's say there's 10 execs like this. Still not even 2% (and there aren't 10 execs like that).

Most of the megacaps look the same. The salaries are massive. But they employ a LOT of people, and the average salaries at those companies are high.

You can find edge cases for sure with smaller startups that are wildly successful - or Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
Kobo appears to be an inferior device on most accounts. Both of my Kobo readers have had glitches, required reboots, and at times had a suspiciously low battery life. The first even just stopped working all of a sudden. But all of it was worth it knowing I wouldn't have to support Amazon's walled garden. Now it's mostly down to "do you support Amazon?", and I'm still not sure if I want a Kindle. I'll keep my Kobo H2O until it dies of old age, then we'll see.
A long time ago Cloudflare was experimenting with support for E2E integrity via their public gateway:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/e2e-integrity/

It looks like they've taken the FF addon down and archived the source repo though.
Maybe this how the EM drive could work.
i've made a frameset site recently. With modern stuff you can have a single document display different content (or a frameset) depending on the name of the frame and push state a more representative url. This also solves the history navigation.

loading videos and pdf files into frames is also nice.
In fairness, neither bomb caused Japan to surrender, it was the USSR's entry into the war that triggered that.
> tak(x)ing away any raise and disposable income your employer gave you

An employer does not give a raise and disposable income to a worker. The worker is the creator of wealth, and the heirs collecting dividend profits are who are being given to. Your confusion about the directionality of created wealth within the relations of production is the whole point of the article.
The Normandy landings, Battle of Stalingrad and other major battles in history cannot be recreated in Civ 6 because you cannot stack units. It's an artificial restriction that not only is annoying, it makes things less realistic.
I'd like to give my kudos to the Mindustry developer because this game uses the same engine as the slay the spire but this game runs without a hitch, even when there is plenty happening while Slay the spire overheats my phone when I'm thinking what card to play next... -.-'
I'd phrase it differently, but I think it's basically what happened.

Japanese atrocities against civilians in China and Korea were enormous. Japanese treatment of US PoWs was horrendous. Japanese troops continued to fight literally to the last man, just to try and kill as many Americans as they could. I think when fighting an all-out war against an opponent like this, it's hard to self-limit.

Further, the Japanese approach of never surrendering produced some gargantuan casualties. The Battle of Iwo Jima [1] was apparently the turning point in American thinking. After breaking the back of Japanese Imperial Fleet, Americans figured they need to start taking territory, which meant mostly invading islands. Iwo Jima had notable, but not extreme importance. And again, the Japanese would just not surrender. Quoting Wikipedia, of the 21,000 Japanese troops, only 216 were taken prisoner, and these were mostly unconscious or disabled soldiers who could physically not fight. The rest fought tooth, nail and bayonet against each and every American, and died eventually.

Add 6k American soldiers who died in that one battle, and suddenly dropping an extra nuke on a city of 100,000 looks, weirdly, like a life-saving manoeuvre. And Iwo Jima wasn't even that important, or particularly close to Japan proper, you could expect casualties to only get significantly worse. This doesn't even count the wounded, which in a military context doesn't usually mean a bloody nose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima
Boston School Dean Recruited Students for Latin Kings
Mind over Mood is an excellent self guided CBT book. It comes with works sheets.

There's also a practitioners version if you want to see how the sausage is made from a fascilitation side of thing.

If you're interested in more advanced discussion of methods consider Judith Beck (late CBT creator Aaron Beck's daughter). CBT basics and beyond.

Both are very popular within the UK.
It's not just density of energy. In a world of (close to) 100% renewable energy, what will the cost of electricity be relative to today? Framed another way; what's the cost of energy for someone who is "off the grid" today? Someone who is "off the grid" energy wise but connected digitally could have an uncapped impact on economic growth while having a hard cap on their impact on the environment/energy.

Society can combine renewable energy (which have a low per-unit cost) with dense fuel based energies like nuclear to drive the cost of energy towards 0., enabling new kinds of economic growth. For example, Proof of Work style crypto is something that's criticized = today for environmental reasons which, in that future world, would just be a siphon for excess energy. Replace crypto with "Folding@Home" style applications if you want.
I think they lost me when they claimed that code libraries aren't reusable code because they're designed to be reused :)
It’s a shame this never caught on. I still think it’s a preferable way to communicate with your customers.

Instead all the corporations doubled down on treating us like idiots.

Maybe someday.
This is what was confusing me, e-mails we got in years past about moving from UIWebView to WKWebView. In my head I misremembered that as needing to move from WKWebView to SFSafariViewController.

There are a couple apps where we are using SFSafariViewController but WKWebView would make our lives easier so I need to go back and look at switching those out.

> ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - App updates that use UIWebView will no longer be accepted as of December 2020. Instead, use WKWebView for improved security and reliability. Learn more (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview).
It’s a litmus test. And tbh it’s (if you want) a way to get more visibility or credibility because you can take the todo, then go back later and say “here’s the answer. If you want more detail I can go over it with you.”
Containers are not a meme

What's a meme is creating a container for any minor thing like npm + some js project. Or to run one Go binary.

> a sysadmin

Sure, for the deployment of stuff containers are very good. But you know people were using stuff like chroots before that right?

I don't think I'm deploying this debugging system in a webserver.
Keep writing! We are just one or two more articles from everyone susddenly realizing that capitalism is mean and overthrowing the system.

What will we do afterwards? Who cares! That's not nearly as much fun as whining.
> Human perception of color is certainly a matter of biology.

Of course it is. The mathematics is a model of human biology (in terms of the effects of interactions with different colours of light).

Mathematical models of the underlying electromagnetic phenomenon known as light already existed in the 19th century, but that's very different from the problem at hand.
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> It's a "surrender today" kind of statement

And Japan still didn’t.
Even more concerning is that a large # of rural properties are on old apple orchards.

Spraying lead arsenate as a pesticide on apples was a fairly common practice up until the 60s.

It accumulates in the soil and never goes away.

The scale of the problem isn't spoken about much because there's literally nothing that can be done about it.
I didn't see it and mine is in French, I do see it with "Chat" and "Katze". If I search "Cat" the spot is taken by the company, not the animal, could it be something similar for you? I feel like that's the actual issue.
I don't see how Nix is better than Docker as they serve different purposes. While I agree using containers helps aid in automating build environments, you can also checkin shell scripts and Ansible roles into repos as well. I understand the criticism and hopefully people aren't going to be so thin-skinned to take offense, but at the same time if it works then it works.
What ending have you reached? Campaign?
> A freshly waxed chain will be stiff from the hardened wax.

Oh, I always forget about this.

It's not necessary when you only ever ride singlespeed bikes... just wrap your chain around the rings and let the first few cranks do all the hard work!

But if you have a derailleur and whatnot... yeah, don't skip this step!
Amazing that I'd only read to Susan's name and immediately knew what passage this was. I need to re-read the books.

GNU Terry Pratchett
It’s amazing to think about that timeframe and how much optimism around the internet there was.

We truly thought we’d get a voice and things would change.

Now I’m depressed.