skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the last thing we should do is to go back to the Soviet Union, but its relationship to many of the alternatives available today is a common misunderstanding. The Soviet Union was described as "socialist" simply to cover up the awful inequality and abuse of power that was at the centre of it. The Soviet Union was basically the opposite of socialism, and this is easy to understand if you compare it to the most basic tenets of socialism, such as socioeconomic inequality.

I think that there are a lot of alternatives to both our current Western economic system and the Soviet Union, and I think that if you try to look a bit closer at many of the systems "the kids today" are talking about, in particular the principles and values behind them, without getting caught up in the labels, you'll be pleasantly surprised!

Perhaps you would find this list of books I compiled interesting? https://vladh.net/wage-labour-resources
I think we both might be mistaking the required move from UIWebView to WKWebView (instead thinking we had to move from WKWebView to SFSafariViewController).

> ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - New apps that use UIWebView are no longer accepted. Instead, use WKWebView for improved security and reliability. Learn more (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview).
Group Theory – Introduction to Higher Mathematics
Yes, 100%. Honestly can’t think of many things that interest me less than 40 hours a week trying to land people on Mars.

I’ll take 4 hours a week at work, a livable salary, and 36 hours sitting in a coffee shop reading a book and shitposting on Reddit thanks.
Is forty times an extremely small number still negligible? (asking not out of skepticism but curiousness)
Mathematical models of color can serve several useful purposes, even if they're not entirely accurate. As long as one keeps in mind that at best, they are descriptive, there can be valid use cases.
Yes, this. Once someone realizes that responsibility & accountability come with little to no consequences they become pretty free with the former.

I don’t know if it’s a trend but I’ve noticed it a lot more over the last several years
Circling the Wagons
> However, if I wanted to work on, say, World of Warcraft, I could hardly show up and demand Blizzard be turned into a co-operative.

You can always start a co-op which makes a WoW clone. Nothing stops people from that. The fact that it's practically never done says a lot about real-life applicability of co-ops.
You didn't distinguish between model or reality you just wrote you can't "prove" that something does not exist.

And even in reality you can disprove things, you just need to define the environment.
You can't disprove non existence in reality things universally and at all times.
but you don't have the choice of living like a hunter-gatherer, because all good lands have been swallowed up by capitalist megacommunities
> Finland invested in nuclear and is bringing their latest plant online this fall.

How exactly has a not yet operating reactor that is vastly over budget and time any influence on the current price though?
JavaScript SDK to build smart contracts on NEAR
[IMPORTANT: not in the US now]

The asked prices are high, but are the business being closed? I have the habit of perusing real estate sites for passing time and keeping a general idea of the prices, should I have/want to move, and one thing that I've noticed is that while prices are high, there are a lot of houses in the ads that have been advertised for a really, really long time. Different sites and different ads for the same house sometimes have different cover photos, but I have been seeing the ads for such a long time that I can immediately recognize a lot of those houses on the first look at the ad.
No need to learn Rust or Solidity before building a blockchain application. 20M+ developers already know JS.
Good reply btw
It’s the other way around, at least in Germany. Households pay more than industry for electricity. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/electricity_price...
Hence the satiric "so maybe we should all stop using electricity?".
This was, indeed, very cringe.

While his company is small, I think at a larger tech startup’s scale there might be some things you could do to avoid being “forced” to lay people off:

- Avoid taking VC money. This will force you to be disciplined and responsible even when everyone is bullish, while also avoiding having to do layoffs/pay cuts/freezes/etc. during a bear market when profits dip. As long as the company remains viable, you can ride out the storm and not have to listen to investors and “advisors”.

- Somewhat related, don’t go on hiring sprees. If you poach someone from another company because your idea is one “rockstar” away from taking off (it always is, isn’t it?), that employee may no longer be able to rejoin the old company, and when laid off may resent having being convinced to join your company. Hire responsibly and sustainably, otherwise people’s lives will inevitably get ruined.

- Always set an example by not having extravagant salaries, bonuses, and perks for yourself and your leadership team.

- If you’re a business owner, dedicate a decent percentage of profits that flows back to employees. They are taking a risk by working for a startup, so they should get a share of the upside, as well.

- If money does become tight, “taking responsibility” means freezing/cutting your own salary first, then those of other executives, and so on. You won’t die if you have to forego the Benz for an Accord, but employees with a beat-up Civic will definitely feel the pain if you start with them.

- If worse comes to worst and you can’t avoid layoffs, doing all of the above will reduce resentment. Doing the layoffs in a humane, empathetic manner and offering counseling and job placement help is the right thing to do, and can leave a lasting impression on your former employees and the general public.
>> We, as humans, are only entitled to what we can ourselves provide.

> So then why do we have inherited wealth, why not ban that.

It doesn't say that people are forbidden from having more than they themselves can provide. For example, if someone chooses to grant them some wealth voluntarily, as is the case with inheritance.
We could ask! This is HN, which a non-insignificant cohort of various types of investors (angels, VCs, maybe bankers?) visit.

So let's open a couple of Ask HN/Pool HN: Are you an investor? Did you invest in a coop-like startup? Would you invest in a coop-like startup? Under which conditions?
So does the kobo (at least in the US). Kobo devices have the overdrive app installed on them and you can search for and borrow library books from within the device.
That's a very large assumption, one I think is outright false considering the discussion I've read about this post. The issue is that apps are allowed to embed webviews to do malicious things.
little bobby tables just grew up
This really just means using rootless libcontainer (i.e. the Docker machinery) inside podman, it's not a native integration.
I can add something relevant to this bit:

One wonders, of course, why anyone would think the Japanese would think the atomic bomb was a one-off thing, or that the Americans wouldn't have the resolve to use it again.

When I was a student studying the Japanese side of WW2, one of my histories quoted a memo to the Japanese high command arguing that since producing nuclear weapons was such an expensive and lengthy process, it was almost certain that the USA had only two bombs and that their threat to continue with them was a bluff.

It was not unreasonable for the Americans to expect the Japanese to be skeptical.

Down in the comments section, the author makes this point:

One of the very best points that Hasegawa makes in his work is that there is no single "Japanese" or "American" policy opinion -- because both governments involved rather complicated balances of power within their cabinets.

Something usually ignored when discussing American decision making about the bomb is the actual state of their knowledge of Japanese thinking. We now have 70-odd years of studying Japanese documents and interviews with key Japanese and there is still nothing close to a consensus on how the Japanese would have reacted to different situations. Yet people criticize the American leadership for lacking that same insight into the mind of the enemy during the war.
I have so many iffy IoT devices I've been trying to pick apart the firmware for years now. this may be a game changer for me.

I'm kinda surprised people here aren't as excited for this as I am.
Re: Georgism/LVT I’ve gotten interested in how it affects land use.

I’ll check out that long video (listening now, sounds like they get past the introductions at the 30 minute mark) but here’s a couple shorter videos about it meanwhile. The guest of the podcast’s articles are here: https://gameofrent.com/

https://youtu.be/jFQgOy-5Tng Land Value Taxation and the Built Environment (10 min)

https://youtu.be/h0DvT8_6Hx0 What are the on-the-ground effect of the land value tax? Lesson from the Pennsylvania experience (5 min)

https://youtu.be/wHwFyXDx2_U (28 min) For the Land is Mine. An old documentary with more philosophical/economic background of the idea.
High school kids have a lack of understanding of how things work? We should put them in a school or something :P

It sounds like you're the person who could be the one to teach them this stuff, is that not an option?
> I'm gonna disagree that deliberately killing innocent people is ever an ethically correct choice.

This is more or less the trolley problem, so as you say it is entirely subjective. We're just going to have to agree to disagree :)
There have been some articles about this idea but nothing seems to be decided. They may go into parks later or may not. Some thinks they may just license the IP so you could go to a Stranger Things ride in some other park. Building a park like Disney Land is very, very expensive.
All, large cities are filthy, contaminated places. You shouldn't be growing food in random soil you find lying around in them and you shouldn't be raising animals in that soil unless you are carefully managing the sources and exposure of everything.
So does Kobo! https://help.overdrive.com/en-us/9988.html
I have this on my phone and my computer and haven't played it in a very long time. Looks like I will need to give this game a second shot.
Factorio let’s you keep playing after reaching a certain goal, which took me about 80 hours, but it was a lot easier to put it down afterwards.
Not a big deal, 122.6 ms is still way below the Doherty Threshold :)

Dropping into a real terminal on Linux feels so weird when typing. I swear sometimes I see a letter on the screen before I actually touch the key. Similar to playing an Atari on a CRT, paddle games, like Breakout, feel like you're physically attached to the on-screen paddle with a sturdy rod as opposed to the mushy feel you get from a mouse in modern games.
I think it depends.

A lot of large institutional companies effectively work "on rails", so loads of C-level execs there are glorified middle managers whose only talent is climbing the greasy pole.

Young companies though, they have "real" go-getter execs.

Finding out who is who, is a skill in itself.
I hadn't looked into that before, that's quite neat!
> Research papers are considered higher quality the more they are cited by others.

At one point, links directed to a webpage were considered a metric of quality too, and then we realized that this could be gamed or at least be misleading in some circumstances.

I'm not a member of academia who is embedded deep in the world of research papers every day, but I wouldn't fully trust any metric like this about China without a real deep dive into the numbers and seeing who is doing the citing. Maybe the article goes into it more, but I'm not a subscriber and cannot see.
Aren’t these „issues”(revenue) simply caused by Apple limiting tacking for 3rd party?
Eigenfaces
This is a wonderful idea. I'll try to draft something like this, but if you post this yourself, or notice it posted by someone else with more experience in the VC world than me, would you please ping me? Contact details at https://vladh.net. :)
I am tempted to switch to Kobo just for the Pocket app.
In physics, a (free) parameter is finely-tuned when the model is highly sensitive to different values at high precisions. If you get radically different results for some parameter k = 0.0000000010 and k = 0.0000000011, and observations match only the first case but clearly do not match the second (or any value much larger or smaller than either of these), then the value of parameter k is finely-tuned.

One may need to add more free parameters to a theory, but those parameters need not be finely tuned.

A free parameter is one that must be measured or estimated, as opposed to dependent parameters which are fixed by the theory (and possibly its free parameters).

The pointwise energy-density of dark matter, or its contribution to the stress-energy tensor at a point -- a free parameter -- is presently only estimated, but that estimate is not finely-tuned. In fact, that's part of the practical problem of proving particle dark matter: the pointwise density is underdetermined by observation. As a result, we don't know whether the DM particles must all have very small masses, or whether there can be a mix of masses right up to masses comparable to that of Jupiter. We also don't know the density-gradient very precisely within galaxy clusters and individual galaxies. However, we get coarsely-similar galaxies and clusters in simulations for a wide variety of choices in these areas. So therefore, the dark-matter density (and its gradient, if any) are not finely-tuned. We must therefore search the parameter space to exclude many families of possibilities as significant contributors to dark matter energy-density. (Which has happened: many types of MACHO have been ruled out by observation; various supersymmetry candidates for WIMPs have been ruled out by experiment; most "warm" dark matter has been ruled out; and so forth).

If only the distribution of dark matter was finely-tuned, we could quickly narrow down the search space : <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Composition> (the last box in the table is for the cases where one has the mathematical freedom to choose to move some or all of the non-metric-tensor additional field(s) from the curvature side of the Einstein Field Equations to the matter side (where the stress-energy tensor is found), without prejudice as to whether it is more naturally (in a conceptual sense) a function on the curvature (which is why the cosmological constant appears on that side, where it could just as easily be written down as a function on stress-energy)).
The satire wasn't that distant from reality and at times it could be uncomfortable to watch because of how real it was.

Then in 2022 a CEO posts a picture of himself crying for firing employees which might have been off taste and break the feel of realism in the show. I can kind of imagine Russ Hanneman posting a crying selfie then Gilfoyle and Dinesh making fun of it but that would still look like a caricature.
I think that's probably true of lots of masters of crafts, sometimes you have a gut feeling and don't even remember the formative moments that created the conclusion haha
This article made a false statement

> the gateway is in full control and can inspect and tamper with the data as much as it likes. And there is no way for the client to know or detect if it is happening.

Regarding data tampering;

IPFS uses content based addressing, the point is that the client _can_ know by computing a message digest of the incoming data. The verification is fast and cheap.
Zimbabwe for one thing has a less developed economy. It has no demand for it”s currency.

People hypothesize about the decline of the dollar but the question is, what replaces it? There are serious agency problem inside the Euro zone and who trusts China? There is nowhere near enough gold in the world to support a modern economy.
They still exist in rules engines. Plenty of bullshitty “AI” features are more like expert systems.
Are you actually familiar with Russia (or just the Reddit/Twitter depiction of Russia)?

For one, Russia has a lower prison population than the USA. And that's even with some absolutely ridiculous and archaic laws.

Russian consumer and tech companies are on par or in many cases, surpass the US. Yandex Taxi (and their other services), Ozon, Wildberries, Kusvil (grocery), banking mobile apps, shipping/logistics services - these are just some examples.
> I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs.

I don't agree. There's not one "need" for the internet. The internet, as any technology, enables use cases by being more flexible. Enabling the money feature for the internet will lead to more use cases.

> This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it.

Looking at how big open source is today, or content sharing (youtube, blogs, etc.), I don't think I can agree with you
> whining

We workers are bombarded consistently with whining about estate taxes, carry interest and that sort of thing. Actually the recent senate bill was held up over the fight over carried interest, a fight which was won by the funds.

However when the workers who create all the wealth press for their interests, it is "whining".

Insofar as the afterwards, to quote Malcolm X "anywhere is better than here".
The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs
> all blockchain transactions are taxable events

Far from it, actually.

> the IRS will know your address

How easy it is to get caught if you neglect it is orthogonal to if it's required or not.
Cell towers already provide internet to everyone in downtown SF and have for 20 years. Just because you aren't using your PC with it normally doesn't mean it doesn't count.

Wireless is always cheaper than wired for an equivalent coverage area. It just requires less physical infrastructure. But in almost every other way it has inferior performance.
Disney’s Streaming Services Just Passed Netflix in Total Subscribers
Forbidden files – Files that cannot be created on windows
Nope. Wrong. The economy of scale works also for electricity. We don't have subsidized electricity. The other way around we had additional premiums to pay for green energy. That got yanked and is now paid by the general taxes.
For some reason, the "Death - Sound of perseverance" album works great with Freeciv.
Not really. That’s the theoretical microeconomics approach if all kWh were “rebid” instantaneously. In fact, wholesale distributors can dampen the cost by diversifying in time (with contracts), location (by distribution) and cost (different plants).
Do you think that just because something is not regularly done, that automatically means it is bad or not feasible? Relatedly, do you think the fact that our culture has somewhat of a focus on individual economic success and the accumulation of power might have something to do with the fact that co-operatives are not at the forefront of our radar?
This is propably the biggest missrepresentation of TPS I have read in a while.
There isn’t an official safe exposure amount for lead [1].

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poison...
Here's Bret explaining it on Joe Rogan's show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-st73zhZL3A

Benjamin Boyce (he was an Evergreen student at the time) did a much broader scope documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAJ-7t4QOo&list=PLRdayXEOwu...
Marking to market yields 1 truth:

6. The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media.

and 2 competitors for the "aged like milk" title:

24. Bombastic boasts —We are positioned to become the preeminent provider of XYZ— do not constitute a position.

74. We are immune to advertising. Just forget it.
Your wishes are worth zero.

- Would you be willing to oppose corporations controlling the government with bribes/campaign contributions?
- Support a judicial system where poorer people can access justice?
- Tell your representatives that wage theft should be punished as seriously as theft and fraud?
Good that you bring this up. Other comments here do not seem to be aware that this study is only saying one type of just world believers are likely to be dishonest.

Others here seem to think all just world believers are likely to be dishonest.

Just because you think the world is unjust doesn't mean you are likely to be honest.

What matters is what you think about others. Do you think other people are living in a just world? e.g. do you think homeless people are mostly drug addicts? If you do then it is very likely you are a dishonest person.
1. The Hetzner article is about future prices

2. Supply and demand
If you're letting a little thing like "getting murdered" stop you from unionizing, I have to question your commitment in the first place.
I like it: no cookie banner, seems to have no tracking or advertising, fast, no superfluous images, RSS feed, no annoying navigation-by-hover. Great job!

Ideas to make it even better:

This is more an issue of server architecture rather than design, but it’s better not to have .php or other endings (like .html) on your URLs. That way you can, in the future, change the server technology that you use without changing the URLs. Use redirects or something to let you expose simple URLs without filetype endings.

Replace the hamburger menu icon with a word, or, better, eliminate the extra click by exposing the navigation on the page.
Cotton too no? (and maybe rice if the field is reused) Or was that just elemental arsenic.
Cool, that seems fair. As you describe it, either washer should work. I still hate the avocado one, but I hate the laundromat even more. I can build alignment around this.

If only they were all that way.

If someone tells me their blender is the best washing machine, this may turn into a painful conversation. A long one. Possibly an embarrassing one. But I’m here for it. That’s a fucking blender, and I’m not going to call it a washing machine even if that’s the last decision I make here.

It would be great if all of these situations were as sane as picking between two valid options. Sometimes there’s a valid one, and, well, pick your expletives for the other one.

In software this happens a lot. Entire teams spinning plates because someone confused authority with experience.
Is there any example of using color chirps(?) in mainstream use? Interesting concept.
Making an interactive CSS avatar editor with zero lines of JavaScript
Agreed. I love my kobo’s form factor, but the glitchiness is frustrating. For me, the inaccuracy of the Aura HD’s touch recognition is what causes the most headaches.
This is where Europe labelling and certification make more sense. L, M , H and H asbestos. Having a HEPA filter is like saying your clothes is 100% polyester, doesn't really say anything useful.
> 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.

I share this sentiment, but mostly because of the incredible total conversion mods. "Fall From Heaven 2" is still my favorite fantasy strategy game, even compared to other strong contenders like Endless Legend.
It effects the futures which effects any fixed price contract they might want to try and negotiate. Going for spot price is very risky at the moment with what winter is looking like to be.

Also there are the 4 existing reactors that are running just fine at the moment. (at this moment production is over 25% nuclear)
Good luck. I'm sure you'll get your revolution any day now.
I've learned recently at my new job that ePubs are just a giant zip file of html, css, etc. Sometimes you need to rezip them if they are not working quite right and I imagine that is what converting them from ePub to ePub is doing.