skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Means of production, for Marx, means any instrument which builds something other than the user who uses it. If I use a walking stick to walk, it is not means of production because the object is building my ability to move. Neither if I use a house for living. But if the house is mine and I rent it, then it is not building my subsistence, it is building rent.

Even Marx agreed that people have access to some means of production: the carpenter owns the hammer. However, after capitalist development, the major means of productions that produce the majority of wealth (like the industries that produce most GDP for a country) are indeed outside the reach of most people and this creates a division between people who gets money because they labor and people who gets money because they own capital and relevant means of production.
I was in a class on geoengineering that had it's last in person session as the coronavirus was closing in on our campus and I was saying that the coronavirus was a fire drill for global governance and would be a test of our ability to react to bigger problems like climate change.

What I found remarkable back then was that governments were taking very strong measures against the coronavirus and not getting a lot of resistance from the population unlike the situation with global warming where an elaborate system had been built up over 40 years to prevent action.

Conspiracy theories and populist resistance took a little while to develop and certain people are in an inflamed state where something like 15 minute cities or efforts to replace gas stoves will now see an intense counterattack within two weeks or less, making our situation for global governance a lot worse than it was in 2020.

It makes the issues that Habermas talks about in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book)

more salient than ever and making it quite critical that governments make legitimacy an important goal, maybe even creating a "department of legitimacy" which could quite directly pay dividends.
Curious what makes you feel that way about the future? I ask because on countless objective measures, mankind is better off now than at any time in history. What am I missing?

Granted, we've got problems ecological, social, demographic, and so forth. But these don't seem to be greater than the problems we've overcome in the past.
The subsidy here is the difference between the regular bank interest and the actual interest. Likely in single digit millions
You could always send the busboy to the grocery store to pick up a few gallons if you run short.

When you do big parties like that you don't just randomly distribute servings. I'd have the overfull, 100% real, ten minute old OJ for the guy with the really particular request and could end up serving sunny delight to the cheap seats. To serve 700 people a drink takes a considerable amount of time in and of itself so you have more breathing room than you expect.

This is really common. When you do a wedding the bride and grooms table gets the best looking portions you have, the table next to the bathroom isn't so lucky.
The best Michael Jackson interpreter in a town of 50,000 could do better than this. It’s… this is bad.
Also, realized "needed full emoji support" sounds silly. It needed to do a lot of string manipulation, with extended grapheme clusters in mind, mainly for the purpose of emojis.
i think the solution here is to limit the number of students per field as needed. funding should absolutely be used to direct education towards the needs of society. we do need artists, sociologists and historians as well, but not as much as educators, doctors, etc. funding should reflect that.
kagi.com and even run-by-a-single-Swede-from his-living-room search.marginalia.nu keeps proving on a daily basis that many of the snags in modern Google is totally avoidable.
Some systems & software treats rendering of spaces/whitespace as a special case. Can lead to messed up rendering.

IRC clients in particular were notorious for collapsing spaces

That said, I found it wasn’t super common until it was used on the web more, with htmls collapsing spaces.
I think using characters to make pictures started with teletype machines - maybe even on typewriters! It was common with ham operators in the 60s (RTTY & Teletype machines) and it surely must have been popular before that.

On the IBM 1401 (1959) "Edith" is legendary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtlrITxB5qg
The only person whose books were burned by the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Americans!

Not much by way of past threads, but he sometimes pops up in HN comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

There was a documentary not too long ago: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wr1897. Has anyone seen it?

Kate Bush's lovely "Cloudbusting" is about Reich, based on the book his son wrote about driving around the Maine countryside with WR and his cloudbusting machine. Donald Sutherland plays Reich in the video, and Kate the son. The book is seen sticking out of her pocket in one frame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

"I still dream of Orgonon..."

The woman who preserved Reich's estate for 60 years, Mary Boyd Higgins, was remarkable in her own right: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/obituaries/mary-boyd-higg... (https://web.archive.org/web/20190124065725/https://www.nytim...).
I got my first x86 PC in August 1994. It came with a 2X CD-ROM drive with the brand new ATAPI / IDE interface. I wanted to install Linux from CD but it was too new to have Linux support so I ended up using 10 floppies to install each Slackware disk set, back to the computer lab for the next set, and repeat.
The B.C. lumberjacks who set out to build a hybrid electric logging truck
I reckon the burden of proof lies with those making the accusations! How can the claims be disputed when their evidence isn't even put forward in the first place?
Behavior that depends on whether you edited something else in between, or that depends on timing, is just bad. Either always backspace grapheme clusters, or else backspace characters, possibly NFC-normalized. I could also imagine having something like Shift+Backspace to backspace NFKD-normalized characters when normal Backspace deletes grapheme clusters.

As for selection and cursor movement, grapheme clusters would seem to be the correct choice. Same for Delete. An editor may also support an “exploded” view of separate characters (like WordPerfect Reveal Codes) where you manipulate individual characters.
ACEP is not one of the "early" ones, it's actually one of the latest ones!
I agree. The "x words over y music" can be fun, but isn't really impressive as a true genre parody.

The one that always comes to mind for me is this video of an Eminem interview done from scratch as a Talking Heads song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg

This is potentially something that generative AI could be good at doing (at least recreating vocals), but this parody of the Talking Heads required a lot of very clever insight into what made a good Talking Heads song and returned a convincing and novel melody. And I think we are still a ways off.
Well, in theory it's infinite, but in reality it's not of course.

We've got 150K assigned codepoints assigned, leaving us with 950K unassigned codepoints. There's truly massive amounts of headroom.

To be honest I think this argument is rather too abstract to be of any real use: if it's a theoretical problem that will never occur in reality then all I can say is: <shrug-emoji>.

But like I said: I'm not "against" combining marks, purely in principle it's probably better, I'm mostly against two systems co-existing. In reality it's too late to change the world to decomposed (for Latin, Cyrillic, some others) because most text already is pre-composed, so we should go full-in on pre-composed for those. With our 950k unassigned codepoints we've got space for literally thousands of years to come.

Also this is a problem that's inherent in computers: on paper you can write anything, but computers necessarily restrict that creativity. If I want to propose something like a "%" mark on top of the "e" to indicate, I don't know, something, then I can't do that regardless of whether combining characters are used, never mind entirely new characters or marks. Unicode won't add it until it sees usage, so this gives us a bit of a catch-22 with the only option being mucking about with special fonts that use private-use (hoping it won't conflict with something else).
Bad faith? Windows defender flags KMS Tools as a malware trojan.
Commenting because I want Kiwix to be more visible: it's making having copies of Wikipedia, StackOverflow and various other Wikis and books offline quite easy: https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
It's CC BY-SA-4.0. Anyone got a torrent?
I guess the text was generated by an LLM :)
> Can I open a bug report somewhere?

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=status:open
Why are you so invested in saying people "abuse" WFH? You've made several comments in this thread stating as such.

What is your definition of abusing WFH?

How much time do you think a person should work each week?
> Apple is nearing 3 billion dollar valuation.

I think you mean "trillion" there?
I'm not saying it doesn't exist but I have no doubt we're going to see fewer people seeking a fibromyalgia diagnosis over the next decade.

There are certainly post viral complications like ards but we already have names for those things.
Most countries haven't made it the corner stone of their economy.
not so convenient for "a box you plug into some speakers"
> 2015-2019 average baseline.

Many European countries have an ageing population, and thus the number of yearly deaths increase year to year. For example Finland in 2010–2019 had about 0.8% increase in yearly deaths every year. If the deaths followed this model and thus there was absolutely no excess mortality (and no random variation), the simple method you cite would compare 2020, 2021 and 2022 to the average of 2015–2019, and would estimate 2.4%, 3.2% and 4.0% excess mortality for years 2020, 2021, 2022 for Finland.

Whereas Sweden doesn't have an ageing population structure, due to lots of immigration in the past 20 years. And Sweden didn't have an increasing trend in yearly deaths in 2010–2019.

This simple method overestimates the excess mortality for many countries, if they have an ageing population structure. Then you end up comparing overestimated values to Sweden's value that it not overestimated.
> Some government agency wants your data and they are cloaking themselves in this noble cause to get it.

Some groups probably want the ability to take down politicians by hacking their phones and getting them thrown in jail for CSAM.
For those who don't know, David in his early years worked with Bill Gates and Paul Allen at MITS (creator of the Altair early kit PC) in New Mexico. I believe David was head of marketing or somesuch. (If you've ever seen the mugshot of young Bill Gates, it dates to his New Mexico days.) He maintained lines of communication to Bill throughout his life - that relationship at MITS was basically a microcosm of how he would work with the tech industry, evangelizing for, and fleshing out the possibilities in, early personal computing tech. (Although his magazines were not mere marketing outlets, they could be quite critical when warranted).

In addition to the above named publications David also ran Upside magazine (and its lively and cheeky website UpsideToday) for many years — relevant to HN as it ran some of the first big features on VC firms (with no small amount of critique/lampooning) like Kleiner Perkins.

I'm eager to dig into these and learn David's perspective on the mid 80s tech industry.
It sounds to me that the two events have only a very weak relation, if they are really related at all... the article seems to confirm this also:

> Llewellyn was named CEO of the bank in late 2020 in a move that made her the first female CEO ever of a major Canadian lender. She was tasked with implementing a three-year turnaround at the company, but it hasn't gone according to plan.
I am commenting because CNN portraits this as something negative when it comes to China.

When in fact, it's fairly normal situation almost anywhere in the world.
I like to read with my eyes, not listen. I honestly have no idea how long an audio book is, hours-wise.

I've seen a few for download, and they're always like hundreds of meg, if not over a gig. And that's in mp3, where it should be compressed heavily.
as someone involved in this project, we really, really don't. disease reporting is an absolute mess
> it's going to be traumatic for a 13 year old girl to discover her peers are passing around fake nudes of her. This shit needs to be illegal.

This scenario is very much illegal in the US. The bar to clear is photorealistic; if you Photoshop a kid's face onto a nude body, you have in fact produced child pornography. Possessing or distributing that image are also crimes.
How is the content quality ?
Noticed the same on Amazon. Searched for Honey Oat Crunch. The first result was honey, then nestle crunch bars. The third result was the Whole Foods brand cereal. Had to click on that listing, scroll to the bottom, scroll through 3 carousels of other products to find the Cascadian Farms brand I wanted.

Then I tried buying the lower priced Whole Foods brand and it had a limit of 3 and a $9.99 delivery fee which offset any savings. Do I drive there to buy it? Is the price the same in store?

At that point, screw it, not going to buy it at all. Too much work just to find what I want. Customer obsession is dead at Amazon.
When I work from home, I watch 8 hours of Twitch and get 0 work done. When I work from the office, I watch 0 hours of Twitch and get 8 hours of work done. I simply don't have the self-control to effectively work from home. That's all the data I need.
It's a weapons component in this case. I'll remind you everyone exporting night vision equipment to Ukraine is violating export control laws..enforced or not
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> Which brings us to mRNA vaccines and the "evidence" of them being unsafe.

Who said anything about that? Wrong thread maybe?
Digital cemeteries... have these been explored very well in any sci-fi? Robin Williams' Final Cut doesn't seem particularly apt. In general what I can think of treats the memories/impressions of the deceased as personal or among family/friends, whereas social media is all effectively public.
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm definitely in favor of free colleges, even if it means a slight lowering of entry-level jobs that require a degree. It would lower wealth inequality by allowing upward mobility by the poor.
When you do it at the scale described, and make real estate market with large bubbles the corner stone of your economy, you get a unique situation than cannot just be explained away with "other countries do this too"
You can see the Pleiades with the naked eye.
I don't know much about statuses pages, I just check them to see if the services I use are having an issue. It's the first time I read about "synthetic monitoring", and from a quick Google search, it seems to referring to "automatic monitoring". A bsic versino of this would be to do a ping to see if the server is responding, or a HTTP request to see if it's returning a 200 status code.

However, if I read your comment carefully, you are suggesting to provide an alternative where the company (owner) could decide manually when a system is down or up. If that's the case, wouldn't the status page be just a page template where someone logs into a panel and toggle a button to say "down" or "up" and post updates? If there is no automatic monitoring, the service would look more like a blog/tumblr/twitter than anything else.

Or probably I am missing something because of my lack of experience and I am curious, I'd like to know!
The tiktoks look better when you can lean back and get the empty handlebars in the shot, it gives a framing device to make the shot look authentic.

(i don't actually do tiktok, but here's an insta reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv5UZvpMhSt/?igshid=MWZjMTM2O... )
Giving a handout is not the same thing as taking one, so it's really not hypocritical to take a handout while believing the handout should not exist.

For example, someone could be opposed to student loan debt forgiveness in principle, but that same person would probably not rip up their check.
i think the problem here is the low quality of education before college and the lack of alternative forms of education. (on the job training, apprenticeships). improving that should reduce the demand for college degrees.
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Absolutely wild to take a discussion about "Return to Office" and pivot to soldiers in battle. Solid B for trolling. Would be A-caliber except effective militaries write a lot and use written words as a key part of their command and control. (I will escalate your "soldiers in battle" and ask whether you think launch command on a nuclear submarine would launch nuclear missiles solely on the basis of a quick call?)
"active rejection of elitism". Not really. In US 'elite' means money wealth, whereas in historical Europe 'elite' means martial nobility. Anecdata: the very concept of 'legacy admission' is overtly classist, and simply does not exist in continental Europe. US is very much elitist, it's just that its manifestation of elitism is less obvious to the unsuspecting eye.
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> there's 98 combinations to choose from here.

Less than that since a default skin color can be set in most apps. I'm sure setting a gender will come soon so the entire first part of that emoji can be auto-guessed. Then its just showing the other options in the UI. Really all of this is UI design as even with the 98 combinations you can still display it as 4/5 options you drill down.

> who finds it convenient to pick all the correct genders and skin tones from the UI for both people?

I just checked and searching "kissing" in my iOS emoji keyboard inside Messenger showed just 4 of the emoji's your describing - defaulting both skin tones to my settings and then the four M/F pair ups. Plus some non-related kissing emojis like the cat kissing.
> No need for citations, the compiler keeps them honest.

But in ldj[...]s preferred future Google is dead and when they are and Microsofts AI only gives you the answers and not the sources they can just keep cranking the prices and there is nothing one can do since you'll never know were they got it.
Sometimes I’ll watch a movie with voiceover work, where some character has a very specific accent, and I’ll be watching along for twenty minutes and the VA will let slip just a couple syllables of their real voice and my ears will prick up and I’ll think, hey I know this guy. Isn’t that… oh the guy from the thing. From <wrong movie>, no wait I mean <other movie>? Yes, it is.

That’s what this sounds like. Five syllables of Michael Jackson while he’s trying to be Action Hero or Big Villain, or Funny Sidekick (a problem Eddie Murphy has never had, all evidence from Coming to America notwithstanding).
Fascinating, even poetic, that DALLE-3 imagined a simple vista with a sign that reads "Error establishing a database connection." It's almost as if AIs imagine a dystopian future where humans are cut off from the very networks they created.

Oh nevermind the site is down. We're okay!
Simultaneously I wish some of the people on your side (or the side you're advocating for here, anyway) didn't spend so much energy insulting those of us who wanted to put in a good faith effort not to exacerbate a community-level problem, and actively tried to provoke our anxiety and anger. Granted, that's probably difficult when you feel you're on the defensive. But I think that defensiveness goes both ways, which may partially explain how your side was mistreated. In principle I wanted your arguments to get a fair hearing, particularly on considering the costs of the measures. What made me most defensive is when there was a valid counterpoint to my own ideas, coming from some of the most vile, sadistic people.
Yeah I honestly think that something like that is going on here.