skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually agree with you that it's just a different political opinion, and I had meant to convey it in a neutral way here. Both Mr. Harai and many nationalists seem to agree that the decentralization of power is important, but they disagree on how best to accomplish it. I also agree that centralized power is a growing threat, and I think that if we want to make progress in reducing potential harms, we should focus on effective solutions together.

Personally, I'm skeptical that centralized regulation is a long-term solution, and I think that we need more free and open source hardware and software or at least trustworthy technology that can be independently audited to verify that it protects the interests for individual owners rather than serving at the pleasure of someone else. I think most major technology companies, regardless of current policies, acknowledge that there is an increasing need for accountability and that people are beginning to distrust technology monetized by harvesting data and directing behavior.
The gradual return of self-hosting and federated data networks (as evidenced by a top-ranking submission today about a federated blog platform) is where I put much of my hope in countering this doomsday scenario.

I feel the natural modern protest action is to starve ravenous information collectors as much as feasible. But as with others in the self-hosting movement, I've always been part of it, haven't stopped hosting the things I care about myself. Many of us never got into the habit of feeding the insatiable information machines. Why post photos to Facebook or Instagram when you can just put them on a web server; why involve a third party at all?

But the user interfaces of self-hosting and decentralization as a broader concept are way behind centralization. There's a lot of ground to cover. Still, I am happy to see gradual growth in interest. Gradually, even for novice self-hosters, it's going to get simpler to post photos onto that personal web server and let friends know where to find them without involving a data-hungry third party.
Show HN: Press Kite – Press kits for startups
I meant this as an honest question. Are there practical uses for this beyond "huh, that's interesting". I can't think of any, but I'm not knowledgeable on OS design, so I'm honestly asking the question.
Quite a few people have been talking about the MacBook being a good target to test out their own chip on before moving the entire line away from Intel.
Are these claims below true? I was under the impression that a in a franchisor - franchisee relationship, the franchisee owns the business, and they are paying the franchisor to use the brand according to whatever standards are agreed upon. But I've never heard of a franchisor being able to "take over" a business, or do payroll for a franchisee. I've only ever heard of a a franchisee having to stop using the franchisor's name and possibly paying some monetary penalties as defined in the franchising agreement, but what's described below sounds crazy.

> Store owners found in violation of immigration law could be in breach of their franchise agreements. And as they well know, 7-Eleven has the contractual right to take back a store from someone who’s violated his or her agreement.

>An accumulation of four breaches in two years can give the company cause to terminate an agreement and take over the store.

>Store owners are required to deposit all sales receipts into a 7-Eleven bank account. The corporate payroll department in Dallas reviews time sheets for each employee, deducts taxes, and sends workers their pay, sometimes on debit cards that don’t require a bank account. Franchisees’ earnings are deposited in their personal bank accounts.
As soon as Thunderbolt 3 is opened up I would rather have an EPYC 2 + Vega 7nm in the next Mac Pro.
Sad.

What would it take to create a bootstrapper community that doesn't attract hustlers.
Sometimes I wonder if a C++ without inheritance would be the right thing. All the crazy design abuses I have seen were around inheritance. Other things like auto and anonymous functions are just super useful and I wouldn't want to miss them.
> would not simply refuse to take part in such a senseless, destructive war as WWII, in the first place.

It's one thing to say you object to war, it's quite another be be a conscientious objector when the entire world is at war and the penalty for doing so is getting sent to a concentration camp or death[1] or being ostracized by your family and community[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrkraftzersetzung

2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/07/british-consci...
Malcolm X nailed one of the most salient features of democracy in his ballot or bullet speech.

All forms of government have periodic changes of power.

Democratic revolutions involve considerably less blood.

All forms of government are eventually subject to public backlash. Democracy is just generally less violent.
A 20% sample isn't bad by itself. Is the sample size sufficiently large? Unbiased?

One question is whether recoverability depends on the effect of the glycophosate.
Organic is the only route I know of to avoid it. Where did you find organic food with glyphosate?
Cloudflare launches Android and iOS apps for its 1.1.1.1 service
HAHAHAHAHAHA awesome
I wonder if having sponsors also lends legitimacy to these influencers. Before they were just someone with some followers, but now they have corporate recognition.
You can charge, or you can use a dongle for your USB key - but of course never both, unless you pay us $79 for the USB-A/VGA adaptor.

I used to love Apple, I really did.
This was amazing to read! Practical advice as well, loved it.
I concur. Some companies (look at ridesharing) have been fast and loose with these rules. Others go stricter towards both the spirit and letter of the law. And may times companies go through agencies (and Upwork) to avoid converting people. This isn’t a commentary of the justness of the laws - just that they exist. (The urban legend is they were founded over a MSFT janitor losing out on an IPO windfall.)

In this case, I suspect the client is aware of the constraints which is why they insist on having a middleman.

There are two sides to the morality of this, but I’m not sure Upwork is guilty of anything other than crappy communication. (All staffing agencies profit on the conversion)
Technologies of Control and Resistance: Making Sense of Our Stagnant Dynamism
Sounds like immigration is gonna be this generation's "War on Drugs"
Apparently jurors generally have a wrong understanding of how memory works.[0] Sometimes I feel like it isn't really a privilege to be judged by your peers.

[0] http://www.physics.smu.edu/scalise/P3333fa14/Eyewitness/Eyew...
Hey HN, we built Press Kite to provide a free and easy way for startups to build press kits for their company, no matter the size. Public relations is an expensive and slow moving field that looks very opaque from the outside looking in. We're building tools to help startups overcome those challenges.

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Let us know if you have any questions or feedback, thanks!
Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?
I’m interested to know how fellow software developers (freelancers, small businesses) estimate projects for clients.

Do you use any tools to come up with a quote?
Do you send a proposal document to clients?
If so, do you use a tool to generate one, or do you just use a template in a word processor?
What are your main pain points when quoting for work?

Cheers!
"Pushing a particular narrative" or generally having a point of view is not the same thing as advertising.

It's undeniable that there are biases and preferences in journalism, and that there's no such thing as a truly objective point of view. Journalism is made by humans.

But that's a fundamentally different argument than equating advertising with journalism. They aren't the same. Fact-checked reported journalism that attempts to be objective is fundamentally a different thing.

And it's also a factual statement to say that there is an organized effort to obscure this difference, and that this effort benefits specific groups.
I think so too. MySpace and Friendster already connected people and since the first version I don't think Gmail has improved much. Most current changes seem to be more about making products more addictive but not necessarily more useful.
Navigation-wise?
Love Bitwarden!
I know there are folks on here who will roll their eyes, but this kind of display is emblematic of a fascist government. Fascism is the bonding of state and corporate power, driven by nationalism, authoritarianism, and a (usually) charismatic leader.

For the record, I'm not a radical. I'm not even particularly partisan. I'm an average, middle-class American. But I've read enough history to know which way the wind is blowing in this country. I only hope we can come to our senses before it's truly too late.
AMA on Reddit please?
That's an interesting perspective. Why do you feel them invasive? I have the opposite perception as rovers have the risk of running over valuable plants. Maybe my perception is skewed by the fact that I am surrounded by ricefields and that wheels big enough to work in that muddy soil will basically destroy the field...
Monte carlo testing involving time series with R and MCHT
Not a lot of good solutions. Can't let everyone in. No one cares for merit based immigration like other countries (ie Canada) because pro-immigration supporters want others than the best to have a shot, and no one wants quotas because it'll clamp down on immigration from countries with large populations (China and India).
Same here. At first it was the unique "angle" that draw me. Then progressively it became repetitive.
Syndication is already there; this example from the demo instance might not survive for long, but it works right now: https://pencil.writefree.ly/foo/feed/
Kim Jong-Il and Me: How to Build a Cyber Army to Defeat the U.S. (2010)
Well, if you bully your CEO you're on the good path to getting fired immediately.
It has a place (I use to to communicate with my friends in China, rather than using WeChat) but it's clunky and delivery is unreliable even to people in countries without censorship. Sometimes messages take hours to arrive at the other side.
First-order and second-order effects of the World Wars
>I don't know why, but seeing "I’m really, really sorry" in a Post-mortem doesn't feel right.

Is there anything he could have said that would appease everyone? I think he is really stuck, and at least he took responsibility for what happened.

That seems rare these days, and even if his wording doesn't feel right, his words and the detailed explanation of their actions deserve a lot of respect.
The vast majority of societies all throughout history have not been what any person would consider "fair." Rebellions of the disadvantaged classes have happened, of course, but for the most part, the ruling classes have done fine.

You might reconsider whether an appeal to fairness versus naked pragmatism is the winning approach.
To me, it projects a deep sense of ownership and responsibility, which is right on.
I agree - it will be interesting to see what happens when other franchisee owned corps catch on - a lot of pizza, hamburger, and other fast food shops are filled with immigrant workers. Then there comes the hotels and casinos, and then things like cleaning companies. All employ large numbers of immigrants that if the govt were to raid could cause issues for. Until the US has a comprehensive immigration plan and a better way to verify legal working status corps will use this law as a way to take back from franchisees.
isn't there still a lot more hardening things to do, like moving payment out from vault.bitwarden.com, so that this domain can have a stronger CSP policy?

In other news:
my todo list now features an item to migrate lastpass -> bitwarden.

(I really love the effort here)
This is totally possible and not out of line with other agreements. I know of one agreement that requires the franchisee to pay corporate's legal fees if a lawsuit resulted from actions in the store.
For instance https://sustainablepulse.com/2018/09/05/bobs-red-mill-faces-...

During the search, I saw bobs had a supplier “pre-treating” fields with glyphosate prior to seeding.
The other half of this is correctly using the connection pool in the application layer to begin with.

One of the most common performance errors I see in random http applications is grabbing db connections for too long, like in middleware, or too aggressively in parallel queries.
I am a member of the learning community. I found great value in the transcripts of the Knowledge Project podcasts. The podcast is free but the transcripts are available to the learning community. My favourite recent podcast was with Tobi Lutke (CEO of Shopify) - https://fs.blog/tobi-lutke/. Other podcasts that were super interesting were with Robert Greene, Naval Ravikant and Venkatesh Rao.
The forum itself is interesting - there is a regular reading group which I really enjoy as well. It is expensive, but I think it is worth it (or am I simply a victim of the sunk cost fallacy?)..
No, it doesn't.

1. While getting telcos to fix their network so that QUIC works optimally might also need some work, it should be easier than for unencapsulated SCTP for the simple reason that (a) there is a relevant proportion of the network that already does work fine with it, so it is easier to blame the bad providers when things don't work so well with some provider that throttles UDP, say, and (b) in the case of simple UDP throttling, QUIC is in competition with VoIP and DNS, which could lead to degradation of those other services, which should increase the pressure to fix things. And in any case, you at least don't need to touch all CPE, only middle boxes within the infrastructure.

2. Probably more improtantly, SCTP is a plain text protocol, so getting it to work over telcos' networks does not help you at all the next time around when you want to evolve protocols. Once the work is done for QUIC, you won't have to do it ever again, because anything new that you could come up with is easily made indistinguishable from QUIC as far as the telco is concerned.
Bitwarden is the password manager that got my to finally start using a password manager with it's combination of full open source and good UI. I love that they are this security focused as well.
Sounds like corporate risk management is violent and dehumanizing. Maybe it's time for humane strategies for managing human systems?
The US was founded on immigration.

> Can't let everyone in.

Why not?
Cardiac – A cardboard illustrative aid to computation (Bell Labs 1968)
Because it breaks your economy and social fabric (super simplified for the sake of fitting a decent reply into one short HN comment). We're at the lowest level of unemployment in decades, and wages are barely moving up. Bringing in large amounts of unskilled workers (remember, skilled workers get in on merit) would only delay wages rising (or those unskilled workers are going to be working under the table in jobs like slaughter houses, dairy farms, and other hazardous work environments where they will have no recourse when they're injured or maimed). Some immigrants want to integrate with American society, but not all (and that is what is expected of you as an immigrant, to share and hold our values in the same regard citizens do).

Europe has had its fair share of troubles with economic migrants. This isn't about race, this is about economic systems and the social stability of your host country. I support an immigration pipeline that gets skilled workers into the US as fast as possible (most especially in the healthcare field), but that's not what's on the public policy table.
Yes this is very common. I know McDonalds and Chick-fil-a both have clauses that if their operators refuse to comply they can shut down and replace them. Usually the building/land the stores are located on are owned by HQ as well so they have options on that end to revoke leases if need be. I wouldn't be surprised if 7-11 has the same setup.
Which generation? This is being planned and executed by the same people that conducted (and failed) the war on drugs.
DevOps may finally help deliver the software automation we've been waiting for
It 100% depends on the exact terms of the contracts in question. There's no reason in principle this wouldn't be allowed, and 7-11 would be over-reaching like hell (and get shot down) if they tried it and the contracts didn't allow it, which leads me to believe they do.
I love this, it's like the unikernel of shell security.
Consider using GUIDs/UUIDs instead of integers. GUIDs are friendlier for replication, fake/mock data, and other reasons. The only situations where I'd recommend against using GUIDs is if total row size is a concern (GUIDs are usually larger on disk than integers) or if there is some legacy requirement to use them (e.g., an integration with a third-party).

Another thing I've done is use GUIDs for the primary key, then have an identity/sequence column called something like Sequence, which retains the sequencing capabilities of a regular integer identity column.
What happens if you have to draw for geeks
pretty sure that LCA and sustainability analysis might not mandatorily (word?) support this.
Mechanical processing needs a lot more passages and there is also a lot more soil resistance that has to be taken into account energy wise. If fossil fuels are used, climate change is a factor. mechanical processing also disturbs the soil, possibly destroying its natural balance. one really has to differentiate based on which chemical for which purpose shall be replaced by a mechanical method.
"This is a common misconception that cannot be backed up by the simplest mathematics."

Then you say...

"Further it was precisely the areas which were built up by slavery that were destroyed during the Civil War. Thus negating any advantage gained from slavery."

Sounds like you have a problem with the truth of any advantage provided to whites by the federal government. Typically folks like you say, "get over it next," but never is job interviews, just on message boards.

Probably fake news to you, but how were the advantages of free labor destroyed by the Civil War. Perhaps you take "built this country" literally and are a recent immigrant.

https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-eco...

Crap, just clicked on your previsions submissions and comments... Dude, I think you're a racist.
Efficient C++ Programming [slides]
Read it then with a open mind!
Migrant caravan presses on in Mexico
Python GUI Development with Tkinter: Part 3
I don't think the number of CCTV cameras is the only relevant metric...
Sure, the US populism of the late 1800's / early 1900's was this negative sort of populism, at least not in the main (there's always fringe elements of any group) But most populism movements of the last 100 years seem to be this authoritarian, scapegoating variety. I'd be quite happy with a benign populism that sought to raise the quality of life for the masses, but all I see are engines of fear being used to to aid in gaining power. I don't think we get there when both sides of the left/right divide are stuck in a "they want to destroy us" level of rhetoric.
Drowning your customers in choices – do they want it?
Samsung Folding Phone Is Insanely Expensive
Waste of time, waste of resources, inconvenient, intrusive - chips can be more easily removed than fingerprints.
China debuts virtual news anchor with AI – Science and Technology – Sott.net
I'm definitely not asking for consumer electronics to have a "good consumer API" or support for being hacked on. It'd just be nice if there were slightly better notes on what those slapdash protocols were.

Often I find this documentation already exists (for internal use), but just isn't shared publicly. For instance, Insteon smarthome devices have stopped publishing new developer docs for their hardware, but they do have them internally and on rare occasion I've gotten someone to share one.
> But that point is not relevant to the post you replied to

Yes it is. Remember:

>>> So is it possible some people don't really need fish oil for well-being? Evolution might have rendered eating fish useless for these people.

> But people with agendas lying on their blogs or youtube isn't truth. Pretending carnivores are omnivores and then saying "look we're not like omnivores" is just deliberate dishonesty.

Yes we can it fresh meat and digest it. Even cows can digest milk and meat to some degree; remember the mad cow disease.

The human body works best with vegan food as main food or only vegan food in 2018 with modern vitamin supplements. This is a fact.

Regarding vitamin B12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cavI_FnIrh4 and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TLzNi5fYd-Tyz9vI6Q2...

I am sure you have not watched the videos because otherwise your would reply differently.

Again, human physiology that you can not deny or call a lie:

https://livinontheveg.com/omnivore-or-herbivore/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXj76A9hI-o

By far most humans do not like and do not eat raw meat.

Most humans do not even like predigested meat in the form of cooked meat or grilled meat without further additions like salt and spices and other plant based food for the taste.
> money paid doesn't stay in the local economy

If the money was all invested in the local real estate marked you'd also complain :)

> artificially pushing down local market rates

In a market where the median salary is 130k, maybe it's good for the economy -- more than it hurts people.
This isn't true either. https://github.com/jcs/endless
I've seen that too, but that's also just monetary penalties. From the agreements I've seen for hotels, there was never any equity involved, and the franchisor definitely didn't want anything to do with payroll. In fact, being shielded from that kind of liability is one of the perks of being a franchisor, so it's very surprising that 7-Eleven would even want to be a part of that. I can see wanting to track sales and whatnot so they can verify that they're getting their cut, but I see no benefit to 7-Eleven corporate to getting involved with the staffing, it's not like their royalties would be effected. And they would get to put all the blame on the franchisee when problems like this occur.
It also isn't available outside iOS, so it's not even in the same league.
The title is crafted so salaciously as to make victims of the real criminals: SMB owners deliberately hiring illegal immigrants because they are easily exploitable. Some of the franchisees were literally stealing money from their hires. I don’t see why we should be lamenting people who abuse and prey on others because of their immigration status.
It's not that 7-Eleven franchisees are being investigate for hiring illegal immigrants, it's that the corporate office might be using this as a way to intimidate franchise owners it doesn't like.

'Still, franchisees, after years of conflict with the company, went from suspicious to paranoid when word spread that ICE had shown up at stores run by men and women who were in legal disputes with 7-Eleven or were prominent critics of [CEO Joseph ] DePinto.'
TL;DR:

Repl.it member (amasad, see note) wants to promote Repl.it by saying that more people are using Repl.it and thus it is the modern stuff because modern is having "no IDE, just a modern repl" and etc. So "modern, 2018" is basically having what Lisp developers have had since the early '80s.

* https://repl.it/site/about