skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which flies in the face of population growth and is also sociologically injust in the long term since it's rich people who are trending towards having more children (and also the privileged in more subtle ways:

https://medium.com/makingofamillionaire/rich-families-are-ha...

The source in that article doesn't show a complete reversal of the old trend yet but bear in mind that I think the level of privilege of parents compared to non-parents will be systematically underestimated because we're looking at income (which will both be reduced by having children, and I'm guessing being income-oriented correlates negatively with /wanting/ children so they've probably converted their privilege into other forms). They will also on average have all the forms of privilege which makes you an attractive partner with the time to have kids: looks, background of wealth, easy job.

I think we should very clearly distinguish things that benefit primarily children=everyone, and parents=the privileged.

For example, education directly benefits children and society but time off and tax breaks for parents is more of a benefit to them, the already privileged.

Someone will probably post a reply that we "need" children for pensions but that's kind of a misconception. You can run a pension system where each generation puts money into a pot and gets it back later, the truth is just that we've chosen not to. Basically if there's ever a pot of money government will find a way to spend it, so now we have this weird system where instead of each generation's pensions being self-contained they're offset by one generation. It's a political problem and bad choices rather than some rule of nature.
> Or, perhaps, this is part of the same string of efforts supported by countries like Russia

Slightly related, but this morning I was reading a news story on a local website (I live in Eastern Europe, in a country that is a EU and NATO member) about the whole US budget debacle in the House Representatives, and the first (and until now only) comment was mentioning Ocasio Cortez (D) in a derogatory manner, even though she had not been named in said article at all and people around this part of the world don't have the slightest clue of who she is.

Sure enough, I soon found a recent article about Ocasio Cortez on the (in)famous sputniknews.com website where she was criticized for I don't know exactly what (I'm not going to link it here, don't want to give them the traffic) and then it all made sense, it looks like the Russian shill accounts have a new target now. In other words the hybrid and propaganda war is indeed real.
Freelancers generally charge higher rates than employees because you don't get benefits, don't usually work 40 billable hours a week, have to do a number of the things your boss was doing behind the scenes, and have to pay the taxes that your employer was paying (self employment tax). If you want some specific numbers, I started out charging $50 an hour when I was right out of college. Then I raised it to $70, then $90 after 3 years. I just recently got $125 an hour for the first time after 8 years.

But I've never been an employee, and I'd count any time you spend at a company as years of experience.

In general my thoughts on rate:

$10/hr - you need to be told exactly what to do
$25/hr - some self-direction, you can do some things yourself
$50/hr - you are inexperienced, but can get things done on your own
$70/hr - you have middle experience and can usually get things done on your own
$100/hr - you are a professional and can get things done on your own and figure things out on your own. You actively take away stress from the client instead of adding to it.

If you think that in this job you can in your professional experience do everything your colleague wants (and it sounds like you can and have years of experience), I'd say that your rate is now $100/hr. If you want to charge by the project, for now just estimate how many hours you think it'll take and multiply that by $100. Add a multiplier based on how much uncertainty you think there is in the project.

If those 25 days are 5 hours of work each, $100/hr * 5 * 25 = $12,500. Let's round that up to $15,000 because if you are anything like me, your estimate is probably a best case scenario. Adjust the numbers for your situation.

But, if you've been an employee and a consumer your whole life/career, you may be surprised at just how much money flows through an established business. Numbers you might be very uncomfortable charging for may be completely reasonable. From what I've seen, $100/hr is completely reasonable for a competent professional freelancer.

And the fun part is, the higher your rate (to a point) actually increases your credibility in the eyes of the client. I once actually had someone say to me after I recommended a freelancer to him, "Is this person you recommended not any good? His rate is only $60/hr." Ha!

Charge more, especially in a B2B context. Happy to discuss this with your further, my email's in my profile.
UKIP had a well published agenda (leaving the EU being the most prominent item).

AfD avoids making any commitment on what they really want to do[0], they only proclaim that everybody else sucks. They'd be a pretty sorry bunch if they'd end up having to govern.

[0] and I doubt that there's any coherent agenda to that end. At the time where they have to agree on something, I expect a huge fall-out between the camps within the party.
The Bear Brook Podcast from NH Public Radio covers an early case solved via family tree forensics. An excellent listen.
https://www.bearbrookpodcast.com
I wish usb headphone only cable can support analog input via a passive dongle
Might be a weird wish for the USB Type-C spec, but it would really be good if there was a way to add to the specification for a "reverse" audio accessory mode.

What this will look like is a passive adaptor with a male TRRS plug and a female USB type-c plug.

This will encourage the adoption of USB type-c plug to replace the audio adaptor entirely.

How this could work is via using the same audio adaptor accessory pinout, but where the DAC audio chip if not powered, would act as an analog pass though for these signals. This can be possible if we used internal mosfets to disconnect the pass-though on usb power input.

Audio Accessory Mode Pinout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Audio_Adapter_Accessory_Mode_2
Crop plants and livestock animals are already pretty much unable to survive in the wild, outside of farms. So the "overfitting" is as old as farming.
Do you believe in being seen (hi-viz vest/colors), or being heard (loud pipes)?
> Most protein powder is crazy overpriced. I found Myprotein Impact and Cytosport are 60-50g protein per dollar.

But according to your numbers, that's better than eggs, chicken breast, milk, pork, eggs, ground beef, and tilapia.
There are always good technical reasons to rewrite things but the reason quoted by the parent i.e. devs not “feeling” ownership and won’t work on code wholeheartedly unless it’s their code - those reasons are evil.
> Especially considering the hack only targeted left-wing people

1) not true, FDP and CDU are certainly not left-wing

2) even if it were true, would it be more ethical to hack right-wingers?

The current speculation indicates no political leaning whatsoever (apart from one password of one leak for one socialist politician was "linkenshit" which could be either neutral, positive or negative).

Considering the age of the leaked data, it is speculated that during the time of gathering data, the AfD was not part of the targeted parliaments.
Testing Flex Glue, JB Weld, Gorilla and Loctite to Destruction
My issue is I'm extremely productive on weed.

I hate alcohol, but weed makes my life, and everyone elses lives better(I run a consumer website).

During my month off weed, I pretty much only wanted to relax and play video games.

It seems to benefit, which makes it addicting.
> median household income

Not median per person for the whole population including non-residents in the country.
I don't know if this is the doing of the Russian government, but it certainly sounds like the kind of thing they'd do.
"Also, that’s still was a time when some people still thought shopping online meant their credit card number was more likely to be stolen somehow."

Perhaps they were wiser than we thought given all the data/security breaches in the past few years.
Thats cool! Any reason you do it in multiple distinct chunks vs mutating a single chunk?

I'm assuming the time required to store and request a massive blob gets excessive at some point, but were there any other reasons?
God, this is like the best webpage in the internet. Thanks a lot!
I think Brad Frost made it clear at the beginning of his fluff piece that he agrees with everything Heydon Pickering wrote.

> I have about 3 blog post drafts covering similar ground and apparently we see very much eye-to-eye on this
By curious conincidence, UKIP also got 12.6% of the UK vote in 2015, so the point still stands.
> Chicken Breast and Milk(likely because its government subsidized) are around 50g protein/$.

This might be about the feed conversion ratio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio

US chickens need 1.6 g of feed per g of mass; cows, pigs, and sheep don't get much better than 4 g of feed per g of mass.
TED talks have been coopted into a promotional venue for 'clever people'.

It's an advertising platform aimed at a certain demographic: people who like science and tech and just so explanations for things.

I did however enjoy Rodney Mullen's talk immensely: https://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_mullen_pop_an_ollie_and_inn...
He threatened to shut down stardock before he'd be forced to change his personality (he claimed it wasn't sexual harrasment, 'just how I am').
Show HN: resvg – a better SVG rendering library
resvg [1] is an SVG rendering library that aims to replace librsvg and QtSvg. It supports multiple backends and designed for edge-cases. It doesn't support all SVG features yet, but it's already has the best support for edge-cases [2].

In the latest release, I've added a Windows Explorer extension [3] which can be used to render SVG thumbnails via resvg. Previously, the only solution was to use SVG Viewer Extension for Windows Explorer [4] which use Qt4 SVG module, which is very primitive and outdated.

[1] https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg

[2] https://razrfalcon.github.io/resvg-test-suite/svg-support-ta...

[3] https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg/releases

[4] https://github.com/maphew/svg-explorer-extension
I also think that as a person of political interest, you should be as transparent as possible. There are some aspects of the whole story that this approach doesn't answer or fit into this narrative:

1) It seems, that these documents or a majoritiy of them are tied to the personal lifes of these people, not to the political institutions they are affiliated with.

2) There are non-political targets: journalists, show hosts, singer / rapper -- people affiliated with media in general.

3) Some of these published materials were photos and docs of family members, children etc. When they are made targets of this form of intelligence gathering, something seems horribly wrong. They become victims because their spouse / mother / whatever is pursuing a political career -- this is just wrong on so many levels.
This is exactly my thought process. Specailized frameworks - like Napster as specifically a song sharing platform in your example was successful because it coupled architecture with a real life usecase. Architect/Engineers see this and think a generic version is far supieror from a mechanical point. On paper, that is true (e.g. scaling or market reach) but it presents a viability-of-use problem that you end up constantly trying to adjust to the massive wide variety of usecases.
It's not true in Germany either though...
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TL;DR - Gorilla Contact Adhesive is awful, Loctite and Flex Glue are reasonable, but JB Weld two-part steel-reinforced epoxy outperforms them by an order of magnitude in most tests.

However, none of the glues could hold a cylinder head to a lawnmower engine for more than a couple of seconds while the engine was running!
Same thing. I wouldn't say I ever had a problem with alcohol, but even 1-2 drinks here or there do not line up with my life goals. I realized that even a single drink makes me feel not quite 100% the next day, and this effect has only increased as I've gotten older.

I do like beer and wine so I will have one on occasion. I found it makes them actually taste better, as I savor it now.

Some other side benefits is that it saves a TON of money, and I consume less calories. Alcohol is expensive, particularly in a bar or restaurant. Less calories is obvious.
An API is available, so you could theoretically write your own app to consume the API and style it as you wish.
> I mean, your homepage is pretty damn lacking

Do you honestly believe cybersecurity decisions should come down to how snazzy a homepage is, rather than a company's reputation?

> and you even put something like this without putting any sources

That article being discussed in this thread in particular quotes:

1. The opinions of other security experts

2. RFC 7515, section 4.1.1

3. The auth0 article about RS256/HS256 confusion

4. RFC 7518

5. The Adobe attack on ECDH-ES

What additional kind of sources do you need? The arguments should be sufficiently supported by the material available.

> This just looks like a poor attempt at making something 'better'.

By what metrics could we make this attempt less "poor"? What specific changes do you need to see?
Yup, that's exactly the plan.
A lot of this data seems like it's only interesting as a means of identity theft and not journalistically interesting. I don't think there's a meaningful transparency argument, and I think the downside of filtering for politicians able to deal with identity theft is a problem. (Think US politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose immediate prior job was in food service and didn't have enough salary history to rent an apartment in DC. The ability to ruin her personal credit would quite likely ruin her ability to serve her constituents, whereas richer politicians could survive it.)

It also filters against politicians with unrelated personal problems beyond their control. Maybe they have an abusive ex-spouse they divorced years ago. Do the details of the divorce need to be public? Maybe they have a family member in prison that they visit (San Francisco mayor London Breed's brother is in prison for murder, for instance). Given the state of our political discourse it will be very easy to attack politicians on the grounds that they have, or previously had, relationships with imperfect people, and those usually don't mean they'll use their office to help those people, or that their character is actually doubtful. And again it seems like it would unduly hurt those who come from backgrounds that aren't already the powerful class/group/ethnicity/whatever in the country.
Looks awesome! When I see those nebulas, I want to take my space shuttle and explore them ;-)

The controls could use some love.
A counter-example: in Portugal, Lenovo's support representative took my yoga 500 and replaced the motherboard for no cost. Don't remember the duration, maybe 1 or 2 weeks
> Emerging markets; China, India, Africa can still grow for Apple.

Indian market for Apple has been shrinking because of the ridiculous prices for Apple charges in India. Samsung, One Plus and others now dominate there.
European center-right, it would be very different on the American spectrum
The author is just trying to shoehorn his political ideology into a completely irrelevant topic to score social points with his friends and pat himself on the back. There is no need trying to find anything of substance here. He is hearing hoofs, and imagining zebras instead of horses.
Ah I never get the red line. It’s always so crowded :)
Casein is more expensive than whey though, right?

I love nuts and oats. My usual breakfast is porridge with banana and pecans - takes about 6 minutes to make with microwaving the porridge, and gets some good stuff in me first thing. Love nuts to snack on as well, but my sweet cravings just never go away no matter what I eat. It's annoying. At least polyols seem a reasonable substitute. Cue the 'polyols give you cancer' articles in 3,2..
- build an interface to the code to be changed

- make all code that uses said code use the interface instead

- build the feature switch into the interface
Writing code is hard, so there's nothing wrong with reading it being hard too. (I'm only half kidding).
One last (conflicting) note, is that the small business capital gains exemption on sale of shares in a Canadian owned business is a godsend.

https://financialpost.com/entrepreneur/plan-to-take-full-adv...

tl;Dr; 0% tax rate on selling shares up to $800,000 (+increasing with inflation). Terms and conditions apply - talk to an accountant.
>What if that legacy component was no longer in use? Is there some bigger picture in play?

Said legacy component was (and is) making a substantial chunk of the companies revenue.
Chinese phone maker Huawei punishes employees for iPhone tweet blunder
Using the Sinclair method you only take naltrexone when you drink (well just prior to drinking). Not at all times. It's not expensive and it works so so well. In Finland it is the first line treatment option for alcoholism and it's wildly successful.
which is, btw, why many Germans were so absolutely furious about the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal - not only was it bad for the environment, but also severely damaged said German reputation for integrity and probity. The fury against these cheaters is palpable.
Ingesting too large amounts of caffeine is almost certainly bad for you. It's a stimulant that increases your blood pressure and heart rate. You don't want to overdo that. It's also diuretic, if you substitute water for coffee (which some people do) it can actually lead to dehydration.

But yes, I agree to your larger point that coffee is less dangerous than alcohol.
Is this Xiaomi’s folding smartphone?
Samsung Australia does not sell batteries though, you have to replace it using their support center.
I'm not sure if this is satire or nonsense.

> ...women (and men) who feel their roles as front end devs are considered less...

> I didn't see it as a gendered issue until it was brought to my attention by female co-workers...

Female co-workers bringing an issue to your attention doesn't make it a gendered issue and you literally refer to it as a non-gendered issue, though parenthesising men.

As a full-stack JS dev, having come from a .NET background, through a pure frontend job, to a full-stack position, I regularly have to shoulder banter from Scala colleagues' (both male and female) snark at Javascript - primarily because it's existed for a long time and been a barely justifiable mess for most of that time.
When it gets tied into career progression,

I've come to the conclusion it's folly to pursue any one companies career progression maze. Because you get corralled into all sorts of sillyness like this; vying for projects with your peers, acrimonious code reviews, chasing silly metrics, etc. I find it's much more effective in time, money and title (and work life balance, and mental health) to simply switch jobs for the higher title.

In other words don't fall for the "work your ass off for a possible future bump in pay and title" game many companies play.
But we're making steps towards not doing so. Why give up?

This is like arguing for monarchy because democracy is a huge amount of time/effort and is imperfect anyway so why not save time. I've heard many bad arguments for monarchism as it happens, but none are quite so bad as "Why bother even trying to have good government?"
It's probably worth remembering that high-protein diets (remembering that western diets tend to already be quite high-protein to begin with) are a risk factor for kidney stones. Generally I'm predisposed to being quite skeptical of fad diets with extreme elements like focusing on one macro nutrient group almost to the exclusion of others.
For whatever it is worth, I personally perceived HTML and CSS as less then programming and primary artsy/aesthetic. It was not real to me and I did not seen HTML/CSS as equal achievement. I don't recall where and how exactly I picked that attitude, it was years ago. I picked it by osmosis as "of course" attitude along with other attitudes I was reconsidering lately.
> 2) even if it were true, would it be more ethical to hack right-wingers?

I guess the thinking is "it's targeted against one side, so probably look at the other to find the perp". Would be just as true with hacked right-wingers.

(and the corollary: "it's a flag-flag operation by the very same side, so look there", which also comes up no matter what side is affected)
I'm guessing the kids who actually paid their student loan debts didn't get any of their money back.
That's a pretty broad brush to paint all of religion with.

There are plenty of rational arguments for Christianity for those willing to do due diligence:

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/countering-a-dist...
Renewables Beat Coal in Germany Power Mix for First Time
No it's not? A typical bottle should be about 5 glasses + or - one depending on how you pour.
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There arent any details yet about how it was done.

Were the computers of the individuals targeted directly via spearphishing, or was it done by compromising iCloud,etc. directly or (id say most likely) password bruteforce account and no 2FA.

If anyone finds an article with more details, please share.
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There is very little genuine manufacturing left in Singapore. Back in nineties, there was big industry for trade agencies which imported random cheap stuff, and resold it to the West after stamping things with "Made in Singapore."

I assume, the big portion of manufacturing other than output of chip fabs, is the remnant from those years. Add it to that double digits of trade and services will also relate to the same activity.

And a big portion of services labelled as other and business services will relate to offshore banking.

And yeah, both countries run humongous sovereign funds, or better to say, both countries are ran by them.
You really naltrexone when you drink, and only when you drink. They also advise drinking somewhat frequently at the start so your brain can quickly break the connection between alcohol and having a really good time. Once it is broken you do need to continue using naltrexone every time you want a drink or over time you will go back to being addicted. But it is generic and not expensive to get.
According to the YouTube comments, JB Weld is pretty good at repairing cracks or holes in engine blocks, as long as it's the non-pressurized area of the block.
FWIW coreboot is an open-source project that uses a similar style, where you need to upload your change to the review tool (https://review.coreboot.org/, which is using gerrit https://www.gerritcodereview.com/) and people comment and LGTM in there and then it gets committed to the master branch once everything looks good.