skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I remember the narrative behind USSR collapsing differently.

That's the difference though, you remember a narrative while I remember actually living in USSR, and living through the collapse as a personal experience.

>When any system is so weak that it cannot recover from a severe blow, it means that it is not the optimal for survival. Which automatically(to me) makes the good times ephemeral.

This is the case for literally every single system of government we've had. Every empire that ever existed has collapsed. Entropy is literally a law of thermodynamics.

>Colder countries generally have a lesser degree of homelessness than those in warmer tropical climes because it is certain death to be homeless in winter.

There is plenty of homelessness in US and Canada, and there is no mandate to prevent that under capitalism. Soviet Union actually saw things like shelter and food as human rights.

>The men and women lined the streets and wept when Stalin and also Mao died. They ran regimes. Not governments.

You're once again confusing communism with totalitarianism.

>There will always be people working for others. There will always be some who are richer than others..smarter than others..more wily than others..more able than others. The game of life ...as I see it..is evaluating the cards you hold and play them well for the best possible outcome for oneself.

The point was that you have a double standard for communism and capitalism. You're saying there were poor people in USSR and that's what made communism bad, but people suffering under capitalism are themselves at fault. The reality is that capitalism creates a system of exploitation, and if you happen to be a member of the exploited class, there's no easy way out.

> one of my replies got flagged because I objected to the use of the term ‘slave labour’. That is not slavery.

It's slavery in anything but name. If you object to the term, then please justify what you're basing this assertion on. When you chain up children in factories to make things like clothing, that's slavery plain and simple. If you're not comfortable discussing capitalism factually, then I don't know what else to say here.

Have a good day.
Firm’s close ties to Georgia stir concerns about voting system purchase
I'm not convinced it's all that suspicious. Some immediate thoughts:

- it's the start of a new year. New budgets. Plus laying people off just before the holidays is a baaaad look.

- it's a lot easier to do this when lots of other outlets are doing it too, because you'll get less attention

- all these companies rely on advertising for revenue, often from the exact same sources. So any softening in ad prices would affect a lot of people at once.

- this is actually the latest in a long, long line of media layoffs and redundancies
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> continually looked to reaffirm

Huh? I don't recall continually posting about how G Suite sucks. Pretty sure this is the first time?

> Desktop Office is great for individual work, but in today's dynamics, it really seems like you put a ceiling on productivity by sticking to it.

Desktop Office is basically O365 today, and it's pretty much constant collaboration where I work. Not sure how that doesn't meet today's dynamics?
I agree in principle, but be careful with throwing around "perfectly serviceable" like it means nothing— the suitability of tracks for running frequent, high quality passenger service rests on a lot of factors: twinned track, electrified track, modern signalling, corner radiuses, etc. Most of this isn't an issue for pure freight and it's expensive to fix/upgrade.
I've made an account just to upvote this.

I've finished reading manual on Nix and just started with documentation on packaging. I want to have total control on dependencies, together with compiler versions and standard library implementations (effectively cross compiling everything x86_64 -> x86_64). From Buckaroo, Conan and Nix, only Nix gets this right...
We have relevant code in escrow for an enterprise client. They paid for it. Apart from the paperwork it's a synced git repository.
But just because you know the names of the parents of someone doesn't mean that you know they happen to be cousins.
That's the congestion pricing that the article was talking about.
don't forget about fingerprinting:

https://amiunique.org/fp
Presumably a panel of said international tribunal would have equal members of participating countries to avoid such favoritism in the first place.
I think you should figure out what salary you want to make and charge yourself that. It might be that you are happy with $2k/month as long as you get to do your own projects. It might be that you want $80/hr (~13k/month); maybe you want $20k/month. If you have a number that you are aiming for, you will have a better idea of whether you are succeeding. For instance, if you want $10k/month, and after N months/years you find you are getting $2k/month, you would then have solid information that you are not achieving your goals with the given strategy. In which case maybe you get a job, maybe you do contracting/consulting, maybe you switch to project with better prospects, etc. Or maybe you find that your trend will achieve your goal in M years, so you know to stay on track even though things aren't looking that good right now.
> So, logically, it follows that Canada also is too unsophisticated to test and trust US equipement?

IIRC, the US doesn't actually produce any 5G cellular equipment. The alternatives to Chinese equipment are European: Ericsson and Nokia.
No, it’s an unfortunate consequence of how the dna test provider treats everyone’s data.

It’s incredibly empowering for abuse and completely disrespectful to the individual. The assymetry is staggering.
I don't read any content in your comment?

Your experience (using buckaroo ...) adresses most of the problems raised here? You could perhaps share at least how your experience adressess some of these problems raised here: how does your experience address the hidden telemetry for example?
I think it still needs some work. A couple of months ago I opened a webpage with documentation. It had a table of contents in the sidebar, and it was invisible. White on white. It was because these were simply links, and not input field elements. Perhaps the solution is as simple as assigning these rules to html or body instead of these elements, and letting it cascade. There might also be stylesheets online meant to normalize styling across web browsers that one could use.
How is raising GMO animals more risky? Or do you think the EU should mandate farming boars instead of pigs?
Are you saying that a third printing is derivative if someone else did the second printing? I’m not aware of how common it is to have different publishers or presses handle successive reprints.
Yes, they work perfectly fine, if not extremely well, for nearly all of the cloud work I've done, which has been extensive.
I'd say it's more of a Latinism. It's commonly used in Polish, and probably other languages too.
My name is for getting my attention. Once you have my attention, I enjoy hearing it exactly as much as I enjoy an ongoing fire alarm.
> kickstarter for investigative journalism

That's a newspaper subscription

> a monthly news source, that is focused on "slow news"

That's a magazine
The Netherlands have been demonstrating for a long time it can be done.
Another self-driving car non-problem, like the trolley problem. This is what happens when academics with too much free time ("Adam Millard-Ball, associate professor of environmental studies") start pontificating on the subject.

The big problems with self driving cars are 1) too many "fake it til you make it" people involved, 2) the good sensors cost too much, 3) machine learning vision isn't reliable enough at identifying objects, and 4) crap designs that make very optimistic assumptions about roads, rather than doing full ground profiling.
A great game is a great game. How old is Go or Chess? People still study to master those.
uhh... you're missing a critical part of that equation which is government/private influence. A private corporation can't "ban" VPNs and encryption without a huge backlash from their retail customer base and the corporate entities which depend on their networks and the full lobbying might of all tech businesses in general which profit from a healthy free internet.

The only way this would work is via unilateral gov policy, which in recent years are common in mega-trade deals (as some politicians have called it the "gold standard" of state/capitalist countries policy), and which is exactly why Bell never tried to do it privately themselves.

Much like the majority of the worst examples of major corporate abuses in the paste few decades they have almost always been businesses who are close friends with government. Often in the most heavily regulated industries: telecom/ISPs, pharma [1], finance [no citation needed, see post-2008 policies which crippled small-bank competition and reduced the market to 5 mega-banks], and energy - as we've seen recently with PG&E in California:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-politicians-direct-capital...

Despite rhetoric about "corporate greed" causing the PG&E safety lapses, the California government has played a massive role in controlling PG&E's capital expenditure and safety policy for two decades (including giving them a free pass from any market-consequences after a similar fire in 2017) AND they already charge the highest per person energy costs in the entire country.

Given that forced mandate PG&E simply couldn't have afforded the money on those massive safety improvements even if they wanted to (without further burden on tax payers), they were already pushing their customers to the max via state influenced spending policies on climate change tech. Plus what incentive did they have when they had 1500 other incidents and their friends in gov repeatedly gave them a free pass?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...
There is no way for users to fix that you the dev decided to override one value and not the other other than not using dark themes.

Overriding one value and not the other isn't doing the user a favor it predictably results in broken behavior that you could 100% avoid by designing your page competently. The 2 colors are implicitly related and need to be chosen together to result in a readable result.

The fact that it works okay on most systems does not indicate that your work is correct.

100% broken code per standards that happened to work under internet explorer 6 wasn't correct under the principle that people could just use ie.

This is only different in that this debate is more nonsensical because the correct behavior is so easy to achieve.

The default background being light isn't an actual default and if you depend on it then it is no different than depending on the user speaking English having 3 names text being ltr.

Its calculated nothing because setting the background color increases how predictable your look and feel is. There are zero downsides to doing so.
hmm..tried cmFtc2V5IzAwMDE=#0001..says user not found =(
Lessons from not checking my email messages for a month
Part of the benefit (for me) of traveling by car is thst I can leave whenever I want. If I have to wait even 5 mins for my car to return to me, I'd consider that an inconvenience - if I could pay for short term parking near by, I'd take it.
Your salary doesn't have to be unquantified. Your own salary is an implicit cost that needs to be accounted for if you are viewing your efforts as an investment.

As an example, PayScale says average software developer salary is $67k in Springfield, MA. I would recommend you put this down as an expense and a liability or equity in the business within the context of the "accounting equation"; see https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accounting-equation.asp

The key here is to make explicit your opportunity cost. You can then put that in context of how much you are willing to invest in this business. For example, if you wanted to give yourself a seed investment of $300,000, this could mean $50,000 cash and 3.5 years of labour.

If you counted that as a liability you could say the business has to pay you back once it reaches profitability. Or if you view it as equity you would build that cost into when you sell your business. This would also allow you to better calculate ROI.

If you account for your time this way, you can cleanly separate business and personal expenses. In terms of the "4 hour workweek" way of thinking, it also means you know when you can stop implicitly throwing money at your business and hire someone to fill the "dev" role and have the business run itself.

If you will indulge my 2c, I would also recommend you cut any projects that are not performing to your expectations. When you have multiple projects you are acting as portfolio manager. This means that you are modelling your business like a much larger corporation with different business units, which require far greater management overhead.

From reading your post, I believe the role you envision for yourself right now is that of product owner/manager. If that's the case you should limit the scope and complexity of all other responsibilities so you can do that role well.
Guy holds the world record for collecting spreadsheets
You're not a developer: you're a product manager who outsources software development tasks to hired muscle.
perhaps we don't as much need a specific package manager implementation as standard(s) for package maintainers so different package manager implementations can ingest the compliant packages?
It would allow them a well targeted ethnic cleansing. To give you some ideas:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_unworthy_of_life
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics
Replace "political group" with "ethnic or racial group".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
Indeed it doesn't do the same level of sequencing. But the specimen is not being thrown away after the test, but kept in an archive. In some states like California you can revoke consent at least.

See the list of states with how long they store the specimens here: https://www.cchfreedom.org/files/files/Newborn%20Retention%2...

Governments might use this archive to sequence the DNAs down the road and then use it similarly to how they are already using those private services. Prices of sequencing are sinking as we speak.
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You shouldn't hard-code gcc. make has an implicit CC variable for this: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-...

Your makefile will then work on systems without gcc, and it is also easier to override it, ie:

make CC=clang
I think you're forgetting insurance and maintenance which adds at least another couple hundred.
There is no advantage to consenting to a search or talking to police. Ever.
They just need a really bright light!
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Accentuate the Positive
Yeah, this guy already has a bag of dongles anyways. I'd just carry a 12" MacBook at that point.
That improvement forced from outside is called "Disruption".

The disruptors will eventually be disrupted.
I recently finished Never Split The Difference too. It was a good read and provides a different perspective on the whole negotiation process. I couldn't help but think however, that the various techniques outlined in the book were nothing more than parlor tricks. Seems like the more these techniques are known, the less useful they become.

Am I wrong? Now that I know how it 'works' I can pick out Ackerman bargaining tactics from a mile away so it's basically a moving target. I feel truly great negotiating tactics are an artform. To succeed you need creativity and flair that can't be duplicated mechanically.
>Power manifests itself in many forms, whether it be through money or persuasion or charm or tactical prowess. The point remains, decisions are made by the few for the many. And simply being good as something, does not make you a benevolent force.

Tautology is tautological.

Those with power in France in 1798, 1808 and 1818 were using completely different systems of merit. You could not have predicted Napoleon using the old system of power, nor could you have predicted the Bourbon Restoration using the revolutionary system of power.

That hierarchy is used by and large in all organizations is due to the fact we're limited by technology, not an inherit law of nature. The original Soviets (not the USSR) and Catalonian anarchists, had they survived, would have been examples of the many deciding for the many. Depending on how much you believe the literary canon classical Athens was a successful example of that for close to a century.
But we already have 'no-cruising' ordinances to harass human drivers endlessly circling around looking for fares, parking or prostitutes, artificially creating traffic and the hyperbolic 'nightmarish scenario of total gridlock.'

This is not a new problem, and focusing solutions on autonomous vehicles is pointless discrimination.
A lot of your assumptions are wrong. When you fail big enough there will always be plenty of opportunities to do so again. Failing small is much more dangerous.
The FBI is never going to arrest people for the felony of improper paperwork on their crawfish fishing business based on their DNA.
> It’s obscenely unfair that two citizens of a country are charged differently for the same exact service.

I consider "fairness" in government to include optimizing for equity over equality, because even before one considers the moral aspects, a government treating everyone exactly the same is fundamentally bad for social stability.
Here's the takeaway on that page now:

"It’s difficult to determine at this point whether Phillips has deliberately misrepresented the nature of his service, whether he has been so vague and ambiguous in many of his descriptions (unintentionally or otherwise) that misinterpretations have entered his narrative, or whether he has tried to be accurate but may have just occasionally slipped up in his many, many hours of conversation and sometimes neglected to include the qualifiers about his service that he has used in many other videos and press interviews. Nonetheless, at times it has certainly sounded as though Phillips was trying to foster the impression that he had both served during the Vietnam War and had been deployed to Vietnam at some point during his service, even if he didn’t literally say so."

Which part of it is inaccurate?
> If countries engage in protectionism unilaterally, they are predominantly harming their own consumers and undermining competition of their own businesses.

That must be why economies such as China, Japan, and South Korea stayed economic basket cases in the late 20th century. Because of their protectionism.
I enjoyed Vice content for a while but when they scaled they seemed to lose their edge. Honestly it probably became a much better place to work but that translated to noticeably worse content.

I want people to like their jobs... But if the option is have a shit demanding job where you make great content vs a nice comfortable job where you make good/mediocre content and then get laid off.

What's better?
Arguably, yes, if the company is to sustain itself in the future. And yes, some stuff will fail. You still have to try though. Consider this: if Ballmer did not start all those things, MSFT of today would not see quite the "resurgence" the article talks about, no matter who's at the helm.
There is also Snakemake[1]. I did not decide for myself yet if I prefer it over make.

[1] https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
They absolutely refused to move without a copy of the competing offer. I kept pushing but finally gave up and sent them a screenshot of the offer. They called me within 30 mins offering a 40% increase over their "best and final offer".

This was at a top 5 tech company.
That's probably only France, where cheese after meals is common.

While it's frequently used as a topping in Italian cousine, it's nearly exclusively eaten on top of slices of (dark) bread as a standalone dish in German cousine (though Germans eat a lot of Italian food).

The most American use of cheese (i.e. not Italian cousine related) is maybe the cheese flavored corn-snacks (e.g. cheetos).
I think the idea here is that it doesn't even have to melt. If water gets underneath it so it floats, it will have the same effect.
The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story
GINA's effective -- now. But what if it goes the way of the endangered preexisting condition exclusion? Parties are already chopping pieces of that latter protection away under the guise of short term policies.
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You could make a case for everyone being bumbling and third-rate today. Post an edge case and have a lack of information to counter. I think by not addressing concerns head on gov't agencies are inviting for this type of behavior. I don't agree that stating that you have white labs as a defense for possibly tainted equipment is a full answer. I assume there is more coming since having a white lab test of equipment would be unreasonable for every piece of equipment due to workload. Not testing every piece of equipment to be used isn't a solution either since if Huawei is "evil" then they will just taint the box going to the correct provider.

While I don't agree with this approach I can see why it happens. For example I have a smattering of news articles to prove incompetency.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-health-data-breach-...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/forget-spy-case-where-s-brief...
and a bunch of professionals in what amount to a twitter war.

If the Canadian government doesn't want people talking negatively about them then there needs to be more transparency. Not to the level of risking a breach, but something along the lines of a list of safeguards they are implementing. I wouldn't ever consider one safeguard a solution. If somebody feels the need to call out where the information is, I would legitimately like to read it.