skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Since the early 1990s, there has been a marked increase in assaults and murders of the owners and managers of commercial farms and their families, disproportionate to general crime trends in South Africa." [1]

Which does not say farmers, or white farmers specifically, are targeted disproportionately - I was unable to find statistics on this. But they are targeted:

"Yet the available research shows that most crime against white farmers is criminally motivated, the perpetrators seeking firearms, money, or vehicles, and that the violence used is instrumental to these purposes. Farms, remote and scattered, are seen as easy targets. In a small number of cases, the motive may be revenge for eviction or past ill-treatment." [1]

Note that South Africa has 6x the murder rate of the USA, so saying farmers are under attack is certainly true, even if they're not disproportionately under attack.

Edit: I looked around some more, and there does not appear to be very reliable data, but depending on how you slice the numbers, farmers may be disproportionately under attack by a factor as high as 6 [2].

Let me also remark on how curious it is that the media would so confidently call this theory 'debunked' (and racist!), when by their own admission, there is insufficient official data (gathered by the majority black government) to conclude either way [2]. I do not recall this level of skepticism being so widely applied to the Black Lives Matters movement.

Edit 2: User angersock (whose post is dead) did find what looks to be official statistics: "According to the South African Institute for Race Relations, commercial farmers, who are predominantly white, were twice as likely to be killed as the average citizen." [3]

I am confident that, should this be brought to the BBCs attention, they will run a front-page story correcting their earlier claims that this is a racist myth.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/safrica2/Safarms1.htm#_1_1

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41807642

[3] https://www.refworld.org/docid/5283411d4.html
I think my credit union expires every 90 days :-/
> That might be the core disagreement here. There are a lot of people doing activities that are useful. I struggle to think of them as value creators because what they are actually doing is whatever someone tells them - there is a lack of agency in deciding what they do, so I have difficulty attributing outcomes to them. They are fungible, but the people telling them what to do are not. If you tell them to do something stupid, they will do it (as seen with Uber).

I think this speaks to your own lack of understanding of these jobs. Just because the general goal is set by someone higher up, does not mean that there is not hidden variation for the exact task, as well as a lot of places for 'hidden mediocrity'.

Take cleaning the toilets, for example. The general order given is "clean the toilets". Think, however, about how this task has to be broken down. The small things like cleaning the tap heads, under the rim of the seat, etc. that most people might not explicitly think of without being reminded. The person has to do those small tasks, possibly hundreds of times, while dealing with any unexpected obstacles.

Or take something less unsavory, like baking bread. Anyone who has baked bread understands that, while the general instructions _sound_ simple, there is a lot of complexity that is not accounted for, and a lot of room for variability of skill.

Sure, anyone can train for a month and play X tune on the guitar, but are you going to pay for someone who has spent simply one month training, or someone who can really play the tune that has been playing for years? If they are interchangeable then there needn't be thousands of threads submitted to hacker news about how to hire "10x developers".

> Small businesspeople in particular are a backbone of society in a way that most workers really are not.

The matter of fact is that once a company has been established, it can float for a long time without the business owner contributing much whatsoever. I can think of more than a couple of companies that have changed CEOs three times in the last 5 years, while the actual inputs and outputs of the company remain steady. Direction only matters in a vague sense until you hit bad economic times. The ultimate truth is that 'fungibility' has nothing to do with 'value'.
This is a nice article, with a comprehensive if long history of npm and node.

I agree with the author that there will one day be a reckoning with npm, inc - they'll shut down abruptly, or do something people are really unhappy with.

However, I'm afraid the package manager proposed at the end will have a lot of trouble gaining traction. It sounds like package maintainers will have to port their packages to the new package manager. Worse, developers won't be able to build, say, React until all 1000 of its indirect dependencies have been ported.

This will take a gargantuan effort to port over, all to avoid a vague future threat. I know it's "the right thing" to use this more decentralized system, but I can't see us getting to there from here with all the pain in between.

I think this is a more likely outcome:

1. npm, inc does a bad thing that makes people angry
2. A community-governed, charity-hosted registry appears. This registry includes everything in registry.npmjs.org, plus exclusive packages
3. users and authors switch to new community registry

In fact, we may already be poised for this coup. Did you know that 1/3 of all package installations go through registry.yarnpkg.com?
If you follow the source into the BBC and then a study that they quote in the BBC as well, you’ll see that farmers regardelss of skin color are at greater risk: https://irr.org.za/reports/research-policy-brief/Farm%20atta...
Their ecommerce and AWS both have fantastic help and followups (and also aggressive marketing).
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> You are trying to disqualify clinical experience and an empirical approach, despite both being part of the Western scientific method for several centuries.

Being treated by any doctor (other than a surgeon when on the verge of death) has only over the past century become something that was likely to extend your life rather than shorten it. This is a result of double-blind studies and statistical analysis.
lol, google "engineers" are overrated.
It's worth noting that the author differentiates between things that they thought would be commonplace (#1, for instance) and things they thought would be are mostly curiosities shown off at tech expos (#10, for instance).
I'm on Android, so maybe the implementation is a little different. It's a default setting for me, I didn't turn it on.
UK is not in Schengen zone - so it is not "Europe" - even EU citizens go through customs when entering UK (unlike within Schengen zone).
That's a pretty big claim you're making with nothing to back it up.

Do you think it's the "terror" that makes that situation prefferable from a "capital stand point"? In times of historically low unemployment, I hardly think the general populace is holding such terror. And even so, why would splitting the work reduce this terror?
> In principle from a capital stand point, it is always better to have one unemployed person and one over worked person who is terrified of becoming unemployed than two employed people.

It’s preferable to have more production, which could be one person working 60 hours or two working 30 hours. Sometimes due to lower switching and communication costs and returns to specialisation/learning by doing 60 hours will be more productive. Sometimes the costs are low and the returns to one person working more hours will be low and it won’t be. If there are fixed costs to employing a single worker this will militate against splitting up the work.

> So reducing workload to increase employment rates is completely unacceptable to those who own society.

Then the German system of Kurzarbeit[1] during economic downturns should be unworkable. It isn’t, it’s just difficult to coordinate.

> Wage presure from near full employment is also undesireable to them but must be considered the lesser of two evils and is fairly fudge-able by changing the definition of employed.

Changing definitions do not affect whether there are too many or too few workers for the production demanded. If there’s an increase in demand for labour some people will work more and some people will come out of unemployment as wages are bid up by the greater demand.

[1]https://pseudoerasmus.com/2014/08/01/anthropology-of-financi...

> In the 2008-9 recession, in response to falling orders, German firms reduced labour utilisation by cutting back work hours rather than by laying off workers. In fact, a whopping 90% of the drop in total labour inputs in the German economy in the Great Recession is to be explained by reduction of hours per worker ! This kind of “labour hoarding” does not normally happen during recessions in other countries, but did happen in Germany this time. This mini-miracle now has people on the centre-left all over the world seeking ways to replicate it in other countries, and has spawned a substantial literature.

> In Germany, firms face restrictions on sacking workers in the first place, but in case of economic difficulties, they can apply to the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) for “short time” or Kurzarbeit. (Not the same as the 35-hour work week made famous by France, which is a statutory definition of full-time work.) The application entails a protocol for reducing work hours per worker, with the request triggering a process of consultations between the BA, management and works councils inside firms. After an agreement, workers can receive unemployment compensation in proportion to the loss in working hours.
I have mentioned this multiple time: Any criticism of Google is met with barrage of downvotes. I guess all the googlers hang around here and they are usually commenting with throwaways.
Ah, but would that obituary in The Economist make you happy? I suppose it depends on what exactly you mean by some "apposite" time!
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This doesn't need to be solved via time-based expiry though - you can use a breach list (like checking https://haveibeenpwned.com on registration,login, and password change).

Even an aggressive password change policy is typically one month since last change, which would give a long window for access.

Secondary factors, if at no other time then on first use of a machine, are also a good technique to prevent password breaches from spreading into your system.
becasue who gives a shit ? you already bought it.
The requirements are actually using Google accounts, and requiring all your employees to use Chrome.
I think there’s a difference on the local and global level here. From my point of view, if we ignore some doctor’s recommendation for pregnancy or child rearing, there’s a minuscule chance of an adverse effect. From the health experts point of view, a minuscule chance multiplied by billions of people is thousands or even millions of unnecessary birth defects or deaths.

A pregnant woman can rationally and morally choose to have a drink every once in a while —- there’s almost no chance there will be a problem, while at the same time, it’s a rational and moral for doctors to recommend not drinking at all — millions of lives are at stake potentially.
For me it's a simple equation that has as much to do with time and hassle as it has to do with money. I'm not going to juggle five different monthly subscriptions. I'll pay Netflix for their decent original content and all my old favorites like Star Trek. I'll buy a month of Hbo every couple years to catch up with them. I'm not going to pay $200 for a cable subscription and I'm not going to pay for Netflix and YouTube Red and Disney+ and Hulu and CBS All Access and whatever other service all at the same time. It's already a pain in the ass to figure out if Movie X is available on the services I already pay for. I'll just go back to piracy like I did before Netflix existed.
I mean, I care. All else being equal I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want good communication to your customers.
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I am still confused. So are you implying the engineers who think they are the engine of the world incorrect or not?
Think about this - the same amount of tech, of engineering, of “stuff” like window regulators, speakers, steering wheel, etc goes into a subcompact 4 door as does a 4 door SUV, minus cheap stuff like body panels interior carpet.
105 speeches, 101 RMS alone, 1 RMS & John Sullivan, 1 John Sullivan alone, 1 Abhigyan Singh alone, 1 VHSS Irimpanam School.

FSF is Richard Stallman. No discussion shall be entered into. Zero diversity of opinion. What RMS thinks right now is right and if you disagree you're not welcome.

The Free Software Foundation should change its name to reflect this fact. It's the RMS's current views on software foundation. It's alienating. Would I assign my intellectual property to the FSF when its really just RMS? Yeah I don't think so. If the FSF being just RMS's toy is wrong then how did this happen? How did the FSF impersonate an autocrat's fiefdom like this? Something is on the nose here, argue about what but it's not nothing.
It's never been 100% clear to me what the accepted timeline of human inhabitation of the American continents was, but it seems clearly possible (or likely?) that humans and other megafauna existed close together. Given that fact, it's entirely possible that the plant (and the others mentioned) were cultivated by human, and one megafauna was replaced by another.
From 2008 - ???, money market accounts were offering 0% interest, while CD's provided some small rate of return.
Warren buffet often mentions in his interviews that the sorts of small size deals that they used to pursue when Berkshire was smaller just sont move the needle enough anymore to be worth investing into. It's an interesting example of how we dont analyze absolute values of dollar return on investment or truly analyze all opportunities and invest in all NVP positive ones even if seemingly very small (though I guess a seed stage investor is a good counterexample) - and that we aren't always the greatest at evaluating the power laws that drive startup investing. Those same power laws apply to these internal corporate projects as well. I wonder what a company comfortably able to stomach investing in small things that dont seem to be able to "move the needle" enough to be worth it would look like - the biggest example I can think if might be AWS where a small thing turned into a huge business, could we be seeing more of that if companies were managed and capital was deployed a bit differently?
Awesome! Here's mine. I am busy atm but I will circle back and tell you my favorite tricks.

Read my README for most of my favorite tricks.

https://github.com/9mm/dotfiles

Things that come to mind

- ZSH-autocomplete is probably by far my favorite thing ever
- iterm3 full overlay with <C-i> means that i have a full overlay terminal immediately available no matter what im doing. No messing with stupid windows
- i made my own custom theme etc you can check out

Vim favorite things

- `gx` opens the current URL under the cursor in your browser
- `gq` for word rewrapping comments on the fly
- `Bda!` look in my .vimrc for Bda! which deletes all open buffers, useful when youre working and have 40 open buffers you forgot about and want to start fresh

I'll think of more later!
For those of us who have to remain PCI compliant the tyranny of password expiration will remain. 90 days unless I am mistaken?
There's a demand for them. SUV are quite popular for families who don't want to "drive minivans" but they still want a large vehicle to fit in everyone. Others buy it because of the perceived safety, larger vehicle so they feel more "protected".

Trucks are just what you drive in rural areas. And there are a lot of small towns and rural areas. Companies noticed that people are shelling out $40k for them, so they started selling them for $50k. $50k and they are being bought still? Ok, time to charge $60k, and so on.
> The cost of replacing Prius batteries was a big concern ten years ago.

It was never really an issue in practice, because (iirc) they had a 10 year warranty but if they failed on year 11 or 12 then Toyota would still usually just replace them for free anyway. And for the last several years you've been able to just get individual cells replaced rather than the entire battery, so it's no longer expensive to begin with.
Because that’s where manufacturers need to make money. These things typically have fuel economy numbers at or below CAFE standards, so they’re banking on these and selling more efficient vehicles closer to cost.
The part about mice being sentient because they "sing" increasingly complex songs as they get older, suggests the writer has never seen a bird.
...Alanis Morissette...

Any proposition starting with the phrase "the irony is that..." is likely to be an atrocity against the concept of irony. Irony is a property of communication, not of situations. Irony is the rhetorical quality of communicating multiple messages to multiple audiences. Irony is not "coincidence", so it would not apply to a "USA did X and China did X" situation.

However, in this case, what China is doing doesn't matter. The public communications of USA elites are heard by multiple audiences. Their subjects are meant to understand "China is dangerous; the world is dangerous; fear everything; don't question the military-industrial complex; don't question the popular news media; we should always be at war." Their fellow elites in China are meant to understand "Representative government is a sham; we are not constrained by our subjects; if we want to deprive our subjects of access to your products we will; also fuck you."

Both audiences are getting those messages loud and clear. Isn't it ironic?
You can do the 20% that gets the 80% of the results, though, and still ship. I’d consider that “finishing”. Whereas a lot of devs get distracted even before that point and don’t ship.
Because employers aren’t generally willing to pay the premium necessary to get workers to do that. In some fields they are and the workers do, e.g. law, investment banking, medicine.
Inspecting mental state data may yield strategic insight, however optimizing strategy for positive mental states I don't think is a viable suggestion Mars-colonization-wise.
My brother in law probably makes $80k and my sister about the same. He's got a $50K truck and she's got a $40K SUV and they were bragging to me about the deals they got on them. Granted, their house note is very respectable due to the time they bought the property and built their house, and I'm sure that his parents have helped out given that he's an only child and they both make good money. Even still, they each have 20 minute commutes and are rarely in the vehicles other than grocery shopping otherwise.

STILL... I'm paying about $500 a month on my car when you count insurance and car note, and mine is only $24K. The only way anyone is ever getting me to pay more than $30K for a vehicle in this day and age is if I win the lottery or if I absolutely HAD to have a more expensive vehicle to do my job (such as towing or sales).
That's true. I also thought of something like state secrets where a government agent might show up one day and make you disappear.

But that type of information is only indirectly dangerous. The actual danger is the government agent or your personal actions based on misinformation in the case of antivaxx.

I was thinking more in terms of information that is objectively dangerous. Just ingesting the information alone is enough to cause damage.

I was also reminded of an article I read recently about artists and animators who worked on the newest Mortal Kombat game suffering from PTSD due to the graphic nature of their art and the reference materials they had to use.
That is almost 20 years old, and still doesn’t support the racist theory that white farmers, specifically, are attacked that started this thread.

See the Wikipedia article someone else linked for more recent sources of data, and the observation that farm attacks today are actually decreasing.
Like most things parenting related, this is probably up for debate. Many leading baby sleep books suggest that co-sleeping leads to a baby who nurses all the time, long past the point where Mom wants the bed to herself. My own child sleeps 8ish hours in a row at 3 months, which I attribute to feeding him on a flexible schedule instead of on-demand. Not to say that your experience is invalid, just that it’s hard to draw any conclusions from the limited data we have.
When your title is senior dev is when you should call yourself senior developer, no? I didnt think it was a title you just gave yourself...
But the majority of that 30% with a net worth above $250k have most of it in the form of their house, not CDs.
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It also mentions that there are still wild varieties around.

Those could still show some effects of cultivation though, it depends on how much information there is too study and so on.
This is just nuts. I have several social media accounts and in many of them I have said not so nice things about various governments across the world, including the American government. Wonder how that will be treated.
It's[0] known[1] issue[2].

[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

[2] https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
Irrc they did give us stuff to mix with the water; MREs generally have something as well. A lot of us didn’t use it due to fouling your camel back and canteens. I used to eat the salt packet for example (salt and pepper condiment pack). And yes they did this all the time; all through summer and winter; weather is not a deterrent; train how you fight, fight how you train is how the motto goes.
Frankly, personally I don't see a particular reason to use Emacs bindings. Afaict it's mostly just “study this flight manual and then do what it says,” simply more hotkeys in the same old editing paradigm.

Meanwhile, there's every reason to use Vim's bindings, as they specifically sidestep the ‘move cursor and then type’ approach. Besides, with Evil you'll still have plenty of Emacs chords to do for stuff that's not in Vim.
At work a client pushed new security protocols on us and of course management allowed it. Now I get to update my password every 30 days.
There seem to be some on-the-ground reports suggesting attacks on farmers in South Africa [1][2][3][4][5].

I'm looking at some articles seeking to debunk the "myth" and what I see isn't well argued. E.g., Snopes seems to suggest [6]

1. David Duke said this is happening therefore it is false
2. there are no reliable statistics
3. The murder rate is lower in recent years

The former is a logical fallacy. The second just means there are no reliable statistics, but doesn't prove things either way. I suspect "no reliable crime statistics" is true in many third world countries. The third point implies that X isn't happening because X happened more last year, which isn't convincing.

The New York times echoes the second and third points [7].

[1] https://sauncut.co.za/50-farm-attacks-and-4-farm-murders-in-...
[2] https://www.sapeople.com/2019/05/24/4-farm-attacks-in-6-days...
[3] https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-...
[4] http://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/graphic-photos-farm-murd...
[5] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9151623/white-south-african-fa...
[6] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-farmers-south-africa...
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/africa/trump-south-...
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