skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine you then go to small claims court for breech of contract. Since the client made an effort to pay, but failed to pay the agreed amount, any judge will side with you.

Depending on how payment in the contract was stipulated, you could also refuse partial payments. If it did go to court, I don't think a judge would find that an offer of $1 counts as a good faith effort on behalf of your client.
Comment from the author (which is getting ratioed):

> Hey, writer here. This collage is just a sample from his viewing history. Some far-right, some not.

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1137392725081219073
It depends on specific circumstances though doesn’t it?

The view of these proponents is usually that if you can max out savings for 10 years or so by living extremely frugally, the next 40 or 50 years of your life can be lived without having to seek employment, which seems reasonable if that’s what you care for.

OTOH many people find their careers soar with time, as they build experience, empathy and learn their way around how the corporate world works. The financial rewards get larger, but more interesting is the opportunity to solve tough technical problems (well, for me, as an engineer).

I also find it a little wasteful to not enjoy ones youth, which is not a time that will come back, and is likely the only time where you can experience life somewhat unattached and figure out what kind of partner would work best, what kind of personality works best, which city is a good one to lay roots etc.
The NSA is urging Windows users to update their computers ASAP
There are two reasons why that does not make a lot of sense.

Firstly, the term "work for hire" refers to a quite specific situation where the copyright for work you create is not held by you as an individual but by the company employing you. It does not apply to contract work except for a very limited set of circumstances, such as work done for motion pictures in the USA.

Secondly, it is difficult to understand how exactly the client could come to hold any rights over code that they didn't pay for. If you have a contract saying "I'll do X if you pay me $Y" and they don't pay you $Y, you don't have to do X. Even if the contract had some kind of farcical "we still own everything even if we don't pay" language, that's about as meaningful as a clause promising that leprechauns are real. A contract is an agreement in which there must be consideration (ie, something of value) for both sides. What value is there in doing work for free?
Just a heads up, HN butchered the title
This (the writer’s view) is what anxiety makes you think. And as an expert in anxiety (by experience, not study) I can tell you: no, that is not a life worth living. You are a slave of your future.
> Many people I know can't start a business or do risky things because of food, shelter, medical insurance/premiums.

I believe that's a personal thing, some people would, but most wouldn't. Some people would get hyper productive if everything was taken care off, others would barely leave their flat.

> I know I'd jump if I knew that if/when I failed, I wouldn't be destitute.

You wouldn't be in Western Europe. Yet, very few people jump and take a chance. I don't think that the effect is that large, if it exists at all - don't forget that social safety nets come at a price: (very) high taxes, lots of regulation, entrepreneurship isn't looked at the same way, the systems are rather static.
In the case that parent comment is alluding to, the contract would promise $1.
Banks allow reverting fraudulent transactions because it is required by law. In the US at least.
I had a similar experience until I realized how many other hobbies exist among friends and family that I could apply the knowledge to. I worked with my brother and cousin to add “push to” functionality to their homebuilt telescopes using IC linear magnetic encoders, which are so small they can be embedded in pockets in the wood, making for a much more integrated and beautiful scope than is possible with off the shelf products. Now making a more robust version of a similar gizmo to instrument my brother’s millwork shop. Then a wireless temperature/fan regulator for my grill. Guitar (or keyboard) effect pedals make for an endless series of wonderful, creative projects as well. In other words, all stuff we’d be doing anyway, to which the widget hacking adds an extra dimension of improvement and interest. As a kid I imagine I would have loved to build weird game controllers with my dad. Or customized RC airplanes.

I hope companies like osh park, sparkfun and so on never go the way of radio shack.
Organic (natural) pesticides tend to be safer. Unfortunately, USDA has been doing a terrible job with their USDA Organic certification. It is firstly very expensive. Secondly, it is no guarantee that glyphosate is not present. This could be due to fraud or negligence. Third, it is subject to lobbying to legalize nasty synthetic pesticides as being Organic. The USDA needs to step up and do its job.

Meanwhile, I nevertheless advocate buying Organic. Use a warm solution of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) in which to dissolve fruits like apples and others for 12-15 minutes. It helps dissolve a fair portion of the pesticides, but is not a substitute for buying Organic. Refer to https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2017/10/nahco3-aka-baking-s...
That’s probably it. Also, there are climbers who do it for the love of climbing but for most of these people it’s something to brag about. “ Not only am I better because I am rich but I am also physically better and I do harder things than you.”
Here in the US traffic fines, being the victimless crime they are, seem to be a backdoor taxation method.

in AZ to have a crime you have to have a victim, ask the nice officer who the victim is when you go 5mph over ?
More people will die because Texas does not forbid driving to people older than 60.
> nothing but the most recent Tom Clancy novels

I feel this is less likely to be a valid business strategy since 2013.
As it happens, I do. NWS alerts are either "watch" or "warning." I have a radio for alerts. The weather alerts are by type (flooding, thunderstorm, tornado) and severity (watch or warning). I've disabled everything but tornado warning (not watch) on my radio. That means a tornado has been spotted and I want it to wake me up so I can get my family into the basement.

https://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/

There is a separate system for sending alerts to cell phones:

https://www.ready.gov/alerts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts
A deep deceitful manipulation of the human brain in ways few people understand is having such a massive impact on the population. That's what VC's #Unicorn #10XBillionDollarValuation

Aside from the B.S. political Left Bias. The algos affect everyone. I disregarded the Failing NYTimes mentally ill reporter #LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
> Tobacco is Going to Go Mainstream

While I support cannabis legalization, I'm really not excited about it, outside of the minority of users that use it as pain relief/medicine.
The expectation of payment is legally binding
Dear senior engineer, humble yourself
Project page on NLNet site: https://nlnet.nl/project/Libre-RISCV/
Turns out killing is now called euthanasia.
It would take six days to cross Texas. Is that a typo or are you being funny?
So apparently, as long as you can systematically defraud people in the hundred thousands, it's okay to do so, because you'll just get off with having to sacrifice a portion of the proceeds; (they're only refunding the recurring charge, and not subsequent payments for house visits) and a token fine.

Seems to me that if a system has become so extensive that fraud can occur in these numbers, the punitive part should appreciatively scale if the purpose of the system is punishment/deterrence.

I just find it hard to reconcile the divergence in how the justice system operates with regard to "white collar" and "conventional" crime.

Wear a business suit, and defraud 100000+ people, and get a silk glove to the balance sheet; make the mistake of being an ordinary Joe and stepping out of line, and kiss your livelihood goodbye.

I get that the corporation relies on a gentler touch(ish) approach since it provides the jobs and paychecks for many people, but until you start extracting enough in order to make it unambiguously clear that X deceptive business practice is unacceptable, it'll just be treated as cost of doing business.

Never mind that this is just Washington. I'm keeping an eye out to see what other states bring similar charges.
> Dale genuinely could not fit me into his cognitive framework. He was an older guy who'd grown up on "Chinese can't be creative"

That's not true. I've met Dale, and the impression he makes is of a very humble, quiet and kind person. My understanding is that he gets along very well with other Chinese makers.

His conflict was with you, specifically, not with all Chinese people, and it's in very poor taste for you to try to turn this personality conflict into a racial or gender issue. You've done this often in your many online spats.
>Realistically? Probably better than 99% of people would play video games and watch TV their whole lives. Not everybody is oriented to be an artist/author, an inventor, a scientist, or some other creative type.

More people than you'd think, not saying they'd be good at it but they'd do more than play video games all the time. Nowadays you have people streaming, making podcasts, making tf2 hats, youtube videos, cosplay, fan-fiction, dancing, playing non-professional sports, graffiti, etc, etc.
It's nothing new, is it? https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage... (2014)

How many Tumblr radicals are out there? Both sides are doing it.
I still miss WOXY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOXY.com (It wasn't rural but it was bought by a corporate station).
I listen to a good amount of radio but most of it is "radio" since I listen to it online. I could pick up the local NPR station but it is just easier to listen online. The local music radio stations are either country, religious or corporate (like JACKfm) so I listen to The Current https://www.thecurrent.org/ online for a couple hours a day most days.
Medieval conspicuous consumption?

My first thought looking at the examples in the article was that the soles of the shoes don't look much thicker than the uppers.

I read an article not too long ago about how the medieval walking style was different than today. The author believed it was more "toe-centered" [0] primarily because of thin-soled shoes.

[0] http://mentalfloss.com/article/505105/why-people-walked-diff...
Same with ReactOS, and they have experienced lawsuits because of someone trying to contribute leaked code.
This is ridiculous. In Poland, everyone implements online wire transfer with immediate confirmations by either:

- using a service like PayU or Przelewy24 that have accounts in every major bank (in-bank transfers are immediate), use bank API to initiate the transfer and provide a confirmation to the merchant when the money arrives on their account (they often allow manual or post-office transfer as a fallback, and Blik too)

- using a service like Blik, which is directly integrated with the bank

- using bank APIs directly

The first option is basically as wide-spread as credit card support; direct withdrawals pretty much don't exist there. A service that would ask for your banking login data and OTPs is unthinkable for me.
>this has always been a Right-wing value

No it hasn't:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...

>But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools. So much for the new abolitionism.
Yes, I read the article, and am a mountaineer, and stand by what I said. It's tricky to talk about difficulty with those not versed in the sport, because with mountains like Everest (which are non-technical high-altitude walkups) it's about objective risks like weather or avalanches or HAPE/CE rather than subjective risks like lack of strength or fitness or coordination or whatever.
I think they’re saying doing the math isn’t hard. Actually doing the saving and earning is a different matter.
> There's nothing better for practicing acceptance of life's unpleasant, unskippable moments than suffering through a terrible song on the radio.

Do we really need to practice for that? I would say that you are right that we can’t always have what we want, but at least in streaming music we are quite close to that (depending on tastes, some genres are quite underrepresented).

Personally I prefer to keep small isles of life without unpleasantness.
They used to have higher fatality rate in the beginning, then with new equipment, techniques and less-reckless approach fatality rate dropped significantly, as you can see here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander

There are death rates between 1950-2012 and since 2012, you can see a huge drop, e.g. Annapurna from 32% to 4%.
I will admit that, I was being a little hyperbolic ("always" meaning "last 40 years or so").

Still, it was brewing, as the March for Life did occur right after Roe.
Same with Mint or basically anything else.
What makes then insides of the liquid have different visuals applied to them? Is that only for aesthetic reasons or is it a function of relative density?
Never start working without a 75% advance payment, which should cover all costs with a small profit
I would certainly hope that 300 years of techonological progress would offer the basics to a "peasant".
I've got a bunch of cards and empty bank accounts sitting around, none ever asked for biometrics.
Thinner atmosphere where they live and snow definitely contribute to a higher incidence of solar rays
Don’t understand why someone would throw away their integrity by doing this. When a client refuses to pay, the standard procedure is to take them to court and then make them pay what is owed + attorney fees.

Instead, this developer has put himself on industry blacklists by doing this. No way he’ll be trusted with sensitive projects. Don’t do this.
> I once had a conversation with my husband about how if I died, he’d have to keep taking care of my parents

This seems like life insurance could come in handy. For someone in good health and relatively young it can be pretty cheap too.
My googling also turned up a motorists.org article.

If anyone working on SEO for motorists.org is reading this: you should ask for a raise.
Those aren’t the world’s smartest engineers.
It blows my mind that you don't get the point.
It’s using the multi billion dollar Plaid integration.
Pretty sure flat earth is a parody right? No one actually believes that do they? It’s like the flying spaghetti monster or the church of the subgenius.
I much prefer billing by hours/days with clear payment terms in the MSA, and iterative delivery,. Clients understand that if they don't pay, they're not going to get much. Project-based estimates with up-front payment probably is good for clients unfamiliar with software development processes, but I avoid projects like those.
What kinds of things do you do personally to promote a healthy microbiome and/or combat IBD?

I’ve really been experimenting with my diet in the past few years to improve my running which I just started about 5 years ago. At one point when I was really focused on my microbiome (to the best of my ability with limited knowledge), i experienced changes that made me realize I’d kind of always unknowingly had some symptoms of Chron’s, and I only realized it when they went away. I have long since adapted my diet losing focus on promotion of a healthy microbiome and these symptoms have returned. Coincidentally at the time I was also taking creatine (not as part of my focus on the microbiome) and I subsequently read some antecdotes (no formal studies) of people with Chron’s who got benefits from creatine. But I feel I had similar benefits as they described, only I haven’t previously got them with creatine when on different diets.

Another anecdote I wanted to share, there’s a famous retired UFC fighter, GSP, who got UC and has been very outspoken about it and his recovery (you can find multiple interviews on youtube). He has really found success with intermittent fasting and time restricted eating. I’m not sure if they have formally studied it in humans but there have been formal studies on mice and the benefit of fasting and their microbiome. One really cool study they did was they fasted mice to promote more brown fat, they then transplanted the fasted mice microbiomes into non fasted mice and they too began recruiting more brown fat, that’s mice but it’s amazing to think you can possibly transfer some of the benefits of fasting to nonfasted people through a microbiome transfer.
Sirius and XM merged into SiriusXM programing wise today there is no difference between the two bands and mostly XM is pushed because its a superior signal/sat system.
That's really a question for lawyers to answer with regards to the specific contract.
The American Dream is the polar opposite of relying multiple generations to achieve stability. The general interpretation of the American Dream is the notion that any one person can achieve success by working hard enough.
This is for CLIA tests, i.e. clinical tests. 23andMe is explicitly NOT this as they can't make medical claims. Just getting a piece of DNA sequenced does not require this kind of retention; GP is right, this is a viable business plan.

Data retention is the next big wave and these companies would do well to clue in. There is zero chance they will find anything medically useful with their database and a ton of outstabding liability once people realize how it can be abused.
I've never really understood fashion, so I can't comment on that (Whoever makes the models wear the most ridiculous outfit wins?). However, why isn't France going to Mars? Where is France (or Germany, or Sweden etc for that matter) creating the Internet, or GPS, or Hip-Hop, or Jazz, or doing cutting edge medical research? It's not that they don't do that at all - it just, that, if the safety net was such a strong driving force, we'd be light years ahead of the US. And we're really not.
How does Plaid work then? (https://plaid.com)
Even if you trust the package author is not malicious, you may not trust that they are infallible. They could use this trick to sneak in a bug fix which has an unintended consequence.

One of the great things about Nix is that it keeps packages honest about versioning; you can't sneak in an updated package with the same version number like is possible with other package systems that don't pin to hashes.
How is this mental illness? Unless she’s actually harming herself by living frugally and taking care of her parents I don’t see this as illness.
FAPI[0] should presumably be the way forward for Banks to do this, given the adoption actually happens at scale.

[0] https://openid.net/wg/fapi/
China isn’t really a rule of law country, so they have the option of banning things without really banning them (the law can be on the books but enforced only very seductively that most people ignore it). I’m not sure about Brazil, but in general it is very difficult to compare a developed country with a developing one.
Many economically productive things are immoral (cigarettes, child labour) and many are amoral or zero sum (somebody choosing one food brand over another is of no value to society). Anyway, the usefulness to humanity of an investment must be orders of magnitude less than a donation.

https://80000hours.org/articles/should-you-wait/
An argument could be made that the "access to knowledge" does mostly not require the high bandwidths which are being provided as the selling point of the Starlink satellites. Surely most parts of the world already have access to internet via mobile phones, existing communication satellites, or the access could be provided for much lower costs than with Starlink, by creating new infrastructure on the ground.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that the intersection of the set of people who are at risk of dying of malaria and the set of people who make that second argument is very small. It’s a pretty easy argument to make from your armchair in London or New York, and a harder one to make in Bangui or Kinshasa.
As the other commenter said, unless you are hiding your money under your matgress your money is being used by society in some manner.
I'm measuring with respect to the default. When I say "useful" I mean "more useful than the default". Investing in stocks and bonds is the default (very few rich people save cash notes in a coffee can, so that's not worth talking about). Market investments don't help with the climate crisis (in fact their effect on climate are generally negative), human rights, etc, whereas our investments in 350.org and the ACLU do. Additionally, these orgs also have the ability to utilize the market as a means of growing money, although if they focus on this excessively that can be a distraction from their core mission. But we're getting into higher-order discussions here...
Plotting Library for Rust
And Eastasia has always been a part of Eurasia.
Seems like a good idea in the case of AtmosphAIR and Skyknights. I would have no idea what those places do if I only saw the name.
I'm not a fan of all of those YouTubers, but quite a few of the big ones (i.e. Crowder, Shapiro, Peterson) detest racism, and have openly and many times said that they do not support white supremacy and think Nazis are racist morons. Someone asked why neo-Nazis were attending one of their conferences, and the speaker (Peterson) said he had no idea and wanted them to leave for being idiots.

Doesn't change the fact that NYT still calls them "white supremacist supporting." I think the problem here is that they support some policies which white supremacists, as a group, also like supporting. Just because two groups can agree on something doesn't mean those groups are allies. Also, "white supremacist" is a great slam against someone you don't like regardless as to if it is true.
What does REST have to do with OSGi? I appreciate OSGi quite a bit, bit how does one migrate a module to a microservice without changing the API surface to reflect new error modes that come with networking and missing transactions?

Java RMI, CORBA etc. have failed. Is OSGi somehow an RPC mechanism?
Interesting -- could you elaborate on your use case here?
I agree with your sentiment mostly but I think rock climbing and mountain expeditions are just different ballgames.

I think you can't just label mountain expeditions as deathwish, a big reason people are pulled towards mountaineering is the sheer thrill you get not just battling the knowns(technical climbs, routes) but also the unknowns(weather, AMS). Mountains can be unforgiving(8 climbers died in Nanda Devi a week back) but the accomplishment you get is also something worth savouring.

Once you start, you can hardly go back. I have only done six thousanders but even I want to do more.
I have a pilots license. Same concept, our version is “taking off is always optional, landing never is.”
The more you charge, the less likely it is to happen. Also, requiring some money up front before you begin weeds out many of the worst clients. Early on, it might be 10% of your clients that try to not pay. As you gain more experience, you can weed these clients out through a combination of the aforementioned things and just getting a better "feel" for when to turn down a job.

Or do like I did and end up working full-time for a client that does pay well. That brought my non-payment rate down to 0%.