skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to describe that as mental illness, I might go the other way and say people so consumed by their social status that they throw away their perfectly functional year old iphone/cloths/cars/etc to buy the latest version are suffering far more harmful mental illness. And that might just be the surface, people who throw their lives away going into massive debt to buy the largest house and nicest car they can afford are clearly harming themselves.

Its an ugly cycle, people who check out of it are definitely not mentally ill IMHO. Average US consumerism is an addiction.
The enlightenment as a unified event exclusively across Europe is missing a lot. Scholarship is very much identifying more complexity here and the idea that liberal democracy can be assigned to Europe and nowhere else is falling apart.

This is why it is better to use the actual names of the ideas rather than describing them with a questionable provenance.

"Liberal democracy" is a much better term than "Western values".
I had a go at climbing Everest but turned back at about 8400m when my oxygen gear packed up. I find it funny that people are really impressed by Everest climbing which always seemed to me a bit of a dumb expensive trudge up a large rock and very unimpressed by my attempts to figure why the universe exists which seems to me a noble and logical thing to do but people think you're nuts. Life's odd like that I guess.

That said Everesting was quite fun. I went unguided but with a lot of logistical support, and tried to develop my own oxygen gizmo. It wasn't my invented bit that failed by the way.
> Disease and aging should be our number 1 priority

Humans are ballooning as a species and hurting the planet and causing other species to go extinct... and you want to eliminate disease and aging from said species?
This is right. They're finally killing Lync.
Did I miss something? I wrote that to specifically address the lack of nuance in your statement:

"a "left-wing rabbit hole" is not equivalent to a "right-wing rabbit hole" in terms of content"

Isn't it ironic to accuse me of the lack of nuance that you've shown, and I've called?
Oh, thanks for the info. I tried on mobile and it wasn't clear this is possible. I'll play around with it more

Cheers!
The biggest benefit will probably be for new programmers following a tutorial that provides a template. The word "clone" means nothing to them. They just want to copy and build off of this project on their own GitHub.

Yes, it does sacrifice some learning about git, but once you get someone hooked on programming they will be able to learn the tools later.
But if they are planning to install a different type of control rod that won’t be jammed, isn’t that more like taking your car to the mechanic and getting the brake pads replaced and then feeling safe to drive it again?
I don't, either. Bank bill pay handles most outgoing payments, and that comes with good guarantees. Everything else is on a credit card. I can get data out of the bank in spreadsheet format if it needs to go into some analysis program. Everything is online, but doesn't involve flaky third parties.
> the law can be on the books but enforced only very seductively that most people ignore it

I think the issue of enforcement should be separated to the issue of the spirit of the "rule of the law".
> At the far left end, on the other hand, the hate is stared at the capitalist system and public figures benefiting from it.

Or violence against different thinking individuals.

Think third wave feminists. Antifa. BLM. Berkeley Riots.

Right now, the extreme left is much more dangerous than the extreme right (not to mention the similarly lumped not-so-extreme right), because people like you think they will do no “real” wrongs.

That’s a huge mistake to make.
Sadly, sellers have realized said small premium can extracted from buyers without actually producing food locally https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/farmers-markets-lies-market...
They also operated from
South America during the war and continued to supply them with oil. That's why before UN's 1948 vote on status of Israel, Mossad agents came to president of SO, put a rope on his table and asked him politely to cobtact his extensive connections with the fascist regimes in South America so they vote in favour of creation of state of Israel.
Jimmy Chin, the guy who directed this and went on the climb also directed Free Solo featuring Alex Honold.
Have you considered small claims court? They have low filing fees and typically disallow lawyers.
My impression is it's more a community like most hackerspaces, less "tools as a service" most commercial makerspaces are seen as, so people are more willing to volunteer time or resources.
The programmable mechanical keyboards are going that way.

Some of the newer ones can trace their lineage pretty directly to Arduino clones running TMK/QMK firmwares. The commercial version is usually going to cut out as much of the Arduino bits as possible and go for a soldered on microcontroller once you're building for sale.
Nobody cares if you get killed in China. They need to pay less if you die then if you're wounded. So they run you over again to be sure that you are dead.

Video surveillance isn't launching everywhere, because of corrupcy.

And they don't care about foreigners ( with something happens). Chinese protects Chinese, no one else. They will also work with favors above law.
> Calling a nano-service has no overhead, unlike calling a micro-service.

It's statements like that which drive me crazy. It may very well have lower overhead, but even a function call has overhead, and OSGi's overhead is not small (at least last time I used it, circa 2012).

Remember Eclipse? Remember how, once you installed a couple of java plugins, it'd take up to several minutes to start up? All those plugins were OSGi, via the Equinox framework. The overhead was noticeable and severe. Contrast that to IntelliJ, where I have it set up to support a dozen or so languages, all with various plugins, and startup never takes more than 30 seconds. Still not as fast as I'd like, but I shudder to think how Eclipse would manage.

I also echo a lot of the commenters here from the development perspective. OSGi is one of the least pleasant systems I've had to write for. Some of that comes down to Java's questionable approach to dynamic class loading, but OSGi added a ton of cruft and complexity on top of that.
Going to a local bar and cooking burgers or steaks on the weekend.
The only practical advise to anyone to not spend money you cannot pay off the next money, otherwise there is something wrong are about to go seriously wrong soon with your finances. Telling people to be Frugal is as ambiguous as the world
> ample free time to think, to explore, to experiment, to create

People would probably go crazy from the boredom and start killing themselves. Work and struggle are good and inspire more creativity and inventiveness than doing nothing
I hear you and understand you, but your argument is essentially nullified by the existence of Taiwan.

We have proof positive that the Chinese culture is not only compatible with democracy, it flourishes beneath it.
Dipshit.
Unless research in this area is policed, outlawing the practice will drive it underground or to another country with less qualms. One problem with trying to ban incorporeal things like genetic sequencing algorithms is that you can't control supply like you can with guns or really any physical good that has a high capital expenditure requirement.

You say "should we let it" like that wouldn't mean getting way more draconian about policing information. How do you prevent people from sharing their own DNA? How do you keep people from reading and remembering it?
Good on you on graduating from that mindset.
That wasn't the case when the FBI tried to get apple to unlock iphones for them [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
Oh yes, thats why they supported Windows XP for so many years and so Windows 7. Every Microsoft corporate product is supported longer than they should be (just to make customers happy/make it easy for to move rather than being bold)

Not every product can be successful and its true for any company.
Hiding your money under the mattress increases the value of money being spent because it reduces the amount of money in circulation in the near term.
To be fair, quite a few engineers at Google did yearn for MySQL and a single instance at that. Not for any of the traits you list°, but because it would have let them no longer worry about HA, replication, request hedging, key hotspots, etc. It would have also meant not having a product that works when there are more than a handful of users, but that's another story. BT was a lot of work to write for and that's why Spanner evolved the way it did.

°I sense some irony
Well, I was referring to the institution, not to specific instances of it. I should have said "banking", probably. You have a point (that corruption is almost ubiquitous nowadays in the large banking corporations) but my argument was intended as an abstract.

And precisely because banking is so essential to economy, its corruption is one of the worst events in an economy.
Try Cho Oyu, if you avoid crevasses/avalanches and react to your health state properly, it's the easiest one - base camp is at 5,700m, almost reachable by a car, then climb is "only" 2,500m. And there are only 5 higher peaks ;-)
I do not think this is accurate. While she does provide them with support, the article states that they actually need very little. She's saving a lot more than what's needed to support them.
In the future I think I will add a clause in contracts that work for hire will be open source if payment in agreed terms is not received. It would be a good bargaining chip for getting crazy indemnity clauses removed.
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The FISA court system, Patriot Act & Freedom Act punch enough holes in the 4th amendment to make it useless.

Pretty clear that less liberty is the outcome for all.
Interesting, I hadn't heard that the United States government was wholesale surveilling its population, with no oversight, with an open tap in Facebook data, and using that information to imprison people for thought crimes such as having a religion.

False equivalence doesn't pass for me. The USA has surveillance issues, but it isn't the prc.
Having said that is there any way to combine democracy and a single party fully embedded to the Government?
But that isn't new, their rates have been high for the ~80 years your linked chart points at.
You could try yourself using the interactive demo, but it was trained on news text so it might struggle.
My parents tithe 10% before tax each year. When I became an atheist I decided it wasn't going to make me less generous, so I "tithe" 10% of my pre-tax income to an assortment of charities and put the rest of my excess in savings. Of course the right amount varies greatly by an individual's circumstances, but 10% seems like a good rule of thumb unless you're super-rich.
The idea that a company has a monopoly on its own customers seems tautological to me. Doesn’t that mean every retail store has a monopoly on their customers because you can’t walk in and sell your own goods without their permission?
He's not on my blacklist.

Perhaps he's aware that every action that anyone ever takes, is approved of by some people and disapproved of by others, and your only choice is between who approves of you and who disapproves of you.

I for one, approve of this resolution a hell of a lot more than courts and suits. They are tools you may be forced to use sometimes. It's great that the system is there for when you need it. But they are merely detestable necessities, not my first or preferred choice.

Did it occur to you that by advertizing this attitude, you may have caused yourself to be blacklisted, even if only informally? Probably not.

It's a favor and a pleasure to be blacklisted by some people or organizations. It's the trash taking itself out.
In English "blik" looks a lot like "bilk", which means "to steal something by scamming or cheating"
That's happening today, in China. It's not, in the USA.

For example, you are allowed to go in front of the capital right now and spread the word of FBI actions re MLK. If you did this in China, you'd be sent to a reeducation camp, or simply killed and your organs harvested.
> What's the plan?

I have a morbid, but sneaking suspicion that that it's the latter half of "live fast, die young." Maybe I'm just projecting, though ;)
>I think I did (or maybe just parts of it), but I don't really remember because it came out back in 2001

Interesting admission considering elsewhere in this thread you've twice admonished me for not having read it.

>I haven't really kept up with the matter since then, though

You might want to read this summary, straight from the researcher himself, of the 2012 update to the book which you seem to be unaware of.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691?gucco...

From the article:

>Among the newly-released documents and archival materials are secret 1941 correspondence setting up the Dutch subsidiary of IBM to work in tandem with the Nazis, company President Thomas Watson’s personal approval for the 1939 release of special IBM alphabetizing machines to help organize the rape of Poland and the deportation of Polish Jews, as well as the IBM Concentration Camp Codes including IBM’s code for death by Gas Chamber.
https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136691523104280576

> Zanzibar was not the original name of the system. It was originally called "Spice". I have read Dune more times than I can count and an access control system is designed so that people can safely share things, so the project motto was "the shares must flow"
It's stupendously dangerous, but by mountaineering standards it's not a technically difficult climb. With enough Sherpas lugging enough oxygen bottles, you can drag a complete no-hoper to the summit. A substantial proportion of people who summit Everest have minimal mountaineering experience and some of them have never even worn crampons before. They're objectively bad mountaineers, but they make it to the summit nonetheless - they're taking big risks to get there, some of them won't come back, but it's not a particularly great achievement.

By contrast, your local indoor climbing gym almost certainly has routes that are beyond the ability of 99% of climbers. There's no team of Sherpas to get you past the tricky parts with ladders and fixed ropes, just holds and chalk and muscle and brains. The only way you're ever going to complete that route is through years of hard training.

That's the point people are making when they say that Everest is "easy". Everest has taken an outsized place in the popular imagination because it's the biggest, but it's a million miles from the hardest - it's just incredibly dangerous, for reasons which are mostly beyond the control of even the most skilled climber.
Japan's unemployment rate hides a whole host of social and economic problems. Hikikomori have withdrawn from social life to the extent they don't consider work, but the initial cause is often work stress related. The unavailability of child care services means many women cannot consider working even if they want to. Plus, just like the US economy, part-time work is still on the rise, which means people are employed but not financially secure.
You could make the same argument about helping someone change their tire on the side of the road. Or helping a blind person cross the road. Life is full of risks but constantly worrying about them isn’t worth it, especially if it comes at the expense of actually helping someone who is in danger.

If you see someone getting abused or needs help, I think you should do the right thing and try and help them, because everyone helping each other reduces risk for everyone and makes a better society.
Please cite your sources
Here in Sweden we had the national election last year.

I saw exactly zero news articles which covered the budget. Not a single one. Almost every single topic that bubbled up on national news, in debates, and on social media involved identity politics. Immigration, gender, religion, and then some climate on the side. The only political party in Sweden that still talk a bit about taxes is the one furthest on the left, and that mostly because capital tax has been their consistent talking point for about as long as the party has existed.
Looks like Betterment & Wealthfront use plaid, which could affect many on HN [1][2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Betterment-or-Wealthfront-u...

[2] https://www.investmentnews.com/article/20190108/FREE/1901099...
At the far-left end:

A. Millions murdered based on class: independent farmers [0], intellectuals, defined as anyone wearing glasses [1], entrepreneurs, professionals. Generally anyone perceived as better off than their neighbor was at risk of being labeled 'enemy of the people' by said neighbour and deported overnight into the Gulag [2]. Or executed on the spot.

B. Millions deported based on ethnicity. Entire populations were moved around USSR in the '30s, including Balts, Poles, Romanians, Tatars or Koreans, based simply on their ethnicity, partly as an attempt to forcefully disassociate them from their cultural legacy.

C. Millions murdered due to breakdown of basic economic structures. The great famine of Ukraine in '32/'33, and Mao's great famine of the '59/'63 stand out as marvels of far left ideology implemented by force in the economic sphere.

All in all, an estimated 100 million people lost their lives in the name of far left ideology [6]. It is repugnant to gloss over recent history and pretend there are no hideous monsters to be found.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#Democrati...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_in_the_Soviet_Uni...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao%27s_Great_Famine

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...
Buy a competing product; that will help to erode the Apple monopoly.

That's similar to what happened to Windows Phone. They opened up development towards the end since they could no longer justify forcing developers to behave the way they wanted; they simply didn't have the market share to enforce it.
There's an argument that Japanese people don't accept being medicated as much as people in US/EU, which, combined with very supportive parents, means that the depressed people just stay home as shut-ins instead of trying to function on anti-depressants, as they do over here.
That's not really how contracts work. A contract is only "void" if it contains something fundamentally illegal, or if someone was forced to sign it. And that would be determined in court, not automatically.

The guy who promised to pay is breaching the contract by not paying, and the contractor's recourse is to sue him in civil court for the money.
Finland has a similar unified login system. Probably common in the Nordics.
> I’ve found a pretty simple starting point for testing the bones of a website by using the following single line of CSS

Or just use Firefox. The built in CSS-designer/debugger has a button to do just this on demand.

Browser-suggestions aside, I really agree with the sentiment of this article. That’s how I like to build sites and solutions when not forced to use some other framework or approach.
> Am I a developer? I don’t know.

I would say the title "Research Engineer" could fit quite well based on what you describe!
(even if retired) being the key point.

The PRC has active bureaucrats working in nearly every info company in the country. They are the Party's Cultural Representative and their word is law.

There is no equivalent in the USA, not even close.
This is the first time I'm hearing of Plaid and is it actually something banks have signed-off on and are ok with? This whole thing looks to make for a bad precedence.
I'm not saying Chinese culture is incompatible with democracy. I'm talking about eduction mainly. If you look into post WWII histories of Taiwan/South Korea, it wont be hard for you to find a few dictators within the democracies[1]. I personally think during those periods the citizens of those democracies were catching up on how democracy works.

1. examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chung-hee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek
Well design lifetime is only really relevant at the design stage. I would hope they're proceeding on how the the reactor is now, regardless how how long it was designed to last.

I don't per se have a problem with them changing safety limits, if we know more about how things behave, it seems sensible. I suppose the question is still, is it safe? Regardless of number of cracks, the design life time, or the actual age.
"Rule of law" is a name attributed to societies where laws are supreme (no-one is above the law), and where the same crime results in the same sentence, no matter who you are.

Western societies pride themselves as abiding by the rule of law, and it is an important ideal IMO, but the application in reality is more on a Bell curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
I've been a subscriber since the first issue, and still have every copy of the magazine they mailed, although most were just kept and unread. Is there any market for a full set of magazines?
And few people know it by heart.
One of my old friends got sucked down the rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracies. Someone who was once fairly normal now believes in all kinds of crazy things, including flat Earth. It's definitely a growing belief.
There's another thread about naming it - https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136691523104280576

The original name was Spice, which was nixed from a higher-up; they went to Zanzibar, one of the Spice Islands.
What would be your #1 goal for the training, and how would you be able to measure success? It's great to have knowledge of all OWASP top 10, but it's unlikely to be internalized through single training sessions. Maybe a case-study approach would serve you better, e.g. look for writeups of bugs found by HackerOne or BugCrowd researchers and extrapolate/fictionalize an entire attack tree from there.

Why are experienced and inexperienced people together in the same training session? Do experienced people just attend for annual security training requirements?

Could you provide tools for people to pentest their dev/staging environments? For example, are people aware of tools like sqlmap and OWASP ZAP. ZAP HUD was pretty fun to use because it requires less application switching.
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All's fair in love and meme wars, which is what this is. At the end of the day, I think the implicit "one side is using facts and truth, the other is using lies and deceit" narrative is effective, but it also has weakness in that it is a bit lacking in the truth department. I'm not liking the direction these debates are going though.
Good point, I assumed this is in the US.
Micro deposit while cumbersome and slow, works fine.

I don't believe access to all of my most personal data should be ‘frictionless’.
Then your arguments weren't convincing, which I sympathize as being very frustrating.

Certainly this approach was likely far less convincing - I feel no motivation whatsoever to click a bunch of random links having no idea their content. Furthermore, should I do so, I may arrive at a very different conclusion than you intend. I do give you props for coming to the table with so many sources, whether they're quality or not I have no idea.
It was probably your aggressive "no one cares" that got people thinking you're in a bad mood...
Yep, Skype for Business reliability has taken a huge hit in the last 30 days. On top call quality has really diminished. When contacting MS got the message "Hey, you should switch to Teams!" Another case of slowly killing a current product to get people to move to the newer one. A standard MO of Microsoft for years.