skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conservatives in the US know that the only way they can hold onto power in our electoral system is to subvert that system (gerrymandering, voter intimidation/misdirection, erroneous purges) and they are not afraid to do so. And let's not forget the Supreme Court halting a vote recount in Florida in 2000 for literally no reason besides politics, leading directly to the Iraq catastrophe.
Or they worked for 40 hours assembling computers for minimum wage while the company made billions and billions off that worker labour.
Literally the seventh paragraph in the article:

> America has a social mobility problem. Children born in 1940 had a 90% chance of earning more than their parents. For children born in 1984, the odds were 50-50.
I've been on Android since the G1 (G1, Nexus One, Nexus Galaxy, Nexus 5, Nexus 6p, Moto Z2 Force) and recently made the switch to the iphone 11. It's been a little difficult making the transition, but nothing compared to the hell that I've experienced with the last couple of devices I've owned. The Lenovo and Huawei were just disasters. 6p's hardware was utterly unreliable, and Google couldn't care less. Motorola just gave up supporting the device, eventually canceling the planned upgrade to 8.1. Zero security updates for 8 months.

Looking back on this Android journey I have to say that in addition the usual diatribe about what's wrong with Android, I've grown concerned about the disposable nature of Android devices. You effectively get 2 years of use out of an Android if you're lucky. And once their time is up, it's off to the landfill. That doesn't take into consideration all of the replacement devices (3 Nexus 6P's) they sent you due to the quality issues abound.

I see family and friends still using their iphone 5s!!! And even if you upgrade your iphone sooner, rest assured that that phone will end up the used phone market or overseas. When I bought the iphone 11, they offered me $23 for my Motorola. (btw, I was thinking oh well i'll just keep it and use it with my Amazon Alexa moto-mod, but it refuses to work without a SIM card in the phone. More E-waste!!!)

I honestly feel a little better owning an iphone, not just because it's around a better phone, but because my e-waste footprint will be a little less.

(sorry about the rant)
Certain Tundra, Tacoma, and Sequoia frames have rust issues so bad, Toyota settled for billions of dollars.

https://autoweek.com/article/recalls/toyota-will-settle-truc...
As opposed to the US where it's rob the poor give to the rich and it's so wonderful?
I'm not sure what's controversial here.

This is capitalism.

Get money put away and your whole family will accumulate wealth at (give or take) 8% per year (and thus stay rich), save for gross incompetence and catastrophically bad bets.

Short of replacing capitalism itself this will always be the case.
May I ask where did you find good rates in Austria?
True. I'd hope future implementations are very explicit about what operations are allowable (for example, globs for files in allowed inputs/outputs), such that you still have an easier time testing.
There is "5G" with mmWave and "5G" without mmWave, you've described the latter.
Having to login using a google account is pretty unsettling to me. What happens when I lose access to the account?

Also they now have a verified identity to all my data from my router. I know they will have that anyway given my Gmail sends them the ip, they just have a detailed view of all urls I use and every site I go to and how long i spend there. I bought one and it worked fine but in a few weeks I just couldn’t use it because of this unsettling feeling. Ended up throwing it in the drawer. May be should have returned it instead, oh well.
I think the issue with meritocracy is when people assume meritocracy exists and then operate completely ignoring that there is no meritocracy. See- the original use was mocking the idea that you can assume you can judge someone's apparent merits in a vacuum.
> It will wring its hands over low voter turnout while also actively making it more difficult to vote.

The republicans generally would prefer that lower-income folks don't vote because they generally vote for democrats, so of course they would like to see voter turn-out to be low.
As we see from this very article, the outcome of making people register for their rights is to deny them their rights. Don't race to the bottom, we'll all just end up... at the bottom.
I do the same, its annoying for a while, but worth it.

Now I just need a way to sync my settings between browsers, devices, phones and pc. I want one Dark Reader, uBlock, and uMatrix profile across firefox, chrome/brave/vivaldi, and phone.
"it sends your very complete fingerprint to google on its very first launch"

sorry could you explain in more detail please ?
I think he also said something along the lines of: don't introduce a class over a struct if you are not trying to maintain an invariant. Very good advice.
Hmm... wordofmouth.com ?
How I made a product with 9-5 job and approach on growing it
This is really cool, but I'm slightly sad that it looks like they've taken the same approach as Chrome: treat the whole websocket connection as a single item in the list of requests, and then show the frames within separately when it's selected.

Imo, it'd be much better to have a UI that interleaved full HTTP requests with websocket frames, so you can see the comparative timing of the both (and of frames across multiple WSs) rather than having to look at all of them separately.
Often it's the apps, like eBiz Suite, that drive the net-new adoption of the underlying DB.

The large Accounting firms handle 80% of the financial audits of Fortune 500 corporations. They are used to walking up to Oracle DBs and extracting the reports needed for compliance and reporting.

If they have to learn a new ERP or proprietary Accounting system, then the T&M costs can mount.
These can switch straight over to running a proper Linux distribution, right?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-chromebooks-will-also-be-l...

Seems compelling.
A hypothesis I've not tested: salaries are adjusted for risk. European countries have strong labour protections so hiring parties must take on hires at high risk if they don't perform (can't fire them easily). Initial evidence for hypothesis: contractors and freelancers working locally in these countries still have high incomes.
Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere
I think it boils down to which culture you like more, American or European. Both have their pros and cons. The American way of life is characterised by more stress, more inequality, perhaps a bit more ambition (for professionals). Less holidays, less calm and perhaps a bit less care free. U.S will generally pay you more. On Average, the average American is less happy than the average Swiss by many measurements.
Actually, it was the first exercise we did in my EMBA finance class :D

Even with an EMBA, which happens later in a career, the NPV is quite positive.
Nice! When can I debug nodejs code in Firefox?
Thank you for mentioning the departure fee... That just took AWS off the table for me unless I'm pushed into it by other (paying) parties.
One purpose for registration is to lock the person into voting in a particular district.

Why? Ballots can and do vary by district. Different districts have different representatives (on both state, county and town/city level)

Different districts have votes for different issues (state amendments, county amendments, town/city amendments)

Different districts have different local offices (county officers vs city/town officers)

Registering also locks a person into voting only once.
> Personally I don't mind paying 2$ to attend a meetup. The old/existing pricing model seemed much smarter for everyone involved though. Organizers pay to get access to the audience. The audience pays nothing so that the audience, the real value, can be maximized. I hope that they won't destroy their value with this move...

So there are a lot of fitness meetups that run multiple times a week. The Barcelona before work beach volleyball meetup is one that comes to mind. It already uses whatsapp as well, so i can see them using Meetup for the even, but whatsapp for the confirmations.

Meetup.com is making a terrible mistake.
The business case to stop managing Oracle contracts and licencing is probably pretty good, especially when factoring in the sick days and stress leave of employees dealing with their infuriating people, processes and tools.
> like we're now seeing in Ecuador and other countries.

The protests in Ecuador are about IMF austerity measures. The sort of cruel anti-working class policy we've been seeing peddled by neo-liberals for a long time. The sort of policy that is now seeing a resurgent fascism and socialism.
#NotAllRulingClass
Great quotes.

I would argue, however, that more people have used C++ than have used those pieces of advice...
I use DDG daily and have been for nearly 2 years now. My biggest complaint UI wise is that there are no page numbers. Yes, you can keep pressing "More results" but you can't easily resume or share search result pages etc. It's an insanely useful feature that is missing and I have no idea why.
This is absolutely heinous. I have two new meetups I was looking forward to attending later this month. I will be reaching out to the hosts to let them know I still want to attend but I'm canceling the RSVP for their wallets' sake.
Gwern on the luck of the last mover:

"Launching too early means failure, but being conservative & launching later is just as bad because regardless of forecasting, a good idea will draw overly-optimistic researchers or entrepreneurs to it like moths to a flame: all get immolated but the one with the dumb luck to kiss the flame at the perfect instant, who then wins everything, at which point everyone can see that the optimal time is past."

Robotics has been a money pit for startups and corporations for a long time. Think of the billions Toytoa has spent on home robotics research, to little avail.

But at some point it won't be. Some entity will "kiss the flame" at the right movement. The wealth they create will be beyond any company ever, by an almost incomparable margin.
What? So, you're willing to engage in unethical activity, with a modicum of lip service to transparency? The entire idea of purging voters rolls is antithetical to voting freedoms and transparency.
Ingenious iOS Screen Time Hacks (and Solutions)
> We are working in bits, use bits instead, that will avoid theses kinds of mistakes.

K.
http://eventful.com
I've been working remotely for twelve years now and I think that today I wouldn't be able to write a single line of code in a crowded space with other people.
I guess you advertise on Meetup.com and direct users to confirm on a different site. ;)
Blizzard cancels Overwatch's Switch launch event
> I update my voter registration sometimes twice a year

Well, almost nobody else behaves that way.

As someone else who does things that are not common, my advice would be to recognize that you are way off the curve and don't universalize your experience.
A single transaction consumes 600kWh of electricity and yields 95 grams of e-waste -- enough to power a US home for 20 days. [1]. This is projected to increase. It's 700,000 times less efficient than Visa. If Visa alone were ported to Bitcoin levels of inefficiency it would consume 38X the entire world's power generation capacity. [2] It's actively anti-efficient and becomes less efficient as the price scales and as technology improves. It has worse wealth distribution than any banana republic. [3] The PoW system creates a net negative drag on any economy approximately equivalent to a 48% rate of inflation [4]. It's slow, taking up to 10 minutes to process. It's inefficient. It allows payments to terrorists and rogue states [5]. It's built to allow scams to thrive. It's not even anonymous, it's pseudonymous and tools will automate deanonymization if it ever manages to make it through the top few issues, which, let's face it, it won't.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[2] https://www.cbeci.org/

[3] https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/08/14/2-of-bitcoin-addresses-co...

[4] https://www.snb.ch/n/mmr/reference/sem_2019_05_31_koeppl/sou...

[5] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
Interesting that most people are so used to capitalism they can't fathom any system that isn't hierarchical. Nepotism is only a problem if you have centralised power and static top-down hierarchies.

When people are saying capitalism is the problem that doesn't mean they're advocating for Soviet style state capitalism or "socialist" nation states. Not every anticapitalist is a Marxist-Leninist, especially in recent years.
Right, I noticed that too! The weird thing is... it appears to be a new Macbook Pro driver problem. I have a 2013 and I don't see this behavior on that one. Just the 2016. sigh....

I restarted my macbook pro 2016 wifi and I'm getting 50Mbps

2013 with the same test: 150 Mbps
A policy that harms city-voting more than rural will innately benefit Republicans.
Hello HN!

For a long time I have been selling website templates through other services and I've always lost quite a bit of revenue when it come to transaction fees, so, I built SellFiles.

SellFiles allows you to quickly set up a store and sell digital downloads through both Stripe and PayPal with no transaction fees, no technical skills required.

SellFiles currently offers basic customisation options for your store as well as other features such as private products, with many more features to come.

I'm hoping to get a bit of feedback from eager users that would also like to sell digital downloads to build this product into something for everyone.

Any feedback is useful, thanks.
Why does it have trouble fetching files?
The mid-20th century. For many reasons, which you can emphasise as you see fit:

There was massive government involvement -- the wartime economy was not very Adam Smith, starting with the fact that it could draft its labor. This also set the tone that a CEO's salary & benefits might be like a general's. But also many sectors were tolerated monopolies, or close, for decades. People got promoted up the ranks, rather than having bidding wars.

There was high social cohesion, carefully curated for the purpose of winning big wars, and helped by almost zero immigration for 4-5 decades. There were only a few TV stations and they pushed a wholesome christian vision.

The stage of technology was such that big factories could use all the semi-skilled labor they could get, and churn out products which improved everyone's standard of living. It helped that energy was cheap. And transport was expensive, so there was little foreign competition in most goods. And that the pension promises they signed in good years were mostly far from coming due.
Recently took my son to see his first movie in the theater: My Neighbor Totoro. It was an amazing experience for us all.

While I'm glad we got to see it in the theater, I think the lack of Ghibli movies on streaming services is what will finally get me to buy a BluRay player and setup Plex. It's a popular approach among a lot of parents I know as who wants to discover their child's favorite film just got dropped by the streaming service you subscribe to?
Well we've used Reportlab for most our PDF generation needs. There is also an open-source version of the tool/framework.

https://www.reportlab.com/dev/opensource/

This is a Python implemented API/framework. However, you could use IronPython (compiles to CLR and .NET) and import Reportlab. I've never used it that way, but it's worth the try!

Hope this helps.
There are many other Meetup alternatives being started or in use, included some not listed in OP article. This is not good. There's too much fragmentation in this space and it'll be hard to have the self-sustaining critical mass, and cross-pollination across communities that made Meetup.com effective.

I'm in tech, sports, and social Meetup groups. I don't want to join 3 new sites to replace this one.
The idea would be to equate the two to get rid of voter registration. Really, it’s to demonstrate the absurdity of both positions.
I think that's what happened here, which is how the 20% were found to be incorrectly marked.
OpenTelemetry 101: How to Start Contributing
Why do you think that they don't own OpenJDK? Here's snippet from "OpenJDK: How to contribute" page:

> Like many other open-source communities, the OpenJDK Community requires Contributors to jointly assign their copyright on contributed code. If you haven't yet signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA) then please do so, scan it and e-mail the result to oracle-ca_us(at)oracle.com. Please make sure to specify OpenJDK as the project you'd like to contribute to so that we can process and store your OCA. Allow at least two weeks for processing. If your request is urgent contact the appropriate Project Lead.

It seems to me that they actually own OpenJDK. I'm not a lawyer, but I think that they have the power to make all code proprietary if they want.
99% for me
computers don't care whether you grew up in a trailer. the concept of meritocracy doesn't require that everyone has an even start (whatever that looks like). it just requires that people are selected for positions based on who is most likely to do a good job. it's unfair, but the silver spoon kid who graduated from Harvard with a 4.0 is usually a better bet than the kid who dropped out after the eighth grade.

edit: I actually doubt the son of the billionaire gets graded on the same scale as the trailer park kid. my guess is it's pretty hard to fail a course taught in a building named after your dad, but maybe that's overly conspiratorial.
Maybe the topics were too trend related. I can assure you that emacs / clojure / haskell meetups I attended were nothing but great times. Good crowd, some famous guys, 99.99% interesting talks.
Even that only works to a certain level. Just for illustration: say you have a 50% estate tax on anything over $10M. That would still leave a heir that receives a $100M inheritance with $55M to start with. You can easily double your money in your lifetime.

And that money would land in the states' pockets, it won't be distributed in a way that further levels the playing field.
I mean notification should be a requirement of kicking people off the rolls. That seems reasonable.
She has an EU passport for her and her kid (husband is american though).
High gun ownership in Switzerland.
The condemnation is in order. Notifying the disenfranchised voters would have been praiseworthy.
Considering how slow the government and legal system are to adapt to new technologies compared to the private sector, I do not think this is a good idea.
The video feels like a big middle finger to Oracle.

"stop oracle", and the URL https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/freedom.

Not that I'm complaining, Oracle deserves all the hate they get for their business practices.

But associating AWS with "breaking free" is extremely ironic. It's just as much of a source for vendor lock in as Oracle.

If you are not extremely careful/dedicated with your system design, you are never moving off of AWS ever again, or only with a huge engineering effort that almost no-one will swallow. AWS also knows this very well: discounts are harder to come by if they can tell you are totally locked in to their infrastructure.

Combine that with the fact that AWS loves to fork OS projects and build products out of them, without contributing back upstream.

AWS is a terrific platform in many ways, but it is certainly not something that will lead to freedom of choice.
Someone has to write the operating systems and debuggers directly for hardware, including microcontrollers which don't have various cpu facilities/guarantees.
Firefox's about:support page lists the about:config prefs that have non-default values ("Important Modified Preferences"). That includes prefs you've changed and internal prefs changed by Firefox code.
Fast tracking the global adoption of electric vehicles to save our planet
Docker hub is having a service disruption
In Germany every person eligible to vote just gets a letter telling you the day of the vote and your voting station (and a list of stuff being voted on, local elections usually coincide with more important ones). At voting day (a Sunday) you go to your polling station with that letter and photo id and after five minutes you have cast your vote and are on your way.

It's dead simple. But it hinges on the state having a database with every citizen's address. As I understand it such an idea would be very unpopular in the US.
I've organized about 500 events through that site. Charging attendees is a terrible idea that will kill Meetup.com and damage communities around the world in the process.
Google SVP Hardware: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
>That would be like if the CD player in my ICE car broke

This is not an apt analogy at all. In a Tesla, there is no separate dashboard or control so it's not an optional part like a CD player. It would be more like saying that your transmission failed. It just happens that, because it doesn't need all the other mechanical parts, an EV's "transmission" is the same box that runs the radio, AC, etc.
You're right, it's so clear. Many thanks to you sir!
It takes a lot to even replicate some of the functionality of Google search. Huge credit to the DDG team for providing the second-best search results out there along with a much cleaner and privacy focused UI.

I do occasionally go back to Google but that's for less than <10% of my queries and when I do it's after a few attempts at finding something on DDG.

Definitely recommend to anyone for use.
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That would be bad for this use case?

I want the firmware working, I don't much care if data logging stops working.
FWIW, I work at Mozilla and I have used telemetry in the way it's meant to be used. I'm sure there are cases where it's misused the way you describe, but by no means are all the cases like that.
Docker Hub Registry is down
And Meetup did nothing to prohibit people from posting advertisements disguised as meetups.
How does this help when generally only the poor don't have estate planning to escape these taxes?
A little off-topic, but I've long been highly skeptical of finance, what with light-speed AI-guided high-frequency trading, the massive concentration of wealth, the inability for government to keep apace with the private sector, and the seeming inability for average working people to benefit from the system...it all puts me into a feeling of unease.
And the Democrats generally would prefer voters that vote even after death.
In times of rampant inequality and growing economic anxiety, radical solutions become far more appealing to the desperate. While your point isn't far off, those propping up the current system need to actually "to fix what we have and try to be better".

For instance, will those who support capitalism as it is be willing to support for massive estate taxes? Increase the social safety net? Push for greater access to quality education? Otherwise then it just perpetuates the "there is no alternative" narrative that keeps the status quo as it is.
Given the amount of traffic a websocket might see, that might bog down or even crash devtools by loading that tab when there's a lot of messages. At least maybe you can see some summary information this way, and it also clearly delineates between multiple websockets, or if you closed one and opened another.