skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations used to have to justify their charter by showing how their enterprise helped society. And charters were temporary. Now corporations have more rights than humans and people who have corporations are nigh untouchable by law for their crimes and civil torts.

There's no justification for this. A sufficiently ethical government could rein in corporations tomorrow.
Raw pointers in Rust can be null.

(star)const T and (star)mut T both have an is_null method and there is std::ptr::null and std::ptr::null_mut available to create null pointers.
This also gets rid of everyone who thinks twitter, reddit and facebook are useful aggregators and/or worthy of a monopoly position. HN is getting increasingly wonderful as the other platforms decay. Someone showed me a facebook discussion/argument initiated by someone trying to sell a surplus (he called it) of 27 chicken eggs slightly above supermarket prices. I'm in my 3rd day of recovery from it.
Having volunteered for a few years overseas educating in this industry this is somewhat a true title but not a great write up.

Microfinance does includes banking, remittance and insurance and other things microfinance. But most people think it's loans. So ok.

The scam is it's fully self sufficient now anyway and kinda always has been. Doesn't need charity. Some Government oversight however helped I think. You can study the numbers on a few experiments governments preformed.

I take issue with this bit "that the people around her who had previously done what she now does have been pushed out of business"

This is exactly what you want. Innovation.

What I saw however was people just exactly copying local business. Another market stall which just reduced everyone's wages.

The author also doesn't seem to get TVs make a big difference to the poor both in happyness and reducing poverty. But perhaps microfinance doesn't help getting TVs.

Lot more that could be said.
I wrote something like this for Uber, except for Android and iOS. It was very fun.
Not going to argue, just curious what social models of the past you consider as better ones?
"Love obscurity and contempt" -- Fenelon
> In general AfD voters are considered right-wing and terrible people. But on the other hand, the AfD enjoyed quite some success in the elections, so what does this tell us about German society?

I think it tells us that the fight against racism and fascism is perpetual, even in countries that otherwise have strong legal frameworks for combating them (as Germany does).

> Furthermore, a society which is willing to ostracize a significant number of its own for holding specific opinions instead of working through its differences - like many Western European countries or the US wrongly do - is weakening itself.

I think the idea of a country "weakening itself" is both a red herring and a dog whistle (although I don't know if you intended the latter). It wasn't very long ago that the US used state power to physically ostracize and divide its citizens by race and religion. That, for whatever reason, isn't considered an act of self-weakening, but (occasionally misdirected) observations on social media about the former are. That, to me, is telling.
Unions are a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

The problem is that corporations are too large.

If a company wants to fire you over nonsense but there are 30 others in the same city who pay the same salary for the same work, they're doing you a favor. You don't want to work for a company like that anyway, when there are better alternatives.

When they're the only employer who will hire you without having to move your kids to another school district or take a salary cut by changing fields, you need them more than they need you and getting fired over nonsense is a major problem.

Make corporations smaller and more numerous and you don't need unions. This also happens to have major benefits for competition on the consumer side, so everybody wins.
I'd expect Estonia to have admitted it already if it was on their side.

For Russia, my expectations are completely different.
Since around 2016 Apple does not expose a stable unique identifier to apps. Users can reset their identifier at any time, opt out of location-based and personalized ads. Apps submitted to the store must follow those guidelines. There is a lot wrong about their policies but you have to give it to them for respecting privacy: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223
While I may question their reasoning, I respect them for putting it out there. Ultimately totally turned off to this based on the elitism crap. I did enjoy the article quite a bit though.
Why haven't we dug into them more deeply?
> it may be about the same size as the old SE

I want this to be true but I doubt it very much.
I'm quite impressed with Haxe in that regard: a manual[1] that goes through the language and explains how it works and [at least some of] the reasoning behind why it works that way. Rest of the tutorials/docs on the Haxe site are maybe a bit ho him, but that was excellent: aimed at an experienced audience, very readable and informative. Many languages have something similar, but none I can think of have anything quite as useful.

1. https://haxe.org/manual/introduction.html
> how much you value indigenous lives over corporations...

Why is this the dichotomy for supporting modern nuclear power plants? Or in this case a uranium processing plants?

Especially compared to burning burning and mining coal.
> horrible stepped on street heroin

Is a consequence of heroin being illegal, thus people who buy bad heroin have no recourse in the courts. Free markets rely on a court system.
Sorry if it is not relevant. I have been reading articles and discussions on the site for a few months, but only now created an account. I have seen a fair number of other articles related to current events being posted, but if this is against guidelines, I can remove it.
Facebook's Tipping Point
Accenture used to be Andersen Consulting, and was spun off long before the Enron scandal. Arthur Andersen accounting would have been absorbed by E&Y's accounting branch.

Accounting firms have huge conflicts of interest because companies are allowed to choose their own auditors, but when they also offer consulting services, the conflict becomes even more egregious.
I respect the call out in this comment.
And to confuse pound further: in Northern Ireland they pronounce pound and pint very similarly
I guess you didn't actually watch the video?

https://youtu.be/3018ABlET1Y?t=502
Their excuse was that it was an escrow account for them and their payment "partners" which were basically subsidiaries that turned out to be shell companies. So I can't believe they wouldn't have had access to the accounts to just check if the fake statements were real.

Also, keep in mind that this whole thing exploded when they finally tried to verify them after the KPMG audit, so they had the option to do it they just didn't. IIRC it turned out the accounts weren't even real.
In the end I opted for an extension - it redirects a new tab to a web page of my choosing.

The action is a bit distracting but it happens fast enough that it's not a bother.

I'll note it was the 2nd extension I tried. It may be some onerous Firefox security measure needs to be bypassed & the first extension hadn't managed it yet.
It's a CORS issue. The page is served in an iFrame (//view.ceros.com/goldman-sachs/type-story-ii-1-2-1-1-1)

>[Report Only] Refused to frame 'https://view.ceros.com/' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "frame-src https://marquee.gs.com:* https://*.marquee.gs.com:* https://research.gs.com:* https://cdn.appdynamics.com https://*.qualtrics.com".

>Refused to frame 'https://view.ceros.com/' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "frame-src https://*.qualtrics.com".

I would speculate that CORS is somehow implemented as an extension (kind of like the PDF viewer or the crypto engine) which is why it is reporting an extension error
Sorry, but that is wrong. All I use is price and time. See Elliot Wave Theory. Most indicators are perfectly correlated with price meaning unless you are a HFT you can't trade fast enough to act on them.
While not the author of the post you are responding to, I really appreciate this response. I have largely spent my life believing one way on these issues and have tried to be more open minded regarding my basic assumptions about American society. You taking the time to respond in such a thoughtful manner and tone and providing good information to dig deeper on helps me tremendously.
They did substantial renovation to control the more interesting characteristics of the design. CANDU has an excellent safety record despite the same external moderation technique.
Fractional scaling is huge!
Same feelings. It's never aliens, but it sure would be cool to meet a benevolent super advanced species or catch an intergalactic soap opera with octopus people. Really, any indication that we're not alone.
> Without shared libraries, the only way to do plugins is via IPC.

That's primitive superstition:

- dlopen() works in statically linked programs too.

- Even without dlopen(), you can load code dynamically. It's not magic, especially if the plugin is linked statically.

- Besides, how is IPC bad? I take fcgi over Apache's modules any day.
Is the ordinary Bolivian name achachairú and the Australian grower is marketing it as achacha?

I dunno if I'd get my titties in a tangle over that. It's not like they're renaming it to Burdekin Fruit.
The comment you are responding to didn't express indifference to "indigenous lives", but attributed it to others. Attacking them as though they said people shouldn't care about them seems weird and inappropriate to me. They clearly implied people should, but may not.
Atom already seems to have gone somewhat towards maintenance mode since Microsoft bought Github. Feels like there's a lot less by way of features being released and a lot more just keeping up with ecosystem/OS changes. I could certainly be wrong though.
> This new FRB source, which the team has catalogued as FRB 180916.J0158+65, is the first to produce a periodic, or cyclical pattern of fast radio bursts. The pattern begins with a noisy, four-day window, during which the source emits random bursts of radio waves, followed by a 12-day period of radio silence.
The astronomers observed that this 16-day pattern of fast radio bursts reoccurred consistently over 500 days of observations.

I wonder how these aliens manage to work only for 4 days and then rest for almost 2 whole weeks. They must be quite advanced.
If you use Netflix that way, it effectively becomes a push technology.

I hate push technology, clear back to Pointcast.

The other thing that I hate about Netflix is that even when you search for a specific title, and they don't have it, they won't simply tell you that they don't have it. What they will do is bury you in listings of all their shows that have the most vague correlation to the title you actually searched for, even using just parts of random keywords.

Example: I just searched for "Dresden files". It proudly displayed "The Dresden Files" title, followed by mostly unrelated crap. Roswell? Wynonna Earp? The Greatest Events of World War II? Are you kidding me?
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I work for a software company serving companies that frequently go through FDA processes. Sometimes our software is replacing literally shipping file cabinets of documents to facilitate those processes. It’s amazing how slow some industries move.
> The internalization of this leads rich people to conclude they are rich because the provided even more value to the world than they kept to themselves, otherwise they wouldn't have paid them so well.

That's right, and that's a consequence of free markets and the astounding rise in overall standard of living in countries with free markets.

> The richer they are the more they think they think they are benefactors and any complaints about how they acquired their wealth is just jealousy or, uh, socialism or something.

Most of the complaints I see are based on envy.

> cornered the market on this niche drug

Most of that appears to be the result of FDA regulations making it very difficult for competitors.
People shouldn't be canceled for opposing internet censorship.
There is huge need for such an application.

Hope that it becomes moderately successful. If it becomes too successful, it will become victim of it's success like Reddit.
I understand about avoiding unclear terms, but I think "scripting language" actually does serve a useful purpose as an umbrella term for all those kinds of languages. It's not technically precise, but if you describe a language as "a scripting language", it does clear away a large part of the design space (not Haskell, C, Forth, or J) and tells you that this is meant to be user-friendly as opposed to performant, terse, high-assurance, etc. That's worth something. Of course if someone is still interested, then you want to get more precise pretty quickly. I think Wren does well enough at that on its landing page.
But it's not months of work, it's months of doing other things and going through the checklist every few weeks to see what's missing and then calling them again or writing another letter.
This recent Axios article has some pointers:

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-face-mask-science-e9df446b...

(BTW, why the downvotes for the original poster? He is not advocating not wearing masks, just expressing his personal unease with them, and asking for evidence. FWIW, I also don't like them, and nevertheless think one should wear them (like condoms)).

EDIT to add: Some direct links (from the article)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.0...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342198360_Associati...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/mario-moli...
Your characterization of stocks is just wrong. The definition of a ponzi scheme is that the returns are paid by new investors but when a company is buying back shares it is earning that money by providing a service or selling a product. That product or service is purchased by a customer, not an investor. Money is coming from outside the company.

What you are misunderstanding is that the difference between paying dividends and a stock buyback isn't that great. Both mechanism distribute money owned by the company to shareholders. With dividends you simply receive a payment. With stock buybacks you get the ability to sell the stock back to the original company instead of selling the stock to another investor.

Think about it this way. The company has a valuation of 50 billion dollar. It is buying 1 billion dollar worth of stock back every year. After 50 years the company owns itself and every investor has been paid back. Of course this is an oversimplification but it shows that even if you hold onto your stock after everyone else has "cashed out" you can still earn your money back by selling the shares to the company.
You don't need full vertical integration of the communication channel. You just need enough diversification between the domain registrars, hosting platforms, ad providers etc. so that you are not at the mercy of a single entity to reach your audience. It's always been a terrible idea to rely on a single company for all your needs.
So much of the left demurs from the label "Left". It isn't hard to tell that this website is significantly biased, but I appreciate that they're up front about it.
Microsoft probably wants people to use vscode.
> Money is the worst proxy for optimising returns for the society.

Free markets have done far more for society than any other system that's been tried.
See current discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662241
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662241
I tried my best to make it really over-the-top, but sadly there are people who write that way unironically on the Internet and so Poe's law applied :(
Even though that may be true it is not clear there is a way out that does not jeopardize millions of existences/sources of purpose and meaning for millions of people. Without a careful plan out it will be a disaster. It's a complex problem that has no simple solution and most solutions tend to drive people apart, e.g. the elites may decide it is best to get rid of most of the population using drones or bio-weapons.
Looks nice. Really fast webapp too.

Congrats team! Looking forward to tracking this project's development.
Yeah, I moderate on a forum aimed at beginner programmers undertaking a curriculum that uses JS, and they tend to find the book hard going if they attempt to work through it. I had a look at it when I was already very familiar with the language, and it definitely wasn't aimed at me. It's very nicely written (prose-wise) for a technical book (the introduction in particular is lovely), but the pacing and subject matter chosen don't really work for most people afaics
It will absolutely need popular support to attain some sort of critical mass, and not just among the cast-offs from other platforms, such as Gab, Parler etc.
Atom competes pretty directly against VS Code doesn't it? It makes sense that Microsoft would consolidate their efforts.
A more recent use of ultrasonic is how cheap wireless cameras get their initial configuration i.e. ssid/pwd.

Cheap and clever method for short range, low throughput. I'm surprised makers haven't found creative ways to utilize it.
We can manufacture rocket fuel on Mars. The low gravity may provide unique industrial opportunities and the weak gravity well allows Mars or the moon to be a great staging point for further exploration.

Mars would benefit greatly from increasing CO2 in the atmosphere so eventually we can move the majority of carbon-heavy manufacturing there and make it a terraforming benefit rather than a problem.
How to get people to use your typeface to disparage your company 101

See also: Striesand Effect
This article was the most convincing for me http://archive.is/QHU1H
> The User may not use the Licensed Font Software to disparage or suggest any affiliation with or endorsement by Goldman Sachs.

I would like to make clear that although I may disparage Goldman Sachs this does not mean I disparage any affiliation with them.
The real issue is clear from their announcement post.

master (now main) was not always stable (of course, stable code are in the stable and release branches) so silly people complained, and the silly PM reacted by closing down pushes to main, and hereby closing down issues and PR's. He clearly has no idea how open source code development works. Now they have to maintain two repos, the internal one and thd public one, and get no feedback from outside. Well, feedback on one year old code.
First answer from Google:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/

The research includes cloth masks, medical masks, and respirators in community and medical settings.

Conclusion:

“ The study suggests that community mask use by well people could be beneficial, particularly for COVID-19, where transmission may be pre-symptomatic. The studies of masks as source control also suggest a benefit, and may be important during the COVID-19 pandemic in universal community face mask use as well as in health care settings. Trials in healthcare workers support the use of respirators continuously during a shift. This may prevent health worker infections and deaths from COVID-19, as aerosolisation in the hospital setting has been documented.”
Well the aliens producing the Soap being broadcast probably work during the whole 2 weeks before they release the newest episode.
Courses I'd Like to Teach
Yep. UBeam. Wonder what is left of all that money?
This will be a growing model in the next decade and is imo much more sustainable for founders because the core business model isn’t torn apart and it’s easier to sell to $MED_CO or $BIG_CO as the exit.

Build a small team, grow to $20-75m valuation then ditch to a bigger co. Easier to pitch this to some of the less unicorn-y VCs like Arrowbridge, etc. I like to call it the bluebird strategy.
But he didn’t exactly fool his auditor...

https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-60.htm
Their own marketing and product teams surely use this data.
Why do you assume that I am not a minority or that I have not experienced such discrimination? I am a religious minority and have experienced this my entire life.

Overt in school and grad school. Less overt but still there in professional life.

My family including my wife and daughter are minority and multiracial.

Stop with the whataboutism already.
> Darn, can't believe I didn't catch that typo until now. I don't think that was the issue -- unbound variables don't cause exceptions in JS until that variable is dereferenced

The underlying problem here is using Javascript instead of TypeScript.

And of course under that problem there's the problem of Javascript bit being TypeScript in the first place.

(Not a bad word about Brendan Eich though, considering that the language was created by one man in three weeks it is amazing, but it is still sad that we ended up with an untyped language in such a critical place.)
It depends on the movie. The latest blockbuster? Not going to really care for the details anyway as they are so over the top, and it's great to get a high energy vibe with a packed house. The latest Haneke or Werzog? I'll pay extra for the biggest, emptiest quietest theatre around to savour each moment.
It seems to be well researched and documented by now that masks are quite effecting in reducing transmissions

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1422.full
Is there another modern editor like Xi that strictly separates the GUI front end (view) from the backend (model and controller)?
The argument is that this DB call, or something much like it, is inherently necessary to support logout. It's not something unnecessary that can be optimized away; getting rid of it entails losing functionality.
You're not kidding. This webapp is so fast (after the initial load) that I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the Reddit mobile website intentionally adds sleeps/delays as some have jokingly suspected in the past. On this site, I can actually scroll through posts or collapse comment threads without wondering if my touch input and/or browser are frozen.
They exist! (Well as a freestanding monitor.) I have one, and it's glorious!

https://www.eizo.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/
Pretty simple. First you pick two rocks that have nearly the right shape (its obvious they did that, because each joint is clearly custom). You put some dust on one surface. Take the mating surface, and rub it a bit on that dust. That will reveal the high spots. Take a smaller rock and bang on the high spots to grind them down a bit. Repeat the process until no more high spots.

It's not dissimilar to how telescope mirrors are ground to perfection, and how to make a perfectly flat steel surface.
The reflected best self is a cool model that argues you should focus on strengthening the areas you already excel in and really leaning in on where you are at your best.

https://hbr.org/2005/01/how-to-play-to-your-strengths

It kind of plays into other ideas / books like Cal Newport's book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" that pushes the idea of really specializing and developing skills that are a reflection of your unique talents / perspectives.
Richard Stallman was ousted from his position at the Free Software Foundation based on several hit pieces perpetuated by people wildly misrepresenting his communications on the CSAIL mailing list in which he called for people not to be hasty with judgement until the facts all come out.

Other folks have gotten the same treatment as well. The stories come up from time to time if you pay attention.

https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/index.html
Robots make terrible waiters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsUetUzXlg