skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is moving to Canada, there had been a pretty big exodus from Michigan and Ontario to Texas and Mexico after Nafta. They’re still closing plants in Ontario and moving them to Mexico.

16$ an hour is less than what they pay in Canada.

Source: I work for a supplier in the Automotive Capital of Canada. These comments are so egregiously false.
Is it radical for the richest country in the world to make sure people who are out of work don't get evicted when the extended pandemic benefits end this month?

It seems with the current political climate nothing radical can really happen at all, but there are pragmatic steps that can be taken to help ensure we can keep people fed and in their homes.
Lightning cables have exposed contacts - While at 5V, this does not pose a significant shock risk, if full current were available, brushing the connector against metal could result in sparks and damage to the connector or power supply. Additionally, if the connector gets wet, the DC voltage will result in electrolytic corrosion. This still does happen even with the limited current provided before the handshake, just slower. (Don't!!!) try charging a phone with official cables and a power bank in the rain or letting a plugged in lighting cord's lightning end sit in some soup

Cables with electronics in them are useful for protections like this, and to facilitate safe interoperability of multiple voltage and current sources and sinks like on USB Type-C. The question becomes, is the protocol implemented in a simple, open consumer friendly way or is it implemented with other nasty antifeatures.
Well Played Now What?
"1KB of JS should be able to do far more than 1KB of C or even binary"

This doesn't make sense and isn't a relevant comparison.
Out-migration (with a dash) is fine:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/outmigration
If the device is dead, then it can't ask the port.

This is also tied to fast charging (and whether the device will support it)
What are the benefits to the companies of increasing minimum wage if the condition for no tariffs is increase minimum wage and move production to US?
I don't even drink, but this is a great story.
One use-case comes up in the article: the chip in the cable is able to probe information from the device even when the device is unpowered, essentially acting as a microcontroller grabbing some of the device's less-guarded peripherals for itself.
The big issue seems to be that companies don’t know how long this version of NAFTA will last. If Biden becomes the next president and signals support for keeping the agreement the way it is, there’s a good shot they’ll move to the USA.
Are you assuming they’re all heterosexual men?
If wage is the only cost, sure. But it's not, and hiring a mexican metalworker at $16/hr is still cheaper than hiring an american metalworker at $16/hr
> Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan was neither a tyrant nor a monarch, nor was cutting off heads a part of his everyday life. He actually got more Mongol people more rights and a higher quality of life.

I would request you to read a detailed and accurate account of his life by a historian.

For example, Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy by Frank McLynn
https://amzn.com/B00X2ZW5ZI
Here is the announcement Airbnb is sending to users:

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Subject: How you can help us fight discrimination

Now more than ever, we need to fight for equality and justice. That’s why we recently announced Project Lighthouse—an initiative to uncover, measure, and overcome discrimination when booking or hosting a home on Airbnb. We’d like to use information from hosts and guests in the US to help, so we want to make sure you understand how it works.

Here’s what you need to know:

• We’ll only use information you already share

This project will address discrimination that's based on perception—so we’ll use first names and profile photos from hosts and guests to help us understand the perceived race someone might associate with them.

• We’ll use it to uncover patterns of discrimination

We’ll use this information to help us understand when and where racial discrimination is happening on our platform. Any insights will be used to help develop new features and policies that create a more equitable experience for everyone.

• Information won’t be tied to your specific account

We know your privacy is important, so we analyze trends in bulk and Airbnb won’t associate perceived race information with your account. We won’t use this information in marketing or advertising, and it will only be used for anti-discrimination work.

• We consulted with and solicited input from leading civil rights and privacy organizations to guide us

We know how delicate this work is—so we developed this work with support and input from leading civil rights organizations like Color Of Change and Upturn, along with privacy organizations like Center for Democracy & Technology, to make sure our approach is both thoughtful and respectful of your privacy.

You can opt out in your Privacy Settings if you don’t want to participate. And though you can change your mind at any time, your first name and profile photo may be used if you don’t opt out by August 31, 2020.

Read our frequently asked questions: https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/a-new-way-w...

By including your information, you’re helping us identify and prevent discrimination from happening on Airbnb—and you’re taking part in an initiative to better understand how and where discrimination happens on platforms like ours. This is an important step for our industry, and we’re making the methodology publicly available to other companies who want to join in the fight.

In solidarity,

The Airbnb team
I believe you are right. In fact, I think China serves as a perfect example of this (so does 1930's Germany, but I don't want to draw too much parallelism there). When there's massive growth and you're substantially better off than your parents, who cares what the government does? Clearly you're doing better, so they must be doing good. Right?

I think part of the unrest we have is that we're NOT better off than our parents. But another key component is that covid made it so that we have to worry about food on our table and we have an abundant amount of time to worry.

At the same time this is a great opportunity to talk about democratic stability. Discussing things like why privacy matters and not just to bad guys or with the silly "you wear clothes" analogies. It is also a great time to talk about structural reforms like switching to better voting methods, such as STAR (see my comments for rants on why you should not use IRV/"RCV"). At this time people have the time to think and research, but there is also the drawback that it is hard to think when you are worried about food and future. But this time to also talk about solving problems while they are small. If the Great Depression taught us anything it is that those people learned a lot about frugality but their children forgot. Luckily it appears that each time we do this we get slightly better (think like a damped harmonic oscillator). So don't give up hope, help the dampening coefficient.
Adobe had a decade or more to show that they could develop a secure browser plugin. They couldn't do it, or decided their resources were better spent elsewhere.

If you don't want to maintain a small army of full-time security staff, you can't ship binary code running untrusted data-as-programs on billions of consumer devices. Full stop.
There are certain adapter combinations that Apple doesn't sell themselves, like USB C to Ethernet. IIRC that one is Belkin.
In German we say „einen Text Überfliegen“ - fly over a Text. Funnily a „Überflieger“ is a person who excels at something, maybe with low effort.
Here's the archive of what it used to be as of yesterday:

http://archive.is/yB0zy

Seems like they removed it but the rules are written so vague that they will just interpret it however they like. They don't even follow their own rules.
It is pretty shocking from many points of view:

1) Are these people barred from legitimately selling helicopters? Perhaps some sanctions?

2) Making a helicopter fly with the right engineering and control system is monumentally difficult - doesn't matter if its a knock off, assembled from parts or OEM.

3) Where did they get the skills and how did they acquire them? Did they have the capital to purchase a few originals and take them apart?

4) At this point, why not just sell them legitimately? Regulatory requirements prohibitive?
I was using the lego mindstorm classroom program that has scratch built in, so I'm not sure of the exact details. It autosaved the project on every change, and didn't even tell me where it was keeping the files. The first time I was using it, it suddenly told me it couldn't open my project. So I found the save folder and just duplicated my recreated project as I went along. Not an ideal workflow, but fine for a few hours project.
There’s another level of subsidies called cost sharing reductions which bring the deductible/out-of-pocket expenses down as your income is reduced.

At 150% FPL the Silver plan deductible falls from about $7,000 to $250, and your maximum annual out-of-pocket expenses falls from $7,300 to $550.

At some point you hit full-on Medicaid which is, depending on the state, truly excellent insurance and totally free.
Not that it excuses the poor choice of embedded player, per se, but:

youtube-dl https://www.semicolonandsons.com/episode/sql-cascade-transactions-db-design -fhd_mp4-720p
# -F for alternatives to hd_mp4-720p

works fine. (I don't care for video tutorials (vs text) due to temporal illegibility (things not being on screen long enough to read), but it definitely looks readable enough in terms of spacial size.)
Read the word "granted" and disregarded the rest of the post. Trying to pass off your experience as some kind of canonical working class struggle when you don't need to pay for food is about as tone deaf as it gets, not to mention starting it with "to put that into context" as if you have ANY idea what that context is.

I can tell you're just like "well, the poors can just ride bikes" having never ridden one yourself, otherwise you would know that a bike that you could cycle a 40km to 60km round commute on in a rural area is gonna set you back $2k and you won't get finance on it the way you do with a car, not to mention the fact that the cycling clothes you would need to buy to cover rural distances are mostly in the designer category and therefore very expensive. Not to mention your mechanical service, which if you're commuting daily is probably $80 every six months plus any parts which wear out, $15 for brake pads, $5 every time you puncture any wheel, $60 for new tyres every year, and the occasional unexpected uninsurable $200 "bottom bracket, crank and chainring all wore out at once" repair.
I agree for the most part. That being said, I have noticed more senior engineers will grow resentful and bored if they are assigned very basic tasks, while a more junior engineer would be thrilled.

Senior engineers should be mentoring junior engineers, and the general talent and outlook of the team should match the problems being solved. A senior person at one company might seem more like a junior at another. It's important to be honest about those kinds of realities I think. Transparency leads to the longest lasting and most harmonious organizations.
Tentnants aren't the people who have real negotiating power to drop prices; as a tenant normally the only options are "follow the market" or "offer more than asking price to get a first look".

Panicked landlords are the party with price-dropping power, because their choices are "follow the market" or "undercut the market to get first look".

A landlord might hold out for a few months, but if they are rational and their property isn't tenanted they'll sack the agent.
>About the Ctrl-s thing, maybe it's specific to windows, I use libre office on linux and have for years and Ctrl-s on a new document has always brought up the save-as dialog for me.

I'm using LibreOffice on Fedora, and I've used it on Mac and Windows too.

Yes, it brings up the Save As dialog, but the name is not pre-filled with an intelligent choice.

In Office 97, it typically pre-fills the suggested file name with the first line of the file. If that's not available, it tries to think of something else.

But never does it ever suggest a file name that is either invalid or would overwrite an existing file.

It ensures that the suggested filename is not too long, and doesn't contain unacceptable characters.

If there's already a file with the first name it thinks of, it appends a number, so that you don't accidentally overwrite an existing file.

In case you don't care about the filename, and just want to save the document, you are never forced to change the default, and it always works.

Many of my files begin with "I'm ..." and sometimes the best that Word 97 can come up with is "I7.doc".

Well, that "I7.doc" is a whole lot better than LibreOffice's "Untitled 1", which will overwrite the last "Untitled 1" it already had me save.

After how many years of development is LibreOffice still not smart enough to do any of these things?

Surely, LibreOffice today has been in development longer and by more people than Office 97 had been in '97?

What is the cause of this unfortunate circumstance?
Every group belonging to the managerial class (both republicans and democrats) worked hard to make sure this experiment failed, just like they did during Occupy.There were calls for right-wing groups to come in and stop this before it spread. Many hostile people came to CHOP to try inciting violence to give the police an excuse to take it away. It looks like they won. They got what they needed.

Violence within CHOP is expected because CHOP had many violent and hostile enemies.

The irony here is that Seattle disbanded CHOP for violence, which is exactly the argument CHOP made to disband the police. Will Seattle send in and take over a police station the next time there is a police murder?
If they want to become a mainstream game developer, gutting an established fanbase and community seems counterproductive.
What I like about Nim is that you can always get C performance if you just spend a little time. You can always use a profiler you like (I use vTune) to get to the hot loops and fix them.

See my post here: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5363#33576
Appreciate it. Will take all the resources you got.
This is a verbatim rip of Eurekalert's blogspam of

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/198833/whole-town-study-reve...
> a person who broadly supports existing social structures. So yes, they're going to support law enforcement over privacy, the media industry over public access concerns

We already have a word for this - conservative. And I do agree that conservatives have consistent and valid points, even if I do not agree.

I don't know what other word to use besides "authoritarian" as in the two-dimensional political space with red-blue on one axis, and authoritarian-libertarian on the other.

To me "centrist" implies some middle of the road. I do not agree that someone who supports (this bill, the patriot act, elective wars, drone strikes, etc) deserves the label centrist, as they're nowhere near the entire libertarian half of the political spectrum. Allowing this to be called centrism is privileging and cloaking authoritarianism.
At $9/hr you’re getting EIC and the Federal tax rate is probably negative, not positive.
> ... ability to perform complicated abstract reasoning

This seems like it's kicking the can down the road. It is like saying that people need the ability to perform memory. It's tautologically true that these are both necessary for complex learning.

A lot of the challenge for learning systems is figuring out how to help people develop the mental schemas they'll be pumping abstract reasoning through. (Similar to the design of procedural pieces, which most coding lessons focus on!)
Did y'all fill that Rust position or did you re-conceive the positions?
The exact same thought occurred to me.

The good thing is I get a chuckle out of bootlegged products when an error can kill you.

I figured most people would say “no” to bootleg helicopters, heart valves, baby toys, but apparently I’m wrong. There is a market!
Came to link this. It is _very_ good, in-depth coverage of all things shared libraries. I believe all this stuff still applies today as it applied those 10 or so years ago when this was written.
We need to separate health care from employment.
The Immortal Grand Prix flash game from 2003 [0] was the single best turn based tactics game I've yet encountered online. Does anyone know whether it is still hosted somewhere, how one might self host Flash games (assuming one had the Shockwave files), or of games comparable to this one?

[0] https://youtu.be/VGxhmhNJ9qo
That's not true at all. There are boards that have mainline support quicker after release, there are SoCs really supported by the manufacturer, there are SoCs with much better documentation, etc.

> It's true that RPi owners don't know about a lot of that other stuff, but there are reasons they don't know about them.

You're just trying to explain away ignorance, and prejudice really.
I say, no need to look at hypotheticals. Just sit back and watch what the Chinese government likely has done with the social media posts from people in Hong Kong, who are now in a desperate rush to obliterate them. Tough look, those have already been crawled and indexed. It's not quite the same, because these social media posts weren't meant to be private at the time, but it illustrates the point what can happen when 'data is out there'.
I use it to put some music or listen to the news without having to pull my cellphone and risk getting sucked into Reddit.
> There is absolutely no living in this region after a tropical storm blows through unless you have functioning HVAC.

I think that's a little extreme of a claim. It definitely sucks, but I've been without A/C for several days after hurricanes in New Orleans and Orlando. I wouldn't care to repeat the experience, but it's not the end of the world. Humans lived in those regions for thousands of years before A/C was invented.

The hard part is that modern homes in the South aren't designed to be livable without A/C. If you've got an older home like a shotgun house, you're in a better state because it's designed for natural airflow.
But then somebody has to make and maintain the robots. If this is only the equivalent in cost to the existing jobs, it's still going to labor. If it's less then prices decline unless the manufacturer is a monopolist, and lower prices are about as good as higher wages. (If the manufacturer is a monopolist we've got trouble, but that's always the case.)
How do you run containers from systemd in July 2020?
I'm researching the ideal way to run an OCI Container image published in an online repository on a single lab server. No orchestration layer required. Ideal for the use case is:

1. Stable and robust. The host should be low maintenance and forgettable. Debian Stable for example.
2. Well-integrated with systemd. Ideally no intermediary like conman, runc, etc... 2a) Integrated with journald. 2b) (stretch goal) Works well with socket activation. 2c) (stretch goal) Works well with resource controls.
3. Host network namespace. The use case doesn't warrant a contained network.

I see systemd-nspawn became OCI compliant in systemd version 242 [1], but Debian 10 Stable has systemd 241. Given this, I'm wondering what the next best alternative is. How do you run this sort of thing?

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/9762
I am not sure what your conception of a dark pattern is, but the idea that adding something to a TOS means it can't be a dark pattern is simply false.

The whole concept of a dark pattern is about UX choices that lead people to agree to things that they don't actually want; it isn't about whether you break your TOS or not.

I am saying, I think that if you asked people point blank "do you want websites to email you reminders if you leave something in the cart?", most people (myself included) would say, "no, I don't want to get that email"

You can put whatever you want in the TOS, but it doesn't mean users like it, and a user agreeing to something doesn't mean they like all the things they are agreeing to.

Whether it is "on me" or not, it is still a dark pattern.

Also, as a user entering my email, I am not promising you that I will always accept email to that address from you. If you try to send me email and I reject it, that is 'on you' to deal with what that rejection does to your spam scores.
A company that picks up, breaks down, and recycles Amazon boxes once a week for $49.95 a month.
Advertisers have Facebook's attention. Now here's what they want
While this is on the right track, one would point out that these conversations wouldn't be public they would only be visible to government authorities.

I think the due process argument is more compelling. Part of preventing abuses and corruption by law enforcement is ensuring they can only surveil people with reasonable suspicion. Yes there are people who should be under surveillance. But it's crucial that this gets approval from the courts to prevent agencies from snooping on people not for law enforcement but to gain leverage and power. Your privacy helps us prevent the next J Edgar Hoover even if you have nothing to hide.
"Is "employing" XX% of your population in virtual indentured servitude supposed to be something politicians are proud of?"

In 2020, in the U.S. for example, yes.

This is why these "jobs" disappeared so quickly when there is a slightest sign of economic trouble.

Someone has to do "real work" and so there will always be a need for indentured servants. Those sort of jobs will always exist. However the need for many other "jobs" has been put into question. When things get tight, companies today are more aware that they can eliminate those positions and carry on, sometimes with increased profits as a result. The pandemic is a perfect wake-up call as it purports to separate "essential" from "non-essential" jobs. With some exceptions, the more you are being paid, the more you think you are worth, the higher the chance that your job is, in fact, "non-essential". Eliminating these higher paid, non-essential positions, even temporarily, saves companies a lot of money. It is not easy to eliminate these positions under normal conditions, however in an "economic crisis", the process becomes easier.

As an employer, I can get those workers back anytime. They will be crawling over each other, lying about their qualifications, doing whatever it takes to get hired, because, on the "strength" of their non-essential job, they have built-up a standard of living that they must maintain.
Non-controlled buildings that have other limiting provisions e.g. max 10% annual increase also don't want that nominal rent to go down, so that they can still charge $4500 in year two even if the effective rate in year one was like $3250 due to discounts and gift cards.
Income tax is by far the largest and most progressive tax.

Sales taxes are small and regressive.

It's a monster difference.
In other words, supply+demand works and has always worked.
Any connection to the folks behind Metaweb/Freebase?