skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The same way slave/master wasn’t about race in different contexts, being free or not would just a lineage or economic status.

The etymology of slave suggests otherwise. Ethnicity usually played a role.
It would be nice if I could acknowledge missed phone calls on my Mac without turning my camera on.

I believe it’s only possible with the FaceTime app, which turns the camera on when opening the app.
They do make sacrifices, but it does not mean they are in favor of having to do it; that is the point my comment was responding to.
Perhaps the commenter wants no companies to pay taxes?

That's actually a pretty popular position amongst mainstream economists.
As founders and CEOs, couldn’t their antipathy to government regulation simply be explained by self-interest?

Broockman: I’m sure that at least some of their political views have to do with self-interest.

I'm pro-Left everything, except when it effects my huge revenue stream.

Go figure.
I use Hetzner for quite a lot for personal projects and can recommend them for reliability and predictable costs. I've done reasonably high CPU tasks like compiling Android images on the larger Cloud instances.

However, this morning I was playing around with Scaleway bare metal [1] and General Purpose instances [2] -- I am thinking of making a switch for high CPU tasks.

[1] https://www.scaleway.com/en/bare-metal-servers/

[2] https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/general-purpos...
Rust in the kernel is not guaranteed to get stdlib. Running on bare metal is often done with `no_std`. Remembering how memory allocation in the kernel can happen in a multitude of ways, I'm not even sure the usual stdlib could be leveraged. Strings, for example, allocate memory implicitly.

That being said, apart from a good stdlib, I found Rust much easier than C due to a consistent type syntax, sum types, generics, traits, and the compiler hitting me on the head with lifetime errors.
I've worked at places where everyone got stock, but it was orders of magnitude different for engineers and non-engineers. I bought a house, my friend in support paid down their credit card debt.
Ask HN: Intel in plain sight on “random content sites” plausible?
So, yesterday while waiting for a doc office to open which was delayed by several minutes, two others showed up, one man in his 30s with brown hair cut short wearing a Lawn and Leaf shirt, the other an older overweight woman (50s or 60s based on bad hair coloring) showed up to wait in the same unoccupied hallway for the office to open. They then proceeded to chat with each other awkwardly as they tried to hack me. They got my phone ID and Facebook photos in a short amount of time as evidenced from the woman that was noisily giving updates in coded speech that I partially picked up from strange references and awkwardness. First letters and words.
It’s very possible that I was being overly paranoid. I stress frequently about data security at work.

But, I’ve also done a lot to be on the radar, and I don’t do non-work VPN or Tor.

I know Silicon Valley was founded on INT, and I’m not a subversive, but this is weird.

I’m calling this out because it seems too obvious. Also- no one’s out to get you, probably.

Google results I found for searching on a few terms including “Leaf and Limb” and “posing” and an area code:

Result 1:

Drive a Dream › lisping

Lispund Driveadream
Uninhibited newcomer posing seductively on the liquid. Bernie ... (redacted US area code and next three digits) Phone Numbers Reduce teenage pregnancy in order now fixed up.

Result 2:

Car Factory Outlet › ...
910-690 Phone Numbers | Southepins, North Carolina - Carfactoryoutlet
Carfactoryoutlet | 415-919 Phone Numbers | Snfc Cntrl, California. (A US phone number here, redacted) ... Seasonal leaf and limb damage. (A US phone number here, redacted) ... Once sailed a little posing and sucking. (A US phone number here, redacted)

Result 3:

Star Motor Sales › cackle
Cackle Starmotorsales
919-761 Phone Numbers This squad could be constitutional. Indian arms market ... Baby posing coat. ... But lift my leaf and limb faced by its title.
But are you the target audience - a C developer contributing, or at least considering contributing, to the Linux kernel?
Ask HN: Have access to an EIDL loan, what should I do with it?
I finally got [pre?]approved for the EIDL program - I originally applied nearly 2 months ago, more interested in the "free" grant portion of it, which was immediately exhausted and I haven't seen a peep about it since.

Anyway, I am approved for $18k at 3.5% for 30 years ($88/month payment) with first payment due after the first 12 months (it looks like the first year nothing is due.)

I'm curious what ideas people would have for how I could use this? I am just a freelancer with a day job, so I don't need a loan to survive, but if there was something worthwhile that I should be looking into, I am all ears. Using it to bootstrap a new business, or purchase an existing business/idea, etc?
> What's the downside? Is it really so hard to type "main" instead of "master"?

Is it really hard to say your prayer before the dinner?

Is it really hard to never ever eat pork?

Is it really hard to bow to every police officer you meet?
Those things go under fraud and (depending on circumstances) negligence and under a free market system would be cause for collective legal legal. Free-market people have a quite sophisticated understanding of the law and how it constraints buissness, but nobody ever bothers to read or even understand that research.

If you look at British Common Law many of these problems have legal precedents that would be evolved based on real world cases.

This is what economist like Armen Alchian, James M. Buchanan, F.A. Hayek and many others have been arguing and researching for decades.

There are of course criticism to that approach, but to just dismiss it as if it didn't exist is not fair.
A Truth That's Told with Bad Intent
I think valuations with high PE ratios eventually become self-fulfilling prophecies for large market-caps. These companies are able to raise capital cheaply, deploy it efficiently and keep increasing their market share. With the Fed willing to pull all stops, even weak macro environment doesn't affect PE anymore.
Buffett would often invest in distressed blue chip companies. The companies often gave him a very good deal in return for the halo of Buffett approval.

For the comment about the Fed, see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put
http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2014/03/game-140-tunnels-of-d...
Buffett has always had pretty conservative holdings with Berkshire and a top tier credit rating. So in 2008 when a lot of businesses needed liquidity he came in with it on very generous terms to him making billions. For instance he loaned Goldman 5 billion dollars to keep them afloat and in return got preferred shares that made him much more money. This was in return for the risk he took.

Now the government and Fed are offering almost unlimited liquidity to businesses so he can't do that. The problem with this is that the government is NOT getting Buffet like terms.
I'm not sure it's important to resist this trend, but this is one more way that silicon valley and the people that are part of this culture show how out of touch they are with the real world.

Renaming branches, streets and toppling statues are all cheap gestures that achieve nothing at all but allow those performing them to feel self-important and pose as defenders of the oppressed.

Meanwhile the oppressed would like to have at least their freedom, a roof over their head, a secure job that allows them to make a living and a modicum of respect from those around them. But no, too many people in the US (and elsewhere) can't have that because it actually requires effort, at least more than running some git command or posting a tweet.

This is such an empty and disrespectful gesture that it makes a mockery of what it means to fight against discrimination.
The amount of work here is completely incomparable to OP's example of changing few words. OP already mentioned "Without invoking slippery-slope arguments?"
> A strong union presence is significantly more effective than a minimum wage.

Citation, please? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm begging you, with tears in my eyes, for a citation.
This is for last_question. I saw your comment before you deleted it:

I could have written something similar in my early 20s, except I was too busy masturbating and playing video games and hating myself.

I joined a 12 step group for porn and formed some of the first real relationships in my life. I've stood up to my shitty parents. I've learned to take care of myself and make a life for myself. I have a family now. I try to help other people (and animals). Life is not perfect, but it is good. I learned that God exists and loves me. He loves you too! He only made one of you and he doesn't make junk!

I don't know what you should do in your life, but I would recommend setting some goals and finding a way to take a small step towards them every day. You aren't going to claim your life in one big step, it will be lots steps. There will be loses and pain and mistakes, but there will be good too. There will be victories and successes, but only if you put yourself out there and try something.

Here are the things that help me:
* Going for a walk.
* Getting a job.
* Getting an apartment (with roommates to cover expenses)
* Forming relationships with people. Church, 12 step meetings, meetups. Anything that gets you socializing in a healthy way
* Reading a book
* Meditating
* Swimming
* Learning something
* Being honest with people I trust about what's going on inside of me
* Listening to other people
* Feeding squirrels

For me, I have spent a lot of time thinking about how the world and my parents have screwed me. It didn't help me too much.

A prayer for both of us:
God,
Thank you for saving me from my demons. Thank you for last_question having the courage to speak up today. Please hold last_question in your hand, and provide the love and comfort that only you can. Thank you for the squirrels that we feed. Thank you for water and the sky. Thank you for giving me a job, so that I get to feed the squirrels. Please lift up last_question with an outpouring of love! Show us what to do and give us the courage to do it. Help us to set aside the garbage from our parents and help us move on with our lives. Thank you for healing us!
I'm surprised in the current economy, people are still buying new cars, let alone luxury cars like a Tesla (at least they're viewed as luxury in Australia).

If I've learnt anything this year, it's the stock market is really resilient against global pandemics.

And that governments are willing to do so much to keep the economy going like it's their poster child of success.
Using Bigtable’s monitoring tools to make art
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_...

The "Viking grafitti" is really interesting!
If you're storing a lot of data I talked to someone who went from $3,000 a month to $3 a month by saving older dumps of their database into an S3 bucket instead of keeping many many old RDS snapshots from weeks / months ago around.

Here's a direct timestamp link to that point in the podcast where it came from: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/33-zego-lets-you-eas...
Say what? That the US still has to handle the slavery thing that it got herself into since its very inception while Denmark doesn’t have that problem? I thought that was common knowledge. We (Romania) have the same problem with our Roma population that we “de-slaved” in the 1860s (so pretty much at the same time as slavery was abolished in the States) and during all this time we have had problems similar to the US (even though color-blindness is more pronounced in here, there aren’t that many people calling my brother and mother “gipsy” because of their brownish skin-color, because we all live a “Romanian” life).

After we entered the EU that Roma population mostly emigrated to wealthier countries out West, including Denmark, which wealthier countries were as bad as us at integrating them (including the beloved Denmark or Norway).

All this to say that seeing many Americans in here daydreaming about life in countries like Denmark or Sweden is very ubermensch-y. Yes, when you have a small, privileged and mostly white population things are easy, only when it gets mixed up things start becoming complicated.
That was some high quality production
Rust in Linux will be fantastic except for compile time. Rust (and the world) needs a Manhattan Project to build a fast Rust compiler (where by "fast" I mean both efficient and scalably parallel when compiling a workspace with many crates and long dependency chains).

To put this in perspective, though: increasing the number of people paid to work on the Rust compiler by 10x would only mean hiring about 25 people. Compared to the size of the projects that are starting to depend on Rust, that's a rounding error.
Yeah, It would be nice if I could acknowledge missed phone calls on my Mac without turning my camera on.

I believe it’s only possible with the FaceTime app, which turns the camera on when opening the app.
I prefer short sellers to lose money. They're betting against EVs and EV culture and I believe they have promoted hit pieces and a lot of negative press on the sole EV company for years. This may actively put our climate at risk, though I'm not set on the point...
Assuming the Starlink satellites were powered by batteries charged by solar and that they were delivered to orbit by solar.

The first is theoretically possible, the second is not true.
welcome orwell's newspeak.
What functionality would be broken if clipboards were changed to be completely unreadable other than when the user initiates a “paste” command manually?
It’s simple with AWS: A step by step serverless fan-out architecture guide
If you want to travel a lot -- either because you like traveling, or because you want to meet many interesting people over the world -- you will need to pay for hotels. In some places it could be like $100 a night. So if you have $100,000 a year, a third of that budget would already go to hotels. Okay, sounds doable.

The next life-improving expense would be to hire a personal assistant. Someone who would e.g. book the hotels and the airplane, so that I don't even have to think about the boring technicalities. With kids, I would probably also want a babysitter. And both of them need a room in that hotel, too. Seems like I have already exceeded the $100,000 a year. But maybe $200,000 or $300,000 would do.

Okay, I admit that at this point I am mostly out of ideas. I imagine I could use more than one personal assistant, e.g. one to take care about my everyday life (things I don't want to think about), and another to help me with my projects (things I want to think about, but prefer if someone else does the difficult research). More generally, in some situations being able to pay people to do stuff for me could save me time.

Above cca $500,000 a year I don't really have good ideas.
This article has instructions for observing it: https://skyandtelescope.org/press-releases/new-bright-visito...
At least this is a lot less insane than all the “Company XYZ renames everything in their existing products that people use every day”. If you say, “hey I don’t like this phrase, next time I’ll use a different one”, I can actually understand. I still think the big sed is, let’s say, misguided, but at least this version is not insane.
And even more insane is how people can completely disregard common sense and their own opinion and blindly obey an idea that sounds far-fetched to them just to placate easily-offended people—even if it's just copy/paste (which it isn't, if anything because people will need to re-learn an API).
If you feel like an impostor, chances are you are. Embrace it, relish it, learn, and you’ll become not an impostor.
What's the Rubocop case?
Then the system should be designed to let you avoid such demands:

- you vote once under supervision and another time later in private. Only your last vote counts

- you are given multiple private keys and only one of them is real. If you vote using any other one, the system behaves as if your vote was recorded, but actually doesn't count it
Apart from the unsolvable problem of where to draw the line for tax exemptions like that: If a for-profit company can’t succeed while contributing to society like everyone else, it’s just not worthwhile. Objectively innovative companies like SpaceX have few issues attracting funding, anyway.
That theory works for Tesla and other legitimately innovative companies... but how many companies fail for every TSLA?
I'm not sure ham radio is the right choice for that application. My first thought would be FRS (Family Radio Service). No licensing or testing is required to use them

The radios are small hand held transceivers with 22 channels. The radios are $10-40 each.

A step up from FRS is GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service). It is similar to FRS, but had 30 channels (the 22 of FRS plus 8 more), higher power limits, and does require a licenses. GMRS users are allowed to talk with FRS users on their shared channels.

A GMRS license does not require any testing. You just fill out a form and pay a fee (around $85, I believe). It's good for 10 years.
HowBloated: Measure how much memory your web page eats
Check Hi Score Girl (by Rensuke Oshikiri) for an anime about that
https://progenygenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-open-sourc...
TSA MAKES US Crazier in our post-pandemic land
~92% of women feel unsafe w the TSA . ~90% of Black men feel the TSA treats them worse based on race. (Vs. Only ~13% of White men). ~91% of JFK TSA agents w an affinity towards Howard Beach said they treat black citizens worse. The full 2,225 words
In the common law system it would be up to a judge to make an estimation if such a question should happen. This is how common law operated for a long time. This allows judgment on a case by case bases where the judge can react to changing circumstances.

It has many advantages compared to a system where the government to literally pre-define every single thing in the economy and create specific regulation and test procedures for it, even if in most cases these things are not needed.
Colocation just means buying space in a datacenter somewhere (and it comes with a certain amount of power and bandwidth).
> In reality, people get very unhappy if wages go down

Part of the intent behind an employment contract is that the employee will mostly not have to bear risk in the business itself, or in market conditions. That's a legitimate demand, but it does imply that you'll be paid quite a bit less for your effort than if you really were bearing that risk of having your earnings fall due to no fault of your own - let alone being outright sacked because someone else has volunteered to do the same job for cheaper.

I think leaving these broad social insurance considerations to wholly private contracting between employees and businesses is a very bad deal for workers, and also explains why e.g. the least pleasant jobs can pay so little. A UBI-like arrangement would allow us to get a lot closer to the "truly" free market in labor you posit here.
I'm using Atom (http://atom.io) with MaPerWiki extention for this with private personal github repo for storage.
I can't offer an alternative, but given that you used MoinMoin for years, you could also look into porting MoinMoin to python 3? Most likely you will learn enough about its codebase to add the features you wanted in 2018.

If the upstream project is dying, you might not only do yourself but others a favor by reviving its codebase.
How is that any different from any other business? You spend money to make more money later, which enables you to spend more money to make even more money. For example if you run a loan business you're making a bet that your customers will repay you on time so you can loan even more to future customers. Buying stock is just like giving loans to corporations.
Analyzing the consequences is only half the ethical story. Doing the right thing sometimes is different to what the consequences are. If you don't do the right thing in the first place regardless of the outcome, you let weaknesses in the system grow.

James damore's memo was created and went nowhere within google. It's some people fretting over the consequences who took it, spread it among the company and got a good engineer fired, sowing distrust in the community. Should have just left the memo to be forgotten in somebody's email account somewhere. A deontological ethic will come to bite back if you are determined to ignore the fact that sometimes you have to do the right thing regardless of the consequences.
Nordic model is interesting but one has to look at it through the perspective of the local culture and mentality. Something that has been working in Sweden for 20 years,may never work in the US and so on. Also, the education system played a huge role in shaping those countries. I remember going to the underground in Helsinki and to my surprise seeing no barriers: people were still paying and I saw very very few who weren't doing it(there were very few ticket inspectors). There are quite a few countries in Europe alone where such a system would collapse within a month.
The last thing I sold on ebay was a 11 year old netbook - the asus eee pc 1000he. I had replaced it's hdd with an SSD 9 years back and when I booted it after a EIGHT year hiatus it booted just fine, running xp and chrome and for the most part working okay. I listed it on ebay and sold it for 55 bucks. I'm definitely hoping that it found someone who actually uses it for something.

In general, if it's still working and I believe it has use left, I find ebay to be an amazing place to sell it. Some times, it sells for far greater value than it should, but from the names it apppears as if it's bought by people who can't otherwise afford any gadget. Definitely feels better than tossing it.

If it doesn't work, or is fully broken, I just toss it in the best buy recycle bin most of the times. Still have my broken Vaio Z (the original RAID0 beauty), if there's any takers I'll ship it for free!
It’s all up to one’s preferences, isn’t it? For people with moderate risk appetite and moderate expectations on ROI, value investing can make lots of sense and good returns. Especially over decades. (E.g. a 30 year old might not retire on over three decades.) I’m content if a get an average yearly return of 4-8%. Building wealth doesn’t have to be a sprint.

Obviously I’m nowhere near neither Buffet’s nor Musk’s league :)
I feel like this comment is actively harmful.

I know some ultra competent people who still feel like an impostor. They aren't. Suggesting that they are makes it harder to get out of it.
It seems comical that our idea of randomness is so specific
I remember a product called Sterilair, created back when I was a child, that would simply heat air to 270ºC inside a ceramic honeycomb.

https://www.sterilair.com.br/