skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Russia might be fine with those considering they themselves[1] are part of China's flagship BRI project.

I can see that changing quite quickly if there's evidence of a political shift in Central Asia that disfavors Russia. Say a new Turkmeni strongman decides to start his foreign trips by visiting Beijing and doesn't call on Russia for a few years. Or a Putin-successor with flagging popularity sees being more combative here as an easy way to boost popularity (much as the Crimean annexation was driven in part by Putin attempting to improve his support)--although targeting Western country is more likely here.

> Didn't Russia and China settle their border differences in early 2000s?

The lack of existing border disputes doesn't mean that the population accepts the border. Take Alsace-Lorraine--the border was never a live dispute, but France and Germany sure saw fit to switch it to their side every opportunity in the early 20th century. The Chinese have their own self-image as being a nation unjustly carved up and tormented by foreign powers, and the current border is seen as being one of those examples [1].

To be clear: I don't see any of these flashpoints as likely; I'm just pointing out that there is a split between Russia and China that could lead to a war, and that war between any two of Russia/China/USA is plausible.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2100228/c...
> If you're not good a marketing a product, you should still spend 100% of your effort on making it great, and hire a marketing person to do the other part

You can't hire a marketing person for yourself. Marketing yourself and your work is important because things don't magically get discovered or recognized.
IntelliJ, PyCharm, and the git to docker deployment service that I built myself for my companies.
So how is this person going to cash their BTC since all the transactions from the now most famous bitcoin wallet address in the world are traceable?
There are two studies reported. The first one [0] is a preprint (not peer-reviewed) so one should take it with a grain of salt. The second one [1] Figure 4 shows decrease of symptoms in people on the drug vs those on placebo, they are just not statistically significant enough to detect. Absence of evidence does not imply evidence of absence of the effect so I strongly argue against such bold titles.

Nevertheless, WHO has also discontinued such trials [2] but their findings are not yet published in peer-review. I guess more focus on the new vaccines now.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20151852v...
[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-4207
[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/04-07-2020-who-disconti...
FTA:

Ouchi said the boy, now 17, was released in April and will require surgery to treat the physical issues he developed as a result of the estrogen treatment.

...

The boy’s father said the hormone therapy has had a long-term effect on his son, who now scares easily and has become antisocial.
“He’s like a different person. He just wants to be in his room, and he don’t come out for nothing, all day in his room,” the father said. “He was never like that.”
Twitter is now restricting posts that contain cryptocurrency addresses
It has a very different connotation when you say "I'm stealing..." than it does when you say "you're stealing..." It's only jargon in first-person.

Compare saying "wow, I'm really stupid" when you make a mistake vs. saying "wow, you're really stupid" when they do.

Self-deprecation applied to others is just deprecation.
In studies of post-menopausal cis women, that's correct, extended use is associated with those things. (Also, I think some of those were done with Premarin, which is no longer widely used?)

There has been unfortunately few studies done on transgender people or on young people. (I welcome any links to studies you have!)
If you’re not overpaying first the property, absolutely. Renting gives you flexibility, but do you need it if you can work remote? Owning gives you control over the property, and allows you (instead of your landlord) to capture any future appreciation.
The universe simulates itself into existence, and other nonsense from physics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/15/cia-russia...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/trump-putin-ru...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/trump-putin-g...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-h...

Ignoring the whole Roger Stone + wikileaks, Flynn, Manafort, etc.

The list goes on, and on, and on. But you already knew that.
Exactly. I won’t comment on the scientists confidence, but getting a chunk of plutonium to go critical isn’t that hard.

Getting it to go critical in a consistent way is hard. Slam two sub-critical pieces together with your hands and it will go critical then blow itself apart, going sub-critical. Little energy release and more just throwing plutonium around.
Why do calculators get this wrong? (We don't know)
> Even if you disagree, you click the heart to save it.

There is actually a "bookmark" function that save tweet into a private list (as opposed to public list of likes).

> And Facebook needs one more too - DISAGREE

There are downvotes on HN. Do they really make this community better?
It seems that MIT-Scheme needs the cc function to be a function of 1 argument (the return value for the continuation)[0]

Changing it to the following should work:

(let ((start #f))
(if (not start)
(call/cc (lambda (cc)
(set! start cc))))

(display "Going to invoke (start)\n")

(start #f))

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/stable...
Ah yes, the attitude that put a man on the moon. "Nobody else in the world has accomplished this, so why should we even bother trying?"
little late, but not true. 600k equals to about 2000 a month in mortgage payment
The bodybuilder? Because that what shows up in the search results.
Not only is it no crime for young people to have low wage jobs it could be of benefits in learning. No one can pay someone to learn anymore because its to expensive to even if you find a young person willing to learn and a business owner willing to teach.
Australia does something interesting - minimum wage scales with how old the person is. Say it's $15/hr for 18 year olds; 19 year olds get $16 as a minimum, and so forth.

Curious what you think about that idea.
And as a (former) manager: when your reports are doing great work, make sure to publicly praise them, as well as give people opportunity to beat their own chest and roar. Shipped a cool feature? Present a few slides at the weekly team meeting, explain why it's cool. This won't happen unless you encourage it and set aside the time. I don't see nearly enough of this, and I think it's a shame - it makes people feel good about what they do, feel that their work not a waste of time. It also engenders pride in good work and implicitly shines a light on poor performers.

As far as telling people's managers about good work, that is helpful of course. But I feel like there's this misconception among non-managers that managers don't already know who's great and who's not. As a manager who pays any attention at all this is clear as a day most of the time.
4chan technically does have accounts in the form of '4chan pass', but it's not linked to your posts at all[1] and just removes the ads, and lets you bypass the captcha and some kinds of subnet level posting bans.

There is also the concept of a tripcode, which is basically an HMAC with a key that the server has a user provided code that is shown next to your post. You can use this to prove knowledge of the code. Usage depends a lot on which board you're on, but is generally frowned upon.

Some boards (such as the infamous /pol/) also have IDs on posts (IIRC derived from your IP address and the thread id), so that posts by the same user in the same thread can be correlated.

Other than that, everything is anonymous.

[1] minor exception is the "since4pass" option which just adds a little icon to your post indicating how long you've had your pass. This is basically never used (perhaps because even 4chan posters don't want to advertise that they're paying for 4chan)
The more interesting data is low-wage workers. Making 10c over the minimum wage would pull you out of that report.
Well, unfortunately it looks like the evil gender-bender doctor dystopia has been alive and well in CA for some time now. Slow clap...
I don’t understand American knives. Too big, and in my taste often very ugly. Something like the a Victorinox Climber fits better in the pocket and works better both for city life as well as for camping, with essentials as cork screw and pincer (works very well for ticks).
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I think there’s more than a hint of transphobia in the comment too, given that hrt is used in gender transitioning.
If anything, the pandemic illustrates why it is important to spend no more than 30% of monthly rent. People simply do not have the savings to fall back upon in times of crisis. This forces a reliance upon some form of social safety net or homelessness in the case of lost employment. It forces people to continue working in unsafe conditions if they manage to keep their job.

Of course, the consequences go well beyond pandemics. People are forced to accept illegal labour practices, have minimal savings if they face a loss of income for personal reasons, and cannot plan for retirement even under normal circumstances.

As for the second caveat, note that the article mentions that the average minimum wage worker has to work 97 hours per week to meet that threshold. That is effectively a two income household where at least one person is working more than 40 hours per week. That is very difficult to keep up for people with children.
Nitpick, but this man doesn't really seem to understand what "Marxism" means.
As far as I can tell from googling "Lateral Vascular Neck Restraint", it's just a rear-naked choke, which was not what killed George Floyd. Or Eric Garner. It's used on a daily basis in jui jitsu competition throughout the world. When done properly it does not obstruct your breathing whatsoever.
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> Voting certainly has its problems, but the alternative is [giving] trolls and spammers free reign.

I would replace "voting" with "moderation." Voting mechanisms on conversational sites are a form of moderation; so are actual moderators. And, of they're not mutually exclusive.

> Even in its current state, I find Twitter borderline unusable, because > 95% of posts are worthless noise.

I think Twitter tried to replace moderation with curation -- in theory, you're only going to see posts from people you follow, giving you direct control (and responsibility) over the amount of noise on your timeline. In practice, of course, Twitter goes back on that implicit promise in the name of engagement. Twitter itself injects things you don't have direct control of onto your timeline -- not just promoted tweets, but "people you follow liked this" and "someone you follow replied to this tweet" and other such dubious nonsense -- and also lets people you follow inject things onto your timeline through retweets and quote tweets. But, I think the original idea of "give you the tools to curate what you see" was relatively sound, although it should have implemented LiveJournal-esque "only allow replies from people I follow and/or who follow me" type filters very early.
I just closed a 30 year fixed at 2.75%. I'm very grateful for such a low rate.
Metabase's indexing really killed our database (SQL Server with dozens of tables, in the low terrabytes) performance. Obviously it's best practice to put that data in either a read replica or in another source, but at the time it wasn't worth the effort for us.
The same enjoyment? No, of course not.

More enjoyment than anything else I can think to watch? All the time.

Funnily, for feature length films I can only watch them once every few years as well.
It sounds quite Orwellian. I fondly remember being written up almost literally a hundred times throughout school for "willful disobedience" and being sent to the "behavior modification center" as punishment.
Anything is "peaceful" if you're woke enough: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/28/msnbcs_al...
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Is there a particular reason you never communicated your work?

I think people have an obligation to share the work they do, especially if it's interesting or impactful. Because if you don't, then generally no one else will.
I remember when I had "strange behaviors" as young boy. Some times later i was circumcised. 30 years later I still suffer from it.

I want to get kids soon. I hope they get a strange as I was. Stupid, funny, dangerous.
The capitalist strategy is generally to have so much wealth sloshing around that nobody is paid the minimum wage anyway. Fixating on the situation of minimum wage workers is ok and we don't want anyone to be structurally suffering - but a far better strategy than "affordable rental housing and emergency rental assistance" is to work on increasing the economic prosperity of workers so that the legal minimum wage is just a theoretical thing for underpaid children. If only 2% of people are paid the minimum wage it doesn't matter that only 5% of the housing is available to them.

It has been something like 50 years since workers say a real improvement in their wage position. The system keeps encouraging people to play shell games with debt and that really hurts over the long term.

Less mortgages. More savings. Cheaper houses. Shorter slogans.
It's terrible how the lives of young men don't matter.
Does anyone know the degradation in blood oxygen levels under moderate exercise for a person who is fairly health (not athlete but slim, does regular exercise)?

I had covid, so bought one of these, and I'm now building my way back to being able to jog, after months of shortness of breath. I would like to be able to understand what level my blood oxygen %, for a normal, healthy person, would drop to when say jogging.
”I see no problem here. Kid should sue and win.”

If there were no problem the kid would have nothing to sue over.

If your computer crashes but your backups work, you still have a problem.

This is the backup system working.
It's not "paranoia" if the subject of the gender-bending either a) was not aware or b) was being held in a state funded institution and otherwise had no intention of "transitioning" to the opposite gender...
I have a family to support and we basically just make with this income, with the possibility to retire someday. My experience is in Neoxam and FileNet, so my options are limited. My wife won't consider moving, so that brings my options to zero.
> He was injected with non-indicated contradictory sex hormones during adolescence and under duress; I don't know why you're downplaying this

I'm not downplaying this at all. It's you who are boosting your interpretation because of "assault on the testicles", "mental destruction", "sex hormone", and other things that tell me what you're really upset about is his masculinity and not his well being.

No, I don't think this is any worse than had he gotten an equivalently dangerous drug (say, fentanyl for sedation, which has also been alleged in juvenile detention facilities IIRC). And I'm point out the fact that you do is... unseemly.
I'd say 20% is not a small number! I'd also point out that "just above minimum wage" isn't much better than minimum wage. For example, if you work for many large chains that pay minimum wage you're likely to get a raise at some point. That raise may take you from, say, $10.00/hr to $10.50/hr. Hurrah!

I think a better metric might be (minimum wage + (20% * minimum wage)). That snags all those people who work at "minimum wage jobs" but have stuck around for a few years and gotten a few small pay increases, but are still being paid a wage that is a function of minimum wage.

Just riffing here to be honest, but I do get a little uppity when people claim minimum wage jobs are just for teenagers or other "less important" wage earners. Part of this was from working in retail and food service when I was much younger and knowing a lot of adults, many single parents, working for close to minimum wage. Anecdotal, I know.
Read the Tryanny of Kindness. It is from 1993 and is a former welfare mother and advocate who advocates for a guaranteed income.

The book goes into great length of the pathology of the welfare system and its non-profit charity profiteers. Of course that was 27 years ago.

It obviously depends on the UBI. If it covered children, it would be absolutely better for the recipients. If it does not cover children, as in Yang's plan, then it is questionable, but it still could benefit a lot because many do not get it at all:

https://medium.com/basic-income/there-is-no-policy-proposal-...

http://www.scottsantens.com/tanf-is-terrible
The problem is, contemporary zoning laws make the construction of (relatively) inexpensive housing illegal, by mandating excess parking requirements and forbidding multifamily housing on the vast majority of usable parcels: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-ren....

Until we resolve that problem, we're going to keep getting headlines like the original one. We've regulated ourselves into ultra-high costs. Liberalization can improve matters.
How is communicating what you're working on lying or using mind games?
It's kind of an underhanded trick where the guy is redirecting the conversation to something else. I'd probably prefer that people meet him head on and debunk him instead of downvoting him into oblivion, but I don't blame people for just booting his bad-faith argument out of the conversation.

To meet with the comment head-on: You assert that nobody is supporting a family on minimum wage, so there's no reason to increase the minimum wage or have social welfare programs that help people on minimum wage.

That's not true. A lot of people are stuck at minimum wage and supporting themselves and supporting families on it.

You can go off the rails here and assert that "Any competent adult should be able to ..", and maybe it's true. But that argument is a VERY slippery slope. Personally, I think that anyone posting on this site SHOULD be able to go out and snag a job that pays well over 400k a year if they work hard and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Actually I think that most of the people here should be able to start a valuable startup and become millionaires. I'm not going to roll in and take a dump on someone if they can't pull it off, though.
Language matters. It has far reaching consequences. Right now in mainstream culture mental health is used as a weapon to drag people down, or as virtual signaling and advertising conditions/medications/lifestyles with mental illnesses. It's being glamorized.

No it's not okay to use misleading language to describe, discuss, debate or eve refer to an extremely complex problem. That's how you get even more unintended problems: by not looking at the hard truths and operating off of them.

It matters because people think that most mental illnesses make the person less than, or they become insecure or fearful of people with basic mental issues and then become afraid to talk about their own.

Psychiatrists have been taking advantage of people with normal, run of the mill problems for decades. Their own industry insiders have been calling them out for years on over diagnosis. There is a very real incentive for psychiatrists to make poeple sick, or convince someone who is perfectly healthy otherwise to go on medications that will completely change their body chemistry and life.

Your attitude and approach to this problem is ignorant at best. You should speak to people before coming to such baseless conclusions and spewing them forth.

This isn't a euphemism treadmill. This is science and it makes perfect sense. Tons of people are experiencing chemical imbalances because of habits, and because of the way they are treated or disconnected with others throughout our culture. If you abuse someone emotionally and mentally enough, it will show physically, and it doesn't take much pal. I don't know what universe you're living in but maybe get out of the macho "i'm so badass" comic books metality for two seconds and realize medical abuse and corruption within our medical industries is FUBAR.
That was an incredible fun ride! Thanks for sharing
last year I drove from Nashville to Miami. passed by many small villages. middle class is still there. maybe you should get outside of the city to see it yourself.
Except they were originally "Apple Computers" until they slowly gained enough recognition to rebrand to "Apple," plus that was in 1984, there wasn't an oversatuated market of other computer brands also called "Apple," unlike "Element" which has tons of existing tech-related and non–tech-related overlap and is generic on top of it.
No, because this is the policy outcome government should seek, not a uniform raising of the minimum wage.

> Or do you have thoughts on specific policies that will make this true

No I don't... but I'm curious in solutions to this problem, rather than 'solutions' to minimum wage jobs.

> Because currently, many people who need to support a household rely on minimum wage jobs (or close to it), and often without guaranteed full time hours and no health insurance.

Yes... i know. We need to formulate policies that make this not true, so that the group I said should make up the majority of min wage workers actually comprises the majority.
It often takes a while for the probes to stablise and get an accurate reading, so this is a very common pattern, but I haven't looked into why. I think part of it may be the machine calibrating to the flow of blood through the area of skin you have chosen. You often apply the probe and sit it there for 30-60s waiting for it to stabilise.

If you are worried, ask them to leave it on throughout your consult. You should see it sit at 99-100% for the rest of your stay.
Well, there can be some challenges to get people to apply to the archaic job board and they often don't recognize the brand. It's certainly easier to hire at Netflix being a well known consumer brand.

How's the interview process though? Do managers get to hand pick candidates, without them being subjected to a grueling full day onsite with 6-8 employees?

I'd say that's the biggest issue to hire. Even if referred and highly recommended, it's trivial to be rejected due to any one interviewer having a bad day or an impossible bar.
> Makes you wonder what all kind of shady medical shit is done in jails and prisons.

I've personally watched guards ignore diabetic patients in crisis, and heard them tell arrested, but not yet convicted, people to not declare any medical condition that they need medications for while in custody, because the cops didn't want to drive the arrested persons to the hospital and keep them under observation while they're prescribed the medication they need.

If you don't declare any medical conditions during the intake process, and then you have a medical crisis while in custody because you don't have the medication you need to manage your condition, they aren't liable, and good luck convincing the cops to take you to a doctor.

I've heard from case workers that the medical staff in prisons delight in purposely not treating, under-treating, or mistreating prisoners' medical conditions. They just throw anti-psychotics at people because those medications keep the prisoners sedated and compliant, despite the fact that APs have serious side-effects that can be permanent and disabling.
The commenter is underplaying it because the commenter has an agenda.
I don't know the circumstances, but if a company is paying well above the market (I've been a recipient of such good fortune before), what are the odds of retaining that in an acquisition?