skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He added that Hollywood has routinely caved into pressure and censored their films “to appease the Chinese Communist Party.”

First point: it's the Chinese government. In China, the government has the ability to shape business actions far more than in the US, because sovereignty. Calling it "CCP" feels political, even if it is accurate.

Hypocrisy, coming from the federal government of the USA, who does the exact same thing when Hollywood wants to use any part of the DoD[1].

It shouldn't happen in either case, but it does. And this US Attorney General isn't a relevant neutral source for this message. It just looks like he's making a political statement from a White House that is in the middle of a multi-faceted trade war negotiation with the same entities being criticized here. Also note that this US Attorney General's office is the one which is seeking extradition of the CFO of Huawei[2] from Canada which has been verbally acknowledged by Barr's boss as negotiation leverage in the trade war.

> I suspect Walt Disney would be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals with the foreign dictatorships of our day

Walt Disney was politically hard right after the US entered WW2 and joined the Second Red Scare on the side of Senator McCarthy. I honestly don't care what he would say today.

Also worth nothing that Ronald Reagan was also a movie propagandist for the US Army in WW2 and was another loud voice like Senator McCarthy during the Second Red Scare. It was the moral panic / cancel culture of its day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-entertainment_complex

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Wanzhou#Detention

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney
Fresh water doesn’t come from Canada for most of the US. Additionally, it’s not nearly to the point of being a war-worthy resource. There would be plenty of water in California if farmers just paid for it the same way everyone else does.

California grows a lot of water-expensive crops (e.g. almonds) because legacy farmers don’t pay anything near what residents, commercial, or new farmers do. That would rebalance quickly and obviate the need for any invasion if we just dumped wasteful “water rights” and instead priced water like any other rivalrous good (e.g. govt auctions).
It's been a while since I've done biology, but if the boy was ingesting estrogen in a pill form, doesn't that also put additional strain on the liver?
Well, if I were a company designing an information service, perhaps monetized by ads, then it could make sense to collect eyetracking data to see what people tend to look at, perhaps as part of an AB testing regime.

Then the choice comes between: do I want to bring people in to my expensive lab where I can get high-fidelity results, or do I want to potentially get a much larger sample for cheaper at the cost of lower fidelity.
The problem is that you can’t trust any CCP promise when there is no rule of law. What’s to stop them from paying you less than you earned abroad and simply denying you an exit visa once you arrive? They would probably treat you well at first so that you can tell your friends still overseas that the deal is good. But once they have their talent then they don’t have a reason to keep treating you like a king.
You sound like someone who hasn't cared about a child while trying to keep a full-time job. I bet many parents would support giving childcare/education professionals a raise after having to do the job themselves for a few months...
You don't need to send it any actual users. Just set up some transactions between wallets you control and use some sockpuppet accounts to make apparent 'winners'.
Wow they finally did it. After the hardware being there for _years_ they managed to get around to enabling the software. I already jettisoned them for Garmin after waiting so long.
I think it's certainly better than the alternative, but I would like to see minimum wage dropped for the youngest ages honestly. So much good experience could be had if the youngest and those just about to embark on their career could get some experience.

But I'm mainly interested in non-minimum wage solutions. There are even good reasons for adults to work for less than minimum wage. Think of non-volunteer tasks that a stay at home parent may be interested in working in part-time but still would like to make a modest income for.
[First engineer at Zulip; work at Dropbox]

Portions of Zulip's backend were used to power some Dropbox features in 2014-16, but the product itself wasn't further integrated.

In any case, I'm proud of how we handled the handoff to OSS and a sustainable independent stewardship org. I have https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/146708555778/zu... framed on my wall.
EdgeDB 1.0 Alpha 4 - A new DB with GraphQL support and more
I read this as not giving any extra effort, which I think would help reduce the reliance of my self image on my work success. I wouldn't be lying and I wouldn't be playing head games.
This has been going back and forth for a long time now. Perhaps I'm being naive, but given light delay, companies already host data about and data accessed by citizens from <insert continent> on said continent, so why don't companies just store EU data in the EU and be done with it? Wouldn't that solve the whole issue, years in court, ambiguous rules, companies/agencies that require local storage, etc.?
Why wouldn't we want that? Isn't the point of progress to improve life for everyone?
That's true - it's looking at 2BRs. But whatever metric we consistently look at over time, is something we can make long term comparisons for.

And fwiw, it shows just how difficult it would be for a single parent to get by in this society.
There is no problem. It's just highly unrealistic that such people can be found. And if they cant be found the end result is quite clear. Hashrate will drop to the point where attacks are possible and will occur. Or more likely non-profitable miners will do the final double spend scam before turning their hardware off. Or they go bankrupt and someone buys the hardware cheap to do the double spend after the difficultly adjusted. Either way BTC can not become the ham radio niche thing. Its endless growth or fatal failure.
Basically: yes, absolutely. Canadians in general love their healthcare and my personal experience with it has been nothing but positive. My frustration with American healthcare is augmented by how much better I know it can be. I pay $500/month for shit-tier health insurance here and actually using the healthcare costs even more money!

Most of the drawbacks you've heard about Canadian healthcare have been promulgated by the many many entities whose pockets are lined by this idiotic system continuing to grind forward.
California DOJ's “OpenJustice” Data Platform blocks all access from non-US IPs
It's not an underhanded trick. Please respond to the most charitable interpretation of my comment, as per HN guidelines.

> 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 at all what I'm trying to insinuate. I even said that:

> I'm most interested in what percentage of those with dependents are working minimum wage jobs and what percentage of those that started out with minimum wage jobs have been unable to increase their earnings. MY guess is that these numbers are also terrible, but this is the thing to get down.

I literally said that I bet the numbers that I'm interested in will likely show that there are too many people with dependents working minimum wage jobs. That doesn't mean we shouldn't track the data. That is what shows us what will help.

Please respond in good faith.....
There are some laws like this in the US. Some are state based, but some are federal...

"...a special minimum wage of $4.25 per hour applies to employees under the age of 20 during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer"

"Other programs that allow for payment of less than the full Federal minimum wage apply to workers with disabilities, full-time students, and student-learners employed pursuant to sub-minimum wage certificates. These programs are not limited to the employment of young workers."

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/003.htm?_ga=2.219...
It is hard to feel sorry for them with all the blatant human rights abuse, bullying neighbors and arm twisting weaker countries.
As expected, this thread is full of people responding with whataboutism!
I'm not an EDC knife kind of guy, but I have spent a lot of time and money on kitchen knives. SG-2 (aka R2) is pretty much the best that I have tried in terms of edge retention, ease of sharpening, and convenience (i.e. rust-resistant).
I want to know this as well. Isn't every transaction traceable? I don't know much about BTC, anyone can elaborate?
Family fortunes of wealthy increase as super-rich ride coronavirus storm
I’ve never seen a better answer summarized in a youtube link than this one.
Many older languages evaluated expressions left to right. For assemblers this saves you from managing intermediate values and you can spit out ALU instructions in order without need for register assignment magic.
Oh come on man (woman?), this comment is completely disingenuous. You're comparing 2 completely different things.

Is US / the West fair? Not by a long shot. Tons of shitty stuff happening, from George Floyd, to Harvey Weinstein, to Jeffrey Epstein, to Julian Assange. But at least we know about them.

But compared to China? You won't even hear about the "small person's life". I'm sure life in China can be great, unless you're Muslim, or Buddhist / Tibetan, or Falun Gong, or Canadian, or ...

I don't know about you, but for me, there's no question which of these systems I'd prefer to live under. Even if I were black! (Notify me when China gets a black president.)
I think you're looking at this wrong.

The like button isn't for saving things. It's for liking them. If you want to save a tweet, Twitter has both Bookmarks and Stories you can use to file it away. If you're liking tweets to save them for later, you're just using Twitter incorrectly.

And a "Disagree" button is just a terrible idea. It immediately invites conflict into every post. Imagine writing a post about your experiences with sexual assault or something and you start getting Disagrees from people...

If social media feels like it's limiting your social expression, you might want to step away from social media.
Are you the same person that was suing people for bad yelp reviews? What's the difference between reviewing that your waiter was horrible and rude and your waiter was rude and called you slurs?
Was that the one that took over part of the ships systems, calling the crew "Ugly bags of mostly water"?
Personally I think Ruby does a much nicer job of this, although I use both languages on a regular basis. A complx chain of map and filter calls tends to be a lot more readable than a complex nested list comprehension.
no, that's what they usually call young 'psychopaths' that act out, aka 'sociopaths'... there is a high correlation between the two, but no psychologist wants to label a kid as a sociopath...

I had one, in class (5th or 6th grade), and I remember the experience was eye opening. Teachers had to spend a copius amount of energy just to keep him in check.... his behavior would oscillate between funny/to scary dangerous within minutes.

at some point he got in trouble for trying to put the classroom on fire (see how fast do the desks lit/catch fire).... and got trouble again for trying to do the same to his neighbors. He eventually got removed (and I assumed ended up in juvenile correction facility).

Normally this label is not given to kids that have run of the mill problems (aka ADD/ADHD), but only for serious cases.
An opiate is very different than messing with hormones in a teen.
Yup. The US just decided to bomb civilians one day. No reason.

Your statement is somewhat useless without context.
Its funny you cite the novel whereas the author, psychedelic guru Ken Kesey, based the book off his real life experience working as a nurses aid in a psychiatric ward while simultaneously being part of a CIA program testing hallucinogens.

For those unfamiliar with the back story of the novel, Kesey conceived the plot and characters while tripping on peyote while at work in the ward...his revelation being the patients were the sane ones and the workers enforcing the rules where insane, which was a metaphor for the modern dystopia he lived in. Times Magazine described it as: "a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them."
Hold your breath. I've done that with a fingertip pulse oximeter I have.
Guys you are really panicking here. No way China is going to do everything in-house. Crucial technology? For sure, but definitely not everything. China's isolationism is imposed on it by the United States (and not only to China, but to other countries as well as businesses everywhere is forced to NOT do business), and it is going to use all weights to find ways to do business with other countries.
Little Snitch reported that Macro wanted to send a request to hooks.slack.com—I'd imagine that you're posting a notice in your team's Slack when the tool is used?

Your on-boarding mentions your affinity for transparency, but this feels pretty shady to me. I've uninstalled the app.
I'm sorry, I'm afraid my comment was too negative. I agree everything is exaggerated on the internet, and I think Netflix's way of doing things is refreshing and has benefits over previous approaches. For example if, instead of getting fired, I was put on a dead-end project for 2 years, I would feel like I wasted time that could have been used improving my career prospects. The engineers who work at Netflix are all desirable and should not have trouble finding work (although likely with less pay).

My wife worked there for a year, and was used to seeing the emails to her dept. saying so-and-so was fired once or twice a week. Eventually she quit because of it, but she had an overall positive experience.
Well what percentage of these are non-breadwinners? Could it be stay at home parents who are making supplementary income?

> 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.

Yes, there needs to be better information.

> 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.

This is terrible, and just goes to show my point -- we need to be tracking the important number: how many people who need to afford rent for a separate unit (usually those with dependents but not always) cannot afford to do so.

EDIT: Here are some stats on low-wage workers by age. It does show a good distribution, but I think we need to make the tails thinner: https://www.statista.com/statistics/298866/percentage-of-low...
Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon from back in the day.
In what kind of normal use of a knife do you risk that the blade folds and cuts your finger without a locking mechanism? I have some trouble visualise anything except possibly stabbing (which I don’t consider normal use).
Can you enlighten me as to what you think my agenda is? For myself, I'm pretty sure I posted that comment so people who might otherwise like to frequent HN doesn't get the idea that the median poster here is a transphobe. Obviously I might be wrong about that, but someone needs to put in the effort.
Here is the project / coalition link

https://www.climatetrace.org/

Hope it will make a (any) difference!
This has been a phenomenon for the better part of a decade. I can't even remember when it happened, but some day they decided that the channels one was subscribed to were less important than "hot videos". They also split and moved those subscriptions into some sidebar where you had to click on every subscription manually to see what was new.

Their focus is ads. Top videos mean ads are watched more often so that's what they promote. Everything is geared that way and creating bigger, less heterogeneous groups means there are less "niche" videos. I'm sure their AI has worked out the smallest number of groups that spans the biggest amount of users and drives views upwards that way.

If you don't want to get caught in the pooptube loop, don't subscribe, don't create an account and get recommendations offsite. They are more likely more diverse. In fact, if you want new stuff, don't go on youtube, go to vimeo, peertube, dtube, or whatever else has tube appended to its name.
The problem is that you need to have $10+B to throw at the problem after you license patents from the incumbents, and even then you'll end up being behind them technologically by the time your fab is up and running, so your marginal costs won't be appreciably better than contracting with the existing manufacturers for their more advanced memory.

You could theoretically spend several times more than that to try to get ahead over the course of two or three generations, but for that kind of money you could just as easily secure some very preferential pricing from one or more of the incumbents, thereby ensuring that everyone else trying to put a lot of RAM into a PC has to pay more.

The most viable path to establishing a new leading-edge competitor in this space is for a government to throw lots of money at the problem, knowing that it'll be years at best before it produces anything competitive, but having the advantage of being able to more or less ignore IP issues and having a potential demand far higher than any one memory customer can produce on its own. China is doing this for the NAND market, too.
Definitely not. I'm a passionate biohacker (normal people get shocked with how many different pills I self-prescribe) and trans admirer (yet I actually believe forcing people this way is an atrocity, they can only choose for themselves). What I actually hate, however, is political correctness (people who take "inappropriate" humor seriously and actually get or pretend offended - that's whom we should treat with hormones! ;-).
My 2c. This is purely anecdotal, and based only on hiring about a dozen developers.

The best way to hire good developers is to take them out for coffee/lunch/beer and talk shop for an hour or two. That's it. Make it more of a discussion than an interview. Ask them about the their experience, what have they liked working on, what have they hated, but also tell them about what you've been working on and see what feedback/ideas/questions they have about it. I find fielding their questions and comments just as valuable as asking them my own. Joke about things that have gone spectacularly wrong, trade war stories, that kind of thing.

I think it's a great way to assess whether a dev "knows their stuff" or not. A couple of other notes:
- If you're not a dev yourself, get someone who is and you trust to do it. Try and keep it "dev only" if possible, remember this is supposed to assess their dev ability, but is also a good indicator of communication and cultural fit within the dev team.
- Try to do this one-on-one or at most 2-1, any more than that and it becomes a panel interview.
- If someone is regurgitating theoretical or blog-post-scanned information without much understanding, it becomes more apparent the longer you chat with them. So an hour or two is a good length of time.

We usually also do a quick take home coding test too, but have found the chat/discussion to be better indicator of long term success. As many have already pointed out, I also find the coding tests (whether take home or in person) don't really assess "real world" ability and can often be gamed.
Is expecting minimum wage workers to all live in Alabama a goal we have set?

Look what happens when politicians responsibly build post offices and the numerous other programs that made money until political meddling.

Look at what happened to workers when taxes were way higher! Omg those stupid politicians!!

Is the profiteering of a minority of the species a goal we have set?

Is your ideology the goal we should have set? Or is it just automated energy sucking deflection away from ideas that rustle your jimmies wrapped around your limbic system?

We share one physics, one planet. Just because you can imagine and emit alternate sounds to someone else doesn’t mean the ideas are feasible or real?

Reality comes with some pretty tight constraints. Progressivism away from grandpas political talking points is one of them.

Are we less free in some real way given the time wasting mess of our “free market”? Or would it be that your brain is just not used to processing the idea?

Are you measuring the impact to society and reality or just chomping at the bit to react?

Bureaucrats aren’t going away and already control your life in very intimate ways! Human society has yet to create that magical completely free system or completely gridlock itself to death.

Kind of wonder if you’re just shouting at a mirage. It’s just people.
One would hope not, but there's e.g. a BBS Newsnight report among other sources that says the diagnosis and treatment protocols aren't as rigorous as they could be.
Are you actually suggesting him losing his masculinity by forced medication of an unnecessary drug is not in itself an issue? What's the problem with masculinity, exactly, and why is it so bad that drugs should be given to children to remove it?
> It's you who are boosting your interpretation because of "assault on the testicles", "mental destruction", "sex hormone", and other things that tell me

The "assault on testicles" thing was not even part of my description of the boy's condition, it was part of my hypothetical of a crime with potentially equivalent (or probably less severe) outcomes. And for your information, sex hormones are a basic and widely-accepted concept; just because some people are afraid to call them that in the English-language publications of some corrupt institutions in the last five to ten years doesn't mean they went away. Go ahead and tell any trans person on HRT that sex hormones aren't a thing; if they believe you, they'll be horrified, if they know how wrong you are, they may be too flabbergasted to even begin to tell you.

> ...what you're really upset about is his masculinity and not his well being.

I think that you ought to do some introspection as to why you consider those things not to be related. I suspect you are concerned about some people's security in their gender identity, but you seem to want desperately to paint it as a minor thing that they seem to have treated this boy's gender identity (and sexual function) as a disposable lab material; maybe you personally place no value on masculinity, but that's not for you to decide on this boy's behalf.

> ...an equivalently dangerous drug (say, fentanyl for sedation, which has also been alleged in juvenile detention facilities IIRC)

fentanyl is generally safe, the safest opioid AFAIK, and its effects wear off in seconds or minutes (which is why it is often administered through slow-release patches or lollipops).