skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet shutdowns are threatening democracy and development
I suspect accounting is a topic common in commonwealth countries curriculum (heh no pun intended) - Australia included it as well.
You miss the point actually. The poster made a statement without any proof. It's a classic logical fallacy.

And your example...? Proves what exactly? It's the exact opposite of a cognitive dissonance. The behavior is consistent with the company values.

But the discussion point is that the company behavior is most of the time inconsistent with the company values. E.g. Exxon value is env friendly energy <-> Exxon true behavior is causing env disaster
The FT was under intense pressure for years to retract their stories about Wirecard. Journalists even got sued by the German regulator. And most disagreed with FT enough that stock prices remained high for years. They never retracted a single article and trusted their sources and journalists more than the public.

In the end they turned out to be right but it took more than 5 years since the first article. I believe we should consider that Bloomberg could fall into a similar category.
> automated trains with a driver with a red button to stop the train

This is an ergonomics nightmare scenario. The operator needs to pay attention to keep situational awareness all the time while just observing the train doing its thing. Then, all of a sudden, the train starts doing something that it shouldn't be doing (due to a failed signal, another train doing something stupid, an obstruction, a malfunction...) and they need to quickly react and do a safe abort (slamming the brakes may actually be a bad idea sometimes)

This is an issue in aircraft with heavy automation - everything seems normal until it isn't and then the pilots need to quickly figure out exactly what happened, how they got where they are and how to get out.
Really compared to the PIRA the "leftist" organisations that did direct action in the USA are a bit of a joke.

And you know everyone is entitled to representation
Then feel free to actually bring proper argumentation instead of throwing some weird sentences out into the outernet...
There is (for me at least) something very deep (in the brain) regarding numerals and basic math.
I am quite proficient in English, but always do arithmetic in my native Bulgarian and then have to translate the result (unlike other speech, which flows freely).
And not for the lack of trying.
And that is even though Bulgarian numerals do translate 1:1 to English.
Correction: you would prefer it much more as five much smaller articles.

Which is fair, your preferences are yours, but I much prefer single expansive essays like this that give the author room to develop large complex idea structures, and to reach out from the central idea to disparate but interestingly relevant related themes. This might not (or might) be the majority preference, but Scott (and the 'Wait but Why' guy, among others) has built up large enough audiences from this type of musings, and mostly good quality audience too, so it's working for him.
I noticed how hard it was to tell time in the darkness of the night with my existing analog watch.

An analogue watch with SuperLumiNova(tm) will be usable all night from a 10 second blast with a good torch. Source: regularly do this.
I believe they're 2cl in all of Europe, never heard anyone use it outside of refering to it.
> carbon-vomiting oil extractors

Language like that discredits the whole article as a hysterical piece.

In any case, oil extractors are in business only because ordinary people want gasoline to drive their cars.
I love Bear, and would pay them more than twice as much as I do if they had an Android app as well.
USA is huge, its over 260 Million People. The country itself spannes different regions and zones.

It is quite closed minded to reduce this to 'the U.S. is a sick country'
Most comment seem to agree that Remington stopped making quality guns, with the obvious effects on profitability.
When did this happen? Is it a cause or an effect of the mentioned private equity funds? Is it an Intel-like bad period on the product design and R&D front?
It is highly unlikely as the reports of "reinfections" only are by PCR-positive test (not stating the quantity of viral RNA found, either). But it could be as well that the immune system found and cleared the virus.

One would need to see if there's infectious virus in the throat before calling a "reinfection".

P.S. for the GP: you might have got repeated infections of different viruses which causes similar symptoms, because something like that was found for "reinfected" cases in South Korea. Asking for a proper test and a serological test (so you know if one of the past events was indeed due to a SARS-CoV-2 infection) as well would help.
probably accusing each other of not wearing a mask :-P
The data source is an observable which triggers changes in the widgets that listen to it. A nice way of avoiding slow widget updates is to disable animations while making big changes to the data source. It also helps decouple UI code from business code. It even gives you the opportunity to react to widget changes such as adding a row or changing a cell without reading code directly from the widget's internal data structures or DOM.

This is a common theme among many widget providers. If you work a little bit with lazarus or delphi, you will understand throughly what I mean.

Now how common is streaming backend changes to frontend using websockets? I would say it is pretty common among the financial industry, streaming trades and quotes directly to the UI. Bloomberg, investing.com and many in-house systems that require live updates probably use this.
>> Back in the 1970s, the working class was winning.

On the other hand, There was a heroin epidemic, crime was skyrocketing, white flight was draining our cities of tax dollars, pollution was terrible, we had lines for gasoline

Not to mention US engineering and manufacturing started to decline. American started getting lazy and Japan started entering markets with superior products, soon to be followed by China and Mexico, ready to pounce with cheaper alternatives.
Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study
You could use webhooks on deploy to call your CDN's API to purge the cache. Otherwise, I guess just keep it time-based.
Thanks for fixing the link. That's another little known thing- an average field (max) produces three harvests of lettuce. I don't have actual data, but based on my experimentations I think a realization of 13-20 harvests is possible; actually there's literature on this as well. How exactly? Just a basic application of the queuing theory. A lettuce needs to sit in the main hole for max 20 days. Before that, within the same 2k sq. ft. that I mentioned, keep it in separate 'incubator'space which will take much less volume.

In the coming weeks I'll add pictures too.
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> The introduction in the article is historically accurate,

It is not.

> compared to the countries behind the so called “iron curtain” that land was indeed different.

Different, yes. Anti-authorian? A dictatorship? No.
Related: I bought this on a whim and I'm yet to try it: https://www.citygen3d.com/

Mapbox have a Unity SDK that has similar functionality: https://www.mapbox.com/unity

And these guys are doing cool things built upon OSM: https://osmbuildings.org/
I wonder what the Expected Value is of selling today vs holding and waiting for the rental income to come back. Surely some smart person has figured out an algorithm to plug in numbers to figure out the EV?
Yes, those run on terminal based licenses. Bloomberg still sells those but you need to tell your sells rep exactly why you want one and don't get all features (e.g. IB). They are not very keen on selling those.
Hoped to see opinions on Unum [1]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most machine learning does happen around 1.0. Unum should give more precision for same bits, same precision for less bits around 0 and 1. And some other interesting features.

But would require new hardware and software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)
Since when has a small motorboat with pickups in the background looked like swimming in the money?
They are also pretty popular in the British army

Casio do a British Army G-shock now but I can’t imagine any actual soldier using it, it’s 2cm or more high and has features that will snag on anything. The F91w is very thin. It’s more marketed towards airsofters I reckon.

https://g-shock.co.uk/mod
Ask HN: How can we teach our CTO to understand his new role?
Hey everyone, I've been working with a guy who has been a solo developer for most of his life and owned his own company. After a merger, he is now the CTO of a company with an existing developer team.

The struggle we are facing now:

- He is not responsive at all, neither via chat, nor email, nor any other communication tool. So we often have to write him via chat "Please look at this PR, I left some comments" etc...

- He doesn't know how to delegate and often says "I'll do it" but then it takes weeks to finish

- He has thousands of unread emails in his inbox

- When he writes tickets, the details are often unclear and hard to follow for other developers

- He codes way too much for a CTO, in my opinion, and his code is a bit messy compared to the other developers

Since he is a really nice person, we all want to give him feedback that makes him understand his role better, and to become more efficient and avoid being a bottleneck.

Has anyone struggled with this in the past, and found a solution, or at least a way to see small, but steady improvements? I know that changing another person is one of the hardest things one can attempt to do, but at the same time I know that he is motivated to become a good CTO, but currently just doesn't know how yet.
Why the pandemic transcends the political spectrum [video]
In other words, beside my previous comment you missed the part of the discussion where we concluded (see the grandparent's post again) that both the value and the behavior originates from the same source.

This has nothing to do with an external third person's view.
he was right about Coke lasting longer than Windows.
> Yeah it’s so cool how Microsoft Teams hasn’t implemented custom emojis

I agree, completely unironically.

Some things just don't belong in "work" chats, sorry.
It's not ignorance, it's common business sense. Suppose you couldn't work full-time because of reason X. It doesn't matter what reason X is, I can not use your work in the same way, if for no other reason than Brooks's law applying.

Unless you're an anti-natalist, you can argue that X=pregnancy is really important to society as a whole, but then the burden should be carried by the whole of society, not just the slice that happens to run a business.

Either way, we have to admit that you can't be a mother and have equal career prospects to someone who stays childless, just like you can't put the same amount of work into two different careers and still get the same result for each as if you had put all the work into just one.
If the only thing required to untwist the system is to switch the sign of everything on the liabilities side maybe it wasn’t so twisted after all.

At least you have the good taste of keeping assets positive, unlike other people. :-)
That wouldn't be legal. There is a minimum wage of 9,35 Euro per hour in Germany. You cannot legally work more than 48,13 hours per month on a 450 Euro mini job in Germany.
> The operation performed by debit/credit depends on the classification of the accounts.

OP has chosen a consistency in the operation of debit+credit sign and applied a 'display adjustment' to implement the classification. This actually sounds like a lower entropy way to remember it -- no left hand/right hand stuff, just 'There two account types are sign reversed on display'. But it will confuse anyone who isn't indoctrinated to the convention, but one could argue that it is these various conventions that make double entry seem arcane in the first place!
The City has one of, if not the world's greatest concentration of finance brainpower and capital, and has survived through hundreds of years of global turmoil as one of the world's leading financial centres. Do you really think these vested interests will just give up that lead and move elsewhere?
Good. Let them feel some pain for helping overinflate the real estate market.
It is not a universal solution, both because it's slow, and because of various limitations and faults it introduces. There are dozens of manufacturing processes, some of them fairly new and modern, that will never go away.
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as someone who has never been super interested in hardware or the "hacker" mantra, reading about this DIY basic computer makes me really interested in the space all of the sudden. like modern day equivalents like the raspberry pi exist and have never really interested me, but something about 4k memory really changes something
Hi there, happy to announce that the Advanced Scheduler Heroku Add-on has a new trial plan available. Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think!

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Advanced Scheduler, it's an Heroku Add-on providing powerful and reliable task scheduling as a service. It aims to be as easy to use as Heroku Scheduler, while adding flexibility, reliability and transparency.
My wife gave birth just before the lockdown here in the UK.

The stress continues after the baby is born too - regular check-ups, midwife visits, getting vaccinations, emergencies etc all now come with a brand new stress factor of "Am I or my baby going to contract COVID by <doing something that was totally normal in the past> and end up in intendive care? Or maybe will I contract COVID and give it to my spouse/family?" Even having relatives visit their new grandchild/niece/nephew/cousin/etc feels like a risk, but there is a lot of pressure from friends and family to get hands-on baby time.

Babies cannot wear PPE either.

I've certainly got some more grey hairs now!
Protecting its x86 business by outsourcing & relying on an external supplier for one of its core competencies?

They've announced they have contingency plans to hedge against further schedule uncertainty (assuming that means using TSMC), but their #1 priority would be to use their own fabs.
The stumbling block for me learning it was understanding how to record the simplest and most common transactions like buying a banana. Surprisingly many explanations only use examples like paying your home mortgage where the credit and debit side of things are clear. But then they never tell me about where on earth does my banana go as a credit since I'm not stockpiling bananas to later sell. Even though that use case is almost all of my transactions!
If you haven't seen/heard any of Lustig's talks on the subject, he makes a very compelling argument re: fructose being a toxin. They're readily available on youtube.

Excess fructose consumption is implicated in causing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects about 20-25% of people in Europe, and 30-40% of adults in the US. [0]

This statistic alone gives me cause for grave concern WRT covid-19 outcomes for those 30-40% of American adults should they get infected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-alcoholic_fatty_liver_dise...
And thus the hermit crab shell exchange begins

https://youtu.be/f1dnocPQXDQ
Social safety net is not "democratic socialism". This is not some exceptional, ground breaking policy, the US is just catching up to the rest of the planet. Americans have to stop poisoning online political discourse with their illiteracy.
You don't need to evict all people via DHS. Only enough that the rest has enough fear put in them to do it themselves.
> I hope working from home in IT becomes the future standard. Big expensive cities are not worth it.

I don't. I hate working from home.

When my apartment is all I have to run away from life, adjusting it to be a working space just totally wrecks my personal psyche. Sure a laptop can be turned off but knowing the desk I use for general is now my work desk ruins the whole environment for me.

At least from the Office I could come home and know it was personal. Everything work related is in the office and everything home is personal.
Sure, but if his friends had to work 20-30% more then there is an obvious disconnect.

Individual A and B both make $200k a year. Individual A made that by giving an hour long speech. Individual B made that by working all year. On paper they are treated the same, but their reality is drastically different. You can't just tell person B "you don't need to work so much." They wouldn't be at the same level as person A without having done so.

Everyone is different. Some people are insanely smart. Incredibly efficient. Ridiculously productive. For every person out there that is making as much as you and working less there is also someone working more and making less. "We don't need to work so much" is a privilege, and in my personal opinion, is unrealistic.
You're right that governmental attempts to artificially make things more affordable ends up blowing up the costs. For example in the US, education and health care.

Prices for things with no government subsidy or interference have dropped to essentially zero - like software.
Or multiple players. That's empty.
> If we did a mass testing campaign on 300 million Americans right now, I think the rate of asymptomatic infection would be somewhere between 50% and 80% of cases

Wow that’s incredible. 200 million Americans could have the virus.
> Back in the 1970s, the working class was winning

The working class today has higher wages and a higher quality of life.

If you’re a woman or any kind of minority, things are vastly better for you than in the 1970s. If you’re skilled, things are vastly better for you.

Unskilled white man labor was going to decline no matter what Reagan and Thatcher did as computers and automation changed production across the world.
>If you want to signal how strongly you believe in taking victims seriously, you talk about it in the context of the least credible case you can find.

I think there's another angle to picking the least credible case in that it requires more psychological investment. Those who join the group are stronger and have expended more psychological effort. Because the cases that are chosen to fight about are ambiguous, to fight about them requires a form of committent and faith. Any doubts about the case and validity of the morality or faith would cause a painful admission of the amount that was psychologically invested in it. The strength of your belief is signalled but the strength also deepens your involvement in it.
You are presuming the active real estate market is full of people looking to become or extend their landlord role which seems counter to this whole discussion.
> This constituted one of the few genuine anti-authoritarian, anti-imperial international alliances of the twentieth century

It...didn't, though. It wasn't anti-authoritarian at all. Not was the NAM much of an alliance. Nor, as a number of countries closely aligned with the superpowers joined, was it even particularly even a group of non-aligned countries.
The author is in the US, where (if the online world can be trusted) there are many, if not a majority of, people who disagree with his position.

I recently got a letter from a centre-right party president reminding everyone about the part of our constitution which says a society is judged by how it treats its weakest members. I believe that'd be considered pinko-commie talk in the states.

Bray left AMZN on 1 May. I gather that date is significant to US people, because he's calling for potential legal reforms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Day_(United_States)
Misattribution of Arousal
Utterly ridiculous. Capitalist imperialism is certainly not without major issues, but comparing the harms to other imperial styles like colonialism is insane. Show me where US imperialism did anything comparable to the Holodomor or the atrocities of the Congo Free State.
The CEO before Lisa Su was the precursor that initiated most of the future growth, e.g Zen
I like these profile based recommendations, but they tend to be black box ones. They miss out on the how I may like a future movie that I have not come across before. I like how nomadlist.com has done it for places. You can easily figure out which place to go, just using their fitlers.

Would a similar filter be useful for movies?
You're missing the point by focusong on the chemical reaction in isolation.

HFCS has replaced fat as the basis of many processed foods because corn is subsidized in the US.

As a result, the majority of Americans are obese from eating pounds of HFCS weekly.
> look at your books

I think OP is encoding the sign-reversal internally though, right? It "displays" the two incorrectly classified account types exactly per the standard convention instead of re-applying the convention at every operation. All reports would follow the 'Classic' conventions. At least that was my reading!
Of course much of politics is about rhetorical positioning, with only indirect "relationships to substantive policy". From this POV though, rhetorical positioning about war seems to do reasonably well at predicting how a president might influence "substantive" choices relating to war.
In other countries, people would have come to rescue you, the government would have been able to provide you with housing and enough money to live. Not everyone can work and those people deserve social net to be able to live comfortably.
Yes, this is possible.

This page shows how to configure maddy to only handle SMTP:
https://foxcpp.dev/maddy/tutorials/smtp-only/
You can follow it but swap Dovecot for another maddy instance, configured as shown here:
https://foxcpp.dev/maddy/tutorials/imap-only/

This works because maddy implements both client and server
for Dovecot's SASL delegation protocol.

Alternatively you can configure pass_table to read from shared
SQL database. Hm, maddy-tables(5) man page is not rendered on
the website but you can look at sql_query module.
I enjoyed your blog post, that's an interesting mod.

> Some sources suggest heating the mineral oil to ~50° Centigrade, but I’m not exactly sure what the reasoning for that might be, so I stuck with room temperature.

I expect this is just to reduce the viscosity of the oil so that it fills the cracks more easily.
> you cannot substitute healthcare

You can. For every health condition, there are a wide range of options varying in cost, efficacy, risk, time and pain.

I recently went to the doctor over a problem I have, and got a rather broad array of options. I decided the risks of each option were worse than the problem, and decided to live with it.

The notion that there is a one-to-one mapping of problem-to-solution is incorrect.
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I was thinking about this just the other day, when Microsoft announced the latest dotnet 5 preview, and yet again have postponed AOT - Microsoft have been teasing dotnet devs with the promise of production-ready AOT for something like a decade.

Frankly, I wish they'd put up or shut up - either prioritise it and make it happen, or just admit defeat and say it's not going to happen.
I’m all for people being productive and all but most People jumping the Roam bandwagon are doing it as a fad. They’ll move to the next one that’s the note-taking-method du jour. Zettlekasten/Cornell notes/ Anki etc need a change in the user outlook rather than the tooling.