skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of 'In Defense of Looting' seems to think only the Government can create jobs, so small businesses are irrelevant. She thinks it's a "Republican Myth"

> . It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that's actually a right-wing myth.

See also this twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1299538728432541701
I don't want Apple's dictatorial control or Google's privacy invasion. Yet the market is not catering to me.
> neutral platforms

Most internet platforms used to be "neutral" - or significantly more so than today. The current discussion in society is about the problems that too much neutrality can cause.

However your stance may be on those topics, this very same discussion will extend to decentralised communication networks as well, should they ever go mainstream.
> What you do, though, is objectively more valuable to Slack than you were paid.

This is a meaningless statement.

Obviously all work is more valuable to the company than what they pay you to do the work... otherwise they wouldn't pay you would they? Because they'd get nothing out of it.

If your work generates £5 for a company, then why would they pay you £5 or £6 for it? What's in it for them?
Thanks, good note. I'd argue half of my comment remains valid though: If Apple hadn't gotten a TRO from the judge, PUBG would be unable to get Unreal Engine updates going forwards.
More than that, sometimes looking for a fix becomes the act of perpetuating a problem. If can act as a stop point away from searching for deeper understanding of the problem and thus proper response.

But that’s probably just for simpler or longer term problems than falling off a cliff or an oncoming train.

There’s a lot of suffering in the world - especially right now. The universe itself can be especially cruel, for that matter. So personally I try to be kind and generous when I can.
Show HN: Xkcdy: a modern OSS iOS Xkcd client
Abe Shinzo resigns, leaving formidable problems for his successor
Understanding this point has significantly improved my relationship with my wife, but honestly - I cannot comprehend the mindset. It feels like a fundamental difference in world processing.

For me, the quickest and surest way to reduce anxiety about some problem is to find candidate solutions. I don't even have to act on them, just knowing that there's a possible path out is enough for me to stop worrying (and sometimes do nothing, and then the problem solves itself, because it was never that big in the first place). But then it seems that a good chunk of the population just wants to have their anxiety validated (and their "catastrophizing", per the other comment in the thread). Which I guess would be fine, if it made their anxiety go away. But it doesn't.
I had to laugh when I saw this report [0]

“Clearly people should be going back to work because it is safe to do so. There are already problems with workers’ mental health. It’s not just about hard-nosed economics,” the report said, citing a Cabinet minister.

The idea that this is not a purely economics-driven initiative and that the government gives a flying fuck about the mental health of the working population is so beyond farce as to be an insult. How stupid do they think we are?

[0] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain...
Russia developed a vaccine candidate that should be tested, but they skip the test part before the announcement for political reasons. Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech

EDIT: You mean Hydroxychloroquine? I never heard of Hydroxychloride to treat covid-19. Hydroxychloroquine has a few known issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine#Adverse_eff... . Anyway, the main problem is that the studies that support it's effect against covid-19 are very weak.
Some potentially interesting or amusing details: This project would make use of a tennis club. Club members and tennis enthusiasts pressured the developers to make room for a series of underground tennis courts so valuable recreation space would not be lost, except of course during construction. Also, Pinterest has two other large buildings nearby one of which was built such that it can be extended upward as needed. Both of these buildings are now essentially empty.
Completely irrelevant to this post. He was part of an organized effort to escalate tension and create conditions for violence. Even if he was assaulted, walking through that crowd with a loaded rifle acting like a tough guy is equivalent to yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. He absolutely should not have been there.
I agree with your points.

At the same time, I sm tickled by the irony of you giving unsolicited advice about not giving unsolicited. :-)
This is not how to look at this if you want to find a way to solve our society’s ills. The gunman was the instigator because he travelled to riots and not to protect anyone he knows or his own property. He brought an assault rifle and walked the streets. Why would anyone not looking for trouble do that? That’s vigilantism. The police are there to deal with it. Not untrained teenagers. Remember, the second amendment is because we want a “well regulated” militia not randos with guns. When you do what this person did, you make it inevitable that gun violence will be the result. That’s why self defense laws do not protect you if you unnecessarily created the situation that led to you having to defend yourself.

The problem with police violence is an extension of this. Police training is directed at control and overwhelming force. Even when there is an alternative path to de-escalate. When you are being attacked, even if you just committed a crime and the attacker is a police officer, your instinct is to fight back. The result is continued escalation until someone is dead.
Do you have any example of the advice they gave you that you "benefited immensely from?". Because I got this kind of advice a million times and it only made me feel worse.

Also, when this kind of advice came from my family, they were trying to minimize my problems (so they wouldn't have to do anything to seriously help), not help me.
Can't wait for the daily rush on the cranial induction seats on commuter trains.
Catastrophizing, meet your neighbor Ridiculizing.
Musk is just another elite 1% Billionaires are all the same with few exceptions.
> For example I could start work an hour earlier but my sons childminder and daughters nursery isn’t opening an hour earlier.

Have you tried asking the other parents if they want it to open sooner too? If most of them want, I'm sure they will, and if they don't it's you that is wrong (but you can always go looking for another place that will open sooner).
I don’t see the poster claiming this was left, right, whatever? Just trace the source.
So what? It is 8/12 months of the year in DST now, and has been for well over a decade. That's the current baseline and all current daily schedules are definitely adjusted to it by now. Moving to permanent standard time would thus have a distortionary effect on 8/12 months of the year, vs only 4/12 months of the year for moving to permanent daylight saving time.
I own a 2012 Nissan Leaf which has had major battery degradation (first battery went under 70% in only 33k miles, second battery currently around 85% at 45k miles = 78k miles total on both). But on this site, the 2012 Nissan Leaf has less than 2 years of data and shows zero degradation during that time. So it seems like the data is questionable.
Counterpoint: always have another way to cancel the operation.
CMYK doesn't have just one black. A couple examples listed here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_black
This is bizarre and just completely and utterly wrong.

The first part is true... yes, obviously shadows aren't black.

But in the real world (including screens and pigments) nothing is black if there's a lighting source somewhere. The #000 on your monitor is just dark gray, because your black pixel is still being lit by nearby pixels, ambient light, etc. And the LCD component (or unlit OLED) isn't perfect black anyways.

Actual good graphic design advice is to aim for a comfortable level of contrast. Not too little, and not too much. Which is why most good websites don't use pure-black-on-pure-white, it's a little too strong.

But another big reason for not using pure black or white for backgrounds is that they allow you to use #000 or #FFF for emphasis highlights that really "pop".

But absolutely none of this has anything to do with #000 being "too black" that's "not natural". That's just utter nonsense.
Identity is a huge topic itself with lots of projects doing fundamental research and experiments but essentially if it's a traditional physical government then it would work like it does today where you would use your government secured ID to vote. Not much would change. If it's a digital government then it would probably be using an identity based on built up history of actions and financial settlements and connections to other highly verified accounts. Ethereum has a project called POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol) which is a way of identifying that a real person attended a specific event or performed some important action. These POAP badges can't be faked and are already being used for things like being able to vote on certain dev polls if you've attended a Devcon.
Did anyone find interesting outliers? Results surprisingly uniform.
It's not zen to cram shitty aphorisms down someone's ears when they aren't even asking. Zen is about sitting, focusing on the current moment, and using simple stories and imagery from zen tradition to improve your mind. Zen is not foisting your egotistically driven ideas onto others who aren't receptive.
This is a bad analogy because there are many cafes and you can even buy tea in a supermarket and make it at home, whereas for apps the market is cornered.

Apple regulates this market, and we have to pay them a tax.
My favorite response to this circulating right now is a photograph of Ted Bundy doing dishes.

That was not his business or property. He was a vigilante.
nitpick: Maybe Xbox One is built by MSVC?
I’d argue it doesn’t matter nearly as much as just keeping time constant. If we can eliminate the change in our lifetime I think it’s good enough and we can leave future tweaks like optimizing what hour makes the best sense for optimal living to the next generation... at least we will have fixed the transition problem which IMO is the biggest issue right now
I saw that too. I have a 2012 Chevy Volt and it still gets on average around 32-35 miles (about original capacity) - The range depends a lot on driving style and climate control. I found out how Chevy over-engineered the system to only use 50% of the battery to maximize its life and the advanced cooling system. The fact that it has a built-in gas-powered generator allows it to be more conservative of the battery life.
"Let's get up earlier anyway" won't work, because society operates as a whole.

You can already see the problems just with families. As a parent, I can't change my operating schedule until the school that my kids go to changes its schedule as well, and my school can't change its own schedule until the majority of the parents are also able to cope with the new one. Every institution providing essential services to the rest of the population introduces coordination friction to a widespread schedule change.

Moving clocks is a much more effective way to realize a nationwide change. It solves the coordination problem, making sure that the whole society is doing the change in lockstep. In a way, getting good at coordinated clock changes is maybe the one benefit we've gotten out of decades of DST, so we might as well take advantage of it one last time...

Also, you may over-estimate the "natural-ness" of standard time. In most places, standard time is already way off of solar time, and as far as I can tell that's not really bothering anyone.
Bang & Olufsen is actually constantly on the brink of bankruptcy, and has been for very long. I don't think it's been a super profitable company ever since LCD TVs became popular.
This works well for static screens like ebooks, but scrolling text on a pure black OLED background causes smearing because it takes longer for the pixel to turn on than to change colours. This effect is especially noticeable on my phone at low screen brightnesses.

On Android, many apps actually have three colour themes: light, dark, and black, where dark uses a dark grey background.

I also like how Samsung One UI handles this, where any text is on a frame with a grey background, but everything else has a pure black background. Example here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc3/...
I work on the payments industry and this issue has struk our systems several times. One extra piece of advice is to also consider the compound timeout when there are multiple calls to the same service.
I still remember having our system comopletely hang because Rabbitmq was unresponsive. We had a 50ms timeout with Rabbitmq, but that didn’t protect us since we would hit the service 50 times per request.
I also tend to jump straight into solution mode. I found it useful to study and practice mirroring. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring
The architecture of heat: how we built before air-conditioning
The doctors are saying that “depressing time of year” is better for our health and that staying up late in the summer hurts our sleep and safety. You could keep the same work and daycare hours and just get more sleep. Might actually be less depressing in the long run. (I actually tend to feel quite refreshed after I accidentally fall asleep at the same time as my kids...)
Damn, didn't know $1750 was low. I got something similar for reporting an exploit to Microsoft, where opening an attached ICS/calendar entry in Outlooks web client allowed me to execute arbitrary JavaScript on outlook.microsoft.com as the current user. Should have asked for more!
I’m hoping society gets off its laurels and seriously invests in infrastructure ASAP.

I also wish someone was looking for work for the displaced workers from electrification. I did have an idea - “Electrification as a service.” But you’d probably have to be Tesla to go down that path.
In the first image the woman was burned for murdering yoga practitioners.

In the second image the guy pushed his wife in front of a truck for endlessly micromanaging him.

In the 3rd image the guy had enough of her negativity and pushed her off the cliff.

In the 4th image the couple agreed to cash in on the life insurance.

In the 5th image the woman is years to late with her unsolicited advice but she finally speaks her mind.
Facebook's actions in India are absolutely despicable. The head of policy at Facebook in India is a radicalized member of the Indian rightwing and recently put up a post stating that Muslims are a "degenerate community" and was forced to apologise just a couple of days ago because of pressure on FB from their employees.

She gave a half hearted apology. Facebook should have immediately suspended her or sacked her:

https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/facebook-ankhi-das-anti-...

She and her sister (who is a politically connected to the ruling BJP party) have publicly been hobnobbing with the BJP and have actively been involved in propaganda.
https://twitter.com/SaketGokhale/status/1294653379046596608

During the recent riots in Delhi where many died, the incitement of violence was by a member of the ruling party but has taken no action against Kapil Mishra's account which is still active:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=283365149510764

His account is still active and he still continues to try and make the Hindus fight the Muslims:

https://www.facebook.com/youth4justice
> As in "free-will" not to live in any (western?) city where 7am is noise go-time, regardless of real life statistics and local cultural differences?

You must live in a different west than I do, because although there are sometimes noisy works in my cities (I've mostly lived in France and Belgium, but my year in Montreal wasn't different on this aspect actually) these are only punctual occurrences, and even in my latest house, where there have been buildings being built in my street for two years, it's only been noisy in the morning a couple weeks at most over this time.

I'm more inconvenienced by regular automobile traffic, which isn't limited to special hours, motorcycles can speed down the street and wake us up at any time of the night.
... after he already had killed a protestor. After realizing what he did, instead of calling for help or staying to justify his actions, he ran away and shot two more people in the process.

Then the police let him walk away.

Please contrast this with the same police shooting an unarmed black man seven times in the back at close range while getting into his car. Imagine if he had 2’ long rifle on him too.

I don’t relish political discussion in this forum, and I’m sorry to dang et all if I’m furthering that. It just feels like the world is on fire and it’s hard to bite your tongue when ostensibly reasonable people fundamentally disagree with things covered on video.
safe link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200829123525/https://www.daily...

There's a bit of politics there - the Daily Mail are still right-wing xenophobes, but the present editor doesn't like the Johnson/Cummings team at all, and takes shots at them whenever he can.
Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation
I don't know. It's the demographic on social media gravitating towards Elon.

If I had to guess: it's an inspirational story if you look, think and have a similar background to Elon and that demographic idolizes and sees Elon as a role model.
Maybe you got a lemon
That's not a particularly realistic way to read financial statements. It's not like they can just turn off sales and marketing and keep their existing revenue streams.
They've been promoting other ills to their readers instead, e.g. conspiracy theories about Russia. And they do it non-algorithmically, i.e. knowingly, and isn't that worse? At least with an algorithm the creator can claim any independent decision it makes wasn't an intended outcome. Journalists don't get to say that.
In my experience the person giving the unwanted, heard a million times before advice isn't doing it because they actually want to help. They just want to feel good about themselves.
Not just range anxiety, I literally wouldn't know where to charge my electric car since I live in a city and have neither my own garden nor a garage, I would have to put some cable out of my window across the street.

There are a few charging stations around my neighborhood but there are a ton more cars.
There's a wide distribution of circadian rhythms in the human population between the poles of what are commonly called 'early birds' and 'night owls'. Those rhythms mean that there is an optimal wake for each person that is not infinitely flexible. We cannot all sleep and rise with the sun and do our best work.

In my case, I struggle to do serious work outside of 10am-10pm. I wake at 7am because of my partner, but for the first three hours of every day, my brain hardly works. I have to fill my time with other things - exercise, reading, chores, and so on. If left to myself, I naturally go to sleep at midnight and wake at nine, and feel better for it.
I disagree.

We're inundated with time displays. Right now I have 5 time displays within 20 feet (computer, stove, microwave, phone, watch). I could imagine some people would continue to reference sundown / sunup for relevant situations (kids, get home by dark) the same as they already do, but not for anything time sensitive (like say a meeting). There's just no way I would schedule a call for "3 hours past sunset" even if I was forced to tell time in binary.
There’s evidence of properties in NYC which have been vacant for 7+ years. These properties, even with the pandemic, have not budged their rent. They simply do not care if they’re not making money. They would rather preserve their capital, bank on appreciation, and not deal with tenants than fall prey to deflationary pressures.

The only explanation is the prevalence of some form of money laundering, an area I’m not an expert in.
There was never any proof or big evidence that DST has any advantage in any aspect. It was implemented using pure ignorance.

In Brazil it was suspended last year and I hope this year too. No one was upset by the change, much to the contrary, and as far as I know no one said anything about noticeable changes in energy consumption or anything.
> However, there used to be a very practical solution, to center the clock at noon, which drifts only a few minutes over the year.

Noon drifts by just over 30 minutes throughout the year, not just a few minutes.
Matplot++: A C++ Graphics Library for Data Visualization
Data visualization can help programmers and scientists identify trends in their data and efficiently communicate these results with their peers. Modern C++ is being used for a variety of scientific applications, and this environment can benefit considerably from graphics libraries that attend the typical design goals toward scientific data visualization. Besides the option of exporting results to other environments, the customary alternatives in C++ are either non-dedicated libraries that depend on existing user interfaces or bindings to other languages. Matplot++ is a graphics library for data visualization that provides interactive plotting, means for exporting plots in high-quality formats for scientific publications, a compact syntax consistent with similar libraries, dozens of plot categories with specialized algorithms, multiple coding styles, and supports generic backends.

https://github.com/alandefreitas/matplotplusplus
Complete bogus of an article. Nothing happens to plenty of posts on Facebook that are pure hatespeech against hindus, BJP and Modi himself even after properly being reported... does that mean Facebook has ties with all those Islamists, maoists, leftists etc??

Even the NGO in question here avaaz has been allegedly involved in shady things and is trying to bully the govt as a retaliation against govt's efforts in regularising FCRA funding and the NGO also wants to curry favours from the opposition party which is famous for its corruption.
basically, (a) no actual office worker believes the government line on this (b) the employers - who are actually paying people to work from home - don't believe the government line either
I'd agree with you in most anything but a hello world. Showcasing a few basic powertools as a starting point is probably better than introducing "subtle copies" of the same functionality.
Spotify could make a web app and bypass this whole issue. They chose not to: let them pay the Apple Tax (if you must call it that. Personally, I think it’s just a distribution cost).