skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems some people have forgotten the rhetoric of the time. The opposition had a wide variety of arguments against universal health care, such as government death panels[0], increased wait times for essential care[1], government control over 1/6 of the economy, free medical care for illegals, etc. I particularly remember a claim coming out that Stephen Hawking would have died under a universal system like the NHS[2].

As such, Obama proposed the ACA as some kind of middle road[3], with the goal of having something that both sides would be in favor of, and to hold the moderates that were against single payer[4]. After the better part of a year of negotiation and multiple efforts to reach out to the opposition, the ACA was passed without any Republican votes, who then spent the following eight years running for office on the idea of repealing it (with at least 50 attempts in a four year span).

Unfortunately, the Republicans don't have any plan for healthcare themselves, resulting in a failed repeal attempt three years ago even after taking control of the house, senate and presidency.

It should be fairly obvious at this point that logical arguments for or against policies are irrelevant, even more so than they were ten years ago - and yes, a great many people would vote against it. They spent the last decade doing just that.

[0] https://www.politico.com/story/2009/08/palin-doubles-down-on...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2009/07/28/s...

[2] https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/passing-the-bat...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/us/politics/10obama.text....

[4] https://www.newsday.com/business/single-payer-health-care-pl...
Yes, our initial target audience was users that most likely already had wallets so we didn't want to make it difficult for them to pay.
We will be focusing more on UX for non-cyrpto users for the future.
We actually hope that both regular and cyrpto users will opt for the extension as it acts as a wallet and also has the auto pay feature.
It is very new but if you wanted to test it today then download it and email us (ruby at satotious.com) and we will credit your account with 10 Sats so you can test it for free.

Thanks for your feedback :)
Same base block argument. At 25W, the i7-10710U has a base clock at 1.6GHz, the newer parts are at 3.0GHz at 28W.

For laptops (which are far more likely to thermal throttle), this is a huge deal.
> Gimme a recent released distro which got decent userbase.

Solus is 5 years old and ranks 8th on distrowatch.
We are objectively an oligarchy; there's no other explanation that makes sense.
You haven't demonstrated negligence. Nor did you demonstrate that the statement was made seriously. Elon musk called someone a "pedo guy" because he moved to Thailand, and was found to be fine because a reasonable person wouldn't take the statement seriously. Threading the needle between protected hyperbole and protected good faith mistakes is practically speaking not feasible. Negligence is a higher standard than what you seem to believe.

Keep in mind, making an accusation not totally supported by evidence is not defamation. In the US, it falls on the defamed to both prove that the accusation is false and prove that the accuser knew it was false. Not that they had doubts or uncertainty, but that they knowingly lied. Making an ultimately incorrect acusation based on incomplete evidence isn't legally negligent.
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I completely agree with you! But we're talking about one of the few exceptions -- cross-cutting concerns.

I think just about everyone would scoff at the idea that every single method in your codebase should take an explicit `logger` parameter rather than just having a global logger object.

So now we're looking as a case where you have a bunch of services: dbs, caches, apis, storage that are used all over the app ("in every file") and you have to make a judgement call.

* Have hundreds (honestly thousands at current $dayjob) of methods that do a lot of work just to pass around the same connection handle.

* Declare a single object that manages all the connection pools.

I think it's really hard to escape the fact that connection pools are actually global and you either have to admit this or have your runtime hide it from you.

Another example of a cross-cutting concern that runtimes usually hide is event loops. Can you imagine if every function that wanted to use async had to be passed an event_loop variable?
The intelligence community has been above the law in the United States for a long, long time. The ability to classify (and hence shield from oversight or accountability) any action which is deemed "in the interest of national security" was codified in the National Security Act of 1947 which created the CIA and NSA.
The average entry-level engineer or program manager will have a total compensation of $125,665.

That salary, with stability, good benefits, and stock options, seems pretty good for entry level.
They don't. Levels start at 59. No sure what the history is there.
Open source as well

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
Id also like to add, maybe the reason there is so much clickbait/rubbish is because there isn't a viable business model for good quality content? How many subscriptions can people have?
How can your example even be legal?
That’s a totally different scenario - international travel requires a valid travel document.

For domestic flights you don’t technically need an id but be prepared to wait a long time and/or be subjected to a invasive questioning/security search.
WA has no personal income tax. Also a bit of a libertarian flair overall, why MSFT is openly defense friendly, which means local government has allowed for building housing everywhere.
Seems to have a long tradition. I'm still baffled by how little punishment there was for Iran-Contra, key people were simply pardoned by Bush, or how little punishment there was for the Abu Ghraib prisoner torture, just looking at the pictures of the wikipedia article makes me want to throw up.
>Does Microsoft really have eighty employee levels?

Possibly. All the article says is

"the levels start at 59 and go beyond 80. Microsoft’s senior positions start at level 63, according to the crowdsourced tech compensation website Levels.fyi."
This is https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ihnp8j/hi_im_bi... content copied to a thedonald.win domain
True but there is no denying that it is a much faster machine.
PyTest Commander: A UI for controlling PyTest interactively
1725

https://barrelroombooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/1725O...
So the Colorado Civil Rights Commission would be put in prison due to the results of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision?
> It seems like perhaps there is a lot of Canadian history that you haven't reckoned with.

Perhaps instead it's simply that I am an adherent to the great Western tradition of the last two thousand years: namely, the sins of the father are not the sins of the son.

I see narratives like this as an attempt to bludgeon Canadians into accepting blame for the actions of others which are deliberately contextualized by "historians" to make them sound as evil as possible.

Great, there were some battles in the past. My ancestors, like everyone else's, fought battles for their existence from the dawn of time. How many subgroups were wiped out in Europe as they vied for dominance? Should I feel bad for them, too? Do you? Should people just be passive, do you think that will work game-theoretically in the long term?

> an honest reckoning with history

All "honest reckonings" that have come out in the last hundred years or so are used to demonize western people; small wonder that people are beginning to question whether it's really honesty, or an attempt to disenfranchise us within the nations we created and brought to greatness.
> I find this interesting that they are using Google Sheets instead of Excel.

If MS management found out and didn’t like this, how would they take down a Google sheet? They couldn’t.

How would they take down a O365-sheet? Oh right. Instantly.
They do have a price list. I receive it every year as my property taxes.
Time loop logic? I guess that would just about make it into the triple digits :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
OTOH, I have heard a lot of people that have done both MS and FAANG say MS has a superior WLB in -most- units.
Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting in VSCode (2017)
Old now but interesting:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale
Diving into PHP Unserialize()
Probably never, since the metadata collection program was legally governed by Section 215 of the Patriot Act from 2001 to 2015, which modified the FISA Act. The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 further enshrined the legal basis of the program. You can't prosecute people retroactively. Even if you could, it's unclear exactly who that should be.
So, kind of a non sequitur, but I occasionally think about Qt's QList<T>. When introduced, it was odd for reserving space at the beginning as well as the end, so you had constant-time inserts/removals at the beginning. That and storing pointers for any T larger than a pointer also reduced the constant factor on insertion/deletions from the middle. Since it was always stored as a list of pointer-sized items, some code could be shared between implementations for different types, so your program's binary could be a bit smaller. I think they said at the initial release that they benchmarked a bunch of options in some real code and this won.

That was waaay at odds with the mindset of the STL, which seemed to me and I think a lot of folks like the state-of-the-art of containers at the time: with the STL if you prepend/insert much you need to use a deque/linked list, you decide pointer vs. value each time you declare a type, and if you want to know about the constant factor on an insert in the middle of the list you probably already lost.

(Qt has/had some other fun pragmatic things, like copy-on-write types in a lot of places. I didn't really do nearly enough with it to discover the pitfalls, but was fun to read.)

So I think about that, about how there are likely some trees out there that could just as well be sorted arrays, about adaptive structures that change their behavior based on dynamically observing how they're used (one recently discussed here: http://blog.erlang.org/the-new-scalable-ets-ordered_set/), even about tricks in in JS string implementations and VMs. I don't have answers, but I sometimes wonder if we should be thinking more in terms of tools that may not be perfect on all axes but soften or eliminate performance cliffs we take for granted. Not that the zero-overhead fine-tuned types are going away, just that they aren't the only imaginable approach.

I wonder if we'll see progress in those sort of imperfect-but-resilient tools over time. I think the long-run trend is towards some form of programming being accessible to more people more easily (like how, as you note, folks do real work in Python now). That certainly fits with trying to make your tools resilient to "misuse"--or, better, properly supporting more patterns so they're not even misuse. No conclusions, just hand-waving, but I do wonder if anyone working in software construction tools will eventually more usefully wave their hands in that direction :P
In my locale in the US the only question you need to answer is what your name is and I'm not even sure of that. Afterwards you may leave and they can not hold you.

The drug dogs are to my knowledge only if you're in a vehicle, and recently that has received challenges.
If you say so.

The $1,500+ ambulance bill still existed, I still paid it, and my kid wasn't even born until five+ years after the ACA came into force. The insurance company was "nice" enough to let me count it towards my kid's deductible for that year, but I paid every cent.
Amazon is hiring 'intelligence analysts' against organized labor+activist groups
Huh didn’t know about reason behind cfs quota, thanks. Yeah it always seemed of dubious usefulness to me. Considering i can probably trash cpu caches without using much cycles and do other things with disk and network io I’m a bit surprised people worry about cfs quota so much
> except for immigrant families mostly

You say this in a country that has a fairly sizable immigrant population. And you don't have to live in the same house to be able to visit grandma on the other side of town.

> Created 20 days ago explains everything

Not here.
Locally: SMB. Over the internet: SendGB. Ridiculously sized: HDDs in a car.
Solid – The best JavaScript UI library?
This rather clever cheap hardware and software KVM project is solving the issue in an interesting way, maybe a cross-polination opportunity?

https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/
EO12333 includes a fourth amendment bypass for people subject to background investigations. It's easy to redirect that capability for the general population.
I can see this being used to argue solitary confinement as inhumane.
You can't do this sort of flamewar here, regardless of how strongly you feel about whichever countries. We ban accounts that do this, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24341017.
Articles that are not clickbait and YouTube personalities that are differentiated and not conspiracy theorists definitely exist and are worth supporting.

You are on Hacker News, so presumably you click some of the links. Some clickbait of course does end up here but linked articles are mostly not clickbait.

Similarly, you should pay attention to youtube links in comments (here and elsewhere) to start building a catalog of creators of content that you enjoy.

Also, incidentally, the apparent deluge of "haters" and "conspiracy theorists" you have noticed and pointed out here relates to a topic of frequent discussion in this forum (regulation of social media networks) and it is worth thinking about how it impacts us in these seemingly unrelated ways.
I had the pleasure of using its MS-DOS counterpart, edlin.

Yep vi was definitely an improvement.
I've always wondered how this works out for people at Linkedin.

(I haven't ever gotten a job via LI, but know many who have.)
1080p outright looks blurry after using 4k, so its pretty hard to even contemplate going back
Not for FAANG. I was making ~$170k total comp out of college at a FAANG as a SWE, and that was >5 years ago.

Though I guess there's no M in FAANG.
Russia: Who wanted Alexei Navalny dead?
> A shadow is the negative picture of the environment around the object producing it.

Just screams to be the plot for a mystery novel/movie of some sort.
If you have tenure, and you don't cross the thin blue line, you are untouchable. Your local police union can absolutely ruin a local politician's career[1], and in general, make life hell for your city, so most of the politicians don't try to rock the boat.

When they do, they discover that the police, despite being employees of the city will just refuse to do what they are told. Sheriffs magically turn into constitutional scholars, and start unilaterally choosing what laws to enforce[2], start blatantly violating the city's bylaws, and instructions from the mayor[3], and when pushed in the only way they can be hurt (The budget), engage in malicious compliance.

Picking a fight with the police union is generally speaking, not a politically savvy move.

[1] Mostly by doing a deliberately poor job in the district they represent, and being incredibly vocal that the reason they are doing a poor job, is because the politician is causing them problems.

[2] A number of sheriffs across the country made it clear that they won't issue Covid mask/gathering citations, despite state and local law, because the law is an obvious violation of... Some constitutional amendment that they can't name.

[3] After weeks of violence, Seattle city council banned the use of crowd control weapons. The SPD celebrated the very next day by gassing and blast-balling crowds.
It doesn't have to be administered by the federal government. Every state can set up and administer its own system, like Canada does.
> a family member and software dev just bought the latest macbook pro coming from about an 8 year old macbook pro. Apparently he doesn't perceive much real world performance difference between the 2 machines.

I'd say the same thing about upgrading from an i7-6800K (2016 Broadwell-E) to a Threadripper 3960X. Barely a difference (my main work is a ~250k loc c# solution, also a similar medium-ish sized Angular app).
It is impossible to hold civil servants accountable at all levels of government. As long as you believe you were operating within the law, regardless of if you were or not and what effect that may have had on other people, you seem to be unapproachable.

Eventually this is going to lead to civil servants being lynched.
Good. Salaries should be public record as an accountability measure. You can't fix the problem of your employer unfairly paying you less than your colleagues if you don't know what your colleagues make.
You can't do this sort of flamewar here, regardless of how strongly you feel about whichever countries. We ban accounts that do this, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.
People will gladly collect money they aren't legally owed. In this case, unless there is more to the story, you shouldn't have paid it.
How would public BitTorrent tracker servers be better than a single rendezvous-server run by the tool's author?

With trackers, you're revealing the fact-of-transmission, transmission-size, & endpoints to any number of unknown remote parties. Potentially, attackers not even on the privileged network-path from origin to destination could tee off a copy of your encrypted data for offline analysis.

With Magic Wormhole's rendezvous-server, only one server, run by the same person whose code you're trusting (& can audit), briefly relays encrypted control-messages. (It might even be limited in its ability to deduce the size of the transfer – I'm not sure.) And if that's still too much, you can run your own rendezvous server.

It seems to me the amount of information leaked in the BT Tracker approach is strictly (& perhaps massively) more, to more entities, than that leaked in using the Wormhole author's server.
The whole point of bitmap fonts is that they're designed to be used without anti-aliasing. There's no blur.

Examples:

https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

If you're on 4K you can simulate how they look on 1080p with 2x integer nearest neighbor scaling.
You may need a driver for the laptop's video card. The 'tearing' you describe is very characteristic of Microsoft's generic display drivers, perhaps for some reason the OS was unable to auto-install the driver?

Or the graphics card isn't being used for some reason? E.g., if your laptop has NVidia's Optimus[1], the graphics card may be inactive while Word's running. There's usually a way to force applications to use the GPU with Optimus.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/optimus/
Black holes get less dense as they gain mass - assuming I didn't drop a factor of 2 or τ, a 1 solar mass black hole has a density of 147 quadrillion tons per cubic meter. A black hole of 100 million solar masses had density of only 14.7 tons per cubic meter (for reference, lead is 11.3 Tn/m3 and osmium is 22.6 Tn/m3). So a sphere of 100M (actually >81M) solar masses of osmium would collapse into a black hole without even having to compress under it's own gravity first. You'd need 384 million solar masses for something with the density of water.
Usually a local HTTP server. But I've wondered before if binary data could be encoded in to a video file and then uploaded to youtube or some other video service...
Micropayments seem to work well in wechat. Users can tip article writers small amounts.

I think it's been successful because they have reduced the friction for tipping.
Turkish provinces introduce mandatory tracking to enter government buildings
"- At the entrance to public buildings in our city, our citizens are asked to question the life fits in the house (HES) code within the scope of the new type of coronavirus (Kovid-19) measures,

- Helping our citizens who do not have HES code to obtain the HES code from the Ministry of Health's life fit into the house (HES) mobile application or the E State application,"

Translated from: http://izmir.gov.tr/2020110-sayili-il-hifzissihha-kurulu-karari

(a few more provinces did the same move too)
Interesting stats

Mostly all junior and that makes sense in terms of who is sharing. 60% said they were visible minority and 22% said their gender was an issue.

Does that lineup with recent Microsoft hires or is this dataset unrepresentative.
Thank you dang for your offer, that sounds great. I’ll get in touch with you as soon as we are ready for Show HN.
No,
It goes from 59 to 70.
80 level also exists but it's just for the CEO, I believe there is nothing between 70 and 80 (maybe there is 73 or something like that, but at any rate it's not continuous).
It's a weird system
I think the bigger problem is that the general population does not want the law enforced.

There is also a sentiment that there are so many laws on the books that there is nothing wrong with breaking them or LEO letting people off the hook.

If the average person is good and still commits "3 felonies a day", then it is easy to believe that LEO is giving people a reprieve from systemic injustice, opposed to carrying out injustice.

Nobody shames an individual who get out of a speeding ticket with a warning, when the individual was randomly selected from 10,000 other speeders the same road that day.
I think this is mostly right, but I don't think there are many arguing that police are universally good or perfect as much as (1) they have a hard job and (2) we should be more focused on violent offenders than police corruption.

I'm certainly not advocating for these arguments, but I believe it's important to accurately understand that which you fight against.
I agree. It is first time I actually enjoyed old text. Plus the introduction into cultural and historical context is great. Plus, the threads about translation itself she wrote were interesting too.
It isn't technology so much as policy essentially. We see parents holding their kids back so they perform better in sports. Humans /will/ game any system in potentially horrifying ways to gain an edge.
Isn't this true for unfriendly corruption as well?
Possibly, assuming Democrats get rid of the Senate filibuster.

I haven’t checked what Biden’s plan is currently, but I assume it will be something that strengthens Obamacare. But ... you never know, Harris would be VP...
He's elected by his peers in the Senate. They're all responsible for blocking action.
I kind of said that. Meanwhile, legally employed OP above fears bankruptcy for putting a baby in his fiancee. Good job America.
Maybe some laws just don't have penalties? Having laws with no penalties is rather common.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/26724/what-is-t...
> you have already done a number of illegal things

Fun thing I learned recently in a Netflix documentary: It used to be legal to be a mafia boss because you weren’t the one doing illegal things. Someone had to fight real hard in the 70’s to create a new law that made it illegal to tell others to commit crimes.

It was legal to own C4 that doesn’t smell until 1996. A new law after a series of bombings made it illegal.

https://www.atf.gov/explosives/plastic-explosives-reminder

I wonder what’s legal now that will be obviously illegal in 20 years because it leads to future crimes?
A friend of mine moved from california to washington. "with the cut in my taxes, I get a free house!" (meaning ca taxes = washington mortgage payment)
That doesn't negate the claim that it's unpopular (although I don't have a position on that personally). Vocal minorities often exhibit unpopular opinions.