skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many times throughout the book, Graeber rails against the fact that the morality of "paying one's debts" functions as a mechanism for keeping debtors in bondage to creditors. But a few times, Graeber actually reverses the equation, and laments the power that debtors can sometimes exercise over creditors, quoting the old saw that "if you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you; if you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank." In other words, whether debt gives power to creditors or debtors, power is the bad thing, and debt is merely the mechanism by which power is expressed.

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt-...

> To start with, he makes several different historical claims, not all of them compatible:

> (1) Credit transactions preceded and dominated spot transactions in early human societies.

> (2) Media of account emerged before media of exchange.

> (3) Barter was unknown (or at least extremely rare) WITHIN early human societies.

> Notice that point (1) is incompatible with either (2) or (3). Early credit transactions must have involved barter (contradicting number 3) or media of exchange (contradicting 2). There is no other logical possibility. Yet because Graeber’s peculiar concept of barter excludes a farmer trading a pig for delivery of an ax in two weeks (to use Murphy’s example), his claim that barter was non-existent tends to become true by definition.

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/07/hummel_on_graeb.htm...
For one, many people don’t have data fast and low-latency enough to make hotspot usage a good enough experience.
You probably don't realize it, you are agreeing with me :-)
Thanks for the support and being such a loyal customer bhartzer. Always good to hear from you.

For those that don't know me, I work for Fabulous.com. I can confirm Fabulous has never and will never engage in activities as described by the OP.

If anyone has any questions, needs assistance with anything relating to Fabulous, feel free to reach out. My email is mike@fabulous.com.
No, the problem is with Bluetooth not Linux.
Ditto. Those scammers really need to find a new target. Flash is so 2006.
Some years ago I watched an interesting documentary on how a bunch of viking swords that all bear the same distinctive engraving were very likely made of steel from Persia. The doc claimed that they were likely using a route along the Volga to get down to the Caspian routinely.
The crucial difference here is that they're burning their own books, not confiscating anyone else's. To that end, I don't see this as any limitation of Rowling's right to express herself (although the general level of outrage at her right now might cause publishers to think twice before signing a contract with her).

And liberals symbolically destroy stuff they don't like all the time. It isn't conservatives who are burning American flags at anti-war/cop protests.

I'm generally of the mind that as long as it's your property, you should be able to do what you want with it, but I've never seen the point to this kind of radical symbolism. A movement for social justice might start with a radical fringe, but its overall sustainability and success rely on convincing people who don't already agree with the cause.

And most attempts at social change, especially those regarding civil rights, already have to fight an uphill battle against accusations of dangerous radicality. Going Fahrenheit 451 on books you don't like is not going to help with that perception.
Industries are being computerised, so it's not too surprising that business practices are bleeding over.

I don't really see too much of a difference between buying a tractor from John Deere and buying a fancy SAN from Oracle. In either case you're paying a premium for the name and the associated service contract for a time-sensitive mission-critical locked-down (and to some extent black-box) function which is presumably crucial to your business's ability to generate revenue. JD have competitors, and I'd imagine that if this episode hasn't tanked their business it's due to risk-aversion from buyers (à la IBM), vendor lock-in, or customers being set in their ways.

It's also a bit like the Creative sector when Adobe moved to a subscription model; people balked and held out for a time, but ultimately they voted with their wallets and bought [subscriptions to] the magic product that could be provided by only one company on Earth, and without which they couldn't possibly continue to make art-work [commercially, in a productive manner, and in keeping with their prior experience].

I'm just cynical about how often people will knowingly make themselves reliant on a single company without reading through the small print or thinking through the implications of what is essentially entering into a long-term strategic partnership with a vastly unequal partner without a having a hedging strategy. If you can't imagine not using their products after the next refresh, you've put yourself in a very poor negotiating position.
You’re conflating freedom of speech with freedom from consequences.
> Joe should have a free and censorship free place to discuss topics.

He has that. He's free to post whatever he wants on his website where many people will see it.
I think a different way of looking at the problem is that ActiveRecord models really shouldn’t have much, if any logic. Instead, logic should get delegated to other types of object, such as services, decorators, query objects, etc. While “fat models” is certainly better than “fat controllers”, I’m afraid it lead the Rails community astray with large-scale apps that required more nuanced architecture.
No the ESP32 uses less power. In deep sleep it uses about a quarter of the current. It also has an extra low power processor (ULP) core than can run in a sleep state and do IO without even waking up the Tensalica cores. The ESP32-S2 actually has a Risk-V core that runs as a ULP. As I said, it's better in every way.
Academic administrators judge performance based on publication counts, journal impact factors, citations/h-index, and fundraising. Working on tooling doesn't fit in those buckets, so it's broadly-speaking "useless" to a researcher vying for promotions (eg tenure). It's an imperfect method of measuring true impact.
> Spotify should be permitted to host what it wants to. But they should also listen to their employees who do the work that makes the platform run.

They are. Ek: "The fact that we aren't changing our position doesn't mean we aren't listening. It just means we made a different judgment call."
Export a zone file? Namecheap can't even export a text or CSV file of all of my domains and their expiration dates. This is a long-standing open issue that Namecheap support has dodged several times with us. I'm still a customer right now, but I'm looking for another registrar.
I was very annoyed with facebook like wall feed. So I figured I'll unfollow everyone except for few really important colleagues. I guess I can't control what's on my feed.
Don't put the logic in activerecord models at all. Not even the data.
Use activerecord uniquely as a querying mechanism (read or write), don't use relationships and don't put validations in there.

Create objects (aka behavioral objects, aka servoce objects) for the logic and create entities (plain ruby objects) when you need to pass around the data.

Yes, you are essentially eliminating the entirety of activerecord.

After 10 years of rails, you realize that is the only safe way to use that library.

By the way

User
User::SignUp
Are related. The behavior doesn't need to be in the same object, the namespace takes care of that already.
Demanding that other people describe you a certain way is not "your existence".
Joe is a centrist in leftist clothing. I honestly think this is a good thing. I dont 100% agree with his point of view but we need to figure out how to compromise or just expect a red vs blue civil war. I don’t want this at all. I don’t want to shut down anyone that has a different point of view from me either. Why are we so intent on being right and not compromising??
Maybe they don’t, but they certainly could to broaden their appeal.
I combined an ESP8266 with a 4x20 LCD display.

As the device has onboard WiFi I can poll a remote site to get data and display it, updating every few minutes. I use that to show the next departure-times at the tram-stop round the corner from my house.

Sure I could use an app, or even walk there and wait, but it's nice to know when to leave - especially in winter-time!
What constitutes transphobic exactly? Is it in the eye of the beholder, like porn: you'll know it when you see it?
Anarchists would be philosophically opposed to top-down, mandated standards, not standards in general.
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I second Route 53 for domains. It’s straight to the point and clear cut unlike other registrars that try to upsell gimmicky features at every step.
Knowing his agreement with Spotify was entered into voluntarily, and based on the evidence now at hand, it seems Joe's commitment to free speech is something less than unconditional.
I know it's virtually forbidden to discuss practical details of PGP on HN, but what do you think is the sticking point about that pop-up? It makes people think a little rather than trust blindly, which seems to be...good?

I do agree that the marginally and fully options are useless. Wonder if adoption would be better if you just removed them, and were left with:

- I don't know what PGP is (exit, opens documentation or a tutorial)

- I definitely distrust this key (because it has been marked as malicious in the wild)

- I trust this key (because I have verified it either in person, or through a proof like Keybase)
> Ghandi.net

I think you meant Gandi.net?

I definitely agree with the sentiment, Gandi has not done this to me in the past -- I've looked up short domains weeks before purchase -- and in general provide an outstanding service.
But this IS the less sophisticated version. They still turn around and sell Autodesk Inventor to enterprise for way more than the $500/year for F360.
i hated cancun because of that weird desire to recreate an american beach destination in mexico, where, in addition to dollars and english, they also accepted pesos and spoke spanish. just go to florida, ffs.
Maybe these employees could put together some type of Employees Music Resource Center (EMRC) to help the general public not get exposed to viewpoints some people consider negative. They could add a label to the albums they find offensive with an Employee Advisory logo.
I prefer the idea of a rapidly spinning hoop. It means there are a lot more chances to latch on.

The usual way they talk about keeping these things aloft is to set up an electromagnetic accelerator track on the moon and aim buckets of ore, or industrial product, at the upper rim. They latch on at the top and get dropped off the bottom.

Timing is critical. It takes computers.

All around the circumference you have radial tethers with scoops at the end. You just have to dive into the scoop when it dips down in front of you. Then it's a wild ride up and out.
I'm not convinced we're worse off than in previous decades. Granted, the type of views that are "offensive" changed and there were some clear power shifts (and from your statement I assume you're on the losing side of that shift), but having to conceal your views for fear of retribution was always a thing.
I'd be surprised if it stopped after this election. It's shaping up to be one of the most divisive elections ever. Whichever the outcome, at least one of the two large factions will have a lot to say, which leads to the other faction saying a lot about what they have to say.
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I went back, got a "Your AntiVirus is out of date" ad next.
Is this different than any other imported electronics in Venezuela?
What specifically is middle of the road Joe Rogan saying that is “anti transgender”? Serious question.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-there-wasnt-an... should accompany this.

The whole younger Dryas advanced civilization think could have been avoided entirely and the point about ice melt rates would have been fine.
If you are truly sharing logic then it might be okay, but typically I've seen concerns added as a way to organize code when ActiveRecord models get too big. At this point a lot of people reach for Concerns because it is right there in Rails waiting to be used, but ultimately it's just papering over the problem of bloated classes with too many responsibilities. I usually prefer to add some kind of service layer to handle complex manipulation and object lifecycle so that ActiveRecord just manages querying/persistence with most if not all business logic at a higher layer.
I don't think offense is the issue. People are being fired, denied housing, and murdered for being trans for example. Joe Rogan called being transgender a "social contagion", which is going to cause people who respect and trust him to not want trans people around.
I have had department meetings at my workplace in California in the wake of the BLM movement, which also happens to be a multinational with 10s of thousands of employees. Groups of 20 or so employees were put together and encouraged to share stories of how social and racial injustice has impacted their personal lives and ideas for what can be done.

I have a peer who had similar meetings at their firm and the VP of Diversity and Inclusion went as far as to say attendance at such meetings would be tracked on an individual and ongoing basis.

I feel that in general, my company has a very traditional and apolitical work culture, so my imagination runs rampant with what things must be like at FB, Google, & social service sector workplaces.
Extremely curiously, the first comment for this article link is about... what do you know, Gandi possibly doing the same thing as the OP's experience, albeit less provably / over a longer time period.
I have a similar story with Github. I filled the website field on the Github repo settings. The project was new and the end was not near and didn't register the domain. After a year or so decided to register but figured that the domain is already registered a month ago. I can't prove it but somebody in Github could have been checked website domains if it is already registered. (Or I was unlucky) The domain was never used and released after 2 years. The lesson here is: register your domain when you have a chance.
> First: Software got so abundant without proof. How much of an effort is a formal proof of a program? I suspect that it's at least as much effort as the total effort of writing the program, and maybe several times that. If I'm right, then formally proving all programs would result in more than twice as much effort, which would mean less than half as much software. So, think of all the programs that you interact with in a day. Now think of a world where half of those programs simply do not exist. Is that better than this world of buggy programs? Or worse?

I don't think it'd require twice the effort unless you insisted on a full and complete formal proof of the entire program. Which most contemporary advocates of formal methods do not want (and this paper basically concurs with). Rather, see TLA+ where the advocation is for people to model critical parts, or the concurrency model, or the synchronization model of their distributed system. You can elide so many details that it's nowhere near the same level of work as actually writing the full program, but can inform your design so that you spend less time reworking later.

OTOH, I've seen lots of programs where the testing comprises at least as much effort, if not some small integer multiple, as the actual coding portion. But no one is advocating for removing tests (though some people strongly despise, if not outright hate, certain test approaches).
This is why it is legal, not necessarily why we must describe is as a state of freedom for the speaker. Suppose you work for the govt and get fired for what you say. No one inflicted harm on you there. The important categorical difference is govt retribution versus individuals doing it.

A society where people act outside the government to dissuade speech they don't like (even if they operate within the law) certainly feels less free that one which is more accepting.
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A who is server and a domain name server are two different things. But back to the topic: who is servers in most cases have some kind of limit per a certain time frame so you don't abuse them.
About voting, sure. Not about the country at large.
You were suggesting that Mozilla's deal with Google was secretly for the purpose of protecting itself from antitrust regulations. Two groups, secretly planning something.
Okay, here you go

https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/master/packages/ecs

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>makes it pretty damn clear that he thinks real change won't come through the electoral process.

Yeah, and that's where I break with Zinn, (because it requires a silly definition of "real" change) but you're wrong if you think he's advocating violent overthrow. He was in favor of civil disobedience. His contemporary Chomsky has been quite clear on this, especially recently, when he's even criticized leftists for defending violence at protests.
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Very familiar and totally agree. I had plans to make a basic light gas gun a while back but never followed through...probably a good thing lol
You want hover, best of both worlds. Amazing search experience, no misogynistic customer-hostile company (GoDaddy, not namecheap) behind it.
"They have this agenda," he said, "and this agenda is very ideologically driven that anyone who even thinks they might be trans should be trans, are trans, and the more trans people the better. The more kids that transition the better."

https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33391944/joe-rogan... but you can probably find other sources, it's a direct quote.
> This is unfortunate and unacceptable. Joe should have a free and censorship free place to discuss topics.

> We have lost our minds: the ability to freely and discuss literally any topic was an American staple.

On Spotify specifically, though? I don’t remember a time in America when I was getting paid to post whatever I felt like saying into a microphone to Spotify.
> You have said multiple times that it is "not about the law" and you haven't offered an alternative explanation. If the reason has nothing to do with the law, then what is it, and why are companies saying it has to do with the law? What is the goal behind the proactive initiatives?

I'm confused with the question, given that you yourself gave the answer:

> The risk of running into both PR & legal trouble

You yourself stated a reason other than legal.

But even without PR, I'm surprised you're asking. Do you not believe they can be pushing these initiatives because they actually care about diversity? Or because they view it to be a competitive advantage over other companies? Or because they believe diversity will lead to better company performance? The last is one of the main stated goals in my company. I don't know if they themselves believe it, but it's clear that many, many people do.

> I tried to address this. Attitudes are changing over time. Being compliant yesterday doesn't necessarily mean you're compliant today, even if the law doesn't change wording.

I really, really do not see any group winning a court case against a company because they did not have special hiring events for people of their group. Perhaps in the future, but not any time soon. I do not for a second believe my company did this because they were concerned about the law.

If the company's normal recruitment practices is discriminatory towards a certain group, I can understand. That's not the case here. Moreover, even if it were, having such events would not protect them. You can't wipe discrimination in one part of the company by compensating in another. If your job application page has stuff that discriminates against, say, African Americans, then having special recruiting events for them will not alter the fact that you are discriminating.

> Also, we were talking about diversity training, and not affirmative action nor only hiring discrimination laws.

The thread is about discussions of diversity in the workplace, and were not limiting it to training.
Google tightening rules on internal message board as ‘new world creates urgency’
Why is this an important argument to have now? As long as millions of voters believe the climate isn't changing or don't understand what kind of damage it's going to do, it seems like focusing on these details just adds to the noise.
I think you're final paragraph is contradictory. I think the environmental impact of our limitless energy consumption so far is clear. Reducing consumption is the only way to reduce further impact.

Modern society uses a lot of unnecessary energy in part because someone gets to make a lot of money now and leave this life before the consequences of unfettered destruction come due.
No, really, the only difference is the identity around which it is organized: if the identity is membership in “our country”, the poster supports it, and he opposes the increasing political relevance of alternative primary identities as a threat to the power of his preferred identity.
I think this is wrong. The UI is definitely getting dumber, but I don't think it's easier for more people. It's more confusing, as elements get larger and more equal in size, as details fade, the experience for everyone just becomes blurry.
They built the walls pretty high sadly. Best bet is to choose a vendor to the industry, or even a vendor to a vendor
I don't think there is room to discuss how much censorship you're willing to accept with people trying to censor you. At the end of the day their feelings don't matter - they're just technocrats trying to control the speech of others because they got hired by Spotify.

Joe will talk to people but probably not people trying to destroy his business through their employer who he has a contract with.
What I'm hearing is "don't rely on security by obscurity", which I wholeheartedly agree with.
Sure, good enough for me. I don't want that situation, but it's not inherent in left ideology. I'm more of a strong social democrat with market socialist/anarchist tendencies.
Reminds me of the Expanse, just caught up a few nights ago. They spend quite a bit of time on Ganymede and Io in the third season. Imagine looking out the window to see Jupiter taking a significant fraction of the sky. :D
Hadn't seen this take on supporting open source before.

Text of the license:
"This package is Treeware. If you use it in production, then we ask that you [buy the world a tree](https://plant.treeware.earth/{user}/{package}) to thank us for our work. By contributing to the Treeware forest you’ll be creating employment for local families and restoring wildlife habitats."
What an absurd thing to say.

Nuclear fuel is several orders of magnitude more energy dense than coal. A "coal power plant using different fuel" would produce energy so cheap it couldn't be metered.
Suzhou introduced new social scoring system[..]was too Orwellian, even for China
They're not really subdomains. If you try to do a whois against e.g. smith.name you'll see it's not a registerable domain. Only the second level can be registered, xxxx.smith.name. Similarly if you had xxxx.co.uk, you own a domain because co.uk isn't registerable. The only quirk about .name is that common names can't be registered at the top level, but uncommon ones can.
What? That's a pretty outrageous claim with no evidence
| We need to wait and see how things develop.

But these headlines need armchair prognoses now!