skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'lghh did not say Trump was involved in starting the war in Yemen. And yet he is still responsible for a lot that has happened in Yemen, both through directly through U.S. actions and indirectly through U.S. support of Saudi operations.

The Saudi military is using American bombs dropped by American planes flown by pilots trained by Americans and serviced by American mechanics. U.S. Congress has attempted to reduce American involvement by blocking arms deals and invoking the War Powers Resolution, but Trump has bypassed or vetoed those attempts. He's a big fan of selling arms to the Saudis because he has said those sales create "over a million jobs" in America.

Further reading:

https://airwars.org/news-and-investigations/trump-in-yemen-n...

> Reported civilian deaths tracked by Airwars in 2017 significantly outstripped alleged deaths in any year during the Obama presidency

https://airwars.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Eroding-Trans...

> limited comparison of officially declared US actions supports the understanding that US military strikes in Yemen increased precipitously in the first year of the Trump presidency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Yakla

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trump-king-sal...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/world/middleeast/trump-we...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-arms/defying-co...

> The Trump administration informed congressional committees that it will go ahead with 22 military sales to the Saudis, United Arab Emirates and Jordan, infuriating lawmakers by circumventing a long-standing precedent for congressional review of major weapons sales.

> Members of Congress had been blocking sales of offensive military equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for months, angry about the huge civilian toll from their air campaign in Yemen

https://apnews.com/article/1b17cee217b344d8a3a03642139fb606

> President Donald Trump vetoed a resolution passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/trump-civilia...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/us/politics/trump-loosen-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/us/politics/trump-drone-s...

> The Trump administration is preparing to dismantle key Obama-era limits on drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional battlefields

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/22/trumps-cl...
I still think it's important that more is done to combat the drug epidemic - imprisoning everybody is clearly not the answer, but allowing the epidemic to get worse isn't either.

> And as the overdose crisis continues, it is ever more

> apparent to a growing swath of the country that

> threatening to jail drug users doesn’t reduce drug-related

> death rates or help families struggling to save their

> loved ones. Instead, it disproportionately hurts Black

> communities.

These drug infected communities still have serious problems, the Black community for example is far from out of the woods. Drug addiction needs to be recognized as a disease.

Given how much the US has been willing to spend on their war on drugs, I think they could better spend this money giving free help. (Hell, it could even be the start to a free healthcare program.)
Why do you feel a fetus is a human life? What does location have to do with it?

A fetus isn't viable until week 20ish. Even then it won't survive outside the mothers body. 1% of abortions happen after week 20.

About 90% of abortions happen before week 13. It's not even a fetus at this point. The body it self might abort still at this point, this is when mis carriages happen.

Why do you feel an unviable collection of cells is a human?
I'd love to hear your thoughts on why Republicans oppose the things that Mr/Ms Flyy posted 9 hours ago. Or anyone else's thoughts. Please.
This startup exists many times. All those team time tracking and work optimising apps.
I guess technically...
Stack Videos Horizontally, Vertically, in a Grid With FFmpeg
Now I'm curious. Portland is nowhere near the ocean. Do the cables run 100 miles up the Columbia River?
Americans were indicted for lying to Congress, lying to the FBI, witness tampering, and a few other crimes related to inconsistent testimonies and lies, etc. And of course a bunch of Russian nationals were "indicted" for "crimes against the United States" type things but nobody is under the illusion they'll actually be prosecuted.
"Stop using the product" works for coffee, where if you don't like it you can try an alternative. But with the cash cows of mega corps you often have few alternatives and it's intentionally difficult to switch.

I don't understand why some are wary of government regulations, but have no qualms about being controlled by major corporations where you don't even have a vote.
It will be better if we have open source solution which combines both design and physical verification. However, I think this day will be long, very long.
Do they include instilling Nazi policies?
Anyone who watched that speech and still thinks he has dementia has never been around anyone with dementia.
Because the only thing between him and chaos was Democratic House of Representatives. That's pretty tumultuous. Also the world hates us a lot more than when he started.
Don't kid yourself. The polls were dead wrong, they predicted Joe Biden would win an overwhelming popular vote. Believing otherwise is naive.

There is no "generally accepted explanation" for the polling skew, let alone one as obvious as "it's easier to poll highly educated, urban voters than lesser educated rural voter". Believing pollsters are dumb enough to not consider this when conducting polls is lazy thinking.
One head crash kills an entire drive because the access arm is a single block of aluminum with one head each for each platter that swings in and out. They do not move individually.

Imagine a vinyl record player, stack up six of them vertically, connect all tone arms at counterweights to a single bar running height wise.
and congratulations you've also missed the point of this thread.
sure.

glen greenwald:
http://archive.is/58vqu

matt taibbi:
https://archive.li/acKAO
Thoughts about Hiring Overseas?
I am a freelance front-end developer and when I went looking for a new job I thought everything is remote so I could also apply to US jobs.

I have applied to approximately 20-30 US start-ups through YC and angel. At the same time I applied to 10-15 EU companies.

Of the EU companies 5-8 companies have shown interest in my profile and had multiple interviews with.
Of the US companies the majority ghosted my application and others send an automatic rejection. Not even a hackerrank challenge or some coding assignment to showcase my skills.

Now I wonder, people from the US, how do you feel about hiring overseas? (Like Amsterdam-Netherlands, Berlin-Germany)
Officially, the web is where things that aren't allowed in the app store are supposed to go. Anyway, can't you buy videos and games from the Amazon app?
A duopoly is not meaningfully better than a monopoly if both participants are doing equally amoral things.
If we give everyone an unique national ID and enable online/digital voting on issues, I feel we can cut a lot of bloat and move things faster.

Even though I dislike the US's two-party system, your suggestion just shifts the spending to other places. Cambridge Analytica didn't need political parties in the system in order to be effective.
Coturnism
I found one a couple years ago that showed all the fiber lines on the streets and all that. I was using it to plan out talking Comcast into offering their 2gig.
Here's a list of the grants provided to opportunity zones.

https://www.eda.gov/opportunity-zones/data-disclaimer/

Signed a bill instituting permanent funding for HBCUs.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-12-19/tru...

>And under the Trump administration, federal funding for HBCUs has increased by more than $100 million over the last two years, a 17% increase since 2017.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-09-...

The criminal justice reform bill was called the First Step Act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act
Look at what Saint Helena is going through. They're kicking in a bunch of extra bucks so that their island is a landing point for a cable under construction, but the minimum spend is for a 200gbi/s connection.

https://spacenews.com/st-helena-looks-to-unlikely-patron-to-...
Ask HN: Linux Ecosystem's Backwards Compatibility
Before everthing, this is not about Linux's excellent backwards compatibilty itself, but on other components of the ecosystem.

While I appreciate Torvalds et al.'s efforts to not break the userspace, I don't feel that extends on to its ecosystem, for example GNOME and KDE has significant changes over the years, X is being deprecated to Wayland and some distirbutions have changed their network toolkit to summarize a few. While it is stopgapped by some solutions (for example Flatpak and Snap, containers like Docker), why does the ecosystem is less stable than say FreeBSD or Windows (which do have some minor changes but the chance that your software will work without changes is higher)?
Science is iterative, there's a process to it. It's unreasonable to expect to be perfectly right the first time. But that is still a better effort then any one else is trying. There is logic and visible proof of climate change happening and effecting our world.

I explained my poor wording somewhere else in this thread.

Why do you feel an unviable collection of cells is a human life? It has no thought, that is what makes us human. At that point its a collection of cells leaching off the mother
The following definition that was shared by someone on Quora is quite good, though a bit academic. Moral fabric is "a metaphor for the flexible but still assured structure of virtue that forms the basis of integrity and holds society together".

To put it simpler, I would define moral fabric as a set of foundational moral principles (common moral ground) that most people in a particular society agree on and recognize as guidelines throughout their daily lives. These principles form a cohesive environment of values, which is referred to a moral fabric.

Here's a blog post with a potentially better definition: https://nomoralfabric.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/the-loss-of-m....
That is a good point. Large ceiling fans are one solution and probably superior when there are a lot of people. However, Following Fan is more efficient when there are not a lot of people since it will be less than 1/10th the cost of a 14' ceiling fan, use less energy, and provide more focused airflow to a specific person.
Wrt Canada, because of Quebec. The bloc has an alignment that's neither liberal or conservative, and Quebec has a huge amount of seats.
Is claiming property over things ethical? What inherent human right gives ownership of a resource to someone?
We can. Some states have direct democracy. California allows voting on anything directly. If a proposed law gets a certain number of signatures it goes on the ballot.

California voters could propose and pass a law requiring all new laws to be put to statewide vote.
Everyone at tech startups are working remote right now, so I don't see the problem. The only reason they need to bring early employees into the United States is so they will have indentured employees who are left-loyal at the top of these companies so the investments can continue to be party controlled. H1-B as well are less likely to balk at being asked to do shady shit like businesses that rely on tracking people and selling user data. Privacy is generally a western idea traditionally not practiced outside the United States.
Queick: A Simple Job Queue System for Python
I have no idea if that is true or not, but it is irrelevant because it is quite possible for black people to be racist and also to take part in anti-black racism.
> Metformin

Wow, is this available in the US without prescription? It's a diabetes drug and has a lot of side effect. And 1g is also a lot.
Is there a tldr for each ?
The tent pole lie of the fine people hoax where Trump instead explicitly condemned white nationalists. He did the exact opposite of calling white supremacists fine people.
I'm sorry I didn't realize Biden and Harris took out full page ads calling for the death of innocent black men and still to this day refuse to apologize.
It's hard to understand China through the lens of a western upbringing (as I'm sure is the case vice versa).

Sabre rattling with China. I'm no expert but have spent 15 years doing business in China.

A very firm position is the only one they respect (although they will claim otherwise). If you offer them concessions they will take them and at the same time respect you less. In many western countries concessions are met with good favour. This is rarely the case in China in my experience.
I'm all for globalization, but a country should take care of its own people first.

> New restrictions intended to protect U.S. workers curb access to pool of highly skilled foreign labor

There are thousands of software engineers out of work or fresh out of school looking for their first job. Why not hire them? Lower your requirements if necessary, and train your new employees on the job. Groom them, mentor them, teach them the technologies they need to know.
As non-white person I find the average white liberal MORE racist than your stereotypical redneck/Trump Follower.The last one is in your face, but most of the time the racism comes from ignorance or fear, cure them and you will go a long way to diminish it.

The white liberal is way different, they see themselves basically as a superior person, the summit of human ethical achievement. They interject themselves into minority problems to show how much "they care" but 99% the acts are only to "virtue-signal", when push come to shove they will quickly align with any policy that makes their life easier, no matter the impact on the world.

More insidiously, the supposed tolerance and open-mindeness are very quickly thrown out of the window once a minority sub-group fail to align to their worldview. See for example the vitriolic insults received by Cubans/Venezuelans in Florida just because they "dared" to vote for Trump.

If I were to live in America, I think I would happier and more accepted among the "racist rednecks" in Idaho or Alabama that among the NY/SF liberal crowd.
You don't really need standardized implementations, or even fully standardized interfaces. What's missing most is any direct interface at all.
Post date is european format? code at https://github.com/Synerise/cleora
honestly there's nothing really that 'extreme' about them. they are just crusty retards.
We waited because of mail in voting. Biden got 50.5% but Trump got 47.7% of the popular vote. That's a pretty big spread. 74.5 million to 70.4 million. So by popular vote it was pretty significant. By electoral votes it's a much wider percentage.
There is bipartisan agreement that China needs to be confronted and contained. How it is accomplished may be debated, but that is tractable.

There is almost no agreement on the rest of the agenda, though. Democrats and leftists want green initiatives and universal healthcare, which both have zero support from Republicans. The leftist wing of the Democratic Party will be emboldened by their successes this election and will hijack the agenda, forcing America to smack the new administration (and Congress) back into doing nothing by putting in Republicans during the midterms.

Republicans have much more discipline as a party and will work to obstruct, because that's what wins them votes. Why should they cooperate with a party that spent the majority of the past four years trying to impeach a legitimately elected President? In fact, they might start a similar effort, because the saga of Biden's ne'er do well son Hunter has barely begun. Trump is not going away, neither is Steve Bannon. They have a lot more time on their hands to team up again, possibly bringing Donald Trump Jr. into the fold, to build a grassroots opposition campaign to stymie the Democrat agenda. Remember that Trump has already made the Republicans' long-sought wish of a Conservative Supreme Court (for almost a generation) a reality. He has also given the Republican party a good number of wins in the House (+5/6 for Republicans vs +1 for Democrats). So from their perspective, it may make sense to ride the Trump wave some more, because it has delivered for them.
> All systems lead to two party systems

I don't think that's true at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assembly_(Switzerland)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-titan-m-security-chip-pix...

Decent explanation here
I’d frame it slightly differently; it’s not exactly “the right guy.” B2B marketing is frequently about getting a critical mass of people at a company to come to consensus. The best strategy here is frequently getting 1 person very excited and 10 people aware enough to not pitch a fit when they hear a deal is happening.

The best B2-large-B marketing strategy I ever heard was fundamentally account-based. This guy sold a $1m+ product, and he had a list of the 1,000 companies that could possible afford it. His metrics revolved around a hierarchy of countries > sales territories > accounts. He’d literally evaluate programs based on “have we scheduled enough demos with IBM this quarter?” If the answer was no, they’d run a smaller campaign focused on just the accounts they were behind on. Sales loved him.

The hard part about attribution is so much of the internal discussion is opaque. So especially in large accounts, you have to develop some feel for what is “enough” activity in an account that sales won’t have a hard time of it.

(And fwiw, you don’t have to do this through pure marketing. Bottoms-up products aka freemium is a great signal that sales should reach out — Datadog, New Relic, Github, and more do this.)
There are just some issues, though, where it's extremely difficult to find middle ground.

Look at gay marriage. There are large percentages of people in the US who would like to return to a time when gay marriage was illegal. If you were married to a same sex spouse, do you think you'd be able to say "oh, that's OK, I respect your difference of opinion." No, you'd do everything in your power to protect your family from being attacked.

I mean, just imagine how straight people would react if the government tried to invalidate their marriages.
> nobody "supports" keeping children in cages.

So it happened by accident?

Is that not worse?
Here's a Vice video about a landing point in Denmark:

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/motherboard-beach-connect...
For me at least, being able to use whatever software that adheres to the standard. This means that novice users can use a software that specifically targets them, while experienced users can use a swiss-knife program or even write their own program to handle it. For RSS specifically, most news sites do not have RSS now, which means that you need to visit them one-by-one or use an agregator that you can't modify much.
Yes. Not only is it a way, it is the way Apple recommends and supports.

They have explitly talked about their ‘two plaforms’ approach.

Approved and controlled stuff in the store. Everything else via the web.
I think it's very widely used for its original purpose, which is a shell replacement. When I need a short script, particularly for text processing, I'll usually reach for Perl now that the Perl 5/Perl 6 thing has been resolved. Just look at the activity on CPAN:
https://metacpan.org/recent

There are two heavily developed/used web frameworks for Perl: https://mojolicious.org/ and http://perldancer.org/

Users of Mojolicious: https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/wiki/Projects-and-Compan...
Markets do exist within a set of rules and they always have. Markets can be self adjusting if there is healthy competition. What has been a much much bigger resounding failure has been large scale socialism. Even China decided to leave Maoism and Marxism behind and become an autocratic capitalistic society.
There are many reasons for such actions, and many ways to interpret them, you just chose one(s) that suits your agenda.
That's because it is next door, they are actually hosted on AWS EC2 in us-east.
Yes, working on a greenfield project for one of the largest companies you’ve heard of.
Build a Tiny Product First
True PWA's, for example, including push notifications.
Why you should stop using Google Alerts
Apple ties Webkit versions to iOS versions. Once they stop supporting your iOS device every browser on it becomes obsolete.
I know too many of those people in my personal life to believe that they are a tiny minority. Trump has built himself an effective cult following. People turn off their brains in order to follow him and start to believe most of what he says. They'll say that they understand that he's a liar, bu then still believe the lies. It's frustrating to watch it happen.
Fair point, how do you think we need to control rampant misinformation?
The number I've been hearing is that even early-career positions will have to pay at least $208k base salary (not including any equity) in the bay area, which seems totally out of reach for most companies.
These are all excellent points in favor of productivity with GraphQL. I always avoid new technologies for a few years to let the hype cycle mature (for example, everybody talking about how great mongodb is and writing blog posts about how they migrated, followed two years later by everybody talking about how terrible mongodb is and how they had to migrate to posgresql). As a dev working on a commercial software project, especially if you're in leadership, you have to look very carefully at every technology you introduce into your stack, because you are going to be supporting it for years. If it turns out to be the wrong decision, or you get caught out by a bunch of edge cases that weren't well known in the early days, you can end up losing millions of dollars in productivity, and possibly killing the company when you can't fix bugs and ship new features. So I've been suspicious of GraphQL, but keeping an eye on it. I still don't know if the productivity gains you get up front are actually technical debt in disguise, but if that turns out not to be the case, and it really is a matter of only having to write one query instead of making five requests and several dozen lines of types, validators, and async redux middleware, I'll be happy to adopt it in the future.
Right I got that. My point is many nations ban drugs. In fact they pretty much all do at some level.

Meaning there are other reasons besides racism and thus that is likely not the primary reason like this silly "Nixon" comment I see on every post about drugs.
Has the democratic party been involved with nazis or neo nazis since the 60s? Is that a meaningful point when they all swapped over to the republican party?

The right courted the racists. The racists might not be inherently right wing, but the modern right actively seeks their support and will do what the racists want in exchange for tax cuts and forcing women to keep parasites
My personal trainer strongly recommended daily dose of creatine (~5m), but it has also had noticeable effects in daily energy (especially during the pandemic when mostly chair-bound).

Otherwise I suppliment fish oil (or algae), vitamin D (5000 IU/125mg), standard multivitamin, choline (650 mg) since i cant stomach eggs every day.

I've also had good experience with B12 and Vinpocene but not regularly taken.
For me, the best parts of it are: Very versatile metaprogramming (C’s macros make me puke), slices (if I had a nickel for every time I wrote a struct { thing_t* data; size_t len; }...), namespaces, and coupling of initialization and cleanup with defer/errdefer (gcc’s __attribute__((cleanup)) sucks to use).